March 3, 2026 • 40 mins
The boys get into a list making rounds on the internet about what are the top 5 hardest sports! The boys have some big disagreements with the other persons list + the text line weighs in! Murray expected to hit free agency, where should he want to go? Thank you for listening!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the flex Zone, I Ben Fletcher, that's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Where are we going in sports? Sound not like they got.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
A fair As we gear up for the World Baseball Classic,
does the US have to win it all? The Aztecs
are back on the road against Boise State and the
second to last game of the regular season. And could
the Jets really trade up for the Raiders number one pick?
We have live reaction from Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
No God, please, no, no, no, no, plus the picks
every time we start with it, tuessy we built out
Oh going light today? I would say, on the road
in Arizona plus seven and a half, get us, give
us the cyclones in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, that wasn't even close.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Under two fifteen and a half in the points total
for Milwaukee and Boston. Percent isn't terrible?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Way right? Second half? Right, second half?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Maybe nice time we're staying positive today. Let's go live
to the San Diego Sports seven sixty studios in depth
with the Fletch Zone.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Number two here on Samuel Sports seven sixty Ben Fletcher's
seven all with you till two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Jonathan Rifkin is going to be filled.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
In for John Shaeffer today from two until five, which
is what I'll take back over for pregame on the
San Diego State Broadcast. John Shaeffer will have tip off
coming up at six o'clock tonight Aztecs Broncos.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We'll get you a.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Little preview of that game coming up in just a bit. Well,
we have breaking news to start off the hour. How
about that breaking news in the NFL, Kyler Murray released
by the Arizona Cardinals. So Kyler Murray has a tweet
out as we speak. He says to everyone that supported
me and showed me kindness to me and my family
during our time in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I wanted nothing more than to be the one to
end the seventy seven year drought for this organization. I'm
sorry I failed us. I wish this community and my
brother's nothing but the best. I'm no stranger to adversity.
I'm prepared for whatever's next. And then he says God speed,
so Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And they said barring a trade, so they're still looking
at trade him and then they will release him at
the start of the league new year.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, he has to be released before the start of
the new league year.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Otherwise there's some absurd amount of money that just gets
direct deposited into his bank account. So Kyler Murray will
not be an Arizona Cardinal next season. That's what we've learned.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And what does that mean for him in his future
landing spots? Is it Miami? Is it Pittsburgh?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I think he's a hot commodity.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Is he a starter next year?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Easy? Definitely easy. Yeah. I mean, let's look at teams,
any quarterbacks, Jets, Miami, who we missing here? A lot
of Arizona, obviously Pittsburgh. He's leaving Pittsburgh. I mean Kyler
immediately goes.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Colts could always kind of use a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Colts could use a quarterback if Daniel Jones is
not back.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I mean, the Vikings seem to be done with JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I think they're giving him another look. You can't you
can't move.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Off all the reports from this offseason.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Like JJ watches Sports Center as much as the rest
of us, a lot of them say, are the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Done with Mike?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Okay, but we talk about how the Vikings front office
is a joke for letting Darnald go The one thing
that they're holding on to is that maybe McCarthy is
the second year boom and they're they're relying on the
fact that he's been injured the last couple of years.
If you dump him for somebody, I mean, I think
they could bring someone as competition like Murray be interesting.
But I think Murray becomes a starter somewhere, a legit
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starter somewhere, and really has the opportunity to be the
next Sam Donald, Gino Smith, Baker Mayfield. Kyler Murray was
a star for Arizona for a while there and was
everything Did everything go according to plan? No? Did he
always seem to be the most focused per reports at times? No?
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But the Arizona Cardinals look at what happens when quarterbacks
go from bad organizations like the Jets and the Panthers.
Donald becomes a star with the Seahawks, Baker Mayfield is
with the Browns, bad organization goes to Tampa's a superstar.
Kyler Murray has the talent to be a superstar in
this league. And if I'm Pittsburgh, if I'm Miami, I
think there's a bidding war for him as we.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Sit right here right now. The favorites for Kyler Murray
have just come out. The number one favorite for the
former Arizona Cardinal quarterback is the Minnesota Vikings, number two
New York Jets. They're differentiated by less than a couple
of points. Miami three, Atlanta four, Indy five, Cleveland six,
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Pittsburgh seven, Las Vegas eight seven, and Las Vegas is
where it jumps off a cliff. So if it if
it is Las Vegas, somehow, you're getting a million dollars
for like ten dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Could you imagine though, if Vegas decided to go to
a different direction and signed Kyler Murray and traded the
picks of the Jets from Mendoza. Pure hypothetical, but if
you if you believe in Kyler Murray that he could
be something, and you traded that pickaway you don't believe
in Mendoza. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but that'd
be pretty ballsy from the Raiders. And if it didn't
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work out, you'd be a you'd be picking top at
top of the draft next year with a loaded quarterback class.
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I'm a little surprised the Vikings are first, but it
does like by all report, it seems like they're kind
of out on j Jimmis.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
How is Pittsburgh that far down?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know, because that's as of right now on
the app that I use.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Pittsburgh has been looking for a young quarterback for years,
So if I'm a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, maybe that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Means everyone's thinking they're bringing Aaron back for another year.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But if I'm a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, I would lose
my mind bringing back Aaron Rodgers on a team that's
not winning a Super Bowl versus taking a shot on
a Kyler Murray who could could be a franchise quarterback.
And it's coming on the cheat right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But I think logic would tell you Kyler Murray probably
gets you maybe one more win than Aaron Rodgers, but
still isn't enough to win a Super Bowl. So I
don't get the Aaron Rodgers keeping him either. But I
would imagine these odds are telling you that Pittsburgh is
either going to bring back Aaron Rodgers or they're going
to try to tank, And I think that trying to
tank would be a lot smarter than bringing back Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
That one that you said that snuck in there is Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Atlanta is interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Atlanta's interesting because Pennix is always hurt and they have
a loaded roster and Kyler Murray, for whatever you want
to say about him, the dude is as mobile as
anybody in the NFL, and he can throw a pretty
deep ball.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And Drake London is a pretty good deep ball, understand.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And Stefanski didn't draft Pennis. So Stefanski's sitting there going,
this isn't my guy. They love to have Michael Pennick's work.
The organization put a lot of resources in him. But
Kyler Murray with that offense, I mean, Drake Lonnon be
John Robinson. If Kyle pitts his back looks like he's
getting hit with the franchise tag. I mean, that's that's
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a place that you could go win and you're in
a division where you don't see a lot of threats.
I mean, Tampa Bay could be on the downturn. They
have a lot of aging players. We'll see what the Saints.
You know, Tyler shucks if he becomes something, But the
Saints aren't a contending team right now. I mean there's
there's some opportunity there in Atlanta, Miami, had they had
Tyreek not gotten hurt and Waddle and that whole crew
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is still there, would be interesting, But I think it
just goes. If you're Kyler, do you want to make
the most money and go to a terrible team and
they're gonna pay overpay you because they want to sell tickets,
or you're gonna take a shot and to the point
you were making, go to a Minnesota, try to beat
McCarthy out for the job. Go to Atlanta, try to
beat Penis out for the job, and see if you
can take over with better weapons. Ie Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison,
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Drake len and be John Robinson.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, what's kind of fascinating is Calshi will show you
the appi us for markets. It'll show you where all
the money's coming in at any given time. And a
month ago, for Kyler Murray's next team, ninety nine percent
of the public money coming in was on the Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And then it's just switched.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And this is the first time more money has come
in on Minnesota than anybody else.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Now, if Austin, if I'm the Jets, here's what I'm doing.
I'm trading the number two pick for first next year
from another team that I think is going to be terrible.
I'm signing Kyler Murray to see if you could somehow
get a franchise quarterback, because he does have the ability
to become that. But then again, if he doesn't, if
he doesn't win, you have a big time pick from
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a team that you look at that'll be picking at
the top of the draft next year. The problem with you,
the Jets, if you're hoping you.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Want to take the risk of an eight win season.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Nights because Kyler will win you some games. Kyler's not
gonna bottom out like a lot of these quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's been a problem in Arizona that he hasn't bought
him out.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
In fact, they've had years where they've started out looking
like playoff teams and then all of a sudden halfway
through the season, Kyler.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Say, Kyler letting everyone know it's been a seventy seven
year drought. Have me dying.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It's kind of cold all the way.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's a great point.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's got a cold all the way out. All right,
let's get to the big three here of our number two.
We got some ASTech stalk coming up in a little bit,
and then a sporting event that nobody's talking about. But
we're going to coming up at about ten minutes. Sammy,
go ahead, smash.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
It is here.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Ready to go back to the office and knock that
socks off your friends, I mean co workers.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's time for the top stories of the day. Big
three three, four A four Here.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I thought Fletch was a pushover, but he got the
wife a stationary bike to butter her up before getting
himself a truck. Not all superheroes wear capes four A four.
If my wife wasn't working right now, no shot on
breathing that text. But you are reading straight through what
I did.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Oh please, you didn't put that kind of thinking into this.
