August 7, 2026 • 49 mins
On this edition of The Best of the week of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Stu and the guys talk about Tarik Skubal being traded to the Dodgers. Stugotz and Company talk about Kevin Durant’s response to if the 76ers are contenders after signing LeBron James. Stu and the fellas then discuss the Akron Football team announcing the ‘Offensive Coordinator of the game’ where a lucky fan will call plays for the first drive of the Zips Home Opener.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Taylor is in a foul mood today. We will get
to that in just a second.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You would think the trade deadline and the sport that
he loves, he'd come in he's being a good mood.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is the worst mood I've ever seen Taylor in. Again,
We'll get to it at just a second. Mike Elco,
the head coach at Texas A and M is going
to join us an hour number two. The we Can
observations will be an hour two as well. Mount Rushmore Monday,
coming up at about fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Here is he.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are you intrigued by anything that has happened in the
last forty eight hours as it relates to Major League
Baseball and the read deadline?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
No, I wanted to give you a better answer. I
was looking around. I saw the Trek school stuff yesterday,
and I was was that yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yes, And I was like, Okay, I'd care more if
I if i'd actually, you know, watched him pitch at all.
But no, not really.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Are you surprised to hear that Taylor is in a
bad mood? I thought he was in a bad mood
because he's sitting next to Board up Ricardo and he
is fired up about Liam Hicks being traded away from
his Miami Marlins. And by the way, I was greeted
today by Board up Ricardo, not a low not how
was your weekend? It was, Hey, the Fish took three
out of four from the Mets, which, by.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The way, is like the easiest thing to do in
the National League these days. But yeah, I didn't really
have too much interest. I was just spending most of
my time trying to figure out which sport is the
worst to be traded mid season, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Think it was baseball. All right, Well, we'll get back
to that in a second. Taylor, why are you in
a bad mood today?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Just once, I would like the Yankees to approach a
trade deadline right with the instead of let's build a
World Series contender, instead of Brian Cashman and the Steinbrenners
and all their cronies in that organization going into the
trade deadline saying we're going to make the playoffs. This
is good enough. I think the pieces that we have
are enough. I think the guys that are injured that
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we say we can't really count on, but we're going
to count on them for the playoffs, those guys are
going to be our deadline acquisitions. And I'm watching everybody
that I wanted the Yankees to get. I wanted Taylor
Ward to be a platoon outfield bat he gets traded,
not to the Yankees. I wanted Adley Rushman to fill
the Yankees catcher need sure he gets traded in the division,
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from the Orioles to the Red Sox. When everything I
heard about Adley Rushman getting traded the potential was he's
not getting traded in the division. That's what everybody who
covers the Yankee said. Well, guess what, he got traded
to the Boston Red Sox, who are lapping the Yankees
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Go ahead, Mikey, you know.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
What I'm sick of hearing. I'm sick of hearing them
make up this Yankee tax.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Every guy they're in on is oh, the price is
just too high because the Yankees are in on him.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No they're not.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You're just terrible at your job when you can't make
a deal.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I'm so confused by Taylor's fandom because he announced early
on in this baseball season that this was his least
favorite Yankees team ever, and I can can they change
that in one trade deadline or with one trade deadline?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
They could change it if they get off the approach
of we have to clutch onto all these prospects that
we have because we think these prospects are going to
be the next best thing in this Yankee organization, when
history has shown you that hasn't been the case for
this Yankee team. And is he it's my least favorite
team because I cannot watch some of these Yankees take
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at bets anymore. Where I'm talking to Ricardo beforehand, and
Ricardo's like, why do you want Adlee Rushman? He's about
as league average a hitter as you could get when
it comes to when it comes to hitting, the thing
is right now, the Yankees would kill for league average
at a catcher. Austin Wells goes up there every day,
Dominican with a with a noodle bat. We would be
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better off sending the picture up instead of Austin Wells.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You're gonna say me right, well, he's now yes, same
thing worse though, I don't want it too far.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He's too far now, you come on.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
He's an automatic out, but he handled that. True.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
We'll take a walk with the best of them.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
All right, Well, not you.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I was talking about a and Austin Wells stands for
automatic out.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yes, but he handles the staff.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, what if they went to the staff and they're like, no,
don't get rid of Austin Wells.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We like him.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Uh Okay, Garrett, that is a move that Garrett Cole
would do one thousand percent right. Try to bully the
Yankees into keeping the catcher that's batting, not even the
Mendoza line. The Mendoza line looks at Austin Wells batting
average right now and laughs at it.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, they have to change the Mendoza line now because
everybody's line.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
The Wales line is the Wells line is now one
thirty two.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, that sounds more appropriate. Put it on the poll.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Does the Wells line, does the Mendoza line, look at
the Wells line and lamb.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Down on the Wales line.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I thought you guys would be upset that the Dodgers
got Schooble.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
That is not the case.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You don't, Yeah, right, because realistically, realistically, we're gonna have
to play them in the World Series. If if we
get past this ridiculously weak American League, and then if
we get to that, okay, then I'll worry about the Dodgers.
Right now, I'm worried about the Red Sox. I'm worried
about the Rays. That's really it in the American League.
Everybody else kind of stick.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
We cut Mikey off there, I heard it you and
then he just kind of disappeared.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What happened to you? Because you came in today thinking.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
That we were going to be so mad about schoolbl
You came anywhere like hey, schoobl and both.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Taylor and I were like, yeah, we figured, I mean
that's kind of where it was going.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Yes, the thing with school Scoobl to the Yankees never
made sense, and Schooble anywhere besides the Dodgers also never
really made sense. Because, if anything, I think the Dodgers
overpaid for Tarek Scubl when you're looking at the return
that they got it was Zayer Hope, who's the twenty
fifth best prospect in all of baseball at outfielder, a
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right hander River Ryan. Great name for a pitcher who
was a top seventy prospect in all of baseball. Two
top seventy prospects for what is ultimately a three month rental.
Now the Dodgers are going to sign him. The Dodgers
are going to sign him to a six hundred million
dollars deal and defer all that money until the end.
But when you're a back to back World Series champion
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like the Dodgers, and you have the top farm system
in baseball, you can be aggressive and make moves like
this that you think push you over the edge or
cover for what is a perceived weakness to your team
right now at the starters where I don't think other
teams were. Other teams don't really have that luxury.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Well didn't didn't he say? Tarek Scouble say, did he
say this or was it just reported that he wanted
to sign with the Dodgers as a free age Nightingale. Okay,
so if that is you know, own information, let's just
ruined the leverage I thought he just.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Gave you he spit back at you man. Is he
in a bad mood Nightingale? It's being reported by Bob Nightingale.
I'm trying to say, Yeah, I don't think anyone knew
that I'm over a good Nightingale.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
The non baseball guy. I heard Nightingale, and I knew
exactly who he was talking.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I mean, there was some anger in his voice.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I just yeah, I just said Bob Nightingale like I
was in the cast of Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo
just ruined my plans.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yes, but you didn't say, Bob, I just Nightingale. You
were saying I forgot.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
What it had, But didn't that ruin the leverage or
didn't that just sort of less than the interest from
other teams? Because it's just like, this is absolutely a rental.
What's not going to matter what we do, and so
we're not going to overpay and give up all our
prospects for somebody that we're probably just going to use
when we lose.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
To the Dodgers. That's exactly right. People will ask this question.
I ask it all the time. It's become one of
those sports radio topics or the Dodger's bad for baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Now, the Dodgers aren't bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
They're just the only team trying to win the World
Series every single year in baseball. The Brewers don't trade
for them because why would you. They're not going to
be able to sign them to a four hundred million
dollar contract once the season is over. There's only a
handful of teams that could do that, and the Dodgers
are the one who are willing to do it every
single time. The Dodgers aren't bad for baseball. The rest
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of the teams that aren't trying to win, they're bad
for baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, to me, I feel like this is you know,
growing up watching the Yankees or whatever team at the
time was just the dominant team, and it was you know,
they're spending the most, blah blah blah. It was always, hey,
somebody's got to beat that team. It was, and frankly,
oftentimes it did happen. And so it just feels like, yeah,
they're bad for maybe the regular season, but I know
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the last couple of years are bad examples of this.
But all it takes is one team to beat them,
to get hot in a playoff series and beat them,
and then all of a sudden, the game's just fine.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Across another name off my list. The Pirates are acquiring
Luke Weaver from the Mets. I was hoping for a
Luke Weaver reunion in the Bronx. I was breaking new Sounder.
I mean when epics are shutting, but I have no
time for breaking. Brian Cashman go out to get Hunter
Goodman from the Colorado Rocky's Otto Lopez or Xavier Edwards.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Please.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It is funny for a Yankees fan you do talk
about Paul Schemes a lot. Somebody that seems to be
on the top of your list at all.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
He'll probably be a Dodger soon.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Everyone's going to be a Dodger soon. I mean the.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Prospects that the Dodgers traded to a walk on to
Detroit to get Scooble.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They're gonna be Dodgers again at some point, right.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
If they're good. Yes, if you're the Dodgers. It's like,
first off, the biggest difference between the Dodgers and the
Yankees right now, besides the willingness from your ownership to
push all your chips into the middle, the Dodgers have
a good farm system. The number one arguably the number
one farm system. It's either them or the Brewers. According
to most people that care about this farm stuff, the
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Yankees do not have a good farm system and anybody
worth a damn in the Yankees farm system. The Yankees
think they're all the next second comings of Derek Jeter,
so they don't trade them for anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, is he think about it? Though? If you're a
team like the Brewer not a Monday, but they always have.
You know, they're having a great regular season once again.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But why trade prospects away for Schooble when you know,
A you can't sign Schooble in the offseason and B
he's going to eventually be a Dodger anyway, especially when
the rest.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of the sports world says, hey, nobody's beating the Dodgers anyway,
why even bother. So it's just like, hey, yeah, I'm
going to do this with the group that I already have,
that has this great record in the National League already.
And I know one thing's for sure if I do
end up, if we do end up facing the Dodgers
in the postseason, ninety five percent of the country will
be cheering for us and not for that team. And
it feels like, you know, it's a good way to
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go about it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But your larger point was a good one earlier when
you were saying, outside of the last two years, baseball
is so random. Yes, the Dodgers have won back to
back World Series. Yes they are the favorites to win
a third consecutive of the World Series. But baseball is
funny where any team in a best of five, of
best of seven, just about any team could beat the
Dodgers in the playoffs. It's happened before, it could happen again. Unlikely,
(11:12):
but it could happen.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
So is he in this hypothetical Marlins Dodgers playoff series.
I think what you would get is a case like
Major League when they were talking about potentially moving the
team and the owner was rooting against the team. I
think the owner of the Marlins, Bruce Sherman, would be
rooting for the Dodgers to sweep this team and get
the Marlins out of the playoffs as fast as possible.
Because Bruce Sherman's looking at this saying, we need a
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salary cap in baseball. We need a salary cap in
baseball more than I need a Wild Carter Divisional Round
playoff win. I think he would be rooting for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I mean, that's quite the conspiracy theory that you know
everybody's in on this and they want the Dodgers to
succeed so that everybody has a case for the salary cap.
