March 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Rob & Kelvin react to Cam Heyward’s comments on Aaron Rodgers, discuss where they think he should end up as he continues to ponder between Minnesota (?), New York, and Pittsburgh, Jon Paul Morosi stops by, and more!
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last call, Tracy Morgan. Yeah, will be the last thing
we talk about on the show A little bad moments.
Msg it happens, man, it's just as unbelievable that happened more.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, well, you know what's funny. And we were just
talking about this boat.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now that every single human being has a camera phone,
we document things like that might have happened in ninety five.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We just wouldn't have known it per se, you know.
But like it ain't nothing slipping.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now, I'll say this, that's how we know there's no
bigfoot because everybody's walking around, everybody's walking around with a camera.
There's a bigfoot. A lot of these things that we
want the shows on on cable and that, like did
you hear that?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It was? How many had caught the ghost? All that?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And nobody has a picture of them? Where where's bigfoot?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The only argument I would have to that is would
you believe it if you saw it?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
If I literally reported a ghost walking by here? Yes,
how many would go, oh that's cgi man, I can
do that in photo shop, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But I'm just saying by now and it's always blockednous monster?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
All this time? We too haven't seen it? They say,
we still don't know like Alex would know.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Alex is their bigfoot could be No, that's not what
I asked you.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yes or no, Yes, there's no bigfoot.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I believe it. I can take my show off right now.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We don't.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We don't have the sound effects because I would have
hit him with a book. That would hit you with
that bank Now a little high over there or something? Man,
what you're doing over there? We eat some organic strawberries. Yes,
actually you'd be proud of me looking at my plate
of nothing but fresh oranges.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You see this?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Ain't you only up four pounds?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Then?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Huh No, I'm no. See how I compliment him and
then he does me. We I'm just he's gonna be
so mad when I come back shot from shirtless summer
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You're gonna be so mad. I'm in a shirtless summer,
uh two summers ago. I was gonna say six.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I think you'll be surprised up under here, it ain't
as bad as you think. If I'm gonna show you
a picture, so rob Gi says, do I need to pause.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That or not? But I'm gonna show you a picture. Yes, pause,
and I'm gonna show you a picture Alex. All right,
if I heard, get this this segment over. So let's
get into this picture. You're talking to what smack right now?
All right, let's return to the NFL and bo. We
we have this sound, don't we. So this is uh
Cam Hayward. Yeah, he big time defensive player, literally big.
(03:47):
He's a massive human being for the Steelers. And he
was on a podcast and they asked him a question
about Aaron Rodgers coming to the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What his thoughts were. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
I ain't doing that the darkness, darkness treat you. I
don't mean any of that crap like either you want
to be a Pittsburgh Steeler you don't. That's that's simple.
That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that's
the recruiting pitch. You know, Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want
to be part of it, so be it. If you don't,
No no skin on my back.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Your thoughts. I just it didn't It didn't sound as
bad as I read it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
No, And to be fair to see a little backtrack
the question who I don't know if folk and looking
at him podcast, you make a pitch to Yeah. His
point was, Hey, man, you're a big time guy with
the Steelers. You know, make a pitch to Aaron Rodgers.
He says, hey, man, come on a darkness, retreat me
with me for a couple of days and talk to me.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That was the but here here is my thing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I know we see the stories and we talked
about it before teams being held hot. He's a free agent,
and I just I don't understand. I know people would
like to. I guess there's three teams vying for him,
and maybe you know, after Aaron Rodgers picked a team,
then the other two teams can get figure out. Yeah,
But I don't think there's anything that you have to rush.
(05:05):
I think I really don't. I think this is a
free agent period, and I don't know why people are bothered.
Like half the people say he can't play, but then
they're mad at him that he had and picked one
of the three teams that want them stop looking at me.
I'm at me because that makes sense to you to
say what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You're gonna look at me.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Let me see if you can't play, then it would
be nobody asking you what I'm wondering when you're gonna
make a decision. You would just be like, there's no
decision to be made. Where do you think and here,
let's just flip it here. Okay, where do you think
he's gonna wind up? Honestly, I know you said he's
your retire that's not retired.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well no, I said that was the fourth option, Like,
that's a legitimate to me. He doesn't have to play
like that. Was my point was, if somebody wants him,
I totally get that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Hey, if you're wanted, why stop.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
My point was, you don't have to keep playing, Like, dude,
you had an amazing career, first ballot Hall of Famer,
one of the best we've ever seen. You don't have
to keep going through this was my point. But it's
assume he does play. I think at this point it
almost has to be the Steelers because the Giants can say, hey,
we made a pitch, we tried, but there aren't really
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great expectations for us anyway. Plus we might get a
Shador Sanders or you know, we trade up, maybe we.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Trade up to scared and New York. I'm just you're
saying they wanted Aaron Rodgers. I don't think I don't
want They don't want that but they added pressure.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I I'd rather say, man, look we I'm telling you
got some coming. We got neighbors, we got Chador Sanders,
we're building, We're coming see cec.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Look were on our way.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I'd rather that Aaron Rodgers, who wants to be the savior,
and you gotta win two and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And they're gonna say, Okay, well that's good. But if
we won those last two games of the season. I'm
just so hope we won.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Bo. We won the last two games of fan we
on our way. I coming with Aaron Rodgers and we
go you know, seven and ten. It's no, but you
got your door to be there as well. And if
they do have to make that, have to still have him.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And and then that's your selling point, is the franchise
didn't fall off the cliff, right, And then you're like,
oh my god, we gotta get rid of these guys.
Been terrible year the year before. Then they bring in
the air know, they bring in your door centers. They
don't know what they're doing. Whatever it was, terror another exactly,
you know what I mean, Like that's the but that anger.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So that's why I go back to the Steelers because
the Steelers have put all their eggs into Aaron Rodgers basket,
and people have talked about the bro mance Tomlin and
Aaron Rodgers having about each other. They sing each other's
praises and whatnot. So that almost has to happen because
from what we're understanding what we read the reports are
Russell Wilson offensive coordinator, don't have a great relationship. They've
(07:42):
already put it out there that hey, you can go
you know you are. They called it the distant Plan
B with Russell Wilson, So to me, it becomes what
do they do justin Fields is gone? Russell Wilson is
the distant plan being he might be feeling like I
don't want to be the you know the seconds. They
almost have no choice but to make this happen any
(08:03):
way possible. So it almost feels like he has to
be a stealer because again, the Giants can just fall
back on, hey, we're a draft shaudor or we can
sell hope. The Vikings obviously have their guy in JJ McCarthy,
so they can say, hey know what, don't scrap it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Don't worrybody, We'll move on. We got our guy. Here
we go. We're gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, we got our new the new jj eras
upon us, the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This this has to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But one thing I will say, I'm not mad to
your point, you say Aaron Rodgers has the right, has
free agency, he has the right ticket time, I actually
don't disagree.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
And that he's doing what he's allowed to do. You
do what you are allowed to do.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And if the Steelers and the Giants have put themselves
in this position, will they have to wait on his timing?
Then he they have to wait on his timing again,
they put themselves in this position where they have You're
all we have. So if he needs to take his time,
he needs to take a darkness retreat, he wants to
wait it out, talk to his family whatever, that's his right.
And they're in this position where on the Aaron Rodgers
(09:00):
clock now, which is crazy to think that this isn't thirty.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Six year old him. Well, okay, I'd be on that
clock too.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is forty one, going to be forty two December
year old him, and they're on his timetable. Which is
kind of wild to think that the Steelers to put
themselves in this position.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, I also think I think that the Vikings are
also another very viable reason. He's familiar with the NFC North.
The whole thing of going back there. Brett fav went
and played for the Vikings and they got to the
NFC championship game, you know, at the end of his
career as well.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I'm just saying, there's a lot of you think that matters.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean, I'm really asking because he's aware Aaron, like,
does he not want to like I don't want to
be literally like I sat behind the guy played at
the same team. Then I go to the Jets like
he did, then I go to the Vikings. He's kind
of an awareness. I don't think the documentary has his
own documentary. Get that and go what they were fourteen
and three.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
They they won the ball well and still real defense
is good, Like they got a lot of things and
and Kevin O'Connell has made his name true and turning
these quarterbacks around. And so there's a lot there on
the plate to say, hey, did me give it one
more shot with a good team and maybe I'll be
able they'll be able to take care of me and
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and and make sure that they protect me at the
offensive line and all that and give it a shot.
