July 23, 2024 • 38 mins
Former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sport Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam is in for Chris, and he and Rob explain why the NFL Players’ Association needs to demand lifetime healthcare and fully-guaranteed contracts in exchange for an 18-game season, tell us why all the Kansas City Royals fan boys currently have their panties in a bunch and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.Plus, FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Martin Weiss swings by to host this week’s edition of Trollin’ or Rollin’.
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You before you get started? Go ahead? Mary?
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Come on.
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Old?
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A long time ago? But anyway, he from Salami for
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in studio with you. And then when I walked in
and I saw you, and I said, hey, man, look
talk that trash you'd be talking now, I'll be on
the phone.
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Now, I'll be in here. You can't get choked on
the air. Now, choke me. That choke me out right here.
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Hey, one thing you know in person on the phone,
I don't change, you know that from I'm not one
of the old I'm not right, but I ain't one
of these fake tough there guys like that. We'll talk
a big game when you're not around you.
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You you hold from whether you get beat up or not.
You're gonna be tough.
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I'm gonna be tough always.
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That's what happens when you grow up in New York
and that's how your way you make your way through.
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But man, okay, great show.
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Let's welcome in the odd couple crew because you wouldn't
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Rob g of course is our producer.
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And Elijah Elijah, our social media guru, is back from vacation.
Who comes back from vacation on a Tuesday. But it's Elijah, right, yeah,
the way he worked his days out, So Elijah's back
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in twos, why bug there you go? And Mary Mary
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on the Ones in twos. She is our engineer, all right,
he from let's get started here and this is right
up your alley with football and all that other kind
of stuff in the NFL again, any chance they get
to make money off the players and put them in
harm's way And nobody wants this. Nobody needs an eighteenth
football game. Nobody needed a seventeenth football game. Okay, but
(04:35):
here's what fans don't understand. There's only one reason why
they want an eighteenth game and why they wanted a seventh.
They don't make any money off the exhibition games. They're
local TV, they're not national, they're not a part of
the national deal. And when they go and make these
games real, the value is through the roof, of course.
(04:56):
So that's all this is. It's not about oh no, no,
if they could have thirty games and get enough players
to play, they would play thirty games. This is the
problem with Las Vegas and gambling on football. There's not
enough inventory, right, there's only a few of seventeen weeks.
If they were had a schedule like baseball, it would
be even more ridiculous than the money.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
They're good, right, that would be a travisty.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right, But you can't get enough people to play. But Ephraim,
here's my issue.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And I know you were a part of the Players Union, correct,
But I mean I don't mean like just as a member.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But didn't you like participate.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yes, okay, of course you participate.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And I thought, I think the Players Union is the
worst freaking union in the history of the United States,
the Players Union, because they have been bent over more
times than I'm willing to even admit.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And every time the NFL comes calling.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The players easily have all the power, all the Jews.
Because all you got to do, Ephraim, to get the
NFL to pay attention and to come to the table
and work with you is stop the game, stop the money,
trained stop it, and then they'll understand that you're serious
and you're not going to allow them to work you
over like a burger and fries, which is what they've
(06:14):
done time and time again.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
All Right, Look, the one thing we've known for years
and even when I played and all of that, Uh,
the NFL PA the most glaring thing for me, and
when you talk about organizations have having the players best
interest at heart, the number one thing that sticks out
(06:41):
to me is the lack of healthcare, lifetime healthcare for
NFL players the most Whose fault is that? That's our fault,
that's the players, that's players players fault.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Because the problem is when you're a current player and
you're playing and you've had health insurance, great health insurance.
Actually since you've been in the league, so twenty one,
twenty three years old, you've had health insurance.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Everything's going great.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
That's all you see, that's all you see. The problem
with that is five years after a player retires, that's
when their healthcare runs out from who when you need it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Who needs health care? Five years after everybody? But what
that right?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It runs out at that it runs out. You get
a letter, you get you're on your own. You got
to go get you gotta breakure out, you get you
get your cobra for however long that last call it
cobra For a reason.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It will bite you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It'll bite you, wheeze the life out of you when
you see those payments.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
But those payments are crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
But what happens is you have to now go and
find out a way to get healthcare, which I didn't
know at the time this happened to me, you know,
about a decade ago or whatever, and I was.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Like, I don't know what I don't I don't know
how to go get healthcare.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I've had it my whole life since I've been an adults,
since I've been in the in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And that takes me.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Back to the NFLPA and fighting and wanting this talking
about yeah, the eighteenth game is a possibility, and so
on and so forth. I would say this to the representatives,
to the heads of the NFLPA, to all the current players,
if you don't start the negotiation for an eighteenth game
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with lifetime health benefits for all players who are vested
and we're not even talking and started there to.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Be vested three and a half years, which is what
with three three that's not ten the average life expectancy.
God should say, uh, careers three and a half season,
that's it. So that's where being fully vested has to
be three and a half three.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You got to be on the active roster essentially four years,
but you get three three. If you're on the active
roster for three years, you get that year right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Very easily.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The NFL Players Association could have healthcare and guarantee contracts tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You hear me tomorrow from not twenty years from now.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Stop the money train, Stop letting these owners do this
to you. And and they have figured out a great system,
which is sixty percent of the players are those guys
who are.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Afraid to miss a patcheck.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Those are the guys, right, So they make those guys
the majority, and then the other guys who have the
big contract and the long term and play ten or
twelve years, they're the minority. So those are the guys
who really want it right, who make all that money,
but the other guys don't want to miss a paycheck.
Here's what baseball did to do that. Where you have
the inequities of people making money from the union has
(10:08):
a war chest Baseball players they strike or whatever it is,
they walk out. Ephram comes to them and says, here's
my mortgage, here's my bills. Guess what the union does
they pay your bills. Pay your bills till it counts. Okay,
it's simple. You as a player, are you gonna bellyate
with the union if they're paying all your bills and
(10:29):
they say to you, once you get your money back,
you take it and put it back into the war
chests for the next group of players. It's so simple.
It's simple.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
And look, if you're trying to add another game, which
also is now adding risk of more injury, which also
adds the risk of longer term injury. When you need
health care, it's convenient that around thirty five, forty years, oh,
(11:00):
you no longer have it. The league is no longer
paying for it, and they've tried to subsidize that with
the NFL hospital network where they make too much money.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It's too much.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It's too much money not to have full health benefits
for you and your family for the duration of your life.
For me, it doesn't make sense for someone who played
for thirteen years and one hundred and fifty nine games
and not eight surgeries, two torn labrams, broken hands, herniated
(11:35):
disk in my back soon coming up on two knee replacements,
for someone who just I just listed and just me.
