Mike Harmon & Anita Marks are talking Maxx Crosby, Logan Paul, & So Much More!

Mike Harmon and Anita Marks start the show by diving into DE Maxx Crosby being traded to the Ravens after seven seasons with the Raiders. They also unpack the biggest storylines around the NFL, including the league’s salary cap rising to $301 million, what’s next for several NFL quarterbacks, and more. The two also react to Logan Paul claiming he could beat any NFL player in a boxing match and share a list of players they think could take him on. Later, they take a look at the Oscar betting odds. All that and more on Fox Sports Sundays!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Greetings and welcome in another beautiful Fox Sports Sunday underway.
So much going on across our sporting universe, World Baseball, Classic,
International soccer, all sorts of fun and excitement throughout the day.
We got it all covered here on Fox Sports Radio.
Just getting warmed up by Mike Harmon to hear me
weeknights seven to eleven, yelling at Jason Smith. He would

(00:27):
have lost his mind yesterday as I was out and
about meeting up with some folks for a quick cup
of coffee to say hello, and I ran into Josh
Hart of your New York Knicks. I said hello and
let him go on his way. Jason would still be
shaking his hands. But I'm here on a Sunday morning.
Anita March joins me as we talked about last week.

(00:48):
She is a betting analyst, a radio host, and it
would be professional pickleball player.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
She has also run a marathon in the past that
features in here in a moment at Anita marks where
you find her in the Twitter verse find me over
at Swollen Dome.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
We've got so much going on. It's a beautiful day.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
College buckets all across the board, some NBA action, the
happy return of Jason Tatum on Friday night.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
What that means to the odds. We've got it all
as we get you going in.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
But I'm watching the marathon rolling up here, Anita, and
a story that hit my timeline yesterday that I sent
to you and you came back saying, well, I'm actually
run one of these things, so we'll get that experience.
And the question for everybody nationwide intergalactically why in a moment?
But they have some rule here that you can go

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get a finisher medal if you decide to tap out
at mile eighteen as someone who ran a full marathon?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
What do you think of that? Advent Push League? Simple?
You know what that means, right?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
You know what that is? That's like, you know, you
get a trophy for participating.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Right?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Should it be a different metal? Should it be you know,
just your sandwich out?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You signed up for twenty six point two. That's what
you signed up for. I don't care how damn hot
it is in California right now. You can't control the weather.
You signed up for twenty six point two. Because I'll
tell you what I did run. I ran the New
York Marathon. I ran the year after the Boston bombing.
I ran for a charity for the Boston bomber those

(02:30):
that were injured. So and I ran it for believe
it or not, the Garden MSG. So I ran for
a charity. I didn't prep properly. Here I am thinking, like, listen,
I played women's professional football. I'm like a badass athlete,
like like you know, so every day i'd run like
five to seven miles. When you're preparing for the New

(02:51):
York Marathon, you need to run at least one, if
not two, of twenty one miles because here's what happens.
He breaks down at like around eighteen nineteen twenty. The
remaining six point two is an experience like any other.
And I'm not talking about the Masters. Your body starts

(03:13):
breaking down, right, your toenails start breaking off. There are
other things that happen. It's a family show.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, I keep it clean in the morning.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, I won't get into it. But you signed up
for twenty six point two and there is a lot
that happens in the last six point two miles. So no,
I do not. This is this is bush league. You
signed up for it. You shouldn't receive anything if you
run eighteen. Go run a half mile, I mean, go

(03:43):
go run a half marathon and then and then you
get a metal. You get whatever you deserve. But no,
I'm not buying this.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I saw like it first off from Matt Seedorf of
Fox here in Los Angeles, and it's just funny. When
I did the LA Marathon search in the the good
old X machine, the first thing that comes up outside
of Matthew is from runners World, and you start reading
some of the comments, and again, family show. I'll advise

(04:13):
you all to go find the comments section here. But
folks lined up up and down Hollywood and you know,
a lot of road closures, so making it interesting to
navigate around the city this morning.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Fences up.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
But it gave people, you know, for those watching it
maybe outside of Los Angeles, a reminder of some of
the beautiful little landmarks, like hey, here we are outside
of Grammins, you know, and I put my feet inside
Sylvester Stallone's shoes. He's not a tall man, so it's
it's not a big feat to fill Stallone's.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Shoes in that regard. Sorry, Sly's gonna come beat me. Up.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But all that to say, like, it's just something as
I get more advanced in my years, and even when
I was younger and considered myself in reasonable shape, nothing
I ever considered. And I've known some friends along the way.
And in this case, you did it between work, charity
and all that that you had, you know, your purpose.

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For others that just pick up the I think I'm
going to start long distance running, I've never quite understood it.
I mean, look, the scenery changes when you're actually out
and about on the road, which is good as opposed
to the folks that spend four hours a day inside
their local gym.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Pick your favorite. I don't have a sponsor here for that,
but it's it's just the the idea of running, you know,
for a purpose. I'm going to beat you to that
soccer ball. I'm going to beat you for the rebound.
I'm going to beat you downfield because well you're trying
to throw it over my head in a you know,
turkey bowl over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I get all that running for the sake of running,
just it's it's never probably quite hit that part of
my brain.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well here's the thing, you know, it is quite euphoric.
I will I will say that now I finished. I
didn't have a great time because, like I said, the
last six point two miles were brutal for me, and
I didn't I did not train properly. So needless to say,
Oprah Winfrey and Pamela Anderson actually had a better time
than I did. I'm coming clean. So but I will

(06:11):
say this, when you when you cross that finish line
and they wrap you in that silver sheet that's supposed
to you know, keep your body temperature what what it's
supposed to be, you are euphoric. There is there is
very few things in this world that can give you
that type of human response and that type of feeling.

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So I can understand as much as I will never
do it again, like I will never do it again,
I could understand how and why this is addicting for people.
And keep in mind, this is such a feat.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
There's no question about it. It's it's it's an amazing thing.
I want to make a giant mountain and will at the.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
End of the day. At the end of the day,
it's a bucket list. It's a bucket list, right, and
you're able to check it. I checked it. I want
to run with the bulls in Spain. Don't know if
I'm going to check that. I want to be in
Las Vegas the weekend, the week the Thursday Friday that
the nc Double A March Madness tournament starts. I think
that I'll be able to check that bucket.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah that was pretrazyy. Yeah, this is.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, it's easy for you. You live out in LA
and I can't muster up.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
To get there. I can't get there five hours.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Want to go to Vegas to hang out in a
sports book on Thursday and Friday, gambling on all the
n C DOUBLEA.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
That seems like you need to give me the phone
numbers of your friends so we can shay and I
can start, you know, working on that angle for you here.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
So but I will say this, if you have the
opportunity to do it, I say you do it. I
don't want to discourage anyone from anyone who's who's considering
possibly running a full marathon. Again, like I said, it's euphoric.
It's you feel this amazing sense of accomplishment, something that

(07:58):
very few people on this plane it can or will do.
And you check off a bucket list and you can
talk about it like we are right now.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
So I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't want to discourage anyone. If you're considering doing it, Mike,
I really think you should, and I'll be there cheering
for you with Mike.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Cowbell, No, I appreciate that as long as there's a
cow bell involved. Oh there's a time board. Yeah, cow bells, drums,
noise man.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
We all need some more cowbell, don't we.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Well, we all, I mean in our lives day to day.
I'm surprised we don't have one here in the studio.
We've got a lot of other random thing. Big fuzzy
dice were around here for games that people play, and
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(09:06):
and so on. Make up a line about good luck
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Happy International Women's Day. Get that in as we get
the show started today. Who for you, Anita? For those
listening out there, go celebrate. We think of the accomplishments
and greatness. We've got some women's college buckets coming up

(09:29):
in a little bit here that we'll be paying attention
to in the studio.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
But NFL Free Agency.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
To get kick things off, we'll get into Max Crosby
and the deal heard round the world. You know, we
used to Friday News dumps Anita and then all of
a sudden, Jason and I are prepping for our show
and it's like, wait, did.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
This just happen? Yep, all right, let's go.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
And it gave us good fodder, but it informs a
lot of what we will see as the week goes on.
A couple of big deals early on. The early movement
has been sent, the center position has been featured a lot,
the kicking position has been featured a lot, but a
lot of you know, as we talked about a little

