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July 9, 2025 38 mins

Rob and Kelvin take Deion Sanders to task for suggesting that college football would benefit from an NIL salary cap, tell us why Juan Soto's comments about being an All-Star Game snub came off so tone deaf, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob's nightly bets. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Eddie House swings by to discuss how DeAndre Ayton fits with the Los Angeles Lakers, the Oklahoma City Thunder's decision to max out every member of their Big 3, and much more!

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Sweetie Beatyah, all right, let's go big show worship Wednesday
and let me welcome with my co host he is
kelvin Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, what up bro? Halfway through the week, Happy worship
Wednesday to you? Did you worship today?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
By the way, the streets have asked me. By the way,
perfect timing coming up of our Magic City conversation. You
were telling me you'll be less than a week away
from there, but the streets said, come on, man extended
invite to him to come to church one more time?
What because I you know, I had offered you a
couple of times. I don't even remember one time and
I was busy. Yeah, because you're so busy on Sunday

(02:24):
at eleven am. Right, non football season. Keep nah, just
said that one time I'll get to church one time.
As matter of fact, that might be my bet one time.
Screwpair of Jordan's, which I do want to get my
Jordan's back one of the time. They might be that
come on to Washington to go to brunch with us. Okay,

(02:45):
my daughter quick boy, this ain't the seventies Black Baptist church.
You already know six. No, it's three hours. No, this
is boy, this is this is a different church. You
you out in the hour in eleven minutes. Wow, this
is corporate church nowadays. Let me figure out my schedule.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You walk out.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
They got taco trucks ready for you. They got cock
on trucks, they got ice lattes for your church. Ain't
the same, no more, I mean God the same. But
you know what I mean. I continue anyway, Happy Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Happy Wednesday to you as well.

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Let's welcome in the odd couple crew because we wouldn't
be able to do this fine radio program without them.
Rob g is our producer, Alex As our engineer. Manty
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Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's weird because Elijah is coming back on a Friday.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Who takes all this time off and then come back
on That is mad weird? Okay? Does that make sense
to come back? And it's always Black Friday too. Every
Friday's Black Friday. And he ain't taking off.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now I'm actually got you pleased the racist button because
I was gonna tell your pressive for yourself, Alex, Alex,
why do you only like Sager hit the button?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Sager is Indian, right, yeah, but it's brown. Yeah, it's
darker than Brossard. I like the blacks. Oh god, don't
all right, here's my black in the back. Yes, all right,
that's not me.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
We're fired, We're appreciated, a lot of stuff to get
to and Rob g will set us up.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
TuS up, rob g on. We're still having a problem.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
You know, I want to say what I want to say,
but I'm I'm struggling with it.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
But anyway, not right now. I said, you can't do
that right now.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Up rob g On Dion Sanders and uh some comments
that you know, I've got my panties in a bunch?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Can I say that? Yes you can.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
And that's because earlier today was the day one or
it may have been dating you. I'm confused of the
Big twelve me because you know, it's like a week.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Long event nowadays.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
And obviously Tom obviously the big talking point, not just
for the Big twelve, But across college football is what
are we going to do with nil? What are we
going to do with the transfer portal? It's dominating the conversation,
probably even more so than the actual football itself or
even the college football playoff. While Colorado had football coach Dion

(05:25):
Sanders has a plan he thinks would fix this whole situation.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Take a listen.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
All you have to do is look at the playoffs
and see what those teams spent. And you understand during
the white end the playoffs, it's kind of hard to
compete with somebody who's giving twenty five thirty million dollars
during freshman class. We're not complaining because all these coaches
are there in a coach at butts often given the
right opportunity with the right players and play here and there,
you'll be there. But it's what's going on right now

(05:51):
don't make sense, and we want to say stuff, but
we're trying to be professional. But you're going to see
the same teams during that at the end and with
somebody who sneaks up there. But the teams that pays
the more, pays the most, is gonna be then.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
In uh deon Sanders. Hello, is this on? So you're
calling for a cap? Okay? Shame on Dion Sanders for
being a hypocrite. Shame on you. Did you call for
a cap when the coaches were making twenty million dollars eighteen?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Where was the coach's cap? Is that fair?

