September 16, 2025 • 31 mins
Former NFL All-Pro safety Kerry Rhodes is in for Kelvin, and he and Rob debate whether the time is now to jump off the CJ Stroud bandwagon in Houston. Plus, MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble swings by to help break down the biggest stories in baseball in this week’s edition of Foul or Fair.
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Uh so, plenty more to do in this final hour
on our first anniversary. But Rob G c J Stroud,
who people had, Oh yeah, wait a minute, we got
we got to Alex.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Has a trash I do and he are you trashing.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Somebody I've never heard of sitting to your left. Yeah,
I don't know who that is, but I'm trashing in.
CJ can take a seat real quick.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You hear him.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Elijah had the audacity of the goal, the admitigated ability
to stand in front of me and Rob G look
us in the face, and we said, Elijah, we know
you're the streets, you're by other people. You sit in
those big league Ivory chair meetings with the Bobs and
you know the ins and outs, and we ask him questions.
He looks us in our face and he literally says
to us, Yeah, I don't send those beans in with
them anymore. And I said, with y'all every day, but
(03:05):
basically got demoted. I'm here every day.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
He said, he's demoted and working with us, Rob I'd
say he got promoted. You want to say, with Bob's
all day and sit and talk about nothing and shackle
and shake stats sheets.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
You don't even know Elijah. I'm still haven't heard of you.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Wow, he loves set Lojah said, I got demoted.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm here. You believe that I'm here every day with
the outcome.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
They put baby in the corner. That's what they put him, Elijah.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
All right, there we go, Rob G. I'm glad somebody
said it. Wow. Uh No c J. Stroud.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Last night another disappointing loss for Houston. Baker Mayfield, who
you know, overcame a lot over the last three years
to go from being out of the league like I thought,
to being one of the best quarterbacks in football. Had
a game winning touchdown driving the final two minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
He was great.
Speaker 9 (03:59):
They came back and win on the road in Houston.
The big story though, here is in the last eight games.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
CJ.
Speaker 9 (04:05):
Stroud, who was everybody's favorite quarterback a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I mean, people had them going to the super Bowl
his second year.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
Their offense has scored twenty points or less in six
of their last eight.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Games, so they're really struggling.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
And after the game, Stroud told the Associated Press quote,
everybody's gonna talk crazy and say we suck and we're
this and that. At the end of the day, we
gotta stay together, be honest and have hard conversation. But
I think right now we need more confidence as an offense,
just confidently playing better together.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think that is the biggest thing. Oh oh, that
was a little breath. I'm just gonna say, I think
CJ is right. He and the Texas they do suck.
It's been bad and I get it. Injury, it's football injuries.
You gotta work through this kind of stuff. Okay, but
they were to catch me out after his first year,
(04:54):
Oh my god, Like people were like had them penciled
into the Super Bowl. Yes, after they brought on stuff
on date. Oh yeah, and then they added digs right,
oh my god, Well, how are you gonna stop them?
You couldn't stop him his first year. And again we
just talked about it with Jane Daniels. Yes, they get
tape on you. Things change like, oh, we didn't know
what to expect. We see it in baseball time, and
(05:16):
you notice carry you follow it. You come up to
the major leagues. First thing they do is they want
to make sure can you hit the fastball. They're gonna
throw you fastballs and see if you could even hit
that first Yes, okay. When you start to hit that,
then they mix in the breaking stuff and the curveballs,
and then you wind up going back to the minor.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Leagues because you can't hit that consistently.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes, And the same thing in the beginning, Jane dan
All these young guys come out on the scene and
not sure what they do, and they don't have enough
tape to figure it all out. Why do you think
Bill Belichick and Spygate and trying to figure out signals
and what people are doing. It makes a big difference
if you know what's coming. Okay, but it's been disappointing
(05:57):
c J. Stroud and the Texans. This off to an
zero and two start and here we go, like, I
don't know where this team is going home dinner, maybe
a show, but it don't look like they going to
the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, listen, Rob, this is the thing. The only thing
I'm worried about with c J.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Stroud right now is him falling victim to the David
Carr syndrome. And I say this in a way because
David Carr came in highly touted. I mean people thought
he could played. He's accurate, he can make completions cool.
He got sacked so many times that rookie year that
he became gunshot. He became a guy that was in
(06:34):
the pocket. He didn't trust his reeds, he didn't trust
his feet. He couldn't make the throws down the field anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
With c J.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Stroud, he's becoming that guy on tape right now. He's
so worried about the past rush and its offensive line
being terrible because they are right now they can't block
anybody that he is not stepping in his throws, having
the right mechanics. And so for me just looking at CJ. Stroud,
is he still that good quarterback or has that capabilit Yes,
(07:01):
But if he doesn't correct it right now or they
fix it, they getting an old line that can actually
protect him. He's heading down that path. And so the
Texans they got a good coach and Damico Ryans my
high school teammate, so I know he'll have those guys
ready to play. But right now, I'm just worried about CJ.
Stroud and him being falling victim to the David Carsondrome. Well,
let me give you some of these numbers, and they're
(07:21):
not pretty. Stroud's numbers are down across the board since
his Pro Bowl rookie season in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Ready, yea, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Passing yards per game have gone from two seventy three
to two nineteen to one ninety seven. His passer rating
has dropped from one hundred to eighty seven to eighty five,
and on the flip side, his sack percentage has jumped
up from seven to eight point nine to now ten
(07:50):
point five.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That's what you're talking about with the sacks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I know that they had last year injuries. We're
missing people, yes, but you come here as a game.
You needed to win that game yesterday, right, came out strong.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Right, you're at home.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You want to be one in one. You don't want
to be in a hole. I think, is this rob
g five years in the road that they're owing two?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
No, no, I saw something about them getting off to
bad stars Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Usually Cincinnati's on too. Now they started two and h
last year.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Yeah, okay, okay, they started out last year five and one.