If Sam Darnold could put up thirty five touchdowns and
four thousand yards behind that line, maybe I could do
the same thing.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And your point, that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Josh Dobbs, remember him, he was coming. We had wasn't
even thinking about him.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He came out the ballooon balled out for the Vikings
for most of that year that he was there as well.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So there is some truth to Kevin o'conne. Although they
get the best out of you. But I just yeah,
the Steelers, I mean, so let me flip it it
throw it at you, Mike Tomlin again, they let Justin
Fields go you and not talked about that for a
whole season. That's fine, that's their prerogative. Russell Wilson. They
kind of said, Noah, we're good. We're gonna move on
unless some a break in case of emergency, something happens.
You know, with Aaron Rodgers. Let's say Aaron Rodgers just
(10:57):
goes to the Viking. Let's say for whatever reasons he goes,
he goes to the Giants because he's like, I don't
want to leave New York.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I feel like I just home. What do the Steelers do?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Like, literally what do they do if Aaron rod Because
because what if they don't forget about the Browns, but
because what if Russell Wilson, who had the meeting with
the Browns, goes there, Hey many Browns were eleven and
five just two years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Uh, they's got Miles Gary.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Maybe they're not as bad as Deshaun Watson isn't playing well.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There's always a chance that they could decide to make
a trade with somebody, you know what I mean, Okay,
have to make a call, and you know they could
kirk you know, and make a trade or something. So
there is always this cuarterback that will be available. But
I hear your point, all right, eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. I know we talked about it. He
doesn't have to rush or whatever. But if you have
(11:46):
to pick a spot, we got three spots, where.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Should Aaron Rodgers go?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Is it to follow the Brett Favre history legacy for
Final Tour?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Right? Is it that?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Is it going to the Giants to just hold the
spot until the quarterback that they draft is ready, or
is it you know, Pittsburgh and and you know, trying
to help Mike Tomlin finally win a playoff game or whatever,
leaving going on. Figure that out. He really needs to playoff?
All right now, all right, Mike eight seven, seven ninety
(12:18):
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
three sixty nine. It is the Odd Couple on a
trash Talking Tuesday, Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington right here on
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Speaker 4 (12:30):
Stick and stay so.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I can finally release photos of Bigfoot in the US eventio.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
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Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh man, hey, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's the Odd Couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington on the
Trash Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Wait a tissue for me, I don't remember. Why do
you remember why you said that? Why was I crying?
I even remember? For me, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That's the best part about the drops, when you start forgetting,
like why it was even said in the first place.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I went to Bill Cosby's house too.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I had a drink and I woke up disrolled that one.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Uh, actually, why we why we already? Can you give
me the backstory for that one, alex or Rob? What what?
What the Bill Cosby?
Speaker 9 (13:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We were just talking about the story. I don't even
understand it, like it's scary something.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
I think we were just talking about famous people's parties
we went to and Rob told us his story.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
So is that what it was? I woke up all disrobed.
I understand that one.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
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Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's all sponsored by Tractor Supply for Life. Out Here
here we go, Hey Dwight in Kentucky. Where should Aaron
Rodgers wind up? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox?
How are you hey?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I'm good man, How you young man doing today?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I'm doing well, brother, thank you?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Okay, hey, I was gonna sing with my name. My
name is Dwighten from Kentucky, but my heart's from Green Bay. Okay,
let's get it back in green Bay. He gonna hold
the clipball for it, I mean, for doing it for
a couple of years and then if bad for me,
it didn't think happens to Doordy. He knows that, and
he knows I play book, and he can always say
if we don't win, with him on the bench, he
could say, hey, the green Bay would have won if
right have been started.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
There you go, all right, Dwight, I see how you're
looking at it. Let me tell you one thing. Aaron
Rodgers ain't.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
He ain't going to sitting a home.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He ain't going to sit down, no clipboard that he
ain't doing. Once that's done, he's done. There's no doubt
about it. But you did say, what was that video
you were talking about Alex which one? Well did you
say about mussy? He was saying, you don't want to
see TV. Yeah, but you were saying, I don't know
that's something we don't want to see. But I do
still want to see the Robert Kraft though, me too.
(15:19):
Alex and I are probably only two O.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
No, you is three of you? Rob G two? Why
why wouldn't you want to see? Why? On?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Okay, number one, Robert Craft's in it. Let's just start there. Okay,
then Robert Craft? Why would I want to see that?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Bill Belichick has a twenty something you old girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Okay, so she would be obviously beautiful. We don't know
who Rob was up in there with, not you, Rob, No,
Robert cra He's he's getting a massage young woman.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
First of all, my the ladies who give me besides
they're older, they stepped, they step on the back.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And you know what's great about them, they could use
their cane to get some leverage.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm always face down Twitter like okay, yes that listen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Every time I go in there, I think I'm the last.
This would be the lot of her last customer, because
you want to take the care to bash you over
the half on the last one in there?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Alex, you know like, you gotta have a lot of trust.
You're going there.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You do you do face down, you're playing face downble spot.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You're very vulnerable.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I'd say so eight seven seven.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Ninety right out here, not from you, Joe said the audacity.
Then he thought I looked like I was like, you
know what wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
If there's only two people in this room, we're talking
to hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
What I'm simply saying I could use one? No eye
contact was made too, But that was the move back
in the day. Why not I go to move?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Oh yeah, I'm saying right now, Oh, I got you,
I got you committed. You know I'm saying one of
my old timers, I'm doing right now, Alex. It was
about that sage.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
That's how you gotta you set it off. Cook with
olive oil in this house, baby, Yeah, come here, let
me show you what the lou olaveoy all right? That
Joel in Dallas. You're on the A couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Joe?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Yo?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Is Jola? Yo?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Rob?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Are you being man?
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Man?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
What's up? How are you?
Speaker 11 (17:10):
Bro?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I've been good?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (17:12):
Kevin?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What's good now?
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I've been listening. No, I used to call it all
the time with what's with you? I'm like, man, miss
y'all call it now? Rob got he tickled to death
that baseball season started.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Ain't ain't ready to know? Man, listen. I had to
break him and Steve up. I was up at four
o'clock this morning watching ball. You got a no.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
That man had on an apron. He was making chicken.
He was a too thrilled man today.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
He single what what.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
She ain't trying to wake up? Imagine you being on
a road trip with her beautiful vacation. You just woke
up at four they morn in the morning to watch
I told you on the honeymoon, we watched Tiger win
the Masters.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Crazy but Noah, that man Aaron Rodgers, he need to
go to the Giants to stay it away from the Ceilers.
Many as soon as you get to the ceilings, O man,
Mike Tomlin gonna have that one losing season and they're
gonna put it on Tomlin and not trying to put
it on Aaron Rodgers. You need to go to the
Giants and then what's his name, Dave Ball and that
the sugar a GM. Yes, fired after after they after
(18:15):
he low balled them, and just they just fall out
from under them. Only people I feel bad for Belie neighbors.
It's just gonna be another Saint Quon Barkley.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Deal boy.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
They got a talent, but he's just stuck in the giants.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And giant your seasons for no reason.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, that would just be the flame that just likes
the house on fire, no doubt.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Man, Man, thanks, we hadn't heard from you in a minute,
but we know you're listening. Thanks for calling and shot
to everybody who was listening to man. People were really
kind to us, showing love and reaching out. Especially you know,
I've been here what shoot about six months?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Now?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Six months has been?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Has it been that long?
Speaker 11 (18:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Really September nineteenth. I believe it was the first day
day one, huh.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah. So you just you regret it, a man, every day,
every day, every day.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Do I have to go into that place blast And
the best part about it, as you know, we keep
it keeps getting better, man, We keep having fun, we
keep fighting our group, so we no even on the
roll the streets, the streets love us. By the way,
I have my ear to the streets. I'm tapped in.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
What's that they're excited for the next six weeks for
some reason.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Don't do that because then when when I'm going for
a few weeks, you might do that to me.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Man, people gonna be hyped.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That's a long talents have put in my vacation time.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
When I'm like, say, Rob, tell me when I'll tell
you like a year of vacation time.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I know you work all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's bad when they kick you out, like get out. Yes,
they did. They did that to me at TV. They
were like, look, you have to take a week or
two off.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
What do you mean because you can't even accrue anymore
because you have no you have too much time.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Uh, we have a guest, John Morosi coming up in
just a bit. But right now, it's what's trending with
Steve the Seger.