Speaker 4 (06:24):
That Nick Saban was making a gazillion dollars off the
kids back?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Where was that cap? Dion? How come you didn't call
for this when your boys, your kids were in college Shadoor?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Why didn't Shador give the money back and say, you
know what, I'm just playing for the hell of it.
My dad's a former NFL player.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
We got loot. I don't need money. I'm here to
play football. Did your door take the money?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Must be the man, Okay, this is ludacris. The only
people you want to punish are the players, the actual product, Dion.
Without the players, you can't coach, you can't sell tickets.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
And I'm talking about the players as a whole.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
All people ever do and his evidence, who were the
reporters sitting there and allowing him to give the evidence
that look at the teams who spent the most money.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
They all in to have the chief teams changed.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Has Ohio State all of a sudden becoming this team
that gets there every year?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (07:35):
They used to pay the kids under the table. Now
you gotta put the money on the table. It's the
same freaking teams.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Give me the name, Dion.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Tell me who paid a lot of money and got
to the college football playoffs? Who wouldn't have got there
without the money. He couldn't name you one, because it's
the same players. Hypocrisy, take advantage of the students, of
the kids of the players. You know why, because they're

(08:07):
not represented, there's no agent or body to protect them.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Always blame the kids, Dion. How dare you? You came
up to bat once as a Yankee. You know what
he did.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
He made the dollar sign in the batter's box. Calm
fisce was the catch on the White Sox took exception
to it. You remember it was about the money.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
This is a fair market system this country. You know
how much you're worth, Dion. You're worth what someone's willing
to pay you, period.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
And if they.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Don't want to pay the kids the money, don't pay them, Dion.
Go out and do a grassroots and say I'm not
giving out any nil money. I'm gonna recruit kids who
want to play college football for nothing. Let's see how
good of a coach you are with those kids. What
poppy cock and boulder dash and utter nonsense.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Dion.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Come on, man, I can't believe you would get on
that soapbox and deny kids a chance to earn money
when these schools are making millions of dollars off these kids. Back,
this whole nil was finally a chance to make some
money back after all these years. You want to go
and look at the kids they ran out of college

(09:30):
because they got a free pizza or they got a
tattoo in exchange for.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
A warm up.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Come on, man, I'll never sit down for this. I'll
never accept it, Dion, how could you? Terrible? Terrible?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Don't be nick saban, don't be like the old white guys.
Don't do it. Oh. I like football the way it
used to be. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
It was good for the coaches and they made all
the money and the schools made all the money and
the kids made nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I will not go back for that ever. Ever.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Ever, Well, here's the thing. So usually you and I
watched the eye couple we differ on a lot of things.
A lot of what you just said I agree with
and I had written down and prepared to talk about.
So I'll try to take a couple different lanes with you, because,
to paraphrase a little bit of what you were just saying,
I had already planned to say, toothpastes out the tube.

(10:29):
We ain't going back right. One thing we know about
it when money gets rolling, money ain't going back in.
So the system is system is where it is now,
and it gets you. Why it's not going back is
because the NCAA rob They blew their chance to do
this twenty twenty five, thirty thirty five years ago, when
people were really starting to make a fuss about this, saying,
hey man, this doesn't seem right.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
You got examples, hey man, fab five guys.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Why are you'll penalizing the hey man, Ohio State kids
getting tattoos? What's the big deal? They got a couple signed,
a couple of things. They got some tattoos. What's the
big deal. And I used to call that identity theft
to me, the NCUBA for decades had been participating in
identity theft. They stole the identity of players one of
my favorite games going up Ron was Coach k basketball

(11:13):
was like it was so fun and you knew exactly
who that was back then it would be like the
UCLA team with the old Bannon brothers and Tyas Edney. Well,
I know that's him. He's five foot eight, number ten
or whatever. That that's Sias Edney. But yet it's everything
about him, but it's not him, and they can make
the money off the back of him. So to me,
the NCUBA have been practicing identity theft for so long
and gotten away with it. Now we have created the

(11:35):
wild wild West, and this is a result of it.
And you know what happens when you give leeway, when
you finally open up the floodgates, eventually you have to
find back, get open up the parameters and scale things
back a little bit. So right now, Dion nick Saban,
what we're dealing with is the floodgates opening. Why we
try to figure this thing out, because rob they were selfish,
the NCUBLEA for decades.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Now we're trying to figure this thing out.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Can I get I give you two numbers real quick.
Chador's nil evaluation? What six point five million? Which is
two million dollars more than the NFL contract he has
with the Browns. If Dion came and took Shador's money
or or then I would listen to you. If you
told your kid you were not making any money, we're

