August 12, 2026 • 53 mins
On this edition of The Best of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos in for Stu and the guys as they discuss the rant played round the world by Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White. Dan, Monse and the crew talk about the Chicago Bears. Dan and Monse ask the question: "would you rather have season tickets or the Sunday Ticket?".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay, so again the Lakers are sold. Russell Westbrook is retiring.
Ben Johnson says something absurd. Monty tells you how to
do a handshake in Stu chats with Matt vs Kershen. Okay,
(00:40):
that all follows the WNBA. Stephanie White in the Indiana Fever.
It is Groundhog's Day once again. Monzie blanios it sure is.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Did Pablo Tori investigate the Lakers? Did he give us
all the details on that?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I'm just wondering, like investigators? Oh, okay, so he had
no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I mean, he's an investigative journalist when it comes to
people doing sketchy things.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
With money with an NBA team. But it's not the Okay,
not the Lakers. Okay, got it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm Kawhi Leonard. When I need a jumbo tron in
my living room, I go to Dektronics. Ectronics is the
only JumboTron for me. That's probably what pabulatory is investigating
the Lakers. The Lakers for whatever may happen with Mark
Walter h two billion dollars more than when he bought
the Lakers from for you ago. He's pretty good the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
He flipped them.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That was a good turnaround.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, like if flipping a house that was undone so quickly.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
If only the WNBA could flip the script, but it
ends up always being the same script.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
They need to tear down the house completely. There's no
flipping the WNB.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's They need a one eighty. They don't need the
three sixty to get back to where they are. They
need the one eighty. And last night's story is not
what happened after the fever routed the New York Liberty.
That's what Stephanie White and other I honestly thought. I
just silenced my phone yesterday on that.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You just have your phone, not silent, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, I wish the WNBA would be silenced, Yeah, because
they just keep talking and things keep happening, and I
just continue to scratch my head and say, huh, and
if you don't know what we're talking about, it was
a pregame press conference from Stephanie White of the Indiana
Fever Monzi, who made a bunch of headlines for what
she said, how she said it, in the way that
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she left the press conference. We here at Fox Sports
Radio and Stu gottson Company Live are going to bring
you the entire Stephanie White press conference, but we're going
to do it almost in a four part play. This
is Act one Stephanie White pregame last night prior to
the New York Liberty on the heels of the various
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controversies including the Djna Carrington fowl on Sophie Cunningham and
Stephanie White also responding to her comments that she made
in saying that she didn't see the foul and stuck
up for DJing NAE Carrington after that game against the
Chicago Sky. This is part one, Act one of Stephanie
White last night.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
This is more for an online community that's trying to
create narratives that simply don't exist.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Trying to create a fabrication or disortion of.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Who I am, of what I'm about. Our players success,
our players health and wellness. Our player safety is always
a top priority for me. One of the things I
pride myself on is my relationships with players.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So I think she's talking about two separate things at
the beginning. When she talks about a portion of the
community trying to trying to divide the WMBA, I think
that could be wrong. I think like that could be
Klay Travis trying to start as Nashville Balls team. That's
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what I think of having the men play against the women.
I can understan and why the WNBA is I don't
want that? Can I hear act one just one more time,
Chris Burfett, So when you hear that first line, that's
who I think that she's referencing.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You're probably right on that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
This is more for.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
An online community that's trying to create narratives. Yeah, yet
simply don't exist, trying to create a fabrication or disortion
of who I am, of.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What I'm about now that changes our.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Players success, our player's health and wellness, our player safety
is always a top priority for me. One of the
things I pride myself on is my relationships with players.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You're it's funny because she's like these narratives that aren't there,
that we're making up. But I'm sorry, I actually have
not seen you straight up defend your players the way
I think you should have with everything that has surrounded
the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I straight up lie right there.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We're not creating these narratives, We're not pulling them out
of nowhere. It is something that you have actually done
the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
In my opinion, we can even talk about Alyssa.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Thomas and the fists to the throat of Caitlin Clark
when she spoke on that she definitely gave more grace
to Alyssa Thomas than I thought needed to be because
it was your player that was with the fist in
their throat. Even what we said yesterday with Sophie Cunningham
and Jne Caring tens like, even if you believe that,
you don't say that because that's your team. You stand
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by your team entirely, and you have not done that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I agree wholeheartedly. And at some point in the segment
we'll probably play what Stephanie White had to say after
the foul, but I want to I want people to
get lost in this entire speech that Stephanie White made.
Here is act too.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
For those who have anything to say about the play
in the last game. I didn't see the play in
real time. I went straight to a press conference. I
thought the play got called right, thankfully Sophie's Okay, was
it egregious?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
When you have a chance to watch that over and
over her on replay, you can see that I didn't
have that in real time.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What I laughed when I heard that the first time.
I laughed out loud.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know what. It reminds me of the guy who
cheated in golf, the thief yesterday, who said, I mean
we were giving shots back to the field. I mean,
that's what we were doing like that. That was the excuse.
That's her excuse. She didn't she didn't have the real
real time. But that's not her fault that she didn't
have the real time. She didn't see it. But now
when she's saying that she didn't see the clip, we've
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now seen see the foul in its entirety. You're saying
it's splattered all over social media.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, it was one of the funniest clips after this
that there is the foul, and standing right behind the
fowl with her arms crossed on the.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Sideline is Stephanie White.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It looked like she had a clear view of what happened,
and even if you did it okay, Even if you
did it Sophie Cunningham's reaction should have been enough for
you to know that it was not okay.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That is your default. Your default is your team. Yes,
when you don't have the information, you don't default to
the other side and say it's not that bad.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Great point.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Your default is to support your team, and she did
not do that. After this intermission, we now take you
to Act three of the Stephanie White Show.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I take personally any suggestions that I don't one hundred
always have my player's bad I ride with them ten
toes down all the time.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
They know that it's a shame that we can't have
an opportunity to talk about what great basketball they're playing
because they are playing.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
The reality is with me, I will always lead with love,
I will always lead with grace, I will always lead
with humility, and I will always lead with integrity.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Doesn't mean I'll always get it right.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I'm also human. The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness,
the stuff that's trying to hijack our league will not win.
It won't win we are united, we are connected, we.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Will not be divided.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Where was all of this before you were personally attacked? Sure,
where was this statement?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Because you said enough?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, it changed that the tone of the of the
statement changed.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I also think that the head coach of the Indiana
Fever is not an easy job. But when she says
I ride with my players ten toes down one hundred
percent of the time, and she's coming off of a
game where she didn't ride with her players right like
I would say ninety eight point five percent of the time.
Because the last time it didn't seem like she was
riding with Sophie Cunningham and the other Caitlyn Clark instances
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or whatever the case may be, she could say that
she was, but in the since then again she defaulted
to the other team while her own player was sitting
there bloodied after the unnecessary foul, and then it becomes
a change of they are unified. Let's talk about great basketball.
If Jimmy Butler Karl Anthony Towns in the face and
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drew blood in a game, because there's a little history
between the two, and Mike Brown after the game sat
down and said, well, Jimmy Butler is a great player.
