October 2, 2024 • 35 mins
Rob and Kelvin provide up-to-the-minute analysis of all the MLB postseason action, tell us why Tyreek Hill’s true value has been exposed a bit without Tua Tagovailoa, discuss which non-quarterback they would build an NFL franchise around and share their thoughts on the Houston Astros’ long-term legacy.
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It's JR Gamble from mL bebro dot com with a
little foul affair, so we'll get that in there. And
to catch you up on some baseball, Mets lead three
to one in the top of the fifth in Milwaukee.
They can win the series. Uh if they win the
game tonight. So the Brewers are on the brink.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
The Atlanta Braids are on the brink as well. They're
down one game the nothing. They're leading one to nothing
in San Diego on the second inning and the Padres
had loaded with nobody out in the first inning and
got no runs with Machado up to start that. Uh,
it's still still early and they got some bats, so
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we'll see what they do and in just a little bit,
so I'm not overly worried about it, all right, And
let's finish up here this final hour with some football.
And we mentioned Tyreek kill Mike Jones, who was just
on the program from the Athletic the National Football right.
And you know, I think a lot of people have
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discounted discs to and not really looked at what he
did last year's numbers and the reason that they gave
him the pay, the big paybag, the big pay, the
big salary, the big contract that people were frowning on.
But it's because he's a quarterback who can make stuff
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happen with talent. And now if it wasn't about two
and it's about everybody, well, he's got all the weapons
anybody could do well well since two it's been out.
They can't score, they can't get anything going. We talked
about that a stretch of ten quarters in a row
with no touchdown. They got a meaningless touchdown in the
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eleventh quarter of that stretch to end that streak. But
it's been mostly misses and no hits. So it's not
always about the talent. You got to have a quarterback
if you're a Tyreek, kill somebody to get your ball
for Devonte Adams, right, DeVonta Adams went there because.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
They got from college. Derek Carr's a solid, you know,
solid to good quarterback. Yeah, I mean you need that.
I think what Tua did now then Now the challenge
with this conversation is there is a chance, and I
think it's a small chance, but there's a chance we
never see too of throw football again in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He's weighing that.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I obviously feel like he wants to come back, and
he may, but I'm just saying there is a chance
he doesn't come back. With now having three concussions, with
three or four three seasons, that is absolutely staggering. And
we've all seen the way he's had those concussions. But
you're right, Tua earned his money. Remember when they asked
Tyreek Hill, he was like, hey, man, I played with
Patrick Mahomes, but these balls come on time. When Tua
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was throwing them, I ain't gonna lie. These balls are
right where they need to be. Gave him high praise,
and you felt like it wasn't just gassing up my
guy now.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Because he didn't have to do that because he won
a Super Bowl with Mahomes. So he absolutely, yes, they
were both talented. No, he's saying, talented in their own right.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And all that all I know is these balls are
coming out on time, They're right where they need to be.
And you see, and we've already knew that was the
selling point on Tua. He watched most elusives, not the
biggest guy, but man is he accurate? Man is he
get the ball where he needs to be? And that
was what they were saying coming out of Alabama. And
then we've seen it in the NFL and when he's right,
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that offense is a juggernaut. They're scoring broad Parker, they're
scoring eighty yard toughsdown.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Drives in three plays.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And remember we saw them put on a put up
a seventy piece in an NFL game.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Absolutely ridiculous, right, they put up seventy points in an
NFL game.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
But what I what I find interesting, So Tua definitely
showing it ain't the system. It ain't these fast running
there's wide receivers that we have and these nice running backs.
It's me. It's the trust in me. It's the timing
that I have with these players. It is the rapport
that I have with these receivers, and that that's why
this thing is working.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
An interesting conversation, if I can pivot a bit, is
going back to what we were talking about with Mike Jonesiado,
He and some other writers at The Athletic had a
poll talking about what's the player that you would want
to start your franchise with, aside from a quarterback and
the league. All the players they ask in the league,
they all said Tyreek Hill because he's just that dynamic
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what he does. We've seen that, the stats he puts up,
the ability to score at any given point when he
has a ball. So I ask you, Rob Parker, I
know who My answer is quarterback? Aside, who are you
starting a franchise with?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I have mine? I well let you go first. One
eight Nutcheins.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, Detroit Lions defensive end, if you've watched in the
last two seasons, is absolutely ridiculous two and a half.
It's ridiculous what he's doing. He's going after the quarterback
at a crazy rate. He's getting sacks, or he's getting pressured,
or he's making quarterbacks uncomfortable to theirt on the ball off,
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they're stepping up in the pocket, they're trying to scramble,
they're getting hit, they're turning the ball over. He affects
the game so much on the defensive side of the ball.
And the reason why I like that, as we've seen
was guys like Tyreek Hiere. I think the second place
person who got the votes in this poll was Justin Jefferson.
The reason I don't like that is because he's amazing.
But if the quarterback isn't great, or if the offensive
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line is maybe down a guy or two, well he
can be eliminated from the game. By the way, the
Padres just hit a home run. Like we said they're
gonna those bats, We're not overly worried about that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Give me a guy that it don't matter what anybody
else is doing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
He can do what he does. He can get me
two sacks in a game, he can give me two
tackles for a loss. He can create two fumbles in
a game. So give me a defensive end who can
still wreck havoc on a team and it doesn't have
to be depending on who's getting him the ball like
a receiver.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's just me who you got?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeahs an offensive player. I still think it's an offensive
player like a Derrek Henry. But because we can't take Lamar,
because Lamar would be the guy I would start, well, yeah,
I mean I really would, Yeah, Lamar because he could
do so many things. And it's not a knock on
Patrick Mahomes. It's just that he really can change the
game two weeks. He's the hardest to play, right, You
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just exactly if he's gonna throw it or is he
gonna hold on to it and and run crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And you see what he can do in the open field. Like,
he's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You guy, you got you got receivers, know, I said Derek,
So Derek will be yours. I mean again, he's had
an amazing Hall of Fame career. I mean he still
got juice in the tank and ain't like that dude
is too big to be that fast and that powerful.
It doesn't get defensive players. But you also can do
your thing defensively and still not win if you can't
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generate true and that and that's where the frustration and
and this is where you could push back on on
on going with a defensive player, is that for a
lot of years the Broncos had great defenses and they
couldn't get a quarterback, and they still didn't win with
regularity because there just wasn't enough offense.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You can listen, first of all, aside from quarterback, it's
a difficult thing.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But he did win that Super Bowl. They won that
Super Bowl for Peyton Manning. That was a defense, right that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You can say, I mean, we know what the Ravens
have done, we know what the Buccaneers did back and
the thing was all three.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Every once in a while you have all time great,
an all time great defense, and that can lead the
Ons over home.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, I just would rather start with somebody where I
know guess who. I ain't got to worry about JJ Watt,
TJ Watt. You know, I ain't got to worry about
Ada Hutchins. I don't have to worry about Reggie White,
you know what I mean. Lawrence Taylor coming up. I
know he was an outside linebacker, but you know, give
me that guy where I already know I don't have
to worry about that, and the plays they make actually
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change the game, right, Lawrence Taylor was making game changing
plays every single week. So I'd rather that than a
receiver where it's like, all right, quarterback, if our quarterback's
hurt or he just goes with another team. Now I'm
stuck with this receiver with a guy who can't get
him the ball, and now he's a lesser version of himself,
and so it doesn't really equates to things. So he's
catching seven catches seventy five yards, but what did it
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really matter. Give me the guy who can call sacks,
which means he gives me the ball sooner, maybe causing
a fumbles. Give me the ball again, so that's me. No,
we can open it up too to see. I mean,
maybe it is still on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I just think the game has turned into an offensive
game the NFL this year. And yeah, I mean it's
been struggles, but I think that overall the game is
offensive and there used to be a time when it
was more so defensive struggles, and it was about defense
and some of the best players.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And it doesn't mean that there aren't great defensive players.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
There are.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I feel like you just want to argue with me.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, I'm just saying, your face does not believe Derek Henry.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I let it ride for this first few minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh, I'm gonna say, Derek Henry, because I think we
have downgraded the running back position, and I think it's.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
A very important Jim Brown is rolling around as growth, okay,
and it opens up so much on the football field.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Running out the clock in order to win a game,
you know what I mean, When you got to get
that first down and you can't throw it, you need
somebody to get you three yards. Like they tried to
discount it. I don't think you could really discount it.
