November 20, 2024 • 36 mins
Rob and Kelvin react to the Lakers winning their 6th straight and debate whether or not the Lakers are truly a good team. Longtime ESPN Anchor Kenny Mayne joins the guys to discuss his new comedic documentary "Wiffle Ball." Plus, an iconic sports talk show will be ending their 23-year run next Summer.
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He is Calvin Washington. What's up, Bro? Rob? Hey, Alex,
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Friend, Rob mandown situation, Rob Parker, even be worse than that,
Rob Parker. I'm on my way to work this morning,
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Speaker 4 (02:12):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I missed a step on our wooden stair flight. Wow,
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Hold on, jeez, help me, please, Rob Parker.
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what I mean, Kevin it, I might be at the doctor, Rob.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's a man now situation into Washington House. So I'm
beat down. I'm sore.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
They kicked me out of TV, they made me go home.
But you know what, I'm here. We mad up, we
pushed through, We persevere, and here I stand, brother.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
My man.
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Man down, all right.
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So Bree is doing her thing and we can't wait.
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with the new baby, baby time, Yeah, of course, yes,
that's Rob G's doing a lot of that changing diapers.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Oh yes he is.
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Bro.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
No, do you talk to a baby when it's an
infant days old? Yes? Baby talk? Baby talk? It's a
one that you can walk now does that work?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Not quite like that, but you do talk to listen,
don't be Google. You got guy in your baby should
or don't even sound like you? Sounded like a turkey.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Little gig ye Rob rob Gee's baby would be like
Turkey Turkey. I need baby oil. The baby needs baby oil.
To moisturize the babysit.
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That is true. Although baby jail is better than baby oil.
That's a side. No, put that on the side. Baby
jail a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, but baby oil is only ninety nine cents, so
I'm doing the baby oil.
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Sorry baby.
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Well, oh so he only spent a thousand dollars, did he?
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That's right? All right? Uh.
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Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, are you ready to get started?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Did I say, Alex engineer? I can't even believe that.
I like, I got distracted too. I actually got audio
of Kelvin after he fell and you don't even introduce me,
you know what. Unbelievable. That's okay, Ron, you want to
hear real quick.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, I'm falling and I can't get off. There you go.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
It was a man down situation, Alex. You said you
don't partake in people's misery. You don't laugh in that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Actually that is funny.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Man down.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
That was my household. You really want to left? Mama
Dove came flying up?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Are you, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I had to act like I was like, no, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But the best part is, and you won't admit it,
your daughter, who's the youngest daughter.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
What's your youngest is Chris Carris.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, And then at the top of the stairs, her
little foot was out.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You know what I mean, you didn't give me that
lollipop last night. I'll figure you out. I'll fix your
have a little.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Nice day at work.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Alright, man, crazy, all right, let's start with some NBA
I don't know about you. I know you're the biggest
Laker Lebron Homer and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Look, the Lakers are going to the NBA Finals. They
just won six games in a row.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They beat the Salt Lake City, the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I'm saying, they know jazz in there, Johnny Colchrey, ronrod
is Grave, they talk about the jazz.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
They know jazz in Utah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The Utah Jazz used to be the New Orleans Jazz
before they move.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But you don't even know about that. I remember when
they moved.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But anyway, Pistol Pete was there, Pistol Pete Maravich. But anyway,
the Lakers six wins in a row.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
JJ Redick is a genius.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Lebron has taken the fountain of youth, drink a d
has gone to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Feel good.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I mean like they got rookies who can play, rookies
who we haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I mean, they got everything going. The Lakers are.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
The real deal, right. Here's the thing. They the real deal. Ish.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The trouble is, Ron, we can't call them the real
deal because they're oning four on the road.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
That you can't be the real deal and go on
the road and lose and lose to some not some
great not so great.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Thought they were one and four in the road.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Was it one and four?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Maybe it's one and four, But you can't be going
on the road. You know, I love my pistons, but
you can't lose beat Toronto.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That's the one.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, wha, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You know I'm giving them giving them there one win,
giving them one road win, you know, lebronco.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah, Lebron gonna beat Lebronto. That's what he called. They
call it Lebronto. But that's the issue right now, is
they're feasting at home. And listen, if somebody would have
say to the Lakers, all eighty two games we're gonna
be in the NBA Cup or formerly known as the
n Season Tournament. Boy, they will be kicking all the
button the league nine to zero in the tournaments since
(07:46):
it started last season. They don't lose, so they just
keep that mind said that, hey Nteason Tournament NBA Cup
is going down. Boy, they would be an amazing team.
But no, they look good. They look good. It's it's uh,
it's early right now. Anthony Davis is for the most
part been spectacular. They're getting some great minutes out of
Dolt and Kaneck. You might want to start playing him
(08:07):
a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
But the issue is.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Again, we've seen this before, Rob, We've seen this before,
the same looking out the break, looking solid, looking good
the last few seasons. Then they start to lose and
have or at least be just sub five hundred, and
you're like, ah, here we go again, six seven, eight,
nine seed in the West.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
So I'm not buying it quite yet. I do like
this team.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I told you if they get in the postseason, they're
gonna be trouble because the two man game.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
If they get into tournament, that means are gonna win
are they going to the West.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
That means that are not.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
There's not a team in the Western Conference that, if
I'm the Lakers, worries me. That makes me go oho,
like we can't beat them. Denver is the only team that,
for whatever reason, gives them a mismatchup nightmare. But there's
no team that makes.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Me Dallas mavericks Dallas. They got their own big two.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Well they can be because what he brings on the
other end, he being Anthony Davis. The two man game
of Anthony Davis and Lebron seven game series is hard
to beat. That is hard to beat. That's why they
snuck into the Western Conference finals a couple of years ago.
That's why I believe if they didn't run up to
Denver so early, they might have did it again last
(09:21):
year now, but.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They got to play who's in front of them. And
here's my only problem. The Lakers are fugaysey. At this
point of the NBA season, they were a three dollars bill.
If I had to touch the Lakers, I'd have to
wash my hands, Okay, because something stinks.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Look at who they've beaten.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think only one team has a record over five hundred,
which is Memphis at eight and seven, but they haven't
beaten anybody this six game winning streak. And I know
you got to play who's in front of you, but
you can't really judge a team based off of a
soft spot in the schedule because when you look at it,
you talked about the road trip, they it didn't look
(10:00):
like world beaters.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Then they didn't, didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
They come home right and they beat Philadelphia terrible, Toronto terrible,
Memphis eight and seven.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The Spurs, uh.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Not around five hundred maybe under the New Orleans Pelicans
under five hundred Utah, Utah is what two and ten
or eleven or two and twelve, whatever they are. So
when you look at these wins, and I'm not saying
pile them up, but I'm not buying into like the
Lakers have turned the corner and JJ Redick is a
(10:35):
g If you don't beat these teams in the NBA,
who are you beating?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah, I think it's too early to really jump out
and say their world beaters.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I like look in, I like don't connect.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I like the way JJ Redick is utilizing him and
actually kind of looking at him and as like a
junior JJ Reddick saying Hey, let that thing fly. So
I'm not mad at that. But again, as much as
I lecked this team, you know I'm Lebron fan, it's
too early to deem them any thing right now because
you want to see how they get on a nice road.
