On today’s episode, Jason discusses whether the hype train surrounding Texas quarterback Arch Manning has already gone off the rails, why guys like Deion Sanders and Nick Saban are so outwardly in favor of NIL reform, why it's absolutely fair to criticize Caitlin Clark for her season-long shooting slump (even if she is dealing with a lingering groin injury), and the chances that Team USA Basketball doesn't bring home the gold at the 2028 Olympic games.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Wednesday, July sixteenth. We had a pretty
good night in sports, right. The MLB All Star Game
was fun. I mean, this guy miss who I'm not
that familiar with. This pitcher came in and threw like
(00:31):
seven or eight pitches over one hundred miles an hour,
just wild. So I thought it was a fun game.
You had the WNBA Catlin Clark got hurt again. Talk
about that in a little bit. My guy Richard Jefferson
with a spicy NBA take. I'm gonna have to try
to get him on the podcast. I don't know, we'll see.
And I do want to start though, little off the radar.
I want to start college football because SEC had media
(00:52):
Days this week and arch Manning on Tuesday shows up,
and of course there were twelve hundred credentialed media twelve
hundred for the SEC. What is that like like ninety
media members per team essentially if you cover like Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I mean, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Twelve hundred credential media for SEC media Days and arch
Manning and I'm just telling you it helps when your
grandfather play in the NFL and your uncle's play in
the NFL, Right, you're not like saying the wrong things
at the podium. This is a guy who has two
starts under his belt, and Arch Manning steps up and says,
(01:35):
I really haven't deserved any of this, So I'm just
trying to play along and play ball like way to
diffuse the situation.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Arch Manning, Listen, I'm rooting for him.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I know that everybody's acclaiming he's gonna proclaiming he's gonna
be the next big thing in the NFL, and that
might be the case, but he has zero college football starts. Okay,
he could not beat out quinn Ewers, who ended up
geting drafted in the seventh round. Although yours was a
really talented college football quarterback, put up big numbers, was
(02:06):
a fringe Heisman contender both seasons, but Arch could not
beat him out.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And he has two hundred and fifty STAPs in his career.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He's being treated like a legend and rob g his
first career start for Texas first game of the season
is August thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I just put it on the calendar today.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
At defending champion Ohio State and Oh, by the way,
the Buckeyes have, you know, some of the best defensive
players in the country. I think Caleb Downs is arguably
the best defensive player in the country in the secondary.
That's an unbelievable matchup.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It is on Fox, it is at oh It's a
now no spicy, I don't know. I just I read
the articles on Arch. I looked at him. The body language.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He doesn't seem in awe or rattled or tense or nervous.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't know, Rob.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I was kind of blown away, and honestly, like last
college football season was good. Obviously the playoff we love.
But what to me is completely fascinating is Arch Banning
has zero starts and the hype machine is out of control.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Out Yeah, and I'm actually one of the guys riding
the hype train because I'm gonna go on record right
now Tuesday into Wednesday, July sixteenth, on the East Coast.
I'm gonna take Texas week one against Ohio State. Oh,
get out, if only because if only because you mentioned
Cale de Kingdown's Austin. By the way, do you know
who the new defensive coordinator is at Ohio State? I
(03:41):
know none other than the pencil himself, Matt Patricia.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No, and that NFL.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That is the reason I think Sark is gonna have
some stuff dialed up for him. Arch Manning is gonna
have I call it a coming out party because he's
got to kind of came out at this point. But
he's gonna have a solid game, a solid debut. The
Heisman train is gonna come out out, you know. Can
he win the Heisman after Week one? Kind of a
situation for arch man cause I think they're gonna go
and win that game. I maybe I'm the wrong person
(04:08):
to ask about this, but because when I saw the
clips of arch Manning at SEC Media Day, my first
thought was, MAV, this kid's boring. And that's probably because
I do, you know, media creation for a living, and
I want my guys to be a little bit spicy,
even if I disagree with it, like I famously had
a lot of issues with Shador Sanders some of the
things that he would do and say when he was
(04:29):
in college at Colorado. But from a sports media perspective,
from a producer's perspective, give me all Shadoor Sanders, because
he's given me content, content, content, and arch manning. The
first thing he tries to do is shut down the content.
He's like, well, I haven't really done anything. I've I've
only paid two hundred and fifty snaps, so I don't
really know what I can what I can say if
I deserve this hype. But no, I think he's gonna
(04:51):
be really good. I think that he is going to
There's no realistic where he can live up to the
hype because I think the hype has really gone ahead
of him. But I think he's gonna be really good
next season.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So Ohio State opened as a four and a half
point favorite in the Desert. It's down to almost everywhere
Ohio State minus three. So you're taking the field goal
with Arch and Sark.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, Texas lost a lot to the draft. Buckeyes
did too. Oh gosh, that's gonna be so good. I'm
really into the story, Arch. I mean, listen, there's some
good college football stories happening. I don't know if you
saw the quotes. I don't know if we really touched
on it, but Dion last week said something to the
effect of we need a salary cap, and I'm like,
what is this about? So you start digging around. You
(05:35):
go on a couple of message boards and you're like, oh,
Colorado is pissed that Texas Tech has found some booster
who's like a billionaire and he's just writing blank checks.
And they stole like the best left tackle in the
country from Texas and they hit the transfer portal hard
as hell, and all of a sudden, Colorado, which had
shador An NFL player, Travis Hunter, NFL player, both of
(05:57):
them are gone and you have Texas Tech bringing in.
I think they were number two or number three in
the transfer portal signings. That's how quickly things could change.
