October 1, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us why they had a problem with Shedeur Sanders’ mime act in the locker room in the wake of the Cleveland Browns latest quarterback change, discuss the biggest MLB storylines to come out of Wednesday’s action, share their thoughts on the San Francisco 49ers’ sudden rash of injuries, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.
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That's right?
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And always, of course, Uh where we where are we?
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I'm just kind of throw it off from his other stuff?
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Did we do all of our stuff?
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Alex?
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Did we start?
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We got a big show. And let me welcome in
my co host, he is kelvin Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
When is the last time anybody has used trigonometry? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Like Rob, we went to school, we learned all this stuff,
and when is the last time you use geometry?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
When is well, maybe geometry.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I knew back then.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I knew back then that none of that stuff worked,
and we would never use it even when we were
learning it. I just never thought, you remember, I remember
when they were teaching us, you know, Celsius and all
that kind of stuff and leaders and all that and
then class and we live in America, America, and we
never adopted any of that.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The two leader soda was not the sixty four ounce anymore.
Two leader all that.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I just remember that being in school, in grade school,
and I'm telling us. This is what we're all going
to be doing one day and guess what.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, they were wrong. I mean, I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I now my daughter's do all this homework and I'm like, Alex,
you can't believe how a ten ain't just a regular ten?
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No mores? Well the ten of the ten a round
ten to get to you? How did you get to ten?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You ain't gonna use this? But with that being said,
girl has been a good grade. So happy worst of Wednesday, Bro,
no doubt. Let's do it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
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Speaker 4 (05:31):
We got some football to talk about.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
We have all kinds of stuff to get into on
this worship Wednesday's.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Right, but let's start with the NFL. Let's do that,
Rob g.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I think we got to hear Shador Sanders speak loudly
about his NFL career so far, or maybe we didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Yeah, it was an interesting day in Cleveland. First thing
that happened was we found out officially that Joe Flacco
was being benched. His days are done there in Cleveland.
Dylan Gabriel will be the QB one. But what's surprising
about the move is that even though Flacco's getting benched,
he is still the backup. Shador Sanders did not get elevated.
(06:13):
He's still QB three. Incidentally, Chador spoke to the media
before this went public, so they didn't know yet that
he was We're gonna happen with the quarterback situation, And
if you believe what he said or didn't say, certainly
sounds like he listens to the odd couple because recall
what Kelvin Washington told him to do last Friday with
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the microwave take.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Time to rehitt an old hot take that's gone cool.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
On the outside is to go in the metal.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's microwave take with the odd cup up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's okay to be Shdor.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, it's all right, nothing wrong with you being shtre.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I like that. You could keep it down. Sometimes he
didn't just keep it down. He didn't talk at all.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
He acted like a mime for about a minute and
a half for the reporter to do. They won't get
anything from him, Shador Sanders QB three. Still nothing changes,
Dylan Gabriel starting in Cleveland, and Shador had nothing to say,
nothing to add to the conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
First of all, let me say this is Rob's I
appreciate Shador listening to the eye couple.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That means a lot to me. I'm sure it means
a lot to you, Rob.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We always appreciate our fans, We appreciate everybody supports the
show and listens and is a part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But DA gets your doing. You took it too far.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I didn't mean Shdor as in now all of a sudden,
you are a.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Trade, world class trained mind.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I didn't mean that you had a show coming up
where you're gonna be part of the blue man group,
maybe the browner or orange man group in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
What this is?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What I mean when you tell somebody to do something
and they go too far. You tell them to take
an inch, they take a mile. All I was simply saying,
Rob was for chadeur. You don't have to always give
us what's on your mind.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
That's what the group chat is for, right, That's what
you jump in and you say, man, and these quarterbacks
playing like bums or I told you I think I'm
better than cam Ward or Dylan Gabriel or bow Nick
or some of the younger quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's what that's for.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The group Chet, you got like four or five brothers.
Hit your brothers up, hit your pops up. Hit Tom Bradio.