I need twenty five thirty games to say all right now.
(11:07):
You know they're twenty two and eight balling out. They
got a great rotation going. I like this. It's too
early right now, and they're not doing what the Detroit
Lions do. I know it's a different sport, but the
Detroit Lions, they're beating any and everybody. If it's a
bad team, get beat down. If it's a good team,
get beat down. And the Lakers are not even being
the bad teams right now. So I can't give them
(11:29):
for lay. I can't give them real deal. As much
as I would like to, I can't do that yet.
We'll give it a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, it's I'm just not buying into them, not yet.
And the last couple of years that the Lakers make
the playoffs, there's always on the they got to do the.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Play in, which is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
With the two guys who keep talking about and that's
not Indeed, why should they be in the play in
It doesn't even make any sense, does it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's the key part.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
If Anthony Davis and if it was a fifth, we'd
all be drunk.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
But if he's healthy, let's say he takes the same
rout of last year, play seventy something plus games.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
The Lebron's gonna give you what he's given you.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
But if a dog connect looks this good, and if also,
you know, you get an Austin's doing what he does
and DiAngelo can stay semi consistent, He's never gonna be consistent.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's just dan Angelo Russell.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
At this point, they'll they'll be a tough team again
to because there's no real I know Golden State looks good,
but I don't I can play against him if I'm
the If I'm the Lakers, they have no size, so
we're gonna absolutely just pound them in the paint. That's
what I would be thinking. If I'm the Lakers against
the Golden State words. I don't buy Phoenix yet. I
don't buy that yet. We've seen this before. When it
(12:42):
comes down to crunch time, who gets the ball? What
are they gonna do? I don't buy Phoenix yet. They
look good. I don't buy it yet.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And here's the other thing too, Where the Lakers defensively?
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're ranked twenty third, just ahead of the bulls in
the nets that.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Ain't good like this?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Who i'ms a twenty third defensive team rating? So they
are not a good defensive team, not at this point.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
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odd couple on a worship Wednesday? Where are you on
the Lakers? They got a six game winning streak. Pop
the champagne, drink the wine and Lebron's barbershaw is a reason.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
To feel good about the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Where they are? Do you like this team? Are they
going to the NBA Finals? Are they blay? Are they
blooney or fala blay like that?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Are they blaz Are they Bologney or Flay?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
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Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, happy birthday to Kennedy. Rob.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
We're talking about the Lakers real deal or not blooney
or for la. How you feel the bottom? You're liking
what you're seeing or eh no yet? Eight seven seven
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Speaker 2 (15:08):
Right, let's kick it off with Alex and Fresno. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Alex,
hey man, big friend of you, guys like you, like
I was telling negotiates you brother.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
I agree with Rob. They're for gazy.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I said, look, it took this rookie monster.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Game and lebron n ad and he beat a terrible.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Team by six terrible.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
We an't they gonna play against the good teams like nah,
they were fine.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
They're like the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too much.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
But cowboys, I get your point, I mean, and uh,
first of all.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
You can't get his point. They went to the Western
Conference finals two season. They want to ring twenty twenty,
the coach said, coach, they said it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That didn't matter, and neither did winning them the couple
whatever they calling it now that the n season respect
the NBA couple.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
It doesn't matter. But you got it, Hey say with.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Me, n B I'll never do that like that.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That watch happens in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Rob Okay Mark good nice, nice that and the two nine.
You'll get you on the New York subway. I got you.
Look at you, my boy? Right Mark in North Carolina,
you're in the yard couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Mark? What's up?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Fellas?
Speaker 9 (16:24):
I think they're in between A file A and uh.
But they're definitely not who gazy? They played good teams,
just like they said. They only went by six last night,
but they had a big lead on the team last
night and known that Westcoat on the East Coast trip
a D missed a couple of.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Games and they lost to the Pistons. Come on, man,
if somethings are good, by the way, though.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Much better than we thought, by the way, who please
tell me who in the who is killing right now?
It's only it's only Cleveland, and then you have the
Celtics and there a game behind the Celtics. You can
only play who who's.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
In front of you.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
They look just as good as anybody, just like you
were saying that, definitely nobody in the what scares you?
They can be anybody aside from maybe Denver.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Why you keep saying that nobody scharedule except for Denver?
They have to get through Denver at some point, don't they?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah? But I mean if I see him at the right.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Point Minnesota, not never out last year.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Do you know you're saying that that that Luca and
Kyrie are nothing?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
They don't worry?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
What are you saying that they have a losing record
right now?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, I'm just asking you. But did they get to
didn't they get to the finals.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
But that's okay, they got to the f Anybody can
make the finals.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, you're right, because the Lakers made it in twenty twenty,
so anybody can make the finals.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Mark, Thank you, you're a Mark is all in. I
just that Mark just asked me for change for a
three dollar bill. I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
What else we got. Mark wasn't wrong what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Andre in Massachusetts, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
What's up, Dreight?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (17:53):
How you doing? Thanks for taking a cost As far
as the Lakers are concerned. For me, it's still playing
tournament on three. I like what I'm saying from his
kid Dalton's net that people passed on largely based on
his age, you know, he's NBA ready, He's then he's
a flame thrower. He plays for a flame throwing coach
and JJ Redick scheme and things up for him. But
the bottom line with the Lakers is they're just not
going to be healthy over the course of the season.
(18:14):
They're starting off the journey good. You know, everything is
rose is, you know, but we know Lebron and ad
are going to be in the same situation that Joe
l embiid. You know, some of the other people in
the in the Eastern Conference are over the course of
the year. So you have to ask yourself for these
young guns going to be able to carry them in
a competitive Western conference. I say no. Second second, their
point is a lot of teams in the West are
(18:35):
building and growing back into themselves. Memphis getting used to
John Moran, Minnesota getting used to Julius Randall being back,
the Sacramento Kings getting used to Martin Rosen being back.
So I think second half of the year, those teams
will hit their stride and the Lakers will kind of
fall back. I love the story. I'm not who pulling
the Lakers in any way, shape or form, but I
just think realistically they're not a top tier team in the.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
West over the long I don't know if I believe.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Crazy Ray. Thanks for the callup.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Hey, Glenn in Hawaii, you're on the odd couple Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What's up, Glenn?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Aloha fellas, Aloha Heloha, mister. I wanted to caution you that,
you know, being a Laker, hated ry, contagious.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Don't let mister Parker throw you off.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
No, I'm good. Hey, Hey, I'm good. Bro.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I know how it is I stay away from I
wear a mask. I got ninety five masks.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Glenn. What are you saying about me? Glenn?
Speaker 8 (19:30):
What what I'm saying is, you know, it's really difficult
to be wrong with all these steps out here, but
I have fall because you got got the numbers wrong
to start with the Lakers on a six game win street,
They're actually three and four, right, And what everybody to
forget is the Lakers get the best that anybody has
(19:50):
on any night.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
They beat San Antonio after.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Winby dropped this night before they've all beat Phoenix Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh we got we lost him all right.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Somebody knocked out his phone that was coming. I don't
know he's in one more. Richard in Arizona. You're on
the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Richard?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Are you Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That did sound like marton wife's phone. That from.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Rich Richard. Are you there your phone?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Man?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Richard? Are you hiding somebody in the closet?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, Richard, we can't hear you. Thanks. What was that?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll tell you what it was, Richard. That's you know,
what's the power to Ryan? When he called, he didn't
sound like that. And then he went into a closet
or something exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, because Rob, I'm telling you what what he happened?
