July 10, 2026 • 29 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether Victor Wembanyama made a mistake by taking more than $50 million less than his max in a contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs, argue the validity of Shohei Ohtani’s decision to skip the upcoming MLB All-Star Game to rest his ailing knee, and debate whether Jaylen Brown is justified for being upset that Jayson Tatum didn’t do more to keep him in Boston.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Alight, Hey, Rob g news in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, breaking news right before we got on air. We
kind of felt it coming and it hit in a
big way. According to ESPN sham Sharanya Victor Wambanyama, Rob
Parker's favorite Frenchman at least temporarily.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Got Everyone knows it's whim.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh got himself a new extension in
San Antonio. It sounds good at first, you know he's
gonna be making five years two point fifty two. The
only problem is he was eligible for five years three
ozer TiO. It's like a fifty dollar haircut to help
out the front office there in San Antonio, and mister
Parker's not very happy about it.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Makes no sense. Wemby, Wemby, what are you doing? You've
been brainwashed too. It is unbelievable. How these athletes have
been brainwashed by front office people owners. Has he looked
at the landscape of what's happened, How players have been
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traded away because they don't want to get the owners
don't want to pay these guys don't want to get
these extensions. And you're taking fifty million less than you
have to for what reason? For what reason? Why do
you need to take less? Let them figure out what
they're doing. Wemby, you should be a guy who.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Leads the way. You're the next guy in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You're the guy who people can look at and follow,
and you're a young guy with a long career. Don't
do this. You can't do this again. This is a
colossal mistake. You should get what you're entitled to. Ask
the GM did he take a cut so that there's
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more money for the other staffers? As the owner? Will
he have a cap on profits?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
How aout? How about an owner's profits cap?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Kelvin, If I said that owners can only make ten
percent profit on their investment, how many would sell the
team the next day? They wouldn't go for that right
as an owner? Why in the world are players dumb?
And I say that seriously, like this whole idea of
Patrick Mahomes was bamboozl signed one of the worst contracts
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ever saw. They touted five hundred million, Rob g sixty
three million was guaranteed when he signed the contract.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Who they get rid of?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They got rid of everybody, right like Tyreek Hill had
to go, Honey Badger had to go, Snead had to go,
and then don't forget Chris Jones had to sit out
to get his money. But they told Patrick, yo, if
you don't take as much, we'll be able to do this.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Tom Brady did the same thing to the Patriots.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Go there's a long list of Patriots guys who never
got paid by the organization. They use up their talents
young and never got the money, and Tom Brady took less.
And then they did a story. Rob G correct me
the Boston Globe. The Patriots are one of the teams
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that didn't spend the extra money.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They barely spent money on free agents.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
All they ever talked about was Tom Brady did all
of this with no receivers, with no names, guys who were.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Working at dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
They didn't go out and sign anybody big time they
got Randy Wallas because he was dumped by the Raiders
right up because of the whole situation there.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He was.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
On the down side, he won a star that they
went out and got and got money that.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He rehabilitated his career in New England.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
My point is it's not your job to save the organization.
You don't have to do that. You're not a bad
person if you don't take less. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well, I don't think you know. You're listen.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Anybody wanted to get paid, especially when you deserve it.
You're talented, you're twenty two already have been to the
Dagon Finals, the.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Fifteen coach during the postseason.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I get it. So I'm with you on that.
Anybody who wants to take more money, I get it.
I'm not mad me or you would want to take
more money.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Here's the difference. Here's where I disagree or push back. Rob.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The challenge is you brought the owners. The owners don't
have a cat. Unfortunately in the NBA not MLB, they
have caps. So that means, hey, Wenby, I wish I
could pay you one hundred twenty a year. You're worth
Lebron Steph. These guys would have been worth crazy money
every year. But there's a cap, so I can only
pay you in this case three zero two. But you
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wanted the two fifty two because in order for me
to sign Castle and then Dylan Harper who's behind him,
and all of that, I'm gonna need money because we
have a cap, so I.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Get your point.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But the owners they can there is no caps, so
they can make as much as they want.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
And here's the difference.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The challenge with a guy like Wemby and some other
players that you named, and other players in general, is
because they want to win, because their legacy is not
gonna be based on how much money they accumulated. They're
not gonna go man Withby's the goat why because he
got five fifty.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Five hundred and fifty million dollars in his career.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, they're gonna say he's a goat because he got
four or five, six, seven rings whatever it is, and
he was able to win a bunch.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
And that's the key part.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So if you look at the women, but you don't
let me, let me say, hold on, hold on. All
I'm saying is if Wemby looks at this ass, well, okay,
if I can save some money here, and then he
saved some money here. Maybe his castle up in a
year or two whatever, and we keep this thing together
for four or five years, we can win a few
and Wimby is man niacal about winning. The boy was
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crying when he lost to nineteen and under the chin.
The boy cried when France lost to the United States
in the in the Olympics. The boy cried when he
won the Western Conference final. He cried when he that
gone All Star Game. He cares, he's defensive player of
the Year. He plays both sides of the ball. He
wants to win. It matters to him, and he wants
to have an insane legacy with a war trow, of
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a trust chess, of a million different accolades and awards.
And if he knows if I give up ten million
dollars a year what it averages out to, which after taxes,
comes down about five, I think I'll be all right
the five million dollars a year. You know, we ain't
even accumulated when he's making in France, because he's probably
one of the massive stars there instead of in Bapeup.
So my point is I'm with you. I'm not mad
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if he chose to make the money, because we know
he deserves it. But I get why he and other
players alike would not want to because they're wanting to win,
because ultimately Kelvin and Rob are gonna look at them
and on their show five, ten, fifteen years from now
and ago. Well he only won one, he only won two.
He can't be the gold, or he can't be this,
or he only got this.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
But he knows that your argument holds no water because
saving the organization money doesn't mean that you're going to win.