I'm sure he probably didn't mean anything by it. Could
you imagine what the New York media would have done.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Not fly Oh no, no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And by the way, that has nothing to do with
transgenders playing. That has nothing to do with race in
the WNBA, that has nothing to do with heterosexuals or
homosexuals in the WNBA. This is a player committing a
foul on your player in drawing blood, and you defaulting
to the other team's player by saying they probably didn't
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mean it. It probably wasn't that bad. They're they're a
good playing she's tough, she's tough like those. That is
the issue, which, by the way, is more basketball than
you can It's about team, it's about players, and if
you're sticking up for the other player, that means you're
not sticking up for your player, which tells me that
you're also not unified then in the way, so that
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whole Act three was basically a lie with the numbers,
with the words, with the unifying all of that complete bs.
It's not the reality.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
No, it's not in this Act three. I'm telling you.
I felt like she changed the script. I feel like
we moved to a different play.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Sure now moving on later into the program, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's like, wait, how did we shift to this? Okay,
all right, do we have the final act?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
All right? Well, now we do because it ends with
a with a grand finale. Okay, right here, let's go
the final act. Give me the fireworks from Stephanie White.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Every day, these women put their ass on the line.
Every day when they go low, we go high.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Love will win, grace will win, Humility will win, and
kindness will win.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I stand by them.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I will always stand by them.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Everybody else can go to hell.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Kindness will win, go to hell. Within ten seconds of
each other, Grace will win, Love will win, go to hell, Love, grace,
kindness will all win, go to hell. What a what
a cherry on top? Magnificent. She wants the league like
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it was before. Just go, just go off in a
far away do whatever you do. Just That's that's what
Stephanie White wants. I'm what really resonates with me, Mancy
is you knew this was a moment, This was a
pregame speech, This had been written, this had been gone
over hours. I'm sure she run it to her her partner,
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Lisa Salters, who you know from the ESPN broadcast like
is this gonna is this you know from media wise,
is this gonna be good? And that this was the
opportunity to do it, and it just completely missed the mark,
like an Angelry's layup, like it was just it was
brick city. It didn't address the real issues. We are
actually talking about basketball. We're talking about you not sticking
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up for your place, which isn't something coming from the outside.
It's at any level of basketball whatsoever. So you could
talk about kindness, you can talk about love, you could
talk about going to hell. She completely missed the mark
in what she read yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I also feel like, if you're trying to deliver a
speech and trying to make a point and get a
message across that you really want people to resonate with,
you can't be angry when delivering the message.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You can't. And so throughout this entire thing, she was angry.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
She was mad, but it felt like you're mad because
you're getting personally attacked because I haven't heard you say
any of this when the attacks were around your team
or other.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Women in the WNBA. So I don't know where this was.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
But from the beginning she seems like she's on the
defensive things, on the defensive side of things, and I
don't It's like it didn't resonate, it didn't hit the
way you think, the way you thought because you were
just angry the whole time, and then you didn't you
didn't even again. You switched plays in that third act,
completely missed the message there. You went from one message
and then you took us to somewhere else. So it
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didn't work. It didn't work like you said planned. Who
knows how many times she read it. It was not effective.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
We all know people who have a difficult time accepting fault.
Some are better than others, right, But do we know
the people that have a hard time doing it? What
they do is they deflect? Will they point out something
else that somebody else did wrong. I think she understands
that she was wrong in that situation. Heck, she even
kind of admitted it, saying like I didn't see the replay,
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But she didn't take accountability for that. She didn't explain
why she defaulted to taking Djna Carrington's side and not
Sophie Cunningham's side. And I think that's also the reason, maybe,
like why she's angry and she's angry at herself, so
she's angry at everything else. But at this time she
may have showed her true colors or showed her colors
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at the time of how she feels. Because the anger
in the statement sure makes it seem like you don't
want anybody talking about this league, and the league isn't unified.
It still isn't after these couple of years. I don't
know what the NBA is is unified, but I'll tell
you what. Like as a whole, they sure seem to
be on a on a variety of topics. There are rivalries.
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They're Jimmy Butler, Karl Anthony Towns, you know, Jalen Green,
Cade Cunningham don't like each other like there's there's all
there's there's rivalries within the rival reason of how things
are going. The djn A Carrington rivalry has been around
for a while, so you know it's there. So if
there was anybody to commit a foul on your player
that you would go against, it would be DJA Carrington
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for what she has tried to do to Caitlin Clark
or to Sophie Cunningham. In this instance, this isn't that
player's first time so you can't tell us that you're
unified when there's obviously the divide between those players. They
want to make it at all kumba ya sort of
thing and keep everybody else out. We're actually talking about basketball,
that's the thing, Manzies. This is an actual basketball thing,
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and that's all that they want us to talk about.
If this would have happened in the NBA, the New York
media would have taken Mike Brown and raked them over
the coals if he didn't stand up for his player.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Absolutely, and I like what you said, you're right. She
didn't even acknowledge it. She should have said you're right.
So I let Sophie down on that.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That was my bad. Yes, that's just that line.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I let Sophie down. That wasn't my intention at the time.
I won't do that again.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
But she didn't. She did not do that. You're so right.
She went around it.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
She made us believe that she was leading in that direction,
but then she never got there. She took a turn,
and I was like, oh, okay, so we've moved on
from this. I agree with you that it's tough. It's
got to be tough to be the Indiana fever coach,
it has to be tough. But the stuff that I
feel like I'm being critical with her about are things
that I think are obvious, like you didn't have you
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have not had your team's back multiple times. And the
perfect example of dj A Carrington, like I told you,
I don't even know if we said it during the show,
if I said it to you in the pre show,
that I shouldn't be able to see all the terrible
fouls that dj A Carrington has done over her career.
If this was a one off, if this was just
a one random Oh she played tough here, then I
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should not be able to see all of these other.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Fouls that have come up because this happened. It's not
your first time.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And like you said, Stephanie White, you knew that, you
knew that it wasn't the first offense against your own team,
but it wasn't Jay characters first offense.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Just in general, she tends.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
To foul fell real, real, real, real hard. If not
pull your hair when you're coming down.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Stephanie White, in a summation of your word, says, the
buck stops here because it happened to me, Like that's
that's what it's not that the buck stops here. It's well,
now it happened to me, So now now we're gonna
put a.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
On the set. Yes, now it's not just Caitlin Clark
getting the dead threats. Okay, now I'm mad.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
It wasn't tense the entire two minute speech because there
was one moment of levity. Oh okay, at least for me,
is when the reporter thought that Stephanie White had stopped
to take questions. All right, this is what that sounded like.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You can see that I didn't have that in real time.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I take personally. I thought she was done too. I
get it.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There was no no, we'll be taking questions. It was
a dramatic pause.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Give it up for that reporter though. He was like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna be the one I'll try. Let
me see.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I thought his grace period was sufficient. Yes, yes, I
thought it was very sufficient. A but I think was
a light moment in what seemed to be a tense
situation in Indiana. Caitlin Clark did address Stephanie White's comments
after the fever routed the Liberty there was.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
No way we were losing this game for her, and
you know, it's tough, like that's my head coach. Like
I hated that our fans booed her before the game.
