The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Kevin Figgers talk Cal Raleigh’s Historic Season, NFL Rankings, CFB Schedule, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, happy
happy Fox Sports Saturday fellas k fig Kevin figures, I'm
Anthony Gargan, as we come live too, as you come
to you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios in
La Lots to get to post July four always means

(00:27):
any own football. My good friend Brian Boldinger, who we
always gush over the start of the season in training camp,
and Baldi says when he played that July four was
his moment he circled because after that it started to
get real. So now we are fifty four days from

(00:47):
the start of the season, training camp in two weeks,
less than two weeks, so lots of football we'll get
to today. Baseball at the All Star break, two more
days to go, and then the break hits. And you
heard Steve shake cow Rowley thirty eight home runs Like
this is a staggering number. We're gonna get to that.

(01:09):
He had the summer league. Lots to geek out over,
my main man, fake Good morning, Cauz. Got to be
back with you, brother. What's going on? How's everything body?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Family?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh, the family's amazing. Family's doing well. The sun is walking,
he's yanked things off of walls, he's putting everything into
the toilet. So everything is just peachy over here with
the with the fourteen month old, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's awesome, bro, God bless you're you're living to dream.
This is this is a great time for you. That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, it really is. He's fascinated by everything.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
You put him by a light switch. He turns it
on and turns it off and sees a light going
and off, and he could that occupies him for twenty
straight minutes. It really is amazing. Everything is new, everything
is novel. It's really fun to see him kind of
experience and learn about the world. It's been it's been
a great experience for me.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
And that's the thing, like you you go through these
stages yourself, especially with your first right, Yeah, Like you're
fascinated by him being fascinated exactly by the light switch
because I don't know, like the first time you ever
dealt with with a baby, right, and you see the
stages of life and it's uh and he's yours and

(02:18):
it's it's awesome, man. So yeah, I mean every one
of these stages you live through. I mean, you know,
minor are eleven and or twelve now and fifteen, and
you know, their voices like my little one's voice changing.
They're both like, you know, they're about ones taller than

(02:39):
me and the other one's about to be taller at
oh man, you know, and I wish they were like
you're you're your little guy's age, you know, I mean,
that's kind of what happens.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
There's a part of you that wants them to stay
like one and a half forever. You know, yes, exactly.
I'll certainly understand what people mean when they say that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, it's the truth. But it's all beautiful. Every stage
is great.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
So but brother, great to have you.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Let's be back.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I know, mans, today's my ass.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
What are you talking about? There's plenty going on.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Let's no, I know, let's start with baseball, right because
you and I both love baseball, and I don't know,
I think this season is interesting. I know people, you know,
they kind of check out and the whole thing, but
this has been a really interesting year. We thought the

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Dodgers would run away with it. Dodgers are good, but
they stole some issues. And meanwhile, I started, I said
this at the top of cal Rally, cause thirty eight
home runs DAC numbers is staggering number.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Just behind Barry Bonds when he had he had his
record breaking seventy three home run season. Like, that's how
historic this is. And look, we're beyond the steroid era.
I don't want to put any you know, speculation on
cal Rally or anything other than to say this is
just a historic, amazing run by someone who's been a
good player. But I think his career high in home
runs was thirty four a couple of years ago, and

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he's already sur passed that. At the All Star break,
something like this is really cool for people nationwide to
be able to pick on to pick up on. And
it's not shoeyel Tani, it's not Aaron Judge, it's not
Bryce Harper. It's someone that no one has heard of.
And I think this is actually good for the sport
of Major League Baseball that someone can kind of rise
out of obscurity and become sort of a nationwide you know,

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darling to a certain.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Degree, I know, I agree. I think you're you're spot on.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think it's it's better and I hope it gets
the attention right.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
But my biggest fear.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Is is I don't know that we pay attention to
day to day happenings, right, So, and then there's the
baseball thing, and then there's the he's in Seattle thing,
right like.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, that's the big when he's in Seattle, and they're
not necessarily if he was if he was in Detroit
and Detroit had the best record in baseball, I think
it might mean a little bit more. It hit a
little bit harder, but you're playing, you're tucked up there
in Seattle, you're six games out of the division lead,
and you're not gonna win the AO West the way
Houston's plan right now. So I think a lot of
that gets lost. So unless he goes on. This happened
with Maguire and Solsa. Neither the Cardinals or the Cubs

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were good, but because you had two guys going after
it and back and forth on a day to day basis,
it was a little bit different. Here's one guy who's clearly,
you know, running away with it at this point in
time from everybody else, and he's playing for an average team,
so I think that he has that working against them.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, And you're right, and the other things sounds weird,
but the number, like seventy three is ridiculous, right, but
it didn't have it's weird even though it's greater than
sixty one.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
There was the number for all those years, right.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
And then the other aspect is, like you mentioned it,
I covered the sociald MacGuire thing and that the whole
steroid thing kind of soured people on the home run race,
Like does it still matter? It should, Like seventy three
is a crazy number, and the fact that he's got
thirty eight.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Is is sick.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean it's not like Seattle, some some easy
home run park either, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Quite the opposite. Actually, right, historically has been one of
the hardest places they hit home runs exactly, So I well,
what hurts or I guess what helps rally? And I
highly doubt he's gonna hit seventy three obviously, but we
seem to be now that you know, steroids are sort
of out of the game at this point, and there's
a rigorous drug testing program and there's a handful of
guys every year who are getting twenty five thirty sixty

(06:42):
game suspensions. You don't think that that's much of an issue.
So we're led to believe at this point in time
that anything that happens is totally legit, which makes this
even more impressive because again, Kyle Rally has been a
solid player and is what four or five year career
at this point in time, thirty home runs here and there,
But it's not like he's been a perennial, you know,
forty five fifty home run hitter, because if that were
the case, you would be like, all right, it'd be

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a little bit more understandable. He's a great home run
hitter and he's off to a hot start. Maybe he
can do something. This has literally come out of nowhere
and to your point, and a pitcher's ballpark makes it
even more amazing.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I know, now thirty eight like that.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think about that number, and the thing with him
is he hits him in bunches. Yeah, he has a
lot of multi home run games AD one last night, right,
and who thinks, because that's when like that Schoobol pitches.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Exactly if all players tak to get it off of
his tark Schooble one of the best player players in
all of baseball. That makes it even more impressive.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
So I look at him and I go man, this
is an amazing story. The issue that forgive me, the
issue that he's going to have, you know, just chasing
down the big big numbers.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Is Bonds and it's all three of them, Sosi Maguire.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
And again I covered it right like I went wherever
Sammy when I was working New York, I drew the
Sami so Sa beat. So wherever Sammy went, I went,
And you know, it was a big deal, right. And
then I'll never forget that weekend at Saint Louis where
they square it off twice. They squared off one series Wrigley,

(08:23):
another one in Saint Louis, and it was like the
center of the world.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Man, everybody was there. It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
But the fact that they were doing that, the take
of the HCAs and the supplements, helped them help their grind,
Like they didn't lose any power right right, Like like
baseball with steroids talking to make you hit, you know,
juice and up is not going to make you hit

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seventy three home runs.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
You have to have an amazing gift that Barry Bonds.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Has for sure, which is you know, a ridiculous uh
view of the strike zone, you know, amazing bad speed,
the whole night. But what it does do, and it
did it for McGuire so and Bonds, is it'll it'll
keep you strong and you're not gonna lag, right. It
gives your stamina, yes, and that's what you know, that's

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what ultimately you know, you see these big spikes and
guys have big halves, right, especially big first halves, and
then the numbers dwindle a lot because it's just impossible
to sustain.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, it really is. And that's what makes again what
to keep going back to rally, what makes this even
more impressive?

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
And by the way, for people that criticize you know,
McGuire and Sosa like and we certainly can do that.
The problem I have with it is people act like
they were the only ones who are doing it. There
are so many pitchers who are on the juice too,
you know. So I mean at that point in time
you say, like, well it was a playing field level.
There are certain players I'm sure who weren't, but there
are a lot of them who are at a certain

(10:00):
point in time. So to hold it against Bonds, McGuire, Solsa,
you have to also talk about a lot of players
who none of us never have and never will know
of who are juicing to. I guess lost a lot
of times in talking about.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
This without a doubt, and I still didn't even know.
I honestly, I don't even know how I feel about
the whole thing. I remember during the time, I mean,
it was pretty speculative, right that they were doing something.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Man, he kind of thought you had an assumption, but
no one really knew anything, so you couldn't really say anything.
You didn't want to slander anybody, you know, right, And
I remember I was.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I was actually at McGuire's locker the day the reporter
from Detroit. I don't know if you heard the story.
So we're all around, we're getting ready to wait. We're
waiting for McGuire to come out of the shower to
talk to him. And in his locker is the HGH, right,

(10:56):
and you know, people are and this is before camera phones,
but there was photogs and you know, you get a
picture of the HGH, and the one reporter from Detroit
went in his locker and picked it up. I was
looking at the bottle, and you know, right away, like
maguire comes out and he's like, yo, what are you

(11:17):
doing on my locker? And He's like, well, what's this
and you know, the whole nine and you know, McGuire
got pissed and it was like a thing. And that
guy was like a veteran, really great calmnist in Detroit
for a long number of years and a veterable journalists.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
But you know, I mean, you know, is in the supplement, Like,
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Is it? You know, we're by the way, when we're
talking about steroids, what is lasik?

Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I I uh, lasa guy.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
But people were actually questioning whether or not that's a
quote unquote performance and answer in the same line as
steroids or hgh. I had hurt that argument.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, no, they weren't. But my point was.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
My point is like you're gonna have science play a
part of things, right, you know. And I get like,
you know, won't talk the term health, you didn't know
and and everything else. But my only point in bringing
it up is I never I never vilified them the
way I think others did.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I because back in the day, they're taking greenies, right,
They're they're all hopped up on speed like they needed
something to get through the long haul.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
I remember, you know, the stories of the clubhouse.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
And there were two you know when you walk into
back in the day, you went to these clubhouses and.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
You were you were in their domain.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
And there was two coffee pots on one end of
the of this clubhouse. And and they called it letting
it unleaded. One was caffeine and the other one was enhanced.
Would speak with some short of the amphetamines. Really, okay, yes,

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that was lending and unletding was it wasn't It wasn't
the decaf all right, decap was regular coffee. Right, But
that but you know, I mean, guys, you needed that
stuff to get them through a long season.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I mean that's I mean the truth for the matter.
I mean that's yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
And this look, it was prevalent in football too, And
now I guess it's easier or to quantify or speculatively
quantify in baseball because you see guys you know who
were hitting, you know, thirty five home runs all of
a sudden start hitting sixty. You're like, oh my god,
what happened. But guys, the NFL would do it too,
and a lot of those players would tell you that
they did it back in the day for health purposes,
for stamming the purposes, they can recover better, so they

(13:53):
can work out more.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
Right.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
So it was prevalent in professional sports for a long
period of time, but Baseball, for whatever reason, is the
one that got singled out. I think a big reason
is because people believed that the commissioner he wasn't complicit.
I wouldn't go that far for Bud Sealy, but the
idea that he had pretty well knowledge of what was
going on. But because baseball was struggling and coming out

(14:15):
for the strike season in ninety four to ninety five,
ratings had dropped, and because Sosa maguire kind of captivated everybody,
he wanted to ride that wave, yeah, and make baseball
popular again. So which maybe it was questionable. But if
I were in his position, I'll be honest with you,
I might have done the same thing. Because his responsibility
was to the owners and to the sport itself to

(14:35):
begin to get it as popular as possible. So I
certainly understand if that is the case, while someone in
his position would do that.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, And do I think he was complicit? Yeah, I
think your word was right. I think he knew about it.
I think everybody knew about it. It was the unspoken yeah,
kind of thing. I remember talking to guys you know,
off the rocker, like joking around, yeah about the impact
of it, and you know, yeah whatever, and it just

(15:03):
was part of that culture. Nowadays it's so sophisticated, right,
and the science is there, right, Like, just as you
make medical advancements when it comes to knees and ac acls.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
And chilies, which used to be sea career enders, now
guys are coming back, you know, twelve fourteen months later.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
All right, arms, shoulder time, John, everything else.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Like, you make these advancement and you make the advancement
in every which way, right, so all kinds of health
and you know, anti aging and and all that stuff.
So you know, it's kind of blurred a bit. I
don't know, it's a shame. But the minute, you know,
we have this conversation about thirty eight home runs the

(15:55):
All Star Break, people will will bring that back up.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Yeah, that's the first thing that happens. Well, especially since
we really haven't seen anything close to this outside of
Aaron Judge and I don't remember exactly how many he
had at the All Star Break. I don't know if Brie,
if you have a second, if you can look that up,
that year he had sixty two a couple of years ago.
I'm not sure how many had at the break But
you just don't see this on a regular basis like
you saw back then. I mean, back then, you had

(16:19):
six hole hitters who were hitting you know, forty eight
home runs like it was nothing. You know, two thousands.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Who's at thirty four?

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, yes, we had thirty four at their breakday year. Okay,
so that's just not super common. Like I know, Otani
right now has thirty thirty two, Judge, I think right
now has what thirty three or thirty four again, but
you don't see the rash of hitters you know today
like you saw twenty years ago, where it just was

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it was next to nothing for guys to hit, you know,
between thirty and fifty home runs on a given season,
whether they were a star player or not. You had
guys who were hitting fifty home runs weren't even all stars.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, dude, I mean, you know, you're spot on. You're
spot on.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
And you're right about the pictures too, because there were
a ton of guys doing it that were pictures and
it was the same thing. But get back to your
point about the staggering number thirty eight is a monster,
the second most in the history of the game, behind.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
The Bonds, behind Bonds from the year that he hit
seventy three. Yeah, that's how remarkable this is. I know,
it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
So you're My ultimate question to you is, do you
think we go on the col rally?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Watch?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Does col rally in an age now where I mean
everybody is a celebrity?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, right, like he has to pop?

Speaker 4 (17:46):
No, Uh, he only pops if he actually has a
legitimate chance of chasing down you know, Bonds' record or
hitting sixty or something like that, which I don't know
if that's realistic or not. I guess there's no reason
to believe that he can't keep it going. The interesting
thing is he is going to be in the Home
Run Derby next week, and we've seen that tank a
lot of guys halves. So I'm interested to see how

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he comes out of the All Star Game and out
of the Home Run Derby and if he continues to
tear that he's on. But it would be pretty remarkable
because it's kind of like the Mark Gastenell, Like holding
the sack record to a certain degree is like who's
was a good player, but no, by no means some superstar,
Hall of Famer or anything. Will be insane. If someone
like Kyle Riley would just have the season for the

(18:29):
Ages and hit seventy two, seventy three, seventy four home
runs and then he's never heard from again, you know,
it will be I think it will be a pretty
cool story if that were to happen. I don't think
it's likely, but I think it will be pretty sweet
to witness.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
I know, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm just looking at the Mariners schedule, yeah, and just
some of their teaset are at the Age.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm looking for the road ballparks, right right.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
So the Angels is it go one definitely a hitters park, yep.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Right, and then they're at the A's. That's a good one,
that's for sure, you know, so that's big. Then you're
in August in August, let's look at the parks in
August road games Baltimore is a great one.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yep, ball jumps off the bat there.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
City Field, Citizens Bank Park, that's a great home run place.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
So you got so far, so good. Cleveland not so much.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
And in September their Roads.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Series Tampest Tea. That's a good one. Atlanta is a
good one.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Kansas City in September probably still a little little humid.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, Houston's always decent. Ball goes in Houston. That's it.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, that's that's so. That's their road games for sure.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
So that's not bad for him, That's that's no.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
He definitely Again, I don't think he has a legitimate
chot at seventy three. Now, granted I didn't think I would.
If you would ask me before the season started whether
he had a legitimate a shot at thirty eight at
the All Star break, I'd say you were insane. So
I guess anything can happen. But it's just really really difficult,
difficult to conceive that somebody, especially someone who's come out
of nowhere, would do something like this and be able

(20:12):
to be on basically Bond's watch as we start the
second half of the season. For cal Rally, if it
was Otani, if it was Aaron Judge, right, sure, you.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Know, definitely definitely. So I leave you with this, We're
gonna take quick to you. I leave you with this.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Question, which is in a world where Bronnie James is
a headlined what does that say about baseball that we're
wondering about cal rally, so Jux supposed that for a second,
where the Fellas ki my man FIGI I mean hanging

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We're talking about Kyle Riley in the first segment with
his amazing start to the Major League Baseball regular season
with thirty eight home runs at the All Star break,
just one fewer than Barry Bonds when he hit seventy
three in his record breaking season of two thousand and one.

