October 31, 2025 • 41 mins
Kelvin Washington and Rob Parker bring you a Halloween special! 🎃 The guys break down the Game 6 World Series matchup between the Dodgers and Blue Jays before first pitch. Then, they react to NFL fans getting a little selfish—demanding even more games! Plus, don’t miss a brand-new edition of Shekel City. All that and more in Hour 1! 🔥🎧
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That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What up man, Happy fucking flashback Friday. We've made it
to the weekend. We've got to of course, big a
big weekend in sports, Big game six tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So a lot going on. Brother, what's up? You're good?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
All good?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it's Halloween for people who celebrating I'm talking about
saying you got three kids, you don't know about Halloween?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We don't. We're not we're not big Halloween house.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think't. My wife and I neither one of us
grew up overly into Halloween. So but the girls will
be doing their thing. We got the uh little you know,
festival thing at the church a little bit later, so
they'll they'll be uh, they'll they will get their candy.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So you got so they do? What is an Angels Night?
Is that what they do?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, that's uh no, that's the that is a real thing,
or at least it used to be.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I don't know if it still is.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, some people didn't celebrate Halloween and they had like angels.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
The Angels Night harvest fest.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Now they call it rob trunk trunk or treat where
you pop the trunk and the several cars rut of
church and you go and you know, you do your things.
So uh but either way, be safe out there. Enjoy
for those who are gonna be out today tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes, uh, there will be plenty of people having a
good time and enjoying themselves. And I get it. Life
is so difficult already. A little diversion is a good thing, right,
A little bit right, all right, Uh, let's walk, that's
why we're here, Rob, Absolutely, let's welcome in the odd
couple crew. We wouldn't be able to do this fine
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radio program with Donald. Shae is our producer. Shaye, what
what's your costume? Chase dressed up?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
You know the BUCkies mascot BUCkies? Yeah, like a restaurant,
corner store or not a corner store, like a truck
stop almost Texas.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh yeah, fuck the huge, massive one he's got.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He even has the tail on the costume.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh you are?
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
You are? Is it a beaver? Right?
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Yeah, I'll face yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And the only thing is he's got the Dodger outfit
on over top it. You know, I had to understand
it's the it's the last game of.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
The year, all right. I don't even say that, say just.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
My headphones trip, last last one of the year. I
couldn't hear what you say.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Already you paid me today, get my Apple paid?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Do it?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Send me that money back?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean, Shay was like, oh, they're gonna win. I
not only win, but in five games?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Was tripping on that one?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Five games? Some help, but no respect for the one game?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
How am I tripping?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That's that's far one A gentleman. Sleep Yeah, that's four
to one.
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We know who he is. He's getting applause.
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So what's what's that? He ain't done that much for us?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Is our social media grey today and on the ones
and twos? Why but that's right?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So Mary's on the uh is our uh engineer for
the program. So a lot to do, so little time
on this funky flashback Friday. And let's start here Kelvin
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And you want to paint the picture.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Tonight game number six in Toronto, and the Dodgers are
hoping and praying that y'all, momodo pitch is a no
hit or a perfect game that's he could win.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I mean, they've already said that he's going and like this,
there's no secret he's going as far as he can
take them, as.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Long until they about hit him around a little bit.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yep, hit him around.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So basically we're here, Well, the Blue Jays robber up
three to two in this game six, and how did they.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Get there to get to three to two?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Remember the Dodgers win that eighteen inning game right at
home and then lose the next two at home Like
that was with old Tani on the mound after that, right,
that didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Work out, So that that's a big you know, you lose.
It wasn't like you lost with them. You lose with
a guy on the mountain. You lose, and then Blake
Snail comes back. You're feeling like, all right, well, well
he'll bounce back. And he wasn't horrible, but again the
offense did not support. They got no run support. So
now three to two. So basically, when teams are down
three to two in a series, they come back to
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win it thirty percent of the time. So that's what
the percentage. Just have a time, right, yes, seventy percent.
If you're up, you win it. So the Dodgers are
facing that right now. The only thing in their favor
to me, we've talked about it where is baseball is
a little weird and that.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Home field advantage isn't quite like other sports.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So if you're the Dodgers, you're hoping because we just
saw the Mariners get a couple last series versus the
Blue Jays, So that's what you'd be leaning on and
hoping for there. So the question, Rob really comes down
to all that the Dodgers acquired, all that they did
this offseason, coming into this season as the World Series
rainning World Series champs.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
If the Dodgers were to lose, because we won't be back.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, even if they win tonight, they could lose tomorrow.
You and I won't be on until Monday. If they
were to lose, is this season of failure?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Kelvin, without question.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
If the Dodgers lose this World Series, and you got
to remember this. When the season started, people were saying
it was unfair. Remember that it's unfair. Look at what
they did in the offseason. They won the World Series
last year, and all they did was be getting loaded
for bear that it was unfair everybody else. They were
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supposed to be what the Beatles most of the season.
They turned out to be a culture club with boy George,
but they.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Were supposed to be the Beatles.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
There's no way you can look at this team, the roster,
the pitching, everything that they put together and think that
they can lose this and it's no big deal.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Tip your cap to the Blue Jays and keep it moving.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It will be one of the most colossal collapses for
a team that everybody thought this whole time I've been
doing checkl City. Do you know every night the Blue
Jays are getting plus one and a half runs like
they've been underdog every night. Nobody believes it. They reminds me.
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Win the Pistons beat the Lakers. I'm sorry LA fans
back in two thousand and four, every time they won,
they look when they went, well.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The Lakers will win the next game. Well, the Lakers
will winning.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Do you do you remember Calvin Oh yeah, oh yeah,
after Kobe helped them win that game, hit the three
in Game two, right, okay, now it's over now, Okay.
Then the Pistons win Game three in Detroit, all right,
the Lakers will win the next one.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
All right, the Pistons win that game out, they'll win
the next one. And I know.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
People want to believe they're gonna turn the fascet on
and all of a sudden everything's.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Gonna click back or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
This team just hasn't been in a funk for five
days or a week since September. Google of numbers go. Look,
they've been scuffling offensively. The Dodgers have. They have three
runs in his two games stre right, in the last
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two games, and that's batting one sixty four with twenty
two strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
This is the last two games at home in LA.
We're sleeping in your own bed. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And the other part is the Blue Jays aren't fraudulent
or they've played over their heads. They came into this
World Series averaging six and a half runs. Do you
know what that is? In baseball? Teams do on average
six and a half runs for season six and a
half runs. It's a ton of runs. My point is simple.
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The Dodgers can't turn it on. They haven't hit in
a long time. Sure, I'm not saying they're gonna get shut
out or no hit or anything like that, but Kelvin,
this will be a colossal failure for the Dodgers, who
spent what one point two billion dollars or whatever it
was in the offseason, and even when they went and
got Tanner Scott right, remember, oh my god, look at
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what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Dude. None of this.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Will be good unless they repeat as World Series champs.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I hear everything you say, and I'm not mad at you,
and I'm sure there's a contingent folks who will feel
the same way.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
But I disagree. Here's why you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
People coming in and beginning talking about, oh the evil Empire,
Oh the Dodgers are doing this. You and I, yes,
me and you both said stop it. That guarantees you
nothing in baseball. Me and You've talked about spending the
most money means nothing. Spending the most money, in fact,
if anything, gets you more pressure to actually have to compete,
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win and do something.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
As the Mets, who don't even make the postseason.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Right, We've talked about the Yankees spend a bunch of money,
haven't won quite some time. We talked about the Dodgers
who spent a bunch of money and then finally went
until they won in twenty twenty. So spending a bunch
of money accumulating players doesn't mean anything. Also, this team,
while great on paper, had a bunch of injuries on
and off. Blake Snell only started eleven games. You got
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Glass now only started eighteen. You had some other guys
in and out the lineup, so they weren't fully themselves
throughout the season. And offensively they have been struggling throughout
the season, had some bad periods people thought they were
gonna win one hundred and ten to fifteen games. They barely.