(10:10):
bit last week, the free agent market outside of a
couple of big names, and we talk Hendrickson still out there,
Kenneth Walker the third coming off the Super Bowl, MVP,
and a few others Alec Pearce in Indianapolis. It becomes
the wow, we don't really love the free agent list.
Now there's a lot of them, and there's a lot
of money to be spent, and so from the larger

(10:33):
perspective of the NFL, this becomes the all right, how
judicious are you with your money when you've got the
opportunity to go build? And historically we only trust a
handful of franchises to really be economical and prudent with
such moves. But you know, with all the lists that
are out there, I see people going one hundred and
fifty guys deep. I don't know that we've ever done

(10:54):
that for free agency, but in twenty twenty six it
becomes a pick your poison as you try to reload.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Absolutely and of course the cap now what is it
three TOZHO one close to three OHO two? So you
know these teams they have the money to spend players
know that, you know, I do want to We have
time right now to dive into this. Max Crosby and
what's going on with the rail We're going.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
To do that in about five minutes. We're going to
do that after the Okay, our breaks here.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I've got to listen. I lived in Baltimore for four years,
covered the Ravens, know the Ravens extremely well. I'm stoked
for this move. I can't wait to dive into that.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
We'll do it from both sides, from the rebuilding, reloading,
perpetual disaster and what maybe we'll play How many quarterbacks
have the Raiders had? Some's rich Gannon game a little
bit later, which is fun.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
What's your what's you're over under? For me to guess?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Well, I was going to say we could pick out
some of the names. Uh, over under?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Why don't we do fifteen and a half? Ooh, because
that's two thousands.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Listen, listen, I want to say, oh, but that's a lot.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Well I might, I might.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
I'm like my gut's telling me the under, but boy,
I want to say the over for sure.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
All right, Well, we'll play that game and we'll talk
more about Max Crosby as you get it going. We're
curious in the next forty eight hours what happens with
Kyler Murray and to a tongue of Vailoa and their
potential new destinations. We'll do this all as we get going.
We've got so many topics up on the board. We've
got some NBA to end the hour. Anita's got a

(12:32):
couple of picks for you if you're looking to enhance
your bankroll or just look smart at the local watering hole.
We've got a little bit on the World Baseball Classic
Logan Paul fighting the NFL, that nil conference that went
down the other day, and Timothy Shalomey has made a
lot of enemies. Will it affect his oscar betting odds.
We'll do all of that and so much more as

(12:53):
we're just getting warmed up at Anita marks where you
find her in the Twitter verse? Find me over at
Swollen Dome, mad Max Crosby. Yeah, the hammer fell. We'll
talk about it next on Fox.

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Welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio. It's Fox Sports Sunday.
My garment Anita marks with you as we get you.
Rolling into a big sports Sunday. So much going on,
World Baseball, Classic women and men's college buckets, the LA
Marathon and everybody out celebrating. And I just watched someone
collapse and get one of those cool aluminum cocoons is

(14:01):
and then we started talking about burritos.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
That's so called aluminum cocoons. That's a yes.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
And then you emerge feeling resplendent and like you've conquered
the world. And then you do nine thousand you know,
calories for the next every hour on the hour.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Pretty much. Yes, you are starving when you are done.
I ate my friends through like this big post party
for me, and I ended up like devouring too. You
like huge cheeseburgers. By the way, let's not forget you.
We have our the world champion cricket. Oh yeah, yeah,

(14:38):
match happening right, now India is destroying New Zealand, and
of course what we come to expect from India, they
just you know, India's the powerhouse of cricket, just like
you know the United States what the powerhouse of the NBA,
the powerhouse of women's soccer in the Olympics. I don't
know right now.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Hockey on Bold, Let's go there, you go, Usa, Usa,
I mean, Jack Hughes had a hat trick yesterday for
anybody's still paying attention after the Olympic euphoria. As we
roll through here on a beautiful Fox Sports Sunday, the
NFL front and center as always, as we get ready
for free agency and the spending spree. We talked about it,

(15:21):
nearly three hundred two million dollars in salary cap for
each lot of contract renegotiations and adjustments to free up
some money. Some teams still trying frantically to get a
little bit of that work done. We've seen some reports
of some minor deals here and there and solidifications of
offensive lines, and certainly here in Los Angeles, everybody was

(15:43):
going great. We have a center that won't rank last,
which is great. Isaac glowin Crown works on the Charger broadcast.
He immediately started smiling, going, yes, you got to get
those tackles healthy too, But that's a whole other thing.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Just to interject here, I think it's really important for
specifically the Chargers when it comes to the center position
because Justin Herbert is so tall and he loves that pocket.
He loves to pass out of the pocket, and he
has that long stride. So the center to me is,
you know, when you've got a quarterback that's you know,

(16:17):
what is he sixt' seven like and they.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Have that leadership I say six to seven. I think
six seven six seven. Oh the way, he's a tall man.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's a tall man, and therefore when he steps in
to throw the ball, you need that pocket presence, that
not pocket presence, but that pocket protection to avoid injury.
I think that's a huge, huge signing for the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, no question about it. I mean, we watched the
musical chairs that they had to play both tackles out
slater and right as you're finishing the preseason, then als down,
so you lose two huge bookends, which means your center
who's already got the weight to the world on him,
particularly when everything's predicated on your quarterback having great success

(17:02):
and for Herbert, how many hits did he take? He
was absolutely bludgeoned. A year ago. It became the all right,
let me get one of those little umpire things for
pitch counts or for ticket takers at concerts to see
how many people pass my gate kind of thing. The
turnstile that was going on, so big move there. But

(17:22):
Max Crosby is headed to the Baltimore Ravens. We find
this out late Friday night, twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven,
first round picks, four years, one hundred and fifteen point
eight remaining on the deal through twenty twenty nine, through
the end of last year, sent home injured, still wanted
to play, and salty in the at the end of

(17:44):
the Pete Carroll regime. Max Crosby is that guy that
people point to of that's a football player, right, That's
a guy that wears his heart on his sleeve. He's
won this Raider Award year after year for being emblematic
of what they want to be right winning, you know,
just win baby kind of culture. And he becomes the
odd man out so and they finally find their space.

(18:09):
I guess to make the trade, Baltimore comes in with
two draft picks. I was wondering why they didn't hold
out a little bit longer. You know, the running joke.
The Colts gave up more for Sauce Gardner as a
guy to try to help their defensive backfield. That obviously
didn't work, as he got injured and things went to
hell with Daniel Jones getting hurt and everything else. But

(18:31):
we look at Max Crosby and where he's at in
his career, never really playing from ahead, never getting to
pin his ears back as they say, and just rush
the quarterback, having fun in the second half of games
because well, you've got a big lead.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
And everybody's passing down after down after down.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
But for him, you get to go to Baltimore to
where they were ranked. They were tied for twenty eighth
and sacks a year ago. Only the Jets and the
forty nine Ers had fewer sacks than the Ravens did
a year ago.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
And I watched it.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I do a weekly Baltimore hit Anita, and it was
the constant consternation, particularly as Oways started getting teed off
and hitting people here in Los Angeles, because for a
couple of years they couldn't get him to find the backfield,
and all of a sudden he's on corked hear It's
like God, you know, they just needed to coach him

(19:27):
up a bit more and so now you get that
bookend guy.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Now, Ravens still have a lot of needs, but this
was one huge move for that organization.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah, Listen, a lot of people feel that giving up
two first round picks, and of course that's twenty twenty
six and twenty twenty seven was too much to pay.
But if you're a team, let's be honest, Mike, if
you're a team that you are like win now. Like
I think there are a few teams in around the
NFL that are win now, Rams being one of them,
the Ravens being another. Like, this is your time with

(19:58):
Lamar Jackson. You bring in a new head coach in Mittner, who's,
you know, a very defensive minded coach, which I think
they need because as you said, this is a Baltimore
team twenty eighth in league and pressure rate, thirty first
in sacks per attempt. They need and they and they
have a star studded roster, not only on the offensive
side of the bob of course, Lamar Jackson. You know,

(20:19):
you know Henry the receivers tight end, like they check
all the boxes offensively, but also they were very rich
in talent defensively. Let's let's not forget. They've got Roe,
qwand Smith, they got Hamilton, They've got Marlon Humphrey. What
happens with Crosby? You bring him in. He was third
among all qualified defensive linemen in stuff rate last season.
What does that mean? Stopping the ballcarrier behind the line

(20:42):
of scrimmage on a six point five percent rate on
the run defensive snaps that is insane. Seven seasons, almost
seventy sacks, one hundred and thirty three tackles for a loss.
And also, on top of that, he is an iron man,
right like continuously playing through ailments. He's not one of
those guys who's like, oh, you know, I've got like
a you know, a bad toenail. I'm just I'm gonna

(21:04):
take this week off. No, he's not that kind of guy.
So for me giving up the two first round picks, granted,
he's twenty nine, he's gonna be twenty nine in August.
I get the concerns, But if you are a team,
in my opinion, like the Ravens where you are in
a win now mentality, you know, I think you've got

(21:26):
to move on it. And I like the Ravens not
only to win their division, because, let's be honest, the
Pittsburgh Steelers not sure who that quarterback is going to be, right,
we can anticipate that Aaron Rodgers is going to come
back for another season, especially since they bring in a
head coach that he likes, Cincinnati Joe Burrow. I mean, listen,
they were talks that he was looking to retire last
year because he's just not having plent for playing football anymore.

