September 25, 2024 • 37 mins
Rob and Kelvin use Brett Favre’s recent Parkinson’s diagnosis as a backdrop to discuss whether the inherent risk of injury is worth all the money and glory that comes from playing in the NFL, tell us if the WNBA needs to do a better job marketing Caitlin Clark, explain why the Los Angeles Dodgers game-ending triple-play Tuesday night against the San Diego Padres feels like a bad omen and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.
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(02:05):
As the baseball season melts down, those only five games
or so left, the Mets Brave Series has already been
washed out for the next two days.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And here's the crazy part.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
If if they need to play those games, which they
do because they're vying for a wildcard spot, they would
play on Monday, and it might be a doubleheader. There's
no other extra space, you know, the way that it's
set up now, So they'd have to play a double
header on maybe Monday to determine who's making it in
or not.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And then you got to play the next day or whatever.
The wildcard.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's crazy either a built in great dramatic story if
you win, you know you keep winning. Look what we
endure it or the built in excuse. Man, we would
have played better had not been four. But I also
didn't know you were such a man of the weather.
You really had some issues, Like you're about to make
me call Autumn robertson my homegirl. You know a specter
(03:00):
who I work with in the morning show. There are Sally,
how the meal you were getting you? You feel you
upset about the weather? You flipped over tables mad at
the Weather channel.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
No, I'm just like they're talking about the storm, the hurricane.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What is it? Helene? Yeah, Helena, Helena in Florida.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
But I want to know, should I like, which friends
of mine in Florida can I call?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Is it near Miami? Is it near Tampa? Is it
near Jackson? I need to know, like what area is it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
All?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's all of Florida?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So yeah, Also, you know you don't have to literally
closer to you don't have to my friend coming, so
it's coming from the south west side of it. If
you want me to go full meter allogis on you,
but my question followed out for the next five days.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, yet, so what it's gonna be?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Basically, you see the circumference of the sir Clonian coming
from the south. All right, why are you cherry picking
your friends?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Why can't you just reach out to them? All was
going to reach out, but you weren't in the Panhandle.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
If you're but if you're not in the storm's way,
why what am I calling you about?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
The Maybe I haven't heard from you in a while. No,
maybe you could just say, hey, what's up, Carol?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
They all this up? How you been? Everybody good?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know, it doesn't have to be a tragedy in
order for you to reach out to people, right, but.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What about your travels?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Somehow? Listen? Rob G said it best.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know what Vin Diesel is all about in The
Fast and Furious, Right, he's a what.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Is it all about? Rob G? About family?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's that was actually really good. Let me find out
you doing Vin Diesel? So I'm all about you, rob
I'm all about rob G. I'm all about Sam, I'm
all about Brian, I'm all about the dedication to this show.
So I may or may not have been riding talking
to Robbi, and all of a sudden there's accident, accident, accident,
and I may or may not have went reverse on
(04:48):
and on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hypothetically not saying that I did, but I may or
may not have went full on vin Diesel and got
here for you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So never question my loyalty to the family. Too fast,
too furious, and you made it. All right.
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All right, let's uh, let's go here, let's start here.
(05:40):
We got some football. So Aaron Rodgers was asked about
the Brett Favre revelation that he has Parkinson's and that
he was diagnosed in January.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Remember, I was just gonna say, you're questioning when that
when it all came down.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Because it just seemed the way he slipped it out there.
January is a long time ago, nobody knew, and he
used the opportunity of being in front of the ways
and means a committee to let everybody know. Yeah, and
we thought about it. It was strategic and for sympathy
and all that. And we're just horrible, you know what
I mean. He's a young guy and to be going
(06:21):
through that. But rob g do we have sound of
Do we have sound of Aaron Rodgers? Here he is
talking about Brett Farre's diagnosis.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Yes, it's tough, feel bad for him and Deanna, but
it's it's unfortunately part of our game. That's part of
the risk of playing. And we all in the back
of our mind know that that could be a reality
at some point. We just kind of hope medicine at
some point can catch up and and either make the
symptoms easier or eradicate some of these issues that we have.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
And there it is. It's all about now. And he
brought it up. In the back of your head, back
of your mind, you know that there's something serious there
with football that could affect you long term. Kelvin, how
many fifty five year old football players have dropped dead.
(07:11):
Junior Seau committed suicide. The list is unbelievable of the stuff.
And then there's other guys who swear by football. We
had e from Salamo on the other day, played thirteen
fourteen years in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Guess what he won't let his two boys do play
football play football.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
And there are plenty of other football players who I've
talked to said if it comes down to my kids, no,
thank you, I'll do it. I did it. It helped
our lives and made it easier. We made money, whatever,
We have a nice life. But what I let my
kids do?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That know?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
And so this is always interesting because I get it
like football is like being in a car wreck every
thirty second.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It is a dangerous, dangerous thing.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
The reason I didn't get to play football was my mom,
I don't want you to be paralyzed, because that back then,
it wasn't about CTE. It wasn't about it was about
high school kids being paralyized getting hit, right, And that's
what she said. She said, I just you could do
anything else. I do not want you to play football.
(08:19):
I want to be a wide receiver. I'm six foot tall,
you know what I mean, My hands are pretty good,
and that's what I really want to do. I want
to be a wide receiver. She wanted to know people
having it where you want the football? I know you
played basketball? Did you play football? No, it's so funny.
So I played obviously, just around the neighborhood. Was obviously
was really fast and pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Then I went to go play finally, and I just
remember being like, Nah, this ain't for me in the
in the actual structure way. So I just stuck the
basketball and a little bit of tennis. That's the story
for another day. Looking back, I wish I would have
played more, which is one of the great and challenging
things of being a parent nowadays because kids do so much.
It's an uncomfortable conversation when we have this because at
(09:04):
what point, you know when you remember when we ember
when the Four Letters used to have the like countdown show,
and they would have that segment like checked Up, and
they would just show guys getting laid out right, getting
hit helmet to helmet, concussed maybe like literally going into
convulsions on the ground. Like we were like, we loved it.
We were like, yeah, it was feeding our appetite.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
When I was a kid to Darryl Stingley being paralyzed
like you like that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You could never unsee.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That, you know, all the Ronnie Lott hits that we
would we love then that you'd be like ooh now.
And so because with information, you know, now that we
have it, you view these things differently. So I think
now that we look at it, we as the fan,
as the consumer, have all made a decision. All Right,
I know what can happen, I know the the trauma
it could cause, but I've decided to still consume and
(09:53):
watch and go to the games by NFL ticket you know,
uh talk about it, do fantasy football, gamble on it.
So we've all just just got to accepted, Hey, these
athletes are putting themselves in harm's way for all of
our enjoyment. But what's interesting about it. You mentioned the
athletes not letting their kids play it, But and we said,
I still haven't found an ex football player who said
(10:15):
he wouldn't do it again. And it's not just simply
based off of you know, the money, that's a huge thing.
