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October 14, 2025 36 mins

Rob and Kelvin provide up-to-the-minute analysis of Game 2 of the NLCS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers, and debate whether Dawn Staley is right when she says we won’t see a female NBA head coach in our lifetimes. Plus, MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble answers the tough baseball questions in this week’s edition of Foul or Fair.  

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minutes his foul affair with JR.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Gamble.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Of course, the managing editor from mlbbro dot com will
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Interesting comments from Dawn Stale.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well, before we get to that, we should let you
know it's two to one Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Thank you for the update.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yes, two to one Dodgers. Here in the top of
the fourth in into Oscar and that is hit a
solo shot earlier in the game. He's up again now too.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You can't do it again, Yes this time. He's that
man you talk about, a guy who just even in
regular season postseason, last couple of seasons, has big moments
good and bad.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Good like he's one of those guys where it's like
feast or famine. He's gonna give you the full gam.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
The best version of a yas is that what you're saying, Yes,
the best version. But you talked about this before.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Isn't that kind of important with the team like the Dodgers,
when you got guys like Mookie and Freddie who are
so email and no big on that, and when you
have a guy like this who is just as likely
to three run bomb as he is to have three
errors in one inning.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
But but Lea's has and the fire on they need
that because they're so you know, stay focused. They do this,
you gotta be. This is how they're very regimented. Don't
go high, don't go too low, and that you need
a Max Muncie. He might be bad in one eighty sometimes,
but dang it, somebody got a little angry. He little chippy,
a little talk smack to the Joe Kelly. You need

(02:57):
you need a little bit of that. When you got
guys who's so systematic and so ritualistic and so regimented,
don't don't stay focused, you need it. You need a
little fiery hernandez.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
If O Tani was bad in one eighty the Dodger
doing backflips right.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now, Yeah, because he ain't made eighty. And of course,
obviously if they were losing or you know what I mean,
losing some games, then people the focus would be different,
like what's wrong with.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
What if it was the reverse? But if he wore
be going crazy because they would need like they needed
me because the winning.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
No, I mean last year they won. He didn't hit
in the World Series and he didn't pitch. I'm just saying, no,
it's in this game. He's not hitting.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Done, has no hits right now, over to I believe
it is, so yeah, it it's strange all season long
bad it almost three it was it two ninety something
to ninety fifty some home runs, I mean, and all
of a sudden, the postseason is not what you wanted
to be.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
So all those homers, he was stealing all those bases
a year ago a sudden he stopped stealing bases in
the playoffs, and he stopped getting hits all together.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
But the NBA is getting started right sooner than later?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
About it?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
About a week away now from NBA Opening Night. I
think that's next week. Yeah, NBA Opening Night, the Lakers
against the Warriors, will be the marquee game. Everyone's talking
about no Lebron in that one, But yes, NBA Opening
Night in a week. Today, though, Don Staley met with
the media for SEC Media Days. Her Game Cocks are
ranked number two in the nation entering the season. They

(04:21):
are the current dynasty in women's college sports, and lest
we forget, we were this close away from that dynasty
being over because Don Staley interviewed for the vacant New
York Knicks head coaching gig after they fired Tom Thibodeau
before they hired Mike Brown, and it was reported at

(04:42):
the time nobody really believed until she said, no, I
interviewed for the job. I met with world Wide West,
I met with Leon Rose. I really respect those guys,
and they just you know, the decision wasn't made. It
is what it is. Well today at SEC Media Days,
she was asked about the idea of women women coaching
in the NBA, especially at the head level, and here's

(05:04):
what she said.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
If I'm the mixed coach and you have a five
game losing streak, it's not going to be about the
losing streak. It's going to be about being a female coach.
So you as a as an organization in the franchise.
You have to be prepared for that and strong enough
to endure those type of instances when you're gonna look
for or hire a female coach, Do you.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Think it'll happen in your lifetime where a women's coachman.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Is I don't, and I hope I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'm going to say I think it will happen. I'm
gonna go to the opposite only because I think basketball,
of all the sports, is very viable where you look
at a woman having played basketball at a certain level
and then coach. I can't see a woman as a
managed baseball manager hardball, not soft like football. No, you

(06:02):
know what I mean, I can't. I really can't. And
it doesn't mean that they couldn't know about football being
a uh some sort of coach or you know like that,
uh same. I know women play hockey too above that level.
But basketball is is apples to apples, it really is.
The game is for the most part and more fundamentally sound.
Would you say women were metamore athletic and above the