Speaker 12 (20:01):
Well, let's talk about the baseball. It was early this
morning our time. The season opener in Tokyo went to
the Dodgers over the Cubs four to one.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Show.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Hey Otani singled and scored in the fifth, doubled and
scored in the ninth. The Dodger bullpen did not allow
a hit in its four innings. Freddie Freeman was a
late scratch with a sore rib, the same spot as
his playoff injury last year, but not as serious. Mookie Bets,
Dodger shortstop will miss both the opening games in Japan.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Has he been sent home?
Speaker 12 (20:26):
They were going to send him home, and I did
not see him on the bench. And apparently he was
sick before the trip there, and then missed the two exhibitions.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And yeah, never got the time. He tried to work
out this week. He just didn't have it. Now he'd
lost weight and forget it, lose fifteen pounds. That tells
you got something going on. Oh yeah, and he's so
quickly you know, I don't want to say thing. But
then just a.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Thinner guy, not that much the right probably only had
three percent body fat.
Speaker 12 (20:54):
And also he's playing shortstop this year. You gotta have
everything at your disposal. So Ubs and Dodgers play again
on FS one. Also at six am Eastern time, Wednesday,
the Braves gave veteran reliever Craig Kimberl a minor league deal.
The Rangers signed starting pitcher Patrick Corbyn the Green Bay
Packers signed wide receiver Mcole Hardman. The Patriots signed quarterback
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Joshua Dobbs and center Garrett Bradbury. Well first four March
Madness is underway as Alabama State wins tonight on a
last second layup seventy to sixty eight over Saint Francis
of Pennsylvania. Underway, North Carolina, the last team in leads
in the early minutes against San Diego State ten to six.
There are only four NBA games tonight. The Celtics have
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taken the lead at home with six and a half
minutes to go against the Nets eighty four. Eighty Boston
is without Jason Tatum due to a knee injury and
without Jalen Brown again due to backspasms. Derek White six
of nineteen shooting for the Celtics for his sixteen points.
Easy win for Atlanta at Charlotte one thirty four to
oneh two thirty one points for Trey Young. Charlotte's records
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seventeen and five fifty one. Starting in a half an hour,
it's Golden State hosting Milwaukee. Steph Curry out resting a
strain lower back in an hour. The late game, the
Clippers host a Cleveland squad that is fifty six and eleven.
And we do have nine NHL games tonight and that
includes currently the Rangers down two one at home to
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the Flames, about nine minutes to go in that game,
and there is a final from Washington Caps four to
one over Detroit.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Back to you, hold on, let's do a lot quick
hockey quiz, Calvin. What was the team in Hartford, Connecticut?
Give me the team name in Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I feel like I should know that.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't recall if you went to Burger King to
get a fish salwatch back in the day, to get
a fish sunwich.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
This is the clue.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's the clue to get a fish sunwich.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
The pleats, the whaler, hardwerd, whalersscor whalers.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I should have known that.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Wait, fish that looking up Burger kigy was.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Called the whaler. They didn't call it up a fil
air fish. They called it a whaler.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Couldn't call it the philipher.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I couldn't do that. Yeah, I said heart for whalers.
They has some hard jerseys people college. I used to
go to the Hertford Whaler's game at the arena which
was inside the ball there.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
In New England Whalers. Originally, that's a cool jersey in
the NHL on a wha.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
Wha originally like Edmondson when Gretzky started. By the way,
as we have we mentioned it before, as we have
this NHL record going to be broken soon. In Gretzky's goalscoring, Yeah,
the NHL does not include his rookie year because they
hadn't merged yet.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
That's crazy, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
He scored whatever, almost fifty goals with Edmonton.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
They're just not counting accounting them like they're just sitting
there out there in the atmosphere.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
No, we all saw Gretzky play.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
He was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You didn't need to go ahead and did r Steve,
thank you so much of a great night. We appreciate it.
Coming you live from the tirerack dot Com studios. It
is the Eye Couple Robin Kelvin on a trash talking Tuesdays.
You guys kicked butt with that earlier out by John Morosi,
MLB Network and Fox Sports Radio MLB insider John, what's up?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
An Harlan, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Outstanding Robin Kelvin a happy opening day. Yes, we've got
opening day. Of course, I suppose we would say that
here in the Eastern times on the Pacific time zone,
it's already tomorrow in Japan, so it's already the future
over there as they're getting ready for Game two Roki
Sasaki's debut. But NCAA Tournament, Dodgers Cubs, there is nothing
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better than this time of year.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Now, John, you know that, yours truly was up at
four am.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Was well, I got pictures on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I was watching the game, and I woke up, made
me a cup of hot tea, and I watch ball
and I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I enjoyed watching it. And it was a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
There have two hours, thirty five minutes or you know
what I mean. It was really, you know, an entertaining game.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
Yeah, it was. I think it was is the ideal
showcase to begin the season. Now, there are those, certainly
who say, oh, it's so early in the day in
North America, and I understand that, but there has to
be the larger picture in mind, which is this is
growing the game. It is creating revenue from Ajor League Baseball,
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but it's also creating memories for fans in Japan and
really throughout Asia, because my experience has always been that
when when I'm at a high level tournament in Japan
or in Taiwana, in Korea, as I've done in the past,
you get a sense for just what it means to
all Asian baseball fans that the major league teams have
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traveled that great distance. And it actually it goes back
to the Bambido himself going on a tour to Japan
back in nineteen thirty four. Now, this series for me
is the reward in a lot of ways of a
relationship that goes back now more than ninety years, so
it is special. It is about celebrating the hair these
amazing players, but also the future. And how I remember
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something Rob and Calvin that the Bud Steelings said near
the end of his tenure that if we do our
jobs right, meaning we people who care about the game,
that at a certain point you almost won't recognize what
the game has become. And we're we're getting there, because
when you open the season there and you just notice
the crowd, notice the absolute phenomenon that show a is
(26:27):
that Yamamu is that Sasaki is here. As we get
ready for Game two, it is a demonstration of what
the commissioner saw years and years ago, and what a
lot of people on both the players union side and
MLB side have taken a lot of time to cultivate
over a number of years.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
John, let's go here. On paper, the Dodger should win
the World Series. That's pretty I mean on paper, right,
got to unbelievable pitches that But we know baseball and
it doesn't work like that. How in the world can
we explain the lack of teams winning back to back,
repeating you know whatever, you want to call it twenty
(27:08):
five years with the Yankees, and we talked about it before.
The last National League team was seventy five seventy six
Cincinnati Reds. I mean, that is a longstanding marks. Why
is it so hard in baseball to repeat?
Speaker 11 (27:21):
Well, Robert, it's a great question. I think that to me,
there is no accident that this period of a quarter
century without a repeat champion coincides with the period in
which pitching injuries have increased significantly over time, And that
to me is it goes hand in hand because if
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you're throwing meaningful pitches at a high velocity, in high
effort level until basically Halloween the odds of those same
pitchers doing the same thing all the way through the
next year, for another two and a half months of
spring training basically, and then a six month season and
then a full one month postseason and doing it to
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the same level of efficacy in two straight years. It's
just really really hard to do. And I think that's
a huge reason why. And and listen, it's been I
want to keep pointing this out because it's a really, really,
really crucial thing to remember. At this time last year,
there was conversation about, Oh, my goodness, does Baseball have
(28:27):
to change the rules of the playoffs to better protect
their higher seeds, because we're just coming off a World
Series that featured Texas and Arizona and are and whatever
happened to the Dodgers and the Yankees. Well, the Dodgers
and the Yankees played in the World Series last year.
Oh it happened that quickly. And and you're right that
we may be just because of the of the abundance
(28:47):
of the Dodgers resources, that they may be able to
counteract what's been a quarter century of no team being
able to repeat. But you're asking a lot of the
same group of players and It's just it's a microcosmist
one game. But think about last night or this morning,
I should say Freddie Freeman didn't play, he was injured.
