July 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us why they believe Major League Baseball got it right in a big way with their decision to have a sudden death Home Run Derby to close the MLB All-Star Game, explain why they didn't have a problem with MLBselectively editing Vin Scully's iconic home run call during their Hank Aaron tribute, and explain why they have zero interest in seeing a potential Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch.
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Major League Baseball on a glorious night. A little right
in there, but it didn't stop the party. And then
to finish the home run derby, which I get and
you know me, I'm a traditional kind of baseball guy,
but I thought that was cool and I'm alright with it.
There was a couple things we got to see the
challenge of pitches right, which was interesting the way that
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that went, as long as they don't overdo it, like
there was a couple right.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, this was the launching pad, if you will. And
I then want to see how people go to it.
But I think it should be and Martin brought this up,
and I think he's right. Probably be the manager, not
the pitcher like in the game, like thinking of because
why wouldn't it just be the catcher.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I mean, like to me like, why is.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The picture you don't want to kick the picture that
First of all, you you the catcher, you're literally cut
the while you were there. You just had it over
the play you framed it. And or the manager also
because the manager's thinking, okay, what do we do now?
What it's the challenge with the situation the game time.
Are we wasting it? Yeah? Versus the player You're you're
just ticked off. No, that was a strike versus hold on,
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hold on player. We need we need, we need it
when it really matters.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And it was used early obviously the All Star Game,
and and Scooba wasn't gonna pitch long so he had
to kind of throw it in there and it went
from two strikes to a strikeouts instead of a ball.
But anyway, uh, the home run derby, just your thoughts
because the fans bought ate it up.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I know there's some people.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Like, oh dude, stop, it's an exhibition game. It's for
the fans. It's fun. Do I want that to end
a regular season game? No?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Do I want it to end a tie game?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And what turned out to being excited was six nothing
National League, the American League Storms back, and then the
National League wins it. Schwarber from the Phillies, you know,
with the three bombs in his that bat, but by
his chance.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of listen, when you're on, you're on, when you're having
a run or having a season. You ever had that
that time where man the job, all of a sudden
you got a bonus. The girl you like called you
and said that's going that date and just maybe had
some bad news turned good and just we're like, oh,
this is kind of my season. That's baseball over the
last year, year and a half, two years now, Rob,
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I mean, you know, they were trying to figure things out,
how can we get more viewers, how can we speed
up the game? And Rob Manford credit have made a
few changes that traditionalist like maybe I wasn't on the
air with you at the time, but some people might
not have liked, hey, don't speed to the game the
shit right? And I did you think it was yesterday
or Monday? I can't remember the day, but I said,
he's in his He's in his sug Knight deth Ro
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era where he was just the boss. I'm making plays,
making calls. They were complaining in the Philadelphia Phillies well,
why does you know, why is the wiz kid getting
the men's getting to be in there? Why is he pitching? Why?
And he say, I asked y'all, wuld y'all pitch it?
Guarantee me one inning? And your pitcher said no, I
just pitched Sunday one said. The other one says, no,
I'd rather cool, he said, Do I want to do
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this every time?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But he pitches on hundred three hundred four miles. Why
would this can be something cool for the fans?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I talked to him, Yeah, uh, pregame just a night.
He's a kid.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
He's I mean literally, and I was like, is this
a whirlwind or you know what? He was just like,
he says, I can't even believe I'm sitting here in
a locker room in the clubhouse with all these guys
I grew up watching, you know what I mean, and
all this stuff he said.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
He said, I pinched myself every day.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And he's been on a roll rockets, so you get this.
The way he's been handling, like I said, the shift
and the pitch count and speeding the game up. In
the game is going well. He lucked into a Dodgers
Yankees which ended up being spectacular. Ready to the Roof,
carries over this season, radies through the roof. You have
a good offseason where want so it was gonna go
like they're in a great space right now, been a
good couple of years. Leads to the All Star Game
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and it starts off its competitive. I thought we'll get
into a little bit later. I thought they started the
game out. We were on the air and you represented
where you were, you in Atlanta. You had HBCU, you
had the Clark marching Man, you had Luda Chris, Jermaine Duprix.
It looked good, it felt good. It felt like it
felt the series right. It just they've been on to
be like that, and you look for people who you know,
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represent the city or whatever, and that's how you connect.
And I think it was great. There was It was
star studded. There were a lot of Atlanta people. Yeah,
I mean it's there, proud.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Of their hometown and all that and the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And I got stopped by a number of people, you know,
walking around the ballpark about the odd couple and it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Was really nice shout out to them.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So, and then the actual game, right, you you get
the competitives. You got the two young pitchers who looked
like they're gonna be the guy for the next decade. Uh,
the schemes and schoolbl and so obviously Scooble would have
preferred to do a little bit better. But the point
is you got the two stars off there out there right,
you got cart o'tany kind of sets it off for them.
They get rolling and it's just going and it's looking good.
It's fun. Yes, there was a big deficit, but they
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don't just see this is the difference. They didn't just
mail it in. Well, I guess that's just now to night.
Where y'all going. I heard Rob gonna be a magic city.
What we're doing. They kept fighting Rob, they came back.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
If you were watching the game, there were plays made,
diving catches and stuff like that, like, guys, don't like
where I saw what.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I can't remember was it. Uh he's from the Cubs.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And he dove for a ball out left field, And
I said to myself, he easily could have pulled up
and let that be a double line. It's a double
I'm not I'm not even going to chance like messing
my knee up or doing something you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Even some of the at bats, you know, Junior had
a couple where it was like really like, there's a
couple especially the one that went down the right now
the right line. It's just like, oh, like he could
have easily sayd I tried and swung whatever, but like, no,
I need this. We're in this game. We've got a
chance to come back, tie it up. We got a
chance to come back whin this thing. So that went
great as far as the seventh inning, the American League's
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four runs and eventually they were tied. And then we
have the home run derby off the swing off and
that ended up being really fun. So it couldn't have
gone any better for them. I thought it was. I
thought it was really good and from top to bottom,
and I said, yeah, he made a great catcher left.
And I just think baseball's having a great couple of
seasons right now with just the moves that they've made.
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Like I said, they fall into the Dodgers Yankees first
time since eighty one. That ends up being great.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But I wonder where people are, Like when you watched
it last night, you know a lot of people watched
did you like it? Like is this something. Could you
even see this for like during the regular season, because
the one thing I do not like as you put
the run on second base right away into tenth thing.
