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August 12, 2026 37 mins

Dan and Monse in for Stugotz and the guys as they ask the question: "would you rather have season tickets or the Sunday ticket?". Dan, Monse and the crew talk about the Chicago Bears. Plus, Dan and Monse pay tribute to Russell Westbrook's career. 

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All Right, we're smack dab in the middle of the week.
Who's checking out baseball this weekend? Raise their hand? Anybody's
going to be checking out some baseball this weekend?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Or today?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Today?

Speaker 6 (01:26):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Today? Yeah, the day before all.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Day, the Brew Crew and Dodgers playing this weekend. That's right,
coming out here checking out some baseball. Sometimes. I've told
you guys that I'm not a big fan of now
dealing with the traffic and everything that comes with it. However,
last year, Jason Stewart invited me to go to the
Jackie Robinson Day game at Dodgers Stadium. Thoroughly enjoyed myself.

(01:52):
We had a great time, and it made me kind
of reconsider all right, maybe dealing with the traffic and
dealing with the crowds isn't as bad. And there was
still still that part of me of a kid that
loved going to sporting events. It's a lot of fun.
We talk about your handshake, you work for the Dodgers.
You're at Dodger Stadium a lot, but it's still it's

(02:13):
got to be great when the ball's in play and
you're watching a baseball game.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
No, there's nothing like it. Hitting the crack of the ball, when.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
The bat hits the ball when you're in the ballpark
is such a It's something that.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Like, I don't know, feels good, feels like home hearing
that crack of the bat. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
Never you hear what you're at the stadium, because you
can't hear that at home. It's not the same.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, Stu Gott's talking with Matt Vaskerzhin at the Field
of Dreams game. Now, Iowa Sam is not here. Iowa
Sam went to a Field of Dreams game a few
years ago in Dyersville, Iowa. Iowa Sam making it fit.
You could see tomorrow's game on Netflix and I will
be tuning in and it's one of the games that
I'm like, oh, I kind of wish I was there,

(02:56):
Like I wish I was right. I have a bit
of fomo and seeing that game, I just think it's
it's just really really cool. But it's few and far between,
Manzi because in Stugotts and Company Live Fashion. I feel
this is maybe like down Taylor's, you know, Aisle, I
would rather stay at home a lot of the times,
in the comforts of home.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
So I pose this question to you, would you rather
have season tickets to your favorite team or would you
rather have Sunday ticket for the NFL at your home.
Everything is on the board, there's no there's no differen
the cost of it, how much you're saving, how much
you're spending. All of that goes with it. But if

(03:42):
your favorite team is the Clippers, would you rather have
season tickets to the Clippers or would you rather have
the NFL Sunday ticket at your house? You don't have
to be here at Fox Sports Radio where you can
end up watching all of the games during the NFL season.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Oh, this sound's tough. It is tough. I you know,
the family.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Has had a season partial season tickets to the Clippers
for We did it for many years.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I would say partial season tickets is nice because it's
not a full responsibility exactly exactly.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
But you're telling me here I just can pick it
for free, right, Like this is like no money.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
I'm thinking, like I have no money. It's not affecting.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, you would pay, you would have to pay for
the season tickets.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm still paying. Okay. That does change things.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yes, you are paying for the season tickets, okay, but
you also have to pay for Sunday Sunday tickets right
right right?

Speaker 4 (04:36):
And it has to be the whole season. Is that
what you're telling me?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Not? There's see you have one, can't have, can't have
the other.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
Oh, it's so hard because an entire season in the
NBA is a lot of responsibility.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yes, And it's.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Like you said, I have to think about the traffic
and I have to thay and I'm gonna go spend
more money every single time I go. If I get
the NFL Sunday ticket and I'm at home, like the
spending is less already because I'm not on.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
About I'm not going to a game and not having
a beer, like who am I a monster?

