Mark Willard and Ephraim Salaam recap the NBA Finals thru four games so far and what to expect in tomorrow's game. Mark and Ephraim also give their takes on Klay Thompson unfollowing the Warriors and Draymond Green's response. Plus, the guys talk more about Caitlin Clark beef, US Open, Mookie Betts injury, and more!!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, we got NBA Finals Game five tomorrow night. We
got stars on following their own team.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
In the NBA.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
We've got an absolutely just painful finish to the US Open,
and a baseball star whose summer just changed.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
We've got all that stuff. But I'm not messing around
right now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There's one thing, and one thing only for me to
say to this man I'm talking to right now who
goes by the name of Ephrom Salam, my man, Happy
Father's Day.
Speaker 6 (00:37):
Happy Father's Day, brother, seriously happy being that fathers me day.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We throw it around, but there are certain dads out
there I actually admire and uh and you're one of them.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
So I want to I want to say it twice
to you. Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Man. Well, I appreciate that. Man. That means a lot
to me, and I feel the same way about you. Man.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
You know, it's a it's about today. I know we
don't celebrate this day as much as we celebrate Mother's Day,
are ourbor Day or any other Black Day, bag Day
or anything like that, But it is something to be
said about being a dad.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
It's so much that goes into that, so much responsibility
that goes into that. I am proud to call myself
a dad. Best thing I've ever accomplished in my life
was become a father. And so just to go on
this journey with my you know, soon to be ten
and thirteen year old sons is amazing. So shout out
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to the dads out there, man, including you.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Man, you can see a good one around the corner,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And it is funny.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And I don't mean this, God, I don't want this
to come off a certain way, but I got a
question for you. And this goes from mom's and dad.
Mom's on Mother's Day, Dad's on Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
There's two ways to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I've watched people do both, and that is when it
comes to Mother's or Father's Day. Do you go, hey,
I want I want all my people around me, and
I just you know, like maybe I want to choose
what we do or where we go eat or something
like that. Or do you know the parents who are like,
you know, how you can celebrate me is get the
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hell out of my face is what you could do.
And I've watched that too, where people are just like
I'm gone, I'm going to a spa or a golf
course or whatever for the entire day, and I don't
I don't even want to see you. It always makes
me laugh because I feel like that's not quite in
the spirit of the event.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But hey, it's your day. You get to do it
how you want to do it.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, for me, it's we've never celebrated it, and like,
get it to get these kids out of here, y'all
leave me alone. About to be in a room by
myself just you know, playing solitaire or whatever that is,
or I'm going to the movies. Don't talk to me.
That's more of a birthday type of thing, right, like
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when you want you on your birthday, you really can
do whatever you want to and then at the end
of the evening you come home and have cake and
ice cream with everybody else. But for mothers and fathers days,
it's about you being appreciated and people actually celebrating what
you've you know, brought to their life as a parent.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So it's always been a family thing for me.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Agreed, Agreed, And you know, look, I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Everybody gets a little bit pulled in a bunch of
directions and they want to do a little bit of
this with that group, and a little bit of this
with this group.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And I did a little bit of that today.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I started my day though, at six in the morning,
by getting up and driving my son to a basketball
tournament forty five minutes away to watch to watch two games.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Where you are you up north? Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We just drove off and watched him play two basketball games.
And I was one of the one of the It
wasn't even eight in the morning yet, and somebody was
already asking me from a venmo so I could pay
to get into a tournament that I drove an hour
to bring someone to so that they could play into it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But whatever, and that's what's bitterness here. That's what we do.
That's what we do, man.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So uh, anyway, to everybody listening, your job is important. Okay,
your job is important.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
If you're a parent, it's the hardest job, it's the
best job. I hope you know how important your job
is and you take care of it every day. That's
the only soapbox I've got. Happy Father's Day to each
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Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh you do? Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Do you believe though, that all love is that way?
In other words, have you ever experienced the whole thing?
And this doesn't even just need to be loved? This
could be friendship. You have anybody in your life that
when you first met him, you're like, eh, but then
it all grew on you and you started to see
that person in a completely different light, of course, and
yet right like that, So the opposite just happened to
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Luka Doncic. Anybody catch that? I wonder if anybody caught that.
It's not that everybody was in love with him two
weeks ago. He's been a frustrating player to watch for
a while now for certain NBA fans. But we talked
about this last week and it fascinates the hell out
of me. This guy went from apparently the top scorer
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on the best backcourt in the history of the sport
of basketball and three games later, Luka Doncic was somebody
who needed to change the way he plays basketball or
else he's never going to win. And his own organization
has been on their knees begging him to change for
two years.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now what a week? Wow, that was quick.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, Look, man, Luca is a sensational talent. There's not
much he can't do with the basketball in his hand.
He's been like that since he was a teenager. Now
when you get to the NBA and he's been in
the league, this is what six years now, five years,
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he's been impressive. But when it comes to being a champion,
when it comes to being that guy on a championship team,
he's twenty five years old. He doesn't know what that
is yet. He doesn't know. And some of the greatest
basketball players in the history of the league, including the
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greatest to ever play, didn't learn that too much later
in their career. And we're at one of those time
times for him in terms of what he's going to
do and who he's going to be moving forward in
the NBA. The crying, the whining, the stop it's not
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even about that. If he was whining to the referees
and he was sprinting back to get on defense, be
a completely different situation.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
When you do that.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Let's just say, on average, if you do that twelve
times a game, right, and that's a light light average.
If you did that twelve times a game, that means
there are twelve times in an NBA basketball game where
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your team is playing four on five.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Think about it that way.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
You've given the opponent and advantage twelve times in a game.
Now say they scored on half of those times, right.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
That's twelve to fifteen points.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Twelve to fifteen points every game. It's a lot.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
So now when you break it down in that context,
and I don't know if anyone has done that for him,
but when you look at it like that, you can't
help but be like, oh, snap, oh, I'm giving up
fifteen points because I feel a certain way about a
lack of a call, and I want to voice my opinion.
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Fifteen points is a huge amount of points to give up.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Just on effort.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
And I think once he understands that, once someone really
sits and down and it happens in spurts, right, Because
last series, it was like he played two games where
he didn't really say anything to the ref. They won
those games, and he was just a different person, a
different player. His energy, this pass game was different. So
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if he can consistently be that and that guy offensively
with the ball, then that's when you start creeping up
into the conversations of one of the greats. And he's
still young, and he has time to learn that, he
has time to understand what that means, change his approach
to the game, and finish the you know, the mid
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to the back half of his career on a completely
another level.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Because well, offensively, you can't stop him.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
No, I agree with everything that you just said.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
The other thing, though, is sometimes even when he is
back on defense, is still playing four on five boss
and has absolutely cooked him specifically on the defensive end
in this series. They're gonna target him again tomorrow night.
This thing's gonna end tomorrow night. Boston will be the
champions tomorrow night. I'm very, very very confident in that.
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And I think Luca's at a fork in the road.
And this is one thing, this is why that whole
like best backcourt in history.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Was just stupid. It was a ridiculous take from the
beginning because well, right, because Luca, Luca's at a fork
in the road.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And here's what I mean by that, I'm always eyes open.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
The first thing you see when a player.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Either comes out of college, comes from overseas, whatever, you
can see it where you're like, oh, that's talent, that's talent.
And this is the first thing you said. Luca is
a generational talent. But then there's the next step in
the NBA, because there's all kinds of talented players who
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have never been a part of winning. Like Bradley Beal
is an incredible talent with a basketball in his hands.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
There are players like that all over.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
James Harden is a generational talent with the basketball in
his hands. That's who rises to like Level A in
the NBA, but who rides to level A plus. It's
those who can then take that talent and have it
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affect winning, have it work within a winning concept, have
it work on both ends of the floor, have it
bleed out to his teammates, Magic Johnson. That's when you
go from a great talent to just a great period. Yes,
and I think Luca needs to He needs to decide that.
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He needs almost decide that. Because he could do it
and they've already got to the finals. That's great, but
he needs to decide that and and and become a
more well rounded player.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, it's he's right on that cusp. Right.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
He's been in the league a long time. People know
he's dynamic. I still would like him to really get
in basketball shape and it you know, it's it's going
to be up to Jkid and and the organization to
really having Kyrie there as taking his usage, uh, you know,
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down considerably, which I think is important. When you exert
that much energy for the entire game, you can't help
but run into a wall. Like playing this late in
the year. Most of these guys on that team aren't
used to playing this long.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Boston is because the last five years they've been teetering
around the conference championships and around the NBA Finals, so
they're used to playing this long. I think that was
a situation when you had Minnesota, right, they ran out again, Like,
guys aren't used to playing this deep into the summer.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's mid June.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Most guys have been back from vacation and you know,
getting ready to go to summer league and and watch
the young guys play. These guys are still playing basketball,
and I think for Dallas, I think this is for
Luca especially Kyrie's been there a champion, of course, but
when you look at the rest of the team, who
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else has that level of experience and is played deep
into the summer like this?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Right? Right? Yeah? I mean I can't think of it
right now.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So you know, this is this is going to be
something that I feel is going to be a big,
big part of the discussion going into the offseason.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
And then there's this.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We can also continue the conversation that we had last week,
which is how important is it whoever we name NBA
Finals MVP, because that's all up in the air. Although
the heavy favorite right now is not the guy who
was the heavy favorite at the start of the series,
So we'll get to that coming up next with e
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Speaker 5 (15:47):
All right, Happy Father's Day and glad you are with us.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Whatever you're doing on your Sunday slash Afternoon evening. Hope
you got it in today and whatever it is that's
up to you.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Hope it has just been rewarding. That's the whole idea.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We're in the tyraq dot com studios, Mark Wiardy from
salam Let's say Boston wins this tomorrow night. We don't
know what the stats will be, but who's your NBA
Finals MVP?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Jalen Brown?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, so current odds sit like this, Jalen Brown is
your runaway favorite at minus two thirty five. For those
of you who don't speak gambling, that means that you
would need to bet two hundred thirty five dollars just
to win one hundred. However, Jason Tatum, the pre series favorite,
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has fallen two plus two fifty five. That means if
you bet one hundred on him, you'd win two hundred
and fifty five. Also known as ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Not unless this thing goes seven and right and he
scores forty tomorrow in a close game that they lose
in overtime. Right comes out in Game six, tight wire
to wire, he hits you know, a lead, taking three
with six seconds left in the game, and then they
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come down and get a shot to win to take
it to a game seven, and he also has thirty
five points in that game, and then he closes out
Game seven with a miraculous triple double twenty five, twelve,
and fifteen. Then he is, you know, hands down the
MVP unless that happen.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
So let me rewrack my take. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So what's it all mean?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
This is not my favorite part of the NBA culture
where you can sort of be dismissed and ignored for
what you do for nine months and if you don't
do the right thing at the right time at the
very end, it means you're not a dog or whatever.
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But we've watched this, and I've watched it where I
live and the city and team that I follow.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
In the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
In that steph Curry, it took him until his fourth
ring until he had won NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
And yes it was a thing. It's a thing for
some people, but look to your point. The caveat to
that was he was already a two time MV League MVP.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Of the league, right, so it's not like he was
struggling for credit.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
No, No, no, he was already considered one of the
greatest players on the planet for sure. He just couldn't
close it in the big game. So that kept him
out of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, when you look at all the.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Other greats right who won MVP, they also have won
Finals MVP, And so that was his roadblock that he
had to get over.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Correct and it was something that a lot of people
brought up as kind of the last thing that Steph
didn't have in his career. And so you go back
to actually two years ago plus a few days Game
four in Boston. Celtics lead that series two games to one,
and Steph has an epic performance in a game that
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everyone felt the Warriors had to have on the road,
and they did, and that vaulted him to not only
maybe the most unexpected of all of his rings, but
his NBA Finals MVP, and that kind of like it
completed the circle and the cycle. Now, Jason Tatum is
still a very young player. There's a guy who's in
his mid twenties, and Boston may well be back again
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and again and again.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So this can go away as well.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But what do you think right now in this moment,
Let's say Jalen Brown gets the crown tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What's it mean to you?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
It means that, you know, the Celtics well earned championship,
best team in the league, especially in the East, the
entire year start to finish. They finally made the moves
to get better. I didn't think I thought two years
ago that finals against Golden State, I thought that was
the best team that they can put together with Marcus Smart,
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both of the Williams boys, Jalen and Tatum, well, they
proved me and a lot of other people wrong. They
made some adjustments, brought in Porzingis, even though he's not
healthy through this finals. That first those first two games,
he gave them a huge boost. I think bringing in
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Holiday and Derek White, tremendous defenders on the wing, big
shot makers. It just made the team better, took the
pressure off the two stars. And what it means for
Jay Jason Tatum is he's a good player. He's just
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perhaps maybe not the best player on that team now,
which is okay unless that's what you want him to be,
unless you need him to be the best player on
the team now. Does he have the most skill and
the biggest upside? I would say yes, but in terms
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of big moments that we've seen throughout the years, Jalen
Brown has always been ready to step in those moments,
mainly because none of the shine is ever on him.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well, it's also fascinating.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Don't forget where we were with Jalen Brown a year ago.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
A year ago, and if you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Actually want to add a few more months on, go
back a year and a few months.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Jalen Brown was in trade rumors. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
The Boston fan base was living at the idea that
this guy was going to get.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Another bag, and and and and.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
My gosh, you can't tie all that up into Tatum
and Brown and it's clearly not working. The Warriors beat him,
and then that series loss to the Heat, and it
was like, remember, we need to reshuffle this deck. Yes
we did, and and and to a degree they did.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I understand the acquisitions that they they they put together
to add two those two, but the thought at the
time was these two need to break up.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
These two need to break up. It's another exercise in
sports patients. We're terrible at it. We're awful at it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah yeah, but we've been patient for about six years.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I get it, but there's still young players eight neither
one of them. Yeah, neither one of them has had
a twenty seventh birthday.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, I'm sorry. So no, no, I'm jump No, do it?
Do it? No.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
We we live in in an in an age of
instant gratification. So as fans, we want our teams to
do it now, do it now, make it happen. We
need it, And it's not like that, right, It's going
to take time. I think that's why the Laker job
is so difficult to take because they don't have a
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championship team. Now you have one of the greatest players
on his way out and you don't have enough pieces
to create enough punch. So taking that job with the
expectation of championship or bus, there's very little room for error.
And as we've seen, they don't give you a lot
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of runway to take off. Oh no, especially if you
have to use your only draft pick on a kid
who may not be ready to be in the NBA.
But you're gonna give them a chance because of course,
you know, Lebron is there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I mean, we're going to get to your Laker job.
Don't you worry, because I know you predicted it right
here on this show. We could go and I agreed
with you. I'm like Dan, Dan's not taking the job,
and or it didn't feel like it based on the
interview that he had granted ESPN and the very next
day he did not. So where are we now? Is
it back to JJ Reddick? We got to talk about
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the whole thing. But but first, yes, but first, when
you talk about providing runway for someone, the Lakers may
not do it, but damn it we will because here
comes Steve de Seger to land.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Take off, this play takeoff.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
Good evening, gentlemen. As you mentioned, by the way, Dan
Hurley's Connecticut team, and you mentioned the NBA Finals, the
TV ratings so far as the Celtics lead three games
to one against Dallas. There hasn't been a game four number,
but Game three of this series averaged eleven point four
million TV viewers. Before that it was twelve million TV viewers,
and the opener was eleven million TV viewers for game
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one by Harrison. Yukon's final four games this year average
fourteen and a half million viewers, and those college games
were only on cable. This year's NBA playoff ratings going
into the finals were down thirteen percent. NBA Finals continue Monday. Boston,
up three games to one, will host Dallas. If there's
a Game six, it will be at Dallas on Thursday night.
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No NBA team has ever blown a three games to
none lead to lose a series in any round. This
Boston team had won ten in a row until losing
last game by thirty eight points. So still, no NBA
team has ever gone through the final two rounds without
a loss. But if you go up two to ozho
in the finals, you're usually crown champion. Thirty one of
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the thirty six that have gone up two games to
none wind up winning the title. Golden State notably blew
a lead in twenty sixteen. Ueves and Phoenix was up
two oh and never won another game in the finals
just three short years ago. Stanley Cup Game five is Tuesday.
Panthers lead is three games to one. They had their
six game winning streak broke at Edmonton last night. Florida
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will be hosting Game five on Tuesday. WNBA wins for Atlanta, Phoenix,
and Indiana, which is now five to ten. It defeated
Chicago ninety one eighty three. Caitlin Clark twenty three points.
Bryson Deshamba won the US Open. We'll get to that
in a minute. The UFL Championship game is over on
Fox TV. Birmingham wins twenty five nothing over San Antonio,
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another title for coach Skip Holtz, MVP of the league
regular season, was MVP of the final. Birmingham quarterback Adrian Martinez.
At the EUROSCCER Tournament, England won nothing over Serbia. Victories
for Netherlands to one over Poland, and Denmark tide Slovenia
one to one. NASCAR is underway. It's a night race
at Iowa. They are about halfway through. Ryan Blaney and
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the league Chase Elliot second, Kyle Larson is third. In
the Sunday night ballgame at Boston, bottom of the fifth inning,
Red Sox lead the Yankees three to one. Minnesota beat
Oakland in the first of a double headers, six to two.
In the nightcap, the A's are tied five to five
at Minnesota. Top of the third Oakland trying to end
an eight game losing streak. Baltimore beat Philadelphia eight three,
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the loss to Zach Wheeler, who allowed four home runs,
and the Dodgers shut out Kansas City three nothing, Shohey
O Tani two homers. But Mookie Betts broke his hand
hit by a pitch today at the left wrist. They
say no surgery is needed. That doesn't mean he won't
be out until August. There is no official word on
how many weeks last months he'll be out, but he'll
be obviously seeing a specialist tomorrow now. Bryson de Shamble
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won the US Open by one stroke over Rory McElroy
in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Rory McElroy missed two short putts
in the last three holes. The payout the winner gets
four point three million dollars, second place two point three
million dollars, two million dollars difference for two short putts,
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and McElroy has now gone ten year years since his
last major victory. Deshamble led by three strokes to start
the day. Tony Feno and Patrick Cantley tied for third
place two back. And there was an added wrinkle to this.
It's an Olympic year and golf is in the Olympics,
So who's going to Paris to represent the US in
golf this summer. Colin Morikawa has edged out Patrick Cantley
(28:22):
for the last American Olympic spot. The way they do
it is the top four Americans after today in the
official World Golf rankings are the four that go. They
get a spot in the Olympic golf field. So of
course the US Open champ is going to represent the
US and the Olympics this summer. Right, Oh, the guy
(28:43):
that won the US Open is with Live Golf. We
are sorry about that. In fact, NBC talked about this yesterday.
This was about twenty thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
He should be representing the US. It's just part of
what's wrong with a sport right now.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Everything that's happened with the sport, there are consequences that
are hurting.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
The game, and that's another one of them.
Speaker 11 (29:04):
Yeah, that's unfortunate for sure of mind, and I would
agree it is unfortunate that all of the players that
went to Live they well knew they were going to
a tour that did not qualify for world ranking points.
They've made no concessions to gain those points by altering
their format in such a way that they could.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
So the US Open champ is not representing the US
at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Back to you, perfect, absolutely perfect, because that's how everything
is in golf right now. And by the way, as
much fun as the three of us have had talking
about golf leader boards and money for the last year
or so, the two million bucks obviously won't even resonate
(29:50):
in Rory's bank account. But good god, it's been ten
years since his last Major man and to miss this
opportunity today. For people that don't know, he was eight
under par on the fifteenth T and lost in regulation
(30:10):
to somebody who was only minus six. And those two
short putts you talked about were both inside of three feet.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
And this is the US opened, so very few were
even under par, even one under par. Of the seventy
four golfers this weekend, only eight guys were under par.
