Steve Hartman & Veejay Huskey Talk NBA Draft, LeBron James, Lakers, And So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio A love the
dream once again here on a fully loaded sports Sunday.
This is Fox Sports Sunday and we are live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, So VJ is
back by the way after having a family day last Sunday.
It's good to see the family by the way. You
stopped on by beautiful little daughter there shows all checked

(00:22):
out in her dance gear. Yeah, her vallet recital.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Gain.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I appreciate the love, honestly that all of you guys
showed my family. I want you, I want you to
see my family. You and I talk a lot of
family man stuff off their We talk a lot of
guy man stuff about our kids and our lives off
the air. So I'm proud of the family that God's
blessed me with me family, beautiful family.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
VJ Alight. So the way we're going to start the
show today, First of all, I got to make an admission.
You know, it's very it's very rare that I have
to say this, but when I am, I will say it.
I was wrong. I was wrong about Lebron James having
played his final game as a Laker. Now we're going
to get into the circumstances now that he is opted
in on his fifty two point six million dollar player

(01:03):
option on his contract to be with the Lakers next season.
But first, let's here for Rich Paul. This is the guy,
of course, is a lifelong friend of Lebron. He runs
his operation and everything else. Here was the reasoning behind
Lebron's opting in for that fifty two point six million dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
If you guys heap ten, I'm gonna mention the name,
and you tell me how much you like him.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Come on, my l of lock. If I can get
him there, go loot my first choice.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, done deal, that's all I need to get them.
I'm I'm gonna try my best because that's our because
you are our first choice. If he gets past Brooklyn,
then yeah, but let me make those calls so I
can let you do what you need to do.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
All right, Yeah, give you come back quet here, I
will Okay, I'm I thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:53):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
What exactly shade were we listening to right there? Can
you identify the exact conversation?

Speaker 6 (01:59):
So that will was basically a conversation between the Sun's
owner and Rich Paul. And this was before the draft
It was basically him talking about the their tenth overall
draft pick, who ended up being their tenth overall draft
pick before the draft even happened, saying, hey, if we
can get Pat Brooklyn, if you want them, he's yours.

(02:20):
We can make it happen. I'll make some calls. And
that is the biggest thing. Basically, I make some calls
with something. A lot of people were like, all right,
what's going on?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
All right, so let's let's let's go over this veja
exactly what went down here. So remember it was Seamswell
was about a month ago. I had leaked it out
that it looks like Lebron's going to opt in. I've
heard the fifty two point six million, and we said
at the time, this is what we call a plant.
In other words, we're trying to negotiate an extended deal
with the Lakers, and they're not biting right now, so

(02:50):
we're going to threaten them by saying, if you don't
make a deal with us, we'll take less money. We
want more years. We're just going to take the fifty
two point six million dollars. That's what happened. Nothing, And
now that Mark Walter is taking over controlling interest of
the Lakers. There will be nothing. So this is it.
Lebron James is going to his parting gift to the Lakers.

(03:14):
And in seven years with the Lakers, five years of
either not making the playoffs or being out in the
first round, a miracle round run to the Western Conference
Finals a couple of years ago, which ended in a
four game sweep by the Nuggets, and then, of course,
as I said last night in an LA TV commentary,
a championship that even a die hard Laker fan would

(03:36):
be hard pressed to give me one memorable moment from
their NBA Finals victory against the Miami Heat in the
Bubble in twenty twenty. Even a die hard Laker fan
would be hard pressed to give me a moment you
carry with you five years later from that championship. All right, one,
but most fans can't. But I have one. Okay, So

(03:58):
but you're you know you're die. Most people have zero
memory because there was no parade, There was nothing. All right.
So here we are, right now where Lebron's parting gift
to the Lakers, screwing them over by taking the fifty
two point six million dollars which puts them in an
impossible situation to upgrade their roster, desperately needing a big man.

(04:19):
You know, you probably get Clint Capella for the midle levels.
That's what That's not going to move the needle, all right.
So they're going to have the exact same roster essentially
as they had a year ago, which ended with an
embarrassing lots in the first round to the Timberwolves. Expect
much of the same for the Lakers this year. But
this move really is Mark Walter who had no choice.

(04:41):
I mean he has to. Yeah, it's a player option, right, Yeah,
we're going to have to sit on this for a
year and then all hell's going to break loose. Everybody's
on probation, whether it's Reddick, whether it's Polinka, whether it's
anybody not named Luka. Doncic is literally looking at the
exit door after this upcoming season. So that's why this happened.

(05:03):
Lebron again desperate to try to get an extended deal
with the Lakers, under no circumstance where they're gonna give
him an extended deal. So he said, we'll screw you.
I'm gonna take the fifty two point six million dollars,
you know, I'm gonna talk about, Yeah, we have a
wrong chance to win a championship. This is the exact
same team the Lakers had a year ago, which is
nowhere near a championship roster. And that's how we have

(05:24):
gotten to this point. Yeah, Laker fans should be celebrating today.
You all should be shay you every Laker fan. You
guys should be really celebrating today. You guys should be
throwing They should throw a parade because he actually opted
in to take this money, because you know what this means,
he's done done, He's done as a Laker. This is
his last year, and you know what, he's not gonna

(05:46):
get that he wants. And this is the reason why
I think.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
They're keeping Jeanie as what was the title.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Dear de she's the governor.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
The governor, okay, because she's the only one that's left
that's foolish enough to give this man any and everything
that he's going to ask for, because he wants a
fail Ware tour, he wants the Kobe treatment, he wants
to Kareem abdul Jabbar treatment. Wherevery arena you go to,
you celebrate him, You give him a gift.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Someone puts a rocking cheer out there.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Ha ha, Like that wasn't done back in nineteen eighty eight,
already thirty forty years ago.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Something, man, this signifies the strangle and negative and toxic
stranglehold that Lebron has had on this franchise. And I'm
just one of those sports talk guys that I love
when things come full circle. Because the day his plane
landed at the Van Nis private airport, I tweeted, this
is bad for you, guys. He is going to tear

(06:41):
this franchise down to the ground or kicking and screaming
trying to on his way out the door when this
is all done. You mentioned five out of the seven
years you don't even make the playoffs and you're getting
swept or you're getting knocked out in five in the
first round.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
You can't tell me this has been successful. Guys.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Nobody respects the Bubble Championship except for Lebron fans. There's
real Laker fans around here to don't tell you.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
They don't really hit that. Yeah, it was what it was.
It was a chip. But like you said, no parade,
no celebration. Why let's ask Shay right now. So Shay
obviously remembers the twenty twenty Championship. What is the most
memorable moment of that Championship final against the give me,
give me that moment that you still resonates with you

(07:23):
five years later.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Well, it wasn't necessary to play that resonates with me.
It was the things that were happening, like the social
media stuff that we were getting while like all the
players were together. So like the fishing, the fishing at
like you know, the pond that they have, right, we
remember that. Yeah, that's something that I always think of
when I always think about it. Oh well that's you know,
but usually I think about a d sitting down, crying,

(07:45):
holding like looking at the confetti, holding the trophy, like
that's what I always think about.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yes, yeah, okay again it is a championship. I'm not
It is a championship. They won the artist and I
remember thinking at the time, let's go back five years
when it was happening. You know, I said that, understand,
you know, here's the thing. Lebron is now checked the box.
He won a championship. In the moment, we don't know
what the future is holding in twenty twenty, obviously he

(08:13):
won a championship. He's been a finals MVP now with
three different franchisees of Miami, Cleveland and the Lakers, and
he has cemented his position in my opinion. So I've
say five years ago as the goat. Now at that point,
I'm thinking, all right, this is not going to be
a one and done. I mean, you're looking at the landscape.
For most of that year, the Lakers were certainly in

(08:35):
the top teams in the league, so it wasn't like
they you know, they just had a miracle run. The
win in the finals was not a shock based on
how they had played before the COVID shutdown, But what
happened after that, the way they dismantled that team and
got rid of players that they desperately needed. And that's
on Polinka. It's also on Lebron because Lebron then felt

(08:57):
like he was in a position where I want to
bring in my guys, and they started to assemble the
team that he wanted and it turned out to be
a disaster. Just two years after winning a championship, they
had a losing record. They fired Vogel, and since then
they have been pretty much a non entity in terms
of being a Championship contender team.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, and if I can finish that that thought about
as far as what you guys ow to be celebrated. Now,
you mentioned Rob Polinka. Rop Polinka safe. Rob Polinka is
safe because Rob can say the guy that you mentioned.
You say, everybody is safe. But whoo we all agree.
Everybody say, but who Luca? Who got Luca? Rob Polinka
got Luca? Now the league got no what it doesn't matter.
Ropolinka's names on it?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, Ropolica. If they have a repeat it this year,
I promise you Polinka is out the day. Well I don't.
But here's that Mark is going to bring in the
Utah general managers, not some former agent for COVID. Let
me hold.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Let me first of all, he's got Kobe. That Kobe
connection is stronger than you people had given rop Polka
credit for, especially on especially in this town, and the
the Dodger lover that Kobe Bryant was, and the connection
that Kobe has, the Magic Johnson that's.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
On that ownership team with the La Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, that connection is a lot stronger than you guys
are given it credit and credence for Rob Linc is
taking way more hate and credit over the protection of Lebron.
He has tried everything possible to put He got a
d here, Okay, he got Luca here.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like he's tried.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Everything that he was asked to do, and he's the
guy that's brought in the future. The future of this
team is Luca doncs Lebron James taking this thing also
to to put a ball in it. This solidifies Lebron
was never a true Laker. We all know he was
never a true Laker. Just because you put the jersey
on doesn't mean that you are true. Kevin Garnet want

(10:46):
to ring with the Celtics. Do you really do think? No,
Kevin Garnett is like a true legend Celtic. No, it's
Paul Pierce, it's not Ray Allen, it's not Kevin Garnett,
it's Kevin McHale, it's Robert Parrish's Dennis Johnson, it's Larry Bird,
it's Oh, it's those You can win a ring somewhere,
but that don't put you on the Route Rushmore of

(11:06):
that franchise. Lebron's not on the Route Mount Rushmore of
the Laker franchise. But this solidifies the end of this
whole ordeal of do it my way, draft my son,
get this player, get this player. We just heard it
in Monti's great update during Phinney Smith opting.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Out he's gone. He know, man, he's gone.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
He's not gonna resign. Oh, but he can return for
the Lakers, And I get that's the report. He's not
returning to the Lakers. He's opting out. Lebron is sucking
up the money. Now, Lucas got to get paid to
you think You think Phillys and Phinney Smith like decline
to resign the same deal or a lower deal if
Lebron not gonna take a pay cut. And lastly, I
remember when Kobe got that sixty mil. Remember that year

(11:45):
with Timothy Miles, Golf and Louil Dangieose guys came in
and Kobe got ripped for taking that sixty mil. And
my defense is always it wasn't for what he's about
to do or going to do in the future, guys,
it's about for what.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
He's Okay, Well, first of all, I remember when he
when he shigned in that deal, and it was around
this time, obviously that Lebron had agreed to equal pay
with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade down in Miami and
I asked, you know, we were the Lakers station and
Kobe was on a lot and I said to him,
I said, Kobe, I'm gonna ask you right now, would
you ever take less money to help put some extra

(12:20):
pieces around you, you know, and free up some cap space.
And his answer came straight out. He goes, that's not
my problem. It's not a problem. Not my problem, it's
not his problem. I mean, when they gave him that
last twenty five million dollar a year deal after blowing
his achilles. You know why it's not as problem though, Steve.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
It's not his problem because I built this Darnee and
we're standing. He did not hassles around this city for me.
That's when you've done that, then it's not your problem.
But when you ain't done that and you say you
want to win, but you're still going to take the
option of fifty three to fifty four million.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Dollars, don't tell me you want to win. All right,
we got a lot of NBA to get to because
we now have a new champion and they don't seem
all that thrilled by it. We're gonna talk about why
the NBA was such a big miss with the NBA
Finals and, as it turned out, the NBA Draft as well.

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VJ with you out last week, I never once. Obviously,
we were previewing Game seven of the NBA Finals, and

(14:41):
at no point did he even enter my mind that
coming up was the NBA Draft. Yeah, you literally go
from a Game seven right into the draft. So look,
obviously the game seven completely got disrailed when Halliburton decided
to play with that bum. How many, by the way,
how mach guys have now blown their achilles playing with

(15:02):
a bad calf eight this year. It's unreal. I mean,
these guys don't don't you get if you if you're
nursing a calf injury, you are putting yourself in danger
of a season ending Achilles injury, where, by the way,
you may never be the same player. I mean, it's
a very short list of players that have come back

(15:24):
from achilles and played at the same level. Dominique Wilkins
back in the day was one exception. He's the only one.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
I mean, Isiah Thomas's career. It ended a lot of
guy's career.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, including Kobe. After he blew his achilles, he obviously
was never the same, except for that last game when
he threw up fifty shots to score sixty A. Right,
so like that, well he did, Well you know what,
why are you going to do it like that? Well,
you know why. I'll tell you why. I remember sixty
that night that that was a seventeen and sixty five
Laker team that year, And I remember going into that

(15:54):
game on air, and again, you know, you know the
stories about me and Kobe said this interesting relationship back
in the day. But his my thing was, I said, guys,
I'm telling you right now, he's going to take at
least thirty five shots. Him to shoot. They kept telling
him to shoot, by the way. It was his last game,

(16:16):
by the way, when he was the only reason that
anyone was watching the Lakers after Shack left, and he
had the eighty one point game, in the sixty three
points and three quarter game. I used to say during
that run, at the height of his career, why would
anybody else shoot? He should shoot fifty shots every night?
He could go after Will jamwins average, you will kill
him one air that Kobe Bryant. I'd say that if

(16:39):
he were sitting it right now. Kobe Bryant holds one
one career NBA record that will never be touched most misshots.
He broke, shattered the record of John Havlichik set a
record that will never be topped. Right at a side,
So I'm watching the NBA Finals, Halliburton goes down. The
game's a non game. Oklahoma City pulls the way they

(17:00):
win Game seven. First of all, did they even know
at the end of the game they had won. Have
you ever seen a team like when that first championship
that had less I don't know, they just, yeah, that
was nothing. You had a packhouse of these crazy thunder
fans all decked out in their T shirts. What other

(17:21):
arena would do that where everybody puts on the T
shirt nowhere else, right, So they're all psyched up, and
these guys are just sort of like, yeah, okay, yeah,
you know what, It's sort of cool. And so that
underwhelming response to We've seen so many incredible celebrations over
the years when teams have won NBA championships, and then
that carries over to the draft, which was so dreadful.

