August 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us if the punishment handed down on Michigan for their sign stealing scandal was too light and if it all was ultimately worth it for the Wolverines, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, Big Ten College Countdown host Joshua Perry swings by to discuss the Michigan punishment, how much blame the former Wolverines players deserve for the scandal, who he’s picking to win the Big Ten this season, and much more!
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I'm telling you, the Street's gonna start wondering, like, man,
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Why don't we know?
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That's not what's going on? He finally put him in
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Get your butt back?
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rob G and everybody else has to stop lying Patrick,
stop lying to me about Rob never takes days up.
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I will give you that. You have a season when
you lock it down. But Dagg.
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Did you make up for it or what well with
the starting of the new show with you which.
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Is almost a year now, I know, right, that's great.
I went ten straight.
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Months without taking time off because I wanted us to
have a nice run to re establish the show with
a new co host, and I said, I'm not going
to take off, and I did that, and now I'm
piled up with these days and I have to take.
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Them off before we get started in the fall.
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And now that is true, I'll give you, you know,
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What up bits you boy? Maybe that was me. I'll
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I don't know who Patrick, very nice Patrick. I don't
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At the anchor desk Alex and uh never heard never
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first stop tomorrow?
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Where? I don't know where?
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Where you're in city field the Mariners against the Mets.
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Okay, that's my vacation. I'm pathetic.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, it sounds more like work to me. Sounds like.
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I'm going to hang out with my buddies who I
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So we're gonna go to the game and chill out
us at four o'clock. Then I got a little dinner
date after that at eight. I mean I got a full.
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Schedule dinner date date or like dinner date, like dinner.
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Date, like all right, we got to show to do.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Hey, let's go here.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And you know you grew up in ann Arbor, Yes, sir,
right there with Michigan and the hammer came down. You
got the details on the new house details and it's
mostly money and fines and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But go ahead, there's where I think we're gonna have
a quick kind of the start of the conversation. Rob
will be because hammer becomes relative. Is it a hammer?
Is it a sledgehammer? Depended on the school? To me,
that's how I look at it. But let's break it down.
So we already know what happened when they started to
rule down some of the things that happened last year.
This goes back to the twenty twenty three when the
(07:31):
whole video taping suspensions and scandals. So the NCAA Division
one Committee on in Fractions rule that Michigan's advanced scouting case.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
We know what that was. Weren't you in the documentary?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I wasn't a documentary.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I was on a plane and a guy was watching
it at the very point where I'm sitting next to him,
and I.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Come on the screen, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And he looked over at me, look back at the screen,
looks at me again, look back. Let's say, yeah, that
was me.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
That is freaking hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well that is that was weird.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
It was that was I just threw a tomato at
my TV. When you popped up, it was like him again.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The NCAA also imposed an additional game suspension for Sharon Moore,
who is obviously now the head coach, was the offensive coordinator.
Then when this when the investigation was going on, he's
gonna be serving. So he's gonna miss the first game
of the twenty twenty six season. Don't forget, he's already
gonna be missing a couple of games coming up this
season as well, part of the first original ruling that happened.
(08:29):
And then also they have a you have a two
year show cause penalty for him, and then you have
a ten year show cause for Jim Harbaugh, which is
already on top of the four years that he got.
And the big other thing is the thirty million dollars
as well that the schools be facing.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
And fine, so that's the gist of it right there.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Can I tell you this once again, the NCAA proves
how ineffective it is and they let Michigan off the
hook because it can't be just financial.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They should be banned.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
From participating in the college football playoffs. They should they
out and out cheated like the Astros like basically to
get an upper hand. And for all you Michigan cry
babies and all that who try to act like, oh,
you don't really matter, because one day shop did they
still won for a game, you won the championship. You
(09:22):
wouldn't be cheating if it didn't affect you in a
positive way. Kelvin, you know what I mean. You would
never do it, so it does give you an advantage.
And the NCAA should have thrown the book at Michigan.
And then they should have gone to Chargers camp and
put Jim Harborne handcuffs and lead him out of camp.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now that's what I would have wanted to see, and
just throw.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The book at the burn his khakis.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I'm just saying, like, even if it's just for jes
to let him know that he's a criminal when it
comes to college football and that that championship you want
is tainted, and all this idea that Jim Harball.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did it right. It's funny when things turned around.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You remember when he got the pay cut and losing
the Ohio State and all that, right, and Jim Barbara
was pissed that they cut a soury. You remember that, Yeah,
there was no delions. Wouldn't even take an interview with him,
you remember that. I mean it was wouldn't even interview him.
That's how much he had fallen because he kept losing
at Michigan to Ohio State. And then all of a sudden,
(10:26):
when the cheating scandal started, they started to turn it around,
started to beat Ohio State and all this kind of stuff,
and they win a national championship and then he gets
out of dodge. But that is it. I think that
they got off light. I think the NCAA is ineffective
and a joke, and I don't even know why they
even exists.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think that they got off light because of who
they are. I think those fines and penalties will hurt
somebody else if it was a smaller school, right, thirty
million dollars, there's nothing to sneeze at except if you're Michigan.
So to me, the NCAA wasted all of our time
doubling back, come back with these penalties, because what ultimately
needed to have happened rob to really make a difference.
(11:05):
If you really were gonna put your stamp on it,
if you're gonna say it with your chest, that would
be to vacate the twenty twenty three national title.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
They do it. They didn't do any of the postseason games.
They didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So if you're Michigan, to me, which I believe and
you saw we talked about the documentary, other schools are
absolutely doing and Michigan got caught, it's.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Absolutely worth it. And what I mean by it is, if.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You're about getting caught right.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Right exactly, who's the one that got caught? Everybody's doing it.
That's why these kids are all going twenty five thirty
d and you know, smashing grabs in LA and all
over the country because they're figuring if thirty of us
do it, it's gonna be hard to catch any of
you know, what I mean because it's thirty of us,
so it says opposed to me and you, where it's
easy to catch one of us or two of us.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
My point is Michigan was caught cheating.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They were doing this, filming all these these practices and
games and whatnot, as.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Were other schools.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But they got caught, and the NCAA essentially smacked them
on the risk again.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Because if you're Michigan, let me tell you what is
not nothing to you. Thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You got one hundred and ten plus thousand people in
your stadium seven eight times a year. Right, you're about
to make that any apps, you know where else You're
gonna make that on national championship merchandise that you got.
You already made that thirty million dollars. Baby, that was
easy to make because you went to the postseason, you
went to the championship.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Go out.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
The NCAA should go and collect all those championship T
shirts and sending the Cambodia right now, and we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Say that that's the that's the penalty. TA, Yeah, they
got let's take it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They gotta go get the other ones from Cambodia, the
losing ones, right, there. You know, they already got the
who was it Jeordian? Who was the Alabama? You're a
national champion?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Whoever? Those are the ones that are there, they're gonna get.