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And before we went to the break, Anthony hit me
with a question about Bronnie James, who is at best
the eleven, twelve, thirteenth, fourteenth, whatever you want to call it,
player on the Laker roster, and how much hype he's
getting above a guy like Kyle Riley in Major League
Baseball who's literally making history right now. And what that
says just about the sports landscape at the moment in

(22:36):
time that we are in. And look, we know that
baseball has been playing catchup for a number of years.
We know that the NFL is king followed by college football.
In the NBA, I would say, especially in the social
media world, the NBA is tops. I think it even
beats the NFL in college football when it comes to that.
A lot of kids, you know, in this highlight society
that we're in right now, the tiktak generation, and Anthony,

(23:00):
you asked me the question about Brinnie James and the
popularity of the NBA versus Major League Baseball. Right now,
I think a lot of kids and you have kids
like right now who are eleven and thirteen, eleven and twelve,
eleven and thirteen, twelve and fifteen. So they're part of
this snapchat TikTok generation, you know, basically the microwave generation. Highlights,

(23:21):
highlight highlights, hard to sit and watch an entire game.
What is their outlook when it comes to the NBA?
Are the Are they guys who log onto YouTube and
log onto TikTok and watch a bunch of highlights and
don't consume actual sports from a full three hour you know,
for a full three hour broadcast at this point in time,
because that a lot of the generation is consumed.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Actually what it is now. My little one is a
sports head.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, my older one is his video games right like, okay,
except for the NFL. Like he'll watch football and that's
really kind of it. Like he'll watch, you know, it's
a big game, you know whatever, But he's not the
little one to sports heat like the little one is.
You know, we'll talk about everything going on, but he

(24:03):
consumes it. It's the weirdest thing in the world. I'll
say to them, dude, what will watch the game? It
could be any I mean name every sport, right, could
be any sport. And he'll be like, yeah, yeah, I'll
be dawn and then he'll ghost me right And the
next thing you know, he'll go, yo, dude, how about
that shot or how about that play. I'm like, how'd

(24:26):
you watch? Like? And they watch it weirdly in these
little highlight snippets. Right, It's it's bizarre, but he knows
what's going on, and it's weird. But he doesn't really
even football. Like the big one will watch the games.
The little one gets he doesn't have the attention span

(24:47):
to watch the games, right.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Uh. And that's just how it is. That there's so
many things being thrown at them all at once. So
it's the attention span is extremely short. It's as short
as it's ever been in human history at this point
in time because of the technology that we have right now.
And so kids just can't sit there and I mean
they can, but they just don't sit there and consume
games the way that we do. And so the most highlightable,

(25:11):
if that's a word sport I believe at least is
the NBA. So you can sit there and look at
Cooper Flag versus Bronnie and say, oh, BRINNI hit a
couple of shots and look how we beat up Cooper Flag.
And that's all you need to see. Now, forget the
fact that Bronni missed his next seven or eight shots
after that and didn't look that great afterwards, said, man,
did you see how Bronnie muscled up Cooper Flag in

(25:32):
the post? And that's what people will run with. So
those are things that get lost. I think too with
the generation Anthony is the fact that when you get
wrapped up in highlights, you kind of end up losing
the story of the game and what exactly is going
on in the sport as opposed to just watching the highlights.
And I think that's a part of it. That's that's
a big issue.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Ah, totally right, Fake, I think you're a spot on. Yeah,
it's weird, Mabe. He doesn't like he'll sit there and
like he knows stuff and it'll surprise me how much
he knows.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
But you know, I just can't get I'm like, dude,
with me where you.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Want, I'll get ice cream or you want to not
you whatever you want, but man a little on baseball,
and to your point, basketball is the most highlight friendly sport,
right like baseball, Like imagine these kids sitting through a
game like you have to, like you got That's why

(26:31):
MLB smart, right, And they're trying to do stuff with
the show and like make it as interactive as possible.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Right.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, the pitch clock I think saved a lot, and
the younger demographic from a TV rating standpoint, has gone
through the roof since last season. Imagine your kids trying
to watch the Red Socks and Yankees in two thousand
and three now four and a half hour games. Yeah,
there's no way.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
No, there's no way, you know, way, no, that's the truth.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
But okay, so we know the NBA has it obviously
a higher degree popularity, but like we're talking summer League
Bronni James, and we'll do respect it to Lebron James Junior.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
You know, he's not a headliner.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
I mean I don't think it's you know, it's being mean,
far from a headliner, right, Like he's not like Cooper
Flag is the headline and that's it. Yeah, he was
the marquee, right, I mean, you know, come on, lebron
James Junior. I mean, it's ridiculous, but but that, But
that's weird because the the NBA, it's so desperate to

(27:36):
bring out the individual, you know. Yeah, well that's how
their bread has been buttered. Though. I mean when they
exploded onto the scene and David Stern started to highlight
the first time the NBA was on NBC. Instead of
the Bulls versus the Lakers, it was Michael Jordan versus
Maggic Johnson. They started that and that kind of they
they basically felt it helped them, and it did. They
were right. They propelled the league for it. When they

(27:57):
started highlighting the superstars versus instead of the teams. It
was very smart on their part.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, Larry versus Magic was was it? And I have
no problem with it. Just don't put Bronni Yeah, that's ghost.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
I had an issue with that. Now, I will say
there were a sect of fans and I was not
in Vegas at the Summer League game. I did watch
the game. There certainly were a number of Laker fans
and there were people there worrying Bronnie Jerseys. So for
whatever reason. He's one of those guys that just has
a ground swell of support from people despite the fact
of his lack of production. And so that's the part
that I don't fully understand. It's almost like a cult

(28:31):
like following for him. And that's the part that I
don't necessarily get.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
I mean, it's your father, it's father, right, So yeah,
and because everybody says he can't like because he's not good,
everybody's christ nepotism or whatever you want to call it.
Then you have the backlash and the other people going,
we're gonna, we're gonna come to his defense. It's the weirdest,

(28:57):
Like our culture is so bizarre because you have to
have the other side of everything, and right, usually the
minority is the loudest, right correct, because it also stands
out like if you if you pay attention to basketball,
you know, the most casual fan knows that Lebron James

(29:18):
Junior is not a real player or a real you know, prospect,
And but hey, let's get behind the cause for whatever reason,
right like, and so that the minority group will be
always vocal in that Hey, let's you know, we're we're

(29:38):
gonna be It's different it's like those people, you know,
those people that are music heads but they hate popular.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Oh god, yes, I work with a few guys like that, right.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Like, and they give you some obscure band. Well, I'm
a fan of the of the of the cock Crows,
right whatever.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
I you know, I used to like Kendrick Lamar back
in the old days. It when he became popular. Now
he's not cool anymore. It's like the music isn't any worse.
He's just popular and that doesn't vibe with your indie
outlook or whatever you have. So this is because every
because everybody else likes them, now you can't anymore. It's
one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. That
annoys me to no end.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
And then to me, the same thing with sports, like, yeah, well,
I know we're gonna go with the Bronny because you know,
if for some reason Bronnie then turned into a player,
we were there. I was the day one, that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know, right, you know.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Or I think there's there are some people who do
see him somewhat as a sympathetic figure, because I will say,
for Bronnie Paul, the hype that he has gotten unwarranted
based on his play. He has been very humble and
has worked his tail off. He's like he really is
and looking just and as someone who has watched him
last year at Summer League to where the way he
ended last season, it's the way he started Summer League

(30:56):
this year. He is very much better now. He still
has an extremely long to go, but you can see
the work that he's put in to improve himself. So
you can cry nepotism all you want. One thing I've
always said is all it does is get you an opportunity.
It's up to you to do something with it. So
you know, yes, he was. He is privileged to be
the son of one of the greatest players in the
history of professional sports, and that privilege allowed him a

(31:18):
chance to make it into the NBA. Now let's see
what he does with it, and if he can find
a way to scrounge himself out to be a third
guard on somebody's team and you know, have a seven
year career, you know, then more power to him. By
all means, I do root for him because to your point,
he's a great kid and it works his tail off,
and I respect the hell out of him. For that
because he can fold under the pressure because there still
a lot on him right now and there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Of spotlight and hey, that's that's the thing, right Yeah.
The eyeballs, the eyeballs are vast, really are on this
kid like that. That is right, like that. You know,
you don't have you think about it, right, you know,
doing Harper, Yeah, he's the second pick of the draft.

(32:00):
You want to have haf the eyebarrows that Bronni or
Cooper flag will have on not.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
At all, Not at all. That's a that's a heavy
burden to carry. Just being the son of Lebron James
as a heavy burden carry anyway, then you decide to
play basketball. So now it's almost as if if I
were Lebron's son or Michael Jordan's son or somebody. It's
like fog, you go play soccer or something, you know
what I mean, It's like you play the same sport.
And I understand why you do it. Obviously it makes

(32:25):
sense for Bronnie and Bryce his youngest son. Uh, but
that's just an immense amount of pressure to have to
follow in his fostests because you're always going to be
compared to him. You're never gonna be able to live
up to it, even if you were a phenomenal athlete
who was the first overall pick in the draft or
something like that. That's hard to live up to. Can't
do it, dude.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
It was funny because even Lebron, like Lebron, still can't
get past Mike, Mike's shadow, right, like beach stick, I
saw one. I saw a post the other day about
Jordan's championships, right, you know, versus Lebron's case closed, it

(33:05):
still happens, right, And this is this is one of
the greatest players of our of the in the history
of the game. Whereether you rank them and let alone
now that guy's son, Oh my god. And you know
we're we're all jealous of the sun the born on
third base guy, You're you're innately jealous of It's just

(33:27):
human nature.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Sure, sure, anyway, let's say quick, t oh, come back.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
But I want to continue that the whole idea of
But why is that? Why does he just dominate the
landscape and cal rally, I mean, there's got to be
something else.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
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Figure let's get back to baseball at the All Star break.
So the great story, I mean, the Dodgers struggle with
some health issues. Glass Eel's back doesn't look like himself yet.

(34:30):
But then there's Otani. You mentioned him hit a home
run last night. Again is arcing towards He's looking good
on the mound, and you know, I guess what's going
on is there?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Everything's eyeing towards September October.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah, So as far as Otani on the mound, Dave
Roberts said earlier this week, they're not even sure if
they'll be able to stretch them out beyond five or
six innings. At this point, they really want to slow
play this as much as they possibly can. They're are
getting healthier in the starting staff. I should mention Glass
now started against Milwaukee the other day, looked solid. Blake
Snell is on a rehab assignment, so starting pitching was

(35:09):
an issue to start the season. That seems to be
rounding into form a little bit safe for Dustin May
last night in San Francisco. The issue is their bullpen
has banged up. All their high leverage guys are either
struggling or hurt, and even their lineup. You know, they've
lost what seven in a row now. Mookie hasn't been hitting,
and he's mostly healthy. Freddie Freeman has n't been hitting.
After leading the Major League Baseball and batting average for

(35:30):
the first couple of months, he's hitting two hundred over
the past month. A lot of people think that foot
injury is still bothering him, lingering over from the World
Series last year. And even though Tani as many home
runs as he has, not many RBI because he doesn't
have a lot of guys getting on base in front
of him, and he's been cold for the last you know,
three weeks or so. So I know these are Champagne
problems because you look at the Dodgers and they still

(35:51):
have the second best record in all of baseball, but
they're definitely hurting right now. So nobody needs the All
Star break more than they do just so they can
get a mental and physical reset for guys in the
bullpen and for the regular everyday lineup.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, and that's what I was curious about. I mean, listen,
it's a long season and teams go through funks. Yeah,
and you know how it is. People watch like when
they watch the NBA, they watch the NBA, right, they
watched the best teams in the NBA. We all watch
everything in football, and so we're all in tune to

(36:26):
the league. But baseball, you watch your local team. It's
right kind of how it is, and there's no perspective,
Like I'm in Philadelphia and people freak out.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Phillies lose a game and it's like, oh my god,
they steak.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
They're not gonna win there again, They're gonna they're not gonna. Uh,
they're gonna hurt us again. Let us down in October.
It's like, guys, like you're looking around the rest of baseball.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
You are top of your division. Bryce Harper has been
hurt for a lot, you know, for for a long
stretch of time. He's back, you know, so when you
have to encapsulate the problem is because I even talked
to someone earlier, Today's saying like, oh, the Dodgers' record
right now are going into the All Star break today
is what it was last year. It's like, well, every
year is different. You can have identical records and your
roster call look different, the issues can be different. So

(37:17):
you know, you have to talk about players who are heard,
players who are struggling, and to your point, through one
sixty two, there are gonna be ebbs and flows. You
just want to make sure that you have you stream together.
More of those six seven eight game win streaks are
winning seven out of ten more than the six seven
eight nine game losing streaks. You have more of those. Really,
all you want to do is get to the postseason.
Because we know the Dodgers no better than anybody. It's

(37:38):
a crapshoot. How many times have they been the favorites
going into the postseason In the last ten, eleven, twelve years,
they've won two World Series, although if you want to
be that way, some people will say one and a half.
But whatever, So it is a long year. You're gonna
have ups and downs. I do I respect the fact
and part of me does love the idea that people
live and die with every pitch, every single game because

(38:00):
they want to see the team play well. But I
do think it's healthy to have kind of a wider
perspective and just know sometimes good teams have have a
bit of a funk during the season. It's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's it. That's all.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
It's you know, you hate to say to relax the Rogers,
they but it's true, Like it's baseball.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
You can't look at baseball through the prism of football,
right right, you know, you just gotta. And truthfully, it's
why I don't know about you, but dude, I'm struggling now,
Like now, I reach the point where it's like I
need I need something else, like I need football.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
You burned out on baseball as they are sport right now?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, And it's not like I love baseball right now,
but I love when there's multiple things. Like baseball's the
best in the early months and the late months, right
because the late months pana raise playoffs. There's nothing better,
right And in the early months because you missed the
sport right right, you just go, oh man, I miss

(39:08):
it and it's back. But once you hit July and
it's just baseball every night, it's like all right.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
You know, I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
And by the way, I've reached my like nth degree
when it comes to football, Like I'm like, now I'm
dying for it, right, Like you're always missing it, but
this point of the calendar, like you had the tournament
and then you got the NBA NHL Finals, you gorge right, right,

(39:39):
all that stuff, and it gets you through everything, right, right,
But now you reach this time, you go, all right, man.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
But see, doesn't this time make you appreciate football so
much more? That's the thing. So I miss it too,
and I'm looking forward to it's starting here in a
couple of weeks in training camp. But the fact that
we don't have it for this stretch of time, I
think is a big reason why football is so popular.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah you think so? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Absolutely? Why make the heart grow fonder? Yeah, less is
more to a certain degree.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
You're right. I'm not disagreeing. You're right.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
It's just a perfect game, is wide. That's it. It's
just a perfect game.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Where the fellas right here? Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:27):

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
happy happy Fox Sports Saturday Fellas k fig Anthony as
we hang out from the Fox Sports radio studios every week.
Fitzi's off kind of vacation time. Everybody's kind of in
and out before football. How you doing which any vacation's

(40:54):
playing for you, buddy?