I don't care hit somebody, but you don't always have
to present yourself like that at all times. And Rob,
you know I've defended them at times. I said look better,
say young man. I still believe in the skill set.
But man, you ain't making it easy. When you were
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a fifth round pick. You're the third string guy on
this team, and you do things like that. Within now
they got to come in and ignore it. Stefanski doesn't
want to answer questions about the team, doesn't want to
talk about you. And then now you're miming and they're
being asked questions about your miming. So these are the
fast thing a fifth rounder, a third stream backup guy
needs to.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Be doing, and he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And you can do that if you're Patrick Mahomes and
you're having phone with the media about something because you're
just blowing it off and it took us so far. Okay,
you've earned that right, you have that equity, you've built
up that rapport with the city, the team, the franchise
and the community.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You don't have that right now, and so to be
doing these types of things, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Probably frustrating, probably annoying for them, and to me it
is damaging. At last point, let me tell you a
little something about Joe Flacco. Rod Parker, I told you
I thought they should start Dylan Gabriel or Shador and
that you're trying to find your guy they want with
Joe Flacco. We get it, Joe Flacco's approving guy, veteran
super Bowl champion, but we knew what this was gonna be.
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Joe Flacco has six interceptions in their first four games.
He's been sacked nine times, he has two touchdowns. That's
terrible football, but that's to be expected with the Browns
right now where they are. And the point of bringing
up Joe Flacco is because Chador isn't back up to
Dylan Gabriel, probably a large part because of the antics
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and all the other stuff. They now have him third
string when this was what I told you. If you're Chador,
this is what you wanted. I told you Joe Flacco
was gonna play his way out just because he's Joe
Flacco at this point in his career, and Dylan Gabriel,
because he's a third round is gonna be the starter,
and you could bump up the second and there's a
lot of football that we had. Maybe Dylan Gabriel is
a great, or maybe hurts himself and you're in. But
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now Joe flackos the backup, even though he's been trashed rob.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
It speaks volumes about Shador if anything. I mean, what
in the world would you do going back to a
forty year old quarterback unless you just don't believe Shador
is ready to be in and if what it's the
other reason, it doesn't even make sense. I didn't think
it weighed any sense to have two rookie quarterbacks on
the staff anyway. It doesn't make you gotta make a decision.
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You can't have two of them. It doesn't. It just doesn't.
That's why it can't be the backup. So you know,
if Dylan Gabriel has a couple of rough starts, then
you put in the other quarterback for a couple of
rough starts. It could be could be ugly either way.
I don't even understand what they're doing from that standpoint,
but it speaks volumes about Shador that they're not even
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interested in seeing what this guy could do in an
NFL game, And and you know, I'm just it's strange.
It really is strange because none of it makes sense.
I don't think it has anything to do with the
antics and the other stuff. I don't believe that that
it has more to do with just him and his ability,
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because what else could it be.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And I don't know, maybe they just holding on to him.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Maybe they think somebody will be desperate and come around
and they could get a draft picked, because that is
obvious that they're not interested in. And you know how
quarterbacks get hurt and things are happening, somebody might go, man,
we need a spark, we need something. Let's do something.
Let's let's get energizing franchised.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Let's just go for it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Let's just throw.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Caution against the wind right and go get your door.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
And then the fan base, oh my god, you know
we're owing for but you're the Jets and.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You just decided, hey, let's let's give your door the reins.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You know you're not gonna get anythings going with Justin Fields,
or you realize maybe he's just he is what he is,
you know what I mean, and he is not going
to be anything long term, and maybe you make a
decision like that, and that's something that could happen, and
they say, hey, we need a third round pick or
fourth or a couple of picks or something, and then
that fifth round pick turns into.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
To capital, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
For Cleveland, that could be the only reason, because they
keep them there. They let Zapi Bailey Zapi on the
practice splitting reps wish shador, which you don't see that happen,
and none of it makes any sense to me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So also it has to be.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
And I do want to bring one last thing up.