We saw what happened to the Ravens when they stopped
running the ball in the AFC Championship get they lost
down on them to this day, they got to beating
themselves up it they stopped running the ball.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They did that this year too, by the way, lost
to the Raiders and brought the game back close to
the Cowboys. It's like, do you do have a monthster
truck back there?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And you do know that? Right? That's opening up.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I think running is important, and I think it has
been downgraded. But I think watching Derrek Henry this year,
knowing what he brings to Baltimore, I'm out at it
all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Aside from a quarterback, keep that in mind for those
who maybe just turned us on. Aside from a quarterback.
They did a poll shout out to Mike Jones from
the Athletic Joined Us and the poll essentially one hundred
players thank you? Was that, aside from a quarterback, who's
that guy that you would start a franchise with? They
picked Tyreek Hill. I say, Adam Hutchet, Aiden Hutchins.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You say, Derrick Henry, what say you? Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And I want Rob g to jump in on this too,
because we got a running back, defensive line defender bomb yep.
And where would you go? Would you go wide receiver
in a throwing league or would you go defensive?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Wide receiver? Would be way down on my list of priorities.
I think that we've seen. You know, even though it
is a passing league now more than ever that wide
receivers are like the cherry on top of a Sunday.
I agree that you do not need them to have
slic but or cheesecake slice. They are the vanilla drizzle
on a cheesecakes. Do come on now with where it's
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very clear at this point that number one, there's way
too many wide receivers in the league to begin with,
where one guy is not you know, demonstraly better than
number six like Tyreek Hill and Davante Adams. The difference
is not that wide and number two when when you're
if you're picking a non quarterback, it's gotta be somebody
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that can impact the game without need to be reliant
on five different other people to have an impact, and
wide receiver is the one that is the most reliant
on everybody when it comes to football.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So I like the Dereck Henry one.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
But for me, my vote would have been if this
was last year, we've been Aaron Donald him by himself
can wreck a game.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And that's what people saw exactly the Super Bowl at
the end, he was the one who got that.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
And so this year, you know, I would like to
say Chris Jones, He's just probably not as good as
some of the other guys, so I would probably lean
someone like t. J. J.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Wattah, that's a fair pig. I'm not mad at that
that you You get my sentiment, no matter what. Derek
Henry and Dereck Henry is an example of a guy.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Even though you say running back needs a good offensive line,
he had bad offensive lines in the Tennessee Mary Sanders
and it didn't matter. He has to make something out
of nothing more times than not.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Hey, let's open it up eight seven seven nine on
Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Aside from
a quarterback, who are you starting your NFL franchise with?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And we got to send a shout out too many
with Chato, same situation.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
He just came up gee first, he made him up
to the first inning with the base of loaded. You
didn't get it done, and he just doubled with the
base of loaded.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's the bottom of second. So one inning later he
gets an opportunity, and I know, I worried about the
padres and the bats get going and this might get
a might get bad for the braves. All right, we
want to hear from you on that. We'll carry that
conversation over and at the bottom of the hour, JR.
Gamble's gonna join us from mlbbro dot Com. We'll get
you set up for file or fair. It is The
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
All right, let's get to the calls we got Scott
in North Carolina. You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, Scott?
Speaker 8 (14:51):
What's up my guys doing?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
We're doing good? And quick update on baseball. Met still
lead the Brewers three to two in the six stinning
in the top of the sixth, and the Padres are
out to a five to one lead over Atlanta in
the third.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yep, all right, what you got, Scott?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Yeah, I gotta say Fred Warner the linebacker with the
linebacker yep.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I mean he's a dog.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I mean he could stop the runs, you know, stop
those elusive running backs that you that are valuable to
the game. He could attack the quarterback on the blitz,
and he could drop the coverage, uh and defend some
you know, wide receivers. And in the league where, let's
be honest, a lot of guys miss tackles. I really
see him missing tackles.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You're right about missing. He's really hard by to trying
to hit people. What team just missed a gazillion at tackle?
It was awful.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Who was that against this last week? I have to
think about it. That was like embarrassing, ridiculous they missed. No,
I'm not mad at that. He is a beast.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
He absolutely makes plays, keeps that defense. Honest, that's a
great that's a great pick. I'm not mad at it.
We're going next.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
How about Dre in Michigan. I got Dre and Michigan.
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Dray?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
What's going on? Fellers?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Y'all?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
All right, sir, sir, I'm glad to hear from you.
My man, you listening?
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Oh, you know, I got your bag, bro, Come on, hey,
But no, I gotta go with I know he little
own the two, but I gotta go with Trent Richardson, man,
because he nullify your warrants, He nullify your Hutchinson's and
without him, you know, with him, he opened them holes
up for you, Dereck Harrings, and he blocked for your
Patrick Mahomes. So the game is one of the trenches
that I would start with the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
All right, I'm never gonna argue with that either. That's why,
that's why it sounds the analysis.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, they make they make it all the money. We
don't even think about them. We talk about quarterbacks. Meanwhile,
it's a left tackle out here making twenty five thirty million.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Quietly, don't even talk about him. That's a great call.
Eight seven seven Ninetynine on Fox. The question is what
player would you start a crabchise with? Who is a
nine quarterback? I said, Adye Hutchinson. You said, Dereck Henry.
What say you, Poppy in San Diego? It's popping down there.
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
It's time? Look, I know you guys.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Hear a lot of players the offense, even the I'll
play you guys are our hockey.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I call up the sleeper rookie. I really love Marvin
Harrison Junior from the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm not an analytic guy, but last time I checked.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Guys, he's leading to the league with the most touched
on receptions in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Bro rookie, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
With Kyle Murray, Alligator arms not really.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Kidding me.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hey, you ain't lying, Poppy. Thank you for the call.
Marvin Harrison Junior. Looks like he's gonna be one of
them one for sure, that's no doubt. But the thing
about it is, if Kyler Williams were to go down
and it's another quarterback and he can't get remember the
conversations that the week one Kyler Williams wasn't getting on
the ball in the battle Martin Harrison, So are wet, Chuck,
Chuck in Michigan, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They listening strong for us while you're on the odd
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Speaker 4 (17:48):
That's Rice Dollas. How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We do it right? Are we coming in loud and clear?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir, you are? Hey, real quick on baseball,
real quick Tigers. I love him and I'm not I'm
not trying to be a negative.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Here we go, Chuck, Here, there we go. Ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
The Tigers bailed their manager out for the second straight day.
