July 7, 2025 • 24 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether it's fair to say that Patrick Mahomes is the reason the Kansas City Chiefs are no longer a 'fun' team anymore, argue whether Joey Chestnut or Usain Bolt is more likely to win the mythical hot-dog-and-100m race, and explain why they had no issue whatsoever with Clayton Kershaw getting a special Commissioner's exemption for the upcoming MLB All-Star Game.
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Patrick Mahomes didn't sound like Kermit. It's not even a
it's not even.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
A everybody says that I do. I don't think I do.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
He had an exclusive sit down with FanDuel TVs Up
and Adam with k Adams earlier on Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And dropped everybody and yeah, exactly and during the.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Conversation, stop it, rob rob let talk see during I
can still.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Hear you the conversation, uh Kay asked him, Hey, you
guys come off a disappointing finish the last year, you
get blown out of the Super Bowl. What's gonna be
the keys to you guys getting back here? You couldn't
use those words this next season. Here's Patrick had a
boo boo.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
In the Super Bowl. You guys gonna be all right?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
What is one specific key to success for your Chiefs
this year.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
I think it's just us having fun again. I mean,
I mean, it's it's always been fun playing on the
Kansas City Chiefs and that's what makes it special. And
I feel like last year, I don't want to say
it was pressure, but guys wanted to go out there
and win every single week, and not for the fun
of the game, just because we're supposed to. Let's go
out there and have fun. I mean, the wins will
come if we play the way that we're We know
we can play. We have the talent that we have,
the coaches, we work harder than anybody in the NFL.
(01:34):
So let's go out there and have fun and let
the results handle themselves.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Sounds nice, But I got news for Patrick Mahomes and
all the Chiefs fans.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
What's that.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Patrick isn't fun anymore. The style of quarterback that he
was when he burst onto the scene, throwing the ball
all over the yard and making these plays and all that,
we haven't seen that for a few years now. Let's
be honest, Kelvin, we haven't dnking dunk dinking dunk, dinking
dumk dinking dump.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
That's Patrick Mahomes's new song.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
My old radio partner, you know him, Chris Bussard, Yes,
you don't like it.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Chris Bussar went out here, stuck his chest out.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You know.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
This was after a dye job, and he came up
and he.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Said, I catch it straight at home right now studying scriptures.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
God don't like.
Speaker 9 (02:34):
With this.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Mean I'm going back in. I know, yes, I am
going back in. I'm like Chris came out, you know,
was like, hey, Jordan Esk, Hey, Jordan Esk.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I don't think he's saying that anymore.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
But I'm just gonna say this to Chris and all
the other Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
People out there. You're right, he is Jordanesque.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Only problem is he the Washington Wizards, Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's that guy.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Now, come on, man, every you know why it wasn't
fun cause you shouldn't have won half the games you
won cause you got lucky or something with your way
or the official call to got you a call. That's
why it wasn't fun. There were no blowouts, there were
no like when you were like, oh man, they don't
want it tonight. Look at that they're putting a whooping
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on on some team like that. That just isn't what
the Kansas City Chiefs have amounted to of late. You
could go ahead of hell. It's just about wins or
losses and all that stuff. We got accustomed to watching
this guy at the highest level and he ain't playing
like that.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
We talked about it before.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
If you want to say Aaron Rodgers was stinky last
year with the Jets, say it, but he had the
same status as Patrick Mahomes. Those are facts, those aren't feelings.
So if Aaron Rodgers was awful, so was Patrick Mahomes.
If you're saying Patrick was fine and great and they
won fifteen games and it doesn't matter about the stats,
that's what Aaron Rodgers did, the same exact thing. So
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if he's Michael Jordan, yes, not in the Bulls days
when they were winning the six championships, but the Washington
woodsards day when they didn't even make the playoffs, I'm itching.
I'm almost ready to say that they're not even gonna
make the playoffs this year. I'm close, not yet, but
I'm close.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Size ten. I was ready. I was ready. I'll take that, sir,
take that for data. I'll take that bet.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
All right take that for data.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
First off, First off, pump your breaks a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, I'm talking pumpy, maybe not full anti lock, but
pump your breaks because Jordan's.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Just like the kid did on your card. Those are
the breaks.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Why would you bring it up?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I almost dived on you right then and there I
saw ridy soon too soon. Now, Michael Jordan comparisons, I'm
okay with, but I think you went too far with
the Wizards. I will give you the last bit of
Jordan where Jordan no longer was sticking the tongue, got
flying through the air. Jordan was mid ranging you to death.
Jordan was getting the shot I need up faking you
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to death. Kobe Bryant still can get a bucket, but
it ain't as dynamic. Not Afro number eight. Kobe Bryant
mid ranging you, footworking you and finding ways to win.