(21:49):
They're in a world of trouble. And then of course
the Cleveland Browns are you kidding me? Like they're a disaster.
So I see the Ravens winning the AFC North. I
see them finishing with a really really good record, potentially
maybe finishing first or second in the in the In
the AFC, it's very hard to play at M and

(22:10):
T Bank Stadium, and so if the Super Bowl has
to go through Baltimore, that's a very tough place to play.
I think this is you know, I'm I'm not mad
at it. I'm and I'm not going to sit here
and criticize the Ravens giving up two first round draft
picks for Max Crosby because I think he is a
guy that could turn the tails the tables. I think
he is a guy that can really like is the

(22:32):
exclamation point on a team to say, Okay, we are
really in it to win it, and he can be
a difference maker on the defensive side of the ball.
I love this move and I'm already going to the
window with futures vets to bet that the Ravens win
the AFC North, let alone represent the AFC and the
Super Bowl, possibly win the super Bowl this year. Of course,
all barring everybody can stay healthy, but you know.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
That to be that's I know, that's forever.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
That's for everything.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, for the.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Ravens, I still need an upgrade in the offensive set.
When it comes to the playmakers. I like Zay Flowers.
Day Flowers is not.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
A number one guy.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
DeAndre Hopkins signed a one year deal. Do they bring
him back cheap? Maybe maybe not. Do they go out
into the marketplace, But I'm on the less need side
of things, right. They made the deal to bring in
McDuffie and his quote before that all went down was well,
if you've got.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Pro Bowl players or all Pro players that you can
go get, you go find them, and then he makes
the deal.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
And you talk about the Rams with Matthew Stafford in
his final year, two years whatever it is, coming off
an MVP season that the one thing that was the
obvious blemish for them in the regular season and which
cost them dearly was secondary play. Right, So over the
course of the year, as teams got a little bit

(23:49):
better of maybe slowing down VERSU in company, well they
got exposed.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Right. So when we look at Baltimore, like this is the.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Highest they've drafted in years, going back to twenty twenty
two when they brought in Kyle Hamilton and Linderbaum, who's
one of those big free agent guys.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Whether they bring him back or not remains to be seen.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
But all in if I can go get a guy,
particularly if I'm a team that thinks they're close. Right
for the Raiders, I know a lot of people were
really met. Well, it's like Kansas City for Spagnolo and company.
McDuffie's not the guy that's changing everything for you. Max
Crosby's been there for years and as much as you
may love him, has he won? How many games does

(24:32):
he may help you win?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
I liked Micah Parsons in Dallas. How many games is
he worth?

Speaker 4 (24:38):
He's not. So if you can go get picks.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Or to go and maybe retool, replenish, so long as
you trust the people that are making them. And that's
the bigger issue to it all and what the Raiders
have to figure out. We'll get to them in a minute.
But for the Ravens side of it, yeah, take take
my picks. I'll move on. I'm assuming my organizational stability
remains where I'm picking in the twenties. And it really

(25:02):
comes down to, all right, now, how do we best
help Lamar Jackson on the offensive side of the ball.
Whether Linderbaum comes back or not is a huge thing,
but you need another playmaker and you got to figure
out in the training room how do you exercise the
demons of the last couple of years because they've lost
a lot of games due to injuries.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Here's another one for you. The Ravens heading into this
season twenty fourth in strength of schedule. Okay, based on
their opponents, they're going to be playing the AFC and
NFC South, So they're just like I just I feel
the stars are aligning for them so properly in regard

(25:43):
to a really great opportunity to dominate and win their
division twenty fourth in strength of schedule.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Now's now's the time, as we said here, minus one
sixty to win the division, Anita, and we look at
the win totals. Last I'd looked they were at ten
and a half. I don't know if there's been any
movement on that since Crosby's acquisition, but certainly the opportunity there.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
You mentioned all the.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Division issues prior to Ravens thirteen, so minus one oh
five to win the division, prior to Crosby thirteen to
one to win, to win the Super Bowl odds prior
to yep.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
All right, we'll keep an eye on that and certainly
moving lines investing as we go. Now it's time to
take our attention over to the news desk for a man,
the legend, the myth himself. It's Isaac Lohenkron, hat Isaac
loewen Kron.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Getting ready for Angels CITYFC.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
He's keeping an eye on everything the Chargers are doing,
and of course wishing he was crossing the finish line
as part of the LA marathon.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
Actually, I had to leave early after eighteen miles to
make it over here today, but they still gave me
a finisher's addle, so I met did.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Not expect that, so it was like it's weighing you down.
I appreciated that. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:59):
Well, speaking of fishing of a different variety. In college basketball,
Georgia Tech today fired head coach Damon Statamire after three seasons.
We have two conference championship games going on right now.
In the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament championship game, Northern Iowa
as a thirty to twenty three lead over the University
of Illinois Chicago with eight minutes left of the first half.

(27:20):
In the Big South Championship Game, High Point up on
Winthrop twenty four to sixteen with eight minutes remaining in
the first half. Now, Anita, this one's for you, but
I'm afraid I'm gonna need some help to make sure
I get it right. We also have the championship game
of the World Cup of Cricket going on right now,
and India has a significant I think two hundred and

(27:44):
fifty five to one oh one lead over New Zealand
with five wickets down. Whatever that means anyway, let's tune
in and listen in to the live radio broadcast of
the World Cricket Final.

Speaker 8 (27:58):
This one's driven on the off side fielded by Surikomar went.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Straight to him. Pressure does strange things to people, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (28:04):
I mean in Naba play seven wides from a New
Zealand bowling attack that's been.

Speaker 7 (28:10):
So disciplined anyway, sounded like a little bit of baseball there,
hockey there, bowling.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
There.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Have no idea what's going on, but India is leading vague.
NFL media just reported the Denver Broncos are resigning linebacker
Justin Sternod to a three year, eighteen million dollar deal.
Green Bay Packers senter Sean Ryan has agreed to a
three year, thirty six million excuse me, a three year
thirty three million dollar extension.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Finally, Mike and Anita.

