July 15, 2025 • 30 mins
FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Martin Weiss is in for Rob, and he and Kelvin provide up-to-the-minute commentary on the MLB All-Star Game, discuss the idea of Nick Saban returning to coach college football, and tell us why it's completely understandable that Scottie Scheffler doesn't feel fulfilled by winning golf tournaments.
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's right, Kelvin Washington, Martin White say, for Robin, it
is the Odd Couple on a trash Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Thank you all for the calls.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We had a spirit in one as always coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
A couple of things we'll get to as well.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Keep you updated on this MLB All Star Game and
an interesting conversation with Sin Martin I was reading with
Scottie Scheffler had to say, I have some thoughts on
just where sometimes we forget what it's like for professional
athletes and professionals in any field. I think it's applicable.
We'll talk about that in a little bit as well.
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By the way, man, it is, the time is flying by, dude.
We're halfway through July already, everything going well. You got
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the wedding coming up in a few weeks as well, right.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I'm telling you it is quickly approaching. And every day
I'm printing out some label or something, this card and
this person here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, like, man, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, that's a beautiful thing though, man, So enjoy the process, dude,
this is the hard part. And I'll tell you now.
Obviously I'll see you and talk to you before them.
But for whatever reason, I didn't enjoy the day. Sometimes people,
you know, you get wait, who's what and then you
look at me like, have a ball on you all's day?
You know, just enjoy the day, because people get so
caught up in all the after stuff that they forget
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to have fun and enjoy the the you know, this
is the reason we're here's us right, So enjoy that
all right? Little college football talk, no doubt, and with
Nick Saban, and Nick Saban has had some things to say, obviously,
since he has left the game, and now there are
some reports that there's a chance he may be oneting
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to come back and jump back into that space.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You have some reports.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You got Greg McElroy, former player for him, former quarterback
there at Alabama. He went on and said, I'm just
gonna read it from he said, a very much ending
no person that I have a lot of respect for
and has spent a lot of time around and just
really really admire. They seem to think Nick Saban is
not done coaching. He's pretty adamant that he thinks Saban
will be coaching again. And you had some more Lane
(02:45):
Kiffin said on SSC SEC Media Day that he believes
I don't think he's done. I think he'll be back,
whether that's college or NFL. I think he'll be back.
And then some other folks that they think he's gonna
pop back up at some point.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So a couple of things to know here from me.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Nick Saban walked away right as NIL takes off, Right
as nil is a new way of things, the way
college football is gonna be, and he didn't like it.
There's he's had a conversation with in this report that
he and his wife had conversations.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
She said, well, what about the game we used to love.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We're teaching kids and it was all about them growing
as young men and becoming better people and developing. They
don't care about that anymore. They just care about transferring.
They just care about money. That's all they seem to
think about. And two things can be true. Number one,
Martin for me, absolutely, Nick Saban would want to come
back if it's true, and we'll see if it actually happens.
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But once he's already been on a campaign for NIL
to have salary caps and how he doesn't like it,
and how he wants things to change, and how it
just bough humbug.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It wasn't for me, mind you.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Nick Saban was also the guy who did this for
those who watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Eventually later, I just put a cup of water in there.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Imagine that was a coke bottle, because he's got coke
deals every post conference, yes, every post game, Bam, let
make sure you get this coke here because they got
a coke deal, and I got my dealerships, and I
make great money and the highest paid of a person
in the state of Alabama, and that comes from, of
course football. So the idea that all of a sudden,
guys can get paid, that guys are looking out for themselves,
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that guys say, hey, man, I don't know if I'm
gonna be great in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't even know if I'm making the NFL.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
What I do know is I got a two three
year window here to make some money for myself.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I'm gonna take full advantage of that. Of course.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
He doesn't like that doesn't make sense to me. That's
hypocritical in the sense that you can make so much
money off their backs.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Two things gonna be true.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do I believe that he actually went to he was
coaching because he's been coaching, He was coaching for decades
for the actual growth of these young men.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Do I believe that he cared about the development about
them on the field and off the field.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Do I think he probably has amazing relationships with so
many of them post career and going to weddings and
knowing their kids and all that good stuff. Absolutely, But
you also made a bunch of money off of that,
and these guys are looking at it as an opportunity
to do so. So, to me, he had an advantage
once he started winning everybody wants to come to Alabama.
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And you couple that with againness washpins, repeat, send a
bunch of guys in the league. That does well for
me because while they always an NFL, and it becomes
easier and easy to recruit, so you're constantly in a
position where you can win a national championship.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So you're in this machine.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And once things change, where now other teams and it's
only a handflow of teams that can really really compete
if we want to keep it real. But now they
have a chance to have some nil money, get some
other guys and maybe take a guy away from you
that you wouldn't have normally got, or you would have
normally got. Take away recruit that's normally a Nick Saban recruit. Compete,
and guys are gonna complain, and guys are gonna come
in your locker, and I mean they're gonna come in
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your your office and say, hey, why am I not
making this? And this guy's making that? And that's a
new evolution of coaching. He'd had no time for that.
So it only makes sense to me that after he's
been complaining about it, that he's been poop pooing about it.
That he's trying to get his salary cap on nil,
that he would then want to come back if things
were to change. Right now, it's back to the field
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I know. Well, yeah, where I can dominate. Now, it's
back to familiar territory, not this wild wild West thing.
Last point to for real quick here and to me,
I also go back to this is the problem. What
he doesn't like about it, and maybe even Deon Sanders,
which again it will be hypocritical, is that this is
what the NCAA created, Martin having a vice grip having
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and you get zero that now the floodgates open. And yes,
now kids are overreacting. Now kids are worried about but
now kids are studying. Now you get high school recruits
that are only cared about money, and you know, because
they can get money too, And yes, good kids are
wanting to transfer and transfer here and transfer there. It's
because you guys had such a vice grip on things
for so long that when you opened it up, the
floodgates happened.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And now things have to level off, and now they're
trying to.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Figure it out, so I think, but I think that's
the problem. Now they're trying to figure it out. There
is no figured it out. It is the wild West.
There are just people putting up fences and what used
to be unclaimed quote unquote unclaimed territory.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But you know what, there's people there.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Before, right, So it's like you got it. It's the
wild West. There's no laws. And when there are no laws,
the man with the most money or the most power
generally wins. And the reality of the situation is you
look at the last two national champions, Michigan and Ohio State.
