September 4, 2024 • 45 mins
Albany Firebirds Team President Jeff Levack gives a Fox Sports exclusive on the Firebirds relationship with the Arena Football League in 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Slovacking guz on the Voice of the Capitol Regions Sports Fan,
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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You should be respectful. How dare you what?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've got some issues I was gonna I waited till
three o'clock. Look, I felt like your old co host
there grabbing the microphone. How could you? What could you do.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This to your poor friend, your co host, your.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Here?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What now?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I get out these NFL players feel Now. I get
what happens when people feel like they're traded or cut
on the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Here's my folk. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm trying to have a wonderful day with my family.
It's my kids first day at school today. They're off
the daycare, they're off the preschool, and here I get
a little update on my phone. I fell at Firebirds AFL.
You should at Firebirds AFL.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's going to change.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
A new era gins today. I immediately go to Twitter
hosted a gift. I want answers, and I want them now.
I have no idea what's going on. There are times
you at least leave me a breadcrumber too. About Okay,
I think this is direction where we're going. But here
we are leading off the show today and I have
no idea what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I want what makes you think I know what's going on.
I'm the president of the team. Am I in Nashville
right now at the owner meetings? I'm not down there, bighead.
Mike cord is down there. CORDA, Yeah, I woke up
to the same thing you woke up to. I mean,
I know what's going on, but I had to call
I don't Benny Nelson, Little Benny Ice, Hey, Yo, do
(01:39):
you have permission to put that up? Like, I know
there was a schedule in place, but it's a schedule
still in place? Is yep? Mike just told me to
put that up. I'm like, okay, all right, so yeah, no,
So that's that's real. That happened. My favorite part is
if you look close, Ben built are like Firebirds like
watermark into the black, So like if you're screen unless
(02:00):
you're like like if it's decently lit whatever, you can
see the Firebirds logo there and Billings the Outlaws shared
the exact same thing, but it's ours. They clearly just
took ours because that so it's a Firebirds logo. So
I called Mike and I'm like, hey, do you want
to let Titus now? He goes, nah, let's let him
have it, let's let him use it. I'm like, yeah,
(02:22):
but the Firebirds logo. He goes, I know, and he
started laughing. So so that's it's it's it's this is
what's known as a teas guys. So I don't know.
I don't know. If you're familiar with teases.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I know how teeses work. I think I'm good at him.
Sometimes I think I'm better than I really am. That's
besides it. Don't try to distract me with I thought
that was a compliment. A new era begins in the
Almony Firebird history of the franchise. Okay, so I still
don't understand what that means. I have three gases, three
gases here that I'm gonna do and if you want
(02:55):
to guess along with us at WOFX ninet eighty at
the Jefflovaco on Twitter at.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You're going to guess and I get to tell you
if you're wrong. Yeah, okay, I think that's the best
way to do it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I think that's I think that's the best way to
handle this and I can follow along at Firebirds afl
of what a new era begins today means, number one,
there is a selling ownership. You mentioned big ahead of
Mike Quorda. We love Mike Quorda. The fact that Andy
Goucher Richie says, Na and Mike, they've got a tea
in there. Sorry about that, Richie? And where about tea went? Richie?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Andy and Mike are the owners.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So when I hear new era, I would think that
someone who may be the ultimate decision maker might be
moving on from that role and it's been moved on
to a different part of that. I know that's a
probably different answer because that could be a sale involved.
So let me ask that one first, are the owners
of the Firebirds moving on from the franchise?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No? Okay, nope, dud, same guys, Yeah, continuity.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
The second question would be that if it's a new era,
then that means that head coach would be moving on.
We had Damon wear On with us yesterday. Who's at
Hudson Valley Community College this fall helping out that squad
that maybe coach wears enjoying the college game so much.
You know, he loves working with the college athletes that
maybe somebody else is taken over for coach wear. So
(04:14):
that would be my second guess.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You'd be over two. He told you yesterday, if anything,
he would want to do both. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I had a boss, but a few weeks ago was
talking about how wonderful he had things and the next
thing I know, he's in Nashville. It's not a month
for gossip. Over two, Okay, over two the last one
I would guess. And I think I might have heard
something slip through that microphone in about the first thirty
five seconds of the show. I had said this tweet
came from at Firebirds AFL, and you said in passing
(04:43):
that's going to change. So something is going to change.
I don't think the name of the Firebirds is going
to change, but there have been rumblings and rumors about
what the AFL is. I would assume that would be
my third one. Like a new era begins, maybe a
league change, something involving.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
The a f L has changed. Did you do this
backwards from what you thought it would really be or
did you Because I can tell you this much right now,
and I'm sorry to Pankowski and all the other ones
who have been calling me all day. I haven't told
you anything. This is an OFX exclusive.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
My vocal late breaking sore said baby sorry, I will
pull the audio. Pinkowski, I will pull the audio. Griffin
Hass I will be more than happy to send you
this audio as long as your credit Leaveack and gos
w AFX Singlace Michael Kelly go.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Ahead of Levaca Uh. The Albany firewords will no longer
be part of the AFL. WHOA, we are leaving the AFL.
Nothing else I'm waiting. I was ready for more for you.
I'm sorry for the afors for you. That was a
(05:54):
pregnant pause. Has that no one else I've said for
for weeks now, all I've been able to say is
I really don't care what three letters or whatever are
attached to us or whatever it's. There's there's a change
on the wind. I believe there's a full pressurelease coming
out some point tomorrow that will announce where we're going again,
(06:16):
where these things are, they're very, very volatile. When you
make these kind of moves, you gotta make sure you
make the right move and do all the things the
right way. I can tell you obviously it's not just us,
since since the team that we played in the championship
share our graphic about this, but no we uh so,
(06:36):
I guess I could tell you that I don't. I
don't believe Billings will be in the NFL either. The
two championship teams will no longer that played for the
Arenable will no longer be in the AFL this time
next year.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
If the almost are they off the air pregnant pause
I had there about a minute ago. It wasn't a
sign of my confusion. I am very confused, and I
don't know how many of these questions are gonna be
an answer, but I'm gonna try my best anyways. Okay,
so you've just told us a Fox Sports ninety five
nine to nine eight exclusive, the Albany Firebirds will no
longer be a part of the Arena Football League going forward.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So I know there's other leagues. I know there's the
i f L. I know actually, former Empire coach Rob
Keef just took a position in the if L. I
know the IFL exists.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I know former Empire coach Tom Nasa is in the IFL.
And that's right, former offensive genius for the Empire, Moss
he's there too. The less moss less moss. Yeah, sorry,
brain fart.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Right, I've got the tea in Richie's name is fort
the Oh that's fine, don't actually don't use that part.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, So I mean that's a you know, so you
know there's a i FL. So now why I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's like, Okay, it's either the i f L, unless
I'm unaware of another league that's out there, or that mean,
like I.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Am unable to tell you what league will be playing
it at this time. Okay, there are some final details
that need to be worked out on how it's gonna
take place. But listen, everybody saw what happened last year
and not enough And this is me speaking this part.
You know, for the team, I can tell you that
we won't be in the AFL. For me, I can
(08:14):
tell you the reason I support that decision is I
don't feel like enough changed to make us want to
stay in the AFL.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Let's take this to a national scale, because this is
truly a national story because it affects multiple markets across
the United States. Let's use something to say I should say,
I feel as though there's a far better option for us.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, that's what that's what I should say.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think a lot of people here listening to that
the effect that it's gonna have an Albany and billions.
In other places, the national story that seems like is
the PAC twelve.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Right. The PAC twelve had a bunch of teams, Right,
We're going to the PAC twelve. That's it. The Almni
Firebars are joined the Pacific twelve. Let's go. We're gonna
win this thing this summer.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The Oregon State Beavers take on the Albany Firebirds.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But we're still gonna play eight. Okay, so they're gonna
play eleven.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That seems a disadvantage for your team, But no, But
what I mean by that is that we saw the
PAC ten grow to the PAC twelve, and everybody looked
at the PAC twelve, both for me media perspective, a
sales perspective, television rights perspective, revenue perspective, and teams like
Arizona to Oregon to Washington said this conference, this league
(09:23):
is not doing things best for the teams that compete
in it. We are gonna go seek out other options
or be wooed recruited by other conferences to find a
better spot for our organization our program going forward. That's
where I keep running into this hurdle here of like, Okay,
I know the Big ten and Big twelve exists, I
don't know what the ACC exists. That's callan Stanford, like
(09:44):
I get where they went. So that's what I'm struggling
with here. That like, if it's not the Arena Football League,
and it's not maybe the IFL or you can't tell me,
there's a lot of things that can be tossed out there.
The other possibility is then when we talk about the
Area Football League, is that like what I just heard
there that if Billions is leaving and Albany is leaving
the Arena Football League, to me, it sounds like the
(10:05):
PAC two.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now, like that league's dead.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Then like if the Arena Fooball League is gonna least
lose their two best franchises, who's gonna stick around? They
already lost eight teams and now you're telling me another
tour again. Maybe you can't answer that, but that's my
initial reaction to the story that I did not know
ten minutes ago that you representing the Albany Firebirds, your
co workers colleagues out of the Arena Football League. For
(10:29):
the twenty twenty five seeds. That is big news, and
I don't know what's coming next. There's a lot of options.