Speaker 7 (28:38):
On Friday night, Cincinnati Bengals receiver Jamar Chase was live
streaming himself on Twitch playing a video game when people
in the live chat informed him that the AFC North
rival Baltimore Ravens had just acquired Max Crosby.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
Listen Crosby to Baltimore, Yo, Ryan nah Dad to first
rounds you're lying.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
You're lying.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
You know, we didn't just lose him to the same
division twice a year.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Oh my god, why that happened like that? Hey, you
know what's crazy. That's the perfect fit because they didn't
have on that funck this year. That's a great pick.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Now that I'm really sitting here thinking it's not oval.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
We just gotta block his Oh my god, that's crazy.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
Chat expert analysis instantly by Jamar Chase back to you, guys, appreciate.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Jailo At, Isaac Low and gron My Garment Anita Marks
with the here it's Fox Sports Sunday. There you go,
the explotives redacted. But I think he got the full
effect of Really that's what we've got. I mean, if
we could have gotten the live look in of Joe
Burrow and he looked resplendent at UFC three twenty six
last night, no question about it. But think about that,
six games a year, the terrors of the AFC North

(29:58):
coming your way. A bad offensive line that at this point,
if you spent every dime to fortify it, I don't
think it's enough.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Listen, Steelers didn't have a great offensive line. Aaron Rodgers
can attest to that Cincinnati, of course we're just talking
about and you know the Cleveland Browns. Their offensive line
was quite solid, but they just don't have a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
I mean again, the time is now pounced. Let's go Ravens.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Look at that full on. She'll be in a bird
suit before this show ends tonight. But Jamar Chase saying
what a lot of folks felt as that word traveled down.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
For the Raiders, they make the move.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Obviously Mendoza is gonna go number one, and you start
stacking more draft picks. A lot of conversation about Tom Brady,
where he's at in the process and what's going on
behind closed doors. There was the report about Alex Guerrero
and Max Crosby not being a big fan of other
involved mo of folks that aren't, you know, directly in

(31:02):
the line of fire up to the you know, Mark
Davis Booth and everything else. But for the Raiders, you're
in a full reboot. And this is where we talked
about it last week, and folks can go find the
podcast Fox Sports Weekends, Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Anita, you and I about Mendoz. If you're not.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Sold like you're doing a complete teardown. So having a
quarterback while you're trying to figure everything else out is
kind of a curious prospect. But since you've got all
the picks in theory, you've got a very youthful, you
know squad you're going to bring out in a very
difficult AFC West. But you got to get all this

(31:41):
right otherwise you're wasting that rookie deal.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, I mean again, we talked about it on Friday,
on last Sunday, and that is Listen, Mendoza is great,
and I really believe that the Raiders are going to
take him at number one. But the reason the Raiders
are taking him at number one is because their team
is bad. So Mendoza is coming from an excellent Indiana
team with a phenomenal offensive line, tons of weapons, great

(32:04):
head coach, and he's going to the Raiders. There there
are you know, there there are there's skill sets that
you know John spy Tech, who by the way, is
a friend of mine. He's the general manager. He of
course was part of the front office with the Tampa
Bay Box when Tom Brady was the quarterback. There hints

(32:24):
the relationship between John spy Tech and Tom Brady and
and how that now comes together with the Raiders. Like
I believe in John spy Tech, not just because he's
my friend. I think he's really really good at what
he does. I do believe they'll take Mendoza, But I
think we just have to have realistic expectations, like you know,
you need to you need to build a good offensive line.

(32:47):
Like he's athletic, and we saw him in the National
Championship game right dive for that touchdown like he's he
he loves the physicality, like he got beat up in
that game by the University of Miami. Like take a
look in and keep on ticking. That's what we saw
from him. But there are other other things that I think.
I think he's going to have a lot of obstacles
because he's going to be going to a very bad team,

(33:09):
and until they can build what's needed around him, I
think it's going to be an uphill battle. So just
realistic expectations from NDOSA in this Raiders team. I think
it's going to be like probably like a good three
year process.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Effective cap space one hundred three million dollars, So spy
Tech certainly has a giant wallet. My favorite reaction in
the moment when Crosby got traded was Charles Woodson with
zero words but fifty three little orange, red faced angry
emojis and folks replying going, Hey, it's business man, he goes,

(33:42):
So what it's like?

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
So you've angered Raider nation at least the veteran players
and their history. But we'll see a lot of work
to be done between now and the draft. Spy Tech
and Company on the clock. Anita Marx with me this
morning on Mike Carmen. Thanks for being with us here
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(34:07):
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Speaker 4 (35:07):
You got it loaded up.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
And it's the best gift you can give. See, I mean,
you got Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays, all of that.
It's the best gift you can give. Twenty four to
seven music and my beautiful voice. Did I sell that
well enough? You did get in there and sell, sell, sell.
That's what it's all about here. As we look ahead

(35:30):
to the day, we've got the pregame rolling on for
the NBA, the Thunder with their fiftieth win, SGA doing
his thing, but with the action Friday night, we got
Jason Tatum back on the court for the first time.
It was nice and this is one of my launch
points of very exciting to see a guy actually want

(35:50):
to get back on the court, since all we've done
is talk about finding ways to get off it all
year long in terms of load management, injuries, operate, should
shut down, et cetera. Kind of like we were just
talking about with Max Crosby. He had no reason to
want to play those final games except you know, professional
pride and markers that he's putting up for himself. But

(36:11):
later on we get the Celtics and Cavaliers. Here in
short order, Celtics a plus one and a half my
last look to twenty five for the total, but for
the Eastern Conference, Suddenly Jalen Brown and he look to
be the dynamic duo.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Listen watching that game last night Tatum's return, and of
course the Celtics beat the MAVs. So Tatum fifteen points
in twenty seven minutes. More impressively, my twelve rebounds, seven assists.
Celtics outscored the MAVs by twenty points when he was
on the court. I think Boston has to be one

(36:53):
of the best stories this year in the NBA. I
don't know about you, like I wrote them off, like no, Tatum, Oh,
no way. The Eastern Conference is going to be uber
competitive with the Knicks. Of course, I'm here in New York.
I love the Knicks. They've obviously the last two three
seasons have been really exciting to watch the Cavs. Of course,
I thought Orlando was gonna have a good season. I

(37:14):
wrote Boston off. Jalen Brown to me, and I know
we talked about it last Sunday. Needs to be in
the discussion for MVP this year. Talk about making chick
chicken salad out of chicken poop boy. He's done that
this year. And now you're telling me this is a
Celtics team that they're second in the East, They've got
a record of forty two and twenty one, and now

(37:35):
they get Tatum back. I think their biggest obstacle is
going to be finding out because they've been playing without
him for the entire season. Is finding the chemistry again,
really because at the end of the day, this has
been Jalen Brown's team, So you know, I think that's
going to be a process. So love that he's in
it now so that once the playoffs roll around, they

(37:58):
will be back to a fine an oiled machine. And
I think it's going to be really interesting to see
how that works because prior to his injury, right, like
when I said, I love to play this game with people,
like when I when I when I yell out a team,
what what player comes to mind first?

Speaker 8 (38:13):
Right?

Speaker 3 (38:14):
And if and if you had a room of like
ten people and I said Boston Celtics, they'd say Jason Tatum, right.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
I'd be the outlier. I'd be that one guy over
there going would Yeah, I was a Jalen Brown, guy
Horford who.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Like he's like.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
There and he's as old as I. I'm saying, there's
a little bit of excitement there. I'm saying current day,
current day, Yeah, would I was a Jayleen Brown exactly.
So I listened, big shout out to to to Jalen Brown.
But you mentioned we've got the Celtics and the Caves.
That game kicks off in just about eight minutes. I've
got to play here. I'm gonna take the Celtics, give
me the one on half. I'm also potentially I'll play

(38:51):
them on the money line at minus one to wait.
The big reason why no Jared Allen for for the
Calves and he is essential for that high kind of
pick and roll game that Mitchell liked to play. Meanwhile,
Boston League's lowest rim rate allowed.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
They have like one of the.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Best defenses in the NBA and also the number one
team and avoiding turnovers. So I love this matchup for
the Celtics, and I love it even more after what
I saw from Tatum last night. So again, Celtics, you
could get them plus one and a half. I like
them on the money line at minus one o eight
and again that game kicks off in about eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, with THAT'SGA playing consistently. Now, the odds for Jalen
Brown have moved back to plus sixty five hundred. For
the MVP, there were a couple of days where it
had gotten into that forty or forty five to one range,
but drifting back out. Jokic still dancing. With the games played,
he's somewhere in the six and a half to one.