I think you were part of it. You know Eric
Dickerson and all his conspiracy about the NFL, and I
think you guys were all wrong with the reporting that
says that the Eagles and the Ravens were both interested
and told not to draft him, that that he didn't
want to go there. So there was all this, and
you know, Eric Dickerson had a reporter that he talked
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to people and they blackballed them and the league didn't
We're gonna show him. I never bought into that, and
I think the reporting points that out that this was Shador.
Schador was the one who did not want, you know
what I mean, to go to the Ravens or go
to some other Eagles where they have two star quarterbacks,
and he didn't want to go there.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
So so this is where we are.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
That makes more sense on why he dropped to me
when you add that reporting.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But I'll still say this, talent wise, I absolutely believe
that he was not a fifth round pick.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I'll I'll die on that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Heels They say, could it be again his meetings or
some other things that was a sixth round pick.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Tom Brady wasn't great guy.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Tom Brady played quarterback at Michigan.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
He was.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I saw one of his snaps. He was. He was good,
he was and great.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Okay, But you make it like you make it like
it's like Joe Montana was a fourth round pick. You
make it like, oh my god, how about uh, what's
the Rams quarterback?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It wasn't even drafted Kurt Warner?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Wait? What what you're throwing me off? What do you
I don't even give what you're saying. Like, My point is,
you make it.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
You make it as if like it's an exact science
and guys like a Kurt Warner wasn't drafted or Tom Brady,
that's what they are.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You making it like, oh no, but no. My point
is that you're talking about, oh, for sure he was this,
or that I don't believe that.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's for nobody. Guys, you know, nobody knows. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But the reason why this was a big deal and
you had guys who've been doing this for thirty forty
years losing their minds is because we've never seen this.
Rob You gotta at least admit that we always have
a sleeper a guy comes out the blue, a fifth round,
fourth round, sixth round, undrafted.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That happens all the time. You get your brock parties.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But we don't have guys who are projected as a
first rounder drop to the fifth round unless there's something
that happens, some violent thing in their past or something
like that comes up.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's what made this unusual, all right?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
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a problem with Shador's mom act today in Cleve and
why do you think he still can't rise up the
Browns quarterback depth chart. We'll continue that conversation next with you.
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just a little bit. Taking phone calls eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, Shador Sanders took it too far
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when I.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Said Shore and now he's miming to the media.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's just not a good situation. Who we got, Robb
a seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Let's kick it off with dre in Michigan. You're on
the couple of Fox sportuadio.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's up, Drake?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
What has gone on?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Fellas?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
All right, yes, sir? What's that? Where you've been?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Where you been?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Oh? I'll be calling brother Nock like that. You the
want to be keeping me on on Red?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, it's just crazy man trying to get in. Sorry
about that.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Man.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Y'all hot y'all, y'all the hotness, y'all.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Hey man, we like the river Rock. We like the
river Rock. Back in the day, of Detroit.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Oh, he's saying river Rock. But you know rob Os
spot with old legends. What was that called when they.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Changed legends yesterday?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
It was I forgot it? What if I just running
a rod down there?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
That was his old spot.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Yeah. But I think the problem is is that they
don't want to put him as number two because they
don't want to put that pressure on great on Gabriel,
because we know how to go. Everybody's green for the
backup quarterback. So if Gabriel don't come out hot, what's
the first thing the gonna do. We're putting into sugar,
put it in your door. So by keeping it with Flacco,
I think that kind of alleviates some of the pressure
of Gabriel. And then for his minded things, it's like
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the young man, he's like, he's darning if we do, darn.
If we don't, it's like, Okay, we want you tal
but don't talk too much. You should be quiet. You
only fit wround draft. But we're gonna come ask you questions,
you know, So it's like, you know, hey, I think
he's just kind of get Just because they.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Ask you questions don't mean you have to you don't
have to do any of that, like you know, like
you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I get it like that.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
That's the job of reporters to ask questions. But players
have a right to not comment. There's not there's nothing
going on.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, Dre, I you I don't. Yeah, go ahead, Dre
know about saying.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
But at the same time, if they don't answer, and
then they just gonna create a whole in there. Oh,
he's difficult.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You're seeing it ron a question.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
About what he's a third string quarterback, Dre. I challenge you,
d challenge you to go get me quotes from a
third string quarterback from any other team in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Go go, go, go show me the.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Quote one points because nobody's asking the third grade quarterback anything.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
No, and my point is he doesn't have to answer.
