May 21, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, here we go into our number two of
the program. Thank you for spending your afternoon with us.
We've got some NFL stuff to get to. We're going
to get to Nixon pacers. We've got some should you
be on the job or should you not be on
the job discussion to get to the Bill Belichick. Jordan
Hudson's saga continues, and an ex athlete is in trouble
(00:23):
with the law in a foreign country. It's a Locked
Up Abroad episode from that GEO. Ever see that show
that GEU Yeah, well that's that Geo. It's a channel,
but the show is called Locked Up Abroad. No, it's
basically scaring you to death. Absolutely, you should never do
anything in a foreign country that you think you might
have to spend more time with than you would otherwise
want to.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, So basically to a certain extent, like what was
it A and E scared straight where they were?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This, Yeah, this is even worse because basically it's stories
of people that have tried to smuggle contraband usually drugs,
from from one country to the next.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Excident really hasn't turned out that well for them.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, Well, it's a good thing that I don't
have to worry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Andy, Well, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Just if it ever crosses your mind, the answer should
be immediately No.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The only thing that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I would ever potentially smuggle would at this point be
five hour energies red bulls.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Those are probably sold on the shelf up there, so
that would that would be it. If I ever go
to Scotland with you, they're going to be like, what
do you what is that?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What are you claiming?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, if if it's nothing that is contrabanded or you know,
if you you can't there's certain things you can't bring
into foreign countries because they don't want it to concaminate
the eco ecosystem, Like you can't bring yeah, you can.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Why they don't want That's why they don't want your
bywater over there. That's they can.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I can bring as much as I can fit into
fifty and as long as it's under fifty pounds, I
don't have to pay extra for it. I can't bring
that much because I have to pack a lot of
different clothes. I'm there for twelve days and it's going
to be cold and wet most of the days there.
But I don't want to buy them I have all
the clothes in the world I need right here. I
don't need to other than the one or two that
I'm gonna have that'll have a logo on him. That's
(02:07):
I'm not a big souvenir person. I'll buy three or
four things, maybe five, like shirts, pull over his hat,
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But I'm not dropping.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's not like I'm going to the Master's and spending
fifteen hundred dollars or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm always a shot glass guy. I'm a shotgup.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Like whenever I have friends or or myself go somewhere,
I'm like, hey, can you get me a shot glass?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And all.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, A lot of people like the like that as
a hobby. What's the what's the where'd that come from?
Why'd you Is that just something you said?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, I think that's just something that because my dad,
when he worked at Kelly Air Force Base, he would
go TDY a lot, which was bagically he was traveling
because he was a jet jet He was a jet
crash investigator or airplane crash investigator for Kelly, and he
would go to all different states or whatever, and then
(02:56):
just I think was wound up.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Would do you ever do you ever put beverage in
them and use them?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No, I don't know. They're they're collectible things. Okay, Basically
they just sit on top of the bar and you know, hey,
another one.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, all right, I'll bring you a shotglass so I can
find one that's not thirty pounds or under.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Fine, find me one that's like very unorthodox, right, but
the cool, like the very cool looking ones.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
There you go. All right.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
The NFL today said the tush push could remain, So
that's gonna that's gonna happen. Ironically, the teams that voted
against are for it. Are the teams that said they
voted for it are teams that don't play Philadelphia this year.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right, it's the opposite teams that the teams that voted
against it against it to keep the tush push or
all teams that will not be playing in.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The Philadelphia in surprised. Well, here's an idea. Figure out
how to defend it. I'm sure that there's some defensive
guru somewhere that can figure that out. All right, flag
football is going to be in the Olympics. It's gonna
be five on five and as they said in the
first hour, it's gonna You're going to get a lot
of people that want to do this, and that's fine.