(39:46):
And Kad Cunningham being a guy we talked about a
lot last week plus five fifty to plus thirteen hundred
as we watch it unfold. But the Celtics, you got
twenty games to get Jason Tatum up to speed, and
I just think it's a great story for again and
the just what the negativity over the course of the
season was and the opportunity here to come and steal

(40:06):
the East. It's just fascinating and it'll make Jason cry
Monday through Friday, as in his knixt talk.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
So that's good.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Even though meeting Josh Hart was fantastic. As they get
ready to play the Lakers, more on that game go ahead,
I was.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Just gonna say, he's one of my favorite Nicks players.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Well, and he's getting ready for the Mets too. I
ad Anita marks where you find or find me over
at Swollen Dome. We'll talk a little bit of college
buckets because there's another big game on the docket.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Welcome, then an hour two of the program cruising right
along as we get set for tip off with Boston
and Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
We've got World Baseball Classic action. Put a pin in that.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
We'll get back to that competition in a moment the
La Marathon where efforting there seemed to be some chaos
and down the home stretch earlier and waiting for the
video and audio to come out of that, there go
drama from the marathon. We've got Anita Marx with me
this morning on Mike Carmen. Thanks for being with us.
Anita is keeping an eye on the cricket Championships. I am,

(41:10):
You'm betting interest on that advantage.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
This is this is, this is why we're killing the ratings.
New Zealand needs one hundred and thirteen runs and twenty
five twenty four balls to win. That tells you that
India is just kicking their butt. Okay, yeah, so and
on to Cincinnati. That's kind of kind of work.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
But look, look we're trying to be take over the
globe like that is always my I'm like Pinky in
the brain, take over the world every night, right kind
of thing. But certainly we try to wrap it all
in with a big hug because we've got a global
audience that has different interests and we want to broadcast obviously,

(41:50):
but want to make sure that you're all seen out
there if you watch something else. Right, for two weeks Olympics,
I think Jason Smith and I were probably the most
ardent watchers and talkers here on Fox Sports Radio of that,
and likewise the World Baseball Classic, embracing it on a
whole other level. We see keyth ca Hernander saying, look,
I've played in five World Series, but to play with

(42:11):
my nation's name across my chest. And you see the
explosion from the dugouts with every big hit, every big
defensive play, every pitch like it's just it's waiting to
erupt in these stadiums globally with every move. Right, we
saw the Otani Grand Slam to get things started. He

(42:33):
homered again, and you know, watching that and people waiting
for the baseball season to start. But when you get
into international play, you know, you get that extra juice
to it. Now, never mind the extra excellent cuisine that's
going on, and these traditions. I don't know, but you've
seen this, Anita. You got a lucha door mass for
Mexico when you hit a home run. Italy's got an

(42:54):
espresso machine in there you take a shot after a
big play. You've got the changing of the guard for
Team England when they have a big moment. So yeah,
a lot of chaos and pageantry that comes into it.
And I'm all about having fun and celebrating this game.
So when we get the marriage of the pros and
these great stories like Jose Contreras's seventeen year old getting

(43:17):
Aaron Judge to ground into a double play.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
It's good fodder. Did you see that?

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Bad Bunny designed the cleats for Kiki and the Puerto Ricantinue.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
I've tried to figure out how to get a pair
of those and one of the lech doors.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
They're tight, right, they're tight, sa cheese.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
But that's it, right, Bad Bonnie.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
But yeah, it's the designs, right, all of the the influences,
the the luminaries that show up to watch these games.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
You know, it's it takes on a whole other level.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
And I know there's been a lot of consternation, and
there were insurance issues related to getting guys cleared to
play for some of these teams. The Dominican Republic had
a number of issues as they they were rolling up on.
Who's watched a guy just get hit by a pitch
and he's walking down to first base after crumbling to
the ground, and he's getting a standing ovation and hyping

(44:09):
up the crowd as he walks to first base.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
I mean, it's everything you could want and then some.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
And then you have Tarik Schoobel, who was supposed to
pitch once had his experience, gives up the leadoff home run,
has five good innings. Then he's like, I might not
want to go back to Tiger's camp quite so fast
being around this and being around the energy. Look, I
mentioned the Key k Hernandez thing for a lot of guys. Look,
I'm a White Sox fan. Okay, we last won in
two thousand and five, and three of the last four

(44:34):
years they've lost more than a hundred games. I don't
get to celebrate a lot except opening day and when
they show up nearby where I can go watch them
for a couple of innings before having to come into
work because of the game times. But to be able
to celebrate this and watch these guys having fun and compete, Look,
give me meaningful games as opposed to another split squad

(44:55):
thing in Arizona.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
I'm all in, Yeah, And I.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Feel like in five folloween what the players are saying,
how they're feeling, how they are playing, like, there's just
there's extra passion here, Mike, There's extra passion, there's more excitement,
there's all these storylines. I just feel like, and you know,
not a knock on major League Baseball, but you know,

(45:19):
and wasn't it wasn't there a quote like this is
this is more important than the World Series?

Speaker 4 (45:25):
No, that's it right.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Key k Hernandez was the guy that said that flat out.
He goes, look, I played in a bunch of them,
but I mean, you talk about national pride, right, you're
trying to find that extra juice. Bryce Harper at his comments,
going look, we need we need baseball in LA twenty
eight because not to put this down, people are trying
to figure out where we're televised whatever. The Olympics, it's

(45:46):
must see TV and hopefully you know, after twenty years
they had their first walk off home runs. But you
see the players from other nations and certainly a number
from the US as I mentioned, you know with schoobl
start and such that maybe it keeps getting that ground swell,
but it's hard hard to keep it up for one
hundred and sixty two games plus. Like that's the that's

(46:06):
the hard part, because you'll go from this back into
all right, the pageantry of opening Day and then roll
it from there.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Now, are you are you under Are you one of
those that are under the mindset that the baseball season
is too long? They need to shorten the schedule.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
No, no, you're not.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
No, Look the more games I can get, and look,
I get no cut of any of the television deals.
But and for all of these sports, Look, if you
cut and chop them off, it's like anything I'll adapt,
I won't like it, and we'll have to have all
those fights about records like we do all the time,
of what does.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
It mean when you you know, the game changes and
whatever else.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Like I certainly wouldn't be, you know, ardently opposed to it,
but I'm not the guy standing there going, yeah, yeah,
cut twenty games off here because the NBA, it's our argument,
Smith and I have all the time, not to take
it from the MLB, but to inform you know, everybody
if they don't listen in the evenings.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Here's a conversation we have regularly.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
If you don't get a lot of change in the standings,
you get a lot of teams that are doing the tanking.
And certainly this year for NBA purposes, you got more
freshmen coming in and international players, which is why you
have so many teams doing it. But for Major League Baseball,
how many teams already know coming out of spring training
they've got no chance in hell to win a division,
let alone play for a World Series, virtually all of them.

(47:23):
And it's not because the Dodgers ruin baseball. It's the
way it's been forever. So I guess it becomes the
you know, do you shorten it for the sake of
shortening it? And everybody's got to get paid out, So
that's the money problem always steps up.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
But I have no problem with the one sixty two.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
I just don't know what the what the fix would
be if if the idea is to you know, incentivize
you know, competition down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Are you are you one who supports what Major League
Baseball has done to make the game faster, like the
pitch clock and you know, and and listen, it's worked
right like games now are under you know, summer two
hours and fifteen minutes, two hours and twenty five minutes,

(48:13):
it's worked. Are you a proponent of that?

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Do you feel that baseball has done well in that regard?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, the pitch clocks has worked out pretty well. Look,
I'm a kid growing up watching Carlton Fisk and the
human rein delays right every pitch, He's got to adjust
himself and that back and forth with the pitcher and
batter I thought was part of the theater.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
But I'm also you know, I'm not the masses, right.
The masses want to get them on, get them over,
get him in.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
We look at the World Game of Soccer, it's a
two hour and change investment, right, So when we start
talking about games drifting towards three hours, I understand the
reticence when you're trying to bring in folks that are
at lunatics like me. You're trying to broadcast and deliver
a game to the masses and make it a palatable
experience to keep things moving.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
The only thing that I've really did not don't hit.
I mean I hate it.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
I categorically hate it, and I don't use that word
a lot on radio. In terms of any of the
stuff we talk about. There might be things that I
like less or more in games and stories that don't
peak my interest to a high level. But the thing
I hate is the ghost Runner. I hate I hate
the ghost Runner, and I hate penalty kicks and shootouts.

