Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam talk F1, NFC East Offseason Storylines, MLB HOF, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm so ready to talk to you tonight. I am
so ready to do this. It was planes, it was trains,
it was automobiles, no joke. Yeah, I got.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Two words for you.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yeah, ime On, that's right.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, side ready to go broadcast a live Fox Sports
Radio studios. And it's football, it's basketball, it's baseball. It's
gonna be everything tonight. But yeah, we back. We're back.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
We not tech, We're not talking about none of that.
Were talking about your trip, man, that's oh my goodness.
Well we can do three hours on a honeymoon.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
We shot out to Mark for working before and after
his honeymoon. Man, you deserve a medal.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Actually, shout out to my now wife.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes, planning a trip that didn't touch either Sunday beautiful.
I mean, does this woman know what she's doing or nothing?
So yeah, exactly so it was actually, yes, we've been
married now for a week and a half. This was
the fiftieth birthday gift that she gave me seven months
ago in preparation for all of this, and uh skillfully

(01:11):
tucked it in between Sundays. So we left Monday. We
got back just after midnight last night. It was the
trip of a lifetime. We never left the damn resort. Brother,
we never left the Dama. You're not supposed to, Oh good, good,
because that's what we did. And neither of us even
really thought about it the whole time. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
And I said, that's what you you do, man, that's
that's exactly what honeymoons, especially when you're older in that
honey like when you're young, you get married young, and
you adventure, like, hey man, all I want to do
is explore you and our relationship away from everyone else
and so, you know, and shout out to you for

(01:52):
you know, sending me a picture of you watching uh.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
F one one one. I have to survive.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
I told you, honeymoon, man, listen, it took me a
couple of days.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
And as you know, there's stuff happening now, right, but like,
it took me a couple of days. And then I
just I was very honest with her, and I sat
her down and I said, look, you know, once we
get to day two, day three, whatever, we've been to
the beach, the pool, the pool, the beach, the beach,
the pool, the drinks, the bar, that food, this food,

(02:29):
I'm like, Aphraim wants us to check out F one
Drive to Survive, and she's always game, you know, She's
like like, may not be my jam, but let's let's
check it out. And I took a picture of episode
one like that was episode one because I wanted that
to be just untouched.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I like, no opinions. Yet.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
We are sitting down my laptop on the bed F
one Drive to Survive Episode one.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Here we go, and and and then.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Because your your response was kind of like how many
episodes in? Are you this episode one? And and you
know when you're watching a streaming show and and you're
with your lady. I knew I was gonna know as
soon as episode one ended and that little box comes.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Up, like you want to do the next episode?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Or are we.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Falling asleep or moving on with life? What's happening? And uh,
she just looked at me and she's like, let's watch
another one. Yeah, yeah, right, let's what another one?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then I really knew because I think two episodes
is probably all we had in us that night and
passed out and uh, and then I think it was
the next day we got back from the pool.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Kind of that mid after before.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Dinner thing, and she's she's coming out of the restroom,
out of the shower, and I hear who say from
the other room, Hey, you want to you want to
watch another episode F one?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Got her? Got her?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Got her?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
So we're downloading episodes for the plane and then, like brother,
we got delayed so many different ways yesterday.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
You don't even want to know.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
This day started at eight am in Jamaica and ended
at twelve thirty at night Pacific time.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
This was a long, frustrating travel day.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
But you know, no complaints here, because that's the kind
of trip you work for and you're okay with you right,
So anyway, suffice it to say, I am now about I.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Think I'm just about.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I got like maybe one more episode to go for
season one, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's unbelievable and funny.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
The funny thing is, and I don't know how many
of our listeners would you know, F one big deal
with the movie coming out right now and all that,
But like a lot of us, and I'm not afraid
to admit this, I've not really followed F one.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
So I'm watching things that happened seven.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Years ago, seven years ago.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
But to me, they're brand new.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
That is. Let me sell you this.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I got no idea what happens next.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Brother, I know this part because you can instantly find out,
Like when you're done with season one, you're gonna be like,
oh Ma, you're gonna get this feeling you get when
you know you can continue this journey. You can continue.

(05:44):
I told you seventy episodes five days with me and
my wife.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's impressive.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
My wife and I are going to two F one
races this year.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
This year, I listen, it is this year.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
First of all, the first credit goes to the actual
whoever made these documentaries.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Man, it is unbelievably well done.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
And so if you do that, then anything, any story
can can pull you in.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
So just wait.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
But like what strikes me beyond the obvious, because I
think a lot of F one race fans are like,
you know what I mean, there's cars, the roar. If
you love auto racing, then that's one thing. But my goodness,
the politics of how this sport works crazy. I am

(06:40):
still trying to deal with certain aspects of it, and
I have questions for you.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm here, I'm here. Remember I said to you. The
most riveting thing for me is the fact that these
two teammates are on a team, yes, and they hate.
It's the only sport I know. We're teammates.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Ha brother, I bet, I bet.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Ninety percent of our audience doesn't even know what Force
India is, right, like those two teammates, Oh my god,
my god. Like I was like, well, Kobe and Shack
are brothers compared to these two.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Right, so it is, But it go ahead. It's storytelling
at its best. At its best, it is so well done.
You get so captivated and caught up in it. Like
we we couldn't watch anything else. We kept looking at
each other like, let's run it. Our kids were coming
into the room like hey are you go, Hey man,

(07:41):
y'all old enough to make your own food? Right, get
out of our room. Okay, don't come in here. No.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's that kind of storyteller where you're like, you know what,
there's a lot of parts of the day that are
getting in the way of me watching f y wait,
I'm fine.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm like, okay, if you thought the season and this
is the one thing that I'll say to you. They
know how to make racing for seventh and eighth more
exciting than anything incredibly dramatic.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes, like they're like, oh.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
P nine, Yeah, we did it, and it's just like, ah, snap.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
You don't even have any Like it's it's twenty or
ten different racing teams, but they're all racing a different race.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
A lot of them have no interest in number one.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
So the thing that I'll tell you, okay, that you're
going to experience is you've already done with season one.
You got one episode left. They never talk about the
teams at the top of the leader board in.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Season one or season in season one, okay, no, I know,
like Lewis Hamilton. We keep telling my girl, you just
see him walk by. I go, you haven't even seen
the guy you just love?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
You just see him walk by.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Like I'm like, listen, I know people and you're a female,
and you're.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Gonna like we're going to him.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's like all that you're watching. You ain't even met
the dude yet, Like that's the dude. It'd be like
doing a full season of Major League Baseball on Netflix
and you don't even meet show heyl.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Tom and Aaron Judge.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
You just see them walking in the background, just like
who's that and what and what we surmised was when
Netflix approached him to do this, they were like, yeah,
we're cool, right, We're not going to let you get
in the way of what we got going on over.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Here, or maybe that that story is too clean. It's
just like where's the drama. Like they've got all the money,
he wins all the championships, Yay, we hug, we go home.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
You get introduced to him in season two, I'm sure,
and just riveting from then on out. It is like,
oh my.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Gosh, brother, I can't wait, like definitely all hooked and everything,
and I'm already like, I mean, I love you, but
I'm like, when's the show over.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
But okay, But here's the thing. There's one thing and
it's not even the documentary. It's the sport. There's one
thing that when it came up, I'm like, I can't
wait to talk to Ephraim and our audience about this
because I didn't know this. I have followed as many
sports as I possibly could my whole life. Our lives

(10:28):
are sports. This is what we do for a living.
It's what we love. Ephraim, I have never met a
sport in my entire life that effectively does free agency
in the middle of the year.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
How is this pozzible while you're still working?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Imagine So if you are a fan of more mainstream sport,
imagine if when Lebron James went to the Miami Heat,
I want you all to follow me now.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
He announced it at a press conference.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
In January All Star Break and.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Then went to play for the Cavaliers that night after
announcing to the world.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
This happened eight times. How is that possible gonna be
set up that way?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Like, Hey, I'm not driving for you guys. Make sure
I'm driving for Williams, or I'm driving for has or
I'm driving for Ferrari. It's just like, but I'm gonna
finish these eight races with you guys, what right?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Or you might have a race team that has to
select because in one case they're bringing on a new
driver because he's the son of the owner who right, huh.
And so you've got these two drivers. One of them's
older and accomplished, the other one's younger and doing better,
and you've got to pick one.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
And then they just do it right before the race.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
And then the guy who now knows he's got no
spot for next year is going to head out to
the track and go against the guy who does have
a spot, and you're gonna tell me that people aren't
gonna like crash into each other on purpose and stuff
like that.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Like, dude, it was crazy. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
And I think that that was one of the things
we identified with the most because like my lady, for example,
years ago, many many years ago, she used to work
for the forty nine ers, okay, right, at a marketing
level and things like that. But one thing she said,
like to you know, I was like, man, wait e
from told me about the politics between the drivers and
their teammates, but they hate each other. She's like, don't

(12:39):
you realize that that is actually how it always works?
She goes, do you think that the backup quarterback isn't
on the sideline rooting for a torn achilles? She literally
said that to me. She said that to me, and
I'm like, I mean, like, on some levels.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
She's probably right and they're not wrong, right.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
So anyway, man, that's what stood out to me the most.
And I'm like why, I want to know, why why
did they do it that way?

Speaker 4 (13:11):
It to me, it feels like they have to be prepared, right,
So I don't think their off season is long enough
for them to handle all of those things. And plus
they have a break in the middle of the season yep,
like a long summer break, right, which today was their

(13:32):
first race back Belgium Belgium Spa right, and it was
delayed for I don't know two three hours because of
the rain. They read flag the uh the warm up
lap they red flagged it and so they you know,

(13:53):
they didn't start for a couple hours. And so it's
it's one of those sports where they take off, like
guys go on vacation in the middle of the season,
like snowboarding and camping and going to the beach for
a couple months, and then they come back and I'm

(14:15):
just like, look, man, I am just I'm riveted. I
can't get enough.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I mean, that was the crazy thing for me.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
And by the way, again, mainstream audience, follow me here.
It's not just Lebron James leaves for the Heat in
the middle of the season and then puts his Cabs
uniform back on seemingly. The press conferences would also include
both the Heat and the Cavaliers general managers sitting next

(14:44):
to each other so that they can all announce this
and then look at each other and hate each other
right there for the world to.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
See, and then go race against each other, then have
a game at two hundred miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, I was like, what is happening?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
You never seen a dynamic like this in any sport.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
So crazy man.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
So anyway, in the end of all of this, thank you,
Thank you, because it's a wonder You're right, it's a
wonderful ride. And for me, it is just getting started,
just getting started. So and by the way, so are we.
It's Fox Sports Radio. So so glad you're with us,
and we do. I'm sure f one will come up again,
but so will the names, for example, Aaron Rodgers and

(15:31):
Micah Parsons and Russell Wilson and Terry McLaurin and Lebron
James and Jonathan Kaminga and Shador Sanders, all of it,
all of it, all of it is coming up tonight.
Thank you for being with us. With you from Salama
Mark Wellard on Fox Sports Radio.

