June 30, 2023 • 40 mins
In the third hour of the Ben Maller show, Chris Plank fills in for Ben. Chris and the guys focus on the gambling drama going on within the NFL. Chris gives his thoughts on where the league should go with this kind of punishment due to gambling being legal these days. The Maller Militia chimes in to give their two cents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Indeed, indeed, I want to just give a quick thank
you at a boy to Eddie prefet Ethan. We've made
it through two hours and a minute, and we'll make
it the rest of the show without talking about the
(00:50):
stupid made for TV golf events where I gotta watch
Traymond Green and Von Miller. I still don't know why
von Miller was there jumping around like dopes and then
watch four dudes play golf that I'd much rather watch
play basketball and football.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
What are we even doing? I mean, it's it's the
middle of the off.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean the lengths some of you people will go
to not cover talk about baseball is fascinating to me.
We'll create a golf tournament involving I mean, bless Clay
Thompson's hard, just terrible. But I mean, really, I don't.
I'm such an old man. Guys, it's happening right in
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front of my eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'll be honest too. I went to some idea. I
went to all five days of the US Open here
in Los Angeles, and like, I, if you want to,
if you want to do golf stuff, just like it's
fun to drink at golf events. Found I found it's
very fun to drink at golf events. So like, I can't,
I can't imagine these least celebrity golf things just don't
have it doesn't have the drinking contingent to it. So
(01:55):
I'm not interested.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No drinking.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Give me the waistman, it give me Like if these
guys did it with a crowd, like the Waste Management Special,
that would be cool.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, I just don't.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's almost as if you know what's going on in sports, Well,
you got baseball, you got this, so tany kid, they're
getting close to the All Star break, faster game moving. Well, yeah,
there's anything going on in the NBA. A little free agency,
kind of a fun time to talk team Bill.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
We'll put two guys from the NBA and two guys
from the NFL and a golf match. It was cool
one time, the first time we did it right, it
was fun. And even what a couple of years ago
was it when Aaron Rodgers did it that it was
kind of up in the air whether or not he
was going to be back or was it Tom Brady. Anyway,
I'm just done with it, and he gets crammed down
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your throat on social media and shows talking about it
and esb ah ah, old man, get off my lawn.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Could not care less about that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So, speaking of that, I put together a list of
things I couldn't care less about. Your fantasy team, your kids,
the golf matchups, the nflpa's new president. I mean, there's
so many crazy things out there right now that end
up taking away my attention. I'll get halfway through, I'm like,
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I don't care about this, Like I'm reading this article
for the show tonight, just before I get to this
date in history, not like a segment where I talk
about great moments in sports, but there was a significant
development in all of our worlds that happened on I
guess it's still well. It was June twenty ninth. Whenever
I have this story. But back to the point. I'm
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reading this article and I'm thinking, all right, this would
be good for tonight's show about the NFLPA and how
the players and everyone involved doesn't really know who the
candidates are.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
For the head of the NFLPA.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And as I get through it, I realize I don't
think anyone the Maller militia gives a damn who the
next NFLPA is, And honestly, I don't know if I either,
And every so often I keep forgeting.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's like, who's that NFLPA? I don't care, you know what?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I care about it When it could affect a game
being played on Sunday, That's when I care about it.
So a lot of things are being added to my
I couldn't care less for you list, But for right now, gosh,
no desire whatsoever to talk about recap or get into
the Mahomes Kelsey versus Klay Thompson, Steph Curry golf match,
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none whatsoever. With that said, gentlemen, it is a very
significant anniversary in the world of life. Now you might say,
what on June twenty ninth, two thousand and seven. Now
I know where we've pushed into the thirtieth, but just
hang with me. It's a long show. Four hours on
(04:50):
June thirtieth, I'm adding the date the iPhone.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Was released, the very first ever iPhone.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Now, I remember the standoff between iPhone and BlackBerry people, Profet,
were you a BlackBerry guy or were you an iPhone guy?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I had a flip phone for a very long time
until I finally got an Android. Same, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Is the birth of an iPhone today you celebrate or
do you still push back against it?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I would, I don't really celebrate it, but I love
my iPhone.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Right well, I mean that's celebrating it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The reason I got an Android was basically because I
think the old Motorola one had like a pullout keyboard.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yes, yes, I would. I would disagree with that. I'm not.
I think celebrating is something that you're you're doing other
than the norm. I'm not doing anything different than just
using it.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Why you gotta be ants at a picnic tonight?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You are just justit on everything I bring. I don't
want to talk about.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
With Brian No. I am sometimes no, no, not, I
I haven't finished. I am sometimes too honest.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It really kind of sucks when you're trying to create
something of a fun little attitude in perspective on it
all right, Well, I celebrate the birth of the iPhone
because to me, I don't know where I would be
without it right now.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I don't know anybody.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Is there a phone number that you have memorized now?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Outside of maybe your wives, I don't even have hers memorized.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I have most of my family's phone numbers a horizon.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I remember my home phone number from when I was
a kid. I remember my grandparents' phone number from when
I was a kid. But as far as anything now, nothing, I.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Think, I like the advent of smartphones was the last
time I remember, too, like my my phone number changing,
and I think I think i've I've mentioned some friends before,
but ZIP but area codes on phones have become this
like unique identifier of where you grew up. I still
have four to one nine for the Toledo air at Toledo,
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Ohio area code that's on my phone number, like it
always identifies. It doesn't matter if I'm living in California
for the rest of my life. Four one nine says
I grew up in Toledo.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I still have nine one eight on mine and I've
lived outside of Tulsa for a while now. But Happy
anniversary to the iPhone. By the way, two thousand and
seven doesn't seem like it's that long ago. And then
you start doing the math and you're like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is funny because me and Ethan were just having
a conversation that like the last what was it? Since
twenty fifteen, it's just been a massive blur for the
two of us.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Twenty when did you say, eight years ago?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Eight years ago? Twenty like, cause we were talking about,
oh god, what was it, Ethan, what were we talking about?
We were talking about something social media and just yeah,
everything is just changed. Sure, it wasn't even that it
was some sort of sports moment. I'm trying to remember
what it was. And then it's like, oh, yeah, that
was like ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Everything, even the nineties with me is a couple of
years ago. It's like, yeah, did any playback in like
ninety eighth a couple of years ago. And then you're like, oh,
my gosh, I was like twenty five years ago. Whenever
that happened. Happy Birthday to the iPhone, all right? Eight
seven anything else you guys want to have. Not celebrating Eddie,
but just the birth of the iPhone and it's creation
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and the changes it's brought to our life.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
No, I don't have any problem celebrating it. It's a
wonderful thing. But I'm just saying, just just by using
it doesn't mean I'm celebrating it.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm just using it, just using it, just using it.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'm using it right now in fact, So am I
to see that, Sir scratch Off is on hold? So
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tire rack dot com. What is going on, Sir scratch Off?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Sir? Bike down to Oklahoma? My friend?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Hot? It's very hot, very hey.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
It's eighty six degrees right now, and it it's so muggy.
Every time I get out, one of the sparks goored
by my glasses. Ball good man, I'd say it's awful.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It is.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
What's on your mind, sir, scratch off what you got
for us tonight?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
You know my real quick My son lives down a Claremore, Oklahoma.
Move here if he wants to go, Mark and so
he really likes it down there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Town Clairemore is probably the definition of like small town Oklahoma,
and I love it to death.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's cool. There's a lot of.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We I think. Instead of just one quick trip.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
They have two.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So that's always good, and a lot of neat things
to do. So, sir, scratch off, your son is in
an awesome community.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The whole I belief.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
The Claremore Zebras, I think is the name of their
Think about that. In Oklahoma, where most of our schools
have the nickname like tornadoes, they are the Claremore Zebras.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, they got the Indians. His wife's got a little
Indian we found out in herd. But anyway, he drives
in Dallas text there and not a Okahoma route. If
you don't want tell you stuff to know, you talk
about these iPhones and that anyway I called. But I
find a lot of stuff. Forty five years I've been
driving all night. I find boat seats and life jackets
and coolers and crap for the last few months. The
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biggest thing that I'm finding and these are really nice,
you know, except for shattered. But I'm finding iPhones all
over the place. I just found one of Jones for
the other day. I mean, real nice stuff. Or they
paid a lot of money for people lay these things
up on their hoods and on for their trunks, and
they just run off and legal, man, they I mean,
this stuff's expensive just to forget where it's at right exactly.