We got double T shirts.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
This is not I think it was Washington. I think
it was Washington State.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But so let me let me break down a couple
more things. This is why it was a game. We
just talked about why it wasn't worth anything for NC DOUAA,
because if you're Michigan's worth it. Michigan was trying to
play big boy college football. They had been really good
under Jim Harball, but they weren't that last top tier
upper echelone, right. They weren't when it comes of the Clemsons,
the Alabama, the Georgia's, Ohio States, they weren't that.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
They finally got back to that.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
They finally, for about a three or four year run,
beat Ohio State, which you know, you spent twenty years
in Michigan. That is the end all, be all, dang it,
if we can do nothing else, beat Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
And they did that, so all of that plan.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
H Cooper got fired at Ohio State. He couldn't beat Michigan.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
He couldn't be Michigan one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So beating Ohio State's braids in for four years, winning
the National Championship, getting your program back to the top, top,
top tier was absolutely worth it. You went, you won
the Natty, you made that thirty million in eons plus.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
So then you have that last point, Rob.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I think the NCAA didn't want to go overboard vacating wins,
titles and all of that, because I think they looked
and learned from the lesson they did with the Fab
five when they when they took back those two national
Championship appearances, they lost in the games with those appearances,
those all of those games, all those records with the
Fab five, and they took in the race the whole
Fab five, and there was a lot of backlash.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
I think you might have still been in Michigan when
that was happening.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And so therefore I think the NCUBA said, how can
we look like we did something or we're tough, but
not ultimately cost Michigan, a blue blood in the nc
double A and not have them, you know, and and
really feel in the penalties. That's what I think happened there.
So they really didn't do anything but waste all of
our time. If you really want to keep it real.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's a total waste of tom I told you NCAA
is outdated, it's antiquated, it's weak.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It has no power, right, no power, It has no power.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Like like like here's somebody blatantly cheating and you you're
not even tough enough to say, hey, we're gonna take
that championship.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They've done it in college.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
They don't do it in the pros, but they do
it in college all the time. Vacate stuff, and it's
been done over and over all.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
At eight seven, they vacated that uh cal uh Calipari
with the Memphis when they got to the national championship,
Gon vacated hits some of his wins.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I just think the nc double A also last point
ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I think they're scared because Big ten and the SEC
are a handful of days away from being like, you
know what, let's start our own thing.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, but if you're the other schools in the in
the Big ten, I don't know how you feel good
about letting Michigan cheat.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I'm like, seriously, like.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Me more than fear of the NCAA, not the other
Big ten teams.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
No, but I'm saying, but I'm saying, if you're if
you're the NCAAA, if you.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Want to make something, you make Michigan pay a penalty.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, you know, agen Ohio State was the one who's alleged.
You know that's so they don't.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
They got caught. They got caught.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm saying Ohio State was the ones who might have
ratted them out allegedly. So I don't think all the
Big ten teams are happy with it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
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NCAAA go to light with the Michigan penalty and punishment
or was it worth it for the Wolverines to cheat
like they did. We'll continue that conversation next with you.
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They needed a blue pill to hand down the punishment.
I'm just saying, oh boy, whoa ro all right? Six
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What's up, Andre?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Taking a call?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
The model for the nc double A should be if
you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, because that's how they
conduct business, particularly as you've noted, if you're a blue blood,
and it really is infuriating. North Carolina was found to
have conducted operated a fraudulent program. They had an entire
African American grades.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yep, yep, what's Swahili?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Don't disrespect what's Swahili?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Like that, Andre Right and the Anti double A. This
is found, this is documented. But because they're a blue blood,
because they're North Carolina, the penalty nothing up on the risk.
Not that I want to see teams having a championships
taken away, but that two thousand and five Natty with
Ray Felt and Sean may mcs Rashad McCants nothing Okay.
So that's what's really infuriating, beyond the fact that it
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is a business and everybody's making money hand over fifth
and they're so selective with their enforcement. Okay, this player
over here got a couple dollars. That player over there, frankly,
talk about the Michigan the Fab five. Why don't we
put their banners back up before we're worried about this
enforcement that's not consistent. That's my issue, so Rob and
my view is, don't slap these guys on the risk.
(19:34):
Create a better system so that you have a little
bit more validity in what you're doing. Because if you
allow Michigan and North Carolina to get away with it,
but then you penalize the smaller teams. That is more
damaged than if you just didn't do anything at all.
So NCAA Charlie Baker, I think he's the right man
for the job, but this is another thing that he
has to do along with NIM the transfer portal.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
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Speaker 2 (19:56):
Thank you, Droy.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
What about Drew in New Jersey Fox Sports Radio, what's
up Drew?
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Hey?
Speaker 12 (20:03):
I don't think by vacating it's knock going to do much.
I mean, I still look at it like he can vacated,
but everyone knows they still want it, just like Reggie
Bush's highs and everyone knows Reggie Bush want it. And
like Barry Bonds, everybody knows Barry Bonds has the record
and I don't really care about it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, but the only difference is Barry Barry's records hasn't
been hasn't been vacated. It's he in the record books.
Whether people want to vote for him for the Hall
of Fame or not.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Barry Bonds is the home run king. Baseball doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
The NCAA has taken down banners and you know that
Drew and has taken away people's championships and all that
kind of stuff, and they could have done this to
say no, you can't cheat and you can disgrace Jim Harbar,
who's now in the NFL. And is the NFL going
to suspend Jim Harbar now? Because don't you remember what
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was it Terrell.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Prior who they tattoos? Yeah? Do you remember he got
suspended in the NFL? Did you remember?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
That's what I think was what the downs wasn't true?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 12 (21:04):
I remember that with he got suspended with signing stuff
now he got yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And the car they suspended him in the NFL.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
He was a generation too soon because I think he
would have been a top five pick that he came
out this year.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
And who was a guy in the nineties on the
Nebraska team too, because I would have felt like Tommy Fraser.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
We talked about him yesterday, Tommy Fraser.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (21:35):
I think I think in baseball, I think we should
bring back steroids. I think there should be a oh my.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You know what baseball was just baseball is doing just fine,
be honest, tendance is up, you know what I mean?
It was there was a point, JUDI, maybe you could
sell that things are good A lot of good young stars, right,
social media numbers, up streamings, up TV wading and attendance.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm just saying you don't need to do that.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
I think the sport was better when when Barry Bonds
went from the medium hat for XLT.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Okay, he's just trying to get the joke. What else
you want to act? Me on his back?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The pimples? You know, they just want to I know
what you want to do. You know what?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Drew just wants to go to the clubhouse so he
could pop the pimples off Barry Bonds's back.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You want to be a pimple popper.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, that's too many stall moments for me. Hey real
quick man, come shoot me the butt like.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Real, hey, hey, hey, you gotta.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
With the steroids back? Yeah that sounded crazy. Yes, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You want to do that.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She used to want to pop a pimple on my
back like it was like somebody of things.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I just say, can you stop?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Who's shooting rob Gi? Is what we want to know
is his wife?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
He she jabbing rob g Yeah, as he lost weight though,
I'm looking at him that's funny.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Roger the same.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He looks the same to me. Has he lost a
lot of weight? I'm not asking.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Are you're telling me we go? He ain't never gonna
call for a commercial?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No, I'm just asking, Alex. You're in the room with him,
is there enough room for you?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Still? There's still the tight Okay?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
It just looks like he's like a bobblehead now that
they'll give away at like a Dodger game.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
That's fun.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I think robb g looks great personally. That's my guy.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, Patrick Patrick? I thought Patrick, y'all talk about me today?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Patrick? Ever, let somebody have it. I'm be happy to see.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I was gonna say, we are talking about what Patrick
is right there? You're right? Okay?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, hey, we got Joshua Perry on the way Big
ten Cobs Countdown on NBC Sports and Peacock and also
Champion as well. We'll talk to him just a minute,
right now, Steve de Seger, and let us know what's trendy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Hey Steve, Hello, guys.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
The Milwaukee Brewers have been red hot for quite some time,
including a current twelve game winning streak, but they're trailing
early at Cincinnati Young Brewers All star Jacob Mazerowski, off
the injured list, got to start tonight. He's already out
in the bottom of the second inning at Cincinnati Reds
four Brewers one. Reds are only a half game out
of the last NL wildcard spot behind the slumping Mets.