Mookie didn't play, he was sick. These guys have played
(29:08):
a lot of baseball, and you do wonder will they
wear it down a bit towards the second half and
in the playoffs, And is there an opening for a younger,
more energetic, and probably less talented team to get hot
at the right time and beat them, which is honestly
what the Diamondbacks did to them in the twenty twenty
three playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, you know, John, we went over this the other
day and I broke down all the teams over the
last twenty five years, and small market, media market, big
market teams you never thought would make it. I mean,
there's been a variety until you have this parody within
baseball that you maybe don't get in other sports.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Let me ask you this, John Salary. Caps. We're starting
to hear owners.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
We even had the commissioner, Rob Manfrey kind of start
to the Rockies own.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, the Rockies owner. You had hal steinbern Er mention it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They're starting to want to bring this conversation up a
little bit more. Do you think it's needed. Obviously we
see it in basketball, we see it in football. They're
talking about having a floor where you have to been
this money and obviously been having a cap. Your thoughts
on that in baseball? Need it or no?
Speaker 11 (30:06):
Not necessarily, It's how I would answer it. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't rule it out as being as being an
effective tool in terms of looking at the overall scope
of the sport. But there are things that could be
done in the in the near term that incentivize other
other ways of spending, whether it's uh, whether it's expanding
(30:27):
the draft lottery and creating better incentives for teams to
compete more year over year. The reality is that no
matter what, no matter what is unless there's a salary cap,
let's say, unless there's a salary cap, the Tigers, the Guardians,
the Mariners, even the well run teams that are in
(30:47):
not the largest markets, they're just not going to spend
anywhere close to what the big market teams do. They're
just not that that is not going to happen. Now,
we might point out that the Texas Rangers, the Kansas
City Royals, the Saint Louis Cardinals. Any number of teams
have all won World Series since the Yankees last won
(31:08):
the World Series.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, yes, that's.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
An important distinction. So clearly there does reach a point
in this sport where saying no to big spending is
is not the worst thing. It is not the worst thing.
The Mets and the Dodgers and the Yankees are spending
in ways that other teams either can't do, don't want
(31:31):
to do however you want to describe it, or don't
have the financial resources to do it, and they are
playing with different expectations in different marketplaces. I would need
to see. I think a little bit more information, maybe
even this year's results will tell us a bit about it.
Where yes, if it ends up being Dodgers the Yankees again,
then then I do think it affirms that perhaps a
(31:53):
deeper change to the financial structure of the game is warranted.
But I look around and I see really well built
teams that compete. Now. Are the Brewers in the World
Series every year? No, they're not, But they've got a
really good team, a really good product. The Tigers right
now have a good product. The Rays right now have
a good product. It's just a matter of how those
(32:14):
owners look at those decision sets and what they do
within their means. Do we need to bring the big
question there that you're asking Kelvin, It's an important one.
Do you bring them down? The Dodgers and the and
the Mets and the Yankees. The difference between what this
would require and what happened in the NHL and the
(32:36):
NHL the institute of the salary cap coming out of
a lockout and they had a chance to sort of
broadly reshape the marketplace. Want Soto's under contract through I'm
just doing this like basically darn near twenty forty. So
how are you going to completely amnesty or right size
things over a period of fourteen years? Are you gonna
(32:57):
then just roll back Soto's money? I don't understand how
that would work without significantly minimizing the Met's ability to
compete or or anybody else. If you say, okay, all
of a sudden, hey the cap is this, and now
Wan Soto accounts for thirty percent of your cap, I
it's just the length of the term on the contracts
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to me, would make this type of a situation very
very difficult. And good luck telling Scott Boris that is
part of a new CBA that all of a sudden
his client's salary is going to drop and his commission's
going to drop. I just I don't really see how
that would work, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
All right, John, thank you so much, Joys talk to
you know that. Appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Enjoy the games again, Rob, I appreciate you. And Calvento.
I know you're right with him getting up bright and
early so four am. But we'll be talking in the
morning as well.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, yes, sir, John, I got to get up to
do the morning news anyway, So I'm up.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
But I'm always up because I love ball.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
You know it.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
John, Thank you, John, appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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Speaker 9 (35:29):
What's up, yo, fellas? How's it going good?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Great? How are you good?
Speaker 11 (35:34):
Good?
Speaker 9 (35:34):
I'm checking in since you talked to I'm on the show.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Tonight, Yes, earlier, earlier, first.
Speaker 11 (35:42):
First time I missed that. Say Rob next week. I
want you to ask him if he ever just continues
with SLAMI from the White Chadel.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Okay, okay, we'll do that.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
Hey, Calvin, you know why they call him Sami?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Why?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Hey up?
Speaker 11 (36:00):
I need to know is everyone at Fox Sports being
and Joy Taylor.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That Sean and North Dakota. We're gonna do a bonus
last call. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
we lost them. Rauffaa Allen Cincinnati. You're in the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up your last call?
Speaker 8 (36:19):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Brothers? Hey, real quick, there's a video piece on social
medium of when Jamar, Chase and t Higgins were getting
off the plane and the private plane of that I
think the Bengals and maybe going to sign the contract
or what have you. And I just want to just
say that that should be required viewing for all young
(36:41):
brothers who are entering into the sports world may have
their dreams of playing in the pros because those two
brothers that stepped off that plane, they were dignified and
they were amazing and the way they looked clean shaven,
they had that the close crop carecuts man, and I mean,
(37:04):
they weren't, you know, with the gear bagging and chains
going everything. And I'm not there's a time and a
place for that, but I'm just saying that I think
that the imagery and you know that that whole thing.
You know, you can't judge the book, bass cover and
things like that. I think I ever sent it one
time that you know, you ain't got to wear a suit.
You know, even murderers can put.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
On a suit or whatever.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
But I just want to just tell you, guys, if
I haven't seen that video, I mean, it's just amazing,
and I go, I just want to commend those two guys.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I appreciate that. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Last thing here, Yeah, ah man Tracy Morgan, Yes Morgan,
I mean funny, you know, SNL movies, sitcoms. I have
to meet him one on one of the Laker game
and okay, real cool, just cool, loves loves who loves
at the NBA All Star Game in fact here in
l A.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
And we chopped it up.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He he had a little moment at the game yesterday,
MSG sitting there courtside and uh brother got sick and
uh you know, threw up on the court and they
had to stop the game for ten minutes, clean it up,
take care of it, and they had to wheelchair him out.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
He posted like a picture of himself in the hospital.
So yeah, we're hoping that he's doing all right.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
You know, he's had he's had a rough go throughout
the last ten to fifteen years and his life car
accident messed him up and everything.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But but he's a he cracked a little joke. I
forgot the joke, but he cracked a little joke too,
So he's doing better. But it was a real moment.
So you have many crazy moments, any crazy things, whether
it be yourself or that you've seen. You've been covering.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
My gosh, you can't even think of how many games
you've logged from all the different sports, but anything you've
seen or a part of wild.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
I've seen bigfoot. That was pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
My only moment was covering baseball in Monterey, Mexico, Okay,
And they told us don't go out anywhere to eat,
don't drink.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
The water the whole nine yards. I ate in the.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Hotel and the mistake I made was when they say
don't drink the water. Yeah, is I just had a
steak and a salad, so I think I was safe
and I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
My stomach was a mess and it was ice cubes.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
They said ice cubes and your drink from the water,
and then they rent off the lettuce from your salad
the water. Okay, So I wound up and there was
no press box bathroom. Oh boy, so I had to
go into the stands. Wait, what do you mean into
the stands and stands bathroom or stands bathroom?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I thought you were just saying you had to just
go on the stand. Come on, man, there's a long shot.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Wait a minute, it's someone bending over and then you're
just in right field out there after. It was not good,
but that was probably I never threw off a knock
on water or anything. I haven't have it myself. Had
anything crazy happened in the game. I've seen some poor
performances and thrown up in my mouth, but that was
about it.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
There's been some bad games. No, I haven't seen any.
I'm trying to think, what's the wildest thing I've ever seen?
I mean, I've seen a million fights. Unfortunately, I did
see a bunch of young dudes beat up a bunch
of old people Ohio State, Michigan.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
It was in an arbor, Michigan.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
One.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
It was the David Boston Charles Woodson game, and they
were just running around punching people. And they punched an
older couple. They were like probably in the fifties or sixties,
and he's like nineteen twenty year old dudes a match,
just run around punching everybody. I couldn't wait for them
to come up to me so me and my boy
could punch them. They didn't, of course. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I never miss your radio show.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
I never hear it, so I never miss it.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Did you hear that idee?