(17:43):
The draft. Five picks in, I'm already out, like what
else is on? I used to watch every freaking pick. Yeah,
and I'm like, I am so disinterested in what I'm
watching right now. There is no enthusiasm. There's nothing. I mean,
just the whole energy had left the room from the
NBA with that Game seven, with the lack of a

(18:03):
real celebration for the Thunder and just a dreadful NBA draft.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
And the reason why you saw the celebration is because
I tweeted you. I've done text you. I tweeted you,
but I text you. Oklahoma City got a blessing. They
got a blessing. I have pacers in five pacers are
gonna win that game. Tyre's Halliburton is on fire and
they're up. It's early in the game.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I get it. But you could feel that there was
someone that showed.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Up for Game seven. His name was Terrese Haliburton. And
then he blows his achilles and you said it yourself.
After he blows his achilles, the air goes out of
the building from all the fans to even the OLDKC players,
because you want to be whoever you're playing for the
championship at full strength. I do even as a fan,

(18:54):
like I don't want the Dolphins to win the AFC East.
If Josh Allen misses eight games, you're not gonna come
sit on air and bragg Oh, we finally took over
the No Josh Allen miss eight games, you should have won.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
The AFC easy.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
If you don't want AFCAS with Josh Sallen is eight games,
something's wrong with your team. Your team is worse than
you think it is. But this felt like man dog.
I was sick to my stomach. Steve, I didn't want
to watch the rest of the game. I literally just
soaked on the sofa right now.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's like, honey, the gamers, I said, brother, this game's over.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Their best player just blew as a Chili's in front
of the world.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
It's over.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
And I think they kind of had a feeling of
we don't, we don't. We're not gonna get to celebrate
because you know, you know, we're gonna be asked all
night long about Tyrese Haliburn. We're gonna be asked that
during our celebration when we're trying the gun. The only
guy saw I had a really really good time as
Cruso because Cruiso kept a buck and Cruciller says, I
got a real one now. Caruso said, I got a
real one now. And he tried to play like he

(19:52):
was joking, but he hears the same noise and thinks
the same things that everybody else and most people think
about the twenty twenty Bubble championship for the LA Lakers.
So I thought that that really chilled the energy in
the game, and then it poured over into the draft. Huh,
because the energy is transferable people, I don't care if
it's TV media, you, your wife, your husband, friend of
Frank coworker. Energy is transferable. Absolutely, He's certainly transferred to

(20:18):
And do you already have people on TV and radio
saying it was such a bad draft.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was going to be a bad draft. So okay,
But again, you pick up on the energy level here.
That's the whole thing. So not only did okase whether
they would have won the game or not, and we
will obviously never know, but we know this, it wouldn't
have been a walkover at the end of the game,
all right. So there's a couple of takeaways on Oklahoma City. Now,

(20:43):
I admitted before the playoffs began, I'm looking at a
sixty eight win team, sixteen games better than the number
two seed in the West, which was the superior conference,
averaging a victory of by thirteen points per game point
differential for an eighty two game season. Their regular season
was one of the top ten regular seasons in NBA history.
But I kept thinking to myself, I really haven't seen

(21:04):
this team. So now that it's all done and they
end up winning a championship, here's my takeaway. They're really boring.
Oklahoma City is a boring team. Shake Gills is Alexander
is a great player deserving of that MVP. He's a
boring player. He's a mid range shooter. He's not a
guy like Steph Curry that's making heroic shots. He's not
doing anything specially. He's a fundamentally very sound basketball player.

(21:28):
I almost equate this back to the San Antonio Spurs days.
We're going there, you know, you know, with Tim Duncan,
Antoni Parker and a Monogenobli, nobody got excited. Every time
they were in the NBA Finals, you'd see a major
drop in the ratings. So they're at least right now.
Based on what I observe from Oklahoma City in this
playoff run is they are not something I say is

(21:50):
much watch. So you have a Game seven that falls
because of the injury to Halliburton and then the complete
lack of agilation or from Oklahoma City and actually winning
the championship, and then a couple of days later you
trickle into the draft and there's no buzz about the
NBA after the finals, like it ended and it was over.

(22:11):
No one was talking about, Oh did you watch Oklahoma City?
And nobody was talking about that, And then you immediately
go into your draft and it was predictable, especially when
you essentially had a one player draft. I mean that's
what it was.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I warned you guys about the draft last week when
I said, I said, after Cooper Flag, what do you got?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
And I'm worried about the NBA, Steve, I really am.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
We can touch that on the opposite side as the
update with Monty, but I'll tell you why we go.
I'm really worried about and I wasn't until about a
week ago.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
I'm very worried about the NBA right now. Well, there's
a lot to get to and We're going to cover
it all, but first let's find out what is trending
right now. Moncy, how are you? I am just standy?
How are you? Fellas? Welcome back to me, Jay, thank you,
thank you? How you doing mons? I was so good?
A lot of news on a Sunday, right, Yeah, there's
some legal news.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
I know that, some legal It's just a lot going on.
So uh, let's start in the NBA, which if you
missed the start of the show, you missed already. VJ
and Hartman talking about this. But Lebron James is opting
into his fifty two point six million dollar player option
for the upcoming season with the Lakers. Do what you
want with that information. But apparently ESPN with the details
that Lebron wants to cove for a championship next season,

(23:24):
but is uncertain of the Lakers roster moving forward, so
he's evaluating how he wants to end his career. Three
time NBA All Star Julius Randall intends to sign a
new three year, one hundred million dollar deal to stay
with the Timberwoods.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Okay, see, you guys are just talking about them. Jalen
Williams Jalen with a y.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Signing a new three year, twenty four million dollar extension
with that franchise.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yes, maybe some gambling happening in the NBA.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
So the US District Attorney's office is investigating Pistons guard
Malie Beasley on allegations of gambling related to NBA games
and prop bets. As a member of the Milwaukee Bucks,
Beasley and the Pistons were in serious talks on a
new three year, forty two million dollar deal.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Those talks have been halted.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
In the w NBA, the Sparks, they are going to
retire Kandas Parker's number three jersey. She's the only w
NBA player top ten in.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Points, assists, rebounds, blocks. She is it, She is it.
She needs a statue, she does? Why not?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
She needs a statue on a crypto. They could put
her and Lisa Leslie statue.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
I love that idea. Right next to way, right next
to next to Lebron's statue. Lebron's not getting a statue
if he gets a statue there.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
He's not getting a statue. He missed his opportunity when.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
They sold the team. Yeah, people don't under state what's
about to happen with the LA Ladies. I would imagine
part of this deal that he stays another year and
and Uh sort of reneges on the idea of extending
his contract. He's a statue. I guarantee you he'll have
a statue. He'll have number retire the whole he can't.
I'm I'm with you. Look at it. I agree with you, boy.

(24:54):
You also agree that he shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
But I'm telling you it's not gonna have you telling Will.
He will never have a statue here and his jersey
will never hang in those rappitts.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
I hope you're right. That's who ownership Hills. I understand.
I hope you're right in this new ownership Hill. You're right.
I hope you. I hope you're right. But I think
why did your retires? I'm with you. The Championship Finals MV.
He broke the all time storing record in the Laker uniform.
He's the biggest, like, he.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Should have one statue and it should not be in
LA anyway, anyway, Anders Parker should have one with Yes, Okay,
let's go into baseball, guys.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Jazz Chisholm junior for the Yankees is doing it all.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
He had a home run, and he just had a
three rbi triple. The Yankees are shutting out the Eighties
five zero bottom of the third inning, Pirates shutting out
the Mets six zero top of the fourth, Cardinals blanking.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
The Guardian seven zero. Bottom of the eighth inning. Sean
Murphy with the home run.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
For the Braves, They're edging the Phillies one zero bottom
of the fourth. Orioles are also edging the Raise one
zero top of the fourth. Vladimir Guerrero Junior with a
home run over the Green Monster, but the Blue Jay
and the Red Sox are tied up to a piece.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Top of the fourth.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Xander Boguards with a home run, and the Padres are
up on the scoreboard first against the Reds.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
One zero, top of the fourth inning.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
White Sox scored first against the Giants one zero, top
of the second. Dodgers and Royals are on a rain delay,
so that one is not underway just yet. In soccer,
at the FIFA Club World Cup, PSG shutout Inner Miami
four nil to secure their place in the quarterfinals, and
later today at the CONK Gold Cup USA, it's gonna
take on Costa Rica. So you know, my mom is

(26:31):
gonna be very confused on who she's cheering for.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
She's gonna be real confused. She's gonna be cheering for both.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
You know, well, you ride with months, you know, I
am why not?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Why not? Why not Costa Rica? You know, Costa Rica
is super annoying. Our soccer team is super annoying.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
They they're too loyal to like aging players and instead
of going for the young guys like we put out
out of loyalty. Our guys been there a long time,
but they can't hang and you see it time and
time again.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
So it's kind of like annoying to watch Costa Rica.
But I you know, it's all good. I mean, that's
that has gotten Conker capped by Worse. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yes, but that's at seven Eastern and you can catual
on box TV.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, back to you guys, Hi Monsie, thank you very much. Yes,
quick question for you.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
You mentioned Lebron should have a trophy because he won finals,
MVP and a championship. So should Yannis have a trophy
in Milwaukee?

Speaker 1 (27:30):
No? No, no, First of all, you're you're misrepresenting. I
didn't say he should, I said he will. There's two
different things. Oh, okay, I didn't say he should have.
I said he will have. They will use they will.
Lebron will have a statue, all right, whether he deserves
it or not. Lebron's gonna have a statue here in
LA in l A, and he will have his number

(27:53):
hanging in the banners there at Crypto dot com. It
will never happened. I can't wait. It'll never happen. It'll
never happened. Well, looking, if it was the Bus family,
I agree with you. Let me let me tell you this.
Wilt Chamberlain, Okay, Will Chamberlain. Wilt Chamberlain came to the
Lakers when they still had Jerry West and Elgin Baylor

(28:14):
at the high of their career. There was a feeling
when they made that trade with the Sixers that the
Lakers literally were going to go eighty two to zero.
Like clearly you have literally three of the all time
Super btars and and they won one championship in five years. Well,
by the way, was the Finals MVP in seventy two.
But when you think about it, he didn't really deliver

(28:34):
what they thought. You lose to the Celtics and Bill
Russell in a series you should have won, and they
ended up losing two out of three NBA finals to
the Knicks. They finally got one. So your argument, well,
I mean, why is Wolf's number up there. In a
lot of ways, Wilt's run with the Lakers is very
similar to Lebron's run with the Lakers in terms of

(28:55):
what the expectations were and what the expectations actually happened.
So I'm not saying Will doesn't have his number tired.
I'm an old time Wilt fan. I've said he's the
most dominant player in the Yeah, you and I both
and but you know, Lebron is Lebron, and his resume
includes a lot of accolades that were achieved while he
was a Los Angeles Laker. He had all nbas A Finals, MVP,

(29:18):
a championship, all time scoring record, All of that happened
while he was a Laker. That will get you. And
obviously he'll be in the Hall of Fame, and they
retire jerseys of Lakers that are in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
I don't see I have this, Like I said, this
owner I'm going with the ownership of this ownership group
does not owe him that. If it was the Bus family,
I would be one hundred percent on the side with you.
But this is a new ownership group, and by the
time that stuff comes around or it's even talked about
of retiring his because it's not gonna happen this year,
it's not gonna happen next year.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, how do you know he's not gonna happen this year? Well,
if he makes a killer You were talking earlier about
his farewell tour, if he if he if the season
begins and he decides, Okay, this is it, I'm not
gonna go to and there I know it's not let's
just say he did. I agree that I think he
wants to extend his career for many more years as
long as he can actually milk it. But if he

(30:11):
were to do that, yeah, that would be part of it.
They would have the farewell tour and then they would
have his number retired and they begin construction on the
new statue. You know what he's gonna do. He's gonna,
like we both agree, he's gonna try to further his career.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Okay, Yeah, he's gonna end up sticking his foot in
his mouth when he leaves LA because he can't help himself.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
He can't help himself to talk about where he used
to be.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
And that's gonna close the door on any type of
celebration of bringing him back in town, because he'll throw
this he'll throw this organization under the bus on the
podcast eighteen months from now, twenty four months from now,
what they didn't do well at the last place.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Trust me, he will put his foot in his mouth
because he.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Continues to do it as he gets older and his
career continues, and that's gonna make the ownership go, oh really,
no problem, buddy, we got enough legendary state here.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
We don't need your name. You were here.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Seven years, eight years now, one finals five times, not
in the playoffs again, knocked in the first round and
sweat turn five. No, no problem, buddy, Miami can worship you,
Cleveland commerced you.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
We're the LA Lakers. We can move on without lebron
Jack again, would I. I don't want to give specific
There are statues out out of that arena. I'm not
a big statue guy. You know. When the first one
went up of Magic Johnson, I looked at it and
I'm like, that's Danny Glover right like that literally nothing

(31:33):
like Magic Johnson. I was like, I was like why
is there any statue of Danny Glover in a Lakers unit?
Officer Mertzal, I mean the Magic Johnson statue is awful. Awful. Yeah,
I told her back in the day, who is that?
That's not you. Anyway, let's move on. I want to

(31:54):
talk about this draft. So I'm watching the draft and
at number two overall you got Dylan Harper and number
five Ace Bailey. Will get into the little as Bailey
situation drops to five and you're thinking about yourself you
had going into last year. The high school rankings were
Cooper flag is number one, Ace Bailey's number two, and
Dylan Harper was number three. That was the high school

(32:16):
rankings going into last year. Yep. So how exactly did
Bailey and Harper go to a school wreckers that has
no basketball tradition. They made a final four or fifty
years ago. Why, well, we know why, and I l
I mean Rutgers emptied the bank and what do they
get out of that? Nothing? Two guys that stayed for
one year. They had a losing record. Losing record, not

(32:39):
just in the conference overall, they had a losing season.
So they invested millions of dollars to bring in the
second and third rank high school players in the country,
Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper, they got zero out of it.
And so then when you look at the A's Bailey
situation and to some extent, some of the other guys
in this draft, this this is what changes with nil money.

