January 17, 2023 • 32 mins
Chris and Rob are joined by ESPN personality Stephen A Smith in which the guys discuss their history coming up together in the sports media business and why Stephen A ultimately decided to write a memoir about his own experiences, how he ended up working at FOX Sports Radio back in the day before he ultimately got back to ESPN, the role is mother played in his decision to write the book and much more! Plus, FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Martin Weiss swings by to bring you the latest installment of Trollin’ or Rollin’, and the Odd Couple Callers deliver another award-winning edition of Trash Talk.
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to our next guests. He really needs no introduction, and
everybody knows him, but I'm gonna introduce him anyway. He
is I think it's fair to say, arguably America's most
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popular sports media figure, and he is a great friend
of both mine and Robs. Robs known him for thirty years.
I've known him for close to thirty years. I said yesterday,
when you are a friend of his You got a
real friend. He is loyal, he's a great brother. He's
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just coming out with a new book, Straight Shooter, a
memoir of second chances and first take takes. We welcome
in our man, Steven A. Smith and Steve. Before you start,
I gotta tell you the last three days, Rob Parker
has been as giddy as a schoolgirl. We're coming on
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this show, Rob or Steve. So we welcome you, brother.
How are you, my brothers? What's going on y'all? How
y'all doing? Man? How's everything? We are great? Man, We
are great. And let me say this, Steve, the reason
that I've been getting since we decided, okay, this is
gonna happen, and we don't you know, normally people from
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other networks don't come on. But this was a big
deal for us, and you've been one of our biggest supporters.
We said it on the air, Chris that you text
us of me so often. We know you're listening, you
enjoy the show, and so for you to, you know,
show us that love listening to the Odd Couple on
Fox Sports Radio means something to us because we are friends. Well,
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I will tell you this. I mean, first of all,
I mean, you know, we know what we know that
I work for ESP and all that stuff. You guys
have a fantastic show. I'm so proud of both for y'all,
we all three of us go back. I go back
over thirty years with Rob, I go back about twenty
eight years with Bussa. I love y'all both like brothers.
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Y'all have both been to my home. We've hung out together,
we've laughed together, we've pride together. We've had a lot
going on throughout the years. I'm so incredibly proud of
both of y'all and the job that y'all do every day.
I'm incredibly proud of the career that y'all have. And
even though y'all had a different network, by the way,
a network that I used to work right show right
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here on this on the channel. And I know a
lot of great, great people that are over there that
have been there throughout the years. But it don't get
no better than y'all when it comes to being people,
when it comes to what y'all doing for Fox, when
it comes to our friendship and our brotherhood, and with
all of this stuff, with my book coming out, I
told I made sure everybody was clear. You know, you
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usually don't go to the competing network or whatever. There
will be one. There will be one exception. Those are
my brothers. And if they call, I'm going on. And
everybody understood that. Well, that's great to hear Man, And
you know we feel the same way about you. So
your book is called straight s want to memoir our
second chances in First Takes. First question, I got this, Man,
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When did you find the time to do this? Because
every time I look up you on a TV show
on the ESPN, it's gonna bug you out. Chris. I've
written this when I was home at night. I've written
this when I was in commercial breaks for First Takes.
I've written this when when when I was in studio
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doing NBA countdown pre games and post games. You know
when we've got to wait for until the halftime comes
and then we got to wait until the halftime of
the second game comes on, doing NBA Countdown and all
of that stuff. I've done it that, I've done it
on vacations. Rob I was in um Mastros in Beverly
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Hills a few months ago when I had to meet
a deadline. I was literally in Mastro eating dinner, and
writing the last chapter my book every chance, every I
just squeezed it in wherever I could. I didn't miss
that lines. And more importantly, guys, you know all three
of us are you know? We're writers by trade. I
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wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Chris has written for The
Times and in Cleveland and Akarin, He's written everywhere you know,
plus the ESPN dot com. Rob Parker, You've been in Cincinnati, Detroit,
New York News Day, all over the place. I could
not allow someone else to write this, right knowing I'm
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on TV every day and I wrote for the Philadelphia
Acquirer for seventeen years. America knows my voice, the sports
world knows my voice, and if somebody else had written it,
y'all would have known it instantly. I couldn't let that happen.
So I had to do it myself. And that's what
I did. In about five months. I started last Chris Chris,
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I started last November and I finished it by April.
That's no mean. And now, obviously I can't wait to
get the book and read it. And do you go
to the very beginning? And obviously I know the very
beginning because we that's when when I first met you
in Detroit in nineteen ninety two, and I remember, like
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people think they see you and how successful you are,
and they think it happens overnight. And for people don't know,
Steve was writing sports stories for free on his own
time and the week on the weekends in North Carolina
to get started. Like people people don't know that story.
They think, you know, they see you and think, oh,
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he just showed up. You put in the work over
the years to get where you are. Well, I really
started off that I definitely is a part of my story.
You guys are in the book, just so you know, Balt,
y'all I mentioned in the book. Of course y'all are
my boys. But the thing about it is that for me,
Rob Christy, it really started with my mother's passons in
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twenty seventeen, just highlighting the fact that it was something
she never ever wanted me to do. My mother and
I were very tight, as you both know. I was
devastated when I lost her game one of the NBA
Finals in twenty seventeen. I was absolutely devastated. And you
know I had promised her for years from since twenty
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eleven that I would never write the book until she
passed away because she was so private. She did not
want the book out because she knew I would celebrate her.
But by celebrating her, I would have to talk about
why she should be celebrated, which would be me highlighting
my relationship with my dad. And that is not something
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that she wanted me to do. She knew it was inevitable,
she knew that I had a right to do it,
she felt I needed to do it. She just made
me promise that I wouldn't do it until she passed away.