That made me a little sick, to be honest. And
you can disagree in this and that, and I get it,
it's professional sports. People are gonna boo but like, at
the end of the day, that's our head coach, and
we're going to for her and we're always going to
have our back and that's never going to tear our
locker room apart.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I think what's what's key is I don't think that
they I don't think that the ten fifteen thousand fans
that that watched the game last night knew about Stephanie
White's comments pregame. I think they booed her for what
she didn't say with the Stephanie Cunningham agreed Sophie Cunningham
foul from Djna Carrington. Now that's why I think she
got booed, not from what she said in the two
minutes prior, because those things don't get out to the
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media as quickly as you would think they would.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
But what a great answer by Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Sure, what a great answer, because you know, I also
think Caitlin Clark doesn't love Stephanie White. You can just
kind of see the way that they have handled each
other in their three years together, you know what I'm saying,
Like you can tell that there's a little bit of
I don't know what it is, That's what I think
watching it from the side.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
But yet, like you said, she's still defended her coach.
She's still she.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Did with default, default to defend my coach, even if
I don't feel like it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Jason Stewart's the show's exact producer. I know you love this, WNBA.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
She's sort of a yes, I do. If they go low,
we're going to go high. Now go to hell. Going
to hell is the lowest of Well. I thought that
was great. I do like the fact that Stephanie White
in this moment is really trying to like take up
for her and her league against all these online people.
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The online people that are instigating this derisiveness, I guess,
are the division, and within her two minute SoundBite she's creating,
she's making the division wider. Like over the last twenty
four hours, those same people that were riding her for
not reacting the right way just exacerbated their reaction. Like
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she didn't do anything to calm the waters here. There
was no de escalation in this moment.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, absolutely not. And I think that by her getting
booed again, I think defans boot for how she reacted
to it. Those aren't fifteen thousand bots sitting in the stands.
Those aren't actual people who aren't hiding behind avatars that
let you know how they feel. So don't think that
this is a you know, a right wing conspiracy sort
of thing. There are point like there's there's again you know,
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Clay Travis and Clay doing the the National Balls thing
and Ennis Freedom and all that. It's that's, that's all whatever, okay,
And I think that in a way she's trying to
attack that stuff. I think so too, But ultimately she's
missing the mark on what is a big problem within
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the league, and that is the division that's there. So
while she wants to tell everybody there to you know,
go to hell, she's missing out which right in front
of her, and that she became a victim to by
defaulting to her to the comments that she made prior.
It's a that's it's tough. I I gave her the
benefit of the doubt so much because I thought it's
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a tough spot to be. It's really one of the
toughest head coaching spots to be, I think in because
of how Caitlin Clark and now Sophie Cunningham draws so
much attention in a certain way, you have to be really,
really good at it, and it's why the first coach
is gone and Stephanie White ended up moving in. But
now it feels like in a way she's either cracking
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under the pressure or just now is letting her own
feelings come out, which isn't unifying by any means.
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Speaker 11 (22:16):
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 WANs briggs on.
He's a like borderline Hall of Famer, all pro, great guy,
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former Bear, but he did a couple of things during
the interview that caught my attention. So you guys asked him,
do you remember asking them about the Bears offense? Well,
he gave this response the Bears offense.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
When you look at the Bears, you're like, man, they
look very dangerous, and there are things that we have
to do, and if we don't, we're going to find ourselves.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
In the danger zone.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
And I'm thinking danger zone.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Man.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
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 like, you know, the Bears might have
the danger zone on the office side, but the Rams
definitely have it on the deep side. With an Aaron
Duntain a second reference to danger zone, and I'm thinking
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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 he has said that Kyler Murray,
when he gets an open space, is looking for a need,
(23:48):
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 combat and there are no
points for a second place combat. There are no points
(24:10):
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 dug get out of
Hong Kong. And then finally, I'm like, and I don't
(24:30):
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
usually 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 and I'm thinking,
that's really strange. Why would you say, talk to me
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goose as just a way to check the level. I'm
just my my final conclusion, Lance Briggs big fan of
top Gun.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I did not.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
The wife, however, was not 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. Instead.
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Husband was really surprised, thrilled. However, 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 3 (26:00):
I think it's fate. I think he got a pony
up the money.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You would have gone, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Well absolutely, if I would somehow that would be signific.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
We won them.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
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
(26:29):
good consolation prize. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
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.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Sanger zone.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Ben Johnson, the head coach of the Bears, to the
Athletics saying, you've got quote thirty one other teams 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.
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I want blowouts. That from Ben Johnson, the Chicago Bears
head coach.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
All right, so they're going to go for it on
fourth down every time there, every time.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Just assume it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Guys, this is a franchise that has never had 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
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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 Illa and
Dennis Green ting we want to be the highest scoring
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offense in the NFL. Vikings fans they want a super Bowl.
They want 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. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
He thinks he can do that. That's why you said this.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
This is 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,
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and this is this isn't something that the Bears can't
be a great offense or the Bears can't set a record, Manzi,
it's the fact that this is your goal when you
haven't accomplished anything in 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. Has Ben Johnson being too full of himself.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Would this have landed better if he was just an
offensive coordinator?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yes, right yees, 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.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
So it kind of is like, you don't want to
hear that if you were.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Just the offensive coordinator, all right, But as a head coach,
that's not that's not what you want to hear.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
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? Front 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 starts.
(29:47):
There'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 can hear it again,
it's about thirty seconds, you know what.
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Speaker 5 (30:22):
Thank you, thanks t you do it. I appreciate that.
It's how you do a handshaking.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
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It's funny.
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I sent that picture to my bestie Grace, who everyone's
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Speaker 3 (31:04):
All right, we're smack dab in the middle of the week.
Who's checking out baseball this weekend? Raise their hand. Anybody's
gonna be checking out some baseball this weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Or today, today, today, the day before.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
All day, the Brew Crew and Dodgers playing this weekend,
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 Dodger Stadium. Thoroughly enjoyed myself.
