June 14, 2023 • 33 mins
THE OAKLAND A'S HAVE WON THEIR SEVENTH-STRAIGHT GAME!! Stefon Diggs was absent from Bills mandatory minicamp. And the guys give you their 'Mount Rushmore' of the 4 best-run franchises in all of sports.
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We have something that has just occurred in sports that
none of us thought could happen. It's here. It has occurred.
I have seen it with my own eyes. The Oakland
A's have now won six games in a row. They
beat the best team in Major League Baseball again. Two
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to one is your final. The A's close it out
on Reverse Boycott Night, where fans decide We're gonna show
the owner of the team, John Fisher, we want you
to sell the team to someone who is gonna keep
the team in Oakland. So instead of boycotting, we're doing
a reverse boycott. We're gonna come to the games. Ah,
We're gonna put money in your pocket. You just watch.
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We're all gonna wear T shirts that say sell in
big white letters on a big green T shirt. It's
a reverse boycott, also known as buying tickets and attending
a game, but reverse boycott is a very great title
for something like this. All the fans showed up. They
had twenty seven thousand people at the game tonight. I
don't know that they've had twenty seven thousand in every
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home game up until tonight. But the A's just keep winning.
They keep with seven.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
In a row. This is this is seven.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
This is said they're the hottest team in baseball. They
had won six in a row. The averathon of diamondback
to one. Six in a row. Make it seven in
a row. Now for the A's.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Two against Pittsburgh, three against Milwaukee. Now two in this
series against the Rays. Break them up. It's all gone
to hell. Nineteen and fifty now on the season, but
twenty seven thousand, eight hundred thousand dollars goes to charity.
That's what the A's decided. They announced earlier all ticket
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sales from this because they wanted to get some good
publicity here because one of the big stories obviously is, hey,
they're abandoning the community and all their fans and all
the good works that teams do within communities that will
be lost, all that good will and hope. And they said, well,
you know what for tonight, you all come to the
game in your reverse boycott. Guess what, We're gonna take
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your good deed and your message and we're gonna get
some good will out of it by giving eight hundred
thousand dollars away to the local charity. So see, everybody
wins Smith except for the Tampa Bay Rays that can't
figure out the hottest team in baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And how much of this is the they say, oh,
this stinks and we're gonna they're boycott is the're gonna
give us money up there?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now, come on, we have a thing ready to move.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
We're gonna give away this money that we're making. I
don't want your money you have now you want to
come to the games. No, I don't want your money now.
Now I'm gonna take it and give it away to charity,
which is awesome. But now I'm not putting this money
in my pocket. I'm gonna do this on purpose.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's it all right, all about the Hey, you said
we weren't helping the community. You know, we we just
pad we were the throughput. Today you got to see
another win. You got to see an exciting fast baseball game. Look,
it's five after nine and this game is already over.
Uh and and we we get to help the community.
Everybody wins, and somebody profited by selling a bunch of
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sell green T shirts.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And you guys know what this means?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What does it mean? The Oakland A's are now no
longer the worst team in baseball? Are they?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Long? Kansas City behind me? Right? Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Hang on a second. Let me check the standings and see.
Let me have to check the standings. Let me check
the standings and see. The Royals are eighteen and forty nine.
The Mets are nineteen and forty nine. Stop Mets are
not nineteen forty eight. Now the A's are nineteen and fifty.
Their winning percentage is just one six tenths of a
point ahead of the Kansasity Royals, who are now eighteen
and forty nine in the banner. Look at that, Look
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at the A's. Look this is a great night because
for the A's fans to do something like this, it's cool, right.
I always like the I like the power of the
massive fans saying hey, we want to stand up and
make sure that we're counted. Because today was a rough day.
Because you find out that the state of Nevada okays
the money for the A's stadium, which was the last
thing standing in the way of moving the team from
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Oakland to Vegas. Now it's going to take a while.
Likely the A's will play one more year in Oakland
and then they'll play a year so in a Triple
A ballpark in Vegas, and then they'll have their new
stadium ready. It's great, but it's not gonna change anything, right,
I mean, I love it. But the whole reason they
want to do this is to say, hey, we want
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someone to buy the team to keep it in Oakland.
If someone had stepped up with that, it would have
happened by now. And no one's gonna step up and
buy the A's when they're looking at this and go,
nobody comes to the games, right, No one's coming to
the games. The team is not very good. Suddenly they're
gonna come to the games if I buy tickets? Or
are people gonna come to opening day?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Because any new owner that's gonna keep the team in
Oakland's gonna say, yeah, I'll buy the team. Yeah I'll go.
I see all this money coming in, is it really
gonna come in? Or people come to opening Day? And
that's it. I mean, the A's fans have shown you
that baseball in Oakland is not really viable any longer.
And it's not a bad thing, you know, I tell
you all the time. You know, we think things are
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forever in sports and life, that this department store is
always going to be open, and your parents best friends
are gonna be married forever and you find out they're
divorced and the department store closes, and sometimes things just
have their own shelf life. They're only meant to be
a part of things for a certain amount of time.
And the A's seem like, look, any small market team
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in sports, are they always going to be there forever?
Or is it going to be a franchise where eventually
they're going to move because there's gonna be some kind
of difficulty financially that an owner is going to have
the team and can't get out of and he's gonna
want to try to make his mark someplace else. An
increase of value of the franchise and moving to Vegas, Yeah,
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that's a much bigger deal. You're getting more money, you're
getting a new stadium, you're getting everything. You're getting a
fresh group of fans in a bigger city where there's
a lot more going on as far as Hey, if
you want to go downtown, you can see a game,
you can still go see a show late at night.
Vegas is a pretty happening place. And if an owner
sees where am I going to move my team or
if I'm going to own a team, yeah I want
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to do it in Vegas. If someone's gonna buy it
to keep an ope, they would have done it already.
But right now now you're seeing that it feels like
Baseball and Oakland is a losing proposition and it's just
gone down that road far too long. You see all
the negotiations the Mayor's office and Oakland. You saw all
the dignitaries say, hey, we tried. They don't want to
keep the team in Oakland. We're not gonna negotiate with
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them anymore, and we're going to put our money towards
other things in the city. And that was kind of
the part that closed the door on on the A's
staying in Oakland. So they're just going to leave. This
is awesome, This is I love that the fans are
stepping up showing we're gonna miss this. There are a
lot of proud fans here. We don't like the ownership,
we don't like what's going on. We're gonna celebrate the
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team from the time we have left and we're gonna
make sure our voices are heard. And that's an awesome
thing to do. But to think it's gonna have some
kind of big, long lasting impact, I mean, if you
win fifteen or twenty games, you break that record that
they featured in Moneyball. Do you win twenty one games
in a row? Yeah, then we can talk. I mean,
you're seven year seven games, do it now. But outside
of that, it's a great moment and I feel I'm
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happy for the fans. If everybody came to the game tonight,
everybody that that grew up an Oakland A's fan and
is still there and still wants team to stay. I'm
happy for everybody, but it's not going to change what's
going to happen already. It's it's a fade, a complete.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, it's inevitable, like the Thano snap spoiler alert for
the multi billion dollar film of several years ago. Look,
it's it's a lot of things. And at no point
do we give everybody, anybody, anybody involved with this a
pass for the way they conduct themselves. Right, And I
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know it's it's a dangerous thing talking about what happened
with the Chargers in San Diego because you've got you know, interests.
