October 8, 2025 • 21 mins
Wexa adn AC reaxt to the news of Kevn Durant's debut on Wednesday evening for the Houston Rockets. What should fans expect? What should be the call for the regular season? Does Wednesday provide ANY INSIGHT to his future witht he franchise?
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Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm all messed up. I actually woke up today thinking.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
It was a Tuesday, and then I realized it was
a Wednesday after my wife did the same thing, and
then just now I made it Thursday. But yeah, that's
why I'm all messed up. I am all messed up. Listen,
I feel bad for you. I was thinking about this
on I drive to Well here's why. Let me explain.
I have never been this excited about a Rocket season since,
(02:16):
Like I said, probably the Chris Paul preseason when they
got him much ballyhooed and it paid off almost one.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
More games that year than they're gonna win this year.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They're gonna win sixty five games this year or more.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You haven't taken the over. Actually we're not allowed to
do that.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
No, But I like then the other night, and I
knew this should be the case in the preseason, and
frankly it might. I haven't decided if I think this
is gonna be the case in the regular season. Well, like, oh,
Kevin Durant's not playing, there's no real reason for him
not to play. In the first preseason game. If you
think about it, it's as healthy as he's gonna be
all season, right theoretically, unless something happened that we don't
(02:54):
know about this offseason exactly. So why wouldn't you play
in the opening preseason game.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
You're only going to play in one of them, so
you just pick.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
One, right, So why wouldn't you have picked the first
one as opposed to tonight when he will play and
he's confirmed.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
That right, Well, nobody's disputing it. I'm glad that he
was able to also confirm it personally. So we definitely, definitely,
definitely know some people are still in heat expecting to play,
right because until he plays, he's not playing or he
hasn't played. But yeah, he's gonna play it to night.
I don't think there's a whole lot of which game
it was. They're not looking at matchups, they're not looking
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at lineups for the other team, they're not looking at scheduling.
And I think it's okay in that it's also closer
to next week's game, So I really don't think there.
I can't even imagine what he may would even say
if you asked him.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I wouldn't ask him something like that. It's just because
it's minutia.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
It doesn't I don't think they put enough thought into
it to make a decision mean anything.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It does sort of feel like you go back to
that game's light like Tarry Easton was doing.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
Doesn't mean what I mean.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
No, I'll take tell you this and maybe this is
a tiny, tiny piece of information on it. Every single
player that's healthy was available for the first game except
for Kevin Durant and.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Jayshawn Tate.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Every player that's healthy is not available for tonight's game
because Tarry Easton and Steven Adams are not going to play.
So you reverse it. Now the two players potentially Jayshawn
and Kevin, are going to play while two other players
who are rotation players who you need on the court,
who you want to see are not available. Then that's
how you made your decision. It can be totally as
(04:32):
simple as that, or it can be even less than that.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
Do you it doesn't even matter at this point.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I'm not I'm gonna leave Tarry Easton out of this
because I think he's a special case. I still don't
know what happened with his leg. Like to this day,
it's like the greatest mystery. But with Steven Adams, he
was coming back from an injury, so I was like,
all right, I'll give him thattt you know, it's his
first full year back. They traded for him when he
was still injured, knowing that he wasn't going to play,
and then you know, he didn't play on back to
(04:59):
back nights. He would pick one or the other. But like,
that shouldn't be the case this year. He's will Why
because thirty one? Because you can? So You're just this
is load management and nothing else. It's you would do
it with an older player. You do have a reason
because of the injury, I mean everything. There's tons of
reasons why to do it, and there's no reason not
(05:19):
to do it because they're equipped for it. Do you
think next year they do that with Fred because he's
coming off a leg injury or do you.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Just think I mean, that's to me, that's different. They're
the same age, though, well the difference is and I
would not have done this if we were had the
same roster as last year. I think the fact that
Clint Capella is here is why you could do it
and why you will do it and why we'll see it.
