September 21, 2022 • 37 mins
Chris Broussard and Rob Parker react to Robert Sarver announcing he will be selling the Suns, Mercury. Aaron Judge may just be having the greatest season of the century, and Eddie House - NBA Champion & FOX Sports Radio NBA Analyst joins the guys for all the latest in the basketball world!
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welcome in my esteemed partner, mister Ry Parker. What's up man, Wow,
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I'm a steam today. Huh wow, I feel like that
a steam brock. Thank you, Wow, Alex, I'll tell you
what the standard has been lower. My goodness, he's getting
last for that. Alex knows. I'm practicing. I'm getting ready
for my October first show. And Monica, No, I mean
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I haven't heard. I gotta be honest. The stuff you've
been kicking for the last three weeks, I don't know
if that's gonna cut it. Everything's not funny, everything's not
for it. I got new material. Chris, You'll you'll, you'll,
you'll like some of these chokes. Rob, I said this,
Uh you were out this day. Uh. Have you ever
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heard of the comedian David Arnold? David Arnold, he was
on the show once, but he's he's kind of was
blowing up right and um, he was on the show
about a year and a year and a half ago,
and he was blowing up. He had created a show
on Nickelodeon that girl Lele Uh. He had he was
working on his third Netflix stand up. He had had
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two already that were successful. And I just saw him
up at Martha's Vineyard when I was up pastor August
and Rob about I don't know three weeks ago he
died just natural causes at age fifty four. Wow. I
had grown up with his wife, so that's how I
knew him through her, That's how you Yeah. But yeah, man,
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you believe that. That's unbelievable. Fifty four too young? Crazy?
My goodness? So sad? We are? We having technical difficulties
because I can't hear Rob. Okay, I hear you. Fine?
Can we fix this? Is there anything Alex we could do?
I got you now, I got I got you? You You
got good? Chris Okay, you got yeah? Yeah yeah. I
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was just saying, it's it's a shame fifty four, it
is so young, and natural causes that really natural causes.
Wild yeah yeah. So all right, well let's get into it.
There's a lot to talk about. And uh we got
to introduce the Odd Couple crew super producer Danny g
and for super producer Rob Gee. How you like that? Uh?
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Of course on the ones and the twos is DJ
Alex tischert aka Alex the vegan I'm meeting. I'm born
again vegan ever met meet again? Man? Ever, that meat
laid him up for about two weeks, so I'm done.
I think he's done. With that, and then, of course
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on the updates another not to meat either. Oh, is
you're a vegan. I'm not a vegan. I'm a vegetarian. Okay,
I don't know. You don't eat me. No, that's that's
I'm not a Presbyterian. I'm just kidding. It's I'm just kidding.
No, no no, No, that's a religion. It's Presbyterian. I'm kidding.
I'm joking. It's Presyterian. Presbyterian. That's somebody who hates fish.
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I don't need anything with a face, So you just vegetables.
I ate a lot of veggis, ate a lot of carbs.
I'm the worst. You look good. No, one's because I'm
running to burn off all the carbs. Okay, got a
bal NFL Sunday. She tried feeding us vegan with a second.
I didn't try. I successfully. Everybody push vegan wings and fried.
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It tastes kind of vegan. I like it tasted like
those old AMPM burgers at the gas station when our
parents were really broke. Listen, Danny, Danny, G's a hater,
asked rich Or Burger, asked Steve Hartman, asked Ryan. Everybody
else loved him a party problem. Those guys all do
yoga too hot yoga? All right, well, thank you guys.
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We're gonna have a fun show. We got Greg Jenny's
joining us at the bottom of the hour as he
does every Wednesday. Rob, Let's get into it. Uh, no
surprise to me, probably not to you. We said it once.
Lebron James got the ball rolling with his tweet saying
the NBA got it wrong with the way they had
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handled the Robert's Sarva situation. Chris Paul then chimed in
with a tweet. PayPal said it would not sponsor the
Suns as long as Sarve was in his current position
as the owner, and the NBA Players Association came out
and said he should be removed. And then Draymond Green
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piled one and said the same thing. And now Robert
Sarver has announced today, Rob that he is going to
sell the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury of the
w NBA. I think that's what needs to happen. And
don't shed any tears for him. I mean, obviously what
he did was ridiculous anyway, but he also is gonna
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make a killing on this sale. It was like Donald Sterling,
Rob bought the team for twelve million dollars sold it
for two point one billion. No one's gonna feel bad,
but I have to say this. I think the commissioner
Adam Silver misread the room and clearly he botched this,
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and I think any talk of Adam Silver being the
all time great commissioner goes out the window. He didn't
understand that there was no way Saver was ever going
to be able to take back his team in a year, Chris.
And when he got up there and had that ridiculous
press conference and talked about it, he set a precedent
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and times have changed with Donald Sterling. I just cannot believe.
That's why I said to you from Jump Street. I
thought the NBA went soft on him, and I didn't
believe that the players and advertisers were going to be
as cool and as dismissive as Adam Silver was, which
was well, not much. We really can. Do you know
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their laws or whatever? Now? No, yes, there are, because
it's not just your own show. And when the players
have a set, have a voice, and the advertisers have
a voice, what in the world did Adam Silver think
was gonna happen? Happened that everybody was going to welcome
this guy back, Chris after a year. It's not that
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he should be sent to the Lions or something or
he can't live, but it doesn't fit with what the
NBA is about players that make up seventy five percent
of the league, or black African American, whatever term you
want to use. And to think that they were going to,
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you know, like turn the other cheek and act like
nothing happened after a year. Didn't he see what Donald
Sterling and how the players had threatened not to play
the playoffs? How Chris, That's the part that I don't understand.
I think Adam Silver misread everything and Lebron was right.
That's why I applauded him, Chris when he came out
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with that tweet. The league got it wrong, Adam Silver
got it wrong, and Sarver understands that he can't go on.
That's why he's saying I'm gonna sell. If he really
believed he had a chance, or he didn't, Chris, he
would have said that or or told Sterling or told
the commissioner are it I'll sell, I'll get out because
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he thought the commissioner was gonna be able to both
this over and have people be okay in a year.
And Silver was wrong, well, I agree with you, Adam.
Silver definitely misread the room, and that was evident right
away as the players and others began to come out.