(12:17):
gonna give them money back or whatever or not take it.
And Dion is making five five year, fifty four million
dollars coach new Bread at Coloradon. Okay, so is there
a coaches cap? Come on, man, what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
And that's been an issue that we've all had been
saying for years. His coaches are making two five, six
ten million dollars. Nick Saban, hold on, let me get
this in front of your rop. This pretend it's is
a coke having coke deals with what press conference is.
So he puts the coke right there because he can
get a coke deal, but the players can't.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Players.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
You know, they were high school players, high school players
who will lose their college eligibility because they get all
the shoes, hundreds of pairs of shoes from Nike under
arm and god forbid, they sold a couple of pair
to help mom with the light bills. They literally lost
their college eligibility. So my point is we're way past this.
Kids are finally reaping the benefits of this. And that's
just where it is. The only other thing I said,

(13:10):
because you, like I said, you touched on so many
points of that one thing, I will say, the transfer
portal that has made it where I don't want. And
this is just me looking at the young men and
becoming men. And I think you can even appreciate where
I'm going with this. I don't mind the money and
it say, hey, get it money. This is a capitalist
society we live in. The Only thing I will say
I don't want to happen is where some young men

(13:32):
rob they miss out on the chance to grow from adversity,
meaning you go to the school, man, I don't like that.
I'm not starting. I'm going to the other school as
opposed to sometimes, hey push through. You know this from
our careers, Hey man, sometimes you got to push through.
Sometimes you got to go through things. Sometimes isn't easy.
And I don't want a lot of young men to lose,
in young women, to lose that opportunity to grow through adversity,

(13:56):
to go through some tough things, just because that other
school's offered me twenty thousand dollars. They offered me forty
thousand dollars or I thought I was starting, but now
I'm second string cornerback. I don't want to wait, and
I don't want to work outwork this guy, you know
what I mean. That's my only other thing about that.
I still want kids to go through diversity, push through
and become better, and I don't want them to always
lean on man this ain't working out well. I want

(14:18):
to go there because kid, you got something going three
four different schools in a five year college career. Because
I don't like this. I don't like that money's better
over there. That will be my only one pause to this.
But the fact that they finally are making some money,
and not to mention you, Rup, there's only a handful
of kids. You still got the right guard somewhere who
ain't really making nothing. So let's not act like this

(14:40):
is a every single person getting money. And I had
it written down here too, and you hit it. You
can almost see I wrote, same team's been winning, Sorry,
the same Alabama been good usc you know, Michigan fell
off a little bit. Pop back up in order to
like you're getting the same twenty schools and if you
put the cap on it. Fine, it'll be the same

(15:02):
twenty schools because most schools Rob couldn't afford the cap
except for the same twenty twenty by schools.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Eight one all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty
nine were Dion Sanders comments today about installing an nil
salary cap hipocritical.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
We'll continue that conversation next with you.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's your Boys, Steakopa, Robin Kelvin on at Worship Wednesday,
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(16:58):
Sanders has some things to say about the NIL rules
and essentially he wants a cap and he's saying it
keeps being the same teams, which Robin and I both
agree no in I l N I l am I
saying that they tell me the same teams no matter what.
At this point, it has been up the entire college football. Yeah,
so eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox? Are we
missing it? There's another angle of this. Maybe you're filling

(17:18):
with Dion has to say what we got? All right,
let's go show on in Sacramento. What are you on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio? What's up showing?

Speaker 9 (17:27):
Yeah, I'll go from another brother. Cousin killed me and
my brother's behind the board. Man, how y'all living brothers.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Are being man on vacation?

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (17:36):
Man, you know I was. I was trying to be
a good dad and I actually got yelled at by
my wife or trying to call in during my daughter's
swim lesson. So I didn't think a little break. He
was graduated up to bubble guffy, so you know they
got they moved it to a later hour in the
day so I'm available to call him. I've been missing
y'all brothers.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Man, you know how the wife drowning?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
You?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Man? What you got that? What you have?