I hope that they do it and they have fun
(04:05):
and they get to enjoy the Olympic experience. The Olympics
are something that I think brings not only sports fans,
but non sports fans together. There's a lot of people
that don't watch football, basketball, and baseball that when the
Olympics roll around and Simone Biles is doing her thing,
or Michael Phelps is doing his thing, or Katie Ldecki
in the pool and those kinds that they get a
(04:27):
sense of a national pride and they want to watch
those teams succeed. When Hussein Bolt was running unbelievable one
hundred meter races for Jamaica, we watched because it was unique.
But we don't really care, and for the three and
a half years leading up to the Olympics. We care
during the Olympics, but I am concerned that we are
going to get some injuries from this, and unfortunately it's
(04:49):
going to be. It's going to be it's going to
be pretty devastating for some teams.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I think, well, like when we talked about with Doc
last Hour, is these guys are no longer going to
be in pads with restrictions, so they're going to be
even faster. And even though they have added it to
the Pro Bowl, look at the way that some of
these guys compete in the Pro Bowl. I mean, you
see guys going up for interceptions and they come down
(05:15):
and you're like, ooh, I mean, now you're adding on
top of that a potential for a gold medal, and
we know how big these guys do.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
They want, we want that gold medal. That gold medal
is important. And if you're if you're an athlete, not
that I think there's any in the NFL, but if
you're an athlete on a team or an individual competition
and it's a country that is like Korea that has
a mandatory military service, your exemption is that metal. You
(05:46):
win one of those medals, you don't have to do it.
And Tom Kim is a PGA Tour golfer that is
looking at the twenty twenty eight Olympics says, I got
to finish in the top three, so I don't have
to do the military service. He's got twenty eight and
thirty two to give it a chance, because after that
he'll age to the point where.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He actually has to go do it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I just I understand that it's the NFL's way of
trying to expand the game even more, and even to
a certain extent, I've said this that I think it's
an American ego thing to where it's like, hey, here's
another event.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Our sport's better than yours.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, to where we can flex on the rest of
the world that hey, we've got another gold medal. I
just I don't see how this is going to be
competitive anyway whatsoever. To where the US this is basically
the ninety two dream Team. Until you know, I don't
even know. I have no clue how any other country
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in the world is going to be able to compete.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, the only thing that's going to happen is we
have to go back and look at the lineage of
athletes who do not make the American team, and there's
got to be somebody that probably has some tie to
some of the country. I mean, I can remember when
did Grigoy has played for the Yankees. He played for
the Netherlands in the Olympics. He was from Currasow and
apparently Caurrasow in the Netherlands one owns the or the
(07:02):
Netherlands owns Cursow or did at some point and that's
where the heritage came in, so we got to play
for that team. They just want to be in the
Olympic Games, all right. Playoff seating is not going to change.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it. As long
as we're going to have divisions and as long as
divisional games are going to be played in December to
determine who wins divisions that I think division championship should
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be given home field advantage for the first game and
be in the top four seeds. There was a proposal
by Detroit to make teams that had like for example,
when Tampa Bay got a top seed last year, there
were teams with better records that should have in their
mind gotten the four seed in the home game instead
of it being the division winner. But as long as
(07:43):
we're going to keep track of division wins and winning
a division is going to get you in the playoffs, I.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Think they deserve a top four seat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
As much as as much as there's certain divisions that
for quite some time they're bad, I mean, there still
has to be a winner, and you should still regardless
if you're in the worst division possible.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If you win that division, you're entitled to it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
At some point that division is going to rebound and
be good there. It's always going to be sick lickle
every team. Then that one division is not always going
to be bad. All right, I want to get to this.
This is off football topic and back to baseball topic,
but it kind of kind of gives you an idea
of where we're at in the world. Alex Cora manages
the Boston Red Sox, and I believe it was on
Monday night that he and his daughter was also graduating
(08:32):
from high school, her graduation college from by okay, from college.
