June 11, 2024 • 37 mins
Chris and Rob discuss whether Caitlin Clark is the most polarizing athlete in American pro sports today and tell us if it’s fair to say that Dan Hurley only used the Los Angeles Lakers as leverage to get a pay increase from UConn. Plus, FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Martin Weiss brings us the latest edition of Trollin’ or Rollin’.
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
But first let's go back.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Let's go rib to the story that I mean, it
just the story that keeps on giving.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's Caitlyn Clark, Rob.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I mean, every it just seems like every day there's
something still being said about this situation. And people knew
or thought that she would lead to increase coverage with
the WNBA, and that certainly is what they've gotten. Her
(01:32):
TV games are breaking all sorts of records for the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But it's also, you know, cast a.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Light on just a lot of discussions that I'm sure
the league wishes weren't taking place. Ultimately, I think it's
all good for the league, Rode, because people are talking,
people are tuning in. Ratings are up across the board,
particularly when she plays. But she's become incredible polarizing. And
(02:01):
the latest thing is her being left off of Team
USA that's going to compete in the Olympics this summer
and Diana Tarazi, who's forty two years old, this is
this will be her sixth time on Team USA. Robb
g if I'm correct, and she was talking about it recently,
Rob Here's what she said.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
The Olympic team really is just the collection of best players.
At the end of the day, USA basketball, which has
a firm grasp of what they need as a team,
I think people kind of loose back of no matter what,
you have to make sure that flow players fit to
form the best team. Now say the best players, so
you know, whatever the twelve are. I think you say.
(02:43):
Basketball always done a great job of putting that collection
of down together.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, that much is true, Rob, that they have they've
won seven straight.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Men say, whatever they're doing, they're doing it right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So everybody who wants to question what are they doing,
what they're doing is winning gold medals.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
How's that?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, from that standpoint, absolutely, And like I said yesterday,
from a basketball standpoint, you can certainly argue and argue
well that she wasn't one of the twelve best players
that deserve to be on the team. I think there
is an argument that she's good enough. Her numbers are
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pretty good. She's on record on pace to be the
rookie of the year. She's gonna on pace at least
to become the fifth player ever to average fifteen points,
five assists and five rebounds.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
At least, So she's playing well.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Their team isn't winning, of course, but you could argue
that either way, and more so probably that she's not
one of the twelve best. But I do think from
a pr standpoint, it would have been smart to put
her on the team because I think they would have winn.
They're gonna win no matter what, and I think that
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would have boost the game even more. But here's what
I want to throw at you, Rob, we know that
we have some polarizing athletes today, Lebron James, Steph Curry,
Aaron Rogers, Tom Brady was was polarizing. Let's face it, interestingly,
(04:21):
Patrick Mahomes, is it polarizing because and we're not saying
this is the athletes fault at they're polarizing. It's just
some some athletes for whatever reason, some people love, some
people hate. But do you think Rob at this moment
in time, that Caitlyn Clark is actually the most polarizing
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athlete in the world right now?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
No, or the American athlete. I just think that that
she's the newest and the latest. I still think Lebron
James still runs and has the championship. Just recently we
talked about it, Chris, were Lebron Is talking and giving
Kyrie his flowers and saying, well all this and people
looked at it.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
To escape his raft because he went off on Kendrick.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not big enough profile. I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean, maybe he feels a kinship, you know what
I mean, Like you played in the league, Are you
talking about me like that or whatever?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
But I still think it's Lebron.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I really do Caitlin has her the w n B
A is still C compared to the other sports.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
C is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know what I mean. But I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You're not even saying his insult, but I don't even
know if they're that high, but I'm just saying, like
like quality, saying they're a C.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So Lebron, like I said, we just saw it.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
People went after Lebron for that and and his son playing,
and there's always something.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I still think he's polarized.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And some people are like, oh, this is great, that's
what a dad should do, make it easy for their kid,
and other people like and his kid that he shouldn't
get a hand out, he should have to earn it,
you know what I mean. So there's always both sides.
So so Caitlin Is is definitely polarizing, there's no doubt.
But I don't think she's supplanted Lebron, not not yet.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's just been too soon.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Lebron has a history of this, and even here we
are twenty years Chris and four championships and all the
other stuff, the all time leading scorer and all these
other things, and there are still people who who will
go after Lebron or push back on some of the
stuff he says or does.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I think first I want to address Lebron before I
get into this whole question.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Would you say I think he'd be because I brought up.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Patrick Mahomes the best player in the NFL not polarizing.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Would you agree with that? Like, I don't think. I
just don't think Patty everybody. I don't think Pator says
anything to make people be bothered. He says he's milk toast.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He's not gonna bother any toast. But yeah, I think
he's milk toad. He doesn't say anything, so why would
you be mad at him? I just don't see him
as that player.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, he's he.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Says the right thing. It's hard not to like him.
You might not pull for him and all that, but
it's hard just not to like him.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I rob think.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I think a question I have about Lebron.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Is was he polarizing before he left Cleveland to go
to Miami.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think that did it because I.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Think when when Lebron was in Cleveland in his first
go round, I think like the only guy that really
was was going at him and being critical of him
for the most part was Skip Bayless.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But I think when he went to Miami.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It feels like that's when obviously some people didn't like that.
A lot of people didn't like that and his you
know a lot of people stuck with him and did
like it. But I think that was when remember he
did the villain. He was gonna be the villain for
that first year and that didn't work.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And you know, but I think that's when he became polarized.
I don't think he was before that. Do you agree
or disagree with that? Probably?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I think I'm taking my talents to Miami. South Beach
was was where people put up drew a line in
the sand, like like, who is this guy to go
try to stack his team and try to win and
all that. I think that's where some people decided to
bail off of that Lebron ship, you know what I mean,
and look at him differently.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
No, I agree with that as far as Caitlyn. Look,
you're obviously right in a few things. One, yes, I
mean Lebron has if we counted from twenty ten, right
when he went to Miami. I mean, that's that's fourteen
years of this of being polarizing, of having those that
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love you, having those that don't, love you and all
that stuff and.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Being a hot button topic.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Obviously there's the Jordan versus Lebron and just so many things. Also,
I would say Aaron Rodgers, you know, with his stuff
on and off the field, Tom Brady with his winning
and some people not liking him and all that.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Number one, these guys have been polarizing.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
If you will, and again and not saying it's any
fault of theirs, but they've been polarizing for nearly two decades.