All right, if this really worked, we'll stay. But here's
the financial you know, windfall that happens by moving, right.
We see this with teams all the time, the threat
of I mean, what's happened in Chicago right now? Hey,
another suburb has jumped forward to say we'd like to
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host the Bears, And how do we get this to
work through all the different parts of the machine, from
the political side, the funding side, get it garnering the
right support. And in Oakland you had two sides that
I don't think ever came to the table fully invested
in the end result being a retention in Oakland. Now,
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if someone had come out of the wins, you know,
the Mary Poppins with giant money bags, I'm Mary Poppins
JEL and suddenly flew in with billions of dollars, then yeah,
it might have worked. But as it stood, you had
the political side, well, they didn't want it, similar to
what happened in San Diego. From the ownership side, it's like,
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well we can get a better deal. I mean, we
can go do this and I don't have to dig
into my pocket to do this. So then and the fans,
you look at from a numbers perspective, and it doesn't
take away from the ardent supporters of a team. The
numbers just aren't there right to make it the best
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of all scenarios, because otherwise you would have had the
ability to keep ratcheting up seat prices, season ticket prices,
whatever you needed to do for the revenue streams to
keep flowing. So that's where we're at. So for twenty
seven thousand people tonight and hopefully for the next game
against Tampa, and it keeps going and it gets a
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ground swell because it was fun when that place was
rocking back in the Tahata and Moneyball days. But it's
going to be short lived as soon as they can
get the logistics together.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
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Oakland A's, like we talked earlier about hot take on
Nikola Jokic, the Yankees and the Mets, and the Mets listen,
you know that's the thing, you know, And and here's
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the thing I'm not one of those people. It's gonna
be afraid to tell you when my team stinks. When
I say, when they do good things, they do good things,
and when they stink, they stink. And right now my
team stinks. And this is like the fourth or fifth
night in the last two weeks when I go, yeah,
the Mets season is over. After tonight, the Mets season
is over. The Met season is over. It's one of
those nights where you know, I talk about having a
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because they lose to the Yankees seven to six. They
blow a bases loaded, one out opportunity in the bottom
of the eighth inning when Francisco Lindor strikes out and
then Starling Marte strikes out. It is one of those
nights where you know, yes, I can get into the
Surezer part of it, which is just terrible. But like
if I own the Mets and someone called me tonight, going, hey,
you wouldn't part with Francisco Lindor, would I would say,
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just take over the rest of his contract and don't
even give me any prospects. Let's make it easy. You
can have him tomorrow, you can be on your team tomorrow.
You just pay the rest of his contracts. Starting at
midnight tonight. I don't give me a prospect back. I
don't need to play it to be named later. I
don't need anything else. You just take him tomorrow and
you start paying his salary. And I'm done because I
(12:18):
can't say what sitting here and watching him at two
fifteen and watching him have non competitive at bats way
more than he should. I feel like everybody like I'm
at that point now where I'm like, everybody can go,
and the only reason is not Alonso because he's hurt
and he's not playing, and he's also leading the league
in home runs at RBI. But everybody else can go.
Everybody else, I don't care. There's nobody else. Everybody we
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keep Alonzo, everybody else can go.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I like the cut of your GYP. You just now
gone amateur GM. And remember, I mean, the Mets sucking
is an evergreen topic right now. It is a lot
of what we do needs to happen, you know, and
get it in and listen to it. Before you know
it is grabbed and repackaged reet purpose for other entities.
(13:05):
So take that. But the parts about the Mets sucking,
you know, you can listen to those at your.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Leisure that lives forever, That lives forever. Oh another night
with that. Yeah, but the Mets specifically did suck tonight.
And did I tell you? Did I not tell you? Well,
I just in case you didn't hear earlier on when
I'm watching the last at bat bases loaded for Starling Marte,
I said he's gonna wave at a breaking pitch in
the dirt to strike out. And that's what's and what happened.
He waved at a breaking pitch in the dirt to
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strike out. That's an educated guest. No, that's how I know.
It's because I've seen Starling Martine. I know when he
pulls his head out and he doesn't have a competitive
at bat because you throw a breaking pitch and it's
not even close to the strike zone and he just
puts the bellet. It's like I have to have can't
lay it. It's like me when I was fourteen, I
couldn't hit a curve ball and I couldn't make a
pitcher throw it for a strike. I couldn't lay off it.
That's because I was fourteen. He's getting paid a lot
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of money lay off that pitch. I thought you were
gonna say it was like you striking out with the ladies. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. I uh, fourteen fourteen I didn't do well.
Not a fourteen I was not doing fourteen fifteen sixteen
were not great years. They were not great years for me.
For them, there was not I was. I was bet
seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one that I need a
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few years to get really And you were the Bash Brothers. Yeah,
then Twitter at about a Fresco Mike and swollen dumb.
But there's only one of you. Yeah, I know, that's
why I'm the Bash Brothers. But there's one of you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I don't understand. You don't have to I'm one of
the Bash brothers. Uh. Coming up next, Yes, we get well,
we had to get to the breaking news of the
A's winning again, which you know, when's the last time?
When's the next time they're gonna win seven in a row?
But straight ahead that NFL story I promised about a
Super Bowl contender that has more than hit rough times
earlier today, that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Dear Steve Cohen, I want you to trade every body now,
and you can even sell a team to somebody that
will spend more money. I want someone to spend a
billion dollars on contracts, not just decide we're not gonna
do it at three hundred million. That's what I want.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Hit me back.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You don't do that, I'll be the biggest Metch fan
you ever lose.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
BS. I really would like it if you had Nacho helmets.
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Speaker 3 (15:30):
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off in style four games to one and putting up
nine goals. Things are really bad when you go to
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the empty net with about seven minutes remaining.
