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Coming up later on in the show, we're gonna talk
about that big baseball game and Bristol Tennessee. Have you
ever been there? No? I have not been to Bristol, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yet them, not at all? All Right, U feel I'm
not sick. I think I got allergies or something. Look
at you. We go here, we go here. I'm not
rob g.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
You can hear it in my nose and just just
that's where we kept you over there yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Eve's having a heart attack. Now, don't say that. You
don't hit me. I'm not sick. Stop me from I'm
not the other room. Man, I'm I'm I'm getting out
of here. What I'm not sick? Would you stop? Why
are you doing this? You know he's a hypocondie. I'm
not no. Stop, that's what we do, Alex. Why are
(02:23):
you doing that? Man? No wonder nobody dapping you up today.
I'm not sick.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
It's it's allergies. This it is is my nose. Okay,
Well that's how it starts, No, it's okay, all right,
all right, stop wiping your nose in here, man, what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So so here we are with the big news of
the day, which is that Michael Parsons has uh said
and told the Cowboys now that they want he wants
to be traded. Rob g He made a demand right
on social media.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yeah, he put out the lengthy statement reads in part, Unfortunately,
I no longer want to be here in Dallas. I
no longer want to be held to closed door negotiation
without my agent president. I no longer want shot taken
in me for getting injured while laying it on the
line for the organization, our fans, and my teammates. What's interesting,
though about this whole situation, because we know that there's
been some bad blood brewing now for a couple of weeks,
it has been well reported, well documented, is in the
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wake of this trade demand, about an hour later, longtime
Cowboys reporter arguably the best one they have in decades, Edwarder.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I don't know who's he working for now. I think
he's independent at this Yeah, because he was with ESPN.
They let him go, he came back, and then they
let him go again.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Put out It's really good, a very interesting tweet saying
that the trade demand still stands, but Michael Parsons has
no intention of leaving training camp during this trade request.
As such, an active result in him incurring fifty thousand
dollars in daily fines.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
This is why I call Michael Pawson's a fraud a
because if you're serious about it, no, no, no, he
from doing hold on, okay, if you're serious about it,
there's a way you go about it to let them
know that you're not playing games. And when you show
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up because you don't want to lose any money, they're like,
he ain't going nowhere. This is just a negotiation ploy
and all that stuff. He from When I was ready
to get divorced, I didn't make a threat. No, I
was only mad at one time. I didn't make a threat.
(04:39):
I got a moving van. Do you see the difference.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I'm not threatening you that I'm gonna lead. Does she
want the divorce?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
It?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I wanted to divorce. I got the truck, Alex. Does
that make sense to you? If you're serious.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
About it, you gotta be about it. Michael Parsons, your
man crushed his shit home run. Just so you know,
that's not the judge.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's that I already knew what you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's that you just said a three yearun bomb in Miami, unbelievable,
mad crush.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I don't have a mad crush. What uh? Now? I'm
just saying that, if you're serious, you.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Let people know the reason that your union has been
terrible and you don't have the healthcare and the pension
that you should have is because they haven't been willing
to stop the money train.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Okay, it's real simple.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The longer you keep taking their money and refuse to
stop and cut off the money train is when you
have no leverage and you have no power. How did
the out did the NBA get Donald Sterling finally out
of the NBA?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Do you remember how they did it?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
They went to Adam Silver and they said, just what,
We're not gonna play play We're gonna stop playing. We're
not gonna play any playoff games if he continued to
be an owner. And what happened he was stripped of
ownership and and and thrown out of the league overnight.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, Baseball, what did they do? World Series one hundred years? Okay,
that's nice. We're not playing a world series. That's how
you get leveraging. My point is to Micah, don't go
to camp, don't answer any phone calls. Let your agent
talk to him and say he has nothing else.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Here for you.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The only thing he wants is for trade and he
won't meet with you, he won't come into camp. You
let him know that this is serious business. And the
idea that's why Edwarders were pointing this is that this
is phony. It's fake, it's a fraud. If I shook
hands with Michael Parsons, one of my fingers might not
(06:56):
come back. And if I put my finger on him
is statement, I might have to wash it because it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Stinks your fingers off of people. I'm just saying there's
a way of doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, but the way has changed, and you may not
be privy to this information. I'm sure you are because
I've only beencoming sports for forty years, so I know
you're you're up on what's going on with the new
rules and all of that. Prior to this year, if
a player held out and missed mandatory mini camp or
training camp and they cured fines fifty dollars a day,
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that fine could be forgiven when the player came back.