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But anyway, the reason I called I'm all frustrated about
this betting thing. You know, they'll call me search scratch
off for the last fourteen years because I'll stretch my nose.
I play scratch off cards like crazy. I spend a
lot of money on this stuff. But this gambling going
on in sports, I mean, what the heck? You know
what's wrong with it? Man? You know everybody sees it different.
(10:54):
These guys are making means and means of dollars. If
that's how they I called a sports you know, well,
people spend millions of dollars in all kinds of ball
bats and gloves. And my boy plays softball down there too,
And this stuffs expensive. But I love gamblings the sport
to me, you know, and I think they're to be
able to do what the heck they want to. Man,
you know, they're making that money, they're working out, they're
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in hot summers and stuff, playing sports of all kinds.
They want to make a bet on the game. It
ain't like they knew who's going to win the game.
You know, they got to go out there and try
to win that game. But it's going to be a
pain in the tale that you hear so much about
it now and the NFL is getting crazy about it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Well, and I think there's a little and sir, scratch off.
It's great to hear your voice. I appreciate everybody, and
I love all the social media stuff. Yeah yeah, man,
But if you leave your phone on the hood of
your car or on the top of your car and
you drive off, it's the worst feeling. I've done it.
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It's the worst feeling in the world. It's the worst
feeling in the world. So hopefully, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I've done that with groceries, but never a phone, never
a phone. I did it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I done it with my phone twice, and I've done
it with my kids snacks one time. Put them all
on top of the cars. Everyone get in the car,
shut up, get in the stop it, get in the car,
all right, bucklin bucklin boom drives.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I can say, is that, like all of a sudden,
I just had milk all over a dry way. But
that's that's that's about it. I don't know what I
would have done about a phone.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Car, car moves, groceries go, phone goes sliding off. But hopefully, sir,
scratch off, you're able to reunite those people with their phones.
Here's the problem. And I don't I understand you look
at it. It's a sport. You play the scratch off.
Hopefully you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They've got
to worry about the integrity of the game, if you will.
And I know that's a corny, cheesy way to put it,
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but that's how they they view it. That's how they
view it. So here's the six pillars of the NFL
gambling rules. You can go read the fire page verbatim
roman numeral to rule book if you want, but here's
the six. Number one, don't bet on the NFL. Number two,
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don't gamble at your team facility while traveling for a
road game or staying at a team hotel. Number three,
don't have someone bet for you. Number four, don't share
a team inside information. Number five, don't enter a sports
book during the NFL playing season, and number six don't
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play daily fantasy football.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Those are the rules now, to be clear.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I mean, some of them seem a little bit ridiculous,
like you know, don't enter a sports book during the
NFL season, but I'm like, sometimes it's somewhat unavoidable depending
on where you stay in Vegas, if your team's playing,
let's say, in hockey the Nights, or if you're playing
the Raiders, or eventually when you're playing the A's. I
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think that's kind of of a tough one. But this
is the NFL, so I mean, just specifically the Raiders
team hotel, Like if they're allowed to bet on NBA
and Major League Baseball, why the team hotel. I feel
like team facility is enough. Team hotel is not all
of a sudden, I'll use the Steelers. The Steelers are Raiders.
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Don't go stay there and it's no longer a shared
and it's now the Raider or it's now the Steeler.
I mean it's it's still a Hilton or Shardan or whatever.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I just that doesn't make any sense to me. But
those are those are the rules. And let's just let's
use weed as an example. Let's say you like to
smoke weed, but you just got a job that drug tests.
Guess what, if you want that job, you don't smoke
weed for a while if there's certain to And I know, listen,
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I get in fight with potheads all the time. I
am one of you. Whenever it comes to this battle
that say, well I can get a I can get
an from my doctor that says I need marijuana for
anxiety or whatever. I'm like, you can, but for the
most part, probably not a fight you're gonna win. Probably
not a fight you're gonna win with marijuana, especially if
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you're a dry Like if you want to be a
CDL drive, if you want to be someone that makes
money driving, you can't smoke weed.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
You just can't.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Sorry, you're not gonna get your license. Similarly, if you
love the gamble and if you love the bet, can't
do it while you're an NFL player on the NFL.
Can't do it as an NFL player while you're college
is an even better example. You love the gamble, well,
guess what, you can't do it at all when you're
in college. You gotta be careful. You're risking your eligibility.
And much like you might love weed, and you love
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to smoke weed, and it puts you in the right
headspace for everything, and food tastes better, and flowers smell better,
and life is just better.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
But guess what, if you want that job, you can't
smoke it.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
If you want to be an NFL player, these are
the rules you gotta follow if you want to be
a college athlete, That's what you gotta do. It's that simple.
Just gotta tap out on it for a while. And
if you can't do that, if it's too hard for
you to do that, or if you have a problem
with the conflict of interest between the NFL and its
relationships with the sports books, well I mean, good luck
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in fighting that fight. Nine out of ten times, nine
point ninety ninety nine out of ten times, you're not
gonna win. I like, how there's I was trying to
find the story. There's a player who's like, WHOA, why
is it a problem? If I'm betting on my team
to win. Okay, I mean, if that's the fight, if
that's the hill, you want to climb up and try
to die on in this paddle. Good luck? All right,
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more of your calls coming up next. I see you
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Bill. Hang
in there, I'll get to you next. Plus you guys,
Twitter wide open at Plank Show at Fox Sports Radio.
Gambling in the NFL? Is it a problem? Or is
it working? In other words, are there fail safes working?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Also?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
When we come back, speaking of a weed, speaking of
the marijuana, the Devil's lettuce, the Mary Jane don't cannabis, however,
you wanted this flower?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
An interesting note from one Travis Kelsey. Next on Fox
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Speaker 4 (17:46):
I have a question for you, Eddie. Is this where
we say psich psych gosh? I was really on one
that night?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Do you uh?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Do you know where this Colin Kaepernick sound is coming from?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Why is no?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I was just looking at the same.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You want to listen to it. Let's listen to it. Okay,
I know what we I know what.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We're opening the Pandora's box of when we play anything
Kaepernick wise.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Let's see here what he has to say.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
This is apparently as part of another article on Colin Kaepernick,
and it's NFL future.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Great.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
I just want the opportunity to come in show what
I can do on the field. Judge me based upon that. Oh,
not the political bias?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Can we ten years?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Can we just have a SoundBite without having to put
music behind it?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You want to talk about the things. I'm done with things.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I don't care about your stupid gams behind a SoundBite
Colin Kaepernick talking?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, you know what is that a podcast or what.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I don't know. I don't know where it's coming from.
That's the question. That's what we were kind of digging
through here. Let me see there's there's more. There was
something about the Raiders here.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Most of the time, mans of like, oh, well, we're
going to see how the guys that we have do
which in the Raider situation last year, that was the
stadum in Nick mullins to me, when you use compare
resumes and capabilities, obviously there's something else within this decision.
To me, that's typically what it ends up being, or
has been for the last seven years.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, I got one more here real quick.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
I know I can step on the field and play
every workout, every opportunity I've had to show that. The
feedback has always been positive, everything from he's still an
elite player to the workout was great. It was better
than expected when I had my workout with the Raiders
last year. I think there's a decent amount of people
who may have forgot what I was capable of doing
on the field. So, you know, any chance to be
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able to remind people of what I could do out there,
I look forward to and embrace.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, I mean his last snap he took in a
game was January first of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So is this going to be another round of Colin
Kaepernick deserves a spot in a camp?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
You think, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Is that what we're though?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I don't twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Dude, his last game was against the Seahawks as a
niner due for twenty halst.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Time he was a starter was probably farther back than that.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I just I feel like we're about that time where
suddenly this makes the rounds and no one takes into
consideration that the dude is like, oh, he's born in
eighty seven, so do the math.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
What is he? You know, thirty thirty four? Right now?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I mean, it's okay, all right, Colin Kaepernick? Oh, over under?