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Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't think I just get all that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
No, I don't think your mic.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Was on.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Tys hit the music and second time your your mic
was on Mike I'm not crazy. You're not crazy. It
was just very funny.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Okay, get again, going back to the being nice and
and supportive of your teammates and all of the debate
shows and and here hot take nonsense late at night
on Fox Sports Radio, and and sometimes your best friend
treat you like a journey.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Like I just did that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's as simple as I could put it. My natural
reaction in the streets. See this is again going the
yolkic celebration versus Stowe is in the street, I start
cursing at you in my south side ease, which really
comes out when I start screaming and cursing.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Can I get fast forward on the DVR? I want,
I want to move up. I already heard this part.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I already did that. I did the read and did
I heard the music.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Move on the game while you're in you know what.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I already did. I already moved on.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Uh yes, right now?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The Smith on his bobblehead night. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The Dodgers shutting out the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Is it fifteen?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Nothing? Is that a five? Five?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hey Mets fan, you can only go so hard at
me here?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh we're dude, I can't even tell you you know,
here's here's the worst part of tonight for me, right, okay,
because you keep losing games and somehow getting close to
the first place because your your division stinks. Good for me,
you lose like three in a row and I think
you gained two games on first place by losing three
in a.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Row five games back going into play tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Uh, the Mets lose tonight to the Yankees. They lose
seven to six. They were winning, Nope, not enough because
Max Schurzer stinks again. And this is the worst part, right,
is that I've told you the Mets you're gonna have
a big sale for the trade deadline, because this is
one of those seasons where it just gets out of
control fast. And everywhere I look, you know, all social
media tonight, people Lindor Mets, Yankees, all this. Look, it's
(18:18):
a big series, Mets Yankee Subway series is a big series.
And all I'm all I'm thinking of is that we're
not gonna be able to trade. Shres are in Verlander,
what they stink, We're not gonna No one's gonna want them.
And my biggest fear has come true, which is the
fear I tell you all the time. Hey, when you
get old, you get old right away, right, you know
you don't. You don't get old and over the span
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of a couple of years out of the team's get
a little old. No, you get old overnight, and shures
are in. Verlander, who is supposed to carry the team,
have gotten old overnight. Now the end of their contracts,
which are a year and a half from now, seem
like it's a ten year kind. They all look like
Lindor's contract. We're never getting rid of these guys because
who's gonna Who's gonna take Verlander to the dead Yeah,
the guy is a half season moved from a cy
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Young Award, But the guy stinks he's doing thirty five
million dollars next year. Who's gonna take him. Who's gonna
take sures Or for all the money he's worth when
he's in every other every other game pitcher At this
point is great. We're stuck with them. We're absolutely stuck.
And it's not the money's not that big a deal
because Steve Cole will just go and spend more money.
But these guys were brought in the strategy was they're
gonna carry the team, and you're a lying on a
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thirty eight year old and a thirty nine year old
and other guys who are thirty five years old in
the lineup and they're just not doing it. And you
see it, it's gonna be everybody's gonna be available. But
I don't know who the hell you can trade, because
they certainly can't trade these two guys not happening.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, the potential is always there. There may be a
team desperate enough, and you may be willing to get
rid of the.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Who tell me I'll make I'll make a call right now.
Who you tell me? You tell me, buddy, I'll make
a call.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Who do I got a text? I'll text somebody.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Who knows you might you might be able to uh
bring him to la Maybe maybe you could go make
your pitch to Artie Morino. It's like, look, you're gonna
lose show. Hey anyway, how would how would you like
an underperforming three hundred million dollar.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
How would you like both Verlander? And I shouldn't do this,
but how about Verlander? End sureser for Otania?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Their salaries are only gonna be about equal to him,
about two players.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
For one, you know, and hey, you know, maybe I'm
not saying this, but I could I could part with
Starling Marte as well. I'm not saying I want to, buddy,
have you if you asked me for those three for show?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Otani? All right, all right, I get twist my arm
I'm just saying I can twist my arm on it.
Just let me know.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Sorry, buddy, you're in a world to hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I know, they just think. But again, the most important
thing I have to remember is that the Jets have
Aaron Rodgers. So that's what it is. And now maybe
I won't have as big of a mountain to climb
to get to the top of the afcast after what
happened today, a very weird day in the NFL's riding
one of the top three receivers in the game, Stefan Diggs,
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who was at Bill's camp for his physical but then
was not present at workouts today the first the first
of the mini camp, and his agent said no, he's
at camp, and the Bills said, no, he's not here,
and so there's a lot of stuff going on. Here's
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Bill's head coach Sean McDermott about how upset he is
that Stefan Diggs is not at camp, even though he
was there to take his physical but not on the
field and practicing with them.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Good morning. We'll go ahead and get started.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Take your question, good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Here and knows a lot of questions about.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, Steph is not here. Everybody else is here at
the current time.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I confer you about that.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Oh, very concerned, very concern. So it's not as I'm
not going to get into and listen. I respect everyone's
everyone's questions and what they want to know about our team.
Right now, I'm just I'm not going to get into
into that anymore. So we'll talk about practice. Happy to
do that, Happy to answer those questions, and we'll move
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forward from there.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Everybody's here. Steph is not good morning, but I like
how we did say good morning to everybody. Good morning
before I good morning. Yeah, before I don't answer your questions,
I want to say good morning. I hope you're having
a good morning, good morning morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Good morning, good Morning's attendance.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Lisa. Are you here, Lisa, Lisa's here, Okay, Leslie, Leslie
Lessa's all right, John John W. John W's here.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
John, You all ask for credentials. I'm going through every
one of these names. Fun.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It's the fun. You're here, so good morning. Is this
a big deal? Yeah, because you know something is up.
We'll hear from Jason locking for coming up at about
forty minutes. Be money oriented, it could be some kind
of relationship situation. Josh Allen weighed in on this, Hey,
Stefan Diggs is not here, and he said it's about
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communication and maybe I could do some things that would
make it a little bit better because the last we
saw Stefon Diggs, he was screaming at Josh Allen on
the sideline as the Bills were getting eliminated from the
playoffs last year. Stefan Diggs also put up a very
cryptic post on social media tonight as well. See you
know something is happening. If it was all sunshine, lollipops
(23:31):
and rainbows and yeah, it's something that's going on, because
it's the middle of June, it wouldn't be taken with this,
it would It would be Sean McDermott wouldn't come at
it from the angle of everybody's here, Steph As I'm
not talking about it. WHOA Suddenly you knew right away
it was a major thing. This was not all right.
It's June and he's mad about his contract or he's
mad about something. We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna
(23:53):
move on. No right away. He wanted you to know, Okay,
this is a combative situation. It's not about his health,
it's not about anything else. He just sign a new contract.
But you know he's got now in team portion friendly
part of his contract. Does he want more money? Does
he want what does he want? Suddenly right before mini
camp he decides, I'm gonna not show up. Usually it's
about money. It's really hard for just signed a four year,
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one hundred million dollar contract. But this is Tofon Diggs
and this is kind of them for the guy. Throughout
his career, there has been times where hey, look as
great a receiver as he is. Boy, what's he upset about?
And he's got to be playcated for certain things. But
this is a major thing, man, because this is not
something that's gonna get solved tomorrow. And I'm sorry, this
is not something that even if it's solved tomorrow, you
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can say, Okay, it's it's going away now because the
bills aren't going to suddenly give him a new deal
or give him whatever he wants. I don't know what
he wants. It's going to linger, and it may be
one of those where I'm here for this year and
then we see what happens after this year. And is
anybody who was punching a time clock gonna go out
of their way to go crazy and have their best season?