Speaker 9 (17:53):
You know it's a divorce. Stop calling him, but real quick, man,
I think Dion is so out of pocket, so hippocle
for this man. He just signed for five more years
for fifty four million dollars. Man, if you wanted to.
If you want to cut anybody some slack of Colorado,
you could have signed for ten less million. You could
have gave that to the kids, but it stayed you
over here line in your own pockets. And now that

(18:14):
Shilo Rylo Shador in the NFL, all of a sudden,
you concerned about this salary cap. Man. My thing is,
I think, be honest, sending him up, setting himself up
for an excuse this year. So if he fails and
Colorado looks at him asking him what happened, he could
just say, oh.

Speaker 10 (18:29):
We didn't have the money.

Speaker 9 (18:30):
It's on y'all. And you know where they do have
a salary cap where he's been rumored to go the NFL.
So I think either way, Deon's gonna win. And he's
talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
WHI sean the way, baby, he gonna find with appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
How about Drew in New Jersey. You're on the on
couple of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
What's up, Drew?

Speaker 11 (18:50):
I think I think if he was at Florida State,
I don't think he'd be talking about a salary cap.
I like, let's just be honest. Yeah, I think his
whole like everything's about money. So it's really hard for
me to take you seriously, but.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I would I would have more if he did this
when his kids were playing, do.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
But he didn't like call for it like this. But
this is what But this is what I'm talking about.
If you really want to make change, I'm gonna tell
you how my son.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
My son ain't taking no money. How's that he just
here to play because you want to play football?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
And we hear that.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
To add to it, Robert, it also makes it interesting
with dion Is. I'm not mad at him. You you're
not as far as getting the money he has shown.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
But I'm cool.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
But you can't stop That's what I'm It's like, dude,
you got a little show he does with Roxy DZ.
They have a whole podcast, he's doing all this other stuff.
He's got side shows. You can have all that.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Just don't stop other people from making money. I just
think it's wrong.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Uh, Kevin from Culver City, you're on they couple of
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
What's up, Kevin? Kevin? He's there.

Speaker 10 (20:00):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, Wow, what's happening all the time? I know you
said it all the time.

Speaker 12 (20:05):
Okay, here we go USC. Reggie Bush, Reginald Bush got.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
Two houses for his family, and Mark Emmett raised a
fit and got an in sanction Reggie Bush. And look
at what's going on in college football. Everybody's getting paid.

Speaker 12 (20:21):
They came down hard on.

Speaker 10 (20:22):
USC with all the sanctions, and Nick Saban benefited from
that recruiting. If you look at Alabama for twenty ten
to about twenty twenty, day ran college football, and everybody
knows USC was running college football before these sanctions came in.

Speaker 12 (20:35):
They're all hypocrits.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
The NC double A hypocrits. You want to talk about.

Speaker 12 (20:39):
Peter Wark and it is suspended for signing autographs or
even a guy named Lebron James in high school. They
were mad because he was driving a Hummer. They had
to say his mom bought for him, and then it
got mad about the throwback jerseys he was wearing. It's
always been hypocritical in n C double A. So Deon Sanders, Yeah,
I agree with you, Rob, yours fall on there, but
this is a Mark Emmett inc No.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
I Hey, Kevin, I agree, but I'm I'm disappointed that
Dion is out ringing this bell I'm dead serious, because
that's the part that bothers me is because the kids
will ultimately get hurt by this. Are black kids who
are stars in college football, and that's what you're talking about,

(21:21):
not paying them. And that's what I got an issue with.
You know what I'm saying oftentimes seriously, and there aren't
that many black How many black college football coaches are
that major program?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Two or three right, and not to mention just because
they're good don't mean they're going pro. So if they
can give out a chance for two or three years
to make two three, four five million, let me live,
all right.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 1 (21:52):
Odd Couple Robin Kelvin on the Worship Wednesday, We're joined
out by our man Eddie House, NBA Champ Embassy Sports
Boss in Fox Sports Radio, NBA analyst Emmy Winner as well. Eddie,
what up, bro?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
What's happening?

Speaker 13 (22:05):
What's happening in Chili? Man?

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Hanging out here on a on a worship Wednesday. Man,
there's a couple of different NBA conversations that Rob and
I have been having over the last couple of days.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
So it's good.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
It's good to have you in here, uh to have
some of these. Let's start with Uh. I'm gonna start
with with happening with the Lakers here DeAndre Ayden.