I get it, they don't want to play sixteen innings. Okay,
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I get that, but why can't we have one extra inning,
one extra frame to tenth inning and then you do
that to give it.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
A chance to win the game? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Because those games, to me, can wind up where you
win and they're not exciting men on second you butt
them the third and he scores on the fly ball. Okay,
you win a game, but that's not you didn't even
get a hit in the You know what it reminds
me of I think you might feel me.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It kind of reminds me of sudden death in the NFL,
where it's like, all right, I got to just kick
a field goal, take it off.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So the only thing I disagree on sudden death is
you can score defensively that you can in baseball, you
know what I mean? Like, like I've covered the lines
for twenty years. You know I've seen pick sixes go.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The other way. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, you know what Scott Mitchell or but you know
what I mean, Like you could win a game defensively
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Reason you get a kick off, you return it to
the forty, we throw a ten yard then a fifteen
yard pass, kick a field going r out of here,
you know, or if you want to even go with
the college how they used to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Where you know, college twenty five yards twenty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So it's like, oh okay, instead of going the whole
you know, one hundred or seventy five if you will.
But it was entertaining, it was funny. It was a
great way to say, here's a chance. It was it
was really the home run derby and the All Star
Game and having a baby. And to me, you got
a chance. A few guys, few pitches. Each of you
get a few pitches. Let's see what happens. We're not
burning you out. So you go back to your team
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messed up because that's happened. Dudes, something do home run
derbies and they're off for a few more weeks. They
just can't get the swing back together. Only a few batters,
few pitches, quick fun, get it over with and we
all move on. But the game itself was competitive. That
was fun way to end.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It because it wasn't It was six nothing, and you
could have said, like you said, a vacation, take the first.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Swing and get out of there, like you could do that.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So they're working to count, you know what I mean,
trying to get on bas like all that kind of stuff,
making plays. It was very, very entertaining when you put
all together, all.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Right, I give them credit. They gotta give them credit.
We complained. Listen, we'll sit here and that's coming February
and maybe complain about the NBA. Maybe they get it right,
maybe they don't. But my point is we'll complain when
it's when it's done poorly and just doesn't seem like
people cared. Gotta give them credit. MLB were there, they care,
the players were there. It seemed fun, and they seem
to get it right all right.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
What'd you think.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Of the derby at the end and is that something
that you would be interested in? Would you like to
see that for the regular season instead of putting the
guy on second base? Just your thoughts. A lot of
people thought it was exciting. There were some people who
didn't like it, but you're not everybody that exactly. But
Kelvin and I are in agreement. I thought that was fun.
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It was a great way. And I was the one.
I was in Milwaukee when they had the tie, and
that was bad. That was a bad ending to an
All Star game. Bud Selig was there in his home,
you know, park and a whole nine yards.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It just it didn't feel good with then the overreaction afterward.
Now with cal series home advances to overreaction. Okay, let's
not overreact there.
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I was there for the tribute to hankcam and I
thought it was nice. I did not immediately go that
this was omitted or how come they didn't say this,
or they did it because of Trump or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
So, uh yeah, let's play both clips.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
We'll play what got rob g the original one which
is Vince Sculling which they use, and you saw it
with all the lights out and like the candles and
then the seven fifteen on the big board. I mean
it was beautiful, it really was. And then a shot
of his wife from from behind. It was great.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment
for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous
moment for the country in the world.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
A black man is.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking
a record of an all time baseball idol okay.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
And the state of Georgia mar a country in the world,
all right, So clearly the first one longer he touches
on the race uh factor when it came to him
doing that, And you know, black man deep getting love
in the Deep South.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Your thoughts you were there? Now people are saying, you know,
kind of was a lot of think pieces on it afterwards.
Yeah you did, you You didn't you were upset with.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It at the time when I listened to it. No,
I really didn't, you know. I gotta admit, no one
talked about it like in the building, like at least
the people, and I think when you have time to
sit back and look at it, you want to dissect it.
I just thought it was really nice because obviously Hank
Aaron died, and remember they lost the All Star Game
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in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh yeah, twenty one.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I mean I'm down there telling the players about it
or whatever, and most didn't think it was you know,
like oh my god, what did they do to the
sound or whatever? But but people have a right to
listen to the original and feel like would have been
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better to have the whole thing. I wouldn't be mad
at anybody if they felt that way. But I did
not feel I gotta admit I didn't feel like, oh
my god, what did they just do or you know,
how could they do that? Like like, I did not
feel that way.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I think it was so well done that in real
time you couldn't have thought of it right because you're like, oh, look,
and then lights and then oh they got the you know,
seventh players, and then the ball. You know the thing,
the flying light thing is the ball and it was
so well done. All you're thinking of is Prava. This
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was incredible. That's how you pay a tribute, that's how
you pay homage. That then people who maybe weren't there
can think about the whole You know what it is
when you're at a game you didn't see the commercial
or you didn't see that player game.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And I'm recording. I can show you on my phone.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm like recording it, and I swear I didn't go,
wait a minute, where's this?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Really did think you're just too in the moment in
real time everybody where they were there at home because
it was just so well done and it was so thoughtful.
But then when you get the pause and you know,
this is what happens when that's what seven point two
million people watching.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And this is what people do. Though you know they.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Or they should have done this, Oh Beyonce, that you
missed the hidden meanings exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Kendrick Lamar does the Super Bowl perform, but that flag
meant this and the colors of the dancers really and
you're like, oh, I thought it was just a good
dance perform and they break it down. So here's what
I thought now that they brought it up. You go, oh, shoot,
he didn't mention that was it intentionally taken out? Yes,
and it says that clearly they didn't use it. Do
I think there was a sinister plot behind it? No,
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Here's why. I think I would have felt some type
of way, and I would have made me been more
in line with the folks who brought it up had
they not shown a real big representation of African Americans
in Atlanta. If you've ever been Atlanta, you've been a
million times. I've been a million times. It is a
very strongly predominantly black environment. The mayors are black, The
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vibrant HBCUs not all definitely not all black. Well, look
at what they had with the marching, So that's where
I'm going. They embraced everything, and then they had the HBC,
they had Clark Atlanta out there, they had the game.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
On Friday, which was what they could have easily said,
you know, we're going to pass on that.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
We got whitewash.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And so that's why to me, I was telling Rob
g this if I felt as if it was the
cornfields of ile even at Atlanta, or it was this
and it was that, and it was Joe Demangi one
and just kind of like you're in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Baseball embraced Atlanta's blackness.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
They embraced Atlanta's blackness, the culture, the HBCU, Germaine de
priest kind of the honorary mayor there to.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And maybe that's why I didn't feel that way at
the time, because every time I turned around and they
put a celebrity on the screen, a big screen and
with somebody black.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And so I just felt like, if I'm doing all
of that, why am I fearful of a handful of
lines that were barely here from vincecent Matt don't get
it twisted. Those lines meant a lot. And when he
said that said time, that's incredible because shout to late
great Vince Scully for that to do that in real
time and in an era where I'm sure people could
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have been upset with it.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But you gotta remember, oh I'm sure that, I mean because.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
There you mentioned that right now, it wasn't the time
of the places and blah blah blah, the.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Braves announcer Milo. I can't remember his last name. I
don't know why I'm forgetting his name, but he talked
to he's the one who who has the call as well,
and he doesn't mention that, you know what I mean.