Speaker 6 (40:33):
It was from Parker
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last call, Tracy Morgan. Yeah, will be the last thing
we talk about on the show A little bad moments.
Msg it happens, man, it's just as unbelievable that happened more.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, well, you know what's funny. And we were just
talking about this boat.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now that every single human being has a camera phone,
we document things like that might have happened in ninety five.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We just wouldn't have known it per se, you know.
But like it ain't nothing slipping.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now, I'll say this, that's how we know there's no
bigfoot because everybody's walking around, everybody's walking around with a camera.
There's a bigfoot. A lot of these things that we
want the shows on on cable and that, like did
you hear that?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It was? How many had caught the ghost? All that?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And nobody has a picture of them? Where where's bigfoot?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The only argument I would have to that is would
you believe it if you saw it?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
If I literally reported a ghost walking by here? Yes,
how many would go, oh that's cgi man, I can
do that in photo shop, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But I'm just saying by now and it's always blockednous monster?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
All this time? We too haven't seen it? They say,
we still don't know like Alex would know.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Alex is their bigfoot could be No, that's not what
I asked you.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yes or no, Yes, there's no bigfoot.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I believe it. I can take my show off right now.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We don't.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We don't have the sound effects because I would have
hit him with a book. That would hit you with
that bank Now a little high over there or something? Man,
what you're doing over there? We eat some organic strawberries. Yes,
actually you'd be proud of me looking at my plate
of nothing but fresh oranges.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You see this?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Ain't you only up four pounds?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Then?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Huh No, I'm no. See how I compliment him and
then he does me. We I'm just he's gonna be
so mad when I come back shot from shirtless summer
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You're gonna be so mad. I'm in a shirtless summer,
uh two summers ago. I was gonna say six.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I think you'll be surprised up under here, it ain't
as bad as you think. If I'm gonna show you
a picture, so rob Gi says, do I need to pause.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That or not? But I'm gonna show you a picture. Yes, pause,
and I'm gonna show you a picture Alex. All right,
if I heard, get this this segment over. So let's
get into this picture. You're talking to what smack right now?
All right, let's return to the NFL and bo. We
we have this sound, don't we. So this is uh
Cam Hayward. Yeah, he big time defensive player, literally big.
(03:47):
He's a massive human being for the Steelers. And he
was on a podcast and they asked him a question
about Aaron Rodgers coming to the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What his thoughts were. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
I ain't doing that the darkness, darkness treat you. I
don't mean any of that crap like either you want
to be a Pittsburgh Steeler you don't. That's that's simple.
That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that's
the recruiting pitch. You know, Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want
to be part of it, so be it. If you don't,
No no skin on my back.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Your thoughts. I just it didn't It didn't sound as
bad as I read it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
No, And to be fair to see a little backtrack
the question who I don't know if folk and looking
at him podcast, you make a pitch to Yeah. His
point was, Hey, man, you're a big time guy with
the Steelers. You know, make a pitch to Aaron Rodgers.
He says, hey, man, come on a darkness, retreat me
with me for a couple of days and talk to me.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That was the but here here is my thing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I know we see the stories and we talked
about it before teams being held hot. He's a free agent,
and I just I don't understand. I know people would
like to. I guess there's three teams vying for him,
and maybe you know, after Aaron Rodgers picked a team,
then the other two teams can get figure out. Yeah,
But I don't think there's anything that you have to rush.
(05:05):
I think I really don't. I think this is a
free agent period, and I don't know why people are bothered.
Like half the people say he can't play, but then
they're mad at him that he had and picked one
of the three teams that want them stop looking at me.
I'm at me because that makes sense to you to
say what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You're gonna look at me.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Let me see if you can't play, then it would
be nobody asking you what I'm wondering when you're gonna
make a decision. You would just be like, there's no
decision to be made. Where do you think and here,
let's just flip it here. Okay, where do you think
he's gonna wind up? Honestly, I know you said he's
your retire that's not retired.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well no, I said that was the fourth option, Like,
that's a legitimate to me. He doesn't have to play
like that. Was my point was, if somebody wants him,
I totally get that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Hey, if you're wanted, why stop.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
My point was, you don't have to keep playing, Like, dude,
you had an amazing career, first ballot Hall of Famer,
one of the best we've ever seen. You don't have
to keep going through this was my point. But it's
assume he does play. I think at this point it
almost has to be the Steelers because the Giants can say, hey,
we made a pitch, we tried, but there aren't really
(06:12):
great expectations for us anyway. Plus we might get a
Shador Sanders or you know, we trade up, maybe we.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Trade up to scared and New York. I'm just you're
saying they wanted Aaron Rodgers. I don't think I don't
want They don't want that but they added pressure.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I I'd rather say, man, look we I'm telling you
got some coming. We got neighbors, we got Chador Sanders,
we're building, We're coming see cec.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Look were on our way.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I'd rather that Aaron Rodgers, who wants to be the savior,
and you gotta win two and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And they're gonna say, Okay, well that's good. But if
we won those last two games of the season. I'm
just so hope we won.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Bo. We won the last two games of fan we
on our way. I coming with Aaron Rodgers and we
go you know, seven and ten. It's no, but you
got your door to be there as well. And if
they do have to make that, have to still have him.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And and then that's your selling point, is the franchise
didn't fall off the cliff, right, And then you're like,
oh my god, we gotta get rid of these guys.
Been terrible year the year before. Then they bring in
the air know, they bring in your door centers. They
don't know what they're doing. Whatever it was, terror another exactly,
you know what I mean, Like that's the but that anger.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So that's why I go back to the Steelers because
the Steelers have put all their eggs into Aaron Rodgers basket,
and people have talked about the bro mance Tomlin and
Aaron Rodgers having about each other. They sing each other's
praises and whatnot. So that almost has to happen because
from what we're understanding what we read the reports are
Russell Wilson offensive coordinator, don't have a great relationship. They've
(07:42):
already put it out there that hey, you can go
you know you are. They called it the distant Plan
B with Russell Wilson, So to me, it becomes what
do they do justin Fields is gone? Russell Wilson is
the distant plan being he might be feeling like I
don't want to be the you know the seconds. They
almost have no choice but to make this happen any
(08:03):
way possible. So it almost feels like he has to
be a stealer because again, the Giants can just fall
back on, hey, we're a draft shaudor or we can
sell hope. The Vikings obviously have their guy in JJ McCarthy,
so they can say, hey know what, don't scrap it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Don't worrybody, We'll move on. We got our guy. Here
we go. We're gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, we got our new the new jj eras
upon us, the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This this has to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But one thing I will say, I'm not mad to
your point, you say Aaron Rodgers has the right, has
free agency, he has the right ticket time, I actually
don't disagree.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
And that he's doing what he's allowed to do. You
do what you are allowed to do.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And if the Steelers and the Giants have put themselves
in this position, will they have to wait on his timing?
Then he they have to wait on his timing again,
they put themselves in this position where they have You're
all we have. So if he needs to take his time,
he needs to take a darkness retreat, he wants to
wait it out, talk to his family whatever, that's his right.
And they're in this position where on the Aaron Rodgers
(09:00):
clock now, which is crazy to think that this isn't thirty.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Six year old him. Well, okay, I'd be on that
clock too.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is forty one, going to be forty two December
year old him, and they're on his timetable. Which is
kind of wild to think that the Steelers to put
themselves in this position.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, I also think I think that the Vikings are
also another very viable reason. He's familiar with the NFC North.
The whole thing of going back there. Brett fav went
and played for the Vikings and they got to the
NFC championship game, you know, at the end of his
career as well.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I'm just saying, there's a lot of you think that matters.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean, I'm really asking because he's aware Aaron, like,
does he not want to like I don't want to
be literally like I sat behind the guy played at
the same team. Then I go to the Jets like
he did, then I go to the Vikings. He's kind
of an awareness. I don't think the documentary has his
own documentary. Get that and go what they were fourteen
and three.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
They they won the ball well and still real defense
is good, Like they got a lot of things and
and Kevin O'Connell has made his name true and turning
these quarterbacks around. And so there's a lot there on
the plate to say, hey, did me give it one
more shot with a good team and maybe I'll be
able they'll be able to take care of me and
(10:13):
and and make sure that they protect me at the
offensive line and all that and give it a shot.