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(17:23):
Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Okay, I'm really I'm thankful
that you told me that the not leaving the resort
thing was what we were supposed to do. Not that
I really like care about being judged at this stage

(17:43):
of my life. But when you go that far, there
is this pull of like, well, should we see the island?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's beautiful?

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Here were your kids there? New brother? Yeah, right there.
When you go on vacation or go somewhere with your kids,
then you go see stuff. When you can get away
from your kids, you go see each other. And that's
what we did. We wool, drinks, food and sun.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
And that's it. And that's it. And oh, by the way,
I do.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
The only other thing I want to say about the
culture there though, because enough people around and obviously those
who populate and are employed by those kinds of resorts,
the Jamaican culture, I'm addicted, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
And y'all should be too.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
In other words, you have people and you can you
step foot on the island one time and you're like, oh,
there's not a lot of money here.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
There's not a lot of money here.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
But these people are so happy, so thankful and so
relaxed about everything, and you're.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Just like, ugh, I'm pretty sure they're doing it right,
and a lot of us.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Are huge difference.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
My god, my goodness.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
We met a one of the wonderful bartenders who served
us one of the many drinks.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
We were talking to her.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Her name was Terry Ann, and she goes, we were
talking about I think just when we were leaving or whatever.
She's like, you know, how long you hear And at
some point the airport comes up and she's like, I've
never been on a plane.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Now this resort is like two miles from the airport.
Planes are just flying.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Over it all day long, and she goes, I've never
been on a plane, and so I'm quickie from I
put two and two together and I looked at her
because she's probably in her forties, late thirties at least,
and I'm like, have you never been off of this island?

Speaker 3 (19:57):
She just like nope. And that was not like an
odd thing, that was not abnormal, you know, just like
wow wow.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
So anyway, you know, tuck some some perspective and life
experiences into the whole thing too.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
It is pretty pretty interesting week.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
You didn't come back with the accent.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, I'm on, Like, I mean, that's all you have
to do? Yeah, I'm on because that that's pretty much.
That's sixty percent of what they say. Yeah, that's it.
That's their answer to everything. And I'm like, yeah, man,
that's pretty good. It's a good answer. Another drink, Yeah, mom,
that's it. You won't go to the beach? Yeah, man,

(20:41):
that's it. I mean, incredible, incredible week.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
So good you look and you deserve it. Brother, Oh man,
I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
We we had a wonderful time and I have a
ton of gratitude for the opportunity to be there.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
All right, Can I try something we don't usually do
on this show?

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Hey man, you can try whatever you want to do.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I want to have Aaron Rodgers back for a second.
Oh all right, I know, right right? How does this?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I don't know whw I missed this or like it
just didn't resonate at the time. Can I ask you
how this resonates with you? Go back, like I don't know,
maybe four months and rumors of the Steelers and Aaron
Rodgers are percolating, and Terry Bradshaw says, quote, what are

(21:34):
you going to do?

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Bring him in for one year? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
That guy needs to stay in California, go somewhere and chew.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
On bark and whisper to the gods out there.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
He told that to one oh three seven the buzz
in Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
How's that?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
I want to grab you. That's a very specific yes,
that's uh. Look, Aaron Waders wants to play football. I
don't agree with how he went about it. And you know,

(22:20):
but obviously the thing we know now is the Stealers
were they understood exactly what was going to happen. There's
a lot of speculation on what was going to happen
prior to it happening, and so we were like, wow,
they're waiting they're wasting time, they're missing their window. It's
obvious to me to see that they knew they were

(22:42):
going to have Aaron Rodgers this year, so they didn't
address it in the draft or any other place, and
so they put all their eggs in one basket and
knew that basket would be delivered at some point before
training camp, and it came. It was delivered. Now he's
he's a quarterback. He's got weapons on the outside, he's
got weapons on the inside. He's got a running game,

(23:04):
and it got a defense. He couldn't want a better situation.
And you know, a coach and an organization. So it's
a situation where now, all right, it's to the point
where you got to show me what you got. Now,
show me what you got. And for all of us
who were like, I can't believe that this is happening,

(23:26):
and what are they doing, they obviously know what they
were doing. Jokes on us, just like we know what
we're doing here on this show, yep, and at this
time do it. Every hour we bring in our guy,
our goat, our savior.

Speaker 9 (23:42):
That's a little much, not much, good evening, gentlemen, and
congratulations again to you.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Sounded very fun.

Speaker 9 (23:50):
And by the way, for anybody who's been Hawaii, it's
a little bit of that flavor that you're exactly discussing,
like why am I not here all the time to
get on the plane to come back?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Honestly that kind of works.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (24:05):
And as a sports fan with the time difference, can
I just say I was we were there during the
NBA playoffs and I'm watching a live game from Madison
Square Garden Nicks against whoever in the playoffs, and we're
at lunch. The game finishes in the afternoon. There's such
a time difference between New York and Honolulu. We had,

(24:26):
you know how many hours still remaining in the afternoon,
much less the evening, and the day was I mean
the evening was over for sports, it was.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's very wild because now there is some family lineage
from my wife to Hawaii to a large like her
dad lives in Kawhi, grew up there, still lives in Kawhi.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
So we talk about what you're talking about quite often.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
And you want to know, the new thing that really
really is crazy there is when they have that London game. Now,
that London game, as you know, if you're a West
Coast sucker starts at about six.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
In the morning. Yep, I love thirty in the morning.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
So now, if you're in Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
And you have a fantasy team and you need to
make a decision about whether or not someone's active, it's
three in the morning and you've.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Got to figure this out.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
So we try to give him a couple extra points
in our league because you know there's a little disadvantage there.

Speaker 9 (25:23):
Yeah, that kind of takes the fun out of it.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, quite honestly.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
Well, we've got a Sunday that ball game going out
in the Bay Area. The Mets have won six in
a row. They've just taken the lead at San Francisco
two to one over the Giants in the top of
the fifth. The Mets are the first place team in
the NLE, so they were a half game over the
Phillies to start the day. The Fields have lost for
to three at the Yankees. Devin Williams got to save
in New York. Pittsburgh shutout Arizona Paul Skins the win.

(25:46):
His ERA this season is one point eight three and
he's six and eight for the Pirates. The Angel Speeds
Seattle four to one. Boston defeated the Dodgers again for
to three. Baltimore beat Colorado five to one. We've mentioned
Rockies before on the show that they're now twenty seven
and seventy eight on the season. We're still in July

(26:07):
and they're fifty one games under the five hundred mark.
Iikes Cincinnati over Tampa Bay two to one. Reds have
won four straight. Rays have lost four in a row.
Detroit defeated Toronto ten to four. Max Shurs are with
the loss, which gets me to thinking, is this the
last year? Four? Max Scherzer, Clayton Kersha, Justin Verlander, who

(26:28):
knows who else? All Hall of Famer, all among the
greats of this entire era, all winding down. Let's just
say that out loud. The Tigers had lost six straight
but got to win against Toronto, beating Scherzer. Today, the
A's have won four straight seven to won the final
at Houston, which is lost four in a row. Cubs
won Milwaukee one. Cubs and Brewers still tied for first
in the NL Central. Padres won nine to two at

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Saint Louis. Texas won at six straight eight to one
over Atlanta, which has lost five in a row. Baseball's
Trade deadline is Thursday today. The Baseball Hall of Fame induction.
Five players were voted in this year, including Eachiro Suzuki.
Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson assigned a four year extension.
Washington Commander's star receiver Terry McLaurin reported to training camp.

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The Chargers gave tackle Rashawn Slater a four year extension.
WNBA wins for Indiana and Connecticut. New York star Breanna
Stewart out Monday after yesterday's leg injury. In women's soccer,
England took the Eurofinal on penalty kicks against Spain. Alex
Poalo won the IndyCar Race in Northern California, and we
had the Brickyard four hundred on the NASCAR calendar, a

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NASCAR race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Michael Jordan was
the winner, and on top of that, the driver who
finished third was the winner.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
I will explain.

Speaker 9 (27:45):
The driver who actually crossed the finish line first after
the second overtime restart was Bubba Wallace. He is today's
NASCAR winner officially and it ends his one hundred race
winless streak dating back almost three years. Kyle Larson last
year's Brickyard four hundred winner was the runner up. The
guy who finished third is the guy who started last

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in the back of the pack with a backup car,
Denny Hamlin. He finished third. You see, he also co
owns Wallace's car for twenty three to eleven racing. You
may have heard of number twenty three. Yeah, Michael Jordan
owns that car. He won the Brickyard four hundred today.
So Wallace clinches a playoff spot. Four events left until

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the full sixteen driver field is set for their ten
race NASCAR postseason back to you.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, so you see, Steve, what you just did there,
and that's NASCAR, not F one. Those are different things.
But that's a little slice of basically the intersection of
the business and the sport in racing that I am
quickly now learning about of sports.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Baby, good lord, there is a lot going on back there.

Speaker 9 (29:00):
Intersection is in is an innocent word to test it actually.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Goes very very yes, yes, I mean it's compelling. I'm
telling you, man, I'm telling you it is to be
able to hear the drivers talking and the principles and
the crew and look, you got to understand their pit stops.

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Two seconds all right. Three seconds is too long. Yep.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
I don't even know how that works. It's so crazy.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
It's like you got yes and four new tires and
sometimes the front end and two seconds right, and because
that's the you come in and you're ahead, you can
come out in fifth place. Yep. That's just how it is.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
I think that. I think all of us.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
If you're a fan of sport, you are familiar with
the idea of pressure when there is a lot of
pressure on an athlete or on a team, or on
a coach or a manager or whatever. But it seems
to come more so in spurts, you know what I mean. Okay,

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tie game and Kobe's got the ball in his hands
with ten seconds left to go, or what have you.
In motorsports, it appears to me that everybody has their
life on the line every minute. And when I say life,
I'm either talking about the drivers who are going two

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hundred miles an hour and have their wheels touching each other,
or at least the livelihood of everybody who's in that garage.
I've never seen that kind of tension and that much
on the line. That is often also, by the way,
completely out of your control.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
It is a sign to see Steve, do you watch
do you watch that show? F one drives as far? No,
why not?

Speaker 9 (31:06):
I don't have that streaming?