On how much run?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
This gets? Like? Like over under? What I'm taking a
ton of run? Or just meh, I think it's gonna
be kind of mad. I think it'll be mad.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Like I look, I can't say anything when Gino Smith
is out here leading the Seahawks to success. So never
say never, I guess. But I mean there was a
time where I thought it was like, all right, some
people should really be kicking the cans on. This guy
did go to a Super Bowl and had two the
most electric years I've ever seen a quarterback have. But yeah,
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as you say, it's twenty twenty three, now that that
ship is kind of sailed. Regardless of everything else, like
you have such a short window in the NFL, that
ship is gone, man.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
And again not even if you guys want to get
into a debate about whether or not he was given
the opportunity or if he is blackballed. Ben will be
back Sunday night to take those calls. Bernie will be
in tomorrow night to take those calls. I just I'm like, Eddie,
I'm like, why is this Kaepernick audio suddenly showing up
in our inbox right now?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Well, I guess now we know.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
To pay off the tease talking about weed, talking about marijuana.
According to Travis Kelcey in the most recent GQ article,
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry sorry, got my manly magazine miss
mixed up. This was vanity fair. He said that around
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fifty to eighty percent of NFL players use cannabis, and
that under the more lenient policy the NFL implemented in
twenty twenty one, it's easier for players to use marijuana
in the off season and stop before testing begins. And
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I quote, if you just stop in the middle of July,
you're fine. A lot of guys stop a week before
and they still pass because everybody's working out in the
heat and sweating their tail off. Nobody's really getting hit
for it anymore. Kelsey says he didn't. Now we've got
to remember Travis Kelcey got in trouble at Cincinnati for
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drug use, failing some drug tests. Said he didn't really
regret it. But I mean, is this breaking news? Kind
of feel like the cap audio and this story from
Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I will say the difference.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Between fifty and eighty percent is a substantial difference.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I mean, it's like saying half and then just about.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Everyone you know, it's just it's like, what, there's a
massive difference between fifty and eighty percent. But if you're
in that mix, I mean, I'm I am a staunch
proponent of the I'm a staunch believer in the healing
powers of cannabis. I just think I would much rather
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hear about my favorite player, are my friend taking a
gummy or a vape or whatever you would use to
get high, not like I would know, Addie, not like
I would know, but I'd much rather hear about that
than having him on value are whatever you know you
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might be taking. I mean, the fitanol overdose are scary
with what's happening right now. Painkillers are dangerously addictive and
dangerous period. And I just I feel like we've lost
a hell of a lot more people in life from
painkillers and those types of quote unquote coping ways with
(24:17):
pain than we ever have with marijuana. Had a buddy
of mind that played in the NFL for a long
time and he told a story about and when he played,
the testing was very stringent, and he had one of
his teammates that just said, listen, I I've never been popped.
I've never had a positive test and back in the day,
and I don't know if it's still the same. If
you didn't test positive, you always knew when your test
(24:40):
was coming. Once you tested positive, that's where the s
hit the fan. But his way was, I don't want
to take percoset, I don't want to take pain pills.
I'm fine with you know this at that time, this
joint or this bowl or whatever, it's gonna make me
feel better, and I think a majority of people, when
you look at it from that perspective, it makes a
lot more since now if you're just taking it to
(25:02):
get high, to escape reality, then there's other conversations to
be had. But as far as dealing with pain, dealing
with anxiety, it's I think it's much more common in
professional sports than anyone realizes. I don't know about eighty percent,
Travis kelcey, But you're in a time now where I
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mean I was talking about gambling versus weed, and in
places where it's legal.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You know, there's what.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
More, We're almost fifteen states that have legalized recreational marijuana.
We're starting to understand that there is there's medical, medical
use for it. Now, there's still a lot of people
that like to just get high, and that's fine, you do,
you boo. But Travis Kelcey throwing out fifty to eighty
(25:52):
percent of the NFL currently uses cannabis in some way,
shape or form, And honestly, I don't think i'd argue
with him too much.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
I think that on and I don't think it's a problem.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
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Speaker 2 (26:07):
All right, we talk booze talk.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Let's get back to sports, and that's where Eddie Garcia
is here to save the day from the ti rack
dot com studios.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
What's going on, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Well, we'll start with some news from the NBA, where
James Harden has exercised his player option for next season
with the seventy six ers, but apparently it's for the
sole purpose of facilitating a trade out of Philadelphia. Sacramento
Kings signed forward Harrison Barnes to a three year, fifty
four million dollars extension. Free agency period in the NBA
is coming up later today six pm Eastern time. In
(26:37):
news from the NFL, Colts players Isaiah Rodgers and Rashad Berry,
free agent Demetrius Thomas or excuse me, Demetrius Taylor have
all been suspended definitely for placing bets on NFL games
in twenty twenty two. The Colts have announced that they
are releasing Rodgers and Barry. Titans offensive tackled Nicholas pati
Ferreer gets a six game suspension for betting on non
(26:57):
NFL games while at a team facility, and Jaguar starting
left tackle Cam Robinson gets a four game suspension for
violating the league's performance announcing drug policy in baseball games.
A note you had a battle Division leaders wrapping up
their series in Arizona, Rays, the ALE East leaders knockoff
the Diamondbacks, the NL West leaders, six to one, Tampa
Bay taking two of three in the series from Arizona.
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Guardians lose to the Royals four to three in ten innings,
so Cleveland drops into a tie with idle Minnesota with
the top spot in the AL Central. Brewers beat the
Mets three to two. Milwaukee moves into a tie with
idle Cincinnati for first in the NL Central. Rangers lead
the AL West. They lose to the Tigers eight to five.
White Sox over the Angels nine to seven. Shoheo Tani
major league leading twenty ninth hormint of a year in
(27:38):
the loss for the Angels. Pirates beat the Padres five
to four, Pittsburgh getting a three game series sweep. San
Diego's lost five in a row. Marlin shut out the
Red Sox two nothing. Miami gets a three game series sweep.
They won five in a row. Boston's dropped five straight.
Phillies beat the Cubs three to one. Philadelphia with a
three game series sweep. Astros routed the Cardinals fourteen to nothing.
Alex Bregman a grand slam, Kyle Tucker a homer five.
(28:00):
I have RBI for Houston. Dodgers were out the Rockies
fourteen to three. JD. Martinez a homer, drove in a
four for LA as the Dodgers have now moved too
back of Arizona in that NL West race. Now back
to Chris Plankinthtyrack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Thanks a lot, Eddie Garcierra.
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(28:38):
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. What's going on man?
Speaker 6 (28:41):
How you doing? Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Doing great?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
First of all, to put the thing with Arnie to bed,
it's probably the Ben Maller Show about three years ago.
He filled into the week between Christmas and New Year's
and the militia Terrorizon and I was one of the
leading terrorists.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What did he mean, listen to you?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I just terrorized. The guy just terrorized. As a matter
of fact, I asked you later on when we were
filling in on a show, is he really like that
or is it just that stupid? And you he said,
that's his normal act.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
That's his normal act.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, that's for.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Sure, that's his normal act. That because I asked you,
do you know whether the man was stupid or that
was his normal act? This was his normal act. No problem,
I will quit my job.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
No man has quit has put their job on the
line more for a prediction than Ben mal Are they
listen to me? Then Arnie Spanier has he will put
his job on the line because I mean, he knows
no one's going to fire him, right, I mean, no
one's gonna walk in and say, hey, listen, dude, you
said you're going to quit your job. If Arizona lost
(29:46):
to Princeton, why are you still working here?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
He knows no one's going to call him on that.