I don't think it's mandatory that in every single back
to back he only plays one game, But I do
think there are a lot of times where they'll just.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Say he's gonna rest tonight.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
And first of all, planning all this out is great,
and I guarantee you the Rockets have. Yeah, it barely
matters because just like the Astros, who's going to start
in a week, Well, where's the roster spot for this
injured player that's coming back? Well you wait until five
seconds before you have to make it, because it usually
sorts itself out. I mean, is Steven Adams gonna sit
out a bunch of games while Alprey and Clint Coppell
(06:10):
are unavailable?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Probably not.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
As Tarry He's gonna sit out a bunch of games, well,
Kevin Durant or Bari Smith and a Men Thompson are unavailable.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Probably not. I mean, it's all gonna work itself out.
Like I could totally see Kevin Durant. Everything health wise
is you know, on the up and up, he plays
Oklahoma City plays Detroit, Brooklyn's in town. I'm not playing
that game. There's no sense in risking him getting injured
against a crap team.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That swept you last year like that. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I mean, yeah, all that, It's all well and good.
The point is you want to be healthy at the
right time. Is whatever they deem necessary to do that.
You can't get hurt if you don't play. That's all
there is to it. You can't hurt yourself if you're
not practicing, if you're not playing basketball. I would think
players can avoid any catastrophic injury by simply not playing.
And that does factor in because you want these players
when you get to the postseason. This team is headed
to the postseason to be healthy and whatever whatever means
(07:00):
necessary is as much as you have to play within
the constraints of the rules and the injured list and
how the NBA has changed things for resting players, sure
you'll play within those rules, but every opportunity that they
deem necessary to take to get this team to that
point as healthy as possible. I don't have any issue
at all with him going out there and doing it,
and I fully expect it all right.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
By the way, if it seems like I'm going a
little too deep on it does it does.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But I'm just preparing you for what I think will
be this season.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
I'm fully prepared.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You just people that are like, why isn't he playing tonight?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Well, what I think that question is going to be
asked of certain guys all year long.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Kevin duran at the last handful of years, is he
sitting out a bunch of games for rest?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
No, he was hurt.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
But I think, in a word, you can't avoid it,
but you're going to do everything you can to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And he was also.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
I don't think teams are just saying, you know, we
have a roster that we just we can't play they're
too brittle. Like he's not brittle, he's too good not
to have healthy. It's more about that. And do you
need eighty two games worth of thirty minutes a night
from Kevin Durant to get where you want to go?
Absolutely positively, not name every star in the league. The
same is true for every single one of them, whether
(08:13):
it's a battle for the second seed versus the third seed,
and you're saying, you want me to sit him a
game and it could cost us that, Yeah, because I
think if your team's good enough and you're the three
seed instead of the two seed because of this one night,
you can still win. Watch what happened in last year's playoffs.
In the year after, and or the year before and
the year before and the year before, the healthiest teams
win every single time, almost every single time. Whether they
(08:35):
would have won anyway is another story. Like Oklahoma City
last year, they probably were going to win regardless of
the other team's injuries, which they did see on their
way to the title and certainly saw in the NBA Finals.
They also didn't have any of their own, so that
made them even more formidable than they already were just
by simply being good at basketball. I don't know how
(08:55):
the season is gonna play out, so getting into what
they should and shouldn't do this far out like I'm not,
you know, the first week of the season.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
We haven't even gotten there yet. We're in the preseason.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Kevin Durant is probably not even gonna play that many
minutes tonight, by his own acknowledgment. It's just a matter
of trying to get out there on the court, kind
of stay where he is at health wise, and get
his first opportunity in front of the fans under the lights,
with whistles, with the real physical activity you're going to
see banging around with another NBA team, So fans and
listeners and viewers, we'll get to see it for the
(09:28):
first time tonight Toyota Center.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Yep, I'm looking forward to it. Can't wait to get
over there to take it all in. And yeah, it's very, very,
very interesting here in Houston for a number of reasons. Obviously,
the Texans are in the midst of a bye week,
but plenty of action still ongoing around the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I just love the fact that Joe Flacco is.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Not only going to be in a Bengals uniform, they've
already determined that he's better option than anybody they've got
Right now, he's starting Joe Blacko.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Why they traded for him? I mean, people are treating
it like it's this news item today. Did do you
think they orchestrated a trade to get somebody to back
up their terrible quarterback? I know Joe Flacco's awful if
you guys have listened to me since he left, since
he was replaced by Lamar Jackson, like thirty years ago,
it's been a terrible NFL quarterback essentially ever since. And
(10:21):
he keeps going from team to team to team and
playing terrible football, and the football he played this year
for Cleveland might be the most terrible football he's ever played.