You mentioned at one point he was eight under.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
With three holes to play, yo yo, or with four
holes to play.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I guess fifteenth T he was eight under par and
lost to someone who finished at six under par. But
I do give Bryson credit if anybody watched the way
this finished, that he ended up in all kinds of
trouble on eighteen and his san saved That bunker shot
on eighteen will go down as one of the great
(30:57):
shots in the history of Major Championship Golf.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
You know if he had blown this lead, Mark I
was thinking, because yesterday after the third round, Deshambo's agent
had an argument with a golf channel host, implying you
won't necessarily get an interview with my guy because you've
been airing so much negativity about him over Live Golf.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Out of these hats, how about that?
Speaker 10 (31:16):
And here he's about to blow a three stroke lead
at the US Open. Two years ago, Bryson Deshambo signed
a nine figure contract with Livegolf, worth over one hundred
and twenty five million dollars, with a lot of it upfront.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
He said.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
He called it a business decision, part of the business.
No Olympics for him this year.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Sorry, man, get your money, brother, Yeah yeah, like a
mere money.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
It's kind of the way. I mean, boy, this isn't
This is a right turn. But I sort of feel
I feel more bad for football players and the lack
of guarantees and the CTE, Like I feel much worse
for players who played twenty years ago. I don't know
(32:02):
if you know anyone who played twenty years ago, Ephraim,
than I do for players now, because it's like you
signed up for this and it was all kind of
on the table when you signed up for this same
thing here, same thing here, Like you signed up for it,
you got your one hundred and twenty five million dollars
and you knew, you knew this was part of it.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I think I might know a guy who played twenty
years ago in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I bet you know two guys. I know if you guys, yeah,
and I do. I feel worse for you, guys, because
nobody knew what that was.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Nobody knew what it was.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Man, nobody knew what that was, and they would rub
dirt on it and and inject you or something.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I never missed a game or played missed the game.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Never, not one time was I ever taken out of
a game from a concussion.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
And I bet you never had a concussion either.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Well, that's what they're the little fully that, the little
trash of a exam did they give you to try?
All that money they put aside for settlements for players,
you almost have to be comatoast to even qualify for that.
Which that's the biggest problem I have for it. Right,
(33:18):
if you've played this is for me, the baseline should
be if you've played in a hundred games and you
can go by positions or whatever that is, but if
you've played over one hundred games or one hundred games,
then you should be awarded a part of that settlement
because statistically it's virtually impossible.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
And it's impossible, and I would argue especially at your position.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Come on, now, so when you start.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It right, you're not running over the middle and having
somebody take your head off.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Back offensive defensive lineman who played linebackers who've played one
hundred games, shit, automatically get a settlement, and based on
like a baseline settlement, I'm like four hundred grand, five
hundred grand period, and then based on the severe severity
(34:15):
of your cognitive decline, then you'll get more. But that
baseline cut the check for all those guys who played
one hundred or more games. And it's not like I've
paid it. I'm not at the like I didn't just
play one hundred and one. I'm not saying one hundred.
I'm saying a hundred because that's you know, we know
for a fact, Okay, like I'm at one point fifty
(34:39):
nine in my career, all right, So right, I'm just saying,
if they want to hoard the money, if they want
to just hoard the money and not pay anybody out.
Then start there, and then you can make adjustments as
you go.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I mean eighty games, that's what you guys. Eighty game
game schedule. That's five full seasons.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
And if you're an offensive defensive lineman and you played.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Fifty subconcussive blows on every play, every everingle, one single guarantee.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yes, we're livingt thety rack dot com studios. Mark Willardy
from Salam coming up next. Let's talk a little bit
more about Rory and missed two and a half foot putts.
That's coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
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Speaker 2 (35:42):
I don't know about you, e from, but when something
that I've got my heart set on just barely falls short,
I play this from Whitney, Houston and let it out.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And that's my suggestion.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
To Rory McElroy wherever he's flying next, just let it out, brother,
because I don't know if you saw his face when
Bryson poured in that putt on the eighteenth hole.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Oh, man, that was a big old lump of coal
in his throat. Oh.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Ten years since his last major.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
A for me had it?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
He had it. His putter has been his achilles heel
and two two and a half foot putts, both burning
the edge in the last three holes.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Ef pressure.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I mean, you know, and it's funny too. We were
talking earlier about the culture of the NBA. By the way,
mark with it he from salam tyrack dot com studios,
like the NBA equivalent of what happened at the US
Open today would.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Be fodder four weeks, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I mean, like if this got to game seven and
uh and Jason Tatum in the final minute and a
half of a tie game missed two layups, I mean,
what would happen to this man's career with the way
people would talk about him?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Yeah, gosh, I mean it's it's a little bit harder
to make a putt than the layup.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Though, Oh it is. And I do want to say,
because this is intricate, because this will just go down.
You missed two three footers. One of them was a salider,
it was a I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
It's hard, it's hard, but you're Rory McElroy, right, and
this is the USO. So that's a that's a should, Yes,
that's a should have made no question about it, and
so ah, there's no way around it. This is not
like Greg Norman and Jean van Derveld, but this is
(38:08):
a stain. And the hardest part not that he's getting old,
but like again, it's been a minute.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
It's been a minute since this guy's won a major.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And so there's been a lot of near misses, a
lot of top tens and a lot of top fives,
and he's the best player and all of these things.
And because he already has four majors on his resume,
nobody says much about it. But I think this might
bring up a little bit of a new dynamic in
the conversation about Roy McElroy because this is one that.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
He let get away.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Well, it just goes to show you how great Phil
Mickelson and Tiger and Greg Norman and Arnold Palmer. It
just goes to show you how great those guys were,
how dominant they were, because it's hard, it's you against
(39:07):
the field, it's you against the field, and and it
just speaks to this, you know, no it's a decade.
There's been ten You think about what you've done in
(39:28):
ten years. One of my sons it wasn't even a life, right,
and the other one was three.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, they're thirteen to ten now.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
It's a long time between majors. And I think, you know,
the average fan just every every golf tournament is not
a major, Like, so you you have to ye average
fans like, well, he wins and does this, and it's
(40:03):
we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
The majors, right, the US Open, the Masters. What else?
What do we have?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Well, PGA champions Championship and the Open champions British right, yep,
Like so yeah, you can be killing it all year,
but the big daddies, the majors, it's tough.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
It's tough.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
And and for you to still be, you know, considered
one of the top golfers and you haven't won one
in ten years, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, yeah, I like the way you put it to
It's it's one of those sports where you can't hide, you.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Jason Tatum can have a disappointing NBA Finals and Jaylen
Brown can do his thing and you.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Still get a trophy. Just can't do that.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
In golf. It's you and that's it.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Speaking of being put on an island, an NBA star
did that to himself on Instagram this week.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Tell you more next.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well, what a perfect story for us to use as
a conduit to again say Happy Father's Day, because one
thing that happens to all fathers is at a certain points,
sometimes early, sometimes late, you look at your children and go,
I don't understand, skibbitty, I don't understand. Yeah, I don't
(41:39):
understand how people do things the way they do them anymore.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
And that's just life.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
That's not like, that's that's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Generations do it one way, the next generation does it
another way.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
The next generation does it dumber just like.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well right, like more or more efficiently, I don't know,
like you and I used to send a text message
by hitting the one button fourteen times until the right
letter came up. There was the that's the first letter
of the word all right now under the second letter
of the word, I mean my god. Right, So life's different.
It's completely out of our control. And one thing, Ephraim,
(42:20):
you'll love this.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
I find a lot.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Of people of a certain age have a really hard
time with this idea messaging being sent over social media.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Oh boy, you'll hear it.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
You can tell if someone's in their forties or fifties
or sixties or seventies, and they're like, that's how we're
communicating when we've got a problem.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Yeah, yes, sorry. So for example, when Klay Thompson unfollows
the war year on Instagram and removes certain pictures that
show him in a warrior uniform winning championships. When he
(43:11):
does that, I will not listen to anyone who's like, well,
that's not a thing, that's a thing. That's a thing.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
And Clay's not an eighteen year old. That man is
in his thirties. But we know this about Clay. He's
a thinker, he is sensitive. And I know for a
fact that he's been at minimum off and on mostly
on mad at the organization for over a year. And
(43:43):
I can get into why for those that may not
follow that organization as closely, but we've watched this in
contract negotiations and standoffs and holdouts. You scrub your social.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Media, I still think from it's hysterical when people think
it's not a thing. It's always a thing. Every time
it's a thank you, so what's your reaction to Klay
Thompson unfollowing the Warriors on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
Well, I knew it was coming. He knew it was coming.
You knew it was coming. They just they're not going
to pay him what he wants because there's no you know,
there's there's no benefit to it. They've decided they're riding
(44:35):
this thing out with Steph and with Draymond, and they're
going to build around those pieces. Man out Clay Thompson. Now,
he didn't help himself. Last game he played in a
in a Warrior's uniform was forgetful. So it's a situation where, look,
(44:59):
we can't keep you three together.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
To me, I think it's a year leg I think
they should have started this process last year. I think
they would have been a better team if they would
have if they would have done that, started to move
these pieces around. But look, they were adamant about Hey,
Steph wanted to run it back one more time, so
they did. So. They gave Steph as thing, all right,
(45:23):
this is it and they couldn't make the playoffs. So
going into the season with those three in the lineup again,
although he had been relegated to the bench and then
put back in it like we saw the right. We
have a term in football called the writings on the wall.
Right when you're in twenty one personnel and the team
(45:47):
stops running twenty one personnel plays right, and you're like, okay,
when they take you off special teams, now you're second
string special teams. All right, All of these things are
messages the writings on the wall. They asked you, hey, Clay,
(46:11):
and he struggled. He's to his own admission, he struggled
coming off the bench, like most prolific starters, all star
caliber starters, they struggle with up CP three. I'm sure
he struggled coming off the bench mentally, Alan Iverson, I mean,
(46:35):
it's a bevy of of star players towards the latter
years of their career as to change, you know, their involvement,
their participation, and it's hard for some to do it.
(46:55):
And that was the beginning, Like you understood, Oh, ok
whoa leyden as Draymond or Steph.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Come on, right, They didn't as those guys to come
off the bench.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Well, I listen, I think there's three things, and you
you certainly touched on the one that I'm sure history
tells us is actually the most important, and that's money.
But I do think there's actually three things at play here,
and any one of them or all of them, could
be ticking Klay Thompson off right now, because as we know,
free agency has not opened in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
But the damn well.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Going on with their talks right now, especially with their
own team, because the Warriors in Clay can talk. Yes, though,
even though we damn well know if he's got thirty
million on the table from Philly, his agent knows. We
know these things, because that's why deals are all struck
at twelve oh one once free agency starts.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
But I digress. There's three things going on here. Money, role,
and priority.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
Yes, those are the three things that I think are
going on with Klay Thompson.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
And I don't believe they're aligned on any of them.
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
The money bottom line is, if the Warriors pay Klay
Thompson what he's worth on the open market, then he
will be their only addition this offseason. And that's not
an addition because he was already there and that team
didn't make the playoffs, and now they're a year older.
So the Warriors are sitting there thinking to themselves, Why
would we do that? I do think that they could
(48:27):
have gotten around the money issue if the other two
issues were handled perfectly. And that is answer the question
what's my role and what priority am I? The problem
is what the warriors I think want to do is well,
they'd like your role to be less and what priority
(48:51):
are you not?
Speaker 3 (48:53):
First?
Speaker 2 (48:54):
So, in other words, how does it feel to Clay
when the warriors, who I know and everyone knows, are
at least gonna they're gonna kick the tires on a
big move. They're going to they have to, they're the warriors,
and so uh, if they're gonna kick the tires on
a big move, if they don't even know what they
(49:15):
can offer Clay yet, they've got to let the other
stuff play out first. So imagine if you're Klay Thompson
and they come to you with so, we can't offer
you what you want.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
We think we want you to.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Come off the bench, and if Clay goes, well, what
can you offer me? Well, we don't know yet because
we've got to work on all of this other stuff.
Speaker 6 (49:43):
He's not a priority and that's hot for him to understand.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
That's not gonna land well with him. That's gonna make him.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
Unfollow the Warriors on Instagram. They don't like me, I
don't like him. You don't have time for me. I'm
not gonna have no time for you.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
It feels so stupid and passive aggressive, But I'm sorry,
that's just out we roll now. That's that's the deal.
And it's not like, I mean, what's his other option
right now?
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Anyway? It's not like he can do an interview.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
It's not like he can come on Fox Sports Radio
and be like, I'm out, I hate the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
I'm out. Why would he do that?
Speaker 2 (50:21):
The lowers his value and and and you can't say
anything about talking to other teams because supposedly you're not
allowed to yet.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
Yeah, there's nothing he can do.
Speaker 6 (50:32):
The agent already has said, hey, look, it's just not
going to happen. Where would you want to go? What
do you mean it's not going to happen. I mean
it's not going to happen. It's going to happen. Yeah,
it's not what we're looking for. And where we've arrived
(50:56):
is already what the Warriors weren't looking for.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
So the reports where they are offered him two years
and forty eight million before the year even started, Clay
said no, and off we went into the season.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Guarantee is less than that. Now he should have right now.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Now it's yeah, Now it's gone down, I would imagine.
So there's that, he gets benched for part of the season,
he plays the good soldier, sort of acts like it,
it doesn't bother him, and then they don't even make
the playoffs. The whole thing has gone exactly how he
(51:31):
does not want it to go. But the problem is
the Warriors then finished the season and the first thing
they do at exit interviews is well, we want Clay back.
We got to have Clay back. We love Clay, we
have got to have him back. And they said that
out loud two or three times in one day, and
(51:52):
then there has not been another word since. And all
of the backstory that I hear is the it's not good.
And then you get an unfollow on Instagram, and I
think you can put two and two together.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
I'm not reporting anything right now.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
I do want to play what Draymond Green said he
addressed this on his podcast, and him addressing Klay Thompson
stuff has already gotten him into trouble before, so I
want to we should play that, and we'll do that
coming up next. But I think a parting of the
ways is imminent. I think the breakup is happening. It's
(52:36):
no getting around it. It's this is this is what
it is, and it's a business.
Speaker 6 (52:47):
And to Warrior fans, including yourself, yes, what Klay Thompson
did for the organization was amazing, but it's time to
move on. It's time to move on, and it sucks.
Very few players get to spend their whole career with
a team and when it's not you, then they won't
(53:13):
ever move off. Steph Nope. So you're at a situation
where you know you gotta be like, man, look, it
was great, move on. The best way to do it
is to go somewhere else, to win a championship, somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Do that. That would be the goal.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
So we'll let you hear what Draymond had to say
on his podcast directly about this issue. Coming up next,
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am Mark Willard. Happy Father's Day. We're just getting started.
We need to get to Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark
faced off one on one today. I mean they're teams,
(54:20):
but there was at least one one on one moment.
Mookie Betts is out. The Laker job is I don't know,
still sitting there.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
I'm going in going into what are we Week four?
Week five?
Speaker 6 (54:39):
I'm going in the interview for it. You are Yeah,
you hired, man? I bet I can get us to
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
You should be hired.
Speaker 9 (54:52):
Just I think you care more than they do. I do,
and they will they will care, Oh my god, they
will care.
Speaker 3 (55:01):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
If I sat you down next to Rob Palinka and
played a game of who care more, I swear to god,
I think you'd win.
Speaker 5 (55:10):
So we'll get to that and and and Chuck.
Speaker 3 (55:13):
We got to get to Charles Barkley saying that that
this is it no matter what, But what's your BS
meter do?
Speaker 5 (55:22):
When you hear this? I want you to listen to
so I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
I'll share this with you when when the Klay Thompson
unfollowing of the Warriors on Instagram broke at least when
people noticed this is in the middle of my show
on Friday. Change the whole show is one of the
and I mean, how stupid does that sound. Somebody hit
the unfollowed button on Instagram and at four o'clock on
an afternoon drive show, stop everything, cancel the guests. We're
(55:49):
just talking about this for the next two hours. That's
that's how it is. And so that's what we did
from from four to six on Friday, which of course
means well, here comes Draymond Green to address it all
on his podcast, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 3 (56:11):
You know, that's been a lot of note.
Speaker 12 (56:13):
I know all of you were probably looking forward to
me talking about Clay unfollowing the Warriors and deleting some
ig posts or something. I had no idea that happened.
I think it's hilarious. Just so y'all know. I laugh
when Jackson I logged on hair and Jackson's like, Yo,
so what about Clay. I'm like, what, Like, what happened?
It's like, oh, he un followed the Warriors. I think
(56:34):
that's comical. I know you all be one like somebody
feelings to be hurt or something. It ain't that, ain't
never going to be that. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
I don't even catch stand that answer.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
I don't either, because it's so vague. Y'all wanting someone's
feelings to be hurt? Do we mean does that mean
we think, yeah, your feelings? What like, should your feelings
be hurt that Clay did that? Or are you suggesting
that Clay is not hurt, which is what's leading to
(57:07):
the act of unfollowing the Warriors on Instagram the whole.
I know you want this to be something. I think
it's hilarious, but I know he never gets to Hey,
Clay's fine, that's not what this is about. He makes
you feel like that's what he's saying without saying anything.
Speaker 5 (57:27):
This is my total takeaway.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Draymond just said a bunch of stuff that he's not
gonna have to walk back even though all of us
are right.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, that to me was what happened.
Speaker 6 (57:44):
I know y'all want, you know, everybody, you know somebody's
feelings to be hurt, But that what what's comical. What
part of it is comical. The fact that he's leaving it,
the fact that he's me making a big deal out.
Speaker 3 (58:03):
Of making the big deal out of it. That's how
I took it.
Speaker 6 (58:05):
That's I mean, because the fact is he did it.
You guys are closed. You didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Uh So.
Speaker 6 (58:20):
You know, maybe you should have called him before you
got on your podcast, so you could have gave us
some insight.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
Not the first time that that's been the case. So
you know, you mentioned you guys are tight. I'm not
going to suggest that they're not. I don't know the
ins and outs of that relationship, but I can share
this with you.
Speaker 3 (58:36):
This I know for sure.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Draymond Green, once upon a time shared publicly and he
did this kind of on the stage at an awards
show once upon a time. You know, can Bob Myers
get some bleeping credit the then general manager when talking
about how the Warriors went to the hospital and signed
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Klay Thompson to a map contract extension even though he
had just torn.
Speaker 5 (59:02):
His acl and Raymond kind of was like, who does that?
Speaker 3 (59:07):
Who does that?
Speaker 5 (59:08):
They get some credit? And then he has referenced since then.
Speaker 2 (59:12):
That part of the Warrior front office, as in to
give them a bunch of credit for signing Clay to
a max contract while he hadn't even gone under the knife.
Speaker 3 (59:25):
Yet for ACL surgery. Clay did not like that.
Speaker 2 (59:30):
Clay did not appreciate the fact that Draymond Green spoke
about his money in a public space. And you know this,
that's the code. It's the code in pro sports. You
don't talk about it. You don't talk about another guy's money.
Because Clay, again, is he overly prideful. Sure you could
accuse him of that. I could listen to that, but
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the bottom line is is he sort of looks at
it the opposite way.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
Like, go back four years.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Klay Thompson hasn't even had his thirtieth birthday yet, the
Warriors are in the middle of a dynasty that, as
it turned out, wasn't done yet. What are the Warriors
gonna do not sign him? Like, what are you suggesting,
Draymond that the Warriors should have been Like, Ah, so,
I know we've won two out of the last three
(01:00:20):
years and you just tore your ACL in the NBA Finals.
I know you're not thirty yet. Ah, hometown discount. What
are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Here.
Speaker 9 (01:00:36):
So he's like, of course they showed up with a
max contract. If they didn't, eighteen other teams would have.
So there's history there.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Yeah, it's look, man, the Bulls broke up.
Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
After their second three peat and everybody could still play
at a high level.
Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
It happens. Kobe and Shaq broke up. It happens.
Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
So it's a situation where nothing lasts forever. You knew,
out of the three, somebody had to go, and they
let it play out on the court instead of them picking,
(01:01:45):
they let it play out on the court. If Clay
would have had a tremendous year this year, we wouldn't
be having this conversation. Then he could be like that
two year, forty eight million dollars would have been insulting. Now,
he probably should have took it if he wanted to
(01:02:08):
stay in Golden State, because that's not what it is now,
that's that's off the table.
Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Well, the crazy thing is, though, he will beat that deal.
Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Oh he's going to beat it. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
If he wanted to stay in Golden State, correct, he
should have taken that deal. Because they're not going to
that's off the table. They won't offer that to him there,
he's going to beat that on the open market. But
obviously he didn't want to go anywhere. So that's that's
(01:02:40):
what I'm saying. If he was felt a certain way
about Golden State and wanting to finish his career there,
then you take the two years forty eight million. That's
twenty four million dollars a year on top of the
what almost a quarter of a billion. So yep, he's
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already made. That was the hometown.
Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Deal. That was it.
Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
Now you didn't even perform up to that contract this year,
and so now they're like, whoof we died that bullet.
Now they have wiggle room. Now they can go get
(01:03:26):
some real pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Well yeah, that what the deal is is what what
they what they've got now is the knowledge that they
didn't have then, which is that this is not going
to work, so god go do something else. But when
you talk about living up to a contract being worth
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every dollar.
Speaker 6 (01:03:51):
Put the money in the bag. That's what they That's
what they that's his street name. Y' already know that,
that's his street name.
Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
That's right. Here is the money in d Bang, the
money in the bat de Bay, that's right, Stephen money
de Ben de bag steven is the beggar is here.
Speaker 10 (01:04:15):
Once you said the word contract, I honestly did not
know who you were talking about. Price and Deshamba won
the US Opened by one stroke over Rory McElroy and
Pioneers North Carolina. Deshambo also won the US Open in
twenty twenty. McElroy still has not won a major in
ten years, since the twenty fourteen PGA at Valhalla in Louisville. However,
(01:04:38):
he got the lead today in the final round with
Birdie's on the ninth and tenth old Bertie's on twelve
and thirteen. He was, as you mentioned last hour, the
first golfer of the weekend to get to eight under par,
when precious few golfers it's a US Open, got under
par at all. And then he had that finish bogie
on fifteen, bogie on sixteen, bogie on eighteen. Two of
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those three holes missing very short putts. In fact, the
one on sixteen called a two and a half footer
that lipped out. He had not missed a putt inside
three feet all season and misses two short to lose
by one stroke. Yeah, we mentioned the winner gets four
point three million dollars. Second place two point three million dollars.
(01:05:24):
Rory McElroy skipped all the media interviews as soon as
this was over, even the customary post round interview with
the rights holder. One reporter said, quote, Rory just flew
out of the parking lot. Here may have been off
the property before Bryson even signed his card.
Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
End quote, he spun his wheels. I don't know if
you saw this video. He didn't just leave. He spun
his wheels on the way out of the parking lot.
Speaker 10 (01:05:47):
Okay, Well, we mentioned the money payouts had been a
little larger these days at Major's especially, but even the
players who missed the cut this weekend get a payout
of ten thousand dollars each just for the Thursday and
Friday goal. Thank you and yeah, large large increase in
what the winner gets these days, even compared to last
year's US Open winter It's up seven hundred thousand dollars
(01:06:10):
the winners check now for a guy who I don't
think needs the money, bryceon Deshamba. As we mentioned, he's
on a nine figure contract with Live Golf, but the
US Open purse total prize money just three years ago
was twelve and a half million. It's now twenty one
and a half million. It's up over seventy percent in
(01:06:30):
just a three year span. I don't know what's been
happening in golf as far as money getting thrown around,
but wow, they've got some sort of incentive going on.
We got to check.
Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Out what wonder what's going on in this sport.
Speaker 10 (01:06:42):
Colin Moricaua earned the last US Open US Olympic golf
spot for this summer in Paris. He will be there,
as he edged out Patrick can't Lee. The US has
four of the top seven in the world. By the way,
not everyone can Go. Can't Lay his number eight in
the world. NBA Finals continue on Monday. Boston, up three
games to one, will host Dallas. There were THREEAWNBA games today,
(01:07:07):
wins for Atlanta, Phoenix and for Indiana, which is now
five to ten after defeating Chicago ninety one to eighty three.
Caitlin Clark twenty three points nine as sists five turnovers.
Stanley Cup Game five is Tuesday, Edmonton at Florida. Panthers
lead three games to one. They had their six game
winning streak stop last night. Birmingham won the UFL Football
(01:07:27):
Championship twenty five nothing over San Antonio. Today's game MVP
was Birmingham quarterback Adrian Martinez, who had three total touchdowns.
He was the season MVP at the Euro Soccer Tournament
wins for England and Netherlands. Denmark tide Slavinia one to one.
NASCAR is at Iowa tonight. They are well past the
halfway point. They're on lap two sixty five of the
(01:07:49):
three point fifty scheduled. Ryan Blaney in the lead, Joey
Logano now second, Ricky Stenhouse Junior is third, and College
Baseball's World Series is ongoing. Florida State with a win
today seven three over Virginia. Number one ranked Tennessee leads
North Carolina tonight five to one going to the seventh inning.
In Sunday night, MLB Baseball Boston's lead now seven to
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three over the Yankees in the bottom of the seventh.
The A's have lost eighth straight. They lost at Minnesota
six to two today in the first of a double header.
There had been a rain out yesterday. Oakland is also
losing tonight six ' five at Minnesota in the bottom
of the sixth. Baltimore and the Mets with wins Dodgers
as well. Dodgers won three nothing over Kansas City, but
Mookie Bets broke his hand hit by a pitch back
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to you, that's.
Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
That is going to have an effect on things going forward.
Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
Although it looks like you're only.
Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Going to need to win eighty three games to make the.
Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Playoffs International League, and the Dodgers and Phillies are almost there,
so it's it's all good. But yeah, that's that's going
to be a while there for Mookie Betts. Steve great
stuff as always, Thank you, tye reck dot com Studios.
Speaker 9 (01:08:59):
Am, can we get into it? What the hell's up
with your Laker job?
Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
For real?
Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
And I don't I don't mean because our person turned
it down. This is unlike any process I've I've watched
ever before. Why did it go this way? Why JJ
Reddick's name has gotten thrown around for three weeks? Then
it was a smoke screen. Here's Dan Hurley, Oh, build
(01:09:26):
up staircase, Dan Hurley. Oh he doesn't take it.
Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Now we're going back.
Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
It's like we're watching a reality show, right, But that's clunky.
Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
It's very clunky, embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
For an organization like this to get taken College coaches
turning it down and we know about it leading up
to it for a week. This is sloppy. I don't understand.
I don't understand because this isn't the way for this organization.
Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
No it's not, and it's embarrassing as a lifelong fan.
But look, somebody's gonna get the job. It's a tough
job to take. The team is older, it's not championship
caliber in my opinion, and there's very little wiggle room
(01:10:20):
to make it a championship team. It's very top heavy,
and so you're walking into a mine field hoping to
get through the other side. No coach has gotten through
the other side, not even one who won a championship
(01:10:41):
for them four years ago. And so you're in a
situation where, oh, yeah, the money's nice, it's la. The
prestige of it, it's all there. It's great, But what's
the upside. It's lose, lose because it's championship or bus.
Especially with Lebron James in the twilight of his career,
(01:11:05):
Anthony Davis, who shout out to him him in his trainer,
John Isshup, who had him healthy and playing more games
than he's played in his entire career, but can he
do that again? Outside of him being healthy, the rest
(01:11:29):
of the entire bench and some starters were unhealthy the
entire season. So it just I don't know if they
were ever fully healthy starting at the beginning. And Vanderbilt
missed first what two months of the season gave Vincent
(01:11:50):
missed to play one game and then didn't play again
until the playoffs. What so you missed the entire season
And so it's you know, cam redd Is heard, it's
one of those jobs as a coach, you're looking like,
oh man, the money's great. Well the money won't be
(01:12:15):
what they offered Hurley Dan early, but right, it won't
be that, which is also another slapping face like, oh,
well you offered that much. Now you want to you
know That's that's the problem they ran into with TYLERU.
Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
Well they want Tyler. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I got a question for you that I want to
or or maybe push back a little bit on this
idea that it's quote a tough job to take because
it's championship or bust. I'd like to explore that a
little bit further. Coming up, we're in the tyraq dot
com studios with e from Salama Mark Wheeler. This is
Fox Sports Radio. Happy Father's Day to each and every
(01:12:55):
one of you, especially those who are exhausted and uh
overworked and uh in pain and trying. That's it, man,
(01:13:17):
just try. I mean just just from me to you.
If you're showing up, that's it, right, that's that's probably
enough because I know there are a lot of people
who who grew up in this life with people who
didn't show up for them. So just show up and
then you can mess up once you get there, because
(01:13:39):
you will, God knows. I do you ever gone to
bed where you're like, I didn't mess up today?
Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
No? And I mean that, and I mean that's solely
about parenting. I mean, right, go to bed, just questioning much?
Am I right?
Speaker 13 (01:14:01):
Too little? Like am I? The answers Yes, it's all
of those things. Answers yes, yes, it's too much, too much,
too little in their face too much and not in
their face enough. Let's go make the right decision next time.
Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
You never will tough gig, good lord, it's a tough gig.
It really is. Just keep showing up. Just keep showing up.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
I won't keep bringing the bill, man. I mean I
act like I know, but that's all. That's my philosophy.
I'm just gonna get beat up and let's do it
again tomorrow. Tyreck dot Com Studios. Mark Willardy from salam
I don't think your Laker job is that hard to
say yes to.
Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
I don't see the negative to joining Championship or Bust
and knowing that the stakes are high and you might
get fired very quickly. And and yes, uh, the Lions share.
The blame will go to you and the credit will
go to the players if it goes well. But I
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look at right now and I go, okay, here's a
couple of things. First of all, even if you are
signing on to coach Lebron, he not gonna be around
that much longer.
Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
I bet whoever.
Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Gets this job out lasts Lebron of course. Well yeah, okay, yeah,
And that's not a tough bet. So that's number one
for everybody who's like, well, I'm not gonna sign up
to coach Lebron. Well, you're actually signing up to coach
Lebron probably and post Lebron, yeah, because you're gonna get
at least two years.
Speaker 6 (01:15:36):
But you don't get to make decisions that you feel
maybe and that's the I think that's the biggest thing.
I think that's the thing that like, you know, at
least for two years, you know, it's you got.
Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
To clear it with the player. Wants to do that, well,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
For bajillions of dollars, maybe I think people would number
one and number two.
Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
I think the thought is is it becomes a stain
on your resume.
Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
You take the gig, you get steamrolled by Lebron and
the fan base, and you walk out of there eighteen
to thirty six months later with your tail between your
legs and your career careening out of control. And I'm like, well,
hang on a second, Like, let's look at all of
the coaches who have been through there or have coached
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Lebron or hey, like Mike Brown both, he's done both.
He's done Lakers and he's done Lebron, and he has survived.
He is now thriving. He just got a new deal.
Frank Vogel went on to coach the Suns. Whether it
went well or not is not my point. That's not
(01:16:58):
my point. My point is is he walked down out
of the Laker experience still hirable. So I just don't
think this whole like, oh, it's too much attention, it's
championship or bust, it's lebron.
Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
I don't see the downside. Well, there's what I know,
a lot of guys don't want to fail. Well I
get that, but but I would say that this is
helpful and not failing.
Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Here's one thing I know. I have no idea who's
going to do a good job or a bad job.
Here's what I know.
Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Whoever gets this job, their name is going to be
way bigger after this experience is over than it is now. Yes,
that is a fact. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
If that's if the deal is, you're in an industry
where fame and attention and resume and all these things matter.
I don't know, man, I don't see the downside.
Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Well, we've got Steve Kerr. I think he's leaving the
war Warriors, so not not anytime soon on this sign
a new deal. It's a sign and trade sign. Are
you gonna take Clay too? We'll take Clay and Steve better.
You better.
Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
He's been a hashtag future Laker for fifteen years.
Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
It feels like, well, you know, yeah, I don't know
necessarily if we want this Clay, but you know, I
know his dad would love it. Oh my god, so
would he? Yeah, of course, you know, I mean Jo Tatum.
Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Come on over. Warrior fans don't want to hear that.
But but you know Clay Clay grew up around this
and uh.
Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
Yeah, they played for He plays for Golden State, but
he's a Laker fan. That's just how it goes.
Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
He grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
In the locker room Oregon, but also Orange County idolizing
Kobe Bryant and his and his dad's broadcasting for the team.
I don't really see that it's going to land that way,
but who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
I don't know where this is all going to end up.
I just think I'm I'm confused.
Speaker 9 (01:19:14):
I'm confused that a Lakers head coaching search looks and
sounds like this.
Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
One of the most prestigious jobs in the association. This
makes sense to me, it does. It makes sense to me,
So I just want a good coach. Man, I hear you.
Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
I'm going in Monday, but tomorrow for my interview.
Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
I think I think it's pretty rare that it gets
telegraphed like this and we get a whole build up
and a name and there's going to be an interview,
and here's what he's being offered, and dot to dot
to dot to beat to beat to beat, and nah.
Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
I don't don't want it.
Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Come on, man, you can't tell me you saw it
sounded and looking like that.
Speaker 6 (01:20:10):
Man, would you like a way? Would you like to
be my assistant coach? I would be open to that conversation.
You have to denounce all allegiance to the Warriors, burn
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all your memorabilia, and your son has to change his
middle name to Leb Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Okay, I'll tell you what Tomorrow at two o'clock live
on Fox, I'll announce whether or not I'm taking the
assistant job with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
How's that sound. We'll get into Caitlyn Clark at Angel
Reeson next. Look.
Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
The w NBA conversation in the last handful of weeks
has moved from basketball to politics, to race, to sexism,
all of these things. Right, we all are aware of
that dynamic that has unfolded. I keep not having a
problem with anything I see on the court. I keep
(01:21:18):
having a problem with what everyone says after it. And
I don't mean that on social media. I mean that
from the actual players themselves.
Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
And maybe me saying I have a problem with it
is the wrong way to phrase it. I just think
a lot of these players could help themselves. Here's what
I'm noticing.
Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
You've got rookies on the basketball court, Caitlyn Clark, Angel Reese.
Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
They're rookies, but a healthy portion of the entire league.
Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Are rookies when it comes to dealing with this kind
of media scrutiny.
Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
And that's what I notice.
Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
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Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
You remember the last controversy with Kitlin Clark when she
got the forearm to the back the cheap shot from Carter,
And then after the game, Carter goes to the press
conference and says, I'm not doing any Caitlin Clark questions,
and it's like, well, actually this was a basketball thing
until you said that. Well now we're not doing basketball anymore.
(01:22:40):
Now you've made it personal. That to me is a
media rookie mistake. Because all of the WNBA no matter
how many years you've played in the league, you've never
done this, and I bet you could actually relate to that. Right,
There's not just an arc to learning how to play.
(01:23:00):
There's an arc to learning how to deal with money
and attention, power, accountability, responsibility. This is what young players
have to go through and eat from. I feel like
I'm watching the entire WNBA go through that at once.
Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
Well, yeah, we look, the WNBA been around a long time,
a lot of great players. This is the perfect storm
for them because you have a dynamic player that came
out of college. They captured the heart and the attention
of America and it is really elevated the WNBA. I mean,
(01:23:48):
I'm pretty sure they'll actually make money this year.
Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Just on.
Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
You know, the just the viewers and sponsorship and all
of these things. It's a tremendous opportunity for.
Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
The young women.
Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
Playing in a sport that didn't there doesn't get a
lot of shine. They're on like they were. I watched
they're on CBS today earlier.
Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Yep. You know, I know this is.
Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
A relatively down time and sports, no football, Uh, we're
just you know, one off in terms of NBA.
Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
Right, and plays once every ten days.
Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
Yeah, And and baseball we're too far away from anything
resembling you know, the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
So we're at a.
Speaker 6 (01:24:54):
Time now where it's like, uh, all right, they've been
able to capture this market because it's always been like this,
but they've been able to really capture this market because
people want to see this young woman play as well
as Angel and you know, a bevy of the Brink
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and some of the other college stars that we watched
because you know directly of the rivalry and Caitlyn and
so on and so forth. So this is a perfect
time to embrace it. I said before people go back
and forth about the w n B A our USA
(01:25:37):
Basketball dropping the ball on not putting Kaitlyn Clark on
the on the Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
But I'm like, you know.
Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
How, I think the best thing that could happen for
her is to get this break so she can rest, train,
get in better shape, and come back when they resume
(01:26:10):
and kill it. Then she can start trying to separate herself. First,
you know, third of the season, she was first quarter
of the season, she was tired, way too many games,
not enough practices. And so we're in a situation now
I think it's it was best. I know it would
have been great for her to go over there and
(01:26:31):
get that, Yeah, it would have, but they left a
bunch of top players off that roster, and you know,
from a marketing standpoint, people are like, well, that's just stupid.
But for her individually, for her growth as a player,
I think it's it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
She left right from college into the w NBA like
it was.
Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
It was like minor league based, like three weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
Seriously, she that like that National championship game, Oh my goodness,
the ratings through the roof.
Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
And then everyone's like, and.
Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Cool, did you see it?
Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
One?
Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Great? The draft is tomorrow and then they drafted him
and then they're like when does they know they already started?
They started this morning. There's a game on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
It's like what she like, I would love to go
back and look at the number of days from National
title game.
Speaker 9 (01:27:25):
To the Indiana fever opener. Felt like, Terry, it felt
like ten days. Seriously, it was like, what is happening?
So that's a that's tough listen, and.
Speaker 6 (01:27:39):
So then you want to take her over to the
may but to burn this girl completely out.
Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Completely and I buy all that. I wonder what you
think about this. Let's look at this though from the
angle of the other players. Listen to Angel reason. Let
me give you.
Speaker 9 (01:27:56):
For those of you who did not see the game today,
I know there's been a healthy debate about it online.
It's a hard foul. Was it an out of line foul?
Maybe that's not even really my point in getting into this.
Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
But Angel Reese, on a drive to the left block
from Caitlin Clark, went up for a block shot and
got a healthy bit of head a face with elbow
and did not look sorry about it, and did not
necessarily look like she wasn't trying to get a healthy
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bit of Caitlyn Clark's face with her elbow.
Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
And so it goes that sports, it happens.
Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Is it out of line?
Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Is there discipline? That's really for another day. My interest
right now is so what did y'all sit.
Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Down and say into the microphones after the game? Take
a listen to Angel Reese.
Speaker 6 (01:28:57):
I think we went up really strong a lot of times,
and we didn't get a lot of calls. And going
back and looking at the film, I've seen a lot
of calls that weren't made.
Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
I guess some people got a special whistle.
Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
But okay, okay, here's the problem. I get that you're
a competitor. I get that there's frustrations in every game,
like that's all normal, But this is yet another.
Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Rookie media mistake by Angel Reese. And Angel is welcoming
of the villain role, so maybe she doesn't care. But
to me, this is actually what's.
Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
Sort of driving this negative conversation about the WNBA. You
can't clip someone in the temple and then go straight
to the microphone and go, yep, she got a special whistle.
Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
They only call stuff when it's Caitlin.
Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
You clocked her in the temple.
Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
There are people on social media who think you should
be suspended. Oh gosh, so I'm not even getting into that,
but you've got to know that when you hit the
press conference, because there's zero chance of you winning the
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battle of the word when there's video flying around the internet,
and let's be real, that's all ninety eight percent of
the people are going to see. They're just gonna see
the clip of you whacking her upside the head, and
then you go straight to the locker room to say, yeah,
we lost I clocked her in the head and uh,
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we got.
Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
A crappy whistle because they love Caitlin and they don't
like me. Well, look I'm a angel. You're right.
Speaker 6 (01:30:57):
And I watched the game and juries has a little
bit of Luka Danta jenn her right. She does a
lot of flopping, a lot of arguing with the refs.
I watched her do that for the majority of the game.
Turn talk to the ref. Team is right, Like, she
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has a lot of that in her game. She plays
in the post. She's a big. You should expect contact,
like literally, that's how you train as a big. You
play through you should be able to score through the contact.
(01:31:41):
And so I've seen her, watched her flop her body,
you know, get a little bit of a bump and
just fly out of bounds, so on and so forth.
So there was a stretch there where she thought she
got filed three four times in a row.
Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
But as a basketball player, I'm watching, like, if you're
more under control when you're going up, uh, then you
will get the call. But if you're going up for
the call, then you probably aren't gonna get it. If
(01:32:28):
you're out of control and trying to just get the
ball up. You're probably not gonna get the benefit of
the doubt.
Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
And so.
Speaker 6 (01:32:37):
As a player, you got to look within yourself, right,
I played in the post, so I expected contact.
Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
I didn't. I thought it was gonna be contact every play.
Speaker 6 (01:32:49):
I mean, of course, I have a football background, so
I was looking for the contact. But for her, I know,
I know why she was frustrated because I watched her frustrating.
First she had five fouls, and so I watched her,
you know, take silly fouls. I've watched her want other
(01:33:13):
calls that she didn't get. And so this doesn't surprise me.
About the sound bite at the at the press conference, Yeah, oh,
I'm not saying it surprises me you or anyone. I
guess it's more of a suggestion to certain.
Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
Well and they look clearly a lot of these ladies
feel like the world's against them. And whether that's true
or not, right, there's all kinds of dynamics going on here,
from race, to geography to to gender, Like all the
normal stuff is there, and I grant that, But if
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these ladies are upset because the world's against them, you
got to learn how to play a game a little
bit got to learn how to play the game a
little bit when the microphones and the cameras are on.
And if what you're worried about, again, I don't want
to put words in her mouth or thoughts in her head,
but if what you're worried about is worlds against me,
(01:34:18):
well my suggestion would be, don't go to the microphone
when there's video of you clocking someone in the head
very aggressively, and then after the game go we don't
get the whistle.
Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Other people get special whistle.
Speaker 6 (01:34:34):
Yeah, it's just this whole age I've heard. They've been
rivals for a long time. It's gonna carry over. It's that,
you know, not to this degree, but it's that magic
bird type of energy where you play in college a
bunch of times and then you come in and play
in the league and going up against each other. The
(01:34:55):
difference is both of these young women play on terrible teams,
so you know, meeting in the playoffs and then they
play on some god awful teams five and ten and
you know, four nine or something like that. I think
the records are they're not very competitive maybe with each other,
(01:35:22):
which is also great, but.
Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
You know, you nailed the records, by the way, you
nailed them, Like I say, I do.
Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
I watch Indiana Fever.
Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Actually with that victory has moved into a playoffs boty.
Speaker 6 (01:35:35):
Oh good lord. It was only twelve teams, so yeah,
I guess something.
Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
Yeah, eight teams go all right.
Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
I don't think he was the best of all time
at anything, but was he the most unique of all time?
Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
Most memorable of all time?
Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:35:53):
We can get into that. We'll tell you who we're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Coming up next with from Salam, I'm Mark Willard and
this is Fox Sports Radio. Okay, y'all, we're living Thetirack
dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
That's it, from my Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
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right after we get off of the air. I still
don't know exactly.
Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
Into my pocket and money spent, so wat the deeper
Still coming up with lyn Oh go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
No, no, no, don't ever apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
No, no, no, You're good. Sometimes it just hits me. You're good.
I see you, Mary?
Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Yeah, yeah, how to hit you? When Chuck said, uh,
this is it, I don't I don't care what network
that we're on.
Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
This coming year, that's it? What is this twenty years? Yeah?
Look I get it, I get it.
Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
You know, change is difficult when you're used to something
a certain way and you know they're not going to
have the same level of freedom that they've had on
T and T. So would you want to do something
(01:37:46):
that you've enjoyed doing differently? It's it's it's a tough
situation because you know, most people you know, been in
the business and made the type of money he's made
in his second career.
Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
I don't want to change, don't. They don't want change.
Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
They don't want to bring in new producers, and like
they have a real live thing going on over there,
like a family, and it's tough to say, hey, I'm
going to we're just going to move over here to
(01:38:36):
this other network or these other producers are whatever that is,
and we're going to do it to do the same show.
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
Like that.
Speaker 6 (01:38:46):
Doesn't happen. It's not the same, it won't be the same.
And if you're not willing to change and want to change,
then just let it go. And it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
Well, the interesting thing about it is, I still don't
know even.
Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Though this is one of the weirdest stories that's been building,
which is the the end of Inside the NBA, and
it's like, it's still not double triple, quadruple official, and
even though it feels that way, and then here comes
(01:39:24):
Charles with, well, I'm leaving no matter what the hell happens.
And so now I'm like, well, now I don't I
don't care as much if Inside the NBA is going
away next year or not, because it's going away no
matter what. So, in other words, even if the NBA
stayed on TNT, if Charles is not there, well, and
that's rop that that that there's no there are certain
(01:39:47):
people and it's not even me sitting here saying that
I'm like the biggest Charles Barkley on TV fan in
the world. That's Steu, that pot of soup. Those four guys.
I don't think there's really any replacing any Oh, absolutely not,
(01:40:07):
like it's a package deal and they're either all there
or I'm sorry, it's dead.
Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
Like even even Kenny whatever, Ernie shack the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
All you got to do is go watch Kevin Hart's
spoof of the whole thing, and and he's able to
sort of pluck what sort of makes each guy quintessentially
them and add it to his spoof.
Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
And because he can do that, that tells me.
Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
That that show doesn't live without any of them. So
if Chuck is leaving, then it just to me felt like,
well now we can just shrug our shoulders. I don't
care where the NBA ends up in terms of broadcast rights.
Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
If Chuck is leaving, the show is over anyway.
Speaker 6 (01:41:01):
Yeah, it's it's it's a show that you know, it's
not duplicated, and if if Charles doesn't want to be
a part of it, then they can they'll move on.
So you know, it's it's a sad day because we
all look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
It's it's a sad day. But he also he certainly
left a mark. Not not every not everybody's able to
do this, Like there's a lot of you can't get
away with doing on air what Chuck does on air,
like he's able to do it because he's Chuck. Yes,
but if you look at what has happened to sports
broadcast media in the last decade, you could argue that
(01:41:46):
that that Chuck is paved away more than he gets
credit for. The straight shooting, the authenticity, the push the
line not always perfect by.
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Any stretch, by unapologetic yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
And that's that's what has risen to the forefront, don't
you think.
Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
Yes, yes, it's something refreshing about someone speaking their mind,
whether you agree about it, you know, agree with it,
especially in sports, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
And and when I think unapologetic, I think Steve Desager.
I don't know about you, but that's the first name
that always comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
I'm like, that guy's never apologizing for anything. Why would
he apologize?
Speaker 10 (01:42:38):
All right, yeah, yeah, maybe we already spoke our minds.
By the way, on the NBA TV topic on last
night's show, when after your discussion here properly of what's
been done for years with the NBA on TNT in studio,
Compare that to the direk that ESPN slash ABC has
been offering the basketball fan, especially in the finals Yeah,
(01:43:02):
is no comparison.
Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
I don't know who the I don't know who it is.
It's a different group of people. That's part of the issue.
It's a different group of people every Tuesday.
Speaker 10 (01:43:12):
Yeah, so out of a sixteen minute halftime, they let
them talk at the most four minutes. So by all means,
make sure to have more people at the desk. And
by the way, we just couldn't wait to hear the
comments of who'd you hire at the start? Is Josh Hart?
I mean, honestly, what are you doing? What is this?
I could not think of in any sport a halftime
(01:43:36):
and pregame show that's more forgettable or worthless. I mean,
in any sport on any network in my lifetime. It's ridiculous.
NBA Finals do continue Monday, by the way, season might
be ending. Then Boston up three games to one, will
host Dallas. By the way, we can update the stats
Kyrie Irving. In the past three seasons playoffs included now
(01:43:58):
one in thirteen against the South. So there WNBA three
games today Atlanta and Phoenix with victory. That Phoenix win
was over Seattle eighty seven to seventy eight. Britney Griner
twenty eight points Caitlin Clark with twenty three in Indiana's
win over Chicago ninety one to eighty three. Stanley Cup
Game five is Tuesday, Edmonton at Florida. Panthers lead three
(01:44:19):
games to one. Bryce and Deshamba won the US opened
by one stroke over Rory McElroy Colin Moricauer in the
last US Olympic golf spot for this summer in Paris.
Number one rank Scotti Scheffler is headed to the Olympics.
He tied for forty first place today, tying with Jordan Speith.
Birmingham won the UFL Football Championship twenty five nothing over
(01:44:42):
San Antonio. At the Euro Soccer Tournament, wins for England
and the Netherlands Denmark tide, Slovenia won one. Coming up
Monday on Fox TV France VERSUS Austria three pm Eastern time.
The Copa America Soccer Tournament starts Thursday night on FS
one with Argentina against Canada. Tournament will be held in
the US with the games on Fox and FS one.
(01:45:04):
NASCAR's race was tonight from Iowa. Ryan Blaney the winner.
He led over two hundred laps. William Byron finished in
second Everything's final. In Major League Baseball, the A's have
lost again. They dropped a double header at Minnesota after
yesterday's right now six to two and eight seven the final.
The A's have lost nine games in a row. Tonight,
at Boston, the Red Sox beat the rival Yankees nine
(01:45:26):
to three. As Boston had nine stolen bases in this one,
all against the same catcher, Jose Travinu. It was a
win for Baltimore at home over Philadelphia, eight to three.
The win Corbyn Burns, who's eight and two, and Zach
Wheeler took the loss, allowing four homers in four and
a third innings. Matt's won their fifth in a row
eleven to six over San Diego. Houston beat Detroit four
(01:45:48):
to one. Ronel Blanco the winning pitcher. He was pulled
after seven no hit innings and three walks, and the
Dodgers shut out Kansas City three nothing. Mookie Betts of
La broke his hand hit by a pit He'll see
a hand specialist on Monday. At the College World Series,
Florida State defeated Virginia seven to three. Number one Tennessee
is winning with two outs in the ninth six to one.
(01:46:10):
Over North Carolina and guys. This Thursday night on Fox TV,
there will be a Major League game at a park
that'll have a ticketing capacity of about eight thousand, three
hundred its historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Giants versus Cardinals
this week. The Birmingham Black Bearons of the Negro Leagues
(01:46:30):
played there for nearly four decades, starting nineteen twenty four.
The teams on Thursday Night will wear throwback uniforms that
highlight the history of the Negro Leagues in those two cities,
San Francisco and Saint Louis. All living Negro League players
have been invited to this game. At last check, sixty
are confirmed to attend. Rickwood Field is the oldest pro
ballpark in the US. It opened in nineteen ten. Many
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future Hall of Famers have passed through, from Babe Ruth
to Jackie Robinson to Hank Aaron to Reggie Jackson. Eighteenage
Willie Mays played center field in Birmingham for the Black
Bearons in nineteen forty eight as they played in the
final Negro League World Series. This was also the double
A home of the White Sox Birmingham team in the
nineteen eighties home of the first integrated team in Alabama
(01:47:16):
years ago. They've had to do let's just say, a
redo on the place to get it ready for this week.
A couple days before Thursday night, they're gonna have a
minor league game there Birmingham against Montgomery at rick Woodfield.
But the entire playing surface in Birmingham was given a
five million dollars makeover.
Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
For this week.
Speaker 10 (01:47:35):
There's a new and padded outfield wall. The wall was
moved back ten feet, digital scoreboard netting now along the
foul lines. And this is going to be the first
of a three game series they'll play in Birmingham Thursday,
off day Friday. Final two of the series will be
Giants at Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Back to you, Yeah, this thing's going to be really special.
And again this is sort of in place of what
had been the Field of Dreams game the last few years. Uh, Steve,
I want you may know this because it's clear that
you've done a lot of research on this this forthcoming game.
And I think you said maybe eight thousand tickets are
(01:48:11):
actually available. Any idea what they're going for.
Speaker 10 (01:48:15):
I never even thought of that. I just assumed they
were all done.
Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
And so yeah, like, I, you know, I go to
like stub Hub or.
Speaker 10 (01:48:24):
Something, the original price is like twenty five bucks. They
wanted to make sure not for sellout numbers. Do you
want to make sure that people locally can participate?
Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
Right? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
And so I don't you know, maybe this is uh,
this is sort of like against the spirit of the
whole thing. But I wondered, if you wanted to, if
you wanted to go to this game, what would it
now cost for those who have already made And I
wonder if that maybe there's a rule those who have
the tickets aren't allowed to put them on the on
(01:48:56):
the secondary market.
Speaker 10 (01:48:57):
I don't know, it would be hard to hard to police.
Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
It would be very, very hard hard.
Speaker 10 (01:49:03):
I've seen on the on the online for the minor
league game starting at sixty five dollars Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
Okay, yeah, I just I wondered that because again, there
are so few available. I like, I've had this thing
circled for six months that I was hoping to somehow
be there for this baseball game. It's not going to happen,
but it was a dream. And man, this is going
(01:49:33):
to be a very very unique look for Major League baseball.
Speaker 10 (01:49:38):
Okay, So if you go to the very much secondary
ticket market having nothing to do with Major League Baseball.
I'm seeing four to six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
I'm surprised there's not more. I'm still not bad. Yeah,
that's not bad at all. I don't know what a
flight to Birmingham costs from the West coast.
Speaker 6 (01:49:55):
We got to take a flight and a train, had
to get a horse and buggy, find a place to stay.
Speaker 10 (01:50:01):
Realize that the worst seat in this place would be
I mean there's almost no outfield seats. Seats curve around
the right field pole, so somewhere around there is four hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:50:09):
Bucks there you go. Yeah, and there's no upper deck.
Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Like I don't know from I don't know if you're
you know, you've you've had your relationship with baseball that
we've talked about this year.
Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
How do you feel about this event? You locking in
on this one?
Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
I like it? I mean, am I going? But am
I trying to know?
Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
I mean, like, well, you this is gonna be a
national broadcast on Fox. I wonder if this is something
that you'll lock into on Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
NBA is gonna be all over starting tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (01:50:40):
Night, So yeah, I will, I will watch it just
because of the historic nature of it. I think it's awesome.
But yes, yeah, I'm gonna watch that. It's not it's
not a lot on what w NBA games on that night,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
That zone. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
I don't know, but yeah, this this is gonna be
a very very interesting one and something that the Major
League Baseball has been sort of trying to move toward
in you know, building toward this.
Speaker 5 (01:51:12):
I know that they they activated all of the Negro.
Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
League stats recently and and added them in. I thought that,
you know, I I get that pieces of that were
a little bit clunky and and and whatnot, but overall,
I think that that those and as Steeve said, those
who actually played in the league who are still with
us seemed to be touched by this.
Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
In full support of this, and uh and I'm gonna
use them as a as a guide.
Speaker 6 (01:51:45):
Yeah, I think it's great. You know, some of the
greatest UH baseball players of all time, you know, didn't
get an opportunity to play in the majors. Yep, Like seriously,
some of the greatest, and most people don't, you know,
(01:52:08):
especially the younger generation, don't really understand, uh that that fact,
and I think I think it's it's wonderful that Major
League Baseball is actually paying homage and and and bringing
much needed notoriety to these players.
Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
Yeah, I agree with you. This was not some secondary league.
Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
This was obviously coming from uh just uh social unrest
through the history of our nation. But these players, I
have no doubt in my mind that some of the
actual greatest players on earth were in that league and
never were allowed in the in the Major League Baseball.
(01:52:54):
So uh, this would be an interesting look on Thursday,
for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:52:58):
We're live in the Tirak doc Studios.
Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
Mark Wheler, E F from Salam, coming up some final
thoughts and a happy Father's Day to all on Fox
Sports Radio. Tell me you're a dad without telling me
that you're a dad.
Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
Well, if your head is bopp into this song and.
Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
You know all the words, yep, you got kids. I
don't even know if my kids know this track. Liventhetirack
dot Com Studios E from Salam, Mark Wheeler, what'd you
(01:53:39):
do today, by the way, What they do for you?
Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
What the boys do for you?
Speaker 6 (01:53:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
No, I was with my dad out in Riverside. Okay,
he's a little bit under the weather. So I was.
Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
He was in the hospital, so I went to uh
hang out with him, and my beautiful wife brought my
boys and we got a chance to hang out pops
uh in the hospital. So it was nice.
Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:54:06):
You know, my dad's would be eighty three next month,
and so just you know, realizing these moments of life
and and just appreciating the blessing of of being able
to be with him and have my boys. There's three
(01:54:27):
generations of this family and just and just enjoying each other.
Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:54:35):
I snuck him some I supposed to even be saying this,
but I snuck him some McDonald's. Man snug him. He
wanted to burger Little Fries, So I snug him a
little something in there. Man, Dad, if you're listening, he
listens every week. You know, I love you, man, you know.
So he'd been in the hospital a couple of days.
Speaker 9 (01:54:55):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:54:55):
He's getting better out of infections blood infection, so he's
on antibiotics and he's doing well. But I just wanted
to spend that time with him and just let him
know he's loved.
Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
You know. Well, I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
And if your dad is indeed listening, you know, I
set off the top of the show that I know
a good dad when I see one, and I know
you're one. I'm gonna say the same thing to your dad,
even though I've never met him before, because I know you,
and therefore I know that he did a good job
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
And I also hope he just enjoyed the hell out
of that burger.
Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
I hope he enjoyed the hell out of that burger,
because you know, our parents are almost the exact same age.
My dad it's going to turn eighty two here in
just a few months, and my mom is now in
her eighties and osteoporosis and not being able to get
around that exact same thought that you have, which is
(01:55:55):
just just cherish every conversation, in every meeting and every
every time you get to see him, because you just.
Speaker 5 (01:56:01):
Don't know how many of those that you have left.
Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
And you're just reminded me of a conversation my dad
had with me just a couple of months ago where
he was kind of talking about, you know that idea
of like the doctors say, I'm not supposed to this,
that and the other, but by the same.
Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
Token, you know, what are we really doing here?
Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
Like I'm not gonna try to live an extra year
and not have red wine.
Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
I have no interest in that. I would like to
have red wine. So you know, I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
I get it, man. Look, look, put a smile on
the face. My dad was born in nineteen forty one.
Speaker 6 (01:56:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
Come on, he's seen some things in the South. He's
got to live and.
Speaker 6 (01:56:57):
See his son, kids and grandkids and his love of
full life. I'm not going if he will with whatever
he wants, he gets, That's just what it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
I love that. I love that. Man. Well, Happy Father's
Day to you both, you two brother seriously.
Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
Yep, hey, man, no, I I appreciate it. So gosh,
I was thinking about that. I just saw the highlight
as we were hanging out there during the break of
the uh speaking of the break the Mookie bets broken hand. Yeah,
are you a little surprised that? And I want to
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be very careful how I asked this, But are you
a little surprised the Dodgers aren't better?
Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
Yes? Yeah, they're good. They're very good. They're good. They're
very good. They're forty four and twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
But you're a little surprised they the best run differential
in the National League. They also largely play National League
teams who are largely awful, mostly all of them one, two, three,
four teams are over five hundred four Phillies, Braves, Brewers, Dodgers,
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that's it. Are a little surprised they're.
Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
Not better, Yeah, I am.
Speaker 6 (01:58:21):
But like at we said, long season, and they can
hit their stride and they can rattle off. Well, I
don't know Mookie going down, he's gonna be off for
quite some time.
Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Well, that's kind of why I'm asking, because they're they're
they're they're about to get I would think a little
bit worse.
Speaker 6 (01:58:37):
Well, they just need more production out of the bottom
of the order at the plate. Now, if they if
they can get more production out of those guys, you know, six, seven,
eight nine, then you know you can't have the top
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of your order trying to carry you. And baseball is
is is a game of failure. There are slumps, there's
all kinds of things. The season is long enough for
you to navigate, to go in, to go out of it,
all of those things. So they have time to hit
a stride and really get going. Hold this thing off
(01:59:20):
till Mookie comes back. That's a pretty good fracture. So
we'll see what that looks like in that time table.
Speaker 5 (01:59:30):
I mean, they've got an eight game lead in the division.
Speaker 3 (01:59:32):
It's not like the division though, you know, not worried
about him.
Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Yes, it's it's a little interesting that they don't feel
a little more dynamic than they do.
Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
Yeah, I mean, I would, I could.
Speaker 6 (01:59:45):
I'll pay money to see that Dodgers Yankees series every weekend.
Speaker 14 (01:59:50):
So that was pretty good, if only it was actually
gonna happen, if only, if only. Happy Father's Day, brother,
serious man, yep, Happy Father's Day to you too.