So yeah, you know, it's just I'm used to it.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Well, trust me, if he worked for me, I'd fire
his ass. Storms And the next thing I wanted to
go on of those to tany with the Angels. Okay,
Him and Trout obviously two quality men, two quality players.
They've obviously formed a bond. Okay, as long as the
Angels come close with the money, He's staying in lay clothing.
(30:16):
And the guy in LA would be a moron. He
would be ridden out of town on a rail if
he let a tany get away, at least not making
a good effort money wise to keep them. So I
don't know what the big deal is about him. He's staying.
He's going to stay with Trout. They're close, They're maybe
a chance for the playoffs this year, maybe one or
two more players, and you know they go deep into
(30:37):
the playoffs. He's staying there. He's a quality person, he's
formed a bond with Trout, another quality guy, obviously, two
greatest players. And why should he leave to go? Where to?
What the Clippers? I mean, come on, he's going to
stay there.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Hey man, thanks cool, I appreciate it. The Clippers, that'd
be an interesting fit, I will say. Getting to the
NBA off that take, I will say, everyone told us
going into the NBA Draft that it was gonna be
the wildest draft we've ever seen. Right, I hear Zion
(31:15):
is going to be traded. I hear that you're gonna
see a deal involving Paul George, rumors that hey, the
thunder could be moving up and it might be any
player to get up to number two or three, and
nothing ends up happening. I'm kind of what, Now, something's
(31:36):
gonna have to happen because there's a boatload of free
agents that need new homes, right, Fred van Vliet among those,
Kyrie Irving among those, Brook Lopez among those, Chris Middleton
now among those. So, I mean, something's gonna happen. But
are we gonna have these jaw dropping moves come you
(31:56):
know six o'clock tonight that everyone seems to be projecting.
Are we gonna be sitting here tomorrow night at this
time with Bernie Fratto with our jaws dropped about something
that happened over the last twenty four hours with the NBA.
They seem to build up and make you think that
that's going to happen, but in the end, it never
(32:17):
really does. Coming up at the top of the hour,
we're gonna hit every major bullet point for NBA free agency.
I put together a list of the five things you
need to know because I know Ben Love's lists and
the five teams to keep an eye on, And I
worked too hard on this to just forget about it
(32:37):
and not do it until Saturday morning when I'm in
for the Fellas. But no five things to keep an
eye on, five teams. It could be active also when
we come back. Some sneaky NFL notes that caught my ear.
Some sneaky NFL not necessarily news, but just perspective that
(32:58):
helps make last year make it a little bit more sense.
We'll dive into it next on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (34:09):
I've got a wild cut for you next hour, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's really I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I doubt anyone was into the College World Series, but
it was interesting to hear a former LSU player who's
now in the cusp of being a big leaguer and
how he experienced a College World Series.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Blew My.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
We were listening to it during the break and I
thought it was hilarious. Speaking of audio. Speaking of audio,
logan Ryan made the rounds and he was asked about
Tom Brady's final season last year in Tampa I thought.
Speaker 10 (34:43):
The way that the team was constructed of them winning
a Super Bowl a few years earlier and running it
all back roster wise, that Tampa was only built for
so long in terms of the amount of veterans, amount
of money being spent, the amount of weapons on that
side of the ball for Brady, So there was some
finality in the sea. But I think just knowing how
he was interacting with his family, his kids in terms
(35:04):
of really wanting to spend time with his kids and
be there with his kids, that was a little different
because his kids were older, and I think, you know,
the stuff that was going on off the field and
on the field, I think was weighing on him a
little bit. As Obviously we're all humans, so I can
knew that there's gonna be some type of break after
the season. Now, whether that be returned or not, he wouldn't.
He wouldn't tell me. No one could tell you that.
(35:26):
He got asked that man himself.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
So I don't think there's really anything too shocking there.
But does it I mean, have we put an exclamation
point period whatever on the end of the Tom Brady era,
Like nobody thinks he's coming back, Well except Arnie and
we've all kind of accepted it.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
His NFL career is over.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
But do we need to go any deeper Eddy into
the end last year and kind of if we saw
it coming. I mean, is there more to his story
or is that just hey, listen, the guy was they
were set up to try to make a run, it
didn't happen and he was done.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Is there Does there need to be more to this
with Brady?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I don't know. I I mean, I'm I'm not going
to say the doors.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Shut, Okay, all right, thinking uh burned to New England,
thinking Vegas raiders here?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yeah, No, I'm thinking commitment to mediocrity.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
I'm thinking Vegas if if it happens, right it was
going to happen before, supposedly right.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, okay, I can't.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
You're you're in a good place with your Steelers, right,
You're not necessarily over the moon. We're going to win
the super Bowl, but you're not like we're doomed. You're
in a good place.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I'm in the worst place I've ever been with my
team ever.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I mean, per fet you're in a good place with
the Lions, right, they're on the upticks.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Things are looking.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Good right, rel like compared to historically with the Lions,
Like I'm I'm it's it's massive kool aid drinking this
style here. I mean, it's cool.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I've never been more dowbt Eddie, never been more down
in my life on this team. And I lived through
the JaMarcus Russell era, and I lived through going into
an opening weekend of the season when Charlie Frye was
battling for the starting quarterback job. But for some reason,
I'm just I'm so down that even you saying, you know,
maybe Tom Brady could come back, it doesn't even make
(37:19):
me happy. I'm like, poor Tom, I really got to
do that to him.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
So I think I have an analog for you on
how you're feeling, and I go ahead. I think it's
once again, it goes back to the Lions, and it
has to do with how I felt during the years
of another Patriots cast off in Matt Patricia. It's like, you,
you should be in a spot to be doing well
and ushering in this coach, and instead the project has
fallen completely on its head, and unless it turns around quickly,
(37:45):
you're just you're staring. Like the Lions had to do
hard reboot after the Patricia years. And I just look
at the Raiders right now, and maybe there's a chance
he gets his his his uh McDaniels, gets his system.
But at the same time, I'm like, I don't know
where this is going.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
So Eddie, here's a question off that. Let's say Brady's
not done. Does it raise more questions about what went
wrong last year? Does it shine more of a light
on a divorce maybe causing problems. Does it maybe magnify
how he wanted to be in that Patriot scheme again?
(38:25):
Or is it just, hey, the dude got away. Am
I trying to read too much into a story when
there's not too much there?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
I guess, is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Well, I it's look, we all know at some point
time was going to catch up to him. He did
an amazing job of stretching this out as long as
he could. So maybe that's just it's just finally time.
But there is the relationship there, obviously with Bic Daniels,
and there were, like I said, he had he had
ties apparently to going to Vegas before, and you know
(38:57):
it maybe doesn't want his care to end it ended.
I just I'm not. I'm not a conspiracy theory guy.
I just wouldn't be shocked if the AUV came back.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Okay, the Logan Ryan thing, I don't know why. When
I saw that, I thought, okay, that's interesting. Maybe because
we all look at it and think, you know, I've
been involved in several stories, not me personally, but just
covering them to where I thought the whole time there's
more to it, and in the end there wasn't. Maybe
the most famous was, you know, Bob Stoops when he
(39:29):
surprisingly retired at Oklahoma prior to the what was it
the twenty and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Season, and I was like, what are seriously?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Maybe it was just after the twenty seventeen seasons, so
everything runs together and everyone thought there's more to it,
there's something going on here, there's NCAA rules that are broke,
or something's going and in the end there was nothing
more to it. Maybe it's just as simple as saying
he's kind of done. In Tampa, thought he was done
with the NFL and they went train camp rolls around.