It's also man, they talk about that glory. Man, you're
walking out to sixty seventy in college, one hundred thousand people.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But you know what's crazy though.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I get all that, but it was interesting when Kyler Murray,
the first player ever in the history of sports, drafted
the first round of baseball and football. Never been done.
I mean, think about how long these games have been around,
never been done. That's what kind of athlete he is.
And the weird part was all of the guys who
(10:51):
played both football and baseball. I'm talking about even Dion
Sandra Huh said if to Kyler Murray, if you could
pick one, you should pick baseball. Yeah, And I thought
that was interesting that they all said, if you could
play baseball at a high level and be like a
star at it, you should play baseball.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Souse.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You can play twenty years everybody and you don't have
the same wear and tear in the body.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I get that, but it sounds cute.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But aside from two or three players, all we talk
about is Shoe hal Tani and Aaron Judge and maybe
one other player here there, Mookie bats or whomever. Right football,
we're talking about all thirty two quarterbacks because either you
suck or you're great. We're talking about the deva receiver
we're talking about, Mike.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That's a modern thing.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, no, no, I'm not even gonna let you because
because that's just that's just because that doesn't mean like
like the popularity of the sport because of it.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
It's because of gambling. And I think you got to
own up to the gambling aspect. The reason you know
a lot of the players is because you have a
fantasy league and you know who they are because you
gamble with them.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I don't agree with that. Yes it is. I don't
agree with that.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
That's when that's when that's when the NFL got really popular.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'm not because of fantasy football. No, it's because it's
because it's the biggest sport. It's the glory sport. It's
the sport your natural Neanderthal and all of us enjoy Baseball.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Listen, I know I'm sitting next to it. I know
how you feel about baseball. I gotta give you the numbers.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Baseball, so seventy million, the exact same seventy million.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
They have the same fan They don't expand they don't grow.
You can look at the numbers. How could you not
grow if you have seventy million? Because it's the same
seventy comings. It's not literally seventy million the average baseball fan.
Do you know how they are?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
No, fifty four, that's not that's it's the last time
you've actually been to the ballpark.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I don't know stuff. But have you been to a
ball No, that doesn't mean there's not a kid there.
But what I'm saying is baseball is nobody.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
See. This is why Rogerie Turner and Mike so this is.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Because you just starting to take you start taking it personally.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No, it's misinformation. It is not misinformation. It's misinformation.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mike Trout is arguably the best baseball player the last
decade or so. Mike Trout outside the topic, Mike Trout
can walk around every city in America excluding and even
La and no one will know my we.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Talk about you watch, we watch NFL TV commercials. They
all have jerseys on because they got to be able
to tell you. Most of the guys on the offensive
line of defense, you don't even know who they are.
Most of the players except for a wide receiver or
quarterback you don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Kidding you doing? But I can name three baseball players.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Michael Parsons could walk in walking down the street and
you wouldn't know who he was unless somebody.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Told you or you looked at his side track always
looks like a football player. That's the oldest argument I've
ever heard.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Listen, I'm not saying every team has two stars that
people will know.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
What I'm saying is football is king. We know that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Was no, because you're arguing why Kyler Murray, the who
wouldn't want to be a star quarterback?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's what I want to do telling you that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
No, but Deon Sanders, James, but Gion Sanders, who is
a Hall of Fame football player, said he should play baseball.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He finishes amazing. But that's what I'm saying. And what
he saying, what does that say? What did he know?
He said, if you can play it at a high level.
What did choose for himself?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, but he played Bowl, which one day for the
duration of his career because he was good enough to
play Bowl. I'm not questioning if they should. I'm questioning
the decision they make, and that is to play football.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
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Speaker 5 (14:55):
Is there a risk of long term injury worth the
money Is the risk of long term be worth the
money on glory that come from playing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
We could you get that conversation next with you?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
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Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox You want to
get in? We're talking about the risk playing in the NFL.
Aaron Rodgers talked about it in the back of your mind.
Brett favre Uh and his situation, his diagnosis of Parkinson's
and just the stuff we know about the lot of
the NFL players who have gone through a lot committed suicide.
(16:36):
Dropped that at fifty five years old, like your body?
Is it worth it?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All right? Let's start with Marty and Kentucky. You're on
the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Marty?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
You doing it for?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
It would be fitting that Marty would call on the
Worship Wednesday, No doubt?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
All right, gotch, I'll just drop that hat on Yah
because I.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Was calling there you go, there, you go love.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
It anyway, fellas I grew up in in coal mining country,
so I know a lot about this risk versus reward.
I've seen situations where there's explosions and minds multiple times
where people didn't make it out. They died, people got
badly injured, people will get black lung, people's knicks and
(17:23):
backs go out, blah blah blah. You know, there's jobs
all over this country that have risk versus reward, and
as you go they try to learn more and more
how to how to go about them jobs and be safer.
And I believe the NFL has too. But ultimately the
players have to make a choice for themselves. Is the
risk worse the worth the reward? And in many many
(17:44):
positions for the NFL they pay so well they're they're gonna,
they're gonna say that now, a quarterback from this era,
I would say, would be much less likely to have
issues as a quarterback from Brett Farr's era that they're oh, you.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Remember Joe Montana was I mean those guys toy Igman
have one of the fifteen concussions, Steve Young, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
The hits they took and they didn't even get penalties.
And and if I'm a player at another position. I'm
taking the NFLPA. If they can stop being stop being
manipulated by the NFL, they could take If you got
a name like Brett Farging through this, you can try
to use this to spearhead some things like healthcare.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
And good luck man, those players good luck and some
of these players are at positions where they're still taking
head shots and they're watching the quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
You're being protected from that take less than ever. If
I'm in that NFLBA, I'm asking why is that? Why
do they get paid the most? And well, they're at
the leap Friz Marty.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Thank you for the call, Marty. You know the answer
to that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson.
They lead the conversations, they lead the teams. What's the
coveted position in high school varsity football throughout the last
eighty years and a America being the quarterback of your
high school. So they make this thing go. They stir
the pot. That's why they get they get all the bread.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Who else we got, James in Florida, you're in the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What's that about the hurricane?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hey, what's having it. Guys, love your show. Listen that
guy hit it on the notes kind of what I
was going to say. You know, there's jobs out there,
police officers, die young, look it up, fironman, die young,
dealing with Carcentogen's having the stress of their job.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, I just James, I hear you.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But I think it's a little different when you playing
a game that you don't have to play to make.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
A living, but they make such a great list.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
No, I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
But I'm just saying there are other ways the same
thing as boxing. You know, you think most people think
they're tough until they get in the boxing wing and
they get hit, and then they realize, you know, it
look great.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Everybody can't do it all.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You looked at Muhammad Ali and what he turned into,
how that man was was as glit have been, and
lively and energetic as anybody, and what he turned into.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Does that would that make you want to box?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But listen this.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Jack Lennon said, the primary function of man is to live,
not exist. I will not waste my days trying to
prolong them. I will use my time. So take off
the COVID mask in place for us.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, well, okay, all right, now the last part
kind of threw me before. Look, I thought he hit
me with the twenty twenty vive one more real quick, Roger,
I thought we went back in time a.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Couple of years.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Chandler in Wisconsin, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
What's up, Chandler? Hey, guys love the showfer thank you
appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
As quarterback myself in high school, there would be nothing
that can get me off the field. I mean, I
get damed up, I can't see a little bit and
I go right back on. But I think for two
a situation in those players, you have to take an
aspect of your family and your future. I mean, like
you guys were saying with Brett Barvro in that situation,
those are the prolonging effects of this and the NFL
(20:57):
can't get it under control. And so as to even
though he loves the sport that's his passion, like you
guys said, he can make money doing other stuff. He's
got to think about his future, right, I.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Mean, you gotta really really think about it because it's
a it affects your life. Do you want to live
to be less than fifty. Do you want to be
able to pick your kids up and play with them.
Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I think is downplaying fo.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know we got a break here and get to Brian,
but I think you're downplaying the glory aspect of what
like every little boy in America wants to be maybe baseball,
maybe basketball, but a lot of them want to be
football players, right and then to actually be really good
in high school, then actually get a scholarship and go
to college, then be a star in college. You're going
(21:41):
to the pros. You're living the life, you're making money,
You're having access to things you never would have had
access to. Just being a three year guy who was
a regular dB in the league can change your life forever,
the doors that it opened. So it sounds good for
us to sit there guys who never had a chance
to go pro. You know, I just can understand how
(22:01):
it would not be as easy as we're making.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It to just say nah. You know a lot of
parents and a lot of people I know won't allow
their kids to play.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I mean that their kids all of a sudden become
Lebron James or did put up Patrick Mahomes And they're
like you're not keeping them off the field or the
quarter or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Also, I mean, we don't talk about the kids who
are heard and killed and high school football we don't know.
You do news, but I'm talking about most people don't
want to talk about those.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
You're right, that's it. You're right about. Last real quick point.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
If you ever talked to a football player, one of
the thing they also tell you is the injuries we
don't know about, like fingers that permanently are mangled, scars
they have from cleats at rip, flesh out of the.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I know plenty of football I know every day it's
impossi they get up every day.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It hurts.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's the stuff we also never think about. We think
about the injury, the A C L tear, but there's
a not other ones as well. All Right, when we
come back, Kaitlin Clark haters, I don't know. They might
need her and it might the run might be over
after the night.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
We'll talk about that in just a little bit.
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Oh it's the odd couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington, Fox
Sports Radio Worship Wednesday Company Live from the tire req
dot Com studios. Uh literally, tip off just happened in
the game here with the Indiana Fever, Connecticut son getting
ready to go here in this first round of the
w NBA playoffs, and we were just talking here. Listen,
(23:30):
Kaylin Clark has been a hot ride topic. It's been
controversial really even since college, before she got to the
pros and a lot of people are you know, the
numbers that she draws is crazy, Robert, She just hit
a three from Steph Curryville. H The numbers that she
draws is crazy. I was just looking at some numbers here.
(23:51):
She draws one point. We'll call it two million viewers
per game. You know the other games would they draw
We'll call it four hundred thousand. Do you hear the
difference in that? Well, we talked.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
About this all when she was coming aboard, and I
don't know what people didn't see or why they had
an issue with her. She's the Harlem globe trotters and
when she comes to town, but.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
There is the old school Harlem not now. People don't
see it now, right, but I'm just.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Saying like that is where where where when she comes
to town, they want to see what's going on and
all that because she was playing basketball different from the
other women, logo threes and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
That's the difference. So that for the people.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Who really thought like, uh, the w n b A
has has moved the needle or whatever, they're kidding themselves
because they haven't moved the needle. And we'll see as
soon as she's eliminated from the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's the question there. We already know.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I mean, do you do you really doubt like the
numbers are going to continue to rise when she's once
she's out.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, I don't see it, don't rise.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And I think this is again this will be another
time for them to look at the numbers and the
analytics and say, all right, when she was in what
was it ROBBG, they drew won something view on a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
YEP, go Ahead Football or was it Monday?
Speaker 9 (25:15):
It was on Sunday Sunday game one, going head tohead
against the full NFL Afternoon Slate drew one point eight
million viewers crazy in a game that they.
Speaker 10 (25:26):
Got blown out by twenty four points. It was ESPN's
most watched non FINALA and WNBA playoff game of all
time and up three hundred and thirty percent from the
same first round game a year ago.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But all the Nate sayers were talking about they didn't want.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
To hear about her, or that she was wait, she
was going to get her rude awakening when she got
to the WNBA and what she had done in college.
We already saw the numbers, the numbers we saw in
the college in the tournament. I remember that the tournament,
her numbers were outrageous.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's It was the first time at least that I remember.
Kennis Parker had a little bit of this for sure,
where you could be at a barbershop, you could be
at work, you could be on the phone with your homie.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh oh oh oh what oh man.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm watching Kayln Clark right now in the tournament like
that didn't happen oftentimes, good or bad. It's just factual
for a lot of a lot of folks. So what
she's doing spectacular and what I don't get, rob, you
know what, I miss the days of great marketing, Like
maybe did all of that die in the eighties and nineties,
the great marketers like who transcended and made these amazing commercials,
(26:39):
because there's no way we don't have an Angel Reese
Kaitlin Clark commercial face to face as if there's beef
and then they kind of a you know, talk all
the sudden that it ended up with a dap and
laugh and having a good time. Like Bird and Magic,
Remember they had those commercials.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I'm not sure that they're on the same level. And
I think that's the issue why you haven't seen it.
I get it. I just think that, yeah, I don't
think that. I don't think they're on the same level.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I really don't. I don't think that that's why they
don't have it.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
The Bird in Magic, when you talk about what they
did in college, the most watched college championship game, and
just all the dynamics that went with it. I mean
everybody watched it. I remember how big that was. Bird
and Magic playing in it, and then they go into
the NBA the next year together. The Showman goes to
la the Great White Hope Star goes to Boston. You
(27:32):
couldn't have written a better script. You're talking about the
Indiana Fever. I mean, Caitlyn Clark is Boston in La
Indiana in its own right. But I just I think
taking it way too literal.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, That's all I'm simply saying is I remember sometimes
there's missed opportunity in sports. Jose Altuve aka I call
him Jose. Five to the dude is five to two.
Aaron Judges said seven foot nine. There's no way they
don't have a twins Danny DeVito or Arnold Schwarzenegger type
commercial back when Jose, you know what was a thing
(28:07):
four five, six years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Like I'm always sitting here like do they need to
hire me? These places?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Andrew Rees the hottest thing smoking outside of who Caitlin Clark?