Speaker 6 (05:08):
So like one beer to tequila shots that adds up,
and on the road when you're at home, it's a
lot one.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Two, three shots. She's out at the old ball.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Game, definitely it takes more than three ball. Of course
here she is takes more than three.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
B A C one on one or Manzi. I think
this woman a beer, Yes, a beer, get a beer,
Get a beer, get another beer.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
No.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
I think the right answer for me is the NFL Sunday,
which is crazy?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Can I can? I?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Jason Stewart, is this as difficult of a decision as
it is for Manzi?

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Really hard?

Speaker 5 (05:52):
No, it's not difficult at all. I have been saying
on this program for quite some time now that and
I I just took the this exercise as what NFL
Sunday ticket or season tickets to the Chargers. That's how
I interpret it, Okay, And I've said many times on
this on this broadcast, going to an NFL game sucks.

(06:15):
There are so many things about it, and that I
have nothing to do with the LA traffic. It's you
don't know how long commercial breaks are until you go
to a game. You don't know how much downtime is
on the field until you go to a game. It's
so much easier when you're obviously at watching TV. You
could watch, you can get up and go to the restroom,

(06:37):
you can get up, get somebody to eat, you could
change the channel. You just don't realize that. In fact,
every time I go to an NFL game, because I
still take my son.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
He loves this stuff.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
I am reminded that conditioning is overrated. These guys do
a lot of standing around an NFL game. Anyways, It's
an easy decision for me. I want to be at home.
I want to be comfortable. I don't want to be
out in the sun, driving traffic, paying for everything. And
then the actual NFL game, to me, is so underwhelming.
And that's times ten for the super Bowl. Never go

(07:08):
to the super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Okay, just stop it, You're crazy.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I was thinking about this and I thought maybe I
was a bit of the anomaly. I think that Chris
and I would be the kind of the outsiders because
we're not from southern California where our favorite teams aren't here.
So maybe like to have season tickets to the Dodgers
or the Clippers or the Lakers may not be as
is great because we're not fans of those teams. But
what's even more interesting is you're wavering. And Jason says,

(07:35):
not only am I a fan of a local team,
I'm fan of the team in the sport where Sunday
ticket is and I'd still rather be at home.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
I mean we have season tickets to the Chargers and
I'm mostly here, so even I feel a little bit
of what Jason feels in the sense that I'm not
like I have to go see a Charger game because
there's so much that goes with it, and I've been
I've seen with the teams that I want to see,
but it is it is better to watch it at home.
I agree with you, they're so much to the experience,
but I feel like I'm speaking from a place of

(08:04):
privilege because of how many games I've been to. That's
why I'm contemplating it. You ask somebody who maybe has
not had as much experience as us going to these games,
maybe it's different. And I'm just like I thought of
the Clippers. I didn't even think of Chargers because that
I would take NFL ticket.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
I already don't go to Charger games and I can't.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Chris purfet I, you know what.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
I'm on the Sunday ticket side because as many Lions
games as I've gone to, and those tailgates can be fun.
But I think there is something to the fact that
we are now talking. I like to be able to
control who is who I am watching the game with.
And I can think of no less appealing And I'm
sorry to the fans out there, but I can feel

(08:43):
no less appealing idea than having a lot of unknown
NFL fans surrounding me. I just took my mom last
year to the Thanksgiving Lions game, and she had a
great time. But one of the flies in that ointment
was a guy sitting behind us the entire time swearing
at the top of his lungs, and like that. Maybe

(09:03):
that's different for baseball. That's different for baseball, maybe different
for NBA. But every time I've gone to NFL games,
there's been a drunk fan. There's been drunk fans, unruly people,
people cursing at the top of their lungs, and just
sometimes I just want to watch a football game by myself,
with my stress.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Game day experience for an NFL game is not appealing
to Chris Isaac.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
Glowing the tailgate's fine, but actually being in the game itself, No,
I don't want to deal with that.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Beer and shots are fine with Mancy Isaac.

Speaker 8 (09:34):
Wait, Lebron, how many shots for Moncey?

Speaker 4 (09:39):
All right, y'all don't even know how accurate that is.