I want more out of you. I know that's about
as much as I'm getting today, but.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's better than that unless unless you see my phone
start going crazy in the next you know, two plus hours,
it's that's what you get for now. I'll tell you that.
Earlier today, I spoke to Mike Khorda. Earlier today, I
spoke to Jeff Fisher. I made sure that I wasn't
gonna step on too many land mines when I when
(11:01):
I said this, Uh, but yeah, no, we we are.
We're moving on. We're gonna uh, we're going. We're going
to what I what I feel is though everyone is
going to have their questions. I obviously am right now.
Uh we are going in a very positive direction, very
positive direction, especially for people who love the Firebirds, who
love UH Arena football, who want to who want to
(11:24):
You want the team to be here forever. So do
we and the step we're taking, we feel gives us
the absolute best chance to follow that path. I want
to get excited. I want to say, like you should
be excited. I can tell you that like this is
this is a step forward. This is not a step backwards.
(11:44):
I can tell you that much right now. There was
and listen, I knew last year while things were going crazy,
we were okay because of our relationships with Orlando and
Billings and Nashville, you know, and so on and so forth,
that worst case scenario, we would play a bunch of
one on ones so that the fans here in all
but he wouldn't lose arena football while we figured out
(12:05):
what we were going to do this season coming up
the twenty twenty five season. But that's a step backwards,
you know what I mean? That is a step out.
You're playing unaffiliated football. That's not that's not winning a league.
That's you know, you can all all those teams can
crown themselves at the end and come up with the
stats like radio ratings, like we're number one left handed
(12:25):
females who like to knit, like you know whatever. This
is a big step forward. This will be this will
be a game changing step forward.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I'd also like to clarify before Ken Shott or Pete
Doherty you try to claim that we are actually not
number one for ladies who knit left handed we're.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Trying to work. Yeah, we're not. Actually we lost them. Yeah, Karen,
what happened? You said you'd never turn the dial.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I think it's ninety nine to five the River. It
is number one in that category. We were on this
week though, so that's what swung it.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It was just shared, shared was going on this. Oh
my god, Jesus, you suck. I can't believe how bad
you are. At the birthday we had, we had a
bad one. I mean, those tag team thing is not
working out. First, I oh, were funny. We started like,
we started like a really good team, and then a
couple of bounces didn't go our way, and then all
of a sudden, every time it feels like it feels
(13:18):
like if I think you should go with it, I'm wrong.
If you think I should go that, you're wrong. Like
it's just it's it's been we got two more days.
We'll bounce back. It's maybe I don't want them to
hear this. They came in with a better plan than
we did. I mean, they've got like they've got hand signals.
They've been like they've been doing this stupid game for
(13:39):
so freaking long together, and Kevin is not fair. So
if you don't listen to The.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
River seven thirty in the morning every day this week.
I think we're six something too, are oh six and seven?
Like ye, I think we're early too. It's just they
work well together.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But Kevin's been doing a stupid game for so I
call him father time because he's been the one asking
the questions. I bet you he just knows everybody's birthdays
by this point. He's just It's like Chris Donorado is
a computer. You can't go against Chris Colorado, and then
you can't go against Kevin. This is not We got
two days. We got two days to make it up.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Listen on nine five The River, the number one rated
station for knitters who are left handed.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm picked tomorrow too, so that's for guitars. Make sure
to pass along our Super Bowl picks. By the way,
thanks guys. Listen. I'm I've if you notice, I haven't
taken my trophy yet. I'm waiting for I want. I
would like can't tear to hand it to me for
the horse racing challenge from C four Yeah, no, so
I think listen, I know everybody's everybody's excited. Everybody wants
(14:36):
to know everything. Right away. I get that. You just
know that there's there's some really really good things happening
behind the scenes for your Albany Firebirds. It's really good things.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It is wild to lead off a Wednesday in September
with exclusive news incite us.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
If you want to interact to that news at Wolf
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
The Jefflevack leave all effs out of it, Okay, host guys,
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Okay at the Actually would be so much funnier if,
like I don't know Tommy Valentine on ABC or Roger
or anybody over or Jesse McWilliam all the way out
in Spectrum said like, no, no, no, it just says at
the Jeff Levac for the site here, they just said,
take effects out of it.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I have a lot I have heard from me, So
AJ's probably mad, Griss probably mad. Mike Kelly's probably mad
because they've breached out to either better myself today can't
say anything, and I was like, you know what I
do a stupid radio show. I'm gonna tell somebody something,
Like you know what I mean, Like I want to
tell somebody something. I want to be the one who
breaks some news.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Look at Tommy Corporate rubbing those little hands together. Gonna
see those streaming numbers and podcast numbers later.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, it's just I mean, and again it's it's not
you think about it. We've incorporated AFL into into our website,
into our emails and everything our social There will be
those that will that will change as soon as the
announcement official announcements are all made.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh, I don't think I did this question any one
more time. Maybe I didn't register.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, no, no, you're out of time.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
But last one, is there a timeline on one have
an announcement of those things I'm questioning about a new league?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Is there a I think by the day of the
other owner's meetings, which are happening right now down in Nashville,
So I would say probably tomorrow, wish we'll have everything.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I know you mentioned a press release. I wasn't sure
if in that press release with the announcement of the
new league.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Okay, yeah, that's well, that's that's the that's why you're
seeing the new era. That's why because well, let's put
it like this, Mike Gorda, one of our three owners, Annykelcher,
I know the three of them. They're confident enough with
what they've learned from down there that they want to
go forward.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, and I think before someone misquotes me, I said,
new league announcement. Whether that means entrying a new league,
whether that's forming a new league, whether it's in an
whatever that term means.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I don't like, Oh, you will know where we're playing
this week.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
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wanted to know, and I got an answer, and I
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I'd like to find out the big king k big
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Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, listen, let's let's talk about the At least we
didn't have to do this first freaking meltout from the
Yankees last night, So that's coming up. Fox Sports Radio,
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Speaker 1 (18:33):
Now back to Levac and Guz on ninety five nine
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Speaker 2 (18:41):
Was so painful last night. As I'm sitting there hoping
for a un Soto homer that never happens. The Yankees
not terrible with runners in scoring posession three for nine,
take a four to one lead in the eighth inning,
Well actually I'm sorry it was it was two to one.
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Then Vulpe hits a nice little single judge Soto score. It's,
you know, four to one. You're handing the ball off
to the bullpen. With a four to one lead, everybody's
supposed to be happy, everything's supposed to be good. Not
so fast, my friend, as they just don't get it
(19:24):
done in the eighth inning, cousins in Hill, Well, Hill
didn't give up any runs. I'm sorry. Cousins gives up
a run, came to give a run and it just
wasn't earned run, but he gave a run. And then
Clay Holmes, Clay Holmes is just not the closer you want.
Twenty five pitches, only twelve of the more strikes, ends
up giving up a grand salami to Langford, who you know?
(19:49):
I mean, just come, just come on a forour to
one lead that late, this should be over. And then
you get a guy named Wyatt from Texas beating you. Wyatt,
Langford first rang your rookie with a walk off grand slam.
Clay Holmes is poop. Clay Holmes is poop. How many
more chances is he gonna get, like, well, a couple
(20:11):
more this year because he's got to make sure we
lose in the playoffs. What does he have to do?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Like, I know my answer to this, I already know,
but I want to hear your answer first, because before
I just slam the door shut on Clay Holmes. Seriously,
why does he keep getting these opportunities? What more does
he have to do to lose his spot and not
be the guy anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I listen, it's this is that weird? It's almost is
it arrogance? Is it? Is it ignorance? Is it? Is
it arrogant ignorance that Cashman and Boone seem to have
when it comes to guys like this, Like this should
have been dealt with before the trade deadline. This is
something that could have been fixed back then, and maybe
not fully fixed, like there wasn't like a great closer
(20:56):
sitting out there at the trade deadline. Usually, but there
weren't been somebody. You know, the Yankees have been on
the other side of this. You give up, you know,
a role as Chapman, You give up Andrew Miller, You
give up these these closers to build up your farm
system and then the team goes on and wins, the
Cubs win the World Series whatever. This was a chance
for you to do that in reverse. You got enough
(21:19):
in your farm system that you're not gonna use How
have you not call up do mingas yet? I don't understand,
but like you've got enough out there that you could
have made a move. You could have made a deal.
You stayed with Holmes. Now you're almost stuck with him.
I'm seeing reports that Nester kort Has is going to
the bullpen. This this eh, I don't know, Like I
just who's is it? Is it? Luis Heel? Is he
(21:41):
the guy who can go out there and be your closer? Now?
I don't think so. I think he's more of a
gonna be a set up guy and we'll get to
the postseason. You know it's Mark Schmidt's coming back. I'm
just somebody somebody come back and pitch better than this.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Pos You and I are here close to this. You
and I are close to the right answer. You called
it arrogance. I'm gonna call it stubbornness. I'm sure it's
along the same street there that Brian Cashman and Yankee fans.
Whether you love Cashman or you hate Cashman, whether you've
been a Cashman defender, whether you've been somebody who says
enough's enough. I think wherever you stand on the Cashman side,
(22:19):
we can all admit that this is true. He runs
it to the absolute end. He is your friend or
family member that is on e and says I'm gonna
make it to the gas station and then it runs
out of gas and then slowly pushes their car and says.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I think it's got a little left.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think if I had got a little he will
drive the prospect that he believes in until it's absolutely done.