Number one, they pulled schoobl in the sixth inning with
eighty four pitches. The best picture. He pulled a Cy
Young Award winner. Number two, he put in a guy
that had a rookie who had two innings under his belt,
two or three innings under his belt at major league level,
and in a high leverage situation, and he gave up
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the first, got on and the Tigers bailed him out
in the eighth.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I wish A. J.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Hinch would just pitched his best pitchers and not worry
about getting these guys in the needy experience again.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And I'm not even gonna argue with you because the
schoolbl one was the one people.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Four pitches.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Why are you taking him out when there's no reason
to take him out? I agree with you, But where
are you on this football?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Who would you pick?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Okay, here, I'm Aiden Hutchinson, and I'll tell you why.
I don't want to be contradicting with I probably would
pick a couple more guys. But here's the thing about
Hutchinson is he's getting better. Yeah, Like he's making strip
like the first year, Hey, he's good, last year, dynamic.
This year he's just.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
An and four and a half sacks in one game.
He's that's what. That's what he was my pick.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And he's a good guy. He's durable, he's got a
motor that won't quit. And I love your guys show.
Thank you for letting me speak off.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Thanks problem, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, that's right. That's why he was appreciated. That's why
he was my pick. It's just he's very young, he's energetic.
He I don't have to worry about him. I don't
have to worry about his motivation. At least as of now.
He's anti Rob Parker. He don't have a podcast yet.
Next good he'll get a podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So I'm all in on.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, I'm worried that because as he keeps getting better,
you know how it goes. I'm a fan of his,
so but I'm not again, listen, there's a handful of
other players.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'm not mad at you, say, Derek Henry. I'm not
matter that. I thought we might get a call for
I mean, he's a little he's mid age now. For
running back with Saquon Barkley, I could have seen or
Christian McCaffrey somebody saying that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Shit and and and those guys are having put You
can see the difference with Saquon, like he makes it difference.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah on the Giants. Really, I don't want to get
the ball enough. This is the Eagles this last game
for them. They don't know what what were the Giants thinking?
For real? I don't know, man, And.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Then not get they keep disrespecting that position. To your
point about Derek Henry and that's why running back, Yeah,
Emma Smith rolling around. I know he lied, but he
rolled Smith. O' ronnick right.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now watching how to get get disrespected like that? All right?
Foul or fair is going to be next after we
do what is trending right now?
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right, are we ready? Let's do it?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Baseball?
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Doing that?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Ball is?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It was a big week in the big leagues.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Who's A? Who's A?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Is it foul?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Or is it fair?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
And now from mlbtbro dot com, here's j R.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Gamble tries Fowler fair.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
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Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Nor do so proper? We had to bring in a
real baseball expert.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
We had to bring in a guy who has multiple
TVs on all at once. We watch all the games,
not just the Yankees, an other than my guy JR.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Gamble, Yo, y'all are you are you.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
In my room or something looking at all my multiple TVs?
Because literally I do have about Levy screens up on Sunday,
plus the iPhone, plus the television upstairs and downstairs.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's kinda like, w this is like a slight flex
right now.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
All the TVs I got, I got fourteen TVs, I
got TVs.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You living that life life on Strong Island? Is that
what MLB bro dot cop doing that? I don't know
what all up?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Man, it's not a flex. I'm inside doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's your point. We gotta get you outside that. We
gotta get you on the streets there, you know what.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Meanwhile, in our studio we got the Yes Network on
for no reason. He's just playing the background. But in
any event, we.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Got three MLB questions because JR. Is the star of
the segment. He is the first crack at every single
one of them. So let's get right to it. Question
number one, JR. Justin Verlander, friend of the Inside the
Parker Podcast. By the way, Hey, if you didn't get
a chance to listen.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That was a good interview, right, we like him. Yes,
he's not how he's at home, but we like him.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
He's forty two, coming off an injury riddled season and
was just left off the Astros playoff roster entirely before
they got eliminated, both due to health and general ineffectiveness.
Even still, JV says he has no plans to retire,
So JR. Foul or fair to say that we will
not not see Justin Verlander pitching the postseason ever again.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Foul, That is a foul ball. I mean, you know
you have these guys, Verlander, Chris Sale, and I said,
as great as you know they can be, that peak
is behind them fellas, and you know, unless they have
the love Aunt James exception, you know one's body is
going to break down eventually. Now I know Berland, his
(23:07):
wife doesn't want him home yet, right, He's having fun,
he's making big money. She's not the modernis. He's just
hanging out. But he doesn't want him home yet. So
he could pick in the postseason next year, but his
innings definitely have to be managed and he can no longer,
in my opinion, be a starter in the regular season.
You got to keep him as a possible X factor
(23:27):
or something in the playoffs. But if you have him
as a starter at the beginning of the season, and
Rob and I spoke about this on our phone conversations recently,
then you have to bigly rest him the whole year
and just play him when it's playoff time because he
won't make it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm gonna say it's fair.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Only from the standpoint that he'll probably be with Houston
and it's all over in Houston. We just saw them,
like you know, like I think that Bregman is gonna
probably leave as a free agent and the team will
probably start to come undone. So if if he's still
with Houston, they probably won't make the playoffs next year.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
It is foul.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
That is a foul.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It is foul because he has proven time of the time,
it's been about five six years now of us questioning
is at the end of justin Verlin and he continues
to find the way they stay relevant and they still
have some nice outings. He wants to come back. Then
that means he knows what it takes to stay in
shape to the best of his ability. He is forty two,
and again it's not like he's out there. He doesn't
have to be. You're not asking him.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
To be here.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He is gentlemen, which is kind of crazy because I've been,
you know, obviously starting to Detroit. I've seen his whole career.
That's kind of wild. So I think he has a
few games in him. He's kind of an older version
to me of what Kershaw has become for the Dodgers.
I already know you're gonna be injured for two thirds
to three quarters of the season already. Let me pencil that.
In postseason, I think I got a chance at you.
(24:49):
So I think justin Verlin, we see another run with him.
He's been good fortunes it teams keep winning and going
the World Series over his career.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I just run these next two quickly. Number two Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Brass reiterated this morning that they can quote do not
a dissipate O Tani picture for them in the postseason. However,
once again they refuse to actually close the door on
the idea JR. Simple question, foul or fair to say
that it would be a mistake for the Dodgers little
tany pitch at any point in these playoffs.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Fair to me, it would be beyond idiotic. I mean,
he's coming off several arm injuries. We know since he's
been in the league pitching, he hasn't pitched in a
long time, and now you want to try to rush
him into duty ripped another injury after fifty to fifty season.
I don't think so. People act as if O'tonni's kind
(25:39):
of machine. Sometimes he is human, folks, and he has
a pitch in a while. He's been injured when he pitched,
and this isn't the time where you unleash him again
after his recovery in the playoffs. The Dodgers are supposed
to be a super team. They spent all this money.
If you can't win without putting Otani on the mount
a year early, then should go.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm gonna say it's fair. It would be a mistake.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
There's no reason to rush him back, and God forbid
he gets hurt and has to miss next season.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
As a picture, I just want him to be fully
healthy and be ready for next year. Foul is a foul.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Ball, and it's for most opposite reasons of what you said, Jr. Listen,
if they're gonna put him out there, it must be
a high lever situation in a deep playoff run. I mean,
it's a World Series and we need a few outs
or it's a you know, this game would get us
to the World Series, and we want to win it
to get there, and they would never consider any other reason.
So to me, he's had a magical season. He's done that.