I just think this union has been so strong for
so long that I don't even think Dodge dominances. And again,
all it takes is one series loss for the Dodgers
to them to be like, Okay, now, what are you complaining.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
About, right, it's the strongest union out there, it really is.
I mean, no one's going to cross the picket line
and they don't want a salary cap. And there's not
gonna be a salary cap in baseball. These guys have
made so much money they're fine sitting around for a
year or two if they have to. I mean, I'm
certain there's gonna be no salary cap in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yes, Taylor, but Scooba going to the Dodgers is exactly
what the owners need in terms of a leverage chip
to look at the public perception and be like, guys,
look that the Dodgers are just gonna get everybody, and
they're gonna keep getting everybody until you put a salary
cap and then STU. What I think is gonna happen
is who blinks first?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh wow, if I made to stare down.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, these are the players who blinks first.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
If they effectively sweep their way through a third straight championship,
I think it's going to be the best possible case.
But I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
If you the.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Dodgers, you probably have to lose one along the way.
Right Just so, just so game seven.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
If you care about the players you need, I mean,
that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
When there's no baseball in twenty twenty seven, Yes, we
could look back at Saturday at eleven thirty when Jeff
Passing announced that schoobl trade to remind ourselves to thank
the Tigers for Why the only baseball we're watching this
summer is banana ball.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
You're being sarcastic, but I would thank him for it
if I don't want to watch any baseball.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
By the way, the Tigers who traded him away or
two and a half out of the wild corps.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
H yeah, they're getting hot about that. They could use
a school boy.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Do they have time to.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Trade him back or no, no, no, the Dodgers will
get him back somehow. Anyways, what is the Mount Rushmore today?
Taylor is a three time champion of Mount Rushmore. Mondays,
he's a Michael Jordan of Mount Rushby's.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
The La Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
He's gotten back to back.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yes, what is today's Mount Rushmore? Taylor?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
So the Mount Rushmore Monday is going to be athletes
and movies And just to limit the field a little,
we're gonna say no wrestlers.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Wow, So no thunderlips huh.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
And this just for Dan By.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
He was great, I mean HOGI was great.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, go ahead, this is for Dan Bayer when we
do the Mount Rushmore Monday. It's not the best athletes
in the movies, it's the best roles that they played
in said movie.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I mean, why does it really matter? Dan just does
what he wants anyway, He's right.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah, you didn't have to say it, Taylor, but it's
we're just we're gonna go with what I think. Thank you.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You have any thoughts on the Dodgers being banned for baseball? Well?
Speaker 9 (14:27):
As a as a Brewers fan, I'm actually on the
side of I think the Brewers should have acquired schoobl
for the simple fact of you were swept by the
Dodgers last year in the NLCS. The thing that you
couldn't have happened was Scoble go to the Dodgers, and
so for that reason alone.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
At some point, I know, and I think Taylor said,
the Brewers have one of the best, if not the
best farm system in baseball. Sometimes prospects work out, you
got to roll the dice, and I think it was
more important for the Brewers to not have Derek Scubel
on the Dodgers than it would be to say, deal
a prospect to Detroit and have them turn out to
be a star. That was the biggest miss I thought
of the weekend. Well, here's the problem with baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
The Brewers are perfectly fine making it to the NLCS
every single year and getting swept.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
By the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's a positive year, both with money, economy and just
as a team.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Those are positives for the Brewers. They don't care if
they win the World Series.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So they fixed baseball in terms of the rule of
the sport and making it more watchable. But it becomes
unwatchable when the Dodgers win everything.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, okay, yep, something like that. Yes, well said, is he?
What is the Mount Rushmore order today?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Taylor? Have you decided an order yet?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
We will randomize that during the break. Okay, I've never
seen you this prepared for mount I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
A little nervous about it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I gotta be honest with you because you took away
the wrestlers.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I mean you got a lot to choose from. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I wanted John Cena and Blucker in What Blockers?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
He is one of seen his movies the see.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
It's sena golden tickets already been written down, by the way,
already written down.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
All right, are there any athletes in the Willy Wonka movie?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
All right? A Mount Rushmore Monday is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
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Speaker 3 (16:21):
So.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
One of the many things I love about this job,
and I love about Israel goody Eras, is that you
never know what's gonna set is he off.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
A good point?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And you've been set off today?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
My friend Kevin Durant is the reason that is he
is in a foul mood.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I guess no, No, just whenever somebody says something where
I just sort of kind of see right through it, right,
It's just, you know, it's just a topic that interests me.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, we have some sound from Kevin Durant over the weekend.
I think you're talking about his response to the Philadelphia
seventy six ers and the dream team they've created.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So it's a couple of things, right, and we'll play
this sound right here where he's responding to this question.
But I believe somebody asked him here, let's just play
this sound. Somebody asked him whether the Philadelphia seventy six
or seems like a mindless question, are going to be
contenders this coming year. And here's what Katie said, you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Know like their contenders.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Sure you don't think something, No, I'm just asking you.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Last time he played three twenty points scores on team,
they said it was unfair, which is the team they
got four, So that it'll be a contender, man, they'll
be a great team to watch.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And he went on from there just to go on Twitter,
which is you know, his his preferred form of communication,
to then sort of continue to double down on the conversation, Like,
first of all, Stu back that he he sort of
simplified what the Warriors did by bringing him in by
calling it the last time they put three twenty point
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a game scorers together, That's not what you guys were.
That wasn't three guys who just averaged twenty points. That
was two of those guys that won combined three MVPs.
So let's not just sort of dismiss what you actually were.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And it was unfair, Well, it was, yes, Well, the
big difference being that Philadelphia is not coming off a
season in which they broke the regular season win total
and won an NBA championship. Yeah, the Warriors were exactly yes.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And he is then doubling down on Twitter by saying
by sort of breaking it down, saying, hey, on paper,
the Philadelphia seventy six ers this year's version are even
better than that Warriors version. And he makes these comparisons
to the Joel a recent MVP. So there's Steph, the
recent MVP. Those aren't the same, man, those they're not
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the same. We have not seen anything that Joel Hembida
has done past the second round because he's never been there.
So they're just not the same. And then he said
a recent finals MVP in Jalen Brown. Okay, let's pause
there for a second, because he went on to say
other things. Not once did he bring up Andrea Guadala,
who is a finals MVP recently. And then he talked
(19:02):
about he said Klay Thompson was never a finalist for
MVP or nothing right, and then just said twenty two
points a game, yes, And then through Draymond green stats
out there, which was something like fourteen points a game,
seven rebounds and six.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Assists, he's trying to give off that that team wasn't
nearly as good as we thought it was.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Right, So basically over hyping Jalen Brown a little bit,
over hyping a forty one going into forty two, Lebron James,
probably over hyping Tyrese Maxie a bit too, because if
Joel Embiid had been healthy throughout, you know, the last
three years of Tyrese Maxi, I don't think Tyre's Maxie's
numbers are as good as they are currently. So it's
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all just him, you know, moving the goalpost a little
bit here and there to try to make a point,
which I don't agree with at all.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yeah, this is this is kadis still trying to justify
the weakest move in NBA history.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah, is he The point that you made and the
saddest comparison that he made was comparing Curry's MVP to
Joel Embiid's m MVP, saying that Joel was an MVP
recently because how many injuries ago was Joel Embiid's MVP.
Joel Embiid might as well be a completely different player now.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yes, and you can't. Honestly, there are very few MVPs
you could even compare to Steph Curry, who was unanimous
and the first time unanimous MVP, So that in itself
is not a fair comparison. And normally I agree with
like ninety five percent of the stuff Katie says. He's
lately come across as somebody, you know, the more veteran player,
(20:29):
the older, wiser guy, the one who's like not in
it for the nonsense, and he just kind of goes
in and breaks down things in a sensible way. But
this one, he's just trying too hard. And I don't
even get it due because what Taylor said is correct, right,
He's trying to justify what many people believe is the
weakest move ever in sports.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He's gonna be justifying that and defending that move for
the remainder of his life.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
That's what he signed up.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
For, right But to do that whilst also insulting them,
right rayon, that's how you have to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
There's no way of doing it without him insulting the
Golden State Warrior team that he played on.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So he's more concerned with public perception about his move
than his actual personal relationships with these folks. It's just
a little sideways for me.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
The biggest difference in terms of the public perception, besides
the fact that the seventy six ers weren't this title
contending team before Lebron James got there, to quote unquote
ring Chase Stude, the difference is Kevin Durant wins a
title in Golden State. There is nothing he could ever
do to make Warriors fans love him more than Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
If Lebron wins a title this year or next year
in Philadelphia, yep, he is Philadelphia's guy for eternity, his city.
Right next to that Rocky statue, they're putting up a
Lebron James statue.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
The other big difference is, you know, Kevin Durant was
on a team that was up three to one on
the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals the
year before he left Oklahoma City and went to Golden
State and joined the team that came back from that
three one deficit and went on to win an NBA championship.
That team is one of the greatest teams to have
ever played in the NBA, and Kevin Durant felt like
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they needed more.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yes, and then so going back to that point about
just him not really caring about his personal relationships, Like
I don't know how many people thought they had poor
relationships over there.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It just break.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It just comes down to what Taylor just said. He
seemed like he was upset. Now he's going to say
this is fan fiction. He's going to say this is
not the case. But people around there have people around
him at the time had noticed it, had you know,
probably even heard comments from him where it's just like,
they don't love you the same way they do Steph
and they don't value you the same way they do
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the homegrown guys. And that's why he ended up getting
out of there, and he just used Draymond Green and
his you know, his argument with Draymond Green as the
reason he was leaving. But it's just like what he
did to Klay Thompson was so unfair right there.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, but he had to to justify what it is
he did. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
But here's a question for you. If you needed a
two way player today, would you take prime Jalen Brown
or prime Klay Thompson Because people forget how good of
a defender he was, right, and so if you were
to I don't think Klay Thompson would have been a
lead guy on a highly successful team, but he damn
sure proved he could be a number two guy on
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a very successful, wildly successful team. And that's what Jalen
Brown was yesspite his Finals MVP, for the entirety of
his time there with Jason Tatum, he was considered the
number two. So already it's just flaws and those you
know in his argument, and those are the ones that
normally KD is above. So the reason I say I'm
shocked by this is because it's it's it's crazy how
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hard he continues to double triple quadruple down on this
concept and just say, hey, why don't you just enjoy
possibly the greatest team that's ever been put together in
the NBA. Instead, he's trying to knock them to lift him,
and I just think he's above that.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Katie could have won me over if he took a
torch to Draymond Green, because I'm at the point where
I have Draymond Green fatigue right now. If he just
came out and said, if we replaced Draymond Green with
Robert Covington, Robert Covington's this Hall of Famer, I would
have been like, I would have been in Katy's corner
with a Katie Jersey being like Katy, great point, great point,
Bob Coo.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I mean I would have I would have laughed when
you said that, Taylor, and I would have supported you.
