June 21, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike discuss a recent NBA trade that saw the Thunder send Josh Giddey to the Bulls for Alex Caruso. The guys react to Kelly Stafford (wife of Matthew Stafford) telling a story on a recent podcast about how she once dated Matthew's backup in college to make him jealous.
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coming up in a second, but of course, look two
big NBA headlines. We got the trade, and we have
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JJ Reddick becoming head coach of the Lakers. Finally, after
we thought he was getting the job, then he wasn't
getting the job, then he was getting the job, and
then maybe Money William is gonna get the job. But
now this morning, Rob Polinka called and hire JJ Reddick
or agreed to hire JJ Reddick, likely getting a four
year deal to coach the Lakers. And when I say
the Lakers are gonna be the same, right, like, JJ
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Reddick's not gonna be great, He's not gonna be horrible.
I'm sure he will be fine. I hope that he
doesn't lose the team Darvin Ham lost the team. JJ
Redick is gonna find out what it's like to be
a head coach coaching Lebron and the Lakers. Right, It's
not the easiest thing to come in to do so,
but I he has the acumen, he has the cachet,
he knows Lebron. Look, he and Lebron obviously have some
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kind of good relationship, But I worry about the buy
in for Lebron and ad are they gonna just do
their own thing? Because look, you know, Lebron's gonna love
the fact that he thinks he can coach the Lakers himself. Hey,
if JJ's the coach kind of means like I'm the coach.
So when JJ says to do something, just check with
me before the timeout ends, and I'll tell you if
we're gonna do that or we're gonna do something else.
But the main thing thing is that, Okay, it's great
(02:02):
that the Lakers have JJ Reddick, but this doesn't solve
the problem that the Lakers roster is not good enough. Right,
It's not good enough. It needs to get better. It
needs to be a little bit better. You need better
players on the wing. You're still suffering from the Russell
Westbrook decision, which, oh, by the way, Lebron and ad
put over the top two years ago. You are still
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suffering from that decision. Why the Lakers aren't where they are.
So while it's great that Reddick, hey, it comes in,
it's a fresh start, and and you know players had
turned the page on Darvinham. That's great, but they're not
good enough. That the team is not good enough, and
you went out in the first round of a team
that is you're not matched up well. Again, So okay,
I understand that, But at the same time, it's okay,
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how is Reddick gonna solve that? Reddick's not a pied
piper where suddenly, hey, Reddick gets the gig. It means
the Bulls are gonna hand over Zach Lavine or or
you know player X here that they want to go get.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, they probably will.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're ready to get rid of anybody.
But I just I just don't see how that problem
gets solved because it's still too many needles to thread,
to try to bring in different players where they are
salary cap wise, money wise, what Lebron's going to want.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's the big issue.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So yeah, JJ Reddick coming in, All right, I get it,
But it doesn't It's not like, hey, we have a
roster that's locked and loaded and ready to go.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
We just need the right head coach to unlock it. No,
that's not the case.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No, that's the bigger, bigger thing that we wait for.
Rob Polinka, why, I asked Dan Woiki the question. Did
he joined us earlier? Grabbed the podcast? It'll be up
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We'll love you forever, and then evangelize to your friends
and family. But the idea being that you know, you're
trying to figure out how to navigate whatever the relationship
(03:44):
is with Lebron. Right, however, they've obviously known each other
a long time, how well they know each other up
for debate, But either way enough to you know, meld
Mines on a podcast go through all sorts of sequences,
plays and direction and whatever to where clearly they're not
making a move without Lebron being comfortable. Right, So whatever
(04:07):
level that is, you at least have the buy in
off the jumpa Anthony Davis, our guy Mark Stein that
joins us. You know, I had suggested that perhaps Davis
would have preferred James Barrego, so to that end, you know,
And how much pettiness is there because Redick didn't have
ad on his all defensive team. You know if any
of that remains, oh not all defensive, am I. But
(04:30):
but while getting defensive about it, see, how isn't that funny?
But it's just that idea of for Palinka, how do
you build the rest of this roster? You know how
many teams go out of their way to say, hey,
let's make the Lakers better by giving them a sweetheart deal. No,
that's not there. And what are the discernible assets that
you have? For the first time, you actually have draft picks,
(04:50):
So I guess you got that going for you, right,
You got a number seventeen and he got the second
round stuff, So potentially you know that's something and may
be maybe you don't love Austin Reeves like the like
fans have done the last couple of years. I don't know.
But beyond that, you have to wish and want and
hope that guys stay healthy that weren't this year, while
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also hoping that a D and Lebron can give you
seventy games plus. Again, it's a lot of wish and
wanting and hoping that things go right in an awfully
crowded Western Conference. So unfortunately for JJ Raddick, he's beholden
not only to the grandiose expectations everybody has that the
Lakers will be back, but also you know that he's
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hamstrung in terms of what's going to be on the
court for him.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean, right now, it looks like it's gonna
be they'll be the same as they were last year.
I mean that this kind of looks like where it's
gonna be. But you never know, rabit out of a
hat could happen. But right now, yeah, okay, great for Jada,
but a team looks like it's going to be.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
The same, Well, Lebron's gonna opt out, and then it
becomes a question, right no, no, no, not necessarily whether he leaves,
but in terms of you know, he is he commanding
the max that he can get. We all seem to
believe that that's the case. Can you somehow convince him
to leave some on the table to bring in help
if you want to make one more last charge towards
(06:16):
June basketball? I mean that remains to be seen. The
answer is not likely, but we'll see. Now.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Speaking of trades that are made to win.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Championships, big trade in the NBA today Alex Caruso, Yes,
who trends every single night, whether it plays or not,
is dealt from the Bulls to the Oklahoma City Thunder
for Josh Giddy. And there's a lot to break down
with this trade because it's done for a couple of reasons.
And I love the trade for both sides for different reasons.
(06:48):
All right, Like last night, Mike and I told you
who our picks are right now for the NBA Finals
next year, and I gave you the Knicks, of course,
the Nick going New York sixteen to one. But I
gave you the Thunder for the same reason as the Nick.
Because the under have a lot of money to spend.
They have contracts, they can move, and they have draft
picks right the Thunder. The Thunder have eighty six first
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round picks in the next four years.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I think they're multiplying like rabbits at this point.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So that's what you look at.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Hey, I see how these teams that are already big
time contenders have the path to getting better and already
you saw the Thunder make a move for a guy
that you know they had written down. Like, I'm not
gonna be surprised. The Thunder came into the offseason and said, Okay,
this is what we need. Right, they probably need another
big but what do we need. We need another great defender,
(07:36):
We need a two way guard. And I guarantee you
there were three names on the board, these three guys
we want to get no matter what. And I guarantee
you Alex Caruso's name was on that board and they
were gonna do everything they can to go get him
because he's a missing piece. So let's go get him.
He scores ten to twelve a game, he'll hit threes,
four us, he plays great defense, He'll give a lot
of minutes. You saw what a guy like he and
(07:58):
TJ McConnell can mean, off the bench for a team,
that's a guy we gotta go get. And they went
out and got him. And it was an awesome move
for them because this is a move that could potentially
put the Thunder in the finals. Another guy that can
three and D. Another guy that can do that. Man,
you watch what defense can do in the NBA. Now,
why the Celtics won the title, why the t Wolves
were able to knock out the Nuggets, Why the Knicks
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get as far as they do. I mean, this is
a huge, huge deal. This is one of those trades
that could put the Thunder in the finals. And I
get why they traded Josh Giddy even though he's a
twenty one year old kid with a lot of potential. Right,
not as great a hear this year as last year.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, but there's.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
A one ahead.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
There's two reasons why they were okay with this deal.
Is that one, Yes, he did have the reports of
the inappropriate relationship with a minor that played out through
the season, so you wonder, hey, is he a guy
who want to commit to long term? Is it best
to ship him out and move him someplace else? So
I'm sure that was part of it. But the other
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part of it was as good a player as he
might be, and you see some of his highlights, you
see the way he sees the court.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Not as great a year this year as last year,
because what happened is as the season went on, the
same thing that happened to him happened in New York
when when the Knicks made the big trade for Oganonoby, right,
they traded RJ. Barrett and Emmanuel Quickly, who was one
of the best six men in the NBA, great point
guard score first off the bench, he was fantastic, but
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he became somewhat expendable because of the rise of Jalen Brunson,
who turned into one of the top ten players in
the game. Right, he's gonna get forty minutes a night
as a point guard, right an, if you're Knockwood, no injuries,
everything's fine, He's gonna get forty minutes to night. So
there's not a lot of minutes for Emmanuel Quickly. So
it's not that he's not talented, it's just he doesn't
fit because we have an absolute superstar that's gonna be
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our point guard now. So they put him in the
trade and they got Ogianno Noby and the Knicks were
off to the races. Same thing for the Thunder. Hey,
Shi Gilders, Alexander, you're talking about MVP finalists, man, and
as time went on, you saw Giddy had to come
off the bench. He got a lot less minutes. I mean,
this is s driven like this is their superstar. How
many minutes are there really going to be for him
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and his development? So while you're trading a twenty one
year old kid who has a ton of potential and
you get back a thirty year old role player who's
due for big money that you want to spend, it
seems a little lopsided in this trade.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
If I'm the Bulls, I'm excited I got a young
player that shows a lot of promise because you have
to start over. And if I'm the Thunder, I'm excited
because I didn't let this trade pass me by. Maybe
I could have squeaked out a first round pick if
I needed to, but maybe that would have thrown the
deal up and have it and we couldn't do it.