Ohio State Michigan rather in that order, much bigger endowments,
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just way more money than a school like Alabama. The
founder of Google went to Michigan, you know what I'm saying,
just in general, like Michigan paid ten million dollars for
a quarterback to yep, Texas.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Another school, Husonda, that has.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
A boat ton of money, right, enough money to keep
archs manning there for two years, right as a backup
and develop I think Nick Sabers put in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
She wouldn't be able to do that anymore because it's.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Not and it's not because, like the players, the money
is so great that the players would.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Then have to take that you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It could be a kid like Kirby Smart was talking
about this that She'mmedia Day, and he was saying, how
one of his when they're recruiting defensive backs, for example,
there's four of them on the field. There are thousands
good enough to play at Georgia. But at this point
he's recruiting a guy who he thinks is going to
be okay with being developed and staying because if it's
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all about the money, then he can't. Then there's not
going to be anything payoff when he gets the reps. Now,
I think there should be some level of contracts, Like Honestly,
I don't think it's a good deal for anybody just
to be able to put in what essentially announced to
be a two week notice when it's when you're at
a position and a level like this, you're trying to
build something like that, So there should be some level
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of contract. Honestly, my conspiracy theory says, you know, as
I put the tinfoil hat on, I think this is
all posturing for television. Saban's Saban is not for him
to keep getting paid for this, is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
So for TV?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So I think that when now I am not watching
every single second of every single Nick Saban appearance.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But I know this.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
When I do see him on TV, he generally says
something I was like, damn, either I didn't think of that,
or he informed me in something and I wasn't aware
good at it and I was really good. You can
see on his face sometimes on some of these, especially
the because I'm consuming the clips right, mostly the clips,
you can see his face sometimes with some of the
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more boisterous members.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Macavie next to him are cutting. Are you know? I'm
saying kind of like, well, can we talk about ball?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
When I watch the NFL Draft, I watch Nick Saban
have a masterclass of what this guy's good at, what
this guy's bad at, but just evaluating players boom. I
was like, I would watch him do this by himself,
and I think that it's getting a lot of feedback
that way. That's a crowded desk for a lot of
those different events. I'd rather see Saban doing some more
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solo thing or not solo, but quieter things where he's
the star as opposed to just a guy. And I
think that's kind of what this because I don't think
that Nick Saban to go back and coach, I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean, he's by the way, keep in mind, he
looks great, but I mean, I'm gonna pull it up.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What is even seventy seventy three.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, he's older than you think because he looks great,
takes care of himself, he looks great.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But went out about us on top as you can,
yep in a rose Bowl like you play in the
New Year's Day bawl. You made the final four the
first year of the playoff, that there was like, I'm
sorry your last year you made the playoff, you had
a legit shot to win the championship, took Michigan to overtime,
and then Michigan made quick work in the national championship games.
So you could have argued, had we got it done
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that thing we could have too.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was there, I was there, it was here, and
I had to go to that game. It was good
to see. But five days of my.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Life, Yeah, that was lit. That was lit.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But yeah, Nick saban to me again, if he were
to come back, it makes it completely makes sense while
he's been trying to and again I think he may
truly believe is in his heart. I don't want to
act like this isn't his true feelings, but bringing in
il now, trying to rein it in, trying to put
restrictions on it, trying to put it on the box,
trying to have maybe more of a governing body over it,
(11:03):
you know, and have more guidelines so that if he
were to make a return, maybe he has unfinished business,
maybe it's something he wants to do. Maybe he's just
setting up for one of his young guys, one of
his you know, his coaches is on his tree. If
you will to have some success, bring it down a
little bit, so if he were to go back to
Alabama or some other school, he can have more success
and not have to compete with the Michigan's Ohio states
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on the level in which they are now because you
mentioned it, they're able to pay whomever whatever. And again,
this is where we are now because the NCAA had
the vice gript didn't want to loosen up.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I've been saying this for years, Martin, with their.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Whole I called it the identity theft, because I can
make money off the back of you, you look, your name,
your image of likeness, all this stuff, and not have
to pay you anything for so long and not I
always said all they had to do. Twenty twenty five
years ago, started letting kids get a little stipend.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Here's a little bit more, here's fifty thought, that's it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Just fifty thousand, you know, hughge that way you were
in college, you know huge, that would be dollars fifty
per per you know, semester or per year. Four kid
for a life, dude, I got fifth out have to
hide it. It's out there. Everybody knows. It's okay. Maybe
you get another fifteen each year. So by the time
I'm junior senior, I'm looking at I don't know, one
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Right, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But by them trying and keeping it off for themselves,
this is what they get. This crazy everybody doing this
on that And what I don't like about the transfer portal,
And you mentioned something one thing I will agree with,
and you know this because it's applicable. Take college football
replaced with anything in life. You trying to continue to
grow in this business, me trying to continue to grow
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find my witness business.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You had to persevere. Yep, you can.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hey, come to five Sports Radio, Marty. You thought you
were gonna do more. Maybe you want more and it's
not there. Kelvin, you're gonna do this special news. I
want to do more than what the transfer portal is
creating because all these guys, a lot of them are
gonna go pro most of them are, or even if
they do, they go for a year two. I think
I'm about to be man. Come to find out you're not,
and you're out. Now you're twenty four, twenty five with
the rest of your life. My only concern with the
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transferport everybody's leaving because you mentioned it. I was promised
these reps, so I was promised I was going to start,
and I don't like how this is going. Or oh man,
I had four bad games. You put the backup quarterback.
I'm leaving and I don't like that. It can create
an atmosphere where you don't want to fight a persevere
you know, you don't want to compete, where you don't
want to be put in a position where you got
to show up, you got to man up, you got
to put up. And now it's like, oh, I don't
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like it. I'm it's I'm uneasy. This doesn't it makes
me uncomfortable. I'm going to go there. Oh I'm just
gonna go there because they're going to offer me you
extra fifty thousand. I'm just gonna leave there. Sometimes the
best position you used you to stay put, grow through adversity,
out play that person or learn, and then next year
is your year. And that was where you were supposed
to be. But you just want to go over there
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because it's better. Now you're in the worst situation. You're losing,
you know what I mean? And Okay, you made an
extra seventy five thousand throughout your career, but now I
look at you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
And Booker McFarlane made this point in a profile of
him years ago before he got the Monday night football job,
but he said he was able to fail in the
dark on SEC network because it had one hundred and
fifty thousand viewers as opposed to money in football.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's a great point five million, right.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It's a lot easier to make mess ups in practice
than it is in games. But this is all really
boiling down. I think I might have coined the term
for it just in this moment. This is the Rob
you effect. Okay, you guys were in the weight loss competition.
You guys are fighting hard. You got I mean, Rob
Parker was eating ham and mayonnaise and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Rob G was like, wait a minute, I did. I mean,
I'm not coming close to winning this thing. Transfer portal
me shoot.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Me up, transfer that white portal. Yeah, look, he mad
at you. Don't be disrespecting me because I'm probably too
busy eating right now, you know, taking shots at you.
Rob the rob G effect, robbed you effect, robbed you.
Here is the thirty What if I told you I
hear the thirty for thirty coming?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We got something I just brought up a moment ago,
and its kind of sort of ties in a little
bit that last point we were making their Scotti Scheffler
had some things to say, and this is coming from
guys who's had a lot of success, and I actually
get his point, and I think it's a point of
emphasis that we all could lean on a little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'll tell you my thoughts on that. Next.