He's an Atlanta broadcaster. Vin Scully's doing the national broadcast. No,
he's doing the Dodgers broadcast. And that was Vin Scully
because you know they home run came against the Dodgers
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and Al Downing. Yep, so you have to Milo Hamilton,
Model Hamilton. Who oh, I should have remembered this last No.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I so you're human, dude. So that was my biggest thing.
What I really thought about it, I was like, dang,
that really would have brought context here. We all were
in Atlanta. You got black players, and by black I
mean also for Afro Latino, and you got all this. Uh.
But I was like, more I thought about it, I
was like, it was fully represented. Fully you saw the
kind of the Atlanta experience. And so to me, they
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were intentional with that. I kind of cut them some
slack with that. Now, had they added those two three
extra senses, they would have just been the most perfect one.
They batted out hit it out the park every single
part of the All Star weekend. If they got that
this so I got to give him a ninety seven point.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Eight and we always know that baseball and it's embracing
of Hank Aaron and you know what I mean, like
they never short change him, like like you know.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So I think putting on this performance, putting on the
time that I think they just cut that out. Again,
it was intentional to cut out clearly, you know, if
you did make a decision. But I don't think it
had malice behind it, right light, Like oh no, I
think it was like, dude, we fully have embraced it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Because you could have easily like like I said, dude,
if you looked up on the big screen, you think
Atlanta was all black?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
And they had a couple of shots of some like
country music people and some actors who are from you know,
Atlanta or but but minuscule compared to the big celebrities.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You saw the big commercial on Fox, it's Ludacris and who's.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
The other radio?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Right, like like that's just that. That was the star
commercial for the All Star Game in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And that and that's why I'm giving them a pass,
and I feel as if, all right they represented in
that way would have been icing on the cake and
made it perfect. Absolutely, And you know so maybe they
kind of missed with that, but I don't think it
was ill intention or malice malicious intention, I'd say with
that as well.
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Speaker 4 (18:39):
What is the story that came out about boxing there?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Aren't you so excited? Rob No that they're basically have
said they're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The P T. Barnum that a sucker's born every minute
and they've seen that Jake Paul is making money and
Rob g, what are they pitching now for the SAPs
and the belly and the SAP suck?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I feel like you're giving away the task. So as
you guys know, this Friday, Manny Pacchia, at age forty six,
will be coming out of retirement for a title match,
which is crazy.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
That's crazy, six years in a title match, A build different.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I guess, uh, forty six years old, come out this
weekn you gonna fight Madio Bodios WBC walter.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Weight championship on the line.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
We're spols to actually be in Vegas for that fight,
but for a myriad of reasons, none of us can
make it, and as a result, shown us Knox, Formerrock
a couple of side piece will be going in our stead.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Shout out to Jonas, Oh really he is going.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
But with this fight coming up on Saturday, there are
some heavy implication. Not only could we see a forty
six year old champion, but according to longtime boxing insider
Lance Pugmeyer, Cordner reports, acording to a source closed of
the situation, if Manny wins his fight this Saturday and.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Gets the new or becomes the new WBC.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Walterweight champion, there are quote conversations already happening that if
Manny wins a rematch between Pacquiao and Floyd Money Mayweather
would be on the table that they believe could be
worth billions of dollars.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I didn't agree with that part, but it is on
the table, Floyd Manny.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Stop, can we stop?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Go ahead? Thank you? First of all, you took it.
I'm assuming you've accidentally meant millions, not billions, because ain't
no way all right.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Here's what billions from the old God wants.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, here's what we're dealing with right now. Rob Floyd
Mayweather perfected the last you know, seven eight ten years
of his career. He fought who he wanted to fight
when he wanted to fight. I'll fight him early, I'll
fight him late. I fought Manny Pacao too late. I
fought Canelo too early. Meeting he didn't fight him when
he was became a better box He called him when
he's twenty, and he became very good. He was his
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own promoter as the money team, and so he got
very rich, very famous, and very successful in that regard.
But in doing so he ruined by and I doubt
he ruined it and became very gimmicky. And as we know,
in most things, people beat's a copycat league. So everyone
started to say, ooh, I want to do it how
Floyd did it. I want to do it like that,
And Canelo's been doing that toWin extent fighting get the big,
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huge money with his own you know, do it how
you want to do it, and to control your descy,
not fight real fighters, not fight everybody get we don't
we don't ever get the fights we want for the
most part. Thankfully we're getting this one with Canelo and
Bud coming up in September. But my point is then
when Floyd retired, because remember you always want to be
fifty to zero, he fights Connor McGregor, who was an
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mm MIAA fighter, and in this gimmicky fight. Then he
fights somebody in Japan, and he started to do the
whole Oh, I'll go over here and fight somebody, make
one hundred two hundred million dollars whatever it'll be for
this gimmicky fight. It's not a real fight, and I'll
make a bunch of money. As you mentioned, suckers will
buy it and I'll get paid, and I'll not get hurt,
not get injured, and move on to the next one.
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And I think he started this, and then Jake all
the logan Paul said we'll finish this. And now they're
doing this routinely, getting next boxers, getting MMA fighters, getting
basketball players and Nate Robinson getting whomever. And they've perfected
this marketing scheme and getting all their YouTube followers and
TikTok followers to watching the buy in and making a
boatload of money and embarrassing some legends in some cases
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like Mike Tyson along in the process, and I think
this is what we're watching. When Floyd started ending, he
ruined boxing in the end, started the gimmicky stuff. They
took the mantle like a race a Paton and said thanks,
we'll take it from here. And now here we are
with this just kind of what boxing has become, where
we're gonna see two old dudes who well passed their prime.