(25:00):
Doesn't really happen. You have the Bills dealing with drama
on the first day of mini camp, and not only
did you have your head coach giving weight to it
by saying, yes, it's concerning, I'm concerned about this. You
had your quarterback weigh in with a cryptic comment on it,
and now you had the player himself weigh in again
on social media after Yeah, this is a big thing, man,
(25:20):
I know that it's a oh, it's a middle of No,
this is a pretty big thing. And this is the
buffalo that's got to figure out the guy that makes
them go. Because you want to look at what Josh
Allen stats are like without Stefan Diggs. Oh it ain't
pretty man. You're not on the you're not on the
cover of MAT And without Stefan.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Diggs, Yeah, I mean it is a difficult thing to
kind of parse through, right Rapiport and others immediately recording. Hey,
it's not contractual, so that's fine, and so we pushed
that aside. Whatever's real imagine because I gotta imagine that.
For Diggs, there's still a looking at the marketplace, look
at what you mean to the squad, all of those
things that maybe maybe that might not be the majority
(25:57):
of this, but it's I don't think gets out of sight,
out of mind. Hey I've got a contract, let's just
go play. No, no, no, always looking for better in
terms of if it gets allaid a little bit, Yeah,
I mean, you can work in uneasy partnership. You don't
have to be best friends because you'll get to the
(26:18):
end of the season. You want to show out because
your next contract depends on it. So I wouldn't worry
about that terribly much. Digs on his Instagram story, if
them lies help you sleep better, tell him big dog,
my phone been silent for like six years. I don't
play all those sounds in blank, all right, So just
(26:40):
telling you what he's working with there with Alan that
it's working on things non football related. So is it
just communication? Is it body like, are there just nonverbal
things that just mounted up play calling that you know,
miscommunication that way. It could be anything. We're just speculating
(27:02):
all around. But the one thing we know is in
the marketplace, there's not another guy that can come in
and be Stefan Diggs. Right, You've got other players that
were and could be still available, and I've seen immediately
it's like, well, DeAndre Hopkins would solve It's like, no,
DeAndre Hopkins is a nice number three guy and maybe
helped shore up what you thought you had and Gabe
(27:24):
Davis to where you can get him back to peak
form and have some depth with your wide receiving core.
But saying at any level that he replaces Stefan Diggs,
and I like DeAndre Hopkins gamed a lot, but he's
bringing a lot to the table that you don't know
right whether he's gonna be disgruntled in the next stop
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or whether that was purely an Arizona thing. So you've
got a lot of questions and suddenly you're what seemed
like another run to the top of the AFC. Sorry,
Smith is a bitten down out. Now you've got to
figure out how to how to get personalities aligned or
(28:05):
or get to some amicable resolution that you can at
least coexist.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think the odds of the Jets winning the AFSE
is just what wait, I think they're even money now
after today.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I don't know even money. There certainly might have been
a boost.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Heah yeah, buddy, look out, look out here coming yet.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
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these pictures and videos, the A's winning again on Reverse
Boycott Night.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It looks like a playoff game. Got a move out
of the commerceutro. What is that? Whoa whoa, whoa whoa.
It's you got ten more minutes.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I didn't know where you were an educational program.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's it's.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But worldes.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Wh yes, very very worldly. We crowded champion tonight National
Hockey League. We watched the Vegas Golden Knights. In just
their fifth year of existence, because it makes me wonder
what tell the Mets have been doing for the past
like thirty years. In their fifth year of existence, winning
the Stanley Cup Final four games to one. They blow
out the Florida Panthers nine to three. The Panthers pulled
(29:30):
their goalie with six minutes left to go down four
didn't matter. And you know, we've had a lot of
fun with with with the Golden Knights and just sitting
here very frustrating for a lot of teams going. My
team's been around since like nineteen forty and we still
can't win anything in here. The Knights in five years
they become not just a team that wins the Stanley Cup,
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but they were a team that right away was good
because they aced the dispersal draft and they were able
to build what they needed to build. They made all
the right moves. They won a Division TI a couple
of years in, they made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
They won the Stanley Cup Final. If you did, and
you know it's a very popular thing to do, but
just to just to to show you what they've done,
(30:10):
if you did a mount rushmore right now of the
best run franchises in all of sports right right now.
What franchises are just run the best every year, no
matter what happens change, these teams succeed and they do
it the right way and they win. The four teams
on Mount Rushmore are the Dodgers, the Golden State Warriors,
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the Metnots.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You can't help yourself sometimes, the.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Chiefs, and the Golden Knights. Those are your four Mount
Rushmore teams that are just run better than everybody else.
The Golden Knights, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Los Angeles Dodgers,
and the New York I can't help my te do
it again, and the Golden State Warriors. Those are your fourteens.
You have the Warriors. They're die is kind of ending now,
(31:01):
but hey, for ten years the Warrior forget about the heat,
the heat culture, the Warrior way. They've proved to do
it at a higher level than everybody else. This is
levels of excellence that result in championships and division championships
and staying relevant and turning over players and talent and
still being able to be at the top of your division,
the top of your league. Though it just so happens
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there's one in every league. There We did one for hockey,
one for baseball, one football, one basketball, But those really
are the four best run franchises in all the sports.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, I mean, obviously you back it out a way
as you start grabbing the Patriots, you start grabbing the
Braves or the Cardinals, And we can do a lot
with allegations and things that we've learned. The Astros would
probably be fighting to get their logo up there on
this Mount Rushmore. But again, some issues that you have
(31:54):
to contend with with the Warriors. It's now curious to
see what the post Bob Myers era become and what
that team looks like when they take the court again
in the fall. But it's pretty hard to argue with
the legacies that have been built in Kansas City right
now takes the Reins as the top spot with what
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they've done in the interchangeable parts as receivers and running
backs alongside Mahomes and Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
You know, the thing is is that it's so it's
so easy to run into disrepair. And that's like it's
because just it's just the natural flow of things. Hey,
a team can be good for three or four or
five years, but then something happens right, and oh man,
all we go like the Rams. Look, the Rams were
good for so long, but now, hey, what can we do?
(32:44):
We're not playing very well and you know, we have
to pay the piper. We haven't a draft picks. It's
just a natural.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That wasn't even a long window though. I mean that's
a couple of years. Yeah, it was kind of a
flash point and go through.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was five years and two super Bowls, right, So
I mean that that's pretty good. So to see the
team run this way, especially the gold Knights who came
from nothing. They had no players five years ago. Yeah,
that's some kind of achievement to be able to roll
through this when you get into five, seven, ten years.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Actually, I really just want to ram it there.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You always want to ram it. Yeah, today I didn't
really Really, that's surprise. You always do all day ten o'clock,
you always do. Hey, coming up next, how about a
hot take on the NBA champions. That's next, Fox Trade
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Speaker 1 (00:50):
We have something that has just occurred in sports that
none of us thought could happen. It's here. It has occurred.