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Yeah, my in laws are actually taking my wife and
my son and her brother is there. Wives and kids
were all going, uh to Hawaii at the end of
the month. Forward to that.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
It'd be fabulous.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Oh, it's also where you're going.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
It's the Disney Resort on Owahu is where we're going.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
So oh that's wonderful.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
So yeah, the kids, so my two nieces are three,
my son is now fourteen months, so really for the
for the three year olds, they can run around and
obviously there's you know, a pool and a water park
and there's Disney characters running all over the place. So
that'll be a fun time. So we're looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
That's ah, that's gonna be great.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Well, they were not looking forward to is a fourteen
month old on a five hour flight from LA to Hawaii. Now,
especially that he's walking and he's got some autonomy going
because he's been on a few flights before. But he
really couldn't do a whole lot. Now that he wants
to get up and move and does not want to
be held by anybody at any time, that's gonna be
a bit of a challenge.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah, I don't know what possessed us. So we took
my Anthony was about twenty twenty eight months, right, and
we took them to Italy.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
And that was not the I mean, I don't know
why we did that, but we did it.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
I mean we had a great time at all, But
I mean to sitting like that that along of a
flight is.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Tough, insane, all right, we get restless on flights that long.
I can imagine a kid that young.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Oh my god. And then you know with the weather
issues that's going on right right. So I just got
back and we were on a plane. So we were
leaving Naples at oh my god, it was three and
a half hours late, and we were all everybody's on
the plane the whole time. And then we get back

(42:50):
to Philadelphia and there's this major storm, so we have
to sit on the plane for another three hours before
because you when lightning hits, they got fifteen minutes before
they can open up the ramp again because they closed
the airport, right and uh, I mean it was just
you know, it's just weather, right, like just and it's

(43:12):
one of those trips. So you gotta hope, like if
you're taking a small child, you gotta hope you have.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
No weather issues or stuff like, because that it's torture.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
That's biggest nightmare is being stuck sitting on a plane
for three hours with the kids on the plane.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah. Fun end and back end.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Yeah, my god, oh horrible, But that's gonna be fantastic.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Probably, it's gonna be a good time. It's gonna be fun.
Gonna be fun. You got anything in the pipeline before
football season starts.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
No, we just got back from uh, but we go
to this little town in Italy that we love. It's
called the Estay. It's in Pool. It's in Pool. Yeah, okay,
so it's on the other coast. Everybody pumps up the
Amalfi coast. This is on the Pullian coast. It's uh,
it's on the Adriatic side. And I mean literally it's

(44:04):
it's We got there three hours from the fly flow
in the Naples. Had a car, but I know we
have people, we don't got to know people there, so
absolutely you know, and it's really it's if people ever
get a chance that coast of Italy, it's so affordable,
like it's actually cheaper to go to Italy than it

(44:26):
is to go to our shore area, which to get
lodging and food and uh, you know. And it's so
we went for wet tend days. I had some business
over there, so it was it was it was good. Cool, Yeah,
it was fun.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
It was fun. We love we and we love this town.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
And ironically, the the peninsula it shuts out into the Adriatic,
it's called the Gargato Peninsula, so it's the region, right,
So it's like this Gargato region.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
So it's weird.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
So my family when they came over, they went from
that region to Naples, right, and so when they got
to Naples, they called them Gargano. So then from Naples
and they came to the States and then so they kept
that surname. And now nobody has the surname in that region.

(45:25):
So what I show them the you know, the credit card,
They go, oh my god, local celebrity. Yeah, it's great,
it's right, Like it's like the only place in the
world I go want this is the Matman it's so.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Yeah, that's named after my great great great great great grandfather.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's right, that's me why I think they got kicked
out of the region.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's great. And this is the time.
This is like the vacation time because you know, cup.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
It's a baby.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Oh yeah, football's here. Did you see the football's here?

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Now?

Speaker 4 (46:05):
You know, guys are ramping up, ramping down their vacations,
getting their personal workouts in so they can pass their
fitness test for training camp, which starts in about two weeks.
It's almost here.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Baldy's in Dallas now and he's doing this is a
really cool thing. So Lane Johnson of the Eagles has
has done this for the last few years. It's called
the O Line Masterminds and all the great offensive linemen, uh,
I mean all the all the offensive lineman and the

(46:36):
NFL college. They get like five hundred guys, even school kids.
They all go there to talk technique and have like
a summit. That's really cool.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
A lot of position groups have been doing this in
the last few years. Summit.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
There's a sax summit. Yeah yeah, Crossby does that. He
does the Sack the Sack Summit. Can in Vegas.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yeah, he took that over from Von Miller. I think
who started it some of your.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
So they just did the O Line Summit, And I
have to say I love these players today are so
dedicated in their craft. They're always looking to learn tick
unique nuance, like they're into it. Like I was having

(47:28):
this conversation with Bold yesterday on my show and we
were talking about this, this notion of today's athlete. I
think you can argue that today because everybody back in
the day, back in the day, right, I think you
can argue that today's athlete, especially in football, is way
more dedicated.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Well, you also have that there's so many more resources
now that players back then didn't necessarily have too. So well, one,
there's so much money to be made, way more money
now than it was back right. You know, guys are
staying in shape year round. Back in the day, guys
had working nine to fives in the off season. They
were reports of training camp like last week. Thirty years ago.

(48:09):
They'd be in training camp for two months before they
even play a game because they're working themselves into shape.
So it's a doggy dog world. There's only so many
positions out there. There's so much talent. There are so
many coaches, you have mastermind classes. Everybody's trying to find
whatever inch they can possibly get to get an advantage
over somebody else because there is a doggy dog war
out there, and there's a lot of money to be

(48:31):
made at a lot of different levels. At the college
level now is basically semi professional at this point with
the amount of money that's going around. So it's big business.
So football is no longer just a pastime, something to do,
way to give me a scholarship. It's a way of
life for a lot of these people. It's very serious business.
And these guys are looking for every single advantage they
can get.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Dude, it's yes, and everything he said is spot on, Like,
you know, the incentives are different and more rare, and
you didn't know. I'm not even talking about back when
they had all the jobs. If you go back into
the you know, eighties, nineties, early two thousands, I mean,
you know, I think the culture is different too. Like

(49:13):
back then, all season was I'm gonna go party right
right for three months and dude, and now it's different.
It's not like that. It's some more dedication and I
think you're right to the craft. I also think it
starts younger. I see these high school kids, especially now
with all the NIL and we'll get into some of

(49:36):
the NIL and college stuff coming up shortly.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
But when you look at these high school kids, these
high school kids.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Are working, like these high school quarterbacks are, you know,
breaking down film and studying and learning their offense and
nuances and everything else. Like that piece of it, the
exit O piece of it is way more pronounced than
it ever was.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Yeah, it is, you know. Back in the day, it's
just like if you have the most talent, you won,
even if you weren't the most polished. And now you
have these high school offenses that are running NFL style
offenses and have you know, big name coordinators and all.
This is just the resources trickle all the way down
because again even kids who are in middle school now
are being basically being recruited to college at this point,

(50:22):
so you know, and that's part of the big business
of it too. There's kids, depending on the state that
you live in, who get NIL deals as early as
their freshman year in high school. So it has turned in,
like I said, from being something that was it was
something to do. It was a way to have fun
with your friends. It was camaraderie. It's still all of that,
but now there's a business aspect to it too. And
some of it I'm good with. There's an aspect of it.

(50:43):
I think that kind of I'm not the biggest fan
of some of that gets lost because I think the
business ends up taking over the important part, which is
the camaraderie aspect, which is learning teamwork and all that stuff,
because I think the more and more we lean into
nil and getting mine and all that stuff, it takes
away from the team of it at that young of
a level. That's the issue that I have with it
right now, the way things are trending.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's true.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
You know, yeah that that I see it all.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Over youth sports. Yeah, you're you're knee deepend it right now.
So you know how this goes?

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Oh yeah, and it's it's wild.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
It's it's and I see, like we had a little
league district game last night, and I mean just the pressure,
like I shit back, I'm quiet, right, like I just whatever,
and I'm here in parents freak out and you know,
all pies and stop the game and please refrain from language,

(51:44):
and you're like, yo, But it's all part of this
world where everybody thinks they're going to get some sort
of nil deal, right. I mean, that was never the case,
so this is a new phenomenon. But people are like sharks.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Man. There's smell and it makes you delusional.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Yeah, it's big business. You have like these these baseball
coaches or these football clinics that are put on by
you know so and so such and such gurus or
charging hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. There's travel teams
and all this is that you just want to put
your kid in high school and let them play against
normal people. No, you got to put them on this
travel team. He has so much potential. Whether he does
or doesn't, who knows all on. And I'm sure there's

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a lot of these people who do have the kids
in best interest at heart. I'm not saying that all
of them are like this, but a lot of these
guys are just sharks, and they just tell you whatever,
whatever you want to hear, to tell you your kid
has potential so they can get money out of you,
knowing that the kid probably can work his ass off
as long as he wants. He's never going to make
it to a Division one, you know, football scholarship or anything.

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And that's the sad part about it, because you have
stories about that all the time, where these parents are
putting themselves into debt for these kids who are chasing
essentially a pipe dream.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
And you know what the problem is, here's the real
problem and fake next week, I got to go to
South Carolina on a baseball tournament. Like I'll be out
next week because we have a tournament in South Carolina,
which is ridiculous, Like we you know, in fact, one
of the teams we're playing in the tournament is from
our region. It's like, you know, we're traveling all this

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way to go. I mean it's eleven hour drive and
we're traveling all this way to go play a team
that we could play up here.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
I mean, stupid, right.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Makes still sense. And then you're on the hook for gas,
you're on the hook for food and a lot of
times lodging and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
It's crazy, tucket crazy.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
But to your point, the truth of the matter is
you don't know until after they go through puberty, right, right,
Like all this stuff that we do, and I'm like
I'm knee deep into coaches and I luckily I do
a lot of it and know a lot of people,
and you know, it's a kind of a village type

(54:02):
of thing, so you know, it's not at the expense
that other parents have. But my god, I mean it's
in scene like I see it with my little one
because he does baseball and football. The big one does
football and he rows too, but you know, the football
is great, and you know, and then the baseball. He

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plays basketball, but like, no, you know, he's like, I
want to go to a trader, like little Joey. You like, no,
you're not doing that. You don't need to. First of all,
I'll tell you what's going well, I coach you anyway.
You leave basketball alone, all right, unless you're going to
be six y nine.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I don't want to talk about it.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Right, which probably not happening.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Right. Go have fun, enjoy it, play it, have fun,
be a kid, right, But like you know, you're he's like,
the little one's a quarterback, and I go, you gotta
take that serious. Like they gave his coach gave him,
gave me the offense to learn the offense. Like he's

(55:07):
twelve and he's got to learn the offense running a
gun tea right, and he's got to learn it, like
you know, I'm like, dude, you have to take that
very seriously. Baseball, we spend a lot of money traveling
and doing this, doing that. Well, I take you all
the time, and forget the money. I like my time
to spend all with them. It's like, just you know,

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we'll see what happens. Like there's no pressure that you
need to go play in college. Hey, if it happened, great,
you know what I mean. Like, but I watch all
these kids every day and there's some great, really immensely
talented kids, but you don't know it's on they go
through puberty. How big are? It all comes down the
size unless you're some freak athlete, right, because it's gonna

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come down the size.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Are you big enough? Right?

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Are you big enough? And there's some things that are
just inherent your instincts, especially in the sport like baseball.
Well do you see the ball? All that stuff? Does
it come together until you're a little bit older. And
I just hate to see these parents, And you mentioned
earlier in the show about the pressure that's on a
lot of these kids. These parents are yelling at eight
year olds because they struck out looking when they say you,
why did you swing at it? It's like, the dude,

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these eight what is wrong with you? It's like and
then and the problem is I think a lot of
the culture allows parents to resent their kids because they
feel the kids aren't working hard enough and their parents
are spending quote unquote all this money and they're not
they're not seeing the results. It's like, do you realize
how twisted of an outlook that is. I think people
doing it can't even take the three thousand foot view

(56:39):
step back and actually look at themselves and how they're
conducting themselves and how they're treating their kids.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
In these Sysyeah, that's no it. And what happens is
now you get the kid, you push the kids gonna
hate the game, right, which is shot, which is terrible.
Like last night, my my Masimo had had a big game, right,
like he just didn't play well, right, made it ver
shruck out, ground out, weekly just didn't play well. We won,

(57:06):
and he was really dejected and like it's baseball, right,
Like you're gonna have oh for four nights, you're gonna
make errors, Like it's just every sport's about failure, and
you know, he was very down himself and very low
and and I'm like, we.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Do, but you guys won. Man, it's great.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Like it's all right, like me, you get at the bar,
I man, I said, that's what baseball's about.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Baseball is you forget forget it.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
He's another game tomorrow to get two hitch tomorrow and
you won't even remember this game.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
And it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
And what do you do? Where do you get two
hits or not? None of it matters. Enjoy the fact
that you're twelve years old, you're in this tournament, your
team won. Enjoy it, like, don't don't like like because
I was telling I'll never ever be mad at you
for making an error or striking out like the that's
not that's all part of the game.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
That's great to say.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
As long as you as.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Long as you I tell him, at the same thing,
the only thing I'll ever get mad is if you're
disrespectful to coaches, umpires, referees, if you don't conduct yourself
with the way we teach her to conduct yourself. That's it,
you know, make sure you try right give it add well,
that's the stuff.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Try your hardest, stuf right.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Also, you know we I always have I always talk
to him about you know, like a body language. And
you know, listen, you strike out, you don't blame the umpire,
you just walk right to the dugout. I tell about
Bobby Wit all the time, like I love Bobby with
Bobby WIT's great, the greatest.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
And he talks about, you know, failure.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
And there's a scout that told the story about Bobby
Wit and how he struck out like a big game
everybody who's there to watch him, and he struck out
a couple of times and still like the guy the
bat boy, like running out, get everybody's bat and front
row the front railing and a dugout and you know,
and then he wants to hit the game winning home run.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
But he had to.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
He had the right attitude the entire game, even while
he was struggling at the plate. And I tell that
to my guy all the time, like dude, like this
is what it's about. And whether we're stole a little field, right,
like we haven't even gotten to the big field, right,
And when the big field happens, that's when you see separation.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Right after you go through puberty.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Like he's twelve until they're fifteen sixteen, Then you go
all right, well this kid could be a legitimate prospect.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Yeah, you have no idea when they're that young, and
you don't want them to put that sort of pressure
on themselves. It's just phenomenal that you give him that
message saying like, hey, it's a game of failure. You're
gonna have bad games. Be happy that the team won.
You could be disappointed in your performance and understand that
you can do better. That's fine, that's part of growing, right,
But you know, I don't want you to sit here
and mope around and say I'm a failure, I suck,
I'm a loser, like.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
It's really not that big of a deal. It's a
learning experience. You're out there to have fun. That's that's
the most important thing. So I'm glad you instilled that
message in your kids because I just a lot of
people don't do that these days, and they put so
much pressure on them. And it's really sad.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Because people see the headlines, right, the big nil deals
like the kid for Texas Tech and all this stuff,
Like they see this stuff, they go all you know,
it's like if it happens it happens.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
You do the work, you go through the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Proper things, but you can't force it, like you know,
it's a blessing. Like let's see what happens. All right,
let's uh, let's get quick to you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
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(01:01:32):
Did it is doing its top ten list? Did you
actually see it? Fig Did you read it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
I have not done every single position group. But I
saw a couple. I saw saw running backs. I saw
tight ends. My guy brought Bowers number one, I saw.
I saw a few of them, but I did not
see all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Know, all right, So let's talk about the running backs,
all right, because they did the running backs and I
only have like really kind of one great say it
number one.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Which is an easy one, should have been the MVP
this past season in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
I mean, the think about the thing about him. What
I never saw was hitting the home run with that
kind of frequency. Yeah, Like we saw Barry Sanders and
he would have those first field Marcus Alley go back
in the day, right, like, hey Marshall Falk, did you

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know a bunch of times? And you're like McCaffrey did
a little bit, but we didn't see. I mean, he
had eight touchdowns over was it fifty five yard? Fifty
yards sounds about right? Yeah, I mean, like those are
home runs. Like we talked about the quick strike offense,
it was a quick strike run offense.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
Yeah, Philadelphia did it differently last year. They were an
explosive offense, but their explosive plays came from the run game,
not from the past game. It's been years since you've
had an NFL offense built like that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
And you ever saw those kinds, you know, you'd see
the grinder that maybe you know, you get the eight
nine eleven yard game right mixed table with the two,
three four not let's go to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
The house, like, I mean, it was crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Now, obviously they have they probably have the best O
line in football.

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
I was like, well, he's also running behind the Giants
offensive line, so that that wasn't doing a lot for him.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Right, But but you know, to see what he does,
I mean, he's just a special special play.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
It's remarkable. He really is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
So uh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Number two and this is farty because I was curious
to see what you think.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
I mean, you know, I think it's pretty obvious. But
number two is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
King Henry, which both guys being free agents was the
most bizarre thing in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
Yeah, really is It really was. I I don't understand. Well, look,
I do understand from this standpoint, because we know running
backs very rarely have a very you know, incremental decline.
Usually they just fall off of a cliff. And I
think Tennessee wanted to get out of Derek Henry earlier
than later. And they thought that that he was a

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ticking time bomb because of his age. He's thirty one
or thirty two, I think entering this season, and usually
I think it was around between twenty nine and thirty
where the decline, the major decline happens. So I certainly
understand them parting ways to a certain degree. The problem
is they just checked out a year or two early.
That's the problem. But timing when a running backs shelf
life ends is a very difficult practice in the NFL.