Was he the power of the our couple? His His
wife was like, go Doro, this go through that. He
was like, yeah, i'mnna go do it. He had in
the closet. Let me get this call him quick, Hey,
call it bro. I just want to know he was
in a closet.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
What the heck?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It sounded bad? All right?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Coming up, Kenny Maine, how about that the longtime ESPN anchor.
We'll be doing that.
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Speaker 5 (21:20):
Coming to you live from the tirag dot com studios.
It is your boys, the Odd Couple, Rod Parker kelvin Washington,
on a worship Wednesday. We got a special guest for
you right now, folks. Kenny Maine, longtime ESPN anchor, has
a new documentary, Whiffleball. It's gonna air on Fooboo Sports
on Sunday, November twenty four, three pm Eastern Time. Make
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sure you check it out. It's also going to be
available anytime on demand as well in Foobuo subscription packages.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Kenny, thank you for joining us, man, Kenny Main.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Wow, I'm well. Thank you guys for having me, no.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Doubt appreciate it. Brother.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right, you know we gotta jump right in on this.
The whiffleball.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So where you like the whiffle ball champion of your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
How'd you get into whiffle ball?
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
We grew up with it, you know, from a young age.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Played all day and all night.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
My friend Mark Sansford broke Babe Bruce's home run record
in one summer. He had like eight hundred and seventy
home runs, but some of them were later discounted because
my sister would take us to Value Mark, you know,
to buy the official yellow bat and skinny ball, you know,
and sometimes if she wasn't home, we had to use
like somebody's backup bat, like a fat bat, which was illegal,
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so that's not right, and we threw those out. But I, yeah,
I grew up, you know, football was the one thing
I could do halfway.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
Well.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I played all the other sports, but we played whiffle
ball forever. And then years later, when I got a
little job in Seattle, I was on local news doing
local sports. I got Ken Griffy to show up as
a rookie and we threw whiffle balls together at the
Pacific Saying Center. And so for all these years, I've
had that tape, thirty four or five year old tape
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of me and Griffy throwing football is. Harold Rerounds was
there as well, and I decided to do a really
stupid documentary about what happened that day. Like that's really
the genesis of it. Was sort of a love letter
to you know, everybody's collective childhood. Some people played fickball,
we played wiffleball. But it's kind of the same thing,
you know, pretending to be players. You know, picking your
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favorite team, announcing the game while you play.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That expanses all of that.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yes, we used to make my sisters sing the national
anthem and we've got a fireworks and steal sugar or
flower from my mom's kitchen, you know, on line the bases.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
But yeah, it was a thing.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
It was just you know, part of my childhood and
and then it turns out my adulthood as well.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Wow, I'm actually shocked you're still alive, telling me still
in sugar and fly from mom.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That could have been.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Bad for you, Katie.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You know, hey, let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I mean, you talk about wiffleball being a thing for you,
you said your past and also your president. What do
you make of things kind of making a resurgence like
a whiffle ball or pick a ball start on in
the sixties, now it's a thing. What do you make
of sports that kind of where, you know, maybe things
of our past but now making a resurgence.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, pickleball started kind of in my neighborhood across the
water from Seattle over there in Bainbridge Island, and we're
actually involved in a little pickleball project Molife and I ourselves.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
But whippleball.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
If you look around, there's people holding like legitimate leagues.
There's people streaming in, people watching, you know, other people
play wiffleball, So that one is kind of hung on.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
It's still there.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
You go out to a grocery store or a drug
store or sporting good story is still see the yellow bat.
They make them right here in Connecticut down Route eight.
The family invented it back in the fifties and it's
still a family operation. They sell millions of balls every
year and it's still a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's pretty amazing. Man, is there anything else? Okay? So
is there any age? Will you stop playing?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you're young, you're a kid, you don't play whiffleball right,
You're going to mess up your timing?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Is this?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Do you start playing when you have a beer belly?
When do you start playing with football?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
I don't know, but I remember being schooled by the
little league coaches and then the high school. Can never
ever play wiffleball in the same day as a real
game because it's going to throw off your right thing.
So when we did the whiffle ball throwing thing and
Griffy showed up at nineteen, there's some chance he wasn't
throwing one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
For all I know, he had a game that night.
You know it was August of eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
That's how old I am, and so Griffy was probably
playing that night and stood up for this dumb little
story with me in my little local station. But nonetheless,
in the movie, we play it like we want to
find out the truth of what happened that day. Ken Burns,
the famous documentary maker.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Is involved.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
We've got the head of whiffleball, we've got a UW professor,
So we took the project seriously, but the telling of
it slightly less.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So it's funny that you saying depending on because obviously
it is that famous video or film of Willie May's
playing stickball in the streets of New York right in Harlem,
and then in my neighborhood in Queen's we used to
play what we call tennis ball, which was up against
a wall with a regular baseball bat, but we pitched
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a tennis ball into the box, you know, to the batters.
So it's different depending on where you're from. Did you
play any of o's Did you play stickball or whiffle
ball on in a park? With a tennis ball.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yeah, we played whiffletball for sure, but we also played
the tennis ball game you're talking about where the home
run was off the side of the high school gym
at a certain levels. Under that it was a double
you know ground it was out, And I thought that
was always funny. How whatever one you chose, stickball or
the tennis ball or a whiffletball, everybody had a home park.
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Everybody had different ground rules. Yeah, roughly the same game.
Sometimes it was ghost runners, sometimes it was pitcher's hand,
but it was it was just kids connecting and hanging out.
And that's what people are still doing to day, you know,
doing that or playing pickleball or anything else.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And Kelvin there were no know, Kelvin has three young daughters.
There was no such thing as a playdate. You just
went to the park, right right, Kenny, and to see
if anybody else was down there to play ball.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Hey, don't disrespect this new era, right, Okay, my goodness.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Absolutely true.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I thought somebody put on social media something to the effective.
Was it really true in the eighties the kids did
whatever they want?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Or is that just the movies?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I'm like eighties, try sixties or seventies. That was like
the wild wild West. Were given our bicycle, we'd hit
tr like to the rake. We were all over the
place since very little adult supervision. Maybe they trusted us
so they were trying to teach this responsibility.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
No seatbelts, parents are smoking.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know, yes, it would.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It would.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We're drinking from water hoses. My friends and I on
a Saturday in New York. We'd get on our bikes
at eight o'clock on a Saturday morning and.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Ride all over the city like it was no big deal.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It is so organic now, man, it has to be
who's picking up, who's dropping off, who's doing this?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
We had to have. We just got out with about
a dollar.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Fifty in our pockets and would be out for twelve
hours straight and we all survived. With Kenny, I laughed
because you say, you say our parents trusted as another day,
kN they wanted us to get away.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
From a bit out out the house.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I don't care where you're going. You got sitting in
the house eating up all my food all day.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Right, Hey, Kenny, Kenny, let me ask. Let me throw
this at you.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
You know you have this documentary obviously everybody has all
the streamings and fubos and all these different things. It
seems like sports documentary almost I don't want to say
for a streaming app, like a guarantee, but it seems
to be a massive draw.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Now sports docs. Are you finding that to be the
case too?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Well, it took a minute to get this thing out,
so I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Maybe mine, Maybe mine was no good, Maybe that was
a problem.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
No.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
I mean, I think there's a lot of competition, and
it's also like what category does it even fit in?