Let's stop. Let's not give yourself enough credit. No, no,
this is how this went Kendo Like Kendo's like, hey,
I need you to go get me this Peloton bike
in Long Beach. Okay, yeah, So you go get the
Peloton bike and then you're like, hey, can I can
I get a truck?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It took some work to get the approval on the truck,
but it happened.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Tyler agrees that I agree with Sammy. Kyler Murray will
be a starter next year. I think Kyler Murray is
a solid starter somewhere. I think, so curious who it's
gonna be. Though, Man, all right, Sammy, where do you
want to go? Let's head to March Manite real quick, so,
Coach K says, the expansion of March madnits There's been
a lot of talk about with college football playoff expansion,
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then March madd It's expanding to seventy two teams, you know,
seventy six. There's been a lot some people even throw
out the idea of like one hundred team bracket. I
think that is absolutely third, but that's what some people
have thrown out. Coach K, though, says expanding the March
Madness field would be a massive mistake. Reaction to Coach
K's comments.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I agree, And there's not much throughout his career that
I've disagreed with with Coach K outside of the fact
that he coached for Duke, which is easily one of
my most hated schools ever. But Coach K is one
of the brightest minds ever to think about basketball. Coach
K is the best that we've ever had at the
national level of being a coach. Coach K is one
of the best coaches, if not the best coach in
my lifetime. I think Coach K spot on because Coach
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K understands how special it is to be a March
Madness team. There are schools around the country who hang
a banner for making March Madness tournaments because it happens
so rarely. Of course, there's the blue bloods who are
in it every year and it feels like they don't
even have to have that good of a season to
get in. But you know how special it is for
some teams just to play in a single March Madness game.
You are taking away some of that special If you're
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expanding the field, it's hard to get into March Madness.
The Ssex have a very good team this year, they
may not be in March Madness. So I think that
expanding it, making it easier to get in takes away
from the special of it. And also, college basketball takes
over the world for a month. That's all anyone in
sports cares about. And you want to do something different,
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it's dumb. Why would you want to change anything up?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Well, the criticism of college basketball, and as someone who
loves college basketball question, I know you do too, but
is that a lot of the regular season is meaningless.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's the criticism. That's why I disagree. Maybe at the
powers level, right, sure.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There's a lot. Okay, if you play at Kansas Duke
of North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's not what people love about college basketball, though people
love this CEM.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Brand, the brand, Yeah, but the brands that push college basketball,
that make college basketball watch aboarder in the regular season
are those brands that are getting into in the NCAA tournament.
I'm saying this is what people who critique college basketball say. Now,
if you're the Aztecs, you're on the cut line. Every
game has really mattered the last month because you've been
right there. If you're if you're Arizona State, if you're
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Ohio State team. These games have come down the stretch here.
But that is the criticism of college basketball for people
who don't watch the first couple months. Isn't the argument
expanding the field would make it even more meaningless? That's
what I was getting to. Why would you add more teams?
So the critics of college basketball, who goes, I don't
care about college basketball in November and December, which is fair.
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I get why a lot of people think that, because
it does. If you're not a fan of a team
that's on the cut line. There's not a lot of
urgency when you know that, in all likelihood the chances
of Duke missing the tournament is slim to none. Even
though it's fun to get into the nerd of it
of what seed line they're gonna be and all that,
a lot of people don't turn into tune until later
in the year. Why March Madnis in Championship weekend is
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some of the best weeks in sports. Expanding the field
just takes that away. College football needs to expand because
you need more games, you need more challenge at the top.
College basketball expanding to add in eighty teams, there's always
gonna be If they go to seventy eight teams, there's
always gonna be a seventy ninth team. If they go
to ninety teams, there's gonna be a ninety first team.
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And at some point you are completely depressing the college
basketball regular season. And I think that would be a shame.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
If I'm being honest, I don't even need the first
four games. I honestly think it's kind of a waste.
I would rather the number just be cut off at
sixty four. If you don't make fel Yeah, well, just
keep it to what it actually is. Does anyone watch
the Tuesday Wednesday games of the first week, unless unless
you're invested in one of those teams.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
No, I think people watch the people watch the elevens
who they might pick because they are competing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But the first two days of the Marchmadaws tournament now
are largely afterthoughts, unless, like last year, San Diego s
was in one of those games, so you're rooting for
the Aztecs in that game. But for the most part,
it's like the tournament starts on a Thursday, and everyone's
kind of okay with that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Right, and no one needs to see when the sixteen
seeds are playing. I mean, that's just first victim, that's
what that is. The eleventh less unless yeah, unless the
eleven twelves can be fun. Listen, If you are going
to expand the field, I would not do it. I'd
actually go different than you. I would let them into
the first four and make the first four be take
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out the sixteen ce games because I'm sorry, I don't
need to see that. I don't really care about it
outside the fact that I'm excited. Marsh Maddis's back and
put all these teams on the bubble in there and
see if they can win four straight games or three
straight games on opening weekend to make it out of it.
That would be interesting. But expanding the field, I feel
like it's just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Dumb, silly, stupid. All right, let's get one more in here, Sammy.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Okay, so out of you saw Luca and j J.
Redick were beefing on Saturday. J J. Redick, Actually Luca
was walking off the floor. J j U Reddick said
something to Luka doncic. Luca brushed him off, went and
sat at the other end of the bench. JJ Redick
then walked down said another thing to him. He turns
around and walks away. Luca gets up. Jared Vanderbilt gets
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in the way and basically calms Luca down. As of
a reporters of right now, the viral sideline exchange quote
much to do about nothing, and the relationship is strong.
Looking at that clip, what is your reaction to that,
because personally.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I actually like that there's a little fire back and forth.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, so do I.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's why the same reason I didn't kill Travis Kelsey
when he got in Andy Reid's face.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Outside the fact that he shoved him, that was pretty
bs Well.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Still, you're talking about the most competitive, competitive environments in
the world. I love this out of Luca. I think
Luca is a competitor man. He doesn't play much defense,
but Luca is one of the best basketball players alive,
and he's probably saying, can we start building this freaking
thing around me?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Can we stop whatever this is because it ain't working.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
To compare this to the Padres JJ Redick, the question
mark when the Lakers signed him was, is this Lebron's puppet?
Is this Lebron got him hired? Is he gonna even
go after the stars? Darvin Ham, the last Lakers head coach,
was awful with this. He would not challenge any star whatsoever.
Lebron James Anthony Davis is basically sitting there as a
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passive head coach. I like that. J. J. E. Reddicks
at the standard that whether you're Lebron, James, Luka, Doncic,
Austin Reeves and you're getting paid a top to Marquee
or you're a due thero or Jared Vanderbilt or Luke
Kennard sitting at the end of the bench that everyone
no one is above the law, No one is above coaching.
I love this. They are two competitive, you know. JJ Redick,
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former athlete, Luca athlete. Now they're competitive, they care. I
like that they're getting into it. I think people blow
this way out of proportion when we see athletes get
heated and looking at Craig Stalmon. Craig Stamon's very similar
to JJ. E. Reddick, a guy who has not had
a lot of experience managing or coaching in their respective sports.
I hope that when we see the patres get going,
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Craig Stamon's not afraid to get in Manny Michald's face
or Fernano Tatisa's face because it sets It sets a
marker for the team that people care in going down
the bench. You can coach Jay Cronaworth the same you
can coach Fernando tatis. I think it sends a good message.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Phone lines are lit.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Now is the time to call eight seven seven seven
six seven four seven sixty if you want to go
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Safari Park. Calling number seven is getting a family four
pack of tickets coming up next. Something nobody's talking about,
but maybe they should be. That's on the other side
of San Diego Sports seven sixty live on iHeartRadio app.
The Enhanced Games is coming up in May. Are you
telling me to turn on our stream?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So yeah YouTube, There we go. We're back San Diego
Sports seven sixty on YouTube. By the way, Enhanced Games
is coming up in May in Las Vegas, which the
Las Vegas part sounds pretty cool to me. The Enhanced
Games parts. Honestly, if you haven't heard of it, it
is what you think it is. They're taking Olympic events swimming, weightlifting,
track and field, and they're letting everyone who's competing in
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them do steroids for them, testosterone replacement therapy, human growth hormone.
If it's legal in the rules of this, you can
take it and you can use it. And then they're
offering incentives for you to break world records. So if
you break a world record, you're getting a bonus of
like a million bucks and there's a grand prizes to
go along with it. Some seriously deep pockets behind this
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event coming up in Las Vegas. Here's what I think
is cool about it. We're essentially pushing the limit.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Sorry, it's Okay, it almost worked. We're pushing the limit
of what human beings can do.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And steroids are not the same in twenty twenty six
as they were in nineteen ninety nine when the home
run race was going on between Bonds and Sosa and McGuire.
I guess that was McGuire and Sosa. Bonds came along later,
but it's not the same stuff. These aren't sketchy back
alley craziness with steroids. No, this is doctor admitted. This
is by the rules permitted steroid usage. And I think
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this is actually really cool and I'm excited to watch it.
Here's why I think the morality of everybody gets into this,
because you're saying, oh, well, you're taking sports, which is
all about fairness and rules and making sure that everyone's
on an even playing field, and you're saying, screw that.
I would rather the athletes who, let's be honest, it's
not like Olympic athletes don't get busted every single year
for doping or blood thinning or adding human growth home on.
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They get busted year in a year out, and they're saying,
all right, we're gonna keep this all. Being honest about it,
if you're gonna do it, do it and go break
some world records.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let's see what the human body can do.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Even I.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Always tell the truth, I think this is cool.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I'm actually kind of into this. You're gonna hear both sides.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There's gonna be people probably protesting this in the streets
of Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I actually think this is kind of awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And now you're seeing some Olympic gold medalist swimmer for
the United States has committed to doing this because he said, well,
my body is not good enough anymore to go compete
in Olympics swimming.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
If I wanted to athletes, this is another chance.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
This is so the Lindsay Vaughns of the world don't
just disappear after they're done with the Olympics. We get
to see people come back and maybe this gives them
a second chance. Because it's not like you're making a
bunch of money doing the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
This is an opportunity for you to go out and
break world records, make a million bucks. Because in order
to get to this point where you'd even be able
to be considered for these games, you already have to
be an elite athlete.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
This is just helping you recover a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
This is great. I mean I have a problem with steroids.