If you misspend it, or if you have a bad
general manager, or if you spend bree all right, so
there's no guarantee even if he gives you a discount
that you're gonna win. You're automatically thinking they misspent money
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when they gave the Aaron Fox a new deal.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's that's where the problem came in.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
So so you can misspend the money or just like, oh,
y'all telling you the philosophers, Josh like, it's just like
Patrick Mahomes when you kept going they don't want to
have any receivers.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
No, they had a receiver and they was Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
And you know what they said they didn't want to
pay him, even though Patrick Mahomes took him, took took
a card, say so.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I take I'll give you some cuts.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Lebron James, d Wade, Chris Bosh all take cuts to
get together fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
We know good will each of them is way more
than that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And they go to the finals fourth year straight years
they win a couple we've seen historically.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well the other fifteen years that that Lebron James playing.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean you're talking about that he had no choice.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yes, I'm giving you an example giving guys who got
together who said I could have gone here, got all
the money they got together, the.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
One it's because of their salaries. That's not why they won.
It was because they're good.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
No, it won't. They got you exactly the promise.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Literally the point if Lebron James, the best player in
the league, wanted to be paid like the best player
in the league, he wouldn't have been able to get
with them.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
He wouldn't have had the talent you're talking about, and.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He would wind that mean you can't Nobody.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Said it could never win. It makes all the sense
in the world.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I just got this.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I want to give myself as many to win.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So the Mets have the second highest payroll of Dodge.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Just have the highest payroll. Did you think the Dodgers
have been good just the last two.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Years when they won the World Series or was there
or were they good and had a high payroll for
the last ten years or fifteen years they didn't win.
It's not automatic because you're saving money or spending money
that you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Win as money as baseball is the most non equivalent.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
We talk about Philadelpa tea seventy signals.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
They get signing people, they haven't one jack trust the process.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Hear me out charge process, no lose.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Get these draft picks, develop them, and then they're gonna
put together the super team and win.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
They never won.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
We never won the draft picks.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Never.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
With the conversation about money, Mike bringing up any of that,
you know the baseball has nothing to do with.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
None of that has anything to do with winning. A
con job. It's a con job. It's a con job.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Tim duncan job sticking together with his team, got nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Exactly the point you know it that money has has
anything to do with winning.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Has no proof of anything.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You don't have to point. I just said, we have
proof of anything. The point is I'm trying to put
as many cogs in as possible to.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Have chosen win.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You're gonna win as the New york Man, to have
the high payroll. Stop it.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Literally, nothing in life means you're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Literally, So that's why I don't need to take a cut.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But if I give myself better chance, if I give
myself a better.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Let Taron Fox take a cut. How about that, let's
somebody else.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I'm not saying what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
He made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Still, he absolutely is trying to win as many finals
as possible because he knows his legacy ain't gonna be
based on well he could have got an extra eighty
million throughout his total.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It ain't about that. And he's not win. He could
take a cut and never win, And then what would
your conversation be.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You would your conversation be if he doesn't win and
he takes cuts, what would it be.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
That he gave it a try to keep his team together.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I made my point very clear.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
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Speaker 3 (11:13):
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Speaker 5 (11:40):
Or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Rob, we
got some news that I'm not happy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, we got some news in baseball, and I think
Rob gonna say it's foul.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
It is.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Shoi Otani has been ash from his schedule start of
the mound here tonight against the Backs. We knew that
he has some left knee irritation they're calling it. But
according to the team, he will serve as their DH
the rest of the weekend, and then come All Star
break he's gonna take the break off so he can
get some treatment on that alienee. So he's healthy enough
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to DH through the weekend, but not healthy enough to
swing the bat in the All Star break.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Shame on show, Hey Otani, shame, shame, shame. He's the
big star in Major League Baseball. Aaron Judge is hurt.
We gotta have an All Star Game in Philadelphia without
two of the best players, Judge.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
A Judge has.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Been out all right and hasn't played for a once,
six weeks, almost two months going on to he's been
out for a while. If Otani was hurt and didn't
play this weekend, I'd buy it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
He's gonna miss the All Star Game.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
But he's going to play the weekend and not go
to Philadelphia and not represent the National League, not represent
Dodger fans. The people in Japan will be disappointed. A
lot of people want to see show. Hey, he own
Major League Baseball and its fans. One at bad in
Philadelphia to lead off for the National League. One at bad? Show, Hey,
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people care about this guy. He moves the needle. He
is one of the faces and stars of the game.
No way, no, how can you miss the All Star Game.
Vladimir Guerrero Junior is doing it in Toronto bad, bad,
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This is bad one at bad in Philadelphia, and go
on your way. You can leave right after your bat.
You don't have to stick around. You need to be there.
Baseball is riding a high. Why because people have seen
some that they've never seen before. He is must see TV.
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People think I hate oh Show hail time.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I don't think he's the greatest player of all time.
But I don't. And and this is bad. This is
bad for the game.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I wish somebody could have got to him and said no,
if he's hurt and he really needs treatment, Kelvin, and
he missed Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday, can't DH, can't hit?
Then I'm okay with it. But you are playing. You're
well enough to play. That means you're well enough to
give me one at bad, one at bad, at the
All Star Game, the leadoff for the National League. That's
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all I want.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, we don't know that he's gonna do like we
gotta wait to be seen. I hear you, But we
don't know. He might end up not doing anything over
this next time. No, is he scheduled to DH right?
But I'm saying scheduled he's scheduled. I hear you what
I'm saying. We got to actually see it because he
might be scheduled and all of a sudden he just
decide to not use him and just shut it all
down for a give him a week or something. Uh here,
(14:57):
here's here, I get the premise. But here's where I put.
He's been a six consecutive All Star Games. It's not
like he's his first one or two and he's already
shut in the league. I would be like, whoa yo,
You're too young to be doing that. Who do you
think you are? You know, it'd be like if Wimby
was like, oh, I ain't gonna be shut in the
All Star Game? Like women, you're just now becoming a feen.
Now he's played in six consecutive he's played in multiple
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now World Series appearances and now wins for him. He's
played in World Baseball Classics where he struck Mike trottout.