So when you don't. That's that's coming out of my pocket.
And we have a reimbursement situation where you got to
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pay it and then if they deem it, okay, they'll
pay it. It shouldn't even have to get to that.
It shouldn't even be that you should be locked in
on insurance. Thank god for the writer's Guild. Thank god
that I was smart enough to dive in to another
profession where they had a strong guild. I have excellent
health care for my family, and I guess how much
(12:17):
it costs for me to ensure my dependent Please tell
me one hundred and fifty dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But that's because they got this is.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
This is real life, right, Okay, So for me, back
to eighteen games. If you want eighteen games, okay, owners,
we'll give you eighteen games. We know the type of
revenue each game generates. But what we want from you,
and what we're going to start with, is lifetime health
care for all that are vested in the NFL. Come
back to us when you guys are ready to negotiate.
(12:47):
That would be my That's would be my stance.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And that would be the correct stance. But the NFL players.
As strong as they are, they're very, very weak when
it comes down to this.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Because they come in and they say, do you guys
want higher salaries? Who's gonna say no to that. Who's
gonna say we don't want higher salaries when you're currently playing.
We heard the redit, We heard it. You guys would well,
you know what do you guys want? You guys want
more salary. You guys want less training camp practices. You
guys want all of that.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Those The last one was smoke weed. We won't test
for for weed. Everybody signs want that, but they don't
want health care.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
What do you think you're smoking the weed for? Hey,
you got migraines, but you're smoking the.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Weed for it?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Can I give you this?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Please give it to me.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
As of February twenty twenty three, major League baseball players
qualify for health insurance after play how many games in
the major leagues?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
From one? You know it, I know it, one, I
know it?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
One game one you make it to the big league,
you play one game lifetime locked in for lifetile healthcare
and forty three days ready forty three days as a
big leaguer for the pension.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Forty three. What are we talking about?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
This is crazy? Okay, guess who guess what league makes
more money? No?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Crazy, right, but they guess what league makes more money?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But they don't want to share it with the players
because why But what did the baseball players do?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They stopped the World Series?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Get you ain't doing it?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The World Series have been played for one hundred years.
What oh no, no, we're out on the World Series.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Basketball has that same level of leadership in terms of
player driven leagues as well. Right when they wanted Donald
Sterling out, there was like.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes, dude, you're out tomorrow, You're out.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
This is not gonna be next week. This is now.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
We ain't nobody playing if he's not out. They made
a decision, they voted he had to sell the team.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
NFL.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
They come on day one and they all hold hands
some solid there.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Remember that the paid this parent discrepancy between stars and sixty.
So it's so big. It's so big, all right?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
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Speaker 3 (14:59):
What kind concessions should the players ask for a return
of an eighteen game NFL season. We'll continue this conversation
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Rob Park along with Ephrom Salam on a Trash Talking
Tuesday telephone number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We want to hear from you what your players ask
for for an eighteenth regular season game from I know
people want to get in.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, let's go. We got Eric in New Hampshire, you
and the odd couple with Robin e from what you got.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Hey, guys, I love the show. Just want to say
I was listening Sunday night when you told your story
about Jacoby Jones. I was crying in my car. I
was that was such a touching story. I'm so sorry
for the reason that you had to tell it, but
I you know, I want you to know that, you know,
(17:48):
we're definitely listening and at it. You know, definitely means
a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I appreciate that, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, so may. My main point was that you,
as fans, we're kind of responsible too for what happens here,
especially with the NFL. You know, fans don't really have
a good understanding of how the union works, or how
unions work in general. You know, union membership is two
(18:18):
thirds less in America than it was sixty years ago,
so people just don't know what they do and what
they are, and you know a lot of people have
these anti union tendencies anyway, and it kind of leads
to people dismissing the players and you know, if there's
if there's no games for a while, or if there's
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a strike, or even if they threaten the strike, fans
will start to get impatient. And it's not with the
owners most of the time. You know, what I hear
from most people I know is that they're impatient with
the players. Why are the players asking for more? Don't
they have enough?
Speaker 10 (18:54):
All?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
They're greedy?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Right, But they go in and buy eighteen dollars front fries,
not even think, not even do you want to park?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You want to park the thirty dollars beer?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Right? I just I find a comical that fans will
do that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, And they'll rip the players and they'm like, dude,
you just paid one hundred and twenty five dollars to
park get car.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
To go to a football game. That don't even count
these tickets. What time much these tickets are going for,
especially on the resale market. Uh, thank you, Eric, Robert,
you and Florida. You're on the our couple with Robin
e from what you got.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Hey, you guys doing who's speaking for Chris in the union?
Speaker 10 (19:28):
You can sell this PTO?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, I mean right, Chris, There's no doubt about it.
Chris is always off, but it is what it is.
You know, some of us have to work hold down
the show.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I'm just saying, really miss the travel all over the car, mister,
travel all over the place.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
Rop you're here to day in every night you're here,
and I applaud you and you much appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Now I have zero I've never been in professional sports.
That will never be as a thirty eight year old male.
What if they if the first round picked, their contracts
were one undred percent guaranteed, your second contract is seventy
five percent guaranteed, and then if you make it to
a third, which not many do, it's fifty percent. I
(20:09):
don't know if that's something they can do, and it
maybe a wild statement, but I look forward to hearing
your answers, love the show and eat them. Glad to
have you on.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Appreciate it, thank you. I think it should go the
other way.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I think you should be able to come in and
you know, partial guarantees and then like if you once
you hit a benchmark of performing and all that, I
think your third contract should be fully guaranteed, maybe the
second seventy five percent guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
That way, that way you earn it.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I mean, it's a tough business to stick and stay in,
as Rob likes to say, so I think you should
be able to earn those fully guaranteed contracts.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I think it should just be guaranteed from the start,
so you get three years and after three years, because
what you have here with the French size tag is
basically they should have control of you.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So that's that's where the issue comes in.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
So if I give you a three year contract, Ephraim,
and you perform, I can go get another one. If
I don't perform, then somebody can. I don't have to
sign you. Somebody else can say we don't want you
or whatever, and that's all it is. And then you
have to earn every every three years. I'm just giving
out the number. And that's how it should be for
these players, because it's not fair baseball contract. These guys
(21:20):
signed eleven year contract fully guaranteed.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Fully it takes so much to get to their their foot,
but they get six years, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But they do get paid.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
If you're good enough, Ephraim, and you do all the
things you need to do, you're gonna get paid in baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You just you just saw one guy get seven hundred million.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Well he's just having to beat them.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But I'm just saying, but he got seven Come on,
all right, so all right, coming up next, we're gonna
do a little troll and a roll a little earlier
than normal.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Be first, let's get you caught up.