How's they're not a commercial with them like some beef
thing and then it ends up like they'd be cool
at the end. How is there like you play into this, Wnba,
I'm hamming it up and not for smoke that is
literal beef on the court, they're gonna fight, But I
mean I'm making it a big, big thing. I'm having
them do a one on one conversation before the game
(28:35):
where they talk, you know what I mean, Like this
is just marketing genius.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Not often you are a business owner.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It ain't often when something just falls right in your lap,
an opportunity to grow exponentially, exponentially your business, right, just
like boom exponentially, is what I'm trying to say. And
you look at the numbers they drawing. They're together, two
point three million viewers when they when they when they
when they go up against each other. You know how
many millions of followers Auries has. How many people love
her outside of the bath you know, people love ajuries
(29:03):
who don't even they're like, oh, she's just a figure
in publics. I love her just as she is fashion, music,
make up, all that. Like, to me, this is perfect.
I'm hamming it up more. I'm making it a thing.
This is helping business for everyone. So I'm always shocked
when people don't see obvious opportunities to grow the brisiness,
to grow the brand, and like you said, they want
(29:24):
to fight against it and make it a thing. I'm
like blown away by that because as a business owner myself,
when you get an opportunity to grow something, you better
take it, because it ain't often just sitting there.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, I just think, yes, people wanted to make that
a bird and magic thing.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I get it. I just think that I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
And I'm gonna just say this, I don't remember the
Bird and Magic commercials back then, like it just naturally happened.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It wasn't because of what.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
They had done in college and they'd played in the
national championship. But you could go back if you could
show me the Bird and Magic commercials.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Remember the commercials.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
No, no, no, I remember, Like McDonald's, I'm talking about
the NBA. I don't remember the NBA putting those two together.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Oh that's a marriage, but Rob, you know better than that.
That's a marriage man of your partners, whether it's McDonald's, Gatorade, Nike,
who like I don't. I'm saying it has to be
literally WNB. I'm saying the marketing, That's what I said.
The Mark talking about all around the game, the sport,
all of that goes into the same pot marketing these
athletes to make the sport big. Like Michael Jordan wasn't
just on the court. It was that he had every
(30:31):
endorsement bop with the hot dogs and Gatorade and the shoe.
It helps the NBA because guess who plays today at
six pm? Michael Jordan. So yeah, that's what I'm saying
the overall marketing of their stars. You gotta gotta make
sure you do that. It only helps all right. Shekel
City is coming up on the other side of the
break plus Dodgers game ending triple play.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I want to get how you how upset you were?
How about that? It was just it looks like a
bad omen to me. I mean, who loses a game
on a triple play and show?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, we'll talk about that next.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
Look at you get a look at you are blessed.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Don't even bring that up less really like you know, hey,
just saying, you know, the Dodgers are a complicated bunch
in that. Let's do shekel first. Oh, that's a great point.
Shecho City. Well through that for two shekels.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I think he misremembered. He's on.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
It's all good, all right, No, all right, shecho City
last night, one and two last night. My total is
still twenty two and nineteen since we reset in September.
That's not Alex twenty two and nineteen. That's good forgetting.
I was wrong, Okay, I was wrong last night.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yankees minus one and a half runs against the or
These were put up on social media earlier. The Orioles
are now up three to one in this game, but
Yankees minus one and a half. They need to win
the clint to alas I got the Twins minus one
and a half runs. They're hosting the Marlins. They lost
last night to them, and I got the Paddres plus
one and a half runs at the Dodgers. The Dodgers
(33:06):
lost last night on a triple play. Yes, somehow someway
on that. So again here we go, Padres plus one
and a half runs tonight, the Twins minus one and
a half runs and the Yankees minus one and a
half runs.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
And remember, Calvin Washington, what's that.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
I'm not telling you who to bet on, I'm telling
you who I better.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
All right, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Maybe stop talking about the Dodgers for you to tell
us you at one and two again?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, one and two. Last line, it's two days in
a row, one and two. I was wrong. I'm wrong
once in a while. But I'm still making money for
the folks. Come on, you are you are? But a
couple more one and two days, We're not gonna be
making them more. I'm still over five hundred. I'll take that.
Twenty nineteen, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
So triple play is not how you expect to lose
a game.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
You don't get to see a triple play that often,
and not to end the game, a big game.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Because the Dodgers and Padres are playing for the.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Division, right and the Padres have been really the hottest
team in baseball since the All Star break. He kind
of rolled them off early, and they've just fully saw Yeah,
I mean, you just wrote them off, kind of moved on.
Here's another talented team that's gonna be wasteful this season.
That has not been the case. And the Dodgers have
kind of been good ish, you know, they've been good.
They've had ways where you're like, all right, they're they're
(34:19):
doing we expect. Then they have wave of injuries and
been going through it. But they're starting to falter a
bit at the wrong time. You and I were actually
just talking about this off air. We're just watching them.
Got a bunch of games going on right now. In baseball,
how it's one of the more complicated sports to predict
because team can get hot that you didn't expect, roll
in and win it. A team could be great Dodgers
(34:40):
like win one hundred and ten games.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
That with the Dodgers on what eleven of the last
twelve NL West, you only have one World Series to
show for.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
But we got the radio call of last night a rarity.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I don't know how many triple plays you've seen, but
I know all the years I've been covering baseball, I've
never seen won the end of the game. And the thing
about it show he was on decks, Dodgers had first
and second with nobody out, and this is what happened.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Nothing and one swinging away, grab all the machado.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
He hits thirds, one goes to second in time, what
the first hot triple play?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Hot triple play and the ball.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Game is over. The Padres clinch a postseason berth on
a five four three triple play. Amazing. I got goosebumps.
He did a nice call one right, he did.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
There's something about announcers and being able to live up
to the moment, and that was it, and you gotta
get everything in and the whole thing was they clinched
the playoff spot, and he talked about the the five
four to three triple play.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It's just something you don't see that often in baseball.
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And by the way, I mean you talk about people
nailing hitting the moment he hit that, and what Showhy
was about to do was have another moment so I
could continue to tell you about his greatness.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Had he had an opportunity to come back and to.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Padres, that is, the Padres need to win all three
games in order to tie the Dodgers right with three
to play, but they have the tiebreaker. Again, there's no
playoff if you have the same record. So that's why
it was important that they won that game and now
they got the next two still in LA.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And keeping and keeping show hey obviously off the plate
was huge because just still Gain. I've been talking about
him all season, uh and since you and I've been
sitting here, he keeps living up to moments and that
might have been another opportunity to have this moment to
say season on the line in the sense of winning
the division rival team would be huge all of a
(36:45):
sudden the game lead instead of a he was gonna
hit you know what was gonna happen. And so credit
to Padres for making a rare play, uh and getting
the job done. And you think it's an open for
the Dodgers, I say, maybe it might be with a
Dodgers need when they come in hot and looking good
and looking great, they don't.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Get it done. Maybe they need to come in.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Just to lose that game, like the way that they
lost it first and second, nobody else you got a
good shot at at least tying the game.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
They were not.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
And then you had to show Hey and Mookie were
coming up like you had your batters coming up.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
So it was all there, all right, don't worry, no,
they'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Our number two of the odd couples coming up next. Yep,
Travis Kelsey. What's going on with the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
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As the baseball season melts down, those only five games
or so left, the Mets Brave Series has already been
washed out for the next two days.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And here's the crazy part.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
If if they need to play those games, which they
do because they're vying for a wildcard spot, they would
play on Monday, and it might be a doubleheader. There's
no other extra space, you know, the way that it's
set up now, So they'd have to play a double
header on maybe Monday to determine who's making it in
or not.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And then you got to play the next day or whatever.