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It's just really hard to know when that's gonna happen.
So I understand Tennessee's thinking in that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
So number three, who I may argue Number two.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
I mean I love Derrick Henry, yeah, but I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Love Jamier Gibbs.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
I mean, you know, I wouldn't be surprised that after
this year that gives his number one. Because he does
everything runs between the tackles right, is ridiculously fast. He's
he's the best route runner in the league at that position.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Easily, without a question.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
And to be a small guy, so obviously he can
get through a lot of little creases and through the
offensive line. But he's also pretty stocky. I think it
might be two hundred and two O five something like that.
He's a perfect combination of speed and power that you
don't see in today's league, in today's game anymore. So
I would definitely argue whether he should be in the
top one or two. He's not gonna pass Saquon because

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Saikua had such a great year right year. But I
think there's a legitimate argument between he and Dereck Henry,
especially since he makes an impact in the passing game
and Derrick Henry doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Well, there are the routes that he runs. There is
a couple I forget the game it was. It was
It might have been a one of the playoff games
or one of the big games for at the end
of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Where he he.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
It's fourth down because it's you know Dan Campbell fourth down, right,
it's fourth down, and they got him split out and
he runs this route where it looks like he's going
outside and he cuts it into the middle and the
route was ridiculous and it's touchdown and got hits him.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
He just does that so much.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
He's such a great what a receiver he is, Like
he run again, he does everything right, bounce it outside,
runs between the tackles right tough yards. Listen, it was
an embarrassment with Montgomery and him, but like he's easily
the every down back anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
But I'll also say I do think the guy listed
at number four is nipping at his heels, And I
think I don't know if it's because of where he
plays or because I don't think he has a highlights
Like if you look at his actual Statu're like, oh
my god, b Jon Robinson fourteen fifteen hundred, I was
rushing fourteen touchdowns. But I don't think he doesn't have
the Saquon Barkley like wow plays. He's just been remarkably

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consistent his first couple of years in the league. But
from a talent perspective, I think he's kind of right
there to a certain degree with Jamior Gibbs. He just
hasn't had the sort of the marquee the Giant plays
and obviously the big stage. You know, Detroit has been
one of the best teams in the league last couple
of years. Atlanta not a playoff team. Yeah, so he's
had that working against him. But I think he's every

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bit as talented as Jamier Gibbs is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
So I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Maybe not as fast correct, yeah, but but I'm completely
with you. And here's the other thing that he's had
against him up until now that he's got panics, you know,
I mean, you got a young quarterback. Finally you got
a good quarterback. I like panis I do too. Yeah,
So you know before that he had nothing, he had nothing,

(01:07:55):
and you look at you know, the past game.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
It's finally clicked, you know, middle last year.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
But Barkley's got that all day long, right with Hertz
and aj Brawn, Deavonte Smith and Gibbs has that all
day long with golf and you know that Lion's fleet
of great receivers.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
Yeah right, And so that's what's been missing for Atlanta.
Everybody was able to load up, you know, the last
couple of seasons because the quarterback position has just been
so atrocious for them. So now that you have Pannix
in there with another year under his belt, that's the
starter some more weapons in there. I think the sky's
the limits for Bijon.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
Yeah. I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
You know, it's funny because like that's a very real thing.
Like when you have, say Jamison Williams that you're afraid
that's gonna run behind you and run through a cover too.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
That's gonna help your back in a big way.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, opens up down deep and then
you have aman Rah underneath. I mean that does a
lot of attention that to get that gets cracked away
from you as the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Back right, And I just talk about uh, And I
just thought about Jamison only because of the safety situation, right,
because you can't load the box up because you need
you play deep safety.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Yeah, there's no run support there from the back end
for sure. I now here's where the issue for me
comes in. And I want to get your take on
this to me too. I do not like this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
At number five, they have Christian McCaffrey, and I don't
think you can put him anywhere near this combing off
the edge, coming off the the injury plagued years that
he's had.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Yeah, he's just had too many down years. He's been
too banged up. How you can put him ahead of
Josh Jacobs, who had a phenomenon last year for Green
Bay makes no sense to me.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
What's I hated that?

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I'm so glad you said that because listen, I went healthy.
He's terrific, right, You know about it. But but he
hasn't been No, hey, you can't. Now it's not fair
to Josh Jacobs.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Who was terrific last year.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Like we talked about those receivers that the Packers had
a bunch of twos and threes. Yep, right, they didn't
have forget, I'm a round Saint Brown, they didn't have
Jameson Williams.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Correct. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Like so you look at the attention and how they
were teams loaded the box against Jacobs, and all he
did was get big yards, tough yards, and he also
helps you to pass game.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Yeah, I mean that was one of the big reasons
why they drafted him in the first round the Raiders day,
because they thought he was a good and pass protection
a great route runner. I don't think we've seen I
think he hasn't really developed as the rout runner as
we thought he would, But he's still a good receiver
out of the backfield. Yeah, fifteen touchdowns on the ground,
fourteen hundred yards rushing. All due respect to Christian McCaffrey,
but this is kind of like one of those All
Star Legacy selection situations where it's like he's being put

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high up on this list based on past performance, not
based on his current production. I got nothing against Christian
and if he's healthy, to your point, he's phenomenal. He
just hasn't been like the last three or four years.
He's been really banged up. Not his fault, but there's
no way I could put him on.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
I'm with you. So you got Jacobs.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
We would have Jacobs at five, correct, Now my number
six isn't even on their top ten.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Really, yeah, so we'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
We'll get that in a minute, Okay, But they have
Anthony McCaffrey and Jacobs.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
They have Jonathan Taylor, who I mean I like.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
I mean, he's a he's an elite like sweet back
man like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:34):
I think he's underrated.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
To be honest, I do too. He's another one that
got hampered by the quarterback position.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Correct, Yes, Now he's in and out sometimes, so yeah,
I mean issue.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
Yeah, Taylor's one of those guys who gets your twenty
carries for sixty yards one week and then have eighteen
characters for two hundred and twenty yards the next. So
that is true? Now is that him or is at
a product of the offense, the offensive line, the quarterback situation,
which is much better this year, to be honest with you,
if Daniel Jones is going to be starting, so he's
gonna have that working against him again for another year.

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But I think, uh, just if we were to just
take it equal from a talent perspective, Jonathan Taylor should
be in the top five for me, to be honest with.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
You, Yeah, I wouldn't argue. I wouldn't argue like.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
Taylor Josh Jacobs. I feel like I can go, you know,
talk to me on Tuesday, could be one guy, talk
to me on Wednesday, could be the other guy. That's
how close I think it is with those two.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
For me, Yeah, I have no issue with that and
none now my guy, I'll tell you just because I
teased it. But I love Bucky Irvin.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
I love him.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Now. Does he belong here yet? I like to me
he's I guess I'm more of a projection here.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
Yeah, you have his potential, but not necessarily dude.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
Yeah, he's good.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Like when he took over last year that outfits went,
it went to a different gear.

Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
It really did. Yeah, I yeah, And consider the guys
who are on the list who have fallen off, like
I don't think Joe Mixon is the same player, Ala
Kamaras had injury issues. Now, James Cook had a good
year last year, but top ten running back in the league,
I don't think, Nah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
I mean again, I like James Cook, but he's lumbering, right,
He's he's not he doesn't have breakaway, he's not going
to break away.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
He's grind you out back.

Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
Yeah, there's nothing special about him, and that's find you
need guys like that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
So yeah, agree, you know, yes, yes, But I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
I look at guys who are like Eve though on
the honorable mentions, less like Bucky Irving, I will put
ahead of him. Brice Hall didn't have the greatest year
last year, but I think Breeze Hall is a top
ten back if if, if he's healthy and things are right. So,
I mean there's a couple of guys who who missed
the cut who I think deserve to be on that list.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Yeah, I just I look at Bucky Irving and I like,
he's no one catch the ball out of backfield right,
he can run in between the tackles.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
He's a home run hitter, he's fast man, he's quick.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
I love that kid man. I'm a big Bucky Irving fan.
All right, let's say quick tillo, We'll come back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
And we'll do another position.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
How about Fun's this like, I got some gidea up,
tell a little football.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
I hear it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
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on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Uh. Fig So,
let's do one more position. All right, all right, let's
let's do. Here's what they did they did. Let's do
tight end. Just because you mentioned and your boy B. B.
Brock Bowers easily number one, and I don't know how

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you can't argue.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
Yeah, I guess if you want to say that it's
cheating a little bit, I do think that there there
really is a confusion between tight end and receiver. And
there's a melding of the positions to a certain degree.
At this point in time, brock Bowers kind of is
more like a slot receiver more than he is a
traditional tight end at this point in time, but he
nevertheless is a tight end. And yeah, I really think

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it's hard to argue consider the production that he had
last year as a rookie and the quarterback that he
had to play with. I mean, just stop right there.
For him to put up eleven hundred yards receiving and
one hundred and twelve receptions, most by any player in
Raiders history, I mean, that's that's a lot to say,
considering that you had no quarterback throwing you the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Dude, I mean that was going to be my retort
to the people that say, wow, he's a glorified receiver. Well,
you're still playing that spot, and to do that with
that quarterback in that situation, yeah, come on, I mean
that's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
And it's not like he was exclusively in the slot.
He did play tight to the line here and there,
actually playing the tight in the position. So it's not
as if he's just he's a tight end and you know,
position only and doesn't actually line up and get you know,
get dirty every now and then. He absolutely does.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
I that's with you, man, Like, I mean, come on,
I mean that dude, That dude's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
I mean he really is.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
Yeah, he's incredible. He is their number one receiver as
a tight end, without question.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Yeah, yeah, without a doubt, without a doubt. Did you
just curious Raiders wise, how'd you feel about their off season?

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
I liked it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
I mean, obviously bringing in Pete Carroll is the best
coach they've had in a long time, you know, bringing
an adult to the room. I think just having an
entire restructuring of the front office with John Spytech coming
from Tampa Bay, with Tom Brady's influence. Even though I
don't think they did a whole lot roster wise, per se,
they actually lost a lot of guys. I didn't like
the fact that they got They lost Nate Hobbs, one

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of the best slot corners in the entire league. But
I just love the outlook and the energy that Pete
brings to the organization, an element of hope. Even though
I know he's up there in age. Anybody that's been
around him and around the team says that you know,
Pete Carroll's running around up and down in practice. They
own the ball like he's fifty, not like he's seventy.
So look, they're not going to win the division. Kansas

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City is still the class, and I think the Chargers
are coming and Denver's improving, so they're in a very
difficult division. But I do think they're going to be
extremely competitive and they're going to be made in the
image of Pete Carroll, which is a lot of toughness,
and they're going to run the ball with the Ashton genty.
So overall, I like their offseason, even though it wasn't
probably as splashy as a lot of people would have liked.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Yeah, I listen, I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
I think it was an off season to build correct right,
a foundation, right because and you could do it quickly. Yeah,
like you could do you could. You could do it quickly.
And when you have a Pete Carroll, you could.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Do it quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
You need to do it quickly, but you could do
it because first of all, it'll get it skip some
steps and he'll be because he'll he'll like move the
process along. But you have to have a foundation in
the roster to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
And I don't think in loo Geno Smith is not
like the quarterback of the future that it leads to
the Promised Land. But he's at least he's above average
NFL quarterback, which is something they have lacked for years. So, right,
so they at least it gives them a fighting chance.
You have a NFL level, an NFL caliber starting quarterback
behind center.

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
All right, then they go Kiddle, which is I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
Yeah, no argument's there.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Now this is where it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Gets weird, Yeah, because there's so many of these tight ends,
these kids that have a lot of ability, but either
injury or situation. So Sam Laporta, who I love. I
mean when he's healthy, yeah, I mean he's a true
tight end. Real he's will catch everything and he's a
good blocker.

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
Yeah, but his rookie season was phenomenal, but last year
was like what happened. Now, He's still had I think
like seven hundred you know yards receiving a little bit,
but even when he was healthy, he just wasn't He
wasn't targeted as much and have as many touchdown receptions.
The Lions were still fine as a team, obviously, but
his individual production went down, which might not doesn't necessarily
be his fault. But he did take I guess a

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little from a production standpoint, a little bit of a
half step back, right.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
I guess he had that knee thing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
He did have a knee at one point.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Yeah, and I think that messed him up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Well, but between that and the fact that they have
too many options, yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
You're not gonna have phenomenal years every year when there's
so many guys who can get the ball, which can
hurt other teams.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Yeah yeah, all right, Well, pauls it right here, will
come back, can talk about it, Fellas right here Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Ah, good morning, good morning, happy happy Fox Sports Saturday, Fellas,
Kevin Figures Anthony Gargana broadcasting live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. So big story. Uh, you're just joining us.
Major League Baseball last series for the All Star Break.

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All Star Game is Tuesday in Atlanta. Cal rally two
on ones last night, giving him thirty eight, which is
now the second greatest first half in the history of baseball.
He's one behind Barry Bonds. He's got two games, Figgie,

(01:20:51):
he could tie it, absolutely can't or beat it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
Well, he hit two last night, so who says again
need some more today? And Tom Moor, why not? The
way that he's going this season, Uh, it really is
something for the ages and it's something to witness. I
like I said in the first hour of the show,
I'm really excited to see where he takes this. And
I think it's really good for Major League Baseball to
have a relative unknown kind of come out of nowhere

(01:21:15):
make a name for himself.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Can you let's talk about it. Are you enjoying this season?

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Where?

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
Where?

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Where?

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
Where?

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Is it? Like?

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
In relations? It just a normal season for you? You
enjoy it more or less?

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Like if I said to you state of baseball, what's
your answer.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
I'd say the state of baseball baseball is relatively healthy.
I don't feel like I'm enjoying it any more or
less than I have in years past. I'd say it's
it's about on par with where it has been. I
will say, as we head to the All Star Break,
I wish there was a little bit more star power
in the home run derby, and I realized there's injuries
like Royal Queen of Junior had to bow out for
due to injury. So I understand that, But for just

(01:21:59):
the season in and of itself as a whole, I
think it's been pretty exciting. I've been pretty entertained by it.
I've had no issues with it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
A good young talent, right, like you know, the kid
Mizerowski is really good throw on some heat.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Yeah, I mean, and I guess because a lot of
people have had issues with the fact that he got
named as an All Star yesterday after pitching like twenty
innings or.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
Something like that. I liked it. Yeah, I liked it
a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
There's always been a couple of schools of thought for
when it comes to the All Star Game. Are you
rewarding guys for having a great first half or is
it players that you just want to see and it's
a showcase for the league. I used to fall on
the line of I want to reward guys who are
having great first halves of the season, But knowing the
state of baseball, especially over the last couple of decades,
I think it's all about star power. I think you

(01:22:45):
want to put guys out there who you've heard of.
You want to see Paul Paul Skins, you know, face off,
you know against you know, stars from the American League,
Aaron Judge. You know, that's what you want to see,
even if a guy's not is having a down year.
You know you wanted to see David Orti are Jerry,
Jared Jeter in his final year at the All Star Game,
even if those guys didn't have the same production, because
it's the showcase of talent. It's a it's a giant

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display of the stars of the game. And so I
think ultimately that's the most important thing. So has been
a huge and he's been a ball of fire the
last month. I'll put him in there, right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
And to me, you want to see guys that you
know are dynamic. So the kids dynamic. Right, So again
that's another one. Hey, let me see Misseroski go against Judge, right,
let me see him throw, you know, a hunted Let
me see class A at the end of the game.
Even though he's having a down year, I know he's

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gonna bring it at one oh five. And so it's
the eighth one o at one o one at the
at the at the end of the May.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Thinning, I want to see him pitch coming to pitch right.

Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Right, because that's what it's about. It's it's an ultimate
showcase of the league's talent. The is not necessarily guys
who are good. You want to see good players, and
I'm final with the good players being rewarded. That's that's great.
But if you're billing me as you know, Otani and
Judge and all these superstar players, you know, even if
they're having a down year, you still want to see
them on the biggest stage because that's literally the one

(01:24:10):
day of the year there's literally nothing else in the
sports world anybody's watching but the All Star Game. I know,
you want to bring people in that are that are
a draw.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
I'm with you. I'm I'm I'm completely with you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Like I look at it in that in that realm,
like I go, like, go for dynamicism. I mean, let's
go for moments. Yeah, let's let's make it. You gotta
make it special, man, right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
You know, well it helps grow the game too, because
they're gonna be there are gonna be people who are
watching the game on Tuesday night who had never heard
of Mesarowski, but they see him out there and he's
throwing one hundred and one. It's like, oh God, all right,
are the Brewers are playing next Friday and he's starting.
I want to see that game, right, that's what you
want to do. That's the kind of interest you're trying
to garner out of an exhibition like this that casual

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fans who don't usually see a lot of these players
are going to be able to watch. That's what you
want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
And you don't have You lost a lot when you
went to interleague play, right, So the All Star Game
itself lost a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
It did. I think it's good. It's still the.

Speaker 4 (01:25:12):
Best of all the professional All Star games, right, but
it's still it's not as special as it was when
it was when they AL and NL didn't play each
other in the regular season.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Right, But you know what I mean, I'm for the
interleague play, so whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
So'm I because I think kids and fans in certain
markets would never get to see any perfect example, Mike
Trout's a Jersey guy, wouldn't The Philadelphia Phillies would never
be able to see Mike Trout No, if not for Innaly.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Play, you know, No, No, it's a shame because they
they you know, even now, like you know, coming in once,
it was still great to see him once in a
couple of years or whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a great point.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
So it's funny because I kind of feel the same
way I think the sports. You know, I agree with
you you said earlier, the pitch clock, I think it worked.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
I think it's it's sped up. It sped it up.
But I mean, you know, I mean the length of
the season.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
And I had this conversation with Phillies fans all the
time about like very fast forward October, right and and.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
They want and I think it's you know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
We've all been footballized, right because in football you could
go you'll know right away, like all right, Like I
got a squad, right, like, and if I have a
good squad, I know I'm going to be the mix, right,
I know, I know they're's. But we in baseball you
want this kind of guarantee when you're a good team,

(01:26:45):
and it's impossible to give it because it's the randomness,
the randomness of how you're playing in October.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
It's impossible to foretell.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
Right, which is the exciting part about it for me,
Like I you can have great teams like the Dodgers
or in years past, the Yankees or the Phillies have
the best record in all the baseball then all of
a sudden, they get eliminated in the first round. And
this happens all the time. It's the reason why we
haven't had a repeat champion in twenty six years in
Major League Baseball. It's really difficult to do. And you

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mentioned the randomness above any other sport. So the regular season,
all you do is put in the regular season is
put yourself in the best position possible to have a
good playoff run. But it doesn't guarantee you anything. And
I think that's what makes baseball so good is the
fact that you can't predict what's gonna happen. You can
have these pseudo dynasties like the Dodgers who've been to
a handful of World Series over the past twelve years,

(01:27:39):
but they've only won two. You know, I think that's
I think that's actually a good thing for the sport.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Yeah, I do too, and I but also it makes
it hard for the fan to wrap our arms around
like what's gonna happen?

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
True?

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
And I go, could you get a bat? Like they go,
you need a back.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Can leverage piece, and he needed a bat and I go, yeah,
I should. That's a lot of teams.

Speaker 4 (01:28:05):
Who doesn't, so that's yeah, that's right. Everybody's shopping list right,
like like that's there.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Everybody's looking bullpen late innings, yep, and everybody could always
using another bat. And you go, all right, even get that,
like I've seen the times where you got a guy
and a hundred pence they going and got a hundred
pence in the deadline in twenty eleven and didn't do
anything in the playoffs. He goes to the Giants, He's like,
mister October, I mean, dude's said, randomness of how you like,

(01:28:34):
are you hitting?

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Are you are you hot? Like that's that's a very
real thing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Yeah, that's just something that can't be measured. That's who's
who's hot at the right time. You know, the talent
gap isn't as wide as you think. And even if
it is wide, all it takes because baseball is basically
just an individual sport wrapped up or a team sport
wrapped up. In individual matchups, it's the picture and it's
the hitter. So if that picture is on on a
given night, you can have Oltani followed by Judge, followed

(01:29:03):
by Prime a Rod followed by Bonds, and if a
picture is on, he's more on through all of them,
and that happens sometimes, yeah, you know, and that's something
you can't really account for. And sometimes it's a superstar pitcher,
you know, and sometimes it's a guy that comes out
of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Yeah, no, that's exactly it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
So we've reached this point, which is always the like
the deadest period of time. Yeah, right, like baseball. You know,
everything's dark on Monday, the dog days of summer, right
on Wednesday. Right, We've reached this point, and you know,
which is why we're doing top ten positionless. Correct, that's
the time in the NFL because we got to talk football.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
Yeah, we can't ask the question of whether or not
per Ro should be in the Hall of Fame because
that's likely going to happen now, So that's going to
be off the table as a mid July discussion topic.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
But you know what, you know, what's interesting is this
window over the last month, it's been about other sports,
the non traditional and I'm just curious, is there any
other sport that you found yourself kind of cleaving too?
So you had you got Wimbledon, right, which is going

(01:30:13):
on now with the finals, you've had, Uh, people love
the f one, right, the club World Cup soccer was
in the States and the finals tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Uh. You got Nascar, you got golf.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
Has there been any other any other event or slash
sport that's had you like like, because we're all like,
I don't know about you, but until college football comes,
I'm like, my weekends I didn't they don't revolve around
watching games.

Speaker 4 (01:30:44):
Yeah. Uh oh, that's how it's been for me. So
I have not really and it's a it's a personal
thing for me because I have a son now and
I'm doing a lot of things with him and some
of his friends and my family and all that. So
I'm kind of getting all of that in now knowing
that it's going to be grind once football season starts.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
So, I've been knee deep in Major League Baseball obviously,
but I haven't really had a lot of time to
dive into a bunch of the other, you know, the
other sports who were I didn't know if we called you,
And I'm just curious, No, not really like the F
one vibe, the F one hype. I feel like I
missed fors for whatever reason. I know it got really
big during COVID because it was one of the only
sports that was still going on, and you had the
Netflix documentary. I kind of missed the boat on jumping

(01:31:25):
on that one, so that never really brought me in.

Speaker 5 (01:31:27):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
The Club World Cup is cool for sure, but I
still am still lagging a lot when it comes to
soccer outside of you know, the national team here and there.
So my focus really outside of family stuff at least
when it comes to sports, has really just been Major
League Baseball at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
And you know, it's funny because like I'm I'm in
the same now. I like, I've really got into the
Club World Cup soccer because the World Cup's gonna be
unbelievable next year.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
No, it's gonna be so fun.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
And we have it in my city, so like where
like you know so who we're amping up or work
with all the people, and we're doing stuff on my
network with it, and it's really interesting. Right, It's just
got that kind of cool you know, the Internet. I
like the way they celebrate like worst geeks, right, so
every week we gather and we geek out and talk

(01:32:20):
about our sports. The one thing that I think that
they're they're they have it better than us, is they
celebrate differently like they they chance they're wild.

Speaker 4 (01:32:35):
Yeah, And we got a little bit of this, uh
in the World Baseball Classic, because baseball for years has
just been so you know, workmen like and you're quiet,
and you stand up and clap and you wave to
the and when Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic, those crowds,
it was a soccer vibe. They're singing songs and banging
drums and throwing confetti in the air and it's the
middle of the third inning. Like it's like there's nothing

(01:32:57):
necessarily special going on. There's a level of passion. Well
when it comes to soccer too, even if you just
talk about clubs, there's just a connection between the club
and the city. They're almost one and the same, no
matter how bad the team is. You know, it's it's
just a different vibe. It doesn't seem as, for lack
of a better term, corporate, It seems like it's more personal.

(01:33:19):
It's a feeling it has almost like the college football
vibe is kind of is what I It would be
the probably the closest North American comparison. I would have.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Spot on, Yeah, spot on, spot on, But and that
and that's why you know, it's funny because that's why
as we should here today, we got our eye out
because there's nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
You know, I Wimbledon.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
I used to like tennis a lot more, you know,
and I why you know, I'll probably put it on
a little bit like and again predicated on family.

Speaker 4 (01:33:52):
Time, like we have to work around.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
I got practice today and I got you know, I'm
going to South Carolina and they play month day. Another
little league stuff going on tomorrow and probably Monday Tuesday,
and we have this other tournament for the travel baseball
and then we start football and I helped coach that
and so you know all that stuff. But I'm just
talking about our sports fan side of us, right And

(01:34:15):
I like, you know, tennis, I like the majors in golf,
Joe w n b A. I just don't have time
to devote to it. Like I I missed that, like
when everybody jumped on the w n b A and
I just you know, I missed it. And like you

(01:34:36):
know how you feel like when you miss something you're
just now you become aggressively out correct.

Speaker 4 (01:34:44):
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. That's kind of
me on f one it like I missed, I missed
I could have jumped on the train. It has now
passed me by. I will never catch up, no matter
how fast I chase after it. So you know what,
I'm just I'm a thousand percent out of it. I
respect it by all means. It's huge. I'm glad it
has a giant wave of fans, but it's just it's
not me.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
Right right, And that's kind of like that's where I'm
at with the w NBA. I don't know where you are,
but that's kind of where I'm at.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
I'm in and out when I'm on the W. It's
like it's one of those I know what's happening to
on a very elementary level, but I don't follow the
day in and day out.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
Right. It's one of those you know, I've watched some
Summer League but I've.

Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
Never been a huge Summer League guy, to be honest,
just in general, whether it's my team or not, because
there's just very little that you can glean from it.
I know, like I you know, I watched Cooper Flag
and you know, like I watched that first game the
Flag just to you know, to see him for the
first time in a semi NBA environment. Uh, But well,
is it gonna be appointment viewing to watch his next

(01:35:45):
matchup whenever that is probably not. No, I have no
idea when Dallas' next game is, and I'm probably not
gonna sit down and make an appointment appointment viewing to
make sure I see it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
No important enough, No I I I'll probably I'm probably
a little bit more then you like. I like I
got interested in Harper, Yeah, you know, I mean these
guys got interested, like the Sixers have sat Edgecomb because
of the thumb right, which I still go, come on, dude,
is it a load? Man?

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
Here we go with another guy with a finger injury.

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
I know, I mean couple Like if it's it's an
a cool foot, I go, all right, But.

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
There's an element that you don't want to push a
guy out there in summer league.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
You know. I I agree, I don't want to be right.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
To training camp. But I'm seeing these guys in like
training camp and preseason games agree more so than summer
league games. You know, I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
But I but right now, like I look around before,
here's the thing, like, once preseason comes around, you can't
find me because I got got football going on right right,
Like that's kind of where it is.

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
That's what sucks for the NBA because there's really nowhere
for them to find their.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
I gotta I gotta ask you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
And for the life of me, I don't know why
they opted to go back to this schedule because they
had a DA had it done after COVID. Why in
the world, I just don't understand this. You should start
the NBA season on MLK Day. It's the perfect day
to launch the league. It's a holiday, it's a Monday.

(01:37:20):
It's your day, all right. You just saw you got
overtaken by Christmas, all right? Like the NFL. Wait, yeah,
you can't do New Year's you got you know college football, right,
MLK Day. It's a Monday, start of a week, and
make it special. Everybody plays right now. You start the

(01:37:42):
season then and then you own this summer. Like right now,
we wouldn't be talking about F one Wimbledon, we'd be
talking NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:37:51):
And basically because the ABA is about an eight and
a half months season if you count the postseason, so
you'd be at the tail end of the regular season
at this point in time, but gear up for the postseason.
So it makes sense. To be honest with you, I know,
A big issue back in the day, was that, Well,
you know, the NBA, it's an indoors It's not that
you know, people don't want to be inside. It's summer.

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You want to be out best why baseball is a
summer sport. But at a certain point in time, you
know you're trying to fight for your position, You're trying
to fight for your lot in the sports world. You're
losing to college football, you're losing to the NFL. The
start of your season is losing to Major League Baseball's
postseason in October or in early November for the World Series.
So it makes a lot of sense to me. I

(01:38:32):
don't think they'll ever do it, but if you want
to fight for your own spot, that would be the
time to do it. And then if you need to
take an Olympic break every four years and so be it.
But it makes the most sense to me for your plan.
I hadn't heard that before. Most people say Christmas Day,
But the problem is Christmas Day, to your point, the
NFL takes it over and you're still you're at the
very end of the the NFL regular season, so you're

(01:38:54):
still going to be engulfed by that. So it's best
to just wait, you wait until Mlkday. You're in the MLB,
or you're in the NFL playoffs, you're in the college
football playoff. It's a nice way warm up to get
your juices flowing for the start of the NBA season.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
That makes I mean, you could do a whole Gough
week and make it fun, make the regular season interesting.
And then the other thing I think, like like used
to be, like you said before, summertime was never a
time for TV watching, so nobody wanted to be on

(01:39:30):
in the summer, right, But that's changed, vices having everything
available and all the time. Our culture, which is so
sports heavy, has changed. There's a demand for something else
in the summer. And you put hoops next to baseball,
it'll work. And look, you know it's it isn't It

(01:39:50):
is a summer game, right, even though you're playing indoors.
Who it's not like it's hockey where hockey needs to be,
you know, in the in the fall over winter.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
Yeah, anything, it's like, hey, you know what, I'm sweating
my ass off here in the middle of July. Let's
go to an air conditioned basketball stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Exactly are you kidding me? I mean, you know, I don't.
For the life of me, I don't. And then you
run the and you can have the finals go on
right around Labor Day.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
How great is that? To be perfect? You know, we
just get Adamsilver on the phone with Anthony Argano. How
do we set that up?

Speaker 2 (01:40:24):
Set that up now, Fellas, back to football next right here.

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Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
That easy King aunt with you. Uh, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
My man tastes to get Dom checks in. It hits
your boy. He loves you. He loves you. He's making
great progress. Uh uh, Well he's had some health issues,
but he's back walking and getting strong.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
So yeah, yeah, we're fired up.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Well, we were talking because he was telling me about
He's like, listen, here's a huge fight in September coming
up Canelo and uh and Terrence Crawford in September. And
I'm like, you know what, like if I were by,
like if I with these leagues, like now's the time

(01:42:03):
to shake up everything.

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
We just got to talk about the NBA, right, Like
if I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
Boxing, why am I gonna do something in September and
fight with football?

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
Like? You got these summer months, you gotta put them
the use.

Speaker 4 (01:42:18):
Yeah, I mean you typically would have a lot of
you know, you would have some big fights in summer
in June and May. Single DeMaio was always a big
saper boxing.

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
May, June, September, October. We're always They used to be
that way.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
Right, So that's a good point. You're just gonna end
up getting lost. You have a big fight on a
Saturday night at done whatever, nine pm Eastern. I mean
there's games and a lot of times important college football
games going on at that point in time. You're want
to get lost in the monck No, and.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
Like we just haid July fourth, right, Like if we
told about the NBA, we talked about going to the
NBA in summertime.

Speaker 3 (01:42:52):
Imagine what you could do.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
With NBA, Like if you're the NBA or you have
a big July four boxing card at night fireworks America,
Like what you could do with that stuff? Like are
these guys I don't understand what they do? They don't
think about this well?

Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
And you brought up a phenomenal point last segment, and
it rings true the fact back in the day, no
one wanted to do anything during the summer because they
didn't think they get eyeball because people are traveling and
doing a bunch of things. But within travel got people
have iPads and laptops and phones where you can watch
You can stream anything at any time from anywhere. If
there's something that you want to see badly enough, you can,

(01:43:32):
you know, sneak off into a corner room at the
hotel and watch it on your laptop for an hour
before you rejoin your your your fan, your kids or whatever.
At the pool, you know, or if you're sitting out
there and there's a pool bar or something. They can
turn the TV on and you can watch it while
you're on vacation. Like the world is different now than
it was twenty thirty even, you know twenty thirty years ago.

(01:43:53):
Anything and everything can be consumed at a moment's notice
no matter where you are.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
And by the way, out with most of this country,
the weather in the summer is horrendous, right right, Like
it's either like like, if you're in Phoenix, do you
want to go to what Sun's game? Or you want
to sit out and fry at one hundred and eighteen
degree weather?