Sometimes it's dumping it down the pile. Sometimes it was
getting you know, getting the pipping and moving the ball,
Steve currying. The three point being it can't always look
like that, It can't always be dynamic at times. So yes,
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they absolutely hadn't been as exciting as fun to watch
the last couple of seasons without a doubt one thing.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'll cut them some slack.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They did have some injuries to the receiver corps, which
and running backs, which was key because obviously that's what
you need, you need offensive weapons. So they were out
without them for quite some time. But rob we've seen
this before were the Patriots with Tom Brady had become
kind of denk and dunk de incon Dunkin and Tom
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Brady went to the Bucks and all of a sudden
he became explosive again, throwing up bunch of receivers and
throwing it drunk again. And so my point is this
can change as they get guys back healthy, as they
realize we need a new offensive scheme, we needed to
mix some things up, and I believe they have that
opportunity to do that. But part of why we've seen
not the most fun version of them is because they're
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getting the best of everybody every night. Every night somebody
goes they weren't doing.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That in the first four years.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
People then know that they were great and weren't getting
their best.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm glad you asked a couple of things. Number One,
you had Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill is most one of
the most if not the most explosive receivers as far
as explosion, without a doubt. You had at that point
six seven years ago, a younger Kelsey. So things have
changed and now they've had to readjust. And while you're
in the middle of readjusting, the goal is to win.
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Right when you're younger, it can look pretty and get wins.
When you're just trying to survive, you just trying to
get a win. So now they know Travis Kelce is
no longer going to be Travis Kelce of OT. He
might be a little better. He's lost a little way
apparently Patrick Mahomes and got a haircut.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I hope it ain't Sampson. I hope that'll mess him up.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But you realize we gotta change things up, and a
part of that is just win, baby, win. And they
were able to do that to the two to fifteen
to two into the tune of a super Bowl. But
I'm not going to go as far as to call him.
I get what you're saying. The Wizards version. I think
it's the latter portion of Jordan where we just got
to find a way to get this dubbed.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Let me give you this, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
The last two seasons, Mahomes numbers, Oh, I know him
have fallen off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you ready?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
On average, he's down seven hundred yards and twelve touchdowns
a year, seven hundred yards and twelve touchdowns from his
heyday yep, when he was lighting the league on fire.
And his interceptions are up by three per year like,
so this is a different Patrick Mahomes. I'm not fudging
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the numbers. I'm not hating. These are facts. Go look
him up for yourself.
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Speaker 5 (08:52):
Somebody put out a tweet saying if there was a
contest where you had to eat a hot dog and
then run one hundred meters, who would win Joey Chestnut
or Usain Bolt. Now, the guy who put out the
question also put the caveat saying the answer is obvious. Apparently,
based on the comments in the quote tweets, the answer
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was far from obvious because it was pretty split. So, guys,
here's the question before I give you what the The
guy who prode the question said, who wins that race?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Joey Chestnut or who Stain Bolt.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
This is the first time I can say it's easy.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's easy. It's easy.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, he does not, Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
First of all, pause this whole conversation because of where
it has to go. Okay, just pause in advance. But
you are underestimating all of you who think it would
be yousaning how fast Joey Chestnut can swallow the hot dog.
That's why I told you just pause all that in advance, because.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
The dude doesn't.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And you did the match, rob Ge, how fast like
five and a half six seconds not six seconds?
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah yeah, but it's still not that's not going to
give him a big enough lead in order to be
you say, I think you saying ball.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's gonna take him fifteen second, which is that's a
long which is great. Second he might swallow it.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
He's not.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Rob Nobody does that. It's not natural. And what it
would take the water, the water to Bun. He don't
want to water You and I both said, oh water, Bun,
that's beyond I.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Can't watch up. What are you doing with watering down
the barn? So gross?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No condiments, no red onions.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So Dement's real quick in that I could eat a
hot dog.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I've once had twelve hot dogs when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And it took you twenty five minutes, thirty minute, hour,
two hours.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
That's my point.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's your twelve hot dogs is Joey in a minute
and a half. Literally, Rob g he does nine hot
dogs a minute, right brou at.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
His peak, Yes, he does nine hot dogs a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Okay, So okay, So Joey's chest up for me. You
gouys that you know. But here's the difference.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
It's an eat dog, a hot dog eating contest, so
he wouldn't have to couldn't dip it in water, he'd
have to just eat it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
No, it's he's presenting it as the normal.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, the same rules.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Yeah, I'm still taking you same ball. I think that
he swallows the hot dog and then he beats him.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No, you are underestimating how long and then you gotta
go a like show that there's nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
In there, Alex.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Easy Hussein's swallowing that so fast. Yes, once he just
put it over the home. Once he knows that this
is what I gotta do. He's not gonna eat it
regular and take a minute to eat a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
The same ball is going to be throwing up on
the floor because he's gonna try to do it and
he's not working.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
I love, So let's break this down. Because I at
first said, oh, it's got to be you saying both.
But then I realized how long would it take the
average untrained person like all of us to eat a
hot dog, even if we tried to eat it quickly?
I say, fifteen seconds? Minimum, probably as much as twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And now that's what I said, what I said, and
that's a ten second head start. He's halfway down there,
and I think he wins by about two seconds doing
I ain't gonna use I ain't gonna catch him. He's gonna
hawk him down.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Seen.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
What's that guy that runs in the ballpark and they
give the fans the head.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Start the sausage, don't the dude racist?
