March 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether or not the Detroit Lions are poised to take a big step back in 2025, tell us why this Daryl Morey fiasco is further proof that analytics is running sports, explain why Los Angeles Dodgers fans comparing Rodney Peete to Steve Bartman are out of line, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.
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Radio and uh.
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Just a lot of stuff to talk about football, of
course we'll do that. Some baseball stuff we'll mix in
there as well.
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That's an hour number three. I hate that we got
to do him like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yes, so we got so much to do so little time.
Let me welcome to my partner.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He is Calvin. Calvin Washington. That would eternally be funny man.
What up man? Uh? Happy hum day? Shoot feeling?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Is a black hat day? I wearing my MLB bro hat?
Can you see that nicely?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Because you need to know, you do need to know.
She she definitely needed to know. Excuse me, she needed
to know the lady that ran up on us. That's right,
that's right, ROGI know what I'm talking about. And I
had no gear on or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh my gosh, MLB bro dot Com and they're like
yes and this Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm glad, she said MLB because if she would just say, bro,
but hold old lady.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It was like, you know, and here's.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The thing, Rob G and Calvin are all night, because
she was like a forty year old white woman.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, and she knew MLB bro. She didn't even look
at me.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She didn't say Fox Sports or was she literally saying
you're that MLB. She knew what she was, Robb. Now
I think about it. We didn't hear it dot com.
I think she just knew you're that baseball MLB bro,
because you need.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
All your social media handles, MLB bro. Be quiet, Rober. Yeah,
I think she recognized you. She recognized me from the
MLB network.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's that's what it was. That's speaking of that matter
of fact. What you were on today?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No no, no, not yet.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Next Wednesday and then I'll be on every Thursday with
Brian Kenny. But he's going to be on the podcast.
And I got exciting news for people who have been
following them Inside the Parker podcasts. So now we'll have
the audio and now we're gonna have a YouTube show
as well. Every week MLB bro, I mean inside the
park I'm mixed up with you to me shows.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, all right, let's welcome in, So that's something
to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Let's look at let's welcome into the odd couple crew
who we got because we wouldn't be able to do
this fine radio program with down him Rob g as
our producer. He's back. He asked me how the show goes?
He said, no, how to go yesterday? And I said,
how what go?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I was off yesterday? I said, sorry, you don't remember.
I don't even I don't remember. I'm sure Alex is
all the tables. He even waited on you just set tables.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Remember that, mansy cads. You'll keep us updated throughout the program.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How we freed us Wednesdays flowing not today.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's not here, so we're gonna do it tomorrow. But
thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks. I didn't even
wash my hair.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Thank you. You could just roll with it. And I'm
gonna tea you just roll with it like thank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Our social member of Elijah doubled up. Never heard of him.
Elijah one of the best in the business.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You ever remember that movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas.
Anybody remember that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I just remember falling Downstairs. I left that one sitting
right there. Yeah, I left that one.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
You know what I was gonna bring up, Elijah, gonna
have that Falling Down moment. Now it's gonna be me.
I take it back. Just look up the movie Falling Down, Alex.
Just remember that. Okay, remember that, we.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Will remember that, and so so we have. Let's start
here in the NFL. Let's get yeah with your favorite team,
the team that will not be making the playoffs, n
ot already starting. No, I'm just being honest, rob G.
Can you set the table here as we can be honest?
I'm telling you being hopeful. See see when he's when
I said that Jared Goff would throw three interception, he said, oh,
(05:24):
you're extreme, and then Jared go not only threw three
interceptions but also at a fumble, And what the That's
why I'm always like when I say something, I mean it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No, here's why I want to fight him because he
says the thing wrong twelve weeks he and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Then he gets it right wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Let me give you that, give me a big learn
that biggest game. I was right about that. I like
that asterisk, the biggest game, the only game that.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Matters, not out of eleven, who is worrying about all
the wrong things right now?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, I am come on to analytical to right here
we go.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Big story today in the NFL, all these teams are
submitting their proposals for rule changes. One of them that
we've talked about for weeks now is the Green Bay
Packers want to get rid of the toush push. They've
now submitted their third different reason as to why they
want to get rid of it, so shows you that
they really don't like that one.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's not like when you're trying to go out. Maybe okay,
here go another reason. But for the purposes of this show,
the Detroit.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Lions, who have caused many of fights here on the
odd couple, submitted two of them that people like Rob
Parker think seem pretty nefarious. Number One, they are submitting
a proposal that would eliminate the automatic first down that
comes within illegal contact or defensive holding penalty. Seems innocuous
enough until you see that the Lions have by far
(06:45):
the most defensive holding penalties over the last two years.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The NFL owners, they're going to say, okay, yeah, right, Lions,
I mean, talk about going in there with something that
you're the biggest culprit of and have you know, cost
them in situations No, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Go ahead and number tay to jump on him. Number two,
This is the biggest one.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
This is one that could send shockway not only through
the NFC, but through the NFL altogether. They want to
change the NFL playoff seating that would lose regular season
records as a way to determine rank He's as opposed
to division winners right now. You have a situation where
if you win the division, you're automatically getting a home field,
You're automatically going to be seated a certain point, which
(07:28):
is why some people don't like it. Because got a
team like Tapa Bay Buccaneers who win the terrible NFC
South every year. The Panthers right, and they're ranked higher
in the playoff seating than a team like last year
the Minnesota Vikis who won fourteen games. Rob Parker, what
are your thoughts on these rule changes from the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
This is just a precursor to the Lions telling you
they're gonna fall off. They're trying to head off the
wagons and trying to figure out, what how can we
help ourselves when we know we not gonna go What
were the last.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Year fifteen and two, fifteen and two again, how that's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They're not gonna have the number one seed in the NFC,
so they're trying to protect themselves so that they're not
a fifth seed or a sixth seed and have to
go on the road or even if I think they're
not gonna make the playoffs. But that's neither here nor there.
But this sounds like belly achin. You had a game
right with a chance to get to to beat the
(08:30):
Washington Commanders in your own building as a number one seed,
with a chance to go to the NFC Championship game and
maybe get to the Super Bowl finally, and they wet
the bed against the rookie quarterback. Your quarterback turned to
goo and the biggest moment of the season, and now
you're worried about all these other things. We already know
(08:52):
you lost your two coordinators. Okay, we know that a
lot of people have left and a lot of things
are going to change. It's not gonna be the same
thing that we've seen the last couple of years. And
it just it doesn't feel good because it shouldn't matter.
Teams that have been the sixth seed. We talked about it.
Eli Manning was never the number one seed. They won
two super Bowls. When the Packers won with Aaron Rodgers
(09:13):
sixth seed, they didn't go on the road.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
There's steal a fifth sixth seed? Do you know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Like, if you're good, it doesn't matter, you could go
on the road and win a couple of games. So
I just think that to go out there and put
this out there, just why are you and the other
one with the defensive first down when they're the biggest
culprit of it, It would be impressive if they were last
in the league and they were asking for that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Do you do understand what I'm saying? So that's just
that one you just reference. That was them just saying, hey,
why not let's just go for it, Let's give it
a shot.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What benefits us?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Because I think the numbers were they had eight they
were the closest to them. Second was eight penalties behind.
So clearly they lead the league that in those defensive penalties.
And that was just saying, hey, this is something we do.