So I started off really getting into that, and then
I went from there to talking about, you know, from
the time my early ages, you know, the trouble I
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had in school, I had dyslexia, didn't know it, I
was with you know, my father didn't believe in me,
thought I was a lost cause, and my relationship with
him deteriorated from there. It really highlighted all of that
before I got into obviously my career at ESPN and
the numerous controversial situations that I found myself in, or
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even when I got fired by ESPN and let go
and ultimately started resurrecting myself by started off at Fox
Sports Radio to resurrect my career. So all of that
is in the book, and that's where it went. Now,
you Steve, you you know Rob, I mean from the
time he was a young kid wanted to be a
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sports writer. You would you start off at college at
what the Fashion Institute or something in New York? Right?
So did you fast to the technology? Yeah? Did you
always want to be a sports writer or at least
you know before you went to college or is that something?
How did you discover that this is what you wanted
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to do. I knew I wanted to be in media
and communications, and I knew that I could talk with
the best of them. I didn't know how good my
writing would be until I was writing the school newspaper
and my critical and persuasive writing teacher named John Gains
said to me, you're a natural born sports writer. Let's
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go out to lunch and talk about this. So I
met him a following Tuesday and to me thinking he
was gonna take me out to lunch, and he drove
me straight to the office of the sports editor of
the Winston Salem Journal. I went to Seale of journal
sports unitor. His name was Terry Oberley. He sat me
down for five minutes to talk to me, and he's
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the next words out of his mouth was, so when
can you start? Can you start tonight? Wow? And that
time my career started off. Wow. You know you mentioned
something too that I think also is and you know
when you think you're of you being the face of
the network, and you mentioned it earlier you were fired
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or not renewed by ESPN. Let's not get a good coded.
Everybody knows it is well documented. You are a big star.
You out of your own show quite frankly, which I
was a part of the back page panel. I was
on that show or ESPN two back in the day.
So you know how how I don't want to say
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rewarding or for you to make the comeback story is
a great one and it's a good lesson for people
to understand things happen in life. Steve. That doesn't mean
that it's over exactly, and that that that you know, listen,
the story is meant to be inspirational. It's meant to
be you know, motivational, and to let people know when
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they count you out, don't count yourself out. And more importantly,
don't always assume no one is willing to extend to
help it end. You know, I wanted to get I
wanted to quit the business and work for why Kobe
a Bank. I tell a friend of mine named Rob Parker,
who was writing for the Cincinnati Enquirer at the time,
said no way, no how, That's what he said said.
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He said, you're you're not quitting, You're not giving up.
All you need is that first chance to be patient,
keep pushing, and it'll happen. It's sure enough, it did,
And I'm eternally grateful to him for that um and
I love him forever. For the fact of the matter
is that there's always somebody that's willing to provide some
level of assistance to help in hand. If you are focused,
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if you are determined, if you're willing to get on
your grinds, not looking to cut corners and take shortcuts
to get to where you are, if you as long
as you're that kind of person, you'd be surprised how
many people you find that would be willing to extend
a helping hand to provide some assistance so you can
get the opportunities that you create. And so for me,
that's the kind of that I wanted to send with
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this book. I think it was incredibly necessary for me
to do that, and you're absolutely right. I don't sugarcoat it.
I would fire ESPN did not renew my contract, and
I thought I got screwed. Though I thought it was
messed up, I didn't deserve it. To this very day,
I never believed I deserved to wake up one day
after having four jobs and to have none. But in
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the same breath, you know what, when you're in a
position of power, it's not just about your performance, and
it's not just about your hard work. It's about your attitude.
It's about how you come across it's about how you
treat other people, particularly superior officers that you work under.
All of those things potentially play a role, and you
got to know how to be a team player. And
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those are things that I had to learn along the
way to be better at in order to help resurrect
my career and to be in a position that I'm
in right now. Chris, that story he tells about Cincinnati,
this is pre cell phone. Steve calls me at my
house and we're on the house phones and and Steve,
you remember I told you to rip up that application
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to watch over your bank over the phone, Chris. I
wanted to hear hear him rip it up. And so
my question to you is what out We're gonna read
the book, but Howard's Howard, Chris and I both in
the book. Did you rip Chris in the book? Primary
primarily acknowledgement, Just just letting the world know that I
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love y'all, um, and that I value y'all. You know,
we're not colleagues and we're not just friends. We're brothers.
We've been this way for years. We know things about
each other that nobody knows about us. We talked to
each other all the time. We encourage each other, we
support each other, we lift people up, We lift each
other up, and we watch each other's back. And so,
you know, for me, it was just a way of
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letting the world know these are my brothers. You know,
I don't give a damn where they are, where they work,
who they work for. You know, I'm I was friend
long before that happened, and I'm gonna be there brother
long after this it's all gone. That's just the way
it's gonna be. What there Stephen A. Smith Man. Little
people can get the book? Yeah, where the book everywhere
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it's on Amazon, it's it's at Bards and Nobles. There'll
be a talk at Walmart. Whatever. I just did a
book signing in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Um, and all the
books were sold. I did every single book they had
in the store sold. Um. The day is not even
completed yet. It hasn't been on shelves for twenty four hours,
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and I'm already number four on the Amazon bestseller list.
So it's rob and it's going, it's gone well, and uh,
you know, but my goal is to be a New
York Times bestseller. It's one thing on my in my career.
I never wrote a book before. This is my first.
But if I'm gonna do it, I'm trying to do
it right. And so that's what I'm trying to accomplish,
and I hope I pull it off. So proud of you.
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A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes by Stephen A.
Smith Man. Great job, brother, We I can't wait to
read the book. I know it's gonna be incredible. And
keep up the great work Man for real. We're proud
of you, no doubt about it. We love you, Steve
Man for real. Keep doing your thing appreciate y'all. Love
y'all man, thanks so much. I'll talk to y'all later.
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All right, brother, peace, more I couple coming your way.
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studios and it's time for trolling and rolling. Martin tom Brady,
he's done er folly that worn't have a Pro Bowl season.
It's trolling. If you wait long enough, it'll it'll come
back in style. And that's true. Rob. I'm starting to
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look at clothes that or fifteen years old, like you
know what, these pants are kind of coming back. It's right, yeah,
I mean, if you're thinking about it, the word troll
is kind of want to come back since ever since
social media has has really been but trolling and rolling
is what I'm doing right now. If Robert Chris liked
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this story that I read, you hear the roll sound,
I guess that's not coming back? Right? All right? Here
we go, and then they don't you hear the troll sound.