The graduation ceremony was that afternoon, but they had planned
a big family event where everybody would be there for
the graduation, and I'm sure there was a big family
graduation party back at the Chorus House afterwards. So Alex
Cora missed the game in uh and did not they
(08:53):
had the bench coach manage the game for Boston. Now
I'm okay with him missing the game for the graduation.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I always say graduations, birth of your child, h and
family emergency.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Family emergencies.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You can plan the funerals and the weddings are around
the schedule. Sorry, I can't make your wedding if it's
on a game night.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I mean, the wedding I can understand. But the funeral,
the funeral you can plan that. You can plan that too.
The funeral partners open twenty four to seven. You can
pick a day that you have an off day to
go to schedule that you want me to be there,
that's when we're going to have to do it. But
graduation is a special thing for your kids. Obviously, the
birth of your child. If you've never seen it, it's
(09:36):
the most amazing thing that's ever I've ever seen in
the world. And uh, and then tragedies are or family emergencies.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Those are the three things.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Since you get a pass not to go if you're
a manager or a player, have at it. But the
one thing that I will say, and there's a lot
of people in Boston that think that Alex had enough
time to go to the graduation and then show up
at the game, because it was hours later. Graduation was
like two or three in the afternoon. Ten it was
ten and ten in the morning morning, So a coach,
(10:09):
it was over with at one or two maybe right,
even if it's a three hour graduation over with it one,
So okay, games at seven six point thirty whenever they play.
He had plenty of time to get to the ballpark,
but he wanted to be part of the graduation party.
All right, here's what I think he should have done.
Go to the graduation, Go to the first part of
the party, have somebody that can drive you, and you're
(10:31):
Alex Korra, you can get a police escort to Fenway
and at you know, tell the bench coach here's the
lineup for tonight, because AI probably decided what it was
before you had had a choice in it any way.
And i'llbeit the game at six o'clock, and you get
to the game at six o'clock, You play the game,
and then you're going to go back to the rest
of the party, because that party is going to last
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all night, or at least it probably is. I understand
why he missed, but this is the world that we
live in now, to where personal things and family life,
as it probably should have been all along is just
as are more important than the game. What did Pop
do when Robert Rory's daughter was sick? Get out of here,
(11:12):
go home. Miss You have a responsibility. And Robert Rory's
daughter died a few years after she was sick, and
so that time that Pop gave him to be with
him was really special. And Pop recognized the fact we
just played basketball. You're gonna get paid if you miss
the game or not or not miss the game, and
you need to be with your family. I've had coach
(11:33):
I've seen coaches that well. When Brooks Thompson coached at UTSA,
one of the assistant coach's mother.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Was sick and was in her last days of life.
You need to go.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
If you come back here before her funeral, you're fired.
Go see her. I will fire you if you come
back beforehand. And there was a there was gonna It
turned out that the funeral was going to be several
days after the death. So he came back and then
went to the funeral. But he wanted the assistant coach
to be with his mom in the last few minutes.
(12:05):
I totally understand that, and I totally get that, uh,
and I'm I'm sure he wanted just to hang out
with the family and be a part of that celebration.
I'm not going to condemn Alex Cora for for missing
the game. It's one game in May, and they can
probably make that up somewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Did they win Monday Night? I don't even know. I
think they did, so, yeah, they they don't want to.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They that was that the night that soda hot Dog
the home run off the Green Monster and it turned
out to be a single. So anyway, they won the game,
no harm, no foul. But sports, and as players and managers,
it's a different responsibility. There has to be really extenuating
circumstances for you to take a day off. If you're
sick with a contagious disease. Stay home. If you're sick
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just because you don't feel good and you're not going
to spread germs anybody, you got to get your butt
to the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
A lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wake up and they don't want they don't want to
go to work because they don't feel well. But if
they're not gonna make somebody else sick, they don't go
or they should go now. In other jobs, it's okay,
I don't feel like performing today, I can't perform sick day,
I'm out. But I think sports has a different thing
to it, and I think Alex Coray knows that I'm
not over the top like the like the Boston media
(13:20):
is that he should have been at the game. But
I would think that he could have done both that day,
and he probably would have missed about four hours of
the party, but he would have been there for two
or three of it in the beginning and probably two
or three of it at the end.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean, for me, the biggest thing is we're talking
about a game to where it's in May. The Boston
Red Sox right now are twenty five and twenty five.
