September 18, 2024 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether Adrian Wojnarowski is making a mistake by leaving $20 million on the table at ESPN to work at his college alma mater and discuss why sports fans are turning away from Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes in droves. Plus, MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble helps break down the biggest stories in baseball in this week’s edition of Foul or Fair.
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's right. Kelvin will chime in with JR. But today.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There was a woj bomb, as people like to say,
like no other on Twitter or x whatever you want
to call it, usually about the NBA and some trade
or something going on and we know, but rob G,
I want to bring you in on this. And there
was a big story today involving an ESPN NBA insider
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most people consider as.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The best one out there.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Most people consider him not just the best out there now,
but arguably the best to ever do it in the
world of breaking news for sports. Longtime NBA insider formerly
a Yahoo, most recently with ESPN, Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring.
It's going out on top. Like Michael Jordan, He's fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Years I was like, well, retiring.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
For what less than three years after signing a thirty
five million dollar contract with the Four Letter. He's dipping out,
leaving roughly twenty million dollars on the table.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I just had.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I just got Seals Film the new general manager of
the Saint Bonaventure men's basketball program.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He'll be heading up mostly the NIL department.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Not the Knicks turning down twenty not the Nets.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
I tell you what we what. First of all, what
a wo's bond for your last one to be about you?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm sorry, I'm not leaving those twenty million dollars on
a table as a sports NBA insider. I mean there
are a lot of seriously like like like, that's the
kind of money that people never see and you never
see that, So that's a hard pillar swallow. I'm gonna
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just be up front. I know woj Okay. He worked
in New Jersey at the Bergen Record. We go way
back to my NBA days when I was a beat
writer and I covered the New Jersey nets before they
moved to Brooklyn and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So I know him, you know, from a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And he's done, had a tremendous career and it's his
decision or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But here's the problem I had with this.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And I get it. People want quality of life. They
want to do other stuff. They don't want to be
pigeonhole the whole. I understand that people move on, you
make changes in your life and whatnot. I'm just gonna say,
this is all I ever wanted to do since I
was nine years old. Not too many people, all my friends,
nobody's even surprised at what I'm doing because this is
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what I told people back then I wanted to do
when I was a kid. And I'm talking about being
the sports media, right, all that stuff. That's what I love.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But if you're going to.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'm just I don't see the reward in this. And
what I mean is Saint Bonaventure, the Bonnies. You're not
winning an NCAA title. You're almost obscure basketball program. I
know he went there, that's his alma mada. If you
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want to help you, he's already been for a long
time with fundraising and helping to do stuff to make
the program. I get all that, that's your school. Why
not you know, I went to Southern Connecticut undergrad. Anything
I could do to help the school, I would. I
went to Columbia for my masters. Nope, they don't need
my health. They got plenty of money and plenty of
great They're doing all right without Rob Parker. So I
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get that. But I'm talking about giving up the career
that he had going. It's gotta be because you're going
to do to be the GM of Duke or North
Carolina or Syracuse, you know what I mean, or some
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school or something where there's this guy's a great basketball
mind and he's gonna help us get us right in
and back to the right place.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't see that here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I see this as bowing out to take a less
pressure job.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Where there are no expectations on you.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
I want to read something to you that I think
was very important. A couple of things he said in
his statement. He said, time isn't endless, isn't an endless supply,
and I want to spend mine in ways that are
more personally meaningful. He's married. I don't work off. Yes, children,
I believe he does. The wanting to spend time with
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your family after being in the grind. You know what
this grind takes, right, You want to be in the media.
Those of you listening right now. I'm sure we got
some young men and women who are either in college
or you know, the young adults.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I want to be in media. It's a grind.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You got to go to small outlets in small markets
and grind your way.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And when they tell you can go home, you don't
go home.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
You stay. When they say come at eight, you come
at seven. You get early. You're there early. It is
a grind. And to become great, it's even more of
a grind. To become, as Rob g said, maybe the
greatest of all time. And it comes to breaking news
in the NBA, it takes an incredible amount of time.
It takes an incredible amount of sacrifice from you and
from your family, and there's a certain point when you've
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done it all, when you've reached the mountaintop, and you're like,
now this ain't for me anymore. And the key word
was meaningful. It's not that he can't do it. It's
not that he won't get checks, but it's not meaning
anything to him. Rob, it's not getting him that satisfaction
that he needs anymore. You know, it would going to
the Bonnies and helping them get in the tournament. You
know what what going to the Bonnies and finding that
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player that nobody thought of from New York and getting
them on there and he balls out and he has
a great career and he goes on to become a
great young man, whether it be in the NBA or
just a great citizen. I think there's a more meaningful
things and simply money, especially once you've earned some, because
you're saying, all right, I got some money, I got
some bread, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Doing well right now.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
There are a ton of people who've earned a lot
of money who still work because it burns inside them,
and it's something that because one of the things and
it's not I get it people all, how much money
do you need? That sounds good, But there's a reason
that we do what we do, and a passion that
goes with it. And for somebody who is at a
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pinnacle of their career at the biggest place to do it,
and to he's not sixty five, he's fifty five. I
get there's a lot of other things that play into it.
But then to go take that job is what I'm saying.
If he told me just wanted to bow out because
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he's burnt out, and and and there's these other reasons,
and I'm not gonna work, and I'm just gonna you
know what I mean, I'm gonna go sit in the
stands and watch my bodies play. I'll buy that. That
I'll buy. But to be the general manager of an
obscure basketball program in college basketball, it's just it does.
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It sounds strange to me.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
But listen, my man Tea Grizzley, a rapper from Detroit.
He says, ain't it a blessing? Ain't it a blessing
that he can do what he wants?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Me?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
That I made a bunch of money, I'm legend. Derek
got Adam Schefter, Dagner crying on TV for me and
Jeff Passing. They're all just sitting there literally weeping for
it because so you see the byeline.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
They all want the same byline for the story. What
Passing check.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Yeah, all the all the you know, the leaders in
that field showing me love.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm the greatest Woe's bombs or crazy. Everybody knows about them.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And now I get to walk away from that on
top like Johnny Alway and other grades. And then I
get to go do what I love, which is cover basketball,
be a part of this team, be a general manager
and build. Oh and by the way, if my wife says, hey,
I made that thing you love tonight, or maybe she says,
I'm sitting here oiled up in olive oil like Alex
wants her to be, and he can come home to that.
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He ain't got to take showers with his phone sitting
over there. He don't have to worry about that I
miss anything that I break it. First, he gets to
have a better quality of life. Oh and by the way,
to your point, he's young enough that if it decides
to come back in five ten years, he can still
do so. But I think there is a thing is
when it's run its course. Right, there's a time when
all things must come to an end. And for him,
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after a long, probably thirty year career, being one heralded
as the great, you get that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think it's a blessing. I get to go down
in the Hall of fame.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
They got my jersey up in the rafters of breaking
news and sports, and now I get to go do
this this new challenge, this new quest, and it's meaningful
and it's personal.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But but yeah, I get that. But for something he's that.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I'm looking at, you got dollars size in your eyes
every time I'm looking at That's the problem right now, right,
It's something that he can't even see you right now.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
This is something he's never done. So you have to
put an energy and work hard to try to do this.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So it's not like four to seven.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But even today, and I'm not taking I've broken news,
you know, for newspapers and had stories on the A
one and all that, and what they do today compared
to breaking news in those days is way different. Where
agents are calling them and tipping them off and giving
them Like when when you when WOJ was breaking down
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the draft and giving you the players to be draft.