But the Bengals didn't trade for him so he could
watch Jake Browning play terrible football. They signed him to
play him, and Zack Taylor said the obvious today, he said,
he's our starter. He's taking all the reps. A totally
(10:42):
unrelated football item will hit you regarding Joe Flacco when
we get to Best of X. It's a terrible place
to be. It's an awful, awful place to be. You
got a locker room full of players that I guarantee
you and I would have too. I did it here
on the show, the locker room full of players that
expected to reach the postseason this year in Cincinnati, and
I was totally behind that. I picked him as one
(11:04):
of the seven teams I thought would be in the
AFC postseason. And because of one injury, nothing else, no
other factors at all, one injury and the length of
that injury, their season. They know their season is shot
because unfortunately the backup they thought they had that could
play and has played well enough to win in the
past didn't and hasn't and is costing them the opportunity
(11:27):
to win, rather than giving them at least some kind
of opportunity to win. Totally desperate move. You took a
guy that was benched, You took a guy that can't
play and offered something to another team to get him
so he could play for you.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
And it's not the first time.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
It's not the first year that Joe Flacco has been
a poor NFL starting quarterback. Every single team that has
paid him over the years since he left Baltimore, he
has played poorly as the starter. He's done it in Denver,
He's done it in New Jersey for the Jets. He's
done it in Cleveland twice, two different times they brought
(12:02):
him in, and in between he did the very same
thing in Indianapolis. He's a bad quarterback. Everybody in the
league knows it. Even the team that is going to
start him this week knows it. But they think he's
better than the guy they had, and that's all that
matters at this point. He will try to do what
well nobody else has done it yet, and nobody might
do it all season. Beat the Packers for a second time,
beat him already he was with the Browns. Now he'll
(12:24):
have an opportunity to do it with the Cincinnati Bengals.
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(12:50):
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For the first time ever. That's pretty accurate. I think
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front running fan bases. We love to Yeah, we love
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Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh man, I was so happy last night.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Wex Carlos Rodon Rawdon rodun It doesn't really matter. He
did his thing, got shelled, much like I predicted he would.
Right after you left the show on Monday, calls my
witness and was doing his part, and the Yankee season
was going down the tubes.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It was going up in flames. It was dead.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
They were done. They were just gone gone. We're gonna
be rid of them. And then the comeback began, and
then Aaron Judge hit a home run and then it
was the greatest home run in the history of home runs.
At least that's how some people were passing it off.
I just I saw and I meant to bookmark this tweet.
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It was just basically talking about how it was like
the perfect swing. Ken Rosenthal writes an entire article on
his momentous home run, but he had to then a
perfect swing.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
He wrote a whole article on how bad he's been
in the postseason, and he was the one we were
talking about, saying that Vladimir Guerrero in two days has
more postseason moments than this guy. And then he said
it again during their pregame because he was working that
particular game, about how he's had no moments. There's nothing there.
Even though I think Yankee fans know there have been
a few. There's not enough of the big moments and
(20:26):
obviously the winning moments. They haven't won a World Series,
which it's kind of cool that that's all they care about.
That that's awesome. That means you really are in it
in that way. Yesterday's home run tied the game at six.
They don't win if they don't score more runs.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
They did.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Other people drove them in, but it was kind of important.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
I mean, no, no, no, I'm not just dissing the rest
of his postseason this year is well silly.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
No, he's hitting five hundred. Even though I mean
Speaker 7 (20:55):
He's hitting five hundred, there doesn't have to be and
even there has to be why
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For the most part, it is the eight Hardstocks Wenday
game and most of No, that's not how you sell
Come on, man, We're in.