Everybody's feeling real great? Is that one that they finished
and seven?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Wow? But if you.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Remember who was it through five interceptions against them from
the Lions?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Who golf golf through five interceptions and beat them? Do
you remember that? Yeah? They lost twenty six twenty three
in that game through.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Five and they won the lines won that game, yeah,
which is insane, insane.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Nice enough about the line that I didn't know what
he was talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm like, I know who right, what TV was talking about? No,
but they did.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I remember of that game very very vividly, because you don't.
You don't throw five interceptions and won a football game.
It's just almost impossible. Uh, but where they go? Where
are they? Who are they? I know that you're ye,
your teammate from high school? Yeah, Demico, Demico coach, Yep, yep, No,
he's go ahead. Yeah, but I'm just but I'm just saying,
where where are they? Because because they don't seem to
(09:21):
be the same as two years ago?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Right now? If you're on two, you're bad. So you're right.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
But I'm saying, I know if anybody can get this
ship right it Dimko is that guy and from c J.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Stroud.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I'm just worried about him because the protected him, because
if he's protected, he can still make the throw. He's
not a bad quarterback yet and he does not suck
yet Rob the Texans suck. Yeah, and he right away knew.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh, the narrative about us is gonna be Yeah, there
is a narrative.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yes, there is a narrative. And he's in the AFC South.
They're not out of it, so you got to think
about that as well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, but how good are And I get I get
that you can make the playoffs, but are you beating
anybody good?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Is my question to you?
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I don't feel like that and it wasn't that
long ago where people were really hot. Yeah, And and
football is like that, adjustments and growing pains and you
get knocked down, you got to come back. It's it's
it's it's not as easy as it looks. Oh, that's
the beautiful part about sports in general. Rob, Like, you
have to get knocked down.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You got to understand how how hard it is to
get to that that pinnacle, that that championship pedigree that
everybody's trying to you know, I guess reach for. It
just doesn't happen overnight. And you have some guys that
come in and have success right away, but it's not
always going to be that way. And so for guys
like CJ. Trial, it's it's this is the time for
(10:47):
them to actually talk about baseball, find their all speed pitch,
because you're not gonna beat everybody with fastballs.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And in the case of the Texans, I just I
just look at them and and that was par for
the course last night, Like really like I just knew,
like when the when the Bucks were driving all these yeah,
I felt like they were gonna win that game and
it was gonna be another heartbreaking kind of situation.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
For the Texans, who were the new hotness. I mean
they really were. I mean the buzz about them and
what they were doing with a young you know, new
coach and new quarterback and all these other pieces. People
are like and then they go out and and and
and add Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Well you know who that is.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Now?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know what team that is right now? What's that?
That's the Commander's that you're talking about right now. They
overachieved in year one, oh no doubt. And this year
I've already told people pumped the brakes on this year
already coming into the season. But the same thing you're
saying right now, like when you look at the I
know I'm jumping to the Commanders, but when you look
at their roster, who on that roster scares you?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Right? And you know you know what I mean, like nobody.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
But that that's why that's such a bad loss for
the Lions.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Seriously. Last year, Oh yeah, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Have home field, you go fifteen and two, you got
a rookie quarter They were nine and a half point
favorites coming into that game that even with their secondary
their defense banged up, Vegas still gave them that because
they thought they would be.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
An outscore still nine point favorites.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Note in a half point favorites, and that's what your
defense banged up.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
That tells you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
But they didn't know that Jared Golf, I don't know
was going to have four and four turnovers, said casual.
They didn't know that Jared Golf or Jared Tennis, I
would say, turned into Jared Tennis.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's funny.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Why are you burying the lead right now? Ron, because
Carrie just had a major breakthrough.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
At this moment. You heard that.
Speaker 9 (12:45):
What I say, what what he did was you went
full Rob Parker. You let us know across the national airwaves.
They carried on like black quarterbacks either all of a sudden.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
He loves it.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Rob loves them all, loves them all. Everybody else can go, well,
you don't like James Dales. I didn't.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
I like to CJ is fine. He's just not playing well.
He would say, he sucks, he's not playing well exactly.
He didn't even mention Jalen Hurts. So you know I
don't like James. Now we're going down the list, see
it should be together.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
That's gotta be racist. I don't like black quarterbacks. Rob
g I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go, put on my
dashiki and oh man right Hey.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
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And are you off the C. J. Stroud Bandwagon in Houston? Like,
are you off? You're not off it, I'm off.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Matter of fact, I jumped off the bandwagon, broke both
of my legs and I'm still happy.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
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up in about six seven minutes. Foul Affair with JL
Gamble from MLB bro dot Com. We were talking about
CJ Stroud and the Texas and basically, are you in
or out with CJ?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Are you off his bandwagon? He was very high.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
People were very high on him just a couple of
years ago and things have seemed to change.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Let's go to Andre in Massachusetts. You're on the Odd
Couple of Fox portraitio.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
What's up, Dray?
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Hey, Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Thanks for taking the car. Lit'ten No, I'm not off
the CJ. Stroud bandwagon. I have to give him another
year an opportunity to get it right, based on the
fact that he's had some changes right. They started last
season with the dominant wide receiver Corps Stefan Dicks, who's
come over here in New England to be with the Patriots,
was lighting the world on fire. Nico Collins with him.
They had it all going. They had the wide receiver,
they had a running back, they were it was trending
(17:01):
in the right direction, and then the injuries hit okay,
and this season was kind of Shanghai and not not
too different. Different injuries, but you know, to have the Bengals,
you know, are feelings. So this is a different year
for him. Now. Listen, it hasn't been what it was
to start. You know, where he was off it was gangbusters.
But I want to give him the opportunity to finish
the season and re get his footing. I don't see
(17:21):
it as that much different than a Baker Mayfield situation
where he bounced around, he found his home in Tampa Bay.