That ain't breaking news. That means you're on the inside. Okay,
would you agree with that? Like this, there's the first pick,
here's a second pick's he has them all that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That's not that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're you You've got an inside and and and because
you need to know right.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What everybody's pick is.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It wasn't like you just guest who the first pick,
or you had an insight on one team you know
all the draft lottery.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That means you're on the inside.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And it's different because we even saw a chef that
got caught up where he was sending his story to
one of the NFL gms who was proof reading.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
In journalism, you notice cans.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Come on, man, anybody else you do that, you might
be fired if they find.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Out we saw that happen.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Though it's something I'm gonna say names with CNN and
or presidential debate, somebody was kind of feeding the questions. Yeah,
so I don't disagree with your saying. And I think
that may also play a role that the game make
the same. Right, he's fill the agents calling you this
happened and play Maybe he doesn't want everybody to have
that access to him too. I'm tired of people being
able to call me for in the morning. AO, I
got something for you, disrespectful. Hey, I'm on the weekends
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when my kids doing this with right. Hey, man, I
got something. You gotta do this. You need to post
this form. You need to say this for me. Hey,
make sure you get this out here this way. I
don't want everybody having access to me like that anymore.
I've done that. I'm tired of that. I don't want
everybody to being able to just call me whenever. And however,
and lastly, y'all say this, Rob, I think this, and
you may feel me on this. I think this also
changed the game, the access that we all have to
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social media, players with podcasts, players getting information out, players
arguing with him, arguing with gms like the game make
the same no more. And I have a feeling he's like, man,
this is not even what I came into the business of.
I'd rather bow out now gracefully and move on because
now players, no, no, no, no, that's not what happened. I
want to put the news out. Let me get my
(12:27):
own podcasts. You talked about Draymond Green the other day.
Let me get the narrative out my way they can
get it out, but they're not always and it's combat
of it, like you know now as opposed to Hey,
I got to pull you aside Rob Parker when you
said something. Now I can go on social media and
fight you and argue and blast with you all day.
So I think there's I think those things quality of life,
giving less access to people being in his life, and
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also just the fact that the game has changed. Every
Body has a microphone, every player can say someth everybody
can tweet, everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Has doesn't mean that they're all good stuff or worth
a lot of it. Just a lot of are.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Disappointed didn't when they hear some of that stuff. Art
a twenty million lost your mind?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well here we go eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven, seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Is woj making a mistake by giving up twenty million
dollars to be the general manager of Saint Bonaventure's basketball program.
I mean, Lily, we'll continue the conversation next with you.
(13:24):
It is the odd couple on a worship Wednesday. And
I'd say, Lord have mercy when I heard that story,
because I can't I still can't believe it. He didn't
just say I want I'm tired and i want to
go away and I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Relax and go do nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He's gonna take on a job that takes a lot
of energy now to do something that he's never done.
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We've been worshiping, man. I have had a good time,
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Almost two and a half hours have flown by me
sitting next to you. I thought it was gonna be hard,
and actually I han't been that hard.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I know you know you and your friends been saying
you know that Rob Park, I don't know you?
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Sure you taking that job? Worship Wednesday they were throwing
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and all you seem to think about is that man
left twenty million dollars on the table, and I'm thinking, man,
that man really wants to spend time with his family,
have some quality of life.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, he don't job. He just took a new job.
Nine to five, not a Newton midnight to midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Hey, a college basketball program, ain't no nine to five.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
This ain't duke.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It's gonna be kids calling they in trouble and then
the cow Uh, they're in the county jail, county jail.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
All kinds of stuff going on. Hey, your player John Johnson?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, what do you do? You see what he posted?
He accidentally live? He did? He did a shark?
Speaker 11 (16:53):
All right?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
We want to hear from you. Eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Who we got robbed?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Sean Shan in Sacramento. You're ony couple Fox Sports Radio?
What's up, Sean?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (17:04):
I'll go from another mother coven cousin Calviy and the
brothers behind the boys. How y'all fellas living?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Man?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Hey, man, I love the discussion today and I ain't
gonna lie. Man. This is the reason why I see
Scott Shapiro, the other big wiz, wanted to put y'all
together The fact that my man Kelvin got the perspective
of father, a husband, a man with four girl, three girls,
and Kelvin I had three boys. I went for the
fourtht got my girl, best blessing in my life. Man
didn't go for that boy.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Brother, Man, you're about to see you about to have
Alex over here, have me olive oiling my wife up tonight.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Hey man, it's gonna be everything you wish it was.
He's gonna be six for four NBA players, NFL player,
everything you wanted, bro. But I also see now, man,
it's perfect.
Speaker 12 (17:48):
Rob.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
I get your perspective. If it's your passion, if it's
something that you've been working for your whole life, why
let anything get in the way. But Kelvin, I'm gonna
keep it real. Brother. If my wife told me I'm
tired of you taking me calls, I'm tired of going
to Aruba and you you in the bathroom on your
phone half the time, I be wanting to give the
game up too. And yeah, he gave up twenty million,
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but he made fifteen. My man is still gonna live great.
He's still gonna do what he wants to do in basketball,
just more intimate Rob just more with with with an
organization that means more to him than everybody else. So
I can see both sides, and you know, I hate
sitting on the fence ride, but I can see both sides.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
For Shaw, all right, Sean, appreciate Rat, you got your
baby girl brother.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Congrats on that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Uh, Kyle in Virginia Beach, You're on the couple of
Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Ready, what's up, Kyle? What's up?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Fellas?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Rob?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
You know there's nothing to talk about Yoki, So, uh no,
we're out here shilling.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's right. Appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Uh, but I'll say, man, it's tough because the amount
of money seems so astronomical. But at the same time,
you know, he's probably gonna to check sat Mono ventures well.
And it's not like he's gonna be less busy, but
it's gonna be more focused on like a central you know,
this cent program, this is what I'm working on, rather
than you know, so into the Obama City saying to
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get the next next Russell Westbrook, and it's like, what
do you what are you talking about? Russell Westbrook? The
next west question? So I think a lot of then
affairs or you know, you know how those out of
the world calls will stop and he can just focus
on his life. But at the same time, you're changing
your passion, you know, his passion basketball and being involved
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directly in a team like Saint Mono Vendor where he
went right mean more to him.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
When you heard it was Saint Bonaventure, what'd you do?
Speaker 12 (19:38):
What?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Let me look this school up? What a Aventure?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Well, Rob, I told you I coached high school basketball.
My son brother coaches who's every dame tight last year
with the women's and now they got hired by kentuckim
myus was going to coach you that.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Say, that's right? I remember that.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah, Well, first in all of the schools, like, there's
a lot of basketball schools out there, and I know
the way that these schools love the fans, the family
aspect of bringing somebody in. So when I heard say
about a Venture, and then your point was, did you
look it up? I did? But then I realized, oh wait,
he was affiliated. So once I figured out he was
affiliated with him, I was like, oh that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
No, no, no, no, I mean that's a that's a school lot,
he's a he's an alumnus there.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
From that, I get it.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And also, like Sean said, fifteen mil fifteen you already
made anything about the money made before that. You're a
beat writer at the base of his job. All right,
You're just the best.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
At all right, Kyle, we appreciate it. Thank you so much.