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There trying to sell them other activities. I'm trying to
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We talk about it during the show as they listen
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Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm all messed up. I actually woke up today thinking.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
It was a Tuesday, and then I realized it was
a Wednesday after my wife did the same thing, and
then just now I made it Thursday. But yeah, that's
why I'm all messed up. I am all messed up. Listen,
I feel bad for you. I was thinking about this
on I drive to Well here's why. Let me explain.
I have never been this excited about a Rocket season since,
(02:16):
Like I said, probably the Chris Paul preseason when they
got him much ballyhooed and it paid off almost one.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
More games that year than they're gonna win this year.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They're gonna win sixty five games this year or more.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You haven't taken the over. Actually we're not allowed to
do that.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
No, But I like then the other night, and I
knew this should be the case in the preseason, and
frankly it might. I haven't decided if I think this
is gonna be the case in the regular season. Well, like, oh,
Kevin Durant's not playing, there's no real reason for him
not to play. In the first preseason game. If you
think about it, it's as healthy as he's gonna be
all season, right theoretically, unless something happened that we don't
(02:54):
know about this offseason exactly. So why wouldn't you play
in the opening preseason game.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
You're only going to play in one of them, so
you just pick.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
One, right, So why wouldn't you have picked the first
one as opposed to tonight when he will play and
he's confirmed.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
That right, Well, nobody's disputing it. I'm glad that he
was able to also confirm it personally. So we definitely, definitely,
definitely know some people are still in heat expecting to play,
right because until he plays, he's not playing or he
hasn't played. But yeah, he's gonna play it to night.
I don't think there's a whole lot of which game
it was. They're not looking at matchups, they're not looking
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at lineups for the other team, they're not looking at scheduling.
And I think it's okay in that it's also closer
to next week's game, So I really don't think there.
I can't even imagine what he may would even say
if you asked him.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I wouldn't ask him something like that. It's just because
it's minutia.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
It doesn't I don't think they put enough thought into
it to make a decision mean anything.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It does sort of feel like you go back to
that game's light like Tarry Easton was doing.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
Doesn't mean what I mean.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
No, I'll take tell you this and maybe this is
a tiny, tiny piece of information on it. Every single
player that's healthy was available for the first game except
for Kevin Durant and.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Jayshawn Tate.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Every player that's healthy is not available for tonight's game
because Tarry Easton and Steven Adams are not going to play.
So you reverse it. Now the two players potentially Jayshawn
and Kevin, are going to play while two other players
who are rotation players who you need on the court,
who you want to see are not available. Then that's
how you made your decision. It can be totally as
(04:32):
simple as that, or it can be even less than that.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
Do you it doesn't even matter at this point.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I'm not I'm gonna leave Tarry Easton out of this
because I think he's a special case. I still don't
know what happened with his leg. Like to this day,
it's like the greatest mystery. But with Steven Adams, he
was coming back from an injury, so I was like,
all right, I'll give him thattt you know, it's his
first full year back. They traded for him when he
was still injured, knowing that he wasn't going to play,
and then you know, he didn't play on back to
(04:59):
back nights. He would pick one or the other. But like,
that shouldn't be the case this year. He's will Why
because thirty one? Because you can? So You're just this
is load management and nothing else. It's you would do
it with an older player. You do have a reason
because of the injury, I mean everything. There's tons of
reasons why to do it, and there's no reason not
(05:19):
to do it because they're equipped for it. Do you
think next year they do that with Fred because he's
coming off a leg injury or do you.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Just think I mean, that's to me, that's different. They're
the same age, though, well the difference is and I
would not have done this if we were had the
same roster as last year. I think the fact that
Clint Capella is here is why you could do it
and why you will do it and why we'll see it.