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Like I entered a bunch of film festivals and got rejected,
mostly because mine.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Was such a hybrid. You know what is it?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
A short film, a documentary, a comedy and it was
kind of all of them at once. But absolutely people gretching.
My wife is right here. We all the time when
we're home alone, we're like.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Okay, what's on tonight, Let's look at the menu.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
And I think it's one more alternative, especially in the
sports world. The live game is the greatest thing, right
because you have no idea what's going to happen.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
But the second greatest thing, I.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Think is the look back at either key moments or
in this case, a rare moment because nobody's ever heard
of it, but yeah, the appetite is there and the
choices are kind of unlimited. So I'm just hoping enough
people on Fubo who are subscribers, you know, click on
this thing, give it a chance, and hopefully that gets
me toward making the next one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He is again to make sure you check out.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
PA. Hear your boy. Guess man, it's good to hear you, brother.
Wiffle Ball.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
It's going to be airing on Fubo at Sports on Sunday,
November twenty fourth, is Sunday, three pm Eastern Time. Is
also going to be available anytime on demand as part
of Fubo subscription packages. Stream Fubo Sports for free at
Foobo Sports network dot com or on many streaming devices
as well.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Kenny, what's you all the best?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yep, good luck, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
No, prov the great Kenny Maine right there. All right,
we'll see how Rob. Let me look at your face. Rob.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
With Sheko City coming, I'll see how you might's not
a being a Hello darkness, Hi, old friend. We've got
Shecho City on deck. We'll see how that worked out.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
So cool. Rop ah man all right.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
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Speaker 5 (30:47):
It is the I Couple, Rob Parker, kelvin Washington on
a worship Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Sometimes you gotta find a reason to smile.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Right coming to you live from the tyrack dot com
studios Worship Wednesday, right now, Rob Parker.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
It is signed for.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
C two. Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
day dicks against the scrap.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Shekel City had a chance. Remember I was three games under.
I needed three wins to get to to get to
five hundred, and then I would have needed baby oil instead.
I was one and two and one of my losses.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I had the Nets minus two and a half. And
guess what happened in that game?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The Nets won the game, but only by one because
somebody on the hornets at the buzzer pad to put
back the Nets were up by three a midshot and
he put in the putbacker here meet Kelvin.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
That was a lot of people probably kicked their TV
sets because that cost them money because they they would
have covered the two and a half they were up
by three. So anyway, I was one and two. My
record is now sixty four sixty eight and two.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Okay, and yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Best bet tonight I'm taking the Thunder hosting the Blazers
minus twelve and a half. I got the Rockets minus
six and a half hosting the Pacers, and I got
the Warriors minus eight and a half taking on the Hawks.
So Warriors minus eight and a half, Rockets minus six
and a half, and the Thunder minus twelve and a half,
all home favorites. And remember, Kelvin, I'm not telling you
(32:35):
who to bet on. I'm telling you I built one.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And you know what.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Yeah, well I was gonna say, well, see how you do.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
But man, did you get the news about a show
that's been on for twenty three years?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, the changing of the guard is happening in the media.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
If you're I tell my students at USC all the time,
if you're in this business, in the next five to
seven years, complete overhaul and changes, I'm talking about play
by play guys. Yeah, everybody's in their sixties and seventies.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Seriously, the seventies, eighties, sometimes me and you've been talking
about about right, all the guys on television, all these shows.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So in case you didn't hear the news, go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah, just saying if you hadn't heard the news.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
After a twenty three year run, Around the Horn is
gonna be no more.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
They're pushing the mute button on.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Around the Horn has had a highly successful run. It's
been paired right next to PTI during this whole ten uere.
You had Max Kellerman in the bed beginning for a
year or two. Then you had, of course Tony Realley,
who's been doing it ever since, big fan of hooys,
that boy when he first started That Boy on PTI,
and now all of a sudden he's got his own
show and he's been hosting it ever since. So congratulate
(33:50):
him on this run. I don't really you know, it's
it's for the folks who may be employed or who
that part of their livelihood. You feel bad, but twenty
three year run, it's show business, bro. You ain't really,
I ain't nothing to complain about, you know, that's a great,
amazing run.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So I'm gonna say this though there's no way that
PTI is they gotta be next like that.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Oh, I think that still might be a big draw.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I still think like just as you go forward and
the steps and the things that we're seeing in the
television business, you know how old Tony Corniser is.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, I think I looked, think we looked it is
even seventy two or no.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Like seventy eight, like like something like that. I'm gonna
looking up again real quick. But I'm just saying, well,
that is.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
My favorite past for one OF's favorite pastimes is looking
up how old people are. I sit next to you
and you always we've been watching something and you'll.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Go, man, how old is Joe Blow? He said, you
look it up. He's seventy six. So he's closer to
what I said than you. Yeah, he's seventy six years old.
All I'm saying is it's a great run. PTI was
a classic show. As we we start to see, you know,
these networks cut the fat and change things and bringing
(35:06):
younger people make less money.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm just saying, a chance pays is not on television. Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
If I told you that ten years ago he wouldn't
be on television. I'm not so sure you would have thought.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
So, you know what I mean, just retiring, I mean
we're at that age, or it's the combination, just simply
being at that age and also just where media is.
You mentioned I can't have the person on who's been
doing this for twenty years, who I have to pay
all the money to when I can go get a
younger person who's not going to be as good, but
(35:39):
viewing habits aren't the same. I'm not getting those ratings anyway,
so I might as well not have to cash out
on this person.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
So yeah, things are changing, for sure.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It is.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
You know, it's hard.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It's like we're sawing here on the Odd Couple right.
It replaced a fifty five year old Chris Boussar.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I'm just saying, so, then what are.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
You on deck as Martin Wie's up next? But to
knock you out? I mean, what's going to watch it back? Rob?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That would be odd couple lights? So I think, I
wait on that.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
What's out?
Speaker 10 (36:09):
Rob?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
But yeah, it's a great run.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So to me, it's not like it's like, what's so
outside of the being personal to you, meaning if someone
passed at ninety three and that was your grandparents something.
I always feel like, man, somebody ninety some years old,
they got a great run, Like it's it's a really
a celebratory thing too, and that's how it feels. Was
a great celebratory Yeah, great run. So kudos to them.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Just like Eli Manning's career in the NFL. I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
You're right, we're so glad it's over. Oh that's what
you meant. Oh I didn't know that. I'm so glad
it's over. Yeah, we got we gotta school Rob on that.