(06:26):
rim and all that kind of stuff and and and whatnot.
So I'm not positive I agree with her that it's
not gonna happen in her lifetime. I mean, I didn't
think that we'd see a black president in the United States.
I gotta be it my honest, I'm no, but I didn't.
I really, I really didn't. But but I didn't.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
It might be right, But my point is, uh, if
there is a sport and and and she might be
right that they're not ready to do it now, you
know what I mean. But to say never, I just
think basketball, women's basketball, men's basketball. Men coach women's basketball
left and right right. You don't have to be a

(07:11):
female to coach women's basketball. And I get it, it's
a male dominated business and sports and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
But there was something missing because Becky.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Hammond's was was on that track to be a head
coach in the NBA. She was pop picked, her made,
he put on the bench with the Spurs.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
She interviewed with a couple.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Of teams like like, and for whatever reason, nobody pulled
the trigger on her. I don't know if it was
something about her, you know what I mean, once she
got in there. You know there are people like that
who should be coaches. Who's the guy for the for
the Lakers forever. He finally got rob g finally got
a head coach in Byron Scott. No, who's the other

(07:54):
guy who was on the he was on what era with?
He was Phil Jackson and he just could not Oh
my god, I cannot.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Remember that called a long time. He's this He finally
didn't he finally get a head coach job. You know
who that is?

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Now?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Sam Cassell?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Okay, Sam Cassell, there's another guy like Okay, he's been paid.
Everybody's like Sam and whatever reason he's interviewed for some jobs.
They don't pull a trigger on a Sam Cassell. And
they didn't pull a trigger on Becky Hammond's even though
she was set up for it. Like the rest coach
at the time in the NBA is like all all

(08:35):
in on her, the endorsements, giving her a job that
no other woman had had on an NBA team responsibility
when he was out, she coached, you know what I mean?
Like everything, And it didn't happen in San Antonio, and
it didn't happen anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
But do I really I think that of all the sports, it.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Could happen in basketball because the games are so close,
are they ready right now. No, but I but I
Dawnton not in her lifetime. I disagree with that.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I strongly disagree with the in my lifetime. I absolutely
believe it's gonna happen. I believe it might happen in
the next decade. A couple of reasons why now. I
do think current political climate may need to change. It's
I'm gonna say about that. But there's a couple of
reasons why the NBA. Number one, The NBA is the
most progressive of all the leagues, right. They usually try

(09:28):
to be forward thinking. They try to be ahead of
the curb and certain things socially, politically, and all those
kind of things they try to do that they've already integrated.
It's almost like weird now if you're an NBA team
and you don't have a woman on your your your bench,
you know, some type of coach, some other assistant, you know,
whether film coach something, you're some type of assistant coaches

(09:48):
the Lakers here have in LA have one as well,
maybe even more. But so it's not far fetcher. And
I think inherently you mentioned it because it's skilled to skill.
Like hoop is hoop is hoop. You grow up playing ball. Dude,
if you go to a local twenty four hour fitness
LA times right now, there's gonna be a lady, a
couple of ladies out there playing, no doubt about it.

(10:09):
And you don't think toy. You like Joe. She can hoop,
let's go hoop. She can shoot, she can shoot, and
it's just natural. I grew up you plenty of like
when I played Nancy Lieberman in that game exactly, And
you know what Nancy Lieberman is coaching in the Big Three.
You led me to where I was gonna go. Nancy
Lieberman is coaching in the Big Three, which is very
volidle and hostile and tough and aggressive, and because that's

(10:30):
how they promote the league, and she's doing her thing there.
You couldn't tell me that. Dawn Staley, Cheryl Miller, Doris Burke,
God blessed that past summer. All there's a hot summit.
Let me Pat Summit, Pat Pat Summit. There's a whole
list of folks that if they Dude, if I was

(10:51):
in college and your NBA and that was my coach,
I'd be won't even think toy. But I was some
coach Becky Hammond because you know, they know the game.
Diana Tarassi, if she all of a sudden became a coach,
if Sue Bird became a coach, you'd be like, all right, whatever.
And it might be a little weird and just because
you grew up with men, and there's certain little things
like you naturally think you got an arm around the coach,
you walk in the locker room, maybe there you know,
I don't know the rules, and maybe a little different.