How about Kevin in Culver City. You're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What's up, cav.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
God is good, no doubt time.
Speaker 13 (20:43):
Hey Kelvin, Man, it's great having you on the air.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I know you from hosting.
Speaker 13 (20:48):
With Joe Klan. I'm o Kelly Cafi.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's heart.
Speaker 13 (20:54):
I'm a big fan of you guys. I've been trying
to get connect MO with y'all. Y'all got to connect
MO and try to connect moment, connect all the brothers. Man,
y'all gonna have one of these round tables on one
of the shows coming up for sure. Listen. This is
all about one thing. It's called happy wife, happy life.
If the wife is happy, then he's happy. And you know,
he's made his money and this is what he wants
(21:15):
to do. He's going to go back to his Alma
model and you know he's going to have a really nice,
productive time of his family. He's gonna enjoy that he's
made his money. I'm pretty sure there's more money to make.
And like I said before, you know, even with athletes,
so even in your field, you know, when you just
want to have happiness, that's what it's all about. So
he probably reaches time where he's like, I don't want
to do this anymore. You know, I just want to
(21:36):
just shield and just go back to you know, what
makes me feel comfortable, makes my family feel comfortable, and
we can't argue with that. You know, he's made his
mark and like I said before, he's made he's made
his money already. So it's just about that happiness.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Where'd you get that happy wife? Happy life? I had
a happy wife and you know what, one day we
need to get her on the line. What No, we
need to get her on the line and gone, and
I'm happy. So I guess does work out?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Hey, keV Man, thank you for the call, brother and
trying to talk some sense to this man.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Hey, you know what if you don't want.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
To have her on I mean, well, I don't know.
Your eyes tell me I don't yea cool?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, yeah, it's been a long time. I've been divorced
twenty years. Yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, we're cool.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Let that man live, Let him enjoy his life.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
And by the way, my last two cents on this,
what if it's a long play that goes away five
years or so, does Well mess around to come back
and be a GM in the NBA?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You never know, he knows all the.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Append Saint Bonava, what bottoms out and it's a disaster.
Those things happen. Matt Millan was hired as Lions GM
with no experience, and what happened March going down fire
the milling Man March. I was the one who coined
that the milling Man march as fans were so angry
(22:53):
about Matt Millan in his tenure.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
So that didn't work out, did it? So now you
don't put you don't put. The greatest new he was
breaking in basketball history would argue with the worst GM
of alls, saying, well, it's about to be a woesball
out before I go one more buck Rob, Yeah, it's
his woesbomb would be I never missed the odd couple.
(23:15):
I never listened to us, so I never miss it.
Well he's listening now, all right, so uh foul or
fair with j R. Gamble is gonna be coming up
here of course mlbbro dot.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Com in just a bit.
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Speaker 6 (23:37):
All right, foul affair right now with JR. Gamble that
ball is it was a big week in the big leagues.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Who's who's a believe?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Is it foul or is it fair? And now from
mlbdbro dot com, here's JR.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Gamble, that's right, it is foul.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Here on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio saying,
when we go around the diamond discuss all the biggest
headlines in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Nor do so properly.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
We had to bring in a real baseball expert, a
guy who really cares about the sport of baseball, not
just masquerades for a paycheck.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
None of them. Would that be MLB very own JR.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Gamble, what's up?
Speaker 12 (24:23):
What's up? Fellas?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What what's up? Jr? That's right? Say hi to Kelvin.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Kelvin first time, Yes, sir, going on, man, what's up?
Speaker 12 (24:32):
I'm glad you're here because I knew where I couldn't
handle that show.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Oh wow, I'm here, man, I'm helping them all. I'm
helping him hold it down.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Jay, I appreciate you, brother, Happy to meet you.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
And what's in six going forward?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Appreciate that? All right, now that the pleasant trees are
out of the way, Let's JR.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Is the star of this segment. So he is the
first crack at every single question. So let's get right
to it, JR. As you know today, Hey, the Brewers
now have won the NL Central three of the last
four years.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Not to be outdone, though, if things.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Hold, the Dodgers will win the NL West three of
the last four years now, given that neither team has
won a World Series in that span and the fact
that let's face at LA has got more money than
God at this point, JR. Foul or fair to say
the Brewers have been more impressive than the Dodgers in
(25:26):
these last four years.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Champ, It's a full ball, but not by much.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
The Brewers do well with the money they actually spend.
You know, the twenty first in Major League base on
payroll two on a million left of the Dodgers. But
the nffentral has been one of the worst divisions in
baseball during that span. So there's a full gold there,
in my opinion, proven by the fact that what they
lost twice in the wild cards and in the NFBS
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during those three playoff appearances, the Dodgies actually won the
World three the twenty twenty, then the next three. Then
they went to the NLCS and lost in the NLDS.
So you can say the Brewers do more with their talent,
but let's be honest, if they played in the nl West,
I don't know how well they do it against those guys.
So the Brewers never really impressed me. They win, but
(26:17):
they're never serious contenders. But I guess the god who
got a dodge it. So yeah, it's more impressive that
the Brewers basically doing the same thing the Doddis have
done the last four years.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I say it's fair it's a fair ball.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And the press example is they don't have the money
that the Dodgers have and they're still winning divisions. That's
the division they're in. But here this past year to
me is probably spoke volumes for the Brewers. Craig Counsel,
their manager, left them at the Altar, went to the
bigger more money Chicago Cubs, and guess what, the Brewers
(26:51):
still won the division even after losing their manager to
an arch rival.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So I gotta say it's fair. It was impressive this year.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Most people weren't picking the Brewers, especially after they lost
Craig Council.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm biased. I'm going foul.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
That is a foul ball'll be fair everything you just mentioned, right,
You succeed without your manager postseason last six of this
last seven years. But I look at the Dodgers ass
The only expectations and it's a compliment even if you
don't get it done is win a World Series, and
you've put yourself in the lead status where unless you
win a World Series, it doesn't matter. The Brewers aren't
(27:29):
quite there yet. Their postseason is still a great thing
for them. Getting to a World Series would be great.
But I just simply think the Dodgers are in this
position where it is simply World Series of bus and
that's a great place to be because that means the
expectation is only greatness.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So Kelvin, real quick, when's the next time your Dodger
pre and postgame appearance.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
I'm actually done for the season. Okay, got done for
the season. Don't worry about that. Don't don't disrespect my
fear and foul. Okay, I'll tell us up everybody sports
in the LA. What's up y'all? See ya a little bit.
I'll see y'all. Want to get back?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
CALLVI?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Could he dropped the drum card? When is the last
time odd a couple led with the Brewers just saying
that's right?
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Question number two jr. Today after never Never Happened JR.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Rangers GM Chris Young raised some eyebrows this week when
he told media members that improving their starting pitching is
their quote top priority answering the offseason. That's really interesting
because of course they just rushed back a pair of aces,
Max sus Er Jacob de Grom from injury to close
the season. You know they're not going anywhere, so JR.
(28:29):
Foul or fair to say improving the starting rotation should
be the Rangers' top priority.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Fair?