We'll do it next. It is a couple of Fox
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
Let me welcome in my partner.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
He is Calvin Washington. What's up, Bro? Rob? Hey, Alex,
I need her look Art thiss myle.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Friend, Rob mandown situation, Rob Parker, even be worse than that,
Rob Parker. I'm on my way to work this morning,
going to do the TV show. Try to be quiet
for the household. You know we got guests here, mother
(02:10):
or stepfather.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I missed a step on our wooden stair flight. Wow,
and I went down like Eddie Murphy's Auntie back on delirious.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Hold on, jeez, help me, please, Rob Parker.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I think I'm all right, but there's a chance in
the middle of the show you might say, you know
what I mean, Kevin it, I might be at the doctor, Rob.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's a man now situation into Washington House. So I'm
beat down. I'm sore.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
They kicked me out of TV, they made me go home.
But you know what, I'm here. We mad up, we
pushed through, We persevere, and here I stand, brother.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
My man.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
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to partake in this fine radio program and you will
get better.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Man down, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
A coming up on the show, Kenny Mayne, a longtime
ESPN anchor, has a new documentary about wiffle ball. We'll
talk to him. That's coming up in about twenty six minutes.
Zach Rosenblat, he's a senior writer for The Athletic. He
covers the Jets. That'll be an hour number two and
bre Fox Sports Radio's producer Bri is on the hot seat.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Wow, oh wow, Kaybree.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So Bree is doing her thing and we can't wait.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So there we go. Let's welcome in the odd couple
crew because you wouldn't be able to do this fine
radio program without him. On this Worship Wednesday, Ryan is
our producer. And for Rob G who still has time
with the new baby, baby time, Yeah, of course, yes,
that's Rob G's doing a lot of that changing diapers.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Oh yes he is.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
No, do you talk to a baby when it's an
infant days old? Yes? Baby talk? Baby talk? It's a
one that you can walk now does that work?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Not quite like that, but you do talk to listen,
don't be Google. You got guy in your baby should
or don't even sound like you? Sounded like a turkey.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Little gig ye Rob rob Gee's baby would be like
Turkey Turkey. I need baby oil. The baby needs baby oil.
To moisturize the babysit.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
That is true. Although baby jail is better than baby oil.
That's a side. No, put that on the side. Baby
jail a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, but baby oil is only ninety nine cents, so
I'm doing the baby oil.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Sorry baby.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, oh so he only spent a thousand dollars, did he?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's right? All right? Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Monty Bolonos is of course at the anchor Dano's Bolanos,
and she'll keep us updated throughout the program. And of
course Elijah is our social media guru.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, are you ready to get started?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Did I say, Alex engineer? I can't even believe that.
I like, I got distracted too. I actually got audio
of Kelvin after he fell and you don't even introduce me,
you know what. Unbelievable. That's okay, Ron, you want to
hear real quick.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, I'm falling and I can't get off. There you go.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
It was a man down situation, Alex. You said you
don't partake in people's misery. You don't laugh in that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Actually that is funny.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Man down.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
That was my household. You really want to left? Mama
Dove came flying up?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Are you, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I had to act like I was like, no, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But the best part is, and you won't admit it,
your daughter, who's the youngest daughter.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
What's your youngest is Chris Carris.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, And then at the top of the stairs, her
little foot was out.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You know what I mean, you didn't give me that
lollipop last night. I'll figure you out. I'll fix your
have a little.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Nice day at work.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Alright, man, crazy, all right, let's start with some NBA
I don't know about you. I know you're the biggest
Laker Lebron Homer and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Look, the Lakers are going to the NBA Finals. They
just won six games in a row.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They beat the Salt Lake City, the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I'm saying, they know jazz in there, Johnny Colchrey, ronrod
is Grave, they talk about the jazz.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
They know jazz in Utah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The Utah Jazz used to be the New Orleans Jazz
before they move.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But you don't even know about that. I remember when
they moved.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But anyway, Pistol Pete was there, Pistol Pete Maravich. But anyway,
the Lakers six wins in a row.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
JJ Redick is a genius.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Lebron has taken the fountain of youth, drink a d
has gone to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Feel good.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I mean like they got rookies who can play, rookies
who we haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I mean, they got everything going. The Lakers are.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
The real deal, right. Here's the thing. They the real deal. Ish.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The trouble is, Ron, we can't call them the real
deal because they're oning four on the road.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
That you can't be the real deal and go on
the road and lose and lose to some not some
great not so great.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Thought they were one and four in the road.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Was it one and four?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Maybe it's one and four, But you can't be going
on the road. You know, I love my pistons, but
you can't lose beat Toronto.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That's the one.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, wha, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You know I'm giving them giving them there one win,
giving them one road win, you know, lebronco.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah, Lebron gonna beat Lebronto. That's what he called. They
call it Lebronto. But that's the issue right now, is
they're feasting at home. And listen, if somebody would have
say to the Lakers, all eighty two games we're gonna
be in the NBA Cup or formerly known as the
n Season Tournament. Boy, they will be kicking all the
button the league nine to zero in the tournaments since
(07:46):
it started last season. They don't lose, so they just
keep that mind said that, hey Nteason Tournament NBA Cup
is going down. Boy, they would be an amazing team.
But no, they look good. They look good. It's it's uh,
it's early right now. Anthony Davis is for the most
part been spectacular. They're getting some great minutes out of
Dolt and Kaneck. You might want to start playing him
(08:07):
a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
But the issue is.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Again, we've seen this before, Rob, We've seen this before,
the same looking out the break, looking solid, looking good
the last few seasons. Then they start to lose and
have or at least be just sub five hundred, and
you're like, ah, here we go again, six seven, eight,
nine seed in the West.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
So I'm not buying it quite yet. I do like
this team.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I told you if they get in the postseason, they're
gonna be trouble because the two man game.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
If they get into tournament, that means are gonna win
are they going to the West.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
That means that are not.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
There's not a team in the Western Conference that, if
I'm the Lakers, worries me. That makes me go oho,
like we can't beat them. Denver is the only team that,
for whatever reason, gives them a mismatchup nightmare. But there's
no team that makes.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Me Dallas mavericks Dallas. They got their own big two.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Well they can be because what he brings on the
other end, he being Anthony Davis. The two man game
of Anthony Davis and Lebron seven game series is hard
to beat. That is hard to beat. That's why they
snuck into the Western Conference finals a couple of years ago.
That's why I believe if they didn't run up to
Denver so early, they might have did it again last
(09:21):
year now, but.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They got to play who's in front of them. And
here's my only problem. The Lakers are fugaysey. At this
point of the NBA season, they were a three dollars bill.
If I had to touch the Lakers, I'd have to
wash my hands, Okay, because something stinks.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Look at who they've beaten.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think only one team has a record over five hundred,
which is Memphis at eight and seven, but they haven't
beaten anybody this six game winning streak. And I know
you got to play who's in front of you, but
you can't really judge a team based off of a
soft spot in the schedule because when you look at it,
you talked about the road trip, they it didn't look
(10:00):
like world beaters.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Then they didn't, didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
They come home right and they beat Philadelphia terrible, Toronto terrible,
Memphis eight and seven.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The Spurs, uh.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Not around five hundred maybe under the New Orleans Pelicans
under five hundred Utah, Utah is what two and ten
or eleven or two and twelve, whatever they are. So
when you look at these wins, and I'm not saying
pile them up, but I'm not buying into like the
Lakers have turned the corner and JJ Redick is a
(10:35):
g If you don't beat these teams in the NBA,
who are you beating?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah, I think it's too early to really jump out
and say their world beaters.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I like look in, I like don't connect.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I like the way JJ Redick is utilizing him and
actually kind of looking at him and as like a
junior JJ Reddick saying Hey, let that thing fly. So
I'm not mad at that. But again, as much as
I lecked this team, you know I'm Lebron fan, it's
too early to deem them any thing right now because
you want to see how they get on a nice road.