And I think Dion and others are looking around being like,
we need a salary cap. This is out of control,
because pretty soon, I would say if I don't know
if you could do a cap, but rob within the
next like I think probably two or three years, you're
(06:20):
gonna see some of these lower Division one teams who
just don't have a ton of money. They're basically gonna
be like the Miami Marlins, who really have to find
diamonds in the rough and then they showcase them in
after a season, they're gone. You know that that's pretty
much where we're headed. If we're not already there to
an extent.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up because I
remember talking to you. I think we talked about it
off the air more than on the air about the
Deon Sanders quote. But yeah, yeah. One of the big
stories that came out of SEC media, aside from Marge Manning,
was this rumor mill that Nick Saban could be making
return to the sidelines. Maybe not next year or the
year after, but at some point. Right even Lane Kiffin said,
(06:58):
I don't am he's done where there's the NFL or college.
He's going to be back at some point. And what's
interesting about that is Nick Saban went on record and
said the biggest reason why I'm going to retire from
coaching football is that I don't recognize this sport anymore.
The NIL, the transfer portal, I'm not on board with it.
(07:19):
It's not, you know, the football I fell in love with. Right, So,
now flash forward about a year or two you got
Deon Sanders saying I want a salary cap. Nick Saban
is on a Trump administration commission to figure out what
they can do to curb NIL and some they call
it NIL reform is the slogan they're using but Nick
(07:40):
Saban has said, let's flatten ot nil. Nick Saban is
supportive of Deon Sanders and the idea of a salary cap.
So it would make sense that guys like Dion, guys
like Nick Saban are understanding that in today's college football world,
my way of doing things, where I'm an expert salesman
(08:01):
like Dion, or I'm just a fantastic football coach like
Nick Saban, that's not enough anymore. It's just who's got
the deepest pockets. And it's gonna go back to, quite honestly,
the way it had been for fifty years before that,
where guys were being paid under the table, but they
were being paid and whoever had the deepest pockets can
get the best players. And now that you're seeing that
happen again, these guys are like, well, I kind of
(08:24):
wanted to go back the way it was, where it
was a level, playful, even though we all know it
wasn't really level.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I think the Cam Newton story was the tipping point.
Remember there was the whole bag man thing where somebody
delivered like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to his
family at a church, and the it's a wacky story,
but it's like, you know that stuff's out in the
open now, But you're right, it is a little uh,
Nick Saban, I don't recognize this, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's like when I go out to a bar.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
What are these.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Songs that what is the music that's been? What's going
on here? That's how I feel sometimes.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
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Speaker 2 (09:07):
By the way, you know what else I don't recognize
right now, Rob, And that's Kitlin Clark. I don't know
how much you watched with the Fever and the Connecticut Sun.
Not a great game at all, but Kitlyn Clark is
really on the struggle bus.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And she got injured again.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
She made like the game winning assist and then instantly
winced and started grabbing her groin, put a towel over
her head and started crying.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Four fourteen, one of seven on threes.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
This stat might be the craziest at Rob, Kitlin Clark
is two for thirty five on three pointers on the
road this season, two for thirty five, So that's why
you're calling her Kitlin klank and you're seeing all these people, Wow,
she's not that good. You know, she's not having a
great season. Obviously she's weathering the injuries. But Rob, this
is how you know that Kitlin Clark is still a
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baller and is respected. Despite going four or fourteen from
the field, she was plus twenty one high in the
game by the next highest was plus eleven. Basically, Kaitlyn
Clark can still win you games injured and not shooting well.
Why because defenses absolutely have to respect her all over
(10:12):
the place. Connecticut was just straight up double teaming her
any ball screen and she was just making the right
pass instantly and ended up with seven assists and listen,
I'm not gonna be over here ball wash.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Kitlynd Clark could say she was awesome. She has not
shot the ball. Well, that's fine. I'm okay to say that.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
When Angel Rees throws up a million bricks, you could
say that, you know, when these other people struggle, you
could say that, you know, we can't like just treat
these women with kid gloves because they're women. You know,
they they're I mean, this league is blowing up. They
deserve praise and they also deserve criticism. Hey, when my
guy Lebron has a crap game, I don't know what
the hell happened.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Lebron played like ass. You know, we're not gonna make excuses,
but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The Clark thing. It makes me wonder. With the All
Star Weekend here, listen, I know they're gonna want her
to play against the Liberty here on Thursday, I don't
see that happening. The way she appeared injured with the
All Star Weekend, I think they just my guess is
they shut her down and she's gonna take another week
(11:13):
off and try to because you need her healthy in
the league, right, you just have to have.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
It absolutely And to your point, of course, if she
cannot participate in All Star Weekend, that would be such
a body blow to the league because she is, even
now as she's struggling, the face of the league, the
most popular player, the one everybody tunes in to see,
and if she's unavailable, that's really gonna hurt them, you know,
(11:38):
at their bottom line. But you mentioned something that she's
not playing well and coming into Tuesday's Nights game, obviously
he's never gonna change. But that has been updated a
yet on the season. Entering Tuesday, Clark was averaging sixty
and a half points a game nine at six per game,
about five rebounds, five turnovers on thirty seven, twenty nine
eighty two splits, so not good. Since returning from her
(12:01):
groin injury, though which she then aggravated again on Tuesday,
those numbers were down to twelve points a game, the
assists about the same at nine, rebounds down to four.
The turnovers actually were cutting half because she's not handling
the ball as much. But here's the most ALARMI part,
the shooting splits since coming back by Corningbet thirty two,
twenty six eighty three. Right, she has not been playing
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well by any standard, not just her standard, by any standard.
And what's interesting is about a week and a half ago,
Paige Beckers told reporters that it was quote inhumane really
to expect people to be perfect and to have off nights,
or to have off games or off nights. If Caitlyn
doesn't go eight for ten from three, people are questioning things.