(49:30):
Those things can go away as far as I'm concerned,
but otherwise I'm in.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
I love shootouts. It's I love shootouts. It's so exciting.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
You're on the edge of your seat.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
You're like standing up, you can't sit down, You're biting
your nails, You're.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Like deciding the game without playing the game anymore.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Well, yes, like three hockey, but as a spect I
didn't I didn't dig the three on three hockey and.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
I'm not going Team Canada here. They they can beat it.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
They lost, But it's just the idea of all right,
we play all this way, particularly the gold medal game.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
You want to do it in earlier rounds.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
I can understand the argument of, hey, we can't have
guys skating forever and then have the metal rounds disappear.
But you get to the gold medal game, it's like,
all right, we're gonna go to three out there? Like no, Like,
how come we can't just lay it out there? And
again this gets into the unions, gets back into the
pro leagues and influence and making everybody and trying to
give everybody a sandwich, or as the sign in the

(50:28):
studio says, here, remember you can't please everybody.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
You are not a taco.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Ooh.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
See, I mean that nothing boils it down to brass tacks.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Right, nothing like Taco Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Baby.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
Well that's it, so yeah, I mean change it change.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Look, change is inevitable, right, people that complain about the
streaming services and whatever else. It's like you decide where
your saturation point is. You can't have it all. Once
upon a time, we had three games a week we
got to watch in the NFL, and then you fired
up the or to Michaels Sports Machine to get a
couple of highlights from out of town games.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Right, you read about everybody else in the newspapers.

Speaker 8 (51:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
And it's the Tom Petty line from the last DJ album,
one of my favorites for folks out there kind of
fighting in the record industry. All the boys upstairs want
to see how much you'll pay for what you used
to get for free.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
And that's true.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
But it's it's the saturation point if you if you
need to see every game, you'll pay for it and
you'll find it and you'll seek it out. Likewise, one
hundred and sixty two game schedule. If you're still in
and haven't drifted to football or whatever else in September,
then then they got you.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
But isn't it Isn't it funny? How like when we're
talking about baseball, and many people feel the NBA season
is too long, but when we're talking about the NFL season,
we want eight games, right, like we want eighteen games,
no more for preseason games, more regular season, we want
more and more.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Well, because it's.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Once a week, but also it's just it's it's it's
just it rules. It rules our sports universe. Let's be honest.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Oh yeah, between what'sling fantasy and just hot topics and
hot take nonsense, it's everything's But what's crazy.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Mike, is the product. The product sucks. The product, Like
you and I have been covering the NFL for years,
Oh it's terrible, right, Like, it's just the product is
so bad, but we're still tuning in.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Yeah, see it's tough.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
I can't miss a game and we're still gambling on it.
It's just it's insane to me. It's just it's it's wild.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Well, it's that tough divide, right if we watch you know,
basketball and baseball, it's every night, and it's like, all right,
the running joke on our show now is all right,
as we sit down and the Big Boys guy introduces us, like,
all right, what's the over on games? In the NBA
that will end inside of ten digits. Let's go and
we look at the sleigh. It's like, all right, is

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it one and a half? Is it two and a half?
And some nights we're blessed with some great games. With
Major League Baseball, you get into the same kind of
thing as the season rolls on and the shininess and
newness goes on with the NFL, even when it's bad,
if it's close late, it's good games, right, I mean,
by the definition of it, we're watching down the stretch

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where what was it, seventy some odd games finished within
three points?

Speaker 4 (53:18):
That's good football, right?

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Not really if you're watching it play by play and
doing the breakdowns, you go, wow, this bad offensive line
play is bad. You've got guys in the secondary that
are lost, and you know the injuries, and you just
go on down the line, the attrition and certainly the
fight for the eighteenth game.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
But the players get nearly fifty cents on the dollar
for that extra game. Guess what they'll sign off with
minimal concessions.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
I just and we get in this conversation on this.
So NFL Sundays, I have three huge screen TVs. Going
One is again I'm here in New York, so it's
either Giants or Jets. The other is like the best
game either in the one or the four o'clock slot,
and then the red zone. And I typically have anywhere

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between fifteen to twenty people over right, it's just copious
amounts of wine, fantastic food. We're here all day. We
start at twelve thirty, we go all the way to
the end of the Sunday night game. And it was
really hard this season to decide what games we were
going to put on because there really weren't great matchups.

(54:31):
And a big reason, of course, was because of the injuries, right,
and you had like two subpar starting quarterbacks, where if
they're starting quarterbacks, if Patrick Mahomes was active and attractive,
obviously it would be a different storyline. But this year,
this past year, in the NFL season, more than most,
it was very hard to find more than two games

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that were worth worth really tuning into, even if you
didn't have money on the game.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
I always go back to the old line about what
do you call the person that finishes last in you know,
medical school, It's still going to be doctor, right, I
celebrate all to seventy two. Now they may be summer
better than others. Sixty five players through at least one
touchdown pass this year. Yeah, but you know I only

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get two hundred and seventy two of them before they
go away, so we find a way to embrace them all.
By the way, now, I'm going to get on a
tin bus to to your place. If you're having that
kind of party on a Sunday, Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (55:34):
You're welcome to come anytime. Really seriously, I'm considering charging
at the door. Coming. Yeah, it's that kind of party
really quick. India. India has won. India has won the
men's T twenty World Cup Cricket Championship New Zealand. They
won by ninety six runs. Talk about world domination and cricket.

(55:56):
Way to go India.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
He is absolutely obliterated.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
One.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Thanks Chris, we got youa we got I loove all right,
really quick, before we tap back in with Jake Paul
against the National Football League, how about we get a
couple of picks from you. We got the Lakers and
the Knicks a little bit later, and then Michigan already
clinching the Big Ten regular season title.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Nine and a half point favorites against Sparty.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Yeah, so I do like the Knicks here, Sorry's Lakers fans,
but the Lakers have failed to cover or win a
game as an underdog in each of their last twelve games. Meanwhile,
the Knicks have won each of their last ten Sunday games.
They love their Sunday's best even though the Lakers will
be wearing them. And also they've covered the spread in
some of their last eight games against Western Conference opponents.

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So I do like the Knicks. I'll lay the three
and a half. That game tips off at three thirty
pm Eastern time. But here's a prop that for you.
I do like Luca over twenty nine and a half points.
Why is last six games against the Knicks thirty two,
thirty nine sixty thirty thirty. But he's averaging thirty seven
points a game. He averages thirty seven points a game
against the Nicks. So you're telling me I could get

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Luca over twenty nine and a half points at minus
one twenty two.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
I'm all over that.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
So that is another NBA pick coming your way. And
then as for Michigan, Michigan State, I'm gonna play this
two ways. Love Michigan in the first half at minus
five and a half. They've won each of their last
fourteen games against conference opponents. And also they've won the
first half in sixteen of their seventeen games as a
top ten AP ranked team at their home on their

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home court. But also I am going to play them
as well minus nine and a half against Michigan State.
Man Michigan, they are just fierce, great guard play, terrifying
front court. Ever since they lost a duke, they won
three straight. Offensively, they're just explosive. They're averaging ninety points
if not more a game. Love Michigan. Really, my favorite

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play here is minus five and a half in the
first half. You win that. Now you're playing with house money.
Go Michigan as well, minus nine and a half. Full game.
That tip off is at four thirty.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Literally the house's money at Anita Marks.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
For more picks and analysis, find me over at Swollendome
as we continue. Yeah, the NFL world retired and current.
Everybody wants a piece of Jake Paul and maybe even
some Tom Brady action. I don't know a lot going on.
We'll discuss that next year on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio watching
my old neighbors in the Missouri Valley Conference title game
with the UIC Flames getting after. We'll get an update
from Ilo in a couple of minutes. Here at the
news desk, Mike carbon Anita.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Marks with you here.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
It's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio World Baseball Classic
Boston Cleveland underway in the NBA early two point Boston advantage.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
But one of these subplots with.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
All of the great storylines going across the National Football League,
the NBA and the happy returns of Jason Tatum, the
continuing uh saga of Master Thespy and Lebron James. Yes,
we'll get into Oscar talking about fifteen minutes. Is that
Logan Paul and his brother backing him up, going yeah,
like he's the guy in a movie. Logan Paul kind

(59:16):
of talking a bunch of smack against the NFL. We've
seen a little bit of work. He's part of the
larger WWE universe, and he's absolutely amazing in ring and
some of the death defying stunts going off.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
The top rope and through the air.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
It really is a Marvel right athletic performance and competition
with the work. But he had a little back and
forth Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski working out and doing
some talking. We got a little bit of sound off
of this one.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
What football players would straight up beat his ass that
I would put. I would put any amount of money
that you could.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Put metcalf not a single football player me in a
boxing match, Miles gear that is on god, Miles Garrett.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
I would throttle Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett, I will bet you.
Why do we choose him?