(11:11):
I get that that's just human nature. But ultimately, I
think you get over and I think the NBA is
very progressive in that regard. I fully expect within the
next ten years or so for someone to do that.
I think someone's gonna want to show how bold they are,
want to lead the pack, want to give someone a chance.
And you're right that we all kind of thought Becky
Hammond was on that track, so it was shocking to
see that she hasn't. But she's still coaching very well

(11:33):
in the WNBA, so very well could end up being
getting that opportunity because she's doing her thing in the WNBA,
winning championships as well. So football, there's a physicality, there's
a machismo, there's a man thing, I think that won't
allow it to happen, right, because the highest every high
there's a few high school players around the country that

(11:54):
have a women athletes, girl, young girls, young women. But
it's not like a thing. There's more flag football, softball. Yeah,
you play, but it ain't baseball. You can hear it,
and it's in a baseball for a different sport, different mindset,
different era. Has been around so long, and again, I
just think they'll be slowly slow to adapt that basketball

(12:17):
is just not crazy at all. And again, Nancy Lieberman,
that's it's a really big thing that she's doing the
Big three because to me it's I know the Big
three is in the NBA, but you need somebody to
start slowly doing it. Then you need a smaller school,
not maybe like a smaller d one like I went
to Eastern Michigan. Right, you need an alma smaller d
one Eastern Michigan to have a coach, and then you
start inching your way up. But I don't I don't

(12:39):
think it's far fetched. I think and Don Staley, by
the way, while she's talking about it might not be
in my lifetime, Don Staley, you might get tapped on
the shoulder again.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Maybe the next coach at Wisconsin Green Bay could be
a woman.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's very possible. What are you saying, next coach? It
could be like five years to Yeah, yeah, that's what
I'm thinking. It'll be more like that, something like that,
like that. Yeah, Dawn Staley very well. While she's saying that,
Mike get tapped on the shoulder again, another team might say, no, no, no,
we want to we want to bring you in for

(13:15):
another round of interviews and and uh and think about highly,
think about considering you, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'm not as pessimistic as she is. I mean, and
I get it. She said it down in her lifetime.
I don't think her lifetime. I thought that was like, Wow,
I'm out. I just think that's just where we're going.
And again, like we said, we keep repeating the same
point in the NBA is just basketball is just different and.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
And it just fits. It just does all right.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. Is the NBA
ready for a female head coach? Will we see one
in our lifetime? Kelvin and I are both optimistic. Down
Staley not so much. We'll continue that conversation next with you.
It is the couple on the trash talking to day
Rob Parker kelvin Washington, right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
And you know what you need to do, stick and
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Speaker 3 (14:53):
Another story in my life. I get this all the time.
What maybe in another lifetime?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
You know what I mean? I feel like you're the
one saying it. Are you the one saying it. You know,
I want to be with you. Yeah, I'm saying maybe
another lifetime was meant to be right there? Yes, whatever,
you don't remember.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
It was Likeranda I wanted.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
He said, I'm done. I was married.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm not like looking for love like some people have
never been in love. I feel like I'm blessed that
I was. I married the woman I was madly in
love with. It didn't work out. But I'm not one
of these people who their whole lives never meet anybody.
You know what I'm saying, Calvin.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's not but as you so allegedly, in five years,
you're going to be gone from here. You can retire.
You don't want to spend it with somebody walking to
say that.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
But but I'm not getting married again, okay a singular person.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the most depth we're going
to get out of him for another thirty years. Yes,
all right, all right, but you get my point though.
They don't have to tie the knot.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
But you anybody who's never been in love or never
got I feel for those people, seriously who never found that.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, there you have it. I'm holding on to it.
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eight seven seven ninety nine On Fox, Don Staley believes
that a female coach in the NBA is not gonna
happen in her lifetime, at which I see what you doing,
miss marymck and see head coach, and uh, it's even
this lifetime. I didn't try that. But we actually disagree,

(16:56):
both of us. We actually agree on something. I think
it's gonna happen as you in the NBA is the
league to have that happening and the games line up
to make sense? All right?

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Andre in Massachusetts, you're on the eye couple of Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
What's up, Drake, how you doing?

Speaker 8 (17:13):
Thanks for taking a call.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Listen, man, are you in the car driving?

Speaker 8 (17:17):
I'm in the car, yeah, moving, Man. I just come
from a men's league game.

Speaker 9 (17:20):
Rob.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's unbelievable. We always yeah, wow, how many you put up?
What you drop on them tonight? You know that's right.