We got the guy we wanted and we didn't give
up a lot off our on court product. So for
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both teams. I like this deal on both sides, but
I like it more for the Thunder because they got
a guy that could put them in the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, the Bulls are a bunch of dopes. Call it
what it is. Look and Gid he's a young guy. Obviously,
twenty one does some He's a good passer, five assists
a game. Shooting percentage is abysmal, so obviously a lot
of work to be done there. And I get it.
Cruso's not leading you to a title and the Bulls
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are not contenders anytime soon. I'm resigned to that as
a guy watching the NBA and as a guy from Chicago,
that was not going to happen living like with the
eighty five Bears. At least there was another run where
Prince played at halftime in a Super Bowl game and
they actually led for a minute with Devin Hester. But
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the fact of the matter is is still living off
a title from eighty five, and for the Bulls, we
go all the way back to nineteen ninety eight minus
a little hiccup with Derrick Rose as your MVP and
a little bit of a run there. Otherwise it's abysmal.
And this is another trade where to your point about
the number of first round picks that okay, see has
(11:53):
I gotta imagine if you turn down all these other
proposed trades that had been been out there, how many
are real versus embellished whatever. We'll try to figure out,
you know, how to carve that out. But allegedly there
were multiple deals on the table at different points where
it's like you can go and grab multiple first round
picks and maybe a veteran player for Alex Caruso, highly
(12:17):
coveted glue kind of guy, career high, you know, ten
plus points averaging US one point seven steals virtually every
year twice, you know, back to back seasons. He's been
a guy in their system in Chicago that was an
all defensive first or second team player. I mean, he's
a guy that you know, is one of those contributors
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like we just watched with the Celtics of yeah, if
you can expand your roster in depth, this is a
guy that's gonna come in and give you some hard
nosed minutes and you know what you're getting, and he's
what's he gonna cost you. They're saying four years, eighty
million dollars. That's nothing for a guy that'll be your
first or first off the bench, or you know, give
you some starts as you need to. So, you know,
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for the bulls, the fact that they weren't able to
at least get one of those first round picks. You know, hey,
three years from now, because you guys are gonna win
the West a couple of times, you're gonna have one
of the best records. How about you give us one
of those. It'll be like a thirtieth pick, just if
nothing else, so you don't look like a bunch of
dopes that got fleeced and gave away your only discernible
tradable asset. That isn't you know, a much more complicated deal. Yeah,
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you should have gotten something more from OKAC.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah you could.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You could have gotten something more from them. But at
the same time, it's well, you know what I can
see where a team says, all right, maybe there were
other teams interested and they needed to be able to
pull a trigger and if ok is it, well, now,
if you're asking us to include for a first round pick.
You know the seventy six ers called us about Caruso. Yeah,
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there could have been some kind of bidding more under
the radar and and I kind of dig it whe
where they go. You know what, We're just gonna make
this trade. We're just gonna make this trade. And and
because we have the guy we want, they get the
guy they want.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And this is how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You know, I kinda and I have some respect for
that where you know what, if we wind up asking
for more, this just winds up screwing up the deal.
Because that happens. It happens in fantasy, it happens in
regular sports. Well, I thought we had a deal, but
now you asked for a first round picking. Now you
want this, I'm gonna ask for this. I'm gonna ask
for this, So I kind of respect it. Okay, this
is the way it is. And in the end, look,
could it turn out to be lopsided at some point.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It could be.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But you know, hey, if the Thunder go to the
NBA Finals next year, like, it's all good for them, right,
And if Giddy becomes the next great point guard for
the for the Chicago it's all good for that.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It works for everybody.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It'll be short, shorter term for the Thunder, longer term
for the Bulls, but it could work for both teams.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the big decision going forward
is I mean, Giddy's gonna be up for a new deal.
Have you seen enough to make you believe that he's
the guy that will be the guy you invest in?
And again, he is only twenty one years old, So
I'm not I don't mean to dismiss him. It's just
more you have the coveted asset in this part, not
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that Giddy doesn't have his values, but someone will have
the Giddy for Giddy kind of thing out there.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But you gotta pay Caruso. You gotta pay him at something.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But you're gonna have to pay this guy really fast too.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, but you're gonna pay.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But Caruso is an eighty million dollar pay Like that's
a lot of money, like you're looking at for you
look at.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I'm not saying you don't trade him, Jason. I'm just
saying in terms in terms of I'm looking at the
returns if I'm the bulls and I have a guy
who everybody sees as this great gluey. Right. When we
talked to Dan Woiki, he talked about how the the
Lakers were doing their best to try to reacquire Caruso
at the deadline and prior you know, to the last season.
(15:43):
So all of that in, you know, in in our
knowledge base of you walk away with Josh Giddy, who
you know, the a team that's about to compete says, yeah,
we don't need this guy. I'm not seems like you
could have gotten a piece, you know, at least one
of those lottery tickets along with it. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I'm not saying I'm not saying to want you on
the team. I'm just saying I wanted to get more.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, no, like if you'd come to that crossroads. And
again we agree. You know, Cruso's not a guy you're
building around to win a title, and the Bulls are
nowhere near a title. In fact, they have a sign
that someone's holding up, you know, like Sally Field right
when when she's standing on top of the lunch table
and it says we're having a fire sale. I mean
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that's kind of what the Bulls have done. So you
knew these guys were up. Zach Levine, I mean they're
saying half the league might come for him. DeMar Durozan's
a free agent. You think after he was dancing with
everybody and hanging out to Kendrick Lamar show last night.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
He's not going back.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
He's coming back to Chicago. He's born to Toronto. No,
definitely not Toronto, right, he ain't going to Toronto and
he ain't coming back to Chicago. So he's gone on
Drake's and the Border going. No, his plane does not land.
Did you turn it right around wherever he came from?
It doesn't land.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Kobe White to try to really mark where they're at
with the bulls, is running around like he's Edward Nigma.
He's got a question Mark green suit on, including the Derby.
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Now, I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Kelly Stafford talking about the guy she was dating before
Matthew Stafford will be on our bingo card tonight. But Hey,
sometimes when the bingo card calls I nineteen, that's what
she said, you have to answer. Kelly Stafford, who has
done a lot of interviews as podcasts, you know, she's
made her fair share of headlines over the past few years,
(18:58):
did a podcast today in which she talked about the
beginnings of her relationship with Stafford. They've been together since,
you know, for a long time now, well over a decade.
They have four kids, have been married for almost ten years.
And she talked about the beginnings of their relationship and
how before she dated Matthew Staff well or before they
got serious, they were kind of casual. They were kind
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of casual dating. She decided to upset him and date
the backup quarterback while he was at Georgia.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Take a listen, Wait, so was he trying to casually date?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
And you were all, yeah, girl.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Anyways, long story short, it wasn't that cute of a relationship.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
At first.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I hated him, I loved him. I dated the backup
to piss him off.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Which yes, he was like, that'll do it.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
He was a bad boy too, like Matthew's so sweet
and southern gentleman and all stuff, and the backup was
the complete opposite. Yeah yeah, ooh, And it upset him.
So they lived in the same dorm because athletes lived
in the same dorm, and he would see my car
there and so at one point he like waited and
fought and followed me out and got in my car
and wouldn't get out up and he was.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Lia, this is so hot, like this is yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I was get out of my car and he's like,
I don't He's not right for you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And I was like, who, you can't tell me that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So, first of all, this was on the Off the
Vine podcast. This is her talking about the plan she
hatched to get to date Matthew Stafford because he wanted
to casually date her.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
The first line, yeah he was trying to casually date.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I like how she wouldn't even say whoever, It was
just he's the backup, the backup.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So, I mean, super slutes seem to have centered on
Joe Cox.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, like do you think she just said, okay, you
don't want to be serious, let me go down the
roster here, who's the back of the Hey, by any chance, Matthew,
I just for just for grins and giggles, do you
have a list of the depth charted quarterback?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I just want to say as well, like who would
come in after you?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And again, oh great, oh here's the okay, this is
I'm gonna go date this guy. Wouldn't even say, is
that I dated the backup? Maybe she called him the backup?