And I'm glad you brought up Starver as far as
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you know, realizing he couldn't go on. Let me read
this statement because I have some problems with this statement. Chris,
I read it too, and I'm with you. Go ahead, Yeah,
here's the statement. As a man of faith, I believe
in atonement and the path to forgiveness. I expected that
the commissioner's one year suspension would provide the time for
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me to focus, make amends and remove my personal controversy
from the teams that I and sold me any fans love,
and let me finish this rob because I got something
to say about this thing. Then he goes. But in
our current unforgiving climate, it has become painfully clear that
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that is no longer possible, that whatever good I have
done or could still do, is outweighed by things I
have said in the past. For those reasons, I am
beginning the process of seeking buyers for the sons and Mercury,
Robert Sarver, you should be once again, you should be
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ashamed of yourself. This is a terrible statement. Number one,
you put the blame on everybody else in our current
unforgiving climate. Quick, real quick. Yeah, Donald Trump was elected president.
Chris the stuff that he said, people overlooked it and
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forgave him and just were like, well, I still think
he gonna be a great president. So this whole idea
that no one gets a second chance or people aren't
forgiving for that past, I don't even think people forgave.
But but but I'm saying I think they But I'm
saying it didn't stop them from saying saying like, Okay, well,
well he can't be president and I won't vote for him.
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That's all I'm saying. Is this not across the board.
If you do something, something bad is gonna happen and
you never could redeem this shot is getting a second chance.
There you go. It's replete. The environment is replete with
people getting second chances. That's number one. Number Two, he
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starts off as a man of faith. Okay, well, I
Rob I doubt he's become a man of faith within
the last two weeks. So he thought of himself as
a man of faith, probably for years. Robert's Harver, you
show us your faith by the way you behave, by
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the way you act. You don't. We don't believe you're
a man or a woman of faith just because you
say so. You have to show some fruit of being
a faithful believer, period, all right, And we read the
report and there's no fruit. It's negative fruit. Where was
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your faith when you were repeating the inward all those times?
Where was your faith when you were sending pornographic photos
and videos to freaking people that worked for you? Where
was your faith? Then? When you were talking about all
types of inappropriate sexual stuff in staff meetings, Where was
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your faith? Then that's show me your faith then, all right?
You know people by the fruit of their life. That's
how we know your faith, not because you say it.
All right, so that that don't give me that and
I'm not then you can't be forgetting. Look here's the
third thing, rob there is a difference between and a
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lot of people don't understand this, so this would be
good for people. There's a difference between forgiveness and justice. Okay,
Donald or Robert Sarver can be forgiven, but justice still
must be served. Just because you're forgiven doesn't mean you
won't be punished. My daughters, as I was raising them up,
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they did things wrong. They did things that upset me
at every single time I forgave them. But you know what,
there was also some punishment. And because that's justice, the
forgiveness comes. But then the justice comes. And justice is
necessary because you have to set that one. You have
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to let that person who you're forgiving understand that he
did wrong. If you just let people go, I'll forgive
you going and don't, there's no justice. They may not
recognize their wrongdoing and then they go on and continue
to hurt and harm people. So that look, I mean,
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he didn't harm me, but obviously I'm black. I don't
like him using an in word like that. I forgive him,
but justice must be served, and so separate. Let's separate
the two. You had no reason to put in such
an unforgiving climate. Stop it. Fox Sports Radio has the
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iHeart Radio app search f SR to listen live. Let's
go to Major League Baseball, where we are on the
verge of something historic. Aaron Judge last night hit home
run number sixty and he's now obviously two away from
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breaking the mark, the American League mark, the Yankees mark
that Roger Morris owns said it in what nineteen sixty one,
he matched Babe Ruth's all time high of sixty and
it's gonna you know, he's gonna do it. It's just
a matter of when, not if, we all believe. But
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Rob he also is right now if the game, if
the season ended today, he would win the Triple Crown
batting three sixteen, which would top the American League sixty
home runs, twenty three more than the nearest second Niches,
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which is that's unbelievable. That's those are the types of
distances Babe Ruth put when he played himself in the
nearest Competitor. We haven't seen that really since then. And
he's RBI. He's going to win that, hands down. The
only one is close. Xander Bogart's is batting three fifteen
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and Aaron Judge three sixteen, so that one is gonna
be tough to hold onto. But he tried to hit
in this first st at bat, so his average, you
know what I mean, like like that's a big yep.
That'll help him. That'll help him big time when you
get a hit, like the first time up yep. And
so Rob, here's what I want to ask you. We've
talked about how you know, some people think he's gonna
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be the single season home run king if he tops
Roger Marris. Both you and I disagree with that. It's
still Barry Bonds. But so I want to ask you, this,
is this the best Let's just say hitting, because some
people will say show heyo tany for you know, pitching
and hitting well. But is this the best offensive season
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of the century since the year two thousand? I mean,
if you want to go beyond that, feel free, it
might it might be. It might be the best Chris
when you really analyze and pull the covers back on
this season. If he were able to win a triple
crown hit break the all time record, right and when
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you start to look at his numbers and think about
his batting average, Chris, people don't have batting averages anymore.
You know what the average batting averages in baseball right now,
two forty three. It's at the lowest point since nineteen
sixty seven that that should be I mean, I guess
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they're gonna hopefully that'll be fit. But Chris, not only
not only is the shift that takes hits away from
people pictures. They have more, they carry more pitchers than
ever before. Guys are specialist. Guys come out of the
bullpen with great arms. In Babe Ruth's days, in the
early days of baseball, guys pitched doubleheaders. Chris, No, they did.
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Nobody would pitch they complete games, and they pitch complete games. Right.
If you were to start pitch of your team, you
would pitch eight or nine innings every time you went out.
That's just how it was. So you were facing guys
that didn't have the gas and the juice that these
guys have. That's why I think when you add in
the triple crown, it's not just like he's got sixty
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home runs and he's batting two ten, Chris. He's not
the strikeout, home run or home run, which is the
era we're in now, right right right, He's not that,
which is great. So I think when you think about
those things, when you think about who he's facing and
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playing against, I'm not going to negate Babe RUSS numbers.
He played in the league with no black or brown players,
no Latin players. He didn't play against the best of
the best. We know that some black and Latin players
are some of the best players who ever played the game.
That people that will tell you Josh Josh Gibson was
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as good or better than by Brew absolutely, and he
didn't play against those people. So so my point is
that Aaron is playing against the world. Now, the world's
best players show. Hey, all these other players Chris from
from Asia and all over South America and like, the
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best of the best and the world now play in
the major leagues. That wasn't always the case, right, But
now when you factor all of those things in, and
here's the last part, he's playing on the winning team
and the games he plays in matters. I'm not here
to rip show. Hey, I'm not here to rip trial. No,
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I'm not Chris. They haven't played a meaningful game since May.