But I would have said no, even for somebody who
dislikes Draymond Green's public you know, persona and how he
presents himself and throw these opinions that dude was phenomenal
back then. If you go back to the Game seven
that they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers, you put up
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a thirty point was it a triple double. He was
just phenomenal. And so, yeah, what player did you say,
Robert Covington.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Robert Covington, Yes, but Paul Millsap there and he does
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
He's phenomenal too. He and Paul millsapp would have stood
for phenomenal and the m.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Would have for MVB. What do you have?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
There's also this point a half that's what do you have?
Speaker 9 (25:05):
There's also this point that Kevin Durant will never understand,
and it's what he did to Oklahoma City. I don't
think there are a lot of people here that care
that Lebron left the Lakers because it was the Lakers.
But when Durant talks, whenever he talks or he talks
about the Warriors team, there is always the part of
what he did to Oklahoma City. And even though the
thunder of comeback and rebuilt and have won an NBA title,
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that stain on Durant will never change. So, while it's
not a part of this direct conversation, I think the
way that people feel about Durant still goes back to
what he did to Oklahoma City in that moment. Yeah,
one hundred percent. And here's another stay and even though, look,
you know this, I'm a huge Rockets fan. I love it,
and I've always loved KD as a player, and ninety
(25:46):
five percent of the time, like I said, I agree
with what he says. But what teammates, big name teammates
that he's had that are like cool with him, that
are are friendly with him, that support him.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I mean, maybe Kyrie Irving maybe the ally you want necessarily,
So it's just it would upset me if I was,
you know, a lifelong Kevin Durant fan, that he doesn't
have those allies, those supporters and those and maybe he does,
maybe they're just not the big name stars.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
It always surprises me that Kevin Durant seems shocked by
the blowback from what came after he chose the Warriors
and winning in Golden State and how that has kind
of affected his legacy. If he could go back, do
you think he would have still went to Golden State? Like,
knowing what he knows now, he makes a different team,
you think.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I do.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I think he stays at Oklahoma City, Yes, yeah, I
mean it's the opposite of everything we're taught about sports
and competition.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
If you can't beat him, join them that's not what
we're taught. We're taught. If you can't beat him, go back,
get to work and try harder.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Yeah, I think going back, armed with hindsight, I think
he would still leave Oklahoma City because the whole Russell
Westbrook and Billy Donovan thing probably true, right, especially on
the Billy Donovan part. Not you know, a multiple time
championship head coach. But he would go to another team,
he would say. The reason being is he was at
Golden State and he saw, Yes, Steph's great, but I
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don't need a system. I am the system right, and
I could win pretty much anywhere. And he probably could
have gotten you know, one a team, let's say it's Philadelphia,
could have gotten in Philadelphia a championship. You know that
it hadn't won in over thirty plus years at the time,
forty years maybe at the time, and looked completely different.
And I think armed with hindsight, he definitely would do that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You know, I was reading a book it's called Ustu
Got's Personal Record Book, and it's you know, it's my
favorite author. And what he wrote in that book and
it rings true to this conversation, is he imagine Michael
Jordan not being able to get past the Detroit Pistons,
and rather than getting back to work, what he decided
to do was, Hey, you know what, I can't beat
this team. I'm not going to work harder. I'm just
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going to join this team. Imagine if Michael Jordan did that, Seriously,
in what world would he do that?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
There is no world?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And son Kevin Durant is haunted by his own decision
and will be haunted by that decision for the remainder
of time, because what he's trying to do as he
gets older is justify his place in NBA history.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Dan Stanze c your favorite author too, Yes.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yes, I mean the book doesn't get done without him. Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Now I'm just picturing though. Imagine the lineup. You got
to move Michael Jordan to the three but Man, Isaiah Thomas,
Joe Dumart, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Bill lame Beer.
They'd definitely be fighting those warriors for the best team ever.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yes, is he do you like appetizers?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The reason I asked that question it's an odd if Jordan.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
If Jordan joined the Pistons, honest question, and you have
Vinnie Johnson as the microwave, would Jordan be the air
fryer instead of air Jordan.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
There's a little too early a time machine for I
guess so.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I like pigs in a blanket personally.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The reason I asked that is because Taylor told me
he's got a football appetizer.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Wow, well, I feel like we need a little football
appetizer right now. Get some football in this conversation.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
You.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
ESPN's Ben sol on the Golcks earlier today said the
Bears are on Regression Watch, but the Bears are also
on Elite Watch.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Covered all his bases.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Anything can happen with the Chicago Bears this season. What
an appetizer?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
So you're telling me as long as they finish above
or below where they were exactly last year.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yes, he's right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yes, for the first ten minutes, mikey A did not
make a move, and then he perked up the second
that said, Ben Sulwaker, pigs and the blankets.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Listen how Kevin Durant led this show is beyond me?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, well, is he in the news?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
I had?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I had an opening monologue prepared about Brian Cashman.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Did you I want to hear it comes? Maybe? As
Draymond Green responded to the KD. I'm certain.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, and this is this is what drives me crazy.
He's not signing it about Draymond. Draymond gave a like,
offered a joke that a high schooler would have offered now,
and then laughed at himself with the million crying emojis.
He said, uh, sniper, thought he was on his burner.
It's a good joke for like five years ago.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, what's your favorite appetizer?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Pigs in a stew Yeah, I think pigs in a blanket.
If you were doing a Mount Rushmore Monday, Yeah, maybe
that's an upcoming Mount Rushmore Monday appetizers.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yes, I mean it's up to me. I was the winner,
so ye see.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I would spoil my draft board right now and tell
you guys, my one one is pigs in a blanket.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I feel bad for the sculptors who have to do
food on a mountain. But Mikey, what do you think.
Let's go to our expert.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Oh many sliders?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Wow? Great?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Really it's too filling for me. It's too much in
an appetizer.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, no, up, Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He's chiseled.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I mean, Mikey, I am with you that I think
many sliders are better than regular sized burgers.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Put it on a pole. Yeah, that's a different question.
I agree with you there.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yes, put it on the pole.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Are many sliders better than an actual, real size burger?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I'm not certain I like a big burger.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
I do.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I got beef carpaccio as an appetite. She's gone right, right?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
What's the go to Izzy's house for a big game?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
And that's what's being said.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I'm never gonna prepare it. I'm not a professional chef.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Well, but I'm a lowder that arresta Welcome to my tailgate.
We've got beef carpaca. Oh yeah, that's not at right temperature.
Nothing gets me to leave a tailgate faster than the
word beef carpaccio.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Nothing gets me to not show up. We've got a
good tartar.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Isn't that terrible either?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
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Speaker 1 (31:35):
It is a whatever you want to talk about Wednesday
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Speaker 3 (31:40):
Mikey A is laughing already.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I keep trying to get this off the ground every
single Wednesday. Whatever you want to talk about Wednesday. And
I am making a pledge to the callers. I don't
care what we're talking about. I will stop whatever it
is we're talking about to take your phone call and
talk about what you want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Rolls right off the tongue. Whatever you want to talk
about Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We start in
a very strange place today. I'm very excited for today's show.
We have Tim Kirchin and Hogdale on in nowur number two.
But we start in the strangest of place as a
place I've never started before.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Akron Ohio, oh Lebron time.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna take it from here.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
No, no, no, I'll take that ball. I'll take that
ball right back from you.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Is there anything Akron can do to interest you guys
in some Zips football this year?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Not really? Is that the home of Jason Taylor, by
the way, that's.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Where he went to school. Yeah, yeah, Akron Zips. No,
I don't think so far.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
So that's exactly what Akron thought. And they said the
ante must be upped this season, right, So what Akron
did is They introduced a new promotion in which a
season ticket holder will get to script the opening drive
of Akron's home opener, what against Robert more Rs. The
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promotion is called the Offensive Coordinator of the Game.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Wow the OC.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Huh wait wait wait wait wait, So one of the
season ticket holders will just get to script the opening
drive of the home opener. Not every home game, just
the home opener for right now.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Yes, correct, the home opener against Robert Morris. All current
season ticket holders will be automatically entered into a random
drawing for every new season ticket holder. A current one
successfully refers, they'll receive additional entries. And right now, it's
all the buzz on social media.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
You got people from all over the country who play
this college football video game saying what they do is
in that hard. Let me buy some Acron season I
think it's like eighty dollars to get Acron season tickets.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
But I was going to ask you how much.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Normally this is Easy's role with a follow up, but
I do have a couple of follow ups. Please price
out four season tickets to Acron football this year. I
just want to see how much they cost. It Also,
how bad is Robert Morris at football? I need to
know what was the record last year for Robert Morris?
Meaning are they really putting this game in jeopardy by
letting a season ticket holder script the opening drive of
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the first game at home against Robert Morris?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They have to be bad.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Robert Morris was three and nine less season?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Okay? And what was achron? That's a better clear. Yeah, Mikey,
I would say this.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Most people are like, oh man, I'm going flee, flick
or hail Mary? Why other zip? I'm gonna zag. I
hope they have a fullback. I hope they're ready to
pound the rock because I'm making it like an eighteen
play drive here. I'm going to make it last really
full back dive. I'm looking to get a job out
of this.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
One at a time.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yes, So I'm on the go zips website right now.
The cheapest season ticket in section U two one seventy
five dollars. I kind of overshot it saying eighty five dollars.
But Mikey, you'll actually access Yeah, You'll be working with
head coach Joe moorehead and he will help few design
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design the plays. My thinking though, Joe Morehead knows how
much of a gimmick this is. Like, no football guy
is signing up for this where Joe Schmoe's coming off
the street. There is no way he's rooting for success
on that first drive, right.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Former Fordham head coach, I'm all in, let's go Joe Morehead.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, but Morehead has final say Dan Bayer has something
he has perked umpy or he is excited about this topic.
Speaker 9 (35:27):
Yes, yeah, despite Robert Morris being three to nine in
the NEC Again, this is not FBS, but in the FCS,
I still think that the drive will amount to ZIP
points for whoever designs.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's for Akron.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
So you're saying Akron can afford to do this and
not really jeopardize the game. Well, I'm also saying that
Robert Morris may be bad, but there's no way that
they're gonna let some amateur go in and put points
on the board in the opening drive.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Like there's gotta be a system, right, because there's got
to be a little astiss by design the first drive
I would have And first of all, if I'm this coach,
I'm getting it written into my contract that if we
have a terrible season, because we're starting off with this
terrible idea. Yeah, this year does not count for me,
and I deserve more money, right, But also, there's no
way they're actually going to be able to create a
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drive for themselves. The coach is going to be like,
all right, first play this player that play, Second play
this player that play, and then just go from there
because there's no chance at heck, he's like, anybody's gonna
really get to, you know, pick the plays, yes, Deller.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Depending on how that first drive goes, is there any
scenario where that guy gets on staff Because I think
in my mind, I.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Mean, if they're up seven to nothing, if.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
They're up seven to nothing and they have a twenty
five play scripted methodical drive where they're just driving down
on Robert Morris, I think that guy has to be
considered for the second drive too.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I think more Head gets fired on the spot.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
I think, yeah, That's where I'm thinking, right, yes, Or
if it fails, do you just fire Morehead or the
social media guy who came up with this idea?