Well they were dating, Hey, backup, it's me Kelly want
to get together, all right, call me bye?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Back up? She was in he was in her phone
as backup.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Well, I mean, I'm sure she's not alone in that
as people nervously look into their call lists, or maybe
you're just nodding along going all right, all right, all right,
I mean maybe that's the case, either that or spare.
I mean, I don't know whatever the term would be. Now,
first thing, backup?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, wait now, now there were Stetson Bennett and Matthew Stack.
I think they were a college together. Actually no, I
think they're the same.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Why are you doing that stat they're the same age,
had a year. He doesn't need this on top of that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Come on now, so she calls him the backup, right, god,
the back of the end of the backup, and.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
This doesn't either backup there now the backup?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah them, come on. I did the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Backup, so I dated the back of the backup. But
just the fact that you saw this plan she had
to get Matthew Stafford to want to date her exclusively.
That was okay to piss him off. I started digging
the backup quarterback, and I made sure he saw my
car was parked outside the athletes. We saw I was there,
he knew I was spending the night with somebody else.
(22:03):
And then when he got to my car one night
and said, why aren't you doing this? What you shouldn't
be hanging out with him? And I'm like it's working,
Like this is such an above the rim thing for me,
because like I was, I could never have been involved
in that kind of drama in college and never I'm
just not. I'm just not a drama guy. I just
never have been. And unfortunately I was a magnet for
(22:25):
for women who like to have drama, but.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You were gonna save them, but I was.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now the drama was more like, hey, let me see
if I can date a couple of guys while dating.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Jason and see if he knows this.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Uh well.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, exactly, yes he has no.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I was saying, look that we could I talk about
my dating history a lot. This is about Matthew Stafford
and Kelly Stafford, Like this is such an above the
rim game that I'm I just would never have been.
Just I can't imagine just being so conniving and and
and and plot, you know, uh, throwing out there that
I'm gonna do this, this and this and this is
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what's gonna get him to notice me, And this is
what's gonna get us to start dating. Because I'm from
the if you like each other, you date right. And
if you like each other a lot and you're exclusive,
it's not does it have to be? Well, you want
to be casual. So I'm gonna date the backup quarterback
to push this forward because you're the starting quarterback and
he's the backup and now you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Want to date me seriously. And this is where we
got me.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Look, obviously it worked out for them, been married for
over a decade, they have four kids.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now, yeah, it's it's been It's been great.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
But it comes it comes to the old adage that
we've had on the show forever. You can't fault in goods.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But I see, but I see this, and I go
I could have never been part I could have never
been part of it. I could have never done something
like this, like, oh, I want to seriously date this girl,
So what do I do. I'm gonna date her best
friend or her backup on the basketball team or whatever
it is. And then I'm gonna make sure she sees
my car parked outside of her dorm when I'm there.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I just I just I just can't fathom that that
is I mean, dating wise, that's such an above the
rim game. Like I hear this and I go, I
am I a boy, I am, I am really vanilla man,
I am, I am really just Hey, we like each other,
let's date. We like each other a lot, let's date seriously.
If not, we break up. Like that was kind of
my thing. That is not this thing, man. That's say
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you had had a good run. I had a streak
of where I'd hear through the grapevine about whatever was like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Okay, that's enough for me. I don't know, I don't
have time for this craft. And some of the stories
I would hear later on of yeah, you can just salute.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Someone, good luck with that. Someone gonna tell harmon. I'll
tell them we're having lunch today. All right, great, I'll
tell them what's going on?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh no, no, really, never was the sit down like that,
and be you'd be playing pickup basketball. It's like, oh, yeah,
you know that girl. You you're gonna go, oh yeah,
you probably don't want to let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Why let me tell you. Let me tell you a story.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Let me give you a couple of stories, let me
tell you, And that's saying well because I lived in
it in the dorm my first few years at Northwestern,
which was predominantly athletes, So you know it's sid you
heard rumlinks. Let's see, I would probably end up being
back up.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You can. You can.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You can either date the guy who's gonna be the
starting outside linebacker the football team, or the guy that
works in the medical office, the personnel.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The guy in the office that's that's helping keep them
on the field and shagging them to class. Come on, boys,
let's go Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You use that's that that's an unfortunate adjective. You just
use it. I know exactly, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Uh, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But the other part of it is this is that, Okay,
I I get that. Look, Kelly Stafford is her own
person has her own personality, that does her own thing.
But I hear the story and I go, is this
something that that should just be better kept between the
two of you. I mean, because all of a sudden,
you know what's gonna happen. Matthew Stafford's going to show
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up to the first day of training camp and there's
gonna be glossy pictures of every backup quarterback in Georgia
the past fifteen years, taped up to his.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Locker and they're gonna draw anatomy stuff on.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
There and everything, and they're gonna they're gonna draw thought
balloons about Kelly.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean, this is this is what's gonna be out there?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Is this a story that you really, hey, this is
gonna be okay that I tell this story like, this
is a story that's gonna get Kelly Stafford clicks and
get noticed. This is a story that from Matthew Stafford's
gonna be dude, this is really what happened.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
This, this is how it went.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
This is is that it made it sound like she
hatched this whole plot to land you and look at
where you're at right now, Like, I don't know that
this is something that Matthew Stafford would have wanted out there.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I know this is something I wouldn't want out there.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That's what I found out, Like all of a sudden,
after all these years, I find out, or my wife
says publicly, yeah, here's my plan. Here's how I won
Matthew Stafford. Oh okay, great, Yeah, I don't know if
i'd want that out. I don't know if I want
to go on social media and see pictures of the
backup quarterback that people think my wife was having sex
with while I was dating her casually.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I don't know that I want.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I want to see that on social media.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
You were just a pawn in her wicked game as
the strains of Chris Isaac start playing in the background
as you lament your fate and history.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, this is not good for Matt.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Matt Stafford, like, I gotta think he's the first thing
was really really I mean, she was having fun, she
got clicks and noticed and whatever. But for him, I mean,
what was this the how to guide and make him jealous?
Go to the backup, Go to the guy who's the
number two accountant in the office. I mean, what are
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we doing here?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And the kids?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Hey, that's how my great origin storing him out?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The children thinking about that, Hey, how did you and
dad beat?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well, so we were didating and he wanted to keep
it casual, and that kind of really pissed me off.
Mom language Yeah, no, I thought that's nothing compared to
what's coming up. So his backup quarterback, I just call
him the backup. We started dating, and I made sure
he knew that I was dating, and I was staying
overnight and I was there all the time, and we
were having sex mom sex talk. Yeh at ah, it
gets worse, trust me. So I wanted to make sure
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he knew that I was there. And then your father
very romantically got in my car and told me I
needed to break up with that other guy. And we've
been together ever since. Oh okay, not quite, uh, Jack
and Rose from the Titanic. But okay, all right, okay,
I I kind of got that.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Short look is going to be clean?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, And that's the thing, like, look, but is that
a story that that you're that should be out there.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
That you needed to tell you?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Do you really need to tell that story?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Like?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Because at the end, I get that for Kelly Stafford,
like I said, she got clicks right. She she likes
she likes uh being her own personal she likes having
her own identity and and I get that.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
But I see this story and I go ooh, is
this really good?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Is really good for that? But she got her cake
and she ate it too.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Really, I have a tough time with that story.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I have a tough time.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So now everybody knows. So every time I look at somebody,
somebody goes say, I know what happened?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
He let me, what'sn't this guy your backup Georgia? You
go back for the reunion?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Dude, Wait a minute, Ram's Halloween party. Everybody's dressed up
as a backup quarterback from Georgia. Of course that's gonna happen.
Come on, man, it's the worst. Everybody's dressed up. Cooper
Cup is dressed up as a.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Backup quarter So what you're saying is fade the Rams
or do what this inspire him to the greatest performance
that he's ever had, is that it good? Hey, Matthew's
gonna do one more big year. So I figured i'd
really fuel the fire and get him fired up about Camp.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I mean, I don't know about this one. Uh the
Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon Live from the tirec dot Com.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Bold Strategy Cotton Now to a man.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Who met his wife the same way, made sure she
knew that his car was parked in front.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Of her house.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
I don't like where this is going.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So he could then steal her car whenever he wanted to,
and he did. It's Steve to say you're with what's trending.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
I'm just enjoying strawberries and pancakes here. Nothing going on,
Nothing to see here, Patriot.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
You really the ring doorbell of be with no shirt on,
like Belichick. That's nothing. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's not It's just you know, I was I was
fixing under the sink and I got hots. I walked
outside and it's some air.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, let's start with the NFL.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I just keep thinking of that scene from Leatherheads where
where Clooney was a Clooney in Reneteszelwegger, the.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Old football movie.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah yeah, and and she was dating John Krasinski and
he walked in on the two of them and like
Clooney's got makeup on his face and lipstick smeared, like
they were just kissing, like no, nothing.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Was going on.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
He's oh, okay, all right, fine, that's cool. Nothing to
see here, people. It's like the Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Please return to your homes and houses of worship. The
New England Patriots gave running back Ramandre Stevenson a four
year extension. Denver hired former Stanford coach David Shaw as
a senior personnel executive rookie start reporting to training camp
in about a month. The game in Major League Baseball
tonight was on Fox TV from Birmingham, Alabama and Saint
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Louis Edge, San Francisco, six to five at historic Rickwood Field,
the oldest ballpark in the US. It opened in nineteen ten.