Speaker 9 (02:00:01):
Man, I appreciate the keep up the good work, like
Plank and spani your two, even those guys, Happy Father's Day.
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, we got NBA Finals Game five tomorrow night. We
got stars on following their own team.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
In the NBA.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
We've got an absolutely just painful finish to the US Open,
and a baseball star whose summer just changed.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
We've got all that stuff. But I'm not messing around
right now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There's one thing, and one thing only for me to
say to this man I'm talking to right now who
goes by the name of Ephrom Salam, my man, Happy
Father's Day.
Speaker 6 (00:37):
Happy Father's Day, brother, seriously happy being that fathers me day.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We throw it around, but there are certain dads out
there I actually admire and uh and you're one of them.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
So I want to I want to say it twice
to you. Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Man. Well, I appreciate that. Man. That means a lot
to me, and I feel the same way about you. Man.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
You know, it's a it's about today. I know we
don't celebrate this day as much as we celebrate Mother's Day,
are ourbor Day or any other Black Day, bag Day
or anything like that, But it is something to be
said about being a dad.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
It's so much that goes into that, so much responsibility
that goes into that. I am proud to call myself
a dad. Best thing I've ever accomplished in my life
was become a father. And so just to go on
this journey with my you know, soon to be ten
and thirteen year old sons is amazing. So shout out
(01:46):
to the dads out there, man, including you.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Man, you can see a good one around the corner,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And it is funny.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And I don't mean this, God, I don't want this
to come off a certain way, but I got a
question for you. And this goes from mom's and dad.
Mom's on Mother's Day, Dad's on Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
There's two ways to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I've watched people do both, and that is when it
comes to Mother's or Father's Day. Do you go, hey,
I want I want all my people around me, and
I just you know, like maybe I want to choose
what we do or where we go eat or something
like that. Or do you know the parents who are like,
you know, how you can celebrate me is get the
(02:30):
hell out of my face is what you could do.
And I've watched that too, where people are just like
I'm gone, I'm going to a spa or a golf
course or whatever for the entire day, and I don't
I don't even want to see you. It always makes
me laugh because I feel like that's not quite in
the spirit of the event.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But hey, it's your day. You get to do it
how you want to do it.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, for me, it's we've never celebrated it, and like,
get it to get these kids out of here, y'all
leave me alone. About to be in a room by
myself just you know, playing solitaire or whatever that is,
or I'm going to the movies. Don't talk to me.
That's more of a birthday type of thing, right, like
(03:17):
when you want you on your birthday, you really can
do whatever you want to and then at the end
of the evening you come home and have cake and
ice cream with everybody else. But for mothers and fathers days,
it's about you being appreciated and people actually celebrating what
you've you know, brought to their life as a parent.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So it's always been a family thing for me.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Agreed, Agreed, And you know, look, I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Everybody gets a little bit pulled in a bunch of
directions and they want to do a little bit of
this with that group, and a little bit of this
with this group.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And I did a little bit of that today.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I started my day though, at six in the morning,
by getting up and driving my son to a basketball
tournament forty five minutes away to watch to watch two games.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Where you are you up north? Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We just drove off and watched him play two basketball games.
And I was one of the one of the It
wasn't even eight in the morning yet, and somebody was
already asking me from a venmo so I could pay
to get into a tournament that I drove an hour
to bring someone to so that they could play into it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But whatever, and that's what's bitterness here. That's what we do.
That's what we do, man.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So uh, anyway, to everybody listening, your job is important. Okay,
your job is important.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
If you're a parent, it's the hardest job, it's the
best job. I hope you know how important your job
is and you take care of it every day. That's
the only soapbox I've got. Happy Father's Day to each
and every one of you. Were broadcasting live from the
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at first sight?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh you do? Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Do you believe though, that all love is that way?
In other words, have you ever experienced the whole thing?
And this doesn't even just need to be loved? This
could be friendship. You have anybody in your life that
when you first met him, you're like, eh, but then
it all grew on you and you started to see
that person in a completely different light, of course, and
yet right like that, So the opposite just happened to
(05:27):
Luka Doncic. Anybody catch that? I wonder if anybody caught that.
It's not that everybody was in love with him two
weeks ago. He's been a frustrating player to watch for
a while now for certain NBA fans. But we talked
about this last week and it fascinates the hell out
of me. This guy went from apparently the top scorer
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on the best backcourt in the history of the sport
of basketball and three games later, Luka Doncic was somebody
who needed to change the way he plays basketball or
else he's never going to win. And his own organization
has been on their knees begging him to change for
two years.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now what a week? Wow, that was quick.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, Look, man, Luca is a sensational talent. There's not
much he can't do with the basketball in his hand.
He's been like that since he was a teenager. Now
when you get to the NBA and he's been in
the league, this is what six years now, five years,
(06:42):
he's been impressive. But when it comes to being a champion,
when it comes to being that guy on a championship team,
he's twenty five years old. He doesn't know what that
is yet. He doesn't know. And some of the greatest
basketball players in the history of the league, including the
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greatest to ever play, didn't learn that too much later
in their career. And we're at one of those time
times for him in terms of what he's going to
do and who he's going to be moving forward in
the NBA. The crying, the whining, the stop it's not
(07:29):
even about that. If he was whining to the referees
and he was sprinting back to get on defense, be
a completely different situation.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
When you do that.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Let's just say, on average, if you do that twelve
times a game, right, and that's a light light average.
If you did that twelve times a game, that means
there are twelve times in an NBA basketball game where
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your team is playing four on five.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Think about it that way.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
You've given the opponent and advantage twelve times in a game.
Now say they scored on half of those times, right.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
That's twelve to fifteen points.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Twelve to fifteen points every game. It's a lot.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
So now when you break it down in that context,
and I don't know if anyone has done that for him,
but when you look at it like that, you can't
help but be like, oh, snap, oh, I'm giving up
fifteen points because I feel a certain way about a
lack of a call, and I want to voice my opinion.
(08:53):
Fifteen points is a huge amount of points to give up.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Just on effort.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
And I think once he understands that, once someone really
sits and down and it happens in spurts, right, Because
last series, it was like he played two games where
he didn't really say anything to the ref. They won
those games, and he was just a different person, a
different player. His energy, this pass game was different. So
(09:24):
if he can consistently be that and that guy offensively
with the ball, then that's when you start creeping up
into the conversations of one of the greats. And he's
still young, and he has time to learn that, he
has time to understand what that means, change his approach
to the game, and finish the you know, the mid
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to the back half of his career on a completely
another level.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Because well, offensively, you can't stop him.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
No, I agree with everything that you just said.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
The other thing, though, is sometimes even when he is
back on defense, is still playing four on five boss
and has absolutely cooked him specifically on the defensive end
in this series. They're gonna target him again tomorrow night.
This thing's gonna end tomorrow night. Boston will be the
champions tomorrow night. I'm very, very very confident in that.
(10:18):
And I think Luca's at a fork in the road.
And this is one thing, this is why that whole
like best backcourt in history.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Was just stupid. It was a ridiculous take from the
beginning because well, right, because Luca, Luca's at a fork
in the road.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And here's what I mean by that, I'm always eyes open.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
The first thing you see when a player.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Either comes out of college, comes from overseas, whatever, you
can see it where you're like, oh, that's talent, that's talent.
And this is the first thing you said. Luca is
a generational talent. But then there's the next step in
the NBA, because there's all kinds of talented players who
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have never been a part of winning. Like Bradley Beal
is an incredible talent with a basketball in his hands.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
There are players like that all over.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
James Harden is a generational talent with the basketball in
his hands. That's who rises to like Level A in
the NBA, but who rides to level A plus. It's
those who can then take that talent and have it
(11:33):
affect winning, have it work within a winning concept, have
it work on both ends of the floor, have it
bleed out to his teammates, Magic Johnson. That's when you
go from a great talent to just a great period. Yes,
and I think Luca needs to He needs to decide that.
(11:55):
He needs almost decide that. Because he could do it
and they've already got to the finals. That's great, but
he needs to decide that and and and become a
more well rounded player.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, it's he's right on that cusp. Right.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
He's been in the league a long time. People know
he's dynamic. I still would like him to really get
in basketball shape and it you know, it's it's going
to be up to Jkid and and the organization to
really having Kyrie there as taking his usage, uh, you know,
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down considerably, which I think is important. When you exert
that much energy for the entire game, you can't help
but run into a wall. Like playing this late in
the year. Most of these guys on that team aren't
used to playing this long.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Boston is because the last five years they've been teetering
around the conference championships and around the NBA Finals, so
they're used to playing this long. I think that was
a situation when you had Minnesota, right, they ran out again, Like,
guys aren't used to playing this deep into the summer.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's mid June.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Most guys have been back from vacation and you know,
getting ready to go to summer league and and watch
the young guys play. These guys are still playing basketball,
and I think for Dallas, I think this is for
Luca especially Kyrie's been there a champion, of course, but
when you look at the rest of the team, who
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else has that level of experience and is played deep
into the summer like this?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Right? Right? Yeah? I mean I can't think of it
right now.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So you know, this is this is going to be
something that I feel is going to be a big,
big part of the discussion going into the offseason.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
And then there's this.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We can also continue the conversation that we had last week,
which is how important is it whoever we name NBA
Finals MVP, because that's all up in the air. Although
the heavy favorite right now is not the guy who
was the heavy favorite at the start of the series,
So we'll get to that coming up next with e
(14:29):
from Salama Mark Willard.
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Speaker 5 (15:47):
All right, Happy Father's Day and glad you are with us.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Whatever you're doing on your Sunday slash Afternoon evening. Hope
you got it in today and whatever it is that's
up to you.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Hope it has just been rewarding. That's the whole idea.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We're in the tyraq dot com studios, Mark Wiardy from
salam Let's say Boston wins this tomorrow night. We don't
know what the stats will be, but who's your NBA
Finals MVP?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Jalen Brown?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, so current odds sit like this, Jalen Brown is
your runaway favorite at minus two thirty five. For those
of you who don't speak gambling, that means that you
would need to bet two hundred thirty five dollars just
to win one hundred. However, Jason Tatum, the pre series favorite,
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has fallen two plus two fifty five. That means if
you bet one hundred on him, you'd win two hundred
and fifty five. Also known as ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Not unless this thing goes seven and right and he
scores forty tomorrow in a close game that they lose
in overtime. Right comes out in Game six, tight wire
to wire, he hits you know, a lead, taking three
with six seconds left in the game, and then they
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come down and get a shot to win to take
it to a game seven, and he also has thirty
five points in that game, and then he closes out
Game seven with a miraculous triple double twenty five, twelve,
and fifteen. Then he is, you know, hands down the
MVP unless that happen.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
So let me rewrack my take. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So what's it all mean?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
This is not my favorite part of the NBA culture
where you can sort of be dismissed and ignored for
what you do for nine months and if you don't
do the right thing at the right time at the
very end, it means you're not a dog or whatever.
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But we've watched this, and I've watched it where I
live and the city and team that I follow.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
In the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
In that steph Curry, it took him until his fourth
ring until he had won NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
And yes it was a thing. It's a thing for
some people, but look to your point. The caveat to
that was he was already a two time MV League MVP.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Of the league, right, so it's not like he was
struggling for credit.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
No, No, no, he was already considered one of the
greatest players on the planet for sure. He just couldn't
close it in the big game. So that kept him
out of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, when you look at all the.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Other greats right who won MVP, they also have won
Finals MVP, And so that was his roadblock that he
had to get over.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Correct and it was something that a lot of people
brought up as kind of the last thing that Steph
didn't have in his career. And so you go back
to actually two years ago plus a few days Game
four in Boston. Celtics lead that series two games to one,
and Steph has an epic performance in a game that
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everyone felt the Warriors had to have on the road,
and they did, and that vaulted him to not only
maybe the most unexpected of all of his rings, but
his NBA Finals MVP, and that kind of like it
completed the circle and the cycle. Now, Jason Tatum is
still a very young player. There's a guy who's in
his mid twenties, and Boston may well be back again
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and again and again.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So this can go away as well.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But what do you think right now in this moment,
Let's say Jalen Brown gets the crown tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What's it mean to you?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
It means that, you know, the Celtics well earned championship,
best team in the league, especially in the East, the
entire year start to finish. They finally made the moves
to get better. I didn't think I thought two years
ago that finals against Golden State, I thought that was
the best team that they can put together with Marcus Smart,
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both of the Williams boys, Jalen and Tatum, well, they
proved me and a lot of other people wrong. They
made some adjustments, brought in Porzingis, even though he's not
healthy through this finals. That first those first two games,
he gave them a huge boost. I think bringing in
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Holiday and Derek White, tremendous defenders on the wing, big
shot makers. It just made the team better, took the
pressure off the two stars. And what it means for
Jay Jason Tatum is he's a good player. He's just
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perhaps maybe not the best player on that team now,
which is okay unless that's what you want him to be,
unless you need him to be the best player on
the team now. Does he have the most skill and
the biggest upside? I would say yes, but in terms
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of big moments that we've seen throughout the years, Jalen
Brown has always been ready to step in those moments,
mainly because none of the shine is ever on him.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well, it's also fascinating.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Don't forget where we were with Jalen Brown a year ago.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
A year ago, and if you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Actually want to add a few more months on, go
back a year and a few months.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Jalen Brown was in trade rumors. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
The Boston fan base was living at the idea that
this guy was going to get.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Another bag, and and and and.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
My gosh, you can't tie all that up into Tatum
and Brown and it's clearly not working. The Warriors beat him,
and then that series loss to the Heat, and it
was like, remember, we need to reshuffle this deck. Yes
we did, and and and to a degree they did.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I understand the acquisitions that they they they put together
to add two those two, but the thought at the
time was these two need to break up.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
These two need to break up. It's another exercise in
sports patients. We're terrible at it. We're awful at it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah yeah, but we've been patient for about six years.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I get it, but there's still young players eight neither
one of them. Yeah, neither one of them has had
a twenty seventh birthday.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, I'm sorry. So no, no, I'm jump No, do it?
Do it? No.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
We we live in in an in an age of
instant gratification. So as fans, we want our teams to
do it now, do it now, make it happen. We
need it, And it's not like that, right, It's going
to take time. I think that's why the Laker job
is so difficult to take because they don't have a
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championship team. Now you have one of the greatest players
on his way out and you don't have enough pieces
to create enough punch. So taking that job with the
expectation of championship or bus, there's very little room for error.
And as we've seen, they don't give you a lot
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of runway to take off. Oh no, especially if you
have to use your only draft pick on a kid
who may not be ready to be in the NBA.
But you're gonna give them a chance because of course,
you know, Lebron is there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I mean, we're going to get to your Laker job.
Don't you worry, because I know you predicted it right
here on this show. We could go and I agreed
with you. I'm like Dan, Dan's not taking the job,
and or it didn't feel like it based on the
interview that he had granted ESPN and the very next
day he did not. So where are we now? Is
it back to JJ Reddick? We got to talk about
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the whole thing. But but first, yes, but first, when
you talk about providing runway for someone, the Lakers may
not do it, but damn it we will because here
comes Steve de Seger to land.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Take off, this play takeoff.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
Good evening, gentlemen. As you mentioned, by the way, Dan
Hurley's Connecticut team, and you mentioned the NBA Finals, the
TV ratings so far as the Celtics lead three games
to one against Dallas. There hasn't been a game four number,
but Game three of this series averaged eleven point four
million TV viewers. Before that it was twelve million TV viewers,
and the opener was eleven million TV viewers for game
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one by Harrison. Yukon's final four games this year average
fourteen and a half million viewers, and those college games
were only on cable. This year's NBA playoff ratings going
into the finals were down thirteen percent. NBA Finals continue Monday. Boston,
up three games to one, will host Dallas. If there's
a Game six, it will be at Dallas on Thursday night.
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No NBA team has ever blown a three games to
none lead to lose a series in any round. This
Boston team had won ten in a row until losing
last game by thirty eight points. So still, no NBA
team has ever gone through the final two rounds without
a loss. But if you go up two to ozho
in the finals, you're usually crown champion. Thirty one of
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the thirty six that have gone up two games to
none wind up winning the title. Golden State notably blew
a lead in twenty sixteen. Ueves and Phoenix was up
two oh and never won another game in the finals
just three short years ago. Stanley Cup Game five is Tuesday.
Panthers lead is three games to one. They had their
six game winning streak broke at Edmonton last night. Florida
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will be hosting Game five on Tuesday. WNBA wins for Atlanta, Phoenix,
and Indiana, which is now five to ten. It defeated
Chicago ninety one eighty three. Caitlin Clark twenty three points.
Bryson Deshamba won the US Open. We'll get to that
in a minute. The UFL Championship game is over on
Fox TV. Birmingham wins twenty five nothing over San Antonio,
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another title for coach Skip Holtz, MVP of the league
regular season, was MVP of the final. Birmingham quarterback Adrian Martinez.
At the EUROSCCER Tournament, England won nothing over Serbia. Victories
for Netherlands to one over Poland, and Denmark tide Slovenia
one to one. NASCAR is underway. It's a night race
at Iowa. They are about halfway through. Ryan Blaney and
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the league Chase Elliot second, Kyle Larson is third. In
the Sunday night ballgame at Boston, bottom of the fifth inning,
Red Sox lead the Yankees three to one. Minnesota beat
Oakland in the first of a double headers, six to two.
In the nightcap, the A's are tied five to five
at Minnesota. Top of the third Oakland trying to end
an eight game losing streak. Baltimore beat Philadelphia eight three,
(27:08):
the loss to Zach Wheeler, who allowed four home runs,
and the Dodgers shut out Kansas City three nothing, Shohey
O Tani two homers. But Mookie Betts broke his hand
hit by a pitch today at the left wrist. They
say no surgery is needed. That doesn't mean he won't
be out until August. There is no official word on
how many weeks last months he'll be out, but he'll
be obviously seeing a specialist tomorrow now. Bryson de Shamble
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won the US Open by one stroke over Rory McElroy
in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Rory McElroy missed two short putts
in the last three holes. The payout the winner gets
four point three million dollars, second place two point three
million dollars, two million dollars difference for two short putts,
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and McElroy has now gone ten year years since his
last major victory. Deshamble led by three strokes to start
the day. Tony Feno and Patrick Cantley tied for third
place two back. And there was an added wrinkle to this.
It's an Olympic year and golf is in the Olympics,
So who's going to Paris to represent the US in
golf this summer. Colin Morikawa has edged out Patrick Cantley
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for the last American Olympic spot. The way they do
it is the top four Americans after today in the
official World Golf rankings are the four that go. They
get a spot in the Olympic golf field. So of
course the US Open champ is going to represent the
US and the Olympics this summer. Right, Oh, the guy
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that won the US Open is with Live Golf. We
are sorry about that. In fact, NBC talked about this yesterday.
This was about twenty thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
He should be representing the US. It's just part of
what's wrong with a sport right now.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Everything that's happened with the sport, there are consequences that
are hurting.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
The game, and that's another one of them.
Speaker 11 (29:04):
Yeah, that's unfortunate for sure of mind, and I would
agree it is unfortunate that all of the players that
went to Live they well knew they were going to
a tour that did not qualify for world ranking points.
They've made no concessions to gain those points by altering
their format in such a way that they could.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
So the US Open champ is not representing the US
at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Back to you, perfect, absolutely perfect, because that's how everything
is in golf right now. And by the way, as
much fun as the three of us have had talking
about golf leader boards and money for the last year
or so, the two million bucks obviously won't even resonate
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in Rory's bank account. But good god, it's been ten
years since his last Major man and to miss this
opportunity today. For people that don't know, he was eight
under par on the fifteenth T and lost in regulation
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to somebody who was only minus six. And those two
short putts you talked about were both inside of three feet.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
And this is the US opened, so very few were
even under par, even one under par. Of the seventy
four golfers this weekend, only eight guys were under par.