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh you don't have Netflix?

Speaker 4 (31:09):
I do not? Okay, okay, what we do it? I
will go why further?

Speaker 9 (31:18):
When I hear people like some of the people that
are on Monday through Friday here talk about one show
after another that they're going the life, my first response
is how many hours in your day compared to my day?

Speaker 4 (31:30):
People?

Speaker 9 (31:30):
This is during football season. This would be impossible for.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Me to in football. That's why we're doing it.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Now, right.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
But but he from like to Steve's point, I think
it's the first thing I said to you when you
started talking platform and seven the episodes in five days,
I'm like, did your kids go live with someone else?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Like? How how do you find that word?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
The word binge to me has always you know, and
I'm not talking about when somebody just decides to have
two tough of ice cream. The word binge has always
made me somewhat jealous and confused, because I'm like, I
don't even know how how do you do it?

Speaker 4 (32:10):
No one says you have to go to bed or
at a reasonable I'm talking about. I've looked over and
I'm like, oh, it's four thirty.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
I'm like, you don't mean in the afternoon.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
No, no, no, I'm like, oh, snap, this is four thirty.
We got to go to sleep.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Oh dude, So put it this way. I do plan
to watch seventy episodes. I don't know if I can
get it done by Christmas. I really don't, but I'm
going to get there.

Speaker 9 (32:39):
I'm going to get cause, you know, by Christmas, Netflix,
says the NFL.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Oh yeah, that's another good point. You can get it done.
I trust me. You're going to find ways because you're
going to be wondering what's going on next, Like, so
you're going to you'll find a pocket like oh, I
can get an episode in right now, right.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
But but what you may not know about me from
and this is like part of what Steve's talking about
some of us, especially as like for the last number
of many years as a single dad with three children
and multiple jobs, when I sit down, not.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
A single dad in anymore.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
When when just true that when I sit down and
stop moving, your boy goes to sleep.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Not when you put f one on, whether he wants
to or not when you hit it. Okay.

Speaker 9 (33:28):
I looked up their schedule for the season. It says
twenty four rounds and it goes till early December.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Yeah, yep, the races, Yep. I'll be in Austin in
October and then in Las Vegas November. Look at you
already put in the calls.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
So what First of all, you know someone's a baller
when they say I already put in the hall.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I already bought tickets, he said, already already.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
You know why because the way we want to and
it's just not me the way my wife and I
want to experience it. I don't know. I don't know
if I'm willing to pay that much to experience it
like that.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Brother, I am not coming down your road. I'm impressed,
That's all I know.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
I just look, But we are, Steve, We are in
the media, aren't we.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (34:23):
No, I've we in the media.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
I'm put in the call before I've put in the.

Speaker 9 (34:28):
Call, exactly. I think Mark can back me up on
this because we've worked in local radio and network radio
for many years. Yeah, there is a let's just say,
a hierarchy of employees that it really doesn't matter how
many years you've been at one spot. Some it's kind
of like animal farms. Some are some are better employees
than others. If you get the George Orwell reference.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
There's that, and then there's also like how far does
your reach go? Like if something is happening with the
Dodgers of the Giants, Steve could put in the call.
I could put in the call if I want to
do something in the world at F one, I don't
even know who I would call. Who the hell am
I calling?

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Look, they're all broadcaster. Look when what we do know
is there's media at every sporting event. Yes, yes, yes,
every outlet is at every sporting event.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Wait, but you didn't get your wife a credential, did you?

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Hey man, why are you in my business like that?
Why are you all Why would you ask a question
like that on masson radio.

Speaker 9 (35:30):
This reminds me when the NFL season was starting and
I saw a fellow media member had the live game
streaming on his phone and I said, oh, did you
buy the package? And he just paused and looked at
me and said, don't worry about it.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yeah, the call call up in my house? What's going
on over here?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Oh gosh, very very good. Well, no, I'm I'm I'm
impressed by the way. You know what else I want
to ask you? Are they are they still filming this?
Oh yes, it's still going Oh yeah, okay, so like
as I get to seventy episodes, there's gonna actually be
eighty yes, okay yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
And and let me tell you this. You want to
talk about a bombshell Oh what season? Don't you gotta
get to it?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
You know what, I'm gonna write it down on a
piece of paper. Now, what what my prediction is?

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Brother? Brother?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I think I'm mad.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
I have no idea. I promise you you can.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
I'm gonna scribble it. I'm gonna put it in the
time capsule. At Christmas.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
We're gonna find out.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Oh, you're gonna be done before This sounds.

Speaker 9 (36:42):
Made the equivalent like if there was some series about
the NBA this last year, but somebody who was watching
the series doesn't know the NBA, right, you know, Luca
is gonna be traded.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Like there's no way, There's no way.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
That's how that's how obscure. If one is year things
happen that are huge, that are happening right now that
you wouldn't even know right, like you wouldn't even know. No, no,
you just wait.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
There were little moments where I did step out of
myself as we're watching this, and actually my wife kept
reminding me.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
She's like, you know, this happened seven years ago.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Right, yes, we had to keep doing that too. I'm like,
this happened all but like I'm mad at certain things
and I'm like, oh this this okay, we got we
gotta do something about that odor.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh wait a minute, that was the twenty eighteen Okay,
all right, Fox Sports Radio Studios. I got more to
say on that Rogers Broadshell thing, and we will next
on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
All right.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
These are the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Mark Wheeler to e from salam with you probably having
a little bit too much fun, but that's just the
way it's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
The only way I want to keep doing the show
is if we have fun, Okay, then we will. Then
we will. Yes.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
So that's that's kind of the update. At this moment.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
We have both have become and really at the urging
of Ephraim, we have we have become big fans of
the Netflix series that's been out for seven years. F
One Drive to survive and largely pushed by the movie
being out and whatnot. I'm also just fresh back from
my honeymoon from Jamaica. Got back late, late, late last night.

(38:21):
It was unbelievable. So we've been having fun with all
of that. But there's plenty going on across with the
baseball deadline around the corner. Training camps are open in
the NFL, and obviously there is a movement or maybe
in some cases the lock thereof.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
In the NBA.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Just circling back real quick to that Terry Bradshaw comment
on Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers quote, what are you
going to do?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Bring him in for one year? Are you kidding me?
That guy needs to stay.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
In California, go somewhere and chew on bark and whisper
to the gods out there. Aaron was asked about it
yesterday and I had a very classy response.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
He's like, look, I'd love to connect with Terry.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Terry's a legend, He's won four Super Bowls, all the
stuff you would want someone to say, doesn't Terry's comment
like the stay in California, go somewhere, chew on bark, whisper.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
To the gods.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I know, there's a lot of states out there where
it's like in vogue to make fun of California right now,
doesn't that comment come from the same place that a
lot of like discrimination type things come from.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Because that's kind of the vibe I got off of it.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Yeah, it's your perception of what California is, even though
he works in California. Uh, fair point. There's a lot
of time here in these upcoming months, so it's you know,
it's it's terry man like older guys get old and
grumpy and curmudgeony, and it's just like a cool man

(39:52):
cool Yeah, I'm sorry, the glory days of the seventies
and you know it, Aaron, Like I said, Aaron and
the Steelers knew exactly what was going on. So there
you have it, right, And he may be elluding that,
you know, Pittsburgh is a certain type of place and

(40:13):
you're from a different type of place, so you won't
fit here. Well, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Speaking of changing places, maybe a conversation about Lebron James.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Coming up next.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Don't listening to Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Radio rolling into the evening wherever you may be, Thank
you for doing it with us here Fox Sports Radio
Studios alongside e from Salama, Mark Willard, very very glad
that you're with us, and just to as we always do,
reintroduce ourselves. Ephram in southern California. He will represent the

(40:48):
Los Angeles Lakers. I am in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I will represent the Golden State Warriors. However, in this
particular conversation, the Golden State Warriors will not be coming up,
because this conversation happens to be about one Lebron James
and actually, Ephraim, maybe I'd like to give you a
little bit of credit because I think, without maybe saying

(41:10):
it in actual words, what you were insinuating to me
a few weeks ago when the Lebron rumors started coming
up because his team and Rich Paul put out that
statement that made it sound like, Yep, I'm gonna stay
with the Lakers, but not really feeling it like this
is all kind of like Luca's team now, and it
clearly is. We are literally coming down to hours away

(41:32):
from when the Lakers can offer Luca a massive extension,
and you can just read the tea leaves and tell
that they will and they're all about him, right, now,
and I don't think Lebron is used to that, even
though he's forty years old. And it probably makes all
kinds of sense, but it felt to me like you've

(41:52):
been saying, yeah, maybe it is time for him to
be somewhere else, but I don't know that that's necessarily
going to happen right away. And now there are reporters
I respect Mark Stein being one of them, who would
simultaneously predict that Lebron is not going to go anywhere

(42:15):
this year.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
He is going to play for the Lakers, but he
does not think that Lebron is going to finish his
career in LA. And so that tells me obviously, this
is not Lebron's last year coming up. And it makes
sense because I've always seen Lebron as somebody who will
tell us before the year starts, kind of like Aaron

(42:38):
Rodgers just did, this probably going to be my last year,
and then he'll get to go on a retirement tour.
I think he wants that. That's just my perception.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
So what say you about the idea of one more
possibly at times bump a year in LA followed by
unrestrict free agency, which could and possibly would lead him
to the Dallas Mavericks where he can literally sit there
and play.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
With all of his ex teammates at once and do
kind of a retirement tour slash one last ride at
a ring with the likes of Ad Kyrie and whoever else.
If there's a way to make all of that money work.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
I wouldn't be opposed to that. I mean, Lebron James
has earned the right to do something like that. So
as great as he's been for as long as he's
been great, look my awe, hats off to Lebron. As
a Laker fan, the one thing I always tell people
is people are fans of players, right like, so, yeah,

(43:50):
Lebron fans who are now Laker fans because Lebron is there,
but they're fans because Lebron's there. Right. You have fans
who are Lebron fans in Cleveland, and then Miami fans
and so on and so forth, whether Lebron is here
or not. I'm a Laker fan. Whence Sedell three was
running the point and Eldon Campbell will sit in the

(44:12):
high screen and roll, I was, I'm a Laker fan,
right like, so good bad the ugly. It's about the Lakers.
I think if you know, the Lakers get off to
the start that they can get off, they got a
pretty good solid five. Is still some maneuvering to happen
to make sure they have some depth. But if they're

(44:34):
in the top three in the West, top four in
the West going into the All Star Break or the
trade deadline, I think they'll just go. They'll ride it
out and see what happens. If they're in good position,
they'll try to do something to trade deadline, they'll get
them better to give them opportunity to win a championship.
But I think after this year it's over now. If

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they aren't doing well and they get to that trade
deadliner and there's a destination that Lebron wants to go
to and they can make that happen, I think I'm
not a you know, opposed to them making that happen,
unless you'll get something in return for someone who's going
to obviously walk away at the end of the year.
But Lebron has a no trade claw, so it's literally

(45:22):
up to him and what that looks like for the Lakers.
But outside of that, I see him being there and
I don't see him being there in the future. Yeah,
I mean, which I'm okay with. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, and this year, like it almost feels like the
rumors that are out and about are forced. I get
why people felt the way that they did when that
statement came out from Rich Paul. I think there's some
accuracy to what people took as a vibe of Okay,

(46:00):
Lakers are now about Luca. That's I'm not Luca, but
I still have enough power to maybe like this, that
or the other.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
I think that's all true.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
But in a way, Lebron becomes just like all of
the restricted free agents out there. And that's to say, Look,
you can want to move all you want, but this
particular offseason maybe more than any other, with the Collective
Bargaining Agreement making the changes that it is, and sort

(46:31):
of the lack of open cap space for so many teams,
they're just flat out isn't.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Anywhere to go? Nowhere to go?