A teenage Willie Mays played center field in Birmingham there
for the Black Bearons in nineteen forty eight as they
played in the final Negro League World Series. Yes, it
got an upgrade before the game tonight. The entire playing
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surface in Birmingham was given a five million dollar makeover,
new and padded outfield wall. The wall was back ten
feet for this week. They shifted the entire field to
the left by five feet, new dugouts, modern batters, eye,
and center field digital scoreboard. They put up the netting
along the foul lines. It was a great, great night,
(31:46):
and the Fox TV broadcast of it all is getting
superb reviews. Tonight and Tonight's game was the first in
a three game series between the teams, but after an
off day forum on Friday, the final two of the
series will be in Saint Louis for the Cardinals. Tonight
Brendan Donovan, who's from Alabama, had three hits, three RBIs, including.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
A home run.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
The late game in San Diego went to the Padres
seven to six over Milwaukee. The Brewers had scored two
in the top of the ninth to tie. Padres won
it on this in the bottom of the ninth at
eight for the.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Third consecutive game here at Petco Park, the Padres in
a walk off home run. He got Sioca and Merrill
and now Jake Cronenworth through pros his helmet as he
approached his home plate.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
The Padres beat the Brewers seven to six.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Padres Radio Fernando Tatist Junior had four hits Baltimore seventeen
to five winners at the Yankees Today, Anthony sen tender
a three run homer. Oz If homered in nineteen straight games.
Aaron Judge hit his twenty seventh for the Yanks. Dodgers
five to three winners at Colorado, Tampa Bay and Tenantings
won at Minnesota seven to six. In the WNBA, Chicago
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beat Dallas today eighty three seventy two, Angel ree sixteen points,
eighteen rebounds. New York at home now thirteen and three.
This year beat La ninety three eighty Sabrina yet Escu
with thirty one points. The Lakers new head coach is
due to be jj Reddick with a reported four year contract.
The Bulls are due to trade guard Alex Caruso to
Oklahoma City for Josh Giddy. Trades cannot be announced until
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July sixth. Sacramento will re sign Malik Monk. Boxer Ryan
Garcia was suspended for a year after positive tests for
a ped Tom Kim leads the Travelers by two strokes
after a first round sixty two in Connecticut. At the
Euro Soccer Tournament. Spain dominated Italy. Nothing was the final
outshot him twenty to four. Denmark tied England one to one.
(33:39):
Serbia tide. Slovenia won one with a goal in the
final seconds. Tomorrow on Fox TV France against Netherlands three
pm Eastern Time, and the Copa America tournament started tonight
on FS one Argentina two to nothing over Canada in
front of a sold out crowd in Atlanta. The Americans
opener in this tourney is Sunday against Bolivia on Fox TV.
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Mexico will play Saturday nights on FS one against Jamaica
back to you.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Thanks a bunch, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You know what, I just got a tweet from h
Dupe that said, Hey, dude, this whole Kelly Stafford thing
is is a darcy from Varsity Blues and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Kelly Larder was Dayton Paul Walker in the Max and
she had the whipped cream bikmi and all, okay, maybe
she was just maybe that's where she got the idea. Hey,
it almost worked in Varsity Blues. Maybe it's gonna work here.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I don't want your life, how about that? Hey, should
we take the show on the road to Texas? No? No,
no that we we can go see Varsity Blues with
the cast, like with Vanderbeek and all those guys.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah no, And then we'll go to a Rams game
because they'll they'll they'll win a game with a five
receiver offense like they did at the end of Varsity.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Blues, and Scott conn will be there to laugh.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Exit out about of Fresca, Exit swollen down.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
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two big NFL stories from today. They're gonna affect how
we watch the game and how your team builds their team.
The first one is that we could be seeing an
(36:15):
eighteen game season in the NFL sooner rather than later.
Sports Illustrated NFL insider Albert Pearce said, Hey, this is happening.
It's gonna happen soon, maybe as early as twenty twenty six,
eighteen game season. Look, Roger Goodell even said not too
long ago, we don't need three preseason games anymore. Sure,
this is just going to happen, right, The players will
(36:36):
wind up getting something in return. They're gonna cut the
preseason from three games to two because really nobody plays
in the preseason. They have so many joint practices. You
get to see what you get to evaluate a player
on the field. Yes, you'd like to see under the
lights and how things go in a game, but with
so many of these practices now that they have, with
joint practices and no starters play in the preseason. Look,
(36:58):
the NFL has come to terms with the fact that
football the beginning of the season is gonna be rough.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
But we're okay with that.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Nobody's gonna care, no one's gonna not watch because the
football is rough, gonna take a couple of weeks people
to get in. But eighteen games, extra regular season game
for teams, more gate, more revenue, more TV. This is
just gonna happen. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if
a year from now is when we get that's eighteenth game,
and not next year. But maybe next year we get
(37:23):
the announcement that in a year we'll have the eighteenth game.
So twenty twenty six, I'm thinking we get it.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Yeah, I mean in the end, what if you're the players,
it becomes the all right, are we getting expanded rosters?
What are the other protections? What's the other revenue? Like
all of those things that you start checking boxes of, Hey,
if you're going into negotiation, here's your ten point plan
or the fifty five things that you should be asking
for that get reduced to ten by the time it's
(37:49):
all said and done. But yeah, it's like the Fanto
snap Man. It's inevitable.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, at this point, the fact that we're not talking
about it this much for this to not happen, right
like they're yeah, the whole smoke fire. I understand that
sometimes there's not always enough smoke, but this is something
that's been talked about for two or three years.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Now. This is gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
This is not suddenly gonna go. The NFL is not
something gonna say, oh yeah, I forget about eighteen Yeah,
we don't want that. Now we're onto something else. No,
they want eighteen games. They're gonna get eighteen games. The
players will get something. Hopefully they get more, and you know,
they get much more than they got last time they
had concessions.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
But it's gonna happen. We're gonna get that. We're gonna
see it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I mean, look outside chance it next year, sure I
could see it, but it may be more where where
the players want to really take time and understand what
do we really want and not make a rush decision
on it, and we'll do it for a year from now.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
But it's coming soon.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
No, that's it. I mean, just be smart about it.
And it's implementation. But look, there's just so much money
that's there. And I know that people have lamented the
preseason games and I'm paying for worthless whatever. It's like,
you know, it's it's the the entry price for your
season of greatness. You want to see how the sausage
(39:02):
is made or not, you know, give it away. Plenty
of charities happy to take those and let kids go.
But families who can't go, the family down the street
that doesn't get to go to a game. It's okay,
you can give those tickets away if it's that bad.
But now you move down to preseason games, then yeah,
it's one fewer game that you're you're paying for that
(39:23):
you're not getting your quote unquote value out of. But
the players do and everybody gets paid.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Meanwhile, the other story is and Tom Pellisero NFL Insider
reported earlier today and talked about it. I think it
was on the Rich Eisend Show where he said that, hey,
there's been some movement into a quarterback specific salary cap
because it's gotten so big and so out of control
that there could be some sort of agreement at some
point where maybe the quarterback salary cap can exceed a
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certain percentage of the salary cap total to keep quarterback
salaries in line because they've gotten out of control. And
I saw this and I said, I remember I had
this idea, like a couple of years ago, we talked
about this on the show Let Me Go back, So
I go on Twitter and I look.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Back twoenty seventeen. I saw I saw that.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I saw a minute, you know from Fox Sports Radio,
you know, how about a Fresco and Swollen Dome talk
about how there needs to be a quarterback a salary
cap soon because the salaries are getting too large for
them to figure out seven years ago, like you talk
about seeing the future, Hey, you should have been working
on this.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Seven had the idea seven years ago, told this is
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Now seven years later, they're looking at the fact that boy,
quarterback salaries are really getting out of control. Week every
team can't afford to pay their starting quarterback sixty million
dollars a year. We got to do something seven years ago.
We told you how to solve it. Seven years ago.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Yeah, I don't like it, but I don't like the
exclusion there. I don't think it solves anything because you're
still leaving everybody else behind. You're just saying, well, it's
a different pile of money over there.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
You know you talk about Hey, Tomorrow's takes the night
before on our show. This was today's take, seven year years.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Ago, mouths to lifespan and gestation of a Cicada.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down The Jason
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the Grimace Era in professional sports.