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And yeah this, but they have to do.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
This guy runs them down like only a couple of
times I've ever saw that guy lose.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
It's unbelievab Robbi.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I feel like as much as you're saying that we
are down playing Joey Chestster's ability to swallow.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
That's just the whole conversationybody.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
As much as you're saying that, I think you're overestimating
his ability to cover one hundred meets.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, yeah, now I'm not.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
I'm not praying that he gets hurting, but I'm willing
to bet that if I do a side bed Papa achilles,
Papa hamstring sprain, to ankles sprain until one of those
is happening before the thirty yard mark.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Dog, have you seen Joey Chestnut, he ain't no track star.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Because if he snservatively, Joey Chestnut covers one hundred meters
in like sixteen seconds. Okay, so he has to have
a minimum of six second lead. He's gonna have a
ten second minimum minimum. He's gonna have a ten second
lead because you saying ball is not eating that that fast.
He's gonna eat it in fifteen to twenty seconds, and
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Joey chessn's gonna win and do the thunderclap like in Jamaica.
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Speaker 5 (13:33):
MLB All Star Game rosters are officially out last week.
We had the starters. Now over the weekend the reserves
are out as well. And one name that kind of
raised some eyebrows with his inclusion was Clayton Kershaw. Now,
obviously he had that three thousand strikeout performance over the weekend.
Prob believe on Thursday after Thursday night that happened, and
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the reason why it was surprising is he was not
voting in by the fans. He was not voted in
by the players, he was not voted in by the media. Instead,
he received a special commissioners selection. It's only the third
time in MLB history that has happened. The other two
took place in actually the same year twenty twenty two,
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when Rob Manfred allowed Albert Poohols and Miguel Carbrera to
both get into the All Star Game. He's doing the
same again this year for Clayton Kershaw and Clayton had
some thoughts on it earlier today.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Take a listen everything that encompasses to get to go
to an All Star Game and get to be around that.
I get to take my family and I'll never pass
up that opportunity. So it's a tremendous honor super thankful
to get to go. And you know, regardless of the
situation or how I maybe snuck into the All Star Game,
it's pretty cool to get to be able to go.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He's snuck, all right, and guess what, I'm alright with
it all you guys.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Always taking news.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Rob Parkin man negative, he's the old guy punching at
the cloud.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Traditional list. He never wants to do anything outside the box. Bravo.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Rob Manford Bravo, Major League Baseball, Bravo. This isn't some
broken down pitcher, right who didn't do anything this year
and you're just giving him another Not everybody gets a
special exemption. You know what the other two guys that
they did is for both are going in.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The Hall of Fame.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
CLAYT.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Kirkshaw's going in the Hall of Fame. You know what
he did this year, like a week ago, last.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Week, something only nineteen other people have done.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Right, Only twenty pitchers in the history of baseball now
have struck out three thousand or more batters, and Clayton
Kershaw's won. Only four left handers have done it even
a smaller group.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
And if you want to take this guy and celebrate
him at the All Star Game when everybody and Baseball
America will be watching, right, this is your time to shine.
This is what an All Star Game is supposed to be.
I'm cool with it. I have no issues. It wasn't
like Klay Kursher didn't do anything specially, he's broken down,
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picture and he's about to retire. No, they don't do
this for everybody. These are only exemptions, right for Hall
love Fame bound players. This is on part with what
they've done with Polhos and what they did with Caberra.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I have no problem with it because of a key
couple of things. Number One, you just mentioned it. I
love the scarcity. I love that they don't do it
every time. They don't do this every year. It doesn't
get boring, It isn't taken away from another guy spout
all the time. Three years they've done this, twenty twenty
two and this year for three guys that any single
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person is going first Battle of Hall of Famer in
there we go. And so I have no problem in it.
When it's that rare, when it's that special, when it's
that unique. Also why I don't have a problem with it,
because one thing baseball does, and they did it to
fault for years, in my opinion, was they were all
about ghost Everything was about Mickey Mantle and Williams and
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and they and they too much when it was like, yo,
what about some young guys doing it now? And now
I think they've got a good balance of honoring the past,
honoring the the current, and honoring the Clinton Kershaw's where
he's current, but he's gonna be one of those guys
who was the best of a generation, and they're taking
care of that. So I like that Baseball has found
a great median of honoring the young guys.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Rich history, but they honor their history.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So they're not gonna they're not gonna turn this down
in Baseball's All Star Game, truly like the it is
a fan experience and where they honor it's all about
the guys. And they have multiple they do multiple different things.
You know, they'll do the best of each franchise, the
four best from each franchise.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
They'll do this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
They'll pay an old guy with a new guy for
the photo op and like they're good at that and
want to.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Dad pitch to a to a.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I mean like like those are some great moment, yes,
and so they mastered that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So to me, Clayton Kershaw is universally respected, universally agreed
that he's one of the best of the best of
his eraror his generation, this generation. And so to me,
honoring that guy, I don't have a problem with it.
If Steph Curry in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No, I'm sorry, did I say that, Robgie?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I pushed it too far. I did a Dodger and
Steph Curry we were good. You almost open your mouth.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
We were good until you just threw out why you
gotta throw all Steph Curry.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Because I was gonna say Lebron and you would have
said no too. No, you might have gave it to
Lebron though.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
All right, But but you know what, I'm not the
negative Nelly in the room.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's Rob g Robgi is a low key negative Nelly.
By the way, Yes you are, you well, but you
kind of you are a low key You're just loud.