(23:53):
The Mets are down two to one to Seattle in
the bottom of the second, the one for New Yorker
Francisco Lindors home run. It's in progress. The Phillies leading
to one at the Nationals in the top of the third.
Pittsburgh beat the Cubs in Chicago today three to two
with a solo homer in the top of the ninth.
Pete Crow Armstrong Cubs all star, went three for three,
but the rest of the team was three for twenty
(24:16):
seven at the plate. Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor is
out tonight due to illness. Houston closer Josh Hater, with
a strained shoulders, been shut down for about three weeks.
Houston's the first place team in the AL West, game
and a half over the Mariners. Houston starts in a
half an hour hosting Baltimore. The Yankees go in forty
five minutes at Saint Louis. The Yanks are only a
(24:37):
half game up on Cleveland for the last AL Wildcard
Cleveland in Action hosting Atlanta. News from the Braves that
outfielder Ronald Acunya was activated off the injured list. He's
a go for tonight after a strained calf. The A's
designated third baseman go Urshela for assignment. Padres pitcher Michael
King goes on the IL with knee inflammation. Is Era
(24:58):
this year two point eight one five and won Wandy
Peralta will start in LA for the Padres tonight. That's
one of the late games ten pm Eastern time. The
Padres winners of five straight at the Dodgers, who've lost
four in a row. In fact, the Dodger lead in
the division on about July fourth was nine games. Since then,
the Dodgers have a record of twelve and twenty one,
(25:20):
and the Padres are now in first in the NLST,
a game ahead of LA. This is the latest in
a season the Padres have been in first since twenty ten.
As for the other news, yes from the University of
Michigan NCAA saying Michigan gets a series of fines that
could eclipse thirty million dollars, but no punitive penalties for
the advanced scouting case, no postseason ban, no vacating of victories,
(25:44):
no nothing. And Sebastian Muno's cards of fifty nine at
the Live Golf event in Indianapolis today already the third
sub sixty round and the brief history of Live Golf,
and his round included a double bogee today.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Back to you, all right, Steve, thank you, appreciate it.
It's the odd couple. He's Rob.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'm Kevin on a funky flashback Friday. And we are
joined now by our guests Joshua Perry, Big ten College
Countdown on NBC Sports and Peacock College Football Playoff National
Champion with some school down south from an arbor Michigan, Oh,
I mean Ohio State. I'm sorry, my bad, Joshua, what's up?
Speaker 12 (26:18):
Man?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I would gooding as do and be back with you guys.
Appreciate your time, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know, you know sometimes my ann arbor comes out.
I apologize my bad. Let's get into it. You just
heard what Steve was saying. And Rob and I just
started our show with obviously the penalties that have come
down mainly just really fines for Michigan thirty million dollars.
First on one, let me let me go back to
the origin of this, the sign stealing. If you watched
(26:45):
the doc allegedly by the Stallions that he says everybody,
it was a whole ring of schools and people were
hitting them up and doing it. And I'm trying to
find out the way he was doing it so successfully
and a bunch of people are part of it. A
do you think you personally think it was that big
of a deal, and also how prevalent do you think
it is?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I think it's a big deal when you go to
those lengths. I mean he thought of the KGB right,
Like he had a ring of people he was setting
on campus. He had an instructional manual of to get
footage and what to tell people if they were asking
why they were reporting the sidelines like coordinated where they
wanted to sit the whole deal right, So, like that
(27:25):
part of it is so far out of bounds. I've
not heard anything quite like it. Here's the other part
where people are hitting them up, Hey, how are you
so good at this? That happens every Sunday. There's analysts
from all the schools all each other up. Hey, you
played such and such last week, We got them this week.
Do you have anything on their signals? Right? So, like
there is this great area of what science feeling is
(27:47):
and what's the gamemanship and what's not And like you
can make the argument that even the calling up the
analysts from the week before and asking them maybe crosses
the line of gamesmanship. What's so far out of bounds
is what counter stallions coordinated. And I think that's why
this is so interesting to me. And it's funny we'll
talk about the penalties here in a set. If you
(28:09):
only heard the penalties, the financial penalties are insane. But
outside of that, it's like you probably didn't think it's
that bad. But when you get into the NCAA report,
there weren't a lot of great things to say about
what happened there. And it's really intriguing how you reconcile
those two things.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
The only way I would feel good about this is
if they had Jim Harbaugh and handcuffs today at Chargers Camp.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
That's what they should.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Okay, you know what I mean, Joshua, just just just
for a photo op, can we do can we do
a purp walk with Hallball?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I mean he gets to skate everybody else of course
winds up holding the bag. He finally got to win
the championship he was trying to do, and now it
has think on it. I feel bad about the whole thing.
I don't care when they stopped it or whatever. They
cheated to get their situation there, and people should, you know,
not to look down at Michigan because they didn't do
(29:02):
it the right way.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I think there is this part of me that really
wants people to look into some of the texts at
the NCAA put out in this report. One of the
quotes was Harball ran a program that was largely dismissive
of rules compliance. There was little if any emphasis on
following the rules right like that. That's damning about their
whole approach In those last few years of his tenure
(29:29):
to that program. They have the recruiting violations, the COVID
era ones, They had other things going on there. They
had a staffer who was also like moonlighting is an
Internet hacker. And then they have this sounder Stallion saying
happened but this wasn't a lot of oversight there, And
I get it right. Like I've been a champion before.
I know what that feels like, and I know what
I would do to try to get back there if
(29:50):
I was still playing the game. But there's obviously this
part of you that says, you just got to go
out there and compete, and you got to do it
the right way. So the way that Arbaugh has talked
about is obviously not great conners. Stallion's and things the
NCAA had to say about him make them seem like
a total nut job there. But there is this other
part of me, though, as a competitor, that I want
(30:12):
people to understand how serious this is. But there's also
the player side of it, where I don't think any
of those guys really knew what was going on, and
so I'm struggle to treat it discredit that season because
guys still had to go out there.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
No, I disagree.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I disagree with that because they're put in position to
be able to make those plays and because you've cheated.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And even though they didn't know.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
It's just like the Tom Brady where he's the quarterback
and the Patriots stole the defensive signals to the other team.
Oh wow, that's open Okay, I know, Wow, that's open.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
How come that's open? How come they know that?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Because they had the signals and even though Tom Brady
might have been playing and just doing what they told them,
this was a degree of cheating. And I'm not saying
the players cheated, but they cheated to get them in
the position to where they could have success. And that's
why you can discredit them winning a championship, no doubt.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Let me let me rephrase them. They don't want to
spread at the effort of the players that were on
the field. I think that's the.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
One that's fair. That's fair that I want to keep
out of.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
You know, it's off limits for me because I know
those guys personally from covering them. I know how hard
they work. But to your point, like, there's one going
to be a stinking a team on this the championship
that they won, Like people are going to look back
and they're going to associate the championship season that Michigan
had with Conner sallience. Those two things can't be separated.