You know, he hit his stride and then you know,
it's just been it's been up from there. I'm not
saying that that's going to be the case with CJ. Stroud,
but I want to give him that benefit of the
doubt to get back on his feet before I hit
the panic button. So that's my take.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Thanks taking the call, all right, and appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The only thing that kills me and Rob g you
could jump in on this too, is when people look
at and everybody now.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Is going to be Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
No, there are guys who bounced around where it doesn't
work out in three spots and then they're out of
the league or whatever.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, everybody just because you move around. I'm not saying CJ.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Stroud's going anywhere, no quarterback, but you get My point
is it doesn't automatically mean that if you wait some
time or a couple of years past or whatever, that's
going to be righted or you're going.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
To get back there.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't know, and I'm not saying that he's not
going to be a good quarterback, but is he going
to get back to his rookie year or you know
what I mean? Like, I don't know that for sure.
Everything was right, Everything kind of worked. They didn't have
tape on them, film on them. Yet, you know, it
was a surprise. It's like the jade and Daniels. As
good as he was last year, I didn't think this
(18:35):
year he could repeat that.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
No, you know, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
And then there's the other thing.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
We talked about Baker Mayfield now because he's the hot
one right now, right he's doing really well in Tampa.
But I mean we can talk about I mean, we
just talked about the guy earlier, Geno Smith, who bounced,
you know, bounced around and found it, found the found
a second life. We saw Sam Donald do the same thing.
So it's not like you can't have that happen. But
right now C J. Stroud has to just, you know,
(19:01):
fine tune some things to get back on track.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Robert in Memphis, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, Robert? Hey?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
What's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How are you? Robert?
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I am great? Thank you for asking.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Man.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Love y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Thank you appreciate.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
Even though I love y'all. I got to get on
your Kelvin. I got to get on your man. It's
tad Cocke to let me get here real quick.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Man.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
All right, I'm from Memphis. I'm a Domphins fan, so
I ain't got no time to the New York Giants.
But I'm probably gonna call every week until you stop
saying Eli Mann and is not a Hall of Famer.
That man finished in the top ten of passing and
the top ten of touchdown with two Super bowls over
(19:43):
one undefeated team and the other one that gets the
same team which had the same goat on it. There
ain't no way you win two super Bowls in in
top ten and passing and touchdowns. It ain't in the
Hall of fame or not Hall of Fame worthy. I
should say, come on, Kelvin, I love you, man, but
you got to cut that out.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'll pass that message along to Kelvin when he's back.
Carry's not buying.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I was like, what I do? What did I do?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Carry likes? He like many he's the right show. That
is so chick. I want to know how I got
grouped in this.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Rob? Did you hang it out with Rob Parker? That's
what it is.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
You love Lamar Jackson and you immediately bashed Jaden Daniels.
He's just being honest and I didn't even get it.
Oh you know, Patrick Mahomes ain't been good for three seasons.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Say that.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
You may say that Rob said it, you let it happen.
Therefore you said that is me. I have said it,
but I was the hater. Yeah, three years in the row.
That's yeah, that's pushing it.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The last two and then this year so far, the
last two were not And I told you this before.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
This is not me.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
This is just if I said to you in this league,
which is a quarterback league, quarter right, yes, okay, that
you could go fifteen and two, fifteen and one in games.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You started and and not get one. MVP BO, you're
gonna say that, not one not.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But he didn't lose or whatever was in the shore
right right, he didn't get one. No, I know, No,
he wasn't. No, I'm with you on last year. But
but you said.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
No, no two years, last two and then this year
we got two games in oh and two.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I'm gonna say two plus I mean his offense ain't
good at all, So I'm gonna I'm this year. I'm
not saying anything until I see what happens. But last year,
shouldn't Travis Kelsey retired? Yes he should quit.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yes, I mean it's obvious he's I don't know if
he's not there, and once players start talking about retirement anyway,
you're retired.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yeah, he's done, right, He has no explosiveness explosiveness left
and all he's doing right now is just he's being
in the way and being at the right.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I mean, it's crazy, I agree, all right? Coming up JR.
Gamble from mlbbro dot Com at a little foulfel. But first,
Steve Disago, get you caught up.
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Speaker 4 (22:23):
Gamble that ball is.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was a big week in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Who's who's a five?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is it foul? Or is it fair? And now from
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Speaker 9 (22:42):
That's right, it is Fowler Fair here on the A
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Speaker 4 (22:50):
Neder to do so properly. We had to bring in
a real baseball expert.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
A guy who lives and breathes baseball, a guy who
one time met Ken Griffy Junior and he said, uh,
what's up? None other than my man Jay Again, what's.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Up, JAYL? How are you saying? How to carry rhoads?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
What's up? Carry roads? This is my second time doing
this segment with the great Carry Roads. Glad to be back.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
What's up up? What up? Let's go Jay?
Speaker 9 (23:21):
I might not feel that way once he finds out
carry I don't like black quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Man. That's got it all right.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
No, I got three baseball questions here and again, JAYRS
just started the sagment get the first crack at every
single one.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So let's get to it, JR.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Over the weekend, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts raise some eyebrows
when he said that they view show Atani as a
starter in their playoff rotation. Now Tony's only completed five
innings one time so far this season, and his e
R is a robust three point seventy five.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
So, jay I, here's the question. Foul or fair?
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Say the Dodger will be making a mistake by making
Otani a postseason starter.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow is a sell ball.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I mean, show Hey is a big bopper with the
big bucks, right. He's paid eight hundred million to be
a two way player, not just to hit us. They've
been working him back after two years of not pitching,
slowly stretching him out, making sure he can handle it.
There's no mistakes when you ride with a guy that
everyone's calling possibly the right, the greatest to ever do it.
(24:23):
That's what I'm hearing. And rober three point seventy five
era isn't that robust in today's game, and he's capable
of shutting down team, so I'm not too sure he
would even be pitching past that five inning mark anyway,
So all day show, Hey, make this a shining moment.