Speaker 8 (09:41):
I would also rather be on my couch. But Moncey,
you make a fantastic point. Why am I answering that?
Is it because I work at the chocolate factory and
don't need more chocolate when I'm off the clock. I mean,
how are we who have, personally for work minut thousands
of games in our lives. How would our answers compare

(10:03):
with the average sportsman in America? That being said, you
don't have to worry about traffic, you don't have to
worry about parking, you don't have to worry about walking,
you don't have to worry about those interminable television time outs,
as Dan said, and I will say this, and the
other thing is some of these stadiums you spend the

(10:24):
whole game watching the video screen because that's it's easier
to follow along than the actual ants that you're looking
at from six miles away. About thir excuse me, thirty
five years ago, yes, se guitar the Gong Show. About
thirty years ago, Sports Illustrated did an article where they

(10:47):
predicted what the future of sports would be like, I
think in either fifty or one hundred years. And they
predicted that in fifty or one hundred years, fans would
actually be paid to attend the games, because it would
be so much more convenient just watching on TV at
home that you'd actually have to pay to be fans,

(11:08):
like a paid audience. And I don't necessarily think that
that's as far fetched now with this discussion as it
might have been thirty years ago.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
What's funny, I'm sorry, is the running joke from the
other teams on the AFC West that thinks the Chargers
have paid actors as their fans, right, So, like that
would go along with those lines I said, As I said,
like here in Los Angeles, where we live and where
we work, I don't have a favorite team. One of

(11:40):
the things that stuck out stood out to me was
the amount of games that you would have to go
to for a baseball or a basketball package. And it's
what makes the NFL so special is because it is
so concise. Like six months from now, we're gonna be

(12:04):
a day or two outside of the Super Bowl, so
all of like, we haven't we've had one preseason game,
but this is all gonna wrap up in six months.
It's all gonna be done with, it's gonna be over,
and then we have a whole nother six months without it,
where all the other sports are eight months, nine months,
have longer off seasons. So it's the you know, the
specific short nature of the NFL which makes the Sunday

(12:25):
ticket package appealing. That's kind of where I was going
on it, just to have season tickets. The other angle
was I don't know if you guys saw this on
social media, but a sports talk show host in Atlanta,
I believe it was six to eighty in Atlanta a
week or two ago, proposed that Georgia Tech should play
a nine am game, and this host got raked over

(12:47):
the coals for this take. People just he said, this
could be a one off, this could be a one
game a year. But he was speaking as someone he
was older than fifty, who has other things to do
on Saturday. Sure, all right, And when you're twenty in
your twenties in college and you're having a good time,
like you would be like, oh my goodness.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
On nine nine am game.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh No, Ohio State fans are they do not love
big noon kickoff. But one of the things about big
noon kickoff for Ohio State fans is it's noon Eastern time,
so Ohio State plays it's three o'clock it still takes
up your whole day. Me on the West coast, when
Ohio State plays at nine and they're done by twelve fifteen,

(13:29):
guess what rest of the day is mine? Right? And
that's where it comes down to. When you have season tickets.
From hearing from everybody here, it is such an obligation.
It's not that you an obligation of your time. It's
not that you don't love your team any less and
don't want to be there for those great moments. It's

(13:49):
just you. When you add everything up at the end,
being able to be home and seeing all the football
you want, very likely betting or playing fantasy football and
watching the games that you want is much more appealing
than having to go to Dodger Stadium eighty one times
during a season.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah, going to the games here, specifically in LA because
of the traffic. It's not a joke when we say
it's a mission. It is a mission to go to
a game. And when you have a game, whether it's
you're going to Angels, Dodgers, Lakers, Clippers, Chargers.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Rams, whether you're going to any of those, that's what
you're doing that day. That's it.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
It's like, what are you doing just I'm going to
the game. I can't do anything else. I can't plan
for anything else because I don't know where I'm gonna
get stuck in traffic, either getting two or leaving from.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
So you just it's a mission and it takes up
your entire day.

Speaker 8 (14:39):
Can I expand on that? I think you make a
great underrated point for those of us in Los Angeles,
the problem is traffic and parking. Public transportations not an option.
In Chicago, for example, you get you take the l it,
lets you off right at Wrigley Field. Other cities are
the same way. Would that play into the way you
guys make that decision?