It was up to the team's discretion. No team ever
wanted to take that money from the players, whether it
be contract, holdout or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It so who cares listen to No, no, no, no, no,
no no. Every player who thought they were going to
hold out this year is at training camp because of that.
But that is no forgiveness of fines anymore. That fine
has to be paid.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Have Bleacher Report and the podcast pay it, Have somebody else,
have a dealership pay it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It doesn't work. Yes, no, they take it from them,
But didn't they give me the other money back? It
has to It doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
What you I'm talking about your make up for you go, No,
they're gonna take two million dollars from me. Bleacher Report
will give me two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Who says that? What that would be the deal?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Speculating I would, I would go, I'm gonna go to
the dealership, but I'll sit there and sign autograss all day.
I'll sign whatever you want to make up the lost
money ain't from.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It, doesn't you never No one is doing that anymore.
I can promise you no, But I'm telling you out
at home. It's not because that bill must be paid.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, but that, but if you really are serious about
moving on and making somebody's under contract, no, no, no,
you can still hold out.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I get why.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What it means he's under contract? So what after this year?
He's free to go do whatever he wants to do.
Sekuwan Barkley and those guys did it, Dero Reeves did it?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're talking about it.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, So what I'm telling you is the rule was different,
then it's not the same. No, But my point is, look,
that makes a huge difference. Okay, No, no, no, it
shouldn't make a difference because it secure two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's fine, that's fine. I can make that off.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I can make that up because I don't want to
be here anymore. And when you don't want to be
here anymore, that's when you go and you get the
moving van. That's when you get the moving van. And
you don't threaten people. My point is by going to camp,
that's no threat. By practicing, there's no threat.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He didn't say I don't want to play for you
this year. What he said was I would like to
be traded. He said, thank you, dullas I'm done here,
thank you. Right, he's under contract. No, that's fine. But
if I under contract, if I don't come up, that
sends a serious message to Jerry Jones that I'm not
I'm not playing around. I'm not like negotiation. They're not
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negotiating the contract from you. He's at training camp. It's
going to be what it's going to be, which is nothing, which.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Is phony in fake, that's my points. Phony. Will he be?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Will he be a Dallas Cowboy next year? It may
like the like the idea.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This is why the pro football players have the worst
freaking union in the history of mancind You keep saying that,
you know, yeah, because why would they give that up
in negotiations that you have no recourse from that? Does
that make sense to you? Do you have no recourse
you had a deal, at least you would get your
money back. So they give in to the owners.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
They have all these rules that are all pro owner
and all against the players.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hey, guess what, you could have a contract. You could
have a greater year then we're supposed to have. You
can't get any more money or negotiate anything. But if
you have a worst year, they can go back and
say you guess what from If you want to stay
here even though you sign this deal, you got to
take a cut in order to keep your deal.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
If not, we're gonna let you go.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What who signs a deal like that?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's one sided. It is one sided. It's always been
one sided.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
The NFL is the only pro league that don't have
fully guaranteed contract ridiculous. And if the leagues that should
have it, it should be NFL.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And I've always said, well, it depends on what side
of the defense you're on.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
They should have even if it's a three year, fully
guaranteed contract. Okay, at minimum three three years. So you
say a five year deal, three years are fully gain No, no,
what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Now, three years fully guaranteed. Okay, After three years you're
a bus no problem, your team moves on.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Whatever you do. Well, all contracts should be three years
for NFL because of the injury kind of thing that
all no one signs. It's bigger than three years.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It should be a minimum of three but guarantee fully, fully,
everything's fully least three years fully guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Because a five year deal, it's fully guaranteed. It don't
never happen. You almost had me, almost had me with three.
Never happened because the Union's week. It'll happen in two
minutes from It's not nobody's doing that from all they
have to do. It's not a players league. It's an
owner's league. It's not the NBA, it's not the NBA,
it's not MLB. I know, it's an owner's league. It's
not a player it's never been a place. It's because
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of the mentality number when the football players are brain
washed and the quarterback club remember the two uh battling bodies, right,
all the quarterbacks wouldn't signed over here. Everybody else wouldn't
sign over here. With with the Union, it's always been like.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But Trey Henderson, just with Cincinnati, he comes back and
says he was being selfish because they didn't want to
pay him, like the players have been brainwashed.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Not that he should go out and get what he deserves.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
He's played well, he deserves to be one of the
two or three highest paid players at his position.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Instead they come back, no, no, no, but I'm saying
he comes back with his tail between his legs as
if he did something wrong, instead of saying I deserve this.