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coming up in a second, but of course, look two
big NBA headlines. We got the trade, and we have
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JJ Reddick becoming head coach of the Lakers. Finally, after
we thought he was getting the job, then he wasn't
getting the job, then he was getting the job, and
then maybe Money William is gonna get the job. But
now this morning, Rob Polinka called and hire JJ Reddick
or agreed to hire JJ Reddick, likely getting a four
year deal to coach the Lakers. And when I say
the Lakers are gonna be the same, right, like, JJ
(01:18):
Reddick's not gonna be great, He's not gonna be horrible.
I'm sure he will be fine. I hope that he
doesn't lose the team Darvin Ham lost the team. JJ
Redick is gonna find out what it's like to be
a head coach coaching Lebron and the Lakers. Right, It's
not the easiest thing to come in to do so,
but I he has the acumen, he has the cachet,
he knows Lebron. Look, he and Lebron obviously have some
(01:40):
kind of good relationship, But I worry about the buy
in for Lebron and ad are they gonna just do
their own thing? Because look, you know, Lebron's gonna love
the fact that he thinks he can coach the Lakers himself. Hey,
if JJ's the coach kind of means like I'm the coach.
So when JJ says to do something, just check with
me before the timeout ends, and I'll tell you if
we're gonna do that or we're gonna do something else.
But the main thing thing is that, Okay, it's great
(02:02):
that the Lakers have JJ Reddick, but this doesn't solve
the problem that the Lakers roster is not good enough. Right,
It's not good enough. It needs to get better. It
needs to be a little bit better. You need better
players on the wing. You're still suffering from the Russell
Westbrook decision, which, oh, by the way, Lebron and ad
put over the top two years ago. You are still
(02:24):
suffering from that decision. Why the Lakers aren't where they are.
So while it's great that Reddick, hey, it comes in,
it's a fresh start, and and you know players had
turned the page on Darvinham. That's great, but they're not
good enough. That the team is not good enough, and
you went out in the first round of a team
that is you're not matched up well. Again, So okay,
I understand that, But at the same time, it's okay,
(02:44):
how is Reddick gonna solve that? Reddick's not a pied
piper where suddenly, hey, Reddick gets the gig. It means
the Bulls are gonna hand over Zach Lavine or or
you know player X here that they want to go get.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, they probably will.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're ready to get rid of anybody.
But I just I just don't see how that problem
gets solved because it's still too many needles to thread,
to try to bring in different players where they are
salary cap wise, money wise, what Lebron's going to want.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's the big issue.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So yeah, JJ Reddick coming in, All right, I get it,
But it doesn't It's not like, hey, we have a
roster that's locked and loaded and ready to go.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
We just need the right head coach to unlock it. No,
that's not the case.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No, that's the bigger, bigger thing that we wait for.
Rob Polinka, why, I asked Dan Woiki the question. Did
he joined us earlier? Grabbed the podcast? It'll be up
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We'll love you forever, and then evangelize to your friends
and family. But the idea being that you know, you're
trying to figure out how to navigate whatever the relationship
(03:44):
is with Lebron. Right, however, they've obviously known each other
a long time, how well they know each other up
for debate, But either way enough to you know, meld
Mines on a podcast go through all sorts of sequences,
plays and direction and whatever to where clearly they're not
making a move without Lebron being comfortable. Right, So whatever
(04:07):
level that is, you at least have the buy in
off the jumpa Anthony Davis, our guy Mark Stein that
joins us. You know, I had suggested that perhaps Davis
would have preferred James Barrego, so to that end, you know,
And how much pettiness is there because Redick didn't have
ad on his all defensive team. You know if any
of that remains, oh not all defensive, am I. But
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but while getting defensive about it, see, how isn't that funny?
But it's just that idea of for Palinka, how do
you build the rest of this roster? You know how
many teams go out of their way to say, hey,
let's make the Lakers better by giving them a sweetheart deal. No,
that's not there. And what are the discernible assets that
you have? For the first time, you actually have draft picks,
(04:50):
So I guess you got that going for you, right,
You got a number seventeen and he got the second
round stuff, So potentially you know that's something and may
be maybe you don't love Austin Reeves like the like
fans have done the last couple of years. I don't know.
But beyond that, you have to wish and want and
hope that guys stay healthy that weren't this year, while
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also hoping that a D and Lebron can give you
seventy games plus. Again, it's a lot of wish and
wanting and hoping that things go right in an awfully
crowded Western Conference. So unfortunately for JJ Raddick, he's beholden
not only to the grandiose expectations everybody has that the
Lakers will be back, but also you know that he's
(05:38):
hamstrung in terms of what's going to be on the
court for him.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean, right now, it looks like it's gonna
be they'll be the same as they were last year.
I mean that this kind of looks like where it's
gonna be. But you never know, rabit out of a
hat could happen. But right now, yeah, okay, great for Jada,
but a team looks like it's going to be.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
The same, Well, Lebron's gonna opt out, and then it
becomes a question, right no, no, no, not necessarily whether he leaves,
but in terms of you know, he is he commanding
the max that he can get. We all seem to
believe that that's the case. Can you somehow convince him
to leave some on the table to bring in help
if you want to make one more last charge towards
(06:16):
June basketball? I mean that remains to be seen. The
answer is not likely, but we'll see. Now.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Speaking of trades that are made to win.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Championships, big trade in the NBA today Alex Caruso, Yes,
who trends every single night, whether it plays or not,
is dealt from the Bulls to the Oklahoma City Thunder
for Josh Giddy. And there's a lot to break down
with this trade because it's done for a couple of reasons.
And I love the trade for both sides for different reasons.
(06:48):
All right, Like last night, Mike and I told you
who our picks are right now for the NBA Finals
next year, and I gave you the Knicks, of course,
the Nick going New York sixteen to one. But I
gave you the Thunder for the same reason as the Nick.
Because the under have a lot of money to spend.
They have contracts, they can move, and they have draft
picks right the Thunder. The Thunder have eighty six first
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round picks in the next four years.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I think they're multiplying like rabbits at this point.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So that's what you look at.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Hey, I see how these teams that are already big
time contenders have the path to getting better and already
you saw the Thunder make a move for a guy
that you know they had written down. Like, I'm not
gonna be surprised. The Thunder came into the offseason and said, Okay,
this is what we need. Right, they probably need another
big but what do we need. We need another great defender,
(07:36):
We need a two way guard. And I guarantee you
there were three names on the board, these three guys
we want to get no matter what. And I guarantee
you Alex Caruso's name was on that board and they
were gonna do everything they can to go get him
because he's a missing piece. So let's go get him.
He scores ten to twelve a game, he'll hit threes,
four us, he plays great defense, He'll give a lot
of minutes. You saw what a guy like he and
(07:58):
TJ McConnell can mean, off the bench for a team,
that's a guy we gotta go get. And they went
out and got him. And it was an awesome move
for them because this is a move that could potentially
put the Thunder in the finals. Another guy that can
three and D. Another guy that can do that. Man,
you watch what defense can do in the NBA. Now,
why the Celtics won the title, why the t Wolves
were able to knock out the Nuggets, Why the Knicks
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get as far as they do. I mean, this is
a huge, huge deal. This is one of those trades
that could put the Thunder in the finals. And I
get why they traded Josh Giddy even though he's a
twenty one year old kid with a lot of potential. Right,
not as great a hear this year as last year.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, but there's.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
A one ahead.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
There's two reasons why they were okay with this deal.
Is that one, Yes, he did have the reports of
the inappropriate relationship with a minor that played out through
the season, so you wonder, hey, is he a guy
who want to commit to long term? Is it best
to ship him out and move him someplace else? So
I'm sure that was part of it. But the other
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part of it was as good a player as he
might be, and you see some of his highlights, you
see the way he sees the court.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Not as great a year this year as last year,
because what happened is as the season went on, the
same thing that happened to him happened in New York
when when the Knicks made the big trade for Oganonoby, right,
they traded RJ. Barrett and Emmanuel Quickly, who was one
of the best six men in the NBA, great point
guard score first off the bench, he was fantastic, but
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he became somewhat expendable because of the rise of Jalen Brunson,
who turned into one of the top ten players in
the game. Right, he's gonna get forty minutes a night
as a point guard, right an, if you're Knockwood, no injuries,
everything's fine, He's gonna get forty minutes to night. So
there's not a lot of minutes for Emmanuel Quickly. So
it's not that he's not talented, it's just he doesn't
fit because we have an absolute superstar that's gonna be
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our point guard now. So they put him in the
trade and they got Ogianno Noby and the Knicks were
off to the races. Same thing for the Thunder. Hey,
Shi Gilders, Alexander, you're talking about MVP finalists, man, and
as time went on, you saw Giddy had to come
off the bench. He got a lot less minutes. I mean,
this is s driven like this is their superstar. How
many minutes are there really going to be for him
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and his development? So while you're trading a twenty one
year old kid who has a ton of potential and
you get back a thirty year old role player who's
due for big money that you want to spend, it
seems a little lopsided in this trade.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
If I'm the Bulls, I'm excited I got a young
player that shows a lot of promise because you have
to start over. And if I'm the Thunder, I'm excited
because I didn't let this trade pass me by. Maybe
I could have squeaked out a first round pick if
I needed to, but maybe that would have thrown the
deal up and have it and we couldn't do it.