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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
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got to be great when the ball's in play and
you're watching a baseball game.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
No, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Hitting the crack of the ball, when when the bat
hits the ball when you're in the ballpark is such
a It's something that, like, I don't.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Know, feels good, feels like home hearing that crack of
the bat. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Never you hear what you're at the stadium, because you
can't hear that at home. It's not the same.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, Stu Gott's talking with Matt Vaskershon 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,
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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 Stu Gotts and Company Live Fashion, I
feel this is maybe like down Taylor's you know, ale
I would rather stay at home a lot of the times,
in the comforts of home. Yeah, So I pose this
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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
(33:28):
goes with it. But if 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 5 (33:46):
Oh, this sound's tough. It is tough. I you know,
the family.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Has had season partial season tickets to the Clippers for
We did it for many years.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, I would say partial season tickets is nice because
it's not a full responsibility exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
But you're telling me here, I just can pick it
for free, right, Like this is like no money.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I'm thinking, like I have no money. It's not affecting.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
No, you would pay, you would have to pay for
the season tickets.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I'm still paying. Okay, that does change things.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yes, you are paying for the season tickets okay, but
you also have to pay for Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Tickets right right right? And it has to be the
whole season. Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Not?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
There's see, I have one, can't have, can't have the other.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Uh, it's so hard because an entire season in the
NBA is a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yes, And it's.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Like you said, I have to think about the traffic
and I have to think 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 5 (34:51):
About I'm not going to a game and not having
a beer, Like, who am I a monster.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So like one beer to tequila shots that adds up,
and on the road, when you're at home, it's.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
A lot two three shots. She's out at the old ball.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Game, definitely it takes more than three. Of course here
she is takes more than three.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
B a C one on one For Manzi.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I think this beer, Yes, give a bet.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
A beer, get a beer, get another beer.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
No, I think the right answer for me is the
NFL Sunday too, which is crazy?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Can I can? I? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Jason Stewart, is this as difficult of a decision as
it is for Manzil?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Really hard?
Speaker 11 (35:39):
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 this exercise as what NFL Sunday
ticket or season tickets to the Chargers. That that's how
I interpret, okay, And I've said many times on this
on this broadcast. Go into an NFL game sucks. There
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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.
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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, he loves this stuff, I am
reminded that conditioning is overrated. These guys do a lot
of standing around in 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
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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
to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Okay, is this stop it? You're crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
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
as great because we're not fans of those teams. But
what's even more interesting is you're wavering. And Jason says,
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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 4 (37:29):
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.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Watch it at home.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I agree with you, there's so much to the experience,
but I feel like I'm speaking from a place of privilege.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Because of how many games I've been to. That's why
I'm contemplating it.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
You ask somebody who maybe has not had as much
experience as us going to these games, maybe it's different.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
And I'm just like I thought of the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I didn't even think of Chargers because that I would
take NFL ticket.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
I already don't go to Charger games and I can't.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Chris purfet I you know what.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
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
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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
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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 3 (39:07):
Game day experience for an NFL game is not appealing
to Chris Isaac.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Glowing the tailgate's fine, but actually being in the game itself, No,
I don't want to deal with that.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Beer and shots are fine with Mancy, Isaac Wait.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Lebron, How many shots for Moncey?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
All right, y'all don't even know how accurate that is.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
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, been at
thousands of games in our lives. How would our answers
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compare 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
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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 se Guitar.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
The Gong Show.
Speaker 9 (40:29):
About thirty years ago, Sports Illustrated did an article where
they 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 games because it would
be so much more convenient to just watching it on
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TV at home, that you'd actually have to pay to
be fans, 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 3 (41:05):
What's funny, what's sorry is the running joke from the
other teams in the AFC West that thinks thinks the
Chargers have paid actors as their fans, right, So, like
that would go along with those lines I say, as
I said, like here in Los Angeles, where we live
and where we work, I don't have a favorite team.
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One of 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
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gonna be 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 going to 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
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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 the coals
(42:34):
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 Saturdays. 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 5 (42:54):
Nine am game.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
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. M Me on the West coast,
when Ohio State plays at nine and they're done by
twelve fifteen, guess what rest of the day is mine? Right?
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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 just when you add everything up at the end,
being able to be home and seeing all the football
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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 4 (43:52):
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, Rams, whether
you're going to any of those, that's what you're doing
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that day.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
That's it. It's like, what are you doing. I'm going
to the game. I can't do anything else.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
I can't plan for anything else because I don't know
where I'm gonna get stuck in traffic, either getting too
or leaving from.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
So you just it's a mission and it takes up
your entire day.
Speaker 9 (44:26):
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, 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 (44:45):
Oh yeah, it would depend on the city, because I've
gone to games in Atlanta and Detroit and traffic is
so part of that. I'm just I'm just saying, like Chicago, awesome.
New York maybe, although we got to go all the
way out to medal.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
There's also something different from twenty thousand fans leaving an arena,
say for basketball, as opposed to eighty thousand try to
leave a football stadium.
Speaker 11 (45:07):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Or in college football, you know Clemson South Carolina and
Clemson plays home games. After the game's done, the streets
are just one ways out of town, like everything is
marked off because you got to figure out how 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
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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 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 4 (45:52):
Oh absolutely, if there's a Charger game here at one
o'clock local time, you have you gotta leave three hours
before 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.
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It was when the Chargers were hosting the Bills a
couple of years three four years ago.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
I took us three hours to get out.
Speaker 9 (46:20):
Did you pass the time by doing shots with the
Bills fans?
Speaker 6 (46:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
And here's where I regret what I learned. So one
time I went to see Beyoncesa and Beyonce.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
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 days.
Speaker 5 (46:39):
I know what to do, what to do.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
And I went with my friend Natalie, and she was like,
why are you bringing to pizza?
Speaker 5 (46:43):
I was like, girl, when we get out of.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
This concert and we can't move, you're gonna 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 the Chargers and
the Bills, because I should have known.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Had I had food, I would not have been mad.
I just need food in them. I wouldn't have been angry.
Took us three. 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 (47:12):
There is 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
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FCS school. 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
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the season ticket waiting 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 it's just become
(48:18):
so much better at home to sports illustrated its 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 what the balance was about.
Sunday ticket costs you five hundred dollars. Season tickets will
cost you thousands of dollars, you know, So there's that
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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 11 (48:57):
But I mean, Isaac may the disclaimer, and I feel
they need to like 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. Dan is talking yesterday. Yeah,
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Dan 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
(49:44):
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 expect to talk about it,
that is an entire day blown that could cost, you know,
(50:05):
compromise my career.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
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
(50:28):
so like there's that responsibility of that. So the person
that lives, you know, four hours outside of Lincoln, Nebraska,
they may have Cornhuskers 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
(50:50):
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 or 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
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the 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 Cornhiskers take on the Buckeyes, Like that's worth it.
(51:32):
But are 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 4 (51:43):
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 (51:56):
I guess before I got into this industry, I was
my pre already 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
am at home. There is no chance that a Eagles
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fan will pick a fight in my section. I will
get a beer dumped on me.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
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 go to
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lambeau Field. There's someone who has those tickets. And maybe
when you're a season ticket 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 on this small sample size, I
think the Sunday ticket may be more appealing to those
(53:04):
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 5 (53:13):
I still don't know what I would pick, well.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
The Chargers, you would stay home Clippers at who's got
the better beer? Yeah, she's Monte Milano. So I'm Dan Byer.
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay, so again the Lakers are sold. Russell Westbrook is retiring.
Ben Johnson says something absurd. Monty tells you how to
do a handshake in Stu chats with Matt vs Kershen. Okay,
(00:40):
that all follows the WNBA. Stephanie White in the Indiana Fever.