Oh I don't want to be a distraction. Oh you
know it's not.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, you should get your money because they don't have
a problem with you.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
If you were negotiating for this show, would you come
in here and are not come?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yes? Would you not come here?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yes? Robert if alicious Parker? If I was serious about you,
if I was serious you the radio man?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You this is the number one radio show on Fox
the Continent. Pro you mean to tell me you personally, individually?
If you were negotiating with the higher ups, right, you
wouldn't show up for work?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
If yes? Or no? No? No?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
If I But if I went out and said I
don't want to be here anymore, right, Like, that's what Mike,
that's a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That's what he said, I want out.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
If I said I wanted out here, yes, I wouldn't
show up again, and I would say you need to
get me. We need to break this deal. I'm not
gonna do another radio show here and I'm moving on.
I refuse to work here under these conditions. And then
they'd have to say.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
The conditions they can't make me, they can't make you
work here.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
What they could do is say we're gonna void We're
gonna avoid your contract and get out and you or
you'll take me to court and say you can't go
work at any ESPN or some other place for the
for the balance of your contract something of that, like
a non compete, and then I have.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
To sit out for a year and a half or whatever.
If I didn't want to be here, Absolutely you would.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You wouldn't. I would. No. This is part of who
you are.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You are a radio man, not have been for sixty years,
not that long thirty years?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Okay, this is what you do.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
You've been through negotiations, haven't you haven't you haven't you
been through negotiations?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Hey? From yes? And you you won the union when
you went to PA Where you want one of those reps.
I was never a rep. Okay, I was never.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Cause you sound like it because the way that they
got bent over so many times.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm just saying's going on? What is it freaky Friday?
It's funky flask? Is it freaky Friday? Up in here?
I don't all right, e from stop it freaky Friday?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Do you believe Michael Parsons really wants out of Dallas?
Is he being a fraud? We'll continue that conversation next
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on Fox and we're talking about Michael Parsons. Does he
really want out?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Of Dallas, or is he being a fraud and not
serious about At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
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people call into the Odd Couple except.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
For one thing.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
You forgot to turn down the radio.
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
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What's up, Drake?
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Hey you doing, Thanks for taking the call. Happy Friday.
The radio is turned down. No, Michael Parson's not serious
about wanting out from the Cowboys, you know, going out
into social media, which is how the de facto for
the you know gen Z millennial folks, you know it
can go to social media and express all my grievances.
But no, he at the end of the day wants
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to play for the Star, wants to be with the Cowboys.
And if it was serious to Robin's point about not
playing for the Cowboys, then he would hold out from
camp and his posture would have been much firmer. Yes
to beginning, I think that you know he's had this.
You know, this is the way Jerry Jones does that
We're gonna play out the string. We're gonna get the media,
get the clicks, you know. But at the end he
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hasn't come into these negotiations with you know, that firm,
ironclad dance that you know. I'm not budging unless you
give me x y Z ABC. But going to social
media doesn't impress me. It's deployed.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
End of the day.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
He wants to go back to the cowboy. Thanks taking
the call, all.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Right, thank you, Drey, appreciate it. What about Jackson, Kansas City.
You're on the on couple of Fox Sports Radio on
a funky flashback Friday, Jacks, How are you?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I'm good, brother, Parker, how are you? Thanks for taking
a call?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
He from Salon. What's up?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What's happening brother? How you doing?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh man, I'm good. I will have to correct you
on one thing though, I don't believe this is the
first year of them not giving them that money back.
As far as when you missed training camp, that's why,
like Chase held out, he held in last year.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay, so it's two years, yeah, two years.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Okay, there's ago when Chris Jones held out and then
at the end of the season he had to get
that last sack to get that million dollar bonus and
basically just replaced what he's lost out on by holding
out for the whole training camp and missing a game. So, ultimately,
I think Michael Parsons is in a position where he
knows this is how Jerry does it. Jerry likes to
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get these clicks and likes to have all this attention,
just like he did with Dak last year. He's probably
gonna sign them. So if my Micah, I'm saying, well,
we all know this the dame that Jerry plays, I'm
not gonna just give up that amount of money because
whether he signed me this year to a new deal,
eventually he's gonna bring me back to play, and then
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next year I'm gonna be a free agent and I
walk away. So it really doesn't make much sense. He
knows that this is just part of the game.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Did Jerry's not gonna come on, Jacks. They're not gonna
let him just walk away for nothing. Okay, it can't
be that. It's to be It's either got to be
a deal or a contract. I mean, ain't no way
you let him walk right and get nothing out of
the deal.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Already, from that, I agree, That's why I thought that
that that part. I can't see that the value the
maximum value they could have got. If they would have
made this decision prior to the draft, they could have
got a king's ransom for him.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine On Fox What about Rob
in Alaska?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Rob?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Hey, how's it going great? Well?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Where are you in Alaska? My god?