Speaker 3 (46:39):
There's nowhere to go.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
I don't know of a team that could absorb Lebron
James into what they're doing right now, at least without
completely gutting their team.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
And why would they do that? And why would he
do that?

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Yeah, he's not looking for that option, so that it
makes sense for him to play out this year. He's
with a top five player in the league. They got
a big that they maybe who can rehability. It's going
to at least give him fourteen to nine a game,
and you know you go from there. You got a
third score and a third option who had a tremendous

(47:15):
year outside of you know, the last playoff series last year,
last season in Austin Reeves. So it's it's not a
bad place to be if you're Lebron. No, the cupboard
isn't bare by any stretch of the imagination, and so
he has an opportunity to compete still in the West

(47:35):
this year. Now what happens after that, Well, you know, hey,
God bless him, thank you for the championship, and you know,
all all the best to you and your son.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, no, I do not see him in LA beyond
this year. I just don't even know how that would
how that would make sense. But the one thing I
do wonder about this year, because I'll co sign with
everything you just said, it's a viable team. Is it
a championship contender? I mean probably not, but there's a viable,
like high level Western Conference playoff caliber type team.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
I think they can win an as it's currently constructed,
they can win a first round series.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
They could, Yeah, they absolutely could. You know what I mean.
I mean, you gotta have the journey unfold.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I don't know who's gonna get hurt, who's gonna do well?
Like I know teams on paper like, oh, it's Oklahoma
City and Houston. Well, we'll see, we'll see what the
whole thing looks like. But it's a viable team. What
I wonder is when we look at it on paper,
we go, oh, yeah, like I get that, But now

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let's do real life.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Okay, so.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
It's Luca's team now, yes, but Lebron has to play
on it, even though he's kind of not really into
what's going on emotionally and mentally, right, So that's not
gonna go well, I would guess that's not gonna go well, Like,

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what does that look like on a Tuesday in January
in New Orleans?

Speaker 3 (49:10):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Like, how are you gonna keep Lebron from disengaging?

Speaker 4 (49:14):
I guess yeah, but you got it. So the with
that said, given the player Lebron is and has been,
he he's Lebron is one of the greatest players to
ever play. Sure, the thing you can say about the
rest of the greatest players to ever play, including Lebron,

(49:35):
is they're going they're handling their business. They will go
out Lebron is gonna give you twenty five, six and six.
He's going like he's not going to go out there
and be disinterested if he's on a basketball court. That's
the professionalism in him, the strive for greatness in him.

(49:57):
It doesn't allow you to do that. He understand what
these last few years mean. Are you going to go
out there and waste them? Do you see him going
to waste him? Right?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
You know?

Speaker 4 (50:11):
When you know when you can look at the kernels
of the saying and it's only a couple of men there,
when that hourglass is running out, do you want to
waste time?

Speaker 3 (50:21):
You don't, You don't.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
But at the same time, I just like you look
at the way they played last year, and everybody understood that.
It was like, ooh, this Luca acquisition is not so
much about right now, it's about later, and that sort
of allowed the team to look like Luca's just getting

(50:45):
his Laker feet underneath him, and Lebron will continue to
drive this bus while he figures that out, and then
it's the end of the year and they lose in
the playoffs and they move on, and I feel like
when they come back, like.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Luca, here's the keys.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
And I don't know when the last time was, if ever,
that Lebron has played basketball without the keys.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
So do you remember what Lebron was trying to do
last year? He was trying to give the keys to
Anthony Davis. He said it himself, like this, this is
your team, like you go. He right, He understands the
wear and tear. The he knows what that is. So

(51:30):
the plan was for Ad to be a morbid You
gotta remember those first the first month of the season.
Ad was on a tear. That was the plan. Could
he sustain that for an entire year and be healthy. No,
But the plan was for Lebron to take a back
seat and have Ad do the heavy lifting. It didn't

(51:50):
work out number one, because Ad doesn't have the ball
in his hands like that. That's why they moved Austin
to the point right, so Lebron didn't have to bring
up the ball, bring the ball up the court, and
do all those things until the fourth quarter where he
can engage. So all of that's already been in the works.
He understands exactly where he is. If if anybody knows

(52:12):
their body and where they are in their career, is
Lebron James. He pays attention to all.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Of the That's fair. I just I want the level
of full engagement. Is my question, not my prediction.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
My question sounds like you're predicted, So you know you're
I'm hoping. No, you know, all right? All right, he
not coming to Golden State to play with Steph.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
No, he's not coming in. I know he's not coming
to go that.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
You would love it, I mean love it.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
I do sports radio here, so you love it. Yeah, Yeah,
but they're not gonna.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
They already got a bunch of dudes making too much
money that are too old.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
I already got that anymore.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
All right, We're live in the Fox Sports Radio studios
with me from Salama, Mark Willard, and coming up next.
Today was Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Day. There were
wonderful speeches. There was also one thing that repeated itself
that I find to be one of the most frustrating
things in all of sports. And you wouldn't normally say

(53:20):
that about Hall of Fame Induction Day. But I'll explain
coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (54:41):
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right on time. Okay, So a bunch of baseball legends.

(55:24):
Each year, Row and many others inducted into the Hall
of Fame today, Billy Wagner and Dave Parker.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Let's talk about Dave Parker.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Dave Parker was a he's right in my like I
just started collecting baseball cards Wheelhouse.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Oh okay, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Like I was that age when Dave Parker was doing
his thing, like nineteen eighty two, and I'm riding my
bike over to the drug store to buy baseball cards
anytime my mom and dad would let me. And Dave
Parker was one of the players that you were hoping
you would get in that baseball card pack. And so

(56:08):
Dave Parker has always been For as long as I've lived,
he has been a great baseball player, and no surprise
to me that he ended up in the Hall of Fame.
What I'm trying to figure out is what happened over
the last thirty four years that suddenly made people who

(56:34):
are in charge of this sort of thing go, yeah,
Dave Parker should be in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
You know now that he's dead.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Now, maybe that's unfair because he did not pass away
that long ago. I think it was only a matter
of weeks actually, and so maybe he was live long
enough to know that he made it. But either way,
that's one thing, especially in baseball, I feel, I know

(57:07):
there's a little bit of it an all sports. Why
are we waiting until people are in their seventies eighties
gone in many cases to induct people into the Hall
of Fame? What happened in those thirty four years that
made what was obvious to me as a seven.

Speaker 10 (57:24):
Year old in the eighties now reality and in theory,
prevented Dave from speaking at his own induction.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
You know what, that's a good question, and the NFL
has some of that as well, a little bit yep.
And you know it's always for me it's been If
great players are great, then there shouldn't be the way.

(57:56):
I think what ends up happening is once you don't
make it a couple of times, you end up behind
the eight ball because new players are constantly coming in
and competing, and so it's a situation where you're like,
you can literally be just forgotten. You can be forgotten,

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and you find yourself in a situation where once you
have a log jam of older great players, then who
knows how long it's going to take for that to
happen because the newer young players are the younger players
who are eligible take up all the bandwidth. So you

(58:44):
can have a stockpile of forty to fifty guys who
deserve it but played in yesteryear, and you're gonna get
one of them a year. So that thing carries out,
It just carries out. It just maybe this year, No
they did you know Jackson? I played eight against Jackson,
like you know, he's from my era. So they're not

(59:05):
putting like four or five of those guys in at
a time. And so now you they may all deserve
it at some point, but it's easy to get passed
over because every year they're new players. Then new players
become old players. Old players become older players, and older
players become yesteryear players, and you're scratching your head, like, man,

(59:29):
what what's happening? Right? You know? So I think it's
a vicious cycle. I think it just perpetuates itself. And
why do you change it?

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Well, I think you stop being some damn snooty about it,
is what I.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
Think, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Like, there are so many and every sport's got its
own thing, whether it's former players and media members or whatever.
This thing often starts when someone's not even done playing yet,
you know what I mean. Like, the most recent example
in the NFL that I can think of is someone
like Philip Rivers. And there was this Eli Manning thing

(01:00:16):
for a little while where it was like, yeah, but
like the numbers aren't really there, but two super Bowls,
so it's like, okay, that's inevitable. Well, Philip Rivers is
the opposite. You have no super Bowls, but the numbers
are all clearly there, and I would argue that right.
Like cases like that, I sort of feel like I
know where this is going, so just go stop with

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this process of like when someone is in their forties,
we get the debate out of it, and so all right,
we're gonna hold this off. This person hasn't done this,
and then they haven't done that, and then twenty five
years go by and we soften hell guy, hey, old guy,
seventy two years okay, and then we start opening up

(01:01:05):
to it, and then it's like, all right, eventually they're
gonna get in by some sort of veterans committee or whatever,
and they may or may not be with us anymore
by the time that happens. Number one and number two,
I would ask the sports to get selfish about it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
What audience does baseball want so badly?

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Yes, all right, So now you want that audience and
you're giving them on a Sunday afternoon Dave Parker.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
They don't know who that is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
So stop electing people when they're eighty because a they
may not be.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
With us anymore. And be the audience you want doesn't
even know who that is. They never saw him.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
So give the audience that person when that person is fifty,
because then the audience that you want to dial into
the event knows who you're talking about and watched him play.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
It's a good point that it's a really good point
because I, you know, I'm not a huge baseball fan,
so I didn't even know who Dave Parker was. But
I do know who Steve Disaeger is. Yes you do.
Hall of Famer yep, Steve de Seger. Anytime, Mary, Steve
stevee Seger, there we go.