If Sam Darnold could put up thirty five touchdowns and
four thousand yards behind that line, maybe I could do
the same thing.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And your point, that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Josh Dobbs, remember him, he was coming. We had wasn't
even thinking about him.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He came out the ballooon balled out for the Vikings
for most of that year that he was there as well.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So there is some truth to Kevin o'conne. Although they
get the best out of you. But I just yeah,
the Steelers, I mean, so let me flip it it
throw it at you, Mike Tomlin again, they let Justin
Fields go you and not talked about that for a
whole season. That's fine, that's their prerogative. Russell Wilson. They
kind of said, Noah, we're good. We're gonna move on
unless some a break in case of emergency, something happens.
You know, with Aaron Rodgers. Let's say Aaron Rodgers just
(10:57):
goes to the Viking. Let's say for whatever reasons he goes,
he goes to the Giants because he's like, I don't
want to leave New York.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I feel like I just home. What do the Steelers do?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Like, literally what do they do if Aaron rod Because
because what if they don't forget about the Browns, but
because what if Russell Wilson, who had the meeting with
the Browns, goes there, Hey many Browns were eleven and
five just two years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Uh, they's got Miles Gary.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Maybe they're not as bad as Deshaun Watson isn't playing well.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There's always a chance that they could decide to make
a trade with somebody, you know what I mean, Okay,
have to make a call, and you know they could
kirk you know, and make a trade or something. So
there is always this cuarterback that will be available. But
I hear your point, all right, eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. I know we talked about it. He
doesn't have to rush or whatever. But if you have
(11:46):
to pick a spot, we got three spots, where.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Should Aaron Rodgers go?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Is it to follow the Brett Favre history legacy for
Final Tour?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Right? Is it that?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Is it going to the Giants to just hold the
spot until the quarterback that they draft is ready, or
is it you know, Pittsburgh and and you know, trying
to help Mike Tomlin finally win a playoff game or whatever,
leaving going on. Figure that out. He really needs to playoff?
All right now, all right, Mike eight seven, seven ninety
(12:18):
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
three sixty nine. It is the Odd Couple on a
trash Talking Tuesday, Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington right here on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Stick and stay so.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
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Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, I can't wait.
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Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh man, hey, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's the Odd Couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington on the
Trash Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Wait a tissue for me, I don't remember. Why do
you remember why you said that? Why was I crying?
I even remember? For me, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That's the best part about the drops, when you start forgetting,
like why it was even said in the first place.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I went to Bill Cosby's house too.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I had a drink and I woke up disrolled that one.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Uh, actually, why we why we already? Can you give
me the backstory for that one, alex or Rob? What what?
What the Bill Cosby?
Speaker 9 (13:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We were just talking about the story. I don't even
understand it, like it's scary something.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
I think we were just talking about famous people's parties
we went to and Rob told us his story.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
So is that what it was? I woke up all disrobed.
I understand that one.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
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Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's all sponsored by Tractor Supply for Life. Out Here
here we go, Hey Dwight in Kentucky. Where should Aaron
Rodgers wind up? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox?
How are you hey?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I'm good man, How you young man doing today?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I'm doing well, brother, thank you?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Okay, hey, I was gonna sing with my name. My
name is Dwighten from Kentucky, but my heart's from Green Bay. Okay,
let's get it back in green Bay. He gonna hold
the clipball for it, I mean, for doing it for
a couple of years and then if bad for me,
it didn't think happens to Doordy. He knows that, and
he knows I play book, and he can always say
if we don't win, with him on the bench, he
could say, hey, the green Bay would have won if
right have been started.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
There you go, all right, Dwight, I see how you're
looking at it. Let me tell you one thing. Aaron
Rodgers ain't.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
He ain't going to sitting a home.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He ain't going to sit down, no clipboard that he
ain't doing. Once that's done, he's done. There's no doubt
about it. But you did say, what was that video
you were talking about Alex which one? Well did you
say about mussy? He was saying, you don't want to
see TV. Yeah, but you were saying, I don't know
that's something we don't want to see. But I do
still want to see the Robert Kraft though, me too.
(15:19):
Alex and I are probably only two O.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
No, you is three of you? Rob G two? Why
why wouldn't you want to see? Why? On?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Okay, number one, Robert Craft's in it. Let's just start there. Okay,
then Robert Craft? Why would I want to see that?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Bill Belichick has a twenty something you old girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Okay, so she would be obviously beautiful. We don't know
who Rob was up in there with, not you, Rob, No,
Robert cra He's he's getting a massage young woman.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
First of all, my the ladies who give me besides
they're older, they stepped, they step on the back.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And you know what's great about them, they could use
their cane to get some leverage.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm always face down Twitter like okay, yes that listen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Every time I go in there, I think I'm the last.
This would be the lot of her last customer, because
you want to take the care to bash you over
the half on the last one in there?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Alex, you know like, you gotta have a lot of trust.
You're going there.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You do you do face down, you're playing face downble spot.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You're very vulnerable.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I'd say so eight seven seven.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Ninety right out here, not from you, Joe said the audacity.
Then he thought I looked like I was like, you
know what wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
If there's only two people in this room, we're talking
to hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
What I'm simply saying I could use one? No eye
contact was made too, But that was the move back
in the day. Why not I go to move?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Oh yeah, I'm saying right now, Oh, I got you,
I got you committed. You know I'm saying one of
my old timers, I'm doing right now, Alex. It was
about that sage.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
That's how you gotta you set it off. Cook with
olive oil in this house, baby, Yeah, come here, let
me show you what the lou olaveoy all right? That
Joel in Dallas. You're on the A couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Joe?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Yo?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Is Jola? Yo?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Rob?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Are you being man?
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Man?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
What's up? How are you?
Speaker 11 (17:10):
Bro?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I've been good?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (17:12):
Kevin?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What's good now?
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I've been listening. No, I used to call it all
the time with what's with you? I'm like, man, miss
y'all call it now? Rob got he tickled to death
that baseball season started.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Ain't ain't ready to know? Man, listen. I had to
break him and Steve up. I was up at four
o'clock this morning watching ball. You got a no.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
That man had on an apron. He was making chicken.
He was a too thrilled man today.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
He single what what.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
She ain't trying to wake up? Imagine you being on
a road trip with her beautiful vacation. You just woke
up at four they morn in the morning to watch
I told you on the honeymoon, we watched Tiger win
the Masters.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Crazy but Noah, that man Aaron Rodgers, he need to
go to the Giants to stay it away from the Ceilers.
Many as soon as you get to the ceilings, O man,
Mike Tomlin gonna have that one losing season and they're
gonna put it on Tomlin and not trying to put
it on Aaron Rodgers. You need to go to the
Giants and then what's his name, Dave Ball and that
the sugar a GM. Yes, fired after after they after
(18:15):
he low balled them, and just they just fall out
from under them. Only people I feel bad for Belie neighbors.
It's just gonna be another Saint Quon Barkley.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Deal boy.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
They got a talent, but he's just stuck in the giants.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And giant your seasons for no reason.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, that would just be the flame that just likes
the house on fire, no doubt.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Man, Man, thanks, we hadn't heard from you in a minute,
but we know you're listening. Thanks for calling and shot
to everybody who was listening to man. People were really
kind to us, showing love and reaching out. Especially you know,
I've been here what shoot about six months?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Now?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Six months has been?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Has it been that long?
Speaker 11 (18:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Really September nineteenth. I believe it was the first day
day one, huh.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah. So you just you regret it, a man, every day,
every day, every day.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Do I have to go into that place blast And
the best part about it, as you know, we keep
it keeps getting better, man, We keep having fun, we
keep fighting our group, so we no even on the
roll the streets, the streets love us. By the way,
I have my ear to the streets. I'm tapped in.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
What's that they're excited for the next six weeks for
some reason.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Don't do that because then when when I'm going for
a few weeks, you might do that to me.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Man, people gonna be hyped.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That's a long talents have put in my vacation time.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
When I'm like, say, Rob, tell me when I'll tell
you like a year of vacation time.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I know you work all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's bad when they kick you out, like get out. Yes,
they did. They did that to me at TV. They
were like, look, you have to take a week or
two off.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
What do you mean because you can't even accrue anymore
because you have no you have too much time.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Uh, we have a guest, John Morosi coming up in
just a bit. But right now, it's what's trending with
Steve the Seger.