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And I could not disagree with that more because up
until last night, when it finally kind of got a
little bit of a social media grounds, well, how poorly
she's been shooting, has she's famously I think she's what
two for thirty five from three on the road this year, Right,
she's been flat out bad, right, not just by her term,
by any standards, And yet unless you are a die
(13:09):
hard WNBA fan, nobody's talking about it. Caitlin Clark has
in that rarefied air alongside athletes like Kawhi Leonard, athletes
like Steph Curry, most notably where Steph has built up
so much goodwill with the way he makes people feel
and the excitement that he generates, that he can have
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stretches for a week, two weeks where he's shooting sub
forty percent from the field, where he's shooting you know,
seven for twenty nine from three point because he has
a cold stretch or whatever, he's turning the ball over.
The team is two and six and the last eight,
whatever it is. And he will never get criticized the
way Lebron James gets criticized, the way Kevin Durant gets criticized,
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so on and so forth. Caitlyn Clark has, already, in
this short amount of time, has built such a good
will with sports fans, not just that with sports fans
period that she can have games and seasons like she's
having right now. And it's taken what two months before
anybody says anything remotely critical about her, And even now
(14:14):
as she's dealing with this groin injury, I can promise
you that come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of this week, people
aren't gonna be talking about the fact that she's struggling
to shoot the ball. Well, they're gonna be she's hurt.
They're gonna be talking about that she's hurt. Number one
and number two, the viral moment she had with the
referee where they told she told got her grow up. Yeah,
(14:34):
Like that's where it is, like we're very quick to
defend her and she's not necessarily treated the way you
would expect most athletes to be treated when they're all
the struggle us like this.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I saw the encounter with the ref and those
refs were bad. I mean one of the girls got
elbowed in the head. You know, the replays very clear,
and they just they said that she flopped. So I
don't I don't think that the refs are turning against
the fever, but it definitely feels like they're getting a
strange whistle, and you know, I think Clark just wanted
(15:05):
like an explanation, and the ref just walked away and
she's like, grow up, which I thought, which I found
kind of funny, but a little disrespectful. I don't know
if they'll find her for that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
She could have that dude fire meet like tomorrow if
she wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, you know, just all of a sudden, that guy disappears.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know, as exciting as Kitlin Clark is the MLB
All Star Game, I do you know, Rob, and I
love NBA, so I got to talk about this.
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Speaker 2 (15:45):
My guy, Richard Jefferson, who's like, you know, a lead
announcer NBA Finals and all that. He came out on
his podcast with Channing Fry called road tripping' and he said,
and he's making a bold prediction. Now there's a little
bit down the road, but he's saying the US will
not win gold in basketball in twenty twenty eight. And
(16:06):
that just sounds like a little hot bit of a
hot take. But if you sit there and let it
marinate for a moment, it actually you know he's probably
onto something.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
A lot can happen in two and a half years,
but this much we can be sure of Lebron. He's
not gonna be playing, right Rob, I mean, he's not
gonna be playing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's Steph Curry. I doubt he's gonna be playing now.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
He could, but he maybe comes off the bench or
I don't think he's gonna be a starter in two
and a half years. I mean that's like, what's like
two hundred and fifty plus games away from now. I
think it's safe to say Kevin Durant will probably not
be playing. I cannot imagine a scenario where Joel Embiid's playing.
And those were essentially four starters, and Steph Curry obviously
(16:52):
was the hero. And now you've got to like go
to the next generation of guys. And I loved Tatum,
but Achilles. I love Halliburton Achilles. So now you're like, oh, well,
what are we looking at here? Jalen Brown, Cade Cunningham,
Polo By, Caro, Evan Mobley, Ant, Devin Booker. I think
(17:14):
Cooper Flag will certainly be in there. But you look
at that and it's like, oh, if Curry, Durant, Lebron
in company really struggled against the likes of Serbia and France.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What is this next group gonna do?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And I know it's twenty twenty eight and it's far away,
and some people are probably like, no, come on, that's
there's way more pressing stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I just found it interesting because.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Rob the reality is, when you really think about it, yeah,
they're going to be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I mean, there's no way around it.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't think like Giannis's Grease team is going to
be an issue, but Canada is definitely going to be stacked,
right Sga will still be in his prime, A lot
of those guys will still be good. Obviously, Serbia is coming,
France ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
They got it. They got young studs coming up. I
don't I thought this was a spicy take, but I
mean maybe I'm missing somebody. You know, I went through
a bunch of stats.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I mean, maybe Jalen Brunson makes the team. I you know,
did I say Donovan Mitchell. I didn't say Donovan Mitchell.
He might be on there. You know, it's gonna be
interesting because They're definitely, definitely not gonna be a Locke
in twenty twenty eight, and it's gonna be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, it's gonna be a tough day to be an American.
You know when that happens, and when you first sent
the story and I remember, you know, watching our Jay's
commentary about it. The headline seems like a hot take
until you actually listen to what he's saying and you
kind of do a little research and you're like, yeah,
not only may we not win it, Like there's a
(18:49):
chance we're like a bronze medal team at that point
because you have the redeemed team. Yeah, because you mentioned Canada,
but I think the heavy favorite going into that turn
a couple years away would be France. Yeah, you know
with Wemby and and and you just got to look
back at this last Olympic run so against Serbia where
they had that big comeback to come back and win
(19:11):
in the semi final. Steph plays thirty three minutes, le
Bron plays thirty two, and Be twenty seven, Durant and
Booker twenty four each. The next young wave of guys,
Anthony Raa has to play thirteen Bam Adebayo plays ten.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Like, oh I forgot about Bam, Like you know, you
go to the gold.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Medal game and KD Lebron steph All play over thirty minutes,
Jason Tatum plays eleven. I think that they kind of
burn that bridge. So even if he is at the
top of the game at that point, I don't think
he'll be.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Back real well, now that's a hot take. I don't
know if Kerr is going.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
To be the coach, maybe it would take a lot
of ego massaging to get him to play, I feel like.