We play defense aggressively. Let's see if we can get
something in our favor. That the second one, going back
to the seating. That would actually makes sense. I understand
(10:05):
why they would propose that one. I don't agree with it,
but I would understand why they propose it because on paper,
it does make sense. If you're the Vikings, you sit
there fourteen and three and now all of a sudden
you got to play a road game. That is kind
of crazy to be fourteen and three and one the road,
So that would logically makes sense. But it does what
I'm saying. I don't agree with it, is what I'm saying.
(10:25):
I get the offering of the idea.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't have a team that many teams with that
kind of record, but of course, and.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That was what made it crazy. NFC North went crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
But because they played the AFC South or whatever, and
they got fat off of those bad teams. So that's
a rare situation. We have three teams that win twelve
games or more. Yeah, I don't even make sense, right,
And that's why I said it. I see why you would.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Hey, we're throwing stuff out, let's see what sticks, right,
That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's why the Packers are thrown out.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The touch push over and over and over again, and
teams probably put out some other ones that we would go, oh,
that's a head scratcher, actually get it. But I'm still
with it, as in, I'm with the division leaders getting
that spot in the playoffs because that ultimately is.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Priority number one.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
When you hear a team, hey, you guys are good, Eagles,
you want to repeat the super Bowl? Or hey, Lions,
you're good super Bowl, the first thing they say is
our job is to win what our division.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Right, win our division.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Then we'll continue to see how good we off see
if we can win the number one seed and move on.
They unfortunately try to win a super Bowl. But thing
number one is win your division. So I'm still comfortable
with that being the way the game is played.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But I ain't mad at them. That's what Listen, we
went through.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We know about what thirty about two is two maybe
three teams of the thirty two, and the things they've offered,
I'm sure some wild and crazy stuff in there. The
defensive one the penalties is laughing. That was them to say, hey,
this is strictly for us, in favor of us, because
this is how we play defense. But the step back
is still crazy to me that you think that I'm
(11:55):
not saying they win fifteen and two. Maybe they go
twelve and five or thirteen and four, but the idea
that it's a major step back, I don't see that
to the point of not making the postseason when all
their players are still there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's the part of it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I get if they lost some I'll give I'll give
you Hutchinson's back, but I'll give you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
An example the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The Eagles went to the Super Bowl, lost both of
their coordinators, started out great and then tanked the end
of the year right and didn't have them, didn't finish
the year great, and then people were like, what happened
to the Eagles? And I thought that had a lot
to do with losing both coordinators. I think the same
thing can happen because there's a new adjustment period.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's why I don't think it's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And teams all the time they make the play Teams
go to the super Bowl and then and then.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
They don't make the playoffs the next year. But this team.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Usually those teams lose a lot of big name players
because you got good and all of a sudden, guys
need to get paid, Guys need to done. I'm not
happy with my role because be starting this team. I
totally get what you're saying. But here's all, like, literally
all the key components are there in spact, some are
coming back who we didn't get to see in their
best defensive player, one of the best in the league.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
But the one part that I think you're not being
honest with yourself is the schedule that they had a
year ago, which they played a lot of bad teams
they rolled up to score on people like, go look
at those games that I agree.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The only thing I will say to their schedule this year,
it ain't the schedule.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Anything I will say to that, And the same thing
applies to some of those teams ain't the same teams
they were this year. And the other thing is they
had the biggest point differential because they were smashing everybody
good teams, bad teams. They were smacking them up. No,
but they you beat who's in front of you. They
did that, and they also beat the good teams too.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You don't go.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Fifteen to two only beating when you beat No. But
you beat the Vikings twice, you beat the Packers, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But go look at those teams in the AFC South
that they killed. I mean I'm just saying, but I'm
saying that was like four games. No, it's more than that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Four teams. Go look at that four games.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Had one of the he can schedules last smack everybody. Okay,
but they're not going to do it. I can see
them nine and eight. The Bears are going to be
better as.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It should be. We'll see, We'll see where the Vikings
will be able to get a split.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm talking about get a split with the Lions, which
I believe they will, and the Packers will be able
to get take away the.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Viking away hold on.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The Vikings had JJ McCarthy, who had an incredible season.
I mean, uh, Sam, Sam Donold. Now they have JJ
ain't throwing one pass in the NFL, and now they
got to be getna split.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, because because uh did you say that in Washington
with a rookie quarterback?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
No he was great? Oh no, no, no, But did
he have what I'm saying, how they regret? No? No,
how did they regret? How did he beat the Lions?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
A rookie quarterback going into Detroit for for a chance
to go to the NFC championship game.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But I'm talking about the regressing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But you don't know, because I'm just saying you already
have him winning one.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm like, wow, we ain't even game.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I said a split. I didn't say they were going
to sweep the seriales. He's they're not gonna get They're
not gonna sweep.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I know they swept him with a team that went
fourteen and three, and did you see? I saw what
he did. But I'm saying Sam Darney he had to
play better than Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And that quarterback who laid an egg against the Lions
isn't even there anymore because it was in the red
zone four times in the first half and couldn't put
it in.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He lost to him twice. I'm just talking about that.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Lemon no no, no, Louisiana rubb yeah, and Korean barbecue.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Talking about that's when I was.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So sure that you were going to the Super Bowl
this year, and all your life you would coming it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Every day and be like, oh, line one again, what
was that song on a lie? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And then all of a sudden, when it came to
the biggest game of the year, I ain't hear a word.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
From him because I keeps it real. Okay, they lost, they.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Lost, right, that's what it was, Colvin, all right, so
inception trying to sound like Rob eight.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Seven seven, nine nine six sixty three sixty nine on
the Lions. You don't understand that's right to take a
step back in twenty twenty five, I wholeheartedly think they
We'll continue this conversation next with you, Rob Parker, Kelvin
Washington while you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Stick and stay for Detroit to turn into Kevin Durant,
obsolete and forgotten in the USVs. Stopping You're never welcome
back in the d.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
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Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes it is the Odd Couple.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Rob Parker Kelvin Washington on a worship Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'm a woman. No you're not what that come from? Listen.
I need context to ninety percent of the drops we have.
I don't even get that.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And the bad part about it is even the few
that we have with me, I don't even remember why
I said it. And then they just go into folklore
history and they just happen. You don't even remember why
you said that? We rob g you missed the show yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, we part and Monty YouTube, so out of nowhere
we have to.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It was like a Blooney commercial or whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And right on the spot, I just went into song
and I knew it and the words matched up.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It was unbelievable. You ready, here we go. Watch this.
He's getting it right now. He's my strowing it up.
He's dji.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You wanted to uh what is it? Oscar maya Blooney?
Do you remember the commercial?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I love I watched this Roger he said our first name?
What else? My blons a second name?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Why?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I love to eat it?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And we did. And if you asked me why Oscar
Meyer had a way with beyond, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Had a glizzy in my mouth and I think, no,
don't think you spelled it wrong, spell Balooney wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You were out at the spelling bee. However, you sung.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
That's got Southwestern Tech University, Robberie.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
If I asked you quickly, you wouldn't. I ain't gonna
lie Boloney with.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
A gun here?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Hey yo, lo gna what I said you?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He said, R and a y up in there. I
don't know what you were doing. I said below an
apostrophe in there for no reason Oscar had beyond Yeah,
I had. You had an up.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
In there, Bologna gn that's what you get for Dayton Bologna. Yeah,
you get a girlfriend named Bolodia. You thought it was
her again, I thought she was Applelone. I know that
just came out looking more like Bolodia bing bang Appoloni
was she was the deal?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Where are you teaching that? By the way, I know,
I'm embarrassed. I can't smoke Bolodia. Just focused. Keep them
teaching them how to talk, not to spell. You'll be
all right. That's the Dean text, and I think I'm
I'm aware.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Don't worry about it. The kids don't even write in
cursive anymore. They don't have to do it. It's a
whole day bolooney though in US see, I don't know
the Oscar persons ain't hitting no more.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You and Fred Rogan are talking again.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh my man, Oh wow, were talking about his partner later, Homie.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's the Dean right there. That was it was Alex
ain't making it six years either, well, and we're talking
about friend. I would know how to spell baloney? Oh hey,
Rob Parker.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The best part about this I haven't even gotten to
six years though I keep telling you, Robbie, Elijah's in here.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
The problem is cameras. I know all these cameras.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I'm right in the shot, Rob Gi and you know
how they do it when they put it in la times.