There's a lot of I mean real now. The problem
with the steroids is that because there's been a lot
of discussion of should professional athletes, especially baseball players, because
it's such a long season. If all it's doing is
helping you rest and recover, is that a good thing? Now,
on the flip side, there are some long term effects
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of being on steroids that you take after the playing
career is over that has certainly deteriorated some people who
have used them before.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I mean, yeah, it comes with the sketchy back alley deals.
The caveaon for these enhanced games. These are all doctor administered.
They're not supposed to I'm sure they do. I'm sure
they do have long term effects, but they're supposed to
be less.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The only thing if you're an athlete competing in this
is that everyone's just gonna say, like, a bodybuilder on
steroids is obviously gonna be able to lift more than
anyone who's ever lifted. So are you really breaking records?
It's just gonna be it's a new kind of league
because you really breaking records on people who quote weren't
on steroids beforehand when they competed.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Ultimately, it's gonna be kind of cool to watch. I'd
make a trip out to Vegas the.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Why don't you get on some steroids and you on
that peloton bite.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
See I've been thinking about steroids for a few years now.
But here's the problem. Out to do steroids exactly right.
So that's the thing that everybody when they talk smack
about McGuire or a Sosa or a Bonds, I'm saying, okay,
but the part of the conversation that needs to be
in is steroids weren't just a magical serum that all
the maid all of a sudden made them be able
to read pitches better. Like Barry Bonds also had the
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greatest eye of all time in the batter's box.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, yeah, it's not about It's not about it making
you a better player. It's about that you recover faster
than other athletes.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He also maybe had the best hand eye coordination of
all time, and then he used steroids to help him
hit the ball a little farther.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
So I don't have a problem with steroids. I guess
the other thing of it now, not in like football
or sport. A sport like boxing in the UFC are
massive issues because if you had if you have a
fighter who's on steroids, they can punch harder. I mean
the A it's a dangerous sport to begin with boxing UFC.
If guys are on steroids, that's a that's a real problem.
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There's like life threatening consequences with that. Baseball is such
a long season, but right, it doesn't mean you can
hit the ball better. But I guess the thing of
isn't that part of sports that how you recover, how
you deal with I mean, think of the most iconic
sports moments Michael Jordan flu game, that's that is goes
down in lore because they were dealing with something that
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they had to he had to overcome. Sure, and that's
a part of sports too.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And can you imagine a Saquon Barkley his quads on steroids.
I mean, we we'd be dealing with an alien is
what you'd be dealing with. But I think for this,
I think this is kind of awesome and I'm excited
to see how it goes.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Were you seriously considering taking steroids?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
No, I've never actually considered taking steroids because I don't
what would it do for me?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like I don't lift weights. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Six one five team. Are we sure that the peloton
bike will even power up? No?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Not yet?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
No, no, no, he's not asking yet. Will it ever power up?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, if its function is to be a towel holder,
so disrespect power. Uh no it My wife has already
used it a couple of times without the screen, right.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
So she's on her on there getting her grind on
and you're sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's her pelotson. I wasn't home at all yesterday. We've
had it for twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Basically, I expect to see a post of you tonight
riding on the peloton to be home tonight. Feels like
a lot of excuses are being made right.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now tomorrow tomorrow. I think the power court should be
back of the house tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You are the kind of guy that would be shooting
up steroids and not working out on the bike.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I will jump on the peloton bike tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Does that make everyone happy?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
A five eight says lies we need a juicer division
in all combat sports one million percent? Okay, So for
the UFC, like the argument would be to help out
with recovery in between fights, so you can fight more often, right,
But what happens when you have a juice dude throwing
punches that could literally kill so much?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, that was the Ryan Garcia at Devin Haney thing
is Ryan Garcia was on some sauce, so now he
was whooping him. I mean he kept hitting him with
her left hook all night. The steroids didn't do that,
But did the power from his shots from the steroids
really affect Devin Haney in a way that shouldn't have
affected him?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Top five most difficult Sports. There is a scientific study
out on the top five most difficult sports, and I
think it's maloney. We'll give our top fives, we'll give
your top fives. Get him in on the text line
seven zero four to seven zero. Start your message with
the word team that's coming up next at San Diego
Sports seven sixty live on my Heart Radio.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Put it in perspective.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's a yellow web page that takes up half the
screen that has a bunch of words on it and
then a spreadsheet, a list, a ranking of what sport
is the most difficult sport? And they claim this is
from a panel of eight experts made up of a
sports sciences from the United States Olympic Committee academia who
study the science of muscles and movement, a two star
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sport athlete, and a panel of journalists who spend their
professional lives watching athletes succeed and fail.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Those are the people who were pulled for this.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
They were asked to give a one through ten ranking
on each sport. For each category, the categories were endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility,
nerve durability, hand eye coordination, and analytic aptitude.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Those are the categories.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Okay, so Sam, you're the top five. I should we
read their top five?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
First?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
We did not, Samy and I did not go one
through ten on every single category and then average things
out and come up with the top five together.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I have a top five. Samy has the top five.
Here are their top five.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Boxing number one, ice hockey two, football, three, basketball, four,
wrestling five, and then martial arts is actually number six,
so it got in there. Here's something interesting. The last one,
by the way, is fishing. Fishing is very bottom on there.
There's sixty sixty sports total. Apparently fishing comes in dead last. Uh,
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golf came in fifty first place. I'm gonna say this.
Zero people on that panel have ever played golf before.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
All right, so what's your top five? We got a
bunch of rolling in right now on the text line
seven zero four seven zero.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Start your message with team, keep them coming in. We'd
love to hear from you on this. Give us your
top five, my top five? Okay, are we going five
to one or one to five? Five to one, five
to one. My number five most difficult sport for someone
to do is gonna be football.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Okay, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go hockey at five
because you are skating. It's a physical sport. It's a
technical sport. But the reason I knocket out a little
bit is there are a lot of line changes and
you're never really on the ice for more than one
to two minutes at a time. But it is an
extremely physical sport. Hockey at five.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's why football was as low as it was for
me at number five, because of all I think, it's
incredibly physically demanding. Every play last about eleven seconds. So
football was at five for me. Number four is going
to be baseball, actually, because I think one of the
hardest things to do in the world is hit a
little rock that's coming at you ninety five to one
hundred and four miles per hour at any given time.
I think that the level of dexterity, hand eye coordination,
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analytical aptitude, or whatever else they were being graded on.
Baseball is an incredibly tough sport, and it's it belongs
at number four.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
To me, I'm putting MMA at number four. MMA is
an extremely brutal sport. Obviously, it's one of the most
dangerous that in boxing, because you are guys are putting
their life on the line to go fight. We've seen
unfortunately terrible things happen in rings and octagons. But the
reason I knock it down a little bit is because
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it is only twenty five minutes. Boxing is thirty six,
and when you look at scientific research and some of
the big knockouts the UFC has, it's not really as
dangerous to get a flash massive ko as it is
for repeated hits to the head like boxing has. I
think I'm gonna go number four MMA.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Fighting Number three for me is bull riding. It is
on this list.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm telling you there are handfuls of people on this
planet who can do this successfully. I don't care if
it's eight seconds long. You have something that you're on
top of trying to kill you any given second. You're
on top of it for eight seconds at a time,
and you do this like five times a night. Bull
riding the people who do it end up more injured
than just about any other sport on the planet. Bull
Riding is my number three, and I don't want to
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be called crazy for that. By the way, bull riding
came in at number forty two on this.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Bull riding's insane because they're barely on.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
The bull forty two.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I'm not saying it should be forty two.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You try it, Sammy, And I'm not talking to an
electrical bull out in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm talking about bull riding.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, but first off, we can really debate a bull
riding should be a sport number one and number two. Again,
you're on for eight seconds and once you're off the bull,
you're done.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Sounds like somebody who's not going to the Lakeside rodeo
coming up in April.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm not going to get back into how I feel
about rodeos.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Number three two good rodeo is this guy number three things?
All of us rednecks are just trash.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Number three golf. Golf is one of the hardest sports
in there's ever been, and golf is extreme. It might
be the hardest in terms of being consistently good and
consistently to be a consistently good golfer. It might be
the hardest sport there is. The reason I not golf
down a peg is because you don't have well, golfers
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do have injuries. You don't have to worry about CT.
You don't have to worry about as many bodily injuries
as other sports as boxing, mma, football, stores like that,
or sports like that. But golf technically, to be repeatedly
good at golf is one of the hardest sports. That's
why I have it at number three.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Also, rodeo guys, they have to deal with buckle buddies,
which is a whole other world, man, I mean, come on,
And speaking of which, golfers actually have to deal with
handling like ninety mistresses at the same time, also tricky situation.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Golf was gonna be my number two.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I don't think people understand the level of difference between
a professional golfer and someone who just goes out there
just because you can go out and do something like
I'm gonna play golf this weekend. Hopefully doesn't mean that
within ten years I could come close to what a
Brooks Koepka does. Also, when it comes to golf, we've
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had four people rise above the rest as truly dominant superstars.