That's what baseball wants. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I say it's fair.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It's a fair ball.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Wow, I go yes, I say it's fair. Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
They did win a World Series last year without him,
just one to remind people, and this year he really
has he really really felt like that picture. Who's going
to win you something in the postseason? Like, I just
don't feel like that's the situation. I'm not saying you
can't use him or use him in a situational or whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'm not so sure because he really hasn't been.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Stretched out and a couple of the five innings is nothing,
and he's only done it one time all year.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't know if he's ready. I don't know if
he's ready. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna say foul as well.
That is a foul ball. I mean, just look at
it from this perspective.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
He is the guy that they paid to come in
and be that two way start, seven hundred million matter. Yeah,
you're gonna you're gonna exhaust that. But also, the Dodgers
need pictures. They've been injured the rotation isn't isn't healthy.
They're starting to get there now, but they're not ready.
And when you talk about pitching in the postseason, you
can have short outings where it's your top two to
three starters have already pitched and you need a guy
(25:50):
to come in for that fourth guy. So of course
he can come in in the spot and pitch and
be a starter in the postseason.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Okay, YouTube chat sewing pressure calling him carry bonds cherry bombs.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Allright, we go.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
Question number two Jy R. Enteran Tuesday, Cody Bellinger. Rob's
favorite Yankee is betten two seventy four, twenty eight dingers
ninety three RBI while playing some gold glove level defense
as a result, CBS Sports that will be writer front
of the show. Julie McWilliams. It's called Bellinger the Yankee
second best player already. Wow, simple question, j R.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Fowler.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Fair to say Bellinger has already leap frog Gian Carlos
Stanton and Jazz Chisholm as the Bronx Bombers second best player.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
This is loaded question, but.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
I don't want to go against my man. Juliet McWilliams
rush respect, but Bellinger's always been a very very good
player and the beast of a hitter. Let's be honest.
He has he had a few down seasons, but we
know his explosive potential since his rookie year, and he's
hit right in with the Yankees. I'll say he's one
of the underrated players. Not sure if he's the second
(26:59):
best player, but maybe the second most consistent because to me,
Jazz and Judge have been the two best players this season.
But winning the World Series, which is the Yankees objective,
you know you're gonna need players like that. And nobody
ever won anything for being the second best player on
the team that win didn't win anything, So I think
(27:19):
Bellan Jill would rather have that ring than that second
place villain. But he's up there and they won't win
anything without him.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I'm gonna say foul.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That is a foul ball as well as Bellinger just played. Uh,
you know, Jazz has had a thirty thirty season for
the Yankees, right Yeah, And and Stanton going into the
postseason is the king of big time home runs and
big time moments in the postseason. So if you're telling
me going into the you know, postseason, and who's the
(27:50):
second most important player and the best player. I'm sorry,
I'm going with John Carlos Stanton and what he's his
home run back and big home run not just cheapies
him when they don't matter. He is unbelievable. Yeah, I'm
gonna go ahead, go ahead, Jr. What you got you're
saying something, Okay, I'm gonna go foul as well.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I think Bellinger has been great.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I think he's come on and exceeded all the expectations
that I had for him coming into this year. So
I'm going to give him credit. But also, you're not
leapfrogging Jazz or Stanton in in this position right here.
They've been solidified. They did it. They put a graphic
up the other day where Jazz in his first one
hundred and eighty two games with the Yankees, he was
like forty and forty or something like that, where you
(28:35):
know that superstar status, and.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
So Jazz just won first one sixty two, Yeah, forty forty.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
So the fact that that's the thing, and we know
Stanton in the playoffs and how big he's been, he's
not the second best player, But I don't think he
would care about that either, Right now, all.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Right, Fowler, Fair Jr. Gamble sitting in with the eye
couple last one. It's a tough day, guys. As you know,
Robert Redford died today at the age of eighty nine.
But if you're a sports fan, oh yeah, you probably
know him best in the nineteen eighty four baseball classic
The Natural movie.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Real controversial take Jr.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Foul or Fair to say that Redford Is The Natural
is the greatest baseball movie of all two.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Fact that is a solid ball fo I mean, I
love the movie, but I'm not sure how many kids
of this generation have even seen it or would understand
is greatness. But naturally, any hardcore baseball fan and historians
going to love The Natural, which going back to a
time when, in my opinion, base was truly America's pastime.
(29:37):
But you know, the intrigue and mystery surrounding legendary player
Roy Hobbs. I mean, I still want to know who
shot him? Was it the mystery woman?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Don't give it away exactly.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
A few others I would personally mention fellas that feel
the dreams of course, Recipeece James Errow Jones, speaking of
Kevin Costa boll Dorms, the classic every bad news. Their
movie was as Robster watches them at three am eating
yogurt and his boxes. And Major League movies were two memorabulling.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Too funny, no doubt. I'm gonna say foul as well.
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And you left out forty two, which I loved, right
two forty two. And there's a there's one another movie
nobody talks about, bang the drums slowly. There's a baseball movie,
and it's about a picture who takes on this catcher
to be his private catcher who's dying of a disease,
(30:35):
and he holds up makes lets him become the catcher
so that they don't get rid of him. It's private catcher.
It's a greace to bang the drum slowly. But there's
a lot of great baseball movies. And you even mentioned
it Feel the dreams? How field the dream not gonna
be ahead of the natural. Yeah, I'm gonna say foul
as well. And just for everything you guys said already here,
I mean major League Field of Dreams.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Bad News Bears, the first Bad News Bears.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I love yeah, Billy Bob Thwarton, right, yeah, I mean
those a great ultimat now that's right.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, yeah, all right, so I just get killed talk
of the bat, alright, jail.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Altoba baby Octoba Baseball.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I can't believe that the season's almost over. My goodness, like,
let's like about ten days or so. Crazy Yeah, ye,
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Uh so, plenty more to do in this final hour
on our first anniversary. But Rob G c J Stroud,
who people had, Oh yeah, wait a minute, we got
we got to Alex.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Has a trash I do and he are you trashing.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Somebody I've never heard of sitting to your left. Yeah,
I don't know who that is, but I'm trashing in.