It's not as if they're the worst. It's not as
if they're the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, but if they are, that'd be even a bigger
reason to miss the game.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah. I don't want to put up with you guys
anymore that I have to.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But this is just this just leads into more of
the I guess the snobbiness and obnoxiousness that is Boston
Red Sox fans.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, it's Boston Red Sox media.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
In this case, it's coming from a couple of top
show hosts up there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's one game in May.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Let's not crucify the guy, even though he is a cheater.
Let's not crucify the guy for trying to for going
to celebrate something with his daughter. It's something that and
I have no idea the backstory on this. Maybe this
is the first uh, first person in the family to
graduate college.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I have no clue. I don't know. Don't tell you
whether it is or is it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's the first time she's graduating from college and it's
a big deal exactly, And not.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That I wish ill will. But who's to say that
today or the day after car accident or something.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You know you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Want you want to be there for special moments and
not the special moment, And not that I you know,
I I've been fortunate, I guess, and that my kids
graduations never coincided with a game. But I missed a
ton of birthdays and anniversaries and things at school because
I got game.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Sorry, I gotta go. But birth of the child, tragic event, graduation.
Those are the three quarterstones. I go about to Nick
Nick Saban. When Nick Saban's daughter got married, and she
did it in August before the season began, and he
was talking to Dan Patrick, and he said, what would
you do if your daughter wanted a September, October and
November wedding? I said, He said, does she want me
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to pay for it. Does she want me to be there?
It's not going to be in those mouths exactly. We
can schedule around that. Something I learned about Andy Everett.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Don't die somewhere in the fall, because he will not
attend your funeral at that.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You have to schedule it around the right.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
If you're gonna kick the bucket, make sure it's it's
mid mid mid spring, summer, just summer.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right, let's talk about the Dixon Pacers next. It's
the Andy Everett Show on the ticket
All right, here we go into our number two of
the program. Thank you for spending your afternoon with us.
We've got some NFL stuff to get to. We're going
to get to Nixon pacers. We've got some should you
be on the job or should you not be on
the job discussion to get to the Bill Belichick. Jordan
Hudson's saga continues, and an ex athlete is in trouble
(00:23):
with the law in a foreign country. It's a Locked
Up Abroad episode from that GEO. Ever see that show
that GEU Yeah, well that's that Geo. It's a channel,
but the show is called Locked Up Abroad. No, it's
basically scaring you to death. Absolutely, you should never do
anything in a foreign country that you think you might
have to spend more time with than you would otherwise
want to.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, So basically to a certain extent, like what was
it A and E scared straight where they were?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This, Yeah, this is even worse because basically it's stories
of people that have tried to smuggle contraband usually drugs,
from from one country to the next.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Excident really hasn't turned out that well for them.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, Well, it's a good thing that I don't
have to worry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Andy, Well, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Just if it ever crosses your mind, the answer should
be immediately No.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The only thing that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I would ever potentially smuggle would at this point be
five hour energies red bulls.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Those are probably sold on the shelf up there, so
that would that would be it. If I ever go
to Scotland with you, they're going to be like, what
do you what is that?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What are you claiming?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, if if it's nothing that is contrabanded or you know,
if you you can't there's certain things you can't bring
into foreign countries because they don't want it to concaminate
the eco ecosystem, Like you can't bring yeah, you can.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Why they don't want That's why they don't want your
bywater over there. That's they can.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I can bring as much as I can fit into
fifty and as long as it's under fifty pounds, I
don't have to pay extra for it. I can't bring
that much because I have to pack a lot of
different clothes. I'm there for twelve days and it's going
to be cold and wet most of the days there.