Speaker 6 (37:02):
Yeah, conspiracy theory. Did Bill Belichick run this.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Last year with those opening drives?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
That was a great opening drive because it went all
downhill from there?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, but he's saying a fan drew it up because
every other drive stunk.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
So I'm looking at akron schedule from last season and
what I'm what I'm realizing right now. They went to Lincoln,
Nebraska and played the corn Huskers. They lost sixty eight nothing.
I think this is a case of Akron realizing, hey,
we might get we might find ourselves in a lou
Garry Wally Pip situation where if we get this offensive
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coordinator for a game. One, he's working for theoretically free here,
but two, we might find somebody who who could actually
put some points up against some of these power house
schools like Nebraska.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
He's literally paying you to work, literally buying a season ticket.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
He's paying you to work.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yep, that's the way I like this.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Due Gotts is strong en ackery.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
What are the worst and best case scenarios here? Right?
Because if I'm picked for this, I am picking a
trick play on the first play, and it's gonna end
up in a touchdown if everything works out correct.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Meaning if you're truly picking, if you have the run
of the mill, meaning it's not option A, option B,
you get to pick any play from their playbook.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
I would say, hey, for any playbook. Yes, I would say, hey, coach,
what's the best trick play that could result in a
you know, a fifty or a huge game.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I purchase season tickets. I'm not asking the coach anything.
I'm just running what I want to run.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
To be fair, you spend seventy five dollars, I mean.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So what that's the promotion?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I mean, and if that works out, then everybody's happy, right,
coach doesn't have to worry about the rest of the Drive.
Team's happy. What a start to our home season. Worst
case scenario, what if it's like a seventy year old
grandma who wins this opportunity and then she comes in
and she's just like, no idea what to do? Just
kind of pick and play Willy nilly. I feel like
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you'd had That's why it can't be a random draw,
like it has to be somebody that has a lot
more football knowledge than somebody who's just an Akron fan.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You like to fancy yourself as someone who could call
the plays right, Yeah, call the entire game, do their
entire play, but he by the remainder of the season
tickets they have, Okay, it gives us more chances is.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
He you showed me a red flag though, because you
said you want to start the game with a trick play.
If you're Robert Morris and you see you coming in
to be the offensive coordinator for the game one, If
you're Robert Morris, like this is ultimate bolton board material.
Acron is telling you you're so bad, we're going to
have somebody from Section two seventeen road w coming to
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call play.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
But they are that bad.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
But you're giving them extra motivation.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right. You don't want to do that to Robert Morris,
right is he?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
If you're Robert Morris, Yeah, everybody knows you don't want
to give Robert Morris an extra preparharction for a week.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I mean, they're a different team when they have a
chip on their shoulder.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Everyone know what happens when you're aggressive, When you're angry
and you're aggressive, you overplay something. Oh no, ball's not
going over there. They're a dude wide open thirty yards
down the field.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
But when you're bringing this guy off the street to
be the offensive coordinator, everybody's first thought is, let's start
this game with a trick play. And that's exactly what
Robert Morris is expecting. Yeah, that's why this coordinator business is.
It's chest not checkers.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yes, I think you know. I think he's right.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
No, I think a couple of full back dives just
so they think okay. Robert Morris is like, hey, nothing
much get to change here. This is what Acrod always does,
the full back dive, and then you break out the
trick plays on third down and third and long.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I'm gonta also say guys, you need to be there
on install day. It's our dad. No, that's okay.
Speaker 9 (40:39):
If I'm the if I win this contest, I don't
know if I want to do a trick play right
off the bat. I wouldn't do the full back dives
because I don't want it to be one and done,
because if I score, then it's done. Like, I want
to at least call I want to get into a rhythm.
I want to call more plays. I don't want it
to just be one play and if we score a
touchdown that's it. I want to string this thing out
right to a couple of.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Five yard outs.
Speaker 9 (40:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, just chunks, you know, take you time
off the clock.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
How can they see the trick play coming? If other
people are thinking differently, right, other they could say, oh, yeah,
he's probably gonna try to run it up the middle
and then give us a trick play on third now, no,
right off the bat, seventy yards touchdown and then and
then you do it to the coach and say hey,
let me get the second drive.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
So Akron, I'm looking at their schedule again from last season. Yeah,
do you know how many points the Akron Zips scored
their first eight quarters? Zip zips? Zips?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Really?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
So this is an audition, This is not it's not
a gimmick.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Well, it can't get worse, right, They lose week one
to Wyoming ten to nothing. Then they go on the road,
like I mentioned, to Nebraska, they lose sixty eight nothing,
and then Week three is when they get their first touchdown,
a big fourteen point quarter, you know, in an eventual
thirty one to twenty eight loss to UAB the Blazers.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I mean, this oc has to be sweating right now.
He does.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
He sets such a little bar that a fast season
ticket holder could come in and exceed it and take
his jump.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Taylor do a little bit more research of those first
how many games was it until they scored or quarters?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Third game third game.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Of those two and a half games, how many trick
plays did they run? I'm gonna guess.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
None of have to go back and look at it.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Take you just want to run a flea flicker.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
You got to get a little bit more thoughtful than
a flee flicker. But yeah, something in that neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
There are two calls on the board. I'll get to
him in just a second. Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. I know I said I would stop whatever
we're doing to talk about whatever it is you want.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
To talk about. But I talking zips football right now.
I don't know. Eric, zip it up.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Eric wants to talk about Mount Rushmore Mondays, and I
feel like that's all a fan who deserves his time.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
You're right, let's go to Eric. Eric, go ahead, you're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Hey guys, I really enjoyed that Mount Rushmore brick down
last week. But I had I had one add them
in one correction.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
What's that was?
Speaker 8 (43:00):
Sticking with the fearsome Forsome? And I would go Merlin
Olsen on Little House on the Prairie.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
M I had never seen it, but okay, okay, uh,
you've been sitting on that for a while man.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Yeah, that's the I.
Speaker 8 (43:15):
Can't remember which one of you picked Terry Crews.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
But you Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 8 (43:21):
Yeah, Mikey Camacho for Mediocracy.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
That's another good one.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, thank you, Eric.
Speaker 8 (43:32):
With theater a cool Eric.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I'd like you to call in next Monday and do
the Matt Rushmore Monday with us.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Okay, all sure, try, All right, you could be the judge. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
We're looking for a new judge after I got robbed
last week.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
I'm not looking for a new judge. I'm happy with
our John Favor. Let's go out to John. John, you're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (43:55):
Hi. Just a couple of points. The Scobul thing.
Speaker 11 (44:02):
Being in the military, it's like one guy can ruin
a whole, you know.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Platoon or whatever.
Speaker 11 (44:09):
And if they would have brought in Skobull.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
To the Brewers, that could have upset the bullpen.
Speaker 11 (44:17):
And they got a good team and the manager is
doing a great job bringing out people and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (44:26):
And I just think they're.
Speaker 11 (44:27):
Keeping the team together because they play so well together.
And to bring in Scobel and the other thing I
wanted to talk about was miss they bring in miz
for like three or four innings, and the opposing team
has three or four innings to get used to the
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Polish lightning, and then they bring in a closer who
was pitching totally different and that throws up their whole
timing and everything.
Speaker 8 (45:00):
Else like that.
Speaker 11 (45:01):
So just a couple of observations.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yeah, I'm not certain this school Ball deal is going
to work out. I mean, the Dodgers have been a
disaster since they.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Acquired him, and the Tigers haven't lost since.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
And now we've established that the Brewers were too good
to add Scooba because it would just mess everything up.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
I understand why the Brewers wouldn't do that. There's no
point in doing that. They're not trying to win. They
might stumble into winning a World Series, but that team.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Is not trying to win.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
There is no reason to trade for school bol a
two month rental, give up all those prospects, and then eventually,
when the season's over, he's going to be a Dodger
and you have no guarantee because baseball's a funny sport
of winning a World Series because.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
You get them.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
But what do you mean by they're not trying to win?
Because they're the exact team that I would say they're
not going to resign them, so might as well take
the rental and win a World Series.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
I would say if they were trying to win, they
would have given any amount of prospects because you have
a window right now to win a World Series. To
go get Schooble and prevent him from going to the
Dodgers and bolster your staff. Then't do it because they
know they can't sign school Ball to the four hundred
million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
He's got a command.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Once the season is over, Let's go out to Kevin
in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Go ahead, keV, Dude.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
I gotta tell you, it's so nice to have you
back on radio. This is awesome. Thank you so so.
Speaker 11 (46:16):
My thing is, if i'm offensive coordinator for the Zips
for one drive, I make sure you.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Know, even if the coach is telling me, you know,
suggesting place for.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
Me as it were my my I'm in the quarterback.
Speaker 11 (46:28):
You're going, dude, you're going to audible to this, this
and this.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
I'm telling you, man, you got it, you got you
gotta let it rip. You want to show of throwing
your arm is go on, man, showing fifty yard pass.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Let's go there. You go.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, again his ere Wait, but he thinks you buy
season tickets and you have access to the headset.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
I mean, no, I I think Kevin makes a good
point where if I'm buying season tickets for Achron, part
of in this agreement has to be I do get
to audible someplace.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
You're only getting the opening drive.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
I mean, the head coach is definitely wishing it's three
safe plays and it's a three.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
And out right the head coach.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
Yeah, I'm in the quarterbacks. They are saying, listen, nobody,
I'm the only one who's going to get blamed here.
Just unleash it. Just do whatever you want out there.
If you ever wanted to take a deep tried, now's
the time, you think.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
He tells the season ticket holder, Hey, feel free to
punt on first down.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
They got a good quarterback to Reece Poffenbarger. Really, yeah,
he transferred from It's the new era of college of
college football where these guys have played everywhere.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
He started at Old Dominion, transferred to Albany, transferred to Miami.
Wow you twenty twenty four. I bet there was a
time when Hurricanes fans thought he was going to be
the next guy.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
So when this kid graduates, is what's his answer? I mean,
where'd you go to? Like, say, Reeese Poffenbarger goes to
the NFL. Yes, and it's Sunday night football. He's starting.
Let's say he's starting for the Jets. You're getting the lineups.
Where does Reese Poff and Gardner say he went?
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yeah, it was a poorly phrase question by me.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Yes, I think so this is a case. He also
played at North Texas too, right, I think you just
have to list all the schools Fireese poffa Gardner, Old Dominion, Albany, Miami,
North Texas, Akron.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
You don't take the best school.
Speaker 5 (48:15):
I mean, I think you take the school that you
last played for.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
Yeah, Dan, quick question, who's the better story twenty years
from now? The quarterback of Akron who says, guys, get this,
when I was in college, a fan picked the play,
or if you're on the defense of Robert Morris saying
we were so freaking bad, Akron had a fan pick
their place against us. I just think it's a great
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Trump story to trump all stories twenty years from now.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
It's definitely the latter.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Wait, So friends are sitting around and they're bragging about
how bad their college team was.
Speaker 9 (48:51):
Get this, Akron made a fan designed to play against us?
Speaker 5 (48:56):
What he and they scored? Yeah, Dan, if I'm on
this Robert Morris defense, Oh god, this is what I'm
taking at the grave with me.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
You there never anyone.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
You will never get me to admit that I was
on this Robert Morris defense.