And then at Man and Bam both played under ten,
so you know you can it's gonna be an entirely
new team number one. But the bigger issue I feel
that they're going to run into and this has been
an ongoing thing even before last limit. It goes back
to the one in Tokyo where KDE save their bacon
(20:10):
is as the NBA continues to move forward with this
pac and space, high pick and roll, live by the three,
die by the three offense that basically everybody runs that
doesn't work in FIBA basketball. Yeah, and that was an
issue that we had in Tokyo. Is an issue that
quite frankly, they would have had this last run if
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we didn't bring in all of the old Guard veterans
who know how to play in a different style. Lebron,
Steph Kde have been around long enough that they're like, hey,
we know the importance of running a pinch post action.
We know the importance of hey, just get a bucket.
It doesn't have to be high pick and roll, spread
the floor kind of a situation. And as we continue
(20:54):
down this path, and I don't see it changing anytime soon,
every team is playing a variation of the same style.
It's who can get the most threes up, who can
defend the three the best, that's usually the team that wins.
And unless we have some kind of fundamental shift here
moving forward, like it could get really ugly really quickly,
(21:16):
asking Jingalen Brunts and Anthony Edwards to stop playing the
way that they play to fit in a Phoeba style game.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, no, no, that is gonna be interesting. And you
know you mentioned France. I was just looking at their roster, dude.
They they've got a lot of guys and again they're young,
but again, in two and a half years, it's gonna
be a totally different France group. I don't know where
the US is gonna turn. Man, this is gonna get
real interesting. You say bronze, that would be like just
(21:45):
unbelievably brutal.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
That might have to be in the arena, you know,
for these games, because its gonna be an allegy.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't know how what's gonna be the deal? We're
gonna be able to pull stuff off like that?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean, we better.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I don't know that I'm gonna have the juice. I mean, yeah,
I will. I won't go down that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I thought playoff games. I've seen you at Dodger games.
You got all the game.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well it's funny because, uh, you know what was it
the I was just thinking back, like to the World Cup.
Was was it December of twenty one? Because I think
it was postponed because of COVID Maybe.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
No, no it was.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It wasn't twenty one. It was like it happened in
December of maybe twenty two. Yeah, because then twenty six
will be the World Cup the next one. But I
remember a twenty two Messi wins walks off.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh what a way to go out. That's amazing. Messi's
career over. He wins a World Cup.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Finally, here we are in twenty twenty five, and there's
talk now that Messi and Ronaldo are probably going to
play it again in the World Cup next year. And
I mentioned this to a soccer guy recently. They're like, oh,
Ronaldo's in top shape.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Of course I'll play for Portugal.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Now. I don't know if you'll start or come off
the bench or or what, but he's gonna play, and Messi,
you know, it will be another one of these guys
probably sit out the irrelevant games early on and then
play more in the meaningful games later. So I don't
know Rob like you know, Kevin Durant, can he stay healthy?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Curry?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They'll both be about forty at the time, so maybe
there's a world where those two play.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I cannot see Lebron playing.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I mean, the forty five year old Lebron wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Would you be forty five?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, forty three or forty four going into.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Forty twenty one for sure at the end of this year.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So anyways, I had never anyways, we could wrap up with,
I had never seen a home run derby at the
end of an All Star game, because it was like
exciting stuff, but a little gimmicky.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't know that. I was into the Golden bat idea.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Remember when they were floating that where it was like,
you know, ninth inning, anybody OpinionWay, Yeah, which I kind
of think is cool. I just thought a home run
derby interesting, But I don't is this elam ending ish?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Remember you loved that the first.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, well, the first time it happened, it was great,
just like last night. The first time it happened with
the derby was kind of cool, like because you've never
seen it before. I do think it's gimmicky. But then again,
the as much as I enjoy the Major League Baseball
All Star Game, because I believe it's the most serious
of all of them, because even if the guy's only
going for one inning, he's throwing his hardest for one inning,
like Aaron Judge is trying to get a hit. Oh
(24:12):
Tani's trying to get a hit.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
But Baseball already kind of started the week in like
a gimmicky mode where they say, hey, Musowski, he's only
pitched five games, We're gonna let him pitch in the
All Star Game, like we're gonna name him for the roster.
And and I know that the Colorado Rockies might be
the worst team ever, but they also have to have
an All Star player on the roster, Like, that's part
of our rules. So the fact that they are so
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openly brazen about, yeah, embracing the kind of gimmicky. This
is entertainment, it's not real sports. So it would make
sense that they would pivot to hey, and rather than
going to extra inning, We're just gonna have a home runder.
We get is over with? Yeah, get it?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, you know it's it's interesting, it's different.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I applauded baseball has had some success in recent years
doing different things, and Rob you like to rule different.
I'm a little less different, but this is a good
change of pace. People will be talking about all day today.
I'm sure the ratings will be interest up because it
was like, what was it six to nothing? Yeah, they
stormed back and then it's oh, a home run derby
(25:16):
like kind of.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Interesting, kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah. I'm surprised you don't say different, because I think
you are the epitome of hashtag Bill different. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Anyways, sorry, so tomorrow we listened.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The NFL previews are starting to come out, a bunch
of guys that I respect and definitely devour their stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's starting to emerge here in July, rosters largely set,
and we're gonna have one of those guys on to
start to preview the league. Get you ready for fantasy. Man,
it was a good year in fantasy last year. Let's
try to run that back talk tomorrow.