Oh man, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, fresh off the
hills up a historic playoff collapse, the Los Angeles Chargers
decided to part way the offensive coordinator Joe Lombardy, but
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it yet to make a decisional head coach Brandon Staley.
Stanley have been fired after that second half meltdown. Yes,
I'm well, I'm I'm rolling with the breaking up. I mean,
I don't know when you need to get a new phone. Brother,
We've been telling you that for years. Um, I'm I
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think it's for it. I don't know. Yeah, I'm rolling,
but yeah, I mean, you could go back to the
fourth down calls a year ago. You could go back
to blowing the playoff birth when he called the time
out against the Raiders. You can go back to you know,
when he went for it on fourth down against Cleveland
this year and they barely survived. And Keenan Allen's typing,
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you know, tweeting, what are we doing? Mike Williams injury
in a meaningless game, and then of course not managing
the clockwell, and I've heard a lot of oh he's young,
he's learning. You don't get to be a head coach.
So you can experiment and grow and or learn on
the job. Obviously you're gonna grow. But those players put
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in too much work to have a coach make bad
decisions that cost them a game. So it should have
been the case. I don't know if it will be,
but I'm rolling with it. I'm rolling with it too.
Push laid out of the laundry list of stuff. I mean,
he's bungled so many things and you cannot. If you
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can't get fired off of that, then there's nothing that
you can get fired off of. Seriously, Like, like, what
if you losing the playoff next year? You'll be like, okay,
all right, Well, at least we didn't rolling up twenty seven.
Nothing like what would be the grounds Chris right to
fire somebody. If losing your playoff game doesn't matter, and
being up twenties having nothing doesn't matter, then if they
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lose it by three next year, you're like, Okay, there's
no big deal, we just lost, all right. Strolling the
rolling a couple of five sports radios. The Dolphins to
lay a game in the fourth quarter wasn't great. McDaniel
said he was told from quote upstairs that it was
the first down, and then he felt they still had
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a chance on fourth and six with a play call
Chris trolling or rolling McDaniel not knowing the down or this, Well,
are you asking me do I believe him or like,
I'm not sure? No, I believe him. I think he
didn't know. I thought you thought. I think he said
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they thought he thought he at the first down, I said,
trolling or rolling McDaniel thinking he had the first down
and it was fourth down. I mean, I I think
I understand. I'm trolling it. Oh man, Yeah, I mean, look,
you you you're counting on communication a lot of times
from your coaches up upstairs. And he now whether or
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not he should have said that. I mean, I think
you can question did he throw somebody under the bus,
you know? Um, But I definitely do believe that that
is what happened and that delayed him. But ultimately there's
no excuse it could that could happen to any coach.
And we don't see coaches having delays of games, delay
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of games all all game long or all fourth quarter
like the Dolphins did. So I'm trolling. I'm trolling it too.
Oh man. Hey, Hey, hey, that's what Chris, That's what
the coach needs to do, like pay attention for those moments.
Most of the earlier in the game, you know things
are going on, but when it really matters in the
fourth quarter, you need to know what's happening because that's
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going to determine what played, you call, what what else
is going on in the situation. So not knowing what
down it is is a major, major fole pool. I mean, uh,
just scowl up. You just can't have it. Absolutely, Yeah,
that's what I'm mean. That's the faio. That was So
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that was a food paw. I don't know what I
was saying, was like radio. I was just going now it.
But I mean I was hoping you were going to
ignore it. But of course Martin had to open his mouth, right, Hey,
I thought my pulle broke couple. I missed the last word.
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I wanted to make sure I had the whole thing.
But Tom Brady didn't play well in American football yesterday,
but maybe at the future in soccer because that there
he missed the tackle on a template turnover. He slid
and tried what best could be described as a fly
tackle on a play that was eventually called back Chris trolling.
The rolling Brady was intentionally trying to trip the Dallas defender. Oh,
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I'm rolling with it. I mean that he was trying
to tackle him by tripping him. And I didn't like
it because obviously it's a dirty play, but also I
mean that you can hurt somebody that way, and so
I thought it was terrible. And yeah, he meant to
do it, no doubt about it in my mind. What
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did you just say, Chris, You trolled it? Ill or
I yeah, I trolled it. Yeah, yeah, I'm trolling it
as oh man, hey, hey, hey, hey, but this goes
with the Bradies that we know has been caught cheating
and doing all kinds of stuff in his entire career.
But I'm with Chris, that's a dangerous play. You can't
do that because that's somebody's career and livelihood. Chris, you
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don't think about it like that. Little something like that
could change. What if you get seriously hurt and never
all the same and you need your legs to play football.
So I don't like it, no doubt. It's just a
real Brady on that one. It was a food ball,
you know what, or or it could be if you
were a member of the Water Buffalos, you could be
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the Grand pooh bah. How about that Christian the Grand
that is our man, Martin White. You can catch him
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and Vernon VJ Husky. They play our foils often filling
in for myself and Rob and so yeah, how's the
call us? Bruce? Sorry, they called the even Couple, you know,
even couple. Okay, that's right, that's right on the Rob
Parker's next stand up right there, right, all right, all right, yeah, alright,
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lying from the Tirek dot Com studios, and it's time
for trash talking Tuesday. That's you whatever talking about it,
trash talking Tuesday. It's a teeth regy. I don't know
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whether to smile. Let's you kick a field. Go man,
all right, Chris, let's kick it off. Let's start with
Sergio and El Paso, who lives in Los Angeles. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Hey Sergio,
who you're trashing? Rob? I was gonna trash you. I
was getting ready to trash you. But you put the
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Niners number one in your in your Rob Tiwer ratings,
and I respect that. I respect that, so so just
for you, Rob, I'm trashing Tom Brady. I am not
a Tom Brady hater by any strength of the word
at all, but my god, stop it. Tom Brady. Please
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go home. And I don't want to speak on anyone's life,
but try and speak that you can at home and
get out of the football field. To think that it
was still a game, even after the Cowboys kicker miss
shoe extra point of tense, it was still a game
if he hadn't thrown that interception in the end zone
and the Bucks were actually rolling, and once they saw
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what Tom Brady really was, I think they all they
all fell too, you know, they all ended up following suit.