(22:41):
Manny Pacyal hasn't even fought in four years and he
lost the last time he fought. Mind you, he has
to win his fight to this even really be considered
a thing. And now it's just become just a joke
of a sport. And it's really disappointing because boxing used
to be great. Floyd is forty eight, ain't fought nobody
real and I don't know how long. And again Manny's
forty six. Yet people probably gonna tune in, people probably
(23:05):
gonna watch, they'll take a boatload of money, and they'll
probably running back in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
No, and you know what, you deserve to get all
the bad boxing and the joke of a performance because
you keep doing the same thing. The only reason they're
getting away with it is because people have nothing better
to do in their lives. I tried to warn everybody
about the Mic Tyson, did I not? Yeah, I told
you this is not a Oh look at the look
(23:32):
at him boxing on on, TikTok and Instagram. Man, he
looked great. You see what he's combination? Man, he looks great.
People bet money. You remember that more people bet money
on a almost sixty year old Mic Titan than a
thirty year old. Like, seriously, that's when you've been bamboozled.
You're not only like I'm an iron MIC fan, I'm
(23:54):
now betting my money on a sixty year old Are
you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Dude?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Guys, hello, is this on this on? Don't do this?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You have to say no, you need help, go to boxing.
Wehab stop it. You can't keep doing this. It's you're
the blame, not Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
You're the blame. You're the enabler.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You keep pouring your hard earned money into garbage and Detroit.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I'm gonna drop this for you.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You might as well take the money, go up to
the top of the pinopscot building and throws it off.
It's the same exact thing as paying money to see
Jake Paul And now these other boxes are you kidding?
They're like, this guy's cashing it. He's not even a
real boxer. He's a you tuber. He's a you tuber. Yes,
(24:51):
and they're like, I'm a real boxer. I want to
make that kind of money. Let me put on these
old fights, old timer's day, forty six years old, sixty
years old.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
All they care is if the check's gonna clear.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Come on, guys, stop it, Stop paying attention to him,
stop liking this stuff, stop looking at it, and definitely
do not buy it. When your friend calls you and says, hey,
you want to come over to watch the fight, I'm
getting it. No I'm not coming. No I'm going bowling. No,
(25:27):
I'm going to a pottery barn class. No, seriously, you
you gotta stop it. You're to blame all the boxing
fans who are enablers to Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
He's laughing at you going to the bank.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And really, here's the worst part about it too. I
think Floyd and Mannie will come to an agreement that
we ain't really really gonna fight like this is an
old timers who have some bad blood, who are like
literally about to lay it all bloods, wait, tears, somebody
might not walk off the the you know, the the ring.
It's a gimmick, that's what I'm saying. This is a gimmick.
(26:06):
If this were like some bad blood they truly hated.
This is the you know, this is the third or
fourth fight, and they're really going at it, You'll be like,
all right, man, these dudes legitimately hate each other. This
is not that they don't hate each other, having boxing
years and they're gonna go in there and sixty They're
not gonna hurt each other. They'll throw a couple of
nice ones and they'll both laugh their way to the bank.
I made a buck twenty, you made eighty. Look at
(26:26):
us make a bunch of money. We know Many's money
has been tight. Floyd always loves a good payday, and
that's exactly what this is gonna be. They're gonna make
a bunch of money. And my thing is, Rob, I
heard your soliloquy. I don't think people if they price
it right, I don't think I think people are going
to They're gonna say, why not, shame on, it's only
forty nine, you know, it's only it's already on Netflix,
(26:47):
or it's.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Shame already on Hulu, are already paid for who you
gotta stop watching it in order for it to go away.
And I get that, have nothing else to go to
or nothing to do. I'm already home, My bodies are
coming over. They're gonna have beers or they got whatever.
It's just a night of hanging out with friends.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I get it. I get that. That's how they get you,
and that is why this is gonna work. Rob g said,
whoever that was Robbers you were talking about, took it
too far with the billions, with the be that was
that was carried away. But what they're gonna make a
bunch of money because man, he's gonna have this fight.
And then man, he looks halfway competent, decent.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Hell yeah, I'm watching it.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
He's one of the reasons why.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Because I love old people doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I love old people doing stuff that actually is true.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
So that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
And number two, I mean, I've sat through the Jake
Paul fiascos and you still keep going back from here.
I don't pay for it because I know a guy
who knows a guy who knows the guy.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
But I watch it.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Where's he lives so I can alert your authorities.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, I'll ride him out because he lives.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I'm wearing Culver City, California. Uh, he's currently living in
a two bedroom apartment, but he's downsizing.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If he say one more thing, that sounded more and
more like you. Right, that's sounded more and more like you.
His car is actually parked out front next to mine,
the badley. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
But like, unless boxing continues down this path, which thankfully
they have the last six months or so where they've
kind of made a concerted effort to give you the
fights that you want, that that turkey from from overseas
is really investigate big money into getting these guys to fight. Yeah,
(28:22):
as long as that keeps happening, then we won't need it.
The problem is that history says boxing's gonna boxing at
some point, these promoters are gonna get too greedy and
they're gonna do what they've always done, and they're I'm
not gonna let my guy got into the ring with
this guy because and it's gonna get to that point
where people are uninterested and just the nostalgia factor of
(28:44):
man Floyd Manny again and there's people to this day
believe that Manny was hurt and he would have want
that fight if his shoulder wasn't jacked up, and they'll
shell out seven dollars to watch that far.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
The key there's the key part. How many looks this Saturday.
If he looks overweight, look you know, washed, and just
if he looks halfway decent, handspeed, alright, in decent shape.
I'm with you, Rob, but I think people are gonna go,
especially because he's only forty six. Mike Tys was almost sixty,
and people are all in if Manny, who's only forty six,
(29:16):
looks like he can still throw a little bit. My
biggest thing is not Manny, because I know Manny. I
think Manny Manny needs some money. I think my thing
is Floyd. If this were Manny and who else give
me another good example, Rob Gee, I don't know somebody
both who needs some money. You know what I mean,
Roy Jones or something. Well, dang, then you went to Roy.
(29:36):
You might have went too far. My point is I
think Floyd is the problem because I think Floyd ain't
trying to get hurt, because he hardly ever got hurt
in real fights. And I think Floyd ain't trying to
you know, he gonna put his real record on the line.
We know how important to fifty to fifty and oh
perfect record was. And I think Floyd is now in
the in the entertainment industry, so I just think he's
the one. I think that's the problem for me is
(29:58):
is Floyd, even in real boxing, was strategic and you
know what I mean, and not fixing things, but planning
things perfectly in his favor. So I just don't see
why this would be competitive where he actually could have
a chance to get knocked out. Floyd ain't doing that.