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Speaker 10 (22:04):
That's right, he's trolling a rolling on Martin White and
I'll break it down for you guys real quick. If
the guys liked the story that I read, get a
roll sound, and if they don't, they'll troll in it.
So everyone was wondering why Aaron Rodgers is mandatory mini camp.
So lucky for us guys, he took the time out
(22:25):
to explain to everybody what mini camp actually is instead
of explaining why you missed it. The thing I don't understand,
he said, is that when I was in the NC
North that played for that teen years ago, there used
to be a real thing called mini Caamp, where it
was you normally had one of those. Now they got
it's not Mini Caamp. You could arbitrarily put a tag
on whatever week about the aids they want. So if
(22:45):
this is a mini camp week, it somehow makes it
more mandatory than the other weeks. Bren Parker trolling or rolling,
Aaron rocking and reasoning.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Uh, I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think that in this situation, it should be crystal
clear what you're doing and that's all. And I don't
think that on both sides, the Jets and they didn't
have to have this be a thing. If they're saying
from that, you could figure out which days you're doing,
and they know if they knew about this in advance,
(23:21):
that they could have figured it out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And you know what you want to say, well, why
are you making an exception?
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Do you not want to have your quarterback there for this?
So if there was an option, I think that they
should have used it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
But this is the Jets, that's me.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I agree with you, and the reason is that you're
rolling with it, right, I'm rolling. I'm definitely rolling with
it because once you hear it, like we talked about this,
I was on the air and we talked about it
when it was happening and we didn't have any of
the information. I'm like, yo, look man, you can't be
half out, you got to be all in. Just can't disappear.
But when you find out they knew exactly the day
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he was going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And they still did it anyway, did it?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
And like he said, and this does happen because I know,
first of all, the off season is optional. It is
not mandatory. And except you you have two mandatory mini
camps and that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Everything else is off. Everything else is optional until you
get to tame count on it. But but it doesn't
mean that you violated anything.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You haven't broken any right, So if you want to
switch the title of one of those OTAs to a
mandatory mini camp after everything was already said, then that's
on you.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
That's not on the phone, Paron.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
It's giving you the facts.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
He's just telling the truth, very rarely telling the true
telling the moon is full.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
He from trolling rolling on a couple of Fox Sports
Radio despite demanding the trade forty nine ers wide receiver, Brandon,
are you reported to training camp?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
You?
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Han's been sure to let everybody know he wants to
raise but still decided to show up. They can't rob
rolling or rolling? Are you decisions to a turn camp?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I'm trolling it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The problem is that Union has painted these guys in
the corner and there's nothing that they can do. So
if you don't go, it's not like you're losing time
or or you accelerate to free agency faster by not
you know what I mean by not participating, you don't.
You stay still and they still control you. You don't,
you don't gain anything. So I get it. But the
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only way you really get the message across that you're
serious is by staying out.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Anything else.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
They look at you and and privately they're laughing because
they know that you're you're gonna cave.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Well, I'm I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Because his agent or whoever, even though he's unhappy, sat
him down and said, you have zero leverage.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Right you're going.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
You're going into a contract year. The best thing you
can do is show up the camp with the best
team in football. I believe have the best roster. Everything
is aligned for you guys to go back to the
super Bowl and have the type of year that you
know you can have. And now you control the Now
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you have more leverage than you do now, you are
locked in. If you sit out this year, you sit
out the whole year. You don't get any closer to
free agency. So come in, do you work, get your
fourteen million dollars or whatever he's making, and then next
year you go in and and and reset the market
for receivers.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just reset the market. So I'm I'm rolling with that, roll.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
And rolling high a couple of Fox Sports Radio. The
Dodgers only six games about five hundreds since June first,
and have completely run out of healthy pitchers. Wedding on
Clayton Kershaw, who's older than me, to come back into
the lineup to try to stabilize things. There's a few
options on the trade market, and the recent is being
report so is the team is all in on acquiring
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new talent. Rob trolling or rolling the Dodgers buying at
the deadline.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
They're buying. I'm rolling with that, dude. You know what,
the Dodgers have some pitching issues. You're hoping that Clayton
Kershaw with tape glue and icicle pops are going to
hold together, like seriously, like this is why you can't
do that, and this is why they faltered from over
(27:22):
the last couple of years when they get to the
postseason and they don't have enough pitching, cause you could
have all the hitting you want.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
If you don't have pitching in the postseason, you're not
wanting anything.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, I'm going to control this one because they have
so many pictures on injured on the injured list.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I think they get healthy when they need.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Their bats have been able to save them.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I mean, show hey is showing out brother.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
You get Mookie back, right, They're getting healthy right around
the time that they need to get healthy.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
So if they can just get to you.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Know, the end of the season when we're going into
the postseason where guys are back, I think they have
enough when everybody in that bullpen is healthy.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
All right, mister Martin wise appreciate you don't forget well
everybody where they can hear you on the on the weekends.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
This weekend, just ain't on your radio because I'm doing
that much. I'm doing the updateship before my show from
eight to my shows eight to eleven and then Sunday.
I was supposed to actually do a show with you
from Salaam eight to eleven Easton again. Sorry I heard
he had to skip it.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Yes, my son is my son's birthday, man, teenager Man,
I would love to be here in studio with you, man,
but I think year old son rash Yeah, it's Rashid's
birthday this weekend.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Man.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So's he's coming into me into pre manhood as a teenager.
So we we're doing something special for Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
Sorry, I'll allow it that. I allow that he got
one more struck with more.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
All right, thank you, mart, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It is a couple, yes, sir, on a trash talking
to They don't forget in the second hour your chance
to trash anyone anything in the world of sports. We
will not interrupt you, stop you. If you want to
rip on from you go ahead. If you want to
praise me, I mean rip on, Rob you can do
that as well.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Coming up next, we're gona do a little Shekel City.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
And uh Bobby Wood Junior, like the Royals are mad
that he didn't get to hit for a cycle because
he wind up getting hit the next.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Bout it here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't know, I remember baseball when that kind of happened.
From if you were having a good day at the play.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, they go.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Exactly we hits in the first four innings. I'm keep
it hit again. There you go. We'll talk about that
and much more.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It is the Odd Couple from Salam for Chris Bussar
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Speaker 6 (30:06):
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Speaker 3 (30:17):
It is the Odd Couple on a trash Talking Tuesday.