I'm gonna be sitting right there and they're gonna be like,
i'mna be all in and getting caught.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You got fired? No it was Rob, I got fired
by proxy? Can I do?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
It?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Would be a long one. Now, let me read and
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Speaker 2 (20:18):
All right, all right, Adam and DC, you're on the going, Adam,
you know.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Rob? I ain't called the show since Chris left. Man,
but it's it's good to say that it is still
my favorite radio show because you will kill and be
killing him. Man, But.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Appreciate man.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
You know what's the truth. You know it's the truth.
But with that being said, we all know that Rob
Parker don't hate nothing more than a side the black
quarterback than Detroit. He's just hating on it for no reason.
I don't know what happened to him in Detroit, but
the Troy just minds blue spelled bitter for Rob.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
No wait, can I say what, Adam tell him? Adam, Adam, Adam,
hold on, let me say this.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I own a barbershop in Detroit for twenty three years.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Point you just use it for money. I own a
house in suburban Detroit. You're making money on it. I
have so many friends in Detroit. I give you that.
I don't hate Detroit. Are you kidding? No, you just
hate you.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That's Troy, all right, Adam one one last day? Can
you spell baloney? Just spell it?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh my gosh, b go on, just spell a try
b O l N g N A. Man, he's oh,
y'all looking. I was about to say something.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Bell, Yeah, I had a all right, thanks, appreciate you him.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
See, most people don't smell not on the spot. I'm
telling you right now, if it's one of those movies
in my hands.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Spell it. I've heard you spell it back and forth.
I still can't spell it. You ain't wrong, I'm telling
you right now. You know those movies. Tell that's where
it is.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
My hands were tied behind my back. Spelled bloone will
let you go. I'll be like, shoot me now. I
hate spell b.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Eg. That's stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Tell blooney to sound like it's be spelled like blooney.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Stupid. That sounds like a country you don't even want
to talk about.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, we got some talk some analytics and how
to ruin sports in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But right now it's trending with Mancy Bologna. My face.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Blooney, my face hurts from laughing right now, like, I
can't you better get it together?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I know, I knew how at least I could. I
know you absolutely nailed it. I was very impressed. It
was adorable.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know all commercial songs though, you're like rain Man,
that's a song that sticks in my head.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You don't say all the TV themes, all the.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Things commercials hates the troit.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know what, Roger, do you have any of his
sister's numbers? You do you have any Rob sisters number?
Put one in them on a fol I want to know.
Was he like a kid who had a TV dinner
TV tray in front of TV nine hours a day.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Did you go out and play I play? I don't
buy it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
You can't know every TV theme song, every commercial song.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You did not go outside. I'm convinced I did. He
could do it all. From my oldest sister Mary Ann.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 1 (23:34):
There is a conversation that the Morris, one of the
Morris brothers, one of the Morris Twins was having on
a podcast talking about how Daryl Morey is pretty much
ruining the seventy six ers organization and specifically ru rooming
you're right like, and specifically the use of AI and
analytics and not just AI. Rob Alan Iverson was in
(23:56):
the front off Well they should be, and everybody's met
at little statue he got the little practice facility one.
It was like six inches everybody, all right, hold on,
n this is AI. But he was talking about him
using artificial intelligence. The crazy part is Rob when it
came to like personnel moves. So I get it, all right, Hey,
how can we run an offense better? Can we be
(24:16):
more efficient?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Crunching in numbers? Okay, fine, whatever, I get it. It
was involving personnel moves. That's what made it crazy. And
he started to question, is this why you didn't want
to sign James Harden after you promise him you would,
and then you backtracked, and that's why James Harden said
he's a liar and I'll never play with any organizations
he's in. Is this why you went and got a
Paul George who's always injury prone? And then you said,
(24:38):
you know what'll be a great idea. Let's pair them
with Joe LMB who's always injured. Terrible idea, And so
he just goes on to question and to me is
a larger conversation that i'd I love to have and
you knowing all sports too. To me, I think there
sometimes we forget the balance between information, knowledge, technology, the
(24:58):
eye test to just showing the game, the feel of
the game as well when we talk about that and
the aesthetics, right, don't forget this is entertainment. People want
to be enjoyed. They want to like what they see
when they watch you you know X sports.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We've seen that in the NBA with all the threes
and you get all the blowouts when you have a
bad shooting night of threes. Nobody wants to see all threes.
It's just not just don't want to see it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Please.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Baseball was in a bad place a few years ago
with the homewk strikeout. That's it, like there was no action,
nobody was on the base by nobody's nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Now they made the changes.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Remember the analytics was so good that that guys who
were three hundred hitters all of a sudden but batt
in two twenty because they would move a field the
third basement would be a right field right the shift
and take away all their hits.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They weren't getting on base. It was like ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And then when you sit next to guys, you know,
obviously when I do the Dodger stuff, sitting next to Nomar,
Jay Harre and Adrian Gonzalez and these guys, do.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You want to see them lose their minds?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Show them a shift, a whole open gap, and they're like,
you can't hit in that. And it's because the last
you know, decades, so these young hitters but not trained.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They're like, but.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Here's the other thing too, And I hear what they're saying,
but that's not what we that's not the spirit.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Of the game. That's not you know what I mean.
They're not.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They don't deny that because because I'm saying, if my bit,
if Aaron Judges up and they have everybody on the
left side, I really want Aaron Judge to dribble a
single through first through first, mate.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's not what I want Aaron Judge. You know what
I'm saying, the spirit of the game.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
They completely that's your point in the middle of it
being a rule, right because now it's it's it's banned,
But in the middle of it being a rule, you
should be able to take advantage of it. It's like,
if you play basketball and I'm giving you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The left, you should be confident and go left. I
can play.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
But if we the game, I agree with you. We
went to that and everybody just dribbled the ball. If
there were a left handed hitter and everybody was on
the right side and all down the third bait, you
would be like. And so that's my point with analytics.
It starts to hurt the game. And I think sometimes
these leagues ROB forget about this. As much as it's
(27:05):
big money, whether it be gambling, whether it be the
TV deals, whether it be all of that.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Also it's entertainment. Sometimes we forget sports is entertainment. We
act like it's life or death. And what I mean
by that is we want to be entertained. And when
you start putting analytics in what happened in the NFL
ROB they're throwing four or five hundred yards every game.
You got everybody throwing four or five thousand yards like
it was nothing, a bunch of touchdowns. Defense was getting
kicked out. Now you're starting to see what running backs
(27:31):
matter again. You're starting to see what this year we
remember the first ten weeks we kept talking about it,
defenses would have gotten better, and the scoring was down.