(26:38):
He's made Rob Parker madd why not keep it going? Yeah,
I pitched all year, you know what the man and
you said he not a machine. I'm not so sure
you're right.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
J Are he looking like a meereast one quickly fouling
fan with Jami gam on the odd couple. J are
Baseball's biggest story, of course, Pete Rose passing away age
eighty three. He's been bad for baseball for thirty five years,
but now that he's passed, Somemers speculated that might actually
inspire Major League Baseball to lift the band. JayR here's
the question that we're fair to say that now since
(27:07):
he's no longer with us, Pete Rose actually has a
better chance at making the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Fou that is a solo ball. I thought about this,
and I think he has a less of a chance
because for one of the commissioner, you know, put this
suspense into place. He's no longer with us, so so
the missioners that have followed ten the respect his ruling
on roles. Eventually, I guess they'll have some kind of
(27:37):
recognition in the Hall of Fame, but I don't think
an official induction. And uh, you know he's eighty three
when he passed, So that generation of people, you know,
eighty and over Rob Parker's generation, they you know, they're
not going to have a voice in five years about
whether or not Pete Rose against the Hall of Fame.
And I don't think people will care too much. Unfortunately, five.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm gonna say foul.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
He Rose did it to himself and people need to
understand that there's some bad, other bad stuff about Pete Rose.
I don't think people are gonna rush to celebrate this guy.
I don't file for Rob's points. And how add that
he's also gone. He had been his big that is
as and making it a thing.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
He's gone. Are we gonna talk about it as much?
So I say foule as well? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
J R.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
My man, thank you so much, Thank you fellas, appreciate
you work. Thank you. We're gonna, uh, you know what.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
We had to continuous conversation since we were just talking
about some baseball and we talked about the Houston Astros
a bit good rittans or good run for the Astros.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
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Speaker 5 (29:59):
Yo me Kelvin, lookam Borg appreciate it. Almost off the
association today. But anyway, you could hear your brother your
phone is breaking up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Did you call it a household?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
What is this nineteen ninety seven?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
You got a house only up up for the up.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Oh yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, yeah, I can't
even argue with that.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
But anyway, player, anybody said Justin Tucker, I'm a Packers fan.
We've been screwed by Kickers last three years since Silver Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
They have not said Justin Tucker. Shot to him for
the call. Appreciated.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
By the way, if you don't know what he's talking about,
Upper Peninsula Mission as a whole, it might as well
be Canada.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I know that's a whole nother as a whole. The
up is a whole nother place a they say a
all the time. It's the same thing like, you know,
I'm from New York, New York City and up state.
Now they just say the rest of the whole upstate. Seriously,
New York is like this big. You haven't seen New York.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I there.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
New York is like this big, and the state is
this big, and they go, where are you from? Upstate
New York? It's just like a whole the rest. It's like, waitit,
why are we the rest of the New York This
out from New York? Son, Like, y'all ain't nothing but
about eight miles.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
That's about it. It's maybe it's something eight million people
in the eight mile right, Yeah, nobody get a kick it.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We ain't starting not get his point, but we're not
starting our franchise with a kicker about that.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
But we were talking about the Astros and it's the
end of a New York I mean, if something didn't
officially end, it felt like it. As far as the
Astros getting swept by the Tigers, who have been playing great,
and it's no knock on the Tigers, but to play
you had to you had to go to Houston and
play those games there and then knock them out in
the sweep was pretty darn impressive, and it told you
(31:45):
the Astros didn't really struggle. They only scored what they
scored two runs, and those they were up to one
to two today. And then after that the Dodger of
the Dodgers. That's all you know.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I have worked with the Dodgers on the Tigers went
ahead and got a few runs in the in the
seventh and eighth inning. I think it was up winning
five to you. They looked they struggled a bit. Yeah,
I mean, the Tiger's gonna be sneaky. They're gonna because
you don't have you don't even really have people to
prepare for for because they haven't. We've talked about the numbers.
Nobody's yeah, and nobody's really hitting a bunch of home runs.
Nobody's still in a bunch of bases. Nobody's just a
(32:15):
bunch of guys who are ready to play. They're young
enough and dumb enough to think why not us, And
they're going out there and doing their thing. They had
no worries against the Astros. They didn't care about the history.
But when our conversation a good writ is a good
run we were talking about that, I said, I get
the good ritts right, because they've had this successful run
since twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I've gone to seven alcs's
(32:37):
straight and Straight and and folks hate them to ask,
you know, the trashtros and all the stuff beating the
trash cans. But I was saying, at the end of
the day, man, history starts to lose its luster, right,
You start to forget all the exact details of minutia
of everything, and you just remember, man, they win. They
won a couple Like if you're from Houston, or if
you follow the Astros, or if you're just a baseball like,
(32:57):
oh yeah, you're gonna be like, man, they won two
World Series timeitols in a seven year run. A bunch
of star players went to the World Series four, went
to the World Series four times. I mean, you're just
kind of gonna remember that run. You're not gonna think
about the details. Yes, it might come up, but it'll
lose its luster as the years go by. Similarly to
the Patriots and all their gates they had to play Gates, Spygates,
(33:19):
Hernandez Gates and all those.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I don't know, I think people will remember it because
it was so out there and you still you still
can go and listen to those videos, like you say,
things are gonna fade away.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
No, nobody listen to the videos.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Rob you said it like it's on your side on
your playlist, and somebody says, you know, you know the
Astros cheated into it. You can go for yourself see
and hear the trash cans being banged. I mean that's
the part. It's one thing when when when you talk
about something and there's no video or there's no real
(33:54):
proof and it's like, oh, well everybody be doing it
like that is the that's always the thing. It's like
we talk about it all the time. I'm with the
Ray Rice and what.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Happens, Yeah, you see it when you see it Diddy
and I mean, that's what happened with Diddy and Cassie.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Cassie right once you see that video, you can't like
try to say, oh, she's just saying this, or you
don't know what went down. You don't know what happened. No,
we saw it for ourselves. We can't unsee it. And
that's the thing with the Astros that people will always
remember them because it's out there what you are.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It's a genuine question, what about so I get your point.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You do we know about the nineteen nineteen Black Sox Chicago.
We still know about that. Average fan doesn't bring that up,
is what I'm saying. So they know about like you
and this.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can already tell you this is gonna be the
plight of my future, Robgie, dealing with a historian here.
It'll be is that you're gonna look at it from
your vantage point. I like to look at things from
a more broader standpoint. No, you're just like, are gonna
bring that? Most people aren't gonna bring that up. Most
people are like you're if you're a sixteen year old
baseball fan right now. In ten years, you're twenty six,
(34:57):
maybe you have your first kid or something, thirty years old,
whatever it is, you're not gonna be like you's gonna be. Oh,
the Houston Astros were good in the in the mid
mid the late two thousands, early twenty twenties. You know,
you're not gonna like overly stress on. They just gonna
be like, Yo, they were good. Ask some something happened.
I remember, they remember I did they did something, rob
I don't remember. If they something about the cheating trash,
I don't know. But I just know they were winning.
I could be wrong, and the words of that Charles
(35:17):
Barkley commercial, I may be I may be wrong, but
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You will be wrong, all right, And don't forget tomorrow.
What it is a TV theme song Thursday, so that'll
be special. We'll have a lot by the way, Uh
fresh Prince theme song. May like eighty percent. People said
they remember that. That's just the people that you.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You are, you people love people. Nowaday all right? Uh,
Jason Smith and Mike Carmon the company get off so
I can get the rest of my cheesecake. I got
some yesterday. I made radio. So you know what you
need to do, stick and stay. There's cheesecake America, right
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to catch you up on some baseball, Mets lead three
to one in the top of the fifth in Milwaukee.