But I don't want to buy them I have all
the clothes in the world I need right here. I
don't need to other than the one or two that
I'm gonna have that'll have a logo on him. That's
(02:07):
I'm not a big souvenir person. I'll buy three or
four things, maybe five, like shirts, pull over his hat,
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But I'm not dropping.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's not like I'm going to the Master's and spending
fifteen hundred dollars or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm always a shot glass guy. I'm a shotgup.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Like whenever I have friends or or myself go somewhere,
I'm like, hey, can you get me a shot glass?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And all.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, A lot of people like the like that as
a hobby. What's the what's the where'd that come from?
Why'd you Is that just something you said?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, I think that's just something that because my dad,
when he worked at Kelly Air Force Base, he would
go TDY a lot, which was bagically he was traveling
because he was a jet jet He was a jet
crash investigator or airplane crash investigator for Kelly, and he
would go to all different states or whatever, and then
(02:56):
just I think was wound up.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Would do you ever do you ever put beverage in
them and use them?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No, I don't know. They're they're collectible things. Okay, Basically
they just sit on top of the bar and you know, hey,
another one.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, all right, I'll bring you a shotglass so I can
find one that's not thirty pounds or under.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Fine, find me one that's like very unorthodox, right, but
the cool, like the very cool looking ones.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
There you go. All right.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
The NFL today said the tush push could remain, So
that's gonna that's gonna happen. Ironically, the teams that voted
against are for it. Are the teams that said they
voted for it are teams that don't play Philadelphia this year.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right, it's the opposite teams that the teams that voted
against it against it to keep the tush push or
all teams that will not be playing in.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The Philadelphia in surprised. Well, here's an idea. Figure out
how to defend it. I'm sure that there's some defensive
guru somewhere that can figure that out. All right, flag
football is going to be in the Olympics. It's gonna
be five on five and as they said in the
first hour, it's gonna You're going to get a lot
of people that want to do this, and that's fine.
I hope that they do it and they have fun
(04:05):
and they get to enjoy the Olympic experience. The Olympics
are something that I think brings not only sports fans,
but non sports fans together. There's a lot of people
that don't watch football, basketball, and baseball that when the
Olympics roll around and Simone Biles is doing her thing,
or Michael Phelps is doing his thing, or Katie Ldecki
in the pool and those kinds that they get a
(04:27):
sense of a national pride and they want to watch
those teams succeed. When Hussein Bolt was running unbelievable one
hundred meter races for Jamaica, we watched because it was unique.
But we don't really care, and for the three and
a half years leading up to the Olympics. We care
during the Olympics, but I am concerned that we are
going to get some injuries from this, and unfortunately it's
(04:49):
going to be. It's going to be it's going to
be pretty devastating for some teams.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I think, well, like when we talked about with Doc
last Hour, is these guys are no longer going to
be in pads with restrictions, so they're going to be
even faster. And even though they have added it to
the Pro Bowl, look at the way that some of
these guys compete in the Pro Bowl. I mean, you
see guys going up for interceptions and they come down
(05:15):
and you're like, ooh, I mean, now you're adding on
top of that a potential for a gold medal, and
we know how big these guys do.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
They want, we want that gold medal. That gold medal
is important. And if you're if you're an athlete, not
that I think there's any in the NFL, but if
you're an athlete on a team or an individual competition
and it's a country that is like Korea that has
a mandatory military service, your exemption is that metal. You
(05:46):
win one of those medals, you don't have to do it.