I have seen it with my own eyes. The Oakland
A's have now won six games in a row. They
beat the best team in Major League Baseball again. Two
(01:11):
to one is your final. The A's close it out
on Reverse Boycott Night, where fans decide We're gonna show
the owner of the team, John Fisher, we want you
to sell the team to someone who is gonna keep
the team in Oakland. So instead of boycotting, we're doing
a reverse boycott. We're gonna come to the games. Ah,
We're gonna put money in your pocket. You just watch.
(01:32):
We're all gonna wear T shirts that say sell in
big white letters on a big green T shirt. It's
a reverse boycott, also known as buying tickets and attending
a game, but reverse boycott is a very great title
for something like this. All the fans showed up. They
had twenty seven thousand people at the game tonight. I
don't know that they've had twenty seven thousand in every
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home game up until tonight. But the A's just keep winning.
They keep with seven.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
In a row. This is this is seven.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
This is said they're the hottest team in baseball. They
had won six in a row. The averathon of diamondback
to one. Six in a row. Make it seven in
a row. Now for the A's.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Two against Pittsburgh, three against Milwaukee. Now two in this
series against the Rays. Break them up. It's all gone
to hell. Nineteen and fifty now on the season, but
twenty seven thousand, eight hundred thousand dollars goes to charity.
That's what the A's decided. They announced earlier all ticket
(02:30):
sales from this because they wanted to get some good
publicity here because one of the big stories obviously is, hey,
they're abandoning the community and all their fans and all
the good works that teams do within communities that will
be lost, all that good will and hope. And they said, well,
you know what for tonight, you all come to the
game in your reverse boycott. Guess what, We're gonna take
(02:51):
your good deed and your message and we're gonna get
some good will out of it by giving eight hundred
thousand dollars away to the local charity. So see, everybody
wins Smith except for the Tampa Bay Rays that can't
figure out the hottest team in baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And how much of this is the they say, oh,
this stinks and we're gonna they're boycott is the're gonna
give us money up there?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now, come on, we have a thing ready to move.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
We're gonna give away this money that we're making. I
don't want your money you have now you want to
come to the games. No, I don't want your money now.
Now I'm gonna take it and give it away to charity,
which is awesome. But now I'm not putting this money
in my pocket. I'm gonna do this on purpose.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's it all right, all about the Hey, you said
we weren't helping the community. You know, we we just
pad we were the throughput. Today you got to see
another win. You got to see an exciting fast baseball game. Look,
it's five after nine and this game is already over.
Uh and and we we get to help the community.
Everybody wins, and somebody profited by selling a bunch of
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sell green T shirts.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And you guys know what this means?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What does it mean? The Oakland A's are now no
longer the worst team in baseball? Are they?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Long? Kansas City behind me? Right? Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Hang on a second. Let me check the standings and see.
Let me have to check the standings. Let me check
the standings and see. The Royals are eighteen and forty nine.
The Mets are nineteen and forty nine. Stop Mets are
not nineteen forty eight. Now the A's are nineteen and fifty.
Their winning percentage is just one six tenths of a
point ahead of the Kansasity Royals, who are now eighteen
and forty nine in the banner. Look at that, Look
(04:30):
at the A's. Look this is a great night because
for the A's fans to do something like this, it's cool, right.
I always like the I like the power of the
massive fans saying hey, we want to stand up and
make sure that we're counted. Because today was a rough day.
Because you find out that the state of Nevada okays
the money for the A's stadium, which was the last
thing standing in the way of moving the team from
(04:51):
Oakland to Vegas. Now it's going to take a while.
Likely the A's will play one more year in Oakland
and then they'll play a year so in a Triple
A ballpark in Vegas, and then they'll have their new
stadium ready. It's great, but it's not gonna change anything, right,
I mean, I love it. But the whole reason they
want to do this is to say, hey, we want
(05:12):
someone to buy the team to keep it in Oakland.
If someone had stepped up with that, it would have
happened by now. And no one's gonna step up and
buy the A's when they're looking at this and go,
nobody comes to the games, right, No one's coming to
the games. The team is not very good. Suddenly they're
gonna come to the games if I buy tickets? Or
are people gonna come to opening day?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Because any new owner that's gonna keep the team in
Oakland's gonna say, yeah, I'll buy the team. Yeah I'll go.
I see all this money coming in, is it really
gonna come in? Or people come to opening Day? And
that's it. I mean, the A's fans have shown you
that baseball in Oakland is not really viable any longer.
And it's not a bad thing, you know, I tell
you all the time. You know, we think things are
(05:51):
forever in sports and life, that this department store is
always going to be open, and your parents best friends
are gonna be married forever and you find out they're
divorced and the department store closes, and sometimes things just
have their own shelf life. They're only meant to be
a part of things for a certain amount of time.
And the A's seem like, look, any small market team
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in sports, are they always going to be there forever?
Or is it going to be a franchise where eventually
they're going to move because there's gonna be some kind
of difficulty financially that an owner is going to have
the team and can't get out of and he's gonna
want to try to make his mark someplace else. An
increase of value of the franchise and moving to Vegas, Yeah,
(06:34):
that's a much bigger deal. You're getting more money, you're
getting a new stadium, you're getting everything. You're getting a
fresh group of fans in a bigger city where there's
a lot more going on as far as Hey, if
you want to go downtown, you can see a game,
you can still go see a show late at night.
Vegas is a pretty happening place. And if an owner
sees where am I going to move my team or
if I'm going to own a team, yeah I want
(06:55):
to do it in Vegas. If someone's gonna buy it
to keep an ope, they would have done it already.
But right now now you're seeing that it feels like
Baseball and Oakland is a losing proposition and it's just
gone down that road far too long. You see all
the negotiations the Mayor's office and Oakland. You saw all
the dignitaries say, hey, we tried. They don't want to
keep the team in Oakland. We're not gonna negotiate with
(07:17):
them anymore, and we're going to put our money towards
other things in the city. And that was kind of
the part that closed the door on on the A's
staying in Oakland. So they're just going to leave. This
is awesome, This is I love that the fans are
stepping up showing we're gonna miss this. There are a
lot of proud fans here. We don't like the ownership,
we don't like what's going on. We're gonna celebrate the
(07:37):
team from the time we have left and we're gonna
make sure our voices are heard. And that's an awesome
thing to do. But to think it's gonna have some
kind of big, long lasting impact, I mean, if you
win fifteen or twenty games, you break that record that
they featured in Moneyball. Do you win twenty one games
in a row? Yeah, then we can talk. I mean,
you're seven year seven games, do it now. But outside
of that, it's a great moment and I feel I'm
(07:58):
happy for the fans. If everybody came to the game tonight,
everybody that that grew up an Oakland A's fan and
is still there and still wants team to stay. I'm
happy for everybody, but it's not going to change what's
going to happen already. It's it's a fade, a complete.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, it's inevitable, like the Thano snap spoiler alert for
the multi billion dollar film of several years ago. Look,
it's it's a lot of things. And at no point
do we give everybody, anybody, anybody involved with this a
pass for the way they conduct themselves. Right, And I
(08:31):
know it's it's a dangerous thing talking about what happened
with the Chargers in San Diego because you've got you know, interests.