Speaker 6 (49:10):
Hey, Robert Morris, good luck researching my tendencies.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Taylor is in a foul mood today. We will get
to that in just a second.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You would think the trade deadline and the sport that
he loves, he'd come in he's being a good mood.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is the worst mood I've ever seen Taylor in. Again,
We'll get to it at just a second. Mike Elco,
the head coach at Texas A and M is going
to join us an hour number two. The we Can
observations will be an hour two as well. Mount Rushmore Monday,
coming up at about fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Here is he.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are you intrigued by anything that has happened in the
last forty eight hours as it relates to Major League
Baseball and the read deadline?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
No, I wanted to give you a better answer. I
was looking around. I saw the Trek school stuff yesterday,
and I was was that yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yes, And I was like, Okay, I'd care more if
I if i'd actually, you know, watched him pitch at all.
But no, not really.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Are you surprised to hear that Taylor is in a
bad mood? I thought he was in a bad mood
because he's sitting next to Board up Ricardo and he
is fired up about Liam Hicks being traded away from
his Miami Marlins. And by the way, I was greeted
today by Board up Ricardo, not a low not how
was your weekend? It was, Hey, the Fish took three
out of four from the Mets, which, by.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The way, is like the easiest thing to do in
the National League these days. But yeah, I didn't really
have too much interest. I was just spending most of
my time trying to figure out which sport is the
worst to be traded mid season, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Think it was baseball. All right, Well, we'll get back
to that in a second. Taylor, why are you in
a bad mood today?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Just once, I would like the Yankees to approach a
trade deadline right with the instead of let's build a
World Series contender, instead of Brian Cashman and the Steinbrenners
and all their cronies in that organization going into the
trade deadline saying we're going to make the playoffs. This
is good enough. I think the pieces that we have
are enough. I think the guys that are injured that
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we say we can't really count on, but we're going
to count on them for the playoffs, those guys are
going to be our deadline acquisitions. And I'm watching everybody
that I wanted the Yankees to get. I wanted Taylor
Ward to be a platoon outfield bat he gets traded,
not to the Yankees. I wanted Adley Rushman to fill
the Yankees catcher need sure he gets traded in the division,
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from the Orioles to the Red Sox. When everything I
heard about Adley Rushman getting traded the potential was he's
not getting traded in the division. That's what everybody who
covers the Yankee said. Well, guess what, he got traded
to the Boston Red Sox, who are lapping the Yankees
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Go ahead, Mikey, you know.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
What I'm sick of hearing. I'm sick of hearing them
make up this Yankee tax.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Every guy they're in on is oh, the price is
just too high because the Yankees are in on him.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No they're not.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You're just terrible at your job when you can't make
a deal.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I'm so confused by Taylor's fandom because he announced early
on in this baseball season that this was his least
favorite Yankees team ever, and I can can they change
that in one trade deadline or with one trade deadline?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
They could change it if they get off the approach
of we have to clutch onto all these prospects that
we have because we think these prospects are going to
be the next best thing in this Yankee organization, when
history has shown you that hasn't been the case for
this Yankee team. And is he it's my least favorite
team because I cannot watch some of these Yankees take
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at bets anymore. Where I'm talking to Ricardo beforehand, and
Ricardo's like, why do you want Adlee Rushman? He's about
as league average a hitter as you could get when
it comes to when it comes to hitting, the thing
is right now, the Yankees would kill for league average
at a catcher. Austin Wells goes up there every day,
Dominican with a with a noodle bat. We would be
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better off sending the picture up instead of Austin Wells.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You're gonna say me right, well, he's now yes, same
thing worse though, I don't want it too far.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He's too far now, you come on.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
He's an automatic out, but he handled that. True.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
We'll take a walk with the best of them.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
All right, Well, not you.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I was talking about a and Austin Wells stands for
automatic out.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yes, but he handles the staff.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, what if they went to the staff and they're like, no,
don't get rid of Austin Wells.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We like him.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Uh Okay, Garrett, that is a move that Garrett Cole
would do one thousand percent right. Try to bully the
Yankees into keeping the catcher that's batting, not even the
Mendoza line. The Mendoza line looks at Austin Wells batting
average right now and laughs at it.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, they have to change the Mendoza line now because
everybody's line.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
The Wales line is the Wells line is now one
thirty two.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, that sounds more appropriate. Put it on the poll.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Does the Wells line, does the Mendoza line, look at
the Wells line and lamb.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Down on the Wales line.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I thought you guys would be upset that the Dodgers
got Schooble.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
That is not the case.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You don't, Yeah, right, because realistically, realistically, we're gonna have
to play them in the World Series. If if we
get past this ridiculously weak American League, and then if
we get to that, okay, then I'll worry about the Dodgers.
Right now, I'm worried about the Red Sox. I'm worried
about the Rays. That's really it in the American League.
Everybody else kind of stick.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
We cut Mikey off there, I heard it you and
then he just kind of disappeared.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What happened to you? Because you came in today thinking.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
That we were going to be so mad about schoolbl
You came anywhere like hey, schoobl and both.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Taylor and I were like, yeah, we figured, I mean
that's kind of where it was going.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Yes, the thing with school Scoobl to the Yankees never
made sense, and Schooble anywhere besides the Dodgers also never
really made sense. Because, if anything, I think the Dodgers
overpaid for Tarek Scubl when you're looking at the return
that they got it was Zayer Hope, who's the twenty
fifth best prospect in all of baseball at outfielder, a
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right hander River Ryan. Great name for a pitcher who
was a top seventy prospect in all of baseball. Two
top seventy prospects for what is ultimately a three month rental.
Now the Dodgers are going to sign him. The Dodgers
are going to sign him to a six hundred million
dollars deal and defer all that money until the end.
But when you're a back to back World Series champion
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like the Dodgers, and you have the top farm system
in baseball, you can be aggressive and make moves like
this that you think push you over the edge or
cover for what is a perceived weakness to your team
right now at the starters where I don't think other
teams were. Other teams don't really have that luxury.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Well didn't didn't he say? Tarek Scouble say, did he
say this or was it just reported that he wanted
to sign with the Dodgers as a free age Nightingale. Okay,
so if that is you know, own information, let's just
ruined the leverage I thought he just.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Gave you he spit back at you man. Is he
in a bad mood Nightingale? It's being reported by Bob Nightingale.
I'm trying to say, Yeah, I don't think anyone knew
that I'm over a good Nightingale.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
The non baseball guy. I heard Nightingale, and I knew
exactly who he was talking.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I mean, there was some anger in his voice.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I just yeah, I just said Bob Nightingale like I
was in the cast of Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo
just ruined my plans.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yes, but you didn't say, Bob, I just Nightingale. You
were saying I forgot.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
What it had, But didn't that ruin the leverage or
didn't that just sort of less than the interest from
other teams? Because it's just like, this is absolutely a rental.
What's not going to matter what we do, and so
we're not going to overpay and give up all our
prospects for somebody that we're probably just going to use
when we lose.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
To the Dodgers. That's exactly right. People will ask this question.
I ask it all the time. It's become one of
those sports radio topics or the Dodger's bad for baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Now, the Dodgers aren't bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
They're just the only team trying to win the World
Series every single year in baseball. The Brewers don't trade
for them because why would you. They're not going to
be able to sign them to a four hundred million
dollar contract once the season is over. There's only a
handful of teams that could do that, and the Dodgers
are the one who are willing to do it every
single time. The Dodgers aren't bad for baseball. The rest
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of the teams that aren't trying to win, they're bad
for baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, to me, I feel like this is you know,
growing up watching the Yankees or whatever team at the
time was just the dominant team, and it was you know,
they're spending the most, blah blah blah. It was always, hey,
somebody's got to beat that team. It was, and frankly,
oftentimes it did happen. And so it just feels like, yeah,
they're bad for maybe the regular season, but I know
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the last couple of years are bad examples of this.
But all it takes is one team to beat them,
to get hot in a playoff series and beat them,
and then all of a sudden, the game's just fine.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Across another name off my list. The Pirates are acquiring
Luke Weaver from the Mets. I was hoping for a
Luke Weaver reunion in the Bronx. I was breaking new Sounder.
I mean when epics are shutting, but I have no
time for breaking. Brian Cashman go out to get Hunter
Goodman from the Colorado Rocky's Otto Lopez or Xavier Edwards.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Please.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It is funny for a Yankees fan you do talk
about Paul Schemes a lot. Somebody that seems to be
on the top of your list at all.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
He'll probably be a Dodger soon.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Everyone's going to be a Dodger soon. I mean the.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Prospects that the Dodgers traded to a walk on to
Detroit to get Scooble.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They're gonna be Dodgers again at some point, right.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
If they're good. Yes, if you're the Dodgers. It's like,
first off, the biggest difference between the Dodgers and the
Yankees right now, besides the willingness from your ownership to
push all your chips into the middle, the Dodgers have
a good farm system. The number one arguably the number
one farm system. It's either them or the Brewers. According
to most people that care about this farm stuff, the
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Yankees do not have a good farm system and anybody
worth a damn in the Yankees farm system. The Yankees
think they're all the next second comings of Derek Jeter,
so they don't trade them for anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, is he think about it? Though? If you're a
team like the Brewer not a Monday, but they always have.
You know, they're having a great regular season once again.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But why trade prospects away for Schooble when you know,
A you can't sign Schooble in the offseason and B
he's going to eventually be a Dodger anyway, especially when
the rest.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of the sports world says, hey, nobody's beating the Dodgers anyway,
why even bother. So it's just like, hey, yeah, I'm
going to do this with the group that I already have,
that has this great record in the National League already.
And I know one thing's for sure if I do
end up, if we do end up facing the Dodgers
in the postseason, ninety five percent of the country will
be cheering for us and not for that team. And
it feels like, you know, it's a good way to
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go about it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But your larger point was a good one earlier when
you were saying, outside of the last two years, baseball
is so random. Yes, the Dodgers have won back to
back World Series. Yes they are the favorites to win
a third consecutive of the World Series. But baseball is
funny where any team in a best of five, of
best of seven, just about any team could beat the
Dodgers in the playoffs. It's happened before, it could happen again. Unlikely,
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but it could happen.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
So is he in this hypothetical Marlins Dodgers playoff series.
I think what you would get is a case like
Major League when they were talking about potentially moving the
team and the owner was rooting against the team. I
think the owner of the Marlins, Bruce Sherman, would be
rooting for the Dodgers to sweep this team and get
the Marlins out of the playoffs as fast as possible.
Because Bruce Sherman's looking at this saying, we need a
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salary cap in baseball. We need a salary cap in
baseball more than I need a Wild Carter Divisional Round
playoff win. I think he would be rooting for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I mean, that's quite the conspiracy theory that you know
everybody's in on this and they want the Dodgers to
succeed so that everybody has a case for the salary cap.
I just think this union has been so strong for
so long that I don't even think Dodge dominances. And again,
all it takes is one series loss for the Dodgers
to them to be like, Okay, now, what are you complaining.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
About, right, it's the strongest union out there, it really is.