We've had four people throughout the history of golf who
have gotten so good to whether the unquestioned best golfer
in the world. It's like Tiger, it's Scottie, it's Arnold
and Shack. Other than that, everyone's been a bunch of dudes.
Ben Hogan, I can hear the argument about but it's
taken so much to get to that very tippy top
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that there's been like four people in our history who
have done it. So golf is easily to be a
top two hardest sport.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Ever, right, And a pro golfer's worst shot is everyone
else's best shot on their best day of their entire life,
of their entire life. So I'm gonna go football too,
because the danger there's so much in a It's a
physical sport. You see guy's bodies breakdown, and it's a
technical I mean, you talk about one of the most
complex games that you play. I mean even say people
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playing Madden to attack a defense, the different coverages that
the entire eleven guys working together at one time. Football
is number two for me, and at number one, what's
your number one punch?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Number one is MMA?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Okay, you don't have boxing your top five, No, but
which is fair for me?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I would say I don't watch nearly as much boxing
as I do MMA, but I kind of feel like
they're in the same world.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Can I go fighting? Can I include them together? I
know they're very different.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Sport, but I'm going boxing one because of this, and
the UFC fans MMA fans, which obviously is a brutal sport,
are going to come after me. You're fighting eleven fewer
minutes than.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Boxers, for sure, but you're also doing a very different
style of fighting.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, but people don't realize what boxers do. I mean,
to hold your hands up for thirty six straight minutes
with gloves on is hard enough, let alone getting punched
in the face over and over again. And you're setting
up shots, You're setting up combinations. People who are just
casually watching a fighter like punch him in the face.
Why is he Why is he not hitting him? Because
you're setting up shots for later rounds, setting up combinations
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for later. Again, you f C smids you have more
vicious knockout knockdowns and knockouts, but it's the repeated blows
to a head as well as the stamina tried training boxing,
hitting a heavy bag where you're not even getting hit
coming back for you know, rounds on end and you
are dead tired. I think boxers have to be the
most fit of any because because it's your legs, it's
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your arms, everything there. But I could hear UFC as well.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Six one five.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I think you're both conflating athleticism and skill. Golfing takes skill,
but they're not athletics, same as bull riding. Dude six
A good point. They missed the Tour de France. Cycling
is on the list, and it's actually down way further
than I thought it would be. It would be in
my top ten for sure, which would be my number one.
A three week race of riding your average of one
hundred miles a day at high speeds on extremely hilly
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and dangerous courses. Ironically related to your other topic, probably
the one sport where the most doping is due to
the extreme demands involved. Yeah, that's the blood doping sport
where they like will take out some of their blood
and put in other stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
It's crazy with biking six.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
One nine says too much a golf has to do
with how good your equipment is. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Pro golfers do play with different clubs, and we play
with That is true, But if a pro golfer was
to go out with my clubs, they would still find
a way to break part that course in the country.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Seven to six to zero some subfellas five hardest, five
American football, four MMA, three rugby rugby obviously, two ice hockey,
and number one golf.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Golf is hard.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Six to one nine says golf. What about curling? Then?
Wtf good a professional beach volleyball tournament? He will see real,
all right?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
If Sam's going to talk about how hard it is
to hold up your hands for thirty six minutes, how
hard is it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
To walk four days of a golf course?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Do you really think that box it? Golf is harder
than boxing. You're holding up weighted gloves while getting punched
in the face.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So I don't know if you know this about I
actually went through like six months of kickboxing training. God
swear to God. Leading up to my wedding. It was
the nine rounds in Mission Valley. I was doing it
every day for six months. It is that I don't
think there is anything.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
God did you spar What did you spar so?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
God?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
No, it was like a like a fitness thing.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You were just doing the kickboxing stuff eight five eight
hockey slash any ice, skating, golf, water polo, surfing, boxing
slash MMA surfing.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Core surfing is crazy. Do you ever met a fat surfer? Yes,
there's no.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
But and then it's a different conversation. If you talk
about the top five most.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm sure there's been some Hawaiian big boys who are
out there just rimpid waves.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
If you go top five most pressure filled spots, then
you would go quarterback one. Not even close, because you
have to manage an entire offense. A closer in baseball,
I mean. But again, a golfer, a Augusta who's in contention?
How isolating must that be? Though? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
You have one hundred thousand people in front of you
watching every little move you make. You have five minutes
in between shots, like that's that's something else.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
It's up there. It's not a quarterback or.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
You don't have a whole team relying on you, which
is a big part of it.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Two. But that's if that's say with a star closer,
a star closer, it's you're coming in cold. What about
a kicker in a Super Bowl, a kicker in football?
I mean, you're talking about pressure filled spots. Baseball would
be up there if you just talk about hitters, because
it might be the most mental sport in that Think
of the best hitters in baseball are failing seven of
ten times, six or ten times every time at the plate,
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and you're gonna go through swamps the best players in baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So and by the way, a dude is throwing a
rock at you ninety five miles of per hour minimum.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It feels like these days hey By May.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Said ultimate fighting is fighting. Boxing is a sport. Asked
Roda about needing to be able to throw a punch
if not martial arts.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Now, I don't want to put the lump to two
into the same category. Honestly, I do not know enough
about boxing to include it in my top five, which
is probably on me. I should know more about it.
But MMA I do equate to two in terms of physicality.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
The MMA is you have to worry about more stuff. Obviously,
you can get taken into the ground. You can get
on the feet that you have to learn a bunch
of you know, how to wrestle. There's a bunch of
different things that go into the UFC. But again, you
can also take a little bit of a not a break.
That sounds wrong, but you've seen fighters who don't want
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to get caught with big shots just take guys out
of the mat and kind of sit there for a
minute and try to recain their breath. I saw that text.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Come on six, one nine, guaranteed anyone who picked golfers
number one, you're insulting three texters and I picked golf
number two.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So and also the one nine.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Is guarantee anyone who picked golf A is number one.
As a beer guy has a deep fright quarter powder
for dinner last day.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah, that was the text. I was halfway through reading
Sammy Way to Go.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
You stopped reading it though, because you started laughing.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
San Diego Sports seven sixty. We got one more left
for you. Jonathan Rifkins is gonna take over as soon
as we're done. I feel good about that.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I think the real answer there is everyone's top five
is probably your own because there's a lot of such.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
I'm surprised you didn't have golf at one.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'm surprised I didn't have Bob sledging in it at all.
I watched a lot of Bob.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Bobby flotting is not a sport. You sit in a
tube and go down the same path. Not a tube.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
It is like two centimeters that life and death.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Bob sledding is like calling cross country skiing a sport.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Sammy, the best bodies in the Olympics over the last however,
many weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Were Bob's letters.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
No, they were figure skaters.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's not true. That's simply not true.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Bob setting is not a sport. I'm sorry, I'll die
on that hill.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I'm gonna have to send Sammy like ninety more videos.
I'm gonna take this next commercial break. I'm gonna do
some deep research. I'm gonna send them all his way,
and then he'll have a very different tone on the
other side. At San Diego Sports seven sixty live on
my Heart radio app. Uh, Jay riff is furious at
me and Sammy. Right now, Jay Riff had the odd
read what Riffkins said okay, this was unprompted. He texted
me and said, F one driver needs to be top two.
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No contest, out of here, no contest. And then I
responded politely. I said it came in at thirty two
on this crappy list, which is probably too low, but
it ain't top two. And then he said that segment
infuriated me. How the f is golf a sport and
bob sled slash cross country skiing is not?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Because no one watches that.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
That's I watched a lot of Bob slid and I
just watching doesn't mean sport.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
The bob slid by the discree watched the movie Cool
Running since he's a bob sled hitter. I've seen co Running.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
You are such a Bob ste It's a great movie.
It is a badass sport.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Here's the problem. Just because it's scary. You sent me
the Collin Joe's clip from SNL and that's not even
the scariest one. That's the Bob slid that you're in inside.
I'm talking skeleton, dude. They just go down the same track.
It is not a sport. You just have to make
sure you try out to die. That is not competitive.
There's no nuance. No one has ever power ranked Bob
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slutters and went, hey, that guy that closer better than that.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Plenty of lists of Bob sleutters ranked, just not based
on their ability.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What did our text lines says? Other day? Bouncy Bob's
led babes are a thing. It's a fact. Bro j
Riff is high if he thinks F one.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
One now, So so okay, ask Riffin this, let me
give you credit number one. If if F one is two.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
He probably has boxing on one, I would say, or
mixed martial arts or something like that.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
F one drivers have to have elite reaction times better
than pretty much any other sport.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
F one drivers. Also, have you seen them?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
They all have the same Next, they're thick wide Next,
because you're they're literally dealing with g forces.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
I'm not saying the don't have to be athletes, but
to say that they're bigger athletes overball boxing UFC, I
mean that's crazy. Rodeo.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I mean, I had fun today. Today was a fun
show show. If you missed any of it, checking out
all the.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Podcast, just search Fletch Zone on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You can find it there. J Riff is coming up next,
and have fun with him on the text.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
If he opens up the show talking about across country skiing,
of course.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
He's opening up the show sport. No, he's talking about
he's gonna be talking about F one. Why it's the
top two, Jariff. If you want to send you the link,
we can. It's a terrible list. I hate the list.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
By the way, say maybe throw it out on Twitter
the list from our Affletch and Sammy so people can
see where the list is and what I I think.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
It's the dumbest list ever. But you can find it
all right.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I'll see it at five o'clock, Sammy, uh, I see
you Tomorrow's good work today, Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Jay Riff Next,
Welcome to the flex Zone, I Ben Fletcher, that's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Where are we going in sports? Sound not like they got.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
A fair As we gear up for the World Baseball Classic,
does the US have to win it all? The Aztecs
are back on the road against Boise State and the
second to last game of the regular season. And could
the Jets really trade up for the Raiders number one pick?