(40:00):
He might realize that he's not. It might also help
that the Raiders might not have an answered quarterback because
my goodness, it looks like it's either looks like it's
either Brian Hoyer or An O'Connell of Jimmy Garoppolo can
go all right. Final hours next NFL Free Agency primer
(40:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Indeed, indeed, I want to just give a quick thank
you at a boy to Eddie prefet Ethan. We've made
it through two hours and a minute, and we'll make
it the rest of the show without talking about the
(00:50):
stupid made for TV golf events where I gotta watch
Traymond Green and Von Miller. I still don't know why
von Miller was there jumping around like dopes and then
watch four dudes play golf that I'd much rather watch
play basketball and football.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
What are we even doing? I mean, it's it's the
middle of the off.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean the lengths some of you people will go
to not cover talk about baseball is fascinating to me.
We'll create a golf tournament involving I mean, bless Clay
Thompson's hard, just terrible. But I mean, really, I don't.
I'm such an old man. Guys, it's happening right in
(01:32):
front of my eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'll be honest too. I went to some idea. I
went to all five days of the US Open here
in Los Angeles, and like, I, if you want to,
if you want to do golf stuff, just like it's
fun to drink at golf events. Found I found it's
very fun to drink at golf events. So like, I can't,
I can't imagine these least celebrity golf things just don't
have it doesn't have the drinking contingent to it. So
(01:55):
I'm not interested.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No drinking.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Give me the waistman, it give me Like if these
guys did it with a crowd, like the Waste Management Special,
that would be cool.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, I just don't.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's almost as if you know what's going on in sports, Well,
you got baseball, you got this, so tany kid, they're
getting close to the All Star break, faster game moving. Well, yeah,
there's anything going on in the NBA. A little free agency,
kind of a fun time to talk team Bill.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
We'll put two guys from the NBA and two guys
from the NFL and a golf match. It was cool
one time, the first time we did it right, it
was fun. And even what a couple of years ago
was it when Aaron Rodgers did it that it was
kind of up in the air whether or not he
was going to be back or was it Tom Brady. Anyway,
I'm just done with it, and he gets crammed down
(02:45):
your throat on social media and shows talking about it
and esb ah ah, old man, get off my lawn.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Could not care less about that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So, speaking of that, I put together a list of
things I couldn't care less about. Your fantasy team, your kids,
the golf matchups, the nflpa's new president. I mean, there's
so many crazy things out there right now that end
up taking away my attention. I'll get halfway through, I'm like,
(03:19):
I don't care about this, Like I'm reading this article
for the show tonight, just before I get to this
date in history, not like a segment where I talk
about great moments in sports, but there was a significant
development in all of our worlds that happened on I
guess it's still well. It was June twenty ninth. Whenever
I have this story. But back to the point. I'm
(03:39):
reading this article and I'm thinking, all right, this would
be good for tonight's show about the NFLPA and how
the players and everyone involved doesn't really know who the
candidates are.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
For the head of the NFLPA.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And as I get through it, I realize I don't
think anyone the Maller militia gives a damn who the
next NFLPA is, And honestly, I don't know if I either,
And every so often I keep forgeting.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's like, who's that NFLPA? I don't care, you know what?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I care about it When it could affect a game
being played on Sunday, That's when I care about it.
So a lot of things are being added to my
I couldn't care less for you list, But for right now, gosh,
no desire whatsoever to talk about recap or get into
the Mahomes Kelsey versus Klay Thompson, Steph Curry golf match,
(04:29):
none whatsoever. With that said, gentlemen, it is a very
significant anniversary in the world of life. Now you might say,
what on June twenty ninth, two thousand and seven. Now
I know where we've pushed into the thirtieth, but just
hang with me. It's a long show. Four hours on
(04:50):
June thirtieth, I'm adding the date the iPhone.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Was released, the very first ever iPhone.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Now, I remember the standoff between iPhone and BlackBerry people, Profet,
were you a BlackBerry guy or were you an iPhone guy?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I had a flip phone for a very long time
until I finally got an Android. Same, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Is the birth of an iPhone today you celebrate or
do you still push back against it?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I would, I don't really celebrate it, but I love
my iPhone.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Right well, I mean that's celebrating it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The reason I got an Android was basically because I
think the old Motorola one had like a pullout keyboard.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yes, yes, I would. I would disagree with that. I'm not.
I think celebrating is something that you're you're doing other
than the norm. I'm not doing anything different than just
using it.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Why you gotta be ants at a picnic tonight?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You are just justit on everything I bring. I don't
want to talk about.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
With Brian No. I am sometimes no, no, not, I
I haven't finished. I am sometimes too honest.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It really kind of sucks when you're trying to create
something of a fun little attitude in perspective on it
all right, Well, I celebrate the birth of the iPhone
because to me, I don't know where I would be
without it right now.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I don't know anybody.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Is there a phone number that you have memorized now?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Outside of maybe your wives, I don't even have hers memorized.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I have most of my family's phone numbers a horizon.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I remember my home phone number from when I was
a kid. I remember my grandparents' phone number from when
I was a kid. But as far as anything now, nothing, I.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Think, I like the advent of smartphones was the last
time I remember, too, like my my phone number changing,
and I think I think i've I've mentioned some friends before,
but ZIP but area codes on phones have become this
like unique identifier of where you grew up. I still
have four to one nine for the Toledo air at Toledo,
(07:02):
Ohio area code that's on my phone number, like it
always identifies. It doesn't matter if I'm living in California
for the rest of my life. Four one nine says
I grew up in Toledo.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I still have nine one eight on mine and I've
lived outside of Tulsa for a while now. But Happy
anniversary to the iPhone. By the way, two thousand and
seven doesn't seem like it's that long ago. And then
you start doing the math and you're like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is funny because me and Ethan were just having
a conversation that like the last what was it? Since
twenty fifteen, it's just been a massive blur for the
two of us.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Twenty when did you say, eight years ago?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Eight years ago? Twenty like, cause we were talking about,
oh god, what was it, Ethan, what were we talking about?
We were talking about something social media and just yeah,
everything is just changed. Sure, it wasn't even that it
was some sort of sports moment. I'm trying to remember
what it was. And then it's like, oh, yeah, that
was like ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Everything, even the nineties with me is a couple of
years ago. It's like, yeah, did any playback in like
ninety eighth a couple of years ago. And then you're like, oh,
my gosh, I was like twenty five years ago. Whenever
that happened. Happy Birthday to the iPhone, all right? Eight
seven anything else you guys want to have. Not celebrating Eddie,
but just the birth of the iPhone and it's creation
(08:20):
and the changes it's brought to our life.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
No, I don't have any problem celebrating it. It's a
wonderful thing. But I'm just saying, just just by using
it doesn't mean I'm celebrating it.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm just using it, just using it, just using it.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'm using it right now in fact, So am I
to see that, Sir scratch Off is on hold? So
let's go to the phones eight seven seven ninety nine
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tire rack dot com. What is going on, Sir scratch Off?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Sir? Bike down to Oklahoma? My friend?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Hot? It's very hot, very hey.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
It's eighty six degrees right now, and it it's so muggy.
Every time I get out, one of the sparks goored
by my glasses. Ball good man, I'd say it's awful.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It is.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
What's on your mind, sir, scratch off what you got
for us tonight?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
You know my real quick My son lives down a Claremore, Oklahoma.
Move here if he wants to go, Mark and so
he really likes it down there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Town Clairemore is probably the definition of like small town Oklahoma,
and I love it to death.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's cool. There's a lot of.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We I think. Instead of just one quick trip.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
They have two.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So that's always good, and a lot of neat things
to do. So, sir, scratch off, your son is in
an awesome community.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The whole I belief.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
The Claremore Zebras, I think is the name of their
Think about that. In Oklahoma, where most of our schools
have the nickname like tornadoes, they are the Claremore Zebras.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, they got the Indians. His wife's got a little
Indian we found out in herd. But anyway, he drives
in Dallas text there and not a Okahoma route. If
you don't want tell you stuff to know, you talk
about these iPhones and that anyway I called. But I
find a lot of stuff. Forty five years I've been
driving all night. I find boat seats and life jackets
and coolers and crap for the last few months. The
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biggest thing that I'm finding and these are really nice,
you know, except for shattered. But I'm finding iPhones all
over the place. I just found one of Jones for
the other day. I mean, real nice stuff. Or they
paid a lot of money for people lay these things
up on their hoods and on for their trunks, and
they just run off and legal, man, they I mean,
this stuff's expensive just to forget where it's at right exactly.