Yards per game were down because defenses came back. We
like to see a little defense, We like to see
some running mixing it up. And I think these leagues
get so caught up in analytics and trying to, you know,
be the riddler and figure it all out, that they
forget sometimes it's a feel of a game. Sometimes, Hey,
(27:54):
the advantage tonight is just going down low. I don't
care what the analytics aay, the advantage tonight is. I
know on paper says you should be pitching only three
innings because no, no, you're fired tonight, Ryan, You're going six.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well we saw that. Remember that was the day.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That they took out who was had to no hit,
had no had a perfect game, Clayton kershot game on
eighty pitches, and they took him out of the game.
And I'm like, dude, like like he like, you can't
do that, Like, let let him walk, somebody, let him
get a hit. Then you take him out. Well, how
do you take somebody out of a perfect game? With
eighty pitches going into the eight and that robs his
(28:30):
rob that robs us of moment.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So that was the other thing that I talked about,
like the analytics have done that, taking us out of
things that we should be at the ballpark, trying.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
To remember that night. I was there when Curtin Kershaw
through a perfect game. Remember that night I was. It
doesn't happen all the time.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I was there when David Well threw one for the
Yankees against the Twins on a Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
And I've been covering baseball for thirty nine years. That's
the only perfect game I've ever seen. Thirty nine years
I've been going out to the ballpark and that's the
only perfect game I.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ever saw it after his seventy ninety like all right,
hey David, here you go, give me the ball. You
had a good one you and you know what I mean. No,
so they gotta they gotta come on. I understand new
technology AI and all that, but a may I sometimes
you just got a feeling. Sometimes it's working. Sometimes you say, man,
I'm a coach and I'm gonna sit back. I'm not
gonna pull this guy out the game. Who has say
(29:22):
sixty five points in an NBA game, Rob, Because analytics
say if I keep him minutes and progeate a, he's
on fire tonight. I'm gonna give the fans something to see.
Let me see if he can go for seventy, you
know what I mean. I'm gonna se if he can
go for ady. Sometimes we just want to see that.
And I think they rob us of those moments when
they get become all these nerds and engineers and all
that like, let us enjoy the game sometimes. So all right,
speaking of enjoying the game, we'll see if you enjoyed
(29:43):
some of those games last night with Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You you turned your back on me. No, no, no,
I was looking over here. Yeah, okay, I still got
a little something else.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
To Shekel City on the way. Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington
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Speaker 6 (29:56):
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Speaker 1 (30:08):
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Speaker 6 (30:43):
Welcome to Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's
daily Dix against the Spread. All.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Here we go Shekel City one and two. Last night
seventy had seventy two.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
On the year. But here we go.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Best we got we back the Knicks minus eight and
a half taking on the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
At least they got the river walk. They're about to
get Cooper Flag with the Aaron Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Do you have you ever been to San Antonio's about
to be crazy?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Nigga alex No Texas ten yo, really wow.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
If I listening to Charles Barkley, is the worst place
on earth? Really? Oh? Yes, it's bit that's I thought
that was. I thought that was San Francisco. You wound
up having to give a lot of money to San Francisco. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
He donated money all right, helped the Homers Pelicans plus
thirteen and a half taking on the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I'm taking the thirteen and a half. I got bird
last night. You did h who the timberwalls in a
in a basketball back?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, rogerie Man, go ahead, update your LinkedIn points. Just
go ahead and updated. You're gonna need it. Same following him.
You're gonna need the updated because he ain't gonna make.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It all right, Utah, I'm making the summer please. You
know what's funny is monster.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
They're doing the mister Burns like, yes, rock like that's funny.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And the best part she ain't say you're wrong, Rodney,
I hate.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Said that, all right, Utah minus two and a half.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
They're taking on the I ain't about to be a couples,
about to be the odd single. You gonna have me
single out here in the streets.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
There we go Utah again, Utah Jazz minus two and
a half.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Who are you touching? Who that exists anymore?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yes, the Pelicans plus thirteen and a half and the
New York Nika Bokers minus eight and a half. And remember,
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who I bet on. All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We just yes, that's just fun. Man Rodney Pete, friend
of everybody's right gorm.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Alliance quarterons quarterback. You quarterback start play baseball in college?
Just great? It was all around great app he was.
That's you and I. That's another conversation. You could forget
man athletes.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Back then, everybody was a multi sport apprete and they
ran track, football, baseball, basketball, That's what athletes did.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Since you brought up that he was athlete, he was
at the game and you know his Japan Yeah, Rodney
p Junior. His son is a part of the clubhouse attending.
Great great young man as well. So they're out there
Tokyo and join the game, him and his wife and
then I'm at work. Today's wife, Holly Rodley Robinson p
let me the biggest baseball fan.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
She you want to know about Dodger fan. She's the
biggest baseball fan going.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
She's all in. She's always at the game. I've been.
She's all about it. Yeah, all in. So I'm at
working there, like you see your boy, Rodney. I like
what you were talking about. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I didn't see it, and then they showed me and
I'm crying, laughing if you didn't see it. Ball's heading
out in the stands. Max Mountzy's chasing it. It's a
foul it's a foul ball, and it looks like maxic
can make a play on it, but he whiffs. You
know who didn't with Rob Rodney p catched that thing smoothly,
didn Heck.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He catches the all And of course everybody right right
away goes, oh, he's a Bartman, Steve Bartman in Chicago
with a Steve Bartman reached he was over the the
railing right and and caught the ball from one of
the Cubs players. Rodney Pete was in the stands and
Max Mounsey reached into the stands.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
That is Rodney's ball in the stand and you're right,
and Max Monsey he whiffed, He missed the ball. Even
if Rodney didn't get it, Max Monty wasn't und if
you miss if you've seen it, Max had a shot
at it.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
He missed, and he tried to be mad. But even himself,
I'm sure he's like if he watched that video, I'm.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
No way you could be mad at Rodney Pete. He
was in his within his right. He didn't reach, he
didn't jump over people. He literally was like, he didn't.
He didn't knock money Max Mounsey's glove out the way
or something like that. Like if he like knocked his
glove out of the way, then people would have an.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Issue with it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That thing was so smooth. He had to say, nephew
after that, you know how uncle's hack.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Wass up?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Nephews just smooth with it. He just caught that, like, nephew,
you see I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Holly. She was so like, oh wow, he won. Shout
out to Holly and he won. He's like, baby, don't
be forgetting. I do what I do when I do
what I do, Like, you're right.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
She's been defending him so people on you know, on
social media, even though he didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
It doesn't need to be defended. She's been defend She
has been let me tell you something you want to
ride or die. Woman in your life.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
She has.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's what the wife is. From the wee hours or
the late hours. I don't know what it was in Tokyo, Japan.
All I know is she was going crazy on social media.
Oh man, look at leave it for this guy. This dude,
this clown brought a glove to the game, by the way,
caught it with a glove super clean. Let me we
we did forget that if you hadn't seen it.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
And then the other thing too, is we should say this.
I did think right away. My first thought was Rodney
pe packed the glove to Japan. We all thought, Rodney, Rodney,
you brought a you brought a glove to Japan.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I thought Rodney P. Junior hooked him up, like here
go dad. And then what it was?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
They laid him out because like us and we don't,
you know, we have the netting.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And it was and she said it, she said, those
balls were flying, they were flying at us.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And so they give you.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
On your seat people, they are and loves a hat
at the seat just when you sit down.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You know. I used to go to a game sometimes
in the NBA game as a t shirt. You can't
take them with you. But you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I probably in Japan, I probably would have slipped the
glove out of the stadium.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I'm just saying it would have been That's why you
didn't get burnt. It stuck to me, the glove, and
I just happened to take wear it off.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
That's right, there you go. That's why you ain't got
no kids around here. I'm sorry Roger. He got me
Robby see.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
What about six months he brought me down a Scott.