Speaker 9 (01:02:18):
Steve de Sager, the name that I think of your discussion.
Marcus the Buck O'Neill, who was well known as one
of the old Negro League players, was in the Baseball
documentary on PBS That Was So Great years ago. Fifteen
years after he passed an Early Days committee they called
it elected him to the Hall of Fame, but again

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he was not around. Dave Parker found out he got
in by committee in December, and then, as you mentioned,
passed away recently. I think really the venom, if there's
venom to be had, should be directed at the Baseball Writers,
who I looked it up, usually gave Dave Parker, for example,
only about fifteen percent of the vote when you need

(01:03:02):
seventy five percent to get in. So he's on their
ballot year after year for fifteen years through twenty eleven,
not in, and then a Veterans committee in twenty twenty
not in. And then this past December there's something called
the Classic Baseball Era Committee for guys who were playing
before nineteen eighty.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
He got in.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
He got fourteen votes out of sixteen. So Dave Parker
is now a Hall of Famer, and Dick Allen got
thirteen votes out of sixteen and he's in. And so
this is a thing that's completely separate from the Baseball Writers,
that a committee can put people in who they feel
were passed overep earlier. So the Contemporary Era committee for
players is this December's vote and then the contemporary era

(01:03:45):
for managers and execs and umpires is the next December,
and then we'll rotate back to the classic here. So
this is a way they feel of correcting ills. But
you're right, this is what it's come to, because if
someone is on the ballot ten to fifteen years and
doesn't get in, well, of course it's going to result

(01:04:06):
in what exactly what you're talking there?

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Yeah, And by the way, our perspective in morality, as
always is the case, it evolves through the years. And
so like I'll ask this right now, I'll ask this
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
You're all gonna wait.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
For Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds to die, right, Is
that what we're gonna do before you get over your morality?

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:04:29):
I think it's a little tougher because he was actually
suspended by Baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Correct correct, no doubt, Roger Clemens, whatever names you want
to throw out there, are you gonna wait until they
die before everybody softens up and realizes that those were
three of the best players of their era by far.

Speaker 9 (01:04:47):
So maybe Bond's head will go on a plaque, but
just with an increased hat size.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Very good the game very good, knew what you did.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
That's how you lighten the load, and that's what Steve
de Seger is also going to go into the Hall
of Fame someday.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Someday.

Speaker 9 (01:05:05):
San Francisco Giants oddly are hosting the Sunday Night ball
game right now, and the Mets, who won six in
a row of taken the lead at San Francisco. It's
four to three in the top of the eighth Juan
Soto with the go ahead solo homer in the seventh inning.
The Mets of the first place team in the NL East.
They had a half game lead over the Phils, who
lost a day at New York against the Yankees four
to three. Texas won at six straight game eight one

(01:05:28):
over Atlanta. The Padres were nine two winners at Saint Louis,
and the Padres are catching up on the Dodgers. They
were down nine games in the standings in early July.
They're only back four games right now because the Dodgers
lost again at Boston today four to three. Come on Man,
Baltimore five to one over Colorado. Cincinnati beat Tampa Bay

(01:05:49):
two to one, and Detroit ended a six game winning
streak down in Toronto ten to four. Baseball's trade deadline
is Thursday, by the way, with the inductions today. At
the Baseball Hall of Fame, five play were voted in
this year, including each Heiro Suzuki and the two elected
by committee. We mentioned Dave Parker and Dick Allen. Also
c C. Sabathia as a Hall of Famer officially and

(01:06:09):
Billy Wagner as well. And a reminder, it's this coming weekend.
MLB's Speedway Classic, a ballgame at Bristol Motor Speedway this
Saturday night, August second, on Fox TV, Braves against the Reds.
More in a moment, the Chicago Bulls gave coach Billy
Donovan an extension. WNBA wins for Connecticut and Indiana. In

(01:06:31):
women's soccer, England took the Eurofinal on penalty kicks against Spain.
Bubba Wallace was the NASCAR winner at Indy. The Dallas
Cowboys gave tight end Jake Ferguson a four year extension.
The Chargers gave tackle Rashawn Slater a four year extension.
Washington wide receiver Terry McLaurin reported to camp he's now
on the pup list with an ankle injury. Now, This
Speedway Classic on Fox this Saturday night is at a

(01:06:55):
track that has hosted NASCAR races since nineteen sixty one.
It's located just a few miles south of the border
with Virginia. This will be the first National or American
League game played in the state of Tennessee. Fox gave
a little preview of what it looks like last night.
They have completed a regulation Major League Baseball field on

(01:07:15):
the infield of this huge NASCAR track. The two teams
will be wearing NASCAR themed uniforms, not the driver's uniforms,
but the style of the printed numbers, the way they
had the hats and the helmets this Saturday, and Tim
McGraw is going to be holding a pregame concert there.
Do you remember when they had the Field of Dreams thing, for.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Example in Ioland Now that was amazing. That was amazing.
Every other hit was a homer. That was fun.

Speaker 9 (01:07:43):
Just keep doing that stadium in Alabama last year. It's
a different thing for different summers. I've been mentioning Tim McGraw,
not only because we're in the South and country, musing
and all that he is the son of reliever Tug McGraw,
who died of cancer in Tennessee in two thousand and four.
Tug McGraw pitched in the World Series for the Mets
in seventy three for the Phillies in nineteen eighty. Anyway

(01:08:03):
Speedway Classic coming up Saturday night, back to you all right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Well, I thought I'm glad you brought this up, Steve,
because with what you and I from have been talking
about the last two weeks, if anything was going to
turn you into a rabbit baseball fan, I would now
think it would be having a baseball game at an
auto racing field, seeing as you are now America's number
one auto racing officionado.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Hey man, if it was on an F one track, right.

Speaker 9 (01:08:31):
That would be difficult, right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
It would be that would be difficult because for those.

Speaker 9 (01:08:37):
Who don't know way to third base, right, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
I mean, everything would have to be a bunt basically,
because and I'm gathering it from I bet one of
the things that you probably love about F one, I
think everybody loves about F one, like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
It's so exotic, yeah, right, like the.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Way they sort of build up to these locales man,
and the fact that these tracks are often just built
out of the city streets within this exotic locale. Very
few of them are in big cities. They're all and like, oh,
this is tucked into the hills in the middle of
nowhere in France or whatever. So yeah, it might be

(01:09:21):
a little might be a little tough to get a
baseball game there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Whoa I mean they're trying anything. Yeah, they are just
reaching pleading guys. Come look at what we're doing over here.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
I mean, who isn't Who isn't That's kind of the world, now,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 9 (01:09:41):
Have you seen the NFL schedule for right here.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Exactly or have you seen I don't know, TikTok.

Speaker 9 (01:09:49):
I mean the Chargers opening game with the Chiefs is
not in La or Kansas City, It's in Brazil's.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
I see. I didn't even know what week is that happening?

Speaker 9 (01:10:00):
First week of September?

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
And what time will that air in Hawaii?

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
I mean it's club father in law, Now, let him
know about these things because it is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Let me speaking up on elderly people.

Speaker 9 (01:10:13):
Streaming only that might make it more difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
God talk about sports. Just trying to completely eliminate the
eighty year old from watching conn stuck an eighty two
year old man in Hawaii and went figure it out.
We're in London today, but it's only on Hulu, Like, what,
how on earth do we figure this out?

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
Oh? Wow, it's it's aggressive.

Speaker 9 (01:10:38):
So one of the owners said, just this weekend, we
assume that down the road, one of every team's game
is going to be an international game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Oh yeah, that doesn't that doesn't even feel that far off.
How many are there this year?

Speaker 9 (01:10:52):
I think we're up to eight, good lord, eight. I
think the Vikings are playing back to back weekends in Europe,
different countries. They're just staying there in between.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Well, they're probably just thrilled because anywhere is not as
cold as they're.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Right, Yeah, it's good, My goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
I love that area. The people are very, very nice.
But I went there for a Super Bowl one time,
and I'm like, there are people.

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
I don't know why they put one. They had the stadium,
but goodness, I don't know why they put buildings there alone.
They put homes there. It was frigid. Frigid. Do you walk.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Across the street and you're like, that's it for me today.

Speaker 9 (01:11:35):
I'm done for today, right, Vikings, It will be late
September early October, one game in Ireland and then one
game in London. Okay, that's that, and yes those will
be at three point thirty in the.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Morning in Hawaiian perfect. I'll let him know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
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Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
To the NFC East.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
Next, because all kinds of stuff Micah Parsons and Terry
McLaurin and Russell Wilson, all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Going on that we need to discuss.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
We'll do that coming up next with THEE from a
Market's Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio Studios with E
from salam Mark Wellard. So glad you're with us, thankful,
thankful wherever you are tonight, out in the East, in
the West, anywhere in between, completely out of the country,
which is where I woke up yesterday morning. Whatever it is,

(01:12:53):
thank you so much for doing it with us. Hey,
you and I have had so many cool talks about
why receivers and the wide receiver market. I really wanted
to get your reaction to this today. From a strategic standpoint,
we know Terry McLaurin of the Washington Commanders is not happy,
and he let it be known by skipping the start

(01:13:15):
of camp.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
But no new deal has been reached.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
And then he just showed up today and so now
he is going to be a part of camp and
practice without a new deal. I don't know where it
goes next. I don't know if he actually suits up
for games. I don't know if he walks back out again.
What do you make of the strategy?

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
Well, I knew he I mean, it costs too much
to miss a day of training camp, mandatory day. It's
tens of thousands of dollars a day, and so you've
got to make a business decision. You're under contract, whether
you're happy or not. You to make a decision on

(01:14:02):
am I going to make money this year or give
money back? And normally if your high priority are one
of those guys, teams will overlook the actual fine. But
they don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Well I think actually the new CBA made it so
that they're not even allowed to do that anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
So, yeah, you got to make a business decision. Yeah
you want to come in training camp late and you
owe four hundred thousand dollars on a seven million dollar
deal and you still don't get a deal done. Yeah,
that's not what you want, man.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Okay, So so where does where does this go?

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Where's like, I mean, Terry's just going to be like, okay,
I'm just going to go play and just go put
the body on the line with no.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
Just go to work. I mean, what are the other options?

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Well, we watched you know, players do this every year.
You know Ceedee Lamb.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Did not show out CD Lamb. Well no, but he's
put up those type of numbers. One of the top
three receivers in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Okay, So yeah, if CD Lauren is not no, but
if CD is an A, then Terry is a BB plus.
He's not one of the top five, but he's one
of the top twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
Has he had over a thousand yards yet? Terry.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Yeah, I'm not gonna pull up his numbers. But Mike,
my initial inclination.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Is, yes, I know he didn't last year.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
I'm gonna need a minute to find this find this stuff,
Terry McLaurin, And let's take a look at career stats.
He has gone over one thousand yards five times, all right,
and actually he did last year.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
What did he have last year? On ninety six?