So you always think I'm negative.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I'm usually optimistic. And then I met Rob Parker and
you know what seems to be the way to do that. Yeah,
you've been negative Nelly the less since I've known you. Yeah,
So I'm not gonna have a big problem with it,
but I have a problem with it.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
What is this saying or problem you have?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
So it's it's twofold number one. This is an exhibition.
It doesn't really count. So the idea of a guy
being on an All Star team shouldn't be that big
of a deal, right, because it doesn't really matter in
the grass scheme of things. Here's the problem, though. The
idea of an All Star game is if you talk
to fans. It's not even about rewarding who's having the
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best season. It's I just want to see the stars
out there. I don't care if you guys talked Aboutjuansota
last hour, if Juan Soto had a terrible start. He
is one of the best players in baseball no matter what,
I want to see him out there, right. So if
the fans decided I don't really want to see Clayton
Kershe out there, he wasn't voted in. Why is it
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that Rob Manfred took it upon himself to say, you
know what, I'm gonna put him out there whether you
want him or not.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
If that was going to be the case, then I.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Don't need the other fourteen whatever or eighteen first time
ors that they have this year, because half of them,
unless you're a big baseball fan America doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Right.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
So that's number one. Number two, and this is probably
the biggest reason. If this was we knew definitively Clayton
Kershaw's final season, then sure like it's a going away present,
really doesn't impact anything.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Let's give him his flowers.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
What if he plays next years, what if he plays
the year after, He can play next year, is he
gonna be exempted?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No, he's not. What's the point of doing it? No,
because you don't know that, but you don't want to guess.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And then next year, say he has an injury or something,
and then and Rob G, here's the only reason why.
I hear your point about the fans and all that.
But here's the difference. He just broke the record.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
I'm not broken.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Just join the three thousand strikeout club, do you know
what I mean? So that gives you a platform to
give him his flowers on that stage. Clayton Kershaw the
twentieth pitcher in the history of baseball to get three
thousand strikeouts. It doesn't happen every day. It's in the
case right now where a lot of people say, we
might not even see another.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Picture, do it? G Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And add to that, Rob G, so you have your
tie in. You say why is irrelevant? I'll tell you
why it's relevant. He just got the three thousand, Marcus.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Rob stated.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Also, his team is the current reigning World Series champ.
So it's not as if, again he's been on a
terrible team for ten years. Nobody's talked about it, hadn't
thought about him. He just won, his team just won
a World Series, and he just threw for three thousand yards.
And I and what makes that important? Three thousand striking,
three thousand strikeouts, And what makes that important is Baseball
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more than any of the sport cares about his numbers.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
The numbers are that that's the difference between why people
don't have an issue with NFL players with the juice,
and Baseball is different because.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
The number numbers matter.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
The numbers are so revered, right, and.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
People allow around.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And so he just did something remarkable, three thousand strikeouts.
His team's a World Series champ. And I don't know
this to be true, but it wouldn't shock me if
this is his last year, you know, just because that's
probably what base I think they got an inkling, you know,
maybe talk to some agents and you know, but it
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just wouldn't make sense. And so to me, I have
no problem if you told me they've done it three
times for those three guys, three Hall of Famers, a
guy who just threw three thousand strikeouts, a guy who
is currently a World Series champ, I have no problem
with it. And you just mentioned something else. Half the
players we won't know. Everybody know Clinton Kershaw.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Everybody, everybody, everybody, here's the problem, everybody.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
The last guy, or one of the last guys to
get the three thousand strikeouts was Justin Verlander? Right, Why
didn't they do that for him? He's not retired yet,
neither is Clayton Kershaw. No, Justin Verlander's forty two. He's
been terrible now basically for two and a half season
because he's been dealing with injury.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
One. Justin Verlander was amazing? Is he Clayton?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You could argue he was better than Clayton because of
his postseason success.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Yeah, but Clayton's e l Ray is two point five one.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
He's Peyton Manning. Is Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady? What
is people gonna view paint Manning as a better quarterback?
I would, but not everybody. He was a better talent.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But the difference is this again? The reason you do
it this year?
Speaker 8 (23:12):
What did he just do last week?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
So why didn't they do that twenty twenty three? Why
didn't I do it for him? I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm gonna tell you the camera, put.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The radio, Michae, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Rob g it's easy.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
He was, what are you doing, shut up, let me cook.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's easy.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He was with the Houston trash Tros and they didn't
want the controversy. Oh that's a world series and they
didn't really win it, and that they want to just
keep silent, keep it moving. They got their title. We
know it was cheating. We all know what's going on.
People got wires on the chest, people banging on the
a on the trash cans like their bongos man. So
(23:57):
that's why Rob g they were like, let's just keep
this congratulations for you three thals and move on. That's
why you.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Just run into a really sticky situation moving forward. When
you start making special exemptions, it naturally shows favoritism to
certain guys. And I'm not saying Clay Kershaw isn't one
of those guys who deserves it, but now you gotta
have a hard line somewhere between guys who will deserve
it and guys who won't. And it's just again, if
he was retiring for sure this year, it's a different conversation.