I'm sorry Dan Byron Monty Next
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Speaker 4 (01:29):
Sweetie man, what a show we have for you today
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Radio and uh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Just a lot of stuff to talk about football, of
course we'll do that. Some baseball stuff we'll mix in
there as well.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And uh, who do we have? One's gotta go. We're
gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Weeks are flying by, by the way on the hot Yes,
Long will be joining us on HOTZEA.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That's an hour number three. I hate that we got
to do him like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yes, so we got so much to do so little time.
Let me welcome to my partner.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He is Calvin. Calvin Washington. That would eternally be funny man.
What up man? Uh? Happy hum day? Shoot feeling?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Is a black hat day? I wearing my MLB bro hat?
Can you see that nicely?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Because you need to know, you do need to know.
She she definitely needed to know. Excuse me, she needed
to know the lady that ran up on us. That's right,
that's right, ROGI know what I'm talking about. And I
had no gear on or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh my gosh, MLB bro dot Com and they're like
yes and this Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm glad, she said MLB because if she would just say, bro,
but hold old lady.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It was like, you know, and here's.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The thing, Rob G and Calvin are all night, because
she was like a forty year old white woman.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, and she knew MLB bro. She didn't even look
at me.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She didn't say Fox Sports or was she literally saying
you're that MLB. She knew what she was, Robb. Now
I think about it. We didn't hear it dot com.
I think she just knew you're that baseball MLB bro,
because you need.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
All your social media handles, MLB bro. Be quiet, Rober. Yeah,
I think she recognized you. She recognized me from the
MLB network.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's that's what it was. That's speaking of that matter
of fact. What you were on today?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No no, no, not yet.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Next Wednesday and then I'll be on every Thursday with
Brian Kenny. But he's going to be on the podcast.
And I got exciting news for people who have been
following them Inside the Parker podcasts. So now we'll have
the audio and now we're gonna have a YouTube show
as well. Every week MLB bro, I mean inside the
park I'm mixed up with you to me shows.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, all right, let's welcome in, So that's something
to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Let's look at let's welcome into the odd couple crew
who we got because we wouldn't be able to do
this fine radio program with down him Rob g as
our producer. He's back. He asked me how the show goes?
He said, no, how to go yesterday? And I said,
how what go?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I was off yesterday? I said, sorry, you don't remember.
I don't even I don't remember. I'm sure Alex is
all the tables. He even waited on you just set tables.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Remember that, mansy cads. You'll keep us updated throughout the program.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How we freed us Wednesdays flowing not today.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's not here, so we're gonna do it tomorrow. But
thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks. I didn't even
wash my hair.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Thank you. You could just roll with it. And I'm
gonna tea you just roll with it like thank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Our social member of Elijah doubled up. Never heard of him.
Elijah one of the best in the business.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You ever remember that movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas.
Anybody remember that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I just remember falling Downstairs. I left that one sitting
right there. Yeah, I left that one.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
You know what I was gonna bring up, Elijah, gonna
have that Falling Down moment. Now it's gonna be me.
I take it back. Just look up the movie Falling Down, Alex.
Just remember that. Okay, remember that, we.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Will remember that, and so so we have. Let's start
here in the NFL. Let's get yeah with your favorite team,
the team that will not be making the playoffs, n
ot already starting. No, I'm just being honest, rob G.
Can you set the table here as we can be honest?
I'm telling you being hopeful. See see when he's when
I said that Jared Goff would throw three interception, he said, oh,
(05:24):
you're extreme, and then Jared go not only threw three
interceptions but also at a fumble, And what the That's
why I'm always like when I say something, I mean it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No, here's why I want to fight him because he
says the thing wrong twelve weeks he and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Then he gets it right wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Let me give you that, give me a big learn
that biggest game. I was right about that. I like
that asterisk, the biggest game, the only game that.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Matters, not out of eleven, who is worrying about all
the wrong things right now?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, I am come on to analytical to right here
we go.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Big story today in the NFL, all these teams are
submitting their proposals for rule changes. One of them that
we've talked about for weeks now is the Green Bay
Packers want to get rid of the toush push. They've
now submitted their third different reason as to why they
want to get rid of it, so shows you that
they really don't like that one.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's not like when you're trying to go out. Maybe okay,
here go another reason. But for the purposes of this show,
the Detroit.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Lions, who have caused many of fights here on the
odd couple, submitted two of them that people like Rob
Parker think seem pretty nefarious. Number One, they are submitting
a proposal that would eliminate the automatic first down that
comes within illegal contact or defensive holding penalty. Seems innocuous
enough until you see that the Lions have by far
(06:45):
the most defensive holding penalties over the last two years.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The NFL owners, they're going to say, okay, yeah, right, Lions,
I mean, talk about going in there with something that
you're the biggest culprit of and have you know, cost
them in situations No, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Go ahead and number tay to jump on him. Number two,
This is the biggest one.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
This is one that could send shockway not only through
the NFC, but through the NFL altogether. They want to
change the NFL playoff seating that would lose regular season
records as a way to determine rank He's as opposed
to division winners right now. You have a situation where
if you win the division, you're automatically getting a home field,
You're automatically going to be seated a certain point, which
(07:28):
is why some people don't like it. Because got a
team like Tapa Bay Buccaneers who win the terrible NFC
South every year. The Panthers right, and they're ranked higher
in the playoff seating than a team like last year
the Minnesota Vikis who won fourteen games. Rob Parker, what
are your thoughts on these rule changes from the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
This is just a precursor to the Lions telling you
they're gonna fall off. They're trying to head off the
wagons and trying to figure out, what how can we
help ourselves when we know we not gonna go What
were the last.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Year fifteen and two, fifteen and two again, how that's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They're not gonna have the number one seed in the NFC,
so they're trying to protect themselves so that they're not
a fifth seed or a sixth seed and have to
go on the road or even if I think they're
not gonna make the playoffs. But that's neither here nor there.
But this sounds like belly achin. You had a game
right with a chance to get to to beat the
(08:30):
Washington Commanders in your own building as a number one seed,
with a chance to go to the NFC Championship game and
maybe get to the Super Bowl finally, and they wet
the bed against the rookie quarterback. Your quarterback turned to
goo and the biggest moment of the season, and now
you're worried about all these other things. We already know
(08:52):
you lost your two coordinators. Okay, we know that a
lot of people have left and a lot of things
are going to change. It's not gonna be the same
thing that we've seen the last couple of years. And
it just it doesn't feel good because it shouldn't matter.
Teams that have been the sixth seed. We talked about it.
Eli Manning was never the number one seed. They won
two super Bowls. When the Packers won with Aaron Rodgers
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sixth seed, they didn't go on the road.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
There's steal a fifth sixth seed? Do you know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Like, if you're good, it doesn't matter, you could go
on the road and win a couple of games. So
I just think that to go out there and put
this out there, just why are you and the other
one with the defensive first down when they're the biggest
culprit of it, It would be impressive if they were last
in the league and they were asking for that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Do you do understand what I'm saying? So that's just
that one you just reference. That was them just saying, hey,
why not let's just go for it, Let's give it
a shot.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What benefits us?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Because I think the numbers were they had eight they
were the closest to them. Second was eight penalties behind.
So clearly they lead the league that in those defensive penalties.
And that was just saying, hey, this is something we do.