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Wednesday, July sixteenth. We had a pretty
good night in sports, right. The MLB All Star Game
was fun. I mean, this guy miss who I'm not
that familiar with. This pitcher came in and threw like
(00:31):
seven or eight pitches over one hundred miles an hour,
just wild. So I thought it was a fun game.
You had the WNBA Catlin Clark got hurt again. Talk
about that in a little bit. My guy Richard Jefferson
with a spicy NBA take. I'm gonna have to try
to get him on the podcast. I don't know, we'll see.
And I do want to start though, little off the radar.
I want to start college football because SEC had media
(00:52):
Days this week and arch Manning on Tuesday shows up,
and of course there were twelve hundred credentialed media twelve
hundred for the SEC. What is that like like ninety
media members per team essentially if you cover like Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I mean, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Twelve hundred credential media for SEC media Days and arch
Manning and I'm just telling you it helps when your
grandfather play in the NFL and your uncle's play in
the NFL, Right, you're not like saying the wrong things
at the podium. This is a guy who has two
starts under his belt, and Arch Manning steps up and says,
(01:35):
I really haven't deserved any of this, So I'm just
trying to play along and play ball like way to
diffuse the situation.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Arch Manning, Listen, I'm rooting for him.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I know that everybody's acclaiming he's gonna proclaiming he's gonna
be the next big thing in the NFL, and that
might be the case, but he has zero college football starts. Okay,
he could not beat out quinn Ewers, who ended up
geting drafted in the seventh round. Although yours was a
really talented college football quarterback, put up big numbers, was
(02:06):
a fringe Heisman contender both seasons, but Arch could not
beat him out.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And he has two hundred and fifty STAPs in his career.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He's being treated like a legend and rob g his
first career start for Texas first game of the season
is August thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I just put it on the calendar today.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
At defending champion Ohio State and Oh, by the way,
the Buckeyes have, you know, some of the best defensive
players in the country. I think Caleb Downs is arguably
the best defensive player in the country in the secondary.
That's an unbelievable matchup.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It is on Fox, it is at oh It's a
now no spicy, I don't know. I just I read
the articles on Arch. I looked at him. The body language.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He doesn't seem in awe or rattled or tense or nervous.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't know, Rob.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I was kind of blown away, and honestly, like last
college football season was good. Obviously the playoff we love.
But what to me is completely fascinating is Arch Banning
has zero starts and the hype machine is out of control.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Out Yeah, and I'm actually one of the guys riding
the hype train because I'm gonna go on record right
now Tuesday into Wednesday, July sixteenth, on the East Coast.
I'm gonna take Texas week one against Ohio State. Oh,
get out, if only because if only because you mentioned
Cale de Kingdown's Austin. By the way, do you know
who the new defensive coordinator is at Ohio State? I
(03:41):
know none other than the pencil himself, Matt Patricia.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No, and that NFL.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That is the reason I think Sark is gonna have
some stuff dialed up for him. Arch Manning is gonna
have I call it a coming out party because he's
got to kind of came out at this point. But
he's gonna have a solid game, a solid debut. The
Heisman train is gonna come out out, you know. Can
he win the Heisman after Week one? Kind of a
situation for arch man cause I think they're gonna go
and win that game. I maybe I'm the wrong person
(04:08):
to ask about this, but because when I saw the
clips of arch Manning at SEC Media Day, my first
thought was, MAV, this kid's boring. And that's probably because
I do, you know, media creation for a living, and
I want my guys to be a little bit spicy,
even if I disagree with it, like I famously had
a lot of issues with Shador Sanders some of the
things that he would do and say when he was
(04:29):
in college at Colorado. But from a sports media perspective,
from a producer's perspective, give me all Shadoor Sanders, because
he's given me content, content, content, and arch manning. The
first thing he tries to do is shut down the content.
He's like, well, I haven't really done anything. I've I've
only paid two hundred and fifty snaps, so I don't
really know what I can what I can say if
I deserve this hype. But no, I think he's gonna
(04:51):
be really good. I think that he is going to
There's no realistic where he can live up to the
hype because I think the hype has really gone ahead
of him. But I think he's gonna be really good
next season.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So Ohio State opened as a four and a half
point favorite in the Desert. It's down to almost everywhere
Ohio State minus three. So you're taking the field goal
with Arch and Sark.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, Texas lost a lot to the draft. Buckeyes
did too. Oh gosh, that's gonna be so good. I'm
really into the story, Arch. I mean, listen, there's some
good college football stories happening. I don't know if you
saw the quotes. I don't know if we really touched
on it, but Dion last week said something to the
effect of we need a salary cap, and I'm like,
what is this about? So you start digging around. You
(05:35):
go on a couple of message boards and you're like, oh,
Colorado is pissed that Texas Tech has found some booster
who's like a billionaire and he's just writing blank checks.
And they stole like the best left tackle in the
country from Texas and they hit the transfer portal hard
as hell, and all of a sudden, Colorado, which had
shador An NFL player, Travis Hunter, NFL player, both of
(05:57):
them are gone and you have Texas Tech bringing in.
I think they were number two or number three in
the transfer portal signings. That's how quickly things could change.