Let let's let's just be honest. Aaron Judge is playing
in price sure packed situations where the Yankees need him
to hit and play well. And he's playing center field
now he moved over from right. I mean, he's been
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incredible to me, if he wins a triple crown and
he sets the record and has sixty five home runs,
I'm gonna consider it the greatest season that baseball has seen.
Wow wow Wow. All right, I am not And it's
tremendous what he's doing. And I maybe, Rob, I don't
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think so, because I know where you stand as far
as the home run record. No, it's I don't know
if Yeah, I don't know. If you were overlooking Bonds
in two thousand and one. No, I'm not because of
the peed us. Okay, So I'm that to me and
you you know I've said it and I stand by
it right now. Barry Bonds is the best baseball player
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I've ever seen. And I don't disagree with you. I
don't disagree, Okay, And that year and I get it, Robbed. Look,
I do think he used p DS. I think you
do too. I mean he even what admitted it right,
just unknowingly right off the clear on him. Yeah, yeah,
he didn't know, Um that's what it was. He thought
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it was just some regular old Johnson and Johnson uh
lotion or something. But anyway, in two thousand and one,
Rob and the Giants had a great a very good year.
They didn't make the postseason, but not as many teams
made it back then. I don't believe they made it
that year at oh one, but they didn't have a
winning record. They were in the hunt. Rob when he
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hit the that's the year he hit the seventy three homers,
had one hundred and thirty seven RBI, which didn't lead
the league, but he walked a hundred and seventy seven.
That was ridiculous. He well, he led the league on
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base percentage, in slugging, in ops. His ops was astronomical.
He and he batted three twenty eight. Ye see, that's
why I like better batting average, at least at this point.
More RBI obviously gonna have more homers. The walks is
just just dwarfs what Judge has done and and basically
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all the numbers he leads Judge. And again I get
the situation, but Rob, that's that's the best season I Judge.
I will say this, and this is one of the
best compliments I can give Judge. It's almost bonds and
what he's doing right like, like every time he steps up,
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you feel like he's gonna homer. What I feel like
I did he hit it, he won yesterday. That's what
Bonds was doing. Bonds was seeing one good pitch a
game and knocking it out the bark. It was ridiculous.
And yeah, so I gotta wouldn't you put Bonds? I mean,
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the only difference is the only difference, Chris. And I'm
not taking anything from Barry Bonds. I agree with you.
He's the greatest player of U saw he is. But
it's like this season is so unique considering where the
game is now that that's what is so impressive. That
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people don't have a good batting average anymore. Guys are
just sluggers or softball players. Chris taking rips right, hitting
home runs. Judge is hitting for average, he's driving runs in,
he's batting lead off. Uh, he's uh, just everything that
he's done, and he's helping his team win. When I
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add all and add all that together against better competition
as far as pitching and and people being specialist and
having fresh arms thrown at you, it was a lot
of that. No one, no, not quite no, no, right,
but the game has changed from that from him then yeh.
But but I agree that Bonds put in an unbelievable
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year and you just said that he didn't even lead
in RBIs and obviously walked a lot, so that stopped
plenty of opportunities. And I remember them walking in a
run once or twice, Chris. I think Bucks show Walter
walk after walking a run after rather than pitch to Bonds.
I know what's funny, leads the league rob with ninety
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three walks, Like I said, Bonds had one hundred and
seventy seven, basically twice as many. Yeah, in this day
and age, to be able to do what he's been
able to do with the pressures that are on him,
with the way the game is played, with the shift,
with all the other things that have taken so many
hitters out of you know, the conversation chrispher batting average
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and being more than a swing for the fence kind
of guy. Judge just buck the trent and uh I
you will agree. Now, I think some of the Altani guys,
because you already thought Judge was the MV, but I
don't think. Don't you think that even some of the
Altani people probably right now, are like it's hard. I
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think the crown, the Triple Crown, will swathe them towards Judge.
If they were leaning towards the Tanny. I think you'll
get a few. I mean we heard CC Sabathia would
be some some other people say that, you know, he
should get it every year. But I think Judge is
gonna win it going away, Rob and I honestly yeah,
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And I think show, Hey, I don't think it'll be
a Russell Westbrook situation with the triple double ware next.
You know, people will begin to maybe belittle what show.
I think he's gonna win more MVPs. But this is
just a year where Judge is doing something. His story.
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Like you said, it's the best season you've ever seen.
It is offensively because the second back, we haven't seen
that many guys hit sixty home runs, right, you know,
like that like that's the big understatement. Yeah. And then
and then to add to that, like this guy's about league,
the league in batting. Yeah, and to do it while
getting the triple ground and it's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy.
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We're good. We're good, brother And look you're out there
in Phoenix. You live out there, that's right? Are you?
Have you gotten a sense of what people feel like?
You know, with the news that Robert Sarver is gonna
sell the team, Um, you know, what are you hearing
out there? What are you sensing? Just from being in Phoenix. Well,
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I think the fan base have always not been a
huge Robert Sarver fan, to be honest, even before, right
even before all this, and the fact that he's telling
that that they're over the moon for that. You know,
they're happy. They feel like the team will go in
the right direction, even though they have been you know,
going in the right direction with and I think that's
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in part with James Jones and being able to bring
in the right players finally. But yeah, they're they're they're
kind of they're they're happy that they're able to move
on from him and kind and kind of get that
dark cloud over from over the organization. Hey, hey, Eddie,
I said, shame on Adam Silver the commission. I think
he totally misread the room. He thought that somehow players
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would accept Salver back after a year, knowing after reading
that report and the stuff that he did. He didn't.
I said it from day one. I never thought that
he should be able to keep the team. And Adam
Silver at a press conference where he basically was like, well,
it's out of my hands. There's nothing he could really do,
and the players and advertisers showed Adam Silver what to do, so,
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you are you surprised that he misread the room and
that players weren't going to have this. I don't think
he misread the room first, Sae. I think what he
did do was just he was under a different pressure. Right,
He's had to answer to the owners, and I think
that he more than likely had a number of conversation
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with them, and I'm not sure if they had to
if they were privy to reports. I'm quite sure they were.
And I don't think that that that was that he
misread the room. I just think that his hand was
forced from the owners. The owners was like, hey, this
is good enough. I think what happened in his hand
got forced was when the players got a hold of
the report, was able to read it, and then the
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pressure from the players, because again, the players drive the league.
It's the players driven league. You know, you don't have players,
you really don't have a league. You don't have great players.