We play defense aggressively. Let's see if we can get
something in our favor. That the second one, going back
to the seating. That would actually makes sense. I understand
(10:05):
why they would propose that one. I don't agree with it,
but I would understand why they propose it because on paper,
it does make sense. If you're the Vikings, you sit
there fourteen and three and now all of a sudden
you got to play a road game. That is kind
of crazy to be fourteen and three and one the road,
So that would logically makes sense. But it does what
I'm saying. I don't agree with it, is what I'm saying.
(10:25):
I get the offering of the idea.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't have a team that many teams with that
kind of record, but of course, and.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That was what made it crazy. NFC North went crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
But because they played the AFC South or whatever, and
they got fat off of those bad teams. So that's
a rare situation. We have three teams that win twelve
games or more. Yeah, I don't even make sense, right,
And that's why I said it. I see why you would.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Hey, we're throwing stuff out, let's see what sticks, right,
That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's why the Packers are thrown out.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The touch push over and over and over again, and
teams probably put out some other ones that we would go, oh,
that's a head scratcher, actually get it. But I'm still
with it, as in, I'm with the division leaders getting
that spot in the playoffs because that ultimately is.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Priority number one.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
When you hear a team, hey, you guys are good, Eagles,
you want to repeat the super Bowl? Or hey, Lions,
you're good super Bowl, the first thing they say is
our job is to win what our division.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Right, win our division.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Then we'll continue to see how good we off see
if we can win the number one seed and move on.
They unfortunately try to win a super Bowl. But thing
number one is win your division. So I'm still comfortable
with that being the way the game is played.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But I ain't mad at them. That's what Listen, we
went through.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We know about what thirty about two is two maybe
three teams of the thirty two, and the things they've offered,
I'm sure some wild and crazy stuff in there. The
defensive one the penalties is laughing. That was them to say, hey,
this is strictly for us, in favor of us, because
this is how we play defense. But the step back
is still crazy to me that you think that I'm
(11:55):
not saying they win fifteen and two. Maybe they go
twelve and five or thirteen and four, but the idea
that it's a major step back, I don't see that
to the point of not making the postseason when all
their players are still there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's the part of it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I get if they lost some I'll give I'll give
you Hutchinson's back, but I'll give you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
An example the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The Eagles went to the Super Bowl, lost both of
their coordinators, started out great and then tanked the end
of the year right and didn't have them, didn't finish
the year great, and then people were like, what happened
to the Eagles? And I thought that had a lot
to do with losing both coordinators. I think the same
thing can happen because there's a new adjustment period.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's why I don't think it's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And teams all the time they make the play Teams
go to the super Bowl and then and then.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
They don't make the playoffs the next year. But this team.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Usually those teams lose a lot of big name players
because you got good and all of a sudden, guys
need to get paid, Guys need to done. I'm not
happy with my role because be starting this team. I
totally get what you're saying. But here's all, like, literally
all the key components are there in spact, some are
coming back who we didn't get to see in their
best defensive player, one of the best in the league.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
But the one part that I think you're not being
honest with yourself is the schedule that they had a
year ago, which they played a lot of bad teams
they rolled up to score on people like, go look
at those games that I agree.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The only thing I will say to their schedule this year,
it ain't the schedule.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Anything I will say to that, And the same thing
applies to some of those teams ain't the same teams
they were this year. And the other thing is they
had the biggest point differential because they were smashing everybody
good teams, bad teams. They were smacking them up. No,
but they you beat who's in front of you. They
did that, and they also beat the good teams too.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You don't go.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Fifteen to two only beating when you beat No. But
you beat the Vikings twice, you beat the Packers, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But go look at those teams in the AFC South
that they killed. I mean I'm just saying, but I'm
saying that was like four games. No, it's more than that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Four teams. Go look at that four games.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Had one of the he can schedules last smack everybody. Okay,
but they're not going to do it. I can see
them nine and eight. The Bears are going to be
better as.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It should be. We'll see, We'll see where the Vikings
will be able to get a split.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm talking about get a split with the Lions, which
I believe they will, and the Packers will be able
to get take away the.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Viking away hold on.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The Vikings had JJ McCarthy, who had an incredible season.
I mean, uh, Sam, Sam Donold. Now they have JJ
ain't throwing one pass in the NFL, and now they
got to be getna split.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, because because uh did you say that in Washington
with a rookie quarterback?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
No he was great? Oh no, no, no, But did
he have what I'm saying, how they regret? No? No,
how did they regret? How did he beat the Lions?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
A rookie quarterback going into Detroit for for a chance
to go to the NFC championship game.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But I'm talking about the regressing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But you don't know, because I'm just saying you already
have him winning one.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm like, wow, we ain't even game.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I said a split. I didn't say they were going
to sweep the seriales. He's they're not gonna get They're
not gonna sweep.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I know they swept him with a team that went
fourteen and three, and did you see? I saw what
he did. But I'm saying Sam Darney he had to
play better than Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And that quarterback who laid an egg against the Lions
isn't even there anymore because it was in the red
zone four times in the first half and couldn't put
it in.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He lost to him twice. I'm just talking about that.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Lemon no no, no, Louisiana rubb yeah, and Korean barbecue.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Talking about that's when I was.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So sure that you were going to the Super Bowl
this year, and all your life you would coming it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Every day and be like, oh, line one again, what
was that song on a lie? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And then all of a sudden, when it came to
the biggest game of the year, I ain't hear a word.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
From him because I keeps it real. Okay, they lost, they.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Lost, right, that's what it was, Colvin, all right, so
inception trying to sound like Rob eight.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Seven seven, nine nine six sixty three sixty nine on
the Lions. You don't understand that's right to take a
step back in twenty twenty five, I wholeheartedly think they
We'll continue this conversation next with you, Rob Parker, Kelvin
Washington while you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Stick and stay for Detroit to turn into Kevin Durant,
obsolete and forgotten in the USVs. Stopping You're never welcome
back in the d.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (16:25):
Appig Little Gig Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes it is the Odd Couple.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Rob Parker Kelvin Washington on a worship Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'm a woman. No you're not what that come from? Listen.
I need context to ninety percent of the drops we have.
I don't even get that.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And the bad part about it is even the few
that we have with me, I don't even remember why
I said it. And then they just go into folklore
history and they just happen. You don't even remember why
you said that? We rob g you missed the show yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, we part and Monty YouTube, so out of nowhere
we have to.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It was like a Blooney commercial or whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And right on the spot, I just went into song
and I knew it and the words matched up.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It was unbelievable. You ready, here we go. Watch this.
He's getting it right now. He's my strowing it up.
He's dji.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You wanted to uh what is it? Oscar maya Blooney?
Do you remember the commercial?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I love I watched this Roger he said our first name?
What else? My blons a second name?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Why?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I love to eat it?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And we did. And if you asked me why Oscar
Meyer had a way with beyond, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Had a glizzy in my mouth and I think, no,
don't think you spelled it wrong, spell Balooney wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You were out at the spelling bee. However, you sung.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
That's got Southwestern Tech University, Robberie.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
If I asked you quickly, you wouldn't. I ain't gonna
lie Boloney with.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
A gun here?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Hey yo, lo gna what I said you?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He said, R and a y up in there. I
don't know what you were doing. I said below an
apostrophe in there for no reason Oscar had beyond Yeah,
I had. You had an up.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
In there, Bologna gn that's what you get for Dayton Bologna. Yeah,
you get a girlfriend named Bolodia. You thought it was
her again, I thought she was Applelone. I know that
just came out looking more like Bolodia bing bang Appoloni
was she was the deal?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Where are you teaching that? By the way, I know,
I'm embarrassed. I can't smoke Bolodia. Just focused. Keep them
teaching them how to talk, not to spell. You'll be
all right. That's the Dean text, and I think I'm
I'm aware.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Don't worry about it. The kids don't even write in
cursive anymore. They don't have to do it. It's a
whole day bolooney though in US see, I don't know
the Oscar persons ain't hitting no more.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You and Fred Rogan are talking again.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh my man, Oh wow, were talking about his partner later, Homie.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's the Dean right there. That was it was Alex
ain't making it six years either, well, and we're talking
about friend. I would know how to spell baloney? Oh hey,
Rob Parker.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The best part about this I haven't even gotten to
six years though I keep telling you, Robbie, Elijah's in here.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
The problem is cameras. I know all these cameras.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I'm right in the shot, Rob Gi and you know
how they do it when they put it in la times.