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But anyway, the reason I called I'm all frustrated about
this betting thing. You know, they'll call me search scratch
off for the last fourteen years because I'll stretch my nose.
I play scratch off cards like crazy. I spend a
lot of money on this stuff. But this gambling going
on in sports, I mean, what the heck? You know
what's wrong with it? Man? You know everybody sees it different.
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These guys are making means and means of dollars. If
that's how they I called a sports you know, well,
people spend millions of dollars in all kinds of ball
bats and gloves. And my boy plays softball down there too,
And this stuffs expensive. But I love gamblings the sport
to me, you know, and I think they're to be
able to do what the heck they want to. Man,
you know, they're making that money, they're working out, they're
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in hot summers and stuff, playing sports of all kinds.
They want to make a bet on the game. It
ain't like they knew who's going to win the game.
You know, they got to go out there and try
to win that game. But it's going to be a
pain in the tale that you hear so much about
it now and the NFL is getting crazy about it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Well, and I think there's a little and sir, scratch off.
It's great to hear your voice. I appreciate everybody, and
I love all the social media stuff. Yeah yeah, man,
But if you leave your phone on the hood of
your car or on the top of your car and
you drive off, it's the worst feeling. I've done it.
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It's the worst feeling in the world. It's the worst
feeling in the world. So hopefully, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I've done that with groceries, but never a phone, never
a phone. I did it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I done it with my phone twice, and I've done
it with my kids snacks one time. Put them all
on top of the cars. Everyone get in the car,
shut up, get in the stop it, get in the car,
all right, bucklin bucklin boom drives.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I can say, is that, like all of a sudden,
I just had milk all over a dry way. But
that's that's that's about it. I don't know what I
would have done about a phone.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Car, car moves, groceries go, phone goes sliding off. But hopefully, sir,
scratch off, you're able to reunite those people with their phones.
Here's the problem. And I don't I understand you look
at it. It's a sport. You play the scratch off.
Hopefully you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They've got
to worry about the integrity of the game, if you will.
And I know that's a corny, cheesy way to put it,
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but that's how they they view it. That's how they
view it. So here's the six pillars of the NFL
gambling rules. You can go read the fire page verbatim
roman numeral to rule book if you want, but here's
the six. Number one, don't bet on the NFL. Number two,
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don't gamble at your team facility while traveling for a
road game or staying at a team hotel. Number three,
don't have someone bet for you. Number four, don't share
a team inside information. Number five, don't enter a sports
book during the NFL playing season, and number six don't
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play daily fantasy football.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Those are the rules now, to be clear.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I mean, some of them seem a little bit ridiculous,
like you know, don't enter a sports book during the
NFL season, but I'm like, sometimes it's somewhat unavoidable depending
on where you stay in Vegas, if your team's playing,
let's say, in hockey the Nights, or if you're playing
the Raiders, or eventually when you're playing the A's. I
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think that's kind of of a tough one. But this
is the NFL, so I mean, just specifically the Raiders
team hotel, Like if they're allowed to bet on NBA
and Major League Baseball, why the team hotel. I feel
like team facility is enough. Team hotel is not all
of a sudden, I'll use the Steelers. The Steelers are Raiders.
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Don't go stay there and it's no longer a shared
and it's now the Raider or it's now the Steeler.
I mean it's it's still a Hilton or Shardan or whatever.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I just that doesn't make any sense to me. But
those are those are the rules. And let's just let's
use weed as an example. Let's say you like to
smoke weed, but you just got a job that drug tests.
Guess what, if you want that job, you don't smoke
weed for a while if there's certain to And I know, listen,
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I get in fight with potheads all the time. I
am one of you. Whenever it comes to this battle
that say, well I can get a I can get
an from my doctor that says I need marijuana for
anxiety or whatever. I'm like, you can, but for the
most part, probably not a fight you're gonna win. Probably
not a fight you're gonna win with marijuana, especially if
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you're a dry Like if you want to be a
CDL drive, if you want to be someone that makes
money driving, you can't smoke weed.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
You just can't.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Sorry, you're not gonna get your license. Similarly, if you
love the gamble and if you love the bet, can't
do it while you're an NFL player on the NFL.
Can't do it as an NFL player while you're college
is an even better example. You love the gamble, well,
guess what, you can't do it at all when you're
in college. You gotta be careful. You're risking your eligibility.
And much like you might love weed, and you love
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to smoke weed, and it puts you in the right
headspace for everything, and food tastes better, and flowers smell better,
and life is just better.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
But guess what, if you want that job, you can't
smoke it.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
If you want to be an NFL player, these are
the rules you gotta follow if you want to be
a college athlete, That's what you gotta do. It's that simple.
Just gotta tap out on it for a while. And
if you can't do that, if it's too hard for
you to do that, or if you have a problem
with the conflict of interest between the NFL and its
relationships with the sports books, well I mean, good luck
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in fighting that fight. Nine out of ten times, nine
point ninety ninety nine out of ten times, you're not
gonna win. I like, how there's I was trying to
find the story. There's a player who's like, WHOA, why
is it a problem? If I'm betting on my team
to win. Okay, I mean, if that's the fight, if
that's the hill, you want to climb up and try
to die on in this paddle. Good luck? All right,
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more of your calls coming up next. I see you
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Bill. Hang
in there, I'll get to you next. Plus you guys,
Twitter wide open at Plank Show at Fox Sports Radio.
Gambling in the NFL? Is it a problem? Or is
it working? In other words, are there fail safes working?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Also?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
When we come back, speaking of a weed, speaking of
the marijuana, the Devil's lettuce, the Mary Jane don't cannabis, however,
you wanted this flower?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
An interesting note from one Travis Kelsey. Next on Fox
Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (17:46):
I have a question for you, Eddie. Is this where
we say psich psych gosh? I was really on one
that night?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Do you uh?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Do you know where this Colin Kaepernick sound is coming from?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Why is no?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I was just looking at the same.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You want to listen to it. Let's listen to it. Okay,
I know what we I know what.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We're opening the Pandora's box of when we play anything
Kaepernick wise.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Let's see here what he has to say.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
This is apparently as part of another article on Colin Kaepernick,
and it's NFL future.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Great.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
I just want the opportunity to come in show what
I can do on the field. Judge me based upon that. Oh,
not the political bias?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Can we ten years?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Can we just have a SoundBite without having to put
music behind it?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You want to talk about the things. I'm done with things.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I don't care about your stupid gams behind a SoundBite
Colin Kaepernick talking?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, you know what is that a podcast or what.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I don't know. I don't know where it's coming from.
That's the question. That's what we were kind of digging
through here. Let me see there's there's more. There was
something about the Raiders here.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Most of the time, mans of like, oh, well, we're
going to see how the guys that we have do
which in the Raider situation last year, that was the
stadum in Nick mullins to me, when you use compare
resumes and capabilities, obviously there's something else within this decision.
To me, that's typically what it ends up being, or
has been for the last seven years.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, I got one more here real quick.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
I know I can step on the field and play
every workout, every opportunity I've had to show that. The
feedback has always been positive, everything from he's still an
elite player to the workout was great. It was better
than expected when I had my workout with the Raiders
last year. I think there's a decent amount of people
who may have forgot what I was capable of doing
on the field. So, you know, any chance to be
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able to remind people of what I could do out there,
I look forward to and embrace.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, I mean his last snap he took in a
game was January first of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So is this going to be another round of Colin
Kaepernick deserves a spot in a camp?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
You think, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Is that what we're though?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I don't twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Dude, his last game was against the Seahawks as a
niner due for twenty halst.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Time he was a starter was probably farther back than that.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I just I feel like we're about that time where
suddenly this makes the rounds and no one takes into
consideration that the dude is like, oh, he's born in
eighty seven, so do the math.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
What is he? You know, thirty thirty four? Right now?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I mean, it's okay, all right, Colin Kaepernick? Oh, over under?