Speaker 11 (20:25):
Yeah, I'm in near air Craage area.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Cool.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
So you made a point about the unforgiving finds that
they get. I kind of agree with that because they
could get away to that before when they're forgiven. Maybe
on Bell Key held out for an entire year and
it didn't pay off for him. So if these guys
were to hold out and not pay off because they're
not getting them money with they want or traded demands
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met from another team, it's a gamble altogether. And I
agree with you guys on saying that this is a
owner's league and it has been. I kind of wish
they would have had better negotiations and maybe better agents
who could facilitate their needs a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, I've been saying it for years. I mean, it's
it's it's all the NFL does is brag about how
much money it makes, and then Ethan will tell you pension, uh,
the healthcare, it's just exactly and that's that's just that's
just the point. It's insulting the kind of money. And
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then they all, well they got so many players.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Stop it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay, stop, you're going to play right, You're going to
you know what, football has eleven hundred, baseball is eight hundred,
and baseball has minor leagues and all that way more
players organized the Dodgers, there many people they're paying with
all the and I know it's not major league money,
but to run those minor leagues, to run all that stuff,
there's a lot of money that's put up there. So
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don't give me that you can't do it. They're making money.
They just don't want to cut the players in.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That's my biggest problem with it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
All Right, Uh, fans in Tampa better be on high alert.
I'm gonna tell you why coming up next, But first
let's get to Steve di Sega in the latest in sports.
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Speaker 3 (22:25):
It is the odd couple on a funky Flashback Friday.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Rob Parker E from salam ache knee, stiff back joints
not cooperating.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Is that you we from all day?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Some days your body just says no way, no how.
And on those days, luckily there's a leave, just one pill.
A leave provides up to twelve hours of pain relief
so that you can keep moving. Use as directed. And
I just said to fans in Tampa might be a
little worked up. I'm talking about baseball. Could you know
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what's happening tomorrow? The MLB Speedway Game is being played
in Bristol, Tennessee, on the racetrack there. Do you know
how many tickets they sold from you ready?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (23:12):
Eighty five thousand tickets for a baseball game that is
not a typo eight five eighty five thousand, which will
set the all time record set back in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Eighty four thousand plus. In Cleveland in nineteen fifty four,
the old Municipal Stadium was that big because they played
football and baseball. They sold for Yankees Indians doubleheader nineteen
fifty four, they sold eighty four thousand tickets. And my
point on this whole Tennessee thing, they won a baseball team,
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you know, like they have a group together. I think
it's in Nashville, right, Rob g is in Nashville. They
wont a baseball team. And to see eighty five I
know it's a you know, gimmicky game or whatever, but
still it says something. And Tampa they can't draw flies.
They've had good teams that have gone to World Series.
Twenty twenty. They won the World Series against the Dodgers, right,
(24:12):
the one the Dodgers won in the bubble. But my
point is, if I'm major League Baseball and I see
eighty five thousand people show up in somewhere for a
baseball game, I gotta be interested in them.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
No, yeah, I mean that's that's pretty impressive. That's a
lot of people that's have you for baseball?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Eighty five thousand, And if you see the configuration of
them football numbers right off the field, That's what I'm saying.
It's not like, oh, they're han't at the racetrack and
forty thousand people show up eighty five thousand.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
That's a message.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
If I'm Major League Baseball, that we need to take
a look into because football went there, right to Tennessee, Bristol, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Have you been there? I have not.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Anybody. No, I've been to Tennessee, but not I've only
been to one Bristol, Bristol, Connecticut. Yeah, you've been up
there too. Yeah, I've been up there. Did you work there? No,
I'm not willing to move to Bristol for three to
four days a week.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Okay, they could fly you back and forth. Yeah, I
don't want to do that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I had retired from the league and I wasn't going
to tell my wife now I have to go to Bristol, Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You can live in Meriton, Connecticut or Waterbury.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, that wasn't in the caucas We wanted to start
a family, and if that wasn't it, I understand.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh I waited too, But it was smart. I'm going
to tell you that people started ESPN pretty smart. Oh yeah, built.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Between Boston and New York, right in the middle. They
brought a cow pasture, all that land and all that
probably fifty cents an acre, twenty five cents, you know
what I mean. Back then and say we're talking about
the seventies and built this thing in the middle of nowhere.