(33:02):
You're already a multimillionaire. You've already made millions of dollars
the idea of jumping into the NBA, and now all
of a sudden, all that hard work is going to
pay for you to take care of your family yourself.
You've already got the money in the bank. So that
thrill of getting drafted the NBA, it's like, what you mean,
I might actually take less money this year? Is that

(33:22):
what you're talking about? Why would I celebrate a deal
in the NBA where I'm going to get paid less
than I was being paid when I was playing in college.
So this is part of it right now. You know
you were talking about the NBA has got problems moving forward.
They got a lot of problems moving forward. But again,
the lack of enthusiasm coming from Oklahoma City and winning

(33:44):
a championship and the lack of enthusiasm for most of
these kids that were picked high in this draft speaks volumes. Look,
it's about money, and I before I don't want to
be dismissed. A's like, wow, you're just bitter about the money.
Everything else. The money's understandable. If you have guaranteed money,
generational money in your bank account, regardless of the product

(34:09):
you produce, where's the motivation. Some guys are self motivated.
We know that there are guys like Tom Brady. There
were guys it was never about the money. It was
never about the money for a Jordan or a Magic
or it was about you know, they're driven to be
the best. That's rare. Most people's instinct is I'm secure,

(34:30):
I'm set, and what do I have to do? Oh yeah,
I go on the basketball cart, great, and I'm still
guaranteed money no matter what. Unfortunately, that is human nature,
and that is what we're seeing infiltrating. I think both
the NFL and the NBA, I'm not sure if I
totally agree with that.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
I think the NBA is just in trouble because they
haven't taken care of the gang. We haven't taken care
of the game of basketball, and now we're seeing these achilles.
And you got guys talking about shortening the season like
it just shows such a weak mentality. I think of
the four professional sports leagues, the league that's got the
weakest and got the most uninteresting has been the Lakers.

(35:08):
We talk about pair I mean that the lakerscuse me,
the NBA, we talk about parody, have non champions, I
believe in the last twelve years, right, it was out
in a seven straight different chance, seven straight different champions,
and also seven straight champions that were eliminated in the
second round the following year. So nobody can even get
back to the finals. Who wins it? So, Oklahoma City,
if you want to go with the money guys, and
you want to go with the trend the traders, Oklahoma

(35:28):
City is not getting back to the NBA finals. Next
year is going to be a new representation, and it
could be the Houston Rockets with a team that they're
building with Kevin Durant now and some of the other pieces.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Well, and then the point again is if they're that disinterested,
seemingly and winning a championship, where's their motivation to win another?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Well, and you look at Jokis, right, we saw the
same thing about Yogis Jokis took a lot of heat
for basically saying he didn't want to go to the parade.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I want to go home. I want to go back
to Serbia. I want to go back to my country
and check.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
On my one hundred acre horse horse farm and hang
out with.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
My brothers and ride our horse.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
I don't care about a championship in spraying champagne all
over myself with no shirt on, in human hot weather,
I don't want to do that. But we are getting
used to happen to push these athletes to try to
want to celebrate look a certain way, and I just
think they haven't taken care of the game man, and
the motivation. Like you said, use the right word, the motivation. Now,
what's their motivation? They're making so much money off the court,

(36:19):
and these guys you.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Know, are you now they're doing it in college, which
obviously lends less interest from the players standpoint in where
they're drafted. However, I want to get into a Spaidley
on the other side. So because his is an interesting
story that I think is going to become more the
norm than the exception, we'll explain. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

(36:42):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Harbin and Husky
Fox Sports Sunday. They don't even want to know what
we were just talking about. Conversation ever ends here. Our
commercial conversations are crazy. I mean, it's we throw it
at there. Oh yeah, there's a lot of crap, but

(37:02):
that's okay, and it's all good stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
So you know, we're talking about where we're going right
now with the NBA and in terms of you know,
the money that's out there, and you know the A's
Bailey situation where he basically informed teams say he don't
don't bother, I will not show up. Now he did
show up in Utah, which is interesting because I don't
know how soldy is on Utah. But this gets down
to one thing and one thing alone. If A's Melee

(37:27):
had decided to stay at Rutgers, first of all, he
wouldn't have stayed at Rutgers. He would have entered the
transfer portal and he would have made huge money. I mean,
the bidding wars would go all over the place, much
as there were when he came out of high school.
He was rated the number two high school player in
the country, behind Cooper Flag and Rutgers came up with
the most money, so he went to Rutgers that joined

(37:48):
Dylan Harper. There didn't work out obviously in terms of
Rutgers winning any basketball games. But this is where we're
going right now in terms of players trying to control
their destiny. Is so illegal. I mean, it's ridiculous. These
drafts where you are telling a player this is where
you're going to play. You do not know. When we

(38:09):
talk about the NFL and the NBA, how many potential
Hall of Fame careers have been derailed by players going
into the wrong team at the wrong time and it
turns out to be an absolute disaster for their future
in professional sports. So I don't blame Ace Bailey, but
we're going to see more of this because now they
have that ace in the hole where they can hit

(38:31):
that transfer portal, highest bidder. They can make more money
by staying an extra year and maybe getting a better
position to go to a team they want to go
in the draft the following year. How about this those things?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
How about if you're a team owner in the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL,
you don't really hit us in the NHL. Those guys
are hockey peers like they just want to play hockey.
They don't give a damn where it is. But in
the NBA, let's just stick there. How About you just
take care of your franchise. How About you just do
what's right. How about you try to actually win. How
about you try to show that it's not about because

(39:04):
these owners are going to put money in their pockets,
they can just say the Lakers' just sold for ten
billion dollars. Okay, so you don't have to put the
best product on the floor. We watched Dolan do this
for years with the Knicks, regardless of whether the.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Team was good or not.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
It sells out every It's the only team in the
league that sells out every single night. And they won
a championship since the seventies, haven't been to the finals since.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
The ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Its last time they refiners get the Spurs in the
fifty game season.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's how about just do that?

Speaker 3 (39:38):
And then, because if I'm a kid coming into the league,
like you said, I don't blame as Bailly actually kind
of side a lot of this talk that he's getting
from a lot of TV and radio people because you're
not in his position. Okay, you don't I don't and
ask you off they are doing the commercial, do you
have any I know it's the Jazz, but they do
have some new front office people there.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
The last name is Age. It's a successful last.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Name in this league. And I actually, do you put
in what you looked at me right now? I'm like,
do you put.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Any creta I feel about Danny inghel and in the name?

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Do you put into credence in the name to turn
them around? But who's begging to go to the Utah Jazz?
Look what your franchise has been.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Why would I want to come play for you? Oh?
I should just be grateful to be here, though I
hate those days are over now because again with nil money.
By the way, you know when they put this cap
on the nil money at twenty point five million dollars,
you know what you just did. You just wiped out
all the Olympic sports if you're a non revenue generating sport,

(40:34):
because you are going to spend every cent on football,
men's basketball, a few women's basketball teams, and that is it?
All right? We got a lot of NFL news to
get to. This is Fox Sports Sunday, roll along on
another busy sports Sunday. This is Fox Sports Sunday, and
we are in the Fox Sports Radio studios, a right

(40:55):
full hour of NBA behind us. We got to get
some NFL talk in right now. By the way, one
of the strangest stories that came out this week was
the Justin Tucker story. This thing because here is a guy.
Think about this for a second. Justin Tucker ever out
all these accusations about his inappropriate behavior with all these meside.

(41:17):
You know, it was the old Deshaun Watson situation, right,
So now it's Justin Tucker and for some reason, the
guy that was literally the greatest kicker in the history
of the NFL in terms of accuracy just about any measure.
This guy had now had gotten to the level where
he was recognized as the greatest place kicker in the
history of the NFL, and all of a sudden, he
can't make a kick anymore. So you were like, what's happening?

(41:39):
What happened here with Justin Tucker? How do you go
from the absolute best to one of the worst kickers
in the league in terms of accuracy. But the one
thing he was adamant about is that these are false accusations.
There's nothing to this. This is completely false. And then
he chooses to accept a ten game suspension that was
an option given to him, and he and his advisors

(42:02):
decided to put an end to this. I'm going to
accept a ten game suspension. Well, you just guaranteed now
that we always know you're guilty, because if you are
an innocent man, no one would accept a ten game suspension, which,
by the way, you're a free agent. Anyway, What team's
going to sign Justin Tucker knowing he has to sit
out ten games. His career in the NFL is over.

(42:24):
But the idea that he's still trying to maintain that
somehow he's an innocent man and still accepted a ten
game suspension for being what Why would you do that?
Why would you not fight it? You're a free agent.
No one's going to sign Justin Tucker. Now he's damaged goods,
it's over. I was just in shock. I first of all,

(42:46):
he'll kick again in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
The NFL is the league of third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth,
nine thirty seven chances.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
The NFL is remember this. The reason Ray Rice never
played again was not because he got suspended, because we
saw it. Because his game had fallen so far off
the map. You look at his last two years, he
was now barely averaging three yards of carry. If he
was still an elite player, he would have he would
have gotten another opportunity in the NFL. I guarantee.

Speaker 8 (43:15):
You're also talking about Kickers, where once you fall off,
you never come back.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yeah, I give I give a little credit to that.
But I always felt once we saw the video, once
we saw.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
It, it was like, oh, did we do we see
the Kareem Hunt? And did we see that? They see
Joe Mixon knocking out a girl on video one thousand times?
But thet up But the situations were you know why
they're still playing because they could still play. The situations
were different.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Like I said, I just I just slightly disagree now
with Justin Tucker, Chris, you just chiming in.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Once it's gone, is gone.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
But there's always a GM that feels like they could
save a guy. There's always one person, so many kickers
that just like that felt like, well, their diamond doesn't
but their game, their names not at all.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Justin sub who's done it so he has done it
for two years though. That's the point.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
I just feel like that he'll still this guy's holding
jobs in the NFL right now. They haven't done anything
in two years. That doesn't Yeah, but for a kicker,
that means your career is over.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
Like like every trends nine, the trend shows Justin Tucker
was already on his way out of this league right
before these accusations have.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah, j I know we're on the radio. I want
you to watch this one more time here Joe Mixon, Actually,
let's see it one more time. Let's see that right
right here. Boom, Okay, now, how is that guy still
in the league? Well, like, how is that guy still
in the league? I think the situations were different different.
A girl pushes him and then he knocks her out.

(44:41):
It's on video. The reason Joe Mixon is still playing
is that he still has game.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
So with Justin Tucker, like I said, I just think
that there's always there's always somebody who thinks they can
uh save somebody. You take, you take the suspension, Like
I said, I guess you want to.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Make it go away. I went there. I don't know
what happened. It was a weird it went in a
weird story.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
It's like, oh, okay, there was those inappropriate behavior things
during those sessions.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
He's taking this ten weeks suspension. Uh.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
And if you're gonna take a suspension, people already have
their mind made up whether you're guilty or not. People
already have their mind made up whether you're guilty or
not already. So you take the suspension, you move on. No, no, no,
you take the suspension and you move on from it.
I think that's why you take the suspension. You could
still say I'm innocent, but people already have in the

(45:25):
court of public opinion, people already have their minds made up.
You can't change people's minds no more then the one thing.
Everybody's got their mind made up, whether they like them
or don't, or whether he's guilty or not. So it
doesn't matter if he says he's innocent or guilty. It
doesn't matter if we let it all play out. It
doesn't matter if he has a civil suitent and pays
the pays women.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
It doesn't matter. We all have an opinion that that's
already concrete.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
The argument, take the suspension so you can move, so
you can move past it.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Well, I'm mean again, all you do is like a
Deshaun Watson, right, I suspend it for a year and
then gets the biggest contract in the history of the NFL.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Yeah, well, I mean that's all guarant' that's Cleveland stupid fault. Yeah,
that's Cleveland stuper fault. But you take the suspension so
you know you can move on from.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Him, man. So I mean, it's just I think the
bottom line is I agree with you. In terms of
the public opinion. They're good, They're gonna doesn't matter. People
already have their people already have their mind. The reason
I like that Justin Tucker is not going to play
again is that if he was still making ninety five
percent of its kicked, of course he would have a job.
He doesn't. He's not doing that anymore. So was Justin talker.
I didn't pull his age up there just kickers can

(46:27):
go forever. That's why he was on or whatever. But no,
I mean he looked like he was on its way.
It shattered the all time records of Vinitieri and all you.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Guys know, if you ever get signed again, I'm going
to take a victory lap on air, right. I just
wanted to just so you know, if.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
You ever get signed again, because you got because honestly.
I mean we used say things on the air. We remember,
I think. And by the way, by the way, A
J and I have reunited on the show. He remembers
everything I said. I tried to tell people. Man, don't
say something to me. Don't remember as soon as something
happens that I was wrong. I mean, I can count

(47:01):
on a text in about half a second. Oh, Husky's there,
there he is again. Yeah, yeah, man. Well, I mean
but I love it. I love that. I love the
fact that you were, like, you know, well, Hella burd
going down. You know that doesn't count. No, that doesn't count.
That he picked I said, I didn't take it. I
said they were gonna win in four maybe five games,
So I don't I certainly don't take credit for O

(47:21):
Casey winning in seven.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
The only reason why I text you what I text
you was because I think I still have I like
I I was. I guess I was wrong because the
Pacers didn't win in seven, but Halliburn going down in
the first quarter toing Achilles. I kind of think I
get a Mulligan for that, Shane, What do you think?