What was it like around ninety I believe it was
so their starting pitching came together towards the end of
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the season, but.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Everybody with that pitching, they were like, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I agree, that's what mass that the team wasn't really
that great an NBP candidate, And Mookie Betts was terrible
this season for a large portion of it.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
He got great at the very last month. He was off.
We'd never seen them this dejected, he was emotional, he
didn't have words.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
When they would be interviewed, you and I would be like,
I've never seen Mookie like this. Mookie didn't have a
great season. So there was a lot that actually would
tell you this team is good, but they're not great.
And I think the starting pitching mask stat and we
know how hard this is. It's a reason why no
one has won in twenty five years back to back championships.
There's a reason why no one in the NL has won.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Sense, what was it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Seventy six saw reds seventy five seventy six reds. So
to me to get the year, obviously have a shot
get all the way six. I don't see it as
a failure, massive disappointment, right because you were right there
from doing it. But it is very difficult to do clearly,
hasn't happened in fifty years in the NL, twenty five
years all together. And again you've set yourself up by
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having all this great talent to be right back here
next year and have another chance to compete. So I
don't view it as a failure, but I I get
why you may, but I don't. Specifically in baseball, if
this was the Warriors with Kevin Durant, I would understand it.
Some of those Patriot teams, Brady and the whole like,
I would understand it being a failure seas because that's
how they operate, Shaq and Kobe failure if we don't
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win the championship.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's a bit different in baseball.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I just when you look at the way this team
was put together, in the money spent, this was to
win a World Series, not to get to it and
lose it. They were the overwhelming favorites when they swept
the Brewers. Will you admit that overwhelming? Overwhelming?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And for them to be in this situation all right eight,
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. We want to
hear from you. Do the Dodgers have to win this
World Series, come back, win the next two games. If
they lose tonight or tomorrow and they're all done, is
it a colossal failure? I say yes, Kelvin says no.
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What do you say? We want to hear from you.
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City as well, So a lot to get to this
hour right now. Rob and I are talking about is
real simple. If the Dodgers were to lose today or tomorrow,
straight up, is it a failure to you or not?
Rob says yes, I say no, What say you? Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Who we got?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
That's right, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Daniel and Anaheim, You're on the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Daniel?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I'm Daniel Anaheim Anaheim,
Billy pen Baby. I've been doing this three seasons now,
and I call my rankings the real pair of rankings
because for three seasons now, I'd beat ESPN MB on Fox,
the Ringer m We'll be powered by Google AI and
one or three okay stories of top twelve teams. I
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had the Blue Jays on my team on my top
twelve and more, got more teams on my rankings. She
made post season.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
All right, but let me ask you this what the Dodgers.
They spent ten billion dollars. If they don't win the championship,
they don't win the World Series, is it a failure?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yes or no?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I don't I don't think so, guys, because if you're looking,
if you compare them to the Blue Jays here, let's
be real here, and the National League you only had
one hitter that hit a bus three hundred and that
was Trade Turner. These guys in the National League, I'm
sorry this season there's not a lot of competition, right there,
guys in it?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Well, all right, all right, Daniel, Daniel, I get it.
Thank you, thanks for the call. I mean, I just
you can talk about all that other stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I mean, why he's saying the Blue Jays might have
been underrated?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
No, no, no, But my point is the Dodgers were the favorite.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Overwhelming. Would you just admit that? That's all I'm saying.
I'm looking at it. Fine, overwhelmed me because everybody that
I know, I don't know anybody who picked the Blue
Jays won the World Series?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Why wouldn't you. I'm just saying, but that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Everybody with that and the pitching, everybody thought they were
gonna repeat.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That's all the first team in twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And now you know, Rob, you know that I said
anybody picking them in four or five the Dodgers was crazy.
You heard me say that? Because that was disrespectful to
the Blue Do You? And I talked about the backs
of a lot of people and how many days we.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Talked about it leading up to the World Series?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
All right, Josh in Texas, you're on the odd couple
of Fox Sportsuado. What's up, Josh?
Speaker 11 (18:26):
What's going on? Fellers stations? Taking my calls?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Guys, man, no doubt?
Speaker 11 (18:30):
How are you pretty good?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Good things?
Speaker 11 (18:34):
Real? Real quick? First of all, Rob, you're saying the
season is going to be a failure. I believe there's
a certain coach that got two wins that argued down
on that fact.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Who's that.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Some college basketball coach I forgot his name.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah right, he almost took me out
on that one.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Yes, but I think the Dodgers would look at it
as a failure, are sure, because of what they spent
in the in the season and on all the acquisitions.
But if you talk to a Yankees fan, they probably
won't tell you the Yankees have been failures, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
So they just to have all since two thousand and nine.
People in New York.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Did you think they're happy that the Yankees went to
the World Series last year and they didn't make it better.
Speaker 11 (19:20):
I don't know if they're happy about it. No, talking
is a failure, like if they wanted to go nine
and then back in twenty ten. I don't think the
twenty ten season was a failure.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, I think I think baseball's one of the weird sports.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Like thanks.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
When I remember growing up Rob and I remember hearing
how big it was like winning the Pennant was like
a dag near winning a championship. Winning the Pennant winning
the Pennate like it's just.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
A weird sport.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's why they celebrate like they celebrate every Dagon wildcard,
divisional champion world they go.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Correct, You can't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
If I just showed you a celebration, you wouldn't know
the World Series between a wildcard win.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I just Daniel was talking in circles and I just
I don't know how how you don't think?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Is it? Who's this trucker? I can't see his name.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Trucker driver Don Tucker Don too in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, he's in Virginia now, Yes, Truncker Don? What's up,
my man?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
How are you?
Speaker 12 (20:14):
What's going on? Guys Covin, I never get to say
hey to you? How you doing?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Bud?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Don?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Listen, you had one more time, and I was gonna
feel some type of way. Don, it had been too
long for you said hello, what's up? Brother?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
I was.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
I was feeling less out. But in the immortal words
of John Belushi, was it over when the Germans bombed
Pearl Harbor, and ain't over till it's over? According to
Yogi Berrow, with it over in All four when the
Yankees were beating the Red Sox, Cleary Games, and Nontlo. Now,
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I don't think this series is over, and yeah, I
kind of feel like it's a failure if the Budgers
don't win it. I absolutely agree with you.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
They spent a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
They put together this team, They went out and got
all of these pieces.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Ain't no way people are gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Be like, oh, it's okay, Yeah they lost to the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm with you, Truckle don t.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think the thing is, though, Rob the offf acted
them to win. Yes, mad, disappointed, sick, throw up in
the mouth like you say, Yes, failure. I don't know,
because one thing the Dodger's gonna do permanently is spend
some money.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
They gonna spend some because we'll be right back here
next year. They spend money. They gonna spend some money.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Trucker don I mean, we know how hard it is,
right because no team has repeated since New lak He's
in twenty twenty five years ago.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If any team was supposedly gonna be that team, people
thought it would be this Dodger team right put together
and they would be the team to finally break through.