But I don't want the players have to go unrecognized
(31:46):
because of that, which is a tough thing to try
to reconcile that's.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Where that's where we'll disagree. I think people are gonna
absolutely forget about it. I think they're just going to
talk about that team as winners, and I think no
one's really going to care, especially when it comes it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Wasn't sound like a Michigan home.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
In all sports, I'll tell you that it just just
about no dozen people.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
The Astros had a cheating scandal, and even though they
want a championship, there were still people who don't like
the Astros brought it up.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
There are some people who won't care.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
There are people who because they're banging on something we
could hear when you're talking about filming something a game
that anybody could go to, I think people just aren't
going to remember it enough.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Whereas the Astros people, where.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Were they doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
My pointing is clearly, if it's irrelevant relevant I'm saying,
and the factor of people caring, I don't think people
can not to disagree.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Cheating is not what you paid for.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That's not I want to see if you find out
if when you cheat, and when you're doing this, Joshua,
you might I might as well be pro wrestling, all right,
if it's going to be fake. That's not what people want.
They want to believe that there's some competition going on
and that people are on equal footing. If I knew
that they were lobbing the all the Barry bonds so
(33:01):
you could get the home run record, it doesn't feel
as good. It doesn't feel the same to me if
I find out later and if they were proving the
ball to him.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
The difference is people are gonna be with it. This
is okay.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
They're filming a game that was happening anyway, They'll be
all right. The average person. I'm not talking about someone
to Joshua's point, who went all the way reading from
bottom the end and text to text in all of it.
The average person, well, how they filmed some games probably whatever.
Let's let's move on. I think that's just the way
it is right now in society. Real quick, before we
get you out at Joshua an any who's who's winning
(33:30):
the Big Ten? Since you're covering that, is it Penn
State's you're to sneak in there?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Is it? Ohio State's to to? Well?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I know they you know, they didn't win it the
Big Ting obviously, but they also win the Natty, So
what do you expect from the Big Ten?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
You know, it's an interesting question, right because I did
this thing last year where it's like, Okay, can Ryan
Day do it?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Right?
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Like, I hadn't really seen him do it since the
early part of his tenure, and it became this we
right and Day can't do it, and all of a
sudden he made everybody look goofy win the national championship.
I know we're talking about the Big Ten race here,
but the moral of that story is I'm going to
start the season off by not saying that James Franklin
can't do it. I'm just going to say that we
haven't really seen him do it yet. That team that
(34:10):
he has a very veteran, veteran quarterback, which a lot
of teams in the Big ten Top and tenders certainly
don't have. They're going to be great in the running
back room. That offensive line is going to be deep.
Their defensive line is going to be really good. I
like what they have in the secondary. They like both
of their coordinators. I'm saying Penn State's going to win
it well. HI is going to be in the mix
of challenge, but they have so many new faces, very talented,
(34:33):
but you got to say about all the guys that
they had last year that really stepped up in that
playoff run, many of them are gone. The other two
teams that are really intriguing to me. Illinois is the
one that everybody talks about. Now. They're not even really
a dark horse anymore. They're super veteran and Brett Belm
as a coach who is very used to winning with
less in the Big Ten. He've done that before, so
(34:54):
can recreate some of that magic there at Illinois? Not
quite sure yet. And then Oregon right the team that
highly capitalize. They do a great job in the portal.
They got the great young coach. They're a really talented team.
But they've got a quarterback who played as a freshman
Dante Moore at UCLA. Decided to transference it down for
a year. Is he going to be that guy? Well,
they have the wide receiver production. He had a huge
(35:15):
injury at that position. I think it's a four team races.
I look at it in the preseason, but I'm going
to go ahead and take ten Saints and so that
James Franklin can get it done.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I would rather take Franklin from the peanuts at this
point than James Franklin.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, I thought you were going to say Franklin from Snowfall.
I don't know where he was going.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I'm just saying, Joshua, thank you, Joshua.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Appreciate Joshua. And there it lies.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I were the odd couple. You said the p nuts,
and I'm over here talking about snowfall. Right, there is
the divide right there in the couple. All right, Joshua Perry,
go give a follow, mister Joshua Perry on X coming
up shackle City. See Rob Faired trying to take a sneak,
peaks in his face. All right, you and PEPSI are
a coke guy, don't matter. I see you drinking the diapeps.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
No, it's die coke. But you guess what here in
New York? Get so much it costs from the machine, Alex,
how much does it cost there at LA dollars dollar
dollar ten? Get so much a cost for for a
can here in New York?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Fifty cents? Twenty five cents.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
That would have been a great teeth wow outside, sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You blew it.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Twenty five cents. I heart the same company at that
point in New York at that point, honestly, I'm mad
at them. Just give it to you. You know what,
at that point ten, you know what, I'm trying to
get a twenty four pack to put in my suitcase
to take we Rob, You're.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
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Speaker 5 (36:39):
All right?
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(37:44):
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All say, he had no idea at the time, and
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Speaker 3 (39:07):
We don't see colour, Rob No, I know he is
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Speaker 10 (39:22):
Left center field that the fence turns. He big five
Vladimir Carrero Junior. What stunner step around second as he
slams the Blue Jays in front two to one in
the bottom of the seventh inner.
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I'm not gonna lie.
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He puts some extra souces on that Blue Jays radio
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that was Game five of the something in the in
the postseason right there?
Speaker 5 (39:52):
My goodness, right, put a little extra on it for
the seventh inning.
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One criticize and announcers now like for overdoing it a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
We heard that. Yeah, yeah, I mean I hear you.
He was definitely juiced. Hey he was there.
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heard the juice and that's all they heard.
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I don't know it. I knew that. I even hit
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they hear.
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They're chicking a gun and I'm back in l A.
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I mean, you ain't lying about that. Somebody's got an
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I gotta admit. I gotta admit that song.
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I think every city region has their song and it
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just amazing.
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But I'm gonna tell you how good that song is. Okay,
real quick.
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It's so good that it replaced Frank Sinatra at Yankee
Stadium during the two thousand and nine championship.
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Nobody, seriously, you know what I mean?
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Like, why Sinatra's New York, New York with that in
two thousand and nine?
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They did it. I couldn't believe it.
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Yeah, I gotta write that down, and write that down.
That's gonna be one of our ones. Gotta go.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Maybe when you're back, like I know, I'll do anthem.
I know, listen the Street.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm telling you, the Street's gonna start wondering, like, man,
the Kelvin punch Rob, like, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Why don't we know?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's not what's going on? He finally put him in
a headlock, like he said, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Man?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Get your butt back?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And this is my last point before we get this show. Alex,
rob G and everybody else has to stop lying Patrick,
stop lying to me about Rob never takes days up.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I will give you that. You have a season when
you lock it down. But Dagg.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Did you make up for it or what well with
the starting of the new show with you which.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is almost a year now, I know, right, that's great.
I went ten straight.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Months without taking time off because I wanted us to
have a nice run to re establish the show with
a new co host, and I said, I'm not going
to take off, and I did that, and now I'm
piled up with these days and I have to take.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Them off before we get started in the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And now that is true, I'll give you, you know,
because I knew. You know, I'm new here on the
TV end, haven't been there for years, about the same
you've been with the yakab at Fox Sports Radio. You
get all those accrue days. At a certain point they're like,
hey man, you ain't a crew no more. You got
to take some these days.
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You gotta take him or you lose him. So that's
where we are. But all good. Yes, So let's welcome
in the odd couple crew. We wouldn't be able to
do this farm radio program with Don rob G. Of course,
our producer Alex is our engineer, our sub producer.