Speaker 13 (22:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
He just had his moment where, you know, he came
out his press conference, talked about playing with Lucas like
a video game and how he's excited about this because
they were in the same draft class twenty eighteen, and
he said he loves to hear all the hating and
you know, people saying they don't really know about him.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
He said, he's gonna use his motivation.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
You buying that you're buying all of a sudden, that
we're gonna get the best version out of him year
six or seven.

Speaker 13 (22:46):
I mean, he feels like they hating on Ayden, right,
That's yeah, you know what I mean. But the one
thing is is that I've seen that young man grow up.
You know, he played out here Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix.
I've seen him grow up, you know, and then go
to Arizona uh u of A and then become who

(23:11):
he was the number one overall pick. He just got
to prove everything. You know what I mean? Like, it's
not about the talk. Now you know you six years in.
You know what you are. People know who you are.
It's about what what can you do? And what and
how can you how you can produce? And the other
thing is this, it's not like he's not a double,

(23:35):
walking double double, because that's what he is. You look
at his career stats. He's a walking double double that
adds to a team. So but what I know.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
You no, no, no, I hear you. My point is
that Ayden about you know the hate? No, you were
first picked, people had high expectations for you. Here you
are on a third team. Do you know what I mean? Like,
it's it ain't hate. These are your numbers. You are
what you are, what you are, what you are.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
You have not performed.

Speaker 13 (24:11):
You're a double double career.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
No, no, I'm not buying that.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I'm not buying that. He's not that he's not played
up to his potential. He hasn't.

Speaker 13 (24:21):
Yeah, it's big games that he hasn't been. I will,
I'll give you guys that. But a double double, you
know what eighteen and ten or seventeen and ten. You're
telling me that ain't what you want on your team.
That ain't what you're drafting a number one overall pick for.
So so we've seen, we've seen number one picks not

(24:43):
average seven points.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
So that's why he's on his That's why he's on
his third team.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Is that because he's his numbers are so good as
a as a first pick in a double double that
he's on his third team?

Speaker 13 (24:54):
Eddie?

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Is that what you're telling me, that the numbers are
so good?

Speaker 13 (24:57):
What I said, that's what you're saying. And so what
I'm gonna say is that he averages a double double.
He's been doing that throughout his career. And what I'm
saying is that a lot of times that you get
a guy as on you know, you draft him number one,
they really don't pan out. You would take if you

(25:20):
was drafting, if you was in the room and you
had a guy that gave you a double double with
eighteen points and hen rebounds or twelve rebounds, you'll be like,
I'm cool with that.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
So why did your sons get rid of them?

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Then?

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Why did the sons get rid of them? Why did
sign up? Why did the son not play him in
the playoffs. Remember when Money Williams wouldn't even play him.
I mean, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 13 (25:43):
You have you have to ask mommy what.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
The reports are.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
The reports are, and just even from the eye test, Eddie,
you know good well, numbers can be looking good on paper,
but it's when I needed you to get that block,
when I needed you to lock down. I needed you
to put it back strong. I have big numbers all
the time. When you play with the Clippers, Lloyd Vaughan,
do that.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's you're right, you're looking at number.

Speaker 13 (26:07):
That's a that's a throwback right there.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
But that Kevin Martin, But that tells you all I
covered the league and you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
I mean, he's the problem with the Kevin Martin put
up there. There's the guys who put up numbers that
you know that.

Speaker 13 (26:20):
But Kevin Martin put up numbers on it. He was
a ball though, right.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
But I'm saying, but all the teams he was on,
somebody got a we're gonna score a hundred tonight.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Regardless.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Kyle Kuzman look like he was actually real, real good
over there in Washington and he got to Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
You're like Oh.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
And my point is if every team's gonna score a hundred,
somebody gonna get me twenty points, doesn't mean that you
get how to win.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
And you know what I'm saying there, man, But.

Speaker 13 (26:44):
But I'm talking about the rebounds because rebounds is something different.
So when I say a double double, that's different from
just talking about points, because there's guys that could inflate
the points system and be like, oh, man, I score
a lot of points, and you know I might I
might have got thirty points in the fourth quarter when
the game was over with and it looked good on

(27:04):
all that ship, all that stuff from my stats. But
at the end of the day, when you get those rebounds,
that's something different. And I think, I think, when I
look at it, I think this is a you know,
how you turn the page sometimes you turn the page
in your life, all right, you know what I mean.