I mean, the man has had three hundred and twenty
four at bats at eighty five innings, pitch rob He's
doing multiple things that no one else is doing.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
If the man needs a break, he needs a break.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And I'm okay with that because this is the guy
that's not cheating the game. This is the guy that's not,
you know, just taking the money collecting it. He's pitching,
he's hitting, he's stealing, he's doing with d agent, He's
a leadoff. Whatever it takes where it seemed to win,
and ultimately that's also what matters.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
They've got a chance to three peat. So I totally
get your point.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
If he had not participated, he's done a home run
derby as well, so he's given his all to the
game here and of course America. Back in Japan, he's
done it all. And if the man tells me, yo,
I just can't. I just need a break of all
the people who is deserving of it. To me, he's
laid out the case for it, so I'm not mad. Sure,
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I'd love to see.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
It, Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Can I give you a pushback? You're talking about he
played in six All Star Games in a row, right, Yes,
Hank Aaron twenty five All Star Games, Willie May's twenty
four All Star Games. Stam Musual twenty four All Star Games.
Mickey Mannle, who missed over six hundred games with injuries,
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played in twenty All Star Games. Cal Ripkin ted Williams
nineteen each. Come on, I'm not buying it because it's
for the fans. It's a special night. Nothing's going on
in sports other than the Baseball All Star Game on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It is the state for everybody who.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Maybe haven't been with an NBA fans who are other
this right Tuesday night, the Monday night, the derby, the
home run, I mean the derby, and then the All
Star Game. Baseball has center stay. Nothing else is happening
other than that.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
But so much so that.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Even Baseball's having a game on Thursday. You know why,
because ESPN had no programming, nothing.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
They're like, we might have put something up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
They were like, we need a game on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Otherwise it would be two days with nothing Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
So I'm not listen, I'm not mad at you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What I'm saying is the reason I brought the sixth
consecutive is because if he misses one and he's right
back next year for another six consecutive and four, five, six, seven, eight, whatever,
it'll be if the guy totality missed one, because that
was just a year, he just couldn't really give it
a go. I don't have a problem with that, because
the reason I brought up the six was to say,
this is what he's done.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
He's saying, when you see them, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But what I'm saying is, you're giving me the total
from eighteen, nineteen twenty whatever they were, to the end
at for the early forties. I'm saying, So you're giving
me the end. I'm saying, so far, and show his career.
He's already done that, and we'll see the second half
of his career where he might get another five, six, seven, eight,
nine in a row.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So far, he's never cheated us. He's pitched eighty five
innings third, he ordered in twenty four at bets. He's
pitched last year. He's pitching the postseason. He pitched in
the World Baseball Classic. He's done a home run derby.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
You know, Mickey Manna went to the World Series ten
years in the fifties and whatever it was, and he
made twenty All Star Games, and he played.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
They played, I get it.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
They didn't have pitched.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
They didn't have they didn't have the amenities that the
players have today. They didn't fly first class, they didn't
have all the stuff that they have. Massus's they have everything. Like, seriously,
I'm not saying play a whole game, Kelvin, I'm not
give me one at bad to lead the game on
for the new Get on a plane, you and your family.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You could go home. I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Like, like, if I'm with you with probably ninety seven
percent of the guys, if there's one guy who will saying, hey, man,
I've given you all by awe from pitching in any circumstance,
from hitting in any circumstance. What World Series, back to
back titles, I just need a day. I think he's
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deserved it. That's all I'm saying, is that guy. I
went you a ninety seven ninety eight other percent of
the players. But if there's a guy or two or three,
he would be the face of that that deserves it
to me.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
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Speaker 3 (19:45):
But Jalen Brown wants everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
To know how angry he is about the way things
went down with Boston. Now you would call it put
out that statement. In the aftermath of the trade, saying
that he was, you know, equally disappointed and about what
was coming. And now this is one of the maybe
Tyler hero games and tips. Bomani Jones and Vernon Maxwell
were on a podcast together. They put out a clip
(20:10):
Got Some Run, and the two guys discussed the idea
that Jason Tatum did not do enough to keep Jalen
Brown in Boston. Said if he would have flexed his
muscles as the franchise player, then Jalen Brown would still
be in Boston and lo and behold Jalen Brown on
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x on Instagram, as he's been known to do, went
in there, hit the double tap like the post, insinuating that, Yeah,
if Jason Tatum would have stood up for your boy,
I'd still be in Boston. Instead, I'm stuck here in
Philly with Tyrese Maxi and Joel Embiid's bad knees.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And Kelvin.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
This is why your argument that Jalen Brown wanted to
be his own dog and have his own team is
null and void. This guy is so hurt that he
got dumped. You should be on Cloud nine. You're away
from Jason Tatum. You can go to Philadelphia, go take
them to the finals, go prove how valuable you are
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and how good you are. And instead all he's done
is belly ache about what went down. People have been
traded for since the beginning of time. Babe Ruth was traded,
Wayne gretz was sold, but Wayne Gretzky was traded. We
could go on and on about all the great players
who got moved, okay, and for him to be this
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hurt about Oh, Jason Tatum didn't didn't stick up for me.
That's why they they moved me out and all this
other stuff. If you wanted to be your own guy,
you talked about it. The best season, you said was
last year when you led the team when people didn't
have any expectations. It's one thing to ask for something.
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And I just don't I think think that he outsmarted himself.
He thought that, you know, talking his stuff and all
this other stuff, that there's no way that the Celtics
are gonna move me. Look at what we've accomplished. We
won two chas, we went to two championships and we
won one. He got in for the root awakening that
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you can be moved. I've said it all the time.
Halle Berry has been left like you could be moved.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No, I'm that serious when I say that.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
I wasn't ready for that.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
You know what I'm saying, though, Calvin, Right, I think
halle Berry is gorgeous. It's one of the prettiest, the
prettiest woman I ever saw in person.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You remember that Flintstone movie when she was in in
like ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, it was a bad movie, but I do remember.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, nothing else about it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But my point is that he's not happy, he says.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And that's why even in his statement originally said he
was disappointed and happy. You know what I mean. I'm
astatic to go to Philadeladelphia. They want me. This is
what I want to do. I want to deliver the
championship to the city of Philadelphia and all these people
who love basketball. Is a great city and tradition, blah blah.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Blah blah blah blah. All that. That could have been
his focus.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Uh, and where he was instead he keeps looking back
because he never believed that he was going to be dumped.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He was dumped and he's heard, he knows he.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Was doing you ro this is where I put This
is where I still stand on what I was saying.
You've ever been in a relationship where you you know, you're dating,
kicking with somebody you know, and eventually you kind of
know like, nah, I'm ready, I'm ready for this to end,
but you want to be the one to do it,
you don't want it, and it Ay beat you to it.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
You know what, I don't think this is going anywhere.
We need to end this thing.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You're like, oh, like I was supposed to be the
one to do this, not you. That's where I think
Jaylen Brown is. I think he I still believe he
wanted his own space by the way Jason Tatum made
want his own space too, Like, why does Jayson Tatum
have to you know, going out of his way? Number One,
Jason Tatum doesn't seem like the guy that jumps out
for really much anything. He kind of seems chill, focused
(24:06):
on the game and in his own world, takes care
of his son, and like he not really a Rod
Rock guy period. So I don't expect him to jump
out the window for much of anything and not a.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
But why would Why would Jalen Brown?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Because this Worl'm going I think Jaylen Brown Rock wanted
to have his cake and eat it too.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I think he wanted the fanfare of.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The oh my gosh, you were so great for us,
we love you, No, don't leave, and he wanted to
be wounded, oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
But I also wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But out of the way out, I wanted to feel
like the respect that I deserve. I really think he
feels like over the last few years, it just wasn't
the same. Why aren't we and Jason Tatum fifty to
fifty on this dude?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
He got traded? Why why is the kid?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Because because I'm just telling you my opinion, and I
think he wanted to be like but the like the
almost like it was a perfect party.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Not they didn't call me, not they they didn't really
talk to me.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Not day Brad Stevens really didn't have a sit down,
a lunch or have a wine with me unless this
hash the thing out. Not damn my dog, Jason Tatum,
I know he had a part way, So why would
you care?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
If you want if you want your own squad, you
got what you want us.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I want to I want to feel all of the
respect that I deserve on my way out, all the praise,
respe they paid you, the fan upset, but everybody said
it was a list.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Everybody said it like everybody said, it.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Was a lopsided trade. It's not a basketball trade. He's
he's hurt because he got dumped and he realized that
you can't be the smartest You think you're the smartest guy,
and you think that everybody gonna falling over Oh my god,
there's no way they're gonna there's no way they're gonna
let me go.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I don't think that, yes, you can get let go.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
No. I agree that anybody Luca got traded.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We know that.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
I'm not disagreeing with that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I'm saying I don't think the idea of a trade
is like flabbergasted. I don't think he's like, oh my gosh,
they were gonna trade me. I don't think that at all.
I think he's bad and he got dumped. There's a
big difference. I agree that he got for the Paul
George for nothing. I think that that's was a rude awakening,
and that was to me more of an ind in
a digat of the league than just Boston.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I think it did a league like Yo.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Either the league wasn't jumping in against you, or they
just didn't have the right means to make it happen.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
So I think that was a shocker. And I also
believe he just wants.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
To be rewarded, honor, treasured the way he believes I've
needed to be. If I'm him, I've done all this
for the team on the court, in between the white lines,
and then on the flip.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Six year and then that's disrespect.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's what I believe. I believe it ain't always about
money these these guys. You know that you've been covering
the league for forty years. It has not always about money.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't know what what else they could do for him.
They signed him the one of the richest contracts ever.
I mean, but that's respect.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The kiss I wanted to think he wanted to kiss
and the flowers on his way out because I've given
y'all all on the court, the community. Once he left,
so many community and organizations have cot reached out.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
He was so great in the city, so great in
the community. That's not I know. So I think you
feel the.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Celtics say, what like get everything on the way and
take them in the same way, yo, my man, like,
don't go be with me. I think he wanted that
and didn't get it, and I think he's kind of shot, like, dang,
y'all just kicked me out like that.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Not that I didn't necessarily want to move on, but
y'all showing the love on the way out, that's what
I've done.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
On makes sense.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
He wanted you want to If you really want to go,
you should go, and you shouldn't look back. You're not
the first guy to get traded. You just mentioned it, Luca.
Luca could have been the one.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Shame Luca was sick.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Okay, Luca, I understand because there was no other guy
making sixty million dollars on a team that you had
to account for. Yeah, Luca didn't say after they went
to the finals that that was the best season ever.
You know, Like there's a lot of stuff I've been.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Saying that jal Jalen has done and said for two
three years that I've said that to you. I've that
he's made it known that if me and him are equals,
I should feel fifty to fifty kind of the.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The what I'm saying, they gave you your wish, you
should be happy, go up along you kids, spot.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
But on the way out is what I think he wanted.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I think he if you were in a relationship with
a woman, you gave your all blood, sweat, tears, and
then you just out want to see you. Well, you
might be the one person who would do that. I'll
give you that. You might be the one person. Everybody
else I know my dog, Alex, I know Ra They
would want you know what, don't go way, let's reconsider.
What about one more Chad? Okay, Well, if you gotta go,
(28:38):
I just want you to know how much you meant that.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I know you, I believe you. She's dead to me,
she's dead, I know you the rest of us. What
a little you know?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Alex? Is anybody dead to you? Rob G? Anybody dead
to you? Alex? I got a list? Oh you got
a list, rob G. You have a list other than
Tom Looney.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I do not have a list of dead to me people.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah he does. He's lying. Bubbo's in here right now.
They're rob G.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Rob G, y'all been together. Not your wife, because I
wouldn't even wish it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But you know, he was with somebody for some years,
some great times, and then it's time to call it
or something. And you know you wanted to kind of
on the way out, like you know, maybe we shouldn't.
I want you, I still miss you.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Are you sure? Maybe I gotta get out and stick with?
Am I wrong? Rob? G? So right?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Some right you can't. It's so right. You can't turn left.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So you want that, you want that, And that's what
I think he wanted, Rob, He wanted to sell. He
wanted a farewelly you been so much, Jason taintum like
my dog, don't leave me. That's what he wanted and
he can't get it.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
And I think he's kind of sick, like dang, y'all
really just kicked me out like that and didn't even
show the love is like no love for your boy
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're listening to the best of the Odd Couple.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Alight, Hey, Rob g news in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, breaking news right before we got on air. We
kind of felt it coming and it hit in a
big way. According to ESPN sham Sharanya Victor Wambanyama, Rob
Parker's favorite Frenchman at least temporarily.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Got Everyone knows it's whim.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh got himself a new extension in
San Antonio. It sounds good at first, you know he's
gonna be making five years two point fifty two. The
only problem is he was eligible for five years three
ozer TiO. It's like a fifty dollar haircut to help
out the front office there in San Antonio, and mister
Parker's not very happy about it.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Makes no sense. Wemby, Wemby, what are you doing? You've
been brainwashed too. It is unbelievable. How these athletes have
been brainwashed by front office people owners. Has he looked
at the landscape of what's happened, How players have been
(01:31):
traded away because they don't want to get the owners
don't want to pay these guys don't want to get
these extensions. And you're taking fifty million less than you
have to for what reason? For what reason? Why do
you need to take less? Let them figure out what
they're doing. Wemby, you should be a guy who.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Leads the way. You're the next guy in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You're the guy who people can look at and follow,
and you're a young guy with a long career. Don't
do this. You can't do this again. This is a
colossal mistake. You should get what you're entitled to. Ask
the GM did he take a cut so that there's
(02:18):
more money for the other staffers? As the owner? Will
he have a cap on profits?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
How aout? How about an owner's profits cap?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Kelvin, If I said that owners can only make ten
percent profit on their investment, how many would sell the
team the next day? They wouldn't go for that right
as an owner? Why in the world are players dumb?
And I say that seriously, like this whole idea of
Patrick Mahomes was bamboozl signed one of the worst contracts
(02:49):
ever saw. They touted five hundred million, Rob g sixty
three million was guaranteed when he signed the contract.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Who they get rid of?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They got rid of everybody, right like Tyreek Hill had
to go, Honey Badger had to go, Snead had to go,
and then don't forget Chris Jones had to sit out
to get his money. But they told Patrick, yo, if
you don't take as much, we'll be able to do this.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Tom Brady did the same thing to the Patriots.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Go there's a long list of Patriots guys who never
got paid by the organization. They use up their talents
young and never got the money, and Tom Brady took less.
And then they did a story. Rob G correct me
the Boston Globe. The Patriots are one of the teams
(03:48):
that didn't spend the extra money.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They barely spent money on free agents.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
All they ever talked about was Tom Brady did all
of this with no receivers, with no names, guys who were.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Working at dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
They didn't go out and sign anybody big time they
got Randy Wallas because he was dumped by the Raiders
right up because of the whole situation there.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He was.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
On the down side, he won a star that they
went out and got and got money that.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He rehabilitated his career in New England.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
My point is it's not your job to save the organization.
You don't have to do that. You're not a bad
person if you don't take less. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well, I don't think you know. You're listen.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Anybody wanted to get paid, especially when you deserve it.
You're talented, you're twenty two already have been to the
Dagon Finals, the.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Fifteen coach during the postseason.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I get it. So I'm with you on that.
Anybody who wants to take more money, I get it.
I'm not mad me or you would want to take
more money.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Here's the difference. Here's where I disagree or push back. Rob.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The challenge is you brought the owners. The owners don't
have a cat. Unfortunately in the NBA not MLB, they
have caps. So that means, hey, Wenby, I wish I
could pay you one hundred twenty a year. You're worth
Lebron Steph. These guys would have been worth crazy money
every year. But there's a cap, so I can only
pay you in this case three zero two. But you
(05:09):
wanted the two fifty two because in order for me
to sign Castle and then Dylan Harper who's behind him,
and all of that, I'm gonna need money because we
have a cap, so I.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Get your point.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But the owners they can there is no caps, so
they can make as much as they want.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
And here's the difference.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The challenge with a guy like Wemby and some other
players that you named, and other players in general, is
because they want to win, because their legacy is not
gonna be based on how much money they accumulated. They're
not gonna go man Withby's the goat why because he
got five fifty.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Five hundred and fifty million dollars in his career.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, they're gonna say he's a goat because he got
four or five, six, seven rings whatever it is, and
he was able to win a bunch.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
And that's the key part.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So if you look at the women, but you don't
let me, let me say, hold on, hold on. All
I'm saying is if Wemby looks at this ass, well, okay,
if I can save some money here, and then he
saved some money here. Maybe his castle up in a
year or two whatever, and we keep this thing together
for four or five years, we can win a few
and Wimby is man niacal about winning. The boy was
(06:11):
crying when he lost to nineteen and under the chin.
The boy cried when France lost to the United States
in the in the Olympics. The boy cried when he
won the Western Conference final. He cried when he that
gone All Star Game. He cares, he's defensive player of
the Year. He plays both sides of the ball. He
wants to win. It matters to him, and he wants
to have an insane legacy with a war trow, of
(06:32):
a trust chess, of a million different accolades and awards.
And if he knows if I give up ten million
dollars a year what it averages out to, which after taxes,
comes down about five, I think I'll be all right
the five million dollars a year. You know, we ain't
even accumulated when he's making in France, because he's probably
one of the massive stars there instead of in Bapeup.
So my point is I'm with you. I'm not mad
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if he chose to make the money, because we know
he deserves it. But I get why he and other
players alike would not want to because they're wanting to win,
because ultimately Kelvin and Rob are gonna look at them
and on their show five, ten, fifteen years from now
and ago. Well he only won one, he only won two.
He can't be the gold, or he can't be this,
or he only got this.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
But he knows that your argument holds no water because
saving the organization money doesn't mean that you're going to win.
If you misspend it, or if you have a bad
general manager, or if you spend bree all right, so
there's no guarantee even if he gives you a discount
that you're gonna win. You're automatically thinking they misspent money
(07:34):
when they gave the Aaron Fox a new deal.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's that's where the problem came in.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
So so you can misspend the money or just like, oh,
y'all telling you the philosophers, Josh like, it's just like
Patrick Mahomes when you kept going they don't want to
have any receivers.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
No, they had a receiver and they was Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
And you know what they said they didn't want to
pay him, even though Patrick Mahomes took him, took took
a card, say so.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I take I'll give you some cuts.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Lebron James, d Wade, Chris Bosh all take cuts to
get together fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
We know good will each of them is way more
than that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And they go to the finals fourth year straight years
they win a couple we've seen historically.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well the other fifteen years that that Lebron James playing.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean you're talking about that he had no choice.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yes, I'm giving you an example giving guys who got
together who said I could have gone here, got all
the money they got together, the.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
One it's because of their salaries. That's not why they won.
It was because they're good.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
No, it won't. They got you exactly the promise.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Literally the point if Lebron James, the best player in
the league, wanted to be paid like the best player
in the league, he wouldn't have been able to get
with them.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
He wouldn't have had the talent you're talking about, and.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He would wind that mean you can't Nobody.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Said it could never win. It makes all the sense
in the world.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I just got this.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I want to give myself as many to win.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So the Mets have the second highest payroll of Dodge.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Just have the highest payroll. Did you think the Dodgers
have been good just the last two.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Years when they won the World Series or was there
or were they good and had a high payroll for
the last ten years or fifteen years they didn't win.
It's not automatic because you're saving money or spending money
that you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Win as money as baseball is the most non equivalent.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
We talk about Philadelpa tea seventy signals.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
They get signing people, they haven't one jack trust the process.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Hear me out charge process, no lose.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Get these draft picks, develop them, and then they're gonna
put together the super team and win.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
They never won.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
We never won the draft picks.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Never.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
With the conversation about money, Mike bringing up any of that,
you know the baseball has nothing to do with.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
None of that has anything to do with winning. A
con job. It's a con job. It's a con job.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Tim duncan job sticking together with his team, got nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Exactly the point you know it that money has has
anything to do with winning.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Has no proof of anything.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You don't have to point. I just said, we have
proof of anything. The point is I'm trying to put
as many cogs in as possible to.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Have chosen win.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You're gonna win as the New york Man, to have
the high payroll. Stop it.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Literally, nothing in life means you're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Literally, So that's why I don't need to take a cut.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But if I give myself better chance, if I give
myself a better.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Let Taron Fox take a cut. How about that, let's
somebody else.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I'm not saying what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
He made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Still, he absolutely is trying to win as many finals
as possible because he knows his legacy ain't gonna be
based on well he could have got an extra eighty
million throughout his total.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It ain't about that. And he's not win. He could
take a cut and never win, And then what would
your conversation be.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You would your conversation be if he doesn't win and
he takes cuts, what would it be.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
That he gave it a try to keep his team together.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I made my point very clear.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
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Speaker 3 (11:13):
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Speaker 5 (11:40):
Or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Rob, we
got some news that I'm not happy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, we got some news in baseball, and I think
Rob gonna say it's foul.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
It is.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Shoi Otani has been ash from his schedule start of
the mound here tonight against the Backs. We knew that
he has some left knee irritation they're calling it. But
according to the team, he will serve as their DH
the rest of the weekend, and then come All Star
break he's gonna take the break off so he can
get some treatment on that alienee. So he's healthy enough
(12:18):
to DH through the weekend, but not healthy enough to
swing the bat in the All Star break.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Shame on show, Hey Otani, shame, shame, shame. He's the
big star in Major League Baseball. Aaron Judge is hurt.
We gotta have an All Star Game in Philadelphia without
two of the best players, Judge.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
A Judge has.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Been out all right and hasn't played for a once,
six weeks, almost two months going on to he's been
out for a while. If Otani was hurt and didn't
play this weekend, I'd buy it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
He's gonna miss the All Star Game.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
But he's going to play the weekend and not go
to Philadelphia and not represent the National League, not represent
Dodger fans. The people in Japan will be disappointed. A
lot of people want to see show. Hey, he own
Major League Baseball and its fans. One at bad in
Philadelphia to lead off for the National League. One at bad? Show, Hey,
(13:22):
people care about this guy. He moves the needle. He
is one of the faces and stars of the game.
No way, no, how can you miss the All Star Game.
Vladimir Guerrero Junior is doing it in Toronto bad, bad,
(13:43):
This is bad one at bad in Philadelphia, and go
on your way. You can leave right after your bat.
You don't have to stick around. You need to be there.
Baseball is riding a high. Why because people have seen
some that they've never seen before. He is must see TV.
(14:04):
People think I hate oh Show hail time.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I don't think he's the greatest player of all time.
But I don't. And and this is bad. This is
bad for the game.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I wish somebody could have got to him and said no,
if he's hurt and he really needs treatment, Kelvin, and
he missed Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday, can't DH, can't hit?
Then I'm okay with it. But you are playing. You're
well enough to play. That means you're well enough to
give me one at bad, one at bad, at the
All Star Game, the leadoff for the National League. That's
(14:35):
all I want.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, we don't know that he's gonna do like we
gotta wait to be seen. I hear you, But we
don't know. He might end up not doing anything over
this next time. No, is he scheduled to DH right?
But I'm saying scheduled he's scheduled. I hear you what
I'm saying. We got to actually see it because he
might be scheduled and all of a sudden he just
decide to not use him and just shut it all
down for a give him a week or something. Uh here,
(14:57):
here's here, I get the premise. But here's where I put.
He's been a six consecutive All Star Games. It's not
like he's his first one or two and he's already
shut in the league. I would be like, whoa yo,
You're too young to be doing that. Who do you
think you are? You know, it'd be like if Wimby
was like, oh, I ain't gonna be shut in the
All Star Game? Like women, you're just now becoming a feen.
Now he's played in six consecutive he's played in multiple
(15:20):
now World Series appearances and now wins for him. He's
played in World Baseball Classics where he struck Mike trottout.
I mean, the man has had three hundred and twenty
four at bats at eighty five innings, pitch rob He's
doing multiple things that no one else is doing.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
If the man needs a break, he needs a break.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And I'm okay with that because this is the guy
that's not cheating the game. This is the guy that's not,
you know, just taking the money collecting it. He's pitching,
he's hitting, he's stealing, he's doing with d agent, He's
a leadoff. Whatever it takes where it seemed to win,
and ultimately that's also what matters.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
They've got a chance to three peat. So I totally
get your point.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
If he had not participated, he's done a home run
derby as well, so he's given his all to the
game here and of course America. Back in Japan, he's
done it all. And if the man tells me, yo,
I just can't. I just need a break of all
the people who is deserving of it. To me, he's
laid out the case for it, so I'm not mad. Sure,
(16:20):
I'd love to see.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
It, Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Can I give you a pushback? You're talking about he
played in six All Star Games in a row, right, Yes,
Hank Aaron twenty five All Star Games, Willie May's twenty
four All Star Games. Stam Musual twenty four All Star Games.
Mickey Mannle, who missed over six hundred games with injuries,
(16:41):
played in twenty All Star Games. Cal Ripkin ted Williams
nineteen each. Come on, I'm not buying it because it's
for the fans. It's a special night. Nothing's going on
in sports other than the Baseball All Star Game on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It is the state for everybody who.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Maybe haven't been with an NBA fans who are other
this right Tuesday night, the Monday night, the derby, the
home run, I mean the derby, and then the All
Star Game. Baseball has center stay. Nothing else is happening
other than that.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
But so much so that.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Even Baseball's having a game on Thursday. You know why,
because ESPN had no programming, nothing.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
They're like, we might have put something up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
They were like, we need a game on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Otherwise it would be two days with nothing Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
So I'm not listen, I'm not mad at you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What I'm saying is the reason I brought the sixth
consecutive is because if he misses one and he's right
back next year for another six consecutive and four, five, six, seven, eight, whatever,
it'll be if the guy totality missed one, because that
was just a year, he just couldn't really give it
a go. I don't have a problem with that, because
the reason I brought up the six was to say,
this is what he's done.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
He's saying, when you see them, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But what I'm saying is, you're giving me the total
from eighteen, nineteen twenty whatever they were, to the end
at for the early forties. I'm saying, So you're giving
me the end. I'm saying, so far, and show his career.
He's already done that, and we'll see the second half
of his career where he might get another five, six, seven, eight,
nine in a row.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So far, he's never cheated us. He's pitched eighty five
innings third, he ordered in twenty four at bets. He's
pitched last year. He's pitching the postseason. He pitched in
the World Baseball Classic. He's done a home run derby.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
You know, Mickey Manna went to the World Series ten
years in the fifties and whatever it was, and he
made twenty All Star Games, and he played.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
They played, I get it.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
They didn't have pitched.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
They didn't have they didn't have the amenities that the
players have today. They didn't fly first class, they didn't
have all the stuff that they have. Massus's they have everything. Like, seriously,
I'm not saying play a whole game, Kelvin, I'm not
give me one at bad to lead the game on
for the new Get on a plane, you and your family.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You could go home. I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Like, like, if I'm with you with probably ninety seven
percent of the guys, if there's one guy who will saying, hey, man,
I've given you all by awe from pitching in any circumstance,
from hitting in any circumstance. What World Series, back to
back titles, I just need a day. I think he's
(19:24):
deserved it. That's all I'm saying, is that guy. I
went you a ninety seven ninety eight other percent of
the players. But if there's a guy or two or three,
he would be the face of that that deserves it
to me.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
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Speaker 3 (19:45):
But Jalen Brown wants everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
To know how angry he is about the way things
went down with Boston. Now you would call it put
out that statement. In the aftermath of the trade, saying
that he was, you know, equally disappointed and about what
was coming. And now this is one of the maybe
Tyler hero games and tips. Bomani Jones and Vernon Maxwell
were on a podcast together. They put out a clip
(20:10):
Got Some Run, and the two guys discussed the idea
that Jason Tatum did not do enough to keep Jalen
Brown in Boston. Said if he would have flexed his
muscles as the franchise player, then Jalen Brown would still
be in Boston and lo and behold Jalen Brown on
(20:31):
x on Instagram, as he's been known to do, went
in there, hit the double tap like the post, insinuating that, Yeah,
if Jason Tatum would have stood up for your boy,
I'd still be in Boston. Instead, I'm stuck here in
Philly with Tyrese Maxi and Joel Embiid's bad knees.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And Kelvin.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
This is why your argument that Jalen Brown wanted to
be his own dog and have his own team is
null and void. This guy is so hurt that he
got dumped. You should be on Cloud nine. You're away
from Jason Tatum. You can go to Philadelphia, go take
them to the finals, go prove how valuable you are
(21:13):
and how good you are. And instead all he's done
is belly ache about what went down. People have been
traded for since the beginning of time. Babe Ruth was traded,
Wayne gretz was sold, but Wayne Gretzky was traded. We
could go on and on about all the great players
who got moved, okay, and for him to be this
(21:34):
hurt about Oh, Jason Tatum didn't didn't stick up for me.
That's why they they moved me out and all this
other stuff. If you wanted to be your own guy,
you talked about it. The best season, you said was
last year when you led the team when people didn't
have any expectations. It's one thing to ask for something.
(21:59):
And I just don't I think think that he outsmarted himself.
He thought that, you know, talking his stuff and all
this other stuff, that there's no way that the Celtics
are gonna move me. Look at what we've accomplished. We
won two chas, we went to two championships and we
won one. He got in for the root awakening that
(22:19):
you can be moved. I've said it all the time.
Halle Berry has been left like you could be moved.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No, I'm that serious when I say that.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
I wasn't ready for that.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
You know what I'm saying, though, Calvin, Right, I think
halle Berry is gorgeous. It's one of the prettiest, the
prettiest woman I ever saw in person.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You remember that Flintstone movie when she was in in
like ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, it was a bad movie, but I do remember.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, nothing else about it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But my point is that he's not happy, he says.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And that's why even in his statement originally said he
was disappointed and happy. You know what I mean. I'm
astatic to go to Philadeladelphia. They want me. This is
what I want to do. I want to deliver the
championship to the city of Philadelphia and all these people
who love basketball. Is a great city and tradition, blah blah.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Blah blah blah blah. All that. That could have been
his focus.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Uh, and where he was instead he keeps looking back
because he never believed that he was going to be dumped.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He was dumped and he's heard, he knows he.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Was doing you ro this is where I put This
is where I still stand on what I was saying.
You've ever been in a relationship where you you know, you're dating,
kicking with somebody you know, and eventually you kind of
know like, nah, I'm ready, I'm ready for this to end,
but you want to be the one to do it,
you don't want it, and it Ay beat you to it.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
You know what, I don't think this is going anywhere.
We need to end this thing.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You're like, oh, like I was supposed to be the
one to do this, not you. That's where I think
Jaylen Brown is. I think he I still believe he
wanted his own space by the way Jason Tatum made
want his own space too, Like, why does Jayson Tatum
have to you know, going out of his way? Number One,
Jason Tatum doesn't seem like the guy that jumps out
for really much anything. He kind of seems chill, focused
(24:06):
on the game and in his own world, takes care
of his son, and like he not really a Rod
Rock guy period. So I don't expect him to jump
out the window for much of anything and not a.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
But why would Why would Jalen Brown?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Because this Worl'm going I think Jaylen Brown Rock wanted
to have his cake and eat it too.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I think he wanted the fanfare of.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The oh my gosh, you were so great for us,
we love you, No, don't leave, and he wanted to
be wounded, oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
But I also wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But out of the way out, I wanted to feel
like the respect that I deserve. I really think he
feels like over the last few years, it just wasn't
the same. Why aren't we and Jason Tatum fifty to
fifty on this dude?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
He got traded? Why why is the kid?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Because because I'm just telling you my opinion, and I
think he wanted to be like but the like the
almost like it was a perfect party.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Not they didn't call me, not they they didn't really
talk to me.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Not day Brad Stevens really didn't have a sit down,
a lunch or have a wine with me unless this
hash the thing out. Not damn my dog, Jason Tatum,
I know he had a part way, So why would
you care?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
If you want if you want your own squad, you
got what you want us.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I want to I want to feel all of the
respect that I deserve on my way out, all the praise,
respe they paid you, the fan upset, but everybody said
it was a list.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Everybody said it like everybody said, it.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Was a lopsided trade. It's not a basketball trade. He's
he's hurt because he got dumped and he realized that
you can't be the smartest You think you're the smartest guy,
and you think that everybody gonna falling over Oh my god,
there's no way they're gonna there's no way they're gonna
let me go.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I don't think that, yes, you can get let go.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
No. I agree that anybody Luca got traded.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We know that.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
I'm not disagreeing with that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I'm saying I don't think the idea of a trade
is like flabbergasted. I don't think he's like, oh my gosh,
they were gonna trade me. I don't think that at all.
I think he's bad and he got dumped. There's a
big difference. I agree that he got for the Paul
George for nothing. I think that that's was a rude awakening,
and that was to me more of an ind in
a digat of the league than just Boston.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I think it did a league like Yo.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Either the league wasn't jumping in against you, or they
just didn't have the right means to make it happen.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
So I think that was a shocker. And I also
believe he just wants.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
To be rewarded, honor, treasured the way he believes I've
needed to be. If I'm him, I've done all this
for the team on the court, in between the white lines,
and then on the flip.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Six year and then that's disrespect.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's what I believe. I believe it ain't always about
money these these guys. You know that you've been covering
the league for forty years. It has not always about money.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't know what what else they could do for him.
They signed him the one of the richest contracts ever.
I mean, but that's respect.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The kiss I wanted to think he wanted to kiss
and the flowers on his way out because I've given
y'all all on the court, the community. Once he left,
so many community and organizations have cot reached out.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
He was so great in the city, so great in
the community. That's not I know. So I think you
feel the.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Celtics say, what like get everything on the way and
take them in the same way, yo, my man, like,
don't go be with me. I think he wanted that
and didn't get it, and I think he's kind of shot, like, dang,
y'all just kicked me out like that.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Not that I didn't necessarily want to move on, but
y'all showing the love on the way out, that's what
I've done.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
On makes sense.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
He wanted you want to If you really want to go,
you should go, and you shouldn't look back. You're not
the first guy to get traded. You just mentioned it, Luca.
Luca could have been the one.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Shame Luca was sick.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Okay, Luca, I understand because there was no other guy
making sixty million dollars on a team that you had
to account for. Yeah, Luca didn't say after they went
to the finals that that was the best season ever.
You know, Like there's a lot of stuff I've been.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Saying that jal Jalen has done and said for two
three years that I've said that to you. I've that
he's made it known that if me and him are equals,
I should feel fifty to fifty kind of the.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The what I'm saying, they gave you your wish, you
should be happy, go up along you kids, spot.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
But on the way out is what I think he wanted.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I think he if you were in a relationship with
a woman, you gave your all blood, sweat, tears, and
then you just out want to see you. Well, you
might be the one person who would do that. I'll
give you that. You might be the one person. Everybody
else I know my dog, Alex, I know Ra They
would want you know what, don't go way, let's reconsider.
What about one more Chad? Okay, Well, if you gotta go,
(28:38):
I just want you to know how much you meant that.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I know you, I believe you. She's dead to me,
she's dead, I know you the rest of us. What
a little you know?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Alex? Is anybody dead to you? Rob G? Anybody dead
to you? Alex? I got a list? Oh you got
a list, rob G. You have a list other than
Tom Looney.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I do not have a list of dead to me people.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah he does. He's lying. Bubbo's in here right now.
They're rob G.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Rob G, y'all been together. Not your wife, because I
wouldn't even wish it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But you know, he was with somebody for some years,
some great times, and then it's time to call it
or something. And you know you wanted to kind of
on the way out, like you know, maybe we shouldn't.
I want you, I still miss you.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Are you sure? Maybe I gotta get out and stick with?
Am I wrong? Rob? G? So right?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Some right you can't. It's so right. You can't turn left.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So you want that, you want that, And that's what
I think he wanted, Rob, He wanted to sell. He
wanted a farewelly you been so much, Jason taintum like
my dog, don't leave me. That's what he wanted and
he can't get it.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
And I think he's kind of sick, like dang, y'all
really just kicked me out like that and didn't even
show the love is like no love for your boy
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