CJ can take a seat real quick.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You hear him.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Elijah had the audacity of the goal, the admitigated ability
to stand in front of me and Rob G look
us in the face, and we said, Elijah, we know
you're the streets, you're by other people. You sit in
those big league Ivory chair meetings with the Bobs and
you know the ins and outs, and we ask him questions.
He looks us in our face and he literally says
to us, Yeah, I don't send those beans in with
them anymore. And I said, with y'all every day, but
(03:05):
basically got demoted. I'm here every day.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
He said, he's demoted and working with us, Rob I'd
say he got promoted. You want to say, with Bob's
all day and sit and talk about nothing and shackle
and shake stats sheets.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
You don't even know Elijah. I'm still haven't heard of you.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Wow, he loves set Lojah said, I got demoted.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm here. You believe that I'm here every day with
the outcome.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
They put baby in the corner. That's what they put him, Elijah.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
All right, there we go, Rob G. I'm glad somebody
said it. Wow. Uh No c J. Stroud.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Last night another disappointing loss for Houston. Baker Mayfield, who
you know, overcame a lot over the last three years
to go from being out of the league like I thought,
to being one of the best quarterbacks in football. Had
a game winning touchdown driving the final two minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
He was great.
Speaker 9 (03:59):
They came back and win on the road in Houston.
The big story though, here is in the last eight games.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
CJ.
Speaker 9 (04:05):
Stroud, who was everybody's favorite quarterback a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I mean, people had them going to the super Bowl
his second year.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
Their offense has scored twenty points or less in six
of their last eight.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Games, so they're really struggling.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
And after the game, Stroud told the Associated Press quote,
everybody's gonna talk crazy and say we suck and we're
this and that. At the end of the day, we
gotta stay together, be honest and have hard conversation. But
I think right now we need more confidence as an offense,
just confidently playing better together.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think that is the biggest thing. Oh oh, that
was a little breath. I'm just gonna say, I think
CJ is right. He and the Texas they do suck.
It's been bad and I get it. Injury, it's football injuries.
You gotta work through this kind of stuff. Okay, but
they were to catch me out after his first year,
(04:54):
Oh my god, Like people were like had them penciled
into the Super Bowl. Yes, after they brought on stuff
on date. Oh yeah, and then they added digs right,
oh my god, Well, how are you gonna stop them?
You couldn't stop him his first year. And again we
just talked about it with Jane Daniels. Yes, they get
tape on you. Things change like, oh, we didn't know
what to expect. We see it in baseball time, and
(05:16):
you notice carry you follow it. You come up to
the major leagues. First thing they do is they want
to make sure can you hit the fastball. They're gonna
throw you fastballs and see if you could even hit
that first Yes, okay. When you start to hit that,
then they mix in the breaking stuff and the curveballs,
and then you wind up going back to the minor.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Leagues because you can't hit that consistently.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes, And the same thing in the beginning, Jane dan
All these young guys come out on the scene and
not sure what they do, and they don't have enough
tape to figure it all out. Why do you think
Bill Belichick and Spygate and trying to figure out signals
and what people are doing. It makes a big difference
if you know what's coming. Okay, but it's been disappointing
(05:57):
c J. Stroud and the Texans. This off to an
zero and two start and here we go, like, I
don't know where this team is going home dinner, maybe
a show, but it don't look like they going to
the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, listen, Rob, this is the thing. The only thing
I'm worried about with c J.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Stroud right now is him falling victim to the David
Carr syndrome. And I say this in a way because
David Carr came in highly touted. I mean people thought
he could played. He's accurate, he can make completions cool.
He got sacked so many times that rookie year that
he became gunshot. He became a guy that was in
(06:34):
the pocket. He didn't trust his reeds, he didn't trust
his feet. He couldn't make the throws down the field anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
With c J.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Stroud, he's becoming that guy on tape right now. He's
so worried about the past rush and its offensive line
being terrible because they are right now they can't block
anybody that he is not stepping in his throws, having
the right mechanics. And so for me just looking at CJ. Stroud,
is he still that good quarterback or has that capabilit Yes,
(07:01):
But if he doesn't correct it right now or they
fix it, they getting an old line that can actually
protect him. He's heading down that path. And so the
Texans they got a good coach and Damico Ryans my
high school teammate, so I know he'll have those guys
ready to play. But right now, I'm just worried about CJ.
Stroud and him being falling victim to the David Carsondrome. Well,
let me give you some of these numbers, and they're
(07:21):
not pretty. Stroud's numbers are down across the board since
his Pro Bowl rookie season in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Ready, yea, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Passing yards per game have gone from two seventy three
to two nineteen to one ninety seven. His passer rating
has dropped from one hundred to eighty seven to eighty five,
and on the flip side, his sack percentage has jumped
up from seven to eight point nine to now ten
(07:50):
point five.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That's what you're talking about with the sacks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I know that they had last year injuries. We're
missing people, yes, but you come here as a game.
You needed to win that game yesterday, right, came out strong.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Right, you're at home.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You want to be one in one. You don't want
to be in a hole. I think, is this rob
g five years in the road that they're owing two?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
No, no, I saw something about them getting off to
bad stars Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Usually Cincinnati's on too. Now they started two and h
last year.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Yeah, okay, okay, they started out last year five and one.
Everybody's feeling real great? Is that one that they finished
and seven?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Wow? But if you.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Remember who was it through five interceptions against them from
the Lions?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Who golf golf through five interceptions and beat them? Do
you remember that? Yeah? They lost twenty six twenty three
in that game through.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Five and they won the lines won that game, yeah,
which is insane, insane.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Nice enough about the line that I didn't know what
he was talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm like, I know who right, what TV was talking about? No,
but they did.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I remember of that game very very vividly, because you don't.