Speaker 8 (17:31):
My game is Eric Snow. So I didn't have as
many points, My player efficiency was high and we won
by double digits.

Speaker 10 (17:36):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
It sounds like you got no points over heal points
four sys three files. It was Eric yellow Snow is
how the performance was. I'm just saying, come on.

Speaker 8 (17:50):
Now, I'm two thousand and one.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we want to know who the
Allen is on the team. That's what what you got
on this? What do you got?

Speaker 8 (18:00):
And speaking of Dawn Stalley, she's from the city of
Brotherly Love. She should be, first of all, a little
bit more optimistic. There will be a women a women's
head coach in the NBA in five years, ten years,
Matt book it, There's no.

Speaker 9 (18:14):
Two ways about it.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I agree.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
Decade under the leadership of Adam Silver taking the baton
from the late Great State David Sterns will leave and
empowering women and it goes all the way back to
the formation of the w NBA, which was a passion
project of David Stearns and Adam Silver is lockstep behind him.
You look at how many women's officials that we have
and they do an outstanding job. The league believes in it.

(18:38):
It makes it's the right thing to do and makes dollars.
It makes sense. So in the next five years, I say,
but at the long edge, in the next decade, you
will see a women's head coach, and Don Staley would
be a great candidate for the job.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Thanks taking a car all right, Bron, appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Robert in Georgia, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, Robert? What's up with the voice? What's going on?

Speaker 7 (19:03):
You?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
All right?

Speaker 6 (19:05):
I just had to clear Sorry, I just had a
quick question right before I asked. I know I watched
the game last name. I'm still confused and I just
need I know y'all know some clarification. So it was
basically loaded two hours when the when he caught the
ball and popped out, did it hit the didn't hit

(19:26):
the fence in and catch it how.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Was he yes, yes, fence hand right hand fence.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Then he caught it again because originally I told said
to Kelvin, I thought he caught it was hand hand
and he just caught the ball, but it actually hit
the fence that made the ball live and play Robert,
and that's why.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
It was to ask her. Then they said he blanked
up because he waited and he should have ran. He had,
you know, he talked about it, but it was confused.
I can obviously imagine for him it was confused and
trying to the one guy who did not wasn't confused
with the catcher. He was who way he he knew
it was a force.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
He didn't try to tag the runner her Nandez, and
he went right to third base.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
He didn't even play around. Yep.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
Yeah, I was just completed. But I don't think I
just to go to the top of it. I don't think
it's going to be and I'm thirty four. I don't
think it's going to be one in my lifetime. I
just really Yeah, even.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Though Becky Hammond seemed like she was closed, that's what
I say.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
That's why mine, That's why I think, because I feel
like if it was hard if it was anybody to
get it so than Beking Hammond. She was lined up
for the position with pop and having it and she
didn't get it. So I just don't see nobody else.
She had to go to the wa and me to
do it. So I don't see nobody else in my lifetime.
I'm thirty four. Maybe when I'm thirty forty years on
the line, but not in the next ten years.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I doubt it, I see. I just feel like the
league is aligned with stars, like the star players loved
the Cannas Parkers of the world. Cannis Parker could be
a coach in the next five to eight years. Like,
that's not crazy me. If all of a sudden, in
that breaking news and we have the Charlotte Hornets Cannas
Parker's new head coach, that's not crazy to me.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Tim Chili, Tim and in Land, I know you're on
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
What's up, Tim Rock?

Speaker 11 (21:04):
How you doing? Man?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Join good? How are you, buddy?

Speaker 11 (21:07):
I'm good with them. Tell then.

Speaker 9 (21:11):
I'm surprised.

Speaker 11 (21:13):
I'm surprised that you guys. I hear all the w
NBA jokes, but but I do think that it's possible,
but I think they're gonna have to come from the
level of like a D one, maybe like a mid major.
I don't know if you ever get one in fix
ten sec or something like that, but I think like

(21:35):
if you get someone a female coach that coaches a
mid level team has success, maybe get the NCAA playoffs
or something like that, I'd like to see one make
it too, you know, start coaching college basketball on the
mid level, and then maybe they worked their way up,
and I think then you have a strong more possibility
because then there's an example of them having worked with

(21:55):
young men and dealing with it, and I think that
may go a long way and trying to propel them
and that can happen within the next.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
You know, So you expect to see a woman coach
get hard in the h don't you. Yeah, like what
Stealey saying that she doesn't expect.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'm just.

Speaker 11 (22:13):
Said where she's coming from, because think about us as
black man. You know, we thought in our lifetime, like
you know, you said, you never thought you should when
you're in it and you're on the other side of
that minority.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's fair. Yeah, that's fair. That's that. Yeah, that's fair.
All right, I appreciate it. Well that that's what the president. Yeah,
that's fair. I mean when you're in it and you've
been you know, for her maybe throughout life being down woman,
you can't do this. You can't do this because you
woman can't do that. Because your woman can't do this.
It probably maybe it weighs heavier than what we're saying,
and that's a fair point. I'm gonna take you this
real quick.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
This moment in my life and my mom she passed
away before Barack Obama was I liked it, but she wasn't,
you know, doing well or whatever. But I remember being
with her and she said to me, you know, like
here's a woman, you know what I mean, in Alabama,
all the stuff that she went through, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
And she was like, do you think he's gonna make it?
You know what I mean? Like do you really?

Speaker 3 (23:10):
And I said, I said, all the indications seemed like
it is. You know, it's like that moment, you know
what I mean. And even though she didn't she didn't
thrive long enough to see him. I think she went
with the idea that it was going to happen like
because she really was, like really real for America. You
know what I'm saying, America like like right, and I
still remember that moment and that conversation.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's real. Yeah, dude, I remember that ninety one. I
would We were our godson was maybe probably two years old,
three years old, give or take, and we made his
parents keep mind him up, bring him out. He was again,
maybe he was three years something like that. Uh, so
he could just be like, you know, you were there
at this moment. You know, you might not remember it all,

(23:52):
but you were there, saw it.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
It was.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
It was a big moment for America, for African Americans,
for America as a whole. It was a big moment.
So it would be you know for Dawn Sale and
out of women would be a lot of women. It
would because you mentioned there's a bunch of men coaching
high school girls, miss school girls, college girls, pro girls,
and uh, excuse me, excuse me as a father of
three three girls to be like, no, anything's possible. Shout

(24:17):
out to KG set Up Roger.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
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Live.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
That's right, it's Fowler Fair here in the art couple
of Fox Sports Radio segment we go around around the diamond.
Is because all the biggest headlines in Major League Baseball
nor do so properly. We had to bring in a
real baseball expert, a guy who, unlike your favorite player
shows up in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Wow, none other than JR. Gamble.

Speaker 9 (24:50):
What's up? What's up? Fellas?

Speaker 1 (24:52):
What's abit?

Speaker 9 (24:54):
Man?

Speaker 3 (24:54):
We're on the edge of all seat watching this baseball, man.
That's what It's been tremendous to numbers. The roof baseball
is doing well right now.

Speaker 9 (25:03):
And the Dodgers are hard to beat. Man, They're hard
to beat.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Let's just call it lucky.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
But anyway, and baseball's about even better because we got
foul a fair with JR. Gamble here for the next
ten minutes. So let's get to it. I got three
baseball topics.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Jr.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Is the star of the segment, gets the first crack at.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Every single one.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
So let's get to it.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
There are Tiger's a his friend of the show, Tarted
School will get us good to content over the years,
Poised to secure his second consecutive SI Young Award pretty soon.
Here and with that in mind, the expectation is going
to secure the largest contract for any picture in baseball history. Now,
if Detroit can't get Schooble to sign that extension this winter,

(25:40):
Jr foul or fair to say, be better off trading
him than risk losing him for nothing when he hits
free agency after next season.

Speaker 9 (25:51):
Fair it's a fair ball, I mean, unless they're ready
to pony up trade him. I mean, this is the
same situation that team who aren't prepared to spend money
get into every year. And then we're talking about like
two whole years from now, you know, so it gets complicated.
He could end up leaving for nothing. You know, the
Tigers could sign if they wanted to. They're not the

(26:14):
Reds or the Pirates of the Marlins, where they don't
spend any money. You don't want to lose it for nothing. However,
if Detroit thinks that, you know, they have a real
shot at the World Series next season, they could keep
him and let the Chips forward. They may hoping he
can bring them a you know, or ring on the
way out the door in a few years. The fans
won't be happy. But if they aren't competing for range,

(26:34):
they probably won't pay him, and you know, on the
four hundred million dollar range or whatever that he's going
to command and the big spenders they're gonna be looking
at chops.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I say, uh, it is fair. It's a fair ball.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
And I say trading him because, first of all, the
late great Mike Illich isn't there anymore. He spent money
on that team that was really good and went to
couple World Series. His son, Chris is not that guy. Okay,
he's not gonna do it, and you can't let this
guy walk. I remember when the Angels had a chance

(27:11):
to trade Showhy.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Right, they offered him a deal and they were like no.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
They started playing better and they were like, we're not
gonna let him go and.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
We'll hold on to him, and he bounced. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
I would make my offer, this is what we can
pay you. We got four hundred large or whatever it is.
When he says no, I'm trading him the next day
and that's the only thing you can do, Kelvin, I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you fair. And the
reason why I say this is we talked about this.
I think it was yesterday. The Tigers have had amazing pictures.
They had Shirt, they had Verlindard, they had Rice, They've
had some other guys, and you know they've moved on
and they were able to still be good without him.
And also you had him, and you can say, hey,

(27:55):
we had all these guys, we didn't win a World Series.
Now they got to a couple of My point is
you don't. I don't want to lose him. He's been incredible.
He's been phenomenal, maybe the best pitcher one, two three
in the entire MLB. But he can't hold your franchise hostage.
And so if you can get a great haul for him,
and even if you just bring in eighty percent of

(28:15):
his ability seventy five, but you got some other guys
around it, it's worth it. But I don't want to
lose him. And I'm making the absolute best off our can. Well.
Once he turned it down, I don't feel like and
him having Scott Bors makes me nervous as an agent,
all right?

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Foul A fair of the A couple jr Gamble with
the guys. Moving over to current baseball action. Brewer second
baseman Bryce Terrag came under fire last night when he
backed away from inside pitching the bottom of the night
with the bases loaded and Milwaukee trailing one. Now he
called it a natural reaction. Afterwards, terrang had let the
pitch hit him in the knee and exploded his MCL.

(28:53):
The game would have been tied with a winning run
just ninety feet away.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Jr.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Here's the question, foul or fantas Saint Harangue deserve the
social media slander last night, fam, that is a.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Sound ball one.

Speaker 9 (29:09):
You know that baseball players, not Rhodes scholars or whatever
you want to be in the back. The baseball casuals
were out again because to my knowledge, play a player
can all coming bum wrong. A player can also be
called out for not moving out the way in the
pitch if the umpire interprets it that way. So I
know the last thing dur ain't want it in that

(29:30):
spot was the cause of the situation like that. Also,
this is baseball, right, and most players are rather not
get hit. Didn't get hit. Not sure if any of
you guys have ever faced ninety three mph. I have,
and it's not pretty. Also, that ball is moving crazy
and you never know where it ends up, so you

(29:51):
have to make an attempt to get out of the way.
To my knowledge, the rules have changed since Don Bela
was taking balls in the shoulder moving it, you know,
on purpose. You can't do that anymore. I'm pretty sure
I know the rule on that. So it is what
it is. You notice these mid teams when they lose
against championship caliber teams because they just don't make the
right play. It's always a hyper focus on one guy

(30:13):
like ordering the other night with the pitch, and it's
always a team that can't quite get it done. Is
gonna pick this one moment to go crazy when there's
like five seven games in the series.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
I'm sorry, I'm gonna say fair. He deserves all the slats.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm serious, Like, dude, you could take one for the team,
as long as you don't lean into it.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
You can't lean into the pitch to try to get
hit by the pitch. But if they hit you and
you just like even turn to the side without like
jumping backwards, like like turn, and you would have been
you would have been there. That ball was definitely one
that could have hit him if he played along, and
I think he missed an opportunity.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
That's all the man out there there you go, ain't
nothing wrong, Wow, foul a fit fall because he brought
a great it's muscle memory. You get five to six
hundred at bats and you always poh, you see him pushing,
you know, push the hips bag. You see who they
thought was a hit by Pitch King And that was
his No, that was his muscle memory. Let me get hit.
That's what he did. And for these guys all year long,

(31:15):
you duck, you slide, you save your face, you save
your knee, and it's just natural muscle. Max Muntsy literally
just did it rock season. Watching it as I'm saying
it right now, Jay, I don't know if you're watching it. Yeah,
but in basis well, I mean it's natural, it's just oh,
something coming at you. So I think it's file. And again,
we can do the Monday Money Morning quarterback on Monday
morning at bat if we choose to all right, real

(31:36):
quick now, last robs Fo's knees, last one Fowler Fair
j R. Gamble with the guys Jr.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Cal Rowley and the Mariners two wins away from the
World Series, and the Big Dumper is a big reason
why follow up his MVP caliber regular season with a
nice playoff run batt in three fifty seven, two homers,
five RBI across seven games.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
So here's the question.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Violor Fair said, it'd be better for baseball if Raleigh,
who could be in the World Series in about ten days,
winds up winning the AL MVP award over Aaron Judge.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
This is slander right here, Go ahead. I'm that is
a solid ball.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Now.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
You know a lot of baseball fans from certain sectors
of the country, which I love dearly. I'm not gonna
like this answer, but one has nothing to do with
the other. And despite his great season, I'm sorry, fellas,
nobody outside of baseball knows Kyle Raley and these fosts.
Biggest problem is that small market dudes always want to
make baseball live by small market rules. When the world

(32:33):
knows who Aaron Judges if people know any baseball player,
and most sports fans probably don't know probably any really
they know Aren Judge. Though Kyle Roley can have an MVP,
no problem. He could win the World Series end of
the day. He's a slow catcher with pop zero swag.
But how could it ever be better for baseball when

(32:54):
a guy can't create any ratings for the game, you know,
win awards over the face of the game.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I'm foul. That is a foul ball.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
The idea one is postseason one's regular season. Aaron Judge
put together one of the greatest seasons ever, about one
hundred points higher on base percentage.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Ops. I could go on and on and on. Aaron
Judge had the unbelievable season.

Speaker 9 (33:19):
Fair it's a fair ball baseball.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
It ain't better for baseball if it's if it's Brewers
and Mariners. I'll give you that, but as long as
one hundred percent that But as long as the Dodgers
are there one of the big too. You know, whether
it be in the Yankees Dodgers, but this case the Dodgers,
you'll find baseball knows that you already know him. You
know what they want to do, get some more stars.
So daggit. Put cal Riley in there. Maybe he has
two three home runs and more people can know him

(33:45):
and spread the wealth in baseball. Daggit all right.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
And while we were talking, it is three to one.
Max Munsey that worked in the center field.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Go too ten. But dang it, you needed sometimes too.

Speaker 9 (33:55):
Many weapons on that Dodgers team.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Hey, j I appreciate you too much. That's luck too.
Much left Lork.

Speaker 9 (34:02):
You got like the Kansas Cityesa go, hey, hey, you.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Must listen to the show.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
Whatever lucky appreciatek you man, Thank you all right, no
doubt we got Last Call on the Way eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox.

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One last time for us. Rest in peace to D'Angelo
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Speaker 3 (35:14):
Good might be last call for the Milwaukee Brewers in
the sixth inning?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
What what it is? The sixth in three six? Yeah?
All right, here we got real quick. Jay in Georgia.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio and
you are the last call.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
You're on the odd couple?

Speaker 9 (35:38):
Yo?

Speaker 10 (35:38):
Yo, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (35:39):
My brother?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Man?

Speaker 1 (35:41):
What's happened to make it? Quick? Jay? Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (35:44):
First of all, I show to the Factor for being
the Bills last night. But I ain't need to talk
about that. So I'm in the jail yesterday. Don't listen
to show. Ain't kelvin there the way y'all had the massacre.
Dumb got leave yesterday. The dumb you could have some
the most taste, but man, come on, even I feel
a little band for him. And then the guy from

(36:06):
and Pop like, oh my god, like where's the hand
of this?

Speaker 9 (36:11):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (36:11):
But it was a whey of Warren to those so
screw dumb got leave?

Speaker 9 (36:15):
Y'all?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Was right, y'all?

Speaker 10 (36:18):
Man, All right, Jay.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
I'm just ordinary African student. I just be minding my
own business, just be minding my own on me. I'm
a team player. I pulled, Yeah, right. That's why I
be a home sparring right now, Rob, That's why we
got the heavy bag. Can you see me and Doug
at the Super Bowl?

Speaker 9 (36:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I did, and I was nervous. Somebody, the boss just said, hey, Kevin,
we want you to meet the sponsor. This is what
I heard of the sponsor.

Speaker 9 (36:40):
Woh woh wo wo wo wo.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Because I had to make sure you are thank you
dog feeding me a flat chicken wing. You know what
I mean? Because you because he threw it at you.
You thought he was being nice. You're like, oh wings,
you opened your mind. He threw that you. That's what happened.
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