I mean, no one's going to cross the picket line
and they don't want a salary cap. And there's not
gonna be a salary cap in baseball. These guys have
made so much money they're fine sitting around for a
year or two if they have to. I mean, I'm
certain there's gonna be no salary cap in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yes, Taylor, but Scooba going to the Dodgers is exactly
what the owners need in terms of a leverage chip
to look at the public perception and be like, guys,
look that the Dodgers are just gonna get everybody, and
they're gonna keep getting everybody until you put a salary
cap and then STU. What I think is gonna happen
is who blinks first?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh wow, if I made to stare down.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, these are the players who blinks first.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
If they effectively sweep their way through a third straight championship,
I think it's going to be the best possible case.
But I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
If you the.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Dodgers, you probably have to lose one along the way.
Right Just so, just so game seven.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
If you care about the players you need, I mean,
that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
When there's no baseball in twenty twenty seven, Yes, we
could look back at Saturday at eleven thirty when Jeff
Passing announced that schoobl trade to remind ourselves to thank
the Tigers for Why the only baseball we're watching this
summer is banana ball.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
You're being sarcastic, but I would thank him for it
if I don't want to watch any baseball.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
By the way, the Tigers who traded him away or
two and a half out of the wild corps.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
H yeah, they're getting hot about that. They could use
a school boy.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Do they have time to.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Trade him back or no, no, no, the Dodgers will
get him back somehow. Anyways, what is the Mount Rushmore today?
Taylor is a three time champion of Mount Rushmore. Mondays,
he's a Michael Jordan of Mount Rushby's.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
The La Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
He's gotten back to back.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yes, what is today's Mount Rushmore? Taylor?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
So the Mount Rushmore Monday is going to be athletes
and movies And just to limit the field a little,
we're gonna say no wrestlers.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Wow, So no thunderlips huh.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
And this just for Dan By.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
He was great, I mean HOGI was great.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, go ahead, this is for Dan Bayer when we
do the Mount Rushmore Monday. It's not the best athletes
in the movies, it's the best roles that they played
in said movie.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I mean, why does it really matter? Dan just does
what he wants anyway, He's right.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah, you didn't have to say it, Taylor, but it's
we're just we're gonna go with what I think. Thank you.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You have any thoughts on the Dodgers being banned for baseball? Well?
Speaker 9 (14:27):
As a as a Brewers fan, I'm actually on the
side of I think the Brewers should have acquired schoobl
for the simple fact of you were swept by the
Dodgers last year in the NLCS. The thing that you
couldn't have happened was Scoble go to the Dodgers, and
so for that reason alone.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
At some point, I know, and I think Taylor said,
the Brewers have one of the best, if not the
best farm system in baseball. Sometimes prospects work out, you
got to roll the dice, and I think it was
more important for the Brewers to not have Derek Scubel
on the Dodgers than it would be to say, deal
a prospect to Detroit and have them turn out to
be a star. That was the biggest miss I thought
of the weekend. Well, here's the problem with baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
The Brewers are perfectly fine making it to the NLCS
every single year and getting swept.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
By the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's a positive year, both with money, economy and just
as a team.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Those are positives for the Brewers. They don't care if
they win the World Series.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So they fixed baseball in terms of the rule of
the sport and making it more watchable. But it becomes
unwatchable when the Dodgers win everything.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, okay, yep, something like that. Yes, well said, is he?
What is the Mount Rushmore order today?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Taylor? Have you decided an order yet?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
We will randomize that during the break. Okay, I've never
seen you this prepared for mount I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
A little nervous about it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I gotta be honest with you because you took away
the wrestlers.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I mean you got a lot to choose from. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I wanted John Cena and Blucker in What Blockers?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
He is one of seen his movies the see.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
It's sena golden tickets already been written down, by the way,
already written down.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
All right, are there any athletes in the Willy Wonka movie?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
All right? A Mount Rushmore Monday is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gotson Company
Live weekd said three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
One of the many things I love about this job,
and I love about Israel goody Eras, is that you
never know what's gonna set is he off.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
A good point?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And you've been set off today?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
My friend Kevin Durant is the reason that is he
is in a foul mood.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I guess no, No, just whenever somebody says something where
I just sort of kind of see right through it, right,
It's just, you know, it's just a topic that interests me.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, we have some sound from Kevin Durant over the weekend.
I think you're talking about his response to the Philadelphia
seventy six ers and the dream team they've created.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So it's a couple of things, right, and we'll play
this sound right here where he's responding to this question.
But I believe somebody asked him here, let's just play
this sound. Somebody asked him whether the Philadelphia seventy six
or seems like a mindless question, are going to be
contenders this coming year. And here's what Katie said, you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Know like their contenders.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Sure you don't think something, No, I'm just asking you.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Last time he played three twenty points scores on team,
they said it was unfair, which is the team they
got four, So that it'll be a contender, man, they'll
be a great team to watch.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And he went on from there just to go on Twitter,
which is you know, his his preferred form of communication,
to then sort of continue to double down on the conversation, Like,
first of all, Stu back that he he sort of
simplified what the Warriors did by bringing him in by
calling it the last time they put three twenty point
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a game scorers together, That's not what you guys were.
That wasn't three guys who just averaged twenty points. That
was two of those guys that won combined three MVPs.
So let's not just sort of dismiss what you actually were.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And it was unfair, Well, it was, yes, Well, the
big difference being that Philadelphia is not coming off a
season in which they broke the regular season win total
and won an NBA championship. Yeah, the Warriors were exactly yes.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And he is then doubling down on Twitter by saying
by sort of breaking it down, saying, hey, on paper,
the Philadelphia seventy six ers this year's version are even
better than that Warriors version. And he makes these comparisons
to the Joel a recent MVP. So there's Steph, the
recent MVP. Those aren't the same, man, those they're not
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the same. We have not seen anything that Joel Hembida
has done past the second round because he's never been there.
So they're just not the same. And then he said
a recent finals MVP in Jalen Brown. Okay, let's pause
there for a second, because he went on to say
other things. Not once did he bring up Andrea Guadala,
who is a finals MVP recently. And then he talked
(19:02):
about he said Klay Thompson was never a finalist for
MVP or nothing right, and then just said twenty two
points a game, yes, And then through Draymond green stats
out there, which was something like fourteen points a game,
seven rebounds and six.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Assists, he's trying to give off that that team wasn't
nearly as good as we thought it was.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Right, So basically over hyping Jalen Brown a little bit,
over hyping a forty one going into forty two, Lebron James,
probably over hyping Tyrese Maxie a bit too, because if
Joel Embiid had been healthy throughout, you know, the last
three years of Tyrese Maxi, I don't think Tyre's Maxie's
numbers are as good as they are currently. So it's
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all just him, you know, moving the goalpost a little
bit here and there to try to make a point,
which I don't agree with at all.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yeah, this is this is kadis still trying to justify
the weakest move in NBA history.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah, is he The point that you made and the
saddest comparison that he made was comparing Curry's MVP to
Joel Embiid's m MVP, saying that Joel was an MVP
recently because how many injuries ago was Joel Embiid's MVP.
Joel Embiid might as well be a completely different player now.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yes, and you can't. Honestly, there are very few MVPs
you could even compare to Steph Curry, who was unanimous
and the first time unanimous MVP, So that in itself
is not a fair comparison. And normally I agree with
like ninety five percent of the stuff Katie says. He's
lately come across as somebody, you know, the more veteran player,
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the older, wiser guy, the one who's like not in
it for the nonsense, and he just kind of goes
in and breaks down things in a sensible way. But
this one, he's just trying too hard. And I don't
even get it due because what Taylor said is correct, right,
He's trying to justify what many people believe is the
weakest move ever in sports.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He's gonna be justifying that and defending that move for
the remainder of his life.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
That's what he signed up.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
For, right But to do that whilst also insulting them,
right rayon, that's how you have to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
There's no way of doing it without him insulting the
Golden State Warrior team that he played on.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So he's more concerned with public perception about his move
than his actual personal relationships with these folks. It's just
a little sideways for me.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
The biggest difference in terms of the public perception, besides
the fact that the seventy six ers weren't this title
contending team before Lebron James got there, to quote unquote
ring Chase Stude, the difference is Kevin Durant wins a
title in Golden State. There is nothing he could ever
do to make Warriors fans love him more than Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
If Lebron wins a title this year or next year
in Philadelphia, yep, he is Philadelphia's guy for eternity, his city.
Right next to that Rocky statue, they're putting up a
Lebron James statue.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
The other big difference is, you know, Kevin Durant was
on a team that was up three to one on
the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals the
year before he left Oklahoma City and went to Golden
State and joined the team that came back from that
three one deficit and went on to win an NBA championship.
That team is one of the greatest teams to have
ever played in the NBA, and Kevin Durant felt like
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they needed more.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yes, and then so going back to that point about
just him not really caring about his personal relationships, Like
I don't know how many people thought they had poor
relationships over there.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It just break.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It just comes down to what Taylor just said. He
seemed like he was upset. Now he's going to say
this is fan fiction. He's going to say this is
not the case. But people around there have people around
him at the time had noticed it, had you know,
probably even heard comments from him where it's just like,
they don't love you the same way they do Steph
and they don't value you the same way they do
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the homegrown guys. And that's why he ended up getting
out of there, and he just used Draymond Green and
his you know, his argument with Draymond Green as the
reason he was leaving. But it's just like what he
did to Klay Thompson was so unfair right there.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, but he had to to justify what it is
he did. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
But here's a question for you. If you needed a
two way player today, would you take prime Jalen Brown
or prime Klay Thompson Because people forget how good of
a defender he was, right, and so if you were
to I don't think Klay Thompson would have been a
lead guy on a highly successful team, but he damn
sure proved he could be a number two guy on
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a very successful, wildly successful team. And that's what Jalen
Brown was yesspite his Finals MVP, for the entirety of
his time there with Jason Tatum, he was considered the
number two. So already it's just flaws and those you
know in his argument, and those are the ones that
normally KD is above. So the reason I say I'm
shocked by this is because it's it's it's crazy how
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hard he continues to double triple quadruple down on this
concept and just say, hey, why don't you just enjoy
possibly the greatest team that's ever been put together in
the NBA. Instead, he's trying to knock them to lift him,
and I just think he's above that.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Katie could have won me over if he took a
torch to Draymond Green, because I'm at the point where
I have Draymond Green fatigue right now. If he just
came out and said, if we replaced Draymond Green with
Robert Covington, Robert Covington's this Hall of Famer, I would
have been like, I would have been in Katy's corner
with a Katie Jersey being like Katy, great point, great point,
Bob Coo.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I mean I would have I would have laughed when
you said that, Taylor, and I would have supported you.
But I would have said no, even for somebody who
dislikes Draymond Green's public you know, persona and how he
presents himself and throw these opinions that dude was phenomenal
back then. If you go back to the Game seven
that they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers, you put up
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a thirty point was it a triple double. He was
just phenomenal. And so, yeah, what player did you say,
Robert Covington.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Robert Covington, Yes, but Paul Millsap there and he does
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
He's phenomenal too. He and Paul millsapp would have stood
for phenomenal and the m.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Would have for MVB. What do you have?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
There's also this point a half that's what do you have?