And I think it's Tom Brady for It's time to
Tom Brady for to hang it up. All right, Sergio
my man, I love that. All right? Mitch in New
Jersey he needs your baby. Yeah, I needed that last
night mention New Jersey on the couple Fox Sports Radio.
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Who you trash it? Mitch? How he feels? And how
do you guys do? That's right? He is Phoebix. Good job. No,
what are you saying for griss Field? Look at the
picture He's dressed up in a suit. Okay, I got
I got two things. I was going to see the
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charges I would agree to the news the other day.
I mean to charge and the courage, that courage, and
I've been listening. I got driving another why receiver and
get a bigger running back to hell equa. But I
got the biggest man's pitiful Darius Miles the basketball player
uh influencing Alabama. You know, in the words of George Castandra,
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enjoy your life. Sentence that is sad, so sad. It
is a sad story, no doubt. Thanks Matche, appreciate it.
How about Jim in Florida. You're on the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio, who you Trash? And Jim Well
I called and I said, I was gonna trash Rob Parker.
But you know what, Rob Parker already did all the
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trash talking tonight, and that's all there needs to be
trash talk that Brady. And I'm in South Florida, so
I'm a Dolphins fan and We've been plagued by that
Brady for years. He needs to hang it up. Have
a good nights of us. All right, thanks Jim, another
Brady should hang it up. I love this. M JA
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in New Orleans joined the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio,
who You're trash? And m j from trash from Glenn
doc Rivers. But the tweet that he put out there
that was described by Dave mcminiman saying that Glenn doc
Rivers on Lebron James, I think he's gonna have the
greatest career of all time. I think he's already had it.
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And that's not I think Michael Jordan is the greatest
of all time, but that doesn't take anything away from Lebron.
Lebrons has the greatest career. Let's go back in the
hot tub time machine. When Glenn Doc Rivers said the
Got debate has been raging off for years and that
Doc Rivers offered a caveat that he views Jordan that's
(27:53):
the greatest of all time, despighting James having the greatest career.
We kind of really need to know what he's saying
here with a double talk, speaking out of both sides
of the mother. Either Jordan's the greatest that he stated,
or Lebron is gonna have the greatest career in his
twenty something career. Come on, Doc Rivers, Keith the River, Yeah,
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that's a good call him. I agree, Rob, I've heard
I think Mark Jackson may have said that. Um, but
Doc also says said it. Rob. To me, that's a
cop out. We talk about it all the time. Right,
there's no such thing. There's no such thing. Just stop.
If you don't wanted his career. I guess you're the greatest. Yeah,
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how could you? You had the greatest career, but you're
not the greatest player. Does that make sense? It's just
they don't want to. I guess because Doc is still
coaching and Lebron is still in the league, you know
what I mean, So he don't want to say nothing.
That's what it is, tapped ins and around it. I
don't think that it's the end of the world of
Saint Michael Jordan was the greatest player you ever saw.
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I just don't understand that. Joe So in Indiana, you're
on the couple of Fox Sports Radio who you're trash
and I don't think Chris is gonna be cool with this,
but anyway, let it rotten. I'm trashing Patrick Mahomes. I
mean Daddy Mahome. Daddy Mahomes and did not need to
win his Super Bowl just because Jimmy Garoppolo. They were
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Patrick Mahome, as Colin cow Hurt said, Jimmy g I'll
play Jimmy Garoppolo three quarters of that game. If Jimmy
Garoppolo and not decide to play hero ball, Patrick Patrick
Mahomes would be seen as a two times were there
seen as he can win the regular season but can't
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win the Big One. He'll be likely. He'd like Lebron James,
can't win the Big One, and he's the oldest quarterback.
As they said, he's not to go. Josh Allen is better.
There's a lot of those I don't do love here, Jose,
I gotta I don't agree with all that. I love
hearing this day. Know at least one of us do,
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at least there's some passion there, right, absolutely, absolutely all right?
Uh we are we good with the calls because we
could have everybody chime in? Now, who Alex? Who? You try? Well? Rob, Rob,
go ahead, you said, you know, I'll just trash and
talk trash in the whole first segment of the show. Yeah.
I just Chris that that was a game that and
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did you see the stat that they put up on television?
I think I'm When he threw the pick, it was
like his first as his first Bred zone pick, and
they had like it's what they call announcer's jinks, you know,
when they say someone's always made forty straight free throw.
They said it before the Yes, Oh wow, I didn't
know that, Yeah they did. But anyway, I think I
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don't buy into the NFL should say no to him.
I mean, if a team doesn't want him to fine,
If somebody wants to sign him, go right ahead. But
I just wonder at this point, because Rob Brady's only
playing for Proposed, I think he really does clearly. I mean,
I don't even have to state he loves to play football,
but I also think he only wants to play to
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win Super Bowls. And I just don't know what I mean.
You know, you're not gonna find a perfect situation, and
uh so we'll see. It's gonna be interested. But I
I I do you think you I assume you think
he's coming back? Yeah, which I lost. He lost the
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family and the wife, so why wouldn't he come back.
I'm like now with yeah, I mean I shouldn't take
hopefully he resurrected with his wife, but that I don't know.
But uh yeah, it was. It was. It was a
bad year all around for Tom Brady. That's we can
definitely say that. All right, it's the odd couple. We
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everybody knows him, but I'm gonna introduce him anyway. He
is I think it's fair to say, arguably America's most
(01:10):
popular sports media figure, and he is a great friend
of both mine and Robs. Robs known him for thirty years.