I need twenty five thirty games to say all right now.
(11:07):
You know they're twenty two and eight balling out. They
got a great rotation going. I like this. It's too
early right now, and they're not doing what the Detroit
Lions do. I know it's a different sport, but the
Detroit Lions, they're beating any and everybody. If it's a
bad team, get beat down. If it's a good team,
get beat down. And the Lakers are not even being
the bad teams right now. So I can't give them
(11:29):
for lay. I can't give them real deal. As much
as I would like to, I can't do that yet.
We'll give it a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, it's I'm just not buying into them, not yet.
And the last couple of years that the Lakers make
the playoffs, there's always on the they got to do the.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Play in, which is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
With the two guys who keep talking about and that's
not Indeed, why should they be in the play in
It doesn't even make any sense, does it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's the key part.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
If Anthony Davis and if it was a fifth, we'd
all be drunk.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
But if he's healthy, let's say he takes the same
rout of last year, play seventy something plus games.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
The Lebron's gonna give you what he's given you.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
But if a dog connect looks this good, and if also,
you know, you get an Austin's doing what he does
and DiAngelo can stay semi consistent, He's never gonna be consistent.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's just dan Angelo Russell.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
At this point, they'll they'll be a tough team again
to because there's no real I know Golden State looks good,
but I don't I can play against him if I'm
the If I'm the Lakers, they have no size, so
we're gonna absolutely just pound them in the paint. That's
what I would be thinking. If I'm the Lakers against
the Golden State words. I don't buy Phoenix yet. I
don't buy that yet. We've seen this before. When it
(12:42):
comes down to crunch time, who gets the ball? What
are they gonna do? I don't buy Phoenix yet. They
look good. I don't buy it yet.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And here's the other thing too, Where the Lakers defensively?
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're ranked twenty third, just ahead of the bulls in
the nets that.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Ain't good like this?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Who i'ms a twenty third defensive team rating? So they
are not a good defensive team, not at this point.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
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the Lakers? They got a six game winning streak. Pop
the champagne, drink the wine and Lebron's barbershaw is a reason.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
To feel good about the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Where they are? Do you like this team? Are they
going to the NBA Finals? Are they blay? Are they
blooney or fala blay like that?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Are they blaz Are they Bologney or Flay?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
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Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, happy birthday to Kennedy. Rob.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
We're talking about the Lakers real deal or not blooney
or for la. How you feel the bottom? You're liking
what you're seeing or eh no yet? Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
we got all.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Right, let's kick it off with Alex and Fresno. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Alex,
hey man, big friend of you, guys like you, like
I was telling negotiates you brother.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
I agree with Rob. They're for gazy.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I said, look, it took this rookie monster.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Game and lebron n ad and he beat a terrible.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Team by six terrible.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
We an't they gonna play against the good teams like nah,
they were fine.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
They're like the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too much.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
But cowboys, I get your point, I mean, and uh,
first of all.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
You can't get his point. They went to the Western
Conference finals two season. They want to ring twenty twenty,
the coach said, coach, they said it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That didn't matter, and neither did winning them the couple
whatever they calling it now that the n season respect
the NBA couple.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
It doesn't matter. But you got it, Hey say with.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Me, n B I'll never do that like that.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That watch happens in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Rob Okay Mark good nice, nice that and the two nine.
You'll get you on the New York subway. I got you.
Look at you, my boy? Right Mark in North Carolina,
you're in the yard couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Mark? What's up?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Fellas?
Speaker 9 (16:24):
I think they're in between A file A and uh.
But they're definitely not who gazy? They played good teams,
just like they said. They only went by six last night,
but they had a big lead on the team last
night and known that Westcoat on the East Coast trip
a D missed a couple of.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Games and they lost to the Pistons. Come on, man,
if somethings are good, by the way, though.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Much better than we thought, by the way, who please
tell me who in the who is killing right now?
It's only it's only Cleveland, and then you have the
Celtics and there a game behind the Celtics. You can
only play who who's.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
In front of you.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
They look just as good as anybody, just like you
were saying that, definitely nobody in the what scares you?
They can be anybody aside from maybe Denver.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Why you keep saying that nobody scharedule except for Denver?
They have to get through Denver at some point, don't they?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah? But I mean if I see him at the right.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Point Minnesota, not never out last year.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Do you know you're saying that that that Luca and
Kyrie are nothing?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
They don't worry?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
What are you saying that they have a losing record
right now?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, I'm just asking you. But did they get to
didn't they get to the finals.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
But that's okay, they got to the f Anybody can
make the finals.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, you're right, because the Lakers made it in twenty twenty,
so anybody can make the finals.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Mark, Thank you, you're a Mark is all in. I
just that Mark just asked me for change for a
three dollar bill. I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
What else we got. Mark wasn't wrong what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Andre in Massachusetts, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
What's up, Dreight?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (17:53):
How you doing? Thanks for taking a cost As far
as the Lakers are concerned. For me, it's still playing
tournament on three. I like what I'm saying from his
kid Dalton's net that people passed on largely based on
his age, you know, he's NBA ready, He's then he's
a flame thrower. He plays for a flame throwing coach
and JJ Redick scheme and things up for him. But
the bottom line with the Lakers is they're just not
going to be healthy over the course of the season.
(18:14):
They're starting off the journey good. You know, everything is
rose is, you know, but we know Lebron and ad
are going to be in the same situation that Joe
l embiid. You know, some of the other people in
the in the Eastern Conference are over the course of
the year. So you have to ask yourself for these
young guns going to be able to carry them in
a competitive Western conference. I say no. Second second, their
point is a lot of teams in the West are
(18:35):
building and growing back into themselves. Memphis getting used to
John Moran, Minnesota getting used to Julius Randall being back,
the Sacramento Kings getting used to Martin Rosen being back.
So I think second half of the year, those teams
will hit their stride and the Lakers will kind of
fall back. I love the story. I'm not who pulling
the Lakers in any way, shape or form, but I
just think realistically they're not a top tier team in the.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
West over the long I don't know if I believe.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Crazy Ray. Thanks for the callup.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Hey, Glenn in Hawaii, you're on the odd couple Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What's up, Glenn?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Aloha fellas, Aloha Heloha, mister. I wanted to caution you that,
you know, being a Laker, hated ry, contagious.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Don't let mister Parker throw you off.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
No, I'm good. Hey, Hey, I'm good. Bro.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I know how it is I stay away from I
wear a mask. I got ninety five masks.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Glenn. What are you saying about me? Glenn?