We got the guy we wanted and we didn't give
up a lot off our on court product. So for
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both teams. I like this deal on both sides, but
I like it more for the Thunder because they got
a guy that could put them in the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, the Bulls are a bunch of dopes. Call it
what it is. Look and Gid he's a young guy. Obviously,
twenty one does some He's a good passer, five assists
a game. Shooting percentage is abysmal, so obviously a lot
of work to be done there. And I get it.
Cruso's not leading you to a title and the Bulls
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are not contenders anytime soon. I'm resigned to that as
a guy watching the NBA and as a guy from Chicago,
that was not going to happen living like with the
eighty five Bears. At least there was another run where
Prince played at halftime in a Super Bowl game and
they actually led for a minute with Devin Hester. But
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the fact of the matter is is still living off
a title from eighty five, and for the Bulls, we
go all the way back to nineteen ninety eight minus
a little hiccup with Derrick Rose as your MVP and
a little bit of a run there. Otherwise it's abysmal.
And this is another trade where to your point about
the number of first round picks that okay, see has
(11:53):
I gotta imagine if you turn down all these other
proposed trades that had been been out there, how many
are real versus embellished whatever. We'll try to figure out,
you know, how to carve that out. But allegedly there
were multiple deals on the table at different points where
it's like you can go and grab multiple first round
picks and maybe a veteran player for Alex Caruso, highly
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coveted glue kind of guy, career high, you know, ten
plus points averaging US one point seven steals virtually every
year twice, you know, back to back seasons. He's been
a guy in their system in Chicago that was an
all defensive first or second team player. I mean, he's
a guy that you know, is one of those contributors
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like we just watched with the Celtics of yeah, if
you can expand your roster in depth, this is a
guy that's gonna come in and give you some hard
nosed minutes and you know what you're getting, and he's
what's he gonna cost you. They're saying four years, eighty
million dollars. That's nothing for a guy that'll be your
first or first off the bench, or you know, give
you some starts as you need to. So, you know,
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for the bulls, the fact that they weren't able to
at least get one of those first round picks. You know, hey,
three years from now, because you guys are gonna win
the West a couple of times, you're gonna have one
of the best records. How about you give us one
of those. It'll be like a thirtieth pick, just if
nothing else, so you don't look like a bunch of
dopes that got fleeced and gave away your only discernible
tradable asset. That isn't you know, a much more complicated deal. Yeah,
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you should have gotten something more from OKAC.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah you could.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You could have gotten something more from them. But at
the same time, it's well, you know what I can
see where a team says, all right, maybe there were
other teams interested and they needed to be able to
pull a trigger and if ok is it, well, now,
if you're asking us to include for a first round pick.
You know the seventy six ers called us about Caruso. Yeah,
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there could have been some kind of bidding more under
the radar and and I kind of dig it whe
where they go. You know what, We're just gonna make
this trade. We're just gonna make this trade. And and
because we have the guy we want, they get the
guy they want.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And this is how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You know, I kinda and I have some respect for
that where you know what, if we wind up asking
for more, this just winds up screwing up the deal.
Because that happens. It happens in fantasy, it happens in
regular sports. Well, I thought we had a deal, but
now you asked for a first round picking. Now you
want this, I'm gonna ask for this. I'm gonna ask
for this, So I kind of respect it. Okay, this
is the way it is. And in the end, look,
could it turn out to be lopsided at some point.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It could be.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But you know, hey, if the Thunder go to the
NBA Finals next year, like, it's all good for them, right,
And if Giddy becomes the next great point guard for
the for the Chicago it's all good for that.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It works for everybody.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It'll be short, shorter term for the Thunder, longer term
for the Bulls, but it could work for both teams.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the big decision going forward
is I mean, Giddy's gonna be up for a new deal.
Have you seen enough to make you believe that he's
the guy that will be the guy you invest in?
And again, he is only twenty one years old, So
I'm not I don't mean to dismiss him. It's just
more you have the coveted asset in this part, not
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that Giddy doesn't have his values, but someone will have
the Giddy for Giddy kind of thing out there.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But you gotta pay Caruso. You gotta pay him at something.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But you're gonna have to pay this guy really fast too.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, but you're gonna pay.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But Caruso is an eighty million dollar pay Like that's
a lot of money, like you're looking at for you
look at.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I'm not saying you don't trade him, Jason. I'm just
saying in terms in terms of I'm looking at the
returns if I'm the bulls and I have a guy
who everybody sees as this great gluey. Right. When we
talked to Dan Woiki, he talked about how the the
Lakers were doing their best to try to reacquire Caruso
at the deadline and prior you know, to the last season.
(15:43):
So all of that in, you know, in in our
knowledge base of you walk away with Josh Giddy, who
you know, the a team that's about to compete says, yeah,
we don't need this guy. I'm not seems like you
could have gotten a piece, you know, at least one
of those lottery tickets along with it. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I'm not saying I'm not saying to want you on
the team. I'm just saying I wanted to get more.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, no, like if you'd come to that crossroads. And
again we agree. You know, Cruso's not a guy you're
building around to win a title, and the Bulls are
nowhere near a title. In fact, they have a sign
that someone's holding up, you know, like Sally Field right
when when she's standing on top of the lunch table
and it says we're having a fire sale. I mean
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that's kind of what the Bulls have done. So you
knew these guys were up. Zach Levine, I mean they're
saying half the league might come for him. DeMar Durozan's
a free agent. You think after he was dancing with
everybody and hanging out to Kendrick Lamar show last night.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
He's not going back.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
He's coming back to Chicago. He's born to Toronto. No,
definitely not Toronto, right, he ain't going to Toronto and
he ain't coming back to Chicago. So he's gone on
Drake's and the Border going. No, his plane does not land.
Did you turn it right around wherever he came from?
It doesn't land.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Kobe White to try to really mark where they're at
with the bulls, is running around like he's Edward Nigma.
He's got a question Mark green suit on, including the Derby.
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Now, I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Kelly Stafford talking about the guy she was dating before
Matthew Stafford will be on our bingo card tonight. But Hey,
sometimes when the bingo card calls I nineteen, that's what
she said, you have to answer. Kelly Stafford, who has
done a lot of interviews as podcasts, you know, she's
made her fair share of headlines over the past few years,
(18:58):
did a podcast today in which she talked about the
beginnings of her relationship with Stafford. They've been together since,
you know, for a long time now, well over a decade.
They have four kids, have been married for almost ten years.
And she talked about the beginnings of their relationship and
how before she dated Matthew Staff well or before they
got serious, they were kind of casual. They were kind
(19:20):
of casual dating. She decided to upset him and date
the backup quarterback while he was at Georgia.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Take a listen, Wait, so was he trying to casually date?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
And you were all, yeah, girl.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Anyways, long story short, it wasn't that cute of a relationship.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
At first.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I hated him, I loved him. I dated the backup
to piss him off.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Which yes, he was like, that'll do it.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
He was a bad boy too, like Matthew's so sweet
and southern gentleman and all stuff, and the backup was
the complete opposite. Yeah yeah, ooh, And it upset him.
So they lived in the same dorm because athletes lived
in the same dorm, and he would see my car
there and so at one point he like waited and
fought and followed me out and got in my car
and wouldn't get out up and he was.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Lia, this is so hot, like this is yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I was get out of my car and he's like,
I don't He's not right for you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And I was like, who, you can't tell me that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So, first of all, this was on the Off the
Vine podcast. This is her talking about the plan she
hatched to get to date Matthew Stafford because he wanted
to casually date her.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
The first line, yeah he was trying to casually date.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I like how she wouldn't even say whoever, It was
just he's the backup, the backup.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So, I mean, super slutes seem to have centered on
Joe Cox.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, like do you think she just said, okay, you
don't want to be serious, let me go down the
roster here, who's the back of the Hey, by any chance, Matthew,
I just for just for grins and giggles, do you
have a list of the depth charted quarterback?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I just want to say as well, like who would
come in after you?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And again, oh great, oh here's the okay, this is
I'm gonna go date this guy. Wouldn't even say, is
that I dated the backup? Maybe she called him the backup?
Well they were dating, Hey, backup, it's me Kelly want
to get together, all right, call me bye?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Back up? She was in he was in her phone
as backup.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Well, I mean, I'm sure she's not alone in that
as people nervously look into their call lists, or maybe
you're just nodding along going all right, all right, all right,
I mean maybe that's the case, either that or spare.