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and whatever else is happening in the sports world. That'll
be happening here in just a little minute. I wanted
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to just get on this real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Martin. Just interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The conversation that I think Scottie Scheffler he kind of
had and essentially the way it reads to me is
kind of sad almost or at least kind of heartfelt.
So I'm jump into what he was saying. He's the
conversations was about winning. Conversation was about what it does
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for you and how you feel and is the fulfillment
of winning some of these tournaments Here's what he had
to say.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Filling from the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling
from a sense of like the deepest places of your heart.
You know, there's a lot of people that make it
to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life,
and then you get there and all of a sudden
you get to number one in the world, and then
they're like, what's the point? I really do believe that,
because you know, what is the point? You're like, why
do I want to win this tournament so bad? That's
something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. You know,
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I'm kind of a sick o. I love putting in
the work. I love being able to practice, I love
getting out to live out my dreams. But at the
end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point.
I love the challenge. I love being able to play
this game for a living. It's it's one of the
greatest joys of my life. But does it fill the deepest,
you know, wants and desires of my heart? Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
So A lot of youse just touched on right there.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, and I got I got two things from that,
and I think it's applicable to you listening to you,
Martin sitting to my left, myself, Robgie, Alex, everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Number one and I mentioned this before when we Rob
and I were having a conversation about people get wrapped
up into their job, right you rock Fox Sports Radio,
five years, ten years, twenty years, This is what I do,
this is who I am. And then one day they
fire you, one day, let you go, whatever happens, and
people lose themselves because that became their identity.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Right And I think some of what.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
He's mentioning here, and whether he unintentionally or intentionally meant
to say it was to me, I'm a golfer. But
this isn't my identity, right, This isn't who I am
as a person. This isn't the thing that sustains or
fulfills me. I have a family, he went on to
talk about, I have a family, I love, I have
I have a wife, I have kids, I have you know,
other family members, of other hobbies. I have things that
matter to me, and just simply winning something or losing
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can't be how I judge my life. And I think
that's something we could all think about our jobs or
the thing we love to do that doesn't have to
be your entire existence, because one day that could end.
One day, if your a football player's over, it's over.
For the professional athlete, one day it will end. It
will be going.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
To mile end at a point in your life when
everybody else is.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Still working or just getting going right, just really finding
their way.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'm thirty two, thirty four, I'm just getting good. I'm
finding my way, and you're done. You're like, okay, what
do I do next? And also acceptance. I think a
little bit of that for him is also acknowledging like, man,
will they accept me if I win? Will they validate me?
Whin will this be exactly what they want? Did I
get enough?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Martin?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Did I win enough? We have enough tournaments because nowadays
he wins three. Oh, I wasn't good enough for his talent.
I went five. Yeah, but Tiger did this. Phil did that,
you know what I mean? And I think he realized,
I'll always be chasing it if I'm doing it for
just the crowd and the acceptance as well. And so
I think another example of this to me the other
side is Naomi Asaka. I think she's kind of struggling
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with some things. If you saw her most recently lose
and she said, I can't find anything positive in this.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I feel negative.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And she said the only thing positive is my daughter's
birthday this weekend, So that's the only thing I can
gleam on. And you know, she's been in and out
of tournaments, taking her time, taking a year off maternity,
or just mental health. And I think we don't talk
about this part of it enough for athletes, the mental
health part of what they do.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You knew Greg Hart, I believe right from Michigan. I did,
Greg Harden.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
My best friend's pops rest in Peace, just passed away
a little less than a year ago. He was a
sports counselor Google for the greats Desmond Howard, Tom Brady,
Michael Phelps, so many, Charles Woodson, and so many will
never know because they were a third string cornerback, or
they were a wrestler, or they were a gymnast that
went to Michigan and you never knew them. But that
was his great thing is getting them to understand who
they are and how to use sports. But it ain't
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who you are solely. It's a part of you. And
last thing I'll say too, you have to fall in love.
I think what we all learn is to with the process,
Like he said, just trying to be the best golfer,
working on the game because the wins and the losses
will get you in the high and the lows. And
I tell that to a lot of young people getting
in this business. They'll get a great review or a
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great rating and up or winning award. They're on Mount Everest.
Someone says, I didn't like that story. I didn't like
the way you just hosted that, Dey Martin. Now they're
in the deepest valley you got to be there for
I love to say, you don't want to do that,
you want to ride this thing out. Take the take
the criticism, take the good, the love, don't go too high,
don't go too low, and love the game in the
process of just being the best version of yourself, not
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necessarily always solely the wins and losses.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I will say I think that Scottie Scheffler is peaking
from a a place of very, very earned privilege.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's a little bit easier to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Say being the number one golfer in the world is
not important when you've been the number one golf in
the world.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So much as he has.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Right, it's like if you if And it also I
remember back to and again I air parachute in on golf,
so I wasn't watching before the Masters, but then I
see the Masters. Oh right, Cheffer's wife is pregnant. Oh
he might not play if she's gonna have the baby.
Oh well, that's that's certainly a decision, right like it.
And no, I'm not saying was it the past with
(21:52):
judgment or anything, but it's just that's definitely a decision
that some other people may not have made. Right and
whether that's I'm not here to tell you good battery different.
I'm just saying it's a decision that he made. And
when I because when I hear these quotes I read
him at first, my eyebrows went up. I hear him
say it. It sounds like he's a guy that knows, like, like,
my kid's gonna take this first step soon?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Am I gonna be golfing?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Then? Like you know what I'm saying, Am I going
to be able to drive my kids to carpool and
practice and all that other stuff like? And I think
that when he talks about it, it's because his child
was born just about a year ago, right, So it's
kind of like the yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You're starting to speaking this happening, these moments that are,
oh my gosh, she's got a FaceTime you because the
first tooth pops out or something.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
And he's earned over one hundred and thirty million dollars.
You know, he's he's got he's got enough money to wear.
He's not exactly going hungry.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So I think with all of that being said, it
you know it is what you know. I get him,
I get where he's coming completely.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Again, we can add a little bit more to this
in just a moment, because I get I think it's
something that Kobe Bryant talked about a lot of actors
talk about I'll expawn on that on the other side.
Right now, Steve, the saga is gonna give you everything
that's trending right now, Steve, what's up?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
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Speaker 1 (23:16):
It is the odd couple kelvin Washington, Martin Weiss here
and for Rob on a trash talking Tuesday, and you
can't heat. Rob's out there that Atlanta enjoyed himself. You
knew where he was yesterday. It was a Monday, so
you knew his Magic City literally for him, it was
Magic City Monday. And now I'm sure he's at the game.
I haven't checked his Instagram and.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'm a little moist right now.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Okay, hold on, wow, Rob, you gotta settle down. You're
not even hearing you guys.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Now do What you're missing right now is that MLB
bro is in full effect. Okay, and they all got
the official MLB bro All Star Game post.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Let me go, let me go play. Here's the problem.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
I don't know if I'm said quiet part out loud.