I'm gonna be sitting right there and they're gonna be like,
i'mna be all in and getting caught.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You got fired? No it was Rob, I got fired
by proxy? Can I do?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
It?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Would be a long one. Now, let me read and
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Speaker 2 (20:18):
All right, all right, Adam and DC, you're on the going, Adam,
you know.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Rob? I ain't called the show since Chris left. Man,
but it's it's good to say that it is still
my favorite radio show because you will kill and be
killing him. Man, But.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Appreciate man.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
You know what's the truth. You know it's the truth.
But with that being said, we all know that Rob
Parker don't hate nothing more than a side the black
quarterback than Detroit. He's just hating on it for no reason.
I don't know what happened to him in Detroit, but
the Troy just minds blue spelled bitter for Rob.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
No wait, can I say what, Adam tell him? Adam, Adam, Adam,
hold on, let me say this.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I own a barbershop in Detroit for twenty three years.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Point you just use it for money. I own a
house in suburban Detroit. You're making money on it. I
have so many friends in Detroit. I give you that.
I don't hate Detroit. Are you kidding? No, you just
hate you.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That's Troy, all right, Adam one one last day? Can
you spell baloney? Just spell it?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh my gosh, b go on, just spell a try
b O l N g N A. Man, he's oh,
y'all looking. I was about to say something.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Bell, Yeah, I had a all right, thanks, appreciate you him.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
See, most people don't smell not on the spot. I'm
telling you right now, if it's one of those movies
in my hands.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Spell it. I've heard you spell it back and forth.
I still can't spell it. You ain't wrong, I'm telling
you right now. You know those movies. Tell that's where
it is.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
My hands were tied behind my back. Spelled bloone will
let you go. I'll be like, shoot me now. I
hate spell b.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Eg. That's stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Tell blooney to sound like it's be spelled like blooney.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Stupid. That sounds like a country you don't even want
to talk about.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, we got some talk some analytics and how
to ruin sports in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But right now it's trending with Mancy Bologna. My face.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Blooney, my face hurts from laughing right now, like, I
can't you better get it together?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I know, I knew how at least I could. I
know you absolutely nailed it. I was very impressed. It
was adorable.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know all commercial songs though, you're like rain Man,
that's a song that sticks in my head.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You don't say all the TV themes, all the.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Things commercials hates the troit.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know what, Roger, do you have any of his
sister's numbers? You do you have any Rob sisters number?
Put one in them on a fol I want to know.
Was he like a kid who had a TV dinner
TV tray in front of TV nine hours a day.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Did you go out and play I play? I don't
buy it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
You can't know every TV theme song, every commercial song.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You did not go outside. I'm convinced I did. He
could do it all. From my oldest sister Mary Ann.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There is a conversation that the Morris, one of the
Morris brothers, one of the Morris Twins was having on
a podcast talking about how Daryl Morey is pretty much
ruining the seventy six ers organization and specifically ru rooming
you're right like, and specifically the use of AI and
analytics and not just AI. Rob Alan Iverson was in
(23:56):
the front off Well they should be, and everybody's met
at little statue he got the little practice facility one.
It was like six inches everybody, all right, hold on,
n this is AI. But he was talking about him
using artificial intelligence. The crazy part is Rob when it
came to like personnel moves. So I get it, all right, Hey,
how can we run an offense better? Can we be
(24:16):
more efficient?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Crunching in numbers? Okay, fine, whatever, I get it. It
was involving personnel moves. That's what made it crazy. And
he started to question, is this why you didn't want
to sign James Harden after you promise him you would,
and then you backtracked, and that's why James Harden said
he's a liar and I'll never play with any organizations
he's in. Is this why you went and got a
Paul George who's always injury prone? And then you said,
(24:38):
you know what'll be a great idea. Let's pair them
with Joe LMB who's always injured. Terrible idea, And so
he just goes on to question and to me is
a larger conversation that i'd I love to have and
you knowing all sports too. To me, I think there
sometimes we forget the balance between information, knowledge, technology, the
(24:58):
eye test to just showing the game, the feel of
the game as well when we talk about that and
the aesthetics, right, don't forget this is entertainment. People want
to be enjoyed. They want to like what they see
when they watch you you know X sports.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We've seen that in the NBA with all the threes
and you get all the blowouts when you have a
bad shooting night of threes. Nobody wants to see all threes.
It's just not just don't want to see it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Please.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Baseball was in a bad place a few years ago
with the homewk strikeout. That's it, like there was no action,
nobody was on the base by nobody's nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Now they made the changes.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Remember the analytics was so good that that guys who
were three hundred hitters all of a sudden but batt
in two twenty because they would move a field the
third basement would be a right field right the shift
and take away all their hits.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They weren't getting on base. It was like ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And then when you sit next to guys, you know,
obviously when I do the Dodger stuff, sitting next to Nomar,
Jay Harre and Adrian Gonzalez and these guys, do.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You want to see them lose their minds?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Show them a shift, a whole open gap, and they're like,
you can't hit in that. And it's because the last
you know, decades, so these young hitters but not trained.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They're like, but.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Here's the other thing too, And I hear what they're saying,
but that's not what we that's not the spirit.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Of the game. That's not you know what I mean.
They're not.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They don't deny that because because I'm saying, if my bit,
if Aaron Judges up and they have everybody on the
left side, I really want Aaron Judge to dribble a
single through first through first, mate.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's not what I want Aaron Judge. You know what
I'm saying, the spirit of the game.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
They completely that's your point in the middle of it
being a rule, right because now it's it's it's banned,
But in the middle of it being a rule, you
should be able to take advantage of it. It's like,
if you play basketball and I'm giving you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The left, you should be confident and go left. I
can play.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
But if we the game, I agree with you. We
went to that and everybody just dribbled the ball. If
there were a left handed hitter and everybody was on
the right side and all down the third bait, you
would be like. And so that's my point with analytics.
It starts to hurt the game. And I think sometimes
these leagues ROB forget about this. As much as it's
(27:05):
big money, whether it be gambling, whether it be the
TV deals, whether it be all of that.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Also it's entertainment. Sometimes we forget sports is entertainment. We
act like it's life or death. And what I mean
by that is we want to be entertained. And when
you start putting analytics in what happened in the NFL
ROB they're throwing four or five hundred yards every game.
You got everybody throwing four or five thousand yards like
it was nothing, a bunch of touchdowns. Defense was getting
kicked out. Now you're starting to see what running backs
(27:31):
matter again. You're starting to see what this year we
remember the first ten weeks we kept talking about it,
defenses would have gotten better, and the scoring was down.