Speaker 7 (14:59):
Oh yeah, it would depend on the city, because I've
gone to games in Atlanta and Detroit and traffic is
so definitely part of that. I'm just I'm just saying,
like Chicago, awesome. New York maybe, although we got to
go all all the way out to the metalflet'll.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Tell you about. There's also something different from twenty thousand
fans leaving an arena, say for basketball, as opposed to
eighty thousand tried to leave a football stadium. Oh yeah,
or in college football, you know, Clemson, South Carolina and
Clemson plays home games. After the game is done, the
streets are just one ways out of town, like everything
is marked off because you got to figure out how

(15:34):
to get you know, eighty to one hundred thousand people,
you know, basically out of town. And so like those
things change and the college experience is more of the
I don't want to say it's more of the game
day sort of feel, but there is the business aspect
to the NFL. There are teams that tailgate. Obviously, the
Packers tailgate, Bill's tailgate, we've seen it. There's a lot

(15:56):
of tailgates, but it's not specific for every team. But still,
even if you're not tailgating, you're having to plan hours
and hours ahead of time just to end up dealing
with it.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Absolutely, if there's a Charger game here at one o'clock
local time.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
You have you gotta leave three hours before.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
If you want to comfortably park, go inside, grab something
to eat, go to your seat, you have to leave
like three hours before then the game ends. And one
time it took us three hours to get out. It
was when the Chargers were hosting the Bills a couple
of years three four years ago, I took us three
hours to get out.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
Did you pass the time by doing shots with the
bills fans?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
You know?

Speaker 4 (16:36):
And here's where I regret what I learned. So one
time I went to see Beyonces and Beyonce. A few
times I saw Beyonce and jay Z at rosebook Thank
You so Much. Yeah, another one. And when we when
I went to that one, I left pizza in the
car because it was on my first day. It's I
know what to do, what to do. And I went
with my friend Natalie and she was like, why are
you bringing to pizza?

Speaker 6 (16:56):
I was like, girl, when we get out of this
concert and we can't move, you're going to be so
happy that we have this drink and this pizza. And
we did not move for two hours to get out,
and we say pizza. And I was mad that I
didn't do this when I went to Chargers and the bills,
because I should have known. Had I had food, I
would not have been mad. I just need food, and
I'm o, I wouldn't have been angry. Took us three

(17:17):
You couldn't get out. You just couldn't move. It doesn't
matter what everyone is doing, you don't move when it's
such a big game.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
There is.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
There are very few people that I know that have
season tickets that use all of their tickets. Yeah as well,
So like that like goes into it, Like you wouldn't
be obligated to have to go to eighty one games.
There is a benefit. I had a buddy who had
college football tickets and would try to sell a lot
of people. If you're a power for school, you end
up playing a MAC team or maybe an FCS school.

(17:48):
You're selling those tickets, but you want the big rivalry game.
You want when the top ten team comes to town,
and usually to get those tickets, it's usually worth just
buying the season tickets, so then you'll end up having
your tickets for the big game. And I feel like
that's more and more in the NFL. I mean, I
have multiple friends and family members who have Packer season tickets,
and the stories of lore on the season ticket waiting

(18:10):
list for Packer games is you know, twenty to thirty
years to end up having their tickets, but they're not
at every game. You know what it is. It's my
cousin going to one, his son taking a friend going
to another, then his other son taking a friend, and
his brother is going and so it's it's not even
like consuming it that way. It's just become so much

(18:32):
better at home to Sports Illustrated's point, and so much
more of a headache to go to the games, that
I feel that the TV version ends up being better.
I did not. I knew that in the back of
my mind, but that's not what the discussion was about
or what the balance was about. Sunday ticket costs you
five hundred dollars. Season tickets will cost you thousands of dollars,