At this point, he's worth half a billions
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Major League Baseball on a glorious night. A little right
in there, but it didn't stop the party. And then
to finish the home run derby, which I get and
you know me, I'm a traditional kind of baseball guy,
but I thought that was cool and I'm alright with it.
There was a couple things we got to see the
challenge of pitches right, which was interesting the way that
(00:47):
that went, as long as they don't overdo it, like
there was a couple right.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, this was the launching pad, if you will. And
I then want to see how people go to it.
But I think it should be and Martin brought this up,
and I think he's right. Probably be the manager, not
the pitcher like in the game, like thinking of because
why wouldn't it just be the catcher.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I mean, like to me like, why is.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The picture you don't want to kick the picture that
First of all, you you the catcher, you're literally cut
the while you were there. You just had it over
the play you framed it. And or the manager also
because the manager's thinking, okay, what do we do now?
What it's the challenge with the situation the game time.
Are we wasting it? Yeah? Versus the player You're you're
just ticked off. No, that was a strike versus hold on,
(01:30):
hold on player. We need we need, we need it
when it really matters.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And it was used early obviously the All Star Game,
and and Scooba wasn't gonna pitch long so he had
to kind of throw it in there and it went
from two strikes to a strikeouts instead of a ball.
But anyway, uh, the home run derby, just your thoughts
because the fans bought ate it up.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I know there's some people.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Like, oh dude, stop, it's an exhibition game. It's for
the fans. It's fun. Do I want that to end
a regular season game? No?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Do I want it to end a tie game?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And what turned out to being excited was six nothing
National League, the American League Storms back, and then the
National League wins it. Schwarber from the Phillies, you know,
with the three bombs in his that bat, but by
his chance.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of listen, when you're on, you're on, when you're having
a run or having a season. You ever had that
that time where man the job, all of a sudden
you got a bonus. The girl you like called you
and said that's going that date and just maybe had
some bad news turned good and just we're like, oh,
this is kind of my season. That's baseball over the
last year, year and a half, two years now, Rob,
(02:40):
I mean, you know, they were trying to figure things out,
how can we get more viewers, how can we speed
up the game? And Rob Manford credit have made a
few changes that traditionalist like maybe I wasn't on the
air with you at the time, but some people might
not have liked, hey, don't speed to the game the
shit right? And I did you think it was yesterday
or Monday? I can't remember the day, but I said,
he's in his He's in his sug Knight deth Ro
(03:04):
era where he was just the boss. I'm making plays,
making calls. They were complaining in the Philadelphia Phillies well,
why does you know, why is the wiz kid getting
the men's getting to be in there? Why is he pitching? Why?
And he say, I asked y'all, wuld y'all pitch it?
Guarantee me one inning? And your pitcher said no, I
just pitched Sunday one said. The other one says, no,
I'd rather cool, he said, Do I want to do
(03:25):
this every time?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But he pitches on hundred three hundred four miles. Why
would this can be something cool for the fans?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I talked to him, Yeah, uh, pregame just a night.
He's a kid.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
He's I mean literally, and I was like, is this
a whirlwind or you know what? He was just like,
he says, I can't even believe I'm sitting here in
a locker room in the clubhouse with all these guys
I grew up watching, you know what I mean, and
all this stuff he said.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
He said, I pinched myself every day.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And he's been on a roll rockets, so you get this.
The way he's been handling, like I said, the shift
and the pitch count and speeding the game up. In
the game is going well. He lucked into a Dodgers
Yankees which ended up being spectacular. Ready to the Roof,
carries over this season, radies through the roof. You have
a good offseason where want so it was gonna go
like they're in a great space right now, been a
good couple of years. Leads to the All Star Game
(04:13):
and it starts off its competitive. I thought we'll get
into a little bit later. I thought they started the
game out. We were on the air and you represented
where you were, you in Atlanta. You had HBCU, you
had the Clark marching Man, you had Luda Chris, Jermaine Duprix.
It looked good, it felt good. It felt like it
felt the series right. It just they've been on to
be like that, and you look for people who you know,
(04:36):
represent the city or whatever, and that's how you connect.
And I think it was great. There was It was
star studded. There were a lot of Atlanta people. Yeah,
I mean it's there, proud.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Of their hometown and all that and the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And I got stopped by a number of people, you know,
walking around the ballpark about the odd couple and it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Was really nice shout out to them.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So, and then the actual game, right, you you get
the competitives. You got the two young pitchers who looked
like they're gonna be the guy for the next decade. Uh,
the schemes and schoolbl and so obviously Scooble would have
preferred to do a little bit better. But the point
is you got the two stars off there out there right,
you got cart o'tany kind of sets it off for them.
They get rolling and it's just going and it's looking good.
It's fun. Yes, there was a big deficit, but they
(05:15):
don't just see this is the difference. They didn't just
mail it in. Well, I guess that's just now to night.
Where y'all going. I heard Rob gonna be a magic city.
What we're doing. They kept fighting Rob, they came back.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
If you were watching the game, there were plays made,
diving catches and stuff like that, like, guys, don't like
where I saw what.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I can't remember was it. Uh he's from the Cubs.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And he dove for a ball out left field, And
I said to myself, he easily could have pulled up
and let that be a double line. It's a double
I'm not I'm not even going to chance like messing
my knee up or doing something you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Even some of the at bats, you know, Junior had
a couple where it was like really like, there's a
couple especially the one that went down the right now
the right line. It's just like, oh, like he could
have easily sayd I tried and swung whatever, but like, no,
I need this. We're in this game. We've got a
chance to come back, tie it up. We got a
chance to come back whin this thing. So that went
great as far as the seventh inning, the American League's
(06:13):
four runs and eventually they were tied. And then we
have the home run derby off the swing off and
that ended up being really fun. So it couldn't have
gone any better for them. I thought it was. I
thought it was really good and from top to bottom,
and I said, yeah, he made a great catcher left.
And I just think baseball's having a great couple of
seasons right now with just the moves that they've made.
(06:35):
Like I said, they fall into the Dodgers Yankees first
time since eighty one. That ends up being great.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But I wonder where people are, Like when you watched
it last night, you know a lot of people watched
did you like it? Like is this something. Could you
even see this for like during the regular season, because
the one thing I do not like as you put
the run on second base right away into tenth thing.