We have live reaction from Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
No God, please, no, no, no, no, plus the picks
every time we start with it, tuessy we built out
Oh going light today? I would say, on the road
in Arizona plus seven and a half, get us, give
us the cyclones in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, that wasn't even close.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Under two fifteen and a half in the points total
for Milwaukee and Boston. Percent isn't terrible?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Way right? Second half? Right, second half?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Maybe nice time we're staying positive today. Let's go live
to the San Diego Sports seven sixty studios in depth
with the Fletch Zone.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Number two here on Samuel Sports seven sixty Ben Fletcher's
seven all with you till two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Jonathan Rifkin is going to be filled.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
In for John Shaeffer today from two until five, which
is what I'll take back over for pregame on the
San Diego State Broadcast. John Shaeffer will have tip off
coming up at six o'clock tonight Aztecs Broncos.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We'll get you a.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Little preview of that game coming up in just a bit. Well,
we have breaking news to start off the hour. How
about that breaking news in the NFL, Kyler Murray released
by the Arizona Cardinals. So Kyler Murray has a tweet
out as we speak. He says to everyone that supported
me and showed me kindness to me and my family
during our time in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I wanted nothing more than to be the one to
end the seventy seven year drought for this organization. I'm
sorry I failed us. I wish this community and my
brother's nothing but the best. I'm no stranger to adversity.
I'm prepared for whatever's next. And then he says God speed,
so Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And they said barring a trade, so they're still looking
at trade him and then they will release him at
the start of the league new year.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, he has to be released before the start of
the new league year.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Otherwise there's some absurd amount of money that just gets
direct deposited into his bank account. So Kyler Murray will
not be an Arizona Cardinal next season. That's what we've learned.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And what does that mean for him in his future
landing spots? Is it Miami? Is it Pittsburgh?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I think he's a hot commodity.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Is he a starter next year?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Easy? Definitely easy. Yeah. I mean, let's look at teams,
any quarterbacks, Jets, Miami, who we missing here? A lot
of Arizona, obviously Pittsburgh. He's leaving Pittsburgh. I mean Kyler
immediately goes.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Colts could always kind of use a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Colts could use a quarterback if Daniel Jones is
not back.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I mean, the Vikings seem to be done with JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I think they're giving him another look. You can't you
can't move.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Off all the reports from this offseason.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Like JJ watches Sports Center as much as the rest
of us, a lot of them say, are the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Done with Mike?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Okay, but we talk about how the Vikings front office
is a joke for letting Darnald go The one thing
that they're holding on to is that maybe McCarthy is
the second year boom and they're they're relying on the
fact that he's been injured the last couple of years.
If you dump him for somebody, I mean, I think
they could bring someone as competition like Murray be interesting.
But I think Murray becomes a starter somewhere, a legit
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starter somewhere, and really has the opportunity to be the
next Sam Donald, Gino Smith, Baker Mayfield. Kyler Murray was
a star for Arizona for a while there and was
everything Did everything go according to plan? No? Did he
always seem to be the most focused per reports at times? No?
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But the Arizona Cardinals look at what happens when quarterbacks
go from bad organizations like the Jets and the Panthers.
Donald becomes a star with the Seahawks, Baker Mayfield is
with the Browns, bad organization goes to Tampa's a superstar.
Kyler Murray has the talent to be a superstar in
this league. And if I'm Pittsburgh, if I'm Miami, I
think there's a bidding war for him as we.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Sit right here right now. The favorites for Kyler Murray
have just come out. The number one favorite for the
former Arizona Cardinal quarterback is the Minnesota Vikings, number two
New York Jets. They're differentiated by less than a couple
of points. Miami three, Atlanta four, Indy five, Cleveland six,
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Pittsburgh seven, Las Vegas eight seven, and Las Vegas is
where it jumps off a cliff. So if it if
it is Las Vegas, somehow, you're getting a million dollars
for like ten dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Could you imagine though, if Vegas decided to go to
a different direction and signed Kyler Murray and traded the
picks of the Jets from Mendoza. Pure hypothetical, but if
you if you believe in Kyler Murray that he could
be something, and you traded that pickaway you don't believe
in Mendoza. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but that'd
be pretty ballsy from the Raiders. And if it didn't
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work out, you'd be a you'd be picking top at
top of the draft next year with a loaded quarterback class.
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I'm a little surprised the Vikings are first, but it
does like by all report, it seems like they're kind
of out on j Jimmis.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
How is Pittsburgh that far down?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know, because that's as of right now on
the app that I use.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Pittsburgh has been looking for a young quarterback for years,
So if I'm a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, maybe that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Means everyone's thinking they're bringing Aaron back for another year.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But if I'm a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, I would lose
my mind bringing back Aaron Rodgers on a team that's
not winning a Super Bowl versus taking a shot on
a Kyler Murray who could could be a franchise quarterback.
And it's coming on the cheat right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But I think logic would tell you Kyler Murray probably
gets you maybe one more win than Aaron Rodgers, but
still isn't enough to win a Super Bowl. So I
don't get the Aaron Rodgers keeping him either. But I
would imagine these odds are telling you that Pittsburgh is
either going to bring back Aaron Rodgers or they're going
to try to tank, And I think that trying to
tank would be a lot smarter than bringing back Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
That one that you said that snuck in there is Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Atlanta is interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Atlanta's interesting because Pennix is always hurt and they have
a loaded roster and Kyler Murray, for whatever you want
to say about him, the dude is as mobile as
anybody in the NFL, and he can throw a pretty
deep ball.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And Drake London is a pretty good deep ball, understand.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And Stefanski didn't draft Pennis. So Stefanski's sitting there going,
this isn't my guy. They love to have Michael Pennick's work.
The organization put a lot of resources in him. But
Kyler Murray with that offense, I mean, Drake Lonnon be
John Robinson. If Kyle pitts his back looks like he's
getting hit with the franchise tag. I mean, that's that's
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a place that you could go win and you're in
a division where you don't see a lot of threats.
I mean, Tampa Bay could be on the downturn. They
have a lot of aging players. We'll see what the Saints.
You know, Tyler shucks if he becomes something, But the
Saints aren't a contending team right now. I mean there's
there's some opportunity there in Atlanta, Miami, had they had
Tyreek not gotten hurt and Waddle and that whole crew
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is still there, would be interesting, But I think it
just goes. If you're Kyler, do you want to make
the most money and go to a terrible team and
they're gonna pay overpay you because they want to sell tickets,
or you're gonna take a shot and to the point
you were making, go to a Minnesota, try to beat
McCarthy out for the job. Go to Atlanta, try to
beat Penis out for the job, and see if you
can take over with better weapons. Ie Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison,
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Drake len and be John Robinson.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, what's kind of fascinating is Calshi will show you
the appi us for markets. It'll show you where all
the money's coming in at any given time. And a
month ago, for Kyler Murray's next team, ninety nine percent
of the public money coming in was on the Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And then it's just switched.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And this is the first time more money has come
in on Minnesota than anybody else.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Now, if Austin, if I'm the Jets, here's what I'm doing.
I'm trading the number two pick for first next year
from another team that I think is going to be terrible.
I'm signing Kyler Murray to see if you could somehow
get a franchise quarterback, because he does have the ability
to become that. But then again, if he doesn't, if
he doesn't win, you have a big time pick from
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a team that you look at that'll be picking at
the top of the draft next year. The problem with you,
the Jets, if you're hoping you.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Want to take the risk of an eight win season.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Nights because Kyler will win you some games. Kyler's not
gonna bottom out like a lot of these quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's been a problem in Arizona that he hasn't bought
him out.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
In fact, they've had years where they've started out looking
like playoff teams and then all of a sudden halfway
through the season, Kyler.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Say, Kyler letting everyone know it's been a seventy seven
year drought. Have me dying.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It's kind of cold all the way.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's a great point.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's got a cold all the way out. All right,
let's get to the big three here of our number two.
We got some ASTech stalk coming up in a little bit,
and then a sporting event that nobody's talking about. But
we're going to coming up at about ten minutes. Sammy,
go ahead, smash.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
It is here.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Ready to go back to the office and knock that
socks off your friends, I mean co workers.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's time for the top stories of the day. Big
three three, four A four Here.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I thought Fletch was a pushover, but he got the
wife a stationary bike to butter her up before getting
himself a truck. Not all superheroes wear capes four A four.
If my wife wasn't working right now, no shot on
breathing that text. But you are reading straight through what
I did.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Oh please, you didn't put that kind of thinking into this.