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a little shekel city. All right, here we go a
(31:05):
little Shekel City. To get started. Let's go with the
Texas Rangers minus one and a half runs. You know
they won the World Series last year. They're still on
the five hundred all year. Bruce Bochi, who has won
four World Series, been to five.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Guess what he from?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Every time he wins the World Series he doesn't make
the playoffs the next year.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Wow, is that unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
That's a lot of party.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But I'm gonna take the Rangers minus one and a
half at home taking on the lowly White Sox. I
got Arizona plus I mean Arizona minus one and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
They're on the road taking on the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Worlds have won eight out of ten, but I'm gonna
take Kansas City minus one and a half in this game,
and the Red Sox to win Colorado taking on the Rockies.
I'm gonna take Boston minus one and a half runs
in Denver over the Rockies. Remember here we go, best
bet Rangers minus one and a half runs, got Arizona
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minus one and a half, and I have Boston minus
one and a half in Denver. And remember, I'm not
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you who
I bet on you making money. I was earlier when
football season kicks in and basketball kind of doing. Baseball, No,
a lot of people win because one and a half
runs a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But you'd be surprised how many one run games they.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Were, you know, because all the things are usually one
and a half runs, and there's always that one. You
have a parlay and you'll and the Yankees minus one
and a half to win by four.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You're like, all right.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Then the other game, the Dodgers will win by four,
all right, you know, one and a half runs, and
then it will be like the Tigers and the Royals
one and a half runs, and the Tigers win by one,
and then you're like, yeah, so all right, speaking of baseball,
let's talk about this. So rob G, can you jump
on the Kansas City Bobby Wood Junior and his dad,
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of course, was a major leaguer. He's unbelievable, Bobby Wit Junior.
They've already the Royals paid him game a big contract.
They never do that in Kansas City. This kid is
unbelievable All star. So last night he had three hits
I think in the first four innings on all he
needed was a single to get the cycle.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
You know that doesn't happen every day.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Sure, Rob g And what happened He got hit his
next at bat, which I believe was the sixth inning, correct,
And they were not happy, the Kansas City Royal.
Speaker 12 (33:30):
Well, in full disclosure, he did have another up after
that and he flied out right, so he had the
opportunity for the cycle. But yes, because he had been
such a hot streak, especially in that game, the Royals,
their fan base, the announcers were all up in arms
that the Diamondbacks pitcher would throw at Witt Junior when
he was on the verge of history.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Is that we from They were up in arms that
he got hit by a pitch.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Now he got three. It's in the first four innings.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You're supposed to get hit by the next pitch the
next time you're up.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Are you? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
That's where we are now.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Like in the old days, like guys couldn't pitch Bob
Gibson and all, they could not pitch in the Major
because if you better not you hit a home run,
you better not look at him, all right, because the
next time, guess what it is coming.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
And what you do is make people uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Nobody wants to be uncomfortable, Ephrom.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's what you throw inside.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
You make a guy move his feet, you make a
guy be like, hey, that next one that almost got
me in the ribs. I better be careful. I better
not dig in. That's what you're doing. And Bobby, I'm
not saying not head on and we're not talking about that,
but how are you gonna be up in arms?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
He got hit? Did they hit him in the head.
They hit him in the head. You could be up
in arms.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, that's that is a gamesmanship, and it's it was
common practice. I mean, look, we're not gonna let you
come up here and and hit a cycle. Six No, no, no, no, no,
we're not gonna do that. And guess what the next
time he went up to bad he flied out. Guess
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what was on his mind?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Right, this is mine. Guess what was on his mind.
It wasn't hitting the cycle. It was about exactly, I
better be ready it might hit me again.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
All it all it takes for you to get that
trigger point just a half second slower, that's all they're
Once you can get off that spot a half second
uh later than normal, then they've done their job. And
that's what you know. A little friendly tap the last
time you were at the plate does no, no doubt
about it. That's just baseball. As long as you're not
head hunting. I'm okay with it. You throw the ball.
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If I get you in the thigh or the butt
or the back, I'm okay. I threw the ball in.
I'm trying to brush you off the plate. If it
catches you, it catches you. We are so entitled that
we that we Bobby, Oh, what are you doing? Throw
the ball over the plate so Bobby Wick has a
chance at us had a cycle.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Really, No, we're not doing it.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
No, Bobby, you got three hits. Be happy with that.
We're not giving up a cycle to that.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Good luck next week.
Speaker 12 (36:11):
We're not today or worse than a single rob The
way he was hitting, they would have been lucky if
he would have got just a.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Single, right, I mean, he might have hit a home run.
But but that's where we are. God forbid. Oh, they're
so mean. They're throwing a people. They're throwing so hard
and inside it almost step all almost hit him. Yes,
a purpose pitch. I throw it on purpose. I want
you to back up. I don't want you to dig
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in plant and dig your back foot. No, I don't
want you to do that. I want you to think
when Nolan Ryan was pitching, you know what made him even?
He was wild and you had to be like better
not you better be ready. They already told Nolan Roddy
drink a little bit, you know and all that.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Wow, you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Dig it on Nolan.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
No you're not.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
No, man, Come on goodness, gracious, baseball.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
It's crazy. Are your boys playing this summer at all?
Or just doing basketball?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
My youngest who is the real baseball player, He's a
real athlete, right, He was like that, I think I'm
done with baseball really? Yeah, man, ten years old, he
decided he wants to focus only on basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I just hate that for him. I know I do,
and I'm not and I'm not a I let him
make his own. No, No, you can't force him. I'm
but I think the kids are like all the greatest
athletes play. You played more than once more And that's
the thing I try to tell these kids.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Don't take yourself out of it, do you.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Like the game or at some point you won't be
as good and they'll be a way.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
So slow, right, you know, and basketball like so we
don't In the spring, we didn't play basketball. We just
did baseball. I don't like them to double up, take
too much time and out of school.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
So all right, coming up next, we're gonna talk about
the w n B A and all the belly aching
and E for my can't take it stick and stay
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
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Speaker 2 (01:37):
But eat from Salam, how are.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You before you get started? Go ahead? Mary?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Go ahead? Mary?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Mary's not playing it. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'm not gonna be speaking unless I get the property.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We'll let you know what. Just cut his mike.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Let's go, man, hit hit the button. Mary. Come on up.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Mary's not doing it.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Mary, you better do it. Mar me up. Mary.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Don't don't buckle to pressure.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Mary.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We go way back, okay, walk flats, way back.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You giving in? Come on Mary?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hit the button. Sam showed you where it was. Let's
go respect.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right, Jack Off from San Diego State number seventy four
from Salam.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
That's right. You heard the people. I can't even know
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'm doing great. How old is that tape? Five years ago?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Old?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
A long time ago? But anyway, he from Salami for
Chris Bassard.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
All good.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, I'm great, man, I'm great. It's always good to
be here filling with you guys. Shout out to IOWA
Sam for making sure that that went down. But look,
I'm happy man, I'm happy to be here. I'm actually
in studio with you. And then when I walked in
and I saw you, and I said, hey, man, look
talk that trash you'd be talking now, I'll be on
the phone.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now, I'll be in here. You can't get choked on
the air. Now, choke me. That choke me out right here.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Hey, one thing you know in person on the phone,
I don't change, you know that from I'm not one
of the old I'm not right, but I ain't one
of these fake tough there guys like that. We'll talk
a big game when you're not around you.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
You you hold from whether you get beat up or not.