(24:26):
But if he plays two three more years, then it
just looks awkward.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Tell him not to pitch with the Astros.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Tell me better retire. He would have been better hang
it up this year.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
If he hadn't pitched with the Astros. Justin Verlander might
have been honored, might heavy on the mic, though by
the way Kershaw's shoot is a given,
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Patrick Mahomes didn't sound like Kermit. It's not even a
it's not even.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
A everybody says that I do. I don't think I do.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
He had an exclusive sit down with FanDuel TVs Up
and Adam with k Adams earlier on Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And dropped everybody and yeah, exactly and during the.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Conversation, stop it, rob rob let talk see during I
can still.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Hear you the conversation, uh Kay asked him, Hey, you
guys come off a disappointing finish the last year, you
get blown out of the Super Bowl. What's gonna be
the keys to you guys getting back here? You couldn't
use those words this next season. Here's Patrick had a
boo boo.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
In the Super Bowl. You guys gonna be all right?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
What is one specific key to success for your Chiefs
this year.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
I think it's just us having fun again. I mean,
I mean, it's it's always been fun playing on the
Kansas City Chiefs and that's what makes it special. And
I feel like last year, I don't want to say
it was pressure, but guys wanted to go out there
and win every single week, and not for the fun
of the game, just because we're supposed to. Let's go
out there and have fun. I mean, the wins will
come if we play the way that we're We know
we can play. We have the talent that we have,
the coaches, we work harder than anybody in the NFL.
(01:34):
So let's go out there and have fun and let
the results handle themselves.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Sounds nice, But I got news for Patrick Mahomes and
all the Chiefs fans.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
What's that.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Patrick isn't fun anymore. The style of quarterback that he
was when he burst onto the scene, throwing the ball
all over the yard and making these plays and all that,
we haven't seen that for a few years now. Let's
be honest, Kelvin, we haven't dnking dunk dinking dunk, dinking
dumk dinking dump.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
That's Patrick Mahomes's new song.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
My old radio partner, you know him, Chris Bussard, Yes,
you don't like it.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Chris Bussar went out here, stuck his chest out.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You know.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
This was after a dye job, and he came up
and he.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Said, I catch it straight at home right now studying scriptures.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
God don't like.
Speaker 9 (02:34):
With this.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Mean I'm going back in. I know, yes, I am
going back in. I'm like Chris came out, you know,
was like, hey, Jordan Esk, Hey, Jordan Esk.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I don't think he's saying that anymore.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
But I'm just gonna say this to Chris and all
the other Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
People out there. You're right, he is Jordanesque.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Only problem is he the Washington Wizards, Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's that guy.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Now, come on, man, every you know why it wasn't
fun cause you shouldn't have won half the games you
won cause you got lucky or something with your way
or the official call to got you a call. That's
why it wasn't fun. There were no blowouts, there were
no like when you were like, oh man, they don't
want it tonight. Look at that they're putting a whooping
(03:26):
on on some team like that. That just isn't what
the Kansas City Chiefs have amounted to of late. You
could go ahead of hell. It's just about wins or
losses and all that stuff. We got accustomed to watching
this guy at the highest level and he ain't playing
like that.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
We talked about it before.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
If you want to say Aaron Rodgers was stinky last
year with the Jets, say it, but he had the
same status as Patrick Mahomes. Those are facts, those aren't feelings.
So if Aaron Rodgers was awful, so was Patrick Mahomes.
If you're saying Patrick was fine and great and they
won fifteen games and it doesn't matter about the stats,
that's what Aaron Rodgers did, the same exact thing. So
(04:10):
if he's Michael Jordan, yes, not in the Bulls days
when they were winning the six championships, but the Washington
woodsards day when they didn't even make the playoffs, I'm itching.
I'm almost ready to say that they're not even gonna
make the playoffs this year. I'm close, not yet, but
I'm close.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Size ten. I was ready. I was ready. I'll take that, sir,
take that for data. I'll take that bet.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
All right take that for data.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
First off, First off, pump your breaks a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, I'm talking pumpy, maybe not full anti lock, but
pump your breaks because Jordan's.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Just like the kid did on your card. Those are
the breaks.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Why would you bring it up?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I almost dived on you right then and there I
saw ridy soon too soon. Now, Michael Jordan comparisons, I'm
okay with, but I think you went too far with
the Wizards. I will give you the last bit of
Jordan where Jordan no longer was sticking the tongue, got
flying through the air. Jordan was mid ranging you to death.
Jordan was getting the shot I need up faking you
(05:12):
to death. Kobe Bryant still can get a bucket, but
it ain't as dynamic. Not Afro number eight. Kobe Bryant
mid ranging you, footworking you and finding ways to win.
Sometimes it's dumping it down the pile. Sometimes it was
getting you know, getting the pipping and moving the ball,
Steve currying. The three point being it can't always look
like that, It can't always be dynamic at times. So yes,
(05:33):
they absolutely hadn't been as exciting as fun to watch
the last couple of seasons without a doubt one thing.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'll cut them some slack.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They did have some injuries to the receiver corps, which
and running backs, which was key because obviously that's what
you need, you need offensive weapons. So they were out
without them for quite some time. But rob we've seen
this before were the Patriots with Tom Brady had become
kind of denk and dunk de incon Dunkin and Tom
(06:01):
Brady went to the Bucks and all of a sudden
he became explosive again, throwing up bunch of receivers and
throwing it drunk again. And so my point is this
can change as they get guys back healthy, as they
realize we need a new offensive scheme, we needed to
mix some things up, and I believe they have that
opportunity to do that. But part of why we've seen
not the most fun version of them is because they're
(06:22):
getting the best of everybody every night. Every night somebody
goes they weren't doing.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That in the first four years.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
People then know that they were great and weren't getting
their best.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm glad you asked a couple of things. Number One,
you had Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill is most one of
the most if not the most explosive receivers as far
as explosion, without a doubt. You had at that point
six seven years ago, a younger Kelsey. So things have
changed and now they've had to readjust. And while you're
in the middle of readjusting, the goal is to win.