Speaker 4 (01:44:15):
Yeah, you're staying at home anyway, of course you're you're
doing whatever you're doing, it's going to be indoors. So
and if you're gonna be indoors, chances art is probably
gonna be a TV and maybe some of some beverages
or two.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
I mean truthfully, the best weather now is in the
spring and fall the fall, right, No, right, Like you
know what's best time going to Florida. You'll go to
Florida spring and fall. Man, it's the best, Like you
think about you know the weather period. I mean, if
you're on vacation, Hey, that's the sports has become a

(01:44:49):
family thing, right, It's it's it's something you do together.

Speaker 3 (01:44:54):
You don't watch TV. There are no shop like I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
Know, like you're young, your young family, but I don't
know many families that watch shows together.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
They watch sports together.

Speaker 4 (01:45:08):
Right, And because the families are and I don't say
this in a bad way, but fractured because mom's watching
one thing and the dad's watching something and the kids
in the corner on his iPad watching something else, all
on three separate streaming platforms. Like it's that's just the
world that we live in now. Because back back in
the day, when you add five networks and must see
Thursday and whatever it was and this on Monday night,

(01:45:31):
there was nothing else on, so you kind of had
to huddle around and do it that way. You don't
have to do that now now that everything's on demand
and everybody have different has different interests that could be
tapped in any way, shape and form on all these
different apps. You know, everybody can do whatever they want.
They caters to them. But if you are sports fans,
if you are all ego fans, that's one thing you

(01:45:51):
guys can all come together on and watch together as
a as a unit that's pretty much the only thing
left that you can do. That's when it comes to
TV viewing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Yes, family unit is is built around sports. Now, I'm
telling you, I see it. And the only one who
gets it is the NFL. The NFL is the only
entity that understands this. I truly believe. I don't I

(01:46:20):
don't know why these other these other sports just don't
understand it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
They don't like like the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Again, the NBA, it screams like, you imagine what you
could do on a July you have everybody play July
four and we celebrate America and we have July four unis, right,
And so you're down the beach and yeah, you might
be able to beach during today or whatever you're doing,
but you're checking the game and you're everybody's gonna get

(01:46:50):
together and people be watching together, and wow, I'm gonna
know Junie's like, could you imagine they're gonna they'll have
the July America Special and every team had July fourth
take on it on your unis.

Speaker 4 (01:47:03):
That'd be cool. I guess the only the only pushback
to it would be And maybe this is just the
NBA's response to Well, the NFL did it to us
if the NBA is mooching on Major League Baseball's you
know spot, because Baseball usually owns the summer, and now
all of a sudden, here comes to the NBA. So
now you're now ejected yourself from a fight with the NFL,

(01:47:24):
but now you're injecting yourself into a fight with Major
League Baseball. And unlike the NFL, where it's a couple
of days a week, I mean, Baseball is in everyday sport.
Basketball is in everyday sport to a certain degree. Every
team plays, you know, three games a week, four games
a week, So that that dynamic could be interesting because now,
depending on the city that you're in, you're fracturing fan
bases because now I have to choose, am I going

(01:47:46):
to see the Sixers or am I going to see
the Phillies. Am I going to see the Lakers the Clippers?
Or am I going to see the Angels or the Dodgers?
And maybe that's maybe that's part of the equation too.
I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't know. I don't I
don't see that really as that big of this year.

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
No, nah, I mean I get your point, because it's
still an entertainment dollar that you're looking at.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
But ultimately, you know, you.

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
Just want if an entertainment dollars gonna eat into itself
because there are people who are diehard Laker fans and
diehard Dodger fans, and if I told them you gotta
pick one, it might be hard for some people.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
Yeah, but you know, you know how it is, like
you could you if it's not playoffs, right, if it's
Lakers playoffs, They're gonna take Lakers playoffs over Dodgers playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:48:32):
Yeah what yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:48:33):
Which is how this always worked well. The crossover. Now
that's how it works. It's like the people that would
go to, you know, a Laker game will just or
a Dodger playoff game will say, you know what, I
can miss the Lakers first, you know, five seven games
of the regular season while I'm riding out the Dodger
postseason run. It's different if both leagues are knee deep
in the middle of their regular seasons at the exact

(01:48:53):
same time. I think that makes it just a little
bit tougher of a proposition. It actually makes it easier
if once if one league is in a postseason and
the others in the regular season, the decision is almost
made for you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
Yeah, point yeah, And I guess I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
I would run the season and I would have the
finals end, uh like around Labor Day, right, so that weekend,
which I don't know, what's what's the problem that they
run through Memorial Day and into June, Like why not
just go into go into Labor Day?

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:49:27):
Look, it makes sense, you know, especially again if you
want to if you're continually getting muscled out by college
football in the NFL and want to find your own space.
I'll say this, I would like my chances better against
Major League Baseball than I would against against football. So
if you're if you're just talking about how the how
the matchup stacks up, that makes the most sense to me.

(01:49:47):
So I will take my chances in going ahead to
a with Major League Baseball my regular season versus theirs.
Then the NFL going up against mine.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Yep, yep, you know you know what you know? I
just saw that. Chefty just had a tweet the Chargers
rookies report today.

Speaker 4 (01:50:05):
I did see that earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:50:09):
Dude. All right, yeah, there.

Speaker 4 (01:50:11):
The Hall of Fame game practices are now starting. That's
what it is for the Hall of Fame Game participants.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Y yes, yes, yes, I mean I like the Charges
this year.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
By the way, Oh, I think they'll be amazing. Some
people are still concerned about the fact that they didn't
necessarily address the receiver position as much as they could have.
But amrio on Hampton, I love. I think he's going
to be amazing for them, Harbaugh and your two defensively,
I think they're going to be better. It would not
surprise me at all. And I feel like I've been
saying this for three years now if the Chargers win

(01:50:42):
the AFC West, but at least I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
I agree now can't see Kansas City, so whatever, but
I'm with you. Although did you see uh this talk
about my home being fat?

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
That's so ridiculous, Like why where did that come from?

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
From this Kansas City radio host? And I don't know
what he looks like, so I don't want to make
you know, fun of his comparisons forget it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
But like he's not fat, Like I sell the picture
like what are you knuts? No, I expect like you
put all like forty pounds right, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
Like, we looks it looks fine.

Speaker 4 (01:51:21):
He probably he has a little bit better than a
dad bod. But again, like he's a quarterback, Like, what
kind of physic what kind of physique do you think
quarterbacks should have? Do you want to crime Dwight Howard
with giant shoulders and big blockie, Like, that's not how
that's not how they're built.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:51:36):
You have to be fluid, you have to be agile,
you have to all of which he still has. By
the way, he hasn't lost anything. So if he has,
if you want to say he has quote unquote a
bad body, sure, but to say that he's fat and
he's out of shape and he's been eating nuggets, I
highly doubt that this this radio host knows any idea
of what Mahomes is or isn't doing in the off season.
I'll say this, It was good enough to drag a

(01:51:58):
Kansas City offense to the super Bowl last year. So
whatever he's doing is working. So when I saw that
take this week, I thought it was totally ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
Yeah, I thought the same thing. I'm like, what are
you nuts?

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Like, well of want people to go after You're gonna
go after Patrick Mahomes, right, Like that's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:52:17):
He's not He's not trying to get get ready to
be on stage for like, you know, a bodybuilding competition.
I know it's a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
I know. I saw that this week, and I'm like,
are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
You see Tom Brady's physique over his career, yeah, I
mean come on, yeah, especially before he went into his
maniacal diet.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
Yeah, before he started eating avocado tacos and all that
stuff or whatever he was doing. Yeah, and even with that,
you know, he was He's never been some sort of
physical Adonis because you know what, it doesn't matter. He's
in shape for what he needs to be in shape
for for the position that he needs to play.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
Yeah. I need to understand that at all.

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
If if Patrick Mahomes was a defensive end and he
had a physique like that, they'd be like, all right,
maybe maybe needs to do some work.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
But that's what's wrong. But that's what's wrong with with
the media.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
Like when you're when you're taking cheap shots at Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Or ridiculous note, I mean, that's what, that's what.

Speaker 2 (01:53:14):
That's why the media gets no respect sometimes because stuff
like that.

Speaker 4 (01:53:17):
You try to be a hot take artist, you know,
like there's i mean, someone on this Network earlier this week,
you know, had to take about DeAndre Ayton saying that
he's just as good as Nicola Yokich and some of
the other great big men in the league. Oh my god,
Oh yeah, totally ridiculous. There's no way that this host
knew that it was ridiculous when he said it. But

(01:53:38):
wantes he get headlines? Why does it get clicks? That's
the reason why they did it. And that's the one
thing about our industry that I that I hate.

Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
Yeah, if you have a hot take to me to
game that correct. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
I didn't get into it to be a song with
dance man, you know what I mean? Like I I
got into it because I like to talk about the sports,
not with it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
We are lives anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
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It, but she loves Figgy and it's funny. I like
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Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
Her like, by the way, what happened with that?

Speaker 2 (01:54:51):
Why would somebody say DeAndre eight and is just like jok,
like what fight?

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
And then she would get fired up. I love it? Yeah,
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
Yeah, pretty ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:55:01):
Take Yeah, come on, man, stop stop with that anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
Uh So I wouldn't hit to hit you with this
because I'm looking and we've always talking about schedules and everything,
so I look at week zero.

Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
Yes, we're about a month away from week zero.

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
Absolutely, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
It's not bad so but it could be awesome. So
why wouldn't you make week zero like some ridiculous like
party like bring, make it bring. Especially now that the
playoffs are expanded, you could play other teams, You can

(01:55:50):
have some fun. You could go to different places, you know,
like can you imagine some of these you know you
can have like and State play USC by the beach.

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
Yea man, Well, so here's the interesting game. You're right,
So here's the interesting thing to me because by expanding
the postseason and we're still having debate test to what
the postseason the field is going to look like the
five plus eleven automatic bits for the big ten in
the SEC, or whether it's going to be eleven at
largers or whatever. The more expanded the postseason is, the

(01:56:30):
less important the regular season is, which means you can
actually get more compelling matchups in the regular season because
those games don't mean as much. But that's a really
tough like, Yeah, okay, who else wouldn't love to see
LSU take on I don't know, USC or something or
Ohio State to open the week open the season. Well,
if you know, if you lose that game, it doesn't
really affect you that much. How much meaning doesn't really

(01:56:53):
have other than the fact that, oh, it's cool to
see these two teams play. That's the hard part that
I'm wrestling with when it comes to that. So, the
the field has expanded, which lessens the pressure on teams
to schedule boldly. But if you're scheduling boldly and playing
these big games, how big are the games if they
don't ultimately matter when it comes to whether or not
you make the playoffs? Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (01:57:13):
Yeah, it makes perfect sense. It does. It makes perfect sense.

Speaker 4 (01:57:17):
So that's that's the part that I juggle with. One
thing I liked about college football to a certain degree
is that the regular season largely was the playoffs, you know,
because if you lost in one or two games, your
season wasn't shambles. Now, granted, that's a lot of pressure
to put on college kids, but there was something special
about the regular season that's gonna be lost just a
little bit, just a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
The thing is because that you had the cupcake schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
That is true, You're right, So this give and take
on both sides on that the cut.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
And there was also that thing that was unfair that
if the loss happened like Labor Day, it could be huged.
But the loss happened in October, it was death sentence, right.

Speaker 4 (01:58:01):
Which is all which was never fair. A loss is
a loss, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:04):
And the other thing I hated was the randomness of.

Speaker 3 (01:58:10):
Basically a poll.

Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
Yeah, polls, computers.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
All that. I mean, that was horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
Yeah well you think, yeah, No, I was gonna say,
just he used to drive me. No, It's like again,
even when they picked to four, I mean, we had
to go, we had to go for years and years
to get to that, and that's not enough.

Speaker 4 (01:58:33):
No, And I like the fact that the little guy
actually is going to have a legitimate opportunity to see
what they can do. Now, maybe they'll get run off
the field nine times out of ten, but every now
and then they'll come up and bite somebody, which is
what the playoffs is all about. So expanding to sixteen
and having a chance for conference champions from lower levels
to be able to come in and compete and have
a chance to make the postseason, I think it was
grateful the sport as a whole, as opposed to just

(01:58:55):
being closed off to a Power four or Power five.

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
Yeah, yes, And I still think, like I think it's great,
And I think, listen, a regular season. You know what
college football was, it was a kid to baseball not
having any tier playoff tier correct.

Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
As you go straight to the World Series the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Yeah, Like I don't know, I want a playoff because
I think teams change, they more they grow together, especially
in college listening in football where you're you need to
grow as a team, Like you got to give freshman
a chance to kind of get integrated.

Speaker 4 (01:59:34):
Yeah, rare are teams the same and opening week as
they are the last week of the season, teams definitely
change and evolve and get better.

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
Yeah right, So I think playoffs like I love where
it's at. I won't go'll get into it, but I
love where college football is at. Fellas hanging out right here.
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I don't think I've heard that one before.

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Yeah, roughed them up a little bit.

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Uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:01:50):
It's funny that, you know what, there's something special up
baseball and that you could be like corny hokey and
it works.

Speaker 4 (02:01:57):
Yeah. Oh yeah, there's always been you're gonna put them
on the board and you know, stuff like that. Yeah,
hometown calls. I mean looks for broadcasters too, you know.
So they got to have a little bit of fun
with it, you know, every now and then. So I
got no problem with it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:12):
Yeah, you know, you know, it's funny. So I covered
it as a writer, right, Oh my god, I never
forget like you're covered it. I covered the Mets one
year and they were horrible and it was it was
so bad, like you're it's all I never forget.

Speaker 3 (02:02:31):
Uh, I can picture it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:33):
I was in Saint Louis and it's in August day.
It's like a thousand degrees on the field right, like
you're literally where your feet were burning. Like the guys
had to wear two socks. It's like because they heat
on the turf at Bush Stadium was just dancety. And
I'm like, and there are whatever at games out of

(02:02:56):
first place buried, and like you have to write about
that stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
And I used to try to amuse.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
Myself coming up with different stupid things.

Speaker 3 (02:03:07):
Yeah, hard day.

Speaker 2 (02:03:08):
One day I wrote, I wrote, I use all the
lyrics from Sympathy for the Devil in the story of
the of the because they lost again and it was
like everything was raveling and I was like the Devil's
loose in the Mets clubhouse, and you.

Speaker 3 (02:03:28):
Know, so that was the whole story.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
I didn't use myself by coming up with with you know, with.

Speaker 4 (02:03:33):
Stories, You're right, you have to at that point in time,
because what else do you do. You can only say, yeah,
they lost again eight to one for the fifteenth straight night.
You know, like if you're so if you're covering the
Colorado Rockies who are thirty three games out of first
place and there's still a whole half of the season
left to go, Oh, you gotta get fun, you gotta creative.
You gotta at some point try to entertain yourself or

(02:03:53):
entertain the audience in a unique way, because you can't
just write a standard game story every single when the
same thing keeps happening.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
No, And you know, right, because at that point the
baseball doesn't matter, right, Like nobody cares about the game,
Like you know, nobody's watching it over reading about it.
So yeah, no, that's that's a that's a long haul,
really a long haul.

Speaker 3 (02:04:17):
I got a couple of unfinished business. We did not.

Speaker 2 (02:04:21):
Finish our top ten tight ends, which I do want
to get into. And I told you about week zero
right now. The uh it's interesting the air Lingus game.
That's the game in Dublin in Ireland, that's Iowa State
in Kansas state, and like that's a legitimate game.

Speaker 4 (02:04:40):
Yeah, yeah, conference game, right, you know like.

Speaker 2 (02:04:43):
That, I mean, that's that's I mean, that's start that
kicks off week zero, Saturday, August twenty third. I got
two just major college football, quite like big picture college
football questions.

Speaker 3 (02:04:56):
All right, give me two teams.

Speaker 2 (02:05:00):
That come out of I don't say nowhere, but that
you're the most bullish on, and two teams that you
think are going to be the most disappointing. Oh wow,
I love ped State. I'm like, I don't know how
you feel about them, but they had a great recruit

(02:05:22):
recruit recruiting class.

Speaker 3 (02:05:24):
They bring back aller.

Speaker 4 (02:05:25):
They in fact aller State I think was a good
decision on his part.

Speaker 2 (02:05:29):
Way very good decision, and they got a receiver. Now
he loses Warren who was a great tight end, but
he's going to get some weapons and he's got Singleton back, right,
so he's got great running backs and he has a
couple of young receivers to throw to.