Speaker 12 (20:01):
Well, let's talk about the baseball. It was early this
morning our time. The season opener in Tokyo went to
the Dodgers over the Cubs four to one.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Show.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Hey Otani singled and scored in the fifth, doubled and
scored in the ninth. The Dodger bullpen did not allow
a hit in its four innings. Freddie Freeman was a
late scratch with a sore rib, the same spot as
his playoff injury last year, but not as serious. Mookie Bets,
Dodger shortstop will miss both the opening games in Japan.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Has he been sent home?
Speaker 12 (20:26):
They were going to send him home, and I did
not see him on the bench. And apparently he was
sick before the trip there, and then missed the two exhibitions.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And yeah, never got the time. He tried to work
out this week. He just didn't have it. Now he'd
lost weight and forget it, lose fifteen pounds. That tells
you got something going on. Oh yeah, and he's so
quickly you know, I don't want to say thing. But
then just a.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Thinner guy, not that much the right probably only had
three percent body fat.
Speaker 12 (20:54):
And also he's playing shortstop this year. You gotta have
everything at your disposal. So Ubs and Dodgers play again
on FS one. Also at six am Eastern time, Wednesday,
the Braves gave veteran reliever Craig Kimberl a minor league deal.
The Rangers signed starting pitcher Patrick Corbyn the Green Bay
Packers signed wide receiver Mcole Hardman. The Patriots signed quarterback
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Joshua Dobbs and center Garrett Bradbury. Well first four March
Madness is underway as Alabama State wins tonight on a
last second layup seventy to sixty eight over Saint Francis
of Pennsylvania. Underway, North Carolina, the last team in leads
in the early minutes against San Diego State ten to six.
There are only four NBA games tonight. The Celtics have
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taken the lead at home with six and a half
minutes to go against the Nets eighty four. Eighty Boston
is without Jason Tatum due to a knee injury and
without Jalen Brown again due to backspasms. Derek White six
of nineteen shooting for the Celtics for his sixteen points.
Easy win for Atlanta at Charlotte one thirty four to
oneh two thirty one points for Trey Young. Charlotte's records
(21:59):
seventeen and five fifty one. Starting in a half an hour,
it's Golden State hosting Milwaukee. Steph Curry out resting a
strain lower back in an hour. The late game, the
Clippers host a Cleveland squad that is fifty six and eleven.
And we do have nine NHL games tonight and that
includes currently the Rangers down two one at home to
(22:19):
the Flames, about nine minutes to go in that game,
and there is a final from Washington Caps four to
one over Detroit.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Back to you, hold on, let's do a lot quick
hockey quiz, Calvin. What was the team in Hartford, Connecticut?
Give me the team name in Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I feel like I should know that.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't recall if you went to Burger King to
get a fish salwatch back in the day, to get
a fish sunwich.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
This is the clue.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's the clue to get a fish sunwich.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
The pleats, the whaler, hardwerd, whalersscor whalers.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I should have known that.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Wait, fish that looking up Burger kigy was.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Called the whaler. They didn't call it up a fil
air fish. They called it a whaler.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Couldn't call it the philipher.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I couldn't do that. Yeah, I said heart for whalers.
They has some hard jerseys people college. I used to
go to the Hertford Whaler's game at the arena which
was inside the ball there.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
In New England Whalers. Originally, that's a cool jersey in
the NHL on a wha.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
Wha originally like Edmondson when Gretzky started. By the way,
as we have we mentioned it before, as we have
this NHL record going to be broken soon. In Gretzky's goalscoring, Yeah,
the NHL does not include his rookie year because they
hadn't merged yet.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
That's crazy, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
He scored whatever, almost fifty goals with Edmonton.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
They're just not counting accounting them like they're just sitting
there out there in the atmosphere.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
No, we all saw Gretzky play.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
He was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You didn't need to go ahead and did r Steve,
thank you so much of a great night. We appreciate it.
Coming you live from the tirerack dot Com studios. It
is the Eye Couple Robin Kelvin on a trash talking Tuesdays.
You guys kicked butt with that earlier out by John Morosi,
MLB Network and Fox Sports Radio MLB insider John, what's up?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
An Harlan, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Outstanding Robin Kelvin a happy opening day. Yes, we've got
opening day. Of course, I suppose we would say that
here in the Eastern times on the Pacific time zone,
it's already tomorrow in Japan, so it's already the future
over there as they're getting ready for Game two Roki
Sasaki's debut. But NCAA Tournament, Dodgers Cubs, there is nothing
(24:30):
better than this time of year.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Now, John, you know that, yours truly was up at
four am.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Was well, I got pictures on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I was watching the game, and I woke up, made
me a cup of hot tea, and I watch ball
and I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I enjoyed watching it. And it was a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
There have two hours, thirty five minutes or you know
what I mean. It was really, you know, an entertaining game.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
Yeah, it was. I think it was is the ideal
showcase to begin the season. Now, there are those, certainly
who say, oh, it's so early in the day in
North America, and I understand that, but there has to
be the larger picture in mind, which is this is
growing the game. It is creating revenue from Ajor League Baseball,
(25:20):
but it's also creating memories for fans in Japan and
really throughout Asia, because my experience has always been that
when when I'm at a high level tournament in Japan
or in Taiwana, in Korea, as I've done in the past,
you get a sense for just what it means to
all Asian baseball fans that the major league teams have
(25:41):
traveled that great distance. And it actually it goes back
to the Bambido himself going on a tour to Japan
back in nineteen thirty four. Now, this series for me
is the reward in a lot of ways of a
relationship that goes back now more than ninety years, so
it is special. It is about celebrating the hair these
amazing players, but also the future. And how I remember
(26:04):
something Rob and Calvin that the Bud Steelings said near
the end of his tenure that if we do our
jobs right, meaning we people who care about the game,
that at a certain point you almost won't recognize what
the game has become. And we're we're getting there, because
when you open the season there and you just notice
the crowd, notice the absolute phenomenon that show a is
(26:27):
that Yamamu is that Sasaki is here. As we get
ready for Game two, it is a demonstration of what
the commissioner saw years and years ago, and what a
lot of people on both the players union side and
MLB side have taken a lot of time to cultivate
over a number of years.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
John, let's go here. On paper, the Dodger should win
the World Series. That's pretty I mean on paper, right,
got to unbelievable pitches that But we know baseball and
it doesn't work like that. How in the world can
we explain the lack of teams winning back to back,
repeating you know whatever, you want to call it twenty
(27:08):
five years with the Yankees, and we talked about it before.
The last National League team was seventy five seventy six
Cincinnati Reds. I mean, that is a longstanding marks. Why
is it so hard in baseball to repeat?
Speaker 11 (27:21):
Well, Robert, it's a great question. I think that to me,
there is no accident that this period of a quarter
century without a repeat champion coincides with the period in
which pitching injuries have increased significantly over time, And that
to me is it goes hand in hand because if
(27:44):
you're throwing meaningful pitches at a high velocity, in high
effort level until basically Halloween the odds of those same
pitchers doing the same thing all the way through the
next year, for another two and a half months of
spring training basically, and then a six month season and
then a full one month postseason and doing it to
(28:05):
the same level of efficacy in two straight years. It's
just really really hard to do. And I think that's
a huge reason why. And and listen, it's been I
want to keep pointing this out because it's a really, really,
really crucial thing to remember. At this time last year,
there was conversation about, Oh, my goodness, does Baseball have
(28:27):
to change the rules of the playoffs to better protect
their higher seeds, because we're just coming off a World
Series that featured Texas and Arizona and are and whatever
happened to the Dodgers and the Yankees. Well, the Dodgers
and the Yankees played in the World Series last year.
Oh it happened that quickly. And and you're right that
we may be just because of the of the abundance
(28:47):
of the Dodgers resources, that they may be able to
counteract what's been a quarter century of no team being
able to repeat. But you're asking a lot of the
same group of players and It's just it's a microcosmist
one game. But think about last night or this morning,
I should say Freddie Freeman didn't play, he was injured.