It is Groundhog's Day once again. Monzie blanios it sure is.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Did Pablo Tori investigate the Lakers? Did he give us
all the details on that?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I'm just wondering, like investigators? Oh, okay, so he had
no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I mean, he's an investigative journalist when it comes to
people doing sketchy things.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
With money with an NBA team. But it's not the Okay,
not the Lakers. Okay, got it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm Kawhi Leonard. When I need a jumbo tron in
my living room, I go to Dektronics. Ectronics is the
only JumboTron for me. That's probably what pabulatory is investigating
the Lakers. The Lakers for whatever may happen with Mark
Walter h two billion dollars more than when he bought
the Lakers from for you ago. He's pretty good the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
He flipped them.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That was a good turnaround.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, like if flipping a house that was undone so quickly.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
If only the WNBA could flip the script, but it
ends up always being the same script.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
They need to tear down the house completely. There's no
flipping the WNB.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's They need a one eighty. They don't need the
three sixty to get back to where they are. They
need the one eighty. And last night's story is not
what happened after the fever routed the New York Liberty.
That's what Stephanie White and other I honestly thought. I
just silenced my phone yesterday on that.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You just have your phone, not silent, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, I wish the WNBA would be silenced, Yeah, because
they just keep talking and things keep happening, and I
just continue to scratch my head and say, huh, and
if you don't know what we're talking about, it was
a pregame press conference from Stephanie White of the Indiana
Fever Monzi, who made a bunch of headlines for what
she said, how she said it, in the way that
(02:29):
she left the press conference. We here at Fox Sports
Radio and Stu gottson Company Live are going to bring
you the entire Stephanie White press conference, but we're going
to do it almost in a four part play. This
is Act one Stephanie White pregame last night prior to
the New York Liberty on the heels of the various
(02:50):
controversies including the Djna Carrington fowl on Sophie Cunningham and
Stephanie White also responding to her comments that she made
in saying that she didn't see the foul and stuck
up for DJing NAE Carrington after that game against the
Chicago Sky. This is part one, Act one of Stephanie
White last night.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
This is more for an online community that's trying to
create narratives that simply don't exist.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Trying to create a fabrication or disortion of.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Who I am, of what I'm about. Our players success,
our players health and wellness. Our player safety is always
a top priority for me. One of the things I
pride myself on is my relationships with players.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So I think she's talking about two separate things at
the beginning. When she talks about a portion of the
community trying to trying to divide the WMBA, I think
that could be wrong. I think like that could be
Klay Travis trying to start as Nashville Balls team. That's
(03:56):
what I think of having the men play against the women.
I can understan and why the WNBA is I don't
want that? Can I hear act one just one more time,
Chris Burfett, So when you hear that first line, that's
who I think that she's referencing.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You're probably right on that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
This is more for.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
An online community that's trying to create narratives. Yeah, yet
simply don't exist, trying to create a fabrication or disortion
of who I am, of.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What I'm about now that changes our.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Players success, our player's health and wellness, our player safety
is always a top priority for me. One of the
things I pride myself on is my relationships with players.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You're it's funny because she's like these narratives that aren't there,
that we're making up. But I'm sorry, I actually have
not seen you straight up defend your players the way
I think you should have with everything that has surrounded
the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I straight up lie right there.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We're not creating these narratives, We're not pulling them out
of nowhere. It is something that you have actually done
the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
In my opinion, we can even talk about Alyssa.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Thomas and the fists to the throat of Caitlin Clark
when she spoke on that she definitely gave more grace
to Alyssa Thomas than I thought needed to be because
it was your player that was with the fist in
their throat. Even what we said yesterday with Sophie Cunningham
and Jne Caring tens like, even if you believe that,
you don't say that because that's your team. You stand
(05:27):
by your team entirely, and you have not done that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I agree wholeheartedly. And at some point in the segment
we'll probably play what Stephanie White had to say after
the foul, but I want to I want people to
get lost in this entire speech that Stephanie White made.
Here is act too.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
For those who have anything to say about the play
in the last game. I didn't see the play in
real time. I went straight to a press conference. I
thought the play got called right, thankfully Sophie's Okay, was
it egregious?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
When you have a chance to watch that over and
over her on replay, you can see that I didn't
have that in real time.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What I laughed when I heard that the first time.
I laughed out loud.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know what. It reminds me of the guy who
cheated in golf, the thief yesterday, who said, I mean
we were giving shots back to the field. I mean,
that's what we were doing like that. That was the excuse.
That's her excuse. She didn't she didn't have the real
real time. But that's not her fault that she didn't
have the real time. She didn't see it. But now
when she's saying that she didn't see the clip, we've
(06:32):
now seen see the foul in its entirety. You're saying
it's splattered all over social media.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, it was one of the funniest clips after this
that there is the foul, and standing right behind the
fowl with her arms crossed on the.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Sideline is Stephanie White.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It looked like she had a clear view of what happened,
and even if you did it okay, Even if you
did it Sophie Cunningham's reaction should have been enough for
you to know that it was not okay.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That is your default. Your default is your team. Yes,
when you don't have the information, you don't default to
the other side and say it's not that bad.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Great point.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Your default is to support your team, and she did
not do that. After this intermission, we now take you
to Act three of the Stephanie White Show.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I take personally any suggestions that I don't one hundred
always have my player's bad I ride with them ten
toes down all the time.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
They know that it's a shame that we can't have
an opportunity to talk about what great basketball they're playing
because they are playing.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
The reality is with me, I will always lead with love,
I will always lead with grace, I will always lead
with humility, and I will always lead with integrity.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Doesn't mean I'll always get it right.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I'm also human. The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness,
the stuff that's trying to hijack our league will not win.
It won't win we are united, we are connected, we.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Will not be divided.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Where was all of this before you were personally attacked? Sure,
where was this statement?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Because you said enough?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, it changed that the tone of the of the
statement changed.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I also think that the head coach of the Indiana
Fever is not an easy job. But when she says
I ride with my players ten toes down one hundred
percent of the time, and she's coming off of a
game where she didn't ride with her players right like
I would say ninety eight point five percent of the time.
Because the last time it didn't seem like she was
riding with Sophie Cunningham and the other Caitlyn Clark instances
(08:39):
or whatever the case may be, she could say that
she was, but in the since then again she defaulted
to the other team while her own player was sitting
there bloodied after the unnecessary foul, and then it becomes
a change of they are unified. Let's talk about great basketball.
If Jimmy Butler Karl Anthony Towns in the face and
(09:03):
drew blood in a game, because there's a little history
between the two, and Mike Brown after the game sat
down and said, well, Jimmy Butler is a great player.
I'm sure he probably didn't mean anything by it. Could
you imagine what the New York media would have done.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Not fly Oh no, no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And by the way, that has nothing to do with
transgenders playing. That has nothing to do with race in
the WNBA, that has nothing to do with heterosexuals or
homosexuals in the WNBA. This is a player committing a
foul on your player in drawing blood, and you defaulting
to the other team's player by saying they probably didn't
(09:41):
mean it. It probably wasn't that bad. They're they're a
good playing she's tough, she's tough like those. That is
the issue, which, by the way, is more basketball than
you can It's about team, it's about players, and if
you're sticking up for the other player, that means you're
not sticking up for your player, which tells me that
you're also not unified then in the way, so that
(10:01):
whole Act three was basically a lie with the numbers,
with the words, with the unifying all of that complete bs.