And they're in the much larger sports, right, like you said,
I mean football is king, obviously basketball is right there.
I mean, these are the popular sports, and so yes,
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they are, you know, affecting the thoughts and views and
feelings of far more people than a WNBA basketball player
Kaitlyn Clark. But at this very moment, Rob, I guess
I if I had to use the.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Term pound for pound, you know, like I.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Mean Caitlyn Clark, like I do, think she is issues
that really don't come up with the other guys, or
at least not consistently, are coming up with her. Now,
obviously she's a female, so gender is one that's coming
up with her, right and obviously race Now, race occasionally
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has come up with Lebron He's made taking some stances
and things like that, but it really doesn't I don't
think it's ever come up to.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
The degree that it is with Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Some are saying players are jealous in the WNBA, some
are saying they're resentful and all of that stuff. Now,
obviously you got the Olympic team, and you know you
got is she the read and for the growth and
she is. I mean, it's just the numbers that bear
it all out. You can love it, you can hate it.
You know, you can debate and talk about why that is,
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but it is happening. And I think at this very moment,
again it's hard to compare it to those guys, Rob
because football and NBA basketball are just on a different level.
But man, she is certainly in this moment giving them
a run for their money. We even remember even the
situation with Greg Doyle, the columnists in Indiana, you know,
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I mean, so it is really incredible the passion and
the emotion and the feelings that she has really you know,
created in people, Rob And so at this moment, I
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think it's hard to say somebody's more polar rising in
her right now, I get it, and I totally agree
with the history of Lebron and others and the you know,
just the levels of their sport.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But my goodness, it's just that Lebron has been so long, Chris,
and it hasn't died.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And I get that, Like that's the part, and I
get it.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
She's I mean, Lebron may be polarizer Rob too, I mean,
darn near the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Who knows. I mean, we'll see, but it'll be interesting.
But yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, I'm just saying like she's brand new and she's
the newness and the hotness Chris.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So it's top of mind, and it does feel like that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But I just maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm looking at
it wrong, and maybe other people, right listeners, Chris will
think that she has top Lebron already in this short
period of time.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Do you have anybody else like Steph's died out?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Because Steph was polarizing, I think now where they are are, like.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Like he doesn't bother people as much.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And I think I would say, Rob, that's because yeah, yeah,
and here's why I think Steph was polarizing solely for
basketball reasons, right, whether some people thought he was overrated, right,
some of you think he's overrated, some people thought he
wasn't better than Kevin Durant. Whatever it might be. Oh
(13:24):
he doesn't have a finals MVP, like you say, he's
not clutch.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Whatever. It was nothing to do with.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Off the court at all, Like you know, he's you know,
lived a very he.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Was solid, he.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Has Lebron been solid, but Lebron's been more outspoken than
things like that. Yeah, so I think with Lebron it
was the move to Miami that triggered it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Mostly.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I think it's Lebron moving around to different teams. It's
you know, people blame him for a lot of his
coaches being fired. Lebron, you know, recruiting guys and the
cryptic tweets and things like that. So that's that's why
I think, even though Lebron's team isn't really that great anymore,
he's still polarizing where Steph, You're right, they're not really
(14:07):
contenders anymore basketball wise. He's putting up good numbers, but
you know, they're not really much of a factor.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So I know that's a that's a good point. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It is based off of that, Like, you're not see
Steph Stepp wasn't in the playoffs, right, right, right, so
he can't bother.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Me, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And if Lebron wasn't in the playoffs, it would have
been a huge deal just because you know, tweets and
things like that. So yeah, eight seven seven ninety nine
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Is Caitlin Clark the most polarizing athlete in America today?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Your thoughts with the Eye Couple? All right, we'll see
who we got here. Let's start with Joe lou Is
that it Jola? Okay, I'm just Jola in Dallas. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Hey, Rob, he always gets me Rob like super my Cyda.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Man, I'll be wanting to go.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
Crazy like.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
I'm sorry, I won Yeah, no, hey for real though,
Now I want to reach out a Happy Father's Day too, man,
I know that's coming up. I know, Chris, you got kids,
but uh yeah, Robi menor to the young. Yeah, I know,
I'll do y'all take care of us, man.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But yeah, I appreciate that, yes, you know for sure.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
But man, between Caitlyn Clark and Kyrie Irving, I can't tell,
you know, Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
They're both.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, Kyrie's definitely don't think he'd be as much as her,
but he's wanting to throw here.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
That both getting left off the USA team to a
certain degree, you know, both for different reasons. I mean, uh,
you know, Kyrie's more kind of I feel like political,
you know, but her is more I mean a little
political too. But she I mean she I feel like
she could be on that twelve spot or whatever and
just beyond the team to just to get that experience
and I feel like they should. I mean, what if
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she aspired a girl from overseas to start playing basketball
from China or somewhere from over there in Paris, you know.
So I feel like they missed the mark on that.
But uh, I feel like between her and Kyrie Irvings
and it just.
Speaker 13 (17:47):
Right.
Speaker 10 (17:48):
That's what I was gonna say to It just shows
that basketball is kind of politics. With Tim even having
we're entertaining this idea of Brownie being in the league.
It just showed the how basketball's politics to a certain degree.
I mean, we wouldn't be having this talk if it
was somebody else's son in the NFL and they could have,
you know, hit or something like that and couldn't play
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or I don't know.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
It just showed that, but uh.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, it's a little different. There's no doubt there's some
politics involved.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Start taking the call, man, no doubt your call.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Thank you, Jola, I got it, Jola, I got it.
I remember that for next time. Uh, Larissa in Washington,
you're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What's up? Larissa?
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Hey, Ronnie, Chris, how you guys doing, Man.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Ray, good to hear from you. Wow, thank you? How
long you've been listening, Larissa.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
Honestly forty years everything.
Speaker 12 (18:42):
Wow, my job.
Speaker 14 (18:42):
I got off at four o'clock, well three fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
So I would hit us all.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
There you go, Oh my gosh. Anyway, and it's going right.
Thank you, Thank you, Larissa, that's so nice. Thank you.
Speaker 14 (18:56):
I think about you guys a lot. I just hope
everything is well. I just want to say she is
the mook plar race, but I don't think that's exactly
how she imagine her past. And this is something that
you're gonna have to kind of take in tride. I
used to I played coach sports, and it's the same thing.