And that's the part that I think Kelvin and Don
that that people are gonna be like they failed at
this thing of improving a team. After you won the
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World Series last year, it would be.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Like the Dream Team not twinning the gold medal.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
All right, chuck it down, hold on, ye the level
of disrespect, boy, I'm so glad I'm here sometimes to
break some realness. The Dream Team was blowing everybody out
by forty five points.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
They beat the Yankees in five games. It was a
gentleman sweep.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I remember that, you know goodwell, if your boy Aaron
Judge that dropped that we might be having, you know,
at least a different couple extra games.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
The Dream Team was.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Blowing everybody out by fifth signed autographed by halftime stuck,
stop it, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
They're acting like the blue Jay.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
He don't let the Dodgers off the hook. Come on, man,
they were supposed to win.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
This, okay, which I told you. I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What you're saying is it's a failure. But like the
Dream Team is too much all right. On the other
side of trending, we got to talk about their fans.
And this is why sometimes if you're a league. You
can't listen to fans. We'll tell you what we're talking
about right now. Steven Seger has was trending Hey Steve.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Hey, Fox TV. With Game six in the World Series.
First pitch at about forty and it's Dodgers at Toronto,
Blue Jays up three games to two. LA starter Yoshinobu
Yamamoto Toronto going with Kevin Gossman and DH George Springer
returns for the Blue Jays tonight. He had injured himself
on a swing this week. Bobaschett batting clean up and
playing second base. The Dolphins parted ways with general manager
(23:17):
Chris Greer, but head coach Mike McDaniel will stay for
this year.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
At least.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Miami is two and seven after last night. Bear's running
back DeAndre Swift is out again with a groin injury,
and Chicago running back Rashawn Johnson is out with a
back injury. Chiefs running back Isaiah Pacheco officially out with
the spring to MCL Patriots running back Ramandre Stevenson out
with a toe injury. Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter is going
on injured reserve after a non contact knee injury in
(23:44):
practice Thursday. He's a wide receiver and defensive back. Steelers
safety Deshaun Elliott was placed on IR with a hyper
extended knee, and safety Jabrill Peppers is out this week
with a quad injury. Dallas punter Brian Anger misspracticed due
to illness. The Ravens were fined one hundred thousand dollars
for an injury report violation last week. The forty nine
Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again. Quarterback Brock Perty
(24:06):
is questionable with a toe injury. Wide receiver Ricky Piersoll
is out again with his knee injury. Falcons quarterback Michael
Pennix will start this weekend. He's off the injury report.
Panthers QB Bryce Young, after a sprained ankle, will start.
He's off the injury report. Backup QB Andy Dalton is
questionable with a thumb injury. Washington quarterback Jadon Daniels will
(24:27):
return Sunday night after a hamstring injury. Commander's wide receiver
Terry McLaurin is out he reaggravated his quad injury last game,
but kicker Mac Gay is due to play after a
bad back. Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was still limited in
practice today with his foot injury.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
To the NBA.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Anthony Davis of Dallas will miss at least two games
with a strained calf. It's Boston leading late first quarter
at Philadelphia twenty six seventeen Philly four to oh so
far this season. The late game ten thirty Eastern will
add the Clippers hosting a New Orleans team that's lost
four in a row three NHL games. Today Colorado a
four to two winner at Vegas, and in college football,
(25:04):
late first quarter number twenty five, Memphis leads seven to
nothing at Rice.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Back to you, all right, Steve, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Did you say in the NFL news that Brian needs
anger management?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I just want to make sure. No, Okay, he didn't.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I don't know if he's I don't think he said that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
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There's a new Quaquinnipiac. You hit them to Quinnipiac Pole.
They found about half.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Because I went to college in New Haven, I noticed.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No no, no trust me. I say it. Depending on the
day of the month, I might say it a different way.
I'm just saying, but the Quinnipiac pole showed that half
of the NFL fans believe that the league's doing enough
to keep guys from serious injuries. And then this is
where it gets interesting, and it kind of leads us
to the conversation most fans sixty percent they support expanding
(26:13):
the season, playing more games, including some who say they're
okay that with that because the players make enough money.
So if you move the salary up, basically, what are
you complaining about? The risk is worth their war because
you had a chance to make more money. And then
seventy percent they call them super fans, absolutely endorse more games.
(26:36):
My thing about this, Rob, this is where sometimes to me,
I know fans matter in all things, and you should
absolutely listen to them at times, taking the consideration they
should be weighted.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
But here's the thing. You and I have talked about
this so many times.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The players in the NFLPA specifically have to realize that
if the NFL continues to get what they want, they
won't stop.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This went from sixteen to seventeen in twenty twenty one,
and who's to say it goes to eighteen in the
next couple of years, and it does it go to
twenty three four five years after that? And to me,
I wonder, as what point do you say. We're not
saying it will never change, we're not saying it will
never increase. But do you ride this out a little bit?
It just went to seventeen and twenty twenty one. Do
(27:21):
you give it a handful of years, five ten years,
See how it goes. See if there's new data around injuries,
See if there's new information about guys you know, in
their health, and do you find new safety and equipment
and technology. That will be My concern, Rob, is that, Okay,
if you expeledite this to eighteen, you speed it up
to eighteen, you know, twenties in the back of your head,
Well mine as well make it a cool twenty right,
(27:42):
It just may and we'll give them an extra buy
or two. And to me, we already know from one
end that's what makes football grace is the scarcity of it.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
It's only seventeen games.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And then also again we know the health dangers of it,
and we've all come become okay with that.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
We all understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But to me, you gotta at least spread it out longer,
more years to find out what you got to see
how it's working out, to see how guys are managing.
You can't just be so much in a quick rush,
hurry to do this again. We just went to seventeen
four years ago, So what's the rush? What's the speed?
To me, I don't understand why that we were sixteen
for so long, think like thirty years or so give
(28:18):
or take.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, it's pretty easy. I don't know what you don't
understand it why. I understand the money, but I'm saying
just money. They don't care about the players. They could
care less the pension plan they have for the players,
the a medical plan that they have after their careers
are over. That the NFL does not care about the players,
and the union is so weak it gets destroyed. Every
(28:43):
collective bargaining session. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
The difference is when fans don't know and don't understand
it is.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
You take a local game, right, a.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Local exhibition preseason game that when you make no money
on it, right, that's on local TV with your local announcers. Right,
they don't make any money on that. Take that game
away and make it another game that they could sell
to the national.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Nights, you know, like like they don't care.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Let's let's have a Monday Night on ESPN ABC and
will sell another one to some streaming thing, you know
what I mean, Like they they.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Don't even care.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's why they don't care about dueling games. They don't care.
Oh why would you? Why would you have two games
on Simultan? They don't cause I'm getting money from both.
That's that's why I don't care. I don't care. I
don't care about if we're eating into our own ratings.
I don't care. They don't care about anything other than
how can we make more money?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Get on a.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Plane, fly and play in Europe, Go to some terrible
field in Brazil, go to Mexico. We don't care. Who's
going to give us the most money? That's it.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
So fans buy into it.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That's seriously, the collective barker. I want to clarify something.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It runs through twenty thirty one, so that will be when, if,
and when they were to change it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
That's when it could happen.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
If they would do it then, so they got a
handful of years before they can do that. But I
just again to me, we talked about it a gazillion times.
If you're the NFLPA, you gotta stand on business somewhere
because you.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Talked about it.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
We the healthcare you get five years and after that
you don't get anything.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
But the healthcare for people don't understand, seriously, Calvin, is
five years after you retire.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
So so you know, the average career is what three years,
five three, four years?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay, so you're say, you get in the league and
you play.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I'm talking about the average career.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So so you play, you're twenty three years old, twenty
four years old, right, then you got to wait five years.
That's twenty nine. Then for the next five years you
get healthcare. So from twenty nine to thirty four you
get healthcare funded by in the NFL. And then after
(31:02):
those five years you're on your own. Who needs healthcare?
At thirty four, right, do you know what I mean
to let you have some sort of disease or something,
but you don't need that. You need it when you
get older. And then how many NFL players drop dead
when they're fifty. I mean, no health care, no health care.
It's awful, it's.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Awful, battered, Yeah, it is awful.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And then as we know, how they pay the players
that came from that wave of guys with CTE, some
of those those lawsuits that came and in the NFL
said they agree to pay them. Now you get all
those reports they're not paying them or how hard it
is for them to pay them. Well, I know your
doctor said this, but you gotta see another doctor. You
gotta see a specialist. You gotta do this just to
(31:44):
prove that my brain is freaking messed up, or to
prove that I'm having my hip needs of replacement. There's
so much stuff, so many tassles that these guys have
to go through to get the money that they the
NFL already allocated to them.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It's not like it's out.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
The blue to me.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
If you're the if you're the Union, seriously, you want
this eighteenth game so bad? We want we want the
same exact collective bargaining agreement that Major League Baseball has.
What they get lifetime healthcare. You and me kelvin lifetime
lifetime healthcare fight for it. Same thing in the pension.
(32:25):
You make a Major League Baseball roster. I think you
only have to be on a team for like a
week before you're you're already eligible for the pension.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Like seriously, and your first.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Or second day in the big leagues you're eligible for healthcare.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You know what I mean? Like, like none of it
makes sense.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Well, they got to stand on business.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
They have to be well we've talked about they gotta
be willing to uh to playoff game Super Bowl, make
a big fuss out the blue.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
They all come out and they say and they all
sit down and say we're not playing.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's all it takes.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Take up the world.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
See Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen at the AFC Championship
game and they all come out and before they flip
the coin, they all just sit down and go sit
down on them.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
We're not saying no, we're not playing. What could they do?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You know, which money and everything set up for the
Super Bowl and if they decided at that very moment.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They would get whatever they want, Rob, whatever They would
sign the papers right there.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
You look the NFL three hours, three hours before the game.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
We're not playing tonight, Rob, Rob.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
They already got the contract ready. They've been sitting on
it for twenty five years, waiting for this day. We thought,
y'all finally do it here. We already got it ready.
We just knew we were waiting on y'all.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Truthfully, ain't no way they will walk away and cancel it.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
They would heck no, all right, all the way we
got playing.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
They shekel the city, shecho city, a Shekel city.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Let me pull my chest out.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Oh oh, Rob, ain't going nowhere. We got that coming up.
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to that women yamba at some point this show. We
got to talk about the Spurs acting up a little bit,
and it's down time for Shekeel City. All right, you
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Speaker 12 (36:03):
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Speaker 5 (36:03):
And oh how is that?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
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Speaker 4 (36:17):
All right, we got we got four.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I got four of this this uh today, I got four.
So I got three? Go three and oh now you
fancy baseball? Plus three basketball games? Here we go, uh baseball.
I got the uh again the Blue Jays underdogs. I
got the Blue Jays plus one and a half runs. Yeah,
(36:38):
I got Denver minus five and a half. They're hosting
I mean, they're in Portland taking on the trail Blazers.
I got the Knicks minus five and a half. They're
in Chicago, the Bulls are off to a great start.
It's one of those games, right, But the Knicks are
favorites minus five and a half in Chicago, and they
got Memphis.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Plus two and two and a half. They're taking on
the Lakers. They're hosting the Lakers in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
So Memphis plus two and a half, the Knicks minus
five and a half, the Nuggets minus five and a half,
and we're gonna take the Blue Jays to wrap it
all up plus one and a half runs And everybody
on Fox a Rod Jeter, Big Poppy, they all picked
(37:23):
the Dodgers to win.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
So that's a that's a kiss of death, right. Well,
Poppy still has a chance.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
He picked the Blue Jays and seven, so he's running
with his you know, feeling good.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
He's got a chance.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah, but you got I get that.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Only problem is you got to look at the hero
and now and what's going on that that that should determine.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
She's not what's going on.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
Taking the run line against Yoshi's crazy what that's what
if you took the money line or be a little different,
but you took.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
The I'm taking the one and a half.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I'm going to tell you that he's not going to
pitch a no hitter or a perfect game. And in
his last start, just for people, don't remember what happened
in that game, do you remember?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Of course the Blue Jays had first and third and
nobody out. He wiggled out of it and was able
to then, you know, get rolling. But he the first
three innings, guys were on base, and he was able
to wiggle out of some situations.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Tonight, it won't happen.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I'm just saying, unlike he mowed through everybody and they
couldn't talk.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Bill every now and again, you know how to wiggle
out of it.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I got the alligator arms. I don't have to now.
I got twenty five dollars from Shae to buy.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
What what are we betting, Calvin? Are we doing wings?
Should we do wings?
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Ayg?
Speaker 9 (38:36):
Or should we do something different? You think?
Speaker 10 (38:38):
What did you?
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
No, no, no, let's just do Let's do a piece of
vanilla bean cheesecake from across.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
There, across the cheesecakes, because.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
It's just one game. We already been wings on the
other like that. Yeah, so we'll do that game easy. Yeah,
that's by the.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Way, Shane, you don't have to give vanilla bean.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
That's like, no, no, no, that's what I want.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
I want the I want the oreo.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, the recess is the best.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
See you want to know.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
A fun fact about Reesis, and it's Halloween fact. Every year,
Reesis is always the top selling candy by far.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
We talked about that yesterday by far in the votes. Yeah,
it's it's actually kind of crazy.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
I mean they're up there Snickers.
Speaker 9 (39:14):
Isn't everyone allergic to peanut butter yo or peanuts?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
No, but nobody said something funny.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, that's a good But there's a lot of kids
with peanuts.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Jude.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
My daughter four year old just now can bring peanuts
stuff to school, Hazel and peanut butter.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
Oh, yeah, because it was always banned.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, her preschool, she couldn't do that for sure.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Hey, if somebody said, if you take it, uh, never mind,
it was.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Just candy corn. If you flip it upside down, looks
like somebody, it's pretty funny to me.
Speaker 7 (39:41):
You're talking about Yeah, think about it, right, think about her,
Just think what can looks like and then flipped around.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Okay, think about that all right. Back to you and Yamamoto.
Do you not believe in what you're seeing in consistency?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I just don't. I don't think that somebody. I just think,
but why do you?
Speaker 5 (40:00):
I think it's not him versus the offense. I mean,
I'll give you.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I'll give you because all he could pitch a really
good game like Snell wound up right pitching a really
good game.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
He only gave up the two home runs.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And the poor play by task right and right field
cost him another run. And then I didn't like his
comments that he got he was unlucky. They gave up
five runs of the game. You can't go around talking
about you were just unlucky. No, they hit the ball
out the park. Bro Stop, I'm lucky, am I?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Right? Come on that? That didn't sound right?
Speaker 11 (40:32):
Right?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Okay, it's unlucky.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
If you have one pitch and you gave up a
two run home run on a maybe you could say
that five earned runs is not unlucky. You got beat
just like tonight. It's Okayamoto will just.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Say, you know what through his translator, I got beat
to it. That's all. God.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
I'll be texting you tomorrow game seven, That's what I'll
be doing. I ain't worried about it. Y
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So a lot going on. Brother, what's up? You're good?
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And it's Halloween for people who celebrating I'm talking about
saying you got three kids, you don't know about Halloween?
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We don't. We're not we're not big Halloween house.
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I think't. My wife and I neither one of us
grew up overly into Halloween. So but the girls will
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So you got so they do? What is an Angels Night?
Is that what they do?
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No?
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I don't know if it still is.
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The Angels Night harvest fest.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Now they call it rob trunk trunk or treat where
you pop the trunk and the several cars rut of
church and you go and you know, you do your things.
So uh but either way, be safe out there. Enjoy
for those who are gonna be out today tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes, uh, there will be plenty of people having a
good time and enjoying themselves. And I get it. Life
is so difficult already. A little diversion is a good thing, right,
A little bit right, all right, Uh, let's walk, that's
why we're here, Rob, Absolutely, let's welcome in the odd
couple crew. We wouldn't be able to do this fine
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radio program with Donald. Shae is our producer. Shaye, what
what's your costume? Chase dressed up?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
You know the BUCkies mascot BUCkies? Yeah, like a restaurant,
corner store or not a corner store, like a truck
stop almost Texas.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh yeah, fuck the huge, massive one he's got.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He even has the tail on the costume.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh you are?
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
You are? Is it a beaver? Right?
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Yeah, I'll face yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And the only thing is he's got the Dodger outfit
on over top it. You know, I had to understand
it's the it's the last game of.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
The year, all right. I don't even say that, say just.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
My headphones trip, last last one of the year. I
couldn't hear what you say.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Already you paid me today, get my Apple paid?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Do it?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Send me that money back?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean, Shay was like, oh, they're gonna win. I
not only win, but in five games?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Was tripping on that one?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Five games? Some help, but no respect for the one game?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
How am I tripping?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That's that's far one A gentleman. Sleep Yeah, that's four
to one.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
All right, Uh, we got you, all right, Steve, the
Sagas at the anchor desk, go keep us updated throughout
the show. Saga look at that. Oh wow, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We know who he is. He's getting applause.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
So what's what's that? He ain't done that much for us?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Is our social media grey today and on the ones
and twos? Why but that's right?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So Mary's on the uh is our uh engineer for
the program. So a lot to do, so little time
on this funky flashback Friday. And let's start here Kelvin
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And you want to paint the picture.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Tonight game number six in Toronto, and the Dodgers are
hoping and praying that y'all, momodo pitch is a no
hit or a perfect game that's he could win.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I mean, they've already said that he's going and like this,
there's no secret he's going as far as he can
take them, as.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Long until they about hit him around a little bit.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yep, hit him around.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So basically we're here, Well, the Blue Jays robber up
three to two in this game six, and how did they.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Get there to get to three to two?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Remember the Dodgers win that eighteen inning game right at
home and then lose the next two at home Like
that was with old Tani on the mound after that, right,
that didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Work out, So that that's a big you know, you lose.
It wasn't like you lost with them. You lose with
a guy on the mountain. You lose, and then Blake
Snail comes back. You're feeling like, all right, well, well
he'll bounce back. And he wasn't horrible, but again the
offense did not support. They got no run support. So
now three to two. So basically, when teams are down
three to two in a series, they come back to
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win it thirty percent of the time. So that's what
the percentage. Just have a time, right, yes, seventy percent.
If you're up, you win it. So the Dodgers are
facing that right now. The only thing in their favor
to me, we've talked about it where is baseball is
a little weird and that.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Home field advantage isn't quite like other sports.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So if you're the Dodgers, you're hoping because we just
saw the Mariners get a couple last series versus the
Blue Jays, So that's what you'd be leaning on and
hoping for there. So the question, Rob really comes down
to all that the Dodgers acquired, all that they did
this offseason, coming into this season as the World Series
rainning World Series champs.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
If the Dodgers were to lose, because we won't be back.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, even if they win tonight, they could lose tomorrow.
You and I won't be on until Monday. If they
were to lose, is this season of failure?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Kelvin, without question.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
If the Dodgers lose this World Series, and you got
to remember this. When the season started, people were saying
it was unfair. Remember that it's unfair. Look at what
they did in the offseason. They won the World Series
last year, and all they did was be getting loaded
for bear that it was unfair everybody else. They were
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supposed to be what the Beatles most of the season.
They turned out to be a culture club with boy George,
but they.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Were supposed to be the Beatles.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
There's no way you can look at this team, the roster,
the pitching, everything that they put together and think that
they can lose this and it's no big deal.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Tip your cap to the Blue Jays and keep it moving.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It will be one of the most colossal collapses for
a team that everybody thought this whole time I've been
doing checkl City. Do you know every night the Blue
Jays are getting plus one and a half runs like
they've been underdog every night. Nobody believes it. They reminds me.
(09:00):
Win the Pistons beat the Lakers. I'm sorry LA fans
back in two thousand and four, every time they won,
they look when they went, well.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The Lakers will win the next game. Well, the Lakers
will winning.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Do you do you remember Calvin Oh yeah, oh yeah,
after Kobe helped them win that game, hit the three
in Game two, right, okay, now it's over now, Okay.
Then the Pistons win Game three in Detroit, all right,
the Lakers will win the next one.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
All right, the Pistons win that game out, they'll win
the next one. And I know.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
People want to believe they're gonna turn the fascet on
and all of a sudden everything's.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Gonna click back or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
This team just hasn't been in a funk for five
days or a week since September. Google of numbers go. Look,
they've been scuffling offensively. The Dodgers have. They have three
runs in his two games stre right, in the last
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two games, and that's batting one sixty four with twenty
two strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
This is the last two games at home in LA.
We're sleeping in your own bed. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And the other part is the Blue Jays aren't fraudulent
or they've played over their heads. They came into this
World Series averaging six and a half runs. Do you
know what that is? In baseball? Teams do on average
six and a half runs for season six and a
half runs. It's a ton of runs. My point is simple.
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The Dodgers can't turn it on. They haven't hit in
a long time. Sure, I'm not saying they're gonna get shut
out or no hit or anything like that, but Kelvin,
this will be a colossal failure for the Dodgers, who
spent what one point two billion dollars or whatever it
was in the offseason, and even when they went and
got Tanner Scott right, remember, oh my god, look at
(10:56):
what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Dude. None of this.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Will be good unless they repeat as World Series champs.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I hear everything you say, and I'm not mad at you,
and I'm sure there's a contingent folks who will feel
the same way.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
But I disagree. Here's why you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
People coming in and beginning talking about, oh the evil Empire,
Oh the Dodgers are doing this. You and I, yes,
me and you both said stop it. That guarantees you
nothing in baseball. Me and You've talked about spending the
most money means nothing. Spending the most money, in fact,
if anything, gets you more pressure to actually have to compete,
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win and do something.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
As the Mets, who don't even make the postseason.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Right, We've talked about the Yankees spend a bunch of money,
haven't won quite some time. We talked about the Dodgers
who spent a bunch of money and then finally went
until they won in twenty twenty. So spending a bunch
of money accumulating players doesn't mean anything. Also, this team,
while great on paper, had a bunch of injuries on
and off. Blake Snell only started eleven games. You got
(12:00):
Glass now only started eighteen. You had some other guys
in and out the lineup, so they weren't fully themselves
throughout the season. And offensively they have been struggling throughout
the season, had some bad periods people thought they were
gonna win one hundred and ten to fifteen games. They barely.
What was it like around ninety I believe it was
so their starting pitching came together towards the end of
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the season, but.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Everybody with that pitching, they were like, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I agree, that's what mass that the team wasn't really
that great an NBP candidate, And Mookie Betts was terrible
this season for a large portion of it.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
He got great at the very last month. He was off.
We'd never seen them this dejected, he was emotional, he
didn't have words.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
When they would be interviewed, you and I would be like,
I've never seen Mookie like this. Mookie didn't have a
great season. So there was a lot that actually would
tell you this team is good, but they're not great.
And I think the starting pitching mask stat and we
know how hard this is. It's a reason why no
one has won in twenty five years back to back championships.
There's a reason why no one in the NL has won.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Sense, what was it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Seventy six saw reds seventy five seventy six reds. So
to me to get the year, obviously have a shot
get all the way six. I don't see it as
a failure, massive disappointment, right because you were right there
from doing it. But it is very difficult to do clearly,
hasn't happened in fifty years in the NL, twenty five
years all together. And again you've set yourself up by
(13:32):
having all this great talent to be right back here
next year and have another chance to compete. So I
don't view it as a failure, but I I get
why you may, but I don't. Specifically in baseball, if
this was the Warriors with Kevin Durant, I would understand it.
Some of those Patriot teams, Brady and the whole like,
I would understand it being a failure seas because that's
how they operate, Shaq and Kobe failure if we don't
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win the championship.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's a bit different in baseball.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I just when you look at the way this team
was put together, in the money spent, this was to
win a World Series, not to get to it and
lose it. They were the overwhelming favorites when they swept
the Brewers. Will you admit that overwhelming? Overwhelming?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And for them to be in this situation all right eight,
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. We want to
hear from you. Do the Dodgers have to win this
World Series, come back, win the next two games. If
they lose tonight or tomorrow and they're all done, is
it a colossal failure? I say yes, Kelvin says no.
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hour right now. Rob and I are talking about is
real simple. If the Dodgers were to lose today or tomorrow,
straight up, is it a failure to you or not?
Rob says yes, I say no, What say you? Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Who we got?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
That's right, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Daniel and Anaheim, You're on the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Daniel?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I'm Daniel Anaheim Anaheim,
Billy pen Baby. I've been doing this three seasons now,
and I call my rankings the real pair of rankings
because for three seasons now, I'd beat ESPN MB on Fox,
the Ringer m We'll be powered by Google AI and
one or three okay stories of top twelve teams. I
(16:54):
had the Blue Jays on my team on my top
twelve and more, got more teams on my rankings. She
made post season.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
All right, but let me ask you this what the Dodgers.
They spent ten billion dollars. If they don't win the championship,
they don't win the World Series, is it a failure?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yes or no?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I don't I don't think so, guys, because if you're looking,
if you compare them to the Blue Jays here, let's
be real here, and the National League you only had
one hitter that hit a bus three hundred and that
was Trade Turner. These guys in the National League, I'm
sorry this season there's not a lot of competition, right there,
guys in it?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Well, all right, all right, Daniel, Daniel, I get it.
Thank you, thanks for the call. I mean, I just
you can talk about all that other stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I mean, why he's saying the Blue Jays might have
been underrated?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
No, no, no, But my point is the Dodgers were the favorite.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Overwhelming. Would you just admit that? That's all I'm saying.
I'm looking at it. Fine, overwhelmed me because everybody that
I know, I don't know anybody who picked the Blue
Jays won the World Series?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Why wouldn't you. I'm just saying, but that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Everybody with that and the pitching, everybody thought they were
gonna repeat.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That's all the first team in twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And now you know, Rob, you know that I said
anybody picking them in four or five the Dodgers was crazy.
You heard me say that? Because that was disrespectful to
the Blue Do You? And I talked about the backs
of a lot of people and how many days we.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Talked about it leading up to the World Series?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
All right, Josh in Texas, you're on the odd couple
of Fox Sportsuado. What's up, Josh?
Speaker 11 (18:26):
What's going on? Fellers stations? Taking my calls?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Guys, man, no doubt?
Speaker 11 (18:30):
How are you pretty good?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Good things?
Speaker 11 (18:34):
Real? Real quick? First of all, Rob, you're saying the
season is going to be a failure. I believe there's
a certain coach that got two wins that argued down
on that fact.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Who's that.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Some college basketball coach I forgot his name.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah right, he almost took me out
on that one.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Yes, but I think the Dodgers would look at it
as a failure, are sure, because of what they spent
in the in the season and on all the acquisitions.
But if you talk to a Yankees fan, they probably
won't tell you the Yankees have been failures, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
So they just to have all since two thousand and nine.
People in New York.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Did you think they're happy that the Yankees went to
the World Series last year and they didn't make it better.
Speaker 11 (19:20):
I don't know if they're happy about it. No, talking
is a failure, like if they wanted to go nine
and then back in twenty ten. I don't think the
twenty ten season was a failure.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, I think I think baseball's one of the weird sports.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Like thanks.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
When I remember growing up Rob and I remember hearing
how big it was like winning the Pennant was like
a dag near winning a championship. Winning the Pennant winning
the Pennate like it's just.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
A weird sport.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's why they celebrate like they celebrate every Dagon wildcard,
divisional champion world they go.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Correct, You can't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
If I just showed you a celebration, you wouldn't know
the World Series between a wildcard win.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I just Daniel was talking in circles and I just
I don't know how how you don't think?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Is it? Who's this trucker? I can't see his name.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Trucker driver Don Tucker Don too in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, he's in Virginia now, Yes, Truncker Don? What's up,
my man?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
How are you?
Speaker 12 (20:14):
What's going on? Guys Covin, I never get to say
hey to you? How you doing?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Bud?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Don?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Listen, you had one more time, and I was gonna
feel some type of way. Don, it had been too
long for you said hello, what's up? Brother?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
I was.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
I was feeling less out. But in the immortal words
of John Belushi, was it over when the Germans bombed
Pearl Harbor, and ain't over till it's over? According to
Yogi Berrow, with it over in All four when the
Yankees were beating the Red Sox, Cleary Games, and Nontlo. Now,
(20:50):
I don't think this series is over, and yeah, I
kind of feel like it's a failure if the Budgers
don't win it. I absolutely agree with you.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
They spent a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
They put together this team, They went out and got
all of these pieces.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Ain't no way people are gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Be like, oh, it's okay, Yeah they lost to the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm with you, Truckle don t.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think the thing is, though, Rob the offf acted
them to win. Yes, mad, disappointed, sick, throw up in
the mouth like you say, Yes, failure. I don't know,
because one thing the Dodger's gonna do permanently is spend
some money.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
They gonna spend some because we'll be right back here
next year. They spend money. They gonna spend some money.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Trucker don I mean, we know how hard it is,
right because no team has repeated since New lak He's
in twenty twenty five years ago.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If any team was supposedly gonna be that team, people
thought it would be this Dodger team right put together
and they would be the team to finally break through.
And that's the part that I think Kelvin and Don
that that people are gonna be like they failed at
this thing of improving a team. After you won the
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World Series last year, it would be.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Like the Dream Team not twinning the gold medal.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
All right, chuck it down, hold on, ye the level
of disrespect, boy, I'm so glad I'm here sometimes to
break some realness. The Dream Team was blowing everybody out
by forty five points.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
They beat the Yankees in five games. It was a
gentleman sweep.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I remember that, you know goodwell, if your boy Aaron
Judge that dropped that we might be having, you know,
at least a different couple extra games.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
The Dream Team was.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Blowing everybody out by fifth signed autographed by halftime stuck,
stop it, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
They're acting like the blue Jay.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
He don't let the Dodgers off the hook. Come on, man,
they were supposed to win.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
This, okay, which I told you. I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What you're saying is it's a failure. But like the
Dream Team is too much all right. On the other
side of trending, we got to talk about their fans.
And this is why sometimes if you're a league. You
can't listen to fans. We'll tell you what we're talking
about right now. Steven Seger has was trending Hey Steve.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Hey, Fox TV. With Game six in the World Series.
First pitch at about forty and it's Dodgers at Toronto,
Blue Jays up three games to two. LA starter Yoshinobu
Yamamoto Toronto going with Kevin Gossman and DH George Springer
returns for the Blue Jays tonight. He had injured himself
on a swing this week. Bobaschett batting clean up and
playing second base. The Dolphins parted ways with general manager
(23:17):
Chris Greer, but head coach Mike McDaniel will stay for
this year.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
At least.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Miami is two and seven after last night. Bear's running
back DeAndre Swift is out again with a groin injury,
and Chicago running back Rashawn Johnson is out with a
back injury. Chiefs running back Isaiah Pacheco officially out with
the spring to MCL Patriots running back Ramandre Stevenson out
with a toe injury. Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter is going
on injured reserve after a non contact knee injury in
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practice Thursday. He's a wide receiver and defensive back. Steelers
safety Deshaun Elliott was placed on IR with a hyper
extended knee, and safety Jabrill Peppers is out this week
with a quad injury. Dallas punter Brian Anger misspracticed due
to illness. The Ravens were fined one hundred thousand dollars
for an injury report violation last week. The forty nine
Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again. Quarterback Brock Perty
(24:06):
is questionable with a toe injury. Wide receiver Ricky Piersoll
is out again with his knee injury. Falcons quarterback Michael
Pennix will start this weekend. He's off the injury report.
Panthers QB Bryce Young, after a sprained ankle, will start.
He's off the injury report. Backup QB Andy Dalton is
questionable with a thumb injury. Washington quarterback Jadon Daniels will
(24:27):
return Sunday night after a hamstring injury. Commander's wide receiver
Terry McLaurin is out he reaggravated his quad injury last game,
but kicker Mac Gay is due to play after a
bad back. Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was still limited in
practice today with his foot injury.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
To the NBA.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Anthony Davis of Dallas will miss at least two games
with a strained calf. It's Boston leading late first quarter
at Philadelphia twenty six seventeen Philly four to oh so
far this season. The late game ten thirty Eastern will
add the Clippers hosting a New Orleans team that's lost
four in a row three NHL games. Today Colorado a
four to two winner at Vegas, and in college football,
(25:04):
late first quarter number twenty five, Memphis leads seven to
nothing at Rice.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Back to you, all right, Steve, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Did you say in the NFL news that Brian needs
anger management?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I just want to make sure. No, Okay, he didn't.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I don't know if he's I don't think he said that.
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to the conversation most fans sixty percent they support expanding
(26:13):
the season, playing more games, including some who say they're
okay that with that because the players make enough money.
So if you move the salary up, basically, what are
you complaining about? The risk is worth their war because
you had a chance to make more money. And then
seventy percent they call them super fans, absolutely endorse more games.
(26:36):
My thing about this, Rob, this is where sometimes to me,
I know fans matter in all things, and you should
absolutely listen to them at times, taking the consideration they
should be weighted.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
But here's the thing. You and I have talked about
this so many times.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The players in the NFLPA specifically have to realize that
if the NFL continues to get what they want, they
won't stop.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This went from sixteen to seventeen in twenty twenty one,
and who's to say it goes to eighteen in the
next couple of years, and it does it go to
twenty three four five years after that? And to me,
I wonder, as what point do you say. We're not
saying it will never change, we're not saying it will
never increase. But do you ride this out a little bit?
It just went to seventeen and twenty twenty one. Do
(27:21):
you give it a handful of years, five ten years,
See how it goes. See if there's new data around injuries,
See if there's new information about guys you know, in
their health, and do you find new safety and equipment
and technology. That will be My concern, Rob, is that, Okay,
if you expeledite this to eighteen, you speed it up
to eighteen, you know, twenties in the back of your head,
Well mine as well make it a cool twenty right,
(27:42):
It just may and we'll give them an extra buy
or two. And to me, we already know from one
end that's what makes football grace is the scarcity of it.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
It's only seventeen games.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And then also again we know the health dangers of it,
and we've all come become okay with that.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
We all understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But to me, you gotta at least spread it out longer,
more years to find out what you got to see
how it's working out, to see how guys are managing.
You can't just be so much in a quick rush,
hurry to do this again. We just went to seventeen
four years ago, So what's the rush? What's the speed?
To me, I don't understand why that we were sixteen
for so long, think like thirty years or so give
(28:18):
or take.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, it's pretty easy. I don't know what you don't
understand it why. I understand the money, but I'm saying
just money. They don't care about the players. They could
care less the pension plan they have for the players,
the a medical plan that they have after their careers
are over. That the NFL does not care about the players,
and the union is so weak it gets destroyed. Every
(28:43):
collective bargaining session. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
The difference is when fans don't know and don't understand
it is.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
You take a local game, right, a.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Local exhibition preseason game that when you make no money
on it, right, that's on local TV with your local announcers. Right,
they don't make any money on that. Take that game
away and make it another game that they could sell
to the national.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Nights, you know, like like they don't care.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Let's let's have a Monday Night on ESPN ABC and
will sell another one to some streaming thing, you know
what I mean, Like they they.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Don't even care.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's why they don't care about dueling games. They don't care.
Oh why would you? Why would you have two games
on Simultan? They don't cause I'm getting money from both.
That's that's why I don't care. I don't care. I
don't care about if we're eating into our own ratings.
I don't care. They don't care about anything other than
how can we make more money?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Get on a.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Plane, fly and play in Europe, Go to some terrible
field in Brazil, go to Mexico. We don't care. Who's
going to give us the most money? That's it.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
So fans buy into it.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That's seriously, the collective barker. I want to clarify something.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It runs through twenty thirty one, so that will be when, if,
and when they were to change it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
That's when it could happen.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
If they would do it then, so they got a
handful of years before they can do that. But I
just again to me, we talked about it a gazillion times.
If you're the NFLPA, you gotta stand on business somewhere
because you.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Talked about it.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
We the healthcare you get five years and after that
you don't get anything.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
But the healthcare for people don't understand, seriously, Calvin, is
five years after you retire.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
So so you know, the average career is what three years,
five three, four years?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay, so you're say, you get in the league and
you play.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I'm talking about the average career.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So so you play, you're twenty three years old, twenty
four years old, right, then you got to wait five years.
That's twenty nine. Then for the next five years you
get healthcare. So from twenty nine to thirty four you
get healthcare funded by in the NFL. And then after
(31:02):
those five years you're on your own. Who needs healthcare?
At thirty four, right, do you know what I mean
to let you have some sort of disease or something,
but you don't need that. You need it when you
get older. And then how many NFL players drop dead
when they're fifty. I mean, no health care, no health care.
It's awful, it's.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Awful, battered, Yeah, it is awful.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And then as we know, how they pay the players
that came from that wave of guys with CTE, some
of those those lawsuits that came and in the NFL
said they agree to pay them. Now you get all
those reports they're not paying them or how hard it
is for them to pay them. Well, I know your
doctor said this, but you gotta see another doctor. You
gotta see a specialist. You gotta do this just to
(31:44):
prove that my brain is freaking messed up, or to
prove that I'm having my hip needs of replacement. There's
so much stuff, so many tassles that these guys have
to go through to get the money that they the
NFL already allocated to them.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It's not like it's out.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
The blue to me.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
If you're the if you're the Union, seriously, you want
this eighteenth game so bad? We want we want the
same exact collective bargaining agreement that Major League Baseball has.
What they get lifetime healthcare. You and me kelvin lifetime
lifetime healthcare fight for it. Same thing in the pension.
(32:25):
You make a Major League Baseball roster. I think you
only have to be on a team for like a
week before you're you're already eligible for the pension.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Like seriously, and your first.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Or second day in the big leagues you're eligible for healthcare.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You know what I mean? Like, like none of it
makes sense.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Well, they got to stand on business.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
They have to be well we've talked about they gotta
be willing to uh to playoff game Super Bowl, make
a big fuss out the blue.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
They all come out and they say and they all
sit down and say we're not playing.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's all it takes.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Take up the world.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
See Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen at the AFC Championship
game and they all come out and before they flip
the coin, they all just sit down and go sit
down on them.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
We're not saying no, we're not playing. What could they do?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You know, which money and everything set up for the
Super Bowl and if they decided at that very moment.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They would get whatever they want, Rob, whatever They would
sign the papers right there.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
You look the NFL three hours, three hours before the game.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
We're not playing tonight, Rob, Rob.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
They already got the contract ready. They've been sitting on
it for twenty five years, waiting for this day. We thought,
y'all finally do it here. We already got it ready.
We just knew we were waiting on y'all.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Truthfully, ain't no way they will walk away and cancel it.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
They would heck no, all right, all the way we
got playing.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
They shekel the city, shecho city, a Shekel city.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Let me pull my chest out.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Oh oh, Rob, ain't going nowhere. We got that coming up.
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Speaker 5 (34:17):
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Speaker 12 (34:31):
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Speaker 4 (34:34):
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That's first radio right there, Victor and ben Yava hitting
big shots.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
What do you say we? He did say we we
we we wei? He said we we play the day?
Say we we exactly? Face? I face, I don't know.
I'll go get my wife. He speaks French.
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Speaker 5 (35:10):
What does the American kiss and what we come up with?
Do we have nothing?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
That's the pack, that's just the like pack. Yeah, that's
not about a French kiss, is what?
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
They took all right, Shaye, come on.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Hey, listen that advancement from your first little we're gonna
call it American peck to that French kiss boy when
you were when you were younger.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Can't nobody tell you nothing good?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Then that's right.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
They got his first one last week.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
You know it.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Yeah, I'm like you guys, was eighty years ago.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Shut it.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I'm still waiting for mine. I'm just saying, all right, all.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Right, this French kiss circles with my chest stuck out,
all right.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Circle that women yamba cabo because we're gonna come back
to that women yamba at some point this show. We
got to talk about the Spurs acting up a little bit,
and it's down time for Shekeel City. All right, you
do really good?
Speaker 12 (36:03):
Three?
Speaker 5 (36:03):
And oh how is that?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Oh? No, where we thank you?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I appreciate, thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
All right, we got we got four.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I got four of this this uh today, I got four.
So I got three? Go three and oh now you
fancy baseball? Plus three basketball games? Here we go, uh baseball.
I got the uh again the Blue Jays underdogs. I
got the Blue Jays plus one and a half runs. Yeah,
(36:38):
I got Denver minus five and a half. They're hosting
I mean, they're in Portland taking on the trail Blazers.
I got the Knicks minus five and a half. They're
in Chicago, the Bulls are off to a great start.
It's one of those games, right, But the Knicks are
favorites minus five and a half in Chicago, and they
got Memphis.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Plus two and two and a half. They're taking on
the Lakers. They're hosting the Lakers in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
So Memphis plus two and a half, the Knicks minus
five and a half, the Nuggets minus five and a half,
and we're gonna take the Blue Jays to wrap it
all up plus one and a half runs And everybody
on Fox a Rod Jeter, Big Poppy, they all picked
(37:23):
the Dodgers to win.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
So that's a that's a kiss of death, right. Well,
Poppy still has a chance.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
He picked the Blue Jays and seven, so he's running
with his you know, feeling good.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
He's got a chance.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah, but you got I get that.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Only problem is you got to look at the hero
and now and what's going on that that that should determine.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
She's not what's going on.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
Taking the run line against Yoshi's crazy what that's what
if you took the money line or be a little different,
but you took.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
The I'm taking the one and a half.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I'm going to tell you that he's not going to
pitch a no hitter or a perfect game. And in
his last start, just for people, don't remember what happened
in that game, do you remember?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Of course the Blue Jays had first and third and
nobody out. He wiggled out of it and was able
to then, you know, get rolling. But he the first
three innings, guys were on base, and he was able
to wiggle out of some situations.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Tonight, it won't happen.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I'm just saying, unlike he mowed through everybody and they
couldn't talk.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Bill every now and again, you know how to wiggle
out of it.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I got the alligator arms. I don't have to now.
I got twenty five dollars from Shae to buy.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
What what are we betting, Calvin? Are we doing wings?
Should we do wings?
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Ayg?
Speaker 9 (38:36):
Or should we do something different? You think?
Speaker 10 (38:38):
What did you?
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
No, no, no, let's just do Let's do a piece of
vanilla bean cheesecake from across.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
There, across the cheesecakes, because.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
It's just one game. We already been wings on the
other like that. Yeah, so we'll do that game easy. Yeah,
that's by the.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Way, Shane, you don't have to give vanilla bean.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
That's like, no, no, no, that's what I want.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
I want the I want the oreo.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, the recess is the best.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
See you want to know.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
A fun fact about Reesis, and it's Halloween fact. Every year,
Reesis is always the top selling candy by far.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
We talked about that yesterday by far in the votes. Yeah,
it's it's actually kind of crazy.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
I mean they're up there Snickers.
Speaker 9 (39:14):
Isn't everyone allergic to peanut butter yo or peanuts?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
No, but nobody said something funny.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, that's a good But there's a lot of kids
with peanuts.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Jude.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
My daughter four year old just now can bring peanuts
stuff to school, Hazel and peanut butter.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
Oh, yeah, because it was always banned.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, her preschool, she couldn't do that for sure.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Hey, if somebody said, if you take it, uh, never mind,
it was.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Just candy corn. If you flip it upside down, looks
like somebody, it's pretty funny to me.
Speaker 7 (39:41):
You're talking about Yeah, think about it, right, think about her,
Just think what can looks like and then flipped around.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Okay, think about that all right. Back to you and Yamamoto.
Do you not believe in what you're seeing in consistency?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I just don't. I don't think that somebody. I just think,
but why do you?
Speaker 5 (40:00):
I think it's not him versus the offense. I mean,
I'll give you.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I'll give you because all he could pitch a really
good game like Snell wound up right pitching a really
good game.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
He only gave up the two home runs.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And the poor play by task right and right field
cost him another run. And then I didn't like his
comments that he got he was unlucky. They gave up
five runs of the game. You can't go around talking
about you were just unlucky. No, they hit the ball
out the park. Bro Stop, I'm lucky, am I?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Right? Come on that? That didn't sound right?
Speaker 11 (40:32):
Right?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Okay, it's unlucky.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
If you have one pitch and you gave up a
two run home run on a maybe you could say
that five earned runs is not unlucky. You got beat
just like tonight. It's Okayamoto will just.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Say, you know what through his translator, I got beat
to it. That's all. God.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
I'll be texting you tomorrow game seven, That's what I'll
be doing. I ain't worried about it. Y
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