They can win the series. Uh if they win the
game tonight. So the Brewers are on the brink.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
The Atlanta Braids are on the brink as well. They're
down one game the nothing. They're leading one to nothing
in San Diego on the second inning and the Padres
had loaded with nobody out in the first inning and
got no runs with Machado up to start that. Uh,
it's still still early and they got some bats, so
(01:40):
we'll see what they do and in just a little bit,
so I'm not overly worried about it, all right, And
let's finish up here this final hour with some football.
And we mentioned Tyreek kill Mike Jones, who was just
on the program from the Athletic the National Football right.
And you know, I think a lot of people have
(02:03):
discounted discs to and not really looked at what he
did last year's numbers and the reason that they gave
him the pay, the big paybag, the big pay, the
big salary, the big contract that people were frowning on.
But it's because he's a quarterback who can make stuff
(02:23):
happen with talent. And now if it wasn't about two
and it's about everybody, well, he's got all the weapons
anybody could do well well since two it's been out.
They can't score, they can't get anything going. We talked
about that a stretch of ten quarters in a row
with no touchdown. They got a meaningless touchdown in the
(02:44):
eleventh quarter of that stretch to end that streak. But
it's been mostly misses and no hits. So it's not
always about the talent. You got to have a quarterback
if you're a Tyreek, kill somebody to get your ball
for Devonte Adams, right, DeVonta Adams went there because.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
They got from college. Derek Carr's a solid, you know,
solid to good quarterback. Yeah, I mean you need that.
I think what Tua did now then Now the challenge
with this conversation is there is a chance, and I
think it's a small chance, but there's a chance we
never see too of throw football again in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He's weighing that.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I obviously feel like he wants to come back, and
he may, but I'm just saying there is a chance
he doesn't come back. With now having three concussions, with
three or four three seasons, that is absolutely staggering. And
we've all seen the way he's had those concussions. But
you're right, Tua earned his money. Remember when they asked
Tyreek Hill, he was like, hey, man, I played with
Patrick Mahomes, but these balls come on time. When Tua
(03:48):
was throwing them, I ain't gonna lie. These balls are
right where they need to be. Gave him high praise,
and you felt like it wasn't just gassing up my
guy now.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Because he didn't have to do that because he won
a Super Bowl with Mahomes. So he absolutely, yes, they
were both talented. No, he's saying, talented in their own right.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And all that all I know is these balls are
coming out on time, They're right where they need to be.
And you see, and we've already knew that was the
selling point on Tua. He watched most elusives, not the
biggest guy, but man is he accurate? Man is he
get the ball where he needs to be? And that
was what they were saying coming out of Alabama. And
then we've seen it in the NFL and when he's right,
(04:26):
that offense is a juggernaut. They're scoring broad Parker, they're
scoring eighty yard toughsdown.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Drives in three plays.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And remember we saw them put on a put up
a seventy piece in an NFL game.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Absolutely ridiculous, right, they put up seventy points in an
NFL game.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
But what I what I find interesting, So Tua definitely
showing it ain't the system. It ain't these fast running
there's wide receivers that we have and these nice running backs.
It's me. It's the trust in me. It's the timing
that I have with these players. It is the rapport
that I have with these receivers, and that that's why
this thing is working.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
An interesting conversation, if I can pivot a bit, is
going back to what we were talking about with Mike Jonesiado,
He and some other writers at The Athletic had a
poll talking about what's the player that you would want
to start your franchise with, aside from a quarterback and
the league. All the players they ask in the league,
they all said Tyreek Hill because he's just that dynamic
(05:22):
what he does. We've seen that, the stats he puts up,
the ability to score at any given point when he
has a ball. So I ask you, Rob Parker, I
know who My answer is quarterback? Aside, who are you
starting a franchise with?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I have mine? I well let you go first. One
eight Nutcheins.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, Detroit Lions defensive end, if you've watched in the
last two seasons, is absolutely ridiculous two and a half.
It's ridiculous what he's doing. He's going after the quarterback
at a crazy rate. He's getting sacks, or he's getting pressured,
or he's making quarterbacks uncomfortable to theirt on the ball off,
(06:00):
they're stepping up in the pocket, they're trying to scramble,
they're getting hit, they're turning the ball over. He affects
the game so much on the defensive side of the ball.
And the reason why I like that, as we've seen
was guys like Tyreek Hiere. I think the second place
person who got the votes in this poll was Justin Jefferson.
The reason I don't like that is because he's amazing.
But if the quarterback isn't great, or if the offensive
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line is maybe down a guy or two, well he
can be eliminated from the game. By the way, the
Padres just hit a home run. Like we said they're
gonna those bats, We're not overly worried about that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Give me a guy that it don't matter what anybody
else is doing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
He can do what he does. He can get me
two sacks in a game, he can give me two
tackles for a loss. He can create two fumbles in
a game. So give me a defensive end who can
still wreck havoc on a team and it doesn't have
to be depending on who's getting him the ball like
a receiver.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's just me who you got?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeahs an offensive player. I still think it's an offensive
player like a Derrek Henry. But because we can't take Lamar,
because Lamar would be the guy I would start, well, yeah,
I mean I really would, Yeah, Lamar because he could
do so many things. And it's not a knock on
Patrick Mahomes. It's just that he really can change the
game two weeks. He's the hardest to play, right, You
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just exactly if he's gonna throw it or is he
gonna hold on to it and and run crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And you see what he can do in the open field. Like,
he's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You guy, you got you got receivers, know, I said Derek,
So Derek will be yours. I mean again, he's had
an amazing Hall of Fame career. I mean he still
got juice in the tank and ain't like that dude
is too big to be that fast and that powerful.
It doesn't get defensive players. But you also can do
your thing defensively and still not win if you can't
(07:45):
generate true and that and that's where the frustration and
and this is where you could push back on on
on going with a defensive player, is that for a
lot of years the Broncos had great defenses and they
couldn't get a quarterback, and they still didn't win with
regularity because there just wasn't enough offense.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You can listen, first of all, aside from quarterback, it's
a difficult thing.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But he did win that Super Bowl. They won that
Super Bowl for Peyton Manning. That was a defense, right that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You can say, I mean, we know what the Ravens
have done, we know what the Buccaneers did back and
the thing was all three.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Every once in a while you have all time great,
an all time great defense, and that can lead the
Ons over home.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, I just would rather start with somebody where I
know guess who. I ain't got to worry about JJ Watt,
TJ Watt. You know, I ain't got to worry about
Ada Hutchins. I don't have to worry about Reggie White,
you know what I mean. Lawrence Taylor coming up. I
know he was an outside linebacker, but you know, give
me that guy where I already know I don't have
to worry about that, and the plays they make actually
(08:45):
change the game, right, Lawrence Taylor was making game changing
plays every single week. So I'd rather that than a
receiver where it's like, all right, quarterback, if our quarterback's
hurt or he just goes with another team. Now I'm
stuck with this receiver with a guy who can't get
him the ball, and now he's a lesser version of himself,
and so it doesn't really equates to things. So he's
catching seven catches seventy five yards, but what did it
(09:08):
really matter. Give me the guy who can call sacks,
which means he gives me the ball sooner, maybe causing
a fumbles. Give me the ball again, so that's me. No,
we can open it up too to see. I mean,
maybe it is still on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I just think the game has turned into an offensive
game the NFL this year. And yeah, I mean it's
been struggles, but I think that overall the game is
offensive and there used to be a time when it
was more so defensive struggles, and it was about defense
and some of the best players.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And it doesn't mean that there aren't great defensive players.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
There are.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I feel like you just want to argue with me.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, I'm just saying, your face does not believe Derek Henry.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I let it ride for this first few minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh, I'm gonna say, Derek Henry, because I think we
have downgraded the running back position, and I think it's.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
A very important Jim Brown is rolling around as growth, okay,
and it opens up so much on the football field.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Running out the clock in order to win a game,
you know what I mean, When you got to get
that first down and you can't throw it, you need
somebody to get you three yards. Like they tried to
discount it. I don't think you could really discount it.