Do we want to go through examples? We Levaka and
I could do two and a half hours on every
prospect that Brian Cashman believed in that didn't work, wasn't working,
but he still said, I know he's the guy. I
know he's the guy. Now there's a reason, two huge
(22:56):
reasons why this is the thing for Brian Cashman. One,
He's had success with prospects, you know, like he does
have a track record, more so earlier in his career
than later in his career of Look what I was
able to do in this pharm system. Look what I
was able to do some of these young players. Some
would say Stick Michael deserves a lot more credit than
Cashman for some of the young development. Not gonna fight
on that argument. I understand that. But someone say Cashman
(23:18):
did have an eye for talent and had success in
won a World Series. So because he's had it work
in the past, he wants to do it again.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
We all have that we have success in something. We
use this method. We want to use it again. Really
it feels more like the second one that he feels
so comfortable, has so much power, has so much say
who's shutting him down? Like when Brian Cashman is missing
on a prospect, when Brian Cashman thinks Clay Holmes the
guy and he's never been the guy. When Brian Cashman
(23:46):
thinks Greg Bird's the future at first Base. We can
keep going, but I'm gonna stop there. Who's the one
who shuts him down? Like wherever you whatever you do
for a living, like Levac and I, we we have ratings.
Leve actors came talking about the Firebirds. We all think
we have great ideas. Hopefully we have more good than
bad ideas. But at least somebody is telling Levac or me, Hey.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Maybe not that one.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Maybe not kids are in the car today, I won't
say the jokes that I like about a certain female
that we call miss Hailey Welsh on the show. Maybe
not so many of those. Maybe we should do this,
Maybe you should try this instead. There is a buffer,
somebody that shuts it down and says, hey, you got
that one wrong.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Own it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We move on to the next one. You thought the
segment would work. You thought this promotion would work. Who
is the buffer for Brian Cashman. Who's the buffer for
Aaron Boone. I think that's the most frustrating for Yankee
fans that Cashman gets to have the wild West feel
out there because the Steinbrunners aren't George Steinbrunn anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Nobody's shutting him down.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
He stinks, clayho stinks, and no one's telling me stinks
besides us people who watch this product.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No. And it's a good point. I guess Hal's got
to step in at some point. But I listen, you're
not gonna make a move during a season like That's
That's the thing that if you you think about it,
In this offseason, we were all caught, well not we all.
I was very confident in this team. I wasn't even
(25:07):
thinking about Clay Holmes. To be honest with you, I'd
like to see Tommy Cainley get a shot of closing.
You know. I know he wasn't perfect, it hasn't been,
but he's not Clay Holmes and he gets geeked up.
I almost think it'd be fun to watch him, you know,
try to keep his energy under control when he goes
out there and throws in the ninth or the eighth
or whatever. I just I almost who was I heard?
(25:32):
I heard one of one of my buddies tried to say, like,
what if you took Louise Heel threw him in the eighth,
could he be like the next Marianna Rivera, Because you
remember in ninety six it was Wetland in the ninth.
It was it was Mario Rivera in the in the eighth,
So like, could you do that? Because you make that transition,
(25:54):
He's not Wetland Clark, I don't say Wetland. Like I'm
speechless how much this is like a glaring problem with you.
If I hand my closer, if I hand my bullpen
a four to one lead, I should win that game.
I should win that game. Even it's four to three,
I win the game. I still win the game. But
grand slam. I just like I said, I don't know
(26:16):
what the answer is. It is it Luis Heal and
ester Cortez both go to the bullpen middle relief, which
then gives you some options later in the game. I
this is the first time I don't remember having a closer,
because even like Robertson and Miller and Chapman, even when
they weren't great, at least you knew they were closers.
(26:37):
I don't know Clay Holmes. I think he's the seventh
any guy.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I want to at some point retire this take of
what I'm about to do, But I think I have
to remind myself that there are new people who listened
to the show every single day, and new people who
listen to the show, especially in the fall coming up
for football picks and more. Let me just run this
back one more time. You're hearing Lavaka and I criticized
the closer position for the Yankees. It is not because
Levac's expectation or my expectation, or maybe most Yankee fans are, well,
(27:04):
we have to find a Mariano Rivera like closer.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
No no, no, no no no. Like I get, I wouldn't
mind it. That'd be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
But like Packer fan and Colt fan have been spoiled
wealthy Chapman, like Packer fan has gone from Roger of
FARV to Rogers to now Jordan Love. Some fan bases
have an expectation of we need a Hall of Fame
talent for the most important position, and some would argue
closers right in that category of most important. When you
have a playoff contending roster, the expectation is not for
(27:31):
the next closer for the New York Yankees to be
Marian Rare, like Livac said, it'd be nice, you'd love that.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Is that an option?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But we're not talking about one of the best closures
in baseball Clay Holmes. Yes, does he rank top five
in saves of this season. Sure, but doing the math
of look at all the other teams that are in
that mix, where teams that are in the playoff push, like,
just by sheer math, you're gonna get to that spot.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Emmanuel clause As I like to call him for the
Cleveland Guardians, he's having Rivera like numbers. But the problem is,
it's not as if the closer position has gotten worse
in baseball. Like we've seen spots where making betting averages
have gone down. Now we're seeing a little pop more
in stolen banks. Is because of the rule changes, But
it's not as if everybody in baseball is struggling finding
(28:15):
a great closer. I watch games, you do too. I'm
watching guys come out of the pen one hundred and one,
one hundred and two, one hundred and three. I saw
that kid from the Tennessee Volunteers for the Rangers throwing
one hundred and five on the gun. So people are
finding closers.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The fact that the.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yankees can't get this one right, a position they prided
themselves on for decades, it makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Clay Holmes is not the guy. And here's the thing too, like, well,
you know, oh you want to Marianna Rivera type, Oh
you want to what I missed David Robertson. I felt
like he had whatever he was in there. Here here's
the thing. You can complain about your closer. You can
wish you had to marry On Rivera and Roaldez Chapman, whoever,
when that is your biggest weakness, And at this moment
(28:58):
in time, that is the Yankees' biggest weakness. They should
be up a half game on the Orioles right now,
and no they're down because they lost that game where
they handed their closer a lead and the first time
in the history of the Texas Rangers a rookie hits
(29:19):
a walk off grand slam. Okay, no bases loaded. You
shouldn't let that happen. H Grand slam. You should have
kept it in the park. He looked terrible and he
even when he even in his good nights, it's kind
of terrible. Like it's that's while you sat on your hands,
(29:40):
made a couple of small moves, did whatever you should
have brought in more bullpen. You brought in Mark Lighter Junior.
And you know why his last name is Lighter Not
because that's his dad's name. No, because he let your
bullpen on fire. After the first four or five starts
like it's it's no, this is not, this is not okay,
it's it's the World Series are bust. When you're a
(30:01):
Yankee fan, people want you to feel guilty about that.
Screw you. That's what it should be. You don't start
playing to lose. Oh I hope I get a participation trophy.
We're not the freaking Orioles. You want to go and
win the World Series every single year. You've got the
offense to get it done, yet you don't have the
bullpen to get it done.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Speaking about my Orioles who are confeting for that American
League East championship and not a participation trophy this year,
although past years have been different. How bad of a
night is it for New York fans, at least the
Yankees and al East fans. When you see what happened
there with the back talk about the history involving the
Rangers in the finishing last night's game, and you look
over to the Orioles White Sox, and the White Sox
have a play. I want to call it Little League
(30:41):
like play, but I think that's an insult to Little leaguers.
It's more t ballsc more Toddler pre k like when
three guys run into each other and allow three runs
to score. When the White Sox have now recorded the
most losses in this time ever and they've won five
of their last fifty I even forty five in their
(31:01):
last fifty games, I don't know if it's my algorithm
or it's really going viral every time. With our guy,
Kevin Brown, one of the voices of the Orioles, had said.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh, no, white socks gonna white.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Socks recalled like he's had a few great ones and
that's one of them. So, yeah, you watched the Orioles
win take that spot in the American League East.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Excuse me, America League East.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
They're playing a team from the West, the Rangers, and
then the White Sox acting like toddlers at daycare running
into each other.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, well, listen, it's not over yet, still plenty
of games ahead and blah blah blah blah blah. But man,
that one hurt last night watching intently, and and you
know why. Another reason it hurt, And I'll be perfectly
honest with you. We got the play the day coming
up at four forty five, thanks of Mawks every light where.
We'll be live tomorrow. Malalks Chevy and also hurt because
(31:53):
I was like, well, wait a minute, were going to
extra innings. I got another chance episode of a home run.
This is beautiful, and then knocks grand slam, Grand slam.
Strowman versus a Valdi. Tonight, Yankees versus or Rangers, eight
oh five, first pitch Yankees, mild favorite both guys ten
win pitchers. Yeay, I don't know. I don't even know
(32:14):
if I'm gonna watched It'm so mad. May I'll turn
it off like halfway through so I can't see Clay
Holmes going blowing again. Twenty five pitches you may not
even get in the game. The Yankees is gonna need
to score a ridiculous amount of runs just to make
just to make this thing feel okay.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
There are certain things and I'm gonna chalk this up
to just getting becoming an older sportsmenter seeing more baseball,
are seeing more like this is gonna be a thing
that Yankee fans look back on, hopefully in two to
five years when they find a prospect, when they make
a trade maybe for Joyce who pitches in the Rangers system,
or they find a big time arm and they're like,
remember in twenty twenty four where they were trotting clay
(32:49):
Homes out there is the guy who was gonna finish
this thing off.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Why were they doing that?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Why was if we had our old Wednesday why segment
we used to do it four o'clocks, This would be
the number one, two and.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Three topic today. I like clay homes. Yeah, I don't know. No,
there's no homes field advantage. I can tell you that.