And Tom Kim is a PGA Tour golfer that is
looking at the twenty twenty eight Olympics says, I got
to finish in the top three, so I don't have
to do the military service. He's got twenty eight and
thirty two to give it a chance, because after that
he'll age to the point where.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He actually has to go do it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I just I understand that it's the NFL's way of
trying to expand the game even more, and even to
a certain extent, I've said this that I think it's
an American ego thing to where it's like, hey, here's
another event.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Our sport's better than yours.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, to where we can flex on the rest of
the world that hey, we've got another gold medal. I
just I don't see how this is going to be
competitive anyway whatsoever. To where the US this is basically
the ninety two dream Team. Until you know, I don't
even know. I have no clue how any other country
(06:38):
in the world is going to be able to compete.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, the only thing that's going to happen is we
have to go back and look at the lineage of
athletes who do not make the American team, and there's
got to be somebody that probably has some tie to
some of the country. I mean, I can remember when
did Grigoy has played for the Yankees. He played for
the Netherlands in the Olympics. He was from Currasow and
apparently Caurrasow in the Netherlands one owns the or the
(07:02):
Netherlands owns Cursow or did at some point and that's
where the heritage came in, so we got to play
for that team. They just want to be in the
Olympic Games, all right. Playoff seating is not going to change.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it. As long
as we're going to have divisions and as long as
divisional games are going to be played in December to
determine who wins divisions that I think division championship should
(07:23):
be given home field advantage for the first game and
be in the top four seeds. There was a proposal
by Detroit to make teams that had like for example,
when Tampa Bay got a top seed last year, there
were teams with better records that should have in their
mind gotten the four seed in the home game instead
of it being the division winner. But as long as
(07:43):
we're going to keep track of division wins and winning
a division is going to get you in the playoffs, I.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Think they deserve a top four seat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
As much as as much as there's certain divisions that
for quite some time they're bad, I mean, there still
has to be a winner, and you should still regardless
if you're in the worst division possible.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If you win that division, you're entitled to it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
At some point that division is going to rebound and
be good there. It's always going to be sick lickle
every team. Then that one division is not always going
to be bad. All right, I want to get to this.
This is off football topic and back to baseball topic,
but it kind of kind of gives you an idea
of where we're at in the world. Alex Cora manages
the Boston Red Sox, and I believe it was on
Monday night that he and his daughter was also graduating
(08:32):
from high school, her graduation college from by okay, from college.
The graduation ceremony was that afternoon, but they had planned
a big family event where everybody would be there for
the graduation, and I'm sure there was a big family
graduation party back at the Chorus House afterwards. So Alex
Cora missed the game in uh and did not they
(08:53):
had the bench coach manage the game for Boston. Now
I'm okay with him missing the game for the graduation.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I always say graduations, birth of your child, h and
family emergency.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Family emergencies.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You can plan the funerals and the weddings are around
the schedule. Sorry, I can't make your wedding if it's
on a game night.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I mean, the wedding I can understand. But the funeral,
the funeral you can plan that. You can plan that too.
The funeral partners open twenty four to seven. You can
pick a day that you have an off day to
go to schedule that you want me to be there,
that's when we're going to have to do it. But
graduation is a special thing for your kids. Obviously, the
birth of your child. If you've never seen it, it's
(09:36):
the most amazing thing that's ever I've ever seen in
the world. And uh, and then tragedies are or family emergencies.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Those are the three things.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Since you get a pass not to go if you're
a manager or a player, have at it. But the
one thing that I will say, and there's a lot
of people in Boston that think that Alex had enough
time to go to the graduation and then show up
at the game, because it was hours later. Graduation was
like two or three in the afternoon. Ten it was
ten and ten in the morning morning, So a coach,
(10:09):
it was over with at one or two maybe right,
even if it's a three hour graduation over with it one,
So okay, games at seven six point thirty whenever they play.
He had plenty of time to get to the ballpark,
but he wanted to be part of the graduation party.
All right, here's what I think he should have done.
Go to the graduation, Go to the first part of
the party, have somebody that can drive you, and you're
(10:31):
Alex Korra, you can get a police escort to Fenway
and at you know, tell the bench coach here's the
lineup for tonight, because AI probably decided what it was
before you had had a choice in it any way.
And i'llbeit the game at six o'clock, and you get
to the game at six o'clock, You play the game,
and then you're going to go back to the rest
of the party, because that party is going to last
(10:51):
all night, or at least it probably is. I understand
why he missed, but this is the world that we
live in now, to where personal things and family life,
as it probably should have been all along is just
as are more important than the game. What did Pop
do when Robert Rory's daughter was sick? Get out of here,
(11:12):
go home. Miss You have a responsibility. And Robert Rory's
daughter died a few years after she was sick, and
so that time that Pop gave him to be with
him was really special. And Pop recognized the fact we
just played basketball. You're gonna get paid if you miss
the game or not or not miss the game, and
you need to be with your family. I've had coach
(11:33):
I've seen coaches that well. When Brooks Thompson coached at UTSA,
one of the assistant coach's mother.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Was sick and was in her last days of life.