Speaker 9 (25:05):
There's also this point that Kevin Durant will never understand,
and it's what he did to Oklahoma City. I don't
think there are a lot of people here that care
that Lebron left the Lakers because it was the Lakers.
But when Durant talks, whenever he talks or he talks
about the Warriors team, there is always the part of
what he did to Oklahoma City. And even though the
thunder of comeback and rebuilt and have won an NBA title,
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that stain on Durant will never change. So, while it's
not a part of this direct conversation, I think the
way that people feel about Durant still goes back to
what he did to Oklahoma City in that moment. Yeah,
one hundred percent. And here's another stay and even though, look,
you know this, I'm a huge Rockets fan. I love it,
and I've always loved KD as a player, and ninety
(25:46):
five percent of the time, like I said, I agree
with what he says. But what teammates, big name teammates
that he's had that are like cool with him, that
are are friendly with him, that support him.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I mean, maybe Kyrie Irving maybe the ally you want necessarily,
So it's just it would upset me if I was,
you know, a lifelong Kevin Durant fan, that he doesn't
have those allies, those supporters and those and maybe he does,
maybe they're just not the big name stars.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
It always surprises me that Kevin Durant seems shocked by
the blowback from what came after he chose the Warriors
and winning in Golden State and how that has kind
of affected his legacy. If he could go back, do
you think he would have still went to Golden State? Like,
knowing what he knows now, he makes a different team,
you think.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I do.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I think he stays at Oklahoma City, Yes, yeah, I
mean it's the opposite of everything we're taught about sports
and competition.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
If you can't beat him, join them that's not what
we're taught. We're taught. If you can't beat him, go back,
get to work and try harder.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Yeah, I think going back, armed with hindsight, I think
he would still leave Oklahoma City because the whole Russell
Westbrook and Billy Donovan thing probably true, right, especially on
the Billy Donovan part. Not you know, a multiple time
championship head coach. But he would go to another team,
he would say. The reason being is he was at
Golden State and he saw, Yes, Steph's great, but I
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don't need a system. I am the system right, and
I could win pretty much anywhere. And he probably could
have gotten you know, one a team, let's say it's Philadelphia,
could have gotten in Philadelphia a championship. You know that
it hadn't won in over thirty plus years at the time,
forty years maybe at the time, and looked completely different.
And I think armed with hindsight, he definitely would do that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You know, I was reading a book it's called Ustu
Got's Personal Record Book, and it's you know, it's my
favorite author. And what he wrote in that book and
it rings true to this conversation, is he imagine Michael
Jordan not being able to get past the Detroit Pistons,
and rather than getting back to work, what he decided
to do was, Hey, you know what, I can't beat
this team. I'm not going to work harder. I'm just
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going to join this team. Imagine if Michael Jordan did that, Seriously,
in what world would he do that?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
There is no world?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And son Kevin Durant is haunted by his own decision
and will be haunted by that decision for the remainder
of time, because what he's trying to do as he
gets older is justify his place in NBA history.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Dan Stanze c your favorite author too, Yes.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yes, I mean the book doesn't get done without him. Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Now I'm just picturing though. Imagine the lineup. You got
to move Michael Jordan to the three but Man, Isaiah Thomas,
Joe Dumart, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Bill lame Beer.
They'd definitely be fighting those warriors for the best team ever.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yes, is he do you like appetizers?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The reason I asked that question it's an odd if Jordan.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
If Jordan joined the Pistons, honest question, and you have
Vinnie Johnson as the microwave, would Jordan be the air
fryer instead of air Jordan.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
There's a little too early a time machine for I
guess so.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I like pigs in a blanket personally.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The reason I asked that is because Taylor told me
he's got a football appetizer.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Wow, well, I feel like we need a little football
appetizer right now. Get some football in this conversation.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
You.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
ESPN's Ben sol on the Golcks earlier today said the
Bears are on Regression Watch, but the Bears are also
on Elite Watch.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Covered all his bases.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Anything can happen with the Chicago Bears this season. What
an appetizer?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
So you're telling me as long as they finish above
or below where they were exactly last year.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yes, he's right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yes, for the first ten minutes, mikey A did not
make a move, and then he perked up the second
that said, Ben Sulwaker, pigs and the blankets.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Listen how Kevin Durant led this show is beyond me?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, well, is he in the news?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
I had?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I had an opening monologue prepared about Brian Cashman.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Did you I want to hear it comes? Maybe? As
Draymond Green responded to the KD. I'm certain.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, and this is this is what drives me crazy.
He's not signing it about Draymond. Draymond gave a like,
offered a joke that a high schooler would have offered now,
and then laughed at himself with the million crying emojis.
He said, uh, sniper, thought he was on his burner.
It's a good joke for like five years ago.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, what's your favorite appetizer?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Pigs in a stew Yeah, I think pigs in a blanket.
If you were doing a Mount Rushmore Monday, Yeah, maybe
that's an upcoming Mount Rushmore Monday appetizers.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yes, I mean it's up to me. I was the winner,
so ye see.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I would spoil my draft board right now and tell
you guys, my one one is pigs in a blanket.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I feel bad for the sculptors who have to do
food on a mountain. But Mikey, what do you think.
Let's go to our expert.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Oh many sliders?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Wow? Great?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Really it's too filling for me. It's too much in
an appetizer.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, no, up, Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He's chiseled.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I mean, Mikey, I am with you that I think
many sliders are better than regular sized burgers.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Put it on a pole. Yeah, that's a different question.
I agree with you there.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yes, put it on the pole.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Are many sliders better than an actual, real size burger?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I'm not certain I like a big burger.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
I do.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I got beef carpaccio as an appetite. She's gone right, right?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
What's the go to Izzy's house for a big game?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
And that's what's being said.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I'm never gonna prepare it. I'm not a professional chef.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Well, but I'm a lowder that arresta Welcome to my tailgate.
We've got beef carpaca. Oh yeah, that's not at right temperature.
Nothing gets me to leave a tailgate faster than the
word beef carpaccio.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Nothing gets me to not show up. We've got a
good tartar.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Isn't that terrible either?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu gottson Company
Live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It is a whatever you want to talk about Wednesday
here on Stutgotts and Company eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Mikey A is laughing already.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I keep trying to get this off the ground every
single Wednesday. Whatever you want to talk about Wednesday. And
I am making a pledge to the callers. I don't
care what we're talking about. I will stop whatever it
is we're talking about to take your phone call and
talk about what you want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Rolls right off the tongue. Whatever you want to talk
about Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We start in
a very strange place today. I'm very excited for today's show.
We have Tim Kirchin and Hogdale on in nowur number two.
But we start in the strangest of place as a
place I've never started before.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Akron Ohio, oh Lebron time.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna take it from here.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
No, no, no, I'll take that ball. I'll take that
ball right back from you.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Is there anything Akron can do to interest you guys
in some Zips football this year?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Not really? Is that the home of Jason Taylor, by
the way, that's.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Where he went to school. Yeah, yeah, Akron Zips. No,
I don't think so far.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
So that's exactly what Akron thought. And they said the
ante must be upped this season, right, So what Akron
did is They introduced a new promotion in which a
season ticket holder will get to script the opening drive
of Akron's home opener, what against Robert more Rs. The
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promotion is called the Offensive Coordinator of the Game.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Wow the OC.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Huh wait wait wait wait wait, So one of the
season ticket holders will just get to script the opening
drive of the home opener. Not every home game, just
the home opener for right now.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Yes, correct, the home opener against Robert Morris. All current
season ticket holders will be automatically entered into a random
drawing for every new season ticket holder. A current one
successfully refers, they'll receive additional entries. And right now, it's
all the buzz on social media.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
You got people from all over the country who play
this college football video game saying what they do is
in that hard. Let me buy some Acron season I
think it's like eighty dollars to get Acron season tickets.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
But I was going to ask you how much.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Normally this is Easy's role with a follow up, but
I do have a couple of follow ups. Please price
out four season tickets to Acron football this year. I
just want to see how much they cost. It Also,
how bad is Robert Morris at football? I need to
know what was the record last year for Robert Morris?
Meaning are they really putting this game in jeopardy by
letting a season ticket holder script the opening drive of
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the first game at home against Robert Morris?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They have to be bad.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Robert Morris was three and nine less season?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Okay? And what was achron? That's a better clear. Yeah, Mikey,
I would say this.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Most people are like, oh man, I'm going flee, flick
or hail Mary? Why other zip? I'm gonna zag. I
hope they have a fullback. I hope they're ready to
pound the rock because I'm making it like an eighteen
play drive here. I'm going to make it last really
full back dive. I'm looking to get a job out
of this.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
One at a time.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yes, So I'm on the go zips website right now.
The cheapest season ticket in section U two one seventy
five dollars. I kind of overshot it saying eighty five dollars.
But Mikey, you'll actually access Yeah, You'll be working with
head coach Joe moorehead and he will help few design
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design the plays. My thinking though, Joe Morehead knows how
much of a gimmick this is. Like, no football guy
is signing up for this where Joe Schmoe's coming off
the street. There is no way he's rooting for success
on that first drive, right.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Former Fordham head coach, I'm all in, let's go Joe Morehead.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, but Morehead has final say Dan Bayer has something
he has perked umpy or he is excited about this topic.
Speaker 9 (35:27):
Yes, yeah, despite Robert Morris being three to nine in
the NEC Again, this is not FBS, but in the FCS,
I still think that the drive will amount to ZIP
points for whoever designs.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's for Akron.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
So you're saying Akron can afford to do this and
not really jeopardize the game. Well, I'm also saying that
Robert Morris may be bad, but there's no way that
they're gonna let some amateur go in and put points
on the board in the opening drive.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Like there's gotta be a system, right, because there's got
to be a little astiss by design the first drive
I would have And first of all, if I'm this coach,
I'm getting it written into my contract that if we
have a terrible season, because we're starting off with this
terrible idea. Yeah, this year does not count for me,
and I deserve more money, right, But also, there's no
way they're actually going to be able to create a
(36:15):
drive for themselves. The coach is going to be like,
all right, first play this player that play, Second play
this player that play, and then just go from there
because there's no chance at heck, he's like, anybody's gonna
really get to, you know, pick the plays, yes, Deller.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Depending on how that first drive goes, is there any
scenario where that guy gets on staff Because I think
in my mind, I.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Mean, if they're up seven to nothing, if.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
They're up seven to nothing and they have a twenty
five play scripted methodical drive where they're just driving down
on Robert Morris, I think that guy has to be
considered for the second drive too.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I think more Head gets fired on the spot.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
I think, yeah, That's where I'm thinking, right, yes, Or
if it fails, do you just fire Morehead or the
social media guy who came up with this idea?
Speaker 6 (37:02):
Yeah, conspiracy theory. Did Bill Belichick run this.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Last year with those opening drives?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
That was a great opening drive because it went all
downhill from there?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, but he's saying a fan drew it up because
every other drive stunk.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
So I'm looking at akron schedule from last season and
what I'm what I'm realizing right now. They went to Lincoln,
Nebraska and played the corn Huskers. They lost sixty eight nothing.