On how much run?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
This gets? Like? Like over under? What I'm taking a
ton of run? Or just meh, I think it's gonna
be kind of mad. I think it'll be mad.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Like I look, I can't say anything when Gino Smith
is out here leading the Seahawks to success. So never
say never, I guess. But I mean there was a
time where I thought it was like, all right, some
people should really be kicking the cans on. This guy
did go to a Super Bowl and had two the
most electric years I've ever seen a quarterback have. But yeah,
(21:06):
as you say, it's twenty twenty three, now that that
ship is kind of sailed. Regardless of everything else, like
you have such a short window in the NFL, that
ship is gone, man.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
And again not even if you guys want to get
into a debate about whether or not he was given
the opportunity or if he is blackballed. Ben will be
back Sunday night to take those calls. Bernie will be
in tomorrow night to take those calls. I just I'm like, Eddie,
I'm like, why is this Kaepernick audio suddenly showing up
in our inbox right now?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Well, I guess now we know.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
To pay off the tease talking about weed, talking about marijuana.
According to Travis Kelcey in the most recent GQ article,
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry sorry, got my manly magazine miss
mixed up. This was vanity fair. He said that around
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fifty to eighty percent of NFL players use cannabis, and
that under the more lenient policy the NFL implemented in
twenty twenty one, it's easier for players to use marijuana
in the off season and stop before testing begins. And
(22:26):
I quote, if you just stop in the middle of July,
you're fine. A lot of guys stop a week before
and they still pass because everybody's working out in the
heat and sweating their tail off. Nobody's really getting hit
for it anymore. Kelsey says he didn't. Now we've got
to remember Travis Kelcey got in trouble at Cincinnati for
(22:50):
drug use, failing some drug tests. Said he didn't really
regret it. But I mean, is this breaking news? Kind
of feel like the cap audio and this story from
Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I will say the difference.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Between fifty and eighty percent is a substantial difference.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I mean, it's like saying half and then just about.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Everyone you know, it's just it's like, what, there's a
massive difference between fifty and eighty percent. But if you're
in that mix, I mean, I'm I am a staunch
proponent of the I'm a staunch believer in the healing
powers of cannabis. I just think I would much rather
(23:36):
hear about my favorite player, are my friend taking a
gummy or a vape or whatever you would use to
get high, not like I would know, Addie, not like
I would know, but I'd much rather hear about that
than having him on value are whatever you know you
(23:56):
might be taking. I mean, the fitanol overdose are scary
with what's happening right now. Painkillers are dangerously addictive and
dangerous period. And I just I feel like we've lost
a hell of a lot more people in life from
painkillers and those types of quote unquote coping ways with
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pain than we ever have with marijuana. Had a buddy
of mind that played in the NFL for a long
time and he told a story about and when he played,
the testing was very stringent, and he had one of
his teammates that just said, listen, I I've never been popped.
I've never had a positive test and back in the day,
and I don't know if it's still the same. If
you didn't test positive, you always knew when your test
(24:40):
was coming. Once you tested positive, that's where the s
hit the fan. But his way was, I don't want
to take percoset, I don't want to take pain pills.
I'm fine with you know this at that time, this
joint or this bowl or whatever, it's gonna make me
feel better, and I think a majority of people, when
you look at it from that perspective, it makes a
lot more since now if you're just taking it to
(25:02):
get high, to escape reality, then there's other conversations to
be had. But as far as dealing with pain, dealing
with anxiety, it's I think it's much more common in
professional sports than anyone realizes. I don't know about eighty percent,
Travis kelcey, But you're in a time now where I
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mean I was talking about gambling versus weed, and in
places where it's legal.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You know, there's what.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
More, We're almost fifteen states that have legalized recreational marijuana.
We're starting to understand that there is there's medical, medical
use for it. Now, there's still a lot of people
that like to just get high, and that's fine, you do,
you boo. But Travis Kelcey throwing out fifty to eighty
(25:52):
percent of the NFL currently uses cannabis in some way,
shape or form, And honestly, I don't think i'd argue
with him too much.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
I think that on and I don't think it's a problem.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
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Speaker 2 (26:07):
All right, we talk booze talk.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Let's get back to sports, and that's where Eddie Garcia
is here to save the day from the ti rack
dot com studios.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
What's going on, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Well, we'll start with some news from the NBA, where
James Harden has exercised his player option for next season
with the seventy six ers, but apparently it's for the
sole purpose of facilitating a trade out of Philadelphia. Sacramento
Kings signed forward Harrison Barnes to a three year, fifty
four million dollars extension. Free agency period in the NBA
is coming up later today six pm Eastern time. In
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news from the NFL, Colts players Isaiah Rodgers and Rashad Berry,
free agent Demetrius Thomas or excuse me, Demetrius Taylor have
all been suspended definitely for placing bets on NFL games
in twenty twenty two. The Colts have announced that they
are releasing Rodgers and Barry. Titans offensive tackled Nicholas pati
Ferreer gets a six game suspension for betting on non
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NFL games while at a team facility, and Jaguar starting
left tackle Cam Robinson gets a four game suspension for
violating the league's performance announcing drug policy in baseball games.
A note you had a battle Division leaders wrapping up
their series in Arizona, Rays, the ALE East leaders knockoff
the Diamondbacks, the NL West leaders, six to one, Tampa
Bay taking two of three in the series from Arizona.
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Guardians lose to the Royals four to three in ten innings,
so Cleveland drops into a tie with idle Minnesota with
the top spot in the AL Central. Brewers beat the
Mets three to two. Milwaukee moves into a tie with
idle Cincinnati for first in the NL Central. Rangers lead
the AL West. They lose to the Tigers eight to five.
White Sox over the Angels nine to seven. Shoheo Tani
major league leading twenty ninth hormint of a year in
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the loss for the Angels. Pirates beat the Padres five
to four, Pittsburgh getting a three game series sweep. San
Diego's lost five in a row. Marlin shut out the
Red Sox two nothing. Miami gets a three game series sweep.
They won five in a row. Boston's dropped five straight.
Phillies beat the Cubs three to one. Philadelphia with a
three game series sweep. Astros routed the Cardinals fourteen to nothing.
Alex Bregman a grand slam, Kyle Tucker a homer five.
(28:00):
I have RBI for Houston. Dodgers were out the Rockies
fourteen to three. JD. Martinez a homer, drove in a
four for LA as the Dodgers have now moved too
back of Arizona in that NL West race. Now back
to Chris Plankinthtyrack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Thanks a lot, Eddie Garcierra.
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(28:38):
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. What's going on man?
Speaker 6 (28:41):
How you doing? Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Doing great?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
First of all, to put the thing with Arnie to bed,
it's probably the Ben Maller Show about three years ago.
He filled into the week between Christmas and New Year's
and the militia Terrorizon and I was one of the
leading terrorists.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What did he mean, listen to you?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I just terrorized. The guy just terrorized. As a matter
of fact, I asked you later on when we were
filling in on a show, is he really like that
or is it just that stupid? And you he said,
that's his normal act.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
That's his normal act.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, that's for.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Sure, that's his normal act. That because I asked you,
do you know whether the man was stupid or that
was his normal act? This was his normal act. No problem,
I will quit my job.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
No man has quit has put their job on the
line more for a prediction than Ben mal Are they
listen to me? Then Arnie Spanier has he will put
his job on the line because I mean, he knows
no one's going to fire him, right, I mean, no
one's gonna walk in and say, hey, listen, dude, you
said you're going to quit your job. If Arizona lost
(29:46):
to Princeton, why are you still working here?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
He knows no one's going to call him on that.
So yeah, you know, it's just I'm used to it.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Well, trust me, if he worked for me, I'd fire
his ass. Storms And the next thing I wanted to
go on of those to tany with the Angels. Okay,
Him and Trout obviously two quality men, two quality players.