We saw what happened to the Ravens when they stopped
running the ball in the AFC Championship get they lost
down on them to this day, they got to beating
themselves up it they stopped running the ball.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They did that this year too, by the way, lost
to the Raiders and brought the game back close to
the Cowboys. It's like, do you do have a monthster
truck back there?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And you do know that? Right? That's opening up.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I think running is important, and I think it has
been downgraded. But I think watching Derrek Henry this year,
knowing what he brings to Baltimore, I'm out at it
all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Aside from a quarterback, keep that in mind for those
who maybe just turned us on. Aside from a quarterback.
They did a poll shout out to Mike Jones from
the Athletic Joined Us and the poll essentially one hundred
players thank you? Was that, aside from a quarterback, who's
that guy that you would start a franchise with? They
picked Tyreek Hill. I say, Adam Hutchet, Aiden Hutchins.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You say, Derrick Henry, what say you? Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And I want Rob g to jump in on this too,
because we got a running back, defensive line defender bomb yep.
And where would you go? Would you go wide receiver
in a throwing league or would you go defensive?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Wide receiver? Would be way down on my list of priorities.
I think that we've seen. You know, even though it
is a passing league now more than ever that wide
receivers are like the cherry on top of a Sunday.
I agree that you do not need them to have
slic but or cheesecake slice. They are the vanilla drizzle
on a cheesecakes. Do come on now with where it's
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very clear at this point that number one, there's way
too many wide receivers in the league to begin with,
where one guy is not you know, demonstraly better than
number six like Tyreek Hill and Davante Adams. The difference
is not that wide and number two when when you're
if you're picking a non quarterback, it's gotta be somebody
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that can impact the game without need to be reliant
on five different other people to have an impact, and
wide receiver is the one that is the most reliant
on everybody when it comes to football.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So I like the Dereck Henry one.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
But for me, my vote would have been if this
was last year, we've been Aaron Donald him by himself
can wreck a game.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And that's what people saw exactly the Super Bowl at
the end, he was the one who got that.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
And so this year, you know, I would like to
say Chris Jones, He's just probably not as good as
some of the other guys, so I would probably lean
someone like t. J. J.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Wattah, that's a fair pig. I'm not mad at that
that you You get my sentiment, no matter what. Derek
Henry and Dereck Henry is an example of a guy.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Even though you say running back needs a good offensive line,
he had bad offensive lines in the Tennessee Mary Sanders
and it didn't matter. He has to make something out
of nothing more times than not.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Hey, let's open it up eight seven seven nine on
Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Aside from
a quarterback, who are you starting your NFL franchise with?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And we got to send a shout out too many
with Chato, same situation.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
He just came up gee first, he made him up
to the first inning with the base of loaded. You
didn't get it done, and he just doubled with the
base of loaded.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's the bottom of second. So one inning later he
gets an opportunity, and I know, I worried about the
padres and the bats get going and this might get
a might get bad for the braves. All right, we
want to hear from you on that. We'll carry that
conversation over and at the bottom of the hour, JR.
Gamble's gonna join us from mlbbro dot Com. We'll get
you set up for file or fair. It is The
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
All right, let's get to the calls we got Scott
in North Carolina. You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, Scott?
Speaker 8 (14:51):
What's up my guys doing?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
We're doing good? And quick update on baseball. Met still
lead the Brewers three to two in the six stinning
in the top of the sixth, and the Padres are
out to a five to one lead over Atlanta in
the third.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yep, all right, what you got, Scott?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Yeah, I gotta say Fred Warner the linebacker with the
linebacker yep.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I mean he's a dog.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I mean he could stop the runs, you know, stop
those elusive running backs that you that are valuable to
the game. He could attack the quarterback on the blitz,
and he could drop the coverage, uh and defend some
you know, wide receivers. And in the league where, let's
be honest, a lot of guys miss tackles. I really
see him missing tackles.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You're right about missing. He's really hard by to trying
to hit people. What team just missed a gazillion at tackle?
It was awful.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Who was that against this last week? I have to
think about it. That was like embarrassing, ridiculous they missed. No,
I'm not mad at that. He is a beast.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
He absolutely makes plays, keeps that defense. Honest, that's a
great that's a great pick. I'm not mad at it.
We're going next.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
How about Dre in Michigan. I got Dre and Michigan.
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Dray?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
What's going on? Fellers?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Y'all?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
All right, sir, sir, I'm glad to hear from you.
My man, you listening?
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Oh, you know, I got your bag, bro, Come on, hey,
But no, I gotta go with I know he little
own the two, but I gotta go with Trent Richardson, man,
because he nullify your warrants, He nullify your Hutchinson's and
without him, you know, with him, he opened them holes
up for you, Dereck Harrings, and he blocked for your
Patrick Mahomes. So the game is one of the trenches
that I would start with the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
All right, I'm never gonna argue with that either. That's why,
that's why it sounds the analysis.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, they make they make it all the money. We
don't even think about them. We talk about quarterbacks. Meanwhile,
it's a left tackle out here making twenty five thirty million.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Quietly, don't even talk about him. That's a great call.
Eight seven seven Ninetynine on Fox. The question is what
player would you start a crabchise with? Who is a
nine quarterback? I said, Adye Hutchinson. You said, Dereck Henry.
What say you, Poppy in San Diego? It's popping down there.
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
It's time? Look, I know you guys.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Hear a lot of players the offense, even the I'll
play you guys are our hockey.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I call up the sleeper rookie. I really love Marvin
Harrison Junior from the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm not an analytic guy, but last time I checked.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Guys, he's leading to the league with the most touched
on receptions in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Bro rookie, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
With Kyle Murray, Alligator arms not really.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Kidding me.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hey, you ain't lying, Poppy. Thank you for the call.
Marvin Harrison Junior. Looks like he's gonna be one of
them one for sure, that's no doubt. But the thing
about it is, if Kyler Williams were to go down
and it's another quarterback and he can't get remember the
conversations that the week one Kyler Williams wasn't getting on
the ball in the battle Martin Harrison, So are wet, Chuck,
Chuck in Michigan, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They listening strong for us while you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
That's Rice Dollas. How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We do it right? Are we coming in loud and clear?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir, you are? Hey, real quick on baseball,
real quick Tigers. I love him and I'm not I'm
not trying to be a negative.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Here we go, Chuck, Here, there we go. Ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
The Tigers bailed their manager out for the second straight day.
Number one, they pulled schoobl in the sixth inning with
eighty four pitches. The best picture. He pulled a Cy
Young Award winner. Number two, he put in a guy
that had a rookie who had two innings under his belt,
two or three innings under his belt at major league level,
and in a high leverage situation, and he gave up
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the first, got on and the Tigers bailed him out
in the eighth.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I wish A. J.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Hinch would just pitched his best pitchers and not worry
about getting these guys in the needy experience again.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And I'm not even gonna argue with you because the
schoolbl one was the one people.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Four pitches.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Why are you taking him out when there's no reason
to take him out? I agree with you, But where
are you on this football?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Who would you pick?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Okay, here, I'm Aiden Hutchinson, and I'll tell you why.