I don't know if it's official, the MLB license.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Uh stuff that they're wearing.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Let me see, let me let me go see where
the guy? Okay, all right? Are they all on the
with the MLB bro gear on? Nice little polos?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I see it? You know what? Let me double tap
real quick. I'm double tap.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I can't keep up because he's been going a couple
days and he has forty two posts already just to
play the ribs every lunch he's had.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Here.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Here's a question, because you're a business owner, Yes, this
is well documented. If you're out on the streets and
let's say your business is, you know, dub Collections or whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Right, misfit Active. Where can misfit active work? Right? And
so if I'm walking around and I got on.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
A Adidas Polo and I just slapped a Misfit Active where
logo on the side and you see me wearing it, now,
I'm supporting you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But would you be upset about it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Because if you as you know, my wife is a lawyer,
there's a whole bunch of legality involved in that. I mean,
there's a bunch of you know, rights and restrictions and
registrations out of the trademarks and when you know what
goes into all that.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Brother, Yeah, so.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
If Rob bumps into Rob Manfred, you're saying it wouldn't
be a pleasant conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I think Rob Manfred looks Rob Parkering goes just let
him be. I think he's just it's a it's a
rob thing. He's like, he's got an MLB vote, he's
been covering the leak since nineteen eighty seven. I think
he just goes, you know what, let him be, Let
him be. I think that's what happens. Am I crazy?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't think so at all. And also too, it's
like you know, tree falling and you know, yeah, I
think he's not gonna Yeah, he'll be fine. Yeah, he
he'll be fine. He'll I think he'll still be hitting,
have his MLB network, Brian Kenny hits, he'll be ge
will good to go.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh yeah, they'll probably ask him on a low though.
Can you stop being negative on all everything MLB? Can
you please? We're trying to have you highlight our game
and is what you're doing and we got a tissue
for me? Yeah all right, real quick, just to put
a button on we we're talking about for you. Just
joining Scottie Scheffler had some things to say just about winning,
his thought process and how it essentially, if I'm paraphrasing Martin,
(25:53):
it's not the end all be all. It's not the
most fulfilling thing in his life. He loves it and
it's great, but it isn't everything. One of the things
I will say for him, as he's he's won some
big time tournaments and majors, he's a little too close
to it Martin where I think he's like, he's like,
all I wanted and what and if you've ever done
(26:14):
anything successful, you know, the highest level of athleticism for
me was just winning high school championship. Was in college
one and pro so I can't relate to that, but
I do remember we won, and I remember being like, Okay,
what's next? You know, shouldn't I feel like this? Should
I feel like that? And then you realize, Oh, as
time goes by, you appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
You appreciate what it took to win. You appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Camaraderie, appreciate the stories, appreciate the time you had with
your you know, in his case, it'll be more so
the guys on tour and they don't have like teammates
per se, but you appreciate your teammates in those moments,
those conversations that we had times when you were down
to the dumps because you had a handful of bad
games and the relationships. And I just had my one
of my assistant coaches out here in LA we got together.
He just he did something kind for me afterwards that
(27:00):
I do pre and post game for the Dodgers. He
mailed me a couple of Dodger books. It's really cool,
you know, So you have those bonds. So I do
think Scotty's a little too close to it where wins
and losses. He can't quite see the force for the trees,
got new Fair, got new child, and he gets further away.
I think he will appreciate it more. I think we've
all kind of been there with certain things.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And the guy, honestly first kind of made me think
about this was Kevin Durant when he won that first
championship with Golden State, and it seemed as if it
did not fulfill him as much because of how much
like detraction there was.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Around to win. I gotta win, I gotta win. Well,
it was also like he had to win. He had
to win. Oh you gotta felt forced to leave. Okac.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Whatever goes to Golden State wins the finals on the
team that was I will say.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Really damn good.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I'm not denying that, but was the to me, the
best player on that team, even though he was a
new addition.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I get that Steph.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Curry was there the entire think that, but to me,
Kd the years that he was there was better.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It was the best warrior.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
He was the warrior that was number one that you
were worried about the most. And so for him to
like somehow feel like those championships mean like less than
to me honestly, not to be dramatic or silly, but
it was honestly kind of a sports tragedy to me,
Like I think you should winning should feel good, Winning
should feel fulfilling.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And I get what Scottie Scheffler is saying.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
It's not that I don't like to win, but sometimes
it's just like, man, you know what am I doing
at all?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Four?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Right?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I think when you have life changing moments like you
have a child, or you get married or something like that,
it forces you to readjust the way you look at things.
You start making we decisions instead of me decisions. And
for the first he's what thirty years old. For the
first twenty five years, if it was like get married
during COVID, the first five.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Twenty five years life, he was making me decisions.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
And it's a lot easier to get up and go
and hit that golf ball a billion times as much
as you need you to be as good as he
is when you don't have And I'm not even saying
like the nagging obligations, obligations you signed up for.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You wanted these to be there. You're looking for you
want to be there. Yeah, it's a challenge. And by
the way, I had a chance to uh talk to
Kevin Hart about this on the news show I Do,
and he mentioned I asked him that said, you do
a million things. You got a family that you love,
beautiful family, you know, And essentially he didn't have an
(29:32):
answer to the balance and he was he signed, you know,
oh yeah, you know, man, you do didn't just he
didn't have an answer. My point is, at thirty, Scottie
Scheffer's still going to go through this. Martin Weise, you're
gonna go through this. Sure you're getting married soon if
you guys have children where rob G knows this. Rob
G's ambitious, he wants to do more.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
He wants this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
But then again, robb G wants to be at that
dancer title. You know, rob G wants to be having
a He not to put his business out there, but
I don't think I've overstepped. But he's now able to
get back to the wife more because you know, one
child's a little older. And trust me, I'm going through
it now.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I would.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
It's always going to be if you're an ambitious person,
if you're trying to work, you're trying to be good
at your job and trying, but you also want to
be there as a family man and kids and wives
and family maybe your parents and your sis siblings.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Dude, is an eternal battle of.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
There's an opportunity to make more because you want to
have more for your family and give the best for
your daughters and you know, but then okay, but I
want to be there but wa okay, but oh what
this is my career.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I feel passionate about it. But ah, but I'm missing
this and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's tough, dude, I just told you off the air,
first time I ever didn't coach my daughter this past season.
Can't do it because I could be there for the games,
but I can't be there for practice during the week.
And that dude, when I say hurt, hurt, I didn't
even know it would thought you know, should be fine,
coaching should be do because all I've had known and
she known is I coached her teams when she played basketball.
(30:53):
So it's tough man trying to figure this whole thing out.
And I think is applicable not just sports, but all
of us who are trying to figure it out.
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That's right, Kelvin Washington, Martin White say, for Robin, it
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Thank you all for the calls.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We had a spirit in one as always coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
A couple of things we'll get to as well.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Keep you updated on this MLB All Star Game and
an interesting conversation with Sin Martin I was reading with
Scottie Scheffler had to say, I have some thoughts on
just where sometimes we forget what it's like for professional
athletes and professionals in any field. I think it's applicable.