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I just imagine Arena Football League or indoor football fans
stayed around for our second segment after the announcement, and
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That last one there. Now I'm turning it off. No,
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Is anything real? Is anything real? If this story has
(34:19):
not been real, then I just I don't know if
I can even get out of bed anymore. That's next
Fox Sports Radio, ninety five nine, nine eighty.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's Levak and Guz on ninety five nine Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Some like the guys, I look at your life and
there's like, I'm jealous of the fact that you found
your true love so young, and you guys have been
together for so long, and and it gives me hope
because it is like, listen, you can't be easy to
live with. That woman must love you, like there's no
way she would put up with your cock con and
she's got seventy five sisters. You must love her or
(34:54):
you wouldn't have a rotating door of flower names staying
at your house chickens and driving them across the state.
You guys clearly love each other. It's like, I don't know,
love is real. A lot of days I look at
you guys, I'm like, love must be real. Oh that's
so sweet, Lovic, I don't play that for it today.
That was very nice.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
However, Oh, there are reports out there that Travis Kelcey
and Taylor Swift's entire love story was scripted, planned, and
contractually set, to the point where there is pictures online
of a contract that is a quote comprehensive media plan
(35:35):
that even involves the two breaking up on September twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
If Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift isn't real, how do
I do this? How do I just go day after
day after day boop sleep without knowing love is real?
Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift were my only hope and
it's script. Do you think she already answered the song
(36:02):
written yes in the album? So here's the deal there?
Allegedly reps for Kelsey and Swift. Quote, a spokesman for
full Scope, which is the company that represents one of them,
is telling TMC the document is quote entirely false and
fabricated and was not created, issue, or or authorized by
(36:27):
the agencies. We have engaged our legal team to initiate
proceedings against the individuals or entities responsible to the unlawful
and inglorious forgery of documents. Have you ever heard the
saying I think she doth protest too much? If I
(36:48):
had a piece of paper that said Gods and missus
gods are going to get divorced September twenty eighth, and
it was there was no it was just I wrote
it down. It was fake. Are you suing me? Or
are you laughing at me? I think we all got played.
I held out longest. I feel like I held out
(37:10):
the longest. Everybody else started believe they were really you,
and I was like, that's fake. But I eventually bought in.
This has been fake from day one.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
We gotta pull the audio here. Someone's gotta do some digging.
It won't be me, but somebody else has to. Junior,
I'm almost Levak.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You said it.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I want to say it was September twenty twenty three,
maybe October. You can find the audio of what Lavak's
talking about that you From day one were like, hmmm,
something doesn't feel right here, something doesn't seem right here.
This seems they just met in DMS. An international pop star,
a football player, just rolling the DMS.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Next thing we know, she's on. He's completely different than
everyone she's ever dated. Yeah, every one of them is
like kind of the girlish guy, you know what I mean?
Like whatever everyone was like shaved on to toe. This
guy's a sasquatch like gaz All of.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
A sudden and weekend one or weekend two that sweets
already booked for Taylor Swift, She's already meeting the parents.
This seems odd. Wait, they're in their mid thirties and
not a lot of people are pressuring them to get married.
Trust me, I have a lot of friends in my
mid thirties. That's every day for most of them. I
watched what happened at a wedding. Some things don't add up.
Do I think they enjoyed their company with each other? Probably,
(38:22):
But when.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We look back, you think, no, I don't. I don't.
I actually don't think they hooked up.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
There was a thing a while Taylor Swift's early career
about how she used to pride herself on not getting
it on and somehow that story went.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Away she got older. Anyways, Uh tends to do that.
It does tend to do that. Doesn't end Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But yeah, I want to believe, like you that it
was real that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, because they're
super popular, that they can actually fall in love and
have it appened. But if we look back on this,
it does seem like more often than not, details were scut.
Here's how we can prove it, though, And this is
the ultimate play by Taylor Swift potentially.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Uh, Travis can you.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Believe what's happening on the interwebs. They're saying, our love
isn't real. There's only one way for you to prove it.
That's the ultimate way to get an engagement, ladies, isn't
it people questioning whether you two are really in love?
What other move does Travis Kelcey have now? Either they
break up on the twenty eighth, according to this document,
or he proposes there's no other way, Levac right, like,
(39:25):
how do you prove it? How do you prove this
isn't a publicity move? Or they're just dating for both
of their careers, because career wise, it was a great
move for both of them, and not just a great
move career wise for both of them, great for the
TV networks. Somehow, Taylor Swift spots were running during NBC
and all the featured games that it was almost gotta
be a little careful. I don't think our friends here
and iHeart Media had anything to do with this, but
(39:47):
they did have quickly that inventory available.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
For Taylor Swift. Gosh conspiracy people and Reddit people.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Oh no, in fact, I just talked this out with you.
Now I'm starting to wonder if it's not real.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I mean, this is I'm just saying, here's the deal.
If if this is a real relationship and everything's fine,
why even address this stupid document because September twenty eighth
is gonna come and go, and you guys are gonna
be fine. You're still gonna be together, or your relationship
(40:23):
is gonna fall apart and you're gonna break up before that. Regardless,
it doesn't it doesn't matter because this is a fake document.
The only way I sue is if it's a real document,
and now all the money and time and effort that
I put into this rouge is now gone to waste,
because when the song comes out and when the breakup
(40:43):
happens and all these things start coming together, everyone's gonna go, eh, nope,
read about that. This is fake. So you either now
have to prolong it. You have to end it and
hope that people believe that just ended, or you sue
and hope that you get some of your financial losses
(41:05):
back from people releasing this and put.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Yourself we'd all like to be in these shoes. Put
yourself in Travis Kelcey or Taylor Swift's shoes. If this
was a real thing, All right, let's do Kelsey first. Hey,
I want to say the illuminati, but hey, somebody has
reached out to us and said, we need you to
act like you're dating one of the most well known
international pop stars for the next year to year and
a half. What's that entail? She's gonna come to your games.
(41:29):
You're gonna be more popular, More people are gonna know
you and your brother than ever before. You're gonna a
new level of fame you've never hit before. Yeah, I'm in.
I'm in Taylor Swift. Hey, you know what demo we
really haven't hit yet? Mals twenty five to fifty four.
We need to hit that by going at their wives, girlfriends, fiances.
Let's infiltrate the NFL audience. How do we do that?
(41:51):
Find somebody on the most popular team who single and
attract Travis Kelcey. Okay, let's date the Kelsey guy for
a while for about a year to year and a
half till the AUM comes out.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Does that work for you? Taylor, are not going to be?
Aren't going to be? Aren't I? Is that a word? Yeah?
I'm gonna write songs and poetry.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
I'm going to be on an international tour during that time.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Or dating perfect.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
You could promote the tour and you barely have to
see him, will fly you in from Japan and China
and everywhere else. Deal, you could see the setup for
both people works over all of us is a great arrangement.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
I mean someone say marriage is an arrangement. I mean
they say, what the first one is for love, the
second ones for money? Yeah, and I mean, like, look
at him. He just signed one hundred million dollars deal
for his podcast all this other stuff. She like you said,
like there's dads who probably were telling their daughters to
turn that crap off for forever, who are now just like, oh,
(42:46):
well that's Taylor Swift. It's okay, I'll let it go.
I think I think I see it. I just don't
know why you make I don't know why you threaten
legal actions against uh, you know, a photoshop document like that.
It's like, listen if it's slander, if it's liable, if
something in there says, you know, on the twenty eighth
(43:06):
day of September, uh, Taylor will spin kick Travis in
the face in public. And okay, hold on, no, we're good,
that's not gonna whatever. But no, this is this is
in all honesty and sincerity, it feels it feels like
you're freaking out because your plans got out and and
(43:27):
all this, all these best lead plans, all this hard
work is gonna go is is not gonna be as received?
And and God, God forbid, God forbid. If the Swifties
turn on tailor if the Swifties can't believe Taylor, what
can they believe is that even a sun in the
sky is it is love Reil. I'm not getting bracedles
(43:52):
because I don't believe my teeth are crooked anymore. I
don't believe anything crying in the Teddy bears.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
That man or that woman who may have leaked to
that document that may or may not be true. Dream Killer,
Hide find you.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And God damn unless they believe him. And then it's
who's the guy that she hates? She fought And now
it's like Taylor's version versus Scooter Bron. Scooter Bron put
this out. I think we all know that's what they
should have done. Don't sue anything like oh no, he
tries Scooter and then all the stuffs. He's like, God,
what's right? Yeah, I still trying to ruin her alive.
(44:36):
Get out of ourselves? What is wrong? Yeah? Heh, I
just I mean, I just think that might be what
sounds exactly Jimmy gay Oh scutar ski skit, skit skit,
(44:56):
How are you skit scoot man? I just imagine though,
like the high schoot hot skits good. Go West gets good,
No one loves you gets good. Get scart out, scot
is good. We have the top forward for it. I
(45:17):
don't know, Swifty, will you do that? What if there's
like seven, what if there's two? What is real anymore?