(06:54):
Right when you're younger, it can look pretty and get wins.
When you're just trying to survive, you just trying to
get a win. So now they know Travis Kelce is
no longer going to be Travis Kelce of OT. He
might be a little better. He's lost a little way
apparently Patrick Mahomes and got a haircut.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I hope it ain't Sampson. I hope that'll mess him up.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But you realize we gotta change things up, and a
part of that is just win, baby, win. And they
were able to do that to the two to fifteen
to two into the tune of a super Bowl. But
I'm not going to go as far as to call him.
I get what you're saying. The Wizards version. I think
it's the latter portion of Jordan where we just got
to find a way to get this dubbed.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Let me give you this, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
The last two seasons, Mahomes numbers, Oh, I know him
have fallen off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you ready?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
On average, he's down seven hundred yards and twelve touchdowns
a year, seven hundred yards and twelve touchdowns from his
heyday yep, when he was lighting the league on fire.
And his interceptions are up by three per year like,
so this is a different Patrick Mahomes. I'm not fudging
(07:54):
the numbers. I'm not hating. These are facts. Go look
him up for yourself.
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Speaker 5 (08:52):
Somebody put out a tweet saying if there was a
contest where you had to eat a hot dog and
then run one hundred meters, who would win Joey Chestnut
or Usain Bolt. Now, the guy who put out the
question also put the caveat saying the answer is obvious. Apparently,
based on the comments in the quote tweets, the answer
(09:12):
was far from obvious because it was pretty split. So, guys,
here's the question before I give you what the The
guy who prode the question said, who wins that race?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Joey Chestnut or who Stain Bolt.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
This is the first time I can say it's easy.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's easy. It's easy.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, he does not, Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
First of all, pause this whole conversation because of where
it has to go. Okay, just pause in advance. But
you are underestimating all of you who think it would
be yousaning how fast Joey Chestnut can swallow the hot dog.
That's why I told you just pause all that in advance, because.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
The dude doesn't.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And you did the match, rob Ge, how fast like
five and a half six seconds not six seconds?
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah yeah, but it's still not that's not going to
give him a big enough lead in order to be
you say, I think you saying ball.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's gonna take him fifteen second, which is that's a
long which is great. Second he might swallow it.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
He's not.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Rob Nobody does that. It's not natural. And what it
would take the water, the water to Bun. He don't
want to water You and I both said, oh water, Bun,
that's beyond I.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Can't watch up. What are you doing with watering down
the barn? So gross?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No condiments, no red onions.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So Dement's real quick in that I could eat a
hot dog.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I've once had twelve hot dogs when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And it took you twenty five minutes, thirty minute, hour,
two hours.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
That's my point.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's your twelve hot dogs is Joey in a minute
and a half. Literally, Rob g he does nine hot
dogs a minute, right brou at.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
His peak, Yes, he does nine hot dogs a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Okay, So okay, So Joey's chest up for me. You
gouys that you know. But here's the difference.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
It's an eat dog, a hot dog eating contest, so
he wouldn't have to couldn't dip it in water, he'd
have to just eat it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
No, it's he's presenting it as the normal.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, the same rules.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Yeah, I'm still taking you same ball. I think that
he swallows the hot dog and then he beats him.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No, you are underestimating how long and then you gotta
go a like show that there's nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
In there, Alex.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Easy Hussein's swallowing that so fast. Yes, once he just
put it over the home. Once he knows that this
is what I gotta do. He's not gonna eat it
regular and take a minute to eat a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
The same ball is going to be throwing up on
the floor because he's gonna try to do it and
he's not working.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
I love, So let's break this down. Because I at
first said, oh, it's got to be you saying both.
But then I realized how long would it take the
average untrained person like all of us to eat a
hot dog, even if we tried to eat it quickly?
I say, fifteen seconds? Minimum, probably as much as twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And now that's what I said, what I said, and
that's a ten second head start. He's halfway down there,
and I think he wins by about two seconds doing
I ain't gonna use I ain't gonna catch him. He's gonna
hawk him down.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Seen.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
What's that guy that runs in the ballpark and they
give the fans the head.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Start the sausage, don't the dude racist?
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And yeah this, but they have to do.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
This guy runs them down like only a couple of
times I've ever saw that guy lose.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
It's unbelievab Robbi.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I feel like as much as you're saying that we
are down playing Joey Chestster's ability to swallow.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
That's just the whole conversationybody.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
As much as you're saying that, I think you're overestimating
his ability to cover one hundred meets.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, yeah, now I'm not.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
I'm not praying that he gets hurting, but I'm willing
to bet that if I do a side bed Papa achilles,
Papa hamstring sprain, to ankles sprain until one of those
is happening before the thirty yard mark.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Dog, have you seen Joey Chestnut, he ain't no track star.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Because if he snservatively, Joey Chestnut covers one hundred meters
in like sixteen seconds. Okay, so he has to have
a minimum of six second lead. He's gonna have a
ten second minimum minimum. He's gonna have a ten second
lead because you saying ball is not eating that that fast.