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Is that correct? What us called Patrick? Patrick? What up? Bits?
You boys?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Wait? Did he just give us his own drop.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What up bits you boy? Maybe that was me. I'll
use it now.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I don't know who Patrick, very nice Patrick. I don't
know who steves.
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At the anchor desk Alex and uh never heard never
heard of him, of him, ever heard of your media
h guru.
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So man, it's a funky flashback Friday. Alex will be
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Appreciate that. That's right Tom Crady, uh as the name.
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I think Chris gave him right, Tom Crady.
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Oh boy, you go.
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first stop tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Where? I don't know where?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Where you're in city field the Mariners against the Mets.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Okay, that's my vacation. I'm pathetic.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, it sounds more like work to me. Sounds like.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I'm going to hang out with my buddies who I
never get to really hang out with.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So we're gonna go to the game and chill out
us at four o'clock. Then I got a little dinner
date after that at eight. I mean I got a full.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Schedule dinner date date or like dinner date, like dinner.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Date, like all right, we got to show to do.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Hey, let's go here.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And you know you grew up in ann Arbor, Yes, sir,
right there with Michigan and the hammer came down. You
got the details on the new house details and it's
mostly money and fines and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But go ahead, there's where I think we're gonna have
a quick kind of the start of the conversation. Rob
will be because hammer becomes relative. Is it a hammer?
Is it a sledgehammer? Depended on the school? To me,
that's how I look at it. But let's break it down.
So we already know what happened when they started to
rule down some of the things that happened last year.
This goes back to the twenty twenty three when the
(07:31):
whole video taping suspensions and scandals. So the NCAA Division
one Committee on in Fractions rule that Michigan's advanced scouting case.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
We know what that was. Weren't you in the documentary?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I wasn't a documentary.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I was on a plane and a guy was watching
it at the very point where I'm sitting next to him,
and I.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Come on the screen, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And he looked over at me, look back at the screen,
looks at me again, look back. Let's say, yeah, that
was me.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
That is freaking hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well that is that was weird.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
It was that was I just threw a tomato at
my TV. When you popped up, it was like him again.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The NCAA also imposed an additional game suspension for Sharon Moore,
who is obviously now the head coach, was the offensive coordinator.
Then when this when the investigation was going on, he's
gonna be serving. So he's gonna miss the first game
of the twenty twenty six season. Don't forget, he's already
gonna be missing a couple of games coming up this
season as well, part of the first original ruling that happened.
(08:29):
And then also they have a you have a two
year show cause penalty for him, and then you have
a ten year show cause for Jim Harbaugh, which is
already on top of the four years that he got.
And the big other thing is the thirty million dollars
as well that the schools be facing.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
And fine, so that's the gist of it right there.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Can I tell you this once again, the NCAA proves
how ineffective it is and they let Michigan off the
hook because it can't be just financial.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They should be banned.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
From participating in the college football playoffs. They should they
out and out cheated like the Astros like basically to
get an upper hand. And for all you Michigan cry
babies and all that who try to act like, oh,
you don't really matter, because one day shop did they
still won for a game, you won the championship. You
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wouldn't be cheating if it didn't affect you in a
positive way. Kelvin, you know what I mean. You would
never do it, so it does give you an advantage.
And the NCAA should have thrown the book at Michigan.
And then they should have gone to Chargers camp and
put Jim Harborne handcuffs and lead him out of camp.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now that's what I would have wanted to see, and
just throw.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The book at the burn his khakis.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I'm just saying, like, even if it's just for jes
to let him know that he's a criminal when it
comes to college football and that that championship you want
is tainted, and all this idea that Jim Harball.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did it right. It's funny when things turned around.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You remember when he got the pay cut and losing
the Ohio State and all that, right, and Jim Barbara
was pissed that they cut a soury. You remember that, Yeah,
there was no delions. Wouldn't even take an interview with him,
you remember that. I mean it was wouldn't even interview him.
That's how much he had fallen because he kept losing
at Michigan to Ohio State. And then all of a sudden,
(10:26):
when the cheating scandal started, they started to turn it around,
started to beat Ohio State and all this kind of stuff,
and they win a national championship and then he gets
out of dodge. But that is it. I think that
they got off light. I think the NCAA is ineffective
and a joke, and I don't even know why they
even exists.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think that they got off light because of who
they are. I think those fines and penalties will hurt
somebody else if it was a smaller school, right, thirty
million dollars, there's nothing to sneeze at except if you're Michigan.
So to me, the NCAA wasted all of our time
doubling back, come back with these penalties, because what ultimately
needed to have happened rob to really make a difference.
(11:05):
If you really were gonna put your stamp on it,
if you're gonna say it with your chest, that would
be to vacate the twenty twenty three national title.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
They do it. They didn't do any of the postseason games.
They didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So if you're Michigan, to me, which I believe and
you saw we talked about the documentary, other schools are
absolutely doing and Michigan got caught, it's.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Absolutely worth it. And what I mean by it is, if.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You're about getting caught right.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Right exactly, who's the one that got caught? Everybody's doing it.
That's why these kids are all going twenty five thirty
d and you know, smashing grabs in LA and all
over the country because they're figuring if thirty of us
do it, it's gonna be hard to catch any of
you know, what I mean because it's thirty of us,
so it says opposed to me and you, where it's
easy to catch one of us or two of us.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
My point is Michigan was caught cheating.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They were doing this, filming all these these practices and
games and whatnot, as.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Were other schools.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But they got caught, and the NCAA essentially smacked them
on the risk again.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Because if you're Michigan, let me tell you what is
not nothing to you. Thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You got one hundred and ten plus thousand people in
your stadium seven eight times a year. Right, you're about
to make that any apps, you know where else You're
gonna make that on national championship merchandise that you got.
You already made that thirty million dollars. Baby, that was
easy to make because you went to the postseason, you
went to the championship.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Go out.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
The NCAA should go and collect all those championship T
shirts and sending the Cambodia right now, and we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Say that that's the that's the penalty. TA, Yeah, they
got let's take it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They gotta go get the other ones from Cambodia, the
losing ones, right, there. You know, they already got the
who was it Jeordian? Who was the Alabama? You're a
national champion?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Whoever? Those are the ones that are there, they're gonna get.
We got double T shirts.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
This is not I think it was Washington. I think
it was Washington State.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But so let me let me break down a couple
more things. This is why it was a game. We
just talked about why it wasn't worth anything for NC DOUAA,
because if you're Michigan's worth it. Michigan was trying to
play big boy college football. They had been really good
under Jim Harball, but they weren't that last top tier
upper echelone, right. They weren't when it comes of the Clemsons,
the Alabama, the Georgia's, Ohio States, they weren't that.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
They finally got back to that.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
They finally, for about a three or four year run,
beat Ohio State, which you know, you spent twenty years
in Michigan. That is the end all, be all, dang it,
if we can do nothing else, beat Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
And they did that, so all of that plan.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
H Cooper got fired at Ohio State. He couldn't beat Michigan.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
He couldn't be Michigan one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So beating Ohio State's braids in for four years, winning
the National Championship, getting your program back to the top, top,
top tier was absolutely worth it. You went, you won
the Natty, you made that thirty million in eons plus.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
So then you have that last point, Rob.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I think the NCAA didn't want to go overboard vacating wins,
titles and all of that, because I think they looked
and learned from the lesson they did with the Fab
five when they when they took back those two national
Championship appearances, they lost in the games with those appearances,
those all of those games, all those records with the
Fab five, and they took in the race the whole
Fab five, and there was a lot of backlash.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
I think you might have still been in Michigan when
that was happening.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And so therefore I think the NCUBA said, how can
we look like we did something or we're tough, but
not ultimately cost Michigan, a blue blood in the nc
double A and not have them, you know, and and
really feel in the penalties. That's what I think happened there.