Speaker 4 (02:05:44):
Now, Yeah, I'm I mean it's probably a cop out
to say I'm bullish on Texas. Who has the top
recruiting class, dominates transfer portal. I mean, I feel like
that's an obvious one.

Speaker 3 (02:05:55):
Well, they're the lock of all locks, right.

Speaker 4 (02:05:58):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't know where Tennessee actually
falls now, especially after they lost to Ia Maliava doing
the transfer portal, but they still have a really good team.
And it's not like he let the world on fire
last year anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:06:11):
Uh No, in fact as a disappointment.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
Right, So I'm wondering if they actually have a better
season than people are assuming that they will because they
lost I maliave in the transfer portal, but because they
still have a lot of talent, I still think they're
going to have a good year and are going to
be a playoff team. So they're probably a team that
I'm bullish on that a lot of people are probably
backing off of a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
I like that a lot like I think that's I
think that's a that's a good Now give me two
teams that you think are going to be disappointing.

Speaker 4 (02:06:45):
I hate to say it because I like Caitlyn de Boor,
but I think Alabama might take a step back this year.
They already have been the last couple of years under
his tenure. Uh, you lose Milroe at quarterback. They look
they have good recruits and and and transfers coming into
but I think it's gonna be tough sledding for them
this year. So they're well, They're one team that I

(02:07:05):
think takes a bit of a step back this year.
I hate to say Arizona State because they're a former
Pac twelve and they made the playoff last year. But
I don't know, I think you have to, right, Yeah,
I don't think they can have they can replicate what
they did last season, So they're probably one who I
think a lot of people are saying, oh, look what

(02:07:27):
Arizona State. They came out of nowhere. Now they're going
to be better. I don't know if that's necessarily true.

Speaker 2 (02:07:31):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. Let's go through quickly a
little overview of these teams. So obviously you mentioned Texas
as a team you like the most. They're gonna be
number one team in the country. That arch is it
finally gets the gig. I mean, I still do you

(02:07:52):
remember last year? We still you were like, still could
get over that you got the ball at the goal
line and he's not on the field.

Speaker 3 (02:08:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:08:03):
It was very odd, odd odd decision making.

Speaker 2 (02:08:06):
Their right and the play calling like you're going to
go side, you're not going to go forward? Oh my god,
I sorry, I still can't get over to me. That
was the play of.

Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
The whole season.

Speaker 3 (02:08:24):
Geez, what do you.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
Know about Julian saying, who will be the quarterback from
uh at Ohio State the red shirt freshmen transferred from Alabama.

Speaker 4 (02:08:36):
Very little, if I'm to be completely honest with you.
But if he's good enough to go to Ohio State,
I think they know a thing or two about getting
talented players and pumping them out into the pros. So
my guess is he's gonna have just as good of
a year as everyone previously has had the last couple
of seasons. That includes Will Howard, who we talked about
last year didn't even have that great of a season.

(02:08:57):
Hist line looked good, but I mean Will Howard didn't
necessarily wow good enough to get them to a national
championship though.

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
So how about Georgia, because Georgia will be probably top
five for sure, definitely Gunner stocked it. It'll be Gunner
Stockedon's team. Yep, had a little cup of coffee last year.
Look talented, look good, looks a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:09:23):
I will say the moment was a little too big
for him a couple of times last year when he played,
but he also wasn't expected to play, so I can't
necessarily hope that against him. But I mean, I feel
like the same power brokers, and this is something Deon
Sanders talking about at Big twelve media days this year.
Are gonna be there now if and he said it's
because they should be a salary cap because the biggest
schools can pay all the guys. Which, by the way,

(02:09:44):
it's always been that way. Nothing's changed, So it's just
above board now, that's all it is. This is no
different than college football has been. When Dion played at
Florida State, it was this way, so nothing's changed. So yeah,
so I think the the same principal figures. You're Georgia's,
Ohio State, Notre Dame, Oregon, Texas with Penn State going

(02:10:05):
in there at the top, in the top five, I
believe you know, those are gonna be kind of like
your your heavy hitters, and I really think it's kind
of wide open after that. I think as you start
getting into six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, I
think it's gonna be wide open. I do think BYU
losing rest laugh is gonna be.

Speaker 3 (02:10:22):
Is a it's a huge loss, huge loss.

Speaker 4 (02:10:25):
I know there was controversial.

Speaker 2 (02:10:26):
I like you like Oregon, I mean obviously going to
see what Dante Moore could be a quarterback, but I
you know, I mean they're they're stocked.

Speaker 4 (02:10:35):
Yeah, they're actually they are.

Speaker 3 (02:10:37):
They're good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:10:38):
I mean Mario Cristobaul late the foundation of building offensive lines,
and they've they've just continued that. Defensively, they've gotten a
lot better. And they also don't have the hardest schedule.
I don't believe they play I can actually pull up
their schedule right now. But off the top of my
head point, they don't really play anybody that tough. So
Montana State, Oklahoma State, both of those are at home

(02:11:00):
and play at Northwestern. You play Oregon State out of conference,
which is a rivalry game at Penn State's gonna be
a tough one. But then you're Indiana, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, USC,
Washington Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:11:15):
So it's not like it's murderers rolling, dude, they're going
to rack up w's.

Speaker 4 (02:11:21):
Yeah. Like, now, Rutgers in Wisconsin or excuse me, Rutgers
and Iowa are on the road, so that's cross country
to Rutgers. Iowa is not the easiest place to play,
but they're in the class of their own talent wise
against those teams, and they play against USC and USC
is I don't know what they're gonna look like this year.
They're kind of up in the air, so it's not
really a hard schedule at all for Oregon. They have

(02:11:42):
an easy path to the playoff if they just take
care of business.

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:48):
Uh, what are you thinking about the Irish?

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
Now? You know you get love comes back? Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:11:56):
Uh. They got this kid, by the way from my
in the woods, a six five corner, Joey O'Brien. And
this kid's took.

Speaker 4 (02:12:09):
Named to go to Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (02:12:10):
So he's unbelievable, right, the kids six', five he's a
corner and he is a.

Speaker 3 (02:12:17):
Receiver and.

Speaker 2 (02:12:20):
What he's this kid's a study's fast as all get,
out really smooth, anyway you gotta love the fact that
he's Going he's going To Notre dame all.

Speaker 4 (02:12:32):
Places some. Ways are we getting like Real Travis hunter vibes?
Here or do you think he's gonna be mostly a
corner and maybe a gimmick receiver.

Speaker 3 (02:12:40):
Or MOSTLY i think mostly a.

Speaker 2 (02:12:44):
Corner, okay we could also probably play some, safety but
he's fast enough to play on the. Outside, uh and
he's got good hips for a tall a tall corner
BUT i mean the kid's. Good the kid could play.
Receiver he could he could play. RECEIVER i, MEAN i
mean with that, size he's got great. Speed you, know good.

(02:13:06):
FAMILY i was told he was mom T shira because
he's gonna the family's gonna come on the. Show SO
i love the highlight the local kids that do great,
things and you, KNOW i love that.

Speaker 3 (02:13:18):
Stuff that's.

Speaker 2 (02:13:19):
Cool that, yeah it's it's. Fun but you, know it
all comes back to the. Quarterback so are they gonna
go with?

Speaker 3 (02:13:27):
THAT C. J? Carr?

Speaker 4 (02:13:29):
PROBABLY i don't really know what The Notre dame quarterback
situation now looks like now this year after Writing leonard's
out so.

Speaker 3 (02:13:36):
RIGHT i, mean it's car or The Kenny minshee, too
who's a.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
SOPHOMORE i don't. Know i'm gonna be an interesting camp
for to your point, though love is.

Speaker 4 (02:13:48):
Back so whoever the quarterback is gonna, be they're not
asking them to be, like they're not asking them to
Be Brady quinn and like save the school or, anything
you know WHAT i, Mean and you, know to be
A heisman winner or anything like. That the way their
offense is, built they're built on running the ball and playing,
defense and they just need a quarterback that's not going
to screw things. Up so they're not going to ask
whoever the quarterback is going to, be they're not going

(02:14:09):
to ask much of. Them so they have that going for.

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
Them, yeah, uh let's go To. Clemson Club nick is, back.

Speaker 4 (02:14:20):
Yep so some draft hype For Club nick from a
lot of. People, yeah you, see they don't see.

Speaker 2 (02:14:26):
It, Either, Dude LIKE i, DON'T i don't that'll know
all the Hype i'll get out of the.

Speaker 3 (02:14:33):
LISLE i gotta say. IT i gotta have a big
year for me to do.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
That so you got Clem, see we'll see if they're
something something About clemson that you're always expected and they're always.
HYPED i mean ever Since dabo had to, run they've been,
hyped right you.

Speaker 4 (02:14:52):
Know, yeah they've gone back to what they were before
they actually started. Winning EVEN i Remember dabbo had that
press conference and he called it. OUT i, said everyone
keeps calling it clemsoning where We're we had all these
big expectations that we never come, through and then they
got over the hump won a couple of national. Championships
now they've reverted. Back they have all the hype they
lose three or four, games and they're right back to

(02:15:13):
being in a you, know a decent, bowl but never
actually on the precipice of winning a championship.

Speaker 3 (02:15:18):
Again, yes, yes, yes your. TEAM i love who's THAT
l S? U oh, YEAH i LOVE. LSH i love Thus.

Speaker 2 (02:15:28):
Byres that's a KID i love and.

Speaker 1 (02:15:32):
Throw and we.

Speaker 4 (02:15:33):
Talked about people who grow from the start of the
season to the end as a personal, example because if you,
remember they opened last year AGAINST usc AND usc owned,
them and Thus meyer did not look good at, all
but as the season went, on they got better and
better and. Better Nus, meyer to your, point is a
guy THAT i like a.

Speaker 3 (02:15:48):
Lot. Dude he could just spin.

Speaker 2 (02:15:51):
It, yes every, Throw oh my, god people get on
from you, know ah, interceptions.

Speaker 3 (02:16:00):
Get the hell out of that kid could spit.

Speaker 5 (02:16:02):
It.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
Man that kids just stuck as all as your boy
keeps you, know doesn't mess Up Brian, kelly as all
as your boy keeps you.

Speaker 3 (02:16:16):
RIGHT i LOVE l S. U i love their.

Speaker 4 (02:16:19):
Talent, yeah AND i would always prefer someone like Ness,
meyer someone who's gonna be, aggressive over someone who's gonna be. Conservative,
ZACH i can't make plays if you're just holding on
to the ball and taking sacks and going three and.

Speaker 3 (02:16:29):
Out you.

Speaker 4 (02:16:29):
Know, yeah that was one of my big criticisms Of
Derek carr as a quarterback for The. Raiders didn't turn
the ball over a, lot but didn't actually make a
lot of big plays when it will was necessary. Either all,
right you take, chances trust your, arm trust your, talent
trust your.

Speaker 3 (02:16:41):
Arm. Man that's, right you know it's our.

Speaker 2 (02:16:44):
Boy gonna give a shout out To Southside, chuck A
Kentucky yo goes To.

Speaker 3 (02:16:50):
Chuck chuck brings up The.

Speaker 2 (02:16:52):
Canes, yeah The Cages kates could Be caid's got a
lot o you got you, know, listen you Get Carson
beck and they got a ton of, talent.

Speaker 4 (02:17:07):
Paid a lot of money For Carson.

Speaker 3 (02:17:09):
Beck. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:17:10):
YEAH i was Never beck's biggest, fan to be honest with,
you AND i always thought that he was a little
more of a. Product his success was more of a
product Of georgia and the talent around him than his individual. Talents, now,
Look miami is not a. Sif they obviously have a
lot of you, know talent. Too so. Nothing it's not
like he's going down to play For Incarnate word or. Something,

(02:17:31):
uh BUT i would just pump the brakes on the
hype On Carson, BECK i would have cautions. Optimism he's
not some sort of, savior even though he's being paid like.
One at least that's my outlook on.

Speaker 3 (02:17:43):
Him, YEAH i.

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
Agree the only thing is Is miami's old.

Speaker 3 (02:17:49):
LINE i think it's gonna be really.

Speaker 4 (02:17:50):
Good oh, yeah that's crystal. Ball that's a given for.

Speaker 2 (02:17:53):
Sure so the fact that he's going to get that
kind of, PROTECTION i Think beck's that kind of kid
that needs. THAT i think if he feels comfortable in the,
POCKET i think he could.

Speaker 3 (02:18:06):
Succeed it's when you see.

Speaker 2 (02:18:08):
Him remember last, year there were times when there was some,
breakdowns and that's when his happy feet and he gets.

Speaker 4 (02:18:15):
Flustered absolutely. Absolutely That Georgia tech game was part of. That,
yeah he ended up coming back and, winning BUT i
mean he was flustered a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (02:18:23):
Game and so because of, that because Of, MIAMI i
think that. LINE i think that line is going to
be like elite. Good SO i think he'll BE i
Think beck will be. FINE i still don't know about
their defense.

Speaker 4 (02:18:37):
Though, yeah, yeah that's that's the big. Thing, well what
helps them is that THE acc isn't necessarily a powerhouse conference,
Either so we're you, know we're talking. Schedules they don't
have the hardest. Schedule uh so they have an easier
path to the playoff, Too So i'm looking at. There
so they Have Notre dame to start the, season which

(02:18:58):
is gonna be a really good. Game But Dune, Cookman South.
Florida your placed on taking On florida And Florida state
and back to back. Weeks Uh, Louisville, STANFORD, Smu, SYRACUSE Nc,
State Virginia. Tech so there's actually a couple of tough
ones in, there, actually now THAT i look at. It
AT smu is not going to be. Easy louisville And
senior last year At Florida state's rivalry never. Easy florda

(02:19:20):
Versus florida rivalry never. Easy SO i don't, know it
could be it could be tough sledding for them this.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Year uh latest One. Michigan m. Hmm, NOW i obviously
it all its, underwood is the, truth you, KNOW i
mean it comes out to. THAT i, Mean i'm curious
about what they're going to look.

Speaker 4 (02:19:45):
Like, yeah saw AM I I and we don't really,
Know like that's the with more you, know first or
second full season as the head coach getting his program
underway in. THERE i Don't i'm NOT i can't say
That i'm not. OPTIMISTIC i, really, honestly this is probably
not the best thing to say on sports talk. RADIO
i really don't know what to. EXPECT i don't.

Speaker 3 (02:20:07):
Like how they played in the ball.

Speaker 2 (02:20:09):
Game that mean they destroyed That Batman milroe, Remember day tortured.

Speaker 4 (02:20:14):
Them they did absolutely. TERRIBLE i don't.

Speaker 2 (02:20:17):
KNOW i, mean If underwood is the, truth like he got, Paid,
yeah you, know.

Speaker 3 (02:20:26):
Now you've got a.

Speaker 2 (02:20:26):
Quarterback i'm curious BECAUSE i think they're gonna be good, defensively.

Speaker 4 (02:20:30):
Ye like you assume their defense is still going to be.
Good that they're not falling off. There it just depends
on what they can do on the offensive side of the.
BALL i hope they're BAT i Think i'm wealthy for
college football when you Know Notre Dame, Michigan Ohio state
AGREED usc who's not right, Now but when teams like
that are, UP i think it's it's good for the.

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Speaker 2 (02:22:31):
Great so let's get, started AND i want to talk
some sports with you before we get into your plates and.
Stuff but we were talking college football and we just
went over really like the top ten to twelve teams
to look at for this coming. Season how do you? Handicaptus? Right,

(02:22:53):
like so when you're looking at you, Know, MIAMI i
get To carson back, right and you're looking at you,
know like A michigan that gets an under, one a
top young rising you know quarterback right right, Right Chris
braid's A michigan. Guy, like how do you handicap the college?

(02:23:14):
Football especially this new version of?

Speaker 3 (02:23:17):
It.

Speaker 5 (02:23:18):
Anthony it's so if you just now that the word
you just, said this version of, it because it is,
Changed like you know what it's, Changing, Anthony it's. Changed
like if you were to you, know if you were
like a time, machine right and like forty years ago
you're watching THE nba and you watch it now you're, like,
oh my, God like the three pointer used to be
like a home. Run now it's like a single, Right

(02:23:39):
like it's just in terms of every like everyone shoots
threes and in terms of the college football the landscape
that's going back even you, know before this whole nil
things started in the transfer, portal it is a completely different.
Sport what you have to do, Is, god you really
have to look at who's getting who in the transfer

(02:23:59):
port who lost what players got. Lost it's almost like
it's it's just it's just a wildlidless it's a lot
more difficult in my opinion to you have to just
be on top of it twenty four to seven because
it does switch and it really has become almost like
it used to be at, least you know, WHAT i

(02:24:21):
was blown. UP i believe you know you you you
played for your university and that that meant. Something now
it's like you're playing for who's offering the most money
for the most.