You're gonna be tough.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm gonna be tough always.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's what happens when you grow up in New York
and that's how your way you make your way through.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But man, okay, great show.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Let's welcome in the odd couple crew because you wouldn't
be able to do this fine radio program without them.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Rob g of course is our producer.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Uh we got Brian Finley of course is at the
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Speaker 2 (03:45):
He'll keep us updated throughout the program.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And Elijah Elijah, our social media guru, is back from vacation.
Who comes back from vacation on a Tuesday. But it's Elijah, right, yeah,
the way he worked his days out, So Elijah's back
for the social media. And of course on the Ones
in twos, why bug there you go? And Mary Mary
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on the Ones in twos. She is our engineer, all right,
he from let's get started here and this is right
up your alley with football and all that other kind
of stuff in the NFL again, any chance they get
to make money off the players and put them in
harm's way And nobody wants this. Nobody needs an eighteenth
football game. Nobody needed a seventeenth football game. Okay, but
(04:35):
here's what fans don't understand. There's only one reason why
they want an eighteenth game and why they wanted a seventh.
They don't make any money off the exhibition games. They're
local TV, they're not national, they're not a part of
the national deal. And when they go and make these
games real, the value is through the roof, of course.
(04:56):
So that's all this is. It's not about oh no, no,
if they could have thirty games and get enough players
to play, they would play thirty games. This is the
problem with Las Vegas and gambling on football. There's not
enough inventory, right, there's only a few of seventeen weeks.
If they were had a schedule like baseball, it would
be even more ridiculous than the money.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
They're good, right, that would be a travisty.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right, But you can't get enough people to play. But Ephraim,
here's my issue.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And I know you were a part of the Players Union, correct,
But I mean I don't mean like just as a member.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But didn't you like participate.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yes, okay, of course you participate.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And I thought, I think the Players Union is the
worst freaking union in the history of the United States,
the Players Union, because they have been bent over more
times than I'm willing to even admit.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And every time the NFL comes calling.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The players easily have all the power, all the Jews.
Because all you got to do, Ephraim, to get the
NFL to pay attention and to come to the table
and work with you is stop the game, stop the money,
trained stop it, and then they'll understand that you're serious
and you're not going to allow them to work you
over like a burger and fries, which is what they've
(06:14):
done time and time again.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
All Right, Look, the one thing we've known for years
and even when I played and all of that, Uh,
the NFL PA the most glaring thing for me, and
when you talk about organizations have having the players best
interest at heart, the number one thing that sticks out
(06:41):
to me is the lack of healthcare, lifetime healthcare for
NFL players the most Whose fault is that? That's our fault,
that's the players, that's players players fault.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Because the problem is when you're a current player and
you're playing and you've had health insurance, great health insurance.
Actually since you've been in the league, so twenty one,
twenty three years old, you've had health insurance.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Everything's going great.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
That's all you see, that's all you see. The problem
with that is five years after a player retires, that's
when their healthcare runs out from who when you need it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Who needs health care? Five years after everybody? But what
that right?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It runs out at that it runs out. You get
a letter, you get you're on your own. You got
to go get you gotta breakure out, you get you
get your cobra for however long that last call it
cobra For a reason.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It will bite you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It'll bite you, wheeze the life out of you when
you see those payments.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
But those payments are crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
But what happens is you have to now go and
find out a way to get healthcare, which I didn't
know at the time this happened to me, you know,
about a decade ago or whatever, and I was.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Like, I don't know what I don't I don't know
how to go get healthcare.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I've had it my whole life since I've been an adults,
since I've been in the in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And that takes me.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Back to the NFLPA and fighting and wanting this talking
about yeah, the eighteenth game is a possibility, and so
on and so forth. I would say this to the representatives,
to the heads of the NFLPA, to all the current players,
if you don't start the negotiation for an eighteenth game
(08:38):
with lifetime health benefits for all players who are vested
and we're not even talking and started there to.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Be vested three and a half years, which is what
with three three that's not ten the average life expectancy.
God should say, uh, careers three and a half season,
that's it. So that's where being fully vested has to
be three and a half three.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You got to be on the active roster essentially four years,
but you get three three. If you're on the active
roster for three years, you get that year right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Very easily.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The NFL Players Association could have healthcare and guarantee contracts tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You hear me tomorrow from not twenty years from now.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Stop the money train, Stop letting these owners do this
to you. And and they have figured out a great system,
which is sixty percent of the players are those guys
who are.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Afraid to miss a patcheck.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Those are the guys, right, So they make those guys
the majority, and then the other guys who have the
big contract and the long term and play ten or
twelve years, they're the minority. So those are the guys
who really want it right, who make all that money,
but the other guys don't want to miss a paycheck.
Here's what baseball did to do that. Where you have
the inequities of people making money from the union has
(10:08):
a war chest Baseball players they strike or whatever it is,
they walk out. Ephram comes to them and says, here's
my mortgage, here's my bills. Guess what the union does
they pay your bills. Pay your bills till it counts. Okay,
it's simple. You as a player, are you gonna bellyate
with the union if they're paying all your bills and
(10:29):
they say to you, once you get your money back,
you take it and put it back into the war
chests for the next group of players. It's so simple.
It's simple.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
And look, if you're trying to add another game, which
also is now adding risk of more injury, which also
adds the risk of longer term injury. When you need
health care, it's convenient that around thirty five, forty years, oh,
(11:00):
you no longer have it. The league is no longer
paying for it, and they've tried to subsidize that with
the NFL hospital network where they make too much money.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It's too much.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It's too much money not to have full health benefits
for you and your family for the duration of your life.