So they really didn't do anything but waste all of
our time. If you really want to keep it real.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's a total waste of tom I told you NCAA
is outdated, it's antiquated, it's weak.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It has no power, right, no power, It has no power.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Like like like here's somebody blatantly cheating and you you're
not even tough enough to say, hey, we're gonna take
that championship.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They've done it in college.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
They don't do it in the pros, but they do
it in college all the time. Vacate stuff, and it's
been done over and over all.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
At eight seven, they vacated that uh cal uh Calipari
with the Memphis when they got to the national championship,
Gon vacated hits some of his wins.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I just think the nc double A also last point
ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I think they're scared because Big ten and the SEC
are a handful of days away from being like, you
know what, let's start our own thing.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, but if you're the other schools in the in
the Big ten, I don't know how you feel good
about letting Michigan cheat.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I'm like, seriously, like.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Me more than fear of the NCAA, not the other
Big ten teams.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
No, but I'm saying, but I'm saying, if you're if
you're the NCAAA, if you.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Want to make something, you make Michigan pay a penalty.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, you know, agen Ohio State was the one who's alleged.
You know that's so they don't.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
They got caught. They got caught.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm saying Ohio State was the ones who might have
ratted them out allegedly. So I don't think all the
Big ten teams are happy with it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
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NCAAA go to light with the Michigan penalty and punishment
or was it worth it for the Wolverines to cheat
like they did. We'll continue that conversation next with you.
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They needed a blue pill to hand down the punishment.
I'm just saying, oh boy, whoa ro all right? Six
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Speaker 2 (18:24):
What's up, Andre?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Taking a call?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
The model for the nc double A should be if
you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, because that's how they
conduct business, particularly as you've noted, if you're a blue blood,
and it really is infuriating. North Carolina was found to
have conducted operated a fraudulent program. They had an entire
African American grades.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yep, yep, what's Swahili?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Don't disrespect what's Swahili?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Like that, Andre Right and the Anti double A. This
is found, this is documented. But because they're a blue blood,
because they're North Carolina, the penalty nothing up on the risk.
Not that I want to see teams having a championships
taken away, but that two thousand and five Natty with
Ray Felt and Sean may mcs Rashad McCants nothing Okay.
So that's what's really infuriating, beyond the fact that it
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is a business and everybody's making money hand over fifth
and they're so selective with their enforcement. Okay, this player
over here got a couple dollars. That player over there, frankly,
talk about the Michigan the Fab five. Why don't we
put their banners back up before we're worried about this
enforcement that's not consistent. That's my issue, so Rob and
my view is, don't slap these guys on the risk.
(19:34):
Create a better system so that you have a little
bit more validity in what you're doing. Because if you
allow Michigan and North Carolina to get away with it,
but then you penalize the smaller teams. That is more
damaged than if you just didn't do anything at all.
So NCAA Charlie Baker, I think he's the right man
for the job, but this is another thing that he
has to do along with NIM the transfer portal.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Thanks taking the call, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Thank you, Droy.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
What about Drew in New Jersey Fox Sports Radio, what's
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Speaker 11 (20:02):
Hey?
Speaker 12 (20:03):
I don't think by vacating it's knock going to do much.
I mean, I still look at it like he can vacated,
but everyone knows they still want it, just like Reggie
Bush's highs and everyone knows Reggie Bush want it. And
like Barry Bonds, everybody knows Barry Bonds has the record
and I don't really care about it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, but the only difference is Barry Barry's records hasn't
been hasn't been vacated. It's he in the record books.
Whether people want to vote for him for the Hall
of Fame or not.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Barry Bonds is the home run king. Baseball doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
The NCAA has taken down banners and you know that
Drew and has taken away people's championships and all that
kind of stuff, and they could have done this to
say no, you can't cheat and you can disgrace Jim Harbar,
who's now in the NFL. And is the NFL going
to suspend Jim Harbar now? Because don't you remember what
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was it Terrell.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Prior who they tattoos? Yeah? Do you remember he got
suspended in the NFL? Did you remember?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
That's what I think was what the downs wasn't true?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 12 (21:04):
I remember that with he got suspended with signing stuff
now he got yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And the car they suspended him in the NFL.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
He was a generation too soon because I think he
would have been a top five pick that he came
out this year.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
And who was a guy in the nineties on the
Nebraska team too, because I would have felt like Tommy Fraser.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
We talked about him yesterday, Tommy Fraser.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (21:35):
I think I think in baseball, I think we should
bring back steroids. I think there should be a oh my.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You know what baseball was just baseball is doing just fine,
be honest, tendance is up, you know what I mean?
It was there was a point, JUDI, maybe you could
sell that things are good A lot of good young stars, right,
social media numbers, up streamings, up TV wading and attendance.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm just saying you don't need to do that.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
I think the sport was better when when Barry Bonds
went from the medium hat for XLT.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Okay, he's just trying to get the joke. What else
you want to act? Me on his back?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The pimples? You know, they just want to I know
what you want to do. You know what?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Drew just wants to go to the clubhouse so he
could pop the pimples off Barry Bonds's back.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You want to be a pimple popper.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, that's too many stall moments for me. Hey real
quick man, come shoot me the butt like.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Real, hey, hey, hey, you gotta.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
With the steroids back? Yeah that sounded crazy. Yes, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You want to do that.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She used to want to pop a pimple on my
back like it was like somebody of things.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I just say, can you stop?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Who's shooting rob Gi? Is what we want to know
is his wife?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
He she jabbing rob g Yeah, as he lost weight though,
I'm looking at him that's funny.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Roger the same.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He looks the same to me. Has he lost a
lot of weight? I'm not asking.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Are you're telling me we go? He ain't never gonna
call for a commercial?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No, I'm just asking, Alex. You're in the room with him,
is there enough room for you?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Still? There's still the tight Okay?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
It just looks like he's like a bobblehead now that
they'll give away at like a Dodger game.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
That's fun.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I think robb g looks great personally. That's my guy.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, Patrick Patrick? I thought Patrick, y'all talk about me today?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Patrick? Ever, let somebody have it. I'm be happy to see.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I was gonna say, we are talking about what Patrick
is right there? You're right? Okay?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, hey, we got Joshua Perry on the way Big
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Speaker 2 (23:29):
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Speaker 11 (23:30):
The Milwaukee Brewers have been red hot for quite some time,
including a current twelve game winning streak, but they're trailing
early at Cincinnati Young Brewers All star Jacob Mazerowski, off
the injured list, got to start tonight. He's already out
in the bottom of the second inning at Cincinnati Reds
four Brewers one. Reds are only a half game out
of the last NL wildcard spot behind the slumping Mets.
(23:53):
The Mets are down two to one to Seattle in
the bottom of the second, the one for New Yorker
Francisco Lindors home run. It's in progress. The Phillies leading
to one at the Nationals in the top of the third.
Pittsburgh beat the Cubs in Chicago today three to two
with a solo homer in the top of the ninth.