And when the stars speak out, right, that's to me
when everything shifted. You know, that was the domino that
that was the first domino to create the domino effect
was Lebron James coming out and speaking out, and then
you see Chris Paul speak out on it, and then
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from that point on, I think it was a different
pressure that he had to that he had to deal
with after that. So then, uh, you know, Star basically
he got forced to sell the team, and because of
the players pressure that they put on him, I think
that Silver just had his hands piety only could do
what he could what he could do. You know, Andy,
there was a report earlier this week about the MVPA
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Players Association and the league. You know, they're talking about
issues for the collective bargaining agreement and it looks like
both sides are in agreement that they're going to drop
the age requirement from nineteen to eighteen and basically let
kids come straight out of high school. How do you
feel about that? You obviously played in the league when
that was still allowable. What are your thoughts on? You know,
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you like that or you you like it better the
way it is one and done. No, I think it's
it's better if because a lot of these kids don't
even need to go to college, don't have the opera.
You think about when Zion busting through his shoe, imagine
if he would have towards knee up and didn't have
the chance to come out because he got hurt and
had no business playing college basketball. Was definitely head and
shoulders above everybody in college basketball, the reason why he
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was the number one pick. So, if you're able to
come out and you have the ability, you have the talent,
and now it's up to the league, the league executives,
and the scouts and all those guys to actually do
their due diligence in spot yeah, you know, and scouting
these kids to making sure that they get the right one.
So I think their feet to be held to the
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fire a little bit. And um, if you can play,
there's no meaning for you to go to college because
it's basically it's it's laughable. Think about they go to
school for maybe what what four five months? Six months
right right, and then he just preparing for the league.
So it's kind of laughable when you think about it
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in that way. So I'm glad that they're able to
do it back because there was so many kids that
didn't get an opportunity just to go straight out of
high school, had to wait one an extra year even
though they were so challenged to even get to get
to the league. That's just one year wasted, one opportunity
that just anything could go wrong within that season? And Eddie,
are the Lakers crazy with Sugaro to not make a
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deal to get rid of Westbrook? And I know that
him and in Hahn and they don't want to give
up this. They don't want to give up that Lebron's
clock is ticking. We already know like this and Pat Bear,
it's gonna be crowded, right, But but you got like,
what what are they doing? Why aren't they willing to
make a deal. If someone who is in Indiana Chris
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is now saying that they will make a deal and
take Washbrook, but you gotta give to get those picks?
Aren't gonna be that good anyway? It's crazy. Yeah, Yeah,
I just don't think that nobody really wants to take
on that Westbrook contract number one and number two. If
they do, they're gonna ask for a bunch of things.
And again, if you're the Lakers, Westbrook's not the problem.
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I'm gonna tell you what the problem is. The problem
is Anthony Davis not being healthy because they gave up
a young They gave up a lot of young players
and some assets to get Anthony Davis, who hasn't played
a full season in his whole career. I don't think
he played over seventy games in a Hulk in his
whole career. So you have a guy you did get
the championship. I think, and it might sound crazy, I
would look to cut bait with him. I think he
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has more value on the trade market and try to
find something. But I know the reason why you can't
because Lebron's clock is ticking, like you said, Rob. But
at the same time, if you're looking at a at
a business, you have to say, hey, man, you know what,
we really can't rely on this guy. You know, how
can we? This is supposed to be the next guy
Lebron's supposed to pass the torch. Lebron's been trying to
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pass the torch and he hasn't been able to do
so because Anthony Davis is not there to get the
hand off. So to me, that's been the problem. Westbrook
really hasn't been the problem to me. Yeah, I'll say this,
if Anthony Davis goes down again this year and has
the same type of injury problems he's had, you know
in the past, maybe I'm foolish Eddie for giving him
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a shot this year. You know, from thinking, Okay, let's see,
I think this year he'll be healthy and he and
Brown will be able to do that thing. Because we
even got to look at that that year he was healthy,
they had a four month hiatus, right, that's the only
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they played a few months and they stopped for a
long period of time then they came back. So that
wasn't a real uh. That wasn't a real example of
playing a full season because it was such a huge
stoppage in between an opportunity for everybody to get healthy,
not just Anthony Davis but for everybody. So I look
at it like, he is who he is, He's been
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getting hurt, and I think that you have to at
some point say we might have to just go ahead
and cut bait with that. We got a championship out
of it, so it wasn't a total loss. One last thing,
I know you're a baseball guy. We always ask you
baseball questions. Judge, Chris has two hits tonight. So as
you know, Eddie, he's in the league now for the
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triple crown in the American League. If this guy sets
the record for home runs in the American League, which
it looks like he's gonna do. He just needs to.
And when's the triple crown? Is this the best season
you could I don't know, Chris, what you're say in
the twentieth century. Is this the best season put together?
Or is it Bonds is seventy three? Still, no matter what,
I go with Bonds, Ribe goes with Judge. I gotta
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go with Judge because it's the triple crown. You know,
he's hitting for average, he's hitting for power, setting a
home run record American League home run record in and
on top of that, driving in all those runs. So
winning a triple crown is winning just being a winning
either any one of those three. It's tough enough, let
alone winning all three of them. And the way he's
doing it with the home runs is unbelievable. So I
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would have to go with Aaron Judge, And guess what, Yankees,
you better back up? But where's the bank at? Because
they're gonna have to break one. I ain't no doubt
about that. Yeah, he he should be the highest paid
player in the league. And I'm sure if I was
in his shoes, I would want to stay with the Yankees.
Christ seen it. Guys leave and it's just Robinson can
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get the same Robinson and he was a career. Was
never saying Jose Ray has left the Mets and never
let me say this to you, then get them. I
would have to get the money though, because they didn't
want to give him, and he could have got some
money last year if they would have, you know, worked
with him. Now they're gonna have to come and what
damn about something? And if they don't want to see him,
and he got to go somewhere else and get that.