It's about his celebrity. I get that in his last name.
That's why teams don't want guys like that on their team.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's exactly what you just said. That's why.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, And my point to Dre appreciate the call, Dre,
would have been also, listen, you're trying to play and
nobody's saying, don't answer the questions. But all I was
saying is keep in mind part of playing especially that position,
is also being the front guy of a franchise.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Right. We talked about that all the time.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
When you're a quarterback, you are a franchise that you're
the guy at the podium.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You're and they don't want.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
A guy that hasn't even played a lick yet in
an actual meaningful game and bashing all the other quarterbacks
and do it, honest, I play better than it, like
you haven't had the chance to do that. I told
Rob g earlier, Muhammad Ali could do that because he
can go out there and back it up whether he
was right or wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We got to see it.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Shador can't even get on the field right now to
be talking about I'm better than It's a bad quarterback play.
I've been rooting for him. But you also have to
know sometimes you got to play the game. It's called
a game of life, and every now and again, we
all got to play it sometimes.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And that's what I'm saying is sometimes you don't have
to fall into that. And even as a reporter, sure
is it good for us, Sure it is. But this
time when I respect somebody to say not today, guysing
there's nothing to report. Thank you for coming by my
lock Dion in Texas. You're in the couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, Deon?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Guys.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
I agree with everything y'all said. And think about this.
Mister Door didn't want to go to Baltimore. He probably
would have been starting this weekend. We probably could have
got a chance to see what he can do for
the next two three weeks. But his but is right
where he need to be third string.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
There is a certain decorum, there's a certain attitude that
the starting quarterback of a franchise has to. They got
to have that type of swagger. He don't have that. Man,
He's a little immature right now. But I'll tell you
this before Joe Flack, I'll start another game. I do
want them to see if, unless say Gabriel gets hurt
or he's not doing very well, maybe ten, you know,
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after a tenth or eleventh game. I would like to
see shredor get a get an opportunity later on the season.
But he got to mature. He gotta be ready when
when he's called.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Thanks guys, all right, Deann, thank you. Let's squeeze it,
Randy real quick. Calvin from New Orleans. Randy, you're on
the yye couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
N How y'all doing doing well? Ready, dude, dud dude,
that's the first thing.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
First thing to me is to be a good teammate.
And he could have just said, I'm happy for Dylan.
I hope he plays well if and when my time comes,
I'll be ready to please. Yes, no disrespect to no disrespect.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
To Ryan Clark.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
But I know I never pleased football. But I do
know how to be a decentmate. But let me put this.
Let me tell you like this, Uh I was so
great college. Uh he should have been. He should have
been a first or second or third pick or whatever.
I understand, you know, people feel how they feel about it.
But I've been watching about my entire life and I
don't seen college quarterbacks when the Watson camp played the
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year award and go make the draft. It's not an
exact science.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
When you draft.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
That's what That's my point.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
That you're immature. That usually will set you back a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It doesn't matter about how.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Did you flit.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
When you get to be at a certain level, your maturity,
man I appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Com no doubt, I hear you on that, all right,
Ro appreciate it, But I.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Argue with that because it's not an exact science, and
that that was my point on.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
How I got what.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
You're all over the board when you know, when you say, oh,
I know he's a top whatever pick, I just I'm
just not convinced of that, like, especially especially if the
reports about him coming with headphones on and being unprepared,
like those are the things that could turn.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
People off as well.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I just yeah, just we there was he's been
his whole last six months have been very interesting because
we sold on one thing didn't happen now here we
are so which we knew this was gonna be a
roller coaster Ryan, right before we get to trending, last
twenty seconds from me, Rob, I do think it'll be
interesting if they didn't announce him as a backup, just
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they don't hear the noise, so that then if something
does happen at the den the game, did they sneak
him in without like without the pressure having to do
that because you announced that he'd be the backup earlier.