I mean, I don't know whatever the term would be. Now,
first thing, backup?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, wait now, now there were Stetson Bennett and Matthew Stack.
I think they were a college together. Actually no, I
think they're the same.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Why are you doing that stat they're the same age,
had a year. He doesn't need this on top of that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Come on now, so she calls him the backup, right, god,
the back of the end of the backup, and.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
This doesn't either backup there now the backup?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah them, come on. I did the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Backup, so I dated the back of the backup. But
just the fact that you saw this plan she had
to get Matthew Stafford to want to date her exclusively.
That was okay to piss him off. I started digging
the backup quarterback, and I made sure he saw my
car was parked outside the athletes. We saw I was there,
he knew I was spending the night with somebody else.
(22:03):
And then when he got to my car one night
and said, why aren't you doing this? What you shouldn't
be hanging out with him? And I'm like it's working,
Like this is such an above the rim thing for me,
because like I was, I could never have been involved
in that kind of drama in college and never I'm
just not. I'm just not a drama guy. I just
never have been. And unfortunately I was a magnet for
(22:25):
for women who like to have drama, but.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You were gonna save them, but I was.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now the drama was more like, hey, let me see
if I can date a couple of guys while dating.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Jason and see if he knows this.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Uh well.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, exactly, yes he has no.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I was saying, look that we could I talk about
my dating history a lot. This is about Matthew Stafford
and Kelly Stafford, Like this is such an above the
rim game that I'm I just would never have been.
Just I can't imagine just being so conniving and and
and and plot, you know, uh, throwing out there that
I'm gonna do this, this and this and this is
(23:01):
what's gonna get him to notice me, And this is
what's gonna get us to start dating. Because I'm from
the if you like each other, you date right. And
if you like each other a lot and you're exclusive,
it's not does it have to be? Well, you want
to be casual. So I'm gonna date the backup quarterback
to push this forward because you're the starting quarterback and
he's the backup and now you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Want to date me seriously. And this is where we
got me.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Look, obviously it worked out for them, been married for
over a decade, they have four kids.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now, yeah, it's it's been It's been great.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
But it comes it comes to the old adage that
we've had on the show forever. You can't fault in goods.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But I see, but I see this, and I go
I could have never been part I could have never
been part of it. I could have never done something
like this, like, oh, I want to seriously date this girl,
So what do I do. I'm gonna date her best
friend or her backup on the basketball team or whatever
it is. And then I'm gonna make sure she sees
my car parked outside of her dorm when I'm there.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I just I just I just can't fathom that that
is I mean, dating wise, that's such an above the
rim game. Like I hear this and I go, I
am I a boy, I am, I am really vanilla man,
I am, I am really just Hey, we like each other,
let's date. We like each other a lot, let's date seriously.
If not, we break up. Like that was kind of
my thing. That is not this thing, man. That's say
(24:15):
you had had a good run. I had a streak
of where I'd hear through the grapevine about whatever was like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Okay, that's enough for me. I don't know, I don't
have time for this craft. And some of the stories
I would hear later on of yeah, you can just salute.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Someone, good luck with that. Someone gonna tell harmon. I'll
tell them we're having lunch today. All right, great, I'll
tell them what's going on?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh no, no, really, never was the sit down like that,
and be you'd be playing pickup basketball. It's like, oh, yeah,
you know that girl. You you're gonna go, oh yeah,
you probably don't want to let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Why let me tell you. Let me tell you a story.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Let me give you a couple of stories, let me
tell you, And that's saying well because I lived in
it in the dorm my first few years at Northwestern,
which was predominantly athletes, So you know it's sid you
heard rumlinks. Let's see, I would probably end up being
back up.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You can. You can.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You can either date the guy who's gonna be the
starting outside linebacker the football team, or the guy that
works in the medical office, the personnel.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The guy in the office that's that's helping keep them
on the field and shagging them to class. Come on, boys,
let's go Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You use that's that that's an unfortunate adjective. You just
use it. I know exactly, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Uh, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But the other part of it is this is that, Okay,
I I get that. Look, Kelly Stafford is her own
person has her own personality, that does her own thing.
But I hear the story and I go, is this
something that that should just be better kept between the
two of you. I mean, because all of a sudden,
you know what's gonna happen. Matthew Stafford's going to show
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up to the first day of training camp and there's
gonna be glossy pictures of every backup quarterback in Georgia
the past fifteen years, taped up to his.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Locker and they're gonna draw anatomy stuff on.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
There and everything, and they're gonna they're gonna draw thought
balloons about Kelly.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean, this is this is what's gonna be out there?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Is this a story that you really, hey, this is
gonna be okay that I tell this story like, this
is a story that's gonna get Kelly Stafford clicks and
get noticed. This is a story that from Matthew Stafford's
gonna be dude, this is really what happened.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
This, this is how it went.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
This is is that it made it sound like she
hatched this whole plot to land you and look at
where you're at right now, Like, I don't know that
this is something that Matthew Stafford would have wanted out there.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I know this is something I wouldn't want out there.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That's what I found out, Like all of a sudden,
after all these years, I find out, or my wife
says publicly, yeah, here's my plan. Here's how I won
Matthew Stafford. Oh okay, great, Yeah, I don't know if
i'd want that out. I don't know if I want
to go on social media and see pictures of the
backup quarterback that people think my wife was having sex
with while I was dating her casually.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I don't know that I want.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I want to see that on social media.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
You were just a pawn in her wicked game as
the strains of Chris Isaac start playing in the background
as you lament your fate and history.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, this is not good for Matt.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Matt Stafford, like, I gotta think he's the first thing
was really really I mean, she was having fun, she
got clicks and noticed and whatever. But for him, I mean,
what was this the how to guide and make him jealous?
Go to the backup, Go to the guy who's the
number two accountant in the office. I mean, what are
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we doing here?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And the kids?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Hey, that's how my great origin storing him out?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The children thinking about that, Hey, how did you and
dad beat?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well, so we were didating and he wanted to keep
it casual, and that kind of really pissed me off.
Mom language Yeah, no, I thought that's nothing compared to
what's coming up. So his backup quarterback, I just call
him the backup. We started dating, and I made sure
he knew that I was dating, and I was staying
overnight and I was there all the time, and we
were having sex mom sex talk. Yeh at ah, it
gets worse, trust me. So I wanted to make sure
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he knew that I was there. And then your father
very romantically got in my car and told me I
needed to break up with that other guy. And we've
been together ever since. Oh okay, not quite, uh, Jack
and Rose from the Titanic. But okay, all right, okay,
I I kind of got that.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Short look is going to be clean?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, And that's the thing, like, look, but is that
a story that that you're that should be out there.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
That you needed to tell you?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Do you really need to tell that story?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Like?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Because at the end, I get that for Kelly Stafford,
like I said, she got clicks right. She she likes
she likes uh being her own personal she likes having
her own identity and and I get that.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
But I see this story and I go ooh, is
this really good?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Is really good for that? But she got her cake
and she ate it too.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Really, I have a tough time with that story.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I have a tough time.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So now everybody knows. So every time I look at somebody,
somebody goes say, I know what happened?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
He let me, what'sn't this guy your backup Georgia? You
go back for the reunion?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Dude, Wait a minute, Ram's Halloween party. Everybody's dressed up
as a backup quarterback from Georgia. Of course that's gonna happen.
Come on, man, it's the worst. Everybody's dressed up. Cooper
Cup is dressed up as a.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Backup quarter So what you're saying is fade the Rams
or do what this inspire him to the greatest performance
that he's ever had, is that it good? Hey, Matthew's
gonna do one more big year. So I figured i'd
really fuel the fire and get him fired up about Camp.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I mean, I don't know about this one. Uh the
Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon Live from the tirec dot Com.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Bold Strategy Cotton Now to a man.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Who met his wife the same way, made sure she
knew that his car was parked in front.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Of her house.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
I don't like where this is going.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So he could then steal her car whenever he wanted to,
and he did. It's Steve to say you're with what's trending.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
I'm just enjoying strawberries and pancakes here. Nothing going on,
Nothing to see here, Patriot.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
You really the ring doorbell of be with no shirt on,
like Belichick. That's nothing. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's not It's just you know, I was I was
fixing under the sink and I got hots. I walked
outside and it's some air.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, let's start with the NFL.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I just keep thinking of that scene from Leatherheads where
where Clooney was a Clooney in Reneteszelwegger, the.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Old football movie.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah yeah, and and she was dating John Krasinski and
he walked in on the two of them and like
Clooney's got makeup on his face and lipstick smeared, like
they were just kissing, like no, nothing.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Was going on.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
He's oh, okay, all right, fine, that's cool. Nothing to
see here, people. It's like the Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Please return to your homes and houses of worship. The
New England Patriots gave running back Ramandre Stevenson a four
year extension. Denver hired former Stanford coach David Shaw as
a senior personnel executive rookie start reporting to training camp
in about a month. The game in Major League Baseball
tonight was on Fox TV from Birmingham, Alabama and Saint
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Louis Edge, San Francisco, six to five at historic Rickwood Field,
the oldest ballpark in the US. It opened in nineteen ten.