He's gonna eat it in fifteen to twenty seconds, and
(13:18):
Joey chessn's gonna win and do the thunderclap like in Jamaica.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
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Speaker 5 (13:33):
MLB All Star Game rosters are officially out last week.
We had the starters. Now over the weekend the reserves
are out as well. And one name that kind of
raised some eyebrows with his inclusion was Clayton Kershaw. Now,
obviously he had that three thousand strikeout performance over the weekend.
Prob believe on Thursday after Thursday night that happened, and
(13:56):
the reason why it was surprising is he was not
voting in by the fans. He was not voted in
by the players, he was not voted in by the media. Instead,
he received a special commissioners selection. It's only the third
time in MLB history that has happened. The other two
took place in actually the same year twenty twenty two,
(14:18):
when Rob Manfred allowed Albert Poohols and Miguel Carbrera to
both get into the All Star Game. He's doing the
same again this year for Clayton Kershaw and Clayton had
some thoughts on it earlier today.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Take a listen everything that encompasses to get to go
to an All Star Game and get to be around that.
I get to take my family and I'll never pass
up that opportunity. So it's a tremendous honor super thankful
to get to go. And you know, regardless of the
situation or how I maybe snuck into the All Star Game,
it's pretty cool to get to be able to go.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He's snuck, all right, and guess what, I'm alright with
it all you guys.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Always taking news.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Rob Parkin man negative, he's the old guy punching at
the cloud.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Traditional list. He never wants to do anything outside the box. Bravo.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Rob Manford Bravo, Major League Baseball, Bravo. This isn't some
broken down pitcher, right who didn't do anything this year
and you're just giving him another Not everybody gets a
special exemption. You know what the other two guys that
they did is for both are going in.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The Hall of Fame.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
CLAYT.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Kirkshaw's going in the Hall of Fame. You know what
he did this year, like a week ago, last.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Week, something only nineteen other people have done.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Right, Only twenty pitchers in the history of baseball now
have struck out three thousand or more batters, and Clayton
Kershaw's won. Only four left handers have done it even
a smaller group.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
And if you want to take this guy and celebrate
him at the All Star Game when everybody and Baseball
America will be watching, right, this is your time to shine.
This is what an All Star Game is supposed to be.
I'm cool with it. I have no issues. It wasn't
like Klay Kursher didn't do anything specially, he's broken down,
(16:06):
picture and he's about to retire. No, they don't do
this for everybody. These are only exemptions, right for Hall
love Fame bound players. This is on part with what
they've done with Polhos and what they did with Caberra.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I have no problem with it because of a key
couple of things. Number One, you just mentioned it. I
love the scarcity. I love that they don't do it
every time. They don't do this every year. It doesn't
get boring, It isn't taken away from another guy spout
all the time. Three years they've done this, twenty twenty
two and this year for three guys that any single
(16:42):
person is going first Battle of Hall of Famer in
there we go. And so I have no problem in it.
When it's that rare, when it's that special, when it's
that unique. Also why I don't have a problem with it,
because one thing baseball does, and they did it to
fault for years, in my opinion, was they were all
about ghost Everything was about Mickey Mantle and Williams and
(17:02):
and they and they too much when it was like, yo,
what about some young guys doing it now? And now
I think they've got a good balance of honoring the past,
honoring the the current, and honoring the Clinton Kershaw's where
he's current, but he's gonna be one of those guys
who was the best of a generation, and they're taking
care of that. So I like that Baseball has found
a great median of honoring the young guys.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Rich history, but they honor their history.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So they're not gonna they're not gonna turn this down
in Baseball's All Star Game, truly like the it is
a fan experience and where they honor it's all about
the guys. And they have multiple they do multiple different things.
You know, they'll do the best of each franchise, the
four best from each franchise.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
They'll do this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
They'll pay an old guy with a new guy for
the photo op and like they're good at that and
want to.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Dad pitch to a to a.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I mean like like those are some great moment, yes,
and so they mastered that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So to me, Clayton Kershaw is universally respected, universally agreed
that he's one of the best of the best of
his eraror his generation, this generation. And so to me,
honoring that guy, I don't have a problem with it.
If Steph Curry in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No, I'm sorry, did I say that, Robgie?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I pushed it too far. I did a Dodger and
Steph Curry we were good. You almost open your mouth.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
We were good until you just threw out why you
gotta throw all Steph Curry.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Because I was gonna say Lebron and you would have
said no too. No, you might have gave it to
Lebron though.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
All right, But but you know what, I'm not the
negative Nelly in the room.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's Rob g Robgi is a low key negative Nelly.
By the way, Yes you are, you well, but you
kind of you are a low key You're just loud.
So you always think I'm negative.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I'm usually optimistic. And then I met Rob Parker and
you know what seems to be the way to do that. Yeah,
you've been negative Nelly the less since I've known you. Yeah,
So I'm not gonna have a big problem with it,
but I have a problem with it.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
What is this saying or problem you have?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
So it's it's twofold number one. This is an exhibition.