For me, it doesn't make sense for someone who played
for thirteen years and one hundred and fifty nine games
and not eight surgeries, two torn labrams, broken hands, herniated
(11:35):
disk in my back soon coming up on two knee replacements,
for someone who just I just listed and just me.
So when you don't. That's that's coming out of my pocket.
And we have a reimbursement situation where you got to
(11:55):
pay it and then if they deem it, okay, they'll
pay it. It shouldn't even have to get to that.
It shouldn't even be that you should be locked in
on insurance. Thank god for the writer's Guild. Thank god
that I was smart enough to dive in to another
profession where they had a strong guild. I have excellent
health care for my family, and I guess how much
(12:17):
it costs for me to ensure my dependent Please tell
me one hundred and fifty dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But that's because they got this is.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
This is real life, right, Okay, So for me, back
to eighteen games. If you want eighteen games, okay, owners,
we'll give you eighteen games. We know the type of
revenue each game generates. But what we want from you,
and what we're going to start with, is lifetime health
care for all that are vested in the NFL. Come
back to us when you guys are ready to negotiate.
(12:47):
That would be my That's would be my stance.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And that would be the correct stance. But the NFL players.
As strong as they are, they're very, very weak when
it comes down to this.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Because they come in and they say, do you guys
want higher salaries? Who's gonna say no to that. Who's
gonna say we don't want higher salaries when you're currently playing.
We heard the redit, We heard it. You guys would well,
you know what do you guys want? You guys want
more salary. You guys want less training camp practices. You
guys want all of that.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Those The last one was smoke weed. We won't test
for for weed. Everybody signs want that, but they don't
want health care.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
What do you think you're smoking the weed for? Hey,
you got migraines, but you're smoking the.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Weed for it?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Can I give you this?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Please give it to me.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
As of February twenty twenty three, major League baseball players
qualify for health insurance after play how many games in
the major leagues?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
From one? You know it, I know it, one, I
know it?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
One game one you make it to the big league,
you play one game lifetime locked in for lifetile healthcare
and forty three days ready forty three days as a
big leaguer for the pension.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Forty three. What are we talking about?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
This is crazy? Okay, guess who guess what league makes
more money? No?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Crazy, right, but they guess what league makes more money?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But they don't want to share it with the players
because why But what did the baseball players do?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They stopped the World Series?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Get you ain't doing it?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The World Series have been played for one hundred years.
What oh no, no, we're out on the World Series.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Basketball has that same level of leadership in terms of
player driven leagues as well. Right when they wanted Donald
Sterling out, there was like.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes, dude, you're out tomorrow, You're out.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
This is not gonna be next week. This is now.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
We ain't nobody playing if he's not out. They made
a decision, they voted he had to sell the team.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
NFL.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
They come on day one and they all hold hands
some solid there.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Remember that the paid this parent discrepancy between stars and sixty.
So it's so big. It's so big, all right?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What kind concessions should the players ask for a return
of an eighteen game NFL season. We'll continue this conversation
with you next. It is the odd couple on a
trash talking Tuesday, Rob Parker along with e from salam
In for the vacation in Chris Broussard.
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Rob Park along with Ephrom Salam on a Trash Talking
Tuesday telephone number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We want to hear from you what your players ask
for for an eighteenth regular season game from I know
people want to get in.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, let's go. We got Eric in New Hampshire, you
and the odd couple with Robin e from what you got.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Hey, guys, I love the show. Just want to say
I was listening Sunday night when you told your story
about Jacoby Jones. I was crying in my car. I
was that was such a touching story. I'm so sorry
for the reason that you had to tell it, but
I you know, I want you to know that, you know,
(17:48):
we're definitely listening and at it. You know, definitely means
a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I appreciate that, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, so may. My main point was that you,
as fans, we're kind of responsible too for what happens here,
especially with the NFL. You know, fans don't really have
a good understanding of how the union works, or how
unions work in general. You know, union membership is two
(18:18):
thirds less in America than it was sixty years ago,
so people just don't know what they do and what
they are, and you know a lot of people have
these anti union tendencies anyway, and it kind of leads
to people dismissing the players and you know, if there's
if there's no games for a while, or if there's
(18:39):
a strike, or even if they threaten the strike, fans
will start to get impatient. And it's not with the
owners most of the time. You know, what I hear
from most people I know is that they're impatient with
the players. Why are the players asking for more? Don't
they have enough?
Speaker 10 (18:54):
All?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
They're greedy?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Right, But they go in and buy eighteen dollars front fries,
not even think, not even do you want to park?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You want to park the thirty dollars beer?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Right? I just I find a comical that fans will
do that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, And they'll rip the players and they'm like, dude,
you just paid one hundred and twenty five dollars to
park get car.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
To go to a football game. That don't even count
these tickets. What time much these tickets are going for,
especially on the resale market. Uh, thank you, Eric, Robert,
you and Florida. You're on the our couple with Robin
e from what you got.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Hey, you guys doing who's speaking for Chris in the union?
Speaker 10 (19:28):
You can sell this PTO?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, I mean right, Chris, There's no doubt about it.
Chris is always off, but it is what it is.
You know, some of us have to work hold down
the show.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I'm just saying, really miss the travel all over the car, mister,
travel all over the place.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
Rop you're here to day in every night you're here,
and I applaud you and you much appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Now I have zero I've never been in professional sports.
That will never be as a thirty eight year old male.
What if they if the first round picked, their contracts
were one undred percent guaranteed, your second contract is seventy
five percent guaranteed, and then if you make it to
a third, which not many do, it's fifty percent. I
(20:09):
don't know if that's something they can do, and it
maybe a wild statement, but I look forward to hearing
your answers, love the show and eat them. Glad to
have you on.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Appreciate it, thank you. I think it should go the
other way.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I think you should be able to come in and
you know, partial guarantees and then like if you once
you hit a benchmark of performing and all that, I
think your third contract should be fully guaranteed, maybe the
second seventy five percent guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
That way, that way you earn it.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I mean, it's a tough business to stick and stay in,
as Rob likes to say, so I think you should
be able to earn those fully guaranteed contracts.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I think it should just be guaranteed from the start,
so you get three years and after three years, because
what you have here with the French size tag is
basically they should have control of you.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So that's that's where the issue comes in.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
So if I give you a three year contract, Ephraim,
and you perform, I can go get another one. If
I don't perform, then somebody can. I don't have to
sign you. Somebody else can say we don't want you
or whatever, and that's all it is. And then you
have to earn every every three years. I'm just giving
out the number. And that's how it should be for
these players, because it's not fair baseball contract. These guys
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signed eleven year contract fully guaranteed.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Fully it takes so much to get to their their foot,
but they get six years, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But they do get paid.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
If you're good enough, Ephraim, and you do all the
things you need to do, you're gonna get paid in baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You just you just saw one guy get seven hundred million.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Well he's just having to beat them.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But I'm just saying, but he got seven Come on,
all right, so all right, coming up next, we're gonna
do a little troll and a roll a little earlier
than normal.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Be first, let's get you caught up.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker week days at seven
pm Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
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Speaker 10 (22:04):
That's right, he's trolling a rolling on Martin White and
I'll break it down for you guys real quick. If
the guys liked the story that I read, get a
roll sound, and if they don't, they'll troll in it.