A teenage Willie Mays played center field in Birmingham there
for the Black Bearons in nineteen forty eight as they
played in the final Negro League World Series. Yes, it
got an upgrade before the game tonight. The entire playing
(31:25):
surface in Birmingham was given a five million dollar makeover,
new and padded outfield wall. The wall was back ten
feet for this week. They shifted the entire field to
the left by five feet, new dugouts, modern batters, eye,
and center field digital scoreboard. They put up the netting
along the foul lines. It was a great, great night,
(31:46):
and the Fox TV broadcast of it all is getting
superb reviews. Tonight and Tonight's game was the first in
a three game series between the teams, but after an
off day forum on Friday, the final two of the
series will be in Saint Louis for the Cardinals. Tonight
Brendan Donovan, who's from Alabama, had three hits, three RBIs, including.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
A home run.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
The late game in San Diego went to the Padres
seven to six over Milwaukee. The Brewers had scored two
in the top of the ninth to tie. Padres won
it on this in the bottom of the ninth at
eight for the.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Third consecutive game here at Petco Park, the Padres in
a walk off home run. He got Sioca and Merrill
and now Jake Cronenworth through pros his helmet as he
approached his home plate.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
The Padres beat the Brewers seven to six.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Padres Radio Fernando Tatist Junior had four hits Baltimore seventeen
to five winners at the Yankees Today, Anthony sen tender
a three run homer. Oz If homered in nineteen straight games.
Aaron Judge hit his twenty seventh for the Yanks. Dodgers
five to three winners at Colorado, Tampa Bay and Tenantings
won at Minnesota seven to six. In the WNBA, Chicago
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beat Dallas today eighty three seventy two, Angel ree sixteen points,
eighteen rebounds. New York at home now thirteen and three.
This year beat La ninety three eighty Sabrina yet Escu
with thirty one points. The Lakers new head coach is
due to be jj Reddick with a reported four year contract.
The Bulls are due to trade guard Alex Caruso to
Oklahoma City for Josh Giddy. Trades cannot be announced until
(33:17):
July sixth. Sacramento will re sign Malik Monk. Boxer Ryan
Garcia was suspended for a year after positive tests for
a ped Tom Kim leads the Travelers by two strokes
after a first round sixty two in Connecticut. At the
Euro Soccer Tournament. Spain dominated Italy. Nothing was the final
outshot him twenty to four. Denmark tied England one to one.
(33:39):
Serbia tide. Slovenia won one with a goal in the
final seconds. Tomorrow on Fox TV France against Netherlands three
pm Eastern Time, and the Copa America tournament started tonight
on FS one Argentina two to nothing over Canada in
front of a sold out crowd in Atlanta. The Americans
opener in this tourney is Sunday against Bolivia on Fox TV.
(33:59):
Mexico will play Saturday nights on FS one against Jamaica
back to you.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Thanks a bunch, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You know what, I just got a tweet from h
Dupe that said, Hey, dude, this whole Kelly Stafford thing
is is a darcy from Varsity Blues and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Kelly Larder was Dayton Paul Walker in the Max and
she had the whipped cream bikmi and all, okay, maybe
she was just maybe that's where she got the idea. Hey,
it almost worked in Varsity Blues. Maybe it's gonna work here.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I don't want your life, how about that? Hey, should
we take the show on the road to Texas? No? No,
no that we we can go see Varsity Blues with
the cast, like with Vanderbeek and all those guys.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah no, And then we'll go to a Rams game
because they'll they'll they'll win a game with a five
receiver offense like they did at the end of Varsity.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Blues, and Scott conn will be there to laugh.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Exit out about of Fresca, Exit swollen down.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
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two big NFL stories from today. They're gonna affect how
we watch the game and how your team builds their team.
The first one is that we could be seeing an
(36:15):
eighteen game season in the NFL sooner rather than later.
Sports Illustrated NFL insider Albert Pearce said, Hey, this is happening.
It's gonna happen soon, maybe as early as twenty twenty six,
eighteen game season. Look, Roger Goodell even said not too
long ago, we don't need three preseason games anymore. Sure,
this is just going to happen, right, The players will
(36:36):
wind up getting something in return. They're gonna cut the
preseason from three games to two because really nobody plays
in the preseason. They have so many joint practices. You
get to see what you get to evaluate a player
on the field. Yes, you'd like to see under the
lights and how things go in a game, but with
so many of these practices now that they have, with
joint practices and no starters play in the preseason. Look,
(36:58):
the NFL has come to terms with the fact that
football the beginning of the season is gonna be rough.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
But we're okay with that.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Nobody's gonna care, no one's gonna not watch because the
football is rough, gonna take a couple of weeks people
to get in. But eighteen games, extra regular season game
for teams, more gate, more revenue, more TV. This is
just gonna happen. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if
a year from now is when we get that's eighteenth game,
and not next year. But maybe next year we get
(37:23):
the announcement that in a year we'll have the eighteenth game.
So twenty twenty six, I'm thinking we get it.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Yeah, I mean in the end, what if you're the players,
it becomes the all right, are we getting expanded rosters?
What are the other protections? What's the other revenue? Like
all of those things that you start checking boxes of, Hey,
if you're going into negotiation, here's your ten point plan
or the fifty five things that you should be asking
for that get reduced to ten by the time it's
(37:49):
all said and done. But yeah, it's like the Fanto
snap Man. It's inevitable.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, at this point, the fact that we're not talking
about it this much for this to not happen, right
like they're yeah, the whole smoke fire. I understand that
sometimes there's not always enough smoke, but this is something
that's been talked about for two or three years.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Now. This is gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
This is not suddenly gonna go. The NFL is not
something gonna say, oh yeah, I forget about eighteen Yeah,
we don't want that. Now we're onto something else. No,
they want eighteen games. They're gonna get eighteen games. The
players will get something. Hopefully they get more, and you know,
they get much more than they got last time they
had concessions.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
But it's gonna happen. We're gonna get that. We're gonna
see it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I mean, look outside chance it next year, sure I
could see it, but it may be more where where
the players want to really take time and understand what
do we really want and not make a rush decision
on it, and we'll do it for a year from now.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
But it's coming soon.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
No, that's it. I mean, just be smart about it.
And it's implementation. But look, there's just so much money
that's there. And I know that people have lamented the
preseason games and I'm paying for worthless whatever. It's like,
you know, it's it's the the entry price for your
season of greatness. You want to see how the sausage
(39:02):
is made or not, you know, give it away. Plenty
of charities happy to take those and let kids go.
But families who can't go, the family down the street
that doesn't get to go to a game. It's okay,
you can give those tickets away if it's that bad.
But now you move down to preseason games, then yeah,
it's one fewer game that you're you're paying for that
(39:23):
you're not getting your quote unquote value out of. But
the players do and everybody gets paid.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Meanwhile, the other story is and Tom Pellisero NFL Insider
reported earlier today and talked about it. I think it
was on the Rich Eisend Show where he said that, hey,
there's been some movement into a quarterback specific salary cap
because it's gotten so big and so out of control
that there could be some sort of agreement at some
point where maybe the quarterback salary cap can exceed a
(39:51):
certain percentage of the salary cap total to keep quarterback
salaries in line because they've gotten out of control. And
I saw this and I said, I remember I had
this idea, like a couple of years ago, we talked
about this on the show Let Me Go back, So
I go on Twitter and I look.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Back twoenty seventeen. I saw I saw that.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I saw a minute, you know from Fox Sports Radio,
you know, how about a Fresco and Swollen Dome talk
about how there needs to be a quarterback a salary
cap soon because the salaries are getting too large for
them to figure out seven years ago, like you talk
about seeing the future, Hey, you should have been working
on this.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Seven had the idea seven years ago, told this is
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Now seven years later, they're looking at the fact that boy,
quarterback salaries are really getting out of control. Week every
team can't afford to pay their starting quarterback sixty million
dollars a year. We got to do something seven years ago.
We told you how to solve it. Seven years ago.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Yeah, I don't like it, but I don't like the
exclusion there. I don't think it solves anything because you're
still leaving everybody else behind. You're just saying, well, it's
a different pile of money over there.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
You know you talk about Hey, Tomorrow's takes the night
before on our show. This was today's take, seven year years.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Ago, mouths to lifespan and gestation of a Cicada.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh coming
up next, my buddy Ben. Now you're listening to Fox
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the Grimace Era in professional sports.
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