(18:53):
you know, So there's that portion of it as well.
But there is the point of being at the stadium
and being there for the biggest moments that you could
end up missing out on. It's just it seems like,
and hearing you guys talk, that those moments maybe aren't
worth as much of a hassle it is to put
up with everything else.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
But I mean, Isaac May did the disclaimer, and I
feel the need to repeat the disclaimer. Like we in
this studio have a very specific experience. We work in
the industry. Our job is sports content. We work in
a city that has a bunch of pro football teams
and baseball teams, basketball teams. Daniel talking yesterday, Yeah, Dan

(19:36):
and I were just talking about this. I went on
a trip recently and I was reminded that most of
this country is just vast lands of farmland. And then
I'm thinking about that listener right now, like Joe and
Lincoln Nebraska, who is hundreds thousands of miles from any
pro team, and they're probably shaking their head at us,
like these LA people are spoiled, right, And I kind

(19:58):
of have to take that into into consideration. But it's
hard to not think about this. If I go to
a Chargers game at one o'clock on Sunday, I'm not
able to watch the ten o'clock games, and I'm probably
not able to watch the night game. And when your
business is this and we were expected to talk about it,
that is an entire day blown that could cost, you know,

(20:18):
compromise my career.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I feel I am very in tune with the audience
that you speak of, because I feel it's my entire family.
I feel that, yeah, I can be jaded from my
point of view, but as I also just laid out,
is I have family members who have Packer season tickets.
That's the hardest season ticket to get in any professional sport,
and they're still not going to every single game, and

(20:42):
so like there's that responsibility of that. So the person
that lives, you know, four hours outside of Lincoln, Nebraska,
they may have Cornhusker season tickets, but guess what, maybe
they're not going to the South Dakota State game, right
Like they're maybe not going to the game where Rutgers
comes to town. But when Ohio State comes to town
to Lincoln, they're going to go. Or when Iowa comes

(21:03):
to town for the rivalry game, they're for sure going
to be there. But you're also just not doing it
for every single one. So that then is the balance
of do you do it for the Iowa and the
Ohio State games or would you like to be at
your couch and watch your fantasy team for seventeen straight
weeks on a Sunday. And I think it's more of
a balance than anything else. I don't think it's the

(21:25):
one off or the nature that we're jaded by any point.
It's just the fact that the product is so good
at home and now there's so much that goes into
having to go to these games that maybe it's not
it's worth it to sit out in the cold and
wake up early in the morning and watch the corn
Huskers take on the Buckeyes' that's worth it. What are

(21:46):
you doing that for four straight Saturdays when you have
four straight home games? Or do you got crap to do?
Or does your kid have a basketball tournament or a
wrestling tournament somewhere like? Those are all the things that
also end up playing.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
As we continue to dissect all this now, I'm thinking
we're just lazy. Now I'm thinking here in LA we're
just like, oh, so much work, when in other places
they don't see it as work.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
I guess before I got into this industry, I was
my priority was watching as much as possible on a
Saturday and Sunday, and I still would go over to
people's parties for those games. But like, there is definitely,
to Dan's point, a fomo of missing out a lot
of it when you go to a stadium at this point,
and also again I will reiterate this point. While I'm
at home, there is no chance that a Eagles fan

(22:32):
will pick a fight in my section.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
I will get a beer dumped.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
On me, sure, But if you have tickets, like Manzi
has tickets access to the Dodgers, when you give tickets
to someone who hasn't gone to a Dodger game. They
are very very grateful, right because they hadn't gone to
a game in five years. That's not who we're talking
about here. We're talking about the people who then do
have the access to those tickets. I think there's always
going to be say, oh my goodness, I get to

(22:55):
go to lambeau Field. There's someone who has those tickets.
And maybe when you're a season tickets older, you're giving
those opportunities to other people, which is a great deal.
And you would choose season tickets over the Sunday ticket
because that is an option. But I think that there's
I just in the numbers here, in this small sample size,
I think the Sunday ticket may be more appealing to