And I think Dion and others are looking around being like,
we need a salary cap. This is out of control,
because pretty soon, I would say if I don't know
if you could do a cap, but rob within the
next like I think probably two or three years, you're
(06:20):
gonna see some of these lower Division one teams who
just don't have a ton of money. They're basically gonna
be like the Miami Marlins, who really have to find
diamonds in the rough and then they showcase them in
after a season, they're gone. You know that that's pretty
much where we're headed. If we're not already there to
an extent.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up because I
remember talking to you. I think we talked about it
off the air more than on the air about the
Deon Sanders quote. But yeah, yeah. One of the big
stories that came out of SEC media, aside from Marge Manning,
was this rumor mill that Nick Saban could be making
return to the sidelines. Maybe not next year or the
year after, but at some point. Right even Lane Kiffin said,
(06:58):
I don't am he's done where there's the NFL or college.
He's going to be back at some point. And what's
interesting about that is Nick Saban went on record and
said the biggest reason why I'm going to retire from
coaching football is that I don't recognize this sport anymore.
The NIL, the transfer portal, I'm not on board with it.
(07:19):
It's not, you know, the football I fell in love with. Right, So,
now flash forward about a year or two you got
Deon Sanders saying I want a salary cap. Nick Saban
is on a Trump administration commission to figure out what
they can do to curb NIL and some they call
it NIL reform is the slogan they're using but Nick
(07:40):
Saban has said, let's flatten ot nil. Nick Saban is
supportive of Deon Sanders and the idea of a salary cap.
So it would make sense that guys like Dion, guys
like Nick Saban are understanding that in today's college football world,
my way of doing things, where I'm an expert salesman
(08:01):
like Dion, or I'm just a fantastic football coach like
Nick Saban, that's not enough anymore. It's just who's got
the deepest pockets. And it's gonna go back to, quite honestly,
the way it had been for fifty years before that,
where guys were being paid under the table, but they
were being paid and whoever had the deepest pockets can
get the best players. And now that you're seeing that
happen again, these guys are like, well, I kind of
(08:24):
wanted to go back the way it was, where it
was a level, playful, even though we all know it
wasn't really level.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I think the Cam Newton story was the tipping point.
Remember there was the whole bag man thing where somebody
delivered like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to his
family at a church, and the it's a wacky story,
but it's like, you know that stuff's out in the
open now, But you're right, it is a little uh,
Nick Saban, I don't recognize this, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's like when I go out to a bar.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
What are these.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Songs that what is the music that's been? What's going
on here? That's how I feel sometimes.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
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Speaker 2 (09:07):
By the way, you know what else I don't recognize
right now, Rob, And that's Kitlin Clark. I don't know
how much you watched with the Fever and the Connecticut Sun.
Not a great game at all, but Kitlyn Clark is
really on the struggle bus.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And she got injured again.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
She made like the game winning assist and then instantly
winced and started grabbing her groin, put a towel over
her head and started crying.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Four fourteen, one of seven on threes.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
This stat might be the craziest at Rob, Kitlin Clark
is two for thirty five on three pointers on the
road this season, two for thirty five, So that's why
you're calling her Kitlin klank and you're seeing all these people, Wow,
she's not that good. You know, she's not having a
great season. Obviously she's weathering the injuries. But Rob, this
is how you know that Kitlin Clark is still a
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baller and is respected. Despite going four or fourteen from
the field, she was plus twenty one high in the
game by the next highest was plus eleven. Basically, Kaitlyn
Clark can still win you games injured and not shooting well.
Why because defenses absolutely have to respect her all over
(10:12):
the place. Connecticut was just straight up double teaming her
any ball screen and she was just making the right
pass instantly and ended up with seven assists and listen,
I'm not gonna be over here ball wash.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Kitlynd Clark could say she was awesome. She has not
shot the ball. Well, that's fine. I'm okay to say that.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
When Angel Rees throws up a million bricks, you could
say that, you know, when these other people struggle, you
could say that, you know, we can't like just treat
these women with kid gloves because they're women. You know,
they they're I mean, this league is blowing up. They
deserve praise and they also deserve criticism. Hey, when my
guy Lebron has a crap game, I don't know what
the hell happened.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Lebron played like ass. You know, we're not gonna make excuses,
but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The Clark thing. It makes me wonder. With the All
Star Weekend here, listen, I know they're gonna want her
to play against the Liberty here on Thursday, I don't
see that happening. The way she appeared injured with the
All Star Weekend, I think they just my guess is
they shut her down and she's gonna take another week
(11:13):
off and try to because you need her healthy in
the league, right, you just have to have.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
It absolutely And to your point, of course, if she
cannot participate in All Star Weekend, that would be such
a body blow to the league because she is, even
now as she's struggling, the face of the league, the
most popular player, the one everybody tunes in to see,
and if she's unavailable, that's really gonna hurt them, you know,
(11:38):
at their bottom line. But you mentioned something that she's
not playing well and coming into Tuesday's Nights game, obviously
he's never gonna change. But that has been updated a
yet on the season. Entering Tuesday, Clark was averaging sixty
and a half points a game nine at six per game,
about five rebounds, five turnovers on thirty seven, twenty nine
eighty two splits, so not good. Since returning from her
(12:01):
groin injury, though which she then aggravated again on Tuesday,
those numbers were down to twelve points a game, the
assists about the same at nine, rebounds down to four.
The turnovers actually were cutting half because she's not handling
the ball as much. But here's the most ALARMI part,
the shooting splits since coming back by Corningbet thirty two,
twenty six eighty three. Right, she has not been playing
(12:25):
well by any standard, not just her standard, by any standard.
And what's interesting is about a week and a half ago,
Paige Beckers told reporters that it was quote inhumane really
to expect people to be perfect and to have off nights,
or to have off games or off nights. If Caitlyn
doesn't go eight for ten from three, people are questioning things.