They were like, we can't go to Manhattan and build
anything or put up a studio. We can't go to
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Boston and do it now. It's hard to get there.
Like I remember when I came up to do the
car wash when I was retiring. I had to fly in.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Did you fly to New York or Hartford?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I think Hartford? And then the rented a car It's
like two hours and then had to drive hour and
a half.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It was the best Western or whatever that is.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I'm like, I'm not about to do this now, but
I just waited to f S one went national, came
over to lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I do remember that. Yes, I did watch that, but
grudgingly A good idea. It just it just was it
just was just and it was bad from the beginning.
Was I right? Like you you were a part of it,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Just what just? I was excited for it, to be honest.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I thought it could have. I used to go in
there and have some ideas and all that. They weren't
receptive at all. I didn't want to hear any of that. Okay,
he said, let me just go and get my check.
And do whatever they tell me to do it. It
was great exposure and all of that. I just it
could have been.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Better. It could have been I remember that. Well.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Anyway, Baseball, this game is on Saturday, It's on Fox.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Uh. Baseball has done a good job.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
They had one last year in Birmingham, Alabama, the Negro League,
the oldest stadium in baseball.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
That was awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, remember the uh the cornfield, the field
a dream field, the dream game?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Was that not awesome? And then that was that was awesome?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And the players you remember coming out of the cornfield
to go on to feel like there's no fence.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I all think baseball needs that.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They need that level of energy in terms of marketing,
and that brings a level of fun and and even
if you're not a die hard baseball fan, it brings
some pageantry to the sport now and I love it.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I love that. I think.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
They should do more games like this. Right, let's have
a baseball game on the top of the Empire States build.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
My buddy Bradby just text me. He said he heard
a story.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Randy Moss took a private jet to Bristol, Tennessee by
mistake one time because he said he wanted to go
to Bristol.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Instead of.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, he wound up in Bristol, Tennessee, which is funny.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I was gonna say, those are the only two Bristols.
I know. I believe that that's a story. That's that's
fuddy because I once booked a I once booked.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
A hotel room in Arlington, Virginia when I wanted to
be in Arlington, Texas for a wedding. And what do
you mean you don't have a room for me? They're like,
I said, I booked. I know I have a resident. Yeah, sir,
that's for Arlington, Virginia. This is Arlington, Texas. So I
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guess I just said I need a room in Arlington
and who back then? You know, you call the trial
lady or whatever.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
They just got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
But yes, I do expect to put a bow on this,
that Tampa Bay will eventually move out, that Baseball will
give up and stop with the idea. They made a
mistake in Florida and they need to admit it. Miami's
a bad franchise and so is Tampa. You know what,
Ephraim Baseball take one of those teams out of the state.
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They should have one team and guess where it should.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Be Orlando, Orlando, And guess what all the people who
go to Disney or whatever, Ephraim, along with your four
days with your kids or whatever, guess what one of
the Knights is gonna be a ballgame exactly, and you
would have a sellout every night, a big crowd. People
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want looking for something else to do at night after
being at the park all day. And then you might
even coordinate when the Cincinnati where you're from, Cincinnati, the
Reds are gonna be down there. That's when we're gonna
take I'll trip down there all kinds of stuff. Tampa's
bad and Miami's bad. Yeah, it's tough living. It's too
much to do in Miami, way too much to do
in Miami. Yeah, so on the list of things to
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do in Miami, baseball is probably not on the list.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It just hasn't done well. And remember they won two
World Series and still they just did The fan base.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Is not good.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, Lebron is on the verge of making a
billion dollar mistake.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I'll explain that next.
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Speaker 3 (31:55):
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Speaker 1 (32:03):
Very nice Alex on the Ones and Twos, Rob Parker
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I think, right, what's the latest with Lebron?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
And yeah, it's weird because Lebron James had that photo
that went viral last week.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It was him. Maverick Carter sitting on a boat with
a yacht.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Right, it was a small boat. He wasn't even a
rich guy. I thought it was like, man, y'all struggling
out there. It ain't a magic John, No, it's not.
And there was all the speculation, Oh, what does this mean?
That Lebron's gonna go to the Danver Nuggets next offseason?