It doesn't really count. So the idea of a guy
being on an All Star team shouldn't be that big
of a deal, right, because it doesn't really matter in
the grass scheme of things. Here's the problem, though. The
idea of an All Star game is if you talk
to fans. It's not even about rewarding who's having the
(19:14):
best season. It's I just want to see the stars
out there. I don't care if you guys talked Aboutjuansota
last hour, if Juan Soto had a terrible start. He
is one of the best players in baseball no matter what,
I want to see him out there, right. So if
the fans decided I don't really want to see Clayton
Kershe out there, he wasn't voted in. Why is it
(19:37):
that Rob Manfred took it upon himself to say, you
know what, I'm gonna put him out there whether you
want him or not.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
If that was going to be the case, then I.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Don't need the other fourteen whatever or eighteen first time
ors that they have this year, because half of them,
unless you're a big baseball fan America doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Right.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
So that's number one. Number two, and this is probably
the biggest reason. If this was we knew definitively Clayton
Kershaw's final season, then sure like it's a going away present,
really doesn't impact anything.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Let's give him his flowers.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
What if he plays next years, what if he plays
the year after, He can play next year, is he
gonna be exempted?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No, he's not. What's the point of doing it? No,
because you don't know that, but you don't want to guess.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And then next year, say he has an injury or something,
and then and Rob G, here's the only reason why.
I hear your point about the fans and all that.
But here's the difference. He just broke the record.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
I'm not broken.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Just join the three thousand strikeout club, do you know
what I mean? So that gives you a platform to
give him his flowers on that stage. Clayton Kershaw the
twentieth pitcher in the history of baseball to get three
thousand strikeouts. It doesn't happen every day. It's in the
case right now where a lot of people say, we
might not even see another.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Picture, do it? G Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And add to that, Rob G, so you have your
tie in. You say why is irrelevant? I'll tell you
why it's relevant. He just got the three thousand, Marcus.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Rob stated.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Also, his team is the current reigning World Series champ.
So it's not as if, again he's been on a
terrible team for ten years. Nobody's talked about it, hadn't
thought about him. He just won, his team just won
a World Series, and he just threw for three thousand yards.
And I and what makes that important? Three thousand striking,
three thousand strikeouts, And what makes that important is Baseball
(21:25):
more than any of the sport cares about his numbers.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
The numbers are that that's the difference between why people
don't have an issue with NFL players with the juice,
and Baseball is different because.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
The number numbers matter.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
The numbers are so revered, right, and.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
People allow around.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And so he just did something remarkable, three thousand strikeouts.
His team's a World Series champ. And I don't know
this to be true, but it wouldn't shock me if
this is his last year, you know, just because that's
probably what base I think they got an inkling, you know,
maybe talk to some agents and you know, but it
(22:05):
just wouldn't make sense. And so to me, I have
no problem if you told me they've done it three
times for those three guys, three Hall of Famers, a
guy who just threw three thousand strikeouts, a guy who
is currently a World Series champ, I have no problem
with it. And you just mentioned something else. Half the
players we won't know. Everybody know Clinton Kershaw.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Everybody, everybody, everybody, here's the problem, everybody.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
The last guy, or one of the last guys to
get the three thousand strikeouts was Justin Verlander? Right, Why
didn't they do that for him? He's not retired yet,
neither is Clayton Kershaw. No, Justin Verlander's forty two. He's
been terrible now basically for two and a half season
because he's been dealing with injury.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
One. Justin Verlander was amazing? Is he Clayton?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You could argue he was better than Clayton because of
his postseason success.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Yeah, but Clayton's e l Ray is two point five one.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
He's Peyton Manning. Is Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady? What
is people gonna view paint Manning as a better quarterback?
I would, but not everybody. He was a better talent.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But the difference is this again? The reason you do
it this year?
Speaker 8 (23:12):
What did he just do last week?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
So why didn't they do that twenty twenty three? Why
didn't I do it for him? I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm gonna tell you the camera, put.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The radio, Michae, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Rob g it's easy.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
He was, what are you doing, shut up, let me cook.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's easy.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He was with the Houston trash Tros and they didn't
want the controversy. Oh that's a world series and they
didn't really win it, and that they want to just
keep silent, keep it moving. They got their title. We
know it was cheating. We all know what's going on.
People got wires on the chest, people banging on the
a on the trash cans like their bongos man. So
(23:57):
that's why Rob g they were like, let's just keep
this congratulations for you three thals and move on. That's
why you.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Just run into a really sticky situation moving forward. When
you start making special exemptions, it naturally shows favoritism to
certain guys. And I'm not saying Clay Kershaw isn't one
of those guys who deserves it, but now you gotta
have a hard line somewhere between guys who will deserve
it and guys who won't. And it's just again, if
he was retiring for sure this year, it's a different conversation.
(24:26):
But if he plays two three more years, then it
just looks awkward.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Tell him not to pitch with the Astros.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Tell me better retire. He would have been better hang
it up this year.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
If he hadn't pitched with the Astros. Justin Verlander might
have been honored, might heavy on the mic, though by
the way Kershaw's shoot is a given,
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