They've obviously formed a bond. Okay, as long as the
Angels come close with the money, He's staying in lay clothing.
(30:16):
And the guy in LA would be a moron. He
would be ridden out of town on a rail if
he let a tany get away, at least not making
a good effort money wise to keep them. So I
don't know what the big deal is about him. He's staying.
He's going to stay with Trout. They're close, They're maybe
a chance for the playoffs this year, maybe one or
two more players, and you know they go deep into
(30:37):
the playoffs. He's staying there. He's a quality person, he's
formed a bond with Trout, another quality guy, obviously, two
greatest players. And why should he leave to go? Where to?
What the Clippers? I mean, come on, he's going to
stay there.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Hey man, thanks cool, I appreciate it. The Clippers, that'd
be an interesting fit, I will say. Getting to the
NBA off that take, I will say, everyone told us
going into the NBA Draft that it was gonna be
the wildest draft we've ever seen. Right, I hear Zion
(31:15):
is going to be traded. I hear that you're gonna
see a deal involving Paul George, rumors that hey, the
thunder could be moving up and it might be any
player to get up to number two or three, and
nothing ends up happening. I'm kind of what, Now, something's
(31:36):
gonna have to happen because there's a boatload of free
agents that need new homes, right, Fred van Vliet among those,
Kyrie Irving among those, Brook Lopez among those, Chris Middleton
now among those. So, I mean, something's gonna happen. But
are we gonna have these jaw dropping moves come you
(31:56):
know six o'clock tonight that everyone seems to be projecting.
Are we gonna be sitting here tomorrow night at this
time with Bernie Fratto with our jaws dropped about something
that happened over the last twenty four hours with the NBA.
They seem to build up and make you think that
that's going to happen, but in the end, it never
(32:17):
really does. Coming up at the top of the hour,
we're gonna hit every major bullet point for NBA free agency.
I put together a list of the five things you
need to know because I know Ben Love's lists and
the five teams to keep an eye on, And I
worked too hard on this to just forget about it
(32:37):
and not do it until Saturday morning when I'm in
for the Fellas. But no five things to keep an
eye on, five teams. It could be active also when
we come back. Some sneaky NFL notes that caught my ear.
Some sneaky NFL not necessarily news, but just perspective that
(32:58):
helps make last year make it a little bit more sense.
We'll dive into it next on Fox Sports Radio.
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Yeain't play the tape.
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You don't know crap about fool?
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Am I even own this crap? Whoa whoa, whoa whoa
that's the wrong tape. Wrong tape.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Just forget that look.
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Speaker 3 (34:09):
I've got a wild cut for you next hour, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's really I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I doubt anyone was into the College World Series, but
it was interesting to hear a former LSU player who's
now in the cusp of being a big leaguer and
how he experienced a College World Series.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Blew My.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
We were listening to it during the break and I
thought it was hilarious. Speaking of audio. Speaking of audio,
logan Ryan made the rounds and he was asked about
Tom Brady's final season last year in Tampa I thought.
Speaker 10 (34:43):
The way that the team was constructed of them winning
a Super Bowl a few years earlier and running it
all back roster wise, that Tampa was only built for
so long in terms of the amount of veterans, amount
of money being spent, the amount of weapons on that
side of the ball for Brady, So there was some
finality in the sea. But I think just knowing how
he was interacting with his family, his kids in terms
(35:04):
of really wanting to spend time with his kids and
be there with his kids, that was a little different
because his kids were older, and I think, you know,
the stuff that was going on off the field and
on the field, I think was weighing on him a
little bit. As Obviously we're all humans, so I can
knew that there's gonna be some type of break after
the season. Now, whether that be returned or not, he wouldn't.
He wouldn't tell me. No one could tell you that.
(35:26):
He got asked that man himself.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
So I don't think there's really anything too shocking there.
But does it I mean, have we put an exclamation
point period whatever on the end of the Tom Brady era,
Like nobody thinks he's coming back, Well except Arnie and
we've all kind of accepted it.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
His NFL career is over.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
But do we need to go any deeper Eddy into
the end last year and kind of if we saw
it coming. I mean, is there more to his story
or is that just hey, listen, the guy was they
were set up to try to make a run, it
didn't happen and he was done.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Is there Does there need to be more to this
with Brady?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I don't know. I I mean, I'm I'm not going
to say the doors.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Shut, Okay, all right, thinking uh burned to New England,
thinking Vegas raiders here?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yeah, No, I'm thinking commitment to mediocrity.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
I'm thinking Vegas if if it happens, right it was
going to happen before, supposedly right.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, okay, I can't.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
You're you're in a good place with your Steelers, right,
You're not necessarily over the moon. We're going to win
the super Bowl, but you're not like we're doomed. You're
in a good place.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I'm in the worst place I've ever been with my
team ever.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I mean, per fet you're in a good place with
the Lions, right, they're on the upticks.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Things are looking.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Good right, rel like compared to historically with the Lions,
Like I'm I'm it's it's massive kool aid drinking this
style here. I mean, it's cool.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I've never been more dowbt Eddie, never been more down
in my life on this team. And I lived through
the JaMarcus Russell era, and I lived through going into
an opening weekend of the season when Charlie Frye was
battling for the starting quarterback job. But for some reason,
I'm just I'm so down that even you saying, you know,
maybe Tom Brady could come back, it doesn't even make
(37:19):
me happy. I'm like, poor Tom, I really got to
do that to him.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
So I think I have an analog for you on
how you're feeling, and I go ahead. I think it's
once again, it goes back to the Lions, and it
has to do with how I felt during the years
of another Patriots cast off in Matt Patricia. It's like, you,
you should be in a spot to be doing well
and ushering in this coach, and instead the project has
fallen completely on its head, and unless it turns around quickly,
(37:45):
you're just you're staring. Like the Lions had to do
hard reboot after the Patricia years. And I just look
at the Raiders right now, and maybe there's a chance
he gets his his his uh McDaniels, gets his system.
But at the same time, I'm like, I don't know
where this is going.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
So Eddie, here's a question off that. Let's say Brady's
not done. Does it raise more questions about what went
wrong last year? Does it shine more of a light
on a divorce maybe causing problems. Does it maybe magnify
how he wanted to be in that Patriot scheme again?
(38:25):
Or is it just, hey, the dude got away. Am
I trying to read too much into a story when
there's not too much there?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
I guess, is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Well, I it's look, we all know at some point
time was going to catch up to him. He did
an amazing job of stretching this out as long as
he could. So maybe that's just it's just finally time.
But there is the relationship there, obviously with Bic Daniels,
and there were, like I said, he had he had
ties apparently to going to Vegas before, and you know
(38:57):
it maybe doesn't want his care to end it ended.
I just I'm not. I'm not a conspiracy theory guy.
I just wouldn't be shocked if the AUV came back.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Okay, the Logan Ryan thing, I don't know why. When
I saw that, I thought, okay, that's interesting. Maybe because
we all look at it and think, you know, I've
been involved in several stories, not me personally, but just
covering them to where I thought the whole time there's
more to it, and in the end there wasn't. Maybe
the most famous was, you know, Bob Stoops when he
(39:29):
surprisingly retired at Oklahoma prior to the what was it
the twenty and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Season, and I was like, what are seriously?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Maybe it was just after the twenty seventeen seasons, so
everything runs together and everyone thought there's more to it,
there's something going on here, there's NCAA rules that are broke,
or something's going and in the end there was nothing
more to it. Maybe it's just as simple as saying
he's kind of done. In Tampa, thought he was done
with the NFL and they went train camp rolls around.
(40:00):
He might realize that he's not. It might also help
that the Raiders might not have an answered quarterback because
my goodness, it looks like it's either looks like it's
either Brian Hoyer or An O'Connell of Jimmy Garoppolo can
go all right. Final hours next NFL Free Agency primer
(40:21):
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