The wildcard.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's crazy either a built in great dramatic story if
you win, you know you keep winning. Look what we
endure it or the built in excuse. Man, we would
have played better had not been four. But I also
didn't know you were such a man of the weather.
You really had some issues, Like you're about to make
me call Autumn robertson my homegirl. You know a specter
(03:00):
who I work with in the morning show. There are Sally,
how the meal you were getting you? You feel you
upset about the weather? You flipped over tables mad at
the Weather channel.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
No, I'm just like they're talking about the storm, the hurricane.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What is it? Helene? Yeah, Helena, Helena in Florida.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
But I want to know, should I like, which friends
of mine in Florida can I call?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Is it near Miami? Is it near Tampa? Is it
near Jackson? I need to know, like what area is it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
All?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's all of Florida?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So yeah, Also, you know you don't have to literally
closer to you don't have to my friend coming, so
it's coming from the south west side of it. If
you want me to go full meter allogis on you,
but my question followed out for the next five days.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, yet, so what it's gonna be?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Basically, you see the circumference of the sir Clonian coming
from the south. All right, why are you cherry picking
your friends?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Why can't you just reach out to them? All was
going to reach out, but you weren't in the Panhandle.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
If you're but if you're not in the storm's way,
why what am I calling you about?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
The Maybe I haven't heard from you in a while. No,
maybe you could just say, hey, what's up, Carol?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
They all this up? How you been? Everybody good?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know, it doesn't have to be a tragedy in
order for you to reach out to people, right, but.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What about your travels?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Somehow? Listen? Rob G said it best.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know what Vin Diesel is all about in The
Fast and Furious, Right, he's a what.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Is it all about? Rob G? About family?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's that was actually really good. Let me find out
you doing Vin Diesel? So I'm all about you, rob
I'm all about rob G. I'm all about Sam, I'm
all about Brian, I'm all about the dedication to this show.
So I may or may not have been riding talking
to Robbi, and all of a sudden there's accident, accident, accident,
and I may or may not have went reverse on
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and on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hypothetically not saying that I did, but I may or
may not have went full on vin Diesel and got
here for you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So never question my loyalty to the family. Too fast,
too furious, and you made it. All right.
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Let's welcome into the odd Couple coup because we wouldn't
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Iowa Sam is our engineer, and Brian Finley is at
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All right, let's uh, let's go here, let's start here.
(05:40):
We got some football. So Aaron Rodgers was asked about
the Brett Favre revelation that he has Parkinson's and that
he was diagnosed in January.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Remember, I was just gonna say, you're questioning when that
when it all came down.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Because it just seemed the way he slipped it out there.
January is a long time ago, nobody knew, and he
used the opportunity of being in front of the ways
and means a committee to let everybody know. Yeah, and
we thought about it. It was strategic and for sympathy
and all that. And we're just horrible, you know what
I mean. He's a young guy and to be going
(06:21):
through that. But rob g do we have sound of
Do we have sound of Aaron Rodgers? Here he is
talking about Brett Farre's diagnosis.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Yes, it's tough, feel bad for him and Deanna, but
it's it's unfortunately part of our game. That's part of
the risk of playing. And we all in the back
of our mind know that that could be a reality
at some point. We just kind of hope medicine at
some point can catch up and and either make the
symptoms easier or eradicate some of these issues that we have.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
And there it is. It's all about now. And he
brought it up. In the back of your head, back
of your mind, you know that there's something serious there
with football that could affect you long term. Kelvin, how
many fifty five year old football players have dropped dead.
(07:11):
Junior Seau committed suicide. The list is unbelievable of the stuff.
And then there's other guys who swear by football. We
had e from Salamo on the other day, played thirteen
fourteen years in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Guess what he won't let his two boys do play
football play football.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
And there are plenty of other football players who I've
talked to said if it comes down to my kids, no,
thank you, I'll do it. I did it. It helped
our lives and made it easier. We made money, whatever,
We have a nice life. But what I let my
kids do?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That know?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
And so this is always interesting because I get it
like football is like being in a car wreck every
thirty second.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It is a dangerous, dangerous thing.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
The reason I didn't get to play football was my mom,
I don't want you to be paralyzed, because that back then,
it wasn't about CTE. It wasn't about it was about
high school kids being paralyized getting hit, right, And that's
what she said. She said, I just you could do
anything else. I do not want you to play football.
(08:19):
I want to be a wide receiver. I'm six foot tall,
you know what I mean, My hands are pretty good,
and that's what I really want to do. I want
to be a wide receiver. She wanted to know people
having it where you want the football? I know you
played basketball? Did you play football? No, it's so funny.
So I played obviously, just around the neighborhood. Was obviously
was really fast and pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Then I went to go play finally, and I just
remember being like, Nah, this ain't for me in the
in the actual structure way. So I just stuck the
basketball and a little bit of tennis. That's the story
for another day. Looking back, I wish I would have
played more, which is one of the great and challenging
things of being a parent nowadays because kids do so much.
It's an uncomfortable conversation when we have this because at
(09:04):
what point, you know when you remember when we ember
when the Four Letters used to have the like countdown show,
and they would have that segment like checked Up, and
they would just show guys getting laid out right, getting
hit helmet to helmet, concussed maybe like literally going into
convulsions on the ground. Like we were like, we loved it.
We were like, yeah, it was feeding our appetite.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
When I was a kid to Darryl Stingley being paralyzed
like you like that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You could never unsee.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That, you know, all the Ronnie Lott hits that we
would we love then that you'd be like ooh now.
And so because with information, you know, now that we
have it, you view these things differently. So I think
now that we look at it, we as the fan,
as the consumer, have all made a decision. All Right,
I know what can happen, I know the the trauma
it could cause, but I've decided to still consume and
(09:53):
watch and go to the games by NFL ticket you know,
uh talk about it, do fantasy football, gamble on it.
So we've all just just got to accepted, Hey, these
athletes are putting themselves in harm's way for all of
our enjoyment. But what's interesting about it. You mentioned the
athletes not letting their kids play it, But and we said,
I still haven't found an ex football player who said
(10:15):
he wouldn't do it again. And it's not just simply
based off of you know, the money, that's a huge thing.
It's also man, they talk about that glory. Man, you're
walking out to sixty seventy in college, one hundred thousand people.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But you know what's crazy though.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I get all that, but it was interesting when Kyler Murray,
the first player ever in the history of sports, drafted
the first round of baseball and football. Never been done.