(12:46):
And I could not disagree with that more because up
until last night, when it finally kind of got a
little bit of a social media grounds, well, how poorly
she's been shooting, has she's famously I think she's what
two for thirty five from three on the road this year, Right,
she's been flat out bad, right, not just by her term,
by any standards, And yet unless you are a die
(13:09):
hard WNBA fan, nobody's talking about it. Caitlin Clark has
in that rarefied air alongside athletes like Kawhi Leonard, athletes
like Steph Curry, most notably where Steph has built up
so much goodwill with the way he makes people feel
and the excitement that he generates, that he can have
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stretches for a week, two weeks where he's shooting sub
forty percent from the field, where he's shooting you know,
seven for twenty nine from three point because he has
a cold stretch or whatever, he's turning the ball over.
The team is two and six and the last eight,
whatever it is. And he will never get criticized the
way Lebron James gets criticized, the way Kevin Durant gets criticized,
(13:52):
so on and so forth. Caitlyn Clark has, already, in
this short amount of time, has built such a good
will with sports fans, not just that with sports fans
period that she can have games and seasons like she's
having right now. And it's taken what two months before
anybody says anything remotely critical about her, And even now
(14:14):
as she's dealing with this groin injury, I can promise
you that come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of this week, people
aren't gonna be talking about the fact that she's struggling
to shoot the ball. Well, they're gonna be she's hurt.
They're gonna be talking about that she's hurt. Number one
and number two, the viral moment she had with the
referee where they told she told got her grow up. Yeah,
(14:34):
Like that's where it is, like we're very quick to
defend her and she's not necessarily treated the way you
would expect most athletes to be treated when they're all
the struggle us like this.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I saw the encounter with the ref and those
refs were bad. I mean one of the girls got
elbowed in the head. You know, the replays very clear,
and they just they said that she flopped. So I
don't I don't think that the refs are turning against
the fever, but it definitely feels like they're getting a
strange whistle, and you know, I think Clark just wanted
(15:05):
like an explanation, and the ref just walked away and
she's like, grow up, which I thought, which I found
kind of funny, but a little disrespectful. I don't know
if they'll find her for that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
She could have that dude fire meet like tomorrow if
she wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, you know, just all of a sudden, that guy disappears.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know, as exciting as Kitlin Clark is the MLB
All Star Game, I do you know, Rob, and I
love NBA, so I got to talk about this.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
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Speaker 2 (15:45):
My guy, Richard Jefferson, who's like, you know, a lead
announcer NBA Finals and all that. He came out on
his podcast with Channing Fry called road tripping' and he said,
and he's making a bold prediction. Now there's a little
bit down the road, but he's saying the US will
not win gold in basketball in twenty twenty eight. And
(16:06):
that just sounds like a little hot bit of a
hot take. But if you sit there and let it
marinate for a moment, it actually you know he's probably
onto something.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
A lot can happen in two and a half years,
but this much we can be sure of Lebron. He's
not gonna be playing, right Rob, I mean, he's not
gonna be playing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's Steph Curry. I doubt he's gonna be playing now.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
He could, but he maybe comes off the bench or
I don't think he's gonna be a starter in two
and a half years. I mean that's like, what's like
two hundred and fifty plus games away from now. I
think it's safe to say Kevin Durant will probably not
be playing. I cannot imagine a scenario where Joel Embiid's playing.
And those were essentially four starters, and Steph Curry obviously
(16:52):
was the hero. And now you've got to like go
to the next generation of guys. And I loved Tatum,
but Achilles. I love Halliburton Achilles. So now you're like, oh, well,
what are we looking at here? Jalen Brown, Cade Cunningham,
Polo By, Caro, Evan Mobley, Ant, Devin Booker. I think
(17:14):
Cooper Flag will certainly be in there. But you look
at that and it's like, oh, if Curry, Durant, Lebron
in company really struggled against the likes of Serbia and France.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What is this next group gonna do?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And I know it's twenty twenty eight and it's far away,
and some people are probably like, no, come on, that's
there's way more pressing stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I just found it interesting because.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Rob the reality is, when you really think about it, yeah,
they're going to be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I mean, there's no way around it.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't think like Giannis's Grease team is going to
be an issue, but Canada is definitely going to be stacked,
right Sga will still be in his prime, A lot
of those guys will still be good. Obviously, Serbia is coming,
France ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
They got it. They got young studs coming up. I
don't I thought this was a spicy take, but I
mean maybe I'm missing somebody. You know, I went through
a bunch of stats.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I mean, maybe Jalen Brunson makes the team. I you know,
did I say Donovan Mitchell. I didn't say Donovan Mitchell.
He might be on there. You know, it's gonna be
interesting because They're definitely, definitely not gonna be a Locke
in twenty twenty eight, and it's gonna be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, it's gonna be a tough day to be an American.
You know when that happens, and when you first sent
the story and I remember, you know, watching our Jay's
commentary about it. The headline seems like a hot take
until you actually listen to what he's saying and you
kind of do a little research and you're like, yeah,
not only may we not win it, Like there's a
(18:49):
chance we're like a bronze medal team at that point
because you have the redeemed team. Yeah, because you mentioned Canada,
but I think the heavy favorite going into that turn
a couple years away would be France. Yeah, you know
with Wemby and and and you just got to look
back at this last Olympic run so against Serbia where
they had that big comeback to come back and win
(19:11):
in the semi final. Steph plays thirty three minutes, le
Bron plays thirty two, and Be twenty seven, Durant and
Booker twenty four each. The next young wave of guys,
Anthony Raa has to play thirteen Bam Adebayo plays ten.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Like, oh I forgot about Bam, Like you know, you
go to the gold.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Medal game and KD Lebron steph All play over thirty minutes,
Jason Tatum plays eleven. I think that they kind of
burn that bridge. So even if he is at the
top of the game at that point, I don't think
he'll be.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Back real well, now that's a hot take. I don't
know if Kerr is going.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
To be the coach, maybe it would take a lot
of ego massaging to get him to play, I feel like.