It's not the reality.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
No, it's not in this Act three. I'm telling you.
I felt like she changed the script. I feel like
we moved to a different play.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Sure now moving on later into the program, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's like, wait, how did we shift to this? Okay,
all right, do we have the final act?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
All right? Well, now we do because it ends with
a with a grand finale. Okay, right here, let's go
the final act. Give me the fireworks from Stephanie White.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Every day, these women put their ass on the line.
Every day when they go low, we go high.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Love will win, grace will win, Humility will win, and
kindness will win.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I stand by them.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I will always stand by them.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Everybody else can go to hell.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Kindness will win, go to hell. Within ten seconds of
each other, Grace will win, Love will win, go to hell, Love, grace,
kindness will all win, go to hell. What a what
a cherry on top? Magnificent. She wants the league like
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it was before. Just go, just go off in a
far away do whatever you do. Just That's that's what
Stephanie White wants. I'm what really resonates with me, Mancy
is you knew this was a moment, This was a
pregame speech, This had been written, this had been gone
over hours. I'm sure she run it to her her partner,
(11:38):
Lisa Salters, who you know from the ESPN broadcast like
is this gonna is this you know from media wise,
is this gonna be good? And that this was the
opportunity to do it, and it just completely missed the mark,
like an Angelry's layup, like it was just it was
brick city. It didn't address the real issues. We are
actually talking about basketball. We're talking about you not sticking
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up for your place, which isn't something coming from the outside.
It's at any level of basketball whatsoever. So you could
talk about kindness, you can talk about love, you could
talk about going to hell. She completely missed the mark
in what she read yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I also feel like, if you're trying to deliver a
speech and trying to make a point and get a
message across that you really want people to resonate with,
you can't be angry when delivering the message.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You can't. And so throughout this entire thing, she was angry.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
She was mad, but it felt like you're mad because
you're getting personally attacked because I haven't heard you say
any of this when the attacks were around your team
or other.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Women in the WNBA. So I don't know where this was.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
But from the beginning she seems like she's on the
defensive things, on the defensive side of things, and I
don't It's like it didn't resonate, it didn't hit the
way you think, the way you thought because you were
just angry the whole time, and then you didn't you
didn't even again. You switched plays in that third act,
completely missed the message there. You went from one message
and then you took us to somewhere else. So it
(13:05):
didn't work. It didn't work like you said planned. Who
knows how many times she read it. It was not effective.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
We all know people who have a difficult time accepting fault.
Some are better than others, right, But do we know
the people that have a hard time doing it? What
they do is they deflect? Will they point out something
else that somebody else did wrong. I think she understands
that she was wrong in that situation. Heck, she even
kind of admitted it, saying like I didn't see the replay,
(13:30):
But she didn't take accountability for that. She didn't explain
why she defaulted to taking Djna Carrington's side and not
Sophie Cunningham's side. And I think that's also the reason, maybe,
like why she's angry and she's angry at herself, so
she's angry at everything else. But at this time she
may have showed her true colors or showed her colors
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at the time of how she feels. Because the anger
in the statement sure makes it seem like you don't
want anybody talking about this league, and the league isn't unified.
It still isn't after these couple of years. I don't
know what the NBA is is unified, but I'll tell
you what. Like as a whole, they sure seem to
be on a on a variety of topics. There are rivalries.
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They're Jimmy Butler, Karl Anthony Towns, you know, Jalen Green,
Cade Cunningham don't like each other like there's there's all
there's there's rivalries within the rival reason of how things
are going. The djn A Carrington rivalry has been around
for a while, so you know it's there. So if
there was anybody to commit a foul on your player
that you would go against, it would be DJA Carrington
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for what she has tried to do to Caitlin Clark
or to Sophie Cunningham. In this instance, this isn't that
player's first time so you can't tell us that you're
unified when there's obviously the divide between those players. They
want to make it at all kumba ya sort of
thing and keep everybody else out. We're actually talking about basketball,
that's the thing, Manzies. This is an actual basketball thing,
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and that's all that they want us to talk about.
If this would have happened in the NBA, the New York
media would have taken Mike Brown and raked them over
the coals if he didn't stand up for his player.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Absolutely, and I like what you said, you're right. She
didn't even acknowledge it. She should have said you're right.
So I let Sophie down on that.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That was my bad. Yes, that's just that line.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I let Sophie down. That wasn't my intention at the time.
I won't do that again.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
But she didn't. She did not do that. You're so right.
She went around it.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
She made us believe that she was leading in that direction,
but then she never got there. She took a turn,
and I was like, oh, okay, so we've moved on
from this. I agree with you that it's tough. It's
got to be tough to be the Indiana fever coach,
it has to be tough. But the stuff that I
feel like I'm being critical with her about are things
that I think are obvious, like you didn't have you
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have not had your team's back multiple times. And the
perfect example of dj A Carrington, like I told you,
I don't even know if we said it during the show,
if I said it to you in the pre show,
that I shouldn't be able to see all the terrible
fouls that dj A Carrington has done over her career.
If this was a one off, if this was just
a one random Oh she played tough here, then I
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should not be able to see all of these other.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Fouls that have come up because this happened. It's not
your first time.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And like you said, Stephanie White, you knew that, you
knew that it wasn't the first offense against your own team,
but it wasn't Jay characters first offense.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Just in general, she tends.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
To foul fell real, real, real, real hard. If not
pull your hair when you're coming down.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Stephanie White, in a summation of your word, says, the
buck stops here because it happened to me, Like that's
that's what it's not that the buck stops here. It's well,
now it happened to me, So now now we're gonna
put a.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
On the set. Yes, now it's not just Caitlin Clark
getting the dead threats. Okay, now I'm mad.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
It wasn't tense the entire two minute speech because there
was one moment of levity. Oh okay, at least for me,
is when the reporter thought that Stephanie White had stopped
to take questions. All right, this is what that sounded like.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You can see that I didn't have that in real time.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I take personally. I thought she was done too. I
get it.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There was no no, we'll be taking questions. It was
a dramatic pause.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Give it up for that reporter though. He was like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna be the one I'll try. Let
me see.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I thought his grace period was sufficient. Yes, yes, I
thought it was very sufficient. A but I think was
a light moment in what seemed to be a tense
situation in Indiana. Caitlin Clark did address Stephanie White's comments
after the fever routed the Liberty there was.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
No way we were losing this game for her, and
you know, it's tough, like that's my head coach. Like
I hated that our fans booed her before the game.