I think this is a case of Akron realizing, hey,
we might get we might find ourselves in a lou
Garry Wally Pip situation where if we get this offensive
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coordinator for a game. One, he's working for theoretically free here,
but two, we might find somebody who who could actually
put some points up against some of these power house
schools like Nebraska.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
He's literally paying you to work, literally buying a season ticket.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
He's paying you to work.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yep, that's the way I like this.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Due Gotts is strong en ackery.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
What are the worst and best case scenarios here? Right?
Because if I'm picked for this, I am picking a
trick play on the first play, and it's gonna end
up in a touchdown if everything works out correct.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Meaning if you're truly picking, if you have the run
of the mill, meaning it's not option A, option B,
you get to pick any play from their playbook.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
I would say, hey, for any playbook. Yes, I would say, hey, coach,
what's the best trick play that could result in a
you know, a fifty or a huge game.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I purchase season tickets. I'm not asking the coach anything.
I'm just running what I want to run.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
To be fair, you spend seventy five dollars, I mean.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So what that's the promotion?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I mean, and if that works out, then everybody's happy, right,
coach doesn't have to worry about the rest of the Drive.
Team's happy. What a start to our home season. Worst
case scenario, what if it's like a seventy year old
grandma who wins this opportunity and then she comes in
and she's just like, no idea what to do? Just
kind of pick and play Willy nilly. I feel like
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you'd had That's why it can't be a random draw,
like it has to be somebody that has a lot
more football knowledge than somebody who's just an Akron fan.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You like to fancy yourself as someone who could call
the plays right, Yeah, call the entire game, do their
entire play, but he by the remainder of the season
tickets they have, Okay, it gives us more chances is.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
He you showed me a red flag though, because you
said you want to start the game with a trick play.
If you're Robert Morris and you see you coming in
to be the offensive coordinator for the game one, If
you're Robert Morris, like this is ultimate bolton board material.
Acron is telling you you're so bad, we're going to
have somebody from Section two seventeen road w coming to
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call play.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
But they are that bad.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
But you're giving them extra motivation.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right. You don't want to do that to Robert Morris,
right is he?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
If you're Robert Morris, Yeah, everybody knows you don't want
to give Robert Morris an extra preparharction for a week.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I mean, they're a different team when they have a
chip on their shoulder.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Everyone know what happens when you're aggressive, When you're angry
and you're aggressive, you overplay something. Oh no, ball's not
going over there. They're a dude wide open thirty yards
down the field.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
But when you're bringing this guy off the street to
be the offensive coordinator, everybody's first thought is, let's start
this game with a trick play. And that's exactly what
Robert Morris is expecting. Yeah, that's why this coordinator business is.
It's chest not checkers.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yes, I think you know. I think he's right.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
No, I think a couple of full back dives just
so they think okay. Robert Morris is like, hey, nothing
much get to change here. This is what Acrod always does,
the full back dive, and then you break out the
trick plays on third down and third and long.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I'm gonta also say guys, you need to be there
on install day. It's our dad. No, that's okay.
Speaker 9 (40:39):
If I'm the if I win this contest, I don't
know if I want to do a trick play right
off the bat. I wouldn't do the full back dives
because I don't want it to be one and done,
because if I score, then it's done. Like, I want
to at least call I want to get into a rhythm.
I want to call more plays. I don't want it
to just be one play and if we score a
touchdown that's it. I want to string this thing out
right to a couple of.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Five yard outs.
Speaker 9 (40:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, just chunks, you know, take you time
off the clock.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
How can they see the trick play coming? If other
people are thinking differently, right, other they could say, oh, yeah,
he's probably gonna try to run it up the middle
and then give us a trick play on third now, no,
right off the bat, seventy yards touchdown and then and
then you do it to the coach and say hey,
let me get the second drive.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
So Akron, I'm looking at their schedule again from last season. Yeah,
do you know how many points the Akron Zips scored
their first eight quarters? Zip zips? Zips?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Really?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
So this is an audition, This is not it's not
a gimmick.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Well, it can't get worse, right, They lose week one
to Wyoming ten to nothing. Then they go on the road,
like I mentioned, to Nebraska, they lose sixty eight nothing,
and then Week three is when they get their first touchdown,
a big fourteen point quarter, you know, in an eventual
thirty one to twenty eight loss to UAB the Blazers.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I mean, this oc has to be sweating right now.
He does.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
He sets such a little bar that a fast season
ticket holder could come in and exceed it and take
his jump.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Taylor do a little bit more research of those first
how many games was it until they scored or quarters?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Third game third game.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Of those two and a half games, how many trick
plays did they run? I'm gonna guess.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
None of have to go back and look at it.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Take you just want to run a flea flicker.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
You got to get a little bit more thoughtful than
a flee flicker. But yeah, something in that neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
There are two calls on the board. I'll get to
him in just a second. Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. I know I said I would stop whatever
we're doing to talk about whatever it is you want.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
To talk about. But I talking zips football right now.
I don't know. Eric, zip it up.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Eric wants to talk about Mount Rushmore Mondays, and I
feel like that's all a fan who deserves his time.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
You're right, let's go to Eric. Eric, go ahead, you're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Hey guys, I really enjoyed that Mount Rushmore brick down
last week. But I had I had one add them
in one correction.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
What's that was?
Speaker 8 (43:00):
Sticking with the fearsome Forsome? And I would go Merlin
Olsen on Little House on the Prairie.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
M I had never seen it, but okay, okay, uh,
you've been sitting on that for a while man.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Yeah, that's the I.
Speaker 8 (43:15):
Can't remember which one of you picked Terry Crews.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
But you Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 8 (43:21):
Yeah, Mikey Camacho for Mediocracy.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
That's another good one.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, thank you, Eric.
Speaker 8 (43:32):
With theater a cool Eric.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I'd like you to call in next Monday and do
the Matt Rushmore Monday with us.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Okay, all sure, try, All right, you could be the judge. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
We're looking for a new judge after I got robbed
last week.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
I'm not looking for a new judge. I'm happy with
our John Favor. Let's go out to John. John, you're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (43:55):
Hi. Just a couple of points. The Scobul thing.
Speaker 11 (44:02):
Being in the military, it's like one guy can ruin
a whole, you know.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Platoon or whatever.
Speaker 11 (44:09):
And if they would have brought in Skobull.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
To the Brewers, that could have upset the bullpen.
Speaker 11 (44:17):
And they got a good team and the manager is
doing a great job bringing out people and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (44:26):
And I just think they're.
Speaker 11 (44:27):
Keeping the team together because they play so well together.
And to bring in Scobel and the other thing I
wanted to talk about was miss they bring in miz
for like three or four innings, and the opposing team
has three or four innings to get used to the
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Polish lightning, and then they bring in a closer who
was pitching totally different and that throws up their whole
timing and everything.
Speaker 8 (45:00):
Else like that.
Speaker 11 (45:01):
So just a couple of observations.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yeah, I'm not certain this school Ball deal is going
to work out. I mean, the Dodgers have been a
disaster since they.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Acquired him, and the Tigers haven't lost since.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
And now we've established that the Brewers were too good
to add Scooba because it would just mess everything up.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
I understand why the Brewers wouldn't do that. There's no
point in doing that. They're not trying to win. They
might stumble into winning a World Series, but that team.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Is not trying to win.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
There is no reason to trade for school bol a
two month rental, give up all those prospects, and then eventually,
when the season's over, he's going to be a Dodger
and you have no guarantee because baseball's a funny sport
of winning a World Series because.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
You get them.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
But what do you mean by they're not trying to win?
Because they're the exact team that I would say they're
not going to resign them, so might as well take
the rental and win a World Series.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
I would say if they were trying to win, they
would have given any amount of prospects because you have
a window right now to win a World Series. To
go get Schooble and prevent him from going to the
Dodgers and bolster your staff. Then't do it because they
know they can't sign school Ball to the four hundred
million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
He's got a command.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Once the season is over, Let's go out to Kevin
in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Go ahead, keV, Dude.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
I gotta tell you, it's so nice to have you
back on radio. This is awesome. Thank you so so.
Speaker 11 (46:16):
My thing is, if i'm offensive coordinator for the Zips
for one drive, I make sure you.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Know, even if the coach is telling me, you know,
suggesting place for.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
Me as it were my my I'm in the quarterback.
Speaker 11 (46:28):
You're going, dude, you're going to audible to this, this
and this.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
I'm telling you, man, you got it, you got you
gotta let it rip. You want to show of throwing
your arm is go on, man, showing fifty yard pass.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Let's go there. You go.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, again his ere Wait, but he thinks you buy
season tickets and you have access to the headset.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
I mean, no, I I think Kevin makes a good
point where if I'm buying season tickets for Achron, part
of in this agreement has to be I do get
to audible someplace.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
You're only getting the opening drive.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
I mean, the head coach is definitely wishing it's three
safe plays and it's a three.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
And out right the head coach.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
Yeah, I'm in the quarterbacks. They are saying, listen, nobody,
I'm the only one who's going to get blamed here.
Just unleash it. Just do whatever you want out there.
If you ever wanted to take a deep tried, now's
the time, you think.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
He tells the season ticket holder, Hey, feel free to
punt on first down.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
They got a good quarterback to Reece Poffenbarger. Really, yeah,
he transferred from It's the new era of college of
college football where these guys have played everywhere.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
He started at Old Dominion, transferred to Albany, transferred to Miami.
Wow you twenty twenty four. I bet there was a
time when Hurricanes fans thought he was going to be
the next guy.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
So when this kid graduates, is what's his answer? I mean,
where'd you go to? Like, say, Reeese Poffenbarger goes to
the NFL. Yes, and it's Sunday night football. He's starting.
Let's say he's starting for the Jets. You're getting the lineups.
Where does Reese Poff and Gardner say he went?
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yeah, it was a poorly phrase question by me.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Yes, I think so this is a case. He also
played at North Texas too, right, I think you just
have to list all the schools Fireese poffa Gardner, Old Dominion, Albany, Miami,
North Texas, Akron.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
You don't take the best school.
Speaker 5 (48:15):
I mean, I think you take the school that you
last played for.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
Yeah, Dan, quick question, who's the better story twenty years
from now? The quarterback of Akron who says, guys, get this,
when I was in college, a fan picked the play,
or if you're on the defense of Robert Morris saying
we were so freaking bad, Akron had a fan pick
their place against us. I just think it's a great
(48:39):
Trump story to trump all stories twenty years from now.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
It's definitely the latter.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Wait, So friends are sitting around and they're bragging about
how bad their college team was.
Speaker 9 (48:51):
Get this, Akron made a fan designed to play against us?
Speaker 5 (48:56):
What he and they scored? Yeah, Dan, if I'm on
this Robert Morris defense, Oh god, this is what I'm
taking at the grave with me.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
You there never anyone.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
You will never get me to admit that I was
on this Robert Morris defense.
Speaker 6 (49:10):
Hey, Robert Morris, good luck researching my tendencies.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll take a
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