(23:17):
those than would want a season ticket of anything that's
in football, baseball, or basketball. All Right, good discussion, that
was fun. That was fun.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
I still don't know what I would pick.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well, the Chargers, you would stay home. Clippers here on
the fat yea who's got the better beer? Yeah, she's
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Speaker 2 (24:24):
Day in Sports. Isaaca will have an update in the
sec but first, our executive producer is Jason Stewart.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
You know, guys, when I think of these bits, I
do need to preface it by saying that this is
about to be charmingly unpolished. That's what my bits are.
They're really funny and really creative, but they're just not polished.
Isaac will agree with that he's spent many years working
with me. So yesterday you guys had Wance briggs On.
He's a like borderline Hall of Famer, all pro, great guy,

(24:52):
former Bear, and but he did a couple of things
during the interview that I that caught my attention. So
you guys asked them, do you remember asking about the
Bears offense? Well, he gave this response, the Bears offense.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
When you look at the.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Bears, You're like, man, they look very dangerous and there
are things.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
That we have to do and if we don't, we're
going to find ourselves in the danger zone. And I'm
thinking danger zone. Man, That's it's an odd term. You
don't hear that very often. And then by the end
of the interview, once he asked him about Aaron Darnold
coming back in the Rams defense, look out.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Like, you know, the Bears might have the danger zone
on the office side, but the Rams definitely have it
on the deeps side.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
With an Aaron Downtay a second reference to danger zone,
and I'm thinking that he's just is he just a
fan of Kenny Loggins? And then I went back through
the interview and I'm like, now it's starting to make
sense because I started took a more discerning look at
some of the answers. You guys asked him about the
Kyler Murray getting the starting job with the Vikings, and

(25:56):
he has said that Kyler Murray when he gets an
open space, is looking for a need, a need for speed.
Remember when you guys asked him about the Bears and
the Packers the rivalry, right, and Lance Briggs was like, yeah,
the Bears need to take first place because this is

(26:18):
combat and there are no points for a second place combat.
There are no points for second place. I remember you
guys got to the JJ McCarthy piece of the interview
and he was like, you know, if JJ McCarthy screws
up one more time, he's going to be flying rubber
dog crap out of Hong Kong. Screw up just this much,
you'd be flying a cargo plane full of Rubbert Doug

(26:39):
get out of Hong Kong. And then finally I'm like,
and I don't want to I want to take the
listeners behind the curtain a little bit here before the
interview we recorded this and you guys said hi to Lance,
and we usould just check the levels. You know, Profed
Will be like, give us a level, say something. Usually
they do like a countdown, And Lance Briggs did this,

(27:00):
and I'm thinking that's really strange.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Why would you say.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Talk to me goobs as just a way to check
the level.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm just my.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Final conclusion, Lanceburg's big fan of top gun.

Speaker 8 (27:15):
Finally, Dan and Monsey, an unnamed but thoughtful wife in
Florida wanted to enter her golf loving husband into the
lottery to win tickets to the twenty twenty seven Masters
as a surprise. She indeed wound up winning tickets in
the lottery. I did not. The wife, however, was not

(27:38):
really a golf fan, not really knowledgeable about golf, just
a thoughtful spouse. So she wins the tickets in the lottery.
She goes to show her husband and surprise her husband.
The husband discovered that she had actually entered and won
the lottery for tickets to the twenty twenty seven Open
Championship at Saint Andrew's in Stead. Husband was really surprised, thrilled. However,

(28:04):
he presently does not know if he'll be able to
make that trip due to the travel costs involved. Florida
and Augusta not too far away, but Saint Andrews is
back to you.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I think it's fate. I think he got a pony
up the money. You would have gone, yeah, well absolutely,
if I would somehow, that would be.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
A significently won them.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, he would go. I've been picked in the Master's
lottery twice twenty fourteen, and I won in twenty twenty,
but there was no Masters because of COVID or twenty nineteen,
and was for the twenty twenty Masters, and then COVID
happened and threw it away. The point is is I
haven't won the last couple of years. There are people
who have never won, and that would be a pretty

(28:42):
good consolation prize.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
The Chicago Bears are hoping tonight have a consolation prize.
They want the whole shebang, and their danger zone that
they want to get in is the good danger zone
that Lance Briggs talked about, not the bad danger zone,
zanger Zonean Johnson, the head coach of the Bears, to
the Athletics saying, you've got quote thirty one other teams