We'll talk about that in a little bit as well.
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By the way, man, it is, the time is flying by, dude.
We're halfway through July already, everything going well. You got
(01:21):
the wedding coming up in a few weeks as well, right.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I'm telling you it is quickly approaching. And every day
I'm printing out some label or something, this card and
this person here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, like, man, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, that's a beautiful thing though, man, So enjoy the process, dude,
this is the hard part. And I'll tell you now.
Obviously I'll see you and talk to you before them.
But for whatever reason, I didn't enjoy the day. Sometimes people,
you know, you get wait, who's what and then you
look at me like, have a ball on you all's day?
You know, just enjoy the day, because people get so
caught up in all the after stuff that they forget
(01:58):
to have fun and enjoy the the you know, this
is the reason we're here's us right, So enjoy that
all right? Little college football talk, no doubt, and with
Nick Saban, and Nick Saban has had some things to say, obviously,
since he has left the game, and now there are
some reports that there's a chance he may be oneting
(02:20):
to come back and jump back into that space.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You have some reports.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You got Greg McElroy, former player for him, former quarterback
there at Alabama. He went on and said, I'm just
gonna read it from he said, a very much ending
no person that I have a lot of respect for
and has spent a lot of time around and just
really really admire. They seem to think Nick Saban is
not done coaching. He's pretty adamant that he thinks Saban
will be coaching again. And you had some more Lane
(02:45):
Kiffin said on SSC SEC Media Day that he believes
I don't think he's done. I think he'll be back,
whether that's college or NFL. I think he'll be back.
And then some other folks that they think he's gonna
pop back up at some point.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So a couple of things to know here from me.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Nick Saban walked away right as NIL takes off, Right
as nil is a new way of things, the way
college football is gonna be, and he didn't like it.
There's he's had a conversation with in this report that
he and his wife had conversations.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
She said, well, what about the game we used to love.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We're teaching kids and it was all about them growing
as young men and becoming better people and developing. They
don't care about that anymore. They just care about transferring.
They just care about money. That's all they seem to
think about. And two things can be true. Number one,
Martin for me, absolutely, Nick Saban would want to come
back if it's true, and we'll see if it actually happens.
(03:38):
But once he's already been on a campaign for NIL
to have salary caps and how he doesn't like it,
and how he wants things to change, and how it
just bough humbug.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It wasn't for me, mind you.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Nick Saban was also the guy who did this for
those who watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Eventually later, I just put a cup of water in there.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Imagine that was a coke bottle, because he's got coke
deals every post conference, yes, every post game, Bam, let
make sure you get this coke here because they got
a coke deal, and I got my dealerships, and I
make great money and the highest paid of a person
in the state of Alabama, and that comes from, of
course football. So the idea that all of a sudden,
guys can get paid, that guys are looking out for themselves,
(04:17):
that guys say, hey, man, I don't know if I'm
gonna be great in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't even know if I'm making the NFL.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
What I do know is I got a two three
year window here to make some money for myself.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I'm gonna take full advantage of that. Of course.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
He doesn't like that doesn't make sense to me. That's
hypocritical in the sense that you can make so much
money off their backs.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Two things gonna be true.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do I believe that he actually went to he was
coaching because he's been coaching, He was coaching for decades
for the actual growth of these young men.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Do I believe that he cared about the development about
them on the field and off the field.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Do I think he probably has amazing relationships with so
many of them post career and going to weddings and
knowing their kids and all that good stuff. Absolutely, But
you also made a bunch of money off of that,
and these guys are looking at it as an opportunity
to do so. So, to me, he had an advantage
once he started winning everybody wants to come to Alabama.
(05:08):
And you couple that with againness washpins, repeat, send a
bunch of guys in the league. That does well for
me because while they always an NFL, and it becomes
easier and easy to recruit, so you're constantly in a
position where you can win a national championship.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So you're in this machine.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And once things change, where now other teams and it's
only a handflow of teams that can really really compete
if we want to keep it real. But now they
have a chance to have some nil money, get some
other guys and maybe take a guy away from you
that you wouldn't have normally got, or you would have
normally got. Take away recruit that's normally a Nick Saban recruit. Compete,
and guys are gonna complain, and guys are gonna come
in your locker, and I mean they're gonna come in
(05:40):
your your office and say, hey, why am I not
making this? And this guy's making that? And that's a
new evolution of coaching. He'd had no time for that.
So it only makes sense to me that after he's
been complaining about it, that he's been poop pooing about it.
That he's trying to get his salary cap on nil,
that he would then want to come back if things
were to change. Right now, it's back to the field
(06:01):
I know. Well, yeah, where I can dominate. Now, it's
back to familiar territory, not this wild wild West thing.
Last point to for real quick here and to me,
I also go back to this is the problem. What
he doesn't like about it, and maybe even Deon Sanders,
which again it will be hypocritical, is that this is
what the NCAA created, Martin having a vice grip having
(06:25):
and you get zero that now the floodgates open. And yes,
now kids are overreacting. Now kids are worried about but
now kids are studying. Now you get high school recruits
that are only cared about money, and you know, because
they can get money too, And yes, good kids are
wanting to transfer and transfer here and transfer there. It's
because you guys had such a vice grip on things
for so long that when you opened it up, the
floodgates happened.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And now things have to level off, and now they're
trying to.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Figure it out, so I think, but I think that's
the problem. Now they're trying to figure it out. There
is no figured it out. It is the wild West.
There are just people putting up fences and what used
to be unclaimed quote unquote unclaimed territory.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But you know what, there's people there.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Before, right, So it's like you got it. It's the
wild West. There's no laws. And when there are no laws,
the man with the most money or the most power
generally wins. And the reality of the situation is you
look at the last two national champions, Michigan and Ohio State.