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Now he's never gone over twelve hundred, but his rookie
year he went for nine to nineteen, and he's gone
over one thousand and five straight years since.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
It's a hell of a player is.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
The hell of a player?

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
And now you know you've gotta you've got your QB.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
You nailed that, so like I think that, I mean,
that makes weaponry even more important, doesn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
Yeah? It does. Now the old QB can come to
his his aid, Yes he could. But if you were
serious about it, then you just stay at home. It's
hard to do both. It's hard to be serious and
give in at the same time. Right you're in the marriage,

(01:16:36):
there will be an argument you can't be right. Well,
I'll say this marriage is the only place where you
can be right and apologize. Yeah, I get it. That's
the only place it works. It doesn't work anywhere else.

(01:16:56):
So you can't be right in terms of holding out
and then come and show up to go to work
after you said you weren't. Can't be right and apologize.
The only way you can do that is if you're
a man in a marriage. I say that fair enough,
them bes the breaks, and you can you could say

(01:17:18):
what you want to say, you can disagree, do all
of that that you want. But hey, man been in
this thing twenty too strong. It's just like that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
It's like that. Terry's not on a rookie deal. You know,
Terry he.

Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
Got a bumpo.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Is he is finishing up what.

Speaker 4 (01:17:38):
Was an extension? Right? Yeah? Your extension? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
But the full deal worked out to be like a
three year, sixty eight million dollar deal.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
So you've been averaging just under twenty three million a year.

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
Yeah, he's got some money.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Yeah, he's got he's got money in the bank.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
I'm sorry. You know who I was thinking about? Who's that?
I was thinking about? Jenny's Oh jan Jenny, Yeah, yeah, Jenny, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Who also showed up.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
He had to show up. Now, that's very different. He
had to show up.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Yeah, he left practice early with a low injury today too.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
Yeah. Well, but you you'll be surprised on how many
practices you missed because of an injury. Like even uh
uh mcclariny is showing up and on on pub right
physically unable to perform, right yeah, because what you don't
want to do out there is go get go perform,

(01:18:29):
right yeah, So you're gonna take your time. The days
of Walter Jones, remember he would be franchise tagged and
he would just show up the week before opening week.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Yep. And he did it twice and at worked both times.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
Both times he was like, y'all go ahead, man, I'm
having an extended summer. And literally the Monday root of
game week he showed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
Up well in a way.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
And I don't know how much this has to do
with like when this got negotiated in.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
The CBA, there's there's really only one sport.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Out there that does not allow load management into the process.
Now it's basically an NBA term, but by the same token,
you know, Baseball has it already baked in. You don't
really have a lot of people playing one hundred and
sixty two games the NFL, though, the urgency of each game,

(01:19:26):
you're never going to have that. And now they went
out and prevented you from even doing it during camp
because that did happen, but not anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
Yeah, I had in my contract. I didn't. I didn't
do two a days after my eighth year. I was
gonna say, which contract after my eighth year? I was like, yeah,
I'm doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
Yeah, Well Terry, Terry's just thirty. Yeah, so you know,
he's still got a ways, still got a ways. As
we mentioned, not the only thing thing going on in
the NFC East, because an announcement in New York and
the lack of one in Dallas has people talking that's next.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
I mean, I'm not gonna say that I'm surprised because
I've been known for a long time that you know,
you and I we we get along, and so when
you suggest something to me, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
check that out.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
And I'm not surprised that you were right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
But my mind is having a hard time deviating from it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
And here's why.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Because the baseball trade deadline is here, it is coming
up in just a matter of days. We're broadcasting live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios, and as you heard,
it's Mark Willard and E from salam And if you
missed the start of the show or last week or whatever,
both of us have been an e for for my sake,
it's completely your fault, but thank you for that. We've

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been completely sucked in by this F one push. It
is started by the Brad Pitt movie, but the F
one Drive to Survive series that's been going for seven years.
He found it. Now because of him, I've found it
and we're both into it. But I brought up a
very specific question to you to start the show tonight,

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inspired by watching the first season of that show, and
I said, I've never seen in any other sport that
I've watched where free agency essentially happens in the middle
of the year. And so drivers will announce that they're switching,
or teams will announce that they're cutting their driver, and

(01:21:37):
that'll all happen right there in the middle of the season,
and then those people who got cut or are leaving
have to go right back to performing for each other
literally the next day. So the trade deadline is here,
we're used to that, We're used to baseball trades are
going to happen this week. What if after the trade

(01:21:59):
was announced, they just kept playing for that team.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
So I can give you, I can give you like
kind of that that did happen. I'm all ears. Look
at the Mike Williams Dalton connect trade. Mm hmm. It's
a good example, right, good example. I mean he still

(01:22:28):
hasn't recovered from that Dalton connect. I'm talking about, like
he was traded away Charlotte for their center and he
didn't pass the physical and so the trade was rescinded
and he had to come back to work and like

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the next like two days later, and just let it go.
I mean he was in, he was gone, He's up
and gone, and then he had to come back and
just go back to work. And psychologically, it can do

(01:23:09):
a number on you because you're thinking, well, they don't
want me anyway. Mm hmm, So what's the point the
next time they can trade me, they'll trade me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Well, you're bringing up a much more modern example, but
I know you'll remember this.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
This very much happened to lamar Odom.

Speaker 4 (01:23:28):
Yes it did.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
It happened to lamar Odom.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
Who was a part of the air quotes Chris Paul Trade.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Yeah, and he.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
Could not recover, could not recover.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
It, could not recover, and and and the Lakers had
to move on, and he had to move on. In
his career just kind of spun into, you know whatever,
something nondescript after that, and and the rest of the way,
And Lamar was a bit, as we know of a
It was a tortured soul for a lot of actually
very understandable reasons. Lamar is a super well liked guy,

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but been through a hell of a lot in his life,
and that was not something at that time in his
life that he could stomach. And so that's why that
aspect of what I'm learning in F one is so
fascinating to me, because I don't even.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Understand how on earth. I don't understand how anyone can
do it like.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Wild wild that, like you know, imagine, because this is
a small knit sort of a thing. There's twenty drivers,
there's ten companies or teams if you will, and each
of them, as far as key figures, within that room,
there are very few people. And imagine if everybody in

(01:24:50):
that room is so at odds that they're like we're
breaking up, but we're gonna go play ten more times together.

Speaker 4 (01:24:59):
Yes, getting a divorce and living in the same house forever.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
That one hit home a little bit. Yeah, I've kind
of been there. Actually it's hell. It is hell. And
and so that's that's why of all the things, of
all the things that that I've watched there, that's the
one that sort of sticks out to me the most.

(01:25:27):
And I like, do you ever think, do you ever
think that we'll see that in other sports? Because I
so that, well, we do here. Here's why I ask.
We do have certain sports where the off season has
kind of become bigger than the regular season.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
It's not there in.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
The NFL, even though the NFL does such what I
think a wonderful job of traveling through its off season
and staying relevant. But how many years in a row
now have we said, like, people in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
Look forward to July fourth more than they do June.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
I mean, you know, the ratings this year, and I
get it, you had small markets and whatnot, but like
people were not locked in on what was quite frankly
an amazing NBA finals, But they were not locked in, right,
did not have the star power that it that it
usually does, but free agency. If we were to get

(01:26:33):
breaking news right now that Giannis has requested a trade, Dude,
that would go crazy every show. It would take over
the whole week, the whole month. So I wonder to
what level. I mean again, I'm thinking far off into

(01:26:54):
the future.

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
You know this.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
We're dealing with a young fan that is, it is
much harder to get their attention and social media drives
so many buses now. So just spitballing and thinking out loud,
because dude, it's very dramatic.

Speaker 4 (01:27:14):
Yeah, I think that's why the Luca trade really captivated
a lot of people, and a lot of eyes were
focused on the NBA at a time where people were
like eh and so you know, posed to waiting for
the playoffs to start. People were tuned in and locked in.

(01:27:36):
It was a big deal. That was a huge deal.
Just took over the media completely, that was during what
was happening that was going into the Super Bowl. Yes, completely,
just moved it out the way, moved it out the way.
Very few things can do that, very few things can

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do that too.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
True, Although Week two going into the Super Bowl, Week
one is kind of boring because it's the first weekend
that you don't have football for months, and so it's depressing.
But then week two, the actual game week, there's some
fun in there, but it gets very tiring. You run

(01:28:25):
out of stories, and especially when you are dealing with
a dynastic type of a team and the characters get
to be known so well. Mahomes is very much moving
into Brady territory where people are like.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Okay, like what what what do you want to say
to me? Now? I don't want to hear from you anymore.
Play the game. That's fine, you're great, we know it.
What are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
What kind of feature are we doing on Patrick Mahomes?

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
That some but he wants to see right now. So yeah,
it was perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
It was perfect, and it grabbed unbelievable headlines and it
all happened in the middle of the year and you
didn't see it coming. And so it's not the same
as what I'm talking about with the F one comp
but it is all of the same things, except for
the part about and you have to keep playing for
the Mavericks. That'd be the only that'd be The only

(01:29:30):
difference is you would have to imagine the Luca trade.
But now for another month. You have to play for
the Mavericks, and then you get to go to the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (01:29:40):
No shot, no shot like and and even so much soul.
When a driver does decide to leave, you know, say
a driver leaves from McLaren and goes to Ferrari. The
guy at Ferrari knows, oh, I don't have a seat
next year, correct, And when they are talking about the seat,

(01:30:02):
there is only twenty available, right, and the seat means
a job, a job, being a driver seat in the car.

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
You have an amazing no job.