I'm gonna go cry in my room.
Slovacking guz on the Voice of the Capitol Regions Sports Fan,
Fox Sports ninety five and nine eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Joy Studio, TT Toy Studio Toys with the CU Calm down.
You should be respectful. How dare you what?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've got some issues I was gonna I waited till
three o'clock. Look, I felt like your old co host
there grabbing the microphone. How could you? What could you do.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This to your poor friend, your co host, your.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Here?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What now?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I get out these NFL players feel Now. I get
what happens when people feel like they're traded or cut
on the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Here's my folk. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm trying to have a wonderful day with my family.
It's my kids first day at school today. They're off
the daycare, they're off the preschool, and here I get
a little update on my phone. I fell at Firebirds AFL.
You should at Firebirds AFL.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's going to change.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
A new era gins today. I immediately go to Twitter
hosted a gift. I want answers, and I want them now.
I have no idea what's going on. There are times
you at least leave me a breadcrumber too. About Okay,
I think this is direction where we're going. But here
we are leading off the show today and I have
no idea what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I want what makes you think I know what's going on.
I'm the president of the team. Am I in Nashville
right now at the owner meetings? I'm not down there, bighead.
Mike cord is down there. CORDA, Yeah, I woke up
to the same thing you woke up to. I mean,
I know what's going on, but I had to call
I don't Benny Nelson, Little Benny Ice, Hey, Yo, do
(01:39):
you have permission to put that up? Like, I know
there was a schedule in place, but it's a schedule
still in place? Is yep? Mike just told me to
put that up. I'm like, okay, all right, so yeah, no,
So that's that's real. That happened. My favorite part is
if you look close, Ben built are like Firebirds like
watermark into the black, So like if you're screen unless
(02:00):
you're like like if it's decently lit whatever, you can
see the Firebirds logo there and Billings the Outlaws shared
the exact same thing, but it's ours. They clearly just
took ours because that so it's a Firebirds logo. So
I called Mike and I'm like, hey, do you want
to let Titus now? He goes, nah, let's let him
have it, let's let him use it. I'm like, yeah,
(02:22):
but the Firebirds logo. He goes, I know, and he
started laughing. So so that's it's it's it's this is
what's known as a teas guys. So I don't know.
I don't know. If you're familiar with teases.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I know how teeses work. I think I'm good at him.
Sometimes I think I'm better than I really am. That's
besides it. Don't try to distract me with I thought
that was a compliment. A new era begins in the
Almony Firebird history of the franchise. Okay, so I still
don't understand what that means. I have three gases, three
gases here that I'm gonna do and if you want
(02:55):
to guess along with us at WOFX ninet eighty at
the Jefflovaco on Twitter at.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You're going to guess and I get to tell you
if you're wrong. Yeah, okay, I think that's the best
way to do it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I think that's I think that's the best way to
handle this and I can follow along at Firebirds afl
of what a new era begins today means, number one,
there is a selling ownership. You mentioned big ahead of
Mike Quorda. We love Mike Quorda. The fact that Andy
Goucher Richie says, Na and Mike, they've got a tea
in there. Sorry about that, Richie? And where about tea went? Richie?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Andy and Mike are the owners.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So when I hear new era, I would think that
someone who may be the ultimate decision maker might be
moving on from that role and it's been moved on
to a different part of that. I know that's a
probably different answer because that could be a sale involved.
So let me ask that one first, are the owners
of the Firebirds moving on from the franchise?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No? Okay, nope, dud, same guys, Yeah, continuity.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
The second question would be that if it's a new era,
then that means that head coach would be moving on.
We had Damon wear On with us yesterday. Who's at
Hudson Valley Community College this fall helping out that squad
that maybe coach wears enjoying the college game so much.
You know, he loves working with the college athletes that
maybe somebody else is taken over for coach wear. So
(04:14):
that would be my second guess.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You'd be over two. He told you yesterday, if anything,
he would want to do both. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I had a boss, but a few weeks ago was
talking about how wonderful he had things and the next
thing I know, he's in Nashville. It's not a month
for gossip. Over two, Okay, over two the last one
I would guess. And I think I might have heard
something slip through that microphone in about the first thirty
five seconds of the show. I had said this tweet
came from at Firebirds AFL, and you said in passing
(04:43):
that's going to change. So something is going to change.
I don't think the name of the Firebirds is going
to change, but there have been rumblings and rumors about
what the AFL is. I would assume that would be
my third one. Like a new era begins, maybe a
league change, something involving.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
The a f L has changed. Did you do this
backwards from what you thought it would really be or
did you Because I can tell you this much right now,
and I'm sorry to Pankowski and all the other ones
who have been calling me all day. I haven't told
you anything. This is an OFX exclusive.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
My vocal late breaking sore said baby sorry, I will
pull the audio. Pinkowski, I will pull the audio. Griffin
Hass I will be more than happy to send you
this audio as long as your credit Leaveack and gos
w AFX Singlace Michael Kelly go.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Ahead of Levaca Uh. The Albany firewords will no longer
be part of the AFL. WHOA, we are leaving the AFL.
Nothing else I'm waiting. I was ready for more for you.
I'm sorry for the afors for you. That was a
(05:54):
pregnant pause. Has that no one else I've said for
for weeks now, all I've been able to say is
I really don't care what three letters or whatever are
attached to us or whatever it's. There's there's a change
on the wind. I believe there's a full pressurelease coming
out some point tomorrow that will announce where we're going again,
(06:16):
where these things are, they're very, very volatile. When you
make these kind of moves, you gotta make sure you
make the right move and do all the things the
right way. I can tell you obviously it's not just us,
since since the team that we played in the championship
share our graphic about this, but no we uh so,
(06:36):
I guess I could tell you that I don't. I
don't believe Billings will be in the NFL either. The
two championship teams will no longer that played for the
Arenable will no longer be in the AFL this time
next year.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
If the almost are they off the air pregnant pause
I had there about a minute ago. It wasn't a
sign of my confusion. I am very confused, and I
don't know how many of these questions are gonna be
an answer, but I'm gonna try my best anyways. Okay,
so you've just told us a Fox Sports ninety five
nine to nine eight exclusive, the Albany Firebirds will no
longer be a part of the Arena Football League going forward.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So I know there's other leagues. I know there's the
i f L. I know actually, former Empire coach Rob
Keef just took a position in the if L. I
know the IFL exists.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I know former Empire coach Tom Nasa is in the IFL.
And that's right, former offensive genius for the Empire, Moss
he's there too. The less moss less moss. Yeah, sorry,
brain fart.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Right, I've got the tea in Richie's name is fort
the Oh that's fine, don't actually don't use that part.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, So I mean that's a you know, so you
know there's a i FL. So now why I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's like, Okay, it's either the i f L, unless
I'm unaware of another league that's out there, or that mean,
like I.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Am unable to tell you what league will be playing
it at this time. Okay, there are some final details
that need to be worked out on how it's gonna
take place. But listen, everybody saw what happened last year
and not enough And this is me speaking this part.
You know, for the team, I can tell you that
we won't be in the AFL. For me, I can
(08:14):
tell you the reason I support that decision is I
don't feel like enough changed to make us want to
stay in the AFL.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Let's take this to a national scale, because this is
truly a national story because it affects multiple markets across
the United States. Let's use something to say I should say,
I feel as though there's a far better option for us.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, that's what that's what I should say.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think a lot of people here listening to that
the effect that it's gonna have an Albany and billions.
In other places, the national story that seems like is
the PAC twelve.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Right. The PAC twelve had a bunch of teams, Right,
We're going to the PAC twelve. That's it. The Almni
Firebars are joined the Pacific twelve. Let's go. We're gonna
win this thing this summer.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The Oregon State Beavers take on the Albany Firebirds.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But we're still gonna play eight. Okay, so they're gonna
play eleven.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That seems a disadvantage for your team, But no, But
what I mean by that is that we saw the
PAC ten grow to the PAC twelve, and everybody looked
at the PAC twelve, both for me media perspective, a
sales perspective, television rights perspective, revenue perspective, and teams like
Arizona to Oregon to Washington said this conference, this league
(09:23):
is not doing things best for the teams that compete
in it. We are gonna go seek out other options
or be wooed recruited by other conferences to find a
better spot for our organization our program going forward. That's
where I keep running into this hurdle here of like, Okay,
I know the Big ten and Big twelve exists, I
don't know what the ACC exists. That's callan Stanford, like
(09:44):
I get where they went. So that's what I'm struggling
with here. That like, if it's not the Arena Football League,
and it's not maybe the IFL or you can't tell me,
there's a lot of things that can be tossed out there.
The other possibility is then when we talk about the
Area Football League, is that like what I just heard
there that if Billions is leaving and Albany is leaving
the Arena Football League, to me, it sounds like the
(10:05):
PAC two.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now, like that league's dead.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Then like if the Arena Fooball League is gonna least
lose their two best franchises, who's gonna stick around? They
already lost eight teams and now you're telling me another
tour again. Maybe you can't answer that, but that's my
initial reaction to the story that I did not know
ten minutes ago that you representing the Albany Firebirds, your
co workers colleagues out of the Arena Football League. For
(10:29):
the twenty twenty five seeds. That is big news, and
I don't know what's coming next. There's a lot of options.
I want more out of you. I know that's about
as much as I'm getting today, but.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's better than that unless unless you see my phone
start going crazy in the next you know, two plus hours,
it's that's what you get for now. I'll tell you that.