Mookie didn't play, he was sick. These guys have played
(29:08):
a lot of baseball, and you do wonder will they
wear it down a bit towards the second half and
in the playoffs, And is there an opening for a younger,
more energetic, and probably less talented team to get hot
at the right time and beat them, which is honestly
what the Diamondbacks did to them in the twenty twenty
three playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, you know, John, we went over this the other
day and I broke down all the teams over the
last twenty five years, and small market, media market, big
market teams you never thought would make it. I mean,
there's been a variety until you have this parody within
baseball that you maybe don't get in other sports.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Let me ask you this, John Salary. Caps. We're starting
to hear owners.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
We even had the commissioner, Rob Manfrey kind of start
to the Rockies own.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, the Rockies owner. You had hal steinbern Er mention it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They're starting to want to bring this conversation up a
little bit more. Do you think it's needed. Obviously we
see it in basketball, we see it in football. They're
talking about having a floor where you have to been
this money and obviously been having a cap. Your thoughts
on that in baseball? Need it or no?
Speaker 11 (30:06):
Not necessarily, It's how I would answer it. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't rule it out as being as being an
effective tool in terms of looking at the overall scope
of the sport. But there are things that could be
done in the in the near term that incentivize other
other ways of spending, whether it's uh, whether it's expanding
(30:27):
the draft lottery and creating better incentives for teams to
compete more year over year. The reality is that no
matter what, no matter what is unless there's a salary cap,
let's say, unless there's a salary cap, the Tigers, the Guardians,
the Mariners, even the well run teams that are in
(30:47):
not the largest markets, they're just not going to spend
anywhere close to what the big market teams do. They're
just not that that is not going to happen. Now,
we might point out that the Texas Rangers, the Kansas
City Royals, the Saint Louis Cardinals. Any number of teams
have all won World Series since the Yankees last won
(31:08):
the World Series.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, yes, that's.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
An important distinction. So clearly there does reach a point
in this sport where saying no to big spending is
is not the worst thing. It is not the worst thing.
The Mets and the Dodgers and the Yankees are spending
in ways that other teams either can't do, don't want
(31:31):
to do however you want to describe it, or don't
have the financial resources to do it, and they are
playing with different expectations in different marketplaces. I would need
to see. I think a little bit more information, maybe
even this year's results will tell us a bit about it.
Where yes, if it ends up being Dodgers the Yankees again,
then then I do think it affirms that perhaps a
(31:53):
deeper change to the financial structure of the game is warranted.
But I look around and I see really well built
teams that compete. Now. Are the Brewers in the World
Series every year? No, they're not, But they've got a
really good team, a really good product. The Tigers right
now have a good product. The Rays right now have
a good product. It's just a matter of how those
(32:14):
owners look at those decision sets and what they do
within their means. Do we need to bring the big
question there that you're asking Kelvin, It's an important one.
Do you bring them down? The Dodgers and the and
the Mets and the Yankees. The difference between what this
would require and what happened in the NHL and the
(32:36):
NHL the institute of the salary cap coming out of
a lockout and they had a chance to sort of
broadly reshape the marketplace. Want Soto's under contract through I'm
just doing this like basically darn near twenty forty. So
how are you going to completely amnesty or right size
things over a period of fourteen years? Are you gonna
(32:57):
then just roll back Soto's money? I don't understand how
that would work without significantly minimizing the Met's ability to
compete or or anybody else. If you say, okay, all
of a sudden, hey the cap is this, and now
Wan Soto accounts for thirty percent of your cap, I
it's just the length of the term on the contracts
(33:18):
to me, would make this type of a situation very
very difficult. And good luck telling Scott Boris that is
part of a new CBA that all of a sudden
his client's salary is going to drop and his commission's
going to drop. I just I don't really see how
that would work, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
All right, John, thank you so much, Joys talk to
you know that. Appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Enjoy the games again, Rob, I appreciate you. And Calvento.
I know you're right with him getting up bright and
early so four am. But we'll be talking in the
morning as well.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, yes, sir, John, I got to get up to
do the morning news anyway, So I'm up.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
But I'm always up because I love ball.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
You know it.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
John, Thank you, John, appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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Speaker 4 (35:01):
So do that last call right now.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
The last the.
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Hi Steven in Minnesota. You're on the couple of Fox
Sports Radio. You're the last call.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
What's up, yo, fellas? How's it going good?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Great? How are you good?
Speaker 11 (35:34):
Good?
Speaker 9 (35:34):
I'm checking in since you talked to I'm on the show.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Tonight, Yes, earlier, earlier, first.
Speaker 11 (35:42):
First time I missed that. Say Rob next week. I
want you to ask him if he ever just continues
with SLAMI from the White Chadel.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Okay, okay, we'll do that.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
Hey, Calvin, you know why they call him Sami?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Why?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Hey up?
Speaker 11 (36:00):
I need to know is everyone at Fox Sports being
and Joy Taylor.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That Sean and North Dakota. We're gonna do a bonus
last call. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
we lost them. Rauffaa Allen Cincinnati. You're in the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up your last call?
Speaker 8 (36:19):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Brothers? Hey, real quick, there's a video piece on social
medium of when Jamar, Chase and t Higgins were getting
off the plane and the private plane of that I
think the Bengals and maybe going to sign the contract
or what have you. And I just want to just
say that that should be required viewing for all young
(36:41):
brothers who are entering into the sports world may have
their dreams of playing in the pros because those two
brothers that stepped off that plane, they were dignified and
they were amazing and the way they looked clean shaven,
they had that the close crop carecuts man, and I mean,
(37:04):
they weren't, you know, with the gear bagging and chains
going everything. And I'm not there's a time and a
place for that, but I'm just saying that I think
that the imagery and you know that that whole thing.
You know, you can't judge the book, bass cover and
things like that. I think I ever sent it one
time that you know, you ain't got to wear a suit.
You know, even murderers can put.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
On a suit or whatever.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
But I just want to just tell you, guys, if
I haven't seen that video, I mean, it's just amazing,
and I go, I just want to commend those two guys.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I appreciate that. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Last thing here, Yeah, ah man Tracy Morgan, Yes Morgan,
I mean funny, you know, SNL movies, sitcoms. I have
to meet him one on one of the Laker game
and okay, real cool, just cool, loves loves who loves
at the NBA All Star Game in fact here in
l A.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
And we chopped it up.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He he had a little moment at the game yesterday,
MSG sitting there courtside and uh brother got sick and
uh you know, threw up on the court and they
had to stop the game for ten minutes, clean it up,
take care of it, and they had to wheelchair him out.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
He posted like a picture of himself in the hospital.
So yeah, we're hoping that he's doing all right.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
You know, he's had he's had a rough go throughout
the last ten to fifteen years and his life car
accident messed him up and everything.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But but he's a he cracked a little joke. I
forgot the joke, but he cracked a little joke too,
So he's doing better. But it was a real moment.
So you have many crazy moments, any crazy things, whether
it be yourself or that you've seen. You've been covering.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
My gosh, you can't even think of how many games
you've logged from all the different sports, but anything you've
seen or a part of wild.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
I've seen bigfoot. That was pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
My only moment was covering baseball in Monterey, Mexico, Okay,
And they told us don't go out anywhere to eat,
don't drink.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
The water the whole nine yards. I ate in the.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Hotel and the mistake I made was when they say
don't drink the water. Yeah, is I just had a
steak and a salad, so I think I was safe
and I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
My stomach was a mess and it was ice cubes.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
They said ice cubes and your drink from the water,
and then they rent off the lettuce from your salad
the water. Okay, So I wound up and there was
no press box bathroom. Oh boy, so I had to
go into the stands. Wait, what do you mean into
the stands and stands bathroom or stands bathroom?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I thought you were just saying you had to just
go on the stand. Come on, man, there's a long shot.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Wait a minute, it's someone bending over and then you're
just in right field out there after. It was not good,
but that was probably I never threw off a knock
on water or anything. I haven't have it myself. Had
anything crazy happened in the game. I've seen some poor
performances and thrown up in my mouth, but that was
about it.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
There's been some bad games. No, I haven't seen any.
I'm trying to think, what's the wildest thing I've ever seen?
I mean, I've seen a million fights. Unfortunately, I did
see a bunch of young dudes beat up a bunch
of old people Ohio State, Michigan.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
It was in an arbor, Michigan.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
One.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
It was the David Boston Charles Woodson game, and they
were just running around punching people. And they punched an
older couple. They were like probably in the fifties or sixties,
and he's like nineteen twenty year old dudes a match,
just run around punching everybody. I couldn't wait for them
to come up to me so me and my boy
could punch them. They didn't, of course. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon is coming up next.
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Speaker 6 (40:28):
I never hear it, so I never miss it.
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