Speaker 8 (01:00:09):
They commit any day any football player Miles Garrett, Hua.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Like, I don't even I don't even know. Don't even
try calling out Sam Donald, Sam Donald, don't do it.
A million dollars, A million dollars. You come to the gym,
we put on boxing gloves.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
We see how it goes there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
You go there, there's the million dollar challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
I like the wait, what, Miles Garrett, that guy swung
HELMETSHP guy A million dollars?

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Any speeds all over the place?

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Million dollar boxing match, specifically looking at Le'Veon bell popped
up as well as some others. Ten ounce gloves, no headgear,
three minute rounds, uh until someone quits. That is the proposal.
And I've just seen guys lining up here Anita Uh
and look as much as I enjoyed and have enjoyed
his work, Uh and his brothers work at in the

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ring and these exhibitions, like it's what we're talking about.
I'll take virtually any NFL player in this contest.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
What's it you would Yeah, you would take Tom Brady
your logan, Paul.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Well, there's NFL players, and then there's quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are
a whole other quarterbacks and kickers go into a whole
other category. They're in a different file. Like we were
talking about the violence of defensive tackles and guys of
that nature. Offensive lineman. I know there have been a
couple that have raised their hand going yeah, I'll stand
in for a million bucks. I'll put it up right now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
So everything that I'm reading is that Leveyon Bell allegedly
has agreed to terms to this boxing match. Now, keep
in mind, levy On Bell has previous boxing experience. He's
two and one in the ring, so that's going to
be interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Because the immediate reaction with Levon Bell was well, you're retired,
I'd have to stop training and doing what I do
with my full time job to actually take this seriously,
which was nice.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Apparently, apparently Antonio Brown has gotten into the mix.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
What I do that was gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Of course, I will say this, like current player Miles Garrett,
I think would really give him a run for his money.
But like the player that I would put a lot
of money on to beat Logan Paul, current player Daniel Hunter,
dude six, dude is six two fifty two. He's got
an eighty four point five reach, eighty four point five

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inch reach. Yeah, good luck, Logan.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
So I don't want to go back.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
I'm gonna I'm gonna take James Harrison out of retirement,
and I'm just gonna say this is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
So, this is this is what I wanted to throw
out to you. Former NFL players that I think would
kick Logan's ass. Okay, let's go yeah, Okay, Okay. Clay Matthews,
yes or no?

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Can he sing a couple of lines like he did
in Pitch Perfect first before he starts throwing haymakers?

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
But yeah, I'm in Adrian Peterson. Yeah, that one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
That one's a dangerous one because we start talking about
Adrian Peterson's Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, break your hand
when do you go to shake it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I'm with you, with James Harrison, I'm with you one
hundred percent. Here's one for you, Ed Reid, he'd smile
at Red, would would destroy him. I know Ed from
my Ravens days.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
Okay, do do we just have to leave ray Lewis
off the list? What did you say we have to
leave ray Lewis off the list?

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Ray Ray gets a nosebleed playing basketball. Y, No, you can't.
Ray Lewis is not good at anything else but then football,
that's it. And Dan trust me, he gets nosebleeds when
he plays basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
This would be an interesting exhibition series, There's no question
about it. As we talk about the next you know,
Floyd Mayweather process, and we can make this the undercard.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
This would be good.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Here's another one for you. Yeah, bo Jackson, how much money?
Let me how much money would you pay to watch
Bo Jackson fight? Logan? Paul?

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Yeah? Drop one hundred on that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Even in the the post hip replacement, you can still
get after it, right. You don't have to move far.

Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
I like that. It's not like Aaron I was thinking
about Aaron Donald.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
But he's too pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
You don't want to mess up that face. You don't
want to mess up that eron Aaron Donald face. He
too pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
He retired, get in there. I want to see I
wanted to see him back on a football field. Every
time he walks out a football field, it's like Barry
Sanders for like four or five years, Like he's coming back, right,
It's gonna get explore, right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
But but seriously, would you would you would you pay
to watch if it was if it was one of
those guys that you felt like wow, you know, if
it was it was like a good name like that.
Like I don't know if I'm paying for Levy on Bell.
I don't know if I'm paying for Antonio Brown. Maybe
i am, because Antonio Brown is such a clown. But
you know, if it was somebody like Ed Reed or

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James Harrison.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
You might get me for twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
I can't go for well, what else is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
On the cart bus?

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
No that well, but that's why I'd make my own.

Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
But the idea I'm going to get into my trivia
your trivia nights, Get.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Trivia night for twenty bucks. Twenty five dollars. Good for you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
See next level stuff again. We talked about that last week.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
You got to go into the business and marketing plans
of Anita Marks at Anita Marx, no question about it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
But yeah no, But again it becomes the saturation point.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Right of all right, because because I know this would
be on, because he's they're both social media guys, the
Paul Brothers. I'd have every clip of it up immediately.
This would not be like an Olympic goal where I
needed someone to draw me a stick figure of what
just happened because of some stupid embargoes by the NHLA.
Let's not try to grow the game, uh and have

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these things available and let's fight this out with the
Olympic committee. But now I think I think I'd be
able to follow this on social media pretty easily.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
So do you, I mean, what's your guy like, I
think the Leveon Bell thing will happen?

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
Oh? I think, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I think this is I think this has got enough legs,
It's got enough you know, social media following. We're talking
about it here on Sunday morning. I think, uh, I
think it's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Yeah, And I went to WrestleMania Night two last year,
and there were a lot of rumors about Tom Brady
swirling in there. I think some of this smack talking
brings him into the into the arena when it returns
to Vegas next month, if only for a smack talking
confer conversation and maybe a slap to the face or something.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
Tom to Paul, of.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
Course, how do you think Gronk would fare?

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Gronk's been in the ring before.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I mean, he's done the wrestling part, from the foot,
from the box excit, I mean a big reach.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
I think I think the swing would be too long.
I think he'd leave himself open.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:07:07):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
I think Logan would would be drunk.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
A little bit of the excellence of execution money on
Logan in that matchup. See there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
I get a little Brett Hart line in as we
go quickly before we advanced the narrative. Here one of
the things that went down the other day. And I
know you were on top of this one, and we
paid a bit of attention to it because you're always
waiting for something substantive to come through.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
But we had this presidential conference.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Talking about nil and you had all these invited guests,
most of whom didn't speak. Some figureheads, some people that
you'd scratch your head, going, oh cool, come about how
did I not get an invite?

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
And all in.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
But one of the things to come out of it
was the the fight over nil and collectives. Urban Meyer
spoke for a bit related to that, uh, and then
for President Trump, part of the discussion going to the hey,
get back to scholarship and some limited stipend to that end,
and urban Meyer, you know, addressed it in terms of capitalism.

(01:08:04):
Then he went back after the collective but talking about
you know, legitimate business transactions and sponsorships and pay to
play versus the.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
What nil quote is intended for?

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
And we can always parse words out there, but the
genies out like you're not getting that back in the
bottle at this point, it's now just trying to figure
out can you bring everything back in under some czar
and good luck getting the SEC. This might be the
undercard for a Logan Paul fight between the SEC Big

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ten and Big twelve commissioners, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
And again if you're just tuning in and you're not
aware of what happened this week, again, President Trump put
together a meeting fifty people of a variety of backgrounds,
and it was called saving college Sports. I think that
pretty much says it all right. Like the Yankees president
Randy Levine was there also, Nick Saban was there. One

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of the things he said was that his goal as
a former head coach was to prepare players for success
in life and create an environment that would help them
through their personal development and academic support. And he said,
quote unquote, that became impossible to do in this system.
You mentioned Urban Meyer.

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
He's not for it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
He said, you need to get rid of the collectives,
the donors that put money in a pot distribute to
players throughout coaches and the managers. He wants that gone.
And then Trump pretty much ended it with this. And
he'll say that he's going to have an executive order
within one week and it'll be very all encompassing, and
we're going to put it forward and we're going to
get sued and we're going to see how it plays.