Let's stop. Let's not give yourself enough credit. No, no,
this is how this went Kendo Like Kendo's like, hey,
I need you to go get me this Peloton bike
in Long Beach. Okay, yeah, So you go get the
Peloton bike and then you're like, hey, can I can
I get a truck?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It took some work to get the approval on the truck,
but it happened.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Tyler agrees that I agree with Sammy. Kyler Murray will
be a starter next year. I think Kyler Murray is
a solid starter somewhere. I think, so curious who it's
gonna be. Though, Man, all right, Sammy, where do you
want to go? Let's head to March Manite real quick, so,
Coach K says, the expansion of March madnits There's been
a lot of talk about with college football playoff expansion,
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then March madd It's expanding to seventy two teams, you know,
seventy six. There's been a lot some people even throw
out the idea of like one hundred team bracket. I
think that is absolutely third, but that's what some people
have thrown out. Coach K, though, says expanding the March
Madness field would be a massive mistake. Reaction to Coach
K's comments.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I agree, And there's not much throughout his career that
I've disagreed with with Coach K outside of the fact
that he coached for Duke, which is easily one of
my most hated schools ever. But Coach K is one
of the brightest minds ever to think about basketball. Coach
K is the best that we've ever had at the
national level of being a coach. Coach K is one
of the best coaches, if not the best coach in
my lifetime. I think Coach K spot on because Coach
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K understands how special it is to be a March
Madness team. There are schools around the country who hang
a banner for making March Madness tournaments because it happens
so rarely. Of course, there's the blue bloods who are
in it every year and it feels like they don't
even have to have that good of a season to
get in. But you know how special it is for
some teams just to play in a single March Madness game.
You are taking away some of that special If you're
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expanding the field, it's hard to get into March Madness.
The Ssex have a very good team this year, they
may not be in March Madness. So I think that
expanding it, making it easier to get in takes away
from the special of it. And also, college basketball takes
over the world for a month. That's all anyone in
sports cares about. And you want to do something different,
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it's dumb. Why would you want to change anything up?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Well, the criticism of college basketball, and as someone who
loves college basketball question, I know you do too, but
is that a lot of the regular season is meaningless.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's the criticism. That's why I disagree. Maybe at the
powers level, right, sure.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There's a lot. Okay, if you play at Kansas Duke
of North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's not what people love about college basketball, though people
love this CEM.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Brand, the brand, Yeah, but the brands that push college basketball,
that make college basketball watch aboarder in the regular season
are those brands that are getting into in the NCAA tournament.
I'm saying this is what people who critique college basketball say. Now,
if you're the Aztecs, you're on the cut line. Every
game has really mattered the last month because you've been
right there. If you're if you're Arizona State, if you're
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Ohio State team. These games have come down the stretch here.
But that is the criticism of college basketball for people
who don't watch the first couple months. Isn't the argument
expanding the field would make it even more meaningless? That's
what I was getting to. Why would you add more teams?
So the critics of college basketball, who goes, I don't
care about college basketball in November and December, which is fair.
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I get why a lot of people think that, because
it does. If you're not a fan of a team
that's on the cut line. There's not a lot of
urgency when you know that, in all likelihood the chances
of Duke missing the tournament is slim to none. Even
though it's fun to get into the nerd of it
of what seed line they're gonna be and all that,
a lot of people don't turn into tune until later
in the year. Why March Madnis in Championship weekend is
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some of the best weeks in sports. Expanding the field
just takes that away. College football needs to expand because
you need more games, you need more challenge at the top.
College basketball expanding to add in eighty teams, there's always
gonna be If they go to seventy eight teams, there's
always gonna be a seventy ninth team. If they go
to ninety teams, there's gonna be a ninety first team.
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And at some point you are completely depressing the college
basketball regular season. And I think that would be a shame.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
If I'm being honest, I don't even need the first
four games. I honestly think it's kind of a waste.
I would rather the number just be cut off at
sixty four. If you don't make fel Yeah, well, just
keep it to what it actually is. Does anyone watch
the Tuesday Wednesday games of the first week, unless unless
you're invested in one of those teams.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
No, I think people watch the people watch the elevens
who they might pick because they are competing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But the first two days of the Marchmadaws tournament now
are largely afterthoughts, unless, like last year, San Diego s
was in one of those games, so you're rooting for
the Aztecs in that game. But for the most part,
it's like the tournament starts on a Thursday, and everyone's
kind of okay with that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Right, and no one needs to see when the sixteen
seeds are playing. I mean, that's just first victim, that's
what that is. The eleventh less unless yeah, unless the
eleven twelves can be fun. Listen, If you are going
to expand the field, I would not do it. I'd
actually go different than you. I would let them into
the first four and make the first four be take
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out the sixteen ce games because I'm sorry, I don't
need to see that. I don't really care about it
outside the fact that I'm excited. Marsh Maddis's back and
put all these teams on the bubble in there and
see if they can win four straight games or three
straight games on opening weekend to make it out of it.
That would be interesting. But expanding the field, I feel
like it's just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Dumb, silly, stupid. All right, let's get one more in here, Sammy.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Okay, so out of you saw Luca and j J.
Redick were beefing on Saturday. J J. Redick, Actually Luca
was walking off the floor. J j U Reddick said
something to Luka doncic. Luca brushed him off, went and
sat at the other end of the bench. JJ Redick
then walked down said another thing to him. He turns
around and walks away. Luca gets up. Jared Vanderbilt gets
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in the way and basically calms Luca down. As of
a reporters of right now, the viral sideline exchange quote
much to do about nothing, and the relationship is strong.
Looking at that clip, what is your reaction to that,
because personally.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I actually like that there's a little fire back and forth.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, so do I.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's why the same reason I didn't kill Travis Kelsey
when he got in Andy Reid's face.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Outside the fact that he shoved him, that was pretty
bs Well.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Still, you're talking about the most competitive, competitive environments in
the world. I love this out of Luca. I think
Luca is a competitor man. He doesn't play much defense,
but Luca is one of the best basketball players alive,
and he's probably saying, can we start building this freaking
thing around me?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Can we stop whatever this is because it ain't working.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
To compare this to the Padres JJ Redick, the question
mark when the Lakers signed him was, is this Lebron's puppet?
Is this Lebron got him hired? Is he gonna even
go after the stars? Darvin Ham, the last Lakers head coach,
was awful with this. He would not challenge any star whatsoever.
Lebron James Anthony Davis is basically sitting there as a
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passive head coach. I like that. J. J. E. Reddicks
at the standard that whether you're Lebron, James, Luka, Doncic,
Austin Reeves and you're getting paid a top to Marquee
or you're a due thero or Jared Vanderbilt or Luke
Kennard sitting at the end of the bench that everyone
no one is above the law, No one is above coaching.
I love this. They are two competitive, you know. JJ Redick,
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former athlete, Luca athlete. Now they're competitive, they care. I
like that they're getting into it. I think people blow
this way out of proportion when we see athletes get
heated and looking at Craig Stalmon. Craig Stamon's very similar
to JJ. E. Reddick, a guy who has not had
a lot of experience managing or coaching in their respective sports.
I hope that when we see the patres get going,
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Craig Stamon's not afraid to get in Manny Michald's face
or Fernano Tatisa's face because it sets It sets a
marker for the team that people care in going down
the bench. You can coach Jay Cronaworth the same you
can coach Fernando tatis. I think it sends a good message.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Phone lines are lit.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Now is the time to call eight seven seven seven
six seven four seven sixty if you want to go
see the new Elephant Valley at the San Diego Zoo
Safari Park. Calling number seven is getting a family four
pack of tickets coming up next. Something nobody's talking about,
but maybe they should be. That's on the other side
of San Diego Sports seven sixty live on iHeartRadio app.
The Enhanced Games is coming up in May. Are you
telling me to turn on our stream?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So yeah YouTube, There we go. We're back San Diego
Sports seven sixty on YouTube. By the way, Enhanced Games
is coming up in May in Las Vegas, which the
Las Vegas part sounds pretty cool to me. The Enhanced
Games parts. Honestly, if you haven't heard of it, it
is what you think it is. They're taking Olympic events swimming, weightlifting,
track and field, and they're letting everyone who's competing in
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them do steroids for them, testosterone replacement therapy, human growth hormone.
If it's legal in the rules of this, you can
take it and you can use it. And then they're
offering incentives for you to break world records. So if
you break a world record, you're getting a bonus of
like a million bucks and there's a grand prizes to
go along with it. Some seriously deep pockets behind this
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event coming up in Las Vegas. Here's what I think
is cool about it. We're essentially pushing the limit.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Sorry, it's Okay, it almost worked. We're pushing the limit
of what human beings can do.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And steroids are not the same in twenty twenty six
as they were in nineteen ninety nine when the home
run race was going on between Bonds and Sosa and McGuire.
I guess that was McGuire and Sosa. Bonds came along later,
but it's not the same stuff. These aren't sketchy back
alley craziness with steroids. No, this is doctor admitted. This
is by the rules permitted steroid usage. And I think
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this is actually really cool and I'm excited to watch it.
Here's why I think the morality of everybody gets into this,
because you're saying, oh, well, you're taking sports, which is
all about fairness and rules and making sure that everyone's
on an even playing field, and you're saying, screw that.
I would rather the athletes who, let's be honest, it's
not like Olympic athletes don't get busted every single year
for doping or blood thinning or adding human growth home on.
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They get busted year in a year out, and they're saying,
all right, we're gonna keep this all. Being honest about it,
if you're gonna do it, do it and go break
some world records.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let's see what the human body can do.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Even I.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Always tell the truth, I think this is cool.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I'm actually kind of into this. You're gonna hear both sides.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There's gonna be people probably protesting this in the streets
of Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I actually think this is kind of awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And now you're seeing some Olympic gold medalist swimmer for
the United States has committed to doing this because he said, well,
my body is not good enough anymore to go compete
in Olympics swimming.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
If I wanted to athletes, this is another chance.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
This is so the Lindsay Vaughns of the world don't
just disappear after they're done with the Olympics. We get
to see people come back and maybe this gives them
a second chance. Because it's not like you're making a
bunch of money doing the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
This is an opportunity for you to go out and
break world records, make a million bucks. Because in order
to get to this point where you'd even be able
to be considered for these games, you already have to
be an elite athlete.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
This is just helping you recover a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
This is great. I mean I have a problem with steroids.