All right, if this really worked, we'll stay. But here's
the financial you know, windfall that happens by moving, right.
We see this with teams all the time, the threat
of I mean, what's happened in Chicago right now? Hey,
another suburb has jumped forward to say we'd like to
(08:55):
host the Bears, And how do we get this to
work through all the different parts of the machine, from
the political side, the funding side, get it garnering the
right support. And in Oakland you had two sides that
I don't think ever came to the table fully invested
in the end result being a retention in Oakland. Now,
(09:18):
if someone had come out of the wins, you know,
the Mary Poppins with giant money bags, I'm Mary Poppins
JEL and suddenly flew in with billions of dollars, then yeah,
it might have worked. But as it stood, you had
the political side, well, they didn't want it, similar to
what happened in San Diego. From the ownership side, it's like,
(09:39):
well we can get a better deal. I mean, we
can go do this and I don't have to dig
into my pocket to do this. So then and the fans,
you look at from a numbers perspective, and it doesn't
take away from the ardent supporters of a team. The
numbers just aren't there right to make it the best
(10:00):
of all scenarios, because otherwise you would have had the
ability to keep ratcheting up seat prices, season ticket prices,
whatever you needed to do for the revenue streams to
keep flowing. So that's where we're at. So for twenty
seven thousand people tonight and hopefully for the next game
against Tampa, and it keeps going and it gets a
(10:21):
ground swell because it was fun when that place was
rocking back in the Tahata and Moneyball days. But it's
going to be short lived as soon as they can
get the logistics together.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
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Nikola Jokic, the Yankees and the Mets, and the Mets listen,
you know that's the thing, you know, And and here's
(11:14):
the thing I'm not one of those people. It's gonna
be afraid to tell you when my team stinks. When
I say, when they do good things, they do good things,
and when they stink, they stink. And right now my
team stinks. And this is like the fourth or fifth
night in the last two weeks when I go, yeah,
the Mets season is over. After tonight, the Mets season
is over. The Met season is over. It's one of
those nights where you know, I talk about having a
(11:35):
because they lose to the Yankees seven to six. They
blow a bases loaded, one out opportunity in the bottom
of the eighth inning when Francisco Lindor strikes out and
then Starling Marte strikes out. It is one of those
nights where you know, yes, I can get into the
Surezer part of it, which is just terrible. But like
if I own the Mets and someone called me tonight, going, hey,
you wouldn't part with Francisco Lindor, would I would say,
(11:58):
just take over the rest of his contract and don't
even give me any prospects. Let's make it easy. You
can have him tomorrow, you can be on your team tomorrow.
You just pay the rest of his contracts. Starting at
midnight tonight. I don't give me a prospect back. I
don't need to play it to be named later. I
don't need anything else. You just take him tomorrow and
you start paying his salary. And I'm done because I
(12:18):
can't say what sitting here and watching him at two
fifteen and watching him have non competitive at bats way
more than he should. I feel like everybody like I'm
at that point now where I'm like, everybody can go,
and the only reason is not Alonso because he's hurt
and he's not playing, and he's also leading the league
in home runs at RBI. But everybody else can go.
Everybody else, I don't care. There's nobody else. Everybody we
(12:40):
keep Alonzo, everybody else can go.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I like the cut of your GYP. You just now
gone amateur GM. And remember, I mean, the Mets sucking
is an evergreen topic right now. It is a lot
of what we do needs to happen, you know, and
get it in and listen to it. Before you know
it is grabbed and repackaged reet purpose for other entities.
(13:05):
So take that. But the parts about the Mets sucking,
you know, you can listen to those at your.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Leisure that lives forever, That lives forever. Oh another night
with that. Yeah, but the Mets specifically did suck tonight.
And did I tell you? Did I not tell you? Well,
I just in case you didn't hear earlier on when
I'm watching the last at bat bases loaded for Starling Marte,
I said he's gonna wave at a breaking pitch in
the dirt to strike out. And that's what's and what happened.
He waved at a breaking pitch in the dirt to
(13:31):
strike out. That's an educated guest. No, that's how I know.
It's because I've seen Starling Martine. I know when he
pulls his head out and he doesn't have a competitive
at bat because you throw a breaking pitch and it's
not even close to the strike zone and he just
puts the bellet. It's like I have to have can't
lay it. It's like me when I was fourteen, I
couldn't hit a curve ball and I couldn't make a
pitcher throw it for a strike. I couldn't lay off it.
That's because I was fourteen. He's getting paid a lot
(13:53):
of money lay off that pitch. I thought you were
gonna say it was like you striking out with the ladies. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. I uh, fourteen fourteen I didn't do well.
Not a fourteen I was not doing fourteen fifteen sixteen
were not great years. They were not great years for me.
For them, there was not I was. I was bet
seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one that I need a
(14:15):
few years to get really And you were the Bash Brothers. Yeah,
then Twitter at about a Fresco Mike and swollen dumb.
But there's only one of you. Yeah, I know, that's
why I'm the Bash Brothers. But there's one of you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I don't understand. You don't have to I'm one of
the Bash brothers. Uh. Coming up next, Yes, we get well,
we had to get to the breaking news of the
A's winning again, which you know, when's the last time?
When's the next time they're gonna win seven in a row?
But straight ahead that NFL story I promised about a
Super Bowl contender that has more than hit rough times
earlier today, that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
(14:57):
Dear Steve Cohen, I want you to trade every body now,
and you can even sell a team to somebody that
will spend more money. I want someone to spend a
billion dollars on contracts, not just decide we're not gonna
do it at three hundred million. That's what I want.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Hit me back.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You don't do that, I'll be the biggest Metch fan
you ever lose.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
BS. I really would like it if you had Nacho helmets.