Earlier today, I spoke to Mike Khorda. Earlier today, I
spoke to Jeff Fisher. I made sure that I wasn't
gonna step on too many land mines when I when
(11:01):
I said this, Uh, but yeah, no, we we are.
We're moving on. We're gonna uh, we're going. We're going
to what I what I feel is though everyone is
going to have their questions. I obviously am right now.
Uh we are going in a very positive direction, very
positive direction, especially for people who love the Firebirds, who
love UH Arena football, who want to who want to
(11:24):
You want the team to be here forever. So do
we and the step we're taking, we feel gives us
the absolute best chance to follow that path. I want
to get excited. I want to say, like you should
be excited. I can tell you that like this is
this is a step forward. This is not a step backwards.
(11:44):
I can tell you that much right now. There was
and listen, I knew last year while things were going crazy,
we were okay because of our relationships with Orlando and
Billings and Nashville, you know, and so on and so forth,
that worst case scenario, we would play a bunch of
one on ones so that the fans here in all
but he wouldn't lose arena football while we figured out
(12:05):
what we were going to do this season coming up
the twenty twenty five season. But that's a step backwards,
you know what I mean? That is a step out.
You're playing unaffiliated football. That's not that's not winning a league.
That's you know, you can all all those teams can
crown themselves at the end and come up with the
stats like radio ratings, like we're number one left handed
(12:25):
females who like to knit, like you know whatever. This
is a big step forward. This will be this will
be a game changing step forward.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I'd also like to clarify before Ken Shott or Pete
Doherty you try to claim that we are actually not
number one for ladies who knit left handed we're.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Trying to work. Yeah, we're not. Actually we lost them. Yeah, Karen,
what happened? You said you'd never turn the dial.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I think it's ninety nine to five the River. It
is number one in that category. We were on this
week though, so that's what swung it.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It was just shared, shared was going on this. Oh
my god, Jesus, you suck. I can't believe how bad
you are. At the birthday we had, we had a
bad one. I mean, those tag team thing is not
working out. First, I oh, were funny. We started like,
we started like a really good team, and then a
couple of bounces didn't go our way, and then all
of a sudden, every time it feels like it feels
(13:18):
like if I think you should go with it, I'm wrong.
If you think I should go that, you're wrong. Like
it's just it's it's been we got two more days.
We'll bounce back. It's maybe I don't want them to
hear this. They came in with a better plan than
we did. I mean, they've got like they've got hand signals.
They've been like they've been doing this stupid game for
(13:39):
so freaking long together, and Kevin is not fair. So
if you don't listen to The.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
River seven thirty in the morning every day this week.
I think we're six something too, are oh six and seven?
Like ye, I think we're early too. It's just they
work well together.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But Kevin's been doing a stupid game for so I
call him father time because he's been the one asking
the questions. I bet you he just knows everybody's birthdays
by this point. He's just It's like Chris Donorado is
a computer. You can't go against Chris Colorado, and then
you can't go against Kevin. This is not We got
two days. We got two days to make it up.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Listen on nine five The River, the number one rated
station for knitters who are left handed.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm picked tomorrow too, so that's for guitars. Make sure
to pass along our Super Bowl picks. By the way,
thanks guys. Listen. I'm I've if you notice, I haven't
taken my trophy yet. I'm waiting for I want. I
would like can't tear to hand it to me for
the horse racing challenge from C four Yeah, no, so
I think listen, I know everybody's everybody's excited. Everybody wants
(14:36):
to know everything. Right away. I get that. You just
know that there's there's some really really good things happening
behind the scenes for your Albany Firebirds. It's really good things.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It is wild to lead off a Wednesday in September
with exclusive news incite us.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
The Jefflevack leave all effs out of it, Okay, host guys,
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Okay at the Actually would be so much funnier if,
like I don't know Tommy Valentine on ABC or Roger
or anybody over or Jesse McWilliam all the way out
in Spectrum said like, no, no, no, it just says at
the Jeff Levac for the site here, they just said,
take effects out of it.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I have a lot I have heard from me, So
AJ's probably mad, Griss probably mad. Mike Kelly's probably mad
because they've breached out to either better myself today can't
say anything, and I was like, you know what I
do a stupid radio show. I'm gonna tell somebody something,
Like you know what I mean, Like I want to
tell somebody something. I want to be the one who
breaks some news.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Look at Tommy Corporate rubbing those little hands together. Gonna
see those streaming numbers and podcast numbers later.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, it's just I mean, and again it's it's not
you think about it. We've incorporated AFL into into our website,
into our emails and everything our social There will be
those that will that will change as soon as the
announcement official announcements are all made.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh, I don't think I did this question any one
more time. Maybe I didn't register.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, no, no, you're out of time.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
But last one, is there a timeline on one have
an announcement of those things I'm questioning about a new league?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Is there a I think by the day of the
other owner's meetings, which are happening right now down in Nashville,
So I would say probably tomorrow, wish we'll have everything.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I know you mentioned a press release. I wasn't sure
if in that press release with the announcement of the
new league.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Okay, yeah, that's well, that's that's the that's why you're
seeing the new era. That's why because well, let's put
it like this, Mike Gorda, one of our three owners, Annykelcher,
I know the three of them. They're confident enough with
what they've learned from down there that they want to
go forward.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, and I think before someone misquotes me, I said,
new league announcement. Whether that means entrying a new league,
whether that's forming a new league, whether it's in an
whatever that term means.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I don't like, Oh, you will know where we're playing
this week.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
There, I go, Okay, that's that was the question I
wanted to know, and I got an answer, and I
think I did a great job. So hopefully young Sienna
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All lovec It's gonna be hard to do a second
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but we're gonna try.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, listen, let's let's talk about the At least we
didn't have to do this first freaking meltout from the
Yankees last night, So that's coming up. Fox Sports Radio,
nine eighty.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Now back to Levac and Guz on ninety five nine
and nine eighty am. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Was so painful last night. As I'm sitting there hoping
for a un Soto homer that never happens. The Yankees
not terrible with runners in scoring posession three for nine,
take a four to one lead in the eighth inning,
Well actually I'm sorry it was it was two to one.
(19:04):
Then Vulpe hits a nice little single judge Soto score. It's,
you know, four to one. You're handing the ball off
to the bullpen. With a four to one lead, everybody's
supposed to be happy, everything's supposed to be good. Not
so fast, my friend, as they just don't get it
(19:24):
done in the eighth inning, cousins in Hill, Well, Hill
didn't give up any runs. I'm sorry. Cousins gives up
a run, came to give a run and it just
wasn't earned run, but he gave a run. And then
Clay Holmes, Clay Holmes is just not the closer you want.
Twenty five pitches, only twelve of the more strikes, ends
up giving up a grand salami to Langford, who you know?
(19:49):
I mean, just come, just come on a forour to
one lead that late, this should be over. And then
you get a guy named Wyatt from Texas beating you. Wyatt,
Langford first rang your rookie with a walk off grand slam.
Clay Holmes is poop. Clay Holmes is poop. How many
more chances is he gonna get, like, well, a couple
(20:11):
more this year because he's got to make sure we
lose in the playoffs. What does he have to do?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Like, I know my answer to this, I already know,
but I want to hear your answer first, because before
I just slam the door shut on Clay Holmes. Seriously,
why does he keep getting these opportunities? What more does
he have to do to lose his spot and not
be the guy anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I listen, it's this is that weird? It's almost is
it arrogance? Is it? Is it ignorance? Is it? Is
it arrogant ignorance that Cashman and Boone seem to have
when it comes to guys like this, Like this should
have been dealt with before the trade deadline. This is
something that could have been fixed back then, and maybe
not fully fixed, like there wasn't like a great closer
(20:56):
sitting out there at the trade deadline. Usually, but there
weren't been somebody. You know, the Yankees have been on
the other side of this. You give up, you know,
a role as Chapman, You give up Andrew Miller, You
give up these these closers to build up your farm
system and then the team goes on and wins, the
Cubs win the World Series whatever. This was a chance
for you to do that in reverse. You got enough
(21:19):
in your farm system that you're not gonna use How
have you not call up do mingas yet? I don't understand,
but like you've got enough out there that you could
have made a move. You could have made a deal.
You stayed with Holmes. Now you're almost stuck with him.
I'm seeing reports that Nester kort Has is going to
the bullpen. This this eh, I don't know, Like I
just who's is it? Is it? Luis Heel? Is he
(21:41):
the guy who can go out there and be your closer? Now?
I don't think so. I think he's more of a
gonna be a set up guy and we'll get to
the postseason. You know it's Mark Schmidt's coming back. I'm
just somebody somebody come back and pitch better than this.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Pos You and I are here close to this. You
and I are close to the right answer. You called
it arrogance. I'm gonna call it stubbornness. I'm sure it's
along the same street there that Brian Cashman and Yankee fans.
Whether you love Cashman or you hate Cashman, whether you've
been a Cashman defender, whether you've been somebody who says
enough's enough. I think wherever you stand on the Cashman side,
(22:19):
we can all admit that this is true. He runs
it to the absolute end. He is your friend or
family member that is on e and says I'm gonna
make it to the gas station and then it runs
out of gas and then slowly pushes their car and says.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I think it's got a little left.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think if I had got a little he will
drive the prospect that he believes in until it's absolutely done.