That made me a little sick, to be honest. And
you can disagree in this and that, and I get it,
it's professional sports. People are gonna boo but like, at
the end of the day, that's our head coach, and
we're going to for her and we're always going to
have our back and that's never going to tear our
locker room apart.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I think what's what's key is I don't think that
they I don't think that the ten fifteen thousand fans
that that watched the game last night knew about Stephanie
White's comments pregame. I think they booed her for what
she didn't say with the Stephanie Cunningham agreed Sophie Cunningham
foul from Djna Carrington. Now that's why I think she
got booed, not from what she said in the two
minutes prior, because those things don't get out to the
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media as quickly as you would think they would.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
But what a great answer by Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Sure, what a great answer, because you know, I also
think Caitlin Clark doesn't love Stephanie White. You can just
kind of see the way that they have handled each
other in their three years together, you know what I'm saying,
Like you can tell that there's a little bit of
I don't know what it is, That's what I think
watching it from the side.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
But yet, like you said, she's still defended her coach.
She's still she.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Did with default, default to defend my coach, even if
I don't feel like it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Jason Stewart's the show's exact producer. I know you love this, WNBA.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
She's sort of a yes, I do. If they go low,
we're going to go high. Now go to hell. Going
to hell is the lowest of Well. I thought that
was great. I do like the fact that Stephanie White
in this moment is really trying to like take up
for her and her league against all these online people.
(19:26):
The online people that are instigating this derisiveness, I guess,
are the division, and within her two minute SoundBite she's creating,
she's making the division wider. Like over the last twenty
four hours, those same people that were riding her for
not reacting the right way just exacerbated their reaction. Like
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she didn't do anything to calm the waters here. There
was no de escalation in this moment.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, absolutely not. And I think that by her getting
booed again, I think defans boot for how she reacted
to it. Those aren't fifteen thousand bots sitting in the stands.
Those aren't actual people who aren't hiding behind avatars that
let you know how they feel. So don't think that
this is a you know, a right wing conspiracy sort
of thing. There are point like there's there's again you know,
(20:19):
Clay Travis and Clay doing the the National Balls thing
and Ennis Freedom and all that. It's that's, that's all whatever, okay,
And I think that in a way she's trying to
attack that stuff. I think so too, But ultimately she's
missing the mark on what is a big problem within
(20:40):
the league, and that is the division that's there. So
while she wants to tell everybody there to you know,
go to hell, she's missing out which right in front
of her, and that she became a victim to by
defaulting to her to the comments that she made prior.
It's a that's it's tough. I I gave her the
benefit of the doubt so much because I thought it's
(21:01):
a tough spot to be. It's really one of the
toughest head coaching spots to be, I think in because
of how Caitlin Clark and now Sophie Cunningham draws so
much attention in a certain way, you have to be really,
really good at it, and it's why the first coach
is gone and Stephanie White ended up moving in. But
now it feels like in a way she's either cracking
(21:22):
under the pressure or just now is letting her own
feelings come out, which isn't unifying by any means.
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our executive producer is Jason Stewart.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
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 WANs briggs on.
He's a like borderline Hall of Famer, all pro, great guy,
(22:39):
former Bear, but he did a couple of things during
the interview that caught my attention. So you guys asked him,
do you remember asking them about the Bears offense? Well,
he gave this response the Bears offense.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
When you look at the Bears, you're like, man, they
look very dangerous, and there are things that we have
to do, and if we don't, we're going to find ourselves.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
In the danger zone.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
And I'm thinking danger zone.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Man.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
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 like, you know, the Bears might have
the danger zone on the office side, but the Rams
definitely have it on the deep side. With an Aaron
Duntain a second reference to danger zone, and I'm thinking
(23:25):
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 he has said that Kyler Murray,
when he gets an open space, is looking for a need,
(23:48):
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 combat and there are no
points for a second place combat. There are no points
(24:10):
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 dug get out of
Hong Kong. And then finally, I'm like, and I don't
(24:30):
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
usually 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 and I'm thinking,
that's really strange. Why would you say, talk to me
(24:50):
goose as just a way to check the level. I'm
just my my final conclusion, Lance Briggs big fan of
top Gun.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I did not.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
The wife, however, was not 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. Instead.
(25:48):
Husband was really surprised, thrilled. However, 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 3 (26:00):
I think it's fate. I think he got a pony
up the money.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You would have gone, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Well absolutely, if I would somehow that would be signific.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
We won them.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
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
(26:29):
good consolation prize. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
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.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Sanger zone.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Ben Johnson, the head coach of the Bears, to the
Athletics saying, you've got quote thirty one other teams 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.
(27:09):
I want blowouts. That from Ben Johnson, the Chicago Bears
head coach.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
All right, so they're going to go for it on
fourth down every time there, every time.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Just assume it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Guys, this is a franchise that has never had 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
(27:42):
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 Illa and
Dennis Green ting we want to be the highest scoring
(28:03):
offense in the NFL. Vikings fans they want a super Bowl.
They want 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. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
He thinks he can do that. That's why you said this.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
This is 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,
(28:40):
and this is this isn't something that the Bears can't
be a great offense or the Bears can't set a record, Manzi,
it's the fact that this is your goal when you
haven't accomplished anything in 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. Has Ben Johnson being too full of himself.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Would this have landed better if he was just an
offensive coordinator?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yes, right yees, 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.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
So it kind of is like, you don't want to
hear that if you were.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Just the offensive coordinator, all right, But as a head coach,
that's not that's not what you want to hear.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
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? Front 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 starts.
(29:47):
There'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 can hear it again,
it's about thirty seconds, you know what.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
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Speaker 3 (30:12):
Welcome aboard, it's our two. We are getting so so
much response to the handshake that of all handshakes, I
call it handshake one on one.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Thank you, thanks t you do it. I appreciate that.
It's how you do a handshaking.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I sent that picture to my bestie Grace, who everyone's
heard about, and what her response was, that's how you
shake a hand And I had to call her and
I was like, yes, Grace, thank you for noticing the handshake.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
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Speaker 3 (31:04):
All right, we're smack dab in the middle of the week.
Who's checking out baseball this weekend? Raise their hand. Anybody's
gonna be checking out some baseball this weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Or today, today, today, the day before.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
All day, the Brew Crew and Dodgers playing this weekend,
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 Dodger Stadium. Thoroughly enjoyed myself.