Speaker 8 (19:30):
What what I'm saying is, you know, it's really difficult
to be wrong with all these steps out here, but
I have fall because you got got the numbers wrong
to start with the Lakers on a six game win street,
They're actually three and four, right, And what everybody to
forget is the Lakers get the best that anybody has
(19:50):
on any night.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
They beat San Antonio after.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Winby dropped this night before they've all beat Phoenix Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh we got we lost him all right.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Somebody knocked out his phone that was coming. I don't
know he's in one more. Richard in Arizona. You're on
the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Richard?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Are you Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That did sound like marton wife's phone. That from.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Rich Richard. Are you there your phone?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Man?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Richard? Are you hiding somebody in the closet?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, Richard, we can't hear you. Thanks. What was that?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll tell you what it was, Richard. That's you know,
what's the power to Ryan? When he called, he didn't
sound like that. And then he went into a closet
or something exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, because Rob, I'm telling you what what he happened?
Was he the power of the our couple? His His
wife was like, go Doro, this go through that. He
was like, yeah, i'mnna go do it. He had in
the closet. Let me get this call him quick, Hey,
call it bro. I just want to know he was
in a closet.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
What the heck?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It sounded bad? All right?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Coming up, Kenny Maine, how about that the longtime ESPN anchor.
We'll be doing that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
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Speaker 5 (21:20):
Coming to you live from the tirag dot com studios.
It is your boys, the Odd Couple, Rod Parker kelvin Washington,
on a worship Wednesday. We got a special guest for
you right now, folks. Kenny Maine, longtime ESPN anchor, has
a new documentary, Whiffleball. It's gonna air on Fooboo Sports
on Sunday, November twenty four, three pm Eastern Time. Make
(21:40):
sure you check it out. It's also going to be
available anytime on demand as well in Foobuo subscription packages.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Kenny, thank you for joining us, man, Kenny Main.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Wow, I'm well. Thank you guys for having me, no.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Doubt appreciate it. Brother.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right, you know we gotta jump right in on this.
The whiffleball.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So where you like the whiffle ball champion of your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
How'd you get into whiffle ball?
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
We grew up with it, you know, from a young age.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Played all day and all night.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
My friend Mark Sansford broke Babe Bruce's home run record
in one summer. He had like eight hundred and seventy
home runs, but some of them were later discounted because
my sister would take us to Value Mark, you know,
to buy the official yellow bat and skinny ball, you know,
and sometimes if she wasn't home, we had to use
like somebody's backup bat, like a fat bat, which was illegal,
(22:30):
so that's not right, and we threw those out. But I, yeah,
I grew up, you know, football was the one thing
I could do halfway.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
Well.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I played all the other sports, but we played whiffle
ball forever. And then years later, when I got a
little job in Seattle, I was on local news doing
local sports. I got Ken Griffy to show up as
a rookie and we threw whiffle balls together at the
Pacific Saying Center. And so for all these years, I've
had that tape, thirty four or five year old tape
(22:58):
of me and Griffy throwing football is. Harold Rerounds was
there as well, and I decided to do a really
stupid documentary about what happened that day. Like that's really
the genesis of it. Was sort of a love letter
to you know, everybody's collective childhood. Some people played fickball,
we played wiffleball. But it's kind of the same thing,
you know, pretending to be players. You know, picking your
(23:20):
favorite team, announcing the game while you play.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That expanses all of that.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yes, we used to make my sisters sing the national
anthem and we've got a fireworks and steal sugar or
flower from my mom's kitchen, you know, on line the bases.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
But yeah, it was a thing.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
It was just you know, part of my childhood and
and then it turns out my adulthood as well.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Wow, I'm actually shocked you're still alive, telling me still
in sugar and fly from mom.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That could have been.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Bad for you, Katie.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You know, hey, let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I mean, you talk about wiffleball being a thing for you,
you said your past and also your president. What do
you make of things kind of making a resurgence like
a whiffle ball or pick a ball start on in
the sixties, now it's a thing. What do you make
of sports that kind of where, you know, maybe things
of our past but now making a resurgence.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, pickleball started kind of in my neighborhood across the
water from Seattle over there in Bainbridge Island, and we're
actually involved in a little pickleball project Molife and I ourselves.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
But whippleball.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
If you look around, there's people holding like legitimate leagues.
There's people streaming in, people watching, you know, other people
play wiffleball, So that one is kind of hung on.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
It's still there.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
You go out to a grocery store or a drug
store or sporting good story is still see the yellow bat.
They make them right here in Connecticut down Route eight.
The family invented it back in the fifties and it's
still a family operation. They sell millions of balls every
year and it's still a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's pretty amazing. Man, is there anything else? Okay? So
is there any age? Will you stop playing?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you're young, you're a kid, you don't play whiffleball right,
You're going to mess up your timing?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Is this?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Do you start playing when you have a beer belly?
When do you start playing with football?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
I don't know, but I remember being schooled by the
little league coaches and then the high school. Can never
ever play wiffleball in the same day as a real
game because it's going to throw off your right thing.
So when we did the whiffle ball throwing thing and
Griffy showed up at nineteen, there's some chance he wasn't
throwing one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
For all I know, he had a game that night.
You know it was August of eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
That's how old I am, and so Griffy was probably
playing that night and stood up for this dumb little
story with me in my little local station. But nonetheless,
in the movie, we play it like we want to
find out the truth of what happened that day. Ken Burns,
the famous documentary maker.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Is involved.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
We've got the head of whiffleball, we've got a UW professor,
So we took the project seriously, but the telling of
it slightly less.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So it's funny that you saying depending on because obviously
it is that famous video or film of Willie May's
playing stickball in the streets of New York right in Harlem,
and then in my neighborhood in Queen's we used to
play what we call tennis ball, which was up against
a wall with a regular baseball bat, but we pitched
(26:16):
a tennis ball into the box, you know, to the batters.
So it's different depending on where you're from. Did you
play any of o's Did you play stickball or whiffle
ball on in a park? With a tennis ball.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yeah, we played whiffletball for sure, but we also played
the tennis ball game you're talking about where the home
run was off the side of the high school gym
at a certain levels. Under that it was a double
you know ground it was out, And I thought that
was always funny. How whatever one you chose, stickball or
the tennis ball or a whiffletball, everybody had a home park.
(26:49):
Everybody had different ground rules. Yeah, roughly the same game.
Sometimes it was ghost runners, sometimes it was pitcher's hand,
but it was it was just kids connecting and hanging out.
And that's what people are still doing to day, you know,
doing that or playing pickleball or anything else.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And Kelvin there were no know, Kelvin has three young daughters.
There was no such thing as a playdate. You just
went to the park, right right, Kenny, and to see
if anybody else was down there to play ball.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Hey, don't disrespect this new era, right, Okay, my goodness.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Absolutely true.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I thought somebody put on social media something to the effective.
Was it really true in the eighties the kids did
whatever they want?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Or is that just the movies?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I'm like eighties, try sixties or seventies. That was like
the wild wild West. Were given our bicycle, we'd hit
tr like to the rake. We were all over the
place since very little adult supervision. Maybe they trusted us
so they were trying to teach this responsibility.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
No seatbelts, parents are smoking.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know, yes, it would.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It would.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We're drinking from water hoses. My friends and I on
a Saturday in New York. We'd get on our bikes
at eight o'clock on a Saturday morning and.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Ride all over the city like it was no big deal.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It is so organic now, man, it has to be
who's picking up, who's dropping off, who's doing this?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
We had to have. We just got out with about
a dollar.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Fifty in our pockets and would be out for twelve
hours straight and we all survived. With Kenny, I laughed
because you say, you say our parents trusted as another day,
kN they wanted us to get away.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
From a bit out out the house.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I don't care where you're going. You got sitting in
the house eating up all my food all day.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Right, Hey, Kenny, Kenny, let me ask. Let me throw
this at you.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
You know you have this documentary obviously everybody has all
the streamings and fubos and all these different things. It
seems like sports documentary almost I don't want to say
for a streaming app, like a guarantee, but it seems
to be a massive draw.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Now sports docs. Are you finding that to be the
case too?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Well, it took a minute to get this thing out,
so I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Maybe mine, Maybe mine was no good, Maybe that was
a problem.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
No.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
I mean, I think there's a lot of competition, and
it's also like what category does it even fit in?