I don't think it's mandatory that in every single back
to back he only plays one game, But I do
think there are a lot of times where they'll just.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Say he's gonna rest tonight.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
And first of all, planning all this out is great,
and I guarantee you the Rockets have. Yeah, it barely
matters because just like the Astros, who's going to start
in a week, Well, where's the roster spot for this
injured player that's coming back? Well you wait until five
seconds before you have to make it, because it usually
sorts itself out. I mean, is Steven Adams gonna sit
out a bunch of games while Alprey and Clint Coppell
(06:10):
are unavailable?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Probably not.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
As Tarry He's gonna sit out a bunch of games, well,
Kevin Durant or Bari Smith and a Men Thompson are unavailable.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Probably not. I mean, it's all gonna work itself out.
Like I could totally see Kevin Durant. Everything health wise
is you know, on the up and up, he plays
Oklahoma City plays Detroit, Brooklyn's in town. I'm not playing
that game. There's no sense in risking him getting injured
against a crap team.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That swept you last year like that. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I mean, yeah, all that, It's all well and good.
The point is you want to be healthy at the
right time. Is whatever they deem necessary to do that.
You can't get hurt if you don't play. That's all
there is to it. You can't hurt yourself if you're
not practicing, if you're not playing basketball. I would think
players can avoid any catastrophic injury by simply not playing.
And that does factor in because you want these players
when you get to the postseason. This team is headed
to the postseason to be healthy and whatever whatever means
(07:00):
necessary is as much as you have to play within
the constraints of the rules and the injured list and
how the NBA has changed things for resting players, sure
you'll play within those rules, but every opportunity that they
deem necessary to take to get this team to that
point as healthy as possible. I don't have any issue
at all with him going out there and doing it,
and I fully expect it all right.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
By the way, if it seems like I'm going a
little too deep on it does it does.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But I'm just preparing you for what I think will
be this season.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
I'm fully prepared.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You just people that are like, why isn't he playing tonight?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Well, what I think that question is going to be
asked of certain guys all year long.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Kevin duran at the last handful of years, is he
sitting out a bunch of games for rest?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
No, he was hurt.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
But I think, in a word, you can't avoid it,
but you're going to do everything you can to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And he was also.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
I don't think teams are just saying, you know, we
have a roster that we just we can't play they're
too brittle. Like he's not brittle, he's too good not
to have healthy. It's more about that. And do you
need eighty two games worth of thirty minutes a night
from Kevin Durant to get where you want to go?
Absolutely positively, not name every star in the league. The
same is true for every single one of them, whether
(08:13):
it's a battle for the second seed versus the third seed,
and you're saying, you want me to sit him a
game and it could cost us that, Yeah, because I
think if your team's good enough and you're the three
seed instead of the two seed because of this one night,
you can still win. Watch what happened in last year's playoffs.
In the year after, and or the year before and
the year before and the year before, the healthiest teams
win every single time, almost every single time. Whether they
(08:35):
would have won anyway is another story. Like Oklahoma City
last year, they probably were going to win regardless of
the other team's injuries, which they did see on their
way to the title and certainly saw in the NBA Finals.
They also didn't have any of their own, so that
made them even more formidable than they already were just
by simply being good at basketball. I don't know how
(08:55):
the season is gonna play out, so getting into what
they should and shouldn't do this far out like I'm not,
you know, the first week of the season.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
We haven't even gotten there yet. We're in the preseason.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Kevin Durant is probably not even gonna play that many
minutes tonight, by his own acknowledgment. It's just a matter
of trying to get out there on the court, kind
of stay where he is at health wise, and get
his first opportunity in front of the fans under the lights,
with whistles, with the real physical activity you're going to
see banging around with another NBA team, So fans and
listeners and viewers, we'll get to see it for the
(09:28):
first time tonight Toyota Center.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Yep, I'm looking forward to it. Can't wait to get
over there to take it all in. And yeah, it's very, very,
very interesting here in Houston for a number of reasons. Obviously,
the Texans are in the midst of a bye week,
but plenty of action still ongoing around the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I just love the fact that Joe Flacco is.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Not only going to be in a Bengals uniform, they've
already determined that he's better option than anybody they've got
Right now, he's starting Joe Blacko.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Why they traded for him? I mean, people are treating
it like it's this news item today. Did do you
think they orchestrated a trade to get somebody to back
up their terrible quarterback? I know Joe Flacco's awful if
you guys have listened to me since he left, since
he was replaced by Lamar Jackson, like thirty years ago,
it's been a terrible NFL quarterback essentially ever since. And
(10:21):
he keeps going from team to team to team and
playing terrible football, and the football he played this year
for Cleveland might be the most terrible football he's ever played.