It's it's not I don't think it's exactly the path
that she imagined. But I mean everything that led her
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up to this, to this exact point is you know.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
She played the with boys.
Speaker 14 (19:23):
She she bawled out. She you know, did the same
thing with the haters. And I think it's a lot
of a lot of stress for like, she's still so young.
I don't I don't understand. I'm okay with her not going.
Do I want to see her there? Yes, as a fan,
I do, but I'm okay with her not doing I
just hope everybody kind of like take what she wants
in mind, because she's out here doing you know, taking
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everything right. I don't know, Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I don't think really done much to she done anything.
It's just.
Speaker 14 (19:57):
So I I understand her not playing. I really get that.
But you know, next year will be will be the test,
I think, and I hope the best first.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I think, Yeah, there's really been other people.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Row You remember when she was still in college her
junior year and she had made some I think she
did the facial you.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Know, gestures and.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Everybody nobody said a thing or they praised it if
it was anything. And then Angel Reese did it and
it became this huge stink, you know, and big story,
and and people were criticizing Angel be So it was
stuff like that that really isn't her fault, but the
way people and media responded to her, and in this
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case the Angel as well, that made her polarizing.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know what I mean? Oh no, no, no, no
doubt about it. And it's it's it's the other stuff. Yeah,
for her, most of it. Chris has nothing to do
with her, right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Tony and Vancouver, Washington, So did the Vancouver British Columbia
and Vancouver.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
Washington, Washington, sure near Portland.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, yeah, I got you. How are you?
Speaker 13 (21:10):
I'm trying. I got these women in the w NBA
should be praising great can car you know, you know
Grinder and uh Breeese they were getting rating worse than
Ping Pong on TV and then now they're you know,
they've got a name. I mean, what will this last?
I don't know. I don't think. I don't think. Uh,
(21:32):
I don't think the hype is you know, her performers
is gonna, you know, need the hype, but ride it
wile it's here and display what you have while it's
here because people are watching. And uh, believe me, before her,
the NBA was a joke. I mean it was. It
was a people were calling it a jo so nosing
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and not.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Look, I get it, you're you're competing.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You're not gonna go out there and you know, just
say her praises you're competing, right, It's fine, And I
think we should.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Look at it like that.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Rob Look, she got cheap shotted last week or week
or two ago, and it was what it was and
and and that was that. But I don't think they
should be praising her, but then rob them competing with her,
them playing her hard, you know, playing her physical. That's fine,
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that's fine, you know. So you know, we'll see. Like
I said, I think.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Basketball, that's basketball. Sorry, they're not tackling that. Putting on
helmets Chris and playing foot ryers. Basketball is physical.
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Oh many, all right, fellas, buckle up, here's being It's
pre and postgame coverage can sometimes leave things to be desired,
mainly due to the.
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Amount of commercial breaks. But Bob Meyers garnered some attention
when he pulled the post game panel for their finals
MVP after Game two, everyone named players. He said he
would vote for Brad Stevens, the Celtics general managers, Chris
Trolling or Rowland, the former GM, or the Warriors to
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either current Celtic GM.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I'm rolling with it, no problem whatsoever. Obviously he didn't
mean it like they're actually gonna give the trophy to
Brad Stevens. I don't think the fact that he's a
GM had much to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I mean with it. A writer could have said it.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I mean what he was trying to emphasize was this
is a team. This isn't let me just go pay
the best three stars and get them on my team
and it will fill out.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The roster with whatever we can for the minimum.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
This isn't, Oh, the superstar wan to come to my team.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
H and I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
This was them drafting Jason Tatum, drafting Jaylen Brown, trading
for Derek White, trading for Drew Holliday, trading for Chris STAPs, Worzingis,
trading for Al Horford.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Like they he built a great.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Team, and obviously I would not like him in real
like real life to get the MVP, and he won't obviously,
But I think the point that Myers was trying to
make was totally fine.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm trolling it.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm trolling it, oh many. Just absolutely ridiculous analysis that
we're talking about after the game. If you want to
do it after it's all over and they won the championship,
to say that he's the MVP after a couple of
games that they haven't even won a title for is misplaced.
(25:31):
It doesn't make any sense postgame, after you just watched
the Celtics win win another game, it doesn't make any sense.
This is the guy who just wanted to glad hand
and say the.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
General manager, yeah, they don't get any credit.
Speaker 15 (25:47):
It's just dumb because if those same players he put
together don't make shots and don't make plays, he wouldn't
sit there and say the same exact thing, because the
players ultimately have.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
To play and make the plays in order to make
the general manager look good. So it's terrible. Analysis is dumb.
It didn't belong here in a post game. If you
want to talk to me after they won the championship
and a move that the guy made and you want
to make that point. That's fine, not after a game,
when a series not even decided.
Speaker 12 (26:22):
He just reminded me of the Pauli Fuso Show, absolutely
terrible analysis. Tony, You're off the show Fox Sports Radio.
Travis Kelce is too much younger than me, which sounds crazy.
He's still one of the best tight ends of the game,
but he's not looking at hanging them up anytime soon.
(26:44):
He said, I can't put a time frame on it.
I know, obviously there's opportunities outside of football for me,
but I think you got to keep it in perspective.
I'm still a little kid when I come in this
building trolling o'oli. Travis Kelce is saying he will play
it so quote wheels fall off.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 13 (27:04):
They see me.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I mean, the dude was great in last year's playoffs.
Wasn't great during the regular season. He was solid, you know,
but not up to his typical standards. But playoffs great,
and now you're gonna give him some action. I think
they got They've improved their receiving corps and so now
he's not gonna have as much focus on him as
(27:27):
he did last year.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So I think he'll have a solid year. I don't
expect him to play but a few more years.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
But hey, the dude is a two time the three
time champion and they've won two straight. They're going for
a three pet Nobody gets slow him down. So I
got no issue with it.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I'm troller it. Oh many, Hey.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Hey, you don't have to get out of the game
and be downtried in the up half of what you were.
You could walk out on top and feel good about it.