So everyone was wondering why Aaron Rodgers is mandatory mini camp.
So lucky for us guys, he took the time out
(22:25):
to explain to everybody what mini camp actually is instead
of explaining why you missed it. The thing I don't understand,
he said, is that when I was in the NC
North that played for that teen years ago, there used
to be a real thing called mini Caamp, where it
was you normally had one of those. Now they got
it's not Mini Caamp. You could arbitrarily put a tag
on whatever week about the aids they want. So if
(22:45):
this is a mini camp week, it somehow makes it
more mandatory than the other weeks. Bren Parker trolling or rolling,
Aaron rocking and reasoning.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Uh, I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think that in this situation, it should be crystal
clear what you're doing and that's all. And I don't
think that on both sides, the Jets and they didn't
have to have this be a thing. If they're saying
from that, you could figure out which days you're doing,
and they know if they knew about this in advance,
(23:21):
that they could have figured it out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And you know what you want to say, well, why
are you making an exception?
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Do you not want to have your quarterback there for this?
So if there was an option, I think that they
should have used it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
But this is the Jets, that's me.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I agree with you, and the reason is that you're
rolling with it, right, I'm rolling. I'm definitely rolling with
it because once you hear it, like we talked about this,
I was on the air and we talked about it
when it was happening and we didn't have any of
the information. I'm like, yo, look man, you can't be
half out, you got to be all in. Just can't disappear.
But when you find out they knew exactly the day
(23:57):
he was going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And they still did it anyway, did it?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
And like he said, and this does happen because I know,
first of all, the off season is optional. It is
not mandatory. And except you you have two mandatory mini
camps and that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Everything else is off. Everything else is optional until you
get to tame count on it. But but it doesn't
mean that you violated anything.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You haven't broken any right, So if you want to
switch the title of one of those OTAs to a
mandatory mini camp after everything was already said, then that's
on you.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
That's not on the phone, Paron.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
It's giving you the facts.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
He's just telling the truth, very rarely telling the true
telling the moon is full.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
He from trolling rolling on a couple of Fox Sports
Radio despite demanding the trade forty nine ers wide receiver, Brandon,
are you reported to training camp?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
You?
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Han's been sure to let everybody know he wants to
raise but still decided to show up. They can't rob
rolling or rolling? Are you decisions to a turn camp?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I'm trolling it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The problem is that Union has painted these guys in
the corner and there's nothing that they can do. So
if you don't go, it's not like you're losing time
or or you accelerate to free agency faster by not
you know what I mean by not participating, you don't.
You stay still and they still control you. You don't,
you don't gain anything. So I get it. But the
(25:25):
only way you really get the message across that you're
serious is by staying out.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Anything else.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
They look at you and and privately they're laughing because
they know that you're you're gonna cave.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Well, I'm I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Because his agent or whoever, even though he's unhappy, sat
him down and said, you have zero leverage.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Right you're going.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
You're going into a contract year. The best thing you
can do is show up the camp with the best
team in football. I believe have the best roster. Everything
is aligned for you guys to go back to the
super Bowl and have the type of year that you
know you can have. And now you control the Now
(26:13):
you have more leverage than you do now, you are
locked in. If you sit out this year, you sit
out the whole year. You don't get any closer to
free agency. So come in, do you work, get your
fourteen million dollars or whatever he's making, and then next
year you go in and and and reset the market
for receivers.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just reset the market. So I'm I'm rolling with that, roll.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
And rolling high a couple of Fox Sports Radio. The
Dodgers only six games about five hundreds since June first,
and have completely run out of healthy pitchers. Wedding on
Clayton Kershaw, who's older than me, to come back into
the lineup to try to stabilize things. There's a few
options on the trade market, and the recent is being
report so is the team is all in on acquiring
(26:58):
new talent. Rob trolling or rolling the Dodgers buying at
the deadline.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
They're buying. I'm rolling with that, dude. You know what,
the Dodgers have some pitching issues. You're hoping that Clayton
Kershaw with tape glue and icicle pops are going to
hold together, like seriously, like this is why you can't
do that, and this is why they faltered from over
(27:22):
the last couple of years when they get to the
postseason and they don't have enough pitching, cause you could
have all the hitting you want.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
If you don't have pitching in the postseason, you're not
wanting anything.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, I'm going to control this one because they have
so many pictures on injured on the injured list.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I think they get healthy when they need.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Their bats have been able to save them.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I mean, show hey is showing out brother.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
You get Mookie back, right, They're getting healthy right around
the time that they need to get healthy.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
So if they can just get to you.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Know, the end of the season when we're going into
the postseason where guys are back, I think they have
enough when everybody in that bullpen is healthy.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
All right, mister Martin wise appreciate you don't forget well
everybody where they can hear you on the on the weekends.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
This weekend, just ain't on your radio because I'm doing
that much. I'm doing the updateship before my show from
eight to my shows eight to eleven and then Sunday.
I was supposed to actually do a show with you
from Salaam eight to eleven Easton again. Sorry I heard
he had to skip it.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Yes, my son is my son's birthday, man, teenager Man,
I would love to be here in studio with you, man,
but I think year old son rash Yeah, it's Rashid's
birthday this weekend.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Man.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So's he's coming into me into pre manhood as a teenager.
So we we're doing something special for Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
Sorry, I'll allow it that. I allow that he got
one more struck with more.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
All right, thank you, mart, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It is a couple, yes, sir, on a trash talking
to They don't forget in the second hour your chance
to trash anyone anything in the world of sports. We
will not interrupt you, stop you. If you want to
rip on from you go ahead. If you want to
praise me, I mean rip on, Rob you can do
that as well.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Coming up next, we're gona do a little Shekel City.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
And uh Bobby Wood Junior, like the Royals are mad
that he didn't get to hit for a cycle because
he wind up getting hit the next.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Bout it here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't know, I remember baseball when that kind of happened.