Do we want to go through examples? We Levaka and
I could do two and a half hours on every
prospect that Brian Cashman believed in that didn't work, wasn't working,
but he still said, I know he's the guy. I
know he's the guy. Now there's a reason, two huge
(22:56):
reasons why this is the thing for Brian Cashman. One,
He's had success with prospects, you know, like he does
have a track record, more so earlier in his career
than later in his career of Look what I was
able to do in this pharm system. Look what I
was able to do some of these young players. Some
would say Stick Michael deserves a lot more credit than
Cashman for some of the young development. Not gonna fight
on that argument. I understand that. But someone say Cashman
(23:18):
did have an eye for talent and had success in
won a World Series. So because he's had it work
in the past, he wants to do it again.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
We all have that we have success in something. We
use this method. We want to use it again. Really
it feels more like the second one that he feels
so comfortable, has so much power, has so much say
who's shutting him down? Like when Brian Cashman is missing
on a prospect, when Brian Cashman thinks Clay Holmes the
guy and he's never been the guy. When Brian Cashman
(23:46):
thinks Greg Bird's the future at first Base. We can
keep going, but I'm gonna stop there. Who's the one
who shuts him down? Like wherever you whatever you do
for a living, like Levac and I, we we have ratings.
Leve actors came talking about the Firebirds. We all think
we have great ideas. Hopefully we have more good than
bad ideas. But at least somebody is telling Levac or me, Hey.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Maybe not that one.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Maybe not kids are in the car today, I won't
say the jokes that I like about a certain female
that we call miss Hailey Welsh on the show. Maybe
not so many of those. Maybe we should do this,
Maybe you should try this instead. There is a buffer,
somebody that shuts it down and says, hey, you got
that one wrong.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Own it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We move on to the next one. You thought the
segment would work. You thought this promotion would work. Who
is the buffer for Brian Cashman. Who's the buffer for
Aaron Boone. I think that's the most frustrating for Yankee
fans that Cashman gets to have the wild West feel
out there because the Steinbrunners aren't George Steinbrunn anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Nobody's shutting him down.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
He stinks, clayho stinks, and no one's telling me stinks
besides us people who watch this product.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No. And it's a good point. I guess Hal's got
to step in at some point. But I listen, you're
not gonna make a move during a season like That's
That's the thing that if you you think about it,
In this offseason, we were all caught, well not we all.
I was very confident in this team. I wasn't even
(25:07):
thinking about Clay Holmes. To be honest with you, I'd
like to see Tommy Cainley get a shot of closing.
You know. I know he wasn't perfect, it hasn't been,
but he's not Clay Holmes and he gets geeked up.
I almost think it'd be fun to watch him, you know,
try to keep his energy under control when he goes
out there and throws in the ninth or the eighth
or whatever. I just I almost who was I heard?
(25:32):
I heard one of one of my buddies tried to say, like,
what if you took Louise Heel threw him in the eighth,
could he be like the next Marianna Rivera, Because you
remember in ninety six it was Wetland in the ninth.
It was it was Mario Rivera in the in the eighth,
So like, could you do that? Because you make that transition,
(25:54):
He's not Wetland Clark, I don't say Wetland. Like I'm
speechless how much this is like a glaring problem with you.
If I hand my closer, if I hand my bullpen
a four to one lead, I should win that game.
I should win that game. Even it's four to three,
I win the game. I still win the game. But
grand slam. I just like I said, I don't know
(26:16):
what the answer is. It is it Luis Heal and
ester Cortez both go to the bullpen middle relief, which
then gives you some options later in the game. I
this is the first time I don't remember having a closer,
because even like Robertson and Miller and Chapman, even when
they weren't great, at least you knew they were closers.
(26:37):
I don't know Clay Holmes. I think he's the seventh
any guy.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I want to at some point retire this take of
what I'm about to do, But I think I have
to remind myself that there are new people who listened
to the show every single day, and new people who
listen to the show, especially in the fall coming up
for football picks and more. Let me just run this
back one more time. You're hearing Lavaka and I criticized
the closer position for the Yankees. It is not because
Levac's expectation or my expectation, or maybe most Yankee fans are, well,
(27:04):
we have to find a Mariano Rivera like closer.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
No no, no, no no no. Like I get, I wouldn't
mind it. That'd be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
But like Packer fan and Colt fan have been spoiled
wealthy Chapman, like Packer fan has gone from Roger of
FARV to Rogers to now Jordan Love. Some fan bases
have an expectation of we need a Hall of Fame
talent for the most important position, and some would argue
closers right in that category of most important. When you
have a playoff contending roster, the expectation is not for
(27:31):
the next closer for the New York Yankees to be
Marian Rare, like Livac said, it'd be nice, you'd love that.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Is that an option?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But we're not talking about one of the best closures
in baseball Clay Holmes. Yes, does he rank top five
in saves of this season. Sure, but doing the math
of look at all the other teams that are in
that mix, where teams that are in the playoff push, like,
just by sheer math, you're gonna get to that spot.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Emmanuel clause As I like to call him for the
Cleveland Guardians, he's having Rivera like numbers. But the problem is,
it's not as if the closer position has gotten worse
in baseball. Like we've seen spots where making betting averages
have gone down. Now we're seeing a little pop more
in stolen banks. Is because of the rule changes, But
it's not as if everybody in baseball is struggling finding
(28:15):
a great closer. I watch games, you do too. I'm
watching guys come out of the pen one hundred and one,
one hundred and two, one hundred and three. I saw
that kid from the Tennessee Volunteers for the Rangers throwing
one hundred and five on the gun. So people are
finding closers.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The fact that the.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yankees can't get this one right, a position they prided
themselves on for decades, it makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Clay Holmes is not the guy. And here's the thing too, like, well,
you know, oh you want to Marianna Rivera type, Oh
you want to what I missed David Robertson. I felt
like he had whatever he was in there. Here here's
the thing. You can complain about your closer. You can
wish you had to marry On Rivera and Roaldez Chapman, whoever,
when that is your biggest weakness, And at this moment
(28:58):
in time, that is the Yankees' biggest weakness. They should
be up a half game on the Orioles right now,
and no they're down because they lost that game where
they handed their closer a lead and the first time
in the history of the Texas Rangers a rookie hits
(29:19):
a walk off grand slam. Okay, no bases loaded. You
shouldn't let that happen. H Grand slam. You should have
kept it in the park. He looked terrible and he
even when he even in his good nights, it's kind
of terrible. Like it's that's while you sat on your hands,
(29:40):
made a couple of small moves, did whatever you should
have brought in more bullpen. You brought in Mark Lighter Junior.
And you know why his last name is Lighter Not
because that's his dad's name. No, because he let your
bullpen on fire. After the first four or five starts
like it's it's no, this is not, this is not okay,
it's it's the World Series are bust. When you're a
(30:01):
Yankee fan, people want you to feel guilty about that.
Screw you. That's what it should be. You don't start
playing to lose. Oh I hope I get a participation trophy.
We're not the freaking Orioles. You want to go and
win the World Series every single year. You've got the
offense to get it done, yet you don't have the
bullpen to get it done.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Speaking about my Orioles who are confeting for that American
League East championship and not a participation trophy this year,
although past years have been different. How bad of a
night is it for New York fans, at least the
Yankees and al East fans. When you see what happened
there with the back talk about the history involving the
Rangers in the finishing last night's game, and you look
over to the Orioles White Sox, and the White Sox
have a play. I want to call it Little League
(30:41):
like play, but I think that's an insult to Little leaguers.
It's more t ballsc more Toddler pre k like when
three guys run into each other and allow three runs
to score. When the White Sox have now recorded the
most losses in this time ever and they've won five
of their last fifty I even forty five in their
(31:01):
last fifty games, I don't know if it's my algorithm
or it's really going viral every time. With our guy,
Kevin Brown, one of the voices of the Orioles, had said.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh, no, white socks gonna white.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Socks recalled like he's had a few great ones and
that's one of them. So, yeah, you watched the Orioles
win take that spot in the American League East.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Excuse me, America League East.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
They're playing a team from the West, the Rangers, and
then the White Sox acting like toddlers at daycare running
into each other.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, well, listen, it's not over yet, still plenty
of games ahead and blah blah blah blah blah. But man,
that one hurt last night watching intently, and and you
know why. Another reason it hurt, And I'll be perfectly
honest with you. We got the play the day coming
up at four forty five, thanks of Mawks every light where.
We'll be live tomorrow. Malalks Chevy and also hurt because
(31:53):
I was like, well, wait a minute, were going to
extra innings. I got another chance episode of a home run.
This is beautiful, and then knocks grand slam, Grand slam.
Strowman versus a Valdi. Tonight, Yankees versus or Rangers, eight
oh five, first pitch Yankees, mild favorite both guys ten
win pitchers. Yeay, I don't know. I don't even know
(32:14):
if I'm gonna watched It'm so mad. May I'll turn
it off like halfway through so I can't see Clay
Holmes going blowing again. Twenty five pitches you may not
even get in the game. The Yankees is gonna need
to score a ridiculous amount of runs just to make
just to make this thing feel okay.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
There are certain things and I'm gonna chalk this up
to just getting becoming an older sportsmenter seeing more baseball,
are seeing more like this is gonna be a thing
that Yankee fans look back on, hopefully in two to
five years when they find a prospect, when they make
a trade maybe for Joyce who pitches in the Rangers system,
or they find a big time arm and they're like,
remember in twenty twenty four where they were trotting clay
(32:49):
Homes out there is the guy who was gonna finish
this thing off.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Why were they doing that?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Why was if we had our old Wednesday why segment
we used to do it four o'clocks, This would be
the number one, two and.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Three topic today. I like clay homes. Yeah, I don't know. No,
there's no homes field advantage. I can tell you that.