I don't want to be contradicting with I probably would
pick a couple more guys. But here's the thing about
Hutchinson is he's getting better. Yeah, Like he's making strip
like the first year, Hey, he's good, last year, dynamic.
This year he's just.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
An and four and a half sacks in one game.
He's that's what. That's what he was my pick.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And he's a good guy. He's durable, he's got a
motor that won't quit. And I love your guys show.
Thank you for letting me speak off.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Thanks problem, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, that's right. That's why he was appreciated. That's why
he was my pick. It's just he's very young, he's energetic.
He I don't have to worry about him. I don't
have to worry about his motivation. At least as of now.
He's anti Rob Parker. He don't have a podcast yet.
Next good he'll get a podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So I'm all in on.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, I'm worried that because as he keeps getting better,
you know how it goes. I'm a fan of his,
so but I'm not again, listen, there's a handful of
other players.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'm not mad at you, say, Derek Henry. I'm not
matter that. I thought we might get a call for
I mean, he's a little he's mid age now. For
running back with Saquon Barkley, I could have seen or
Christian McCaffrey somebody saying that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Shit and and and those guys are having put You
can see the difference with Saquon, like he makes it difference.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah on the Giants. Really, I don't want to get
the ball enough. This is the Eagles this last game
for them. They don't know what what were the Giants thinking?
For real? I don't know, man, And.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Then not get they keep disrespecting that position. To your
point about Derek Henry and that's why running back, Yeah,
Emma Smith rolling around. I know he lied, but he
rolled Smith. O' ronnick right.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now watching how to get get disrespected like that? All right?
Foul or fair is going to be next after we
do what is trending right now?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right, are we ready? Let's do it?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Baseball?
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Doing that?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Ball is?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It was a big week in the big leagues.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Who's A? Who's A?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Is it foul?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Or is it fair?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
And now from mlbtbro dot com, here's j R.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Gamble tries Fowler fair.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Here on the AAPA Fox Sports a second, we go
around the diamond to discuss all the biggest headlines in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Nor do so proper? We had to bring in a
real baseball expert.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
We had to bring in a guy who has multiple
TVs on all at once. We watch all the games,
not just the Yankees, an other than my guy JR.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Gamble, Yo, y'all are you are you.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
In my room or something looking at all my multiple TVs?
Because literally I do have about Levy screens up on Sunday,
plus the iPhone, plus the television upstairs and downstairs.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's kinda like, w this is like a slight flex
right now.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
All the TVs I got, I got fourteen TVs, I
got TVs.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You living that life life on Strong Island? Is that
what MLB bro dot cop doing that? I don't know
what all up?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Man, it's not a flex. I'm inside doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's your point. We gotta get you outside that. We
gotta get you on the streets there, you know what.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Meanwhile, in our studio we got the Yes Network on
for no reason. He's just playing the background. But in
any event, we.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Got three MLB questions because JR. Is the star of
the segment. He is the first crack at every single
one of them. So let's get right to it. Question
number one, JR. Justin Verlander, friend of the Inside the
Parker Podcast. By the way, Hey, if you didn't get
a chance to listen.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That was a good interview, right, we like him. Yes,
he's not how he's at home, but we like him.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
He's forty two, coming off an injury riddled season and
was just left off the Astros playoff roster entirely before
they got eliminated, both due to health and general ineffectiveness.
Even still, JV says he has no plans to retire,
So JR. Foul or fair to say that we will
not not see Justin Verlander pitching the postseason ever again.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Foul, That is a foul ball. I mean, you know
you have these guys, Verlander, Chris Sale, and I said,
as great as you know they can be, that peak
is behind them fellas, and you know, unless they have
the love Aunt James exception, you know one's body is
going to break down eventually. Now I know Berland, his
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wife doesn't want him home yet, right, He's having fun,
he's making big money. She's not the modernis. He's just
hanging out. But he doesn't want him home yet. So
he could pick in the postseason next year, but his
innings definitely have to be managed and he can no longer,
in my opinion, be a starter in the regular season.
You got to keep him as a possible X factor
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or something in the playoffs. But if you have him
as a starter at the beginning of the season, and
Rob and I spoke about this on our phone conversations recently,
then you have to bigly rest him the whole year
and just play him when it's playoff time because he
won't make it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm gonna say it's fair.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Only from the standpoint that he'll probably be with Houston
and it's all over in Houston. We just saw them,
like you know, like I think that Bregman is gonna
probably leave as a free agent and the team will
probably start to come undone. So if if he's still
with Houston, they probably won't make the playoffs next year.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
It is foul.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
That is a foul.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It is foul because he has proven time of the time,
it's been about five six years now of us questioning
is at the end of justin Verlin and he continues
to find the way they stay relevant and they still
have some nice outings. He wants to come back. Then
that means he knows what it takes to stay in
shape to the best of his ability. He is forty two,
and again it's not like he's out there. He doesn't
have to be. You're not asking him.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
To be here.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He is gentlemen, which is kind of crazy because I've been,
you know, obviously starting to Detroit. I've seen his whole career.
That's kind of wild. So I think he has a
few games in him. He's kind of an older version
to me of what Kershaw has become for the Dodgers.
I already know you're gonna be injured for two thirds
to three quarters of the season already. Let me pencil that.
In postseason, I think I got a chance at you.
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So I think justin Verlin, we see another run with him.
He's been good fortunes it teams keep winning and going
the World Series over his career.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I just run these next two quickly. Number two Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Brass reiterated this morning that they can quote do not
a dissipate O Tani picture for them in the postseason. However,
once again they refuse to actually close the door on
the idea JR. Simple question, foul or fair to say
that it would be a mistake for the Dodgers little
tany pitch at any point in these playoffs.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Fair to me, it would be beyond idiotic. I mean,
he's coming off several arm injuries. We know since he's
been in the league pitching, he hasn't pitched in a
long time, and now you want to try to rush
him into duty ripped another injury after fifty to fifty season.
I don't think so. People act as if O'tonni's kind
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of machine. Sometimes he is human, folks, and he has
a pitch in a while. He's been injured when he pitched,
and this isn't the time where you unleash him again
after his recovery in the playoffs. The Dodgers are supposed
to be a super team. They spent all this money.
If you can't win without putting Otani on the mount
a year early, then should go.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm gonna say it's fair. It would be a mistake.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
There's no reason to rush him back, and God forbid
he gets hurt and has to miss next season.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
As a picture, I just want him to be fully
healthy and be ready for next year. Foul is a foul.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Ball, and it's for most opposite reasons of what you said, Jr. Listen,
if they're gonna put him out there, it must be
a high lever situation in a deep playoff run. I mean,
it's a World Series and we need a few outs
or it's a you know, this game would get us
to the World Series, and we want to win it
to get there, and they would never consider any other reason.
So to me, he's had a magical season. He's done that.