From if you were having a good day at the play.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, they go.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Exactly we hits in the first four innings. I'm keep
it hit again. There you go. We'll talk about that
and much more.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It is the Odd Couple from Salam for Chris Bussar
Rob Parker right here on Fox Sports Radio, Stick and
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Speaker 6 (30:06):
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Speaker 3 (30:17):
It is the Odd Couple on a trash Talking Tuesday.
Can't wait to do that in the next hour, Rob
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a little shekel city. All right, here we go a
(31:05):
little Shekel City. To get started. Let's go with the
Texas Rangers minus one and a half runs. You know
they won the World Series last year. They're still on
the five hundred all year. Bruce Bochi, who has won
four World Series, been to five.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Guess what he from?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Every time he wins the World Series he doesn't make
the playoffs the next year.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Wow, is that unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
That's a lot of party.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But I'm gonna take the Rangers minus one and a
half at home taking on the lowly White Sox. I
got Arizona plus I mean Arizona minus one and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
They're on the road taking on the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Worlds have won eight out of ten, but I'm gonna
take Kansas City minus one and a half in this game,
and the Red Sox to win Colorado taking on the Rockies.
I'm gonna take Boston minus one and a half runs
in Denver over the Rockies. Remember here we go, best
bet Rangers minus one and a half runs, got Arizona
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minus one and a half, and I have Boston minus
one and a half in Denver. And remember, I'm not
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you who
I bet on you making money. I was earlier when
football season kicks in and basketball kind of doing. Baseball, No,
a lot of people win because one and a half
runs a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But you'd be surprised how many one run games they.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Were, you know, because all the things are usually one
and a half runs, and there's always that one. You
have a parlay and you'll and the Yankees minus one
and a half to win by four.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You're like, all right.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Then the other game, the Dodgers will win by four,
all right, you know, one and a half runs, and
then it will be like the Tigers and the Royals
one and a half runs, and the Tigers win by one,
and then you're like, yeah, so all right, speaking of baseball,
let's talk about this. So rob G, can you jump
on the Kansas City Bobby Wood Junior and his dad,
(33:00):
of course, was a major leaguer. He's unbelievable, Bobby Wit Junior.
They've already the Royals paid him game a big contract.
They never do that in Kansas City. This kid is
unbelievable All star. So last night he had three hits
I think in the first four innings on all he
needed was a single to get the cycle.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
You know that doesn't happen every day.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Sure, Rob g And what happened He got hit his
next at bat, which I believe was the sixth inning, correct,
And they were not happy, the Kansas City Royal.
Speaker 12 (33:30):
Well, in full disclosure, he did have another up after
that and he flied out right, so he had the
opportunity for the cycle. But yes, because he had been
such a hot streak, especially in that game, the Royals,
their fan base, the announcers were all up in arms
that the Diamondbacks pitcher would throw at Witt Junior when
he was on the verge of history.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Is that we from They were up in arms that
he got hit by a pitch.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Now he got three. It's in the first four innings.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You're supposed to get hit by the next pitch the
next time you're up.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Are you? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
That's where we are now.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Like in the old days, like guys couldn't pitch Bob
Gibson and all, they could not pitch in the Major
because if you better not you hit a home run,
you better not look at him, all right, because the
next time, guess what it is coming.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
And what you do is make people uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Nobody wants to be uncomfortable, Ephrom.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's what you throw inside.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
You make a guy move his feet, you make a
guy be like, hey, that next one that almost got
me in the ribs. I better be careful. I better
not dig in. That's what you're doing. And Bobby, I'm
not saying not head on and we're not talking about that,
but how are you gonna be up in arms?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
He got hit? Did they hit him in the head.
They hit him in the head. You could be up
in arms.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, that's that is a gamesmanship, and it's it was
common practice. I mean, look, we're not gonna let you
come up here and and hit a cycle. Six No, no, no, no, no,
we're not gonna do that. And guess what the next
time he went up to bad he flied out. Guess
(35:10):
what was on his mind?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Right, this is mine. Guess what was on his mind.
It wasn't hitting the cycle. It was about exactly, I
better be ready it might hit me again.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
All it all it takes for you to get that
trigger point just a half second slower, that's all they're
Once you can get off that spot a half second
uh later than normal, then they've done their job. And
that's what you know. A little friendly tap the last
time you were at the plate does no, no doubt
about it. That's just baseball. As long as you're not
head hunting. I'm okay with it. You throw the ball.
(35:42):
If I get you in the thigh or the butt
or the back, I'm okay. I threw the ball in.
I'm trying to brush you off the plate. If it
catches you, it catches you. We are so entitled that
we that we Bobby, Oh, what are you doing? Throw
the ball over the plate so Bobby Wick has a
chance at us had a cycle.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Really, No, we're not doing it.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
No, Bobby, you got three hits. Be happy with that.
We're not giving up a cycle to that.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Good luck next week.
Speaker 12 (36:11):
We're not today or worse than a single rob The
way he was hitting, they would have been lucky if
he would have got just a.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Single, right, I mean, he might have hit a home run.
But but that's where we are. God forbid. Oh, they're
so mean. They're throwing a people. They're throwing so hard
and inside it almost step all almost hit him. Yes,
a purpose pitch. I throw it on purpose. I want
you to back up. I don't want you to dig
(36:39):
in plant and dig your back foot. No, I don't
want you to do that. I want you to think
when Nolan Ryan was pitching, you know what made him even?
He was wild and you had to be like better
not you better be ready. They already told Nolan Roddy
drink a little bit, you know and all that.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Wow, you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Dig it on Nolan.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
No you're not.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
No, man, Come on goodness, gracious, baseball.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
It's crazy. Are your boys playing this summer at all?
Or just doing basketball?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
My youngest who is the real baseball player, He's a
real athlete, right, He was like that, I think I'm
done with baseball really? Yeah, man, ten years old, he
decided he wants to focus only on basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I just hate that for him. I know I do,
and I'm not and I'm not a I let him
make his own. No, No, you can't force him. I'm
but I think the kids are like all the greatest
athletes play. You played more than once more And that's
the thing I try to tell these kids.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Don't take yourself out of it, do you.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Like the game or at some point you won't be
as good and they'll be a way.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
So slow, right, you know, and basketball like so we
don't In the spring, we didn't play basketball. We just
did baseball. I don't like them to double up, take
too much time and out of school.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
So all right, coming up next, we're gonna talk about
the w n B A and all the belly aching
and E for my can't take it stick and stay
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