(29:05):
coming to training camp, saying our goal is to win
the Super Bowl. I want more than that. I want
to have the highest scoring offense ever, which happens to
be the twenty thirteen Denver Broncos. I know how many
points per game they scored, by the way, it's thirty
seven point nine, and I want to surpass them. I
want shoutouts. I want blowouts. That from Ben Johnson, the

(29:25):
Chicago Bears head coach.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
All right, so they're going to go for it on
fourth down every time there, every time. Just assume it.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Guys, this is a franchise that has never had a
a all Pro caliber quarterback. We're talking about decades upon decades,
going back years after Jim McMahon, Jay Cutler, are your
high watermarks for quarterbacking? And now you have a head
coach who wants to have the highest scoring offense in

(29:55):
NFL history. He mentioned the Denver Broncos led by Peyton Manning.
The Peyton Manning Broncos. Did not say we want to
take down the nineteen ninety eight Minnesota Vikings, who, by
the way, had Chris Carter and Randy Moss and Randall
Cunningham and Robert Smith. You didn't hear Brian Billock and
Dennis greensing we want to be the highest scoring offense

(30:16):
in the NFL. Vikings fans. They want a super Bowl.
They want a super Bowl. Bears fans just want a
super Bowl. This is too much Ben Johnson. This is
Ben Johnson being Ben Johnson. Just beat the Rams at
a playoff game.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Well, I don't think he thinks he can do that.
That's why he said this.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
This is so far off. I understand the confidence that
you have in your team, but it's also what he's
talking about, like I want blowouts. Like as the head coach,
you can't always be mister offense. You got to give
your defense a break. At some point. You gotta rely
on them, or lean on them, or at least work
with them. It has to work in concert. And this

(30:53):
is this isn't something the Bears can't be a great
offense or the Bears can't set a record, Manzie, it's
the fact that this is your goal when you haven't
accomplished anything. And the city of Chicago and the Bears
have never had a quarterback the caliber of Caleb Williams,
and now you're putting the pressure on him to try
to have the highest scoring offense that the NFL has
ever seen. As Ben Johnson being too full of himself.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
Would this have landed better if he was just an
offensive coordinator, yes, right, yes, because now it's you're the
head coach, and it's like, that's not how you can
approach the season because you have to play the game
that's in front of you, and if the game that's
in front of you is not going to be a
high scoring affair, then you have to adjust and that
shouldn't matter. So it kind of is like, you don't
want to hear that if you were just the offensive coordinator,

(31:36):
all right, But as a head coach, that's.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Not what you want to hear.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
No, absolutely not if you're the offensive coordinator. It's okay
if your quarterback's the top gun. Not with the head coach, right,
See what I did there? Fun it all back. Danger Zone,
by the way, by Kenny Loggins, I think is one
of the quicker songs that gets to the chorus. It's
like twenty seven seconds by the time the song start.

(32:00):
It's just like a line or two and then the
next thing you know, you're on the highway to the
danger zone. The good danger zone. I think I think
that's what it is. I think it's also a cue
to play danger zone if we if we can hear
it again, be.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
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Speaker 2 (32:25):
Stuve Got's a Company Live on Fox Sports Radio. She's
Monty Belango, So I'm Dan Byer, Isaac Lowin Crown, Jason Stewart,
Chris Purfett here as well. Moncey Belanos is straight a's
and handshake one on one as I call it. You
also aced the test that Isaac gave you earlier in
guessing what was the Russell Westbrook SoundBite from his retirement

(32:47):
announcement Today, There's not a tear in your eye, but
there is a bit of fondness in your hearts about
Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
I'm a big fan of Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
I think he's a type of player that any coach
or any teammate would want on their team.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
And he's one of those guys that.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
Athleticism took him far, but because he tried to use
more than just his you know what I mean, You
could tell he tried to get better even though he relied.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
On athleticism a lot.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
And there's so many players who can't make a long
career out of that. Just look at Blake Griffin. Like
Blake Griffin was on athleticism for so long and then
once it's gone, it's gone, you know what I mean.
And so Russell Westbrook to me is like somebody that
I respect, I admire. I think he was great, and
you know, he was a Clipper for a short amount
of time, but definitely one single handily won games at