I mean, think about how long these games have been around,
never been done. That's what kind of athlete he is.
And the weird part was all of the guys who
(10:51):
played both football and baseball. I'm talking about even Dion
Sandra Huh said if to Kyler Murray, if you could
pick one, you should pick baseball. Yeah, And I thought
that was interesting that they all said, if you could
play baseball at a high level and be like a
star at it, you should play baseball.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Souse.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You can play twenty years everybody and you don't have
the same wear and tear in the body.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I get that, but it sounds cute.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But aside from two or three players, all we talk
about is Shoe hal Tani and Aaron Judge and maybe
one other player here there, Mookie bats or whomever. Right football,
we're talking about all thirty two quarterbacks because either you
suck or you're great. We're talking about the deva receiver
we're talking about, Mike.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That's a modern thing.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, no, no, I'm not even gonna let you because
because that's just that's just because that doesn't mean like
like the popularity of the sport because of it.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
It's because of gambling. And I think you got to
own up to the gambling aspect. The reason you know
a lot of the players is because you have a
fantasy league and you know who they are because you
gamble with them.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I don't agree with that. Yes it is. I don't
agree with that.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
That's when that's when that's when the NFL got really popular.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'm not because of fantasy football. No, it's because it's
because it's the biggest sport. It's the glory sport. It's
the sport your natural Neanderthal and all of us enjoy Baseball.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Listen, I know I'm sitting next to it. I know
how you feel about baseball. I gotta give you the numbers.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Baseball, so seventy million, the exact same seventy million.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
They have the same fan They don't expand they don't grow.
You can look at the numbers. How could you not
grow if you have seventy million? Because it's the same
seventy comings. It's not literally seventy million the average baseball fan.
Do you know how they are?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
No, fifty four, that's not that's it's the last time
you've actually been to the ballpark.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I don't know stuff. But have you been to a
ball No, that doesn't mean there's not a kid there.
But what I'm saying is baseball is nobody.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
See. This is why Rogerie Turner and Mike so this is.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Because you just starting to take you start taking it personally.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No, it's misinformation. It is not misinformation. It's misinformation.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mike Trout is arguably the best baseball player the last
decade or so. Mike Trout outside the topic, Mike Trout
can walk around every city in America excluding and even
La and no one will know my we.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Talk about you watch, we watch NFL TV commercials. They
all have jerseys on because they got to be able
to tell you. Most of the guys on the offensive
line of defense, you don't even know who they are.
Most of the players except for a wide receiver or
quarterback you don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Kidding you doing? But I can name three baseball players.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Michael Parsons could walk in walking down the street and
you wouldn't know who he was unless somebody.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Told you or you looked at his side track always
looks like a football player. That's the oldest argument I've
ever heard.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Listen, I'm not saying every team has two stars that
people will know.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
What I'm saying is football is king. We know that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Was no, because you're arguing why Kyler Murray, the who
wouldn't want to be a star quarterback?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's what I want to do telling you that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
No, but Deon Sanders, James, but Gion Sanders, who is
a Hall of Fame football player, said he should play baseball.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He finishes amazing. But that's what I'm saying. And what
he saying, what does that say? What did he know?
He said, if you can play it at a high level.
What did choose for himself?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, but he played Bowl, which one day for the
duration of his career because he was good enough to
play Bowl. I'm not questioning if they should. I'm questioning
the decision they make, and that is to play football.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox we got turned Around.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
He did I like this turnaround? List like me driving
in here today?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Is there a risk of long term injury worth the
money Is the risk of long term be worth the
money on glory that come from playing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
We could you get that conversation next with you?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
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Speaker 5 (16:16):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox You want to
get in? We're talking about the risk playing in the NFL.
Aaron Rodgers talked about it in the back of your mind.
Brett favre Uh and his situation, his diagnosis of Parkinson's
and just the stuff we know about the lot of
the NFL players who have gone through a lot committed suicide.
(16:36):
Dropped that at fifty five years old, like your body?
Is it worth it?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All right? Let's start with Marty and Kentucky. You're on
the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Marty?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
You doing it for?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
It would be fitting that Marty would call on the
Worship Wednesday, No doubt?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
All right, gotch, I'll just drop that hat on Yah
because I.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Was calling there you go, there, you go love.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
It anyway, fellas I grew up in in coal mining country,
so I know a lot about this risk versus reward.
I've seen situations where there's explosions and minds multiple times
where people didn't make it out. They died, people got
badly injured, people will get black lung, people's knicks and
(17:23):
backs go out, blah blah blah. You know, there's jobs
all over this country that have risk versus reward, and
as you go they try to learn more and more
how to how to go about them jobs and be safer.
And I believe the NFL has too. But ultimately the
players have to make a choice for themselves. Is the
risk worse the worth the reward? And in many many
(17:44):
positions for the NFL they pay so well they're they're gonna,
they're gonna say that now, a quarterback from this era,
I would say, would be much less likely to have
issues as a quarterback from Brett Farr's era that they're oh, you.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Remember Joe Montana was I mean those guys toy Igman
have one of the fifteen concussions, Steve Young, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
The hits they took and they didn't even get penalties.
And and if I'm a player at another position. I'm
taking the NFLPA. If they can stop being stop being
manipulated by the NFL, they could take If you got
a name like Brett Farging through this, you can try
to use this to spearhead some things like healthcare.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
And good luck man, those players good luck and some
of these players are at positions where they're still taking
head shots and they're watching the quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
You're being protected from that take less than ever. If
I'm in that NFLBA, I'm asking why is that? Why
do they get paid the most? And well, they're at
the leap Friz Marty.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Thank you for the call, Marty. You know the answer
to that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson.
They lead the conversations, they lead the teams. What's the
coveted position in high school varsity football throughout the last
eighty years and a America being the quarterback of your
high school. So they make this thing go. They stir
the pot. That's why they get they get all the bread.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Who else we got, James in Florida, you're in the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What's that about the hurricane?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hey, what's having it. Guys, love your show. Listen that
guy hit it on the notes kind of what I
was going to say. You know, there's jobs out there,
police officers, die young, look it up, fironman, die young,
dealing with Carcentogen's having the stress of their job.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, I just James, I hear you.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But I think it's a little different when you playing
a game that you don't have to play to make.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
A living, but they make such a great list.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
No, I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
But I'm just saying there are other ways the same
thing as boxing. You know, you think most people think
they're tough until they get in the boxing wing and
they get hit, and then they realize, you know, it
look great.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Everybody can't do it all.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You looked at Muhammad Ali and what he turned into,
how that man was was as glit have been, and
lively and energetic as anybody, and what he turned into.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Does that would that make you want to box?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But listen this.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Jack Lennon said, the primary function of man is to live,
not exist. I will not waste my days trying to
prolong them. I will use my time. So take off
the COVID mask in place for us.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, well, okay, all right, now the last part
kind of threw me before. Look, I thought he hit
me with the twenty twenty vive one more real quick, Roger,
I thought we went back in time a.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Couple of years.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Chandler in Wisconsin, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
What's up, Chandler? Hey, guys love the showfer thank you
appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
As quarterback myself in high school, there would be nothing
that can get me off the field. I mean, I
get damed up, I can't see a little bit and
I go right back on. But I think for two
a situation in those players, you have to take an
aspect of your family and your future. I mean, like
you guys were saying with Brett Barvro in that situation,
those are the prolonging effects of this and the NFL
(20:57):
can't get it under control. And so as to even
though he loves the sport that's his passion, like you
guys said, he can make money doing other stuff. He's
got to think about his future, right, I.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Mean, you gotta really really think about it because it's
a it affects your life. Do you want to live
to be less than fifty. Do you want to be
able to pick your kids up and play with them.
Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I think is downplaying fo.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know we got a break here and get to Brian,
but I think you're downplaying the glory aspect of what
like every little boy in America wants to be maybe baseball,
maybe basketball, but a lot of them want to be
football players, right and then to actually be really good
in high school, then actually get a scholarship and go
to college, then be a star in college. You're going
(21:41):
to the pros. You're living the life, you're making money,
You're having access to things you never would have had
access to. Just being a three year guy who was
a regular dB in the league can change your life forever,
the doors that it opened. So it sounds good for
us to sit there guys who never had a chance
to go pro. You know, I just can understand how
(22:01):
it would not be as easy as we're making.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It to just say nah. You know a lot of
parents and a lot of people I know won't allow
their kids to play.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I mean that their kids all of a sudden become
Lebron James or did put up Patrick Mahomes And they're
like you're not keeping them off the field or the
quarter or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Also, I mean, we don't talk about the kids who
are heard and killed and high school football we don't know.
You do news, but I'm talking about most people don't
want to talk about those.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
You're right, that's it. You're right about. Last real quick point.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
If you ever talked to a football player, one of
the thing they also tell you is the injuries we
don't know about, like fingers that permanently are mangled, scars
they have from cleats at rip, flesh out of the.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I know plenty of football I know every day it's
impossi they get up every day.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It hurts.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's the stuff we also never think about. We think
about the injury, the A C L tear, but there's
a not other ones as well. All Right, when we
come back, Kaitlin Clark haters, I don't know. They might
need her and it might the run might be over
after the night.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
We'll talk about that in just a little bit.
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Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oh it's the odd couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington, Fox
Sports Radio Worship Wednesday Company Live from the tire req
dot Com studios. Uh literally, tip off just happened in
the game here with the Indiana Fever, Connecticut son getting
ready to go here in this first round of the
w NBA playoffs, and we were just talking here. Listen,
(23:30):
Kaylin Clark has been a hot ride topic. It's been
controversial really even since college, before she got to the
pros and a lot of people are you know, the
numbers that she draws is crazy, Robert, She just hit
a three from Steph Curryville. H The numbers that she
draws is crazy. I was just looking at some numbers here.
(23:51):
She draws one point. We'll call it two million viewers
per game. You know the other games would they draw
We'll call it four hundred thousand. Do you hear the
difference in that? Well, we talked.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
About this all when she was coming aboard, and I
don't know what people didn't see or why they had
an issue with her. She's the Harlem globe trotters and
when she comes to town, but.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
There is the old school Harlem not now. People don't
see it now, right, but I'm just.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Saying like that is where where where when she comes
to town, they want to see what's going on and
all that because she was playing basketball different from the
other women, logo threes and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
That's the difference. So that for the people.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Who really thought like, uh, the w n b A
has has moved the needle or whatever, they're kidding themselves
because they haven't moved the needle. And we'll see as
soon as she's eliminated from the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's the question there. We already know.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I mean, do you do you really doubt like the
numbers are going to continue to rise when she's once
she's out.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, I don't see it, don't rise.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And I think this is again this will be another
time for them to look at the numbers and the
analytics and say, all right, when she was in what
was it ROBBG, they drew won something view on a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
YEP, go Ahead Football or was it Monday?
Speaker 9 (25:15):
It was on Sunday Sunday game one, going head tohead
against the full NFL Afternoon Slate drew one point eight
million viewers crazy in a game that they.
Speaker 10 (25:26):
Got blown out by twenty four points. It was ESPN's
most watched non FINALA and WNBA playoff game of all
time and up three hundred and thirty percent from the
same first round game a year ago.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But all the Nate sayers were talking about they didn't want.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
To hear about her, or that she was wait, she
was going to get her rude awakening when she got
to the WNBA and what she had done in college.
We already saw the numbers, the numbers we saw in
the college in the tournament. I remember that the tournament,
her numbers were outrageous.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's It was the first time at least that I remember.
Kennis Parker had a little bit of this for sure,
where you could be at a barbershop, you could be
at work, you could be on the phone with your homie.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh oh oh oh what oh man.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm watching Kayln Clark right now in the tournament like
that didn't happen oftentimes, good or bad. It's just factual
for a lot of a lot of folks. So what
she's doing spectacular and what I don't get, rob, you
know what, I miss the days of great marketing, Like
maybe did all of that die in the eighties and nineties,
the great marketers like who transcended and made these amazing commercials,
(26:39):
because there's no way we don't have an Angel Reese
Kaitlin Clark commercial face to face as if there's beef
and then they kind of a you know, talk all
the sudden that it ended up with a dap and
laugh and having a good time. Like Bird and Magic,
Remember they had those commercials.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I'm not sure that they're on the same level. And
I think that's the issue why you haven't seen it.
I get it. I just think that, yeah, I don't
think that. I don't think they're on the same level.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I really don't. I don't think that that's why they
don't have it.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
The Bird in Magic, when you talk about what they
did in college, the most watched college championship game, and
just all the dynamics that went with it. I mean
everybody watched it. I remember how big that was. Bird
and Magic playing in it, and then they go into
the NBA the next year together. The Showman goes to
la the Great White Hope Star goes to Boston. You
(27:32):
couldn't have written a better script. You're talking about the
Indiana Fever. I mean, Caitlyn Clark is Boston in La
Indiana in its own right. But I just I think
taking it way too literal.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, That's all I'm simply saying is I remember sometimes
there's missed opportunity in sports. Jose Altuve aka I call
him Jose. Five to the dude is five to two.
Aaron Judges said seven foot nine. There's no way they
don't have a twins Danny DeVito or Arnold Schwarzenegger type
commercial back when Jose, you know what was a thing
(28:07):
four five, six years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Like I'm always sitting here like do they need to
hire me? These places?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Andrew Rees the hottest thing smoking outside of who Caitlin Clark?