You don't throw five interceptions and won a football game.
It's just almost impossible. Uh, but where they go? Where
are they? Who are they? I know that you're ye,
your teammate from high school? Yeah, Demico, Demico coach, Yep, yep, No,
he's go ahead. Yeah, but I'm just but I'm just saying,
where where are they? Because because they don't seem to
(09:21):
be the same as two years ago?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Right now? If you're on two, you're bad. So you're right.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
But I'm saying, I know if anybody can get this
ship right it Dimko is that guy and from c J.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Stroud.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I'm just worried about him because the protected him, because
if he's protected, he can still make the throw. He's
not a bad quarterback yet and he does not suck
yet Rob the Texans suck. Yeah, and he right away knew.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh, the narrative about us is gonna be Yeah, there
is a narrative.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yes, there is a narrative. And he's in the AFC South.
They're not out of it, so you got to think
about that as well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, but how good are And I get I get
that you can make the playoffs, but are you beating
anybody good?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Is my question to you?
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I don't feel like that and it wasn't that
long ago where people were really hot. Yeah, And and
football is like that, adjustments and growing pains and you
get knocked down, you got to come back. It's it's
it's it's not as easy as it looks. Oh, that's
the beautiful part about sports in general. Rob, Like, you
have to get knocked down.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You got to understand how how hard it is to
get to that that pinnacle, that that championship pedigree that
everybody's trying to you know, I guess reach for. It
just doesn't happen overnight. And you have some guys that
come in and have success right away, but it's not
always going to be that way. And so for guys
like CJ. Trial, it's it's this is the time for
(10:47):
them to actually talk about baseball, find their all speed pitch,
because you're not gonna beat everybody with fastballs.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And in the case of the Texans, I just I
just look at them and and that was par for
the course last night, Like really like I just knew,
like when the when the Bucks were driving all these yeah,
I felt like they were gonna win that game and
it was gonna be another heartbreaking kind of situation.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
For the Texans, who were the new hotness. I mean
they really were. I mean the buzz about them and
what they were doing with a young you know, new
coach and new quarterback and all these other pieces. People
are like and then they go out and and and
and add Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Well you know who that is.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Now?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know what team that is right now? What's that?
That's the Commander's that you're talking about right now. They
overachieved in year one, oh no doubt. And this year
I've already told people pumped the brakes on this year
already coming into the season. But the same thing you're
saying right now, like when you look at the I
know I'm jumping to the Commanders, but when you look
at their roster, who on that roster scares you?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Right? And you know you know what I mean, like nobody.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
But that that's why that's such a bad loss for
the Lions.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Seriously. Last year, Oh yeah, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Have home field, you go fifteen and two, you got
a rookie quarter They were nine and a half point
favorites coming into that game that even with their secondary
their defense banged up, Vegas still gave them that because
they thought they would be.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
An outscore still nine point favorites.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Note in a half point favorites, and that's what your
defense banged up.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
That tells you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
But they didn't know that Jared Golf, I don't know
was going to have four and four turnovers, said casual.
They didn't know that Jared Golf or Jared Tennis, I
would say, turned into Jared Tennis.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's funny.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Why are you burying the lead right now? Ron, because
Carrie just had a major breakthrough.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
At this moment. You heard that.
Speaker 9 (12:45):
What I say, what what he did was you went
full Rob Parker. You let us know across the national airwaves.
They carried on like black quarterbacks either all of a sudden.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
He loves it.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Rob loves them all, loves them all. Everybody else can go, well,
you don't like James Dales. I didn't.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
I like to CJ is fine. He's just not playing well.
He would say, he sucks, he's not playing well exactly.
He didn't even mention Jalen Hurts. So you know I
don't like James. Now we're going down the list, see
it should be together.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
That's gotta be racist. I don't like black quarterbacks. Rob
g I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go, put on my
dashiki and oh man right Hey.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
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And are you off the C. J. Stroud Bandwagon in Houston? Like,
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Speaker 5 (13:42):
Matter of fact, I jumped off the bandwagon, broke both
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Speaker 4 (14:51):
You get your podcast. It is the EYD.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Couple on a trash Talking Tuesday, Rob Parker, Kerry Rhodes
and for Kelvin watching the It's our first anniversary of
the new Odd Couple. Thank you for being part of it.
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Speaker 4 (15:16):
I knew that. I knew that. I come on, that's
one of the all iconic lines on television. It is.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I don't think anybody doesn't know that that term.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
It's like the what you're talking about, willis kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
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(16:04):
Just search Odd Couple FSR and subscribe. Don't forget coming
up in about six seven minutes. Foul Affair with JL
Gamble from MLB bro dot Com. We were talking about
CJ Stroud and the Texas and basically, are you in
or out with CJ?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Are you off his bandwagon? He was very high.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
People were very high on him just a couple of
years ago and things have seemed to change.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Let's go to Andre in Massachusetts. You're on the Odd
Couple of Fox portraitio.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
What's up, Dray?
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Hey, Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Thanks for taking the car. Lit'ten No, I'm not off
the CJ. Stroud bandwagon. I have to give him another
year an opportunity to get it right, based on the
fact that he's had some changes right. They started last
season with the dominant wide receiver Corps Stefan Dicks, who's
come over here in New England to be with the Patriots,
was lighting the world on fire. Nico Collins with him.
They had it all going. They had the wide receiver,
they had a running back, they were it was trending
(17:01):
in the right direction, and then the injuries hit okay,
and this season was kind of Shanghai and not not
too different. Different injuries, but you know, to have the Bengals,
you know, are feelings. So this is a different year
for him. Now. Listen, it hasn't been what it was
to start. You know, where he was off it was gangbusters.
But I want to give him the opportunity to finish
the season and re get his footing. I don't see
(17:21):
it as that much different than a Baker Mayfield situation
where he bounced around, he found his home in Tampa Bay.