So I know it sounds good. Oh they got to
the ript the uniform.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I'm off of me.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And we've seen guys do that and not be the
same player, and people look at you.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I just don't think you want to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
If you can get out, he's had a lot of success,
He's done a lot. It's great if you can walk
out with some dignity, feeling like I played at my
best as long as I could and I can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 12 (28:20):
Trolling, rowing a couple of Fox Sports Radio. Nothing says
the fourth to July like fireworks, Marveques and Joey Chestnut
forcing hot dogs down his throat.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
This year with no condiments. Gross believe it, just don't.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
I couldn't help myself. This year, however, Bagally eating and
Nathan hot Dogs and ban Chestnut from competing, citing his
partnership with the Vegan hot dog brand and the reason
why christ Mussard trolling and rowing rolling the Fourth of
July without Joey Chestnut trolling it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh many chest Nuts an institution.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Chess nut is is now synonymous with the Fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
What are we talking about? Long live Joey Chestnut? What
are you doing with it? What do you do? Say?
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Trolling a roll?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, I'll with it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
He knows what the rules are and he went against him,
and that's the penalty.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So he decided that.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He was going to do what he wanted to do
and wind up costing himself.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Uh, the thing that made him famous.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So follow the rules like everybody else. He didn't do it,
and that's his penalty.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
Rob.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
I'm disappointed.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
It was right.
Speaker 12 (29:49):
Therefore, you serve up on a platter just like a
hot dog for Joey. Of course, Joey test I can't
participate if he's a sponsor with the Vegan hot talk brand.
No more phone there.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You go, No phony.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I know I blew that one more, no doubt, that's
what Chris, that was my commercial when I had.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
The Cody spot, the hot dog spot in Detroit. You
don't have that anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Just no, no, no, still got the barbershop, but that
was the tagline, No phony Cony's because they won't one
hundred percent beef at the other places.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
My hot dogs were one hundred percent beef.
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Oh wow, I legitimately pick that story just so you
could do that.
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off the air. All right, Rob, Yesterday news broke to
Dan Hurley, two times defending champion of the Yukon Huskies
men's college basketball team, turned down to LA Lakers, who
(32:18):
offered him sixty six I'm sorry, six years, seventy million dollars.
And now remember I said that just talking to a
few people around the league. One theory that many of
them had was that Danny Hurley and this is before
he rejected the offer, but that Danny Hurley they thought
(32:41):
was using this for leverage to get a bigger contract
from Yukon. Looks like he's gonna end up getting about
eleven million a year, roughly make him the highest paid
coaching back college basketball, and that's more than double. If
that's what he gets eleven that's more than double his
current soul. And they also felt like disrespeculation as well.
(33:04):
But JJ Reddick may want ten million a year, and
the Lakers want him to know you're not.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Even were our first choice.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So come down on that cost.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
You know, from ten million, you haven't even coached the
team yet. And today Sean Sharania, one of the top
NBA reporters, he came out and said this rat he was.
Speaker 16 (33:27):
Not the number one candidate, the number one guy to
go pursue from the start, from the beginning, but they
felt like there was an opening there for him.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He was in.
Speaker 16 (33:36):
Contract negotiations with Yukon. He was discussing a deal to
go back, and they felt like there was an opening
and they threw what really are people around the league?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
He was a hail mary offer at.
Speaker 17 (33:46):
Him six years, seventy million dollars and at the end
of the day, Dan Hurley chose not to leave. He
chose to stay for twenty million dollars less at Yukon.
They did go up significantly from his current deal right now,
but it is twenty million million dollars less, and you
think about the Lakers job and what it's known for
and the big timelesness of it, and he still decided
(34:07):
to stay at Yukon, go for a chance at a
three peat, And you know, it does beg the question
around the league was there genuine interest, was this a
genuine process with this or was this simply just about leverage?
So when you think about it, the Lakers are two
and a half weeks out from the NBA Draft, the
three weeks away from free agency, no coach yet.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
So Rob, do you think that that Hurley may have
You know, look tylu Rob.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
When the Lakers started, you know his name was out there.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
He got a contract extension with the Clippers made over
fourteen about fourteen million dollars a year. Jason Kidd, his
name was thrown out there. He got a lucrative extension
with the Dallas Mavericks. And now Dan Hurley his name's
out there with the Lakers. He gets a contract, the
(35:00):
will get it got.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Twenty million less.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
No, No, it's not finalized yet, Robbgerie right, it's uh.
Some reports were six years, fifty million, that's the Yeah,
there's others saying he's gonna get about eleven, so we'll
see what it ends up being. But but yeah, so
do you think.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I don't know. It meels like he wasn't that serious
about the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
To me, I'm not saying he completely used them, but
it feels like he wasn't that serious.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I just don't think if if I'm Connecticut and I
really want, I don't need him to go anywhere for
an offer. If I'm serious about keeping them and he
don't have to get on the plane. I told you before,
if you really want, what's your number, Let's see what
your number is, write it down, and then we could
go from there. So I don't know if that's good.
It's not like they outdid the Lakers offer to keep on.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We don't know yet. I mean, we don't. I don't
think I'm gonna do college it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I mean, but I think they'll make him I think
because six years fifty probably wouldn't be that, but I
think they'll make him the highest bad coach in college basketball.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
But that that wouldn't have to equal the Lakers offer.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I mean a lot of that stuff, Chris is what
agents do they throw people's names out to just try
to yeah, to hope that there's a leverage, and teams
have to know whether or not anybody's really in the
running or whatever. And the Lakers had a number what
they wanted to spend on a coach, and if he
didn't want to do it and take a prestigious situation.
You know, people are all talked about the Lakers. It's
(36:31):
still one of the marquee franchises, and you know, and
if you wanted to cement your name and do something
else and show that you're a great coach and not
just in one particular situation or circumstance, he had an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Turned it down.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, I like I said, I don't think it was
one hundred percent using the Lakers, but I do feel
like he wanted to stay in college all along, or
at least at Yukon.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Lakers is a tough.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Job even you know, look at they giving him the
years and the money that gives you leverage, that gives
you some security, which can give you authority as a coach,
which is what you need. But it's a tough job
because the expectations still and maybe even more so with
Hurley would have been championship or bust.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And if you don't get there, people are gonna look
at you.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
He may not have gotten fired like a Reddick Mit
or a James Berego or somebody, but there would be pressure.