Pete Crow Armstrong Cubs all star, went three for three,
but the rest of the team was three for twenty
(24:16):
seven at the plate. Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor is
out tonight due to illness. Houston closer Josh Hater, with
a strained shoulders, been shut down for about three weeks.
Houston's the first place team in the AL West, game
and a half over the Mariners. Houston starts in a
half an hour hosting Baltimore. The Yankees go in forty
five minutes at Saint Louis. The Yanks are only a
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half game up on Cleveland for the last AL Wildcard
Cleveland in Action hosting Atlanta. News from the Braves that
outfielder Ronald Acunya was activated off the injured list. He's
a go for tonight after a strained calf. The A's
designated third baseman go Urshela for assignment. Padres pitcher Michael
King goes on the IL with knee inflammation. Is Era
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this year two point eight one five and won Wandy
Peralta will start in LA for the Padres tonight. That's
one of the late games ten pm Eastern time. The
Padres winners of five straight at the Dodgers, who've lost
four in a row. In fact, the Dodger lead in
the division on about July fourth was nine games. Since then,
the Dodgers have a record of twelve and twenty one,
(25:20):
and the Padres are now in first in the NLST,
a game ahead of LA. This is the latest in
a season the Padres have been in first since twenty ten.
As for the other news, yes from the University of
Michigan NCAA saying Michigan gets a series of fines that
could eclipse thirty million dollars, but no punitive penalties for
the advanced scouting case, no postseason ban, no vacating of victories,
(25:44):
no nothing. And Sebastian Muno's cards of fifty nine at
the Live Golf event in Indianapolis today already the third
sub sixty round and the brief history of Live Golf,
and his round included a double bogee today.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Back to you, all right, Steve, thank you, appreciate it.
It's the odd couple. He's Rob.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'm Kevin on a funky flashback Friday. And we are
joined now by our guests Joshua Perry, Big ten College
Countdown on NBC Sports and Peacock College Football Playoff National
Champion with some school down south from an arbor Michigan, Oh,
I mean Ohio State. I'm sorry, my bad, Joshua, what's up?
Speaker 12 (26:18):
Man?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I would gooding as do and be back with you guys.
Appreciate your time, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know, you know sometimes my ann arbor comes out.
I apologize my bad. Let's get into it. You just
heard what Steve was saying. And Rob and I just
started our show with obviously the penalties that have come
down mainly just really fines for Michigan thirty million dollars.
First on one, let me let me go back to
the origin of this, the sign stealing. If you watched
(26:45):
the doc allegedly by the Stallions that he says everybody,
it was a whole ring of schools and people were
hitting them up and doing it. And I'm trying to
find out the way he was doing it so successfully
and a bunch of people are part of it. A
do you think you personally think it was that big
of a deal, and also how prevalent do you think
it is?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I think it's a big deal when you go to
those lengths. I mean he thought of the KGB right,
Like he had a ring of people he was setting
on campus. He had an instructional manual of to get
footage and what to tell people if they were asking
why they were reporting the sidelines like coordinated where they
wanted to sit the whole deal right, So, like that
(27:25):
part of it is so far out of bounds. I've
not heard anything quite like it. Here's the other part
where people are hitting them up, Hey, how are you
so good at this? That happens every Sunday. There's analysts
from all the schools all each other up. Hey, you
played such and such last week, We got them this week.
Do you have anything on their signals? Right? So, like
there is this great area of what science feeling is
(27:47):
and what's the gamemanship and what's not And like you
can make the argument that even the calling up the
analysts from the week before and asking them maybe crosses
the line of gamesmanship. What's so far out of bounds
is what counter stallions coordinated. And I think that's why
this is so interesting to me. And it's funny we'll
talk about the penalties here in a set. If you
(28:09):
only heard the penalties, the financial penalties are insane. But
outside of that, it's like you probably didn't think it's
that bad. But when you get into the NCAA report,
there weren't a lot of great things to say about
what happened there. And it's really intriguing how you reconcile
those two things.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
The only way I would feel good about this is
if they had Jim Harbaugh and handcuffs today at Chargers Camp.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
That's what they should.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Okay, you know what I mean, Joshua, just just just
for a photo op, can we do can we do
a purp walk with Hallball?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I mean he gets to skate everybody else of course
winds up holding the bag. He finally got to win
the championship he was trying to do, and now it
has think on it. I feel bad about the whole thing.
I don't care when they stopped it or whatever. They
cheated to get their situation there, and people should, you know,
not to look down at Michigan because they didn't do
(29:02):
it the right way.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I think there is this part of me that really
wants people to look into some of the texts at
the NCAA put out in this report. One of the
quotes was Harball ran a program that was largely dismissive
of rules compliance. There was little if any emphasis on
following the rules right like that. That's damning about their
whole approach In those last few years of his tenure
(29:29):
to that program. They have the recruiting violations, the COVID
era ones, They had other things going on there. They
had a staffer who was also like moonlighting is an
Internet hacker. And then they have this sounder Stallion saying
happened but this wasn't a lot of oversight there, And
I get it right. Like I've been a champion before.
I know what that feels like, and I know what
I would do to try to get back there if
(29:50):
I was still playing the game. But there's obviously this
part of you that says, you just got to go
out there and compete, and you got to do it
the right way. So the way that Arbaugh has talked
about is obviously not great conners. Stallion's and things the
NCAA had to say about him make them seem like
a total nut job there. But there is this other
part of me, though, as a competitor, that I want
(30:12):
people to understand how serious this is. But there's also
the player side of it, where I don't think any
of those guys really knew what was going on, and
so I'm struggle to treat it discredit that season because
guys still had to go out there.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
No, I disagree.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I disagree with that because they're put in position to
be able to make those plays and because you've cheated.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And even though they didn't know.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
It's just like the Tom Brady where he's the quarterback
and the Patriots stole the defensive signals to the other team.
Oh wow, that's open Okay, I know, Wow, that's open.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
How come that's open? How come they know that?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Because they had the signals and even though Tom Brady
might have been playing and just doing what they told them,
this was a degree of cheating. And I'm not saying
the players cheated, but they cheated to get them in
the position to where they could have success. And that's
why you can discredit them winning a championship, no doubt.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Let me let me rephrase them. They don't want to
spread at the effort of the players that were on
the field. I think that's the.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
One that's fair. That's fair that I want to keep
out of.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
You know, it's off limits for me because I know
those guys personally from covering them. I know how hard
they work. But to your point, like, there's one going
to be a stinking a team on this the championship
that they won, Like people are going to look back
and they're going to associate the championship season that Michigan
had with Conner sallience. Those two things can't be separated.
But I don't want the players have to go unrecognized
(31:46):
because of that, which is a tough thing to try
to reconcile that's.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Where that's where we'll disagree. I think people are gonna
absolutely forget about it. I think they're just going to
talk about that team as winners, and I think no
one's really going to care, especially when it comes it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Wasn't sound like a Michigan home.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
In all sports, I'll tell you that it just just
about no dozen people.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
The Astros had a cheating scandal, and even though they
want a championship, there were still people who don't like
the Astros brought it up.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
There are some people who won't care.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
There are people who because they're banging on something we
could hear when you're talking about filming something a game
that anybody could go to, I think people just aren't
going to remember it enough.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Whereas the Astros people, where.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Were they doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
My pointing is clearly, if it's irrelevant relevant I'm saying,
and the factor of people caring, I don't think people
can not to disagree.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Cheating is not what you paid for.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That's not I want to see if you find out
if when you cheat, and when you're doing this, Joshua,
you might I might as well be pro wrestling, all right,
if it's going to be fake. That's not what people want.