Speaker 3 (02:24:30):
Part, right, yeah it really is.

Speaker 5 (02:24:32):
You it's definitely a different a different vibe for. Sure but,
look you got to look at the transfer, portal who's doing.
What and it's, funny it's. Interesting you, know this year
the Team anthony AND i got very good numbers on.
Them but a team that has not filved into the
transfer a, portal to my, opinion to their detriment the
last three years has Been, clemson AND i think that's

(02:24:54):
actually hurt. Them BUT i actually think this Year clemson
that they're my. PICK i they're my rated numb one. Team.
Uh the market has followed in suit Since i've been betting.
This THEY i really Like. Clemson that's kind of my
team this. Year AND i also bet the only two
teams have been any futures on A Notre dame In
clemson in terms of winning the. Title, uh those are

(02:25:15):
two teams THAT i like quite a bit for the upcoming.

Speaker 3 (02:25:18):
Season are there.

Speaker 4 (02:25:19):
Any teams that are hovering around the top five or
the assumed top five in college football that you're actually
not that you, know bullet, shown that you think can
actually have a down?

Speaker 5 (02:25:27):
Year oh, geez down?

Speaker 3 (02:25:31):
YEAR i.

Speaker 5 (02:25:32):
NO I, again the teams THAT i kind of think
are good are kind of ranked that. Way. Uh and
so it's, no it's not, that it's it's MORE i
just had a very strong, take LIKE i happen. TO
i Think clemson in terms of their quarterback, PLAY i

(02:25:54):
think it's going to be quite quite quite.

Speaker 2 (02:25:56):
Good so we were just talking about, this brain were
talking about Club, nick AND i, GO.

Speaker 5 (02:26:02):
I think very very GOOD.

Speaker 2 (02:26:04):
I have that's funny you said that thinking AND i
both were like luke warm on.

Speaker 5 (02:26:09):
HIM i don't feel that way at, all right right,
RIGHT i think HE i think Club nick is actually
has a chance to Be you may think this is,
hyperbole like the best college quarterback this, year and then,
wow yeah that's HOW i.

Speaker 2 (02:26:25):
FEEL i, MEAN i, THINK i, mean, LISTEN i think
he's gonna. SHOT i, think you, KNOW i Like smeyer
a ton Like i'll be very. HUGE i love the
way he spins. It uh you, KNOW i think aler
has it has a chance to make a.

Speaker 5 (02:26:44):
Make a big league and he's just it's, funny, GUY
i just go back to. THAT i, MEAN i just
remember watching that game last year Against Notre, dame and,
MAN i JUST i JUST i don't. KNOW i would
have wanted a little bit, more but, uh AND i
just but.

Speaker 3 (02:27:00):
He needed he needed another.

Speaker 2 (02:27:01):
Receiver right, Now he's got a couple of young receivers
THAT i think he can throw.

Speaker 7 (02:27:05):
To.

Speaker 5 (02:27:05):
Now, well it's interesting that they're obviously ranked very, high
and that's a team that has the, goods so to.
Speak BUT i will see this uh as a negative
To Penn. State is WHEN i watched them last, YEAR
i felt like everything about that, team AND i do mean.
Everything we robbed abound the tight end AND i tywarn

(02:27:29):
and to, ME i, Again i'm not trying to overrate
a tight ends. Loss You oh my got just a tight.

Speaker 3 (02:27:36):
End, No, no he wasn't just THAT i agree with that.

Speaker 5 (02:27:38):
Now he.

Speaker 3 (02:27:39):
WAS i, mean, listen he was a wildcat for. YOU
i mean he did a ton of.

Speaker 5 (02:27:43):
Things, yeah AND i AND i feel like again UNTIL
i can see in terms Of Penn state how olur
specifically and that offense will react to not having you,
know minus like with the security, blanket which was which
was the tight end and what he was able to
do last, Year warren was. UNBELIEVABLE i, mean he was

(02:28:05):
terrific AND i think he carried them to where they got.
TO i kind Of i'm just going to need to
see them be able to rise up without him and
show me that against good competition they'll still be able
to score the way everyone thinks they're going to be able.
To i'm just quite not quite there yet in terms

(02:28:26):
of fullid trusting Pend, state even THOUGH i get it,
AGAIN i get why they're ranked where they, are and
obviously they should be really. Good BUT i think that
loss is just going to be a pretty big.

Speaker 4 (02:28:37):
One if we can stick the. Football but moved to THE.
Nfl anthony AND i brought up earlier talking about THE
Afc west and The, chargers AND i, Said i'm bullet
on The chargers this, year AS i have in the
last couple of, seasons AND i think they have a
good shot of de throwing In Kansas city and winning the.
Division what say you when it comes to?

Speaker 5 (02:28:55):
That, oh were you looking at my betting? Slips there we?

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
Go that's, right, Yeah and.

Speaker 4 (02:29:01):
HOW i feel good about myself That brad agrees with
my ticket's tired.

Speaker 5 (02:29:06):
Now my biggest bet was on The charges to the one.
DIVISION i made two smaller. BETS i got good numbers
on both. THESE i got an amazing number On denver as.
Well the market Of sin's going down a, lot AND
i even fit in honor of, you an honor of,
you put on My Genos Smith jersey put all my
ass and Jen Z jersey made a small bet on

(02:29:28):
The raiders even it was Hue. Jobs tiny, bet tiny
bet just to break even on My chargers and what
you'll call And broncos that to win the. DIVISION i
just don't think it's going to be The. Chiefs although then,
again the eleventh commandment IS i go against The, chiefs
And i'm proven wrong every. YEAR i admit. It Uh
so can take this with a grain of. SALT i
paid The chiefs constantly and they just keep doing. IT

(02:29:51):
i will tell you, this there was a great bet
you're talking about The. RAIDERS i think it's an incredible.
Bet one thing THAT i think the people who set
these lines don't get quite as. RIGHT i think the
smartest people in the world in terms of like prop
debts and stuff like, that and are the high end fantasy.
Community and if you look at the fantasy, drafts Asking
gent is going stone cold first, round WHICH i agree.

(02:30:13):
With i've been Asking gent at fifty to one, hours
fifty one odds to lead THE nfl and. Touchdowns that's
the phenomenal bet still. Available i'm not SAYING i think
he's glowed the nflon. Touchdowns WHAT i am saying is
he'd be. Right in my handful of, GUYS i would
pick and this is the guy who's going in the
top seven to eight in fantasy. DRAFTS i think that's
a really good bet at fifty to one, odds a

(02:30:35):
good pizza, bet as we call.

Speaker 2 (02:30:36):
It.

Speaker 3 (02:30:36):
NICE i like. THAT i like that a. LOT i.

Speaker 2 (02:30:40):
Do let's, Actually i'm still in the. College are you Anti? Texas?
Like it's funny you didn't mention. That, now obviously they're
going to be a favorite. Guest get the odds for, it.

Speaker 5 (02:30:57):
Right, No, No i'm definitely definitely not Anti texas at.
ALL i, mean listen to, me WHAT i was anti
WAS i honestly will always believe and this is just
doesn't make me, right but it's my. OPINION i do
believe they were probably the most talented team last, year

(02:31:17):
AND i felt like the only thing that held them.
Back And i'm not trying to be nasty WHEN i
say this was the coaching. Staff And i'm not saying
that their coaching stuffs and doesn't know ten million times
more about football than. Me but WHAT i am saying
IS i thought like the quarterback that they had versus
the quarterback they were playing was JUST i thought the
quarterback was the one thing on that. TEAM i didn't

(02:31:38):
love and they had manning that they just chose not to.

Speaker 2 (02:31:41):
Play we said it, Earlier, siggy AND i said it,
earlier AND i still go back to that last, Play,
well how can he not be on the field when
you had the ball the goal?

Speaker 3 (02:31:54):
LINE i still can't believe. That you, know it's.

Speaker 5 (02:31:56):
Funny and if you look at that game and it's,
funny and someone WHO i was actually, funny we, remember you,
know if you remember it in. Life at LEAST i
remember everything with my, kids AND i remember every one
of my tough. Beats i'll never. Forget i'll be on my, deckbed.
GUYS i had one of my biggest bets of the
year Was texas in the first half Was texas BUS
i think four and a. HALF i took them the

(02:32:18):
first half of plus. Five in that game of four
and a half whatever it, was it was ten to
ten with fifteen seconds to go in the first, half
and a lot of these things at their own twenty yard.
Line no one's more paranoid than me That i'm gonna
get some kind OF bs thing That i'm gonna. Lose
and EVEN i said to, myself, RIGHT i even can't lose,
This how are they gonna get an eighty yard touchdown
in one? Play and they threw the eighty yard touchdown

(02:32:38):
on the screen pass, Right WELL i found that, out
okay then and then at the, end at the end
of the game when they get down on me at
first and, goal it was like the two yard, line
guys or, whatnot and just the it was just you,
know it's funny when you're a, coach, right, Guys And
i'm Not i'm DOING i know it comes ACROSS i,

(02:32:59):
am But i'm really not trying to Criticize. Turkeys and
he obviously did a good job to get them to that.
Point but to, me there's must have plays and must
have spots where you as a, coach right have to
have these plays that you, know is that your go To? Anthony,
YOU i mean even when you think you Coach football'm
not saying you're At, texas but You i'm sure there's
when you're doing with there's certain things you know you

(02:33:21):
can run that you get done when the chips are.

Speaker 3 (02:33:23):
Down, right, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:33:27):
Yeah you Like texas just didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:33:29):
Have, that AND i listen against.

Speaker 2 (02:33:32):
IT i wish we could do all day, Man, misship
could you want to give your some baseball plays.

Speaker 5 (02:33:37):
QUICK i want to give one, thing just. Funny there's a, Future.
Anthony i've been, hammering, hammering. Hammering the market is finally
starting to catch. Up But i'm telling, You, ANTHONY i
was betting just two days ago with The brewers at
five to one to win The. DIVISION i believe The
brewers are going to win The. DIVISION i believe The
brewers are going to go to The World. SERIES i
think under value. Team, again this is not hard to.

(02:34:02):
See if it's easy to see they, are these prices
are going to be you maybe like a day to
get this stuff. Run don't walk at The brewers to
win The, pennant at The brewers to win The World.

Speaker 3 (02:34:11):
Series you.

Speaker 5 (02:34:12):
COULD i still got two days ago The brewers at
twenty five to, one the win that reached The World
series with that pitching staff they have right, now, Guys, yeah,
great great bet that Od it's. Ridiculous look stuff. Today
i'll make it real, quick. GUYS a couple of. Props
Brandon woodrow under six and a half, strikeouts going into
the top three hard team to strikeout in The. NATIONALS
i just said good stuff about The, Brewers but that's

(02:34:32):
too high and the minor league's only twenty seven strikeouts
and thirty five. Innings it's going to make him show
that he really does have that, amazing amazing stuff he's
had in the. Past Fran Ra valdez thirteen and five
to under two and a half earn runs, again say
Bad Texas rangers lineup like that very. Much Zach gallon
over five and a half, strikeouts averaging the strikeout in,

(02:34:52):
inning going into the easiest team to strike out in The.
Angels give me that over And i'll give. You give
Me Zach wieler minus the dollar forty five day against
The padres when it's wins win day when he pitches
for The. Phillies anthony laying a dollar forty five very
reasonable to. Me AND i did two unders all that
you run on this. Note took under four and a
half runs in the five inning, Line George kirby Ksey,

(02:35:14):
mice AND i took under four and a half runs
in the five inning. Line, soack where are you?

Speaker 3 (02:35:17):
Darbish?

Speaker 2 (02:35:18):
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Speaker 4 (02:35:34):
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Speaker 3 (02:35:39):
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Speaker 3 (02:36:08):
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Speaker 2 (02:36:09):
App, yeah it was fun to have the brain back
and uh talk about His uh interesting because he was
with us on a couple. Things but he Liked, clemson,
MAN i. Did, Yeah Club, nick do you See clubnick
catch that's like he's a good. Runner do you see

(02:36:30):
him as being the best well quarterback at college?

Speaker 4 (02:36:34):
Football you do have to give college kids room to
develop and get. Better So I'll i'll give him. That
and there's there's flashes of him he can he's he's
a good. PLAYER I i. Agreed, YEAH i don't necessarily
fight back on the notion that he can be one
of the best quarterbacks in college. FOOTBALL i GUESS i
was speaking people are future projecting into the next year's,

(02:36:54):
draft and that he can be the top quarterback on
the board in the, draft and that is something THAT
i don't get. WITH i can't get. With but if
you want to say it can be one of the
top quarterbacks in college football this, SEASON i can certainly
see that with his skill, set that part wouldn't surprise
me at.

Speaker 2 (02:37:07):
All, YEAH i guess What i'm, LIKE i think he's.

Speaker 3 (02:37:13):
Good i'm Not i'm not denigrating him at.

Speaker 2 (02:37:16):
All but when you're looking at the landscape and and you,
know you Got arch and you got No, smire AND
i don't, KNOW i, MEAN i think they're better throwers
than Club.

Speaker 4 (02:37:31):
Deck, yeah but you don't necessarily have to be a,
good you, know thrower to be a good a great
quarterback to help your team get wins and Put, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
We're out of. Depth i'm you, KNOW i get lost
in the throw thing, sometimes you KNOW i.

Speaker 4 (02:37:44):
Do, Yeah And i'm with you on that when it
comes to him being a pro. Prospect But i'm being
an effective and a winning college football.

Speaker 2 (02:37:50):
Player you don't necessarily have to have that with's a t.
Ball we can go through chapter many many.

Speaker 4 (02:37:55):
Guys, yeah But, dalen you know exactly the phenomenal throw
now when he's a, quarterback so at THE xac.

Speaker 2 (02:38:02):
Level, No, no that's exactly, right and Spottle, on spot.
On but the Way brad was talking about it being
the number one, Court i'll just, GO i, like, wow
it's you, KNOW i don't. KNOW i was like a little.
Shocked i'm not a true believer in. HIM i may may,
listen Maybe clemson is the. TRUTH i don't.

Speaker 4 (02:38:25):
Know, YEAH i am more of a believer in him
as an individual player that can have a really good
year THAN i am In clemson as a like real
national championship, threat if that makes. SENSE i think he
could individually have a great, year BUT i don't know team,
wise if they're good enough to, say, yeah they can
be the number one team in the country and they
can win the national. Championship i'm not ready to say
that About clemson as a, team but him as a

(02:38:47):
quarterback stacking up against the other quarterbacks who are coming
back for twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:38:52):
Five he's in the upper ECHELONT i have no issues with.
It was saying, that, yeah, yeah all, RIGHT i LIKE
i can go. There i'm just there's just a cap
on my WHEN i feel that he.

Speaker 3 (02:39:03):
Is but we'll. See that's gonna it'll be. INTERESTING i don't.

Speaker 2 (02:39:08):
KNOW i this conversation got me excited for college football exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:39:14):
Right oh my, god are you?

Speaker 2 (02:39:16):
Like i'm following all the nil signings AND i try.

Speaker 4 (02:39:20):
To it was just so much and there's so many doing.
Parts it's really hard to keep up with, sometimes it really.
Is SO i try to stay on top of it
as much AS i possibly, can because you, know college
football is my favorite. Sport but it can really really get.

Speaker 2 (02:39:33):
Difficult it can't it. Does it got to rain this in,
SOMEHOW i. Know so when do you leave For?

Speaker 4 (02:39:40):
Hawaii so this is two in a couple of, weeks
the last week Of. July so we're going for for five.
Days so here at the homestead and they were gonna
jet set off To. Hawaii my tie for, you.

Speaker 2 (02:39:52):
Please do, Brother god bless you. Man that's gonna be.
Awesome have, fun great, hanging best of the. Family. Brother
we love. Everybody have a great weekend. Man we love you.
Guys we'll see you next.

Speaker 3 (02:40:04):
Week m.

Speaker 7 (02:40:09):
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