(27:26):
I think that's where it's at.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well, I mean, listen, it could be where it kind
of again, he finally is not just the numbers.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
It's how he plays. It's the attitude as the mindset.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
We'll see there Eddie House, our guests on the Eye Couple,
NBA Champ, NBC Sports bosson Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
NBA analysts also Emmy winning except put some respect on
my name, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So check this out. We got the OKC thunder and
of course now they're champs. SGA's paid. We know that
he's got paid. He could have waited in the year
got some more money, but he does it now and
then today five years, two fifty for check? What are
you making where they are right now? They set themselves
up to be winners for the long haul. Are you
worried maybe that they're going to not be able to
handle pay everybody?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
What's your thoughts?

Speaker 13 (28:05):
I mean, you know what that that's a lot of money. Uh,
but you know new collective bargaining agreement with the new
TV deal and all that, there's a lot of money
out there and you have to spend it. That's the
one thing you got to spend it. So where do
you spend it? A Well, Chad is up right now
it's his turn to get his money. And I look

(28:28):
at it like this, that has been hurt.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (28:32):
You know, I think he missed fifty games or fifteen
plus games last year something like that. But he also
was an integral part of what they did for them
to win the championships. So I mean, I'm happy for
the young man. You know, get your money when you can.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
No doubt. I also want to ask you about the
because we think we asked you about the Knicks already
and the higher Yeah, yeah, just about the higher Mike Brown.
And what do you know about Mike Brown? And how

(29:16):
do you think he'll do in New York.

Speaker 13 (29:18):
I think he'll do good. This is the reason he's
a players coach number one. But everywhere he's been his
message has fallen short after a few years. So it's
a small window. It's not a big window. It's not

(29:39):
a huge window. It's not a huge window. Think about
when he was in Cleveland, wasn't a huge window. Think
about it when he was with the Lakers, wasn't a
huge window. Think about when he was with Sacramento. It
wasn't a huge window. So he's going to have to
come in there and basically kind of maybe change his

(30:00):
style of coaching, which is hard to do when you
coach a certain way when this is how you get
the most out of everybody. But it's always been a
small window for him, So you know, I wish the
best for him to be honest with you, like you know,
and I'm not a Knicks fan or nothing like that,

(30:20):
but I do wish the best for him and if
he can make that change to where it's not a
three four year window for him there where he could
actually coach for a long period of time.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I don't know, they don't even if he does what
he can be coaching the year and get fired. You
know how the league is nowadays, Man, it's just crazy.

Speaker 13 (30:40):
No, that's how the Knicks are.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, big facts, Eddie Man appreciate it as always, Bro,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Right on.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, that's a wild thing about the NBA any sports.
But man, you can be coaching the year, you can win.
How many guys we talked about won a championship and
then like within the next year so fired. There's nothing
that can necessarily buy you equity and just hold it down.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's like anything like that anymore. And that yeah, anything
gets you fired, there's no more.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Jerry Sloan's never even won what was there twenty five thirty.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Years very it's incredible.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
It is different now all right on the way we
got Sheko City also will hit you with the play
of the day and we got to talk about somebody
who kind of hit us with the dionline my speed
of money. Ay, so we gotta hit that too. But
me here, and this is a Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Clearly you were wrong. It's the odds. I need to
We need to go to Burgerox Sports. We need some money, Yeah,
what we need? Thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
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Speaker 2 (31:49):
Okay, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
It is the Odd Cuple, Rod Parker, Kelvin Washington on
a worship Wednesday, hopefully a good one for you, halfway
through the weekend, close and closer to the weekend. And uh,
I'm scared to say it, but I guess uh. It's
time for Shekel City.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
day Dix against the spread.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
It was a bad night for yours, truly. That happens
zero and three on Shekel City.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Explain it to me. I wish I could.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
But here's what I'm going to do, something that I've
never done in the history of Shekel City.

Speaker 13 (32:35):
Take that for.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Data, right, what's this? Hold on? Hold on, what's you
about to do?