How's they're not a commercial with them like some beef
thing and then it ends up like they'd be cool
at the end. How is there like you play into this, Wnba,
I'm hamming it up and not for smoke that is
literal beef on the court, they're gonna fight, But I
mean I'm making it a big, big thing. I'm having
them do a one on one conversation before the game
(28:35):
where they talk, you know what I mean, Like this
is just marketing genius.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Not often you are a business owner.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It ain't often when something just falls right in your lap,
an opportunity to grow exponentially, exponentially your business, right, just
like boom exponentially, is what I'm trying to say. And
you look at the numbers they drawing. They're together, two
point three million viewers when they when they when they
when they go up against each other. You know how
many millions of followers Auries has. How many people love
her outside of the bath you know, people love ajuries
(29:03):
who don't even they're like, oh, she's just a figure
in publics. I love her just as she is fashion, music,
make up, all that. Like, to me, this is perfect.
I'm hamming it up more. I'm making it a thing.
This is helping business for everyone. So I'm always shocked
when people don't see obvious opportunities to grow the brisiness,
to grow the brand, and like you said, they want
(29:24):
to fight against it and make it a thing. I'm
like blown away by that because as a business owner myself,
when you get an opportunity to grow something, you better
take it, because it ain't often just sitting there.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, I just think, yes, people wanted to make that
a bird and magic thing.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I get it. I just think that I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
And I'm gonna just say this, I don't remember the
Bird and Magic commercials back then, like it just naturally happened.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It wasn't because of what.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
They had done in college and they'd played in the
national championship. But you could go back if you could
show me the Bird and Magic commercials.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Remember the commercials.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
No, no, no, I remember, Like McDonald's, I'm talking about
the NBA. I don't remember the NBA putting those two together.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Oh that's a marriage, but Rob, you know better than that.
That's a marriage man of your partners, whether it's McDonald's, Gatorade, Nike,
who like I don't. I'm saying it has to be
literally WNB. I'm saying the marketing, That's what I said.
The Mark talking about all around the game, the sport,
all of that goes into the same pot marketing these
athletes to make the sport big. Like Michael Jordan wasn't
just on the court. It was that he had every
(30:31):
endorsement bop with the hot dogs and Gatorade and the shoe.
It helps the NBA because guess who plays today at
six pm? Michael Jordan. So yeah, that's what I'm saying
the overall marketing of their stars. You gotta gotta make
sure you do that. It only helps all right. Shekel
City is coming up on the other side of the
break plus Dodgers game ending triple play.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I want to get how you how upset you were?
How about that? It was just it looks like a
bad omen to me. I mean, who loses a game
on a triple play and show?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, we'll talk about that next.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
Look at you get a look at you are blessed.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Don't even bring that up less really like you know, hey,
just saying, you know, the Dodgers are a complicated bunch
in that. Let's do shekel first. Oh, that's a great point.
Shecho City. Well through that for two shekels.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I think he misremembered. He's on.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
It's all good, all right, No, all right, shecho City
last night, one and two last night. My total is
still twenty two and nineteen since we reset in September.
That's not Alex twenty two and nineteen. That's good forgetting.
I was wrong, Okay, I was wrong last night.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yankees minus one and a half runs against the or
These were put up on social media earlier. The Orioles
are now up three to one in this game, but
Yankees minus one and a half. They need to win
the clint to alas I got the Twins minus one
and a half runs. They're hosting the Marlins. They lost
last night to them, and I got the Paddres plus
one and a half runs at the Dodgers. The Dodgers
(33:06):
lost last night on a triple play. Yes, somehow someway
on that. So again here we go, Padres plus one
and a half runs tonight, the Twins minus one and
a half runs and the Yankees minus one and a
half runs.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
And remember, Calvin Washington, what's that.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
I'm not telling you who to bet on, I'm telling
you who I better.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
All right, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Maybe stop talking about the Dodgers for you to tell
us you at one and two again?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, one and two. Last line, it's two days in
a row, one and two. I was wrong. I'm wrong
once in a while. But I'm still making money for
the folks. Come on, you are you are? But a
couple more one and two days, We're not gonna be
making them more. I'm still over five hundred. I'll take that.
Twenty nineteen, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
So triple play is not how you expect to lose
a game.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
You don't get to see a triple play that often,
and not to end the game, a big game.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Because the Dodgers and Padres are playing for the.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Division, right and the Padres have been really the hottest
team in baseball since the All Star break. He kind
of rolled them off early, and they've just fully saw Yeah,
I mean, you just wrote them off, kind of moved on.
Here's another talented team that's gonna be wasteful this season.
That has not been the case. And the Dodgers have
kind of been good ish, you know, they've been good.
They've had ways where you're like, all right, they're they're
(34:19):
doing we expect. Then they have wave of injuries and
been going through it. But they're starting to falter a
bit at the wrong time. You and I were actually
just talking about this off air. We're just watching them.
Got a bunch of games going on right now. In baseball,
how it's one of the more complicated sports to predict
because team can get hot that you didn't expect, roll
in and win it. A team could be great Dodgers
(34:40):
like win one hundred and ten games.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
That with the Dodgers on what eleven of the last
twelve NL West, you only have one World Series to
show for.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
But we got the radio call of last night a rarity.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I don't know how many triple plays you've seen, but
I know all the years I've been covering baseball, I've
never seen won the end of the game. And the thing
about it show he was on decks, Dodgers had first
and second with nobody out, and this is what happened.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Nothing and one swinging away, grab all the machado.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
He hits thirds, one goes to second in time, what
the first hot triple play?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Hot triple play and the ball.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Game is over. The Padres clinch a postseason berth on
a five four three triple play. Amazing. I got goosebumps.
He did a nice call one right, he did.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
There's something about announcers and being able to live up
to the moment, and that was it, and you gotta
get everything in and the whole thing was they clinched
the playoff spot, and he talked about the the five
four to three triple play.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It's just something you don't see that often in baseball.
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And by the way, I mean you talk about people
nailing hitting the moment he hit that, and what Showhy
was about to do was have another moment so I
could continue to tell you about his greatness.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Had he had an opportunity to come back and to.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Padres, that is, the Padres need to win all three
games in order to tie the Dodgers right with three
to play, but they have the tiebreaker. Again, there's no
playoff if you have the same record. So that's why
it was important that they won that game and now
they got the next two still in LA.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And keeping and keeping show hey obviously off the plate
was huge because just still Gain. I've been talking about
him all season, uh and since you and I've been
sitting here, he keeps living up to moments and that
might have been another opportunity to have this moment to
say season on the line in the sense of winning
the division rival team would be huge all of a
(36:45):
sudden the game lead instead of a he was gonna
hit you know what was gonna happen. And so credit
to Padres for making a rare play, uh and getting
the job done. And you think it's an open for
the Dodgers, I say, maybe it might be with a
Dodgers need when they come in hot and looking good
and looking great, they don't.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Get it done. Maybe they need to come in.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Just to lose that game, like the way that they
lost it first and second, nobody else you got a
good shot at at least tying the game.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
They were not.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
And then you had to show Hey and Mookie were
coming up like you had your batters coming up.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
So it was all there, all right, don't worry, no,
they'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Our number two of the odd couples coming up next. Yep,
Travis Kelsey. What's going on with the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
He ain't cute anymore, I'll tell you that
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