There's a lot of I mean real now. The problem
with the steroids is that because there's been a lot
of discussion of should professional athletes, especially baseball players, because
it's such a long season. If all it's doing is
helping you rest and recover, is that a good thing? Now,
on the flip side, there are some long term effects
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of being on steroids that you take after the playing
career is over that has certainly deteriorated some people who
have used them before.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I mean, yeah, it comes with the sketchy back alley deals.
The caveaon for these enhanced games. These are all doctor administered.
They're not supposed to I'm sure they do. I'm sure
they do have long term effects, but they're supposed to
be less.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The only thing if you're an athlete competing in this
is that everyone's just gonna say, like, a bodybuilder on
steroids is obviously gonna be able to lift more than
anyone who's ever lifted. So are you really breaking records?
It's just gonna be it's a new kind of league
because you really breaking records on people who quote weren't
on steroids beforehand when they competed.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Ultimately, it's gonna be kind of cool to watch. I'd
make a trip out to Vegas the.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Why don't you get on some steroids and you on
that peloton bite.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
See I've been thinking about steroids for a few years now.
But here's the problem. Out to do steroids exactly right.
So that's the thing that everybody when they talk smack
about McGuire or a Sosa or a Bonds, I'm saying, okay,
but the part of the conversation that needs to be
in is steroids weren't just a magical serum that all
the maid all of a sudden made them be able
to read pitches better. Like Barry Bonds also had the
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greatest eye of all time in the batter's box.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, yeah, it's not about It's not about it making
you a better player. It's about that you recover faster
than other athletes.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He also maybe had the best hand eye coordination of
all time, and then he used steroids to help him
hit the ball a little farther.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
So I don't have a problem with steroids. I guess
the other thing of it now, not in like football
or sport. A sport like boxing in the UFC are
massive issues because if you had if you have a
fighter who's on steroids, they can punch harder. I mean
the A it's a dangerous sport to begin with boxing UFC.
If guys are on steroids, that's a that's a real problem.
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There's like life threatening consequences with that. Baseball is such
a long season, but right, it doesn't mean you can
hit the ball better. But I guess the thing of
isn't that part of sports that how you recover, how
you deal with I mean, think of the most iconic
sports moments Michael Jordan flu game, that's that is goes
down in lore because they were dealing with something that
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they had to he had to overcome. Sure, and that's
a part of sports too.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And can you imagine a Saquon Barkley his quads on steroids.
I mean, we we'd be dealing with an alien is
what you'd be dealing with. But I think for this,
I think this is kind of awesome and I'm excited
to see how it goes.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Were you seriously considering taking steroids?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
No, I've never actually considered taking steroids because I don't
what would it do for me?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like I don't lift weights. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Six one five team. Are we sure that the peloton
bike will even power up? No?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Not yet?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
No, no, no, he's not asking yet. Will it ever power up?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, if its function is to be a towel holder,
so disrespect power. Uh no it My wife has already
used it a couple of times without the screen, right.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
So she's on her on there getting her grind on
and you're sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's her pelotson. I wasn't home at all yesterday. We've
had it for twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Basically, I expect to see a post of you tonight
riding on the peloton to be home tonight. Feels like
a lot of excuses are being made right.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now tomorrow tomorrow. I think the power court should be
back of the house tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You are the kind of guy that would be shooting
up steroids and not working out on the bike.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I will jump on the peloton bike tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Does that make everyone happy?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
A five eight says lies we need a juicer division
in all combat sports one million percent? Okay, So for
the UFC, like the argument would be to help out
with recovery in between fights, so you can fight more often, right,
But what happens when you have a juice dude throwing
punches that could literally kill so much?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, that was the Ryan Garcia at Devin Haney thing
is Ryan Garcia was on some sauce, so now he
was whooping him. I mean he kept hitting him with
her left hook all night. The steroids didn't do that,
But did the power from his shots from the steroids
really affect Devin Haney in a way that shouldn't have
affected him?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Top five most difficult Sports. There is a scientific study
out on the top five most difficult sports, and I
think it's maloney. We'll give our top fives, we'll give
your top fives. Get him in on the text line
seven zero four to seven zero. Start your message with
the word team that's coming up next at San Diego
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Speaker 2 (24:40):
Put it in perspective.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's a yellow web page that takes up half the
screen that has a bunch of words on it and
then a spreadsheet, a list, a ranking of what sport
is the most difficult sport? And they claim this is
from a panel of eight experts made up of a
sports sciences from the United States Olympic Committee academia who
study the science of muscles and movement, a two star
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sport athlete, and a panel of journalists who spend their
professional lives watching athletes succeed and fail.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Those are the people who were pulled for this.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
They were asked to give a one through ten ranking
on each sport. For each category, the categories were endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility,
nerve durability, hand eye coordination, and analytic aptitude.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Those are the categories.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Okay, so Sam, you're the top five. I should we
read their top five?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
First?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
We did not, Samy and I did not go one
through ten on every single category and then average things
out and come up with the top five together.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I have a top five. Samy has the top five.
Here are their top five.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Boxing number one, ice hockey two, football, three, basketball, four,
wrestling five, and then martial arts is actually number six,
so it got in there. Here's something interesting. The last one,
by the way, is fishing. Fishing is very bottom on there.
There's sixty sixty sports total. Apparently fishing comes in dead last. Uh,
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golf came in fifty first place. I'm gonna say this.
Zero people on that panel have ever played golf before.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
All right, so what's your top five? We got a
bunch of rolling in right now on the text line
seven zero four seven zero.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Start your message with team, keep them coming in. We'd
love to hear from you on this. Give us your
top five, my top five? Okay, are we going five
to one or one to five? Five to one, five
to one. My number five most difficult sport for someone
to do is gonna be football.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Okay, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go hockey at five
because you are skating. It's a physical sport. It's a
technical sport. But the reason I knocket out a little
bit is there are a lot of line changes and
you're never really on the ice for more than one
to two minutes at a time. But it is an
extremely physical sport. Hockey at five.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's why football was as low as it was for
me at number five, because of all I think, it's
incredibly physically demanding. Every play last about eleven seconds. So
football was at five for me. Number four is going
to be baseball, actually, because I think one of the
hardest things to do in the world is hit a
little rock that's coming at you ninety five to one
hundred and four miles per hour at any given time.
I think that the level of dexterity, hand eye coordination,
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analytical aptitude, or whatever else they were being graded on.
Baseball is an incredibly tough sport, and it's it belongs
at number four.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
To me, I'm putting MMA at number four. MMA is
an extremely brutal sport. Obviously, it's one of the most
dangerous that in boxing, because you are guys are putting
their life on the line to go fight. We've seen
unfortunately terrible things happen in rings and octagons. But the
reason I knock it down a little bit is because
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it is only twenty five minutes. Boxing is thirty six,
and when you look at scientific research and some of
the big knockouts the UFC has, it's not really as
dangerous to get a flash massive ko as it is
for repeated hits to the head like boxing has. I
think I'm gonna go number four MMA.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Fighting Number three for me is bull riding. It is
on this list.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm telling you there are handfuls of people on this
planet who can do this successfully. I don't care if
it's eight seconds long. You have something that you're on
top of trying to kill you any given second. You're
on top of it for eight seconds at a time,
and you do this like five times a night. Bull
riding the people who do it end up more injured
than just about any other sport on the planet. Bull
Riding is my number three, and I don't want to
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be called crazy for that. By the way, bull riding
came in at number forty two on this.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Bull riding's insane because they're barely on.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
The bull forty two.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I'm not saying it should be forty two.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You try it, Sammy, And I'm not talking to an
electrical bull out in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm talking about bull riding.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, but first off, we can really debate a bull
riding should be a sport number one and number two. Again,
you're on for eight seconds and once you're off the bull,
you're done.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Sounds like somebody who's not going to the Lakeside rodeo
coming up in April.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm not going to get back into how I feel
about rodeos.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Number three two good rodeo is this guy number three things?
All of us rednecks are just trash.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Number three golf. Golf is one of the hardest sports
in there's ever been, and golf is extreme. It might
be the hardest in terms of being consistently good and
consistently to be a consistently good golfer. It might be
the hardest sport there is. The reason I not golf
down a peg is because you don't have well, golfers
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do have injuries. You don't have to worry about CT.
You don't have to worry about as many bodily injuries
as other sports as boxing, mma, football, stores like that,
or sports like that. But golf technically, to be repeatedly
good at golf is one of the hardest sports. That's
why I have it at number three.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Also, rodeo guys, they have to deal with buckle buddies,
which is a whole other world, man, I mean, come on,
And speaking of which, golfers actually have to deal with
handling like ninety mistresses at the same time, also tricky situation.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Golf was gonna be my number two.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I don't think people understand the level of difference between
a professional golfer and someone who just goes out there
just because you can go out and do something like
I'm gonna play golf this weekend. Hopefully doesn't mean that
within ten years I could come close to what a
Brooks Koepka does. Also, when it comes to golf, we've
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had four people rise above the rest as truly dominant superstars.