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He's made Rob Parker madd why not keep it going? Yeah,
I pitched all year, you know what the man and
you said he not a machine. I'm not so sure
you're right.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
J Are he looking like a meereast one quickly fouling
fan with Jami gam on the odd couple. J are
Baseball's biggest story, of course, Pete Rose passing away age
eighty three. He's been bad for baseball for thirty five years,
but now that he's passed, Somemers speculated that might actually
inspire Major League Baseball to lift the band. JayR here's
the question that we're fair to say that now since
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he's no longer with us, Pete Rose actually has a
better chance at making the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Fou that is a solo ball. I thought about this,
and I think he has a less of a chance
because for one of the commissioner, you know, put this
suspense into place. He's no longer with us, so so
the missioners that have followed ten the respect his ruling
on roles. Eventually, I guess they'll have some kind of
(27:37):
recognition in the Hall of Fame, but I don't think
an official induction. And uh, you know he's eighty three
when he passed, So that generation of people, you know,
eighty and over Rob Parker's generation, they you know, they're
not going to have a voice in five years about
whether or not Pete Rose against the Hall of Fame.
And I don't think people will care too much. Unfortunately, five.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm gonna say foul.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
He Rose did it to himself and people need to
understand that there's some bad, other bad stuff about Pete Rose.
I don't think people are gonna rush to celebrate this guy.
I don't file for Rob's points. And how add that
he's also gone. He had been his big that is
as and making it a thing.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
He's gone. Are we gonna talk about it as much?
So I say foule as well? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
J R.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
My man, thank you so much, Thank you fellas, appreciate
you work. Thank you. We're gonna, uh, you know what.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
We had to continuous conversation since we were just talking
about some baseball and we talked about the Houston Astros
a bit good rittans or good run for the Astros.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
We'll do that next plus last call. That's right, last
call time here on the Odd Couple. If you hadn't
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Speaker 3 (29:51):
All right, and Don from Michigan is our last call
right here on the odd couple.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
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Speaker 5 (29:59):
Yo me Kelvin, lookam Borg appreciate it. Almost off the
association today. But anyway, you could hear your brother your
phone is breaking up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Did you call it a household?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
What is this nineteen ninety seven?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
You got a house only up up for the up.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Oh yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, yeah, I can't
even argue with that.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
But anyway, player, anybody said Justin Tucker, I'm a Packers fan.
We've been screwed by Kickers last three years since Silver Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
They have not said Justin Tucker. Shot to him for
the call. Appreciated.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
By the way, if you don't know what he's talking about,
Upper Peninsula Mission as a whole, it might as well
be Canada.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I know that's a whole nother as a whole. The
up is a whole nother place a they say a
all the time. It's the same thing like, you know,
I'm from New York, New York City and up state.
Now they just say the rest of the whole upstate. Seriously,
New York is like this big. You haven't seen New York.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I there.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
New York is like this big, and the state is
this big, and they go, where are you from? Upstate
New York? It's just like a whole the rest. It's like, waitit,
why are we the rest of the New York This
out from New York? Son, Like, y'all ain't nothing but
about eight miles.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
That's about it. It's maybe it's something eight million people
in the eight mile right, Yeah, nobody get a kick it.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We ain't starting not get his point, but we're not
starting our franchise with a kicker about that.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
But we were talking about the Astros and it's the
end of a New York I mean, if something didn't
officially end, it felt like it. As far as the
Astros getting swept by the Tigers, who have been playing great,
and it's no knock on the Tigers, but to play
you had to you had to go to Houston and
play those games there and then knock them out in
the sweep was pretty darn impressive, and it told you
(31:45):
the Astros didn't really struggle. They only scored what they
scored two runs, and those they were up to one
to two today. And then after that the Dodger of
the Dodgers. That's all you know.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I have worked with the Dodgers on the Tigers went
ahead and got a few runs in the in the
seventh and eighth inning. I think it was up winning
five to you. They looked they struggled a bit. Yeah,
I mean, the Tiger's gonna be sneaky. They're gonna because
you don't have you don't even really have people to
prepare for for because they haven't. We've talked about the numbers.
Nobody's yeah, and nobody's really hitting a bunch of home runs.
Nobody's still in a bunch of bases. Nobody's just a
(32:15):
bunch of guys who are ready to play. They're young
enough and dumb enough to think why not us, And
they're going out there and doing their thing. They had
no worries against the Astros. They didn't care about the history.
But when our conversation a good writ is a good
run we were talking about that, I said, I get
the good ritts right, because they've had this successful run
since twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I've gone to seven alcs's
(32:37):
straight and Straight and and folks hate them to ask,
you know, the trashtros and all the stuff beating the
trash cans. But I was saying, at the end of
the day, man, history starts to lose its luster, right,
You start to forget all the exact details of minutia
of everything, and you just remember, man, they win. They
won a couple Like if you're from Houston, or if
you follow the Astros, or if you're just a baseball like,
(32:57):
oh yeah, you're gonna be like, man, they won two
World Series timeitols in a seven year run. A bunch
of star players went to the World Series four, went
to the World Series four times. I mean, you're just
kind of gonna remember that run. You're not gonna think
about the details. Yes, it might come up, but it'll
lose its luster as the years go by. Similarly to
the Patriots and all their gates they had to play Gates, Spygates,
(33:19):
Hernandez Gates and all those.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I don't know, I think people will remember it because
it was so out there and you still you still
can go and listen to those videos, like you say,
things are gonna fade away.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
No, nobody listen to the videos.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Rob you said it like it's on your side on
your playlist, and somebody says, you know, you know the
Astros cheated into it. You can go for yourself see
and hear the trash cans being banged. I mean that's
the part. It's one thing when when when you talk
about something and there's no video or there's no real
(33:54):
proof and it's like, oh, well everybody be doing it
like that is the that's always the thing. It's like
we talk about it all the time. I'm with the
Ray Rice and what.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Happens, Yeah, you see it when you see it Diddy
and I mean, that's what happened with Diddy and Cassie.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Cassie right once you see that video, you can't like
try to say, oh, she's just saying this, or you
don't know what went down. You don't know what happened. No,
we saw it for ourselves. We can't unsee it. And
that's the thing with the Astros that people will always
remember them because it's out there what you are.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It's a genuine question, what about so I get your point.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You do we know about the nineteen nineteen Black Sox Chicago.
We still know about that. Average fan doesn't bring that up,
is what I'm saying. So they know about like you
and this.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can already tell you this is gonna be the
plight of my future, Robgie, dealing with a historian here.
It'll be is that you're gonna look at it from
your vantage point. I like to look at things from
a more broader standpoint. No, you're just like, are gonna
bring that? Most people aren't gonna bring that up. Most
people are like you're if you're a sixteen year old
baseball fan right now. In ten years, you're twenty six,
(34:57):
maybe you have your first kid or something, thirty years old,
whatever it is, you're not gonna be like you's gonna be. Oh,
the Houston Astros were good in the in the mid
mid the late two thousands, early twenty twenties. You know,
you're not gonna like overly stress on. They just gonna
be like, Yo, they were good. Ask some something happened.
I remember, they remember I did they did something, rob
I don't remember. If they something about the cheating trash,
I don't know. But I just know they were winning.
I could be wrong, and the words of that Charles
(35:17):
Barkley commercial, I may be I may be wrong, but
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You will be wrong, all right, And don't forget tomorrow.
What it is a TV theme song Thursday, so that'll
be special. We'll have a lot by the way, Uh
fresh Prince theme song. May like eighty percent. People said
they remember that. That's just the people that you.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You are, you people love people. Nowaday all right? Uh,
Jason Smith and Mike Carmon the company get off so
I can get the rest of my cheesecake. I got
some yesterday. I made radio. So you know what you
need to do, stick and stay. There's cheesecake America, right
mind what
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