So he chose to stay at Yukon and we'll see
if he can get his three straight. All right, it's
the odd couple. Christi and Rob. We are out of here,
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of the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
But first let's go back.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Let's go rib to the story that I mean, it
just the story that keeps on giving.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's Caitlyn Clark, Rob.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I mean, every it just seems like every day there's
something still being said about this situation. And people knew
or thought that she would lead to increase coverage with
the WNBA, and that certainly is what they've gotten. Her
(01:32):
TV games are breaking all sorts of records for the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But it's also, you know, cast a.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Light on just a lot of discussions that I'm sure
the league wishes weren't taking place. Ultimately, I think it's
all good for the league, Rode, because people are talking,
people are tuning in. Ratings are up across the board,
particularly when she plays. But she's become incredible polarizing. And
(02:01):
the latest thing is her being left off of Team
USA that's going to compete in the Olympics this summer
and Diana Tarazi, who's forty two years old, this is
this will be her sixth time on Team USA. Robb
g if I'm correct, and she was talking about it recently,
Rob Here's what she said.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
The Olympic team really is just the collection of best players.
At the end of the day, USA basketball, which has
a firm grasp of what they need as a team,
I think people kind of loose back of no matter what,
you have to make sure that flow players fit to
form the best team. Now say the best players, so
you know, whatever the twelve are. I think you say.
(02:43):
Basketball always done a great job of putting that collection
of down together.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, that much is true, Rob, that they have they've
won seven straight.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Men say, whatever they're doing, they're doing it right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So everybody who wants to question what are they doing,
what they're doing is winning gold medals.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
How's that?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, from that standpoint, absolutely, And like I said yesterday,
from a basketball standpoint, you can certainly argue and argue
well that she wasn't one of the twelve best players
that deserve to be on the team. I think there
is an argument that she's good enough. Her numbers are
(03:23):
pretty good. She's on record on pace to be the
rookie of the year. She's gonna on pace at least
to become the fifth player ever to average fifteen points,
five assists and five rebounds.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
At least, So she's playing well.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Their team isn't winning, of course, but you could argue
that either way, and more so probably that she's not
one of the twelve best. But I do think from
a pr standpoint, it would have been smart to put
her on the team because I think they would have winn.
They're gonna win no matter what, and I think that
(03:59):
would have boost the game even more. But here's what
I want to throw at you, Rob, we know that
we have some polarizing athletes today, Lebron James, Steph Curry,
Aaron Rogers, Tom Brady was was polarizing. Let's face it, interestingly,
(04:21):
Patrick Mahomes, is it polarizing because and we're not saying
this is the athletes fault at they're polarizing. It's just
some some athletes for whatever reason, some people love, some
people hate. But do you think Rob at this moment
in time, that Caitlyn Clark is actually the most polarizing
(04:43):
athlete in the world right now?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
No, or the American athlete. I just think that that
she's the newest and the latest. I still think Lebron
James still runs and has the championship. Just recently we
talked about it, Chris, were Lebron Is talking and giving
Kyrie his flowers and saying, well all this and people
looked at it.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
To escape his raft because he went off on Kendrick.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not big enough profile. I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean, maybe he feels a kinship, you know what
I mean, Like you played in the league, Are you
talking about me like that or whatever?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
But I still think it's Lebron.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I really do Caitlin has her the w n B
A is still C compared to the other sports.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
C is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know what I mean. But I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You're not even saying his insult, but I don't even
know if they're that high, but I'm just saying, like
like quality, saying they're a C.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So Lebron, like I said, we just saw it.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
People went after Lebron for that and and his son playing,
and there's always something.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I still think he's polarized.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And some people are like, oh, this is great, that's
what a dad should do, make it easy for their kid,
and other people like and his kid that he shouldn't
get a hand out, he should have to earn it,
you know what I mean. So there's always both sides.
So so Caitlin Is is definitely polarizing, there's no doubt.
But I don't think she's supplanted Lebron, not not yet.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's just been too soon.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Lebron has a history of this, and even here we
are twenty years Chris and four championships and all the
other stuff, the all time leading scorer and all these
other things, and there are still people who who will
go after Lebron or push back on some of the
stuff he says or does.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I think first I want to address Lebron before I
get into this whole question.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Would you say I think he'd be because I brought up.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Patrick Mahomes the best player in the NFL not polarizing.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Would you agree with that? Like, I don't think. I
just don't think Patty everybody. I don't think Pator says
anything to make people be bothered. He says he's milk toast.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He's not gonna bother any toast. But yeah, I think
he's milk toad. He doesn't say anything, so why would
you be mad at him? I just don't see him
as that player.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, he's he.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Says the right thing. It's hard not to like him.
You might not pull for him and all that, but
it's hard just not to like him.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I rob think.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I think a question I have about Lebron.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Is was he polarizing before he left Cleveland to go
to Miami.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think that did it because I.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Think when when Lebron was in Cleveland in his first
go round, I think like the only guy that really
was was going at him and being critical of him
for the most part was Skip Bayless.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But I think when he went to Miami.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It feels like that's when obviously some people didn't like that.
A lot of people didn't like that and his you
know a lot of people stuck with him and did
like it. But I think that was when remember he
did the villain. He was gonna be the villain for
that first year and that didn't work.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And you know, but I think that's when he became polarized.
I don't think he was before that. Do you agree
or disagree with that? Probably?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I think I'm taking my talents to Miami. South Beach
was was where people put up drew a line in
the sand, like like, who is this guy to go
try to stack his team and try to win and
all that. I think that's where some people decided to
bail off of that Lebron ship, you know what I mean,
and look at him differently.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
No, I agree with that as far as Caitlyn. Look,
you're obviously right in a few things. One, yes, I
mean Lebron has if we counted from twenty ten, right
when he went to Miami. I mean, that's that's fourteen
years of this of being polarizing, of having those that
(08:57):
love you, having those that don't, love you and all
that stuff and.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Being a hot button topic.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Obviously there's the Jordan versus Lebron and just so many things. Also,
I would say Aaron Rodgers, you know, with his stuff
on and off the field, Tom Brady with his winning
and some people not liking him and all that.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Number one, these guys have been polarizing.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
If you will, and again and not saying it's any
fault of theirs, but they've been polarizing for nearly two decades.
And they're in the much larger sports, right, like you said,
I mean football is king, obviously basketball is right there.
I mean, these are the popular sports, and so yes,
(09:49):
they are, you know, affecting the thoughts and views and
feelings of far more people than a WNBA basketball player
Kaitlyn Clark. But at this very moment, Rob, I guess
I if I had to use the.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Term pound for pound, you know, like I.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Mean Caitlyn Clark, like I do, think she is issues
that really don't come up with the other guys, or
at least not consistently, are coming up with her. Now,
obviously she's a female, so gender is one that's coming
up with her, right and obviously race Now, race occasionally
(10:34):
has come up with Lebron He's made taking some stances
and things like that, but it really doesn't I don't
think it's ever come up to.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
The degree that it is with Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Some are saying players are jealous in the WNBA, some
are saying they're resentful and all of that stuff. Now,
obviously you got the Olympic team, and you know you
got is she the read and for the growth and
she is. I mean, it's just the numbers that bear
it all out. You can love it, you can hate it.
You know, you can debate and talk about why that is,
(11:10):
but it is happening. And I think at this very moment,
again it's hard to compare it to those guys, Rob
because football and NBA basketball are just on a different level.
But man, she is certainly in this moment giving them
a run for their money. We even remember even the
situation with Greg Doyle, the columnists in Indiana, you know,
(11:33):
I mean, so it is really incredible the passion and
the emotion and the feelings that she has really you know,
created in people, Rob And so at this moment, I
(11:56):
think it's hard to say somebody's more polar rising in
her right now, I get it, and I totally agree
with the history of Lebron and others and the you know,
just the levels of their sport.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But my goodness, it's just that Lebron has been so long, Chris,
and it hasn't died.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And I get that, Like that's the part, and I
get it.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
She's I mean, Lebron may be polarizer Rob too, I mean,
darn near the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Who knows. I mean, we'll see, but it'll be interesting.
But yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, I'm just saying like she's brand new and she's
the newness and the hotness Chris.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So it's top of mind, and it does feel like that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But I just maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm looking at
it wrong, and maybe other people, right listeners, Chris will
think that she has top Lebron already in this short
period of time.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Do you have anybody else like Steph's died out?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Because Steph was polarizing, I think now where they are are, like.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Like he doesn't bother people as much.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And I think I would say, Rob, that's because yeah, yeah,
and here's why I think Steph was polarizing solely for
basketball reasons, right, whether some people thought he was overrated, right,
some of you think he's overrated, some people thought he
wasn't better than Kevin Durant. Whatever it might be. Oh
(13:24):
he doesn't have a finals MVP, like you say, he's
not clutch.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Whatever. It was nothing to do with.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Off the court at all, Like you know, he's you know,
lived a very he.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Was solid, he.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Has Lebron been solid, but Lebron's been more outspoken than
things like that. Yeah, so I think with Lebron it
was the move to Miami that triggered it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Mostly.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I think it's Lebron moving around to different teams. It's
you know, people blame him for a lot of his
coaches being fired. Lebron, you know, recruiting guys and the
cryptic tweets and things like that. So that's that's why
I think, even though Lebron's team isn't really that great anymore,
he's still polarizing where Steph, You're right, they're not really
(14:07):
contenders anymore basketball wise. He's putting up good numbers, but
you know, they're not really much of a factor.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So I know that's a that's a good point. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It is based off of that, Like, you're not see
Steph Stepp wasn't in the playoffs, right, right, right, so
he can't bother.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Me, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And if Lebron wasn't in the playoffs, it would have
been a huge deal just because you know, tweets and
things like that. So yeah, eight seven seven ninety nine
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
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Speaker 6 (16:10):
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Speaker 4 (16:12):
Is Caitlin Clark the most polarizing athlete in America today?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Your thoughts with the Eye Couple? All right, we'll see
who we got here. Let's start with Joe lou Is
that it Jola? Okay, I'm just Jola in Dallas. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Hey, Rob, he always gets me Rob like super my Cyda.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Man, I'll be wanting to go.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
Crazy like.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
I'm sorry, I won Yeah, no, hey for real though,
Now I want to reach out a Happy Father's Day too, man,
I know that's coming up. I know, Chris, you got kids,
but uh yeah, Robi menor to the young. Yeah, I know,
I'll do y'all take care of us, man.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But yeah, I appreciate that, yes, you know for sure.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
But man, between Caitlyn Clark and Kyrie Irving, I can't tell,
you know, Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
They're both.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, Kyrie's definitely don't think he'd be as much as her,
but he's wanting to throw here.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
That both getting left off the USA team to a
certain degree, you know, both for different reasons. I mean, uh,
you know, Kyrie's more kind of I feel like political,
you know, but her is more I mean a little
political too. But she I mean she I feel like
she could be on that twelve spot or whatever and
just beyond the team to just to get that experience
and I feel like they should. I mean, what if
(17:32):
she aspired a girl from overseas to start playing basketball
from China or somewhere from over there in Paris, you know.
So I feel like they missed the mark on that.
But uh, I feel like between her and Kyrie Irvings
and it just.
Speaker 13 (17:47):
Right.
Speaker 10 (17:48):
That's what I was gonna say to It just shows
that basketball is kind of politics. With Tim even having
we're entertaining this idea of Brownie being in the league.
It just showed the how basketball's politics to a certain degree.
I mean, we wouldn't be having this talk if it
was somebody else's son in the NFL and they could have,
you know, hit or something like that and couldn't play
(18:08):
or I don't know.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
It just showed that, but uh.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, it's a little different. There's no doubt there's some
politics involved.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Start taking the call, man, no doubt your call.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Thank you, Jola, I got it, Jola, I got it.
I remember that for next time. Uh, Larissa in Washington,
you're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What's up? Larissa?
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Hey, Ronnie, Chris, how you guys doing, Man.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Ray, good to hear from you. Wow, thank you? How
long you've been listening, Larissa.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
Honestly forty years everything.
Speaker 12 (18:42):
Wow, my job.
Speaker 14 (18:42):
I got off at four o'clock, well three fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
So I would hit us all.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
There you go, Oh my gosh. Anyway, and it's going right.
Thank you, Thank you, Larissa, that's so nice. Thank you.
Speaker 14 (18:56):
I think about you guys a lot. I just hope
everything is well. I just want to say she is
the mook plar race, but I don't think that's exactly
how she imagine her past. And this is something that
you're gonna have to kind of take in tride. I
used to I played coach sports, and it's the same thing.
It's it's not I don't think it's exactly the path
that she imagined. But I mean everything that led her
(19:18):
up to this, to this exact point is you know.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
She played the with boys.
Speaker 14 (19:23):
She she bawled out. She you know, did the same
thing with the haters. And I think it's a lot
of a lot of stress for like, she's still so young.
I don't I don't understand. I'm okay with her not going.
Do I want to see her there? Yes, as a fan,
I do, but I'm okay with her not doing I
just hope everybody kind of like take what she wants
in mind, because she's out here doing you know, taking
(19:46):
everything right. I don't know, Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I don't think really done much to she done anything.
It's just.
Speaker 14 (19:57):
So I I understand her not playing. I really get that.
But you know, next year will be will be the test,
I think, and I hope the best first.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I think, Yeah, there's really been other people.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Row You remember when she was still in college her
junior year and she had made some I think she
did the facial you.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Know, gestures and.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Everybody nobody said a thing or they praised it if
it was anything. And then Angel Reese did it and
it became this huge stink, you know, and big story,
and and people were criticizing Angel be So it was
stuff like that that really isn't her fault, but the
way people and media responded to her, and in this
(20:40):
case the Angel as well, that made her polarizing.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know what I mean? Oh no, no, no, no
doubt about it. And it's it's it's the other stuff. Yeah,
for her, most of it. Chris has nothing to do
with her, right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Tony and Vancouver, Washington, So did the Vancouver British Columbia
and Vancouver.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
Washington, Washington, sure near Portland.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, yeah, I got you. How are you?
Speaker 13 (21:10):
I'm trying. I got these women in the w NBA
should be praising great can car you know, you know
Grinder and uh Breeese they were getting rating worse than
Ping Pong on TV and then now they're you know,
they've got a name. I mean, what will this last?
I don't know. I don't think. I don't think. Uh,
(21:32):
I don't think the hype is you know, her performers
is gonna, you know, need the hype, but ride it
wile it's here and display what you have while it's
here because people are watching. And uh, believe me, before her,
the NBA was a joke. I mean it was. It
was a people were calling it a jo so nosing
(21:54):
and not.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Look, I get it, you're you're competing.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You're not gonna go out there and you know, just
say her praises you're competing, right, It's fine, And I
think we should.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Look at it like that.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Rob Look, she got cheap shotted last week or week
or two ago, and it was what it was and
and and that was that. But I don't think they
should be praising her, but then rob them competing with her,
them playing her hard, you know, playing her physical. That's fine,
(22:26):
that's fine, you know. So you know, we'll see. Like
I said, I think.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Basketball, that's basketball. Sorry, they're not tackling that. Putting on
helmets Chris and playing foot ryers. Basketball is physical.
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Tom Brady.
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He's done, Aaron Rodgers did not have a Pro Bowl season.
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That's right as trolling rowing. I'm Martin and White when
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Oh many, all right, fellas, buckle up, here's being It's
pre and postgame coverage can sometimes leave things to be desired,
mainly due to the.
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Amount of commercial breaks. But Bob Meyers garnered some attention
when he pulled the post game panel for their finals
MVP after Game two, everyone named players. He said he
would vote for Brad Stevens, the Celtics general managers, Chris
Trolling or Rowland, the former GM, or the Warriors to
(23:58):
either current Celtic GM.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I'm rolling with it, no problem whatsoever. Obviously he didn't
mean it like they're actually gonna give the trophy to
Brad Stevens. I don't think the fact that he's a
GM had much to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I mean with it. A writer could have said it.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I mean what he was trying to emphasize was this
is a team. This isn't let me just go pay
the best three stars and get them on my team
and it will fill out.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The roster with whatever we can for the minimum.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
This isn't, Oh, the superstar wan to come to my team.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
H and I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
This was them drafting Jason Tatum, drafting Jaylen Brown, trading
for Derek White, trading for Drew Holliday, trading for Chris STAPs, Worzingis,
trading for Al Horford.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Like they he built a great.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Team, and obviously I would not like him in real
like real life to get the MVP, and he won't obviously,
But I think the point that Myers was trying to
make was totally fine.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm trolling it.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm trolling it, oh many. Just absolutely ridiculous analysis that
we're talking about after the game. If you want to
do it after it's all over and they won the championship,
to say that he's the MVP after a couple of
games that they haven't even won a title for is misplaced.
(25:31):
It doesn't make any sense postgame, after you just watched
the Celtics win win another game, it doesn't make any sense.
This is the guy who just wanted to glad hand
and say the.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
General manager, yeah, they don't get any credit.
Speaker 15 (25:47):
It's just dumb because if those same players he put
together don't make shots and don't make plays, he wouldn't
sit there and say the same exact thing, because the
players ultimately have.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
To play and make the plays in order to make
the general manager look good. So it's terrible. Analysis is dumb.
It didn't belong here in a post game. If you
want to talk to me after they won the championship
and a move that the guy made and you want
to make that point. That's fine, not after a game,
when a series not even decided.
Speaker 12 (26:22):
He just reminded me of the Pauli Fuso Show, absolutely
terrible analysis. Tony, You're off the show Fox Sports Radio.
Travis Kelce is too much younger than me, which sounds crazy.
He's still one of the best tight ends of the game,
but he's not looking at hanging them up anytime soon.
(26:44):
He said, I can't put a time frame on it.
I know, obviously there's opportunities outside of football for me,
but I think you got to keep it in perspective.
I'm still a little kid when I come in this
building trolling o'oli. Travis Kelce is saying he will play
it so quote wheels fall off.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 13 (27:04):
They see me.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I mean, the dude was great in last year's playoffs.
Wasn't great during the regular season. He was solid, you know,
but not up to his typical standards. But playoffs great,
and now you're gonna give him some action. I think
they got They've improved their receiving corps and so now
he's not gonna have as much focus on him as
(27:27):
he did last year.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So I think he'll have a solid year. I don't
expect him to play but a few more years.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
But hey, the dude is a two time the three
time champion and they've won two straight. They're going for
a three pet Nobody gets slow him down. So I
got no issue with it.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I'm troller it. Oh many, Hey.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Hey, you don't have to get out of the game
and be downtried in the up half of what you were.
You could walk out on top and feel good about it.
So I know it sounds good. Oh they got to
the ript the uniform.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I'm off of me.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And we've seen guys do that and not be the
same player, and people look at you.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I just don't think you want to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
If you can get out, he's had a lot of success,
He's done a lot. It's great if you can walk
out with some dignity, feeling like I played at my
best as long as I could and I can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 12 (28:20):
Trolling, rowing a couple of Fox Sports Radio. Nothing says
the fourth to July like fireworks, Marveques and Joey Chestnut
forcing hot dogs down his throat.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
This year with no condiments. Gross believe it, just don't.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
I couldn't help myself. This year, however, Bagally eating and
Nathan hot Dogs and ban Chestnut from competing, citing his
partnership with the Vegan hot dog brand and the reason
why christ Mussard trolling and rowing rolling the Fourth of
July without Joey Chestnut trolling it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh many chest Nuts an institution.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Chess nut is is now synonymous with the Fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
What are we talking about? Long live Joey Chestnut? What
are you doing with it? What do you do? Say?
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Trolling a roll?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, I'll with it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
He knows what the rules are and he went against him,
and that's the penalty.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So he decided that.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He was going to do what he wanted to do
and wind up costing himself.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Uh, the thing that made him famous.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So follow the rules like everybody else. He didn't do it,
and that's his penalty.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
Rob.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
I'm disappointed.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
It was right.
Speaker 12 (29:49):
Therefore, you serve up on a platter just like a
hot dog for Joey. Of course, Joey test I can't
participate if he's a sponsor with the Vegan hot talk brand.
No more phone there.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You go, No phony.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I know I blew that one more, no doubt, that's
what Chris, that was my commercial when I had.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
The Cody spot, the hot dog spot in Detroit. You
don't have that anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Just no, no, no, still got the barbershop, but that
was the tagline, No phony Cony's because they won't one
hundred percent beef at the other places.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
My hot dogs were one hundred percent beef.
Speaker 12 (30:25):
Oh wow, I legitimately pick that story just so you
could do that.
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That just means I'm overworked, all right. It is the
Eye Couple. Martin great stuff. You could check out Martin
Weiss every Saturday here on Fox Sports Radio.
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For those of you in Detroit. What's Wow do.
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The Three East?
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How's it going?
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Wow? It's going well so far. We're getting the rhythm
and getting the bog. Everything is going, everything.
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Going good man, that's great? All right, peace? All right?
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from Thetirack dot Com studio. Shortly after our show, and
this is our last segment. The podcast goes up, So
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(31:58):
and you will see today's chopoe right after we get
off the air. All right, Rob, Yesterday news broke to
Dan Hurley, two times defending champion of the Yukon Huskies
men's college basketball team, turned down to LA Lakers, who
(32:18):
offered him sixty six I'm sorry, six years, seventy million dollars.
And now remember I said that just talking to a
few people around the league. One theory that many of
them had was that Danny Hurley and this is before
he rejected the offer, but that Danny Hurley they thought
(32:41):
was using this for leverage to get a bigger contract
from Yukon. Looks like he's gonna end up getting about
eleven million a year, roughly make him the highest paid
coaching back college basketball, and that's more than double. If
that's what he gets eleven that's more than double his
current soul. And they also felt like disrespeculation as well.
(33:04):
But JJ Reddick may want ten million a year, and
the Lakers want him to know you're not.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Even were our first choice.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So come down on that cost.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
You know, from ten million, you haven't even coached the
team yet. And today Sean Sharania, one of the top
NBA reporters, he came out and said this rat he was.
Speaker 16 (33:27):
Not the number one candidate, the number one guy to
go pursue from the start, from the beginning, but they
felt like there was an opening there for him.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He was in.
Speaker 16 (33:36):
Contract negotiations with Yukon. He was discussing a deal to
go back, and they felt like there was an opening
and they threw what really are people around the league?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
He was a hail mary offer at.
Speaker 17 (33:46):
Him six years, seventy million dollars and at the end
of the day, Dan Hurley chose not to leave. He
chose to stay for twenty million dollars less at Yukon.
They did go up significantly from his current deal right now,
but it is twenty million million dollars less, and you
think about the Lakers job and what it's known for
and the big timelesness of it, and he still decided
(34:07):
to stay at Yukon, go for a chance at a
three peat, And you know, it does beg the question
around the league was there genuine interest, was this a
genuine process with this or was this simply just about leverage?
So when you think about it, the Lakers are two
and a half weeks out from the NBA Draft, the
three weeks away from free agency, no coach yet.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
So Rob, do you think that that Hurley may have
You know, look tylu Rob.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
When the Lakers started, you know his name was out there.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
He got a contract extension with the Clippers made over
fourteen about fourteen million dollars a year. Jason Kidd, his
name was thrown out there. He got a lucrative extension
with the Dallas Mavericks. And now Dan Hurley his name's
out there with the Lakers. He gets a contract, the
(35:00):
will get it got.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Twenty million less.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
No, No, it's not finalized yet, Robbgerie right, it's uh.
Some reports were six years, fifty million, that's the Yeah,
there's others saying he's gonna get about eleven, so we'll
see what it ends up being. But but yeah, so
do you think.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I don't know. It meels like he wasn't that serious
about the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
To me, I'm not saying he completely used them, but
it feels like he wasn't that serious.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I just don't think if if I'm Connecticut and I
really want, I don't need him to go anywhere for
an offer. If I'm serious about keeping them and he
don't have to get on the plane. I told you before,
if you really want, what's your number, Let's see what
your number is, write it down, and then we could
go from there. So I don't know if that's good.
It's not like they outdid the Lakers offer to keep on.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We don't know yet. I mean, we don't. I don't
think I'm gonna do college it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I mean, but I think they'll make him I think
because six years fifty probably wouldn't be that, but I
think they'll make him the highest bad coach in college basketball.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
But that that wouldn't have to equal the Lakers offer.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I mean a lot of that stuff, Chris is what
agents do they throw people's names out to just try
to yeah, to hope that there's a leverage, and teams
have to know whether or not anybody's really in the
running or whatever. And the Lakers had a number what
they wanted to spend on a coach, and if he
didn't want to do it and take a prestigious situation.
You know, people are all talked about the Lakers. It's
(36:31):
still one of the marquee franchises, and you know, and
if you wanted to cement your name and do something
else and show that you're a great coach and not
just in one particular situation or circumstance, he had an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Turned it down.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, I like I said, I don't think it was
one hundred percent using the Lakers, but I do feel
like he wanted to stay in college all along, or
at least at Yukon.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Lakers is a tough.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Job even you know, look at they giving him the
years and the money that gives you leverage, that gives
you some security, which can give you authority as a coach,
which is what you need. But it's a tough job
because the expectations still and maybe even more so with
Hurley would have been championship or bust.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And if you don't get there, people are gonna look
at you.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
He may not have gotten fired like a Reddick Mit
or a James Berego or somebody, but there would be pressure.
So he chose to stay at Yukon and we'll see
if he can get his three straight. All right, it's
the odd couple. Christi and Rob. We are out of here,
but keep it locked. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon next. You
know what that means.
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