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
Tys hit the music and second time your your mic
was on Mike I'm not crazy. You're not crazy. It
was just very funny.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Okay, get again, going back to the being nice and
and supportive of your teammates and all of the debate
shows and and here hot take nonsense late at night
on Fox Sports Radio, and and sometimes your best friend
treat you like a journey.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Like I just did that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's as simple as I could put it. My natural
reaction in the streets. See this is again going the
yolkic celebration versus Stowe is in the street, I start
cursing at you in my south side ease, which really
comes out when I start screaming and cursing.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Can I get fast forward on the DVR? I want,
I want to move up. I already heard this part.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I already did that. I did the read and did
I heard the music.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Move on the game while you're in you know what.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I already did. I already moved on.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Uh yes, right now?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The Smith on his bobblehead night. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The Dodgers shutting out the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Is it fifteen?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Nothing? Is that a five? Five?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hey Mets fan, you can only go so hard at
me here?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh we're dude, I can't even tell you you know,
here's here's the worst part of tonight for me, right, okay,
because you keep losing games and somehow getting close to
the first place because your your division stinks. Good for me,
you lose like three in a row and I think
you gained two games on first place by losing three
in a.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Row five games back going into play tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Uh, the Mets lose tonight to the Yankees. They lose
seven to six. They were winning, Nope, not enough because
Max Schurzer stinks again. And this is the worst part, right,
is that I've told you the Mets you're gonna have
a big sale for the trade deadline, because this is
one of those seasons where it just gets out of
control fast. And everywhere I look, you know, all social
media tonight, people Lindor Mets, Yankees, all this. Look, it's
(18:18):
a big series, Mets Yankee Subway series is a big series.
And all I'm all I'm thinking of is that we're
not gonna be able to trade. Shres are in Verlander,
what they stink, We're not gonna No one's gonna want them.
And my biggest fear has come true, which is the
fear I tell you all the time. Hey, when you
get old, you get old right away, right, you know
you don't. You don't get old and over the span
(18:40):
of a couple of years out of the team's get
a little old. No, you get old overnight, and shures
are in. Verlander, who is supposed to carry the team,
have gotten old overnight. Now the end of their contracts,
which are a year and a half from now, seem
like it's a ten year kind. They all look like
Lindor's contract. We're never getting rid of these guys because
who's gonna Who's gonna take Verlander to the dead Yeah,
the guy is a half season moved from a cy
(19:02):
Young Award, But the guy stinks he's doing thirty five
million dollars next year. Who's gonna take him. Who's gonna
take sures Or for all the money he's worth when
he's in every other every other game pitcher At this
point is great. We're stuck with them. We're absolutely stuck.
And it's not the money's not that big a deal
because Steve Cole will just go and spend more money.
But these guys were brought in the strategy was they're
gonna carry the team, and you're a lying on a
(19:24):
thirty eight year old and a thirty nine year old
and other guys who are thirty five years old in
the lineup and they're just not doing it. And you
see it, it's gonna be everybody's gonna be available. But
I don't know who the hell you can trade, because
they certainly can't trade these two guys not happening.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, the potential is always there. There may be a
team desperate enough, and you may be willing to get
rid of the.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Who tell me I'll make I'll make a call right now.
Who you tell me? You tell me, buddy, I'll make
a call.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Who do I got a text? I'll text somebody.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Who knows you might you might be able to uh
bring him to la Maybe maybe you could go make
your pitch to Artie Morino. It's like, look, you're gonna
lose show. Hey anyway, how would how would you like
an underperforming three hundred million dollar.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
How would you like both Verlander? And I shouldn't do this,
but how about Verlander? End sureser for Otania?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Their salaries are only gonna be about equal to him,
about two players.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
For one, you know, and hey, you know, maybe I'm
not saying this, but I could I could part with
Starling Marte as well. I'm not saying I want to, buddy,
have you if you asked me for those three for show?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Otani? All right, all right, I get twist my arm
I'm just saying I can twist my arm on it.
Just let me know.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Sorry, buddy, you're in a world to hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I know, they just think. But again, the most important
thing I have to remember is that the Jets have
Aaron Rodgers. So that's what it is. And now maybe
I won't have as big of a mountain to climb
to get to the top of the afcast after what
happened today, a very weird day in the NFL's riding
one of the top three receivers in the game, Stefan Diggs,
(21:08):
who was at Bill's camp for his physical but then
was not present at workouts today the first the first
of the mini camp, and his agent said no, he's
at camp, and the Bills said, no, he's not here,
and so there's a lot of stuff going on. Here's
(21:31):
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott about how upset he is
that Stefan Diggs is not at camp, even though he
was there to take his physical but not on the
field and practicing with them.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Good morning. We'll go ahead and get started.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Take your question, good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Here and knows a lot of questions about.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, Steph is not here. Everybody else is here at
the current time.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I confer you about that.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Oh, very concerned, very concern. So it's not as I'm
not going to get into and listen. I respect everyone's
everyone's questions and what they want to know about our team.
Right now, I'm just I'm not going to get into
into that anymore. So we'll talk about practice. Happy to
do that, Happy to answer those questions, and we'll move
(22:19):
forward from there.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Everybody's here. Steph is not good morning, but I like
how we did say good morning to everybody. Good morning
before I good morning. Yeah, before I don't answer your questions,
I want to say good morning. I hope you're having
a good morning, good morning morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Good morning, good Morning's attendance.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Lisa. Are you here, Lisa, Lisa's here, Okay, Leslie, Leslie
Lessa's all right, John John W. John W's here.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
John, You all ask for credentials. I'm going through every
one of these names. Fun.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It's the fun. You're here, so good morning. Is this
a big deal? Yeah, because you know something is up.
We'll hear from Jason locking for coming up at about
forty minutes. Be money oriented, it could be some kind
of relationship situation. Josh Allen weighed in on this, Hey,
Stefan Diggs is not here, and he said it's about
(23:09):
communication and maybe I could do some things that would
make it a little bit better because the last we
saw Stefon Diggs, he was screaming at Josh Allen on
the sideline as the Bills were getting eliminated from the
playoffs last year. Stefan Diggs also put up a very
cryptic post on social media tonight as well. See you
know something is happening. If it was all sunshine, lollipops
(23:31):
and rainbows and yeah, it's something that's going on, because
it's the middle of June, it wouldn't be taken with this,
it would It would be Sean McDermott wouldn't come at
it from the angle of everybody's here, Steph As I'm
not talking about it. WHOA Suddenly you knew right away
it was a major thing. This was not all right.
It's June and he's mad about his contract or he's
mad about something. We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna
(23:53):
move on. No right away. He wanted you to know, Okay,
this is a combative situation. It's not about his health,
it's not about anything else. He just sign a new contract.
But you know he's got now in team portion friendly
part of his contract. Does he want more money? Does
he want what does he want? Suddenly right before mini
camp he decides, I'm gonna not show up. Usually it's
about money. It's really hard for just signed a four year,
(24:16):
one hundred million dollar contract. But this is Tofon Diggs
and this is kind of them for the guy. Throughout
his career, there has been times where hey, look as
great a receiver as he is. Boy, what's he upset about?
And he's got to be playcated for certain things. But
this is a major thing, man, because this is not
something that's gonna get solved tomorrow. And I'm sorry, this
is not something that even if it's solved tomorrow, you
(24:37):
can say, Okay, it's it's going away now because the
bills aren't going to suddenly give him a new deal
or give him whatever he wants. I don't know what
he wants. It's going to linger, and it may be
one of those where I'm here for this year and
then we see what happens after this year. And is
anybody who was punching a time clock gonna go out
of their way to go crazy and have their best season?