That will be interesting to see, all right, right now,
we got Steve A. Saga, gonna get a set on
what's trending. We got the MLB postseason whip around.
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Speaker 1 (24:42):
And Rob, you and I have been talking about it
for really, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Starting last year around this time, we had a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Of great baseball conversation because it was just a great
It was a great postseason, a little bit of some
maneuvering throughout the off season. You got the biggest story
win Soto going to the Mets. So we've kept up
with the conversations. Now we are here with the postseason.
Man and as Ilo was just mentioning Tigers lose six
to one today coming off the school Bol masterpiece the
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day before. This is why you and I talked about it.
They had to win that one, right, because they're not
built right now to be oh, we'll be all right
if we lose the school can't.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
No, don't worry about it. They had to win. Now.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Here's the issue though, To be honest, the series should
be over.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
The Tigers scored two unearned runs.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Both of their runs came on miscues by Cleveland. So
and then you add today to the mix. You know,
they had a run taken off the board. That was
a bad play in that you know, the runner didn't
score before the third out was made, right, that's one
of those technical things that has to happen.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So a run came off the board.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
So they had one run today, two on eurded runs
and with runners are scoring position in the two games?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Did two for twenty? Did two for twenty?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I just scored the only thing that that that allowed
them to even stay. They should have lost that game
one nothing if you take away the error, you know
what I mean, Like like, that's how bad it's been.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
For the Tigers. Two for twenty is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Now for twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And two for twenty, as you mentioned, and and baseball
isn't built how it used to be, rob We're okay,
we can try to manufacture runs, you know what I mean.
And back in the day, if this wasn't working, that
was where Okay, we're gonna try to steal. Okay, we're
gonna butunt here. Okay, we're gonna try to do this.
Guys used to be able. Teams used to be able
to manufactors runs better back in the day, and so
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you could try to get something going if if your
bats by just more the most more basic Rudi Mitchell
way isn't working, meaning you're not just getting regular hits.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
All right, we gotta figure something out.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And so yeah, now here's the thing about a wild
card series best of three.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You might not even be the better team.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And the Guardians have been playing the better baseball than
the Tigers obviously the last month or so. But if
you can sneak off one more, you can move on.
It's a fresh start, and you know the Alds. So
if you're the Tigers or anybody in this situation, wipe
your hands clean. Say, hey, one to one essentially zero
to zero in a one game series, you go out
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and you try to win, and then you can move
on and we'll deal with our products in the next round.
But here's my issue. I just this team is dead offensively.
I just it sounds good. Kelvin, You're right.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
One game, you don't have your ace on the mound
and you're not hitting. I just I would be stunned
if the Tigers beat Cleveland in Game three.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I just don't from where where are the hits where?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
You know, like you use your motown like like they've
been they've been dead for a while.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
This has been two months. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Like, listen, this is why it pains me. You and
I are doing our predictions and whatnot. You know, I
wanted to go Tigers Dodgers in the World Series, you know,
I want to do that. How amazing would that be?
But even I had to keep it real. They just
don't have enough. Uh, the firepower isn't there. And what
they were able to ride off of last year, Rob,
the kind of the if you will, the Oakland A's
(28:15):
of the twenty twenties, of the small ball, the money
not having you.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Know, paid a bunch of guys or anything.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
The payroll was so low last year that it's kind
of bitting them in the butt this year. So will
be an interesting offseason to me, Rob, because if you
look at the team that's constructed, you'll say, man, if
we can just get a bigger bat here or there,
well we might be in the mix now for you know,
give our extend our run of another handful of seasons.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So it'd be interesting to see if they spent some
spend some money.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You know, they have to go out and get a bat,
like seriously and and just say we need to add
that that team. