July 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Rob and Kelvin explain why they have zero interest in seeing a potential Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch, and debate whether Mayweather or Jake Paul is most responsible for the downfall of boxing. Plus, MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble swings by to help break down the biggest stories in baseball in this week's edition of Foul or Fair.
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com he was in Atlanta with me.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You can ask him a little bit about he's sitting.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Maybe he don't want everybody to know. You know, you're right?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
What am I saying.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
That?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Plus last Call we'll do that as well, and got
some stuff to talk about the.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
W Yeah whoa No you're talking about right now? No? No, no, no,
no at last call? Yeah, yeah, yeah, got you talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But crop G, what what is the story that came
out about boxing?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
There?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Aren't you so excited?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
No that they basically have said they're doing the p
T Barnum that a sucker is born every minute and
they've seen that Jake Paul is making money. And rob G,
what are they pitching now for the SAPs and the
belly and the SAP suck?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I feel like you're giving away the tees rots okay?
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Uh So, as you guys know, this Friday, Manny Pachiao,
at age forty six, will be coming out of retirement
for a title match, which is crazy, crazy six years
a title match A bill different. I guess, h forty
six years old? Come out this weekend. You're gonna fight
Madio Bodios WBC Walter weeight Championship on the line, We're
(02:29):
supposed actually be in Vegas for that fight, but for
a myriad of reasons, none of us could make it,
and as a result, Jonas Knox FORMERCK a couple side
pieces will be going in our stad Shout out to Jonas.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh really he is going.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
But with this fight coming up on Saturday, there are
some heavy implication. Not only could we see a forty
six year old champion, but according to longtime boxing insider
Lance Pugmeyer Cordner reports, cording to a source closed the situation,
if Manny wins his fight this Saturday and gets the
(03:00):
new or becomes the new WBC Walter Way champion, there
are quote conversations already happening that if Manny wins a
rematch between Pacquiao and Floyd Money, Mayweather would be on
the table that they believe could be worth billions of dollars.
(03:21):
I scree with that part, but it is on the table, Floyd,
Manny stop it, can we stop?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
First of all, you took it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm assuming you've accidentally meant millions, not billions, because ain't
no way. All right, here's what's billions from the old
god what No, here's what we're dealing with right now.
Rob Floyd Mayweather perfected the last you know, seven eight
ten years of his career. He fought who he wanted
to fight when he wanted to fight. I'll fight him early,
I'll fight him late. I fought Manny Pacao too late.
(03:50):
I fought Canelo too early. Meeting he didn't fight him
when he was became a better box He called him
when he's twenty, and he became very good. He was
his own promoter as the money team, and so he
got very rich, very famous, and very successful in that regard.
But in doing so he ruined by and he, without
a doubt, he ruined it and became very gimmicky. And
as we know, in most things, people beats to copycat league.
(04:11):
So everyone started to say, ooh, I want to do
it how Floyd did it. I want to do it
like that, And Canelo's been doing that toWin extent, fighting
get the big, huge money with his own you know,
do it how you want to do it, and to
control your descy, not fight real fighters, not fight everybody
get we don't.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
We don't ever get the fights we want.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
For the most part, thankfully, we're getting this one with
Canelo and Bud coming up in September. But my point is,
then when Floyd retire, because remember he always wanted to
be fifty and zero, he fights Connor McGregor, who was
an MMMAA fighter, and in this gimmicky fight. Then he
fights somebody in Japan, and he started to do the
(04:47):
whole Oh, I'll go over here and fight somebody, make
one hundred two hundred million dollars whatever it'll be for
this gimmicky fight. It's not a real fight, and I'll
make a bunch of money. As you mentioned, suckers will
buy it and I'll get paid, and I'll i get
hurt and not get injured and move on to the
next one. And I think he started this, and then
Jake Paul and Logan Paul said we'll finish this. And
(05:08):
now they're doing this routinely, getting next boxers, getting MMA fighters,
getting basketball players and Nate Robinson getting to whomever. And
they've perfected this marketing scheme and getting all their YouTube
followers and TikTok followers to watching the buy in and
making a boatload of money and embarrassing some legends in
some cases like Mike Tyson along in the process, and
(05:29):
I think this is what we're watching. Well, Floyd started ending,
he ruined boxing in the end, started the gimmicky stuff.
They took the mantle like a race a paton and
said thanks, we'll take it from here. And now here
we are with this just kind of what boxing has become,
where we're gonna see two old dudes who well passed
their prime. Manny Pacio hasn't even fought in four years
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and he lost the last time he fought. Mind you,
he has to win his fight to this even really
be be considered a thing. And now it's just become
just a joke of a sport. And it's really disappointing
because boxing used to be great. Ford is forty eight,
ain't fought nobody real and I don't know how long.
And again Manny's forty six. Yet people probably gonna tune in,
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people probably gonna watch, they'll take a boatload of money,
and they'll probably running back in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
No, and you know what, you deserve to get all
the bad boxing and the joke of a performance because
you keep doing the same thing. The only reason they're
getting away with it is because people have nothing better
to do.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
In their lives.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I tried to warn everybody about the Mic Tyson, did
I not? Yeah, I told you this is not a
Oh look at the look at him boxing on on
TikTok and Instagram. Man, he looked great. You see what
he's combination? Man, he looks great. People bet money. You
remember that, more people bet money on a almost sixty
year old Mike Tyson in a thirty year old, Like, seriously,
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that's when you've been bamboozled. You're not only like I'm
an iron Mic fan now betting my money on a
sixty year old?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Are you kidding me? Dude? Guys, hello, is this on?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
This on?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Don't do this?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You have to say no, you need help, go to
boxing rehab.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Stop it. You can't keep doing this. It's you're the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Blame, not Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You're the blame. You're the enabler.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You keep pouring your hard earned money into garbage and Detroit.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm gonna drop this for you.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You might as well take the money, go up to
the top of the pinopscot building and throws it off.
It's the same exact thing as paying money to see
Jake Paul. And now these other boxes are you kidding.
They're like, this guy's cashing it. He's not even a
real boxer. He's a YouTuber. He's a you tuber.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yes, And they're like, I'm a real boxer. I want
to make that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Let me put on these old fights, old timers day,
forty six years old, sixty years old. All they care
is if the check's gonna clear. Come on, guys, stop it,
stop paying attention to him, stop liking this stuff, stop
looking at it, and definitely do not buy it. When
(08:22):
your friend calls you and says, hey, you want to
come over to watch the fight, I'm getting it. No
I'm not coming. No, I'm going bowling. No, I'm going
to a pottery barn class. No, seriously, you you gotta
stop it. You're to blame all the boxing fans who
(08:44):
are enablers to Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
He's laughing at you going to the bank.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
And really, here's the worst part about it too.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I think Floyd and Mannie will come to an agreement
that we ain't really really gonna fight like this isn't
all timers who have some bad blood who are like
literally about to lay it all blood, sweat and tears
somebody might not walk off the off the you know,
the ring. It's a gimmick, That's That's what I'm saying.