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Do I get a monkey? Shaye? Hear me? Do I
get a mulligan for that? Does he get a mulligan
for picking Indiana? And said that Halliburton got hurt, that
Burton goes down, so he was wrong? Wrong? But do
I get a mulligan for that?

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Bro?

Speaker 6 (47:54):
I can't say you dwelled because if let's say you
were to bet on it, you wouldn't get you had.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
But no, no, we can't do it. We don't do
infans and button But that is I picked.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
That's That's all I want to know. Do I get
them all again? If you say no, then cool, I don't.
I'm not going to rebuttle it. I just feel like
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
I just feel like man like they're they're rolling.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
He's hit threes, he's three for four, twelve points, three assists,
he's rebounded, they're up, and.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
It's yeah, that sucks. It is killing. It sucks.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Mathern had twenty second. The other guy that was gonna
put up with Mathern had twenty seven. Imagine if that's
I just feel.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Like you were wrong, DJ, I don't know. Did you
did you give an asterisk to the Toronto when they
won the NBA Championships. The Warriors were all like flies
all over the court.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Absolutely, and if you don't did, you're just not being
honest and real.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
In my opinion, I'm not saying it. Don't chat. What
about the old idea the injuries are part of the game.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Injuries are part of the game. But when the best
guy goes come on, guys, when the best guy goes down.
You know, last time the Miami Dolphins won the AMC's guys,
does anybody in here?

Speaker 1 (48:58):
No, I help you guys out. It's the year Tom
Brady blew as a cla but as a Dolphin fan.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
If I walked in here and bragged about that one year,
be honest, people, what would you got?

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Chad Pennington best player in the league, Chad Bennington? I mean,
that's I mean, that's just the ruiness. My favorite thing
about she Bennington is that he went comeback Player of
the Year twice twice. But that's not that's not a
good That's just not a good award. Win twice. How
do you win that twice? Because you because you can't
carry carefully, you can't keep you to you have a

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good year and you have to have some bad years injuries, whatever,
and then you have to come back again.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah, that's not a great Comeback Player of the Year.
To me, it's worth it when a guy goes down
with like in a Chili's or an a c l
or maybe.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
He has How about when your care when your heart
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
You have a health scare, you have some type of
cardiac arrest that you get revived from, or you have
blood clots or if you did.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
You agree when Joe Flacco won the award? No, no,
I mean he was on the couch.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
So Sam, you was on You were on the couch
because you weren't no good. That's why you want to
let the players aren't sitting on the couch. Guys, there's
a reason why Took's posting videos. If I'm out running people,
dude during your mid to late forties, yeah you can run,
but can you put on pads and can you do
it for eighteen weeks going against guys ten to fifteen
years younger than you, just trying to take your head off.

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The answer is a resounding no. So so, but people
go to you can still get it done. If you
could still get it done, somebody would have them. Guys,
you think there are football people out there that aren't
trying to sign players that can get it done.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
That's not their job, you know. Honestly, I was thinking
about this, you know, comeback Player of the Year because
it's it's very vague on It's almost like MVP. I mean, what,
how do you measure value value to the team in
terms of you know, teams? That's like what is You
could say there's a guy in the last place team
that actually is more valuable to his team than the
guy that's, you know, the best player on the best team.
But then I was thinking about this, if should Or

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Sanders your favorite guy. If should Or Sanders comes out,
becomes a starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and has
a great season, obviously he'll be in consideration for Offensive
Rookie of the Year, but he should be in terms
of comeback Player of the year. You say come back
from what he's a rookie? I said, come back from

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falling in the draft all the way down the fifth round.
You talk about a comeback, right, If you were projected
to be a top ten pick in the NFL draft
and you fall to the fifth round, then have a
great season, shouldn't you be considered for come Back Player
of the Year.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
To go on past that shot stands, so hey, listen,
I'm standing all my soapbox with it. I know he's
going to be at some point this season. This season,
and it couldn't be the start of the year. He's
going to be the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, right,
so he'll.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Be up for it. By the way, we did an
overrunning because we got perfect picks coming up here, so
that seemed low, right and a half and a half
hold the team of the playoffs. I ain't said it.
I just set the over on the Vegas bit. I'm
taking the over all right, coming up on the other side,
and has been much talked about the introduction of a

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over under segment, unlike anything on sports talk radio around
the world. It's the perfect Picks coming out next Harry
aboute Husky Fox Sports Sunday. We're in the Fox Sports
Radio studios. All right, it's that time. Oh, come on,
I wanted to enjoy this song a little.

Speaker 8 (52:24):
Bit more profitables over under a half a.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Flagrant, gentlemen, are your perfect picks? All right? So before
we get started, VJ have some bookkeeping to do. I
do not think DJ is last week you were not
here and Chris had told me.

Speaker 8 (52:46):
There are two things that we have to redress. Well,
the first thing we have to do there is good
and bad. The first let's get the bad news from
J out of the way, because I think you had
thought you had gotten pretty close to tying the up.
What the news that I had dropped when you weren't
here was that I had actually gone through my car
and I found a sheet of picks from one week

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that I had completely forgotten the tabulates. So it puts
you in a little bit more of a hole. I
was first of all, I was up, so I was
never in a hole. The last score you gave with
seven to five VJAS, so I was d too.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
So last week gave me an update and thirteen to nine.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
Okay, yeah, we missed. We missed a bunch of picks,
so we had to fix that.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
I'm sorry. Now.

Speaker 8 (53:28):
The next problem is both you put in the same
card last week and Steve.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
There is some.

Speaker 8 (53:33):
Commotion in here about whether or not you were true, Like,
I'm pretty sure you were asking me to go with
Vj's picks first, and yet somehow, in spite of us, half.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Attack was not on the cowwrawly pick. No, no, no,
you had three picks last week. Yes, we had picks
last week, and one of them, I said, I the
first one. He gave me his pick and I picked
the same thing because I couldn't go the opposite way, right,
But the Colwally thing I picked first, and I said,
I'm gonna roll the dice go over And I said,

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what if the day pick? And he said he went over.
I'm like he went over three and a half as well. Honestly,
I thought I was gonna split with him on that
one and roll the die said Rawley was gonna get
three and a half, so real.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Fast, I'm gonna let you get it up. But the
fact that I was up seven five and you guys
are telling me I'm now thirteen. Now you're telling me
Steve made up eight points off one piece of paper.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
So y'all gonna have to show me that. But I
can't tell you because you must show you a full scoreboard.

Speaker 8 (54:24):
At least I'll show you through and how it's been tabulated.
So let's go either way. You guys finished that with
only one point a piece from last week, both of
you predicting under local affiliates cutting away from Game seven
early so that puts the score right now and we'll
do the accounting later. Fourteen to ten going into this,
So let's get let's get going.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
You know what.

Speaker 8 (54:45):
I'm gonna start with the picks that we're gonna have
for the week, and then we'll do some NFL futures. Okay,
So first things first, I know, I just came in
and there asked you whether you'd rather do Djokovic or
al Karaz. I am, and you guys said al Karaz,
I think it's more interesting to do this on the
joke Kovich side. We do have Wimbledon coming up, and
Alkoraz and Djokovic are really the only two to talk about.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
On the men's single side, Djokovic, of course, is once
again pulling the card.

Speaker 8 (55:10):
He doesn't know if this is gonna be his last dance,
et cetera, et cetera, et centraa blah blah blah blah blah, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
get a job either way. Djokovic over under four and
a half rounds in progress in wimbleded. Basically, will he
make the quarterfinals? Well, Djokovic make the quarter Yeah, over

(55:31):
under four and a half rounds. If you're going over,
you say he's in the quarterfinals, you go under. He's
getting knocked out anywhere between rounds one and four.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
By the way, he is the sixth seed, so that
puts you, you know, in the quarterfinal round. That's where
he's so good there. That's the thing. He's so good there.
I you know, it's wow. You want me to go first.
This could be tricky. This could be very tricky. So

(56:05):
if he gets bounced in the fourth round, it's an under.
He gets to the quarters, it's an over. Yes, I
got a sneaking suspicion he ain't making the quarters. I'm
gonna go under.

Speaker 7 (56:20):
Now.

Speaker 8 (56:20):
You see why I did those with Djokovic, because if
I had said this was aligned with Alcocarez.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Is in the fights in the finals. Man, all right,
give me over. I ain't still got a little left
in the tank.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
It's miss miss some missing time, but wimbled in. I
think I think he's showing up to try to prove
something with a chip on his shoulder. Quarter finals. I
think he can get there as long as you never
have to run. It's a center or alcatrash person.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yeah. By the way, he is saying, if he's ever
gonna get that twenty fifth, the most likely place he
tightens his wi.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
He's best on that exactly, all right, give me the
all right, I got him in.

Speaker 8 (57:01):
A quarter of bum Yeah, yeah, I can tell you, guys,
you can put me over for Pim's Cup number one
throughout this entire entire thing. I love drinking that stuff. Anyway,
this one, you know what, Steve, you're going. You're going
second after this, because this one's near and dear to
both my heart and to VJ. Malik Beasley got himself
in some hot water here. Apparently Detroit is just the

(57:22):
capital of guys who are playing sports, also gambling on sports,
as the US Department of Justice as open investigation on
him gambling.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
So this, this breaks my heart a little bit.

Speaker 8 (57:35):
I think he was in line for a big two
year contract with Detroit that is now just going to
be completely blown up.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
I guess my question is how fast does the league act?

Speaker 8 (57:44):
So VJ over under four and a half days until
the NBA suspends Malik.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Beasley four and a half days.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
So then by Thursday mornings, ease Vidacar over Kellen today?

Speaker 8 (57:57):
Yes, so I guess Thursday at now Thursday noon, Daniel noon,
is he suspended by the National Basketball Association.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Free agency starts this week. Man and his as a
pull that deal. They've halted those talks. They must know something.

Speaker 8 (58:14):
Get me under, apparently, according to some like book guys,
I know like books started to his activity from Elik
Diazeley as way back as like January of twenty.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Twenty four, right when he was with the Bucks. Yeah,
so you're going under. I think this happens fast, over
over over. I mean, come on, guys. His attorney even
said it, and it sent until proven guilty. NBA don't
have to do it. They don't care about that. And
they don't care about that. I didn't care about that. No,

(58:45):
we're we're will leak b When we sit here a
week from today, BAC will still not be suspended. He
won't be. Yeah, he won't be. SI I know by it,
that's for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:56):
All right, one more live one and then we'll get
onto some NFL futures. I've got a bit of a conundrum.
I wanted to throw a soccer one in here because
I know it'll tee off Steve Hart and I guess
the question is am I going Gold Cup or am
I going Club World Cup?

Speaker 1 (59:10):
And I think it doesn't really matter to me because
my disinterested is equal. You hate both. I understand that.

Speaker 8 (59:15):
I feel like I've got to go to the Gold
Cup just because I have been slagging off Team USA
pretty hard, and now they're in the quarterfinal, and we
just talked a little bit earlier with Mansei about Costa
Rica versus the USA. The over under for this game
is two and a half goals. But I'm not interested
in the game. I'm actressed in the side of the
US men's side. They have shown themselves after some really

(59:36):
gnarly friendlies to start really scoring again, even though there's
still a lot of consternation that none of the guys
are right there. Their big men are there for the
team to practice and get ready for the World Cup.
But over under one and a half goals for Team
USA in the Costa Rica quarterfinal of the Gold Cup.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Over the USA two to one tonight.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Let me ask this.

Speaker 8 (01:00:00):
You say the overrunner is one and a half? Was
that one and a half goals specifically for Team USA
is zero?

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Less than one and a half? It is zero is
what they'll score. So the the yeah zero, I thought
you were going to have like a half and then
you go one and a half. I'm like, what are
you just ANIMI money? What are you doing? Well?

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
The main again Zero? The game's line is two and
a half. Yeah, and that's for Costa, Rica and USA combined.
So I felt like zero, let's just do that and
shave one.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
D okay, zero? You are? You are weight down on
that two to one USA and Richard scores a goal.
I like that, kid?