That what we're talking about. We find out later that
that was all part of an impromptum meeting, a casual meeting,
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because Maverick Carter, with the help of Lebron and the
help of Yogic's agent, is looking to launch a new
live golf style basketball league that will travel around the
world in eight different cities and play for a weekend
or whatever. Give players equity in the league, allow them
to really showcase themselves on a international scale. And Rob,
(33:37):
you don't seem like you care too much about this thing.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
No, because this is where we talked about a little
bit with the football, and you notice e from you
want the highest quality. Everybody thinks they can start a
league in that the women's was that the rivals unrivaled, unrivaled,
unrivaled or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Okay, uh, it's all the w NBA players.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, I'm talking about the idea that you're going to
start like some rival league even live golf for all
the money that they have, I don't think that that
thing really lived up to what people thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
The PGA and them are now going.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
To do yeah, yeah, but I'm just saying, but I'm
saying they're they're on the c W. They have money,
is what I'm saying. Like that in places that they
couldn't get to where they really wanted to. And yes,
you know, ultimately, uh, the PGA tour did figure out
to have a deal with them, but I'm saying that
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league by itself wasn't Even though they were thrown around
money and they got a few people to defect, they
still knew ultimately that if they really wanted to do
something that they had to get in bed with the
PGA as well. And the PGA. On on the flip side,
I just wonder about alternate leagues. You know this because
we see a lot of football, even the NFL, they
want to be international.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
They've tried that league. Did you have a playover the
World League. I was a starter from uh, but you.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Know what I mean, look at that and you know
what I'm talking about. It was Yeah, but they had
two of them over there. What was the other one called?
There was one the World League flopped and then they
had another. Yeah, and it just didn't take off because
it's not the best of the best. And that's all
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
The europe and they don't have an n C Double A,
so they don't have a college system that acts as
a feeder.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, but you said there's all these players here in
the United States who want opportunity to play.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Yeah, but when you talk about going overseas, the reason
the Big House is packed every Saturday, no matter how.
But that's a college town, right. There is no college
town for football overseas.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
No, I know.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
But you could take the players from here that I
get that in there, but still people want to watch.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You're not get high. Yeah, I do get it. I understand.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
There is no direct correlation to football overseas starting at
the n C Double A.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So there's no fanfare. The reason the NFL is popular
is because of college football. That's that's that's the feeder.
That's No, the NFL has become what it's become. No, No,
it's because of gambling. It has nothing to do with.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
College Okay, Okay, you know things could be, but it's
not college football, the NFL, the NFL.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
When it okay, when when it wasn't that long ago
that the NFL came off of ABC Monday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Because the ratings were good or when uh what was it? Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Paul Tagliabu went to Monday Night Raw and asked him
to move to Tuesday Night or another night because the
ratings were so bad. And then all of a sudden,
this thing called fantasy football came along and that changed
changed changed, okay because because at one point people don't
remember that Monday Night Football wasn't doing well against Monday
(37:04):
Night Raw, and people are like wow, and they had
that conversation with Vince McMahon about moving He's like, I'm
not moving Monday Night Raw. And then eventually ABC decided
to give up Monday Night Football on national television and
it went to KBOLES if it was like, okay, they
can have it. So when you talk about football, I
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always talk about gambling and when you made the games.
And here's the big part where you're not rooting for
teams because in the old days, if you were only
rooting for. If Jacksonville came on and you had no
rooting interest, you would not watch. But now you have
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players on that team that keeps you interested and that's
why you watch, not because you care about Jacksonville.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Man, you're absolutely right. I mean, Jacksonville is a prime
example of a college town.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Not bad.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
That is Georgia Florida game comes, it's standing room only,
and Jacksonville Jaguars can't sell out. That's why they go
to your that They always had like two or three
games in Europe every year.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
They well, yeah, move to London, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
They thought they thought they were going to have the
same situation like Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
They figured it's a small market, but it's not.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
It's a retire Jacksonville was like a retirement. It's not
very hip, it's not very young. It's not I played
there for two years, so I'm like, what is they had?
It wasn't enough hotels for the Super Bowl. That had
to bring in cruise ships. It was awful one that that,
But that's that's you know, it's really not an NFL market.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I can see that team. Could they get anywhere? Yes,
I wonder if they'd ever decide to make a move there.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will because the
money is now. What the NFL has done is all consuming.
It takes over everything.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Other shows are moving off their day because of the
The NBA lost Chris to the NFL. You know, so
that happened a couple of years ago. It's a machine.
It's moving now. So I think the NBA are the
players could have a farm league like that, a different league.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm not interested, thank you, Lebron anyway, all right, odd
couple our number three coming up