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I just imagine Arena Football League or indoor football fans
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That last one there. Now I'm turning it off. No,
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Is anything real? Is anything real? If this story has
(34:19):
not been real, then I just I don't know if
I can even get out of bed anymore. That's next
Fox Sports Radio, ninety five nine, nine eighty.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's Levak and Guz on ninety five nine Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Some like the guys, I look at your life and
there's like, I'm jealous of the fact that you found
your true love so young, and you guys have been
together for so long, and and it gives me hope
because it is like, listen, you can't be easy to
live with. That woman must love you, like there's no
way she would put up with your cock con and
she's got seventy five sisters. You must love her or
(34:54):
you wouldn't have a rotating door of flower names staying
at your house chickens and driving them across the state.
You guys clearly love each other. It's like, I don't know,
love is real. A lot of days I look at
you guys, I'm like, love must be real. Oh that's
so sweet, Lovic, I don't play that for it today.
That was very nice.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
However, Oh, there are reports out there that Travis Kelcey
and Taylor Swift's entire love story was scripted, planned, and
contractually set, to the point where there is pictures online
of a contract that is a quote comprehensive media plan
(35:35):
that even involves the two breaking up on September twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
If Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift isn't real, how do
I do this? How do I just go day after
day after day boop sleep without knowing love is real?
Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift were my only hope and
it's script. Do you think she already answered the song
(36:02):
written yes in the album? So here's the deal there?
Allegedly reps for Kelsey and Swift. Quote, a spokesman for
full Scope, which is the company that represents one of them,
is telling TMC the document is quote entirely false and
fabricated and was not created, issue, or or authorized by
(36:27):
the agencies. We have engaged our legal team to initiate
proceedings against the individuals or entities responsible to the unlawful
and inglorious forgery of documents. Have you ever heard the
saying I think she doth protest too much? If I
(36:48):
had a piece of paper that said Gods and missus
gods are going to get divorced September twenty eighth, and
it was there was no it was just I wrote
it down. It was fake. Are you suing me? Or
are you laughing at me? I think we all got played.
I held out longest. I feel like I held out
(37:10):
the longest. Everybody else started believe they were really you,
and I was like, that's fake. But I eventually bought in.
This has been fake from day one.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
We gotta pull the audio here. Someone's gotta do some digging.
It won't be me, but somebody else has to. Junior,
I'm almost Levak.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You said it.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I want to say it was September twenty twenty three,
maybe October. You can find the audio of what Lavak's
talking about that you From day one were like, hmmm,
something doesn't feel right here, something doesn't seem right here.
This seems they just met in DMS. An international pop star,
a football player, just rolling the DMS.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Next thing we know, she's on. He's completely different than
everyone she's ever dated. Yeah, every one of them is
like kind of the girlish guy, you know what I mean?
Like whatever everyone was like shaved on to toe. This
guy's a sasquatch like gaz All of.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
A sudden and weekend one or weekend two that sweets
already booked for Taylor Swift, She's already meeting the parents.
This seems odd. Wait, they're in their mid thirties and
not a lot of people are pressuring them to get married.
Trust me, I have a lot of friends in my
mid thirties. That's every day for most of them. I
watched what happened at a wedding. Some things don't add up.
Do I think they enjoyed their company with each other? Probably,
(38:22):
But when.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We look back, you think, no, I don't. I don't.
I actually don't think they hooked up.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
There was a thing a while Taylor Swift's early career
about how she used to pride herself on not getting
it on and somehow that story went.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Away she got older. Anyways, Uh tends to do that.
It does tend to do that. Doesn't end Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But yeah, I want to believe, like you that it
was real that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, because they're
super popular, that they can actually fall in love and
have it appened. But if we look back on this,
it does seem like more often than not, details were scut.
Here's how we can prove it, though, And this is
the ultimate play by Taylor Swift potentially.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Uh, Travis can you.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Believe what's happening on the interwebs. They're saying, our love
isn't real. There's only one way for you to prove it.
That's the ultimate way to get an engagement, ladies, isn't
it people questioning whether you two are really in love?
What other move does Travis Kelcey have now? Either they
break up on the twenty eighth, according to this document,
or he proposes there's no other way, Levac right, like,
(39:25):
how do you prove it? How do you prove this
isn't a publicity move? Or they're just dating for both
of their careers, because career wise, it was a great
move for both of them, and not just a great
move career wise for both of them, great for the
TV networks. Somehow, Taylor Swift spots were running during NBC
and all the featured games that it was almost gotta
be a little careful. I don't think our friends here
and iHeart Media had anything to do with this, but
(39:47):
they did have quickly that inventory available.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
For Taylor Swift. Gosh conspiracy people and Reddit people.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Oh no, in fact, I just talked this out with you.
Now I'm starting to wonder if it's not real.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I mean, this is I'm just saying, here's the deal.
If if this is a real relationship and everything's fine,
why even address this stupid document because September twenty eighth
is gonna come and go, and you guys are gonna
be fine. You're still gonna be together, or your relationship
(40:23):
is gonna fall apart and you're gonna break up before that. Regardless,
it doesn't it doesn't matter because this is a fake document.
The only way I sue is if it's a real document,
and now all the money and time and effort that
I put into this rouge is now gone to waste,
because when the song comes out and when the breakup
(40:43):
happens and all these things start coming together, everyone's gonna go, eh, nope,
read about that. This is fake. So you either now
have to prolong it. You have to end it and
hope that people believe that just ended, or you sue
and hope that you get some of your financial losses
(41:05):
back from people releasing this and put.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Yourself we'd all like to be in these shoes. Put
yourself in Travis Kelcey or Taylor Swift's shoes. If this
was a real thing, All right, let's do Kelsey first. Hey,
I want to say the illuminati, but hey, somebody has
reached out to us and said, we need you to
act like you're dating one of the most well known
international pop stars for the next year to year and
a half. What's that entail? She's gonna come to your games.
(41:29):
You're gonna be more popular, More people are gonna know
you and your brother than ever before. You're gonna a
new level of fame you've never hit before. Yeah, I'm in.
I'm in Taylor Swift. Hey, you know what demo we
really haven't hit yet? Mals twenty five to fifty four.
We need to hit that by going at their wives, girlfriends, fiances.
Let's infiltrate the NFL audience. How do we do that?
(41:51):
Find somebody on the most popular team who single and
attract Travis Kelcey. Okay, let's date the Kelsey guy for
a while for about a year to year and a
half till the AUM comes out.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Does that work for you? Taylor, are not going to be?
Aren't going to be? Aren't I? Is that a word? Yeah?
I'm gonna write songs and poetry.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
I'm going to be on an international tour during that time.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Or dating perfect.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
You could promote the tour and you barely have to
see him, will fly you in from Japan and China
and everywhere else. Deal, you could see the setup for
both people works over all of us is a great arrangement.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
I mean someone say marriage is an arrangement. I mean
they say, what the first one is for love, the
second ones for money? Yeah, and I mean, like, look
at him. He just signed one hundred million dollars deal
for his podcast all this other stuff. She like you said,
like there's dads who probably were telling their daughters to
turn that crap off for forever, who are now just like, oh,
(42:46):
well that's Taylor Swift. It's okay, I'll let it go.
I think I think I see it. I just don't
know why you make I don't know why you threaten
legal actions against uh, you know, a photoshop document like that.
It's like, listen if it's slander, if it's liable, if
something in there says, you know, on the twenty eighth
(43:06):
day of September, uh, Taylor will spin kick Travis in
the face in public. And okay, hold on, no, we're good,
that's not gonna whatever. But no, this is this is
in all honesty and sincerity, it feels it feels like
you're freaking out because your plans got out and and
(43:27):
all this, all these best lead plans, all this hard
work is gonna go is is not gonna be as received?
And and God, God forbid, God forbid. If the Swifties
turn on tailor if the Swifties can't believe Taylor, what
can they believe is that even a sun in the
sky is it is love Reil. I'm not getting bracedles
(43:52):
because I don't believe my teeth are crooked anymore. I
don't believe anything crying in the Teddy bears.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
That man or that woman who may have leaked to
that document that may or may not be true. Dream Killer,
Hide find you.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And God damn unless they believe him. And then it's
who's the guy that she hates? She fought And now
it's like Taylor's version versus Scooter Bron. Scooter Bron put
this out. I think we all know that's what they
should have done. Don't sue anything like oh no, he
tries Scooter and then all the stuffs. He's like, God,
what's right? Yeah, I still trying to ruin her alive.
(44:36):
Get out of ourselves? What is wrong? Yeah? Heh, I
just I mean, I just think that might be what
sounds exactly Jimmy gay Oh scutar ski skit, skit skit,
(44:56):
How are you skit scoot man? I just imagine though,
like the high schoot hot skits good. Go West gets good,
No one loves you gets good. Get scart out, scot
is good. We have the top forward for it. I
(45:17):
don't know, Swifty, will you do that? What if there's
like seven, what if there's two? What is real anymore?
I'm gonna go cry in my room.
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