I've known him for close to thirty years. I said yesterday,
when you are a friend of his You got a
real friend. He is loyal, he's a great brother. He's
(01:31):
just coming out with a new book, Straight Shooter, a
memoir of second chances and first take takes. We welcome
in our man, Steven A. Smith and Steve. Before you start,
I gotta tell you the last three days, Rob Parker
has been as giddy as a schoolgirl. We're coming on
(01:55):
this show, Rob or Steve. So we welcome you, brother.
How are you, my brothers? What's going on y'all? How
y'all doing? Man? How's everything? We are great? Man, We
are great. And let me say this, Steve, the reason
that I've been getting since we decided, okay, this is
gonna happen, and we don't you know, normally people from
(02:15):
other networks don't come on. But this was a big
deal for us, and you've been one of our biggest supporters.
We said it on the air, Chris that you text
us of me so often. We know you're listening, you
enjoy the show, and so for you to, you know,
show us that love listening to the Odd Couple on
Fox Sports Radio means something to us because we are friends. Well,
(02:36):
I will tell you this. I mean, first of all,
I mean, you know, we know what we know that
I work for ESP and all that stuff. You guys
have a fantastic show. I'm so proud of both for y'all,
we all three of us go back. I go back
over thirty years with Rob, I go back about twenty
eight years with Bussa. I love y'all both like brothers.
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Y'all have both been to my home. We've hung out together,
we've laughed together, we've pride together. We've had a lot
going on throughout the years. I'm so incredibly proud of
both of y'all and the job that y'all do every day.
I'm incredibly proud of the career that y'all have. And
even though y'all had a different network, by the way,
a network that I used to work right show right
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here on this on the channel. And I know a
lot of great, great people that are over there that
have been there throughout the years. But it don't get
no better than y'all when it comes to being people,
when it comes to what y'all doing for Fox, when
it comes to our friendship and our brotherhood, and with
all of this stuff, with my book coming out, I
told I made sure everybody was clear. You know, you
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usually don't go to the competing network or whatever. There
will be one. There will be one exception. Those are
my brothers. And if they call, I'm going on. And
everybody understood that. Well, that's great to hear Man, And
you know we feel the same way about you. So
your book is called straight s want to memoir our
second chances in First Takes. First question, I got this, Man,
(04:04):
When did you find the time to do this? Because
every time I look up you on a TV show
on the ESPN, it's gonna bug you out. Chris. I've
written this when I was home at night. I've written
this when I was in commercial breaks for First Takes.
I've written this when when when I was in studio
(04:26):
doing NBA countdown pre games and post games. You know
when we've got to wait for until the halftime comes
and then we got to wait until the halftime of
the second game comes on, doing NBA Countdown and all
of that stuff. I've done it that, I've done it
on vacations. Rob I was in um Mastros in Beverly
(04:48):
Hills a few months ago when I had to meet
a deadline. I was literally in Mastro eating dinner, and
writing the last chapter my book every chance, every I
just squeezed it in wherever I could. I didn't miss
that lines. And more importantly, guys, you know all three
of us are you know? We're writers by trade. I
(05:11):
wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Chris has written for The
Times and in Cleveland and Akarin, He's written everywhere you know,
plus the ESPN dot com. Rob Parker, You've been in Cincinnati, Detroit,
New York News Day, all over the place. I could
not allow someone else to write this, right knowing I'm
(05:31):
on TV every day and I wrote for the Philadelphia
Acquirer for seventeen years. America knows my voice, the sports
world knows my voice, and if somebody else had written it,
y'all would have known it instantly. I couldn't let that happen.
So I had to do it myself. And that's what
I did. In about five months. I started last Chris Chris,
(05:51):
I started last November and I finished it by April.
That's no mean. And now, obviously I can't wait to
get the book and read it. And do you go
to the very beginning? And obviously I know the very
beginning because we that's when when I first met you
in Detroit in nineteen ninety two, and I remember, like
(06:14):
people think they see you and how successful you are,
and they think it happens overnight. And for people don't know,
Steve was writing sports stories for free on his own
time and the week on the weekends in North Carolina
to get started. Like people people don't know that story.
They think, you know, they see you and think, oh,
(06:35):
he just showed up. You put in the work over
the years to get where you are. Well, I really
started off that I definitely is a part of my story.
You guys are in the book, just so you know, Balt,
y'all I mentioned in the book. Of course y'all are
my boys. But the thing about it is that for me,
Rob Christy, it really started with my mother's passons in
(06:56):
twenty seventeen, just highlighting the fact that it was something
she never ever wanted me to do. My mother and
I were very tight, as you both know. I was
devastated when I lost her game one of the NBA
Finals in twenty seventeen. I was absolutely devastated. And you
know I had promised her for years from since twenty
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eleven that I would never write the book until she
passed away because she was so private. She did not
want the book out because she knew I would celebrate her.
But by celebrating her, I would have to talk about
why she should be celebrated, which would be me highlighting
my relationship with my dad. And that is not something
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that she wanted me to do. She knew it was inevitable,
she knew that I had a right to do it,
she felt I needed to do it. She just made
me promise that I wouldn't do it until she passed away.
So I started off really getting into that, and then
I went from there to talking about, you know, from
the time my early ages, you know, the trouble I
(08:00):
had in school, I had dyslexia, didn't know it, I
was with you know, my father didn't believe in me,
thought I was a lost cause, and my relationship with
him deteriorated from there. It really highlighted all of that
before I got into obviously my career at ESPN and
the numerous controversial situations that I found myself in, or
(08:24):
even when I got fired by ESPN and let go
and ultimately started resurrecting myself by started off at Fox
Sports Radio to resurrect my career. So all of that
is in the book, and that's where it went. Now,
you Steve, you you know Rob, I mean from the
time he was a young kid wanted to be a
(08:44):
sports writer. You would you start off at college at
what the Fashion Institute or something in New York? Right?
So did you fast to the technology? Yeah? Did you
always want to be a sports writer or at least
you know before you went to college or is that something?