(01:09:45):
But I'll have an executive order which will solve every
problem in this room, every problem, within one week, and
we'll put it forward and we'll get sued. Kept on
saying that, and it's the one thing I know for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
So and it's sitcom that it's going to get solved
that fast.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
I mean I was, I was quote for quote, and
so all I'm saying is like, brace yourself. I know
this is about putting the toothpaste back in the tube,
and we all know how difficult that is, close to impossible.
But just it's listen. I'm kind of I'm kind of
on the fence in this regard. Like I do believe

(01:10:25):
collegiate athletes deserve to get some type of payment. I'm
just not a big proponent of how the nil situation
works right now.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
Oh yeah, there's there's like no rules.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
Exactly, and so there needs to be rules put in place,
something needs to be done. But it's this is going
to be really interesting to see how this all plays out.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
Yeah, it's just the curiosity.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
And something that kept coming back up was the idea
that the education part of it has gone away. And
I talked about it a little bit last week. When
you go back to Carson back being asked about class,
He's like, yeah, I haven't gone to class in two years,
right yet there he is playing for a national title.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
But what but what are the what's the percentage of
players that really graduate with with a legit degree in something, well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
No, and that's just it, right, you take it, taking
the whole basket weaving and well, but I mean i'd
but I mean that's always been the case.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
What do you do with a degree, like, like, let's
be honest, what do you do with a.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Degree in economics? There's a lot of things you can do.
I mean there's you're where you're.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Going, where you're getting hired by whom these days with
a degree in economics.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
Well, you learn a lot about business and the background there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
So I understand that, but I'm just all my point being.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
Is, well, it's actually getting to taking.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Are you know, they're taking the easiest degrees to get
where academics have never been important ever, maybe maybe three
percent of collegiate athletes really put their effort into getting
a legit degree and graduating. What's the percentage of that

(01:12:16):
don't graduate Well, I think early for the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Well this, well, but that's the difference right between the
revenue sports and draft eligible and now with nil you
got guys staying longer. So in theory that number should rise,
but we have to put a pin in it there.
She's Anita Marx out and Needa Marx find me over
at Swollen Dome. Let's put it over to Isaac Low
and Cron another time. He's going to update us on
this beautiful UIC Flames game. We've got that, We've got

(01:12:43):
it all.

Speaker 7 (01:12:43):
We've got a World Baseball Classic pop quiz and more
from Jamar Chase's Twitch stream coming up, Mike and Anita.
But first, indeed in college basketball, First of all, Georgia
Tech today fired head coach Damon Statamire after three seasons.
Right now, in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament championship game,
the University of Illinois Chicago trailing Northern Iowa seventy one

(01:13:07):
to sixty five. They have five forty in counting remaining
in the second half. In the Big South Championship Game,
High Point, i have went through fifty eight to forty
eight with twelve minutes remaining in the second half. In
the NBA, right now, the Boston Celtics have a thirty
five to twenty six lead at Cleveland after one at
the World Baseball Classic. Team USA improved a two and
oho with a nine to one win over Great Britain

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on Saturday night. Now for the pop quiz Mike and Anita,
I'm gonna give you a couple of instruments and you
tell me whether they are allowed or not allowed at
World Baseball Classic venues, starting with bongo drums.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Allowed or not allowed? Absolutely, Wow, you are correct.

Speaker 7 (01:13:47):
Kazoo's part of percent, Anita, I say, yes, Kazoo's not
allowed at the World Baseball Classic. Cow Bells allowed or
not allowed?

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
He had, They'd better be allowed. We all need more
cow bell.

Speaker 7 (01:14:01):
Mike, Oh yeah, yes they are allowed. And finally, Zeala's
allowed or not allowed at the World Cup, at the
World Baseball Class. If not, I quit, but whatever, Like
that's that horrid?

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
They just go.

Speaker 7 (01:14:17):
Azala is not allowed at the World No, I know
at the World Baseball Classic. Discriminatory. Where's that suggestion box?
NFL Media reported, that's it right there, that's them. NFL
Media reported that the Denver Broncos are re signing linebacker
Justin sternod Do a three year, eighteen million dollar deal.
Green Bay Packers center Sean Ryan has agreed to a

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three year, thirty three million dollar extension. Finally, now, earlier,
we played the audio Bengals receiver Jamar Chase learning in
real time about the AFC North rival Ravens acquiring Max
Crosby on Friday night while Chase was live streaming of
video game on Twitch. So a little bit later, Bengals
quarterback Joe Burrow texted him about the trade, which re

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awakened chases emotions again.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Joe just texted me, we're events traded for Max Crosby. No, no, no, brother,
Oh my god, Oh my god. Oh oh, Max Crosby trade.

Speaker 7 (01:15:18):
Just oh.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
The trade is in the pickets, in the pickets in no.
Oh my god, Oh my god, no way. Oh well,
I'm on the text Joe. Let's have a great protection
scheme that week. So I can say, Mike and Anita
back to you. Yeah, and those other two and those

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other two and those other two.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
At Anita marks where you find her on Twitter, we
will send her a boove Azela. You find me over
at Swell and don't listen to it's the next level stuff.
They were a big deal because it sounded like a
bunch of wasps coming your way. As we continue Oscars
in next week, Timothy Schallamey has enraged some in the
sporting world. I mean, I'm extending it in there of

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performative dance well and Oscar voters. Perhaps we'll talk about
that next. As we continue on Fox.

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Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
All the videos that we put up of us screaming
at each other here in the studios and some behind this.
As you roll through, evangelized friends and family, full sleight
of action going on. We got the World Baseball classics
and college buckets, NBA Boston and Cleveland getting after it. Anita,
it has been a blast rolling through these two hours
with you. They fly by oh so fast. But we

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got one last controversy we need to get into. Timothy
Chalomey has stepped into it. I don't want to be
working in ballet or opera or things where it's like, hey,
keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about
this anymore. All respect to the ballet and opera people
out there, though I've been flooded in my timeline because
you know, the walls have years with all sorts of

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operas telling me, hey, if you use this code, you
can save fifteen percent.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
I love the opera. You know, We've got amazing opera
here in New York at Lincoln Center. So dude needs
to take that in and maybe maybe he'll reconsider his comments.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
I saw Marty Supreme, and by the end of it,
I was like, when when's it finish?

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Yeah, it was too long and for me listen, you know,
like I'm an athlete, like I wanted to see more
Ping pong.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
Dude, I want to see you promise me ping pong.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
You promised me the six years you've been working on
Ping pong. But do you think it all ultimately cost him?
Because the odds of he and Michael B. Jordan for
Sinners they're about a dead heat now.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Yeah, so so I'm not on next Sunday. You've got
Selection Sunday, And of course next Sunday is the OSCARS
Best Picture right now. One Battle is minus five hundred,
Sinners at plus three thirty, Hamnet at twenty to one,
Marty Supreme at forty to one. I listen, I love
loved One Battle right like like well, very well deserving

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to win, but like Sinners was awesome man. And then
of course you know Best Actor Michael b he played
two people like how can he not win? And I
get you know, Challa May is more than likely going
to win Marty Supreme minus one twenty. You could wager
on this stuff, but Michael be a plus one twenty
to play him and his cousin.

Speaker 7 (01:19:04):
You saw Sinners right about nine times four times in theater,
how like to me?

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Like, and he played both roles so well, like I
don't know, like wouldn't be mad if he won Best Actor,
But again I don't know. Maybe Shalla May, you know,
ticked off some people and he won't win the Best
Actor category.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
Yeah. I just wonder if anybody held back their their
last votes. I know Steve and VJ. Coming up here
in a minute. They got Lucky Lashu, who Steve has
on all the time Oscars preview and betting markets and
all of.

Speaker 4 (01:19:42):
Those things that he'll lay out.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
But you know, I go to the movies quite regularly,
although my daughter went away to college, so I lost
my late night after work slide in buddy, So I
need to find someone else to go tolerate me watching movies.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
You're so funny. Best supporting actor. I love Sean pennon
One Battle, he was great. Fifty Best supporting actress. How
about Tianna Taylor in One Battle? She was She's just
she's a badass.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
See, that's just it. I love the individual characters. Didn't
really love the movie, but that's just me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
She's so at plus one fifty for her by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
Yeah, I'm seeing her at plus one seventy five. So
there's there's some money to be had at Anita Mark.
Your bookie is there? You go at Anita Marks where
you find her in the tourter verse, betting sports radio,
and of course would be professional pickleball player Mike Harmon,
VJ and Steve coming up next.

Speaker 4 (01:20:34):
Have a great Sunday. We'll see you next time.