We've had four people throughout the history of golf who
have gotten so good to whether the unquestioned best golfer
in the world. It's like Tiger, it's Scottie, it's Arnold
and Shack. Other than that, everyone's been a bunch of dudes.
Ben Hogan, I can hear the argument about but it's
taken so much to get to that very tippy top
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that there's been like four people in our history who
have done it. So golf is easily to be a
top two hardest sport.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Ever, right, And a pro golfer's worst shot is everyone
else's best shot on their best day of their entire life,
of their entire life. So I'm gonna go football too,
because the danger there's so much in a It's a
physical sport. You see guy's bodies breakdown, and it's a
technical I mean, you talk about one of the most
complex games that you play. I mean even say people
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playing Madden to attack a defense, the different coverages that
the entire eleven guys working together at one time. Football
is number two for me, and at number one, what's
your number one punch?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Number one is MMA?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Okay, you don't have boxing your top five, No, but
which is fair for me?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I would say I don't watch nearly as much boxing
as I do MMA, but I kind of feel like
they're in the same world.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Can I go fighting? Can I include them together? I
know they're very different.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Sport, but I'm going boxing one because of this, and
the UFC fans MMA fans, which obviously is a brutal sport,
are going to come after me. You're fighting eleven fewer
minutes than.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Boxers, for sure, but you're also doing a very different
style of fighting.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, but people don't realize what boxers do. I mean,
to hold your hands up for thirty six straight minutes
with gloves on is hard enough, let alone getting punched
in the face over and over again. And you're setting
up shots, You're setting up combinations. People who are just
casually watching a fighter like punch him in the face.
Why is he Why is he not hitting him? Because
you're setting up shots for later rounds, setting up combinations
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for later. Again, you f C smids you have more
vicious knockout knockdowns and knockouts, but it's the repeated blows
to a head as well as the stamina tried training boxing,
hitting a heavy bag where you're not even getting hit
coming back for you know, rounds on end and you
are dead tired. I think boxers have to be the
most fit of any because because it's your legs, it's
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your arms, everything there. But I could hear UFC as well.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Six one five.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I think you're both conflating athleticism and skill. Golfing takes skill,
but they're not athletics, same as bull riding. Dude six
A good point. They missed the Tour de France. Cycling
is on the list, and it's actually down way further
than I thought it would be. It would be in
my top ten for sure, which would be my number one.
A three week race of riding your average of one
hundred miles a day at high speeds on extremely hilly
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and dangerous courses. Ironically related to your other topic, probably
the one sport where the most doping is due to
the extreme demands involved. Yeah, that's the blood doping sport
where they like will take out some of their blood
and put in other stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
It's crazy with biking six.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
One nine says too much a golf has to do
with how good your equipment is. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Pro golfers do play with different clubs, and we play
with That is true, But if a pro golfer was
to go out with my clubs, they would still find
a way to break part that course in the country.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Seven to six to zero some subfellas five hardest, five
American football, four MMA, three rugby rugby obviously, two ice hockey,
and number one golf.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Golf is hard.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Six to one nine says golf. What about curling? Then?
Wtf good a professional beach volleyball tournament? He will see real,
all right?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
If Sam's going to talk about how hard it is
to hold up your hands for thirty six minutes, how
hard is it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
To walk four days of a golf course?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Do you really think that box it? Golf is harder
than boxing. You're holding up weighted gloves while getting punched
in the face.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So I don't know if you know this about I
actually went through like six months of kickboxing training. God
swear to God. Leading up to my wedding. It was
the nine rounds in Mission Valley. I was doing it
every day for six months. It is that I don't
think there is anything.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
God did you spar What did you spar so?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
God?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
No, it was like a like a fitness thing.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You were just doing the kickboxing stuff eight five eight
hockey slash any ice, skating, golf, water polo, surfing, boxing
slash MMA surfing.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Core surfing is crazy. Do you ever met a fat surfer? Yes,
there's no.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
But and then it's a different conversation. If you talk
about the top five most.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm sure there's been some Hawaiian big boys who are
out there just rimpid waves.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
If you go top five most pressure filled spots, then
you would go quarterback one. Not even close, because you
have to manage an entire offense. A closer in baseball,
I mean. But again, a golfer, a Augusta who's in contention?
How isolating must that be? Though? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
You have one hundred thousand people in front of you
watching every little move you make. You have five minutes
in between shots, like that's that's something else.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
It's up there. It's not a quarterback or.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
You don't have a whole team relying on you, which
is a big part of it.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Two. But that's if that's say with a star closer,
a star closer, it's you're coming in cold. What about
a kicker in a Super Bowl, a kicker in football?
I mean, you're talking about pressure filled spots. Baseball would
be up there if you just talk about hitters, because
it might be the most mental sport in that Think
of the best hitters in baseball are failing seven of
ten times, six or ten times every time at the plate,
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and you're gonna go through swamps the best players in baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So and by the way, a dude is throwing a
rock at you ninety five miles of per hour minimum.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It feels like these days hey By May.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Said ultimate fighting is fighting. Boxing is a sport. Asked
Roda about needing to be able to throw a punch
if not martial arts.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Now, I don't want to put the lump to two
into the same category. Honestly, I do not know enough
about boxing to include it in my top five, which
is probably on me. I should know more about it.
But MMA I do equate to two in terms of physicality.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
The MMA is you have to worry about more stuff. Obviously,
you can get taken into the ground. You can get
on the feet that you have to learn a bunch
of you know, how to wrestle. There's a bunch of
different things that go into the UFC. But again, you
can also take a little bit of a not a break.
That sounds wrong, but you've seen fighters who don't want
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to get caught with big shots just take guys out
of the mat and kind of sit there for a
minute and try to recain their breath. I saw that text.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Come on six, one nine, guaranteed anyone who picked golfers
number one, you're insulting three texters and I picked golf
number two.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So and also the one nine.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Is guarantee anyone who picked golf A is number one.
As a beer guy has a deep fright quarter powder
for dinner last day.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah, that was the text. I was halfway through reading
Sammy Way to Go.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
You stopped reading it though, because you started laughing.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
San Diego Sports seven sixty. We got one more left
for you. Jonathan Rifkins is gonna take over as soon
as we're done. I feel good about that.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I think the real answer there is everyone's top five
is probably your own because there's a lot of such.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
I'm surprised you didn't have golf at one.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'm surprised I didn't have Bob sledging in it at all.
I watched a lot of Bob.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Bobby flotting is not a sport. You sit in a
tube and go down the same path. Not a tube.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
It is like two centimeters that life and death.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Bob sledding is like calling cross country skiing a sport.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Sammy, the best bodies in the Olympics over the last however,
many weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Were Bob's letters.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
No, they were figure skaters.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's not true. That's simply not true.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Bob setting is not a sport. I'm sorry, I'll die
on that hill.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I'm gonna have to send Sammy like ninety more videos.
I'm gonna take this next commercial break. I'm gonna do
some deep research. I'm gonna send them all his way,
and then he'll have a very different tone on the
other side. At San Diego Sports seven sixty live on
my Heart radio app. Uh, Jay riff is furious at
me and Sammy. Right now, Jay Riff had the odd
read what Riffkins said okay, this was unprompted. He texted
me and said, F one driver needs to be top two.
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No contest, out of here, no contest. And then I
responded politely. I said it came in at thirty two
on this crappy list, which is probably too low, but
it ain't top two. And then he said that segment
infuriated me. How the f is golf a sport and
bob sled slash cross country skiing is not?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Because no one watches that.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
That's I watched a lot of Bob slid and I
just watching doesn't mean sport.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
The bob slid by the discree watched the movie Cool
Running since he's a bob sled hitter. I've seen co Running.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
You are such a Bob ste It's a great movie.
It is a badass sport.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Here's the problem. Just because it's scary. You sent me
the Collin Joe's clip from SNL and that's not even
the scariest one. That's the Bob slid that you're in inside.
I'm talking skeleton, dude. They just go down the same track.
It is not a sport. You just have to make
sure you try out to die. That is not competitive.
There's no nuance. No one has ever power ranked Bob
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slutters and went, hey, that guy that closer better than that.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Plenty of lists of Bob sleutters ranked, just not based
on their ability.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What did our text lines says? Other day? Bouncy Bob's
led babes are a thing. It's a fact. Bro j
Riff is high if he thinks F one.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
One now, So so okay, ask Riffin this, let me
give you credit number one. If if F one is two.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
He probably has boxing on one, I would say, or
mixed martial arts or something like that.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
F one drivers have to have elite reaction times better
than pretty much any other sport.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
F one drivers. Also, have you seen them?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
They all have the same Next, they're thick wide Next,
because you're they're literally dealing with g forces.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
I'm not saying the don't have to be athletes, but
to say that they're bigger athletes overball boxing UFC, I
mean that's crazy. Rodeo.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I mean, I had fun today. Today was a fun
show show. If you missed any of it, checking out
all the.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Podcast, just search Fletch Zone on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You can find it there. J Riff is coming up next,
and have fun with him on the text.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
If he opens up the show talking about across country skiing,
of course.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
He's opening up the show sport. No, he's talking about
he's gonna be talking about F one. Why it's the
top two, Jariff. If you want to send you the link,
we can. It's a terrible list. I hate the list.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
By the way, say maybe throw it out on Twitter
the list from our Affletch and Sammy so people can
see where the list is and what I I think.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
It's the dumbest list ever. But you can find it
all right.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I'll see it at five o'clock, Sammy, uh, I see
you Tomorrow's good work today, Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
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