You know, he hit his stride and then you know,
it's just been it's been up from there. I'm not
saying that that's going to be the case with CJ. Stroud,
but I want to give him that benefit of the
doubt to get back on his feet before I hit
the panic button. So that's my take.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Thanks taking the call, all right, and appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The only thing that kills me and Rob g you
could jump in on this too, is when people look
at and everybody now.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Is going to be Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
No, there are guys who bounced around where it doesn't
work out in three spots and then they're out of
the league or whatever.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, everybody just because you move around. I'm not saying CJ.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Stroud's going anywhere, no quarterback, but you get My point
is it doesn't automatically mean that if you wait some
time or a couple of years past or whatever, that's
going to be righted or you're going.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
To get back there.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't know, and I'm not saying that he's not
going to be a good quarterback, but is he going
to get back to his rookie year or you know
what I mean? Like, I don't know that for sure.
Everything was right, Everything kind of worked. They didn't have
tape on them, film on them. Yet, you know, it
was a surprise. It's like the jade and Daniels. As
good as he was last year, I didn't think this
(18:35):
year he could repeat that.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
No, you know, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
And then there's the other thing.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
We talked about Baker Mayfield now because he's the hot
one right now, right he's doing really well in Tampa.
But I mean we can talk about I mean, we
just talked about the guy earlier, Geno Smith, who bounced,
you know, bounced around and found it, found the found
a second life. We saw Sam Donald do the same thing.
So it's not like you can't have that happen. But
right now C J. Stroud has to just, you know,
(19:01):
fine tune some things to get back on track.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Robert in Memphis, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, Robert? Hey?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
What's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How are you? Robert?
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I am great? Thank you for asking.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Man.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Love y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Thank you appreciate.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
Even though I love y'all. I got to get on
your Kelvin. I got to get on your man. It's
tad Cocke to let me get here real quick.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Man.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
All right, I'm from Memphis. I'm a Domphins fan, so
I ain't got no time to the New York Giants.
But I'm probably gonna call every week until you stop
saying Eli Mann and is not a Hall of Famer.
That man finished in the top ten of passing and
the top ten of touchdown with two Super bowls over
(19:43):
one undefeated team and the other one that gets the
same team which had the same goat on it. There
ain't no way you win two super Bowls in in
top ten and passing and touchdowns. It ain't in the
Hall of fame or not Hall of Fame worthy. I
should say, come on, Kelvin, I love you, man, but
you got to cut that out.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'll pass that message along to Kelvin when he's back.
Carry's not buying.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I was like, what I do? What did I do?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Carry likes? He like many he's the right show. That
is so chick. I want to know how I got
grouped in this.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Rob? Did you hang it out with Rob Parker? That's
what it is.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
You love Lamar Jackson and you immediately bashed Jaden Daniels.
He's just being honest and I didn't even get it.
Oh you know, Patrick Mahomes ain't been good for three seasons.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Say that.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
You may say that Rob said it, you let it happen.
Therefore you said that is me. I have said it,
but I was the hater. Yeah, three years in the row.
That's yeah, that's pushing it.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The last two and then this year so far, the
last two were not And I told you this before.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
This is not me.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
This is just if I said to you in this league,
which is a quarterback league, quarter right, yes, okay, that
you could go fifteen and two, fifteen and one in games.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You started and and not get one. MVP BO, you're
gonna say that, not one not.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But he didn't lose or whatever was in the shore
right right, he didn't get one. No, I know, No,
he wasn't. No, I'm with you on last year. But
but you said.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
No, no two years, last two and then this year
we got two games in oh and two.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I'm gonna say two plus I mean his offense ain't
good at all, So I'm gonna I'm this year. I'm
not saying anything until I see what happens. But last year,
shouldn't Travis Kelsey retired? Yes he should quit.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yes, I mean it's obvious he's I don't know if
he's not there, and once players start talking about retirement anyway,
you're retired.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yeah, he's done, right, He has no explosiveness explosiveness left
and all he's doing right now is just he's being
in the way and being at the right.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I mean, it's crazy, I agree, all right? Coming up JR.
Gamble from mlbbro dot Com at a little foulfel. But first,
Steve Disago, get you caught up.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 4 (22:23):
Gamble that ball is.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was a big week in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Who's who's a five?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is it foul? Or is it fair? And now from
mlbtbro dot com, here's Jrgamball.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
That's right, it is Fowler Fair here on the A
couple on Fox Sports Radio secon when we go around
the dome. But he's got all the biggest headlines in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Neder to do so properly. We had to bring in
a real baseball expert.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
A guy who lives and breathes baseball, a guy who
one time met Ken Griffy Junior and he said, uh,
what's up? None other than my man Jay Again, what's.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Up, JAYL? How are you saying? How to carry rhoads?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
What's up? Carry roads? This is my second time doing
this segment with the great Carry Roads. Glad to be back.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
What's up up? What up? Let's go Jay?
Speaker 9 (23:21):
I might not feel that way once he finds out
carry I don't like black quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Man. That's got it all right.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
No, I got three baseball questions here and again, JAYRS
just started the sagment get the first crack at every
single one.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So let's get to it, JR.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Over the weekend, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts raise some eyebrows
when he said that they view show Atani as a
starter in their playoff rotation. Now Tony's only completed five
innings one time so far this season, and his e
R is a robust three point seventy five.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
So, jay I, here's the question. Foul or fair?
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Say the Dodger will be making a mistake by making
Otani a postseason starter.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow is a sell ball.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I mean, show Hey is a big bopper with the
big bucks, right. He's paid eight hundred million to be
a two way player, not just to hit us. They've
been working him back after two years of not pitching,
slowly stretching him out, making sure he can handle it.
There's no mistakes when you ride with a guy that
everyone's calling possibly the right, the greatest to ever do it.
(24:23):
That's what I'm hearing. And rober three point seventy five
era isn't that robust in today's game, and he's capable
of shutting down team, so I'm not too sure he
would even be pitching past that five inning mark anyway,
So all day show, Hey, make this a shining moment.