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And I don't think that if he leaves. I don't
think that if he leaves, he's gonna all of a
sudden fall off the map. I don't think that a
little older when he left that. But you might not
be playing like the Yankees every year are trying to
win the World serious. Every team's not doing that. And
I agree with you get paid, but I'm saying, like
if the Yankees, the baseline is you gotta be the
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high paid player in the league. I'm just saying if somebody,
if I were in his shoes and somebody's offering me
a little more, but the Yankees are still making me
the highest paid player in the league, I think I
would stay with the Yankees. I'll tell you. Asked, asked
Juan Soto if he should have taken that four hundred
and forty billion. That's a different situation. No, I'm definitely
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welcome in my esteemed partner, mister Ry Parker. What's up man, Wow,
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I'm a steam today. Huh wow, I feel like that
a steam brock. Thank you, Wow, Alex, I'll tell you
what the standard has been lower. My goodness, he's getting
last for that. Alex knows. I'm practicing. I'm getting ready
for my October first show. And Monica, No, I mean
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I haven't heard. I gotta be honest. The stuff you've
been kicking for the last three weeks, I don't know
if that's gonna cut it. Everything's not funny, everything's not
for it. I got new material. Chris, You'll you'll, you'll,
you'll like some of these chokes. Rob, I said this,
Uh you were out this day. Uh. Have you ever
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heard of the comedian David Arnold? David Arnold, he was
on the show once, but he's he's kind of was
blowing up right and um, he was on the show
about a year and a year and a half ago,
and he was blowing up. He had created a show
on Nickelodeon that girl Lele Uh. He had he was
working on his third Netflix stand up. He had had
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two already that were successful. And I just saw him
up at Martha's Vineyard when I was up pastor August
and Rob about I don't know three weeks ago he
died just natural causes at age fifty four. Wow. I
had grown up with his wife, so that's how I
knew him through her, That's how you Yeah. But yeah, man,
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you believe that. That's unbelievable. Fifty four too young? Crazy?
My goodness? So sad? We are? We having technical difficulties
because I can't hear Rob. Okay, I hear you. Fine?
Can we fix this? Is there anything Alex we could do?
I got you now, I got I got you? You You
got good? Chris Okay, you got yeah? Yeah yeah. I
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was just saying, it's it's a shame fifty four, it
is so young, and natural causes that really natural causes.
Wild yeah yeah. So all right, well let's get into it.
There's a lot to talk about. And uh we got
to introduce the Odd Couple crew super producer Danny g
and for super producer Rob Gee. How you like that? Uh?
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Of course on the ones and the twos is DJ
Alex tischert aka Alex the vegan I'm meeting. I'm born
again vegan ever met meet again? Man? Ever, that meat
laid him up for about two weeks, so I'm done.
I think he's done. With that, and then, of course
(04:10):
on the updates another not to meat either. Oh, is
you're a vegan. I'm not a vegan. I'm a vegetarian. Okay,
I don't know. You don't eat me. No, that's that's
I'm not a Presbyterian. I'm just kidding. It's I'm just kidding.
No, no no, No, that's a religion. It's Presbyterian. I'm kidding.
I'm joking. It's Presyterian. Presbyterian. That's somebody who hates fish.
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I don't need anything with a face, So you just vegetables.
I ate a lot of veggis, ate a lot of carbs.
I'm the worst. You look good. No, one's because I'm
running to burn off all the carbs. Okay, got a
bal NFL Sunday. She tried feeding us vegan with a second.
I didn't try. I successfully. Everybody push vegan wings and fried.
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It tastes kind of vegan. I like it tasted like
those old AMPM burgers at the gas station when our
parents were really broke. Listen, Danny, Danny, G's a hater,
asked rich Or Burger, asked Steve Hartman, asked Ryan. Everybody
else loved him a party problem. Those guys all do
yoga too hot yoga? All right, well, thank you guys.
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We're gonna have a fun show. We got Greg Jenny's
joining us at the bottom of the hour as he
does every Wednesday. Rob, Let's get into it. Uh, no
surprise to me, probably not to you. We said it once.
Lebron James got the ball rolling with his tweet saying
the NBA got it wrong with the way they had
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handled the Robert's Sarva situation. Chris Paul then chimed in
with a tweet. PayPal said it would not sponsor the
Suns as long as Sarve was in his current position
as the owner, and the NBA Players Association came out
and said he should be removed. And then Draymond Green
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piled one and said the same thing. And now Robert
Sarver has announced today, Rob that he is going to
sell the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury of the
w NBA. I think that's what needs to happen. And
don't shed any tears for him. I mean, obviously what
he did was ridiculous anyway, but he also is gonna
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make a killing on this sale. It was like Donald Sterling,
Rob bought the team for twelve million dollars sold it
for two point one billion. No one's gonna feel bad,
but I have to say this. I think the commissioner
Adam Silver misread the room and clearly he botched this,
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and I think any talk of Adam Silver being the
all time great commissioner goes out the window. He didn't
understand that there was no way Saver was ever going
to be able to take back his team in a year, Chris.
And when he got up there and had that ridiculous
press conference and talked about it, he set a precedent
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and times have changed with Donald Sterling. I just cannot believe.
That's why I said to you from Jump Street. I
thought the NBA went soft on him, and I didn't
believe that the players and advertisers were going to be
as cool and as dismissive as Adam Silver was, which
was well, not much. We really can. Do you know
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their laws or whatever? Now? No, yes, there are, because
it's not just your own show. And when the players
have a set, have a voice, and the advertisers have
a voice, what in the world did Adam Silver think
was gonna happen? Happened that everybody was going to welcome
this guy back, Chris after a year. It's not that
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he should be sent to the Lions or something or
he can't live, but it doesn't fit with what the
NBA is about players that make up seventy five percent
of the league, or black African American, whatever term you
want to use. And to think that they were going to,
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you know, like turn the other cheek and act like
nothing happened after a year. Didn't he see what Donald
Sterling and how the players had threatened not to play
the playoffs? How Chris, That's the part that I don't understand.
I think Adam Silver misread everything and Lebron was right.
That's why I applauded him, Chris when he came out
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with that tweet. The league got it wrong, Adam Silver
got it wrong, and Sarver understands that he can't go on.
That's why he's saying I'm gonna sell. If he really
believed he had a chance, or he didn't, Chris, he
would have said that or or told Sterling or told
the commissioner are it I'll sell, I'll get out because
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he thought the commissioner was gonna be able to both
this over and have people be okay in a year.
And Silver was wrong, well, I agree with you, Adam.
Silver definitely misread the room, and that was evident right
away as the players and others began to come out.
And I'm glad you brought up Starver as far as
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you know, realizing he couldn't go on. Let me read
this statement because I have some problems with this statement. Chris,
I read it too, and I'm with you. Go ahead, Yeah,
here's the statement. As a man of faith, I believe
in atonement and the path to forgiveness. I expected that
the commissioner's one year suspension would provide the time for
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me to focus, make amends and remove my personal controversy
from the teams that I and sold me any fans love,
and let me finish this rob because I got something
to say about this thing. Then he goes. But in
our current unforgiving climate, it has become painfully clear that
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that is no longer possible, that whatever good I have
done or could still do, is outweighed by things I
have said in the past. For those reasons, I am
beginning the process of seeking buyers for the sons and Mercury,
Robert Sarver, you should be once again, you should be
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ashamed of yourself. This is a terrible statement. Number one,
you put the blame on everybody else in our current
unforgiving climate. Quick, real quick. Yeah, Donald Trump was elected president.