(33:39):
the same time single handedly lost games later in his
career for different franchises. But I think he's great and
I'm gonna miss him. I'm gonna miss watching Russell Westbrook
on my court.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I became a Russell Westbrook fan. I almost said Wilson,
but that happened throughout my entire career. It's funny because
he had a Westbrook and Durant playing in Oklahoma City,
and then I would say Kevin Garnett instead of Kevin Durant,
and maybe I'll say Russell Wilson instead of Russell Westbrook.
I became a Russell Westbrook fan when Kevin Durant left
for Golden State and saw how he responded with that

(34:13):
thunder organization. He was always outspoken, gave us one of
the better memes of our times. I almost look at
him as a smaller version of Giannis. And it's not
meant to disrespect either. It's just that I considered him
a bit of a freak at his size for what

(34:33):
he could do athletically and to improve the way that
he did and to become the basketball player that he did.
They're gonna be people who look back at the triple
doubles and say, well, yeah, everybody else left the court
and he got the rebounds. But for what he did
and how he did it and how he controlled the game,
there aren't any other comps in the NBA that I

(34:56):
can really think of. So to have the successful career,
to be a top seventy five player, to be a
nine time All Star, nine time All NBA player, when
nobody else is like you, Yeah, that tells you how
unique Russell Westbrook was.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
I agree.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
Yeah, what he did with the thunder, not just when
Durant left, but you got James Harden, you know, also
leaving when when that trio split and he stayed in
what he did it was it was awesome to see,
like you said, he adjusted his game. He wanted to
get better, he knew he couldn't just rely on athleticism.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
And that's awesome.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
And eighteen years, eighteen years, I think is all adults
a whole adult.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I look at when I look at the Durant departure,
I think that that there were there was a group
of people. I was probably one of them that felt
that Russell Westbrook was maybe holding Kevin Durant back. Harden
had already left for the Rockets. They had already done
that deal. But when they then lost to the Warriors,
and they blew the three to two lead against Golden

(35:53):
State in the Western Conference Finals, that okay, maybe maybe
Westbrook is the problem. But he immediately went from if
you looked at him that way, a villain to the
hero when Durant left, because here was the one that
he ended up sticking with. There was also the stuff
that we heard that Russell Westbrook wasn't one that necessarily
bought a lot of what Lebron James had to say
and when they were teammates in Los Angeles, and it

(36:14):
kind of shows that Russell Westbrook is just one of one. Yeah,
like there is no one like him, whether it be
on the quart or off the court. His retirement announcement
was unique, a dated reference, but I felt like it
was a little like crowded house, don't treatment's over just
going from room to room in a different way. That
was maybe the boy is Mine Monica and Brandy that video.

(36:36):
That's kind of what Yeah, I do, yes, But I
think that ultimately time will look back at Russell Westbrook
in a very positive manner for all that he accomplished
and the type of player that he was.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
I think what happened with the Lakers actually took away
from from his career. I think it shed some darkness
on it. He should have never been a Laker. Was
described as a vampire in the locker room. Like, I
just think going to the Lakers was really bad for him.
But I love that Sham's Shawnya tweeted that he had
offers from the Kings and the Wizards, so it was
it that no team wanted him. He just was like,

(37:10):
I'm just it's time.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
I'm good, I'm good, and that's good for him. Good
for him. Someone's team still wanted him, and.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
There there were And that's the other thing about like
the end of the cruise, you would like, ultimately like
to stay in one spot. Yeah, it's just not. It's
very very rare in the NBA.

Speaker 6 (37:25):
Thunders should sign him to a one day deal. He
should play one game and call it that's it. Go
out there with SGA for one game, call it you know.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. You're in for the
odd couple with Rob G tomorrow. Yeah, but I'm also
here with you, yes, at the news desk, and I'll
be here with Kerry Roodes as well. Talk to you then,
bye bye.
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