I get it, they don't want to play sixteen innings. Okay,
(07:03):
I get that, but why can't we have one extra inning,
one extra frame to tenth inning and then you do
that to give it.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
A chance to win the game? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Because those games, to me, can wind up where you
win and they're not exciting men on second you butt
them the third and he scores on the fly ball. Okay,
you win a game, but that's not you didn't even
get a hit in the You know what it reminds
me of I think you might feel me.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It kind of reminds me of sudden death in the NFL,
where it's like, all right, I got to just kick
a field goal, take it off.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So the only thing I disagree on sudden death is
you can score defensively that you can in baseball, you
know what I mean? Like, like I've covered the lines
for twenty years. You know I've seen pick sixes go.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The other way. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, you know what Scott Mitchell or but you know
what I mean, Like you could win a game defensively
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Reason you get a kick off, you return it to
the forty, we throw a ten yard then a fifteen
yard pass, kick a field going r out of here,
you know, or if you want to even go with
the college how they used to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Where you know, college twenty five yards twenty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So it's like, oh okay, instead of going the whole
you know, one hundred or seventy five if you will.
But it was entertaining, it was funny. It was a
great way to say, here's a chance. It was it
was really the home run derby and the All Star
Game and having a baby. And to me, you got
a chance. A few guys, few pitches. Each of you
get a few pitches. Let's see what happens. We're not
burning you out. So you go back to your team
(08:28):
messed up because that's happened. Dudes, something do home run
derbies and they're off for a few more weeks. They
just can't get the swing back together. Only a few batters,
few pitches, quick fun, get it over with and we
all move on. But the game itself was competitive. That
was fun way to end.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It because it wasn't It was six nothing, and you
could have said, like you said, a vacation, take the first.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Swing and get out of there, like you could do that.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So they're working to count, you know what I mean,
trying to get on bas like all that kind of stuff,
making plays. It was very, very entertaining when you put
all together, all.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Right, I give them credit. They gotta give them credit.
We complained. Listen, we'll sit here and that's coming February
and maybe complain about the NBA. Maybe they get it right,
maybe they don't. But my point is we'll complain when
it's when it's done poorly and just doesn't seem like
people cared. Gotta give them credit. MLB were there, they care,
the players were there. It seemed fun, and they seem
to get it right all right.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
What'd you think.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Of the derby at the end and is that something
that you would be interested in? Would you like to
see that for the regular season instead of putting the
guy on second base? Just your thoughts. A lot of
people thought it was exciting. There were some people who
didn't like it, but you're not everybody that exactly. But
Kelvin and I are in agreement. I thought that was fun.
(09:49):
It was a great way. And I was the one.
I was in Milwaukee when they had the tie, and
that was bad. That was a bad ending to an
All Star game. Bud Selig was there in his home,
you know, park and a whole nine yards.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It just it didn't feel good with then the overreaction afterward.
Now with cal series home advances to overreaction. Okay, let's
not overreact there.
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I was there for the tribute to hankcam and I
thought it was nice. I did not immediately go that
this was omitted or how come they didn't say this,
or they did it because of Trump or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
So, uh yeah, let's play both clips.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
We'll play what got rob g the original one which
is Vince Sculling which they use, and you saw it
with all the lights out and like the candles and
then the seven fifteen on the big board. I mean
it was beautiful, it really was. And then a shot
of his wife from from behind. It was great.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment
for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous
moment for the country in the world.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
A black man is.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking
a record of an all time baseball idol okay.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
And the state of Georgia mar a country in the world,
all right, So clearly the first one longer he touches
on the race uh factor when it came to him
doing that, And you know, black man deep getting love
in the Deep South.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Your thoughts you were there? Now people are saying, you know,
kind of was a lot of think pieces on it afterwards.
Yeah you did, you You didn't you were upset with.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It at the time when I listened to it. No,
I really didn't, you know. I gotta admit, no one
talked about it like in the building, like at least
the people, and I think when you have time to
sit back and look at it, you want to dissect it.
I just thought it was really nice because obviously Hank
Aaron died, and remember they lost the All Star Game
(12:37):
in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh yeah, twenty one.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I mean I'm down there telling the players about it
or whatever, and most didn't think it was you know,
like oh my god, what did they do to the
sound or whatever? But but people have a right to
listen to the original and feel like would have been
(13:00):
better to have the whole thing. I wouldn't be mad
at anybody if they felt that way. But I did
not feel I gotta admit I didn't feel like, oh
my god, what did they just do or you know,
how could they do that? Like like, I did not
feel that way.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I think it was so well done that in real
time you couldn't have thought of it right because you're like, oh, look,
and then lights and then oh they got the you know,
seventh players, and then the ball. You know the thing,
the flying light thing is the ball and it was
so well done. All you're thinking of is Prava. This
(13:33):
was incredible. That's how you pay a tribute, that's how
you pay homage. That then people who maybe weren't there
can think about the whole You know what it is
when you're at a game you didn't see the commercial
or you didn't see that player game.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And I'm recording. I can show you on my phone.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm like recording it, and I swear I didn't go,
wait a minute, where's this?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Really did think you're just too in the moment in
real time everybody where they were there at home because
it was just so well done and it was so thoughtful.
But then when you get the pause and you know,
this is what happens when that's what seven point two
million people watching.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And this is what people do. Though you know they.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Or they should have done this, Oh Beyonce, that you
missed the hidden meanings exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Kendrick Lamar does the Super Bowl perform, but that flag
meant this and the colors of the dancers really and
you're like, oh, I thought it was just a good
dance perform and they break it down. So here's what
I thought now that they brought it up. You go, oh, shoot,
he didn't mention that was it intentionally taken out? Yes,
and it says that clearly they didn't use it. Do
I think there was a sinister plot behind it? No,
(14:37):
Here's why. I think I would have felt some type
of way, and I would have made me been more
in line with the folks who brought it up had
they not shown a real big representation of African Americans
in Atlanta. If you've ever been Atlanta, you've been a
million times. I've been a million times. It is a
very strongly predominantly black environment. The mayors are black, The
(14:58):
vibrant HBCUs not all definitely not all black. Well, look
at what they had with the marching, So that's where
I'm going. They embraced everything, and then they had the HBC,
they had Clark Atlanta out there, they had the game.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
On Friday, which was what they could have easily said,
you know, we're going to pass on that.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
We got whitewash.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And so that's why to me, I was telling Rob
g this if I felt as if it was the
cornfields of ile even at Atlanta, or it was this
and it was that, and it was Joe Demangi one
and just kind of like you're in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Baseball embraced Atlanta's blackness.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
They embraced Atlanta's blackness, the culture, the HBCU, Germaine de
priest kind of the honorary mayor there to.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And maybe that's why I didn't feel that way at
the time, because every time I turned around and they
put a celebrity on the screen, a big screen and
with somebody black.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And so I just felt like, if I'm doing all
of that, why am I fearful of a handful of
lines that were barely here from vincecent Matt don't get
it twisted. Those lines meant a lot. And when he
said that said time, that's incredible because shout to late
great Vince Scully for that to do that in real
time and in an era where I'm sure people could
(16:07):
have been upset with it.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But you gotta remember, oh I'm sure that, I mean because.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
There you mentioned that right now, it wasn't the time
of the places and blah blah blah, the.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Braves announcer Milo. I can't remember his last name. I
don't know why I'm forgetting his name, but he talked
to he's the one who who has the call as well,
and he doesn't mention that, you know what I mean.