You mentioned at one point he was eight under.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
With three holes to play, yo yo, or with four
holes to play.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I guess fifteenth T he was eight under par and
lost to someone who finished at six under par. But
I do give Bryson credit if anybody watched the way
this finished, that he ended up in all kinds of
trouble on eighteen and his san saved That bunker shot
on eighteen will go down as one of the great
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shots in the history of Major Championship Golf.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
You know if he had blown this lead, Mark I
was thinking, because yesterday after the third round, Deshambo's agent
had an argument with a golf channel host, implying you
won't necessarily get an interview with my guy because you've
been airing so much negativity about him over Live Golf.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Out of these hats, how about that?
Speaker 10 (31:16):
And here he's about to blow a three stroke lead
at the US Open. Two years ago, Bryson Deshambo signed
a nine figure contract with Livegolf, worth over one hundred
and twenty five million dollars, with a lot of it upfront.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
He said.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
He called it a business decision, part of the business.
No Olympics for him this year.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Sorry, man, get your money, brother, Yeah yeah, like a
mere money.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
It's kind of the way. I mean, boy, this isn't
This is a right turn. But I sort of feel
I feel more bad for football players and the lack
of guarantees and the CTE, Like I feel much worse
for players who played twenty years ago. I don't know
(32:02):
if you know anyone who played twenty years ago, Ephraim,
than I do for players now, because it's like you
signed up for this and it was all kind of
on the table when you signed up for this same
thing here, same thing here, Like you signed up for it,
you got your one hundred and twenty five million dollars
and you knew, you knew this was part of it.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I think I might know a guy who played twenty
years ago in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I bet you know two guys. I know if you guys, yeah,
and I do. I feel worse for you, guys, because
nobody knew what that was.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Nobody knew what it was.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Man, nobody knew what that was, and they would rub
dirt on it and and inject you or something.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I never missed a game or played missed the game.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Never, not one time was I ever taken out of
a game from a concussion.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
And I bet you never had a concussion either.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Well, that's what they're the little fully that, the little
trash of a exam did they give you to try?
All that money they put aside for settlements for players,
you almost have to be comatoast to even qualify for that.
Which that's the biggest problem I have for it. Right,
(33:18):
if you've played this is for me, the baseline should
be if you've played in a hundred games and you
can go by positions or whatever that is, but if
you've played over one hundred games or one hundred games,
then you should be awarded a part of that settlement
because statistically it's virtually impossible.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
And it's impossible, and I would argue especially at your position.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Come on, now, so when you start.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It right, you're not running over the middle and having
somebody take your head off.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Back offensive defensive lineman who played linebackers who've played one
hundred games, shit, automatically get a settlement, and based on
like a baseline settlement, I'm like four hundred grand, five
hundred grand period, and then based on the severe severity
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of your cognitive decline, then you'll get more. But that
baseline cut the check for all those guys who played
one hundred or more games. And it's not like I've
paid it. I'm not at the like I didn't just
play one hundred and one. I'm not saying one hundred.
I'm saying a hundred because that's you know, we know
for a fact, Okay, like I'm at one point fifty
(34:39):
nine in my career, all right, So right, I'm just saying,
if they want to hoard the money, if they want
to just hoard the money and not pay anybody out.
Then start there, and then you can make adjustments as
you go.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I mean eighty games, that's what you guys. Eighty game
game schedule. That's five full seasons.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
And if you're an offensive defensive lineman and you played.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Fifty subconcussive blows on every play, every everingle, one single guarantee.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yes, we're livingt thety rack dot com studios. Mark Willardy
from Salam coming up next. Let's talk a little bit
more about Rory and missed two and a half foot putts.
That's coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
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Speaker 2 (35:42):
I don't know about you, e from, but when something
that I've got my heart set on just barely falls short,
I play this from Whitney, Houston and let it out.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And that's my suggestion.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
To Rory McElroy wherever he's flying next, just let it out, brother,
because I don't know if you saw his face when
Bryson poured in that putt on the eighteenth hole.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Oh, man, that was a big old lump of coal
in his throat. Oh.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Ten years since his last major.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
A for me had it?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
He had it. His putter has been his achilles heel
and two two and a half foot putts, both burning
the edge in the last three holes.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Ef pressure.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I mean, you know, and it's funny too. We were
talking earlier about the culture of the NBA. By the way,
mark with it he from salam tyrack dot com studios,
like the NBA equivalent of what happened at the US
Open today would.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Be fodder four weeks, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I mean, like if this got to game seven and
uh and Jason Tatum in the final minute and a
half of a tie game missed two layups, I mean,
what would happen to this man's career with the way
people would talk about him?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Yeah, gosh, I mean it's it's a little bit harder
to make a putt than the layup.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Though, Oh it is. And I do want to say,
because this is intricate, because this will just go down.
You missed two three footers. One of them was a salider,
it was a I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
It's hard, it's hard, but you're Rory McElroy, right, and
this is the USO. So that's a that's a should, Yes,
that's a should have made no question about it, and
so ah, there's no way around it. This is not
like Greg Norman and Jean van Derveld, but this is
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a stain. And the hardest part not that he's getting old,
but like again, it's been a minute.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
It's been a minute since this guy's won a major.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And so there's been a lot of near misses, a
lot of top tens and a lot of top fives,
and he's the best player and all of these things.
And because he already has four majors on his resume,
nobody says much about it. But I think this might
bring up a little bit of a new dynamic in
the conversation about Roy McElroy because this is one that.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
He let get away.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Well, it just goes to show you how great Phil
Mickelson and Tiger and Greg Norman and Arnold Palmer. It
just goes to show you how great those guys were,
how dominant they were, because it's hard, it's you against
(39:07):
the field, it's you against the field, and and it
just speaks to this, you know, no it's a decade.
There's been ten You think about what you've done in
(39:28):
ten years. One of my sons it wasn't even a life, right,
and the other one was three.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, they're thirteen to ten now.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
It's a long time between majors. And I think, you know,
the average fan just every every golf tournament is not
a major, Like, so you you have to ye average
fans like, well, he wins and does this, and it's
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we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
The majors, right, the US Open, the Masters. What else?
What do we have?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Well, PGA champions Championship and the Open champions British right, yep,
Like so yeah, you can be killing it all year,
but the big daddies, the majors, it's tough.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
It's tough.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
And and for you to still be, you know, considered
one of the top golfers and you haven't won one
in ten years, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, yeah, I like the way you put it to
It's it's one of those sports where you can't hide, you.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Jason Tatum can have a disappointing NBA Finals and Jaylen
Brown can do his thing and you.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Still get a trophy. Just can't do that.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
In golf. It's you and that's it.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Speaking of being put on an island, an NBA star
did that to himself on Instagram this week.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Tell you more next.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well, what a perfect story for us to use as
a conduit to again say Happy Father's Day, because one
thing that happens to all fathers is at a certain points,
sometimes early, sometimes late, you look at your children and go,
I don't understand, skibbitty, I don't understand. Yeah, I don't
(41:39):
understand how people do things the way they do them anymore.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
And that's just life.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
That's not like, that's that's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Generations do it one way, the next generation does it
another way.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
The next generation does it dumber just like.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well right, like more or more efficiently, I don't know,
like you and I used to send a text message
by hitting the one button fourteen times until the right
letter came up. There was the that's the first letter
of the word all right now under the second letter
of the word, I mean my god. Right, So life's different.
It's completely out of our control. And one thing, Ephraim,
(42:20):
you'll love this.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
I find a lot.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Of people of a certain age have a really hard
time with this idea messaging being sent over social media.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Oh boy, you'll hear it.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
You can tell if someone's in their forties or fifties
or sixties or seventies, and they're like, that's how we're
communicating when we've got a problem.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Yeah, yes, sorry. So for example, when Klay Thompson unfollows
the war year on Instagram and removes certain pictures that
show him in a warrior uniform winning championships. When he
(43:11):
does that, I will not listen to anyone who's like, well,
that's not a thing, that's a thing. That's a thing.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
And Clay's not an eighteen year old. That man is
in his thirties. But we know this about Clay. He's
a thinker, he is sensitive. And I know for a
fact that he's been at minimum off and on mostly
on mad at the organization for over a year. And
(43:43):
I can get into why for those that may not
follow that organization as closely, but we've watched this in
contract negotiations and standoffs and holdouts. You scrub your social.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Media, I still think from it's hysterical when people think
it's not a thing. It's always a thing. Every time
it's a thank you, so what's your reaction to Klay
Thompson unfollowing the Warriors on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
Well, I knew it was coming. He knew it was coming.
You knew it was coming. They just they're not going
to pay him what he wants because there's no you know,
there's there's no benefit to it. They've decided they're riding
(44:35):
this thing out with Steph and with Draymond, and they're
going to build around those pieces. Man out Clay Thompson. Now,
he didn't help himself. Last game he played in a
in a Warrior's uniform was forgetful. So it's a situation where, look,
(44:59):
we can't keep you three together.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
To me, I think it's a year leg I think
they should have started this process last year. I think
they would have been a better team if they would
have if they would have done that, started to move
these pieces around. But look, they were adamant about Hey,
Steph wanted to run it back one more time, so
they did. So. They gave Steph as thing, all right,
(45:23):
this is it and they couldn't make the playoffs. So
going into the season with those three in the lineup again,
although he had been relegated to the bench and then
put back in it like we saw the right. We
have a term in football called the writings on the wall.
Right when you're in twenty one personnel and the team
(45:47):
stops running twenty one personnel plays right, and you're like, okay,
when they take you off special teams, now you're second
string special teams. All right, All of these things are
messages the writings on the wall. They asked you, hey, Clay,
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and he struggled. He's to his own admission, he struggled
coming off the bench, like most prolific starters, all star
caliber starters, they struggle with up CP three. I'm sure
he struggled coming off the bench mentally, Alan Iverson, I mean,
(46:35):
it's a bevy of of star players towards the latter
years of their career as to change, you know, their involvement,
their participation, and it's hard for some to do it.
(46:55):
And that was the beginning, Like you understood, Oh, ok
whoa leyden as Draymond or Steph.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Come on, right, They didn't as those guys to come
off the bench.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Well, I listen, I think there's three things, and you
you certainly touched on the one that I'm sure history
tells us is actually the most important, and that's money.
But I do think there's actually three things at play here,
and any one of them or all of them, could
be ticking Klay Thompson off right now, because as we know,
free agency has not opened in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
But the damn well.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Going on with their talks right now, especially with their
own team, because the Warriors in Clay can talk. Yes, though,
even though we damn well know if he's got thirty
million on the table from Philly, his agent knows. We
know these things, because that's why deals are all struck
at twelve oh one once free agency starts.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
But I digress. There's three things going on here. Money, role,
and priority.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
Yes, those are the three things that I think are
going on with Klay Thompson.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
And I don't believe they're aligned on any of them.
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
The money bottom line is, if the Warriors pay Klay
Thompson what he's worth on the open market, then he
will be their only addition this offseason. And that's not
an addition because he was already there and that team
didn't make the playoffs, and now they're a year older.
So the Warriors are sitting there thinking to themselves, Why
would we do that? I do think that they could
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have gotten around the money issue if the other two
issues were handled perfectly. And that is answer the question
what's my role and what priority am I? The problem
is what the warriors I think want to do is well,
they'd like your role to be less and what priority
(48:51):
are you not?
Speaker 3 (48:53):
First?
Speaker 2 (48:54):
So, in other words, how does it feel to Clay
when the warriors, who I know and everyone knows, are
at least gonna they're gonna kick the tires on a
big move. They're going to they have to, they're the warriors,
and so uh, if they're gonna kick the tires on
a big move, if they don't even know what they
(49:15):
can offer Clay yet, they've got to let the other
stuff play out first. So imagine if you're Klay Thompson
and they come to you with so, we can't offer
you what you want.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
We think we want you to.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Come off the bench, and if Clay goes, well, what
can you offer me? Well, we don't know yet because
we've got to work on all of this other stuff.
Speaker 6 (49:43):
He's not a priority and that's hot for him to understand.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
That's not gonna land well with him. That's gonna make him.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
Unfollow the Warriors on Instagram. They don't like me, I
don't like him. You don't have time for me. I'm
not gonna have no time for you.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
It feels so stupid and passive aggressive, But I'm sorry,
that's just out we roll now. That's that's the deal.
And it's not like, I mean, what's his other option
right now?
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Anyway? It's not like he can do an interview.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
It's not like he can come on Fox Sports Radio
and be like, I'm out, I hate the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
I'm out. Why would he do that?
Speaker 2 (50:21):
The lowers his value and and and you can't say
anything about talking to other teams because supposedly you're not
allowed to yet.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
Yeah, there's nothing he can do.
Speaker 6 (50:32):
The agent already has said, hey, look, it's just not
going to happen. Where would you want to go? What
do you mean it's not going to happen. I mean
it's not going to happen. It's going to happen. Yeah,
it's not what we're looking for. And where we've arrived
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is already what the Warriors weren't looking for.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
So the reports where they are offered him two years
and forty eight million before the year even started, Clay
said no, and off we went into the season.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Guarantee is less than that. Now he should have right now.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Now it's yeah, Now it's gone down, I would imagine.
So there's that, he gets benched for part of the season,
he plays the good soldier, sort of acts like it,
it doesn't bother him, and then they don't even make
the playoffs. The whole thing has gone exactly how he
(51:31):
does not want it to go. But the problem is
the Warriors then finished the season and the first thing
they do at exit interviews is well, we want Clay back.
We got to have Clay back. We love Clay, we
have got to have him back. And they said that
out loud two or three times in one day, and
(51:52):
then there has not been another word since. And all
of the backstory that I hear is the it's not good.
And then you get an unfollow on Instagram, and I
think you can put two and two together.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
I'm not reporting anything right now.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
I do want to play what Draymond Green said he
addressed this on his podcast, and him addressing Klay Thompson
stuff has already gotten him into trouble before, so I
want to we should play that, and we'll do that
coming up next. But I think a parting of the
ways is imminent. I think the breakup is happening. It's
(52:36):
no getting around it. It's this is this is what
it is, and it's a business.
Speaker 6 (52:47):
And to Warrior fans, including yourself, yes, what Klay Thompson
did for the organization was amazing, but it's time to
move on. It's time to move on, and it sucks.
Very few players get to spend their whole career with
a team and when it's not you, then they won't
(53:13):
ever move off. Steph Nope. So you're at a situation
where you know you gotta be like, man, look, it
was great, move on. The best way to do it
is to go somewhere else, to win a championship, somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Do that. That would be the goal.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
So we'll let you hear what Draymond had to say
on his podcast directly about this issue. Coming up next,
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am Mark Willard. Happy Father's Day. We're just getting started.
We need to get to Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark
faced off one on one today. I mean they're teams,
(54:20):
but there was at least one one on one moment.
Mookie Betts is out. The Laker job is I don't know,
still sitting there.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
I'm going in going into what are we Week four?
Week five?
Speaker 6 (54:39):
I'm going in the interview for it. You are Yeah,
you hired, man? I bet I can get us to
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
You should be hired.
Speaker 9 (54:52):
Just I think you care more than they do. I do,
and they will they will care, Oh my god, they
will care.
Speaker 3 (55:01):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
If I sat you down next to Rob Palinka and
played a game of who care more, I swear to god,
I think you'd win.
Speaker 5 (55:10):
So we'll get to that and and and Chuck.
Speaker 3 (55:13):
We got to get to Charles Barkley saying that that
this is it no matter what, But what's your BS
meter do?
Speaker 5 (55:22):
When you hear this? I want you to listen to
so I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
I'll share this with you when when the Klay Thompson
unfollowing of the Warriors on Instagram broke at least when
people noticed this is in the middle of my show
on Friday. Change the whole show is one of the
and I mean, how stupid does that sound. Somebody hit
the unfollowed button on Instagram and at four o'clock on
an afternoon drive show, stop everything, cancel the guests. We're
(55:49):
just talking about this for the next two hours. That's
that's how it is. And so that's what we did
from from four to six on Friday, which of course
means well, here comes Draymond Green to address it all
on his podcast, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 3 (56:11):
You know, that's been a lot of note.
Speaker 12 (56:13):
I know all of you were probably looking forward to
me talking about Clay unfollowing the Warriors and deleting some
ig posts or something. I had no idea that happened.
I think it's hilarious. Just so y'all know. I laugh
when Jackson I logged on hair and Jackson's like, Yo,
so what about Clay. I'm like, what, Like, what happened?
It's like, oh, he un followed the Warriors. I think
(56:34):
that's comical. I know you all be one like somebody
feelings to be hurt or something. It ain't that, ain't
never going to be that. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
I don't even catch stand that answer.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
I don't either, because it's so vague. Y'all wanting someone's
feelings to be hurt? Do we mean does that mean
we think, yeah, your feelings? What like, should your feelings
be hurt that Clay did that? Or are you suggesting
that Clay is not hurt, which is what's leading to
(57:07):
the act of unfollowing the Warriors on Instagram the whole.
I know you want this to be something. I think
it's hilarious, but I know he never gets to Hey,
Clay's fine, that's not what this is about. He makes
you feel like that's what he's saying without saying anything.
Speaker 5 (57:27):
This is my total takeaway.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Draymond just said a bunch of stuff that he's not
gonna have to walk back even though all of us
are right.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, that to me was what happened.
Speaker 6 (57:44):
I know y'all want, you know, everybody, you know somebody's
feelings to be hurt, But that what what's comical. What
part of it is comical. The fact that he's leaving it,
the fact that he's me making a big deal out.
Speaker 3 (58:03):
Of making the big deal out of it. That's how
I took it.
Speaker 6 (58:05):
That's I mean, because the fact is he did it.
You guys are closed. You didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Uh So.
Speaker 6 (58:20):
You know, maybe you should have called him before you
got on your podcast, so you could have gave us
some insight.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
Not the first time that that's been the case. So
you know, you mentioned you guys are tight. I'm not
going to suggest that they're not. I don't know the
ins and outs of that relationship, but I can share
this with you.
Speaker 3 (58:36):
This I know for sure.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Draymond Green, once upon a time shared publicly and he
did this kind of on the stage at an awards
show once upon a time. You know, can Bob Myers
get some bleeping credit the then general manager when talking
about how the Warriors went to the hospital and signed
(58:58):
Klay Thompson to a map contract extension even though he
had just torn.
Speaker 5 (59:02):
His acl and Raymond kind of was like, who does that?
Speaker 3 (59:07):
Who does that?
Speaker 5 (59:08):
They get some credit? And then he has referenced since then.
Speaker 2 (59:12):
That part of the Warrior front office, as in to
give them a bunch of credit for signing Clay to
a max contract while he hadn't even gone under the knife.
Speaker 3 (59:25):
Yet for ACL surgery. Clay did not like that.
Speaker 2 (59:30):
Clay did not appreciate the fact that Draymond Green spoke
about his money in a public space. And you know this,
that's the code. It's the code in pro sports. You
don't talk about it. You don't talk about another guy's money.
Because Clay, again, is he overly prideful. Sure you could
accuse him of that. I could listen to that, but
(59:52):
the bottom line is is he sort of looks at
it the opposite way.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
Like, go back four years.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Klay Thompson hasn't even had his thirtieth birthday yet, the
Warriors are in the middle of a dynasty that, as
it turned out, wasn't done yet. What are the Warriors
gonna do not sign him? Like, what are you suggesting,
Draymond that the Warriors should have been Like, Ah, so,
I know we've won two out of the last three
(01:00:20):
years and you just tore your ACL in the NBA Finals.
I know you're not thirty yet. Ah, hometown discount. What
are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Here.
Speaker 9 (01:00:36):
So he's like, of course they showed up with a
max contract. If they didn't, eighteen other teams would have.
So there's history there.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Yeah, it's look, man, the Bulls broke up.
Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
After their second three peat and everybody could still play
at a high level.
Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
It happens. Kobe and Shaq broke up. It happens.
Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
So it's a situation where nothing lasts forever. You knew,
out of the three, somebody had to go, and they
let it play out on the court instead of them picking,
(01:01:45):
they let it play out on the court. If Clay
would have had a tremendous year this year, we wouldn't
be having this conversation. Then he could be like that
two year, forty eight million dollars would have been insulting. Now,
he probably should have took it if he wanted to
(01:02:08):
stay in Golden State, because that's not what it is now,
that's that's off the table.
Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Well, the crazy thing is, though, he will beat that deal.
Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Oh he's going to beat it. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
If he wanted to stay in Golden State, correct, he
should have taken that deal. Because they're not going to
that's off the table. They won't offer that to him there,
he's going to beat that on the open market. But
obviously he didn't want to go anywhere. So that's that's
(01:02:40):
what I'm saying. If he was felt a certain way
about Golden State and wanting to finish his career there,
then you take the two years forty eight million. That's
twenty four million dollars a year on top of the
what almost a quarter of a billion. So yep, he's
(01:03:00):
already made. That was the hometown.
Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Deal. That was it.
Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
Now you didn't even perform up to that contract this year,
and so now they're like, whoof we died that bullet.
Now they have wiggle room. Now they can go get
(01:03:26):
some real pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Well yeah, that what the deal is is what what
they what they've got now is the knowledge that they
didn't have then, which is that this is not going
to work, so god go do something else. But when
you talk about living up to a contract being worth
(01:03:50):
every dollar.
Speaker 6 (01:03:51):
Put the money in the bag. That's what they That's
what they that's his street name. Y' already know that,
that's his street name.
Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
That's right. Here is the money in d Bang, the
money in the bat de Bay, that's right, Stephen money
de Ben de bag steven is the beggar is here.
Speaker 10 (01:04:15):
Once you said the word contract, I honestly did not
know who you were talking about. Price and Deshamba won
the US Opened by one stroke over Rory McElroy and
Pioneers North Carolina. Deshambo also won the US Open in
twenty twenty. McElroy still has not won a major in
ten years, since the twenty fourteen PGA at Valhalla in Louisville. However,
(01:04:38):
he got the lead today in the final round with
Birdie's on the ninth and tenth old Bertie's on twelve
and thirteen. He was, as you mentioned last hour, the
first golfer of the weekend to get to eight under par,
when precious few golfers it's a US Open, got under
par at all. And then he had that finish bogie
on fifteen, bogie on sixteen, bogie on eighteen. Two of
(01:05:00):
those three holes missing very short putts. In fact, the
one on sixteen called a two and a half footer
that lipped out. He had not missed a putt inside
three feet all season and misses two short to lose
by one stroke. Yeah, we mentioned the winner gets four
point three million dollars. Second place two point three million dollars.
(01:05:24):
Rory McElroy skipped all the media interviews as soon as
this was over, even the customary post round interview with
the rights holder. One reporter said, quote, Rory just flew
out of the parking lot. Here may have been off
the property before Bryson even signed his card.
Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
End quote, he spun his wheels. I don't know if
you saw this video. He didn't just leave. He spun
his wheels on the way out of the parking lot.
Speaker 10 (01:05:47):
Okay, Well, we mentioned the money payouts had been a
little larger these days at Major's especially, but even the
players who missed the cut this weekend get a payout
of ten thousand dollars each just for the Thursday and
Friday goal. Thank you and yeah, large large increase in
what the winner gets these days, even compared to last
year's US Open winter It's up seven hundred thousand dollars
(01:06:10):
the winners check now for a guy who I don't
think needs the money, bryceon Deshamba. As we mentioned, he's
on a nine figure contract with Live Golf, but the
US Open purse total prize money just three years ago
was twelve and a half million. It's now twenty one
and a half million. It's up over seventy percent in
(01:06:30):
just a three year span. I don't know what's been
happening in golf as far as money getting thrown around,
but wow, they've got some sort of incentive going on.
We got to check.
Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Out what wonder what's going on in this sport.
Speaker 10 (01:06:42):
Colin Moricaua earned the last US Open US Olympic golf
spot for this summer in Paris. He will be there,
as he edged out Patrick can't Lee. The US has
four of the top seven in the world. By the way,
not everyone can Go. Can't Lay his number eight in
the world. NBA Finals continue on Monday. Boston, up three
games to one, will host Dallas. There were THREEAWNBA games today,
(01:07:07):
wins for Atlanta, Phoenix and for Indiana, which is now
five to ten after defeating Chicago ninety one to eighty three.
Caitlin Clark twenty three points nine as sists five turnovers.
Stanley Cup Game five is Tuesday, Edmonton at Florida. Panthers
lead three games to one. They had their six game
winning streak stop last night. Birmingham won the UFL Football
(01:07:27):
Championship twenty five nothing over San Antonio. Today's game MVP
was Birmingham quarterback Adrian Martinez, who had three total touchdowns.
He was the season MVP at the Euro Soccer Tournament
wins for England and Netherlands. Denmark tide Slavinia one to one.
NASCAR is at Iowa tonight. They are well past the
halfway point. They're on lap two sixty five of the
(01:07:49):
three point fifty scheduled. Ryan Blaney in the lead, Joey
Logano now second, Ricky Stenhouse Junior is third, and College
Baseball's World Series is ongoing. Florida State with a win
today seven three over Virginia. Number one ranked Tennessee leads
North Carolina tonight five to one going to the seventh inning.
In Sunday night, MLB Baseball Boston's lead now seven to
(01:08:11):
three over the Yankees in the bottom of the seventh.
The A's have lost eighth straight. They lost at Minnesota
six to two today in the first of a double header.
There had been a rain out yesterday. Oakland is also
losing tonight six ' five at Minnesota in the bottom
of the sixth. Baltimore and the Mets with wins Dodgers
as well. Dodgers won three nothing over Kansas City, but
Mookie Bets broke his hand hit by a pitch back
(01:08:32):
to you, that's.
Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
That is going to have an effect on things going forward.
Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
Although it looks like you're only.
Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Going to need to win eighty three games to make the.
Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Playoffs International League, and the Dodgers and Phillies are almost there,
so it's it's all good. But yeah, that's that's going
to be a while there for Mookie Betts. Steve great
stuff as always, Thank you, tye reck dot com Studios.
Speaker 9 (01:08:59):
Am, can we get into it? What the hell's up
with your Laker job?
Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
For real?
Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
And I don't I don't mean because our person turned
it down. This is unlike any process I've I've watched
ever before. Why did it go this way? Why JJ
Reddick's name has gotten thrown around for three weeks? Then
it was a smoke screen. Here's Dan Hurley, Oh, build
(01:09:26):
up staircase, Dan Hurley. Oh he doesn't take it.
Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Now we're going back.
Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
It's like we're watching a reality show, right, But that's clunky.
Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
It's very clunky, embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
For an organization like this to get taken College coaches
turning it down and we know about it leading up
to it for a week. This is sloppy. I don't understand.
I don't understand because this isn't the way for this organization.
Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
No it's not, and it's embarrassing as a lifelong fan.
But look, somebody's gonna get the job. It's a tough
job to take. The team is older, it's not championship
caliber in my opinion, and there's very little wiggle room
(01:10:20):
to make it a championship team. It's very top heavy,
and so you're walking into a mine field hoping to
get through the other side. No coach has gotten through
the other side, not even one who won a championship
(01:10:41):
for them four years ago. And so you're in a
situation where, oh, yeah, the money's nice, it's la. The
prestige of it, it's all there. It's great, But what's
the upside. It's lose, lose because it's championship or bus.
Especially with Lebron James in the twilight of his career,
(01:11:05):
Anthony Davis, who shout out to him him in his trainer,
John Isshup, who had him healthy and playing more games
than he's played in his entire career, but can he
do that again? Outside of him being healthy, the rest
(01:11:29):
of the entire bench and some starters were unhealthy the
entire season. So it just I don't know if they
were ever fully healthy starting at the beginning. And Vanderbilt
missed first what two months of the season gave Vincent
(01:11:50):
missed to play one game and then didn't play again
until the playoffs. What so you missed the entire season
And so it's you know, cam redd Is heard, it's
one of those jobs as a coach, you're looking like,
oh man, the money's great. Well the money won't be
(01:12:15):
what they offered Hurley Dan early, but right, it won't
be that, which is also another slapping face like, oh,
well you offered that much. Now you want to you
know That's that's the problem they ran into with TYLERU.
Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
Well they want Tyler. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I got a question for you that I want to
or or maybe push back a little bit on this
idea that it's quote a tough job to take because
it's championship or bust. I'd like to explore that a
little bit further. Coming up, we're in the tyraq dot
com studios with e from Salama Mark Wheeler. This is
Fox Sports Radio. Happy Father's Day to each and every
(01:12:55):
one of you, especially those who are exhausted and uh
overworked and uh in pain and trying. That's it, man,
(01:13:17):
just try. I mean just just from me to you.
If you're showing up, that's it, right, that's that's probably
enough because I know there are a lot of people
who who grew up in this life with people who
didn't show up for them. So just show up and
then you can mess up once you get there, because
(01:13:39):
you will, God knows. I do you ever gone to
bed where you're like, I didn't mess up today?
Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
No? And I mean that, and I mean that's solely
about parenting. I mean, right, go to bed, just questioning much?
Am I right?
Speaker 13 (01:14:01):
Too little? Like am I? The answers Yes, it's all
of those things. Answers yes, yes, it's too much, too much,
too little in their face too much and not in
their face enough. Let's go make the right decision next time.
Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
You never will tough gig, good lord, it's a tough gig.
It really is. Just keep showing up. Just keep showing up.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
I won't keep bringing the bill, man. I mean I
act like I know, but that's all. That's my philosophy.
I'm just gonna get beat up and let's do it
again tomorrow. Tyreck dot Com Studios. Mark Willardy from salam
I don't think your Laker job is that hard to
say yes to.
Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
I don't see the negative to joining Championship or Bust
and knowing that the stakes are high and you might
get fired very quickly. And and yes, uh, the Lions share.
The blame will go to you and the credit will
go to the players if it goes well. But I
(01:15:04):
look at right now and I go, okay, here's a
couple of things. First of all, even if you are
signing on to coach Lebron, he not gonna be around
that much longer.
Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
I bet whoever.
Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Gets this job out lasts Lebron of course. Well yeah, okay, yeah,
And that's not a tough bet. So that's number one
for everybody who's like, well, I'm not gonna sign up
to coach Lebron. Well, you're actually signing up to coach
Lebron probably and post Lebron, yeah, because you're gonna get
at least two years.
Speaker 6 (01:15:36):
But you don't get to make decisions that you feel
maybe and that's the I think that's the biggest thing.
I think that's the thing that like, you know, at
least for two years, you know, it's you got.
Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
To clear it with the player. Wants to do that, well,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
For bajillions of dollars, maybe I think people would number
one and number two.
Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
I think the thought is is it becomes a stain
on your resume.
Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
You take the gig, you get steamrolled by Lebron and
the fan base, and you walk out of there eighteen
to thirty six months later with your tail between your
legs and your career careening out of control. And I'm like, well,
hang on a second, Like, let's look at all of
the coaches who have been through there or have coached
(01:16:37):
Lebron or hey, like Mike Brown both, he's done both.
He's done Lakers and he's done Lebron, and he has survived.
He is now thriving. He just got a new deal.
Frank Vogel went on to coach the Suns. Whether it
went well or not is not my point. That's not
(01:16:58):
my point. My point is is he walked down out
of the Laker experience still hirable. So I just don't
think this whole like, oh, it's too much attention, it's
championship or bust, it's lebron.
Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
I don't see the downside. Well, there's what I know,
a lot of guys don't want to fail. Well I
get that, but but I would say that this is
helpful and not failing.
Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Here's one thing I know. I have no idea who's
going to do a good job or a bad job.
Here's what I know.
Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Whoever gets this job, their name is going to be
way bigger after this experience is over than it is now. Yes,
that is a fact. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
If that's if the deal is, you're in an industry
where fame and attention and resume and all these things matter.
I don't know, man, I don't see the downside.
Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Well, we've got Steve Kerr. I think he's leaving the
war Warriors, so not not anytime soon on this sign
a new deal. It's a sign and trade sign. Are
you gonna take Clay too? We'll take Clay and Steve better.
You better.
Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
He's been a hashtag future Laker for fifteen years.
Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
It feels like, well, you know, yeah, I don't know
necessarily if we want this Clay, but you know, I
know his dad would love it. Oh my god, so
would he? Yeah, of course, you know, I mean Jo Tatum.
Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Come on over. Warrior fans don't want to hear that.
But but you know Clay Clay grew up around this
and uh.
Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
Yeah, they played for He plays for Golden State, but
he's a Laker fan. That's just how it goes.
Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
He grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
In the locker room Oregon, but also Orange County idolizing
Kobe Bryant and his and his dad's broadcasting for the team.
I don't really see that it's going to land that way,
but who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
I don't know where this is all going to end up.
I just think I'm I'm confused.
Speaker 9 (01:19:14):
I'm confused that a Lakers head coaching search looks and
sounds like this.
Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
One of the most prestigious jobs in the association. This
makes sense to me, it does. It makes sense to me,
So I just want a good coach. Man, I hear you.
Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
I'm going in Monday, but tomorrow for my interview.
Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
I think I think it's pretty rare that it gets
telegraphed like this and we get a whole build up
and a name and there's going to be an interview,
and here's what he's being offered, and dot to dot
to dot to beat to beat to beat, and nah.
Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
I don't don't want it.
Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Come on, man, you can't tell me you saw it
sounded and looking like that.
Speaker 6 (01:20:10):
Man, would you like a way? Would you like to
be my assistant coach? I would be open to that conversation.
You have to denounce all allegiance to the Warriors, burn
(01:20:30):
all your memorabilia, and your son has to change his
middle name to Leb Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Okay, I'll tell you what Tomorrow at two o'clock live
on Fox, I'll announce whether or not I'm taking the
assistant job with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
How's that sound. We'll get into Caitlyn Clark at Angel
Reeson next. Look.
Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
The w NBA conversation in the last handful of weeks
has moved from basketball to politics, to race, to sexism,
all of these things. Right, we all are aware of
that dynamic that has unfolded. I keep not having a
problem with anything I see on the court. I keep
(01:21:18):
having a problem with what everyone says after it. And
I don't mean that on social media. I mean that
from the actual players themselves.
Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
And maybe me saying I have a problem with it
is the wrong way to phrase it. I just think
a lot of these players could help themselves. Here's what
I'm noticing.
Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
You've got rookies on the basketball court, Caitlyn Clark, Angel Reese.
Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
They're rookies, but a healthy portion of the entire league.
Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Are rookies when it comes to dealing with this kind
of media scrutiny.
Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
And that's what I notice.
Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
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Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
You remember the last controversy with Kitlin Clark when she
got the forearm to the back the cheap shot from Carter,
And then after the game, Carter goes to the press
conference and says, I'm not doing any Caitlin Clark questions,
and it's like, well, actually this was a basketball thing
until you said that. Well now we're not doing basketball anymore.
(01:22:40):
Now you've made it personal. That to me is a
media rookie mistake. Because all of the WNBA no matter
how many years you've played in the league, you've never
done this, and I bet you could actually relate to that. Right,
There's not just an arc to learning how to play.
(01:23:00):
There's an arc to learning how to deal with money
and attention, power, accountability, responsibility. This is what young players
have to go through and eat from. I feel like
I'm watching the entire WNBA go through that at once.
Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
Well, yeah, we look, the WNBA been around a long time,
a lot of great players. This is the perfect storm
for them because you have a dynamic player that came
out of college. They captured the heart and the attention
of America and it is really elevated the WNBA. I mean,
(01:23:48):
I'm pretty sure they'll actually make money this year.
Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Just on.
Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
You know, the just the viewers and sponsorship and all
of these things. It's a tremendous opportunity for.
Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
The young women.
Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
Playing in a sport that didn't there doesn't get a
lot of shine. They're on like they were. I watched
they're on CBS today earlier.
Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Yep. You know, I know this is.
Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
A relatively down time and sports, no football, Uh, we're
just you know, one off in terms of NBA.
Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
Right, and plays once every ten days.
Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
Yeah, And and baseball we're too far away from anything
resembling you know, the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
So we're at a.
Speaker 6 (01:24:54):
Time now where it's like, uh, all right, they've been
able to capture this market because it's always been like this,
but they've been able to really capture this market because
people want to see this young woman play as well
as Angel and you know, a bevy of the Brink
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and some of the other college stars that we watched
because you know directly of the rivalry and Caitlyn and
so on and so forth. So this is a perfect
time to embrace it. I said before people go back
and forth about the w n B A our USA
(01:25:37):
Basketball dropping the ball on not putting Kaitlyn Clark on
the on the Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
But I'm like, you know.
Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
How, I think the best thing that could happen for
her is to get this break so she can rest, train,
get in better shape, and come back when they resume
(01:26:10):
and kill it. Then she can start trying to separate herself. First,
you know, third of the season, she was first quarter
of the season, she was tired, way too many games,
not enough practices. And so we're in a situation now
I think it's it was best. I know it would
have been great for her to go over there and
(01:26:31):
get that, Yeah, it would have, but they left a
bunch of top players off that roster, and you know,
from a marketing standpoint, people are like, well, that's just stupid.
But for her individually, for her growth as a player,
I think it's it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
She left right from college into the w NBA like
it was.
Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
It was like minor league based, like three weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
Seriously, she that like that National championship game, Oh my goodness,
the ratings through the roof.
Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
And then everyone's like, and.
Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Cool, did you see it?
Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
One?
Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Great? The draft is tomorrow and then they drafted him
and then they're like when does they know they already started?
They started this morning. There's a game on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
It's like what she like, I would love to go
back and look at the number of days from National
title game.
Speaker 9 (01:27:25):
To the Indiana fever opener. Felt like, Terry, it felt
like ten days. Seriously, it was like, what is happening?
So that's a that's tough listen, and.
Speaker 6 (01:27:39):
So then you want to take her over to the
may but to burn this girl completely out.
Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Completely and I buy all that. I wonder what you
think about this. Let's look at this though from the
angle of the other players. Listen to Angel reason. Let
me give you.
Speaker 9 (01:27:56):
For those of you who did not see the game today,
I know there's been a healthy debate about it online.
It's a hard foul. Was it an out of line foul?
Maybe that's not even really my point in getting into this.
Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
But Angel Reese, on a drive to the left block
from Caitlin Clark, went up for a block shot and
got a healthy bit of head a face with elbow
and did not look sorry about it, and did not
necessarily look like she wasn't trying to get a healthy
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bit of Caitlyn Clark's face with her elbow.
Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
And so it goes that sports, it happens.
Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Is it out of line?
Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Is there discipline? That's really for another day. My interest
right now is so what did y'all sit.
Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Down and say into the microphones after the game? Take
a listen to Angel Reese.
Speaker 6 (01:28:57):
I think we went up really strong a lot of times,
and we didn't get a lot of calls. And going
back and looking at the film, I've seen a lot
of calls that weren't made.
Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
I guess some people got a special whistle.
Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
But okay, okay, here's the problem. I get that you're
a competitor. I get that there's frustrations in every game,
like that's all normal, But this is yet another.
Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Rookie media mistake by Angel Reese. And Angel is welcoming
of the villain role, so maybe she doesn't care. But
to me, this is actually what's.
Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
Sort of driving this negative conversation about the WNBA. You
can't clip someone in the temple and then go straight
to the microphone and go, yep, she got a special whistle.
Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
They only call stuff when it's Caitlin.
Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
You clocked her in the temple.
Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
There are people on social media who think you should
be suspended. Oh gosh, so I'm not even getting into that,
but you've got to know that when you hit the
press conference, because there's zero chance of you winning the
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battle of the word when there's video flying around the internet,
and let's be real, that's all ninety eight percent of
the people are going to see. They're just gonna see
the clip of you whacking her upside the head, and
then you go straight to the locker room to say, yeah,
we lost I clocked her in the head and uh,
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we got.
Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
A crappy whistle because they love Caitlin and they don't
like me. Well, look I'm a angel. You're right.
Speaker 6 (01:30:57):
And I watched the game and juries has a little
bit of Luka Danta jenn her right. She does a
lot of flopping, a lot of arguing with the refs.
I watched her do that for the majority of the game.
Turn talk to the ref. Team is right, Like, she
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has a lot of that in her game. She plays
in the post. She's a big. You should expect contact,
like literally, that's how you train as a big. You
play through you should be able to score through the contact.
(01:31:41):
And so I've seen her, watched her flop her body,
you know, get a little bit of a bump and
just fly out of bounds, so on and so forth.
So there was a stretch there where she thought she
got filed three four times in a row.
Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
But as a basketball player, I'm watching, like, if you're
more under control when you're going up, uh, then you
will get the call. But if you're going up for
the call, then you probably aren't gonna get it. If
(01:32:28):
you're out of control and trying to just get the
ball up. You're probably not gonna get the benefit of
the doubt.
Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
And so.
Speaker 6 (01:32:37):
As a player, you got to look within yourself, right,
I played in the post, so I expected contact.
Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
I didn't. I thought it was gonna be contact every play.
Speaker 6 (01:32:49):
I mean, of course, I have a football background, so
I was looking for the contact. But for her, I know,
I know why she was frustrated because I watched her frustrating.
First she had five fouls, and so I watched her,
you know, take silly fouls. I've watched her want other
(01:33:13):
calls that she didn't get. And so this doesn't surprise me.
About the sound bite at the at the press conference, Yeah, oh,
I'm not saying it surprises me you or anyone. I
guess it's more of a suggestion to certain.
Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
Well and they look clearly a lot of these ladies
feel like the world's against them. And whether that's true
or not, right, there's all kinds of dynamics going on here,
from race, to geography to to gender, Like all the
normal stuff is there, and I grant that, But if
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these ladies are upset because the world's against them, you
got to learn how to play a game a little
bit got to learn how to play the game a
little bit when the microphones and the cameras are on.
And if what you're worried about, again, I don't want
to put words in her mouth or thoughts in her head,
but if what you're worried about is worlds against me,
(01:34:18):
well my suggestion would be, don't go to the microphone
when there's video of you clocking someone in the head
very aggressively, and then after the game go we don't
get the whistle.
Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Other people get special whistle.
Speaker 6 (01:34:34):
Yeah, it's just this whole age I've heard. They've been
rivals for a long time. It's gonna carry over. It's that,
you know, not to this degree, but it's that magic
bird type of energy where you play in college a
bunch of times and then you come in and play
in the league and going up against each other. The
(01:34:55):
difference is both of these young women play on terrible teams,
so you know, meeting in the playoffs and then they
play on some god awful teams five and ten and
you know, four nine or something like that. I think
the records are they're not very competitive maybe with each other,
(01:35:22):
which is also great, but.
Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
You know, you nailed the records, by the way, you
nailed them, Like I say, I do.
Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
I watch Indiana Fever.
Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Actually with that victory has moved into a playoffs boty.
Speaker 6 (01:35:35):
Oh good lord. It was only twelve teams, so yeah,
I guess something.
Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
Yeah, eight teams go all right.
Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
I don't think he was the best of all time
at anything, but was he the most unique of all time?
Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
Most memorable of all time?
Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:35:53):
We can get into that. We'll tell you who we're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Coming up next with from Salam, I'm Mark Willard and
this is Fox Sports Radio. Okay, y'all, we're living Thetirack
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Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
That's it, from my Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
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right after we get off of the air. I still
don't know exactly.
Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
Into my pocket and money spent, so wat the deeper
Still coming up with lyn Oh go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
No, no, no, don't ever apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
No, no, no, You're good. Sometimes it just hits me. You're good.
I see you, Mary?
Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Yeah, yeah, how to hit you? When Chuck said, uh,
this is it, I don't I don't care what network
that we're on.
Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
This coming year, that's it? What is this twenty years? Yeah?
Look I get it, I get it.
Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
You know, change is difficult when you're used to something
a certain way and you know they're not going to
have the same level of freedom that they've had on
T and T. So would you want to do something
(01:37:46):
that you've enjoyed doing differently? It's it's it's a tough
situation because you know, most people you know, been in
the business and made the type of money he's made
in his second career.
Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
I don't want to change, don't. They don't want change.
Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
They don't want to bring in new producers, and like
they have a real live thing going on over there,
like a family, and it's tough to say, hey, I'm
going to we're just going to move over here to
(01:38:36):
this other network or these other producers are whatever that is,
and we're going to do it to do the same show.
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
Like that.
Speaker 6 (01:38:46):
Doesn't happen. It's not the same, it won't be the same.
And if you're not willing to change and want to change,
then just let it go. And it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
Well, the interesting thing about it is, I still don't
know even.
Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Though this is one of the weirdest stories that's been building,
which is the the end of Inside the NBA, and
it's like, it's still not double triple, quadruple official, and
even though it feels that way, and then here comes
(01:39:24):
Charles with, well, I'm leaving no matter what the hell happens.
And so now I'm like, well, now I don't I
don't care as much if Inside the NBA is going
away next year or not, because it's going away no
matter what. So, in other words, even if the NBA
stayed on TNT, if Charles is not there, well, and
that's rop that that that there's no there are certain
(01:39:47):
people and it's not even me sitting here saying that
I'm like the biggest Charles Barkley on TV fan in
the world. That's Steu, that pot of soup. Those four guys.
I don't think there's really any replacing any Oh, absolutely not,
(01:40:07):
like it's a package deal and they're either all there
or I'm sorry, it's dead.
Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
Like even even Kenny whatever, Ernie shack the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
All you got to do is go watch Kevin Hart's
spoof of the whole thing, and and he's able to
sort of pluck what sort of makes each guy quintessentially
them and add it to his spoof.
Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
And because he can do that, that tells me.
Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
That that show doesn't live without any of them. So
if Chuck is leaving, then it just to me felt like,
well now we can just shrug our shoulders. I don't
care where the NBA ends up in terms of broadcast rights.
Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
If Chuck is leaving, the show is over anyway.
Speaker 6 (01:41:01):
Yeah, it's it's it's a show that you know, it's
not duplicated, and if if Charles doesn't want to be
a part of it, then they can they'll move on.
So you know, it's it's a sad day because we
all look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
It's it's a sad day. But he also he certainly
left a mark. Not not every not everybody's able to
do this, Like there's a lot of you can't get
away with doing on air what Chuck does on air,
like he's able to do it because he's Chuck. Yes,
but if you look at what has happened to sports
broadcast media in the last decade, you could argue that
(01:41:46):
that that Chuck is paved away more than he gets
credit for. The straight shooting, the authenticity, the push the
line not always perfect by.
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Any stretch, by unapologetic yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
And that's that's what has risen to the forefront, don't
you think.
Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
Yes, yes, it's something refreshing about someone speaking their mind,
whether you agree about it, you know, agree with it,
especially in sports, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
And and when I think unapologetic, I think Steve Desager.
I don't know about you, but that's the first name
that always comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
I'm like, that guy's never apologizing for anything. Why would
he apologize?
Speaker 10 (01:42:38):
All right, yeah, yeah, maybe we already spoke our minds.
By the way, on the NBA TV topic on last
night's show, when after your discussion here properly of what's
been done for years with the NBA on TNT in studio,
Compare that to the direk that ESPN slash ABC has
been offering the basketball fan, especially in the finals Yeah,
(01:43:02):
is no comparison.
Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
I don't know who the I don't know who it is.
It's a different group of people. That's part of the issue.
It's a different group of people every Tuesday.
Speaker 10 (01:43:12):
Yeah, so out of a sixteen minute halftime, they let
them talk at the most four minutes. So by all means,
make sure to have more people at the desk. And
by the way, we just couldn't wait to hear the
comments of who'd you hire at the start? Is Josh Hart?
I mean, honestly, what are you doing? What is this?
I could not think of in any sport a halftime
(01:43:36):
and pregame show that's more forgettable or worthless. I mean,
in any sport on any network in my lifetime. It's ridiculous.
NBA Finals do continue Monday, by the way, season might
be ending. Then Boston up three games to one, will
host Dallas. By the way, we can update the stats
Kyrie Irving. In the past three seasons playoffs included now
(01:43:58):
one in thirteen against the South. So there WNBA three
games today Atlanta and Phoenix with victory. That Phoenix win
was over Seattle eighty seven to seventy eight. Britney Griner
twenty eight points Caitlin Clark with twenty three in Indiana's
win over Chicago ninety one to eighty three. Stanley Cup
Game five is Tuesday, Edmonton at Florida. Panthers lead three
(01:44:19):
games to one. Bryce and Deshamba won the US opened
by one stroke over Rory McElroy Colin Moricauer in the
last US Olympic golf spot for this summer in Paris.
Number one rank Scotti Scheffler is headed to the Olympics.
He tied for forty first place today, tying with Jordan Speith.
Birmingham won the UFL Football Championship twenty five nothing over
(01:44:42):
San Antonio. At the Euro Soccer Tournament, wins for England
and the Netherlands Denmark tide, Slovenia won one. Coming up
Monday on Fox TV France VERSUS Austria three pm Eastern time.
The Copa America Soccer Tournament starts Thursday night on FS
one with Argentina against Canada. Tournament will be held in
the US with the games on Fox and FS one.
(01:45:04):
NASCAR's race was tonight from Iowa. Ryan Blaney the winner.
He led over two hundred laps. William Byron finished in
second Everything's final. In Major League Baseball, the A's have
lost again. They dropped a double header at Minnesota after
yesterday's right now six to two and eight seven the final.
The A's have lost nine games in a row. Tonight,
at Boston, the Red Sox beat the rival Yankees nine
(01:45:26):
to three. As Boston had nine stolen bases in this one,
all against the same catcher, Jose Travinu. It was a
win for Baltimore at home over Philadelphia, eight to three.
The win Corbyn Burns, who's eight and two, and Zach
Wheeler took the loss, allowing four homers in four and
a third innings. Matt's won their fifth in a row
eleven to six over San Diego. Houston beat Detroit four
(01:45:48):
to one. Ronel Blanco the winning pitcher. He was pulled
after seven no hit innings and three walks, and the
Dodgers shut out Kansas City three nothing. Mookie Betts of
La broke his hand hit by a pit He'll see
a hand specialist on Monday. At the College World Series,
Florida State defeated Virginia seven to three. Number one Tennessee
is winning with two outs in the ninth six to one.
(01:46:10):
Over North Carolina and guys. This Thursday night on Fox TV,
there will be a Major League game at a park
that'll have a ticketing capacity of about eight thousand, three
hundred its historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Giants versus Cardinals
this week. The Birmingham Black Bearons of the Negro Leagues
(01:46:30):
played there for nearly four decades, starting nineteen twenty four.
The teams on Thursday Night will wear throwback uniforms that
highlight the history of the Negro Leagues in those two cities,
San Francisco and Saint Louis. All living Negro League players
have been invited to this game. At last check, sixty
are confirmed to attend. Rickwood Field is the oldest pro
ballpark in the US. It opened in nineteen ten. Many
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future Hall of Famers have passed through, from Babe Ruth
to Jackie Robinson to Hank Aaron to Reggie Jackson. Eighteenage
Willie Mays played center field in Birmingham for the Black
Bearons in nineteen forty eight as they played in the
final Negro League World Series. This was also the double
A home of the White Sox Birmingham team in the
nineteen eighties home of the first integrated team in Alabama
(01:47:16):
years ago. They've had to do let's just say, a
redo on the place to get it ready for this week.
A couple days before Thursday night, they're gonna have a
minor league game there Birmingham against Montgomery at rick Woodfield.
But the entire playing surface in Birmingham was given a
five million dollars makeover.
Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
For this week.
Speaker 10 (01:47:35):
There's a new and padded outfield wall. The wall was
moved back ten feet, digital scoreboard netting now along the
foul lines. And this is going to be the first
of a three game series they'll play in Birmingham Thursday,
off day Friday. Final two of the series will be
Giants at Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Back to you, Yeah, this thing's going to be really special.
And again this is sort of in place of what
had been the Field of Dreams game the last few years. Uh, Steve,
I want you may know this because it's clear that
you've done a lot of research on this this forthcoming game.
And I think you said maybe eight thousand tickets are
(01:48:11):
actually available. Any idea what they're going for.
Speaker 10 (01:48:15):
I never even thought of that. I just assumed they
were all done.
Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
And so yeah, like, I, you know, I go to
like stub Hub or.
Speaker 10 (01:48:24):
Something, the original price is like twenty five bucks. They
wanted to make sure not for sellout numbers. Do you
want to make sure that people locally can participate?
Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
Right? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
And so I don't you know, maybe this is uh,
this is sort of like against the spirit of the
whole thing. But I wondered, if you wanted to, if
you wanted to go to this game, what would it
now cost for those who have already made And I
wonder if that maybe there's a rule those who have
the tickets aren't allowed to put them on the on
(01:48:56):
the secondary market.
Speaker 10 (01:48:57):
I don't know, it would be hard to hard to police.
Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
It would be very, very hard hard.
Speaker 10 (01:49:03):
I've seen on the on the online for the minor
league game starting at sixty five dollars Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
Okay, yeah, I just I wondered that because again, there
are so few available. I like, I've had this thing
circled for six months that I was hoping to somehow
be there for this baseball game. It's not going to happen,
but it was a dream. And man, this is going
(01:49:33):
to be a very very unique look for Major League baseball.
Speaker 10 (01:49:38):
Okay, So if you go to the very much secondary
ticket market having nothing to do with Major League Baseball.
I'm seeing four to six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
I'm surprised there's not more. I'm still not bad. Yeah,
that's not bad at all. I don't know what a
flight to Birmingham costs from the West coast.
Speaker 6 (01:49:55):
We got to take a flight and a train, had
to get a horse and buggy, find a place to stay.
Speaker 10 (01:50:01):
Realize that the worst seat in this place would be
I mean there's almost no outfield seats. Seats curve around
the right field pole, so somewhere around there is four hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:50:09):
Bucks there you go. Yeah, and there's no upper deck.
Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Like I don't know from I don't know if you're
you know, you've you've had your relationship with baseball that
we've talked about this year.
Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
How do you feel about this event? You locking in
on this one?
Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
I like it? I mean, am I going? But am
I trying to know?
Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
I mean, like, well, you this is gonna be a
national broadcast on Fox. I wonder if this is something
that you'll lock into on Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
NBA is gonna be all over starting tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (01:50:40):
Night, So yeah, I will, I will watch it just
because of the historic nature of it. I think it's awesome.
But yes, yeah, I'm gonna watch that. It's not it's
not a lot on what w NBA games on that night,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
That zone. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
I don't know, but yeah, this this is gonna be
a very very interesting one and something that the Major
League Baseball has been sort of trying to move toward
in you know, building toward this.
Speaker 5 (01:51:12):
I know that they they activated all of the Negro.
Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
League stats recently and and added them in. I thought that,
you know, I I get that pieces of that were
a little bit clunky and and and whatnot, but overall,
I think that that those and as Steeve said, those
who actually played in the league who are still with
us seemed to be touched by this.
Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
In full support of this, and uh and I'm gonna
use them as a as a guide.
Speaker 6 (01:51:45):
Yeah, I think it's great. You know, some of the
greatest UH baseball players of all time, you know, didn't
get an opportunity to play in the majors. Yep, Like seriously,
some of the greatest, and most people don't, you know,
(01:52:08):
especially the younger generation, don't really understand, uh that that fact,
and I think I think it's it's wonderful that Major
League Baseball is actually paying homage and and and bringing
much needed notoriety to these players.
Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
Yeah, I agree with you. This was not some secondary league.
Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
This was obviously coming from uh just uh social unrest
through the history of our nation. But these players, I
have no doubt in my mind that some of the
actual greatest players on earth were in that league and
never were allowed in the in the Major League Baseball.
(01:52:54):
So uh, this would be an interesting look on Thursday,
for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:52:58):
We're live in the Tirak doc Studios.
Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
Mark Wheler, E F from Salam, coming up some final
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Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
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Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
You know all the words, yep, you got kids. I
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(01:53:39):
do today, by the way, What they do for you?
Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
What the boys do for you?
Speaker 6 (01:53:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
No, I was with my dad out in Riverside. Okay,
he's a little bit under the weather. So I was.
Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
He was in the hospital, so I went to uh
hang out with him, and my beautiful wife brought my
boys and we got a chance to hang out pops
uh in the hospital. So it was nice.
Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:54:06):
You know, my dad's would be eighty three next month,
and so just you know, realizing these moments of life
and and just appreciating the blessing of of being able
to be with him and have my boys. There's three
(01:54:27):
generations of this family and just and just enjoying each other.
Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:54:35):
I snuck him some I supposed to even be saying this,
but I snuck him some McDonald's. Man snug him. He
wanted to burger Little Fries, So I snug him a
little something in there. Man, Dad, if you're listening, he
listens every week. You know, I love you, man, you know.
So he'd been in the hospital a couple of days.
Speaker 9 (01:54:55):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:54:55):
He's getting better out of infections blood infection, so he's
on antibiotics and he's doing well. But I just wanted
to spend that time with him and just let him
know he's loved.
Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
You know. Well, I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
And if your dad is indeed listening, you know, I
set off the top of the show that I know
a good dad when I see one, and I know
you're one. I'm gonna say the same thing to your dad,
even though I've never met him before, because I know you,
and therefore I know that he did a good job
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
And I also hope he just enjoyed the hell out
of that burger.
Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
I hope he enjoyed the hell out of that burger,
because you know, our parents are almost the exact same age.
My dad it's going to turn eighty two here in
just a few months, and my mom is now in
her eighties and osteoporosis and not being able to get
around that exact same thought that you have, which is
(01:55:55):
just just cherish every conversation, in every meeting and every
every time you get to see him, because you just.
Speaker 5 (01:56:01):
Don't know how many of those that you have left.
Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
And you're just reminded me of a conversation my dad
had with me just a couple of months ago where
he was kind of talking about, you know that idea
of like the doctors say, I'm not supposed to this,
that and the other, but by the same.
Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
Token, you know, what are we really doing here?
Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
Like I'm not gonna try to live an extra year
and not have red wine.
Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
I have no interest in that. I would like to
have red wine. So you know, I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
I get it, man. Look, look, put a smile on
the face. My dad was born in nineteen forty one.
Speaker 6 (01:56:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
Come on, he's seen some things in the South. He's
got to live and.
Speaker 6 (01:56:57):
See his son, kids and grandkids and his love of
full life. I'm not going if he will with whatever
he wants, he gets, That's just what it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
I love that. I love that. Man. Well, Happy Father's
Day to you both, you two brother seriously.
Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
Yep, hey, man, no, I I appreciate it. So gosh,
I was thinking about that. I just saw the highlight
as we were hanging out there during the break of
the uh speaking of the break the Mookie bets broken hand. Yeah,
are you a little surprised that? And I want to
(01:57:38):
be very careful how I asked this, But are you
a little surprised the Dodgers aren't better?
Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
Yes? Yeah, they're good. They're very good. They're good. They're
very good. They're forty four and twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
But you're a little surprised they the best run differential
in the National League. They also largely play National League
teams who are largely awful, mostly all of them one, two, three,
four teams are over five hundred four Phillies, Braves, Brewers, Dodgers,
(01:58:14):
that's it. Are a little surprised they're.
Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
Not better, Yeah, I am.
Speaker 6 (01:58:21):
But like at we said, long season, and they can
hit their stride and they can rattle off. Well, I
don't know Mookie going down, he's gonna be off for
quite some time.
Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Well, that's kind of why I'm asking, because they're they're
they're they're about to get I would think a little
bit worse.
Speaker 6 (01:58:37):
Well, they just need more production out of the bottom
of the order at the plate. Now, if they if
they can get more production out of those guys, you know, six, seven,
eight nine, then you know you can't have the top
(01:58:58):
of your order trying to carry you. And baseball is
is is a game of failure. There are slumps, there's
all kinds of things. The season is long enough for
you to navigate, to go in, to go out of it,
all of those things. So they have time to hit
a stride and really get going. Hold this thing off
(01:59:20):
till Mookie comes back. That's a pretty good fracture. So
we'll see what that looks like in that time table.
Speaker 5 (01:59:30):
I mean, they've got an eight game lead in the division.
Speaker 3 (01:59:32):
It's not like the division though, you know, not worried
about him.
Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Yes, it's it's a little interesting that they don't feel
a little more dynamic than they do.
Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
Yeah, I mean, I would, I could.
Speaker 6 (01:59:45):
I'll pay money to see that Dodgers Yankees series every weekend.
Speaker 14 (01:59:50):
So that was pretty good, if only it was actually
gonna happen, if only, if only. Happy Father's Day, brother,
serious man, yep, Happy Father's Day to you too.
Speaker 9 (02:00:01):
Man, I appreciate the keep up the good work, like
Plank and spani your two, even those guys, Happy Father's Day.
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