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Like I entered a bunch of film festivals and got rejected,
mostly because mine.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Was such a hybrid. You know what is it?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
A short film, a documentary, a comedy and it was
kind of all of them at once. But absolutely people gretching.
My wife is right here. We all the time when
we're home alone, we're like.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Okay, what's on tonight, Let's look at the menu.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
And I think it's one more alternative, especially in the
sports world. The live game is the greatest thing, right
because you have no idea what's going to happen.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
But the second greatest thing, I.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Think is the look back at either key moments or
in this case, a rare moment because nobody's ever heard
of it, but yeah, the appetite is there and the
choices are kind of unlimited. So I'm just hoping enough
people on Fubo who are subscribers, you know, click on
this thing, give it a chance, and hopefully that gets
me toward making the next one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He is again to make sure you check out.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
PA. Hear your boy. Guess man, it's good to hear you, brother.
Wiffle Ball.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
It's going to be airing on Fubo at Sports on Sunday,
November twenty fourth, is Sunday, three pm Eastern Time. Is
also going to be available anytime on demand as part
of Fubo subscription packages. Stream Fubo Sports for free at
Foobo Sports network dot com or on many streaming devices
as well.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Kenny, what's you all the best?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yep, good luck, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
No, prov the great Kenny Maine right there. All right,
we'll see how Rob. Let me look at your face. Rob.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
With Sheko City coming, I'll see how you might's not
a being a Hello darkness, Hi, old friend. We've got
Shecho City on deck. We'll see how that worked out.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
So cool. Rop ah man all right.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
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Speaker 5 (30:47):
It is the I Couple, Rob Parker, kelvin Washington on
a worship Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Sometimes you gotta find a reason to smile.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Right coming to you live from the tyrack dot com
studios Worship Wednesday, right now, Rob Parker.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
It is signed for.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
C two. Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
day dicks against the scrap.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Shekel City had a chance. Remember I was three games under.
I needed three wins to get to to get to
five hundred, and then I would have needed baby oil instead.
I was one and two and one of my losses.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I had the Nets minus two and a half. And
guess what happened in that game?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The Nets won the game, but only by one because
somebody on the hornets at the buzzer pad to put
back the Nets were up by three a midshot and
he put in the putbacker here meet Kelvin.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
That was a lot of people probably kicked their TV
sets because that cost them money because they they would
have covered the two and a half they were up
by three. So anyway, I was one and two. My
record is now sixty four sixty eight and two.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Okay, and yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Best bet tonight I'm taking the Thunder hosting the Blazers
minus twelve and a half. I got the Rockets minus
six and a half hosting the Pacers, and I got
the Warriors minus eight and a half taking on the Hawks.
So Warriors minus eight and a half, Rockets minus six
and a half, and the Thunder minus twelve and a half,
all home favorites. And remember, Kelvin, I'm not telling you
(32:35):
who to bet on. I'm telling you I built one.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And you know what.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Yeah, well I was gonna say, well, see how you do.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
But man, did you get the news about a show
that's been on for twenty three years?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, the changing of the guard is happening in the media.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
If you're I tell my students at USC all the time,
if you're in this business, in the next five to
seven years, complete overhaul and changes, I'm talking about play
by play guys. Yeah, everybody's in their sixties and seventies.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Seriously, the seventies, eighties, sometimes me and you've been talking
about about right, all the guys on television, all these shows.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So in case you didn't hear the news, go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah, just saying if you hadn't heard the news.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
After a twenty three year run, Around the Horn is
gonna be no more.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
They're pushing the mute button on.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Around the Horn has had a highly successful run. It's
been paired right next to PTI during this whole ten uere.
You had Max Kellerman in the bed beginning for a
year or two. Then you had, of course Tony Realley,
who's been doing it ever since, big fan of hooys,
that boy when he first started That Boy on PTI,
and now all of a sudden he's got his own
show and he's been hosting it ever since. So congratulate
(33:50):
him on this run. I don't really you know, it's
it's for the folks who may be employed or who
that part of their livelihood. You feel bad, but twenty
three year run, it's show business, bro. You ain't really,
I ain't nothing to complain about, you know, that's a great,
amazing run.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So I'm gonna say this though there's no way that
PTI is they gotta be next like that.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Oh, I think that still might be a big draw.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I still think like just as you go forward and
the steps and the things that we're seeing in the
television business, you know how old Tony Corniser is.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, I think I looked, think we looked it is
even seventy two or no.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Like seventy eight, like like something like that. I'm gonna
looking up again real quick. But I'm just saying, well,
that is.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
My favorite past for one OF's favorite pastimes is looking
up how old people are. I sit next to you
and you always we've been watching something and you'll.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Go, man, how old is Joe Blow? He said, you
look it up. He's seventy six. So he's closer to
what I said than you. Yeah, he's seventy six years old.
All I'm saying is it's a great run. PTI was
a classic show. As we we start to see, you know,
these networks cut the fat and change things and bringing
(35:06):
younger people make less money.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm just saying, a chance pays is not on television. Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
If I told you that ten years ago he wouldn't
be on television. I'm not so sure you would have thought.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
So, you know what I mean, just retiring, I mean
we're at that age, or it's the combination, just simply
being at that age and also just where media is.
You mentioned I can't have the person on who's been
doing this for twenty years, who I have to pay
all the money to when I can go get a
younger person who's not going to be as good, but
(35:39):
viewing habits aren't the same. I'm not getting those ratings anyway,
so I might as well not have to cash out
on this person.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
So yeah, things are changing, for sure.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It is.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
You know, it's hard.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It's like we're sawing here on the Odd Couple right.
It replaced a fifty five year old Chris Boussar.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I'm just saying, so, then what are.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
You on deck as Martin Wie's up next? But to
knock you out? I mean, what's going to watch it back? Rob?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That would be odd couple lights? So I think, I
wait on that.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
What's out?
Speaker 10 (36:09):
Rob?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
But yeah, it's a great run.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So to me, it's not like it's like, what's so
outside of the being personal to you, meaning if someone
passed at ninety three and that was your grandparents something.
I always feel like, man, somebody ninety some years old,
they got a great run, Like it's it's a really
a celebratory thing too, and that's how it feels. Was
a great celebratory Yeah, great run. So kudos to them.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Just like Eli Manning's career in the NFL. I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
You're right, we're so glad it's over. Oh that's what
you meant. Oh I didn't know that. I'm so glad
it's over. Yeah, we got we gotta school Rob on that.
We'll do it next. It is a couple of Fox
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