Speaker 4 (32:39):
I am going to lay back the same team that
I played last night. Okay, so last night I had there,
I had the Padres, I had Atlanta, and I had
the Rangers, and some of them won, but they didn't
cover them one and a half runs or whatever.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
So I'm gonna go again. Let's run it back, and
let's run it back. Don't be scared.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Texas Rangers minus one and a half against the angel
I got the Padres at home taking on the d
Backs minus one and a half runs in San Diego,
and Atlanta got blasted last night like ten to one
by the A's in Sacramento.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, they're gonna come back, you know, sometime. And the
age used up all their runs.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I love when you say that, by the way, Okay,
you know exactly all right, So we got it, and
I'm gonna change it. The only thing I'm gonna change
is I'm gonna make the Atlanta the best bet minus
one and a half Bronz. I got the Padres minus
one and a half Fronz, and I got the Rangers
minus one and a half.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Frons and Calvin. Remember this what's that. I'm not telling
you who to bet on. I'm telling you who I
bet on.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
All right, run it back sometimes you gotta do that, man,
double it nothing, run it back all right. Speaking of running,
we were gonna run the play of the day right now, drive.

Speaker 12 (34:08):
The boat this game time.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Faily's on the room, Faily's on the road.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Let me tell you something. Yeah, see radio Bay Area
radio right there. That was crazy. A walk off inside
the park home run. That was crazy. We've never robbed
g I think twenty nineteen or something. I don't even
remember that.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, I think that happened again, but I don't remember
your point where? Remember, nobody remember? It caromed off and
once he got here it was just the other way?

Speaker 13 (34:43):
Was this?

Speaker 2 (34:44):
He made it easily? Yeah, that was amazing to see.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Actually, I saw you and I were sitting here on
the air and it happened and they had to replay
yesterday and I was like crazy about and he did it.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
So inside the Rob Parker home run. Believable.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
And you want to just go ahead and shout out
the uh the go ahead the website through the podcast
me inside the Parker.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Speaker 4 (35:07):
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Speaker 13 (35:45):
Would you have like her team?

Speaker 9 (35:46):
What you think?

Speaker 13 (35:49):
Taken? Question? And I think it's it's a lot of
money on the table?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Would rather the chief I make it?

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Dude, dude, not like I get it, Like he had
a bonus in there or whatever? Was it one hundred
thousand dollars just sign he just signed a seven hundred
and sixty five million dollar deal and the first thing
out of his mouth is about, yeah, there's a lot
of money on the table, Like just say I want
to be an All Star because I want to be
an All star, my god something and you know the

(36:17):
government's going to take sixty five thousand dollars of that
in taxes, So like, really, is that what you're counting
on to?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Thirty five thousand? You to pocket every.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Now and again, it's come on every now and again.
You get a layup. I don't want to go where
I was about to go with that. That won't go there.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
You get a layup. How to answer a question, It's
so easy, just say.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
All I had to say was, man, you know, first
time with this team, I really want to red for
the Mets.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Thank you, Damn Mets fans and the Mets fans, you know, man,
I want to red for them especially. You know, this
is my theory.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
He's already had a couple of little small faux pods,
nothing crazy. But every time he takes like a step
and a half two steps forward, Rob, it takes like
a little half bag.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Nothing crazy. Nothing.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Didn't that bad person to mention the money, but it
so remember when he was struggling, when he was playing
wan so so like as you say, what's the thing
he said, everybody's kind of criticizing.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Man.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
I ain got Aaron Judes hitting in front of me,
like not right now, you just left your ex boo
and you're already looking at.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Bringing up X boo. You just signed a fourteen year
deal with the met.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
You're not talk I ain't got him hitting me and
I ain't got some standing in Okay, right, So they
take Tubble comes back, it's double Tuble steps back.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Then you're finally playing well. We talked about this yesterday, Jr.
Gamble Fairpole.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yes, and his numbers are getting him up there better
than people probably think he deserved to be an All Star.
You can, you know, make that case. And then he
does this. Oh yeah, man, I left the shot. There's
a bunch of money out there, okay, one one. You
don't need to say them all. Oh man, it's always
it's always a blessing to be considered one of the
best and get one of those. I want to be

(37:50):
out there the best and the best, and to be honest
with you, Shoot, I'm used to being out there.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
You know I missed I missed it. I love it.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
You know you're also missing a check. Oh really, I
didn't even know that. That makes it better? They okay,
but you don't have to bring it up money. And
last point, Rob, it's slightly tone deaf of what a
lot of people are going through in New York right
now where he plays, a lot of people scared of
getting deported, a lot of people losing jobs. You just
got the new law that the federal government that there
are a lot of canceling get rid of all these

(38:17):
federal jobs. So it's just a little little tone deaf
to the fan base too in New York in my opinion.
But you know, like we said with Dion, for some
people must be the money.
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