That's what baseball wants. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I say it's fair.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It's a fair ball.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Wow, I go yes, I say it's fair. Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
They did win a World Series last year without him,
just one to remind people, and this year he really
has he really really felt like that picture. Who's going
to win you something in the postseason? Like, I just
don't feel like that's the situation. I'm not saying you
can't use him or use him in a situational or whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'm not so sure because he really hasn't been.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Stretched out and a couple of the five innings is nothing,
and he's only done it one time all year.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't know if he's ready. I don't know if
he's ready. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna say foul as well.
That is a foul ball. I mean, just look at
it from this perspective.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
He is the guy that they paid to come in
and be that two way start, seven hundred million matter. Yeah,
you're gonna you're gonna exhaust that. But also, the Dodgers
need pictures. They've been injured the rotation isn't isn't healthy.
They're starting to get there now, but they're not ready.
And when you talk about pitching in the postseason, you
can have short outings where it's your top two to
three starters have already pitched and you need a guy
(25:50):
to come in for that fourth guy. So of course
he can come in in the spot and pitch and
be a starter in the postseason.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Okay, YouTube chat sewing pressure calling him carry bonds cherry bombs.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Allright, we go.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
Question number two Jy R. Enteran Tuesday, Cody Bellinger. Rob's
favorite Yankee is betten two seventy four, twenty eight dingers
ninety three RBI while playing some gold glove level defense
as a result, CBS Sports that will be writer front
of the show. Julie McWilliams. It's called Bellinger the Yankee
second best player already. Wow, simple question, j R.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Fowler.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Fair to say Bellinger has already leap frog Gian Carlos
Stanton and Jazz Chisholm as the Bronx Bombers second best player.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
This is loaded question, but.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
I don't want to go against my man. Juliet McWilliams
rush respect, but Bellinger's always been a very very good
player and the beast of a hitter. Let's be honest.
He has he had a few down seasons, but we
know his explosive potential since his rookie year, and he's
hit right in with the Yankees. I'll say he's one
of the underrated players. Not sure if he's the second
(26:59):
best player, but maybe the second most consistent because to me,
Jazz and Judge have been the two best players this season.
But winning the World Series, which is the Yankees objective,
you know you're gonna need players like that. And nobody
ever won anything for being the second best player on
the team that win didn't win anything, So I think
(27:19):
Bellan Jill would rather have that ring than that second
place villain. But he's up there and they won't win
anything without him.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I'm gonna say foul.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That is a foul ball as well as Bellinger just played. Uh,
you know, Jazz has had a thirty thirty season for
the Yankees, right Yeah, And and Stanton going into the
postseason is the king of big time home runs and
big time moments in the postseason. So if you're telling
me going into the you know, postseason, and who's the
(27:50):
second most important player and the best player. I'm sorry,
I'm going with John Carlos Stanton and what he's his
home run back and big home run not just cheapies
him when they don't matter. He is unbelievable. Yeah, I'm
gonna go ahead, go ahead, Jr. What you got you're
saying something, Okay, I'm gonna go foul as well.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I think Bellinger has been great.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I think he's come on and exceeded all the expectations
that I had for him coming into this year. So
I'm going to give him credit. But also, you're not
leapfrogging Jazz or Stanton in in this position right here.
They've been solidified. They did it. They put a graphic
up the other day where Jazz in his first one
hundred and eighty two games with the Yankees, he was
like forty and forty or something like that, where you
(28:35):
know that superstar status, and.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
So Jazz just won first one sixty two, Yeah, forty forty.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
So the fact that that's the thing, and we know
Stanton in the playoffs and how big he's been, he's
not the second best player, But I don't think he
would care about that either, Right now, all.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Right, Fowler, Fair Jr. Gamble sitting in with the eye
couple last one. It's a tough day, guys. As you know,
Robert Redford died today at the age of eighty nine.
But if you're a sports fan, oh yeah, you probably
know him best in the nineteen eighty four baseball classic
The Natural movie.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Real controversial take Jr.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Foul or Fair to say that Redford Is The Natural
is the greatest baseball movie of all two.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Fact that is a solid ball fo I mean, I
love the movie, but I'm not sure how many kids
of this generation have even seen it or would understand
is greatness. But naturally, any hardcore baseball fan and historians
going to love The Natural, which going back to a
time when, in my opinion, base was truly America's pastime.
(29:37):
But you know, the intrigue and mystery surrounding legendary player
Roy Hobbs. I mean, I still want to know who
shot him? Was it the mystery woman?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Don't give it away exactly.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
A few others I would personally mention fellas that feel
the dreams of course, Recipeece James Errow Jones, speaking of
Kevin Costa boll Dorms, the classic every bad news. Their
movie was as Robster watches them at three am eating
yogurt and his boxes. And Major League movies were two memorabulling.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Too funny, no doubt. I'm gonna say foul as well.
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And you left out forty two, which I loved, right
two forty two. And there's a there's one another movie
nobody talks about, bang the drums slowly. There's a baseball movie,
and it's about a picture who takes on this catcher
to be his private catcher who's dying of a disease,
(30:35):
and he holds up makes lets him become the catcher
so that they don't get rid of him. It's private catcher.
It's a greace to bang the drum slowly. But there's
a lot of great baseball movies. And you even mentioned
it Feel the dreams? How field the dream not gonna
be ahead of the natural. Yeah, I'm gonna say foul
as well. And just for everything you guys said already here,
I mean major League Field of Dreams.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Bad News Bears, the first Bad News Bears.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I love yeah, Billy Bob Thwarton, right, yeah, I mean
those a great ultimat now that's right.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, yeah, all right, so I just get killed talk
of the bat, alright, jail.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Altoba baby Octoba Baseball.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I can't believe that the season's almost over. My goodness, like,
let's like about ten days or so. Crazy Yeah, ye,
all right, appreciate it, thank you, thank you,
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