He's an Atlanta broadcaster. Vin Scully's doing the national broadcast. No,
he's doing the Dodgers broadcast. And that was Vin Scully
because you know they home run came against the Dodgers
(16:35):
and Al Downing. Yep, so you have to Milo Hamilton,
Model Hamilton. Who oh, I should have remembered this last No.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I so you're human, dude. So that was my biggest thing.
What I really thought about it, I was like, dang,
that really would have brought context here. We all were
in Atlanta. You got black players, and by black I
mean also for Afro Latino, and you got all this. Uh.
But I was like, more I thought about it, I
was like, it was fully represented. Fully you saw the
kind of the Atlanta experience. And so to me, they
(17:03):
were intentional with that. I kind of cut them some
slack with that. Now, had they added those two three
extra senses, they would have just been the most perfect one.
They batted out hit it out the park every single
part of the All Star weekend. If they got that
this so I got to give him a ninety seven point.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Eight and we always know that baseball and it's embracing
of Hank Aaron and you know what I mean, like
they never short change him, like like you know.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So I think putting on this performance, putting on the
time that I think they just cut that out. Again,
it was intentional to cut out clearly, you know, if
you did make a decision. But I don't think it
had malice behind it, right light, Like oh no, I
think it was like, dude, we fully have embraced it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Because you could have easily like like I said, dude,
if you looked up on the big screen, you think
Atlanta was all black?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
And they had a couple of shots of some like
country music people and some actors who are from you know,
Atlanta or but but minuscule compared to the big celebrities.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You saw the big commercial on Fox, it's Ludacris and who's.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
The other radio?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Right, like like that's just that. That was the star
commercial for the All Star Game in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And that and that's why I'm giving them a pass,
and I feel as if, all right they represented in
that way would have been icing on the cake and
made it perfect. Absolutely, And you know so maybe they
kind of missed with that, but I don't think it
was ill intention or malice malicious intention, I'd say with
that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
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Speaker 4 (18:39):
What is the story that came out about boxing there?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Aren't you so excited? Rob No that they're basically have
said they're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The P T. Barnum that a sucker's born every minute
and they've seen that Jake Paul is making money and
Rob g, what are they pitching now for the SAPs
and the belly and the SAP suck?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I feel like you're giving away the task. So as
you guys know, this Friday, Manny Pacchia, at age forty six,
will be coming out of retirement for a title match,
which is crazy.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
That's crazy, six years in a title match, A build different.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I guess, uh, forty six years old, come out this
weekn you gonna fight Madio Bodios WBC walter.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Weight championship on the line.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
We're spols to actually be in Vegas for that fight,
but for a myriad of reasons, none of us can
make it, and as a result, shown us Knox, Formerrock
a couple of side piece will be going in our stead.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Shout out to Jonas, Oh really he is going.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
But with this fight coming up on Saturday, there are
some heavy implication. Not only could we see a forty
six year old champion, but according to longtime boxing insider
Lance Pugmeyer, Cordner reports, acording to a source closed of
the situation, if Manny wins his fight this Saturday and.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Gets the new or becomes the new WBC.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Walterweight champion, there are quote conversations already happening that if
Manny wins a rematch between Pacquiao and Floyd Money Mayweather
would be on the table that they believe could be
worth billions of dollars.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I didn't agree with that part, but it is on
the table, Floyd Manny.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Stop, can we stop?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Go ahead? Thank you? First of all, you took it.
I'm assuming you've accidentally meant millions, not billions, because ain't
no way all right.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Here's what billions from the old God wants.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, here's what we're dealing with right now. Rob Floyd
Mayweather perfected the last you know, seven eight ten years
of his career. He fought who he wanted to fight
when he wanted to fight. I'll fight him early, I'll
fight him late. I fought Manny Pacao too late. I
fought Canelo too early. Meeting he didn't fight him when
he was became a better box He called him when
he's twenty, and he became very good. He was his
(20:51):
own promoter as the money team, and so he got
very rich, very famous, and very successful in that regard.
But in doing so he ruined by and I doubt
he ruined it and became very gimmicky. And as we know,
in most things, people beat's a copycat league. So everyone
started to say, ooh, I want to do it how
Floyd did it. I want to do it like that,
And Canelo's been doing that toWin extent fighting get the big,
(21:13):
huge money with his own you know, do it how
you want to do it, and to control your descy,
not fight real fighters, not fight everybody get we don't
we don't ever get the fights we want for the
most part. Thankfully we're getting this one with Canelo and
Bud coming up in September. But my point is then
when Floyd retired, because remember you always want to be
fifty to zero, he fights Connor McGregor, who was an
(21:35):
mm MIAA fighter, and in this gimmicky fight. Then he
fights somebody in Japan, and he started to do the
whole Oh, I'll go over here and fight somebody, make
one hundred two hundred million dollars whatever it'll be for
this gimmicky fight. It's not a real fight, and I'll
make a bunch of money. As you mentioned, suckers will
buy it and I'll get paid, and I'll not get hurt,
not get injured, and move on to the next one.
(21:56):
And I think he started this, and then Jake all
the logan Paul said we'll finish this. And now they're
doing this routinely, getting next boxers, getting MMA fighters, getting
basketball players and Nate Robinson getting whomever. And they've perfected
this marketing scheme and getting all their YouTube followers and
TikTok followers to watching the buy in and making a
boatload of money and embarrassing some legends in some cases
(22:20):
like Mike Tyson along in the process, and I think
this is what we're watching. When Floyd started ending, he
ruined boxing in the end, started the gimmicky stuff. They
took the mantle like a race a Paton and said thanks,
we'll take it from here. And now here we are
with this just kind of what boxing has become, where
we're gonna see two old dudes who well passed their prime.
(22:41):
Manny Pacyal hasn't even fought in four years and he
lost the last time he fought. Mind you, he has
to win his fight to this even really be considered
a thing. And now it's just become just a joke
of a sport. And it's really disappointing because boxing used
to be great. Floyd is forty eight, ain't fought nobody
real and I don't know how long. And again Manny's
forty six. Yet people probably gonna tune in, people probably
(23:05):
gonna watch, they'll take a boatload of money, and they'll
probably running back in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
No, and you know what, you deserve to get all
the bad boxing and the joke of a performance because
you keep doing the same thing. The only reason they're
getting away with it is because people have nothing better
to do in their lives. I tried to warn everybody
about the Mic Tyson, did I not? Yeah, I told
you this is not a Oh look at the look
(23:32):
at him boxing on on, TikTok and Instagram. Man, he
looked great. You see what he's combination? Man, he looks great.
People bet money. You remember that more people bet money
on a almost sixty year old Mic Titan than a
thirty year old. Like, seriously, that's when you've been bamboozled.
You're not only like I'm an iron MIC fan, I'm
(23:54):
now betting my money on a sixty year old Are
you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Dude?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Guys, hello, is this on this on? Don't do this?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You have to say no, you need help, go to boxing.
Wehab stop it. You can't keep doing this. It's you're
the blame, not Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
You're the blame. You're the enabler.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You keep pouring your hard earned money into garbage and Detroit.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I'm gonna drop this for you.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You might as well take the money, go up to
the top of the pinopscot building and throws it off.
It's the same exact thing as paying money to see
Jake Paul And now these other boxes are you kidding?
They're like, this guy's cashing it. He's not even a
real boxer. He's a you tuber. He's a you tuber. Yes,
(24:51):
and they're like, I'm a real boxer. I want to
make that kind of money. Let me put on these
old fights, old timer's day, forty six years old, sixty
years old.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
All they care is if the check's gonna clear.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Come on, guys, stop it, Stop paying attention to him,
stop liking this stuff, stop looking at it, and definitely
do not buy it. When your friend calls you and says, hey,
you want to come over to watch the fight, I'm
getting it. No I'm not coming. No I'm going bowling. No,
(25:27):
I'm going to a pottery barn class. No, seriously, you
you gotta stop it. You're to blame all the boxing
fans who are enablers to Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
He's laughing at you going to the bank.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And really, here's the worst part about it too. I
think Floyd and Mannie will come to an agreement that
we ain't really really gonna fight like this is an
old timers who have some bad blood, who are like
literally about to lay it all bloods, wait, tears, somebody
might not walk off the the you know, the the ring.
It's a gimmick, that's what I'm saying. This is a gimmick.
(26:06):
If this were like some bad blood they truly hated.
This is the you know, this is the third or
fourth fight, and they're really going at it, You'll be like,
all right, man, these dudes legitimately hate each other. This
is not that they don't hate each other, having boxing
years and they're gonna go in there and sixty They're
not gonna hurt each other. They'll throw a couple of
nice ones and they'll both laugh their way to the bank.
I made a buck twenty, you made eighty. Look at
(26:26):
us make a bunch of money. We know Many's money
has been tight. Floyd always loves a good payday, and
that's exactly what this is gonna be. They're gonna make
a bunch of money. And my thing is, Rob, I
heard your soliloquy. I don't think people if they price
it right, I don't think I think people are going
to They're gonna say, why not, shame on, it's only
forty nine, you know, it's only it's already on Netflix,
(26:47):
or it's.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Shame already on Hulu, are already paid for who you
gotta stop watching it in order for it to go away.
And I get that, have nothing else to go to
or nothing to do. I'm already home, My bodies are
coming over. They're gonna have beers or they got whatever.
It's just a night of hanging out with friends.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I get it. I get that. That's how they get you,
and that is why this is gonna work. Rob g said,
whoever that was Robbers you were talking about, took it
too far with the billions, with the be that was
that was carried away. But what they're gonna make a
bunch of money because man, he's gonna have this fight.
And then man, he looks halfway competent, decent.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Hell yeah, I'm watching it.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
He's one of the reasons why.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Because I love old people doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I love old people doing stuff that actually is true.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
So that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
And number two, I mean, I've sat through the Jake
Paul fiascos and you still keep going back from here.
I don't pay for it because I know a guy
who knows a guy who knows the guy.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
But I watch it.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Where's he lives so I can alert your authorities.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, I'll ride him out because he lives.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I'm wearing Culver City, California. Uh, he's currently living in
a two bedroom apartment, but he's downsizing.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If he say one more thing, that sounded more and
more like you. Right, that's sounded more and more like you.
His car is actually parked out front next to mine,
the badley. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
But like, unless boxing continues down this path, which thankfully
they have the last six months or so where they've
kind of made a concerted effort to give you the
fights that you want, that that turkey from from overseas
is really investigate big money into getting these guys to fight. Yeah,
(28:22):
as long as that keeps happening, then we won't need it.
The problem is that history says boxing's gonna boxing at
some point, these promoters are gonna get too greedy and
they're gonna do what they've always done, and they're I'm
not gonna let my guy got into the ring with
this guy because and it's gonna get to that point
where people are uninterested and just the nostalgia factor of
(28:44):
man Floyd Manny again and there's people to this day
believe that Manny was hurt and he would have want
that fight if his shoulder wasn't jacked up, and they'll
shell out seven dollars to watch that far.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
The key there's the key part. How many looks this Saturday.
If he looks overweight, look you know, washed, and just
if he looks halfway decent, handspeed, alright, in decent shape.
I'm with you, Rob, but I think people are gonna go,
especially because he's only forty six. Mike Tys was almost sixty,
and people are all in if Manny, who's only forty six,
(29:16):
looks like he can still throw a little bit. My
biggest thing is not Manny, because I know Manny. I
think Manny Manny needs some money. I think my thing
is Floyd. If this were Manny and who else give
me another good example, Rob Gee, I don't know somebody
both who needs some money. You know what I mean,
Roy Jones or something. Well, dang, then you went to Roy.
(29:36):
You might have went too far. My point is I
think Floyd is the problem because I think Floyd ain't
trying to get hurt, because he hardly ever got hurt
in real fights. And I think Floyd ain't trying to
you know, he gonna put his real record on the line.
We know how important to fifty to fifty and oh
perfect record was. And I think Floyd is now in
the in the entertainment industry, so I just think he's
the one. I think that's the problem for me is
(29:58):
is Floyd, even in real boxing, was strategic and you
know what I mean, and not fixing things, but planning
things perfectly in his favor. So I just don't see
why this would be competitive where he actually could have
a chance to get knocked out. Floyd ain't doing that.
At this point, he's worth half a billions
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