Speaker 8 (01:00:36):
Would you have rather I did in the Club World Cup?
So you could rande about the Club World Cup, Steve
or you just don't care. It would have to be
with all Halal. Nobody knows where all Halal is. Nobody
even knows what all I get All Halal when I
go out to the Shwarma place.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Do you want to this is in my head? No, Zero,
I know, I know, I know. It's the only thing
I've sort of committed to some level of memory is
who won the World Cups each year? I mean from
your Auguay all the way through. Yeah, So I know
that I've been all over this Gold Cup thing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
I've watched every USA match I watched, I watched Jamaica,
I watched Haiti, I've watched I watched a lot of these,
lot of How.

Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
Many futures do you guys want to do today for
the NFL?

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
We can do a couple, but I'll tell you what,
why are we doing it? On the other side? Sure?
How many? How many futures have we already gotten the
books for the NFL? Oh, let me count two, three, four?
So you got eight points made up on one day?

Speaker 8 (01:01:35):
Yeah, we've gotten six, including the forty nine ers one
I had again left off and Belichick and Bill Belichick's
unc season.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
All right, yeah, so you need to explain to Bjay
and I think it's a legitimate explanation.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
It's eight points. It's eight points. Guys, we don't do
that many eight points. I leave seven to five. I
come back. I'm down thirteen to nine. Okay, I just
need to see the eight points.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Listen, I went he threw it out last week. To man,
I'm like, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:02:00):
Again, this is still it was. My Excel sheet was
working progress too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
I don't know. I'm not gonna math. Yeah, but the
computer is spitting that out, you know how irk him.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
I'll just pull a Kobe in the fourth court and
just come back on him and just take this right.
It's all good. I'm down a third quarter, I'm down. Whatever,
give me the ball, get out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Of the way. Let's do a couple. That's how I
get down. But first let's find out what is a
trending right now?

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
That's how Monty get down to right, Montague the ball
to get out of the way, right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Monty, that's right. Yeah, give me the ball and get
the way. You what the score is? I got you? Yeah,
I got you. Let's go, get bucket, Let's go. That's
how I roll. That's right, VJ. Where do I start, guys?

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
A lot of NBA news here today. Let's start, I
guess with Lebron James opting into his fifty two point
six million dollar player option for the upcoming.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Season with the Lakers. He has to be with details on.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
The story that he wants to be for a championship
next season, but is uncertain of the Lakers roster moving forward. Yeah,
because it's not about you. He's evaluating how he wants
to end his career. All Star Julius Randall intends to
sign a new three year, one hundred million dollar deal
to stay with the Timberwolves.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
A trade just happened. ESPN with the.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Details The Jazzer trading Colin Sexton and a twenty thirty
one second round pick to the Charlotte Hornets for Yusuf Nurkic.
That is the latest trade right now in the NBA.
When it comes to gambling, well, there may be an
issue with Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley. The US District
Attorney's Office is investigating him on allegations of gambling related
to NBA games.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
And prop bets.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
As a member of the Milwaukee Bucks, Bojan Bogdanovich announced
that he's retiring after ten seasons in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Put it on social media. He's citing his.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
Foot injury, saying that after fourteen months of battling that
injury to surgeries, countless efforts to get back on the court.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
I'm not happy about this. It took me years to
properly pronounce his name, and now as you finally got it,
and then I find got I did not miss it
once this year on television, not once did I miss it?
And now he's leaving? Are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
There?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
At least there's other itches out there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
There's a lot of names, but that, yes, Bojan Bogdanovic.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Oh wow, that's good. Oh Wow, that's good. I've never
even tried it. Yeah, I got a or that's always
that confused in a big Bogdana vic or Bogdana Vitch. Right,
you know, like you got that there always seems to
be the one. Yeah, I think I thought it was bitch.
It's Vic. I don't think so for him. But you're right,

(01:04:30):
You're right.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
That's so good In baseball, guys, the Yankees have added
a lot of runs, including a home run from Aaron
Judge his twenty ninth of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Cody Bellinger has a home run.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
They are just crushing the A's ten to two top
of the sixth inning. After six innings, the Pirates have
an eight to one lead over the Mets at home.
The Phillies are edging the Braves two to one bottom
of the eighth inning. The Orioles have also added some
more runs. They're shutting out the Raise five zero top
of the seventh inning. Blue Jays and Red Sox were
tied not anymore Toronto on top five to three top
of this sixth inning. The Reds have just tied the

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game against the Padres at home. It's one one top
of the seventh Inna, but San Diego has the bases.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Loaded and they still have two outs to go for
this one.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
The Royals have scored first against the Lawyers. This just
happened because they were on a rains away. So Bobby
Witch Junior with an RBI double and they are edging
the Dodgers one zero.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
It's the bottom of the first.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Giants and White Sox won one top of the fifth,
Rangers on top of the Mariners one zero, top of
the fourth, and the Cardinals have officually defeated the Guardians
seven zero.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Guardians have lost four in a row. Back to you, guys,
Hi Manz, thank you very very much. I love the
way she said.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
That's one of my favorite reasons for going to Dodger
games is just to hear the locals say it like that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
At the Gates Lawyers, I see the Doyers by the way,
h Kim, the guy who is paying Kim. So originally
it looks like it's heist song Kim yeah, and then
it was heyes song. Now it's hes song. He now
because I listened to the Dodger so it's hes song

(01:06:04):
Kim Yeah. I think, hey, they don't his song. And
then next week you're gonna hear hey again his song,
his song song one name I Stay away from.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
I call him Jannis and I'm good with knaves, but
I can never get to this day.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
I won't say his last name on enter them and
you said differently, No, no, I did. These guys did
answered the gumpo after the answered them. And so you
say coompo or coop coopo, it's k o U and O.

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
So yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
But the one I say I had the name I
always hung my hat on it was DJ.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
I can't do that, but I know I know OUI
on the lalay no get I did it money in
high school, d j U high school games. I La,
what are you saying? It is Jake? You pronounced it
in his high school. I know it's family. I know
it's family. Wait, okay, you say it, O, young l lay.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
You say it, oh, young Layley, I.

Speaker 9 (01:07:12):
Know it's I never heard that lay la lay not lovels.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Keep keep practicing it half a second. Okay, we're in
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Speaker 8 (01:07:52):
I'm very glad you guys practice djung Lay's name like
thirty times.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
No no, no, now you really missed it out.

Speaker 8 (01:08:00):
It's anyway, ui anga lala anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Futures anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:08:08):
Theme on the future today is teams that are near
and dear to your guy's heart. And unfortunately, for Steve,
I might have to do too, because I still have yet,
in spite of three years working with him, figured it
out if it's Raiders or Chargers with him, right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Okay, no, no, no, no, we don't have time. It's honestly,
I will tell you right now. I do not have
an NFL team. Sure. I hated the Raiders as a kid.
I loved them when I worked for them. I'm an
LA Raiders fan, and of course they don't exist anymore.
I'm a San Diego Chargers fan and they don't exist anymore.
So that's how that works.

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
The Miami Dolphins win total for this season is set
at a eight and a half eight and a half
considering once again, we seem to have slumped into yet Hey,
more things change, the more they stay the same. The
afcast continues to remain dominated by one damn team, and
it's always been the question of when will the Dolphins
rise up and do it? And unfortunately, it feels like

(01:09:03):
the sun is starting to set on this era of
Dolphins football. VJ, this is your squad, so I will
go to you first over under eight and a half
wins for the Miami This is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Definitely my account. I'm gonna go over for several reasons.
Like you said, there's no point in going under here
because we all know Lewis Riddick, who I love what
speak to privately a lot said the other day they
were down in Miami's been around Mike McDaniel. There is
a sense that they got to This has to be
a year where they get into the postseason, which he's
done twice. But they got to win a playoff game

(01:09:33):
or or he could be fired and Greer could be gone.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
The strongest drought of.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
A playoff a playoff of a playoff win is them,
So I eight and a half.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
I like the schedule. The schedule sets up well for them.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
We know what the Buffalo Bills are, we know what
Josh Allen is, we know what the rest of the
AMC is.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
But it all just comes down to one. God oos
is Oo's taking the snatch.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
If Oos is taken a snatch sixteen fifteen, seventeen games,
or maybe all eighteen games with an eighteen games yepen
seventeen games.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Then they're good. Now we got to play four quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Even then we still end up with eight or nine
wins like they've done in previous year. So but I
think it's only the only pick here is over for them.
Tyreek has lost weight, Tyreek is in therapy, he's making
the rounds, he's talking, he know he made a mistake.
Are running his mouth. Super Bowl weekend, They've all coolbay
ya kiss. They made up Jalen Phillips back chubbed back

(01:10:26):
chop Robinson on that defensive line with Zeeler who got
the big time money, and then the big first round
pick Adam Michigan Grant at that defensive tackle position. Will
hold this defense down, get rid of Ramsey and just
and move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
But I'll take the overall day here. All right, Some
are down the road we always get into what a
lot of people talk about, you know, the coaches hot seat.
I will say this about Mike mcganna. He is in
the top three picks most likely to be fired at
the end of this year. This team will be lucky

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to win six games. What's less eight and a half?
This is a It's a team in total disarray right now. VJ.
I mean you talk. I agree with your analysis that hey,
they need to win something here, that mcdannel's got to
win a playoff game. They're not going to get a
sniff of the playoffs this year. Lucky to win six games.
Please make sure we write back the Tyreek Kill situation.

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What you can call it an aberration. I'm not going
to call it an aberration. His fall is real. He's
had a Hall of Fame career to be in the
Hall of Fame someday, but his days are over. And
without Tyreek Kill playing at that level, this whole offense
is completely different.

Speaker 8 (01:11:42):
Can't hit up on my main concern with them, which
is going to once again be are we going to
have another health crisis on our hands?

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Right with DJ? Well, how would you not expect something.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Like that with the Dolphins? Is one guy we all's
it's the elevator room.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
We all know if one guy plays there, ten to
eleven win team.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
It's been proven. If he does not play and you
have to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Play four different quarterbacks, of course your time is on
a receiver game.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
But you're lucky to win six though, I'm Mark, we
can shove this in so well. In other words, if
they win seven, you'll be crawling. Say I was wrong.
Come on, I have I have under you have over
what I'm going to call an audible.

Speaker 8 (01:12:23):
I was gonna do Raiders, but I decided since the
Hall of Fame game now a month away, we should
focus on Steve's other team, which I know he takes
his kids to the Los Angeles charge.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Well, my son, my one son is a Chargers Harball.
What is the name of your son, Garrett Harton. Garrett
is the biggest Garrett.

Speaker 8 (01:12:39):
So let's go to Garrett Hartman's favorite football team, the
Los Angeles Chargers. Yes, their win total is set at
nine and a half. Steve, I am opening this one
up to you. Jim Harbaugh second year, gotten, plenty of weapons, gotten,
plenty of new look stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Joe all Is, I am a Jim Harbaugh fan. And
what he did a year ago was a miracle. I
mean seriously, with no running game, no wide receivers, had
a running game, their defense over a cheat, well they
got a running game out of a guy that was,
you know, at every conceivable leg injury right and now

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some way they were able to pull that. That's the
genius of Jim Harbaugh. That being said, and I'm not
saying long term because I believe in Jim Harbaugh he
will win no matter where he is. But again, let's
when you have a team that far exceeds expectations one year,
they normally take a step back the next year before
they move forward. And that's going to be the case

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with the Chargers. Nine and a half. You say they
could win nine, they could go nine and eight eight
nine vision that division. You know the Broncos. Broncos are
a very similar situation where they came out, had a
big year, do you take a step back. I think
the Raiders are going to be better than people expect
when you upgrade it everything.

Speaker 8 (01:14:00):
So no love, no love with the additions of Lad
McConkie and Marion and that's not enough.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
So I'm gonna say under under the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Not only will I go over the Chargers are gonna
win twelve games this year?

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
They're gonna win twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Yeah, that's here told me last year when I said
they were gonna win double digit game to go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
To the play? What's more likely? Let's have an arbitrator hearing, Chris,
what's more likely the Dolphins win six games, of the
Chargers to win twelve, the Chargers to win twelve? Thank you? Oh,
thank you? No? No, no, no, wait, wait, hold on, hold on,
I misunderstood the question. I said, what is more likely
to happen the Dolphins winning six games of the Chargers
winning twelve?

Speaker 8 (01:14:39):
I think both are fairly likely. I would go with
the dolphins. Wait, so am I?

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
I am? What is I am? Just giving you a number?
And what is more likely to happen? The Dolphins winning
six games or the Chargers winning twelve games? But six?
That's more correctly on that number?

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Six, wow, Chase, sue. Twelve are the Chargers winning twelve?

Speaker 7 (01:15:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:15:03):
I think I would say chargers winning twelve. I don't
feel good about this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
But let me also go here with harball this idea.
They're gonna take a step back. Guess who, Guess who?
Teams that doesn't happen to doesn't happen to Jim Harball team.
You have them in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
When they got no when he first when he first
got there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
His second year, they got to the super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (01:15:19):
Yeah, second when they got to the super Bowl, and
then they spent their their time and the minutes with
the next.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
Two years they got into the conference champions name, and
then they fell off the four exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
So it didn't happen after the one year of the
upcoming when you're trying to actually still work with the
last coaching staff at last Rousine some of their guys,
you gotta clean some of that out. You gotta get
your system in, which he did within one season turn
your franchise completely around.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
They keep rolling. We keep talking about all these other quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
They still have a genuine by the name of Justin
Herbert that's out here in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Okay, is going I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Not talking about loss a game. I'm not talking about resume.
I'm talking about putting the tape on people. Okay, we're
talking about the regular season, so we're not talking about
the playoff'm talking about the ar They're gonna win.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Well, honestly, what is the difference between Justin Herbert and
Trevor Lawrence? Right now? Justin Herbert's is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
Better than me, I mean, is better than better than
Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 8 (01:16:10):
Yes, yeah, I put the tape. Is he put the
tape on Top ten quarterbacks?