Chris the stuff that he said, people overlooked it and
(10:57):
forgave him and just were like, well, I still think
he gonna be a great president. So this whole idea
that no one gets a second chance or people aren't
forgiving for that past, I don't even think people forgave.
But but but I'm saying I think they But I'm
saying it didn't stop them from saying saying like, Okay, well,
well he can't be president and I won't vote for him.
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That's all I'm saying. Is this not across the board.
If you do something, something bad is gonna happen and
you never could redeem this shot is getting a second chance.
There you go. It's replete. The environment is replete with
people getting second chances. That's number one. Number Two, he
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starts off as a man of faith. Okay, well, I
Rob I doubt he's become a man of faith within
the last two weeks. So he thought of himself as
a man of faith, probably for years. Robert's Harver, you
show us your faith by the way you behave, by
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the way you act. You don't. We don't believe you're
a man or a woman of faith just because you
say so. You have to show some fruit of being
a faithful believer, period, all right, And we read the
report and there's no fruit. It's negative fruit. Where was
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your faith when you were repeating the inward all those times?
Where was your faith when you were sending pornographic photos
and videos to freaking people that worked for you? Where
was your faith? Then? When you were talking about all
types of inappropriate sexual stuff in staff meetings, Where was
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your faith? Then that's show me your faith then, all right?
You know people by the fruit of their life. That's
how we know your faith, not because you say it.
All right, so that that don't give me that and
I'm not then you can't be forgetting. Look here's the
third thing, rob there is a difference between and a
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lot of people don't understand this, so this would be
good for people. There's a difference between forgiveness and justice. Okay,
Donald or Robert Sarver can be forgiven, but justice still
must be served. Just because you're forgiven doesn't mean you
won't be punished. My daughters, as I was raising them up,
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they did things wrong. They did things that upset me
at every single time I forgave them. But you know what,
there was also some punishment. And because that's justice, the
forgiveness comes. But then the justice comes. And justice is
necessary because you have to set that one. You have
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to let that person who you're forgiving understand that he
did wrong. If you just let people go, I'll forgive
you going and don't, there's no justice. They may not
recognize their wrongdoing and then they go on and continue
to hurt and harm people. So that look, I mean,
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he didn't harm me, but obviously I'm black. I don't
like him using an in word like that. I forgive him,
but justice must be served, and so separate. Let's separate
the two. You had no reason to put in such
an unforgiving climate. Stop it. Fox Sports Radio has the
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go to Major League Baseball, where we are on the
verge of something historic. Aaron Judge last night hit home
run number sixty and he's now obviously two away from
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breaking the mark, the American League mark, the Yankees mark
that Roger Morris owns said it in what nineteen sixty one,
he matched Babe Ruth's all time high of sixty and
it's gonna you know, he's gonna do it. It's just
a matter of when, not if, we all believe. But
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Rob he also is right now if the game, if
the season ended today, he would win the Triple Crown
batting three sixteen, which would top the American League sixty
home runs, twenty three more than the nearest second Niches,
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which is that's unbelievable. That's those are the types of
distances Babe Ruth put when he played himself in the
nearest Competitor. We haven't seen that really since then. And
he's RBI. He's going to win that, hands down. The
only one is close. Xander Bogart's is batting three fifteen
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and Aaron Judge three sixteen, so that one is gonna
be tough to hold onto. But he tried to hit
in this first st at bat, so his average, you
know what I mean, like like that's a big yep.
That'll help him. That'll help him big time when you
get a hit, like the first time up yep. And
so Rob, here's what I want to ask you. We've
talked about how you know, some people think he's gonna
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be the single season home run king if he tops
Roger Marris. Both you and I disagree with that. It's
still Barry Bonds. But so I want to ask you, this,
is this the best Let's just say hitting, because some
people will say show heyo tany for you know, pitching
and hitting well. But is this the best offensive season
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of the century since the year two thousand? I mean,
if you want to go beyond that, feel free, it
might it might be. It might be the best Chris
when you really analyze and pull the covers back on
this season. If he were able to win a triple
crown hit break the all time record, right and when
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you start to look at his numbers and think about
his batting average, Chris, people don't have batting averages anymore.
You know what the average batting averages in baseball right now,
two forty three. It's at the lowest point since nineteen
sixty seven that that should be I mean, I guess
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they're gonna hopefully that'll be fit. But Chris, not only
not only is the shift that takes hits away from
people pictures. They have more, they carry more pitchers than
ever before. Guys are specialist. Guys come out of the
bullpen with great arms. In Babe Ruth's days, in the
early days of baseball, guys pitched doubleheaders. Chris, No, they did.
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Nobody would pitch they complete games, and they pitch complete games. Right.
If you were to start pitch of your team, you
would pitch eight or nine innings every time you went out.
That's just how it was. So you were facing guys
that didn't have the gas and the juice that these
guys have. That's why I think when you add in
the triple crown, it's not just like he's got sixty
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home runs and he's batting two ten, Chris. He's not
the strikeout, home run or home run, which is the
era we're in now, right right right, He's not that,
which is great. So I think when you think about
those things, when you think about who he's facing and
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playing against, I'm not going to negate Babe RUSS numbers.
He played in the league with no black or brown players,
no Latin players. He didn't play against the best of
the best. We know that some black and Latin players
are some of the best players who ever played the game.
That people that will tell you Josh Josh Gibson was
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as good or better than by Brew absolutely, and he
didn't play against those people. So so my point is
that Aaron is playing against the world. Now, the world's
best players show. Hey, all these other players Chris from
from Asia and all over South America and like, the
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best of the best and the world now play in
the major leagues. That wasn't always the case, right, But
now when you factor all of those things in, and
here's the last part, he's playing on the winning team
and the games he plays in matters. I'm not here
to rip show. Hey, I'm not here to rip trial. No,
(19:49):
I'm not Chris. They haven't played a meaningful game since May.
Let let's let's just be honest. Aaron Judge is playing
in price sure packed situations where the Yankees need him
to hit and play well. And he's playing center field
now he moved over from right. I mean, he's been
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incredible to me, if he wins a triple crown and
he sets the record and has sixty five home runs,
I'm gonna consider it the greatest season that baseball has seen.
Wow wow Wow. All right, I am not And it's
tremendous what he's doing. And I maybe, Rob, I don't
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think so, because I know where you stand as far
as the home run record. No, it's I don't know
if Yeah, I don't know. If you were overlooking Bonds
in two thousand and one. No, I'm not because of
the peed us. Okay, So I'm that to me and
you you know I've said it and I stand by
it right now. Barry Bonds is the best baseball player
(20:56):
I've ever seen. And I don't disagree with you. I
don't disagree, Okay, And that year and I get it, Robbed. Look,
I do think he used p DS. I think you
do too. I mean he even what admitted it right,
just unknowingly right off the clear on him. Yeah, yeah,
he didn't know, Um that's what it was. He thought
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it was just some regular old Johnson and Johnson uh
lotion or something. But anyway, in two thousand and one,
Rob and the Giants had a great a very good year.
They didn't make the postseason, but not as many teams
made it back then. I don't believe they made it
that year at oh one, but they didn't have a
winning record. They were in the hunt. Rob when he
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hit the that's the year he hit the seventy three homers,
had one hundred and thirty seven RBI, which didn't lead
the league, but he walked a hundred and seventy seven.
That was ridiculous. He well, he led the league on
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base percentage, in slugging, in ops. His ops was astronomical.
He and he batted three twenty eight. Ye see, that's
why I like better batting average, at least at this point.
More RBI obviously gonna have more homers. The walks is
just just dwarfs what Judge has done and and basically
(22:23):
all the numbers he leads Judge. And again I get
the situation, but Rob, that's that's the best season I Judge.
I will say this, and this is one of the
best compliments I can give Judge. It's almost bonds and
what he's doing right like, like every time he steps up,
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you feel like he's gonna homer. What I feel like
I did he hit it, he won yesterday. That's what
Bonds was doing. Bonds was seeing one good pitch a
game and knocking it out the bark. It was ridiculous.
And yeah, so I gotta wouldn't you put Bonds? I mean,
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the only difference is the only difference, Chris. And I'm
not taking anything from Barry Bonds. I agree with you.
He's the greatest player of U saw he is. But
it's like this season is so unique considering where the
game is now that that's what is so impressive. That
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people don't have a good batting average anymore. Guys are
just sluggers or softball players. Chris taking rips right, hitting
home runs. Judge is hitting for average, he's driving runs in,
he's batting lead off. Uh, he's uh, just everything that
he's done, and he's helping his team win. When I
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add all and add all that together against better competition
as far as pitching and and people being specialist and
having fresh arms thrown at you, it was a lot
of that. No one, no, not quite no, no, right,
but the game has changed from that from him then yeh.
But but I agree that Bonds put in an unbelievable
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year and you just said that he didn't even lead
in RBIs and obviously walked a lot, so that stopped
plenty of opportunities. And I remember them walking in a
run once or twice, Chris. I think Bucks show Walter
walk after walking a run after rather than pitch to Bonds.
I know what's funny, leads the league rob with ninety
(24:30):
three walks, Like I said, Bonds had one hundred and
seventy seven, basically twice as many. Yeah, in this day
and age, to be able to do what he's been
able to do with the pressures that are on him,
with the way the game is played, with the shift,
with all the other things that have taken so many
hitters out of you know, the conversation chrispher batting average
(24:55):
and being more than a swing for the fence kind
of guy. Judge just buck the trent and uh I
you will agree. Now, I think some of the Altani guys,
because you already thought Judge was the MV, but I
don't think. Don't you think that even some of the
Altani people probably right now, are like it's hard. I
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think the crown, the Triple Crown, will swathe them towards Judge.
If they were leaning towards the Tanny. I think you'll
get a few. I mean we heard CC Sabathia would
be some some other people say that, you know, he
should get it every year. But I think Judge is
gonna win it going away, Rob and I honestly yeah,
(25:38):
And I think show, Hey, I don't think it'll be
a Russell Westbrook situation with the triple double ware next.
You know, people will begin to maybe belittle what show.
I think he's gonna win more MVPs. But this is
just a year where Judge is doing something. His story.
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Like you said, it's the best season you've ever seen.
It is offensively because the second back, we haven't seen
that many guys hit sixty home runs, right, you know,
like that like that's the big understatement. Yeah. And then
and then to add to that, like this guy's about league,
the league in batting. Yeah, and to do it while
getting the triple ground and it's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy.
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Eddie House e House. What up at a Batman's going down? Gentlemen,
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We're good. We're good, brother And look you're out there
in Phoenix. You live out there, that's right? Are you?
Have you gotten a sense of what people feel like?
You know, with the news that Robert Sarver is gonna
sell the team, Um, you know, what are you hearing
out there? What are you sensing? Just from being in Phoenix. Well,
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I think the fan base have always not been a
huge Robert Sarver fan, to be honest, even before, right
even before all this, and the fact that he's telling
that that they're over the moon for that. You know,
they're happy. They feel like the team will go in
the right direction, even though they have been you know,
going in the right direction with and I think that's
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in part with James Jones and being able to bring
in the right players finally. But yeah, they're they're they're
kind of they're they're happy that they're able to move
on from him and kind and kind of get that
dark cloud over from over the organization. Hey, hey, Eddie,
I said, shame on Adam Silver the commission. I think
he totally misread the room. He thought that somehow players
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would accept Salver back after a year, knowing after reading
that report and the stuff that he did. He didn't.
I said it from day one. I never thought that
he should be able to keep the team. And Adam
Silver at a press conference where he basically was like, well,
it's out of my hands. There's nothing he could really do,
and the players and advertisers showed Adam Silver what to do, so,
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you are you surprised that he misread the room and
that players weren't going to have this. I don't think
he misread the room first, Sae. I think what he
did do was just he was under a different pressure. Right,
He's had to answer to the owners, and I think
that he more than likely had a number of conversation
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with them, and I'm not sure if they had to
if they were privy to reports. I'm quite sure they were.
And I don't think that that that was that he
misread the room. I just think that his hand was
forced from the owners. The owners was like, hey, this
is good enough. I think what happened in his hand
got forced was when the players got a hold of
the report, was able to read it, and then the
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pressure from the players, because again, the players drive the league.
It's the players driven league. You know, you don't have players,
you really don't have a league. You don't have great players.
And when the stars speak out, right, that's to me
when everything shifted. You know, that was the domino that
that was the first domino to create the domino effect
was Lebron James coming out and speaking out, and then
you see Chris Paul speak out on it, and then
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from that point on, I think it was a different
pressure that he had to that he had to deal
with after that. So then, uh, you know, Star basically
he got forced to sell the team, and because of
the players pressure that they put on him, I think
that Silver just had his hands piety only could do
what he could what he could do. You know, Andy,
there was a report earlier this week about the MVPA
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Players Association and the league. You know, they're talking about
issues for the collective bargaining agreement and it looks like
both sides are in agreement that they're going to drop
the age requirement from nineteen to eighteen and basically let
kids come straight out of high school. How do you
feel about that? You obviously played in the league when
that was still allowable. What are your thoughts on? You know,
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you like that or you you like it better the
way it is one and done. No, I think it's
it's better if because a lot of these kids don't
even need to go to college, don't have the opera.
You think about when Zion busting through his shoe, imagine
if he would have towards knee up and didn't have
the chance to come out because he got hurt and
had no business playing college basketball. Was definitely head and
shoulders above everybody in college basketball, the reason why he
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was the number one pick. So, if you're able to
come out and you have the ability, you have the talent,
and now it's up to the league, the league executives,
and the scouts and all those guys to actually do
their due diligence in spot yeah, you know, and scouting
these kids to making sure that they get the right one.
So I think their feet to be held to the
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fire a little bit. And um, if you can play,
there's no meaning for you to go to college because
it's basically it's it's laughable. Think about they go to
school for maybe what what four five months? Six months
right right, and then he just preparing for the league.
So it's kind of laughable when you think about it
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in that way. So I'm glad that they're able to
do it back because there was so many kids that
didn't get an opportunity just to go straight out of
high school, had to wait one an extra year even
though they were so challenged to even get to get
to the league. That's just one year wasted, one opportunity
that just anything could go wrong within that season? And Eddie,
are the Lakers crazy with Sugaro to not make a
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deal to get rid of Westbrook? And I know that
him and in Hahn and they don't want to give
up this. They don't want to give up that Lebron's
clock is ticking. We already know like this and Pat Bear,
it's gonna be crowded, right, But but you got like,
what what are they doing? Why aren't they willing to
make a deal. If someone who is in Indiana Chris
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is now saying that they will make a deal and
take Washbrook, but you gotta give to get those picks?
Aren't gonna be that good anyway? It's crazy. Yeah, Yeah,
I just don't think that nobody really wants to take
on that Westbrook contract number one and number two. If
they do, they're gonna ask for a bunch of things.
And again, if you're the Lakers, Westbrook's not the problem.
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I'm gonna tell you what the problem is. The problem
is Anthony Davis not being healthy because they gave up
a young They gave up a lot of young players
and some assets to get Anthony Davis, who hasn't played
a full season in his whole career. I don't think
he played over seventy games in a Hulk in his
whole career. So you have a guy you did get
the championship. I think, and it might sound crazy, I
would look to cut bait with him. I think he
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has more value on the trade market and try to
find something. But I know the reason why you can't
because Lebron's clock is ticking, like you said, Rob. But
at the same time, if you're looking at a at
a business, you have to say, hey, man, you know what,
we really can't rely on this guy. You know, how
can we? This is supposed to be the next guy
Lebron's supposed to pass the torch. Lebron's been trying to
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pass the torch and he hasn't been able to do
so because Anthony Davis is not there to get the
hand off. So to me, that's been the problem. Westbrook
really hasn't been the problem to me. Yeah, I'll say this,
if Anthony Davis goes down again this year and has
the same type of injury problems he's had, you know
in the past, maybe I'm foolish Eddie for giving him
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a shot this year. You know, from thinking, Okay, let's see,
I think this year he'll be healthy and he and
Brown will be able to do that thing. Because we
even got to look at that that year he was healthy,
they had a four month hiatus, right, that's the only
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they played a few months and they stopped for a
long period of time then they came back. So that
wasn't a real uh. That wasn't a real example of
playing a full season because it was such a huge
stoppage in between an opportunity for everybody to get healthy,
not just Anthony Davis but for everybody. So I look
at it like, he is who he is, He's been
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getting hurt, and I think that you have to at
some point say we might have to just go ahead
and cut bait with that. We got a championship out
of it, so it wasn't a total loss. One last thing,
I know you're a baseball guy. We always ask you
baseball questions. Judge, Chris has two hits tonight. So as
you know, Eddie, he's in the league now for the
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triple crown in the American League. If this guy sets
the record for home runs in the American League, which
it looks like he's gonna do. He just needs to.
And when's the triple crown? Is this the best season
you could I don't know, Chris, what you're say in
the twentieth century. Is this the best season put together?
Or is it Bonds is seventy three? Still, no matter what,
I go with Bonds, Ribe goes with Judge. I gotta
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go with Judge because it's the triple crown. You know,
he's hitting for average, he's hitting for power, setting a
home run record American League home run record in and
on top of that, driving in all those runs. So
winning a triple crown is winning just being a winning
either any one of those three. It's tough enough, let
alone winning all three of them. And the way he's
doing it with the home runs is unbelievable. So I
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would have to go with Aaron Judge, And guess what, Yankees,
you better back up? But where's the bank at? Because
they're gonna have to break one. I ain't no doubt
about that. Yeah, he he should be the highest paid
player in the league. And I'm sure if I was
in his shoes, I would want to stay with the Yankees.
Christ seen it. Guys leave and it's just Robinson can
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get the same Robinson and he was a career. Was
never saying Jose Ray has left the Mets and never
let me say this to you, then get them. I
would have to get the money though, because they didn't
want to give him, and he could have got some
money last year if they would have, you know, worked
with him. Now they're gonna have to come and what
damn about something? And if they don't want to see him,
and he got to go somewhere else and get that.
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And I don't think that if he leaves. I don't
think that if he leaves, he's gonna all of a
sudden fall off the map. I don't think that a
little older when he left that. But you might not
be playing like the Yankees every year are trying to
win the World serious. Every team's not doing that. And
I agree with you get paid, but I'm saying, like
if the Yankees, the baseline is you gotta be the
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high paid player in the league. I'm just saying if somebody,
if I were in his shoes and somebody's offering me
a little more, but the Yankees are still making me
the highest paid player in the league, I think I
would stay with the Yankees. I'll tell you. Asked, asked
Juan Soto if he should have taken that four hundred
and forty billion. That's a different situation. No, I'm definitely
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all right, and he We appreciate you, all right, brother,
Thank you.
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