But the Bengals didn't trade for him so he could
watch Jake Browning play terrible football. They signed him to
play him, and Zack Taylor said the obvious today, he said,
he's our starter. He's taking all the reps. A totally
(10:42):
unrelated football item will hit you regarding Joe Flacco when
we get to Best of X. It's a terrible place
to be. It's an awful, awful place to be. You
got a locker room full of players that I guarantee
you and I would have too. I did it here
on the show, the locker room full of players that
expected to reach the postseason this year in Cincinnati, and
I was totally behind that. I picked him as one
(11:04):
of the seven teams I thought would be in the
AFC postseason. And because of one injury, nothing else, no
other factors at all, one injury and the length of
that injury, their season. They know their season is shot
because unfortunately the backup they thought they had that could
play and has played well enough to win in the
past didn't and hasn't and is costing them the opportunity
(11:27):
to win, rather than giving them at least some kind
of opportunity to win. Totally desperate move. You took a
guy that was benched, You took a guy that can't
play and offered something to another team to get him
so he could play for you.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
And it's not the first time.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
It's not the first year that Joe Flacco has been
a poor NFL starting quarterback. Every single team that has
paid him over the years since he left Baltimore, he
has played poorly as the starter. He's done it in Denver,
He's done it in New Jersey for the Jets. He's
done it in Cleveland twice, two different times they brought
(12:02):
him in, and in between he did the very same
thing in Indianapolis. He's a bad quarterback. Everybody in the
league knows it. Even the team that is going to
start him this week knows it. But they think he's
better than the guy they had, and that's all that
matters at this point. He will try to do what
well nobody else has done it yet, and nobody might
do it all season. Beat the Packers for a second time,
beat him already he was with the Browns. Now he'll
(12:24):
have an opportunity to do it with the Cincinnati Bengals.
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we need to get something that you'll love, because there's
already imaging for it. The Yankees nausea is in full
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got it in in large fashion because they're superstar player
that they pay a bunch of money to finally showed
(12:50):
up in the postseason.
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For the first time ever. That's pretty accurate. I think
it's pretty accurate. I know you do.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Of course I do, because it is. We'll discuss when
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Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh man, I was so happy last night.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Wex Carlos Rodon Rawdon rodun It doesn't really matter. He
did his thing, got shelled, much like I predicted he would.
Right after you left the show on Monday, calls my
witness and was doing his part, and the Yankee season
was going down the tubes.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It was going up in flames. It was dead.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
They were done. They were just gone gone. We're gonna
be rid of them. And then the comeback began, and
then Aaron Judge hit a home run and then it
was the greatest home run in the history of home runs.
At least that's how some people were passing it off.
I just I saw and I meant to bookmark this tweet.
(19:53):
It was just basically talking about how it was like
the perfect swing. Ken Rosenthal writes an entire article on
his momentous home run, but he had to then a
perfect swing.
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He wrote a whole article on how bad he's been
in the postseason, and he was the one we were
talking about, saying that Vladimir Guerrero in two days has
more postseason moments than this guy. And then he said
it again during their pregame because he was working that
particular game, about how he's had no moments. There's nothing there.
Even though I think Yankee fans know there have been
a few. There's not enough of the big moments and
(20:26):
obviously the winning moments. They haven't won a World Series,
which it's kind of cool that that's all they care about.
That that's awesome. That means you really are in it
in that way. Yesterday's home run tied the game at six.
They don't win if they don't score more runs.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
They did.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Other people drove them in, but it was kind of important.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
I mean, no, no, no, I'm not just dissing the rest
of his postseason this year is well silly.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
No, he's hitting five hundred. Even though I mean
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He's hitting five hundred, there doesn't have to be and
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