And then at Man and Bam both played under ten,
so you know you can it's gonna be an entirely
new team number one. But the bigger issue I feel
that they're going to run into and this has been
an ongoing thing even before last limit. It goes back
to the one in Tokyo where KDE save their bacon
(20:10):
is as the NBA continues to move forward with this
pac and space, high pick and roll, live by the three,
die by the three offense that basically everybody runs that
doesn't work in FIBA basketball. Yeah, and that was an
issue that we had in Tokyo. Is an issue that
quite frankly, they would have had this last run if
(20:33):
we didn't bring in all of the old Guard veterans
who know how to play in a different style. Lebron,
Steph Kde have been around long enough that they're like, hey,
we know the importance of running a pinch post action.
We know the importance of hey, just get a bucket.
It doesn't have to be high pick and roll, spread
the floor kind of a situation. And as we continue
(20:54):
down this path, and I don't see it changing anytime soon,
every team is playing a variation of the same style.
It's who can get the most threes up, who can
defend the three the best, that's usually the team that wins.
And unless we have some kind of fundamental shift here
moving forward, like it could get really ugly really quickly,
(21:16):
asking Jingalen Brunts and Anthony Edwards to stop playing the
way that they play to fit in a Phoeba style game.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, no, no, that is gonna be interesting. And you
know you mentioned France. I was just looking at their roster, dude.
They they've got a lot of guys and again they're young,
but again, in two and a half years, it's gonna
be a totally different France group. I don't know where
the US is gonna turn. Man, this is gonna get
real interesting. You say bronze, that would be like just
(21:45):
unbelievably brutal.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
That might have to be in the arena, you know,
for these games, because its gonna be an allegy.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't know how what's gonna be the deal? We're
gonna be able to pull stuff off like that?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean, we better.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I don't know that I'm gonna have the juice. I mean, yeah,
I will. I won't go down that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I thought playoff games. I've seen you at Dodger games.
You got all the game.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well it's funny because, uh, you know what was it
the I was just thinking back, like to the World Cup.
Was was it December of twenty one? Because I think
it was postponed because of COVID Maybe.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
No, no it was.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It wasn't twenty one. It was like it happened in
December of maybe twenty two. Yeah, because then twenty six
will be the World Cup the next one. But I
remember a twenty two Messi wins walks off.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh what a way to go out. That's amazing. Messi's
career over. He wins a World Cup.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Finally, here we are in twenty twenty five, and there's
talk now that Messi and Ronaldo are probably going to
play it again in the World Cup next year. And
I mentioned this to a soccer guy recently. They're like, oh,
Ronaldo's in top shape.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Of course I'll play for Portugal.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Now. I don't know if you'll start or come off
the bench or or what, but he's gonna play, and Messi,
you know, it will be another one of these guys
probably sit out the irrelevant games early on and then
play more in the meaningful games later. So I don't
know Rob like you know, Kevin Durant, can he stay healthy?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Curry?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They'll both be about forty at the time, so maybe
there's a world where those two play.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I cannot see Lebron playing.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I mean, the forty five year old Lebron wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Would you be forty five?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, forty three or forty four going into.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Forty twenty one for sure at the end of this year.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So anyways, I had never anyways, we could wrap up with,
I had never seen a home run derby at the
end of an All Star game, because it was like
exciting stuff, but a little gimmicky.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't know that. I was into the Golden bat idea.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Remember when they were floating that where it was like,
you know, ninth inning, anybody OpinionWay, Yeah, which I kind
of think is cool. I just thought a home run
derby interesting, But I don't is this elam ending ish?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Remember you loved that the first.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, well, the first time it happened, it was great,
just like last night. The first time it happened with
the derby was kind of cool, like because you've never
seen it before. I do think it's gimmicky. But then again,
the as much as I enjoy the Major League Baseball
All Star Game, because I believe it's the most serious
of all of them, because even if the guy's only
going for one inning, he's throwing his hardest for one inning,
like Aaron Judge is trying to get a hit. Oh
(24:12):
Tani's trying to get a hit.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
But Baseball already kind of started the week in like
a gimmicky mode where they say, hey, Musowski, he's only
pitched five games, We're gonna let him pitch in the
All Star Game, like we're gonna name him for the roster.
And and I know that the Colorado Rockies might be
the worst team ever, but they also have to have
an All Star player on the roster, Like, that's part
of our rules. So the fact that they are so
(24:35):
openly brazen about, yeah, embracing the kind of gimmicky. This
is entertainment, it's not real sports. So it would make
sense that they would pivot to hey, and rather than
going to extra inning, We're just gonna have a home runder.
We get is over with? Yeah, get it?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, you know it's it's interesting, it's different.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I applauded baseball has had some success in recent years
doing different things, and Rob you like to rule different.
I'm a little less different, but this is a good
change of pace. People will be talking about all day today.
I'm sure the ratings will be interest up because it
was like, what was it six to nothing? Yeah, they
stormed back and then it's oh, a home run derby
(25:16):
like kind of.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Interesting, kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah. I'm surprised you don't say different, because I think
you are the epitome of hashtag Bill different. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Anyways, sorry, so tomorrow we listened.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The NFL previews are starting to come out, a bunch
of guys that I respect and definitely devour their stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's starting to emerge here in July, rosters largely set,
and we're gonna have one of those guys on to
start to preview the league. Get you ready for fantasy. Man,
it was a good year in fantasy last year. Let's
try to run that back talk tomorrow.
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