Yards per game were down because defenses came back. We
like to see a little defense, We like to see
some running mixing it up. And I think these leagues
get so caught up in analytics and trying to, you know,
be the riddler and figure it all out, that they
forget sometimes it's a feel of a game. Sometimes, Hey,
(27:54):
the advantage tonight is just going down low. I don't
care what the analytics aay, the advantage tonight is. I
know on paper says you should be pitching only three
innings because no, no, you're fired tonight, Ryan, You're going six.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well we saw that. Remember that was the day.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That they took out who was had to no hit,
had no had a perfect game, Clayton kershot game on
eighty pitches, and they took him out of the game.
And I'm like, dude, like like he like, you can't
do that, Like, let let him walk, somebody, let him
get a hit. Then you take him out. Well, how
do you take somebody out of a perfect game? With
eighty pitches going into the eight and that robs his
(28:30):
rob that robs us of moment.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So that was the other thing that I talked about,
like the analytics have done that, taking us out of
things that we should be at the ballpark, trying.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
To remember that night. I was there when Curtin Kershaw
through a perfect game. Remember that night I was. It
doesn't happen all the time.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I was there when David Well threw one for the
Yankees against the Twins on a Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
And I've been covering baseball for thirty nine years. That's
the only perfect game I've ever seen. Thirty nine years
I've been going out to the ballpark and that's the
only perfect game I.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ever saw it after his seventy ninety like all right,
hey David, here you go, give me the ball. You
had a good one you and you know what I mean. No,
so they gotta they gotta come on. I understand new
technology AI and all that, but a may I sometimes
you just got a feeling. Sometimes it's working. Sometimes you say, man,
I'm a coach and I'm gonna sit back. I'm not
gonna pull this guy out the game. Who has say
(29:22):
sixty five points in an NBA game, Rob, Because analytics
say if I keep him minutes and progeate a, he's
on fire tonight. I'm gonna give the fans something to see.
Let me see if he can go for seventy, you
know what I mean. I'm gonna se if he can
go for ady. Sometimes we just want to see that.
And I think they rob us of those moments when
they get become all these nerds and engineers and all
that like, let us enjoy the game sometimes. So all right,
speaking of enjoying the game, we'll see if you enjoyed
(29:43):
some of those games last night with Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You you turned your back on me. No, no, no,
I was looking over here. Yeah, okay, I still got
a little something else.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
To Shekel City on the way. Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington
a couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
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Speaker 1 (30:08):
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Speaker 6 (30:43):
Welcome to Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's
daily Dix against the Spread. All.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Here we go Shekel City one and two. Last night
seventy had seventy two.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
On the year. But here we go.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Best we got we back the Knicks minus eight and
a half taking on the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
At least they got the river walk. They're about to
get Cooper Flag with the Aaron Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Do you have you ever been to San Antonio's about
to be crazy?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Nigga alex No Texas ten yo, really wow.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
If I listening to Charles Barkley, is the worst place
on earth? Really? Oh? Yes, it's bit that's I thought
that was. I thought that was San Francisco. You wound
up having to give a lot of money to San Francisco. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
He donated money all right, helped the Homers Pelicans plus
thirteen and a half taking on the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I'm taking the thirteen and a half. I got bird
last night. You did h who the timberwalls in a
in a basketball back?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, rogerie Man, go ahead, update your LinkedIn points. Just
go ahead and updated. You're gonna need it. Same following him.
You're gonna need the updated because he ain't gonna make.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It all right, Utah, I'm making the summer please. You
know what's funny is monster.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
They're doing the mister Burns like, yes, rock like that's funny.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And the best part she ain't say you're wrong, Rodney,
I hate.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Said that, all right, Utah minus two and a half.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
They're taking on the I ain't about to be a couples,
about to be the odd single. You gonna have me
single out here in the streets.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
There we go Utah again, Utah Jazz minus two and
a half.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Who are you touching? Who that exists anymore?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yes, the Pelicans plus thirteen and a half and the
New York Nika Bokers minus eight and a half. And remember,
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who I bet on. All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We just yes, that's just fun. Man Rodney Pete, friend
of everybody's right gorm.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Alliance quarterons quarterback. You quarterback start play baseball in college?
Just great? It was all around great app he was.
That's you and I. That's another conversation. You could forget
man athletes.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Back then, everybody was a multi sport apprete and they
ran track, football, baseball, basketball, That's what athletes did.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Since you brought up that he was athlete, he was
at the game and you know his Japan Yeah, Rodney
p Junior. His son is a part of the clubhouse attending.
Great great young man as well. So they're out there
Tokyo and join the game, him and his wife and
then I'm at work. Today's wife, Holly Rodley Robinson p
let me the biggest baseball fan.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
She you want to know about Dodger fan. She's the
biggest baseball fan going.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
She's all in. She's always at the game. I've been.
She's all about it. Yeah, all in. So I'm at
working there, like you see your boy, Rodney. I like
what you were talking about. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I didn't see it, and then they showed me and
I'm crying, laughing if you didn't see it. Ball's heading
out in the stands. Max Mountzy's chasing it. It's a
foul it's a foul ball, and it looks like maxic
can make a play on it, but he whiffs. You
know who didn't with Rob Rodney p catched that thing smoothly,
didn Heck.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He catches the all And of course everybody right right
away goes, oh, he's a Bartman, Steve Bartman in Chicago
with a Steve Bartman reached he was over the the
railing right and and caught the ball from one of
the Cubs players. Rodney Pete was in the stands and
Max Mounsey reached into the stands.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
That is Rodney's ball in the stand and you're right,
and Max Monsey he whiffed, He missed the ball. Even
if Rodney didn't get it, Max Monty wasn't und if
you miss if you've seen it, Max had a shot
at it.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
He missed, and he tried to be mad. But even himself,
I'm sure he's like if he watched that video, I'm.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
No way you could be mad at Rodney Pete. He
was in his within his right. He didn't reach, he
didn't jump over people. He literally was like, he didn't.
He didn't knock money Max Mounsey's glove out the way
or something like that. Like if he like knocked his
glove out of the way, then people would have an.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Issue with it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That thing was so smooth. He had to say, nephew
after that, you know how uncle's hack.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Wass up?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Nephews just smooth with it. He just caught that, like, nephew,
you see I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Holly. She was so like, oh wow, he won. Shout
out to Holly and he won. He's like, baby, don't
be forgetting. I do what I do when I do
what I do, Like, you're right.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
She's been defending him so people on you know, on
social media, even though he didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
It doesn't need to be defended. She's been defend She
has been let me tell you something you want to
ride or die. Woman in your life.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
She has.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's what the wife is. From the wee hours or
the late hours. I don't know what it was in Tokyo, Japan.
All I know is she was going crazy on social media.
Oh man, look at leave it for this guy. This dude,
this clown brought a glove to the game, by the way,
caught it with a glove super clean. Let me we
we did forget that if you hadn't seen it.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
And then the other thing too, is we should say this.
I did think right away. My first thought was Rodney
pe packed the glove to Japan. We all thought, Rodney, Rodney,
you brought a you brought a glove to Japan.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I thought Rodney P. Junior hooked him up, like here
go dad. And then what it was?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
They laid him out because like us and we don't,
you know, we have the netting.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And it was and she said it, she said, those
balls were flying, they were flying at us.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And so they give you.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
On your seat people, they are and loves a hat
at the seat just when you sit down.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You know. I used to go to a game sometimes
in the NBA game as a t shirt. You can't
take them with you. But you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I probably in Japan, I probably would have slipped the
glove out of the stadium.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I'm just saying it would have been That's why you
didn't get burnt. It stuck to me, the glove, and
I just happened to take wear it off.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
That's right, there you go. That's why you ain't got
no kids around here. I'm sorry Roger. He got me
Robby see.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
What about six months he brought me down a Scott.
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