Ohio State Michigan rather in that order, much bigger endowments,
(07:25):
just way more money than a school like Alabama. The
founder of Google went to Michigan, you know what I'm saying,
just in general, like Michigan paid ten million dollars for
a quarterback to yep, Texas.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Another school, Husonda, that has.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
A boat ton of money, right, enough money to keep
archs manning there for two years, right as a backup
and develop I think Nick Sabers put in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
She wouldn't be able to do that anymore because it's.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Not and it's not because, like the players, the money
is so great that the players would.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Then have to take that you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It could be a kid like Kirby Smart was talking
about this that She'mmedia Day, and he was saying, how
one of his when they're recruiting defensive backs, for example,
there's four of them on the field. There are thousands
good enough to play at Georgia. But at this point
he's recruiting a guy who he thinks is going to
be okay with being developed and staying because if it's
(08:18):
all about the money, then he can't. Then there's not
going to be anything payoff when he gets the reps. Now,
I think there should be some level of contracts, Like Honestly,
I don't think it's a good deal for anybody just
to be able to put in what essentially announced to
be a two week notice when it's when you're at
a position and a level like this, you're trying to
build something like that, So there should be some level
(08:40):
of contract. Honestly, my conspiracy theory says, you know, as
I put the tinfoil hat on, I think this is
all posturing for television. Saban's Saban is not for him
to keep getting paid for this, is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
So for TV?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So I think that when now I am not watching
every single second of every single Nick Saban appearance.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But I know this.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
When I do see him on TV, he generally says
something I was like, damn, either I didn't think of that,
or he informed me in something and I wasn't aware
good at it and I was really good. You can
see on his face sometimes on some of these, especially
the because I'm consuming the clips right, mostly the clips,
you can see his face sometimes with some of the
(09:24):
more boisterous members.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Macavie next to him are cutting. Are you know? I'm
saying kind of like, well, can we talk about ball?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
When I watch the NFL Draft, I watch Nick Saban
have a masterclass of what this guy's good at, what
this guy's bad at, but just evaluating players boom. I
was like, I would watch him do this by himself,
and I think that it's getting a lot of feedback
that way. That's a crowded desk for a lot of
those different events. I'd rather see Saban doing some more
(09:52):
solo thing or not solo, but quieter things where he's
the star as opposed to just a guy. And I
think that's kind of what this because I don't think
that Nick Saban to go back and coach, I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean, he's by the way, keep in mind, he
looks great, but I mean, I'm gonna pull it up.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What is even seventy seventy three.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, he's older than you think because he looks great,
takes care of himself, he looks great.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But went out about us on top as you can,
yep in a rose Bowl like you play in the
New Year's Day bawl. You made the final four the
first year of the playoff, that there was like, I'm
sorry your last year you made the playoff, you had
a legit shot to win the championship, took Michigan to overtime,
and then Michigan made quick work in the national championship games.
So you could have argued, had we got it done
(10:35):
that thing we could have too.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was there, I was there, it was here, and
I had to go to that game. It was good
to see. But five days of my.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Life, Yeah, that was lit. That was lit.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But yeah, Nick saban to me again, if he were
to come back, it makes it completely makes sense while
he's been trying to and again I think he may
truly believe is in his heart. I don't want to
act like this isn't his true feelings, but bringing in
il now, trying to rein it in, trying to put
restrictions on it, trying to put it on the box,
trying to have maybe more of a governing body over it,
(11:03):
you know, and have more guidelines so that if he
were to make a return, maybe he has unfinished business,
maybe it's something he wants to do. Maybe he's just
setting up for one of his young guys, one of
his you know, his coaches is on his tree. If
you will to have some success, bring it down a
little bit, so if he were to go back to
Alabama or some other school, he can have more success
and not have to compete with the Michigan's Ohio states
(11:23):
on the level in which they are now because you
mentioned it, they're able to pay whomever whatever. And again,
this is where we are now because the NCAA had
the vice gript didn't want to loosen up.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I've been saying this for years, Martin, with their.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Whole I called it the identity theft, because I can
make money off the back of you, you look, your name,
your image of likeness, all this stuff, and not have
to pay you anything for so long and not I
always said all they had to do. Twenty twenty five
years ago, started letting kids get a little stipend.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Here's a little bit more, here's fifty thought, that's it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Just fifty thousand, you know, hughge that way you were
in college, you know huge, that would be dollars fifty
per per you know, semester or per year. Four kid
for a life, dude, I got fifth out have to
hide it. It's out there. Everybody knows. It's okay. Maybe
you get another fifteen each year. So by the time
I'm junior senior, I'm looking at I don't know, one
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Right, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But by them trying and keeping it off for themselves,
this is what they get. This crazy everybody doing this
on that And what I don't like about the transfer portal,
And you mentioned something one thing I will agree with,
and you know this because it's applicable. Take college football
replaced with anything in life. You trying to continue to
grow in this business, me trying to continue to grow
(12:33):
find my witness business.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You had to persevere. Yep, you can.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hey, come to five Sports Radio, Marty. You thought you
were gonna do more. Maybe you want more and it's
not there. Kelvin, you're gonna do this special news. I
want to do more than what the transfer portal is
creating because all these guys, a lot of them are
gonna go pro most of them are, or even if
they do, they go for a year two. I think
I'm about to be man. Come to find out you're not,
and you're out. Now you're twenty four, twenty five with
the rest of your life. My only concern with the
(12:59):
transferport everybody's leaving because you mentioned it. I was promised
these reps, so I was promised I was going to start,
and I don't like how this is going. Or oh man,
I had four bad games. You put the backup quarterback.
I'm leaving and I don't like that. It can create
an atmosphere where you don't want to fight a persevere
you know, you don't want to compete, where you don't
want to be put in a position where you got
to show up, you got to man up, you got
to put up. And now it's like, oh, I don't
(13:20):
like it. I'm it's I'm uneasy. This doesn't it makes
me uncomfortable. I'm going to go there. Oh I'm just
gonna go there because they're going to offer me you
extra fifty thousand. I'm just gonna leave there. Sometimes the
best position you used you to stay put, grow through adversity,
out play that person or learn, and then next year
is your year. And that was where you were supposed
to be. But you just want to go over there
(13:41):
because it's better. Now you're in the worst situation. You're losing,
you know what I mean? And Okay, you made an
extra seventy five thousand throughout your career, but now I
look at you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
And Booker McFarlane made this point in a profile of
him years ago before he got the Monday night football job,
but he said he was able to fail in the
dark on SEC network because it had one hundred and
fifty thousand viewers as opposed to money in football.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's a great point five million, right.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It's a lot easier to make mess ups in practice
than it is in games. But this is all really
boiling down. I think I might have coined the term
for it just in this moment. This is the Rob
you effect. Okay, you guys were in the weight loss competition.
You guys are fighting hard. You got I mean, Rob
Parker was eating ham and mayonnaise and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Rob G was like, wait a minute, I did. I mean,
I'm not coming close to winning this thing. Transfer portal
me shoot.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Me up, transfer that white portal. Yeah, look, he mad
at you. Don't be disrespecting me because I'm probably too
busy eating right now, you know, taking shots at you.
Rob the rob G effect, robbed you effect, robbed you.
Here is the thirty What if I told you I
hear the thirty for thirty coming?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We got something I just brought up a moment ago,
and its kind of sort of ties in a little
bit that last point we were making their Scotti Scheffler
had some things to say, and this is coming from
guys who's had a lot of success, and I actually
get his point, and I think it's a point of
emphasis that we all could lean on a little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'll tell you my thoughts on that. Next.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It is the I Couple Martin's in for Rob Kevin Washington.
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
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Speaker 3 (15:20):
Hey, it's me Rob Parker.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
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(15:45):
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Speaker 1 (15:50):
Fox Sports Radio, Kelvin Washington, Martin Weiss and for Rod,
we are the odd couple on a trash talking Tuesday.