Speaker 4 (01:30:12):
If you're being replaced and you haven't been offered another job,
then you can just be at home. It's only twenty
it's only twenty seats now each and you don't know
this yet, but each team has like a backup driver. Sure, sure, sure, shark,

(01:30:34):
but that's not a seat, and you can be out
of f one just like that. And I think the
most compelling part of it is you get to see
the human aspect of it. You get to live with
these guys and understand their stories, and then you're pulling
for them and then it's like, oh snap, it's not

(01:30:55):
you want them to win the races. But it's like Oh,
they can't win the race, and it's like, is it
the car? The car becomes such a huge part of
it because all cars aren't created equal. Oh hell no,
all courts and you will hear hear hear them starts saying,
if I could just get in a car that can compete, Like,

(01:31:18):
if I could just get in a car that can compete.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
No, it's a it's a classic. It's a classic blame game.
If something's not going well, those who are mechanics might
think it's the driver. The driver might think it's the
mechanics or the engineers or whatever, or the financial.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Backing, all of it, all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
You know, there's there's Yankees Dodgers, and then there's Pirates
and and and and Rays all in there. The difference
is is on some level, the pirates and Rays, unlike
in baseball, they're actually trying to win, right, They're actually
trying to.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
Do They're really trying to get They're trying, they're trying,
like hell, and it TI is an uphill battle, man,
it is tough.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
So I yeah, I just I wonder if that kind
of you know, boy, you're gonna you're gonna need more
drama at some point to keep bringing in the fans.
It's kind of a dynamic that's used a lot in
sequels for films. I'm sure you know this, Like if

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you go back through, for instance, the Rambo franchise or
the Terminator franchise.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
If you go back and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
This is a fact, if you look at like, okay,
number one, number two, number three, there's going to be
like more deaths in number two, and then there's gonna
be more deaths in number three because you have to
keep like shocking the audience. And so I wonder, I
wonder what the NBA learned from Luca in the middle

(01:32:57):
of the night, because that shocked the audience, and my god,
it worked.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
Did it ever? Did it ever? Yeah? So change the
whole landscape.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
Landscape of the NFC East is what we were talking
about a handful of minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
I want to go back to that next.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
More drama at Cowboys camp and an announcement at Giants camp,
which I don't think is going to last even halfway
into the season.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
So we'll get to all of that coming up next.

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Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
But we are not done yet.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
We've still got our Steve Disager finale just a handful
of minutes away. We always look forward to that. And
I am gonna set the over under on Russell Wilson
Weeks to start the season as the starter.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
At five and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Day, Ball has already announced, Oh, Russell Wilson is our starter.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
That's he's our starter.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
And it's like clockwork whenever you draft a first round QB.
But it's like not number one overall, not number two overhaul,
but he's an early pick, and you know that's going
to be the guy. The coach can't wait for camp
to start and have the media turn the mics on

(01:35:12):
to say, no, that's not our starter, that's not our starter.
And it's like this classic way to sort of motivate
the young man and also alleviate pressure on the young man.
And I'm like, dude, we just we all know what
you're doing. We all know what you're doing, and so

(01:35:33):
what do you think how many weeks? Because here's the
other problem for Russell Wilson. And I haven't looked at
I can pull this up right now. I haven't looked
at the New York Giants early schedule. But here's one
thing I do know. That's the worst team in their division.
And they will start in their division with back to

(01:35:53):
back road games. They will go to Washington, they will
go to Dallas, and then their first home games are
against Kansas City and the Chargers. You you you could
easily sell me on H to four and and so
then what are you doing, Russell Wilson? Still your starter?

(01:36:15):
Like they're gonna lose games. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
What do you think how many weeks would you give
Russell Wilson.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
I'll give them eight eight? Okay, okay, I give them.
What they're not gonna do is they're not gonna let me.
I don't have the Let me pull up the schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Yeah, you want to know who the next four are?

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
No, No, you're gonna love it. I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
I just make a noise when you see it. You're
gonna love the next four games after the first four
that I told you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Yeah, pull it up.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
Oh yeah, Commanders, Cowboys, Chiefs, Chargers.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Yes, then don't go to New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
Saints, Eagle, Broncos Eagles goals for so hold on, let
me see hold on, hold on, wait, let me count,
let me count, hold on, let me count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine. Boom. I was one off.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
Do you think it's You think it's after they get
canned by the Niners on November two? Yeah? Okay, maybe
then he go to the Bears. Yeah, well that's that's
a good point. You need to give Jackson Dart a
landing spot.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Gotta go. They would prefer home game, but there's no
room there, right, there's no room there. So yeah, you
gotta take what you can take, and it'll be the Bears.
Get him, get him acclimated, and then he'll come home
against the Packers.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
The Packers and the Lions.

Speaker 4 (01:37:51):
How did they wait a minute? This schedule is bruis.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
How did the Giants end up with this schedule?

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
This makes zero sense.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
I don't even get it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
I get that the division teams like they're good and
and and so they're in there now the nights the
Niners is bad luck because that isn't also a fourth
place team, but the Cake their schedule is absurdly easy
on paper. But green Bay and Detroit and a trip

(01:38:20):
to Denver and oh god, like Minnesota is coming to town,
and that Philadelphia twice in three weeks, with one of
them being on a Thursday. Like, wow, this is a
very short period of time that you'll be playing the
Super Bowl champions twice with a trip to Denver sandwiched

(01:38:43):
in between.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
But it's gonna be is when he Yeah, he'll get
his shot week ten.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
So they're own four. You don't think we five in
New Orleans?

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
In New Orleans, I think it's still too soon.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Yeah, you're probably right, because you go to New Orleans
and then four days later you got the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (01:39:05):
Yeah, it's too soon. You don't want that. You don't
want to run up against that. That's that's what you
don't want. You don't want to lose that game in
New Orleans and then go right right, like, that's what
you don't want. You want to at least get that one.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
In a standalone game against the Super Bowl champs. You're
probably right. You're probably right. I threw that number out
there before I had looked at it. I don't believe this.

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Schedule that do you want to amend yours kind of Yeah,
you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
I wasn't thinking about it from that perspective.

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
That's ever think about the runway for the kid. That's it.
That's the only thing that really matters. That's the only
thing that they're really looking at.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
Yeah, but there's no runway. There's no runway.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
And like we're sitting here going, oh, there'll be one
and eight, Like, I don't know, Look, it's football and
it's Russell Wilson. He might get some games here and there.
I don't know who'd all upset? You know, maybe they'll
go into Dallas Week two and win. I don't know,
but there's no runway.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
No, this is tough.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
And their home game to start the second half against
another fourth place club just happens to be the Niners.
We're just not your normal fourth place clubs. That's I
don't like. I'd have to go do the math. I
don't understand how they ended up with this schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
And somebody hates the Giants.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
But it's math, like it's an.

Speaker 4 (01:40:33):
Algorithm, so it just spits out what computers hate the Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
I mean, m that's gonna be that. I like your phrase.
That's gonna be tough living.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Good luck. Yeah, well yeah, well, with the bad news
comes the good news.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
That's a great point, Steve, you have.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
Us something good.

Speaker 9 (01:41:02):
The Mets have won their seventh in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
Question Mark, tell me something good.

Speaker 9 (01:41:07):
He's gonna say, that's not great news on this show.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
All for seven with runners in scoring position again good news.

Speaker 9 (01:41:14):
Giants had bases loaded in the ninth. Sure, bad news, strikeouts,
strikeout game over. Oh gosh, Mets have won seven in
a row, five to three. The final at San Francisco
tonight won Soda the go ahead solo homer in the seventh,
So the first place Mets in the NL East game
and a half over the Phillies. Now Phil's were beaten
in New York by the Yankees, four to three. That
was Carlos Rodin over Zach Wheeler. The Angels defeated Seattle.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
For to one.

Speaker 9 (01:41:37):
The one run for the Mariners came on a cow
Raley homer, his forty first of the year. He has
eighty six RBIs. Pittsburgh and Paul Skeen shut out Arizona
six nothing. Skeins went six innings with nine strikeouts. Boston
beat the Dodgers again, four to three, the Dodgers record
since July third, five and thirteen, and the Padres won

(01:41:59):
today nine two at Saint Louis. The Padres just four
games back at first place LA and the NL West.
Baltimore sent Colorado to another loss, five to one. The
Rockies record twenty seven and seventy eight. Detroit got in
the wing column ten to four over Toronto. The Tigers
had lost six in a row. Victory's for the A's,
who've won four straight. For Washington and Cincinnati, the Reds

(01:42:20):
have won four straight, Milwaukee and the Cubs each one.
They're still tied for first in the nl Central Kansas
City beat Cleveland four to one, and tonight the Royals
are giving pitcher Seth Lugo an extension. The trade deadline
does come up Thursday. Texas won its six straight game,
eight one over Atlanta, five straight losses for the Braves
in a lost season. The Dallas Cowboys gave tight end

(01:42:43):
Jake Ferguson a four year extension. The Chargers gave tackle
Rashawn Slater a four year extension. Washington wide receiver Terry
McLaurin reported to camp in the WNBA. Indiana at Chicago
on National TV today. Caitlin Clark is out. She's missed
thirteen games to various injuries this year. Angel Rees of
Chicago missed a second straight game with a back injury.

(01:43:05):
For what it's worth, Indiana won ninety three seventy eight.
Connecticut was three and twenty but got a home win
of ninety five sixty four over Golden State victories for Phoenix,
Las Vegas, and Atlanta. New York star Breonna Stewart is
out Monday with a leg injury suffered yesterday. The Chicago
Bulls gave coach Billy Donovan an extension. In women's soccer.
England took the Eurofinal on penalty kicks against Spain. Bubba

(01:43:28):
Wallace was a NASCAR winner at Indy. Alex Palow won
then IndyCar Race in Northern California. That's his eighth victory
this year in fourteen races. And then we had the golf.
The PGA Tour stop was in Minnesota. The winner is
American Kurt Kittayama by one strokeover Sam Stevens and four
other golfers you've never heard of finished in a tie

(01:43:50):
for third. Kurt Kittayama gets one point five million dollars
for this victory. Though at Live golf third place got
one point five million dollars today and again those are
only three day tournaments. Live Golf UK winner is Joaquin
Neeman from Chile. This is the fifth time this season

(01:44:11):
he has won a live golf event, which means five
different times this year he has taken home the four
million dollars first prize.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Man Wow going to somebody going to Sizzley.

Speaker 9 (01:44:26):
So good idea or bad idea for him to go
to Live Golf Ladies and gentlemen. John Rahm's team took
home the team title best total scores amongst them. So
that's a three million dollar prize to split. And by
the way, he has an individual tied for fifth place,
so he gets seven hundred and fifty thousand for that,
another seven to fifty for his part of the team

(01:44:47):
title as well. Joaquin Neeman was a three shot winner
over Bubba Watson, who takes home two and a quarter
million dollars for finishing second. And the dreaded Kleb Surad
was your third bab third place golfer, getting one point
five million dollars back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
What a weekend to have the name Bubba and be
in sports.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
Yeah, that worked out very very well, both in golf
and uh and and racing. Yeah, there's not I mean
you and I had I thought some fun discussions about
this back when it was hot. It's gotten pretty quiet
from the crew that was like hot and bothered about
everybody joining live. It's gotten pretty quiet.

Speaker 4 (01:45:33):
Oh yeah, pretty.