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Right?

Speaker 8 (01:16:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Yes, nobody has Justin Herbert in the top ten quarterbacks
right now.

Speaker 8 (01:16:21):
Ie McDonald of Yahoo's Sports, they all have Herbert in
their top He's a top.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Based on what the fact that they still they said
that after his second heir, when he was a Pro
Bowl starter and hasn't been back to the Pro Bowl since.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
Okay, so put out your own top ten quarterbacks for
twenty twenty five exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Well, we'll do that. We can do that. So are
you are you saying Trevor Lawrence is better? We'll do
that next week. Okay, yeah, I want to say, but
he's la can come up with ten quarterbacks before Justin Herbert?
All right. On the other side, it's official. Apparently Aaron
Rodgers says he's playing his final season. Should he get
a big farewell tour, we'll break it down. This is

(01:17:02):
Fox Sports Sunday Harvin and Husky Fox Sports Sunday, We're
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. What happens during the
course of our show, because so much is going on
off air, is that suddenly we got another four hours
of topics and we're running out of till right right,

(01:17:23):
So now we got to kick the can down the
road for another week. But we got John Paul Morosi
coming up in the next hour, which is always a
treat because we can cover a wide variety of subjects
with JP. All Right, we've been talking a lot of NFL.
We had the perfet picks. Aaron Rodgers is now saying
that this is probably probably his final season in the

(01:17:45):
National Football League. Now, he did bring up one point,
Whether whether you're a fan of Aaron Rodgers or not,
he did bring up one very sound point that if
indeed this is his final year, he is going to
be in the uniform of one of the more successful
stable organizations in the NFL. Unlike the Jets, which are

(01:18:07):
been a mess forever, the Steelers are the polar opposite
of the Jets. Now does that translate into wins? I
still maintain if they won ten games a year ago
and ten games the year before that, why would they
win fewer games. With Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. He is
an upgrade of anything they've had over the last four
years at the quarterback position. I think it'll be a

(01:18:28):
solid year. I don't think the Steelers are a super
Bowl contender. They own the Ravens, they always have. I
don't know why Mike Tomlins got John Harbaugh's number, but
he does. And I think they'll be right about that.
They'll be a ten win team. He'll go out with
a playoff loss and put a bow on it, and
I think that's okay. And I don't think it's going
to be like Lebron. You and I are on the
same page. With Lebron, He's going to play and play

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and play and play. That is not going to be
the case for Aaron Rodgers. Why would you want to
leave after a great career that Rodgers has had, with
the kind of season season that he had with the Jets.
You go to a stable franchise. They're gonna win nine
or ten games. They're not gonna have a losing season. Oh,
I'll be fine, It'll be all over. This will be
their first losing season. It is not gonna happen. It

(01:19:12):
will It will because he's gonna tear that thing down. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
You get you guys are unestimating energy. Man, and he
just tear.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Down coach that's been there for twenty years.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
He's gonna know, He's not gonna tear the coach down,
but just him, his energy, his aura, his juice, the
stuff that slides off with people and touches other people.
Sometimes it can uplift you, and sometimes it just weighs
people down. It takes the air out of a room,
and that translates onto the field or the core. It's
happened so many times in the history of sports, and

(01:19:40):
we keep ignoring it because we attached to the name.
And I took a vow on myself at the beginning
of twenty twenty five I will no longer attach my thought,
in my opinion, to just the name. I am gonna
look at the totality of the situation we are talking about.
Aaron Rodgers still has a name, and people are like, well,
it's Aaron Rodgers and it's the Steelers, So what who

(01:20:01):
is he throwing to?

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
What do they have? What has he done in the
last three or four years? Guys?

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
That makes you think that this thing is not gonna
burn not to mention they play in a hard division
and they're in the AFC.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
That's hard.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
I think this will be Tomlin's first I don't care
if it's eight and nine. Eight and nine is still
a losing season.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
James Harrison Steeler legend. I just saw him. He is
predicting that the Steelers will cut Aaron Rodgers. Oh that
I didn't see. Yeah, yeah, I could see it happening.
Yeah he is. He is not a believer in the
Aaron Rodgers situation. He actually believes that the Steelers gonna

(01:20:42):
cut Aaron Rodgers. I like it. How about those New
York Knicks looking for a coach? We got the crazy update.
This is Fox Sports Sunday having all kinds of fun
here on a beautiful Sunday. I hope you're enjoying your
day out there. We're in the Fox Sports Radio studio,
and you know this is this is sort of a

(01:21:04):
really good time of the year for what we do
because you can say, well, you know you're anxious for
the football season to begin. Of course we are. I
mean the Hall of Fame games a month the way,
we're ready for the ready, and we got all kinds
of spins and everything else. But and the NBA season's over.
Baseball we're coming up toward the All Star break, we'll
have the trade deadline. We'll have a lot of baseball

(01:21:24):
to talk about in the weeks ahead. NHL season is over,
you know, we get a little We got Wimbledon next
couple of weeks, and then the Open Championship is coming up,
the final major for the So there's always plenty of
things going on. But the good news is right now
is that sometimes you're sort of you got one thing
that you got to talk about because it's just that,

(01:21:45):
you know, And we get a little bit of an open,
open window right now, so now you can sort of
explore some of the crazier stories out there. And this
one is a doozy. Now we have the perfect picks.
And one of the picks we had was how soon
would the Knicks have a new coach? Now that's one
I did beat you on because I said it was over,

(01:22:08):
because I just recognized that the Knicks had a knee
jerk reaction after losing to Indiana and they fired Tips.
I can't do it. Firing a coach is the easy part.
But they're thinking, they're like, Okay, you do, you have
somebody to replace them. And then when they started targeting

(01:22:28):
coaches under contract with other teams that are successful and
thinking that those teams are going to say, sure, you
could talk to our coach. What were they thinking? Yeah,
And they got the doors slammed in their face over
and over and over again, which is why the Knicks
are where they are. This is why this organization has
been void of an NBA championship for more than fifty years,
because they don't know what the f they're doing. And

(01:22:51):
so now we're hearing the name of Don Staley. Don
Staley is one of the top college basketball coaches in
the kind and I don't even need to put gender
into this conversation. When you look at elite college basketball coaches,
Don Staley is in the conversation. You win multiple national

(01:23:12):
championships and you have the kind of winning percentage that
she's had at South Carolina, you've earned the distinction of
being in that conversation. Plus the fact she was a
Hall of Fame player. That being said, when people talk
about this Don Staley being the coach of the Knicks,
my problem has zero to do with her gender and

(01:23:33):
everything to do with her pedigree because she has no
association with the NBA. And will he saw it, whether
it was Rick Bettino, John Caliperi, Jerry Tarkanian, the list
goes on and on. What do you think Mike Krzyzewski
was offered NBA jobs almost every year for fifteen to
twenty years, always said no because he knew it is

(01:23:54):
a different sport. Yeah, they still use a basketball, but
coaching at the NBA level is a completely different game,
especially when you're totally indoctrinated to the college game where
you have that kind of control. Let's face it, in
college basketball, the coaches are the stars. They've always been
the stars. That's who when we look at the NCAA, Oh,

(01:24:17):
it's all exactly. You looked at this NBA draft, You're
like part of these players, right, the coaches are the stars.
That is not the case in the NBA. The coaches
are not the stars. In the NBA, the players are
the stars. And so right unless but like you said,
when I look at the success that a pat Riley

(01:24:37):
or Phil Jackson had with superstar players, that's because their
egos were even greater than the players. You have to
have that if you're going to be you know, with
the Shacks and the Kobe.

Speaker 8 (01:24:48):
The second highest superstars there after the players, the general managers,
they're the taking all the power now.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
But yeah, the coaches are expendable. That's not why the
coaches get fired about this. The Knicks right now could
go out. What are there are five? Am? I right?

Speaker 8 (01:25:04):
There are five the available an NBA draftman out a coach?

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
Again, there are like five coaches out there that have
an NBA championship on the resume that are available. Right,
you got Mike Brown, you got Vogel, Yeah, Budenholzer, Eric Spolstra,
Spolster malone malone. There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:25:26):
Spolser is not available. But like that's not Lifer. That's
but he's.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Not he's not available, right, Yeah, Yeah, these are guys
that are out there. They're actually available.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Okay, I know these guys are. He's right, that's what
we're going with the availability.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Nurse available? Who nurse Mike? Yeah? I mean right, I
mean he has an NBA champions championship. But would you
give him a call? But no one, no one is
clamoring for these guys. So, but that would be my concern.
Will will a woman so day be a coach in
the NBA. Probably, yes, absolutely, it's a very progressive league.

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And I get Hammon probably first. Well, Becky Hammond makes
sense because she was on the bench for many years,
obviously coaching the Spurs. Then she became a head coach
in the WNBA with great success, right, and she had
earned that respect. I'm not saying that Don Staley couldn't
come in and get the job done, but based on
the track record of those college coaches that have no

(01:26:27):
professional experience as an assistant or any other level, it's
it's just not good. It's a different sport.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
I'll say this as far as excuse me experience goes.
We all have started somewhere in our life with no experience.
The very first time I ever sat in front of
a microphone and it's sports talk radio.

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
I had no experience. You have to in order to
get experience.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
It's almost like the old additive is you won't hire
me because I don't have enough experience. Well, how do
I get experience if no one is going to hire me? Now,
I'm not saying the Knicks should do this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
Yeah, but wait a second, stop Paus for a second here.
I hate I don't want to interrupt you. But I
have to say this. It would be one thing if
she's getting a u an opportunity with a bottom feeder
in the NBA. You're talking about a team that was
in the Eastern Conference. That doesn't matter. That's because the
Knicks are expecting their next coach. If Tips couldn't get
him to the championship, that's what they're looking for. They're

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not doing a restart.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
That one thing, Steve, that's the logical thing to say.
But we're dealing with Dolan in the Knicks. So logic,
so logic, right, logic, logic and right goes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
Out the winding.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
When you're talking about Dolan in the Knicks, when have
they ever done anything.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Logically or right? That's why.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
So that's why it goes out the window. My point,
I'm not saying that she will even be successful. I'm
just the Knicks are Maybe this is just, Hey, we're
such a bleat show right now. Hey, let's let's try
to do something that kind of is groundbreaking. Let's let's
let's let's let's throw something out there, because the first
woman NBA coach would be groundbreaking. Now, like I said,

(01:28:04):
I believe Becky Hammond probably deserves the first shot because
of the time she's put in and what she's done.
She helped coach Team USA, she's helped coach to Spurs
have been on a Popovich. Who something is if it's
not our back or Phil Jackson, the greatest NBA coach
that's ever walked God's Green Earth. Just depending upon who
you're talking to and what day do we keep talking

(01:28:24):
to him on.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
So I just think that the Knicks right now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
You mentioned during the commercial break, if you're mentioning Don
Staley at ground zero. Maybe it's ground zero, Maybe it's
ground let's do something groundbreaking.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Maybe it's Hey, we've screwed this thing up so much.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
Let's now try to grab some attention and grab some
sympathy and some cheers and some pats on the back
and some pomp pom pushing by throwing out there that
we're thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
About, Wow, who do you think Don Staley? Now?

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
The whole bottom feeder whaler thing, I don't buy that
matter what team, and the Knicks aren't upper echelon just
because they got to the Eastern Conference finals. We've all
sat here and not myself, I'm where people say here
and say, well, the East is so weak and East
have sold this. So don't tell me about the team
these was so weak. Don't tell me about the team
that was.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
They were five fifty plus games the last two years.
It means nothing, means nothing. It does in terms of
what the expectations are for that team. Listen, man, what expectations?
What are you talking about? They just got to the
Eastern Conference finals. Tims had gotten into the level. Their
feeling was, all right, this guy has gotten us as
far as he can take us. We now need that

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coach that can get us over the armp get us
back to the NBA finals and win a championship. That
is their mindset of why they got rid of tips
that they felt like, that's as far as he can
take us. You're not gonna have some someone that. Remember
when they hired Derek Fisher. You remember that debacle. I mean,
of course, remember they were two years removed from a

(01:29:48):
fifty four win season with Mike Woodson and his They
bring Fisher, they won seventeen games.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
And Fishing guess what, and guess what. Fisher has NBA connections.
Fisher has NBA away from being at He's like being
a coach. He wasn't ready for the job, right, Okay,
But if you're if you're saying that you don't have
any connections and you don't have any this or that
to the NBA, and when they've done it with guys
that came in and couldn't do the job either, Okay,
So then where you turn it? And then once again,

(01:30:14):
I plead you to understand that this is the nikkabakers
we're talking about. They don't This is not logic and right.
They're not gonna do it logically and do it right.
And expectations what expectations do?

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
How do even Okay, the New York media. So let's
say they hired Don Staley to be their next head coach. Okay,
I mean, she's gonna face the fire from day one.
I'm sure she can handle the initial way she can
handle it. Are they gonna be conscious of the fact
that it's a female first time? Are they gonna give
her some slack?

Speaker 6 (01:30:45):
Id?

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
It is in today's world.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
We all know in this business, and I've even had
to learn it myself.

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
In this business.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
In today's world, you sometimes you got to tread lightly.
And that's just the facts. That's the facts, and that's
the truth that some people even scared to just stay
that part of what I just said. In this business,
whether you're behind a microphone or you're in a press
conference room, are you You and I very good friends.
Are our good favorite Sean Haylock? Yes, And we agreed
about the way JJ reddick tawt. And I was standing there.