You need to go.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
If you come back here before her funeral, you're fired.
Go see her. I will fire you if you come
back beforehand. And there was a there was gonna It
turned out that the funeral was going to be several
days after the death. So he came back and then
went to the funeral. But he wanted the assistant coach
to be with his mom in the last few minutes.
(12:05):
I totally understand that, and I totally get that, uh,
and I'm I'm sure he wanted just to hang out
with the family and be a part of that celebration.
I'm not going to condemn Alex Cora for for missing
the game. It's one game in May, and they can
probably make that up somewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Did they win Monday Night? I don't even know. I
think they did, so, yeah, they they don't want to.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They that was that the night that soda hot Dog
the home run off the Green Monster and it turned
out to be a single. So anyway, they won the game,
no harm, no foul. But sports, and as players and managers,
it's a different responsibility. There has to be really extenuating
circumstances for you to take a day off. If you're
sick with a contagious disease. Stay home. If you're sick
(12:51):
just because you don't feel good and you're not going
to spread germs anybody, you got to get your butt
to the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
A lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wake up and they don't want they don't want to
go to work because they don't feel well. But if
they're not gonna make somebody else sick, they don't go
or they should go now. In other jobs, it's okay,
I don't feel like performing today, I can't perform sick day,
I'm out. But I think sports has a different thing
to it, and I think Alex Coray knows that I'm
not over the top like the like the Boston media
(13:20):
is that he should have been at the game. But
I would think that he could have done both that day,
and he probably would have missed about four hours of
the party, but he would have been there for two
or three of it in the beginning and probably two
or three of it at the end.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean, for me, the biggest thing is we're talking
about a game to where it's in May. The Boston
Red Sox right now are twenty five and twenty five.
It's not as if they're the worst. It's not as
if they're the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, but if they are, that'd be even a bigger
reason to miss the game.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah. I don't want to put up with you guys
anymore that I have to.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But this is just this just leads into more of
the I guess the snobbiness and obnoxiousness that is Boston
Red Sox fans.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, it's Boston Red Sox media.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
In this case, it's coming from a couple of top
show hosts up there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's one game in May.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Let's not crucify the guy, even though he is a cheater.
Let's not crucify the guy for trying to for going
to celebrate something with his daughter. It's something that and
I have no idea the backstory on this. Maybe this
is the first uh, first person in the family to
graduate college.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I have no clue. I don't know. Don't tell you
whether it is or is it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's the first time she's graduating from college and it's
a big deal exactly, And not.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That I wish ill will. But who's to say that
today or the day after car accident or something.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You know you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Want you want to be there for special moments and
not the special moment, And not that I you know,
I I've been fortunate, I guess, and that my kids
graduations never coincided with a game. But I missed a
ton of birthdays and anniversaries and things at school because
I got game.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Sorry, I gotta go. But birth of the child, tragic event, graduation.
Those are the three quarterstones. I go about to Nick
Nick Saban. When Nick Saban's daughter got married, and she
did it in August before the season began, and he
was talking to Dan Patrick, and he said, what would
you do if your daughter wanted a September, October and
November wedding? I said, He said, does she want me
(15:23):
to pay for it. Does she want me to be there?
It's not going to be in those mouths exactly. We
can schedule around that. Something I learned about Andy Everett.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Don't die somewhere in the fall, because he will not
attend your funeral at that.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You have to schedule it around the right.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
If you're gonna kick the bucket, make sure it's it's
mid mid mid spring, summer, just summer.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right, let's talk about the Dixon Pacers next. It's
the Andy Everett Show on the ticket
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