Speaker 9 (01:45:34):
Quiet because haven't they been negotiating to have Saudi money
joining the PGA?

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (01:45:39):
Oh yeah, how long?

Speaker 3 (01:45:41):
By the way, long? Yeah? How long have they been?

Speaker 4 (01:45:43):
Yeah? Too long?

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Negotiating? Good Lord, Like, what's gonna happen first? The end
of that? Or is kaminga going to sign somewhere.

Speaker 9 (01:45:51):
I thought you're gonna say, what the end of time?

Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
Well? Right, I know, Sorry I went. I went with
Bay Area frustration humor. Sorry, but my god, like that
that that got all crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
And then it just and then it just went quiet.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
And I assume it's still happening, but I don't know,
but it got very very quiet from the uh, the
people who were very offended by live golf.

Speaker 9 (01:46:19):
Yeah, is it possible that it's just staying quiet for
let's say, a four year term?

Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
Sure? Yeah, sure, I mean you probably know more about
the current contracts than I do.

Speaker 9 (01:46:33):
There is somebody who is currently serving in this country
a four year term, who let's just say, has friends
in Saudi Arabia and maybe is involved somewhat in live golf.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
Just thinking that's a very.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
Interesting point, very astute. Oh that makes even more fun,
don't it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
Man? I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
Speaking speaking of that man in golf, did you see
the video that's gone viral today of him golfing in Scotland?

Speaker 4 (01:47:05):
Oh no, I wouldn't watch that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
Well, I mean it's not about watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
It's just there, like if you're scrolling through anything, it
just pops up, go fast.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Yeah, no, you can do that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
But then like if you scroll past it, it's like
it's there and then it's there, and then it's there,
and then it's there.

Speaker 4 (01:47:23):
I missed it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:24):
An air quotes Caddy of Sorts.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Hops out of his cart right before he starts to
walk up to his next shot.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
It just tosses a ball on the ground for him.

Speaker 4 (01:47:38):
I mean, one thing we do know, and this is
in life, Cheata's going cheat. Period Yep. Cheeta's going cheat. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Cards, golf, elections,
whatever it is, relationships, Yeah, cheeters, cheat man, you start

(01:47:59):
doing it and it just snowballs.

Speaker 9 (01:48:02):
Better hand score that guy or Kim John.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Oom Oh wow yeah wow.

Speaker 9 (01:48:13):
I mean I believe had multiple holes in one in
a single round, as I heard from the reliable North
Korean state media.

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
You damn right he did.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
He did, he had whatever the hell he said you had,
this is what he had. All right, Great stuff, Steve,
Thank you as always for the seven to thirty Pacific
Time golf escapades.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
They're one of my favorite parts of our show.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
So anyway, speaking of super high, powerful people who sometimes
aren't trusted, how are we feeling about Jerry Jones and
Micah Parsons on.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
This July twenty seventh.

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
They paid the tight end.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
They sure did, yep, Jake Ferguson now the I think
the seventh highest paid tight end in the history of
the league.

Speaker 4 (01:48:58):
Wow. Yeah, Well the priorities.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
I mean, he's a good player, A good player. No,
I don't think he.

Speaker 4 (01:49:08):
Got you off the field and third and loan.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
So the Cowboys the last three years to me, have
been a study on how not to do this facts
and I mean that from about three or four different angles.
Number One, they seemingly are so focused on the large

(01:49:33):
contracts at the top end of their roster that it
completely divorced itself from how do we go win at football? Example,
pay the quarterback, pay the wide receiver, and just forget
to have a run game and.

Speaker 3 (01:49:52):
Defend that position.

Speaker 4 (01:49:54):
Double on it. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
Number two, they keep waiting till the end. Niners and
Cowboys get the message waiting doesn't work. It just makes
it more expensive. Go now, right, like you waited for TJ.
Watt And now TJ.

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Watt? Now what now?

Speaker 4 (01:50:12):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
And then three is and this is just the most
Jerry Jones thing. Ever, he just out there talking about
it every day. He's just out there talking about it.
Like I saw him last week. They're asking him about
Micah Parsons and they asked him that question, like, are
you gonna do you think that this is like waiting

(01:50:34):
too long?

Speaker 3 (01:50:35):
Maybe you should have done this earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
And his response, and I'm gonna paraphrase, but it was
something along the lines of, well, we didn't wait for
the quarterback, and we gave him the biggest contract ever
in the NFL and then he barely played. So I'm like, so,
now we're gonna use Micah Parsons questions to take shots
at our sixty million dollar quarterback as camp opens.

Speaker 4 (01:50:58):
Well, he can't get this, Danny. He's literally all over
the place.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
Man, right right, And oh, but that Super Bowl is
coming meantime. This is what's so amazing too about all
of it, because right there, the flagship franchise in all
the sports meantime with it, Like two teams in their

(01:51:25):
division played in the NFC title game, one of them
won the Super Bowl and the other one went and
found the next big thing at quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
And that's what they're going to be dealing with. For
the next ten years.

Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
That's not good. That's not It doesn't look the it
doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. No, and I
don't think they believe the situation is as dire as
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
Oh, I agree with that's a good statement. I agree
with that. Yeah, myopic. Yeah, they're they're right, they're not.
They don't see it. They don't see it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:10):
Well as a forty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
Nine er fan, don't tell them so. Yeah, because it's fun,
it's fun to watch. All right, we're in the Fox
Sports Radio studios. That's e from Salam. I'm Mark Willard.
Coming up next. The Dodgers have an interesting idea that

(01:52:33):
we should toss around a little bit. We'll do that
around the bend here on Fox Sports Radio. Well, these
are the Fox Sports Radio studios. Another fun night alongside
from Salam, I'm Mark Willard.

Speaker 3 (01:52:44):
Thank you for being with us.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
As mentioned Plank and Span, you're right around the corner,
by the way, just since I threw his name out there.
And once a Hooper, always a Hooper. Can you believe
this restricted free agency thing in the NBA? And when
does it end? Because I you know, I equipped kaminga
but it's also it's Josh Giddy in Chicago, it's Grimes

(01:53:09):
in Philly, it's Cam Thomas in Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Not a damn thing is happening with anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
And you know, baseball is the sport that we used
to make fun of because nothing would happen in free agency.
They're like, oh God, is Bryce Harper going to sign
in February? Like hot stove is now cold? Well, here's
NBA free agency, which used to be like here it is,
and then four days later it's like that was fun.
It's over. And we had that with the frontline guys.

(01:53:41):
But there's all kinds of players who are stuck waiting
for X, Y and Z to happen, some sort of movement,
and it hasn't happened. And I asked my guys at
the San Francisco affiliate, which is the home of the
Golden State Warriors ninety five to seven the game. When
I headed out for the wedding and the honeymoon, I

(01:54:02):
might get this thing all figured.

Speaker 4 (01:54:04):
Out while I'm gone.

Speaker 2 (01:54:05):
I don't want to come back and have everybody still
being like, so, what's gonna happen with Kamenga.

Speaker 3 (01:54:10):
Well, they didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
Ephrom and and and here we are and multiple teams
in the NBA just stuck in purgatory.

Speaker 4 (01:54:20):
I think it's, you know, teams aren't so quick to
make moves because of the ramifications of those moves. Now
they're expensive. They're expensive moves, yep. And the days of
just over pain and the luxury tax and so on

(01:54:41):
and so forth, those days are gone, man, And so
you're not going to make a move unless you're sure
as an organization that it makes sense, that it fits
what you're trying to do. And it takes a little
bit more time now it's it's not what it used
to be. Takes a little bit more time. And so

(01:55:02):
teams aren't in a rush. They're not in a rush.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
Well, I also think the stubbornness of certain players and
agents like you landed. You landed in this moment at
a bad time, and that sucks. But I think to
your point, there's nobody's fault and there's nothing anybody can
do about it. So you're a restricted free agent and

(01:55:26):
a year ago you're looking at your numbers and who
you are in the league, and you're like, that's worth
twenty five to thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:55:32):
Million a year.

Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
Yeah, And then you get here and you're like I
want twenty five million, I want thirty million, and all
the teams are like, we don't have that for you,
right right, And you're a restricted free agent. So when
the team says no, the way you used to handle
that is you go find a different team that will.

Speaker 4 (01:55:51):
And they'll be like okay, boom, and then they have
an opportunity to match and if they don't, you go
get your money. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
But yeah, all the teams, all of them have collectively
been like new, We're good. So like, this is the
biggest staring contest I've ever seen in the NBA off season.

Speaker 4 (01:56:10):
Yeah, it's. It's it's and no one does because it's
it's never been like this. It's a new dawn, it's
a new.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
Day, and they're not feeling good and they're not.

Speaker 4 (01:56:26):
Money Tree have money Tree dried up?

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
Bore oh man, oh man.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
So the Dodger thing I was I was going to
mention to you because I'm always looking for ways to
get the good No no, no, no, no no no, this
is actually like right show hal Tani, They're gonna start
like extending him a little bit more, and so in
order to accommodate that, they're looking and also they got
Blake Snell coming back, and then they got right as

(01:56:54):
they get healthy, they're looking at maybe a six man rotation.
And I thought to my self, why don't everybody just
do that? Because you won't leave him out there anymore anyway. Right,
It's kind of like again aforementioned load management in the NBA.
If we can find a way to get people on

(01:57:14):
the field more the people we want to see, let's
do that. So would you wait an extra day to
see your favorite starter, but then maybe you're a little
bit more likely to let that starter go seven innings
as opposed to pulling him out after four and two
thirds all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
Now, yeah, that's that's I'm still not okay with that.
But you know, I'm a I'm a fan of players
playing stars playing same like that's that's the point, and
so just let let us watch greatness please. It's very cautious,

(01:57:55):
especially in baseball. It's you know, I had a good
friend of mine who was played in Major League's a
long time. He had some thoughts about pictures shouldn't pictures
shouldn't be up for MVP. I I, yeah, I kind

(01:58:16):
of agree with that, right because don't play enough. They
don't play they don't play enough baseball, don't play enough, man,
they don't play enough. And so I was like, hmm,
that's interesting. If that's what's coming out of the you know,
the clubhouses, then that's a that's an interesting point.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
Pictures now are amazing. If they can get to two
hundred innings in a year. Do you not how many
innings a team plays.

Speaker 4 (01:58:46):
In a year? How many?

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
Almost fifteen hundred. So you're gonna give MVP to somebody
who's scratching to play two hundred innings out of your
fifteen hundred?

Speaker 4 (01:58:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
Yeah, I like what your friends said. Great show, brother,
great stuff today. Man, we'll do it again next week

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