Speaker 12 (28:37):
It's a fair ball when DM said it, like, yeah,
they hit fine as a team. Throwing names around though
of guys who were once great but now injuries and
aid stopped them from even being Staptors. You know, it
doesn't really mean much. Like the Ranger's front office knows
you can't count on those guys. I don't know why
we keep talking about these two pitches anymore, or even
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guy cannot lead you when it crunch time. So the
pitching has to be top priority because they're great, but
they can't be horses on your staff anymore. The times passed.
The ground has the talent, but not the durability and
church he's own. I don't even know how many pitches
he has left in his arm. There's no future with
these two guys. As you know, the bulk of your staff,
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the top two guys on your staff, that just hoax
and wishes. So if you want to go back to
the World Series, you better get some starting pitching that
you can actually count on for one hundred and sixty
two games. With all due respect the two great pitchers
when they're healthy and younger, I.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Say fair, it's a fair ball.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But what kills me is they let Jordan Montgomery, who
was a big part of them winning the World Series
last year ago. He went to Arizona. You remember, like
now you're talking about you need pitching, You had pitching.
He was on your team. He helped you win a
World Series. And they didn't want to sign them, and
now they're still looking for pitching.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's fair. They got to get pitching. It's fair.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I mean, we can talk about this and every team, right,
it doesn't matter. We talked about it. The pitching is
all that matters. And as you were just saying, Jay
are the issue is when you start to lean on
guys for greatness that have are long in the tooth
and you're starting to demand and hope that they can
kind of clack Clinton, don't or not.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
We just talked about the Dodgers. Don't maybe jump over
this table right here.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
When you start to go ask these guys to hop
in the DeLorean and go back in time and find
some things that they may not be able to have,
then that is a scary situation when you're trying to
have World Series again, aspirations winning again. So absolutely you
need pitching.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
It's fair.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
You'll always simply need pitching. Period that you just put
a period next to that exclamation point permanently.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
All right, last one found fair in the Yaka, But Jr.
Gamble with the guys. We'll go quick on this one.
Were up against it. Royal Star Bobby Wood Junior made
a little history the other day, become the first short
stop ever to post two thirty thirty seasons. Simple question,
j Are that or fair that? With Junior is clearly
all Caps the best short stopping baseball right now?
Speaker 11 (31:06):
Found that is a foul.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
Ball, okay before y'all killed me? Or for Kevin jumps
over the phone at me, which is probably a cut
above you know, Francisco Lindor right now. But to me,
Corey Seagan is still the best shortstop to me.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
But he's injury prone.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
I get it. He's only played one hundred twenty three
games this year. You know, he hit at the thirty
bombs two seventy six average. He's a lifetime average of
two nineties. So it's actually a bad year for Seger,
but with having a career year another great yelling Doors
having a comeback season back into All Star form. But
I guess this is just a personal choice. I still
think when healthy Sig is a top five to ten
hitter in baseball. Only problem is he's only played one
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hundred and fifty games twice in the last nine seasons.
It's not a slam dunk, and by next season I'll
probably be saying witch is the answer. So now though
I still love Sieger.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
So you should have said it because it's found that
is hell fair, I should say, because I'm saying it
is Bobby Witt right.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Ball.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That Bobby Wit Jr. Is unbelievable. He's had an unbelievable year.
They signed him to a long term contract. They know
this guy can play. He is the shortstop of baseball
in the future.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Fair is and fair is the same in Jr. There
you go again, you will you're talking about what used
to be. You know, obviously I have a little bit
of love for Corey Sieger and all that, But the
fact of the matter is Bobby Witch showing up. He's playing,
and he's giving you, he's hitting, he's giving you power,
he's giving you durability, giving you some flash to So
I like what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So the answer is fair for your boy, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
All right, thanks if you like that to say with
check it out on the inside the Parker Podcast as
well every Thursday.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's right, that drops tomorrow, No doubt Jr. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
All right, coming up, we gotta have a conversation about
Dion Sanders and what Colorado has been doing and is
it fair or not for the media to get on
players his young college players will talk about that and
just a bit. It is the odd Couple, Rob Parker,
Kelvin Washington, Fox Sports Radio on a worst Wednesday.
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Speaker 12 (33:58):
You right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
If I was here for that day, I might have
walked out live on air. I'm not gonna hold you
up you get this rest of the showlder by yourself.
You would have been alone doing the show by yourself.
Alex won't let me live it down. I was on
the road somewhere.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I don't know how to.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
I gave rob one free pass. There was a drop.
He said, that is forever my favorite. But I got
rid of it for him. Yes, it was incredible, worse
than that one. Oh, Calvin, No, I'm telling you you
still got it though, right, No, I haven't saved him.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
I need to hear that one after the show. It's
so good, all right, Dion Sanders k rob g. You
have to know right one of the TV way to
just give it to us real quick.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You know, last year it was a phenomenal, like the
call of everybody's there watching for right, Colorado and Dion.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Twenty twenty three feels like forever. It feels like the
Louisiana purchase time.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
That's right. That's how long it's been week three to.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Week three for Colorado on the season, down fifty one
percent from Dion in twenty twenty three, when they were
the upstart Colorado Buffalo's America's Darling to now people have
come a little more jaded we've seen that the program
is not quite as good as Dion would like us
to think it is, and.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
As a result, viewers are changing the channel. It's Kelvin.
It's about winning, like like it was when they won
those games.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
When they surprised everybody and won and beat the won
the first game against what was that team, rob G,
who was in the National Championship game, the TCU, Right
when they beat them, they were like, what a yes, but.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That was like the start of it.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And then everybody in their uncle and I'm not surprised.
This is the part that's terrible. All those people that
were flying out the boulder, Uh, you know, Lil Wayne
and Shannon was there, rob G. It was celebrities galore,
a little a little concert.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
They were all where are they now? He ain't your boy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now because because they're not winning at the same clip,
that's I think that's foul. If you're my boy, and
I'm gonna support you through thick or thin, like like,
what what is it like? Like you just showed up
because it was a photo op for you and you
want to be around something that felt good in the
story and what I'm gonna support Dion.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Now you're not supporting them.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
I think I think he still has support because I
think one thing Dion has done is built relationships personally
with people where people love him the man, not just
the player, not the analyst, not the coach, but they
love him the man. So but I completely get your point.
It ain't the fan fair, it ain't the place to be.
People ain't showing up like that. But I still think
he gets love and respect. But now he's calling out
the media rob and he's he saying that, Uh, he
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talks about the media being jealous now because of the
new landscape. They're envious and jealous because the kids are
getting more money than y'all, and I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, it's starting to get a little And he knew.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
He knew this was gonna happen, in the fact that
one thing we could say about him, he walked it
like he talked it, and he won pretty much everywhere
he went in the NFL. So he knew, brou you
gotta start winning. You gotta start winning, because the talk
starts to get cheapened. But but the fan bear goes away.
You gotta start winning game. Here's the issue.
Speaker 13 (37:19):
I have.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
A lot of the media have been saying forever that
the players are getting played and should be paid and
should get a piece of a pie. I mean, look,
Chris and I on this show for years. This is terrible.
Why don't the players get a piece of this? So
this idea that all the writers are jealous, and I
don't buy that. I really really don't, because this is
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a bad system and they should have been paid a
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
One thing I'll say before we break.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
A lot of people here, the loud minority, they hear
the like if the random people, the blog people, random
blogs online are saying that Deion now has put the
payer rush on all the media, right. That's the dealing
with social media. Allowed MIC's everybody having a mic in
low minority. Everybody thinks that's everybody. That's some random blog
people saying that now tomorrow Are you ready?
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as a baseball season winds down.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's right. Kelvin will chime in with JR. But today.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There was a woj bomb, as people like to say,
like no other on Twitter or x whatever you want
to call it, usually about the NBA and some trade
or something going on and we know, but rob G,
I want to bring you in on this. And there
was a big story today involving an ESPN NBA insider
(01:36):
most people consider as.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The best one out there.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Most people consider him not just the best out there now,
but arguably the best to ever do it in the
world of breaking news for sports. Longtime NBA insider formerly
a Yahoo, most recently with ESPN, Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring.
It's going out on top. Like Michael Jordan, He's fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Years I was like, well, retiring.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
For what less than three years after signing a thirty
five million dollar contract with the Four Letter. He's dipping out,
leaving roughly twenty million dollars on the table.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I just had.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I just got Seals Film the new general manager of
the Saint Bonaventure men's basketball program.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He'll be heading up mostly the NIL department.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Not the Knicks turning down twenty not the Nets.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
I tell you what we what. First of all, what
a wo's bond for your last one to be about you?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm sorry, I'm not leaving those twenty million dollars on
a table as a sports NBA insider. I mean there
are a lot of seriously like like like, that's the
kind of money that people never see and you never
see that, So that's a hard pillar swallow. I'm gonna
(03:04):
just be up front. I know woj Okay. He worked
in New Jersey at the Bergen Record. We go way
back to my NBA days when I was a beat
writer and I covered the New Jersey nets before they
moved to Brooklyn and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So I know him, you know, from a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And he's done, had a tremendous career and it's his
decision or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But here's the problem I had with this.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And I get it. People want quality of life. They
want to do other stuff. They don't want to be
pigeonhole the whole. I understand that people move on, you
make changes in your life and whatnot. I'm just gonna say,
this is all I ever wanted to do since I
was nine years old. Not too many people, all my friends,
nobody's even surprised at what I'm doing because this is
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what I told people back then I wanted to do
when I was a kid. And I'm talking about being
the sports media, right, all that stuff. That's what I love.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But if you're going to.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'm just I don't see the reward in this. And
what I mean is Saint Bonaventure, the Bonnies. You're not
winning an NCAA title. You're almost obscure basketball program. I
know he went there, that's his alma mada. If you
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want to help you, he's already been for a long
time with fundraising and helping to do stuff to make
the program. I get all that, that's your school. Why
not you know, I went to Southern Connecticut undergrad. Anything
I could do to help the school, I would. I
went to Columbia for my masters. Nope, they don't need
my health. They got plenty of money and plenty of
great They're doing all right without Rob Parker. So I
(04:50):
get that. But I'm talking about giving up the career
that he had going. It's gotta be because you're going
to do to be the GM of Duke or North
Carolina or Syracuse, you know what I mean, or some
(05:13):
school or something where there's this guy's a great basketball
mind and he's gonna help us get us right in
and back to the right place.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't see that here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I see this as bowing out to take a less
pressure job.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Where there are no expectations on you.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
I want to read something to you that I think
was very important. A couple of things he said in
his statement. He said, time isn't endless, isn't an endless supply,
and I want to spend mine in ways that are
more personally meaningful. He's married. I don't work off. Yes, children,
I believe he does. The wanting to spend time with
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your family after being in the grind. You know what
this grind takes, right, You want to be in the media.
Those of you listening right now. I'm sure we got
some young men and women who are either in college
or you know, the young adults.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I want to be in media. It's a grind.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You got to go to small outlets in small markets
and grind your way.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And when they tell you can go home, you don't
go home.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
You stay. When they say come at eight, you come
at seven. You get early. You're there early. It is
a grind. And to become great, it's even more of
a grind. To become, as Rob g said, maybe the
greatest of all time. And it comes to breaking news
in the NBA, it takes an incredible amount of time.
It takes an incredible amount of sacrifice from you and
from your family, and there's a certain point when you've
(06:41):
done it all, when you've reached the mountaintop, and you're like,
now this ain't for me anymore. And the key word
was meaningful. It's not that he can't do it. It's
not that he won't get checks, but it's not meaning
anything to him. Rob, it's not getting him that satisfaction
that he needs anymore. You know, it would going to
the Bonnies and helping them get in the tournament. You
know what what going to the Bonnies and finding that
(07:04):
player that nobody thought of from New York and getting
them on there and he balls out and he has
a great career and he goes on to become a
great young man, whether it be in the NBA or
just a great citizen. I think there's a more meaningful
things and simply money, especially once you've earned some, because
you're saying, all right, I got some money, I got
some bread, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Doing well right now.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
There are a ton of people who've earned a lot
of money who still work because it burns inside them,
and it's something that because one of the things and
it's not I get it people all, how much money
do you need? That sounds good, But there's a reason
that we do what we do, and a passion that
goes with it. And for somebody who is at a
(07:47):
pinnacle of their career at the biggest place to do it,
and to he's not sixty five, he's fifty five. I
get there's a lot of other things that play into it.
But then to go take that job is what I'm saying.
If he told me just wanted to bow out because
(08:08):
he's burnt out, and and and there's these other reasons,
and I'm not gonna work, and I'm just gonna you
know what I mean, I'm gonna go sit in the
stands and watch my bodies play. I'll buy that. That
I'll buy. But to be the general manager of an
obscure basketball program in college basketball, it's just it does.
(08:29):
It sounds strange to me.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
But listen, my man Tea Grizzley, a rapper from Detroit.
He says, ain't it a blessing? Ain't it a blessing
that he can do what he wants?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Me?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
That I made a bunch of money, I'm legend. Derek
got Adam Schefter, Dagner crying on TV for me and
Jeff Passing. They're all just sitting there literally weeping for
it because so you see the byeline.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
They all want the same byline for the story. What
Passing check.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Yeah, all the all the you know, the leaders in
that field showing me love.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm the greatest Woe's bombs or crazy. Everybody knows about them.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And now I get to walk away from that on
top like Johnny Alway and other grades. And then I
get to go do what I love, which is cover basketball,
be a part of this team, be a general manager
and build. Oh and by the way, if my wife says, hey,
I made that thing you love tonight, or maybe she says,
I'm sitting here oiled up in olive oil like Alex
wants her to be, and he can come home to that.
(09:22):
He ain't got to take showers with his phone sitting
over there. He don't have to worry about that I
miss anything that I break it. First, he gets to
have a better quality of life. Oh and by the way,
to your point, he's young enough that if it decides
to come back in five ten years, he can still
do so. But I think there is a thing is
when it's run its course. Right, there's a time when
all things must come to an end. And for him,
(09:43):
after a long, probably thirty year career, being one heralded
as the great, you get that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think it's a blessing. I get to go down
in the Hall of fame.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
They got my jersey up in the rafters of breaking
news and sports, and now I get to go do
this this new challenge, this new quest, and it's meaningful
and it's personal.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But but yeah, I get that. But for something he's that.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I'm looking at, you got dollars size in your eyes
every time I'm looking at That's the problem right now, right,
It's something that he can't even see you right now.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
This is something he's never done. So you have to
put an energy and work hard to try to do this.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So it's not like four to seven.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But even today, and I'm not taking I've broken news,
you know, for newspapers and had stories on the A
one and all that, and what they do today compared
to breaking news in those days is way different. Where
agents are calling them and tipping them off and giving
them Like when when you when WOJ was breaking down
(10:37):
the draft and giving you the players to be draft.
That ain't breaking news. That means you're on the inside. Okay,
would you agree with that? Like this, there's the first pick,
here's a second pick's he has them all that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That's not that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're you You've got an inside and and and because
you need to know right.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What everybody's pick is.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It wasn't like you just guest who the first pick,
or you had an insight on one team you know
all the draft lottery.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That means you're on the inside.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And it's different because we even saw a chef that
got caught up where he was sending his story to
one of the NFL gms who was proof reading.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
In journalism, you notice cans.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Come on, man, anybody else you do that, you might
be fired if they find.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Out we saw that happen.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Though it's something I'm gonna say names with CNN and
or presidential debate, somebody was kind of feeding the questions. Yeah,
so I don't disagree with your saying. And I think
that may also play a role that the game make
the same. Right, he's fill the agents calling you this
happened and play Maybe he doesn't want everybody to have
that access to him too. I'm tired of people being
able to call me for in the morning. AO, I
got something for you, disrespectful. Hey, I'm on the weekends
(11:46):
when my kids doing this with right. Hey, man, I
got something. You gotta do this. You need to post
this form. You need to say this for me. Hey,
make sure you get this out here this way. I
don't want everybody having access to me like that anymore.
I've done that. I'm tired of that. I don't want
everybody to being able to just call me whenever. And however,
and lastly, y'all say this, Rob, I think this, and
you may feel me on this. I think this also
changed the game, the access that we all have to
(12:07):
social media, players with podcasts, players getting information out, players
arguing with him, arguing with gms like the game make
the same no more. And I have a feeling he's like, man,
this is not even what I came into the business of.
I'd rather bow out now gracefully and move on because
now players, no, no, no, no, that's not what happened. I
want to put the news out. Let me get my
(12:27):
own podcasts. You talked about Draymond Green the other day.
Let me get the narrative out my way they can
get it out, but they're not always and it's combat
of it, like you know now as opposed to Hey,
I got to pull you aside Rob Parker when you
said something. Now I can go on social media and
fight you and argue and blast with you all day.
So I think there's I think those things quality of life,
giving less access to people being in his life, and
(12:48):
also just the fact that the game has changed. Every
Body has a microphone, every player can say someth everybody
can tweet, everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Has doesn't mean that they're all good stuff or worth
a lot of it. Just a lot of are.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Disappointed didn't when they hear some of that stuff. Art
a twenty million lost your mind?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well here we go eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven, seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Is woj making a mistake by giving up twenty million
dollars to be the general manager of Saint Bonaventure's basketball program.
I mean, Lily, we'll continue the conversation next with you.
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It is the odd couple on a worship Wednesday. And
I'd say, Lord have mercy when I heard that story,
because I can't I still can't believe it. He didn't
just say I want I'm tired and i want to
go away and I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Relax and go do nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He's gonna take on a job that takes a lot
of energy now to do something that he's never done.
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Sure you taking that job? Worship Wednesday they were throwing
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left twenty million dollars on the table, and I'm thinking, man,
that man really wants to spend time with his family,
have some quality of life.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, he don't job. He just took a new job.
Nine to five, not a Newton midnight to midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Hey, a college basketball program, ain't no nine to five.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
This ain't duke.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It's gonna be kids calling they in trouble and then
the cow Uh, they're in the county jail, county jail.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
All kinds of stuff going on. Hey, your player John Johnson?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, what do you do? You see what he posted?
He accidentally live? He did? He did a shark?
Speaker 11 (16:53):
All right?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
We want to hear from you. Eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Who we got robbed?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Sean Shan in Sacramento. You're ony couple Fox Sports Radio?
What's up, Sean?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (17:04):
I'll go from another mother coven cousin Calviy and the
brothers behind the boys. How y'all fellas living?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Man?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Hey, man, I love the discussion today and I ain't
gonna lie. Man. This is the reason why I see
Scott Shapiro, the other big wiz, wanted to put y'all
together The fact that my man Kelvin got the perspective
of father, a husband, a man with four girl, three girls,
and Kelvin I had three boys. I went for the
fourtht got my girl, best blessing in my life. Man
didn't go for that boy.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Brother, Man, you're about to see you about to have
Alex over here, have me olive oiling my wife up tonight.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Hey man, it's gonna be everything you wish it was.
He's gonna be six for four NBA players, NFL player,
everything you wanted, bro. But I also see now, man,
it's perfect.
Speaker 12 (17:48):
Rob.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
I get your perspective. If it's your passion, if it's
something that you've been working for your whole life, why
let anything get in the way. But Kelvin, I'm gonna
keep it real. Brother. If my wife told me I'm
tired of you taking me calls, I'm tired of going
to Aruba and you you in the bathroom on your
phone half the time, I be wanting to give the
game up too. And yeah, he gave up twenty million,
(18:09):
but he made fifteen. My man is still gonna live great.
He's still gonna do what he wants to do in basketball,
just more intimate Rob just more with with with an
organization that means more to him than everybody else. So
I can see both sides, and you know, I hate
sitting on the fence ride, but I can see both sides.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
For Shaw, all right, Sean, appreciate Rat, you got your
baby girl brother.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Congrats on that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Uh, Kyle in Virginia Beach, You're on the couple of
Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Ready, what's up, Kyle? What's up?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Fellas?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Rob?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
You know there's nothing to talk about Yoki, So, uh no,
we're out here shilling.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's right. Appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Uh, but I'll say, man, it's tough because the amount
of money seems so astronomical. But at the same time,
you know, he's probably gonna to check sat Mono ventures well.
And it's not like he's gonna be less busy, but
it's gonna be more focused on like a central you know,
this cent program, this is what I'm working on, rather
than you know, so into the Obama City saying to
(19:07):
get the next next Russell Westbrook, and it's like, what
do you what are you talking about? Russell Westbrook? The
next west question? So I think a lot of then
affairs or you know, you know how those out of
the world calls will stop and he can just focus
on his life. But at the same time, you're changing
your passion, you know, his passion basketball and being involved
(19:29):
directly in a team like Saint Mono Vendor where he
went right mean more to him.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
When you heard it was Saint Bonaventure, what'd you do?
Speaker 12 (19:38):
What?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Let me look this school up? What a Aventure?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Well, Rob, I told you I coached high school basketball.
My son brother coaches who's every dame tight last year
with the women's and now they got hired by kentuckim
myus was going to coach you that.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Say, that's right? I remember that.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah, Well, first in all of the schools, like, there's
a lot of basketball schools out there, and I know
the way that these schools love the fans, the family
aspect of bringing somebody in. So when I heard say
about a Venture, and then your point was, did you
look it up? I did? But then I realized, oh wait,
he was affiliated. So once I figured out he was
affiliated with him, I was like, oh that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
No, no, no, no, I mean that's a that's a school lot,
he's a he's an alumnus there.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
From that, I get it.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And also, like Sean said, fifteen mil fifteen you already
made anything about the money made before that. You're a
beat writer at the base of his job. All right,
You're just the best.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
At all right, Kyle, we appreciate it. Thank you so much.
How about Kevin in Culver City. You're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What's up, cav.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
God is good, no doubt time.
Speaker 13 (20:43):
Hey Kelvin, Man, it's great having you on the air.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I know you from hosting.
Speaker 13 (20:48):
With Joe Klan. I'm o Kelly Cafi.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's heart.
Speaker 13 (20:54):
I'm a big fan of you guys. I've been trying
to get connect MO with y'all. Y'all got to connect
MO and try to connect moment, connect all the brothers. Man,
y'all gonna have one of these round tables on one
of the shows coming up for sure. Listen. This is
all about one thing. It's called happy wife, happy life.
If the wife is happy, then he's happy. And you know,
he's made his money and this is what he wants
(21:15):
to do. He's going to go back to his Alma
model and you know he's going to have a really nice,
productive time of his family. He's gonna enjoy that he's
made his money. I'm pretty sure there's more money to make.
And like I said before, you know, even with athletes,
so even in your field, you know, when you just
want to have happiness, that's what it's all about. So
he probably reaches time where he's like, I don't want
to do this anymore. You know, I just want to
(21:36):
just shield and just go back to you know, what
makes me feel comfortable, makes my family feel comfortable, and
we can't argue with that. You know, he's made his
mark and like I said before, he's made he's made
his money already. So it's just about that happiness.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Where'd you get that happy wife? Happy life? I had
a happy wife and you know what, one day we
need to get her on the line. What No, we
need to get her on the line and gone, and
I'm happy. So I guess does work out?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Hey, keV Man, thank you for the call, brother and
trying to talk some sense to this man.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Hey, you know what if you don't want.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
To have her on I mean, well, I don't know.
Your eyes tell me I don't yea cool?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, yeah, it's been a long time. I've been divorced
twenty years. Yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, we're cool.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Let that man live, Let him enjoy his life.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
And by the way, my last two cents on this,
what if it's a long play that goes away five
years or so, does Well mess around to come back
and be a GM in the NBA?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You never know, he knows all the.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Append Saint Bonava, what bottoms out and it's a disaster.
Those things happen. Matt Millan was hired as Lions GM
with no experience, and what happened March going down fire
the milling Man March. I was the one who coined
that the milling Man march as fans were so angry
(22:53):
about Matt Millan in his tenure.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
So that didn't work out, did it? So now you
don't put you don't put. The greatest new he was
breaking in basketball history would argue with the worst GM
of alls, saying, well, it's about to be a woesball
out before I go one more buck Rob, Yeah, it's
his woesbomb would be I never missed the odd couple.
(23:15):
I never listened to us, so I never miss it.
Well he's listening now, all right, so uh foul or
fair with j R. Gamble is gonna be coming up
here of course mlbbro dot.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Com in just a bit.
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Speaker 6 (23:37):
All right, foul affair right now with JR. Gamble that
ball is it was a big week in the big leagues.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Who's who's a believe?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Is it foul or is it fair? And now from
mlbdbro dot com, here's JR.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Gamble, that's right, it is foul.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Here on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio saying,
when we go around the diamond discuss all the biggest
headlines in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Nor do so properly.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
We had to bring in a real baseball expert, a
guy who really cares about the sport of baseball, not
just masquerades for a paycheck.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
None of them. Would that be MLB very own JR.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Gamble, what's up?
Speaker 12 (24:23):
What's up? Fellas?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What what's up? Jr? That's right? Say hi to Kelvin.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Kelvin first time, Yes, sir, going on, man, what's up?
Speaker 12 (24:32):
I'm glad you're here because I knew where I couldn't
handle that show.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Oh wow, I'm here, man, I'm helping them all. I'm
helping him hold it down.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Jay, I appreciate you, brother, Happy to meet you.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
And what's in six going forward?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Appreciate that? All right, now that the pleasant trees are
out of the way, Let's JR.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Is the star of this segment. So he is the
first crack at every single question. So let's get right
to it, JR. As you know today, Hey, the Brewers
now have won the NL Central three of the last
four years.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Not to be outdone, though, if things.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Hold, the Dodgers will win the NL West three of
the last four years now, given that neither team has
won a World Series in that span and the fact
that let's face at LA has got more money than
God at this point, JR. Foul or fair to say
the Brewers have been more impressive than the Dodgers in
(25:26):
these last four years.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Champ, It's a full ball, but not by much.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
The Brewers do well with the money they actually spend.
You know, the twenty first in Major League base on
payroll two on a million left of the Dodgers. But
the nffentral has been one of the worst divisions in
baseball during that span. So there's a full gold there,
in my opinion, proven by the fact that what they
lost twice in the wild cards and in the NFBS
(25:57):
during those three playoff appearances, the Dodgies actually won the
World three the twenty twenty, then the next three. Then
they went to the NLCS and lost in the NLDS.
So you can say the Brewers do more with their talent,
but let's be honest, if they played in the nl West,
I don't know how well they do it against those guys.
So the Brewers never really impressed me. They win, but
(26:17):
they're never serious contenders. But I guess the god who
got a dodge it. So yeah, it's more impressive that
the Brewers basically doing the same thing the Doddis have
done the last four years.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I say it's fair it's a fair ball.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And the press example is they don't have the money
that the Dodgers have and they're still winning divisions. That's
the division they're in. But here this past year to
me is probably spoke volumes for the Brewers. Craig Counsel,
their manager, left them at the Altar, went to the
bigger more money Chicago Cubs, and guess what, the Brewers
(26:51):
still won the division even after losing their manager to
an arch rival.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So I gotta say it's fair. It was impressive this year.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Most people weren't picking the Brewers, especially after they lost
Craig Council.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm biased. I'm going foul.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
That is a foul ball'll be fair everything you just mentioned, right,
You succeed without your manager postseason last six of this
last seven years. But I look at the Dodgers ass
The only expectations and it's a compliment even if you
don't get it done is win a World Series, and
you've put yourself in the lead status where unless you
win a World Series, it doesn't matter. The Brewers aren't
(27:29):
quite there yet. Their postseason is still a great thing
for them. Getting to a World Series would be great.
But I just simply think the Dodgers are in this
position where it is simply World Series of bus and
that's a great place to be because that means the
expectation is only greatness.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So Kelvin, real quick, when's the next time your Dodger
pre and postgame appearance.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
I'm actually done for the season. Okay, got done for
the season. Don't worry about that. Don't don't disrespect my
fear and foul. Okay, I'll tell us up everybody sports
in the LA. What's up y'all? See ya a little bit.
I'll see y'all. Want to get back?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
CALLVI?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Could he dropped the drum card? When is the last
time odd a couple led with the Brewers just saying
that's right?
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Question number two jr. Today after never Never Happened JR.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Rangers GM Chris Young raised some eyebrows this week when
he told media members that improving their starting pitching is
their quote top priority answering the offseason. That's really interesting
because of course they just rushed back a pair of aces,
Max sus Er Jacob de Grom from injury to close
the season. You know they're not going anywhere, so JR.
(28:29):
Foul or fair to say improving the starting rotation should
be the Rangers' top priority.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Fair?
Speaker 12 (28:37):
It's a fair ball when DM said it, like, yeah,
they hit fine as a team. Throwing names around though
of guys who were once great but now injuries and
aid stopped them from even being Staptors. You know, it
doesn't really mean much. Like the Ranger's front office knows
you can't count on those guys. I don't know why
we keep talking about these two pitches anymore, or even
(28:59):
guy cannot lead you when it crunch time. So the
pitching has to be top priority because they're great, but
they can't be horses on your staff anymore. The times passed.
The ground has the talent, but not the durability and
church he's own. I don't even know how many pitches
he has left in his arm. There's no future with
these two guys. As you know, the bulk of your staff,
(29:22):
the top two guys on your staff, that just hoax
and wishes. So if you want to go back to
the World Series, you better get some starting pitching that
you can actually count on for one hundred and sixty
two games. With all due respect the two great pitchers
when they're healthy and younger, I.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Say fair, it's a fair ball.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But what kills me is they let Jordan Montgomery, who
was a big part of them winning the World Series
last year ago. He went to Arizona. You remember, like
now you're talking about you need pitching, You had pitching.
He was on your team. He helped you win a
World Series. And they didn't want to sign them, and
now they're still looking for pitching.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's fair. They got to get pitching. It's fair.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I mean, we can talk about this and every team, right,
it doesn't matter. We talked about it. The pitching is
all that matters. And as you were just saying, Jay
are the issue is when you start to lean on
guys for greatness that have are long in the tooth
and you're starting to demand and hope that they can
kind of clack Clinton, don't or not.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
We just talked about the Dodgers. Don't maybe jump over
this table right here.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
When you start to go ask these guys to hop
in the DeLorean and go back in time and find
some things that they may not be able to have,
then that is a scary situation when you're trying to
have World Series again, aspirations winning again. So absolutely you
need pitching.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
It's fair.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
You'll always simply need pitching. Period that you just put
a period next to that exclamation point permanently.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
All right, last one found fair in the Yaka, But Jr.
Gamble with the guys. We'll go quick on this one.
Were up against it. Royal Star Bobby Wood Junior made
a little history the other day, become the first short
stop ever to post two thirty thirty seasons. Simple question,
j Are that or fair that? With Junior is clearly
all Caps the best short stopping baseball right now?
Speaker 11 (31:06):
Found that is a foul.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
Ball, okay before y'all killed me? Or for Kevin jumps
over the phone at me, which is probably a cut
above you know, Francisco Lindor right now. But to me,
Corey Seagan is still the best shortstop to me.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
But he's injury prone.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
I get it. He's only played one hundred twenty three
games this year. You know, he hit at the thirty
bombs two seventy six average. He's a lifetime average of
two nineties. So it's actually a bad year for Seger,
but with having a career year another great yelling Doors
having a comeback season back into All Star form. But
I guess this is just a personal choice. I still
think when healthy Sig is a top five to ten
hitter in baseball. Only problem is he's only played one
(31:44):
hundred and fifty games twice in the last nine seasons.
It's not a slam dunk, and by next season I'll
probably be saying witch is the answer. So now though
I still love Sieger.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
So you should have said it because it's found that
is hell fair, I should say, because I'm saying it
is Bobby Witt right.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Ball.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That Bobby Wit Jr. Is unbelievable. He's had an unbelievable year.
They signed him to a long term contract. They know
this guy can play. He is the shortstop of baseball
in the future.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Fair is and fair is the same in Jr. There
you go again, you will you're talking about what used
to be. You know, obviously I have a little bit
of love for Corey Sieger and all that, But the
fact of the matter is Bobby Witch showing up. He's playing,
and he's giving you, he's hitting, he's giving you power,
he's giving you durability, giving you some flash to So
I like what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So the answer is fair for your boy, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
All right, thanks if you like that to say with
check it out on the inside the Parker Podcast as
well every Thursday.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's right, that drops tomorrow, No doubt Jr. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
All right, coming up, we gotta have a conversation about
Dion Sanders and what Colorado has been doing and is
it fair or not for the media to get on
players his young college players will talk about that and
just a bit. It is the odd Couple, Rob Parker,
Kelvin Washington, Fox Sports Radio on a worst Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
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Speaker 2 (33:18):
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Speaker 6 (33:23):
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Gonna say, by the way, we might have talked about
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Speaker 12 (33:58):
You right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
If I was here for that day, I might have
walked out live on air. I'm not gonna hold you
up you get this rest of the showlder by yourself.
You would have been alone doing the show by yourself.
Alex won't let me live it down. I was on
the road somewhere.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I don't know how to.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
I gave rob one free pass. There was a drop.
He said, that is forever my favorite. But I got
rid of it for him. Yes, it was incredible, worse
than that one. Oh, Calvin, No, I'm telling you you
still got it though, right, No, I haven't saved him.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
I need to hear that one after the show. It's
so good, all right, Dion Sanders k rob g. You
have to know right one of the TV way to
just give it to us real quick.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You know, last year it was a phenomenal, like the
call of everybody's there watching for right, Colorado and Dion.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Twenty twenty three feels like forever. It feels like the
Louisiana purchase time.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
That's right. That's how long it's been week three to.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Week three for Colorado on the season, down fifty one
percent from Dion in twenty twenty three, when they were
the upstart Colorado Buffalo's America's Darling to now people have
come a little more jaded we've seen that the program
is not quite as good as Dion would like us
to think it is, and.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
As a result, viewers are changing the channel. It's Kelvin.
It's about winning, like like it was when they won
those games.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
When they surprised everybody and won and beat the won
the first game against what was that team, rob G,
who was in the National Championship game, the TCU, Right
when they beat them, they were like, what a yes, but.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That was like the start of it.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And then everybody in their uncle and I'm not surprised.
This is the part that's terrible. All those people that
were flying out the boulder, Uh, you know, Lil Wayne
and Shannon was there, rob G. It was celebrities galore,
a little a little concert.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
They were all where are they now? He ain't your boy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now because because they're not winning at the same clip,
that's I think that's foul. If you're my boy, and
I'm gonna support you through thick or thin, like like,
what what is it like? Like you just showed up
because it was a photo op for you and you
want to be around something that felt good in the
story and what I'm gonna support Dion.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Now you're not supporting them.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
I think I think he still has support because I
think one thing Dion has done is built relationships personally
with people where people love him the man, not just
the player, not the analyst, not the coach, but they
love him the man. So but I completely get your point.
It ain't the fan fair, it ain't the place to be.
People ain't showing up like that. But I still think
he gets love and respect. But now he's calling out
the media rob and he's he saying that, Uh, he
(36:48):
talks about the media being jealous now because of the
new landscape. They're envious and jealous because the kids are
getting more money than y'all, and I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, it's starting to get a little And he knew.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
He knew this was gonna happen, in the fact that
one thing we could say about him, he walked it
like he talked it, and he won pretty much everywhere
he went in the NFL. So he knew, brou you
gotta start winning. You gotta start winning, because the talk
starts to get cheapened. But but the fan bear goes away.
You gotta start winning game. Here's the issue.
Speaker 13 (37:19):
I have.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
A lot of the media have been saying forever that
the players are getting played and should be paid and
should get a piece of a pie. I mean, look,
Chris and I on this show for years. This is terrible.
Why don't the players get a piece of this? So
this idea that all the writers are jealous, and I
don't buy that. I really really don't, because this is
(37:42):
a bad system and they should have been paid a
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
One thing I'll say before we break.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
A lot of people here, the loud minority, they hear
the like if the random people, the blog people, random
blogs online are saying that Deion now has put the
payer rush on all the media, right. That's the dealing
with social media. Allowed MIC's everybody having a mic in
low minority. Everybody thinks that's everybody. That's some random blog
people saying that now tomorrow Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Is a TV theme song Thursday. Here on the oncome
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