(31:38):
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
(32:00):
got to be great when the ball's in play and
you're watching a baseball game.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
No, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Hitting the crack of the ball, when when the bat
hits the ball when you're in the ballpark is such
a It's something that, like, I don't.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Know, feels good, feels like home hearing that crack of
the bat. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Never you hear what you're at the stadium, because you
can't hear that at home. It's not the same.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, Stu Gott's talking with Matt Vaskershon 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,
(32:43):
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 Stu Gotts and Company Live Fashion, I
feel this is maybe like down Taylor's you know, ale
I would rather stay at home a lot of the times,
in the comforts of home. Yeah, So I pose this
(33:07):
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
(33:28):
goes with it. But if 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 5 (33:46):
Oh, this sound's tough. It is tough. I you know,
the family.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Has had season partial season tickets to the Clippers for
We did it for many years.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, I would say partial season tickets is nice because
it's not a full responsibility exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
But you're telling me here, I just can pick it
for free, right, Like this is like no money.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I'm thinking, like I have no money. It's not affecting.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
No, you would pay, you would have to pay for
the season tickets.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I'm still paying. Okay, that does change things.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yes, you are paying for the season tickets okay, but
you also have to pay for Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Tickets right right right? And it has to be the
whole season. Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Not?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
There's see, I have one, can't have, can't have the other.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Uh, it's so hard because an entire season in the
NBA is a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yes, And it's.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Like you said, I have to think about the traffic
and I have to think 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 5 (34:51):
About I'm not going to a game and not having
a beer, Like, who am I a monster.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So like one beer to tequila shots that adds up,
and on the road, when you're at home, it's.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
A lot two three shots. She's out at the old ball.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Game, definitely it takes more than three. Of course here
she is takes more than three.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
B a C one on one For Manzi.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I think this beer, Yes, give a bet.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
A beer, get a beer, get another beer.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
No, I think the right answer for me is the
NFL Sunday too, which is crazy?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Can I can? I? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Jason Stewart, is this as difficult of a decision as
it is for Manzil?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Really hard?
Speaker 11 (35:39):
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 this exercise as what NFL Sunday
ticket or season tickets to the Chargers. That that's how
I interpret, okay, And I've said many times on this
on this broadcast. Go into an NFL game sucks. There
(36:02):
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.
(36:24):
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, he loves this stuff, I am
reminded that conditioning is overrated. These guys do a lot
of standing around in 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
(36:45):
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
to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Okay, is this stop it? You're crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
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
as great because we're not fans of those teams. But
what's even more interesting is you're wavering. And Jason says,
(37:21):
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 4 (37:29):
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.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Watch it at home.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I agree with you, there's so much to the experience,
but I feel like I'm speaking from a place of privilege.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Because of how many games I've been to. That's why
I'm contemplating it.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
You ask somebody who maybe has not had as much
experience as us going to these games, maybe it's different.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
And I'm just like I thought of the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I didn't even think of Chargers because that I would
take NFL ticket.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
I already don't go to Charger games and I can't.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Chris purfet I you know what.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
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
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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
(38:50):
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 3 (39:07):
Game day experience for an NFL game is not appealing
to Chris Isaac.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Glowing the tailgate's fine, but actually being in the game itself, No,
I don't want to deal with that.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Beer and shots are fine with Mancy, Isaac Wait.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Lebron, How many shots for Moncey?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
All right, y'all don't even know how accurate that is.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
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, been at
thousands of games in our lives. How would our answers
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compare 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
(40:11):
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 se Guitar.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
The Gong Show.
Speaker 9 (40:29):
About thirty years ago, Sports Illustrated did an article where
they 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 games because it would
be so much more convenient to just watching it on
(40:50):
TV at home, that you'd actually have to pay to
be fans, 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 3 (41:05):
What's funny, what's sorry is the running joke from the
other teams in the AFC West that thinks thinks the
Chargers have paid actors as their fans, right, So, like
that would go along with those lines I say, as
I said, like here in Los Angeles, where we live
and where we work, I don't have a favorite team.
(41:26):
One of 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
(41:49):
gonna be 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 going to 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
(42:12):
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 the coals
(42:34):
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 Saturdays. 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 5 (42:54):
Nine am game.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
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. M Me on the West coast,
when Ohio State plays at nine and they're done by
twelve fifteen, guess what rest of the day is mine? Right?
(43:19):
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 just when you add everything up at the end,
being able to be home and seeing all the football
(43:41):
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 4 (43:52):
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, Rams, whether
you're going to any of those, that's what you're doing
(44:12):
that day.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
That's it. It's like, what are you doing. I'm going
to the game. I can't do anything else.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
I can't plan for anything else because I don't know
where I'm gonna get stuck in traffic, either getting too
or leaving from.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
So you just it's a mission and it takes up
your entire day.
Speaker 9 (44:26):
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, 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 (44:45):
Oh yeah, it would depend on the city, because I've
gone to games in Atlanta and Detroit and traffic is
so part of that. I'm just I'm just saying, like Chicago, awesome.
New York maybe, although we got to go all the
way out to medal.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
There's also something different from twenty thousand fans leaving an arena,
say for basketball, as opposed to eighty thousand try to
leave a football stadium.
Speaker 11 (45:07):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Or in college football, you know Clemson South Carolina and
Clemson plays home games. After the game's done, the streets
are just one ways out of town, like everything is
marked off because you got to figure out how 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
(45:31):
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 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 4 (45:52):
Oh absolutely, if there's a Charger game here at one
o'clock local time, you have you gotta leave three hours
before 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.
(46:13):
It was when the Chargers were hosting the Bills a
couple of years three four years ago.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
I took us three hours to get out.
Speaker 9 (46:20):
Did you pass the time by doing shots with the
Bills fans?
Speaker 6 (46:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
And here's where I regret what I learned. So one
time I went to see Beyoncesa and Beyonce.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
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 days.
Speaker 5 (46:39):
I know what to do, what to do.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
And I went with my friend Natalie, and she was like,
why are you bringing to pizza?
Speaker 5 (46:43):
I was like, girl, when we get out of.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
This concert and we can't move, you're gonna 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 the Chargers and
the Bills, because I should have known.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Had I had food, I would not have been mad.
I just need food in them. I wouldn't have been angry.
Took us three. 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 (47:12):
There is 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
(47:34):
FCS school. 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
(47:56):
the season ticket waiting 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 it's just become
(48:18):
so much better at home to sports illustrated its 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 what the balance was about.
Sunday ticket costs you five hundred dollars. Season tickets will
cost you thousands of dollars, you know, So there's that
(48:40):
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 11 (48:57):
But I mean, Isaac may the disclaimer, and I feel
they need to like 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. Dan is talking yesterday. Yeah,
(49:22):
Dan 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
(49:44):
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 expect to talk about it,
that is an entire day blown that could cost, you know,
(50:05):
compromise my career.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
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
(50:28):
so like there's that responsibility of that. So the person
that lives, you know, four hours outside of Lincoln, Nebraska,
they may have Cornhuskers 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
(50:50):
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 or 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
(51:12):
the 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 Cornhiskers take on the Buckeyes, Like that's worth it.
(51:32):
But are 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 4 (51:43):
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 (51:56):
I guess before I got into this industry, I was
my pre already 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
am at home. There is no chance that a Eagles
(52:18):
fan will pick a fight in my section. I will
get a beer dumped on me.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
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 go to
(52:42):
lambeau Field. There's someone who has those tickets. And maybe
when you're a season ticket 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 on this small sample size, I
think the Sunday ticket may be more appealing to those
(53:04):
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 5 (53:13):
I still don't know what I would pick, well.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
The Chargers, you would stay home Clippers at who's got
the better beer? Yeah, she's Monte Milano. So I'm Dan Byer.
Jason Stewart's here, Isaac Low and Cron and Chris Burfett
as we are sitting in for stut Gott's and Company
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