(01:31:14):
I was in there when that happened. Right, that's a man,
that's a guy. So but he asked the question, very
fair question. It was a very fair but no one
in there had, you know, what to ask him because
we're all trying to figure out why don't you make
any substitutions in the fourth quarter?

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
The other day single the entire second half of them
do so.

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
But I think, I tell you this, she'd have handled
that question a lot better than he did.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
I guarantee you that she wouldn't have walked out. I mean,
he's a tough cookie, I know that, but she can
handle it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
But no one could just sit there and oh, because
she's a female or a woman or this, we can
just go That's not the world we live in. No
more So I think I don't I don't want to
use the word safe, but heck, I think she's probably
safe for sitting up at a podium more than any
other coach sitting up there, because you are going to
watch what you say and how you say because of
the temperature of the world we live in. And just

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out of respect too, just out of respect that you're
talking to a lady, you're talking to a woman. As
a man, there's certain ways you should say things and
there's certain ways you shouldn't say things, regardless.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
Of this is your job. But you know there are
guys that don't believe that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
Okay, that's fine, But I'm not those guys. I'm me,
So I would sit in there and still ask tough questions.
But if you're asking me, hey, do you think some people, Yes,
there's gonna be some people that try.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
To go in there to make a point because she
is a woman. Let's just be on. There are gonna
be men that do that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
But I just think that she's the type of woman,
along with Becky Hammond, that is strong and tough enough
to handle and take that and shut that down.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Now do what Hammond has proving herself at the NBA level.
True at the NBAH she has proven herself, then they's
talking about her then if I might add, honestly, if
I were Don Staley, I would say thanks, but no thanks.
I may take the NBA job. She's making it. She's
making great money at South Carolina. She's got a role
on Ya could be the coach. She can go.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
She could be the first real woman and be a
coach of all time. And it doesn't matter. If it
does matter, does it take it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Away that you were the first woman? Though? That doesn't
erase that because you failed, But you don't have an
effect on other women giving jobs. If she fails, So.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
This any woman then, not just her. So Becky Hammond
comes into Becky Hammond.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
At thirty games. Honestly, if I were Don Staley, I
would not want to be especially with an organization like
the Knicks. Well you can make I'm gonna tie my future,
my legacy to the next.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
If you can make history. In my opinion, you'd say.
You just say, Ye's already made history.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
She's won multiple national championships itself, and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
There's never been a woman coach in the National Basketball Association.
If I got the opportunity to be that and be
etched in history forever as the first, I just think
you said, I just think even if it's Becky Hammond,
I just think.

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
You say, yeah, well, Becky ham And again she's paid
her dues in the NBA. If I were Don Stanley,
stay put, Don you you've got a great situation in
South shortlineing you want to tie yourself to the New
York Knicks. All right. On the other side, we're going
to catch up with a man that can cud of
her any subject and better than just about everyone else,
the Great JP Morose. He will join us. This is
Fox Sports Sunday, Harvin and Husky, Fox Sports Sunday. Once

(01:34:23):
again we're here in the Fox Sports Radio studios. What's
always the treat to bring on the man with a
wealth of knowledge gracious enough to share it with us
every single Sunday? Here, the Great John Paul Morosi, JP,
how are you on this glorious, glorious final Sunday in

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the month of June.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Summer is already flying, it feels like, certainly from a
standpoint when the school starts up again. But most importantly,
we've got the All Star Game coming up just a
couple of weeks away. And I certainly saw the stunning
news that both Tony and Aaron judge are going to
be in the game with the sun by that. But well,

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we are processing that shocking news. No, certainly, of course,
in Jeff. But it's a good reminder of just how
much talent we've gotten in baseball now. And I cannot
wait to see show a Judge and all the rest
on the big stage here in Atlanta in a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
All right, I met you mentioned the All Star Game, which,
by the way, sometimes I look at it as the
some star game. You know. I've always been of the
believer that to qualify for the All Star Game, you
actually have to be a star. And you remember the
old days, at least I do. Growing up, it was
an automatic that Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and Mickey

(01:35:42):
Mantle and Carlia strimskame guys of that ILK were automatic.
They could be hitting two hundred. It did not matter
because they're stars. It's an exhibition game. And then all
of a sudden, you start I remember this all change.
I think I was at the two thousand and four
All Star Game in Houston, and I remember being on
the field the day before with a home run derby,

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and I'm walking around the field and I'm literally seeing
players I do not recognize who they are, their names
I had to look them up and I was like,
how are these All Stars? Half a season? Does that
make you an All Star? I don't know how you
would choose the All Star team, but to me, it
would be less about what you've done over a two

(01:36:25):
month period as opposed to what you've done on the
whole to determine whether or not you're an actual All Star.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Well, it's a blend, and I understand where you're coming
from on that. Steve. A couple of thoughts. Number One,
it is really good that the All Star Game no
longer determines help fuit advantage in the World Series because
that really created this complicated understanding of what the All
Star Game is. Is it a showcase of the game's

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greatest stars or is it a game that you must
manage to win? Because it could help determine if a
team wins the World Series and has a Game seven
at home or not. So I'm glad that that is
now ancient history. I believe we can do two things here.
I believe we can honor and respect and celebrate the

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best first halfs that we are seeing. Cal Rowley is
going to be in the All Star Game, and that
doesn't mean that we have to all of a sudden
clear out someone like Otani and Judge that they can
all be part of it. And with injury replacements now,
and with when you can substitute for a picture who
pitches on Sundays, who is not going to pitch on Tuesday,

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you can then replace him. You can still go and
enjoy the festivities, but he's not going to be active
for the game. And these are all really good changes. Listen,
at the end of the day, the players union and
the players themselves, they like getting the recognition. It means
all Star Game bonuses, it means more marketing opportunities, it
means the status that comes for the rest of your
life of being a Major League All Star. These are

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really good things for a player's career. So I have
no issue with more players enjoying it. And I also
think that something we've seen happen later on in players' careers,
whether it was Jeter, whether it was Miguel Cabrera. Players pools,
for example, you almost get the and this is the

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case with pools, no matter what the numbers were, it
was your last year you're going to the All Star
Game because you're Albert Pooles. That's a really good thing.
And the fact that it no longer determines home to
advantage allows the managers to make sure that Pooles gets
his a bat, that Cabrera gets his at bats, and
that we have a chance to really celebrate. Honestly, to

(01:38:44):
the conversation about Kershaw, I want to see him in
the All Star Game this year. I want to see
Kershaw that we don't know how many years he's got
left in his career. Let's let him pitch and bring
him there as one of the game's greats because he
deserves that status for all time.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Man. JP Morosi, Man, I missed you last week, Buddy.
I'm glad to be back. How are you and how's
Mama Morosi?

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
Buddy, We're all doing great.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
VJ, thank you so much. Right the back statesime, we
were there in Italy for a week. Loved it. I
had a chance to experience all that is Italian culture,
very much. Enjoyed it. Read the La Gazetta de la Sports,
where they're very serious. What are my favorite? When I
was reading in an Italian when they're covering a major

(01:39:27):
soccer event, whether it be a club or national team event.
They put a numerical rating on every person who touches
the field on a scale of one to ten, and
they tell you that. So we talk about how much
criticism there is for the modern athlete in America. I
don't know. Do we put a number on everybody who
touches the football fit on a Sunday? They do over there, man,
and it's pretty it is pretty intense scrutiny.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
Yeah, let's stick with this All Star thing because the
two this season tell me if I'm just off here JP,
if anybody is fit to do so, it's you. I
feel this MLB season there's some lacklusterness going on and
I'm not sure why, but only fifteen teams are over
five hundred. It's a lot of bad baseball, are average

(01:40:11):
below average baseball being played, and it just feels like
the show. Hey, Judge year right, are we just waiting
for another rematch of the Yankees and the Dodgers in
the World Series or is there somebody who's legitimately I
know the Tigers are having a great year, the Padres
are playing well, but are we kind of just mosying

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through this year?

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
Because it just feels.

Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
Like Warriors Calves again, Right, we're gonna get the same
two teams?

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
There are am I missing something or this.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
Just just kind of feel like where's the pop, where's
the sizzle?

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
Other than Show Hay and Aaron Judge.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
Well, it's a very good question, and I think that
when you look at the odds, I would still say this.
The odds are against the Yankees Dodgers rematch. They just
are because of how much randomness is built into the
MLB postseason, given the number of rounds that you've got
to win. You look at it that there's a reason
why it's been since two thousand that we've had a

(01:41:13):
repeat champion. That made the baseball a quarter century, a
quarter century without a repeat champion. So while last year's game,
the last year's World Series seemed inevitable that it would
be Dodgers Yankees. Remember, of course, the Dodgers nearly were
bounced in four games in the first round if that
game four had gone differently, and certainly Padre fans know

(01:41:34):
that very well. So I think that the Dodgers are great,
but they're also vulnerable. I think a team like the Cubs,
if they add the right starting pitching. They could scare
somebody in season. I like the Giants bullpen. If they
get hot, I think they're a dangerous team. The Phillies
are perpetually in need of maybe one more reliever, and

(01:41:56):
then they're about to get Bryce Harper back, and they've
actually been able to pay ahead of the met team
without Harper. So I've been very impressed by the way
the Phillies have played. I think in the American League,
your characterization is correct in that there's not really a
dominant team, even including the Yankees. Yankees are good, but

(01:42:17):
they're not dominant. They're not even as good as they
were a year ago. The Tigers are I think that
right now, the most complete overall team, but they're not
a star laden team. And they've got the best record
in the American League. They've got an excellent pitching staff
and ascended young star and Riley Green. They're about to
play at National TV tonight, their first Sunday night baseball

(01:42:39):
game and in more than a decade, so it's it's
an exciting time for the Tigers. But but they're not
going to out superstar you. They're going to be a
team that plays well collectively, has a really good, really
good starting rotation that's run along by an excellent pitching
coach and Chris Feder. It's more of an organizational effort,
I think, than dependent upon particular star. So I personally

(01:43:02):
like the way they played and like the way they
represent the game. But if you're looking for superstars and
to be wowd like that, the Tigers probably are not
your flavor of vice.

Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
Creak.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
I want to ask about Dave Parker for a second here,
so I'm of the era of Dave Parker, when at
one point, certainly in the late seventies, he was the
best player in Major League Baseball, a true five school guy.
You've won back to back batting Championships, he won an MVP,
he had a throwing arms second and none. We saw
in the seventy and nine All Star Game when he
gunned down Brian Downey had the plate and then of

(01:43:33):
course his kura got derailed, you know, cocaine, all kinds
of problems, and they resurrected his career with the Reds.
And why I'm asking is that the Baseball writers never
gave him any love in the Hall of Fame voting.
Only twice did he even get twenty percent of the vote.
Veterans Committee recognized in and I interviewed him. I think
it was about seven or eight years ago. He's been
suffering from Parkinson's for many, many years. He was a

(01:43:57):
great interview. He was a little halting, you could tell
he was and of great health. But why is it
that a guy that had the kind of career he had,
And I know he didn't always register high as far
as the modern war stats, but to me, Dave Parker
was a star, a Hall of fame in other words, fame,
mess fame, hall of fame, dominant player. At one point

(01:44:20):
you would make the argument he was the best player
in all of Major League Baseball. What do you think
the Hall of Fame writers showed him so little respect?

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
It's a great question. I do think that for a
long time, and it's becoming less the case now, But
for a long time, if there was any hint in you,
in your reference to what he had gone through off
the field, there was any hint of controversy, that the
writers would would almost in some ways treat all controversies

(01:44:50):
the same and use it to keep someone out. I
think increasingly now in baseball we are looking for reasons
to put players in instead of keep them out, And
something that is mildly controversial now could be something as
baseball centric and simple is as for example, did a

(01:45:11):
player play long enough? Did Joe Mahler play long enough?
The answer clearly was yes, He's a Hall of Famer.
Did Buster Posley play long enough? I believe the answer
for him will also be yes. So there are ways
of dealing with different shortcomings in different ways. I think
that the writers had made up their minds about Parker
because of, as you mentioned that the off field issues

(01:45:33):
that he went through and never really got around it
changing their minds about him in time for him to
really enjoy obviously the induction, where if he had been
elected five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years ago, he
would have been able to be there when he was
in better health that actually go to Cooperstown and then
enjoy the award. I think that's the heartbreaking part for me.

(01:45:53):
But I suppose that the silver lining is that he
did die knowing that he was a Hall of Famer,
and I was, actually I was very fortunate. I was
on the set the night that he was elected, and
I was there with Greg Amsinger interviewing Dave Parker and
clearly it was difficult for him to speak, but he
obviously knew what was going on, and he knew what
it meant that he'd been elected and had to support

(01:46:14):
and the validation of being a Hall of Famer. So
he died with that knowledge. As tragic as it seems now,
but I think that the important thing in some sense,
when you're voted in by the Era Committee, it is
your peers who are doing the voting, and Dave Parker's
peers knew how great he was in a way that

(01:46:35):
maybe the writers didn't fully appreciate it. And I do
think writers are getting better at looking at all the
information and taking it all in and maybe removing whatever
biases existed at a particular time. And whatever the reasons were,
he should have gotten in a lot earlier than he did.
The important thing is, of course, it was from a
standpoint of his legacy, It's always going to be in Cooperstown,
which is exactly where it should be for the great Cobra.

Speaker 1 (01:46:58):
Fox Sports Sunday, Harmon Husky.