They want to believe that there's some competition going on
and that people are on equal footing. If I knew
that they were lobbing the all the Barry bonds so
(33:01):
you could get the home run record, it doesn't feel
as good. It doesn't feel the same to me if
I find out later and if they were proving the
ball to him.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
The difference is people are gonna be with it. This
is okay.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
They're filming a game that was happening anyway, They'll be
all right. The average person. I'm not talking about someone
to Joshua's point, who went all the way reading from
bottom the end and text to text in all of it.
The average person, well, how they filmed some games probably whatever.
Let's let's move on. I think that's just the way
it is right now in society. Real quick, before we
get you out at Joshua an any who's who's winning
(33:30):
the Big Ten? Since you're covering that, is it Penn
State's you're to sneak in there?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Is it? Ohio State's to to? Well?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I know they you know, they didn't win it the
Big Ting obviously, but they also win the Natty, So
what do you expect from the Big Ten?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
You know, it's an interesting question, right because I did
this thing last year where it's like, Okay, can Ryan
Day do it?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Right?
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Like, I hadn't really seen him do it since the
early part of his tenure, and it became this we
right and Day can't do it, and all of a
sudden he made everybody look goofy win the national championship.
I know we're talking about the Big Ten race here,
but the moral of that story is I'm going to
start the season off by not saying that James Franklin
can't do it. I'm just going to say that we
haven't really seen him do it yet. That team that
(34:10):
he has a very veteran, veteran quarterback, which a lot
of teams in the Big ten Top and tenders certainly
don't have. They're going to be great in the running
back room. That offensive line is going to be deep.
Their defensive line is going to be really good. I
like what they have in the secondary. They like both
of their coordinators. I'm saying Penn State's going to win
it well. HI is going to be in the mix
of challenge, but they have so many new faces, very talented,
(34:33):
but you got to say about all the guys that
they had last year that really stepped up in that
playoff run, many of them are gone. The other two
teams that are really intriguing to me. Illinois is the
one that everybody talks about. Now. They're not even really
a dark horse anymore. They're super veteran and Brett Belm
as a coach who is very used to winning with
less in the Big Ten. He've done that before, so
(34:54):
can recreate some of that magic there at Illinois? Not
quite sure yet. And then Oregon right the team that
highly capitalize. They do a great job in the portal.
They got the great young coach. They're a really talented team.
But they've got a quarterback who played as a freshman
Dante Moore at UCLA. Decided to transference it down for
a year. Is he going to be that guy? Well,
they have the wide receiver production. He had a huge
(35:15):
injury at that position. I think it's a four team races.
I look at it in the preseason, but I'm going
to go ahead and take ten Saints and so that
James Franklin can get it done.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I would rather take Franklin from the peanuts at this
point than James Franklin.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, I thought you were going to say Franklin from Snowfall.
I don't know where he was going.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I'm just saying, Joshua, thank you, Joshua.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Appreciate Joshua. And there it lies.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I were the odd couple. You said the p nuts,
and I'm over here talking about snowfall. Right, there is
the divide right there in the couple. All right, Joshua Perry,
go give a follow, mister Joshua Perry on X coming
up shackle City. See Rob Faired trying to take a sneak,
peaks in his face. All right, you and PEPSI are
a coke guy, don't matter. I see you drinking the diapeps.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
No, it's die coke. But you guess what here in
New York? Get so much it costs from the machine, Alex,
how much does it cost there at LA dollars dollar
dollar ten? Get so much a cost for for a
can here in New York?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Fifty cents? Twenty five cents.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
That would have been a great teeth wow outside, sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You blew it.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Twenty five cents. I heart the same company at that
point in New York at that point, honestly, I'm mad
at them. Just give it to you. You know what,
at that point ten, you know what, I'm trying to
get a twenty four pack to put in my suitcase
to take we Rob, You're.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Willing to sacrifice clothes to get those sodas up in there?
Speaker 5 (36:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
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Speaker 5 (36:56):
Oh Yeah, fucking plast Friday. He's boys all right, Covile
Rock Parker Kevin.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Washington on a fucking Flashback Friday, DJ Ali Alex, I
hear you, brother, and.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
It is now time for Shekel City.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
Dalley Dix against the Scratch.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I had you do all a good night last night,
Shekel City two and one. That takes me to one
ninety one, thank you, lebron and one ninety five one
ninety one, five four games under five hundred. Tonight, I'm
gonna go with the twins again. It worked for me
last night the Twins plus one and a half. Welston
(37:44):
the Tigers. I'm gonna take the Twins plus one and
a half is my best bet.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Tigers win as they did last night, Kelvin, but they
didn't cover. Yeah, I'm gonna take the Yankees minus one
and a half to win.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Saint Louis taking on the Cardinals and the d Backs blew.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Oh they blowed out the Rockies last night.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I'm going back to the well Diamondbacks minus two and
a half runs in Denver taking on the Rocky So again,
Diamondbacks minus two and a half, Twins plus one and
a half, and the Yankees minus one and a half.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
And remember this, Calvin, what's that? I'm not telling you
who the bet on? Oh, I'm telling you who I better?
Did I do? Did I do?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I saw you sound yesterday?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Do I sound I sound like hercle on the recording one?
Doesn't that sound like Earle?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Well? Did he do it with us when he was
he came and stopped.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
We didn't bother him with that?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
No, No, I'm glad we didn't too. He was He
was a cool brother. We got to hang out with Julia,
I got to.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Shake his hand. Yeah, you know who he was at time.
All say, he had no idea at the time, and
he was like, that was Rkle.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Oh my god, it was one that was so random too.
But I'll tell you what. That hot yoga spot right
next to us. People be in there, Alice, you know
a lot.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
But uh arkle Willie White, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
We don't see colour, Rob No, I know he is
a big sports fan.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, no doubt he could hoop. I don't know if
you remember it, he really could play. Seriously, all right,
real quick, we got to get to the tire reck
play of the ditch hit high.
Speaker 10 (39:22):
Left center field that the fence turns. He big five
Vladimir Carrero Junior. What stunner step around second as he
slams the Blue Jays in front two to one in
the bottom of the seventh inner.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
He puts some extra souces on that Blue Jays radio
Baseball Radio network there, But man, I mean I thought
that was Game five of the something in the in
the postseason right there?
Speaker 5 (39:52):
My goodness, right, put a little extra on it for
the seventh inning.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
One criticize and announcers now like for overdoing it a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
We heard that. Yeah, yeah, I mean I hear you.
He was definitely juiced. Hey he was there.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
You go.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
So you can't say that because somebody just turned on
the radio and they heard Black Gerra Junior and they
heard the juice and that's all they heard.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
I don't know it. I knew that. I even hit
it out the park like that. That's all that's all
they hear.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Right then, I knows we're not saying that.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Do me a favor. Lift up your bag real quick,
my bag. Yeah, just I just want to make sure
how many pepsis are in their diet. Pepsis are in there?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh not yet. I'm gonna I told you a twenty
four pack. I'm gonna put in the take back with me.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
That's twenty five cents.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Shout out to them for saying it ain't always about
making some money, man. I appreciate that for them, even
though granted at that point they.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
They're chicking a gun and I'm back in l A.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
I mean, you ain't lying about that. Somebody's got an
their bag.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
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