How did you discover that this is what you wanted
(09:05):
to do. I knew I wanted to be in media
and communications, and I knew that I could talk with
the best of them. I didn't know how good my
writing would be until I was writing the school newspaper
and my critical and persuasive writing teacher named John Gains
said to me, you're a natural born sports writer. Let's
(09:25):
go out to lunch and talk about this. So I
met him a following Tuesday and to me thinking he
was gonna take me out to lunch, and he drove
me straight to the office of the sports editor of
the Winston Salem Journal. I went to Seale of journal
sports unitor. His name was Terry Oberley. He sat me
down for five minutes to talk to me, and he's
(09:49):
the next words out of his mouth was, so when
can you start? Can you start tonight? Wow? And that
time my career started off. Wow. You know you mentioned
something too that I think also is and you know
when you think you're of you being the face of
the network, and you mentioned it earlier you were fired
(10:10):
or not renewed by ESPN. Let's not get a good coded.
Everybody knows it is well documented. You are a big star.
You out of your own show quite frankly, which I
was a part of the back page panel. I was
on that show or ESPN two back in the day.
So you know how how I don't want to say
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rewarding or for you to make the comeback story is
a great one and it's a good lesson for people
to understand things happen in life. Steve. That doesn't mean
that it's over exactly, and that that that you know, listen,
the story is meant to be inspirational. It's meant to
be you know, motivational, and to let people know when
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they count you out, don't count yourself out. And more importantly,
don't always assume no one is willing to extend to
help it end. You know, I wanted to get I
wanted to quit the business and work for why Kobe
a Bank. I tell a friend of mine named Rob Parker,
who was writing for the Cincinnati Enquirer at the time,
said no way, no how, That's what he said said.
(11:17):
He said, you're you're not quitting, You're not giving up.
All you need is that first chance to be patient,
keep pushing, and it'll happen. It's sure enough, it did,
And I'm eternally grateful to him for that um and
I love him forever. For the fact of the matter
is that there's always somebody that's willing to provide some
level of assistance to help in hand. If you are focused,
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if you are determined, if you're willing to get on
your grinds, not looking to cut corners and take shortcuts
to get to where you are, if you as long
as you're that kind of person, you'd be surprised how
many people you find that would be willing to extend
a helping hand to provide some assistance so you can
get the opportunities that you create. And so for me,
that's the kind of that I wanted to send with
(12:01):
this book. I think it was incredibly necessary for me
to do that, and you're absolutely right. I don't sugarcoat it.
I would fire ESPN did not renew my contract, and
I thought I got screwed. Though I thought it was
messed up, I didn't deserve it. To this very day,
I never believed I deserved to wake up one day
after having four jobs and to have none. But in
(12:24):
the same breath, you know what, when you're in a
position of power, it's not just about your performance, and
it's not just about your hard work. It's about your attitude.
It's about how you come across it's about how you
treat other people, particularly superior officers that you work under.
All of those things potentially play a role, and you
got to know how to be a team player. And
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those are things that I had to learn along the
way to be better at in order to help resurrect
my career and to be in a position that I'm
in right now. Chris, that story he tells about Cincinnati,
this is pre cell phone. Steve calls me at my
house and we're on the house phones and and Steve,
you remember I told you to rip up that application
(13:06):
to watch over your bank over the phone, Chris. I
wanted to hear hear him rip it up. And so
my question to you is what out We're gonna read
the book, but Howard's Howard, Chris and I both in
the book. Did you rip Chris in the book? Primary
primarily acknowledgement, Just just letting the world know that I
(13:29):
love y'all, um, and that I value y'all. You know,
we're not colleagues and we're not just friends. We're brothers.
We've been this way for years. We know things about
each other that nobody knows about us. We talked to
each other all the time. We encourage each other, we
support each other, we lift people up, We lift each
other up, and we watch each other's back. And so,
you know, for me, it was just a way of
(13:51):
letting the world know these are my brothers. You know,
I don't give a damn where they are, where they work,
who they work for. You know, I'm I was friend
long before that happened, and I'm gonna be there brother
long after this it's all gone. That's just the way
it's gonna be. What there Stephen A. Smith Man. Little
people can get the book? Yeah, where the book everywhere
(14:13):
it's on Amazon, it's it's at Bards and Nobles. There'll
be a talk at Walmart. Whatever. I just did a
book signing in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Um, and all the
books were sold. I did every single book they had
in the store sold. Um. The day is not even
completed yet. It hasn't been on shelves for twenty four hours,
(14:36):
and I'm already number four on the Amazon bestseller list.
So it's rob and it's going, it's gone well, and uh,
you know, but my goal is to be a New
York Times bestseller. It's one thing on my in my career.
I never wrote a book before. This is my first.
But if I'm gonna do it, I'm trying to do
it right. And so that's what I'm trying to accomplish,
and I hope I pull it off. So proud of you.
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A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes by Stephen A.
Smith Man. Great job, brother, We I can't wait to
read the book. I know it's gonna be incredible. And
keep up the great work Man for real. We're proud
of you, no doubt about it. We love you, Steve
Man for real. Keep doing your thing appreciate y'all. Love
y'all man, thanks so much. I'll talk to y'all later.
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All right, brother, peace, more I couple coming your way.
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studios and it's time for trolling and rolling. Martin tom Brady,
he's done er folly that worn't have a Pro Bowl season.
It's trolling. If you wait long enough, it'll it'll come
back in style. And that's true. Rob. I'm starting to
(16:04):
look at clothes that or fifteen years old, like you
know what, these pants are kind of coming back. It's right, yeah,
I mean, if you're thinking about it, the word troll
is kind of want to come back since ever since
social media has has really been but trolling and rolling
is what I'm doing right now. If Robert Chris liked
(16:24):
this story that I read, you hear the roll sound,
I guess that's not coming back? Right? All right? Here
we go, and then they don't you hear the troll sound.
Oh man, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, fresh off the
hills up a historic playoff collapse, the Los Angeles Chargers
decided to part way the offensive coordinator Joe Lombardy, but
(16:46):
it yet to make a decisional head coach Brandon Staley.