And if you got aching East, if back joints don't cooperate, well,
some days we all know is like that at times, right,
your body's just like nah, Bro, I'm not having it
on those days.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Luckily, there is a leave with just one pill.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
A lead provides up to twelve hours of paying relief
so you can keep it moving, use as directed, and
just a little bit about twenty minutes or so, we'll
have last call. Plus we're gonna have Steve to say
or give you updates on the MLB All Star Game
and whatever else is happening in the sports world. That'll
be happening here in just a little minute. I wanted
(16:30):
to just get on this real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Martin. Just interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The conversation that I think Scottie Scheffler he kind of
had and essentially the way it reads to me is
kind of sad almost or at least kind of heartfelt.
So I'm jump into what he was saying. He's the
conversations was about winning. Conversation was about what it does
(16:55):
for you and how you feel and is the fulfillment
of winning some of these tournaments Here's what he had
to say.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Filling from the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling
from a sense of like the deepest places of your heart.
You know, there's a lot of people that make it
to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life,
and then you get there and all of a sudden
you get to number one in the world, and then
they're like, what's the point? I really do believe that,
because you know, what is the point? You're like, why
do I want to win this tournament so bad? That's
something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. You know,
(17:20):
I'm kind of a sick o. I love putting in
the work. I love being able to practice, I love
getting out to live out my dreams. But at the
end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point.
I love the challenge. I love being able to play
this game for a living. It's it's one of the
greatest joys of my life. But does it fill the deepest,
you know, wants and desires of my heart? Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
So A lot of youse just touched on right there.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, and I got I got two things from that,
and I think it's applicable to you listening to you,
Martin sitting to my left, myself, Robgie, Alex, everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Number one and I mentioned this before when we Rob
and I were having a conversation about people get wrapped
up into their job, right you rock Fox Sports Radio,
five years, ten years, twenty years, This is what I do,
this is who I am. And then one day they
fire you, one day, let you go, whatever happens, and
people lose themselves because that became their identity.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Right And I think some of what.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
He's mentioning here, and whether he unintentionally or intentionally meant
to say it was to me, I'm a golfer. But
this isn't my identity, right, This isn't who I am
as a person. This isn't the thing that sustains or
fulfills me. I have a family, he went on to
talk about, I have a family, I love, I have
I have a wife, I have kids, I have you know,
other family members, of other hobbies. I have things that
matter to me, and just simply winning something or losing
(18:34):
can't be how I judge my life. And I think
that's something we could all think about our jobs or
the thing we love to do that doesn't have to
be your entire existence, because one day that could end.
One day, if your a football player's over, it's over.
For the professional athlete, one day it will end. It
will be going.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
To mile end at a point in your life when
everybody else is.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Still working or just getting going right, just really finding
their way.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'm thirty two, thirty four, I'm just getting good. I'm
finding my way, and you're done. You're like, okay, what
do I do next? And also acceptance. I think a
little bit of that for him is also acknowledging like, man,
will they accept me if I win? Will they validate me?
Whin will this be exactly what they want? Did I
get enough?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Martin?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Did I win enough? We have enough tournaments because nowadays
he wins three. Oh, I wasn't good enough for his talent.
I went five. Yeah, but Tiger did this. Phil did that,
you know what I mean? And I think he realized,
I'll always be chasing it if I'm doing it for
just the crowd and the acceptance as well. And so
I think another example of this to me the other
side is Naomi Asaka. I think she's kind of struggling
(19:40):
with some things. If you saw her most recently lose
and she said, I can't find anything positive in this.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I feel negative.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And she said the only thing positive is my daughter's
birthday this weekend, So that's the only thing I can
gleam on. And you know, she's been in and out
of tournaments, taking her time, taking a year off maternity,
or just mental health. And I think we don't talk
about this part of it enough for athletes, the mental
health part of what they do.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You knew Greg Hart, I believe right from Michigan. I did,
Greg Harden.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
My best friend's pops rest in Peace, just passed away
a little less than a year ago. He was a
sports counselor Google for the greats Desmond Howard, Tom Brady,
Michael Phelps, so many, Charles Woodson, and so many will
never know because they were a third string cornerback, or
they were a wrestler, or they were a gymnast that
went to Michigan and you never knew them. But that
was his great thing is getting them to understand who
they are and how to use sports. But it ain't
(20:27):
who you are solely. It's a part of you. And
last thing I'll say too, you have to fall in love.
I think what we all learn is to with the process,
Like he said, just trying to be the best golfer,
working on the game because the wins and the losses
will get you in the high and the lows. And
I tell that to a lot of young people getting
in this business. They'll get a great review or a
(20:49):
great rating and up or winning award. They're on Mount Everest.
Someone says, I didn't like that story. I didn't like
the way you just hosted that, Dey Martin. Now they're
in the deepest valley you got to be there for
I love to say, you don't want to do that,
you want to ride this thing out. Take the take
the criticism, take the good, the love, don't go too high,
don't go too low, and love the game in the
process of just being the best version of yourself, not
(21:12):
necessarily always solely the wins and losses.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I will say I think that Scottie Scheffler is peaking
from a a place of very, very earned privilege.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's a little bit easier to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Say being the number one golfer in the world is
not important when you've been the number one golf in
the world.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So much as he has.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Right, it's like if you if And it also I
remember back to and again I air parachute in on golf,
so I wasn't watching before the Masters, but then I
see the Masters. Oh right, Cheffer's wife is pregnant. Oh
he might not play if she's gonna have the baby.
Oh well, that's that's certainly a decision, right like it.
And no, I'm not saying was it the past with
(21:52):
judgment or anything, but it's just that's definitely a decision
that some other people may not have made. Right and
whether that's I'm not here to tell you good battery different.
I'm just saying it's a decision that he made. And
when I because when I hear these quotes I read
him at first, my eyebrows went up. I hear him
say it. It sounds like he's a guy that knows, like, like,
my kid's gonna take this first step soon?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Am I gonna be golfing?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Then? Like you know what I'm saying, Am I going
to be able to drive my kids to carpool and
practice and all that other stuff like? And I think
that when he talks about it, it's because his child
was born just about a year ago, right, So it's
kind of like the yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You're starting to speaking this happening, these moments that are,
oh my gosh, she's got a FaceTime you because the
first tooth pops out or something.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
And he's earned over one hundred and thirty million dollars.
You know, he's he's got he's got enough money to wear.
He's not exactly going hungry.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So I think with all of that being said, it
you know it is what you know. I get him,
I get where he's coming completely.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Again, we can add a little bit more to this
in just a moment, because I get I think it's
something that Kobe Bryant talked about a lot of actors
talk about I'll expawn on that on the other side.
Right now, Steve, the saga is gonna give you everything
that's trending right now, Steve, what's up?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
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Speaker 1 (23:16):
It is the odd couple kelvin Washington, Martin Weiss here
and for Rob on a trash talking Tuesday, and you
can't heat. Rob's out there that Atlanta enjoyed himself. You
knew where he was yesterday. It was a Monday, so
you knew his Magic City literally for him, it was
Magic City Monday. And now I'm sure he's at the game.
I haven't checked his Instagram and.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'm a little moist right now.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Okay, hold on, wow, Rob, you gotta settle down. You're
not even hearing you guys.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Now do What you're missing right now is that MLB
bro is in full effect. Okay, and they all got
the official MLB bro All Star Game post.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Let me go, let me go play. Here's the problem.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
I don't know if I'm said quiet part out loud.
I don't know if it's official, the MLB license.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Uh stuff that they're wearing.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Let me see, let me let me go see where
the guy? Okay, all right? Are they all on the
with the MLB bro gear on? Nice little polos?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I see it? You know what? Let me double tap
real quick. I'm double tap.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I can't keep up because he's been going a couple
days and he has forty two posts already just to
play the ribs every lunch he's had.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Here.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Here's a question, because you're a business owner, Yes, this
is well documented. If you're out on the streets and
let's say your business is, you know, dub Collections or whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Right, misfit Active. Where can misfit active work? Right? And
so if I'm walking around and I got on.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
A Adidas Polo and I just slapped a Misfit Active where
logo on the side and you see me wearing it, now,
I'm supporting you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But would you be upset about it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Because if you as you know, my wife is a lawyer,
there's a whole bunch of legality involved in that. I mean,
there's a bunch of you know, rights and restrictions and
registrations out of the trademarks and when you know what
goes into all that.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Brother, Yeah, so.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
If Rob bumps into Rob Manfred, you're saying it wouldn't
be a pleasant conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I think Rob Manfred looks Rob Parkering goes just let
him be. I think he's just it's a it's a
rob thing. He's like, he's got an MLB vote, he's
been covering the leak since nineteen eighty seven. I think
he just goes, you know what, let him be, Let
him be. I think that's what happens. Am I crazy?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't think so at all. And also too, it's
like you know, tree falling and you know, yeah, I
think he's not gonna Yeah, he'll be fine. Yeah, he
he'll be fine. He'll I think he'll still be hitting,
have his MLB network, Brian Kenny hits, he'll be ge
will good to go.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh yeah, they'll probably ask him on a low though.
Can you stop being negative on all everything MLB? Can
you please? We're trying to have you highlight our game
and is what you're doing and we got a tissue
for me? Yeah all right, real quick, just to put
a button on we we're talking about for you. Just
joining Scottie Scheffler had some things to say just about winning,
his thought process and how it essentially, if I'm paraphrasing Martin,
(25:53):
it's not the end all be all. It's not the
most fulfilling thing in his life. He loves it and
it's great, but it isn't everything. One of the things
I will say for him, as he's he's won some
big time tournaments and majors, he's a little too close
to it Martin where I think he's like, he's like,
all I wanted and what and if you've ever done
(26:14):
anything successful, you know, the highest level of athleticism for
me was just winning high school championship. Was in college
one and pro so I can't relate to that, but
I do remember we won, and I remember being like, Okay,
what's next? You know, shouldn't I feel like this? Should
I feel like that? And then you realize, Oh, as
time goes by, you appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
You appreciate what it took to win. You appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Camaraderie, appreciate the stories, appreciate the time you had with
your you know, in his case, it'll be more so
the guys on tour and they don't have like teammates
per se, but you appreciate your teammates in those moments,
those conversations that we had times when you were down
to the dumps because you had a handful of bad
games and the relationships. And I just had my one
of my assistant coaches out here in LA we got together.
He just he did something kind for me afterwards that
(27:00):
I do pre and post game for the Dodgers. He
mailed me a couple of Dodger books. It's really cool,
you know, So you have those bonds. So I do
think Scotty's a little too close to it where wins
and losses. He can't quite see the force for the trees,
got new Fair, got new child, and he gets further away.
I think he will appreciate it more. I think we've
all kind of been there with certain things.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And the guy, honestly first kind of made me think
about this was Kevin Durant when he won that first
championship with Golden State, and it seemed as if it
did not fulfill him as much because of how much
like detraction there was.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Around to win. I gotta win, I gotta win. Well,
it was also like he had to win. He had
to win. Oh you gotta felt forced to leave. Okac.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Whatever goes to Golden State wins the finals on the
team that was I will say.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Really damn good.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I'm not denying that, but was the to me, the
best player on that team, even though he was a
new addition.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I get that Steph.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Curry was there the entire think that, but to me,
Kd the years that he was there was better.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It was the best warrior.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
He was the warrior that was number one that you
were worried about the most. And so for him to
like somehow feel like those championships mean like less than
to me honestly, not to be dramatic or silly, but
it was honestly kind of a sports tragedy to me,
Like I think you should winning should feel good, Winning
should feel fulfilling.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And I get what Scottie Scheffler is saying.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
It's not that I don't like to win, but sometimes
it's just like, man, you know what am I doing
at all?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Four?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Right?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I think when you have life changing moments like you
have a child, or you get married or something like that,
it forces you to readjust the way you look at things.
You start making we decisions instead of me decisions. And
for the first he's what thirty years old. For the
first twenty five years, if it was like get married
during COVID, the first five.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Twenty five years life, he was making me decisions.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
And it's a lot easier to get up and go
and hit that golf ball a billion times as much
as you need you to be as good as he
is when you don't have And I'm not even saying
like the nagging obligations, obligations you signed up for.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You wanted these to be there. You're looking for you
want to be there. Yeah, it's a challenge. And by
the way, I had a chance to uh talk to
Kevin Hart about this on the news show I Do,
and he mentioned I asked him that said, you do
a million things. You got a family that you love,
beautiful family, you know, And essentially he didn't have an
(29:32):
answer to the balance and he was he signed, you know,
oh yeah, you know, man, you do didn't just he
didn't have an answer. My point is, at thirty, Scottie
Scheffer's still going to go through this. Martin Weise, you're
gonna go through this. Sure you're getting married soon if
you guys have children where rob G knows this. Rob
G's ambitious, he wants to do more.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
He wants this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
But then again, robb G wants to be at that
dancer title. You know, rob G wants to be having
a He not to put his business out there, but
I don't think I've overstepped. But he's now able to
get back to the wife more because you know, one
child's a little older. And trust me, I'm going through
it now.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I would.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
It's always going to be if you're an ambitious person,
if you're trying to work, you're trying to be good
at your job and trying, but you also want to
be there as a family man and kids and wives
and family maybe your parents and your sis siblings.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Dude, is an eternal battle of.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
There's an opportunity to make more because you want to
have more for your family and give the best for
your daughters and you know, but then okay, but I
want to be there but wa okay, but oh what
this is my career.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I feel passionate about it. But ah, but I'm missing
this and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's tough, dude, I just told you off the air,
first time I ever didn't coach my daughter this past season.
Can't do it because I could be there for the games,
but I can't be there for practice during the week.
And that dude, when I say hurt, hurt, I didn't
even know it would thought you know, should be fine,
coaching should be do because all I've had known and
she known is I coached her teams when she played basketball.
(30:53):
So it's tough man trying to figure this whole thing out.
And I think is applicable not just sports, but all
of us who are trying to figure it out.
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