(25:00):
Doesn't really happen. You have the Bills dealing with drama
on the first day of mini camp, and not only
did you have your head coach giving weight to it
by saying, yes, it's concerning, I'm concerned about this. You
had your quarterback weigh in with a cryptic comment on it,
and now you had the player himself weigh in again
on social media after Yeah, this is a big thing, man,
(25:20):
I know that it's a oh, it's a middle of No,
this is a pretty big thing. And this is the
buffalo that's got to figure out the guy that makes
them go. Because you want to look at what Josh
Allen stats are like without Stefan Diggs. Oh it ain't
pretty man. You're not on the you're not on the
cover of MAT And without Stefan.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Diggs, Yeah, I mean it is a difficult thing to
kind of parse through, right Rapiport and others immediately recording. Hey,
it's not contractual, so that's fine, and so we pushed
that aside. Whatever's real imagine because I gotta imagine that.
For Diggs, there's still a looking at the marketplace, look
at what you mean to the squad, all of those
things that maybe maybe that might not be the majority
(25:57):
of this, but it's I don't think gets out of sight,
out of mind. Hey I've got a contract, let's just
go play. No, no, no, always looking for better in
terms of if it gets allaid a little bit, Yeah,
I mean, you can work in uneasy partnership. You don't
have to be best friends because you'll get to the
(26:18):
end of the season. You want to show out because
your next contract depends on it. So I wouldn't worry
about that terribly much. Digs on his Instagram story, if
them lies help you sleep better, tell him big dog,
my phone been silent for like six years. I don't
play all those sounds in blank, all right, So just
(26:40):
telling you what he's working with there with Alan that
it's working on things non football related. So is it
just communication? Is it body like, are there just nonverbal
things that just mounted up play calling that you know,
miscommunication that way. It could be anything. We're just speculating
(27:02):
all around. But the one thing we know is in
the marketplace, there's not another guy that can come in
and be Stefan Diggs. Right, You've got other players that
were and could be still available, and I've seen immediately
it's like, well, DeAndre Hopkins would solve It's like, no,
DeAndre Hopkins is a nice number three guy and maybe
helped shore up what you thought you had and Gabe
(27:24):
Davis to where you can get him back to peak
form and have some depth with your wide receiving core.
But saying at any level that he replaces Stefan Diggs,
and I like DeAndre Hopkins gamed a lot, but he's
bringing a lot to the table that you don't know
right whether he's gonna be disgruntled in the next stop
(27:45):
or whether that was purely an Arizona thing. So you've
got a lot of questions and suddenly you're what seemed
like another run to the top of the AFC. Sorry,
Smith is a bitten down out. Now you've got to
figure out how to how to get personalities aligned or
(28:05):
or get to some amicable resolution that you can at
least coexist.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think the odds of the Jets winning the AFSE
is just what wait, I think they're even money now
after today.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I don't know even money. There certainly might have been
a boost.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Heah yeah, buddy, look out, look out here coming yet.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
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Speaker 1 (28:51):
It looks like a playoff game. Got a move out
of the commerceutro. What is that? Whoa whoa, whoa whoa.
It's you got ten more minutes.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I didn't know where you were an educational program.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's it's.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But worldes.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Wh yes, very very worldly. We crowded champion tonight National
Hockey League. We watched the Vegas Golden Knights. In just
their fifth year of existence, because it makes me wonder
what tell the Mets have been doing for the past
like thirty years. In their fifth year of existence, winning
the Stanley Cup Final four games to one. They blow
out the Florida Panthers nine to three. The Panthers pulled
(29:30):
their goalie with six minutes left to go down four
didn't matter. And you know, we've had a lot of
fun with with with the Golden Knights and just sitting
here very frustrating for a lot of teams going. My
team's been around since like nineteen forty and we still
can't win anything in here. The Knights in five years
they become not just a team that wins the Stanley Cup,
(29:50):
but they were a team that right away was good
because they aced the dispersal draft and they were able
to build what they needed to build. They made all
the right moves. They won a Division TI a couple
of years in, they made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
They won the Stanley Cup Final. If you did, and
you know it's a very popular thing to do, but
just to just to to show you what they've done,
(30:10):
if you did a mount rushmore right now of the
best run franchises in all of sports right right now.
What franchises are just run the best every year, no
matter what happens change, these teams succeed and they do
it the right way and they win. The four teams
on Mount Rushmore are the Dodgers, the Golden State Warriors,
(30:34):
the Metnots.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You can't help yourself sometimes, the.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Chiefs, and the Golden Knights. Those are your four Mount
Rushmore teams that are just run better than everybody else.
The Golden Knights, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Los Angeles Dodgers,
and the New York I can't help my te do
it again, and the Golden State Warriors. Those are your fourteens.
You have the Warriors. They're die is kind of ending now,
(31:01):
but hey, for ten years the Warrior forget about the heat,
the heat culture, the Warrior way. They've proved to do
it at a higher level than everybody else. This is
levels of excellence that result in championships and division championships
and staying relevant and turning over players and talent and
still being able to be at the top of your division,
the top of your league. Though it just so happens
(31:22):
there's one in every league. There We did one for hockey,
one for baseball, one football, one basketball, But those really
are the four best run franchises in all the sports.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, I mean, obviously you back it out a way
as you start grabbing the Patriots, you start grabbing the
Braves or the Cardinals, And we can do a lot
with allegations and things that we've learned. The Astros would
probably be fighting to get their logo up there on
this Mount Rushmore. But again, some issues that you have
(31:54):
to contend with with the Warriors. It's now curious to
see what the post Bob Myers era become and what
that team looks like when they take the court again
in the fall. But it's pretty hard to argue with
the legacies that have been built in Kansas City right
now takes the Reins as the top spot with what
(32:15):
they've done in the interchangeable parts as receivers and running
backs alongside Mahomes and Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
You know, the thing is is that it's so it's
so easy to run into disrepair. And that's like it's
because just it's just the natural flow of things. Hey,
a team can be good for three or four or
five years, but then something happens right, and oh man,
all we go like the Rams. Look, the Rams were
good for so long, but now, hey, what can we do?
(32:44):
We're not playing very well and you know, we have
to pay the piper. We haven't a draft picks. It's
just a natural.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That wasn't even a long window though. I mean that's
a couple of years. Yeah, it was kind of a
flash point and go through.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was five years and two super Bowls, right, So
I mean that that's pretty good. So to see the
team run this way, especially the gold Knights who came
from nothing. They had no players five years ago. Yeah,
that's some kind of achievement to be able to roll
through this when you get into five, seven, ten years.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Actually, I really just want to ram it there.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You always want to ram it. Yeah, today I didn't
really Really, that's surprise. You always do all day ten o'clock,
you always do. Hey, coming up next, how about a
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