Stanley have been fired after that second half meltdown. Yes,
I'm well, I'm I'm rolling with the breaking up. I mean,
I don't know when you need to get a new phone. Brother,
We've been telling you that for years. Um, I'm I
(17:10):
think it's for it. I don't know. Yeah, I'm rolling,
but yeah, I mean, you could go back to the
fourth down calls a year ago. You could go back
to blowing the playoff birth when he called the time
out against the Raiders. You can go back to you know,
when he went for it on fourth down against Cleveland
this year and they barely survived. And Keenan Allen's typing,
(17:32):
you know, tweeting, what are we doing? Mike Williams injury
in a meaningless game, and then of course not managing
the clockwell, and I've heard a lot of oh he's young,
he's learning. You don't get to be a head coach.
So you can experiment and grow and or learn on
the job. Obviously you're gonna grow. But those players put
(17:53):
in too much work to have a coach make bad
decisions that cost them a game. So it should have
been the case. I don't know if it will be,
but I'm rolling with it. I'm rolling with it too.
Push laid out of the laundry list of stuff. I mean,
he's bungled so many things and you cannot. If you
(18:14):
can't get fired off of that, then there's nothing that
you can get fired off of. Seriously, Like, like, what
if you losing the playoff next year? You'll be like, okay,
all right, Well, at least we didn't rolling up twenty seven.
Nothing like what would be the grounds Chris right to
fire somebody. If losing your playoff game doesn't matter, and
being up twenties having nothing doesn't matter, then if they
(18:36):
lose it by three next year, you're like, Okay, there's
no big deal, we just lost, all right. Strolling the
rolling a couple of five sports radios. The Dolphins to
lay a game in the fourth quarter wasn't great. McDaniel
said he was told from quote upstairs that it was
the first down, and then he felt they still had
(18:56):
a chance on fourth and six with a play call
Chris trolling or rolling McDaniel not knowing the down or this, Well,
are you asking me do I believe him or like,
I'm not sure? No, I believe him. I think he
didn't know. I thought you thought. I think he said
(19:17):
they thought he thought he at the first down, I said,
trolling or rolling McDaniel thinking he had the first down
and it was fourth down. I mean, I I think
I understand. I'm trolling it. Oh man, Yeah, I mean, look,
you you you're counting on communication a lot of times
from your coaches up upstairs. And he now whether or
(19:39):
not he should have said that. I mean, I think
you can question did he throw somebody under the bus,
you know? Um, But I definitely do believe that that
is what happened and that delayed him. But ultimately there's
no excuse it could that could happen to any coach.
And we don't see coaches having delays of games, delay
(20:00):
of games all all game long or all fourth quarter
like the Dolphins did. So I'm trolling. I'm trolling it too.
Oh man. Hey, Hey, hey, that's what Chris, That's what
the coach needs to do, like pay attention for those moments.
Most of the earlier in the game, you know things
are going on, but when it really matters in the
fourth quarter, you need to know what's happening because that's
(20:22):
going to determine what played, you call, what what else
is going on in the situation. So not knowing what
down it is is a major, major fole pool. I mean, uh,
just scowl up. You just can't have it. Absolutely, Yeah,
that's what I'm mean. That's the faio. That was So
(20:46):
that was a food paw. I don't know what I
was saying, was like radio. I was just going now it.
But I mean I was hoping you were going to
ignore it. But of course Martin had to open his mouth, right, Hey,
I thought my pulle broke couple. I missed the last word.
(21:08):
I wanted to make sure I had the whole thing.
But Tom Brady didn't play well in American football yesterday,
but maybe at the future in soccer because that there
he missed the tackle on a template turnover. He slid
and tried what best could be described as a fly
tackle on a play that was eventually called back Chris trolling.
The rolling Brady was intentionally trying to trip the Dallas defender. Oh,
(21:33):
I'm rolling with it. I mean that he was trying
to tackle him by tripping him. And I didn't like
it because obviously it's a dirty play, but also I
mean that you can hurt somebody that way, and so
I thought it was terrible. And yeah, he meant to
do it, no doubt about it in my mind. What
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did you just say, Chris, You trolled it? Ill or
I yeah, I trolled it. Yeah, yeah, I'm trolling it
as oh man, hey, hey, hey, hey, but this goes
with the Bradies that we know has been caught cheating
and doing all kinds of stuff in his entire career.
But I'm with Chris, that's a dangerous play. You can't
do that because that's somebody's career and livelihood. Chris, you
(22:19):
don't think about it like that. Little something like that
could change. What if you get seriously hurt and never
all the same and you need your legs to play football.
So I don't like it, no doubt. It's just a
real Brady on that one. It was a food ball,
you know what, or or it could be if you
were a member of the Water Buffalos, you could be
(22:41):
the Grand pooh bah. How about that Christian the Grand
that is our man, Martin White. You can catch him
every Saturday right here on Fox Sports seven pm Pacific,
seven ten Eastern Martin and VJ. That's right, Martin Weiss
(23:02):
and Vernon VJ Husky. They play our foils often filling
in for myself and Rob and so yeah, how's the
call us? Bruce? Sorry, they called the even Couple, you know,
even couple. Okay, that's right, that's right on the Rob
Parker's next stand up right there, right, all right, all right, yeah, alright,
(23:31):
this trash talking Tuesday eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
You're turning to call in and trash anyone or anything
in the world of sports. You got thirty to forty
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(23:53):
weekdays at seven pm Eastern, four pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. All right, we're
lying from the Tirek dot Com studios, and it's time
for trash talking Tuesday. That's you whatever talking about it,
trash talking Tuesday. It's a teeth regy. I don't know
(24:15):
whether to smile. Let's you kick a field. Go man,
all right, Chris, let's kick it off. Let's start with
Sergio and El Paso, who lives in Los Angeles. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Hey Sergio,
who you're trashing? Rob? I was gonna trash you. I
was getting ready to trash you. But you put the
(24:36):
Niners number one in your in your Rob Tiwer ratings,
and I respect that. I respect that, so so just
for you, Rob, I'm trashing Tom Brady. I am not
a Tom Brady hater by any strength of the word
at all, but my god, stop it. Tom Brady. Please
(24:56):
go home. And I don't want to speak on anyone's life,
but try and speak that you can at home and
get out of the football field. To think that it
was still a game, even after the Cowboys kicker miss
shoe extra point of tense, it was still a game
if he hadn't thrown that interception in the end zone
and the Bucks were actually rolling, and once they saw
(25:18):
what Tom Brady really was, I think they all they
all fell too, you know, they all ended up following suit.