Speaker 3 (01:47:00):
Right on Fox Sports Radio, we have the great JP
Morosi on is our MLB and let's talk about All
Star Games, new faces, new guys, young guys, whether you
recognize them or not. Byron Buckston twenty eight to eighty six,
bat in eighth in the league and ops non twenty eight,
nineteen runs, fifty one RBIs, fifteen stolen bases, All Star.

Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
Yeah or nay?

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Byron Buxton for sure. For me, I think he is
one of the absolutely most electrifying players in the game,
and obviously staying healthy has been a challenge. He's played
one hundred and more games twice in his career. Hopefully
is going to be able to change it this year
and play more than one hundred for the third time.
But my goodness, bej when he is there, he's already

(01:47:42):
got nineteen homers as you document, He's well on his
way easily to a twenty twenty season, hopefully a thirty
thirty season, which would be the first of his career.
He to me, is just a delight to watch. And
I always say this that when you've got someone that's
battled injury, when they're stealing bases again and their body

(01:48:05):
feels good enough to have what is I was described
still in second base as like a low grade NFL collision. Okay,
you're not wearing pads, you're going full speed, you're sliding
into something or someone. Body to the ground is hard,
body to the base is hard. There's a lot of
collisions there, and you're not doing that unless your body

(01:48:28):
feels good. And right now, Byron Buxton VJ fifteen out
of fifteen in stolen bases. He's never been thrown out.
I realize. I realized the rules of the game are different.
That's some element here, and I fully understand that. But
the rules of the game and the way that MLB
has handled the sport was designed to amplify the talent

(01:48:53):
of a player exactly like Byron Buxton. He is the guy,
and so for me, I'm just throw it for him,
for his family, a tremendously classy gentleman who I've always
enjoyed talking with in the past, and I'm just thrilled
to see him back and playing the way that he is,
because he does bring to so much joy to the
field and to the stands when he's out there doing

(01:49:14):
what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
Yes, sir, all right, JP, great stuff. Obviously, with the
All Star Game coming up and before you know, we'll
be talking about that trade deadline. Oh, some big deals
on the horizon, potentially in Major League Baseball. JP, enjoyed
the rest of you weekend. We'll talk to you next Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Steve Evangeli, I look forward to this every week, my friends,
all the best, have a great start to the week,
and look forward to next week.

Speaker 1 (01:49:35):
There is all right, John Paul Morose SI. Now let's
find out what is a trending is Monsey has been
waiting patiently patiently? All right, love JP. When you watch
the Dodgers wearing their Brooklyn Dodger caps, how do you
feel about that?

Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
I mean, I don't mind it, but it is funny
because I see him be. It's very similar to Boston's
be right. Yeah, But I tend to always ask, like
my first question when it's not a and I see
a be, my first question is always after the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:50:03):
Like I always asked that first. I always had that
little circle.

Speaker 3 (01:50:07):
Yeah, it's that little try and that little diamond in
the middle hole that you.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
Like, you know what I'm unless And I was, but
I'm always like, is that for Brooklyn? I I mean
I like it. As a Dodger fan, I've always looked.
I remember the first time I got a Brooklyn Dodgers
gap I could not take it off that. I just
thought it was like, I don't blame you. I have
one that I don't wear.

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
I got it the night my very first Dodger game
I ever covered in person was Jackie Robinson Knight.

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
So the gimbler, Yes, so to give away. The giveaway was.

Speaker 3 (01:50:35):
The it's got the adjustable little uh on it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:37):
It's not even the snap back.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
It's the one that pulls with the little gold yeah
tab on it. I won't it with the forty two
on the side. I won't even wear.

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
A lot of girl hats have that. Yeah, I know,
you know what I said. For me, it's like a
normal that's normal for my hat. But yes, I have
that hat as well. It's great. It has like a
like a felt. It's hot as hell. Yeah, no, it's
it's but I love. That's probably why I don't wear.
I think it looks so good too. Like I'm with you.
I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (01:51:04):
We'll start in baseball, since you know we're on baseball.
You guys just talked to JPM Rosi. It's been all
Yankees so far against A's twelve five is the score top.

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
Of the ninth in New York.

Speaker 5 (01:51:13):
Aaron Judge has home here not once, but twice, bringing
his total to thirty on the season.

Speaker 1 (01:51:18):
He's trying to keep up with cal Rawley.

Speaker 5 (01:51:19):
The Astros are up on the Cubs two zero after
eight innings.

Speaker 1 (01:51:23):
The ninth about to start in Houston. The Birds edging
the Rockies two to one.

Speaker 5 (01:51:26):
Top of the ninth starting in Milwaukee, Kikey Hernandez with
a two run shot as the Dodgers are on top
of the Royals two to one. Top of the sixth inning,
Giants and White sucks. It's been a little bit of
back and forth, with Chicago is on top right now,
five to two. Top of the eighth inning. San Francisco
has the bases loaded and they still got two wats
to go in this one. The Mariners and the Rangers
are tied at one apiece after seven innings.

Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Angels on the scoreboard first.

Speaker 5 (01:51:49):
They're up on the Nationals one zero, bottom of the second.
The Marlins are up on the Diamondbacks in Arizona one zero,
bottom of the second. The Cardinals already shut out the
Guardian seven zero. The Phillies edged the Braves two to one.
The Orioles defeated the Rays five to one. The Blue
Jays held on five to three against the Red Sox,
and the Reds walked it off against the Padres three
to two, while the Pirates crushed the Mets twelve to

(01:52:10):
one to complete a three game sweep outscoring New York
in these three games thirty to four.

Speaker 8 (01:52:18):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:52:19):
Four runs by New York in this three game series.
No buend. How much money is one that I'm making?
I forget?

Speaker 5 (01:52:26):
In the NBA Speaking of a lot of money, Lebron
James is opting into his fifty two point six million
dollar player option for the upcoming season. Yeah, he wants
to compete for a championship next season, he ESPN with
the details, but he's uncertain of the Lakers roster moving forward,
so he's evaluating how he wants to end his career.
Lakers forward Dorian Finney Smith declining his fifteen point four

(01:52:46):
million dollar player option for the upcoming season. Julius Randall,
three time NBA All Star, intends to sign a new
three year, one hundred million dollar deal to stay in Minnesota.
The Jazzer trading Colin Sexton and a twenty thirty one
second round pick to the Hornets for Yusuf Nurkic and
the US Sister Attorney's Office is investigating Pistons Garmalite Beasley
on allegations of gambling related to NBA games and prop
bets as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks w NBA news.

(01:53:09):
Aside from Kandas Parker's jersey being retired today by the
Sparks and the FISA, Collier and Caitlin Clark have been
named WNB All Star Captains, So Collier for the West,
Clark for the East. They're going to get to draft
their own rosters. They got the most fan votes and
that's how they became the captains.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
Sailing. Clark's gotta stay healthy.

Speaker 5 (01:53:29):
Though, Yeah, it's really unfortunate, especially after not being injured
her entire college career. Yeah, and now here with like
back to back because now it's a groin injury, not
the quad.

Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
It's a different level. But also like arg it is
a different level. And also like when you're hurt, you know,
you compensate, So.

Speaker 5 (01:53:44):
It's like you have to believe it's all connected, like
you're growing to your you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:53:50):
That's why you gotta heal your body, you.

Speaker 5 (01:53:52):
Do, I know, But there's so much pressure, especially like well,
we just talked about though that we've had eight would
you say, hey, eight blown achilles this ally with like calf.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
Injury said, you know, yes, all under the age of
twenty seven years old.

Speaker 5 (01:54:05):
Did you just see the Mets pitcher Canning He took
a step slight off the mound to.

Speaker 1 (01:54:14):
And by the way, he having a career year, having
a career literally comes to the Mets after the ank Zills.
He had never pitched like this with the Angels and
one step one it wasn't even like a heart one
step one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
On your update, Hartman, you might have cashed in on
one of your picking. You did say that you missed
on the Lebron never playing another dribble. What if I
told you guys that surprisingly what if the Lakers are
surprisingly quietly talking about not even trying to hold on,
hold on and move him this off season, being that
now he's opt in well for his fifty two million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
That's not that's definitely on the table, I think, But
he might not miss but it would have to be
a team he wants to go to. Other shortly mixes
the whole deal. By the way, we're in the Fox
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(01:55:11):
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week ahead, we got a very busy schedule. We'll break
it down. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Harman and Husky,
Fox Sports Sunday in the Fox Sports Radio studios. We
want to thank our crew today. Monci getting ready for
her own show coming up here. We carry Rhodes at

(01:55:32):
the top of the hour. Looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Yeah, it's always a good listen on the rode home.

Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Chris Purfet is Perfet Pigs. He had to clarify the
clerical error. It wasn't really it was more of an emission.

Speaker 8 (01:55:49):
It was some bookkeeping stuff gets lost when your bookkeeping
but rehashed.

Speaker 1 (01:55:54):
But now we're on fire with the Perfet that's twice
today and then Shay who you know Shaye today though
kind of well, no, it wasn't that. I feel like
a lot of times you just sort of keep us
on our toes. You know what, You're right one of those,
because it did.

Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
It did get me read, and it did make me
go back and want to read his entire Rich Paul
that is speaking at the top of the show. It
did make me go back and read that whole statement.
Now and now I'm sitting here, we're talking during the
break like we always going to. I'm like, dude, this
this feels like he knows it's over and he's probably

(01:56:32):
not gonna get his way anymore. So let me, you know,
let me put Rich out there to say some of
these things.

Speaker 1 (01:56:38):
It just feels like he might want to get out
of here. Man, Please know it's over all right? Do
you want me to give you the ten quarterbacks? Do
you ever justin Herbert?

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
Okay. This is based on two things. Their current production,
current where they are right now, and having proven themselves
in the postseason. No, se we said, putting the table
is I don't want to hear about the cork. Let's
hear about that. If you want to put the tape in,
put the tape of Herbert in that players in Texas

(01:57:06):
go ahead. One. The first five are easy, mahomes Lamar
Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Jalen Hurts five boot it
right after? Got it? The next thing five for me?
Next five are Jade and Daniels, Jordan Love, Jared gob
brought that Jordan Love. Jordan Love proved it in a
postseason game against the Dallas. Now what happened? And Matthew,

(01:57:30):
what happened? And that's staring the ball across his body?
You know what Justin Herbert has doesn't? What is your
defense of Justin Herbert? What is it? What is it?
He is extremely talented? Is it any top four five
and he's not a top five quarterback?

Speaker 8 (01:57:44):
Hunters, Alan Jacksonborough, Herbert Hurts, Stafford Press.

Speaker 1 (01:57:48):
Let me ask you this, would you would you take
Justin Herbert over Jaden Daniels right now? J would I say,
who Justin Herbert over Jayden Daniels one? You know you
would go on already year? Sorry, did Jayden Daniels beat
up on your Lions this year in the postseason? What
happens to beat up on their injured defense?

Speaker 7 (01:58:08):
Defense?

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
Beat If if you are a quarterback, you gotta be
able to prove to me in the postseason you can
get the jobs. So Rock Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow,
Jayden Daniels, Jordan Love, Jared gob Block Party pays. Jalen
hurts of Matthews.

Speaker 7 (01:58:29):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:58:29):
I don't have variables, Matthew. I just gave it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
No, no, no, no no, you gave variables with it.
I'm just a tape guy. When I put the tape on.
Pat Mahomes, Jalen hurts Josh a lot of.

Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
If you want to show you a tape, I love
to give you.

Speaker 3 (01:58:46):
I give you a lot of ugly tape about Trevor Lawrence,
also too, Soro Lamar.

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
Can I do my list? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
Pat, Jalen Jamar, excuse me, Josh, Lamar, Burrow, I have
I do have golf.

Speaker 1 (01:59:00):
I have Brock Party. How's Brock Party not on this list?
I have it on my list. I have I didn't know.
I didn't hear.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
I didn't hear Brock Justin Harber. I have Dak. How's
Dak not on this list?

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
Dak? Yes, I didn't have Dak. I've done anything in
the postseason. Go here we go with this. You gotta
it's one thing to pile up regular season numbers. What
are you doing the postseason. Okay, the only guy made
an exception for was Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
Okay, okay, so postseason, but you have to go to basketball,
who's four and six when he means the most? You
have to go to basketball, who's four and six when
he means the most?

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
Who, by the way, was his team of those You're
an overwhelming underdog. By the way, he won more NBA
finals than underdog. How do you get to the post
Thank you the regular season. You got to deliver in
the postseason if you want to a leak, if you
want to be called the leak. Yes, that's how we

(01:59:53):
get there. Though we two in postseason. Lawrence does just
have the worst game of his entire NFL career. Yeah,
the last hour.

Speaker 8 (02:00:01):
This is the thing is like, if you're zero of
zero in the postseason, that's still somehow considered better than
going he's going two.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
What do you have Pa mahons all time as a
quarterback right now at the top. Where's Pa Mahomes all
time number number, all time, all the time? Right now?
Pa Mahomes right now? Season three and two in Super Bowls,
there's two guys at four and oh that would be
Montana's ahead of him and obviously Rady.

Speaker 3 (02:00:21):
Okay, now, Pa Mahomes has two horrific Super Bowl appointsk
horrific horrific super Bowls.

Speaker 1 (02:00:27):
Right now, he's not in the conversation of the greatest
of all time. Here's a conversation we're gonna have next week.
I'm gonna throw this out to you. Just see, I
have the time to think about it, don't witch current
quarterback going into this twenty twenty five season is under
the most pressure to win a Super Bowl, to win
a Super Bowl? Which quarterback going into the twenty twenty

(02:00:50):
five season is under the most easy for me to
win it all next season, I bless everybody I got there.
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