This is a gimmick. If this were like some bad
blood they truly hated. This is the you know, this
(09:15):
is the third or fourth fight, and they're really going
at it, you'd be like, all right, man, these dudes
legitimately hate each other. This is not that they don't
hate each other, having boxing years and they're gonna go
in there and sixty They're not gonna hurt each other.
They'll throw a couple of nice ones and they'll both
laugh their way to the bank. I made a buck twenty,
you made eighty. Look at us make a bunch of money.
We know Many's money has been tight. Floyd always loves
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a good payday, and that's exactly what this is gonna be.
They're gonna make a bunch of money. And my thing is,
rob I heard just soliloquy. I don't think people if
they price it right, I don't think I think people
are going to they're gonna say, why not, shame it's
only forty nine, you know, it's only it's already on Netflix,
or it's shame already on Hulu, are already paid for
(09:56):
who you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Gotta stop watching it in order for it to go away?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And I get that, have something else to go to
or nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm already home, My bodies are coming over. They're gonna
have beers or whatever. It's just a night of hanging
out with friends.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I get it. I get that, and that's how they
get you. And that is why this is gonna work.
Rob g said, whoever that was robbers you were talking about,
took it too far with the billions, with the beat
that was that was carried away. But what they're gonna
make a bunch of money because man, he's gonna have
this fight. And then man, he looks halfway competent, decent.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Hell yeah, I'm watching it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
He's one of the reasons why.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Because I love old people doing stuff. I love old
people doing stuff that actually is true, So that's part
of it.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
And and number two, I mean, I've sat through the
Jake Paul fiascos and you still keep going back from here.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I don't pay for it because I know a guy
who knows a guy who knows the guy.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But I watch it where's he lives so I can
alert your authorities. Yeah, I'll ride him out because he lives.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
I'm wearing Culver City, California. Uh, he's currently living in
a two bedroom apartment, but he's downsizing.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
If he say one more thing, that sounded more and
more like you, right, that sound more and more like you.
His car is actually parked out front next to Miley.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
No.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
But like, unless boxing continues down this path, which thankfully
they have the last six months or so where they've
kind of made a concerted effort to give you the
fights that you want. That that turkey from from overseas
is really investing big money into getting these guys to fight. Yeah,
(11:28):
as long as that keeps happening, then we won't need it.
The problem is that history says boxing is gonna boxing
at some point, these promoters are gonna get too greedy
and they're gonna do what they've always done. And there
I'm not gonna let my guy got into the ring
with this guy, and it's gonna get to that point
where people are uninterested and just the nostalgia factor of
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man Floyd Manny again, and there's people to this day
believe that Manny was hurting. He would have want that
fight if his shoulder wasn't jacked up, and they'll shell
out seventy dollars to watch that car.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
The key there's the key part. How Manny looks this Saturday.
If he looks overweight, looks you know, washed, and just
if he looks halfway decent, handspeed, alright, in decent shape.
I'm with you, Rob, but I think people are gonna go,
especially because he's only forty six. Mike Tyson was almost sixty,
and people are all in if Manny, who's only forty six,
(12:22):
looks like he can still throw a little bit. My
biggest thing is not Manny, because I know Manny. I
think Manny Manny needs some money. I think my thing
is Floyd.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
If this were.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Manny and who else give me another good example, Rob Gee,
I don't know somebody both who needs some money. You
know what I mean, Roy Jones or something. Well, dang,
then you went to Roy. You might have went too far.
My point is I think Floyd is the problem because
I think Floyd ain't trying to get hurt, because he
hardly ever got hurt in real fights. And I think
Floyd ain't trying to you know, he't gonna put his
(12:52):
real record on the line. We know how important to
fifty to fifty and oh perfect record was. And I
think Floyd is now in the in the inner entertainment industry,
So I just think he's the one. I think that's
the problem for me is Floyd, even in real boxing,
was strategic and you know what I mean, and not
fixing things, but planning things perfectly in his favor. So
I just don't see why this would be competitive where
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he actually could have a chance to get knocked out.
Floyd ain't doing that at this point. He's worth half
a billions.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
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Speaker 5 (15:28):
Down there in the a t L.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All right, Robin and I were just talking about, Man,
there's may Manipacya has a fight coming up this Saturday
against Barrio, and then there's rumors and reports that it
potentially could be a fight between he and Floyd Mayweather
after that. And we're just saying, man, the gimmick boxing
is tiring, It's exhausting. Is it Floyd to Ben blame?
Is it Jak and Logan Paul to blame? Who you're
(15:52):
blaming for? Kind of the downfall and demise of boxing?
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox we'll take some
calls on this. Who we got Jerome in Charleston, say
Jerome in hass.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Right, you're on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
What's ups?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
As Mike Myers was saying, allowed myself to introduce myself. Okay,
my name is Jerome. I live in Charleston. I've been
told by certain people on Fox, but I don't know Air.
But I got to tell you so over an overripe
baked potato like Jack Paul is not a Mersiah o boxes.
Holy You know what, why y'all always trying to bathinized
(16:30):
sports in this country? You got the fire? Just say,
you know, I can't wait to see he kept the
old Mike pack and fight baked potato Jake Paul. I said,
I wouldn't walk across the street. I was staying a
penny on something like that. By the way, how did
that go? He's the new Messiah. Okay, America, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm with you Jerome all day. I tried to warn
people about that fight. I didn't know about the butt cheeks,
but I know about everything else.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Prepare for that mic. We would ready for that mic,
right all right? Yeah? But the big booty was that Kevin?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
That was Kevin.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Moment right there?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
No, listen, he didn't say booty, big booty.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah, he took it a little too far.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
He identified he gave it an adjective, and every big
booty with dimple.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
That was Monday problem. I got a question.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I am legitimately surprised that you are not interested in
things like the Mike Tyson fight, this idea of a
Mayweather pack of rematch, you know, the Big Three when
it first started, because so much of your interest is
like trapped in decades prior. So he was trying to
sound like I think if it was to appeal for anybody,
(17:49):
it would be like, hey, Rob has a nostalgia for
two thousands basketball.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
His phone just rang against the couple from the you
know what I mean? Like I figured on second he
would appreciate that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
No, I mean, I'm a I'm a new thinker.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'm a young, settled down You started off like I'm
not living in the past. Okay, I'm not. I'm named ready. No,
don't give you, give you whereas no, don't.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Do to give you ten seconds to name five shows
in the last decade.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I don't watch TV.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Six fire right, kur kurk, Who's.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Right? I don't watch TV. I told you that.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
But but but you can at least be in the No.
You know that proves my point.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Like you love old television, old music, old fighters, like you.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Old baseball players like.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
You romanticized the a lot of things, and that's fine.
So why is it that six except women? Yeah, exact,
except women.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Women? The only thing that boy current? Yeah, that boy
is up to date.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Five.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
No, I can't do.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It if she knows how to go to Kinko's, if
I only want to talk to her, if she don't
know what kiss good.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
So that's what I'm saying. I just feel like you
would be the kind of guy who would like this guy.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
What the difference is boxing? If you want to be
uh nostalgic about it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
These guys like Jake Poult didn't earn his stripe, Like
I know, it's not real box. I used to cover
boxing for the Detroit Free Press and I was at
in Vegas rob G for real fights. So it's hard
for me to look at that and embrace it, you
know what I'm saying. So, yes, I like boxing, I did,
but I don't. I'm not going to buy into this
(19:52):
because this is not real boxing.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He hasn't earned his way up there boxing at his
purest rob G. And you're a boxing guy, dude, it
was a different breedie. It felt different. We've all been
the big of sporting events. A big fight feels the
energy is tangible. You can feel it, you can cut
through the tension in the air. And when you had
Tyson Lennox, Lewis and Floyd or early Floyd and Daylight
(20:16):
Hooya and you know, if you want to go TRENDI
Dad's and the obviously the Big Four in the eighties
with the Sugar Letter, Marco Hackler and everybody.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I mean, dude, like that was real boxing.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So I do think there's an element of like, because
we do that even in football. You know how the
older guys go, this ain't even real football. You can't
even hit him no more. My football we used to
hit him hard. We do that with all sports. Basketball.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
This ain't real hoop.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Now all they do is shoot threes and so really
imagine boxing when it was absolutely the best way. You knew,
I'm not the best if I don't fight him, you
know what I mean, I'm Robert Durant.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I gotta Roberto Durant. I gotta fight.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Now, Hey, how all they do is hide from each.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Other, duck and hide because I can make fifty million
this fight. Back in the day, it was about that smoke.
I can't go to bed tonight. No, but I'm not
fighting that man. Money's money, and they knew the crazy.
Here's the craziest part about it. The money was coming
because it was to fight. Everybody wanted to see.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
They didn't care that you had a loss. Nobody cared
about a loss. Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And I don't know his record off the top of
my head, but I'm guarantee he's got four five six losses.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Nobody cares. Sugar ray Let are one of the best ever.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Got some losses because they bounced back and they fought,
and you knew the rematch was.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Gonna be lit.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So somewhere along the line, Floyd Mayweather got the idea
that my pristine, perfect fifty and oer is gonna make
me the greatest of all time. He's like, no, dude,
go fight some people win. It's the time to fight him.
Don't fight once a year, one point five average a year,
fight a year, go fight.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Knuckle up now.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I applaud his business acumens and I mean this sincerely
because ultimate prize fighter.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
He didn't walk away, can't speak. You know, we see
those guys.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I ain't gonna name some of them, but I had
to interview some at the shot and they sound bad.
I mean, I mean, respectfully, Sugar Shane, Mosley, Dode. These
dudes sound bad and they're still fighting. Riddick Bow do
they sound bad. They look bad because they were just
they didn't take care of the business and so they
had to fight all the time and every any and
everybody at any time. So Floyd said to its credit
(22:15):
in the sense of I ain't going out like that,
but I still would have loved to see him have
some better fights and fight bigger names.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Even Rocky sounded bad out here. I don't think you
listen too good?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
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Speaker 3 (22:34):
Thinking about calling my ex wife to wash the glitter
out of my hair tonight.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
What do you think she.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Might want to She might want that old thing back, though,
don't do that. I used to wash your hair, Mamby
used to like it, Rob.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
She goes, she might listen, might try to get you back,
because I mean, there's you know, you gots.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I got all this glitter.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
If you know you got a little bit more salt
and pepper too, so she might trick you into staying longer.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Then she got I'm telling you, she might call Christmas
and said, how do you do that?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Though?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
What is the real color? There is the man? Dang
it all.
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We have foul or fair with our man Jurgams.
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It was a big week in the big leagues.
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Is it foul or is it fair? And now from
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Speaker 5 (23:57):
That's right, it's foul affair.
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Here on the cup of Fox Sports Rader say, well,
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Already. And these reports, I.
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Know none other than the man who was carrying mlbbro
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Speaker 5 (24:23):
JR.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Gamble, what's up? What that boy sounded like?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
ATL took him out?
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Listen. I would have thought that another All Star week
with Rob Parker would result in laryngitis. Yep uh an allergy.
I'm broke like you gotta be ready with Rob. You
go to Magic City. You know you think you're gonna
go do a quick walkthrough. He's throwing ones, he's eating wings.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I got hey, I gotta still wash the glitter out
of my haird we're trying to figure that out.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You've never seen Robin action, so you've seen Robin action.
That's all.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I'm the same, all right, copy that.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Thank you too, Little Magic. He took care of us
though we're always great to do with that, no doubt.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
All right, all right, guys, it is Fouler Fair in
honor of mlbbro dot Com be and full effecting All
Star Weekend. All of these questions are All Star related
and JR. Because you're the start of the segment, we
get the first crack and every single one, So let's
get to it, JR. We had five ABS challenges during
the All Star Game and the early returns Rob Parker
were very positive. Unlike the NFL and the NBA systems,
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Baseball's ABS challenges were very quick and more importantly, they
were all accurate. It was pretty straightforward, so JR foul
or fair to say that ABS challenges should be made
permanent found that is a soul ball.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah. They didn't appeal to me personally at all, but
I will say watching the game live at tru As Park,
I hardly noticed a challenge just so that was a
good thing. I just feel like it's fourths in general,
so everything just too mechanical and mathematical and scientific. Sometimes
we lose a human element when we continue to force
(26:13):
technology into the game and veer away from Honestly, they
might sound dumb, but allowing humans to make mistakes or
get it right. But it's not like we're going backwards
now that the can of worms is out in the open,
and saying is not totally needed is hard as a
hard sell because most will say that you can get
it right, why not? But I say, at what caused
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to the game, I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Gonna say fair it's a fair ball, and only because
I'm not I'm with you I'm about the human element
to the game.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
But I already know that they're going to put it in.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Because I always ask people all the time, tell me
the game where the umpirementster call and the fourth inning
that that you remember that that ruined your game or
ruin and nobody can ever give you one. They really can't,
because there'll be another call where that goes in your
team's favor, do you know what I mean? So I
just don't think it's that big of an issue. I
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really don't. But you just said it. It's already been
out here. The tooth bases out of the tube. It's
not going back in. And that's why they put it
on the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah fair. They put it on a big, massive stage
like that. There wasn't just in some Triple A ball
nobody would see. This was the All Star Game. They
know baseball is in a good high right now. People
are watching, and as you mentioned, the other leagues are
doing it, and it's kind of become subconscious. It's like
when they put the first down line and all these lines,
you start to see stuff. Then you're like, oh, you
get used to it, and we've all got gotten used
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to the challenges so I absolutely expect it at some point.
And to your point, Jay, are it kind of just
ran seamlessly smoothly that you didn't notice it versus NBA
It's another twenty five minutes, so the NFL twenty five
minutes when it happens.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
So it's fair, all right. Story number two Jr.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
The All Star Game last night, Andy with the first
ever sudden death home run. There we talked about doping
the show, but because guys like Shoe Aotani Aaron Judge
literally left the stadium before the game was over, the
contest was decided by a group of really good but
not great backup players.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
So Jr.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Here's the question, Faul, or fair to say that if
Major League Baseball is gonna stick with this sudden death format,
players should not not be allowed to leave early anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Foun That is a soul ball.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
I mean, it's an exhibition game. The players have families
and they want to enjoy them before they turn into
the road for another you know, seventy games or whatever.
So honestly, baseball just happy. The two most popular players
in the sports showed up. Judge took his two at
bats and then met the press right after which wouldn't
have happened, and each player had to stay as the
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question suggests. So it's bias, fellas, because I'm putting all
my reporters at here and like in the fact that
you get an immediate reaction because right when Judge left
the game mlbbro dot com we ran over and we
got a great, candid, live interview with them. So plus,
the All Star game is voluntary, so no one has
to participate. So if you start making rules of inconvenience
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guys and plans and make it too serious, you know
that can throw tinke into things. So no, and don't
disrespect the players in All Stars.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
In All Stars, I agree with you, but I'm gonna say, uh,
it is fair, it's a fair ball, and I'm gonna
say why because the two biggest stars, Like if it
would have been as you remember when uh the World
Baseball Classic right at the end, who was it? It
was show striking out Mike Trump, Right, that was an
(29:42):
exhibition too. That really didn't matter, and I know people
have for forever. When you get out of the game,
take a shower, meet to press, and you leave, you're
not you know, you're not with a team.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
You're doing your own thing. You gotta plane ready to go,
you're all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But if you're gonna make this a big deal, I
can see where fans are like we wanted, you know, Tawani,
you know what I mean to be a part of
that derby at the end of the game.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
So I do get that.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
But that's what they don't run derby for, Like.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
No, I get it, you know, I get it now.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I think I think it's I think it's fair. You
can give me an hour and a half more.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Just give me an hour and a half more of
your time, Broud, he can go ahead, do your thing,
go ahead, get up out of here.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Uh, just give me one one and a half more.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I mean that because that is kind of like Stephen
Lebron can't just shower up at the first quarter in dipset.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
You know, they can't leave.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
And you know, back when the Pro Bowl was actually
a game, Peyton mannagers didn't dip. It's one thing to
be on the bench and talking and maybe they mic
you up and it's fun. It's another thing to be
in a private out of town. That's a little while.
So they can give me an hour and a half fair,
all right? Last one Fowler Fair Jr. Gamble sitting in
with the odd couple. Here we go Jr.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Clinton Kershaw was a big talking point coming to the
game for getting that Legends exemption before the game. During
the game, he was micd up while pitching. He had
some great comments if you saw the video online and
after the game when he told reporters that Major League
Baseball quote has the best All Star Game of any sport.
(31:10):
You got very simple question for you, foul or fair
to say that Major League Baseball has the best All
Star Game?
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Fair?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
I mean, and it's not hard to because the NFL
Pro Bowl is two hand touch flag now right, you
know what I mean? You came to really count that
nbig All Star Games going the way of the NBA
to me, and it just seems like the players have
forgotten the point of you know, what the All Stars
about with the fans and what they actually come to
see is not a three point competition in the All
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Star Game with Las daisical you know, defensive little effort
that has become the MLB All Star Game is a
bit better because you know they've gone back to the
team unis, which doesn't have to do with the play
but the whole culture of the game that's cool. And
the pitchers are definitely competing, you know, to get players out.
But there's really no other way to play baseball because
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someone can get hurt if you're not playing one hundred
per unlike the other sports. So you know it would
be even better. Prop said this. Put the Savannah bananas
in during the seventh in in stretch, then you know
will be good. But everybody said that the NHL format,
the format with the four nations face off, was the
best format. So I guess baseball in NHL are one
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and two right now.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I say it's it's fair, and we talked about it before.
You still compete. Crow Armstrong made a diving catcher left field.
Nobody's just pulling up letting the balls drop. The pitchers
aren't trying to toss the ball soft to let guys
hit home runs. It ain't like that. They actually play
the game the way it was meant to be played.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It's fair to me, and it's actually pretty easyble in
the NBA. Could they make them comeback and make it
maybe a competitive choice between the two at some point, maybe,
but as of right now, I don't even think it's
really close.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
You get to see all the stars. It's competitive.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
They have the perfect balance of ain't nobody trying to
get hurt, but we're also out here competing the perfect balance.
They found that sweet spot, so I'll give them credit.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
It's fair. That's found fair, a right, no doubt. Hey, man,
go get you some some something some leave.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Relaxer, get some liveseng Jersey, go to rest.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
That's what you get for hanging him all weekend.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I know I can't keep up with the old man.
I just can't.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
You better not be over here for feeling like him. Rob.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I'm gonna go get some lights off. M'sa spray this
studio down.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I goggle when I goggle when I got home.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Y oh boy,
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It's foul Affair with j R. Gamble from mlbbro dot
com he was in Atlanta with me.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You can ask him a little bit about he's sitting.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Maybe he don't want everybody to know. You know, you're right?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
What am I saying.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
That?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Plus last Call we'll do that as well, and got
some stuff to talk about the.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
W Yeah whoa No you're talking about right now? No? No, no, no,
no at last call? Yeah, yeah, yeah, got you talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But crop G, what what is the story that came
out about boxing?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
There?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Aren't you so excited?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
No that they basically have said they're doing the p
T Barnum that a sucker is born every minute and
they've seen that Jake Paul is making money. And rob G,
what are they pitching now for the SAPs and the
belly and the SAP suck?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I feel like you're giving away the tees rots okay?
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Uh So, as you guys know, this Friday, Manny Pachiao,
at age forty six, will be coming out of retirement
for a title match, which is crazy, crazy six years
a title match A bill different. I guess, h forty
six years old? Come out this weekend. You're gonna fight
Madio Bodios WBC Walter weeight Championship on the line, We're
(02:29):
supposed actually be in Vegas for that fight, but for
a myriad of reasons, none of us could make it,
and as a result, Jonas Knox FORMERCK a couple side
pieces will be going in our stad Shout out to Jonas.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh really he is going.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
But with this fight coming up on Saturday, there are
some heavy implication. Not only could we see a forty
six year old champion, but according to longtime boxing insider
Lance Pugmeyer Cordner reports, cording to a source closed the situation,
if Manny wins his fight this Saturday and gets the
(03:00):
new or becomes the new WBC Walter Way champion, there
are quote conversations already happening that if Manny wins a
rematch between Pacquiao and Floyd Money, Mayweather would be on
the table that they believe could be worth billions of dollars.
(03:21):
I scree with that part, but it is on the table, Floyd,
Manny stop it, can we stop?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
First of all, you took it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm assuming you've accidentally meant millions, not billions, because ain't
no way. All right, here's what's billions from the old
god what No, here's what we're dealing with right now.
Rob Floyd Mayweather perfected the last you know, seven eight
ten years of his career. He fought who he wanted
to fight when he wanted to fight. I'll fight him early,
I'll fight him late. I fought Manny Pacao too late.
(03:50):
I fought Canelo too early. Meeting he didn't fight him
when he was became a better box He called him
when he's twenty, and he became very good. He was
his own promoter as the money team, and so he
got very rich, very famous, and very successful in that regard.
But in doing so he ruined by and he, without
a doubt, he ruined it and became very gimmicky. And
as we know, in most things, people beats to copycat league.
(04:11):
So everyone started to say, ooh, I want to do
it how Floyd did it. I want to do it
like that, And Canelo's been doing that toWin extent, fighting
get the big, huge money with his own you know,
do it how you want to do it, and to
control your descy, not fight real fighters, not fight everybody
get we don't.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
We don't ever get the fights we want.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
For the most part, thankfully, we're getting this one with
Canelo and Bud coming up in September. But my point is,
then when Floyd retire, because remember he always wanted to
be fifty and zero, he fights Connor McGregor, who was
an MMMAA fighter, and in this gimmicky fight. Then he
fights somebody in Japan, and he started to do the
(04:47):
whole Oh, I'll go over here and fight somebody, make
one hundred two hundred million dollars whatever it'll be for
this gimmicky fight. It's not a real fight, and I'll
make a bunch of money. As you mentioned, suckers will
buy it and I'll get paid, and I'll i get
hurt and not get injured and move on to the
next one. And I think he started this, and then
Jake Paul and Logan Paul said we'll finish this. And
(05:08):
now they're doing this routinely, getting next boxers, getting MMA fighters,
getting basketball players and Nate Robinson getting to whomever. And
they've perfected this marketing scheme and getting all their YouTube
followers and TikTok followers to watching the buy in and
making a boatload of money and embarrassing some legends in
some cases like Mike Tyson along in the process, and
(05:29):
I think this is what we're watching. Well, Floyd started ending,
he ruined boxing in the end, started the gimmicky stuff.
They took the mantle like a race a paton and
said thanks, we'll take it from here. And now here
we are with this just kind of what boxing has become,
where we're gonna see two old dudes who well passed
their prime. Manny Pacio hasn't even fought in four years
(05:49):
and he lost the last time he fought. Mind you,
he has to win his fight to this even really
be be considered a thing. And now it's just become
just a joke of a sport. And it's really disappointing
because boxing used to be great. Ford is forty eight,
ain't fought nobody real and I don't know how long.
And again Manny's forty six. Yet people probably gonna tune in,
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people probably gonna watch, they'll take a boatload of money,
and they'll probably running back in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
No, and you know what, you deserve to get all
the bad boxing and the joke of a performance because
you keep doing the same thing. The only reason they're
getting away with it is because people have nothing better
to do.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
In their lives.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I tried to warn everybody about the Mic Tyson, did
I not? Yeah, I told you this is not a
Oh look at the look at him boxing on on
TikTok and Instagram. Man, he looked great. You see what
he's combination? Man, he looks great. People bet money. You
remember that, more people bet money on a almost sixty
year old Mike Tyson in a thirty year old, Like, seriously,
(06:54):
that's when you've been bamboozled. You're not only like I'm
an iron Mic fan now betting my money on a
sixty year old?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Are you kidding me? Dude? Guys, hello, is this on?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
This on?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Don't do this?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You have to say no, you need help, go to
boxing rehab.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Stop it. You can't keep doing this. It's you're the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Blame, not Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You're the blame. You're the enabler.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You keep pouring your hard earned money into garbage and Detroit.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm gonna drop this for you.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You might as well take the money, go up to
the top of the pinopscot building and throws it off.
It's the same exact thing as paying money to see
Jake Paul. And now these other boxes are you kidding.
They're like, this guy's cashing it. He's not even a
real boxer. He's a YouTuber. He's a you tuber.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yes, And they're like, I'm a real boxer. I want
to make that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Let me put on these old fights, old timers day,
forty six years old, sixty years old. All they care
is if the check's gonna clear. Come on, guys, stop it,
stop paying attention to him, stop liking this stuff, stop
looking at it, and definitely do not buy it. When
(08:22):
your friend calls you and says, hey, you want to
come over to watch the fight, I'm getting it. No
I'm not coming. No, I'm going bowling. No, I'm going
to a pottery barn class. No, seriously, you you gotta
stop it. You're to blame all the boxing fans who
(08:44):
are enablers to Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
He's laughing at you going to the bank.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
And really, here's the worst part about it too.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I think Floyd and Mannie will come to an agreement
that we ain't really really gonna fight like this isn't
all timers who have some bad blood who are like
literally about to lay it all blood, sweat and tears
somebody might not walk off the off the you know,
the ring. It's a gimmick, That's That's what I'm saying.
This is a gimmick. If this were like some bad
blood they truly hated. This is the you know, this
(09:15):
is the third or fourth fight, and they're really going
at it, you'd be like, all right, man, these dudes
legitimately hate each other. This is not that they don't
hate each other, having boxing years and they're gonna go
in there and sixty They're not gonna hurt each other.
They'll throw a couple of nice ones and they'll both
laugh their way to the bank. I made a buck twenty,
you made eighty. Look at us make a bunch of money.
We know Many's money has been tight. Floyd always loves
(09:36):
a good payday, and that's exactly what this is gonna be.
They're gonna make a bunch of money. And my thing is,
rob I heard just soliloquy. I don't think people if
they price it right, I don't think I think people
are going to they're gonna say, why not, shame it's
only forty nine, you know, it's only it's already on Netflix,
or it's shame already on Hulu, are already paid for
(09:56):
who you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Gotta stop watching it in order for it to go away?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And I get that, have something else to go to
or nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm already home, My bodies are coming over. They're gonna
have beers or whatever. It's just a night of hanging
out with friends.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I get it. I get that, and that's how they
get you. And that is why this is gonna work.
Rob g said, whoever that was robbers you were talking about,
took it too far with the billions, with the beat
that was that was carried away. But what they're gonna
make a bunch of money because man, he's gonna have
this fight. And then man, he looks halfway competent, decent.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Hell yeah, I'm watching it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
He's one of the reasons why.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Because I love old people doing stuff. I love old
people doing stuff that actually is true, So that's part
of it.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
And and number two, I mean, I've sat through the
Jake Paul fiascos and you still keep going back from here.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I don't pay for it because I know a guy
who knows a guy who knows the guy.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But I watch it where's he lives so I can
alert your authorities. Yeah, I'll ride him out because he lives.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
I'm wearing Culver City, California. Uh, he's currently living in
a two bedroom apartment, but he's downsizing.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
If he say one more thing, that sounded more and
more like you, right, that sound more and more like you.
His car is actually parked out front next to Miley.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
No.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
But like, unless boxing continues down this path, which thankfully
they have the last six months or so where they've
kind of made a concerted effort to give you the
fights that you want. That that turkey from from overseas
is really investing big money into getting these guys to fight. Yeah,
(11:28):
as long as that keeps happening, then we won't need it.
The problem is that history says boxing is gonna boxing
at some point, these promoters are gonna get too greedy
and they're gonna do what they've always done. And there
I'm not gonna let my guy got into the ring
with this guy, and it's gonna get to that point
where people are uninterested and just the nostalgia factor of
(11:50):
man Floyd Manny again, and there's people to this day
believe that Manny was hurting. He would have want that
fight if his shoulder wasn't jacked up, and they'll shell
out seventy dollars to watch that car.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
The key there's the key part. How Manny looks this Saturday.
If he looks overweight, looks you know, washed, and just
if he looks halfway decent, handspeed, alright, in decent shape.
I'm with you, Rob, but I think people are gonna go,
especially because he's only forty six. Mike Tyson was almost sixty,
and people are all in if Manny, who's only forty six,
(12:22):
looks like he can still throw a little bit. My
biggest thing is not Manny, because I know Manny. I
think Manny Manny needs some money. I think my thing
is Floyd.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
If this were.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Manny and who else give me another good example, Rob Gee,
I don't know somebody both who needs some money. You
know what I mean, Roy Jones or something. Well, dang,
then you went to Roy. You might have went too far.
My point is I think Floyd is the problem because
I think Floyd ain't trying to get hurt, because he
hardly ever got hurt in real fights. And I think
Floyd ain't trying to you know, he't gonna put his
(12:52):
real record on the line. We know how important to
fifty to fifty and oh perfect record was. And I
think Floyd is now in the in the inner entertainment industry,
So I just think he's the one. I think that's
the problem for me is Floyd, even in real boxing,
was strategic and you know what I mean, and not
fixing things, but planning things perfectly in his favor. So
I just don't see why this would be competitive where
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he actually could have a chance to get knocked out.
Floyd ain't doing that at this point. He's worth half
a billions.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
One totally agree eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Would you watch a Mayweather packy our rematch? And who
do you blame more for ruining boxing? Floyd Mayweather or
Jake Paul. We want to hear from you. We want
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Speaker 5 (15:28):
Down there in the a t L.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All right, Robin and I were just talking about, Man,
there's may Manipacya has a fight coming up this Saturday
against Barrio, and then there's rumors and reports that it
potentially could be a fight between he and Floyd Mayweather
after that. And we're just saying, man, the gimmick boxing
is tiring, It's exhausting. Is it Floyd to Ben blame?
Is it Jak and Logan Paul to blame? Who you're
(15:52):
blaming for? Kind of the downfall and demise of boxing?
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox we'll take some
calls on this. Who we got Jerome in Charleston, say
Jerome in hass.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Right, you're on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
What's ups?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
As Mike Myers was saying, allowed myself to introduce myself. Okay,
my name is Jerome. I live in Charleston. I've been
told by certain people on Fox, but I don't know Air.
But I got to tell you so over an overripe
baked potato like Jack Paul is not a Mersiah o boxes.
Holy You know what, why y'all always trying to bathinized
(16:30):
sports in this country? You got the fire? Just say,
you know, I can't wait to see he kept the
old Mike pack and fight baked potato Jake Paul. I said,
I wouldn't walk across the street. I was staying a
penny on something like that. By the way, how did
that go? He's the new Messiah. Okay, America, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm with you Jerome all day. I tried to warn
people about that fight. I didn't know about the butt cheeks,
but I know about everything else.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Prepare for that mic. We would ready for that mic,
right all right? Yeah? But the big booty was that Kevin?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
That was Kevin.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Moment right there?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
No, listen, he didn't say booty, big booty.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah, he took it a little too far.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
He identified he gave it an adjective, and every big
booty with dimple.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
That was Monday problem. I got a question.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I am legitimately surprised that you are not interested in
things like the Mike Tyson fight, this idea of a
Mayweather pack of rematch, you know, the Big Three when
it first started, because so much of your interest is
like trapped in decades prior. So he was trying to
sound like I think if it was to appeal for anybody,
(17:49):
it would be like, hey, Rob has a nostalgia for
two thousands basketball.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
His phone just rang against the couple from the you
know what I mean? Like I figured on second he
would appreciate that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
No, I mean, I'm a I'm a new thinker.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'm a young, settled down You started off like I'm
not living in the past. Okay, I'm not. I'm named ready. No,
don't give you, give you whereas no, don't.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Do to give you ten seconds to name five shows
in the last decade.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I don't watch TV.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Six fire right, kur kurk, Who's.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Right? I don't watch TV. I told you that.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
But but but you can at least be in the No.
You know that proves my point.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Like you love old television, old music, old fighters, like you.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Old baseball players like.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
You romanticized the a lot of things, and that's fine.
So why is it that six except women? Yeah, exact,
except women.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Women? The only thing that boy current? Yeah, that boy
is up to date.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Five.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
No, I can't do.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It if she knows how to go to Kinko's, if
I only want to talk to her, if she don't
know what kiss good.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
So that's what I'm saying. I just feel like you
would be the kind of guy who would like this guy.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
What the difference is boxing? If you want to be
uh nostalgic about it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
These guys like Jake Poult didn't earn his stripe, Like
I know, it's not real box. I used to cover
boxing for the Detroit Free Press and I was at
in Vegas rob G for real fights. So it's hard
for me to look at that and embrace it, you
know what I'm saying. So, yes, I like boxing, I did,
but I don't. I'm not going to buy into this
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because this is not real boxing.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He hasn't earned his way up there boxing at his
purest rob G. And you're a boxing guy, dude, it
was a different breedie. It felt different. We've all been
the big of sporting events. A big fight feels the
energy is tangible. You can feel it, you can cut
through the tension in the air. And when you had
Tyson Lennox, Lewis and Floyd or early Floyd and Daylight
(20:16):
Hooya and you know, if you want to go TRENDI
Dad's and the obviously the Big Four in the eighties
with the Sugar Letter, Marco Hackler and everybody.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I mean, dude, like that was real boxing.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So I do think there's an element of like, because
we do that even in football. You know how the
older guys go, this ain't even real football. You can't
even hit him no more. My football we used to
hit him hard. We do that with all sports. Basketball.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
This ain't real hoop.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Now all they do is shoot threes and so really
imagine boxing when it was absolutely the best way. You knew,
I'm not the best if I don't fight him, you
know what I mean, I'm Robert Durant.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I gotta Roberto Durant. I gotta fight.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Now, Hey, how all they do is hide from each.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Other, duck and hide because I can make fifty million
this fight. Back in the day, it was about that smoke.
I can't go to bed tonight. No, but I'm not
fighting that man. Money's money, and they knew the crazy.
Here's the craziest part about it. The money was coming
because it was to fight. Everybody wanted to see.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
They didn't care that you had a loss. Nobody cared
about a loss. Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And I don't know his record off the top of
my head, but I'm guarantee he's got four five six losses.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Nobody cares. Sugar ray Let are one of the best ever.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Got some losses because they bounced back and they fought,
and you knew the rematch was.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Gonna be lit.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So somewhere along the line, Floyd Mayweather got the idea
that my pristine, perfect fifty and oer is gonna make
me the greatest of all time. He's like, no, dude,
go fight some people win. It's the time to fight him.
Don't fight once a year, one point five average a year,
fight a year, go fight.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Knuckle up now.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I applaud his business acumens and I mean this sincerely
because ultimate prize fighter.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
He didn't walk away, can't speak. You know, we see
those guys.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I ain't gonna name some of them, but I had
to interview some at the shot and they sound bad.
I mean, I mean, respectfully, Sugar Shane, Mosley, Dode. These
dudes sound bad and they're still fighting. Riddick Bow do
they sound bad. They look bad because they were just
they didn't take care of the business and so they
had to fight all the time and every any and
everybody at any time. So Floyd said to its credit
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in the sense of I ain't going out like that,
but I still would have loved to see him have
some better fights and fight bigger names.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Even Rocky sounded bad out here. I don't think you
listen too good?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
All right, all the way following Fair with j R.
Gamble right now, Martin Weiss was.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Thinking about calling my ex wife to wash the glitter
out of my hair tonight.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
What do you think she.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Might want to She might want that old thing back, though,
don't do that. I used to wash your hair, Mamby
used to like it, Rob.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
She goes, she might listen, might try to get you back,
because I mean, there's you know, you gots.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I got all this glitter.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
If you know you got a little bit more salt
and pepper too, so she might trick you into staying longer.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Then she got I'm telling you, she might call Christmas
and said, how do you do that?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Though?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
What is the real color? There is the man? Dang
it all.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
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Speaker 5 (23:27):
All right, Martin, have a great night, brother.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
It is they couple Rob Parker kelvin Washington on a
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We have foul or fair with our man Jurgams.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It was a big week in the big leagues.
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Who's who's a five?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Believe?
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Is it foul or is it fair? And now from
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Speaker 5 (23:57):
That's right, it's foul affair.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Here on the cup of Fox Sports Rader say, well,
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Speaker 5 (24:14):
Already. And these reports, I.
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Know none other than the man who was carrying mlbbro
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Speaker 5 (24:23):
JR.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Gamble, what's up? What that boy sounded like?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
ATL took him out?
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Listen. I would have thought that another All Star week
with Rob Parker would result in laryngitis. Yep uh an allergy.
I'm broke like you gotta be ready with Rob. You
go to Magic City. You know you think you're gonna
go do a quick walkthrough. He's throwing ones, he's eating wings.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I got hey, I gotta still wash the glitter out
of my haird we're trying to figure that out.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You've never seen Robin action, so you've seen Robin action.
That's all.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I'm the same, all right, copy that.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Thank you too, Little Magic. He took care of us
though we're always great to do with that, no doubt.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
All right, all right, guys, it is Fouler Fair in
honor of mlbbro dot Com be and full effecting All
Star Weekend. All of these questions are All Star related
and JR. Because you're the start of the segment, we
get the first crack and every single one, So let's
get to it, JR. We had five ABS challenges during
the All Star Game and the early returns Rob Parker
were very positive. Unlike the NFL and the NBA systems,
(25:34):
Baseball's ABS challenges were very quick and more importantly, they
were all accurate. It was pretty straightforward, so JR foul
or fair to say that ABS challenges should be made
permanent found that is a soul ball.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah. They didn't appeal to me personally at all, but
I will say watching the game live at tru As Park,
I hardly noticed a challenge just so that was a
good thing. I just feel like it's fourths in general,
so everything just too mechanical and mathematical and scientific. Sometimes
we lose a human element when we continue to force
(26:13):
technology into the game and veer away from Honestly, they
might sound dumb, but allowing humans to make mistakes or
get it right. But it's not like we're going backwards
now that the can of worms is out in the open,
and saying is not totally needed is hard as a
hard sell because most will say that you can get
it right, why not? But I say, at what caused
(26:35):
to the game, I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Gonna say fair it's a fair ball, and only because
I'm not I'm with you I'm about the human element
to the game.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
But I already know that they're going to put it in.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Because I always ask people all the time, tell me
the game where the umpirementster call and the fourth inning
that that you remember that that ruined your game or
ruin and nobody can ever give you one. They really can't,
because there'll be another call where that goes in your
team's favor, do you know what I mean? So I
just don't think it's that big of an issue. I
(27:08):
really don't. But you just said it. It's already been
out here. The tooth bases out of the tube. It's
not going back in. And that's why they put it
on the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah fair. They put it on a big, massive stage
like that. There wasn't just in some Triple A ball
nobody would see. This was the All Star Game. They
know baseball is in a good high right now. People
are watching, and as you mentioned, the other leagues are
doing it, and it's kind of become subconscious. It's like
when they put the first down line and all these lines,
you start to see stuff. Then you're like, oh, you
get used to it, and we've all got gotten used
(27:38):
to the challenges so I absolutely expect it at some point.
And to your point, Jay, are it kind of just
ran seamlessly smoothly that you didn't notice it versus NBA
It's another twenty five minutes, so the NFL twenty five
minutes when it happens.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
So it's fair, all right. Story number two Jr.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
The All Star Game last night, Andy with the first
ever sudden death home run. There we talked about doping
the show, but because guys like Shoe Aotani Aaron Judge
literally left the stadium before the game was over, the
contest was decided by a group of really good but
not great backup players.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
So Jr.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Here's the question, Faul, or fair to say that if
Major League Baseball is gonna stick with this sudden death format,
players should not not be allowed to leave early anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Foun That is a soul ball.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
I mean, it's an exhibition game. The players have families
and they want to enjoy them before they turn into
the road for another you know, seventy games or whatever.
So honestly, baseball just happy. The two most popular players
in the sports showed up. Judge took his two at
bats and then met the press right after which wouldn't
have happened, and each player had to stay as the
(28:49):
question suggests. So it's bias, fellas, because I'm putting all
my reporters at here and like in the fact that
you get an immediate reaction because right when Judge left
the game mlbbro dot com we ran over and we
got a great, candid, live interview with them. So plus,
the All Star game is voluntary, so no one has
to participate. So if you start making rules of inconvenience
(29:12):
guys and plans and make it too serious, you know
that can throw tinke into things. So no, and don't
disrespect the players in All Stars.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
In All Stars, I agree with you, but I'm gonna say, uh,
it is fair, it's a fair ball, and I'm gonna
say why because the two biggest stars, Like if it
would have been as you remember when uh the World
Baseball Classic right at the end, who was it? It
was show striking out Mike Trump, Right, that was an
(29:42):
exhibition too. That really didn't matter, and I know people
have for forever. When you get out of the game,
take a shower, meet to press, and you leave, you're
not you know, you're not with a team.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
You're doing your own thing. You gotta plane ready to go,
you're all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But if you're gonna make this a big deal, I
can see where fans are like we wanted, you know, Tawani,
you know what I mean to be a part of
that derby at the end of the game.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
So I do get that.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
But that's what they don't run derby for, Like.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
No, I get it, you know, I get it now.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I think I think it's I think it's fair. You
can give me an hour and a half more.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Just give me an hour and a half more of
your time, Broud, he can go ahead, do your thing,
go ahead, get up out of here.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Uh, just give me one one and a half more.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I mean that because that is kind of like Stephen
Lebron can't just shower up at the first quarter in dipset.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
You know, they can't leave.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
And you know, back when the Pro Bowl was actually
a game, Peyton mannagers didn't dip. It's one thing to
be on the bench and talking and maybe they mic
you up and it's fun. It's another thing to be
in a private out of town. That's a little while.
So they can give me an hour and a half fair,
all right? Last one Fowler Fair Jr. Gamble sitting in
with the odd couple. Here we go Jr.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Clinton Kershaw was a big talking point coming to the
game for getting that Legends exemption before the game. During
the game, he was micd up while pitching. He had
some great comments if you saw the video online and
after the game when he told reporters that Major League
Baseball quote has the best All Star Game of any sport.
(31:10):
You got very simple question for you, foul or fair
to say that Major League Baseball has the best All
Star Game?
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Fair?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
I mean, and it's not hard to because the NFL
Pro Bowl is two hand touch flag now right, you
know what I mean? You came to really count that
nbig All Star Games going the way of the NBA
to me, and it just seems like the players have
forgotten the point of you know, what the All Stars
about with the fans and what they actually come to
see is not a three point competition in the All
(31:44):
Star Game with Las daisical you know, defensive little effort
that has become the MLB All Star Game is a
bit better because you know they've gone back to the
team unis, which doesn't have to do with the play
but the whole culture of the game that's cool. And
the pitchers are definitely competing, you know, to get players out.
But there's really no other way to play baseball because
(32:07):
someone can get hurt if you're not playing one hundred
per unlike the other sports. So you know it would
be even better. Prop said this. Put the Savannah bananas
in during the seventh in in stretch, then you know
will be good. But everybody said that the NHL format,
the format with the four nations face off, was the
best format. So I guess baseball in NHL are one
(32:28):
and two right now.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I say it's it's fair, and we talked about it before.
You still compete. Crow Armstrong made a diving catcher left field.
Nobody's just pulling up letting the balls drop. The pitchers
aren't trying to toss the ball soft to let guys
hit home runs. It ain't like that. They actually play
the game the way it was meant to be played.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It's fair to me, and it's actually pretty easyble in
the NBA. Could they make them comeback and make it
maybe a competitive choice between the two at some point, maybe,
but as of right now, I don't even think it's
really close.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
You get to see all the stars. It's competitive.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
They have the perfect balance of ain't nobody trying to
get hurt, but we're also out here competing the perfect balance.
They found that sweet spot, so I'll give them credit.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
It's fair. That's found fair, a right, no doubt. Hey, man,
go get you some some something some leave.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Relaxer, get some liveseng Jersey, go to rest.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
That's what you get for hanging him all weekend.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I know I can't keep up with the old man.
I just can't.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
You better not be over here for feeling like him. Rob.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I'm gonna go get some lights off. M'sa spray this
studio down.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I goggle when I goggle when I got home.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Y oh boy,
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