And I think it's Tom Brady for It's time to
Tom Brady for to hang it up. All right, Sergio
my man, I love that. All right? Mitch in New
Jersey he needs your baby. Yeah, I needed that last
night mention New Jersey on the couple Fox Sports Radio.
(25:44):
Who you trash it? Mitch? How he feels? And how
do you guys do? That's right? He is Phoebix. Good job. No,
what are you saying for griss Field? Look at the
picture He's dressed up in a suit. Okay, I got
I got two things. I was going to see the
(26:04):
charges I would agree to the news the other day.
I mean to charge and the courage, that courage, and
I've been listening. I got driving another why receiver and
get a bigger running back to hell equa. But I
got the biggest man's pitiful Darius Miles the basketball player
uh influencing Alabama. You know, in the words of George Castandra,
(26:26):
enjoy your life. Sentence that is sad, so sad. It
is a sad story, no doubt. Thanks Matche, appreciate it.
How about Jim in Florida. You're on the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio, who you Trash? And Jim Well
I called and I said, I was gonna trash Rob Parker.
But you know what, Rob Parker already did all the
(26:48):
trash talking tonight, and that's all there needs to be
trash talk that Brady. And I'm in South Florida, so
I'm a Dolphins fan and We've been plagued by that
Brady for years. He needs to hang it up. Have
a good nights of us. All right, thanks Jim, another
Brady should hang it up. I love this. M JA
(27:10):
in New Orleans joined the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio,
who You're trash? And m j from trash from Glenn
doc Rivers. But the tweet that he put out there
that was described by Dave mcminiman saying that Glenn doc
Rivers on Lebron James, I think he's gonna have the
greatest career of all time. I think he's already had it.
(27:33):
And that's not I think Michael Jordan is the greatest
of all time, but that doesn't take anything away from Lebron.
Lebrons has the greatest career. Let's go back in the
hot tub time machine. When Glenn Doc Rivers said the
Got debate has been raging off for years and that
Doc Rivers offered a caveat that he views Jordan that's
(27:53):
the greatest of all time, despighting James having the greatest career.
We kind of really need to know what he's saying
here with a double talk, speaking out of both sides
of the mother. Either Jordan's the greatest that he stated,
or Lebron is gonna have the greatest career in his
twenty something career. Come on, Doc Rivers, Keith the River, Yeah,
(28:17):
that's a good call him. I agree, Rob, I've heard
I think Mark Jackson may have said that. Um, but
Doc also says said it. Rob. To me, that's a
cop out. We talk about it all the time. Right,
there's no such thing. There's no such thing. Just stop.
If you don't wanted his career. I guess you're the greatest. Yeah,
(28:37):
how could you? You had the greatest career, but you're
not the greatest player. Does that make sense? It's just
they don't want to. I guess because Doc is still
coaching and Lebron is still in the league, you know
what I mean, So he don't want to say nothing.
That's what it is, tapped ins and around it. I
don't think that it's the end of the world of
Saint Michael Jordan was the greatest player you ever saw.
(28:58):
I just don't understand that. Joe So in Indiana, you're
on the couple of Fox Sports Radio who you're trash
and I don't think Chris is gonna be cool with this,
but anyway, let it rotten. I'm trashing Patrick Mahomes. I
mean Daddy Mahome. Daddy Mahomes and did not need to
win his Super Bowl just because Jimmy Garoppolo. They were
(29:19):
Patrick Mahome, as Colin cow Hurt said, Jimmy g I'll
play Jimmy Garoppolo three quarters of that game. If Jimmy
Garoppolo and not decide to play hero ball, Patrick Patrick
Mahomes would be seen as a two times were there
seen as he can win the regular season but can't
(29:39):
win the Big One. He'll be likely. He'd like Lebron James,
can't win the Big One, and he's the oldest quarterback.
As they said, he's not to go. Josh Allen is better.
There's a lot of those I don't do love here, Jose,
I gotta I don't agree with all that. I love
hearing this day. Know at least one of us do,
(30:02):
at least there's some passion there, right, absolutely, absolutely all right?
Uh we are we good with the calls because we
could have everybody chime in? Now, who Alex? Who? You try? Well? Rob, Rob,
go ahead, you said, you know, I'll just trash and
talk trash in the whole first segment of the show. Yeah.
I just Chris that that was a game that and
(30:24):
did you see the stat that they put up on television?
I think I'm When he threw the pick, it was
like his first as his first Bred zone pick, and
they had like it's what they call announcer's jinks, you know,
when they say someone's always made forty straight free throw.
They said it before the Yes, Oh wow, I didn't
know that, Yeah they did. But anyway, I think I
(30:46):
don't buy into the NFL should say no to him.
I mean, if a team doesn't want him to fine,
If somebody wants to sign him, go right ahead. But
I just wonder at this point, because Rob Brady's only
playing for Proposed, I think he really does clearly. I mean,
I don't even have to state he loves to play football,
but I also think he only wants to play to
(31:09):
win Super Bowls. And I just don't know what I mean.
You know, you're not gonna find a perfect situation, and
uh so we'll see. It's gonna be interested. But I
I I do you think you I assume you think
he's coming back? Yeah, which I lost. He lost the
(31:30):
family and the wife, so why wouldn't he come back.
I'm like now with yeah, I mean I shouldn't take
hopefully he resurrected with his wife, but that I don't know.
But uh yeah, it was. It was. It was a
bad year all around for Tom Brady. That's we can
definitely say that. All right, it's the odd couple. We
(31:52):
are signing all Fox Sports Radio. But keep it locked
right here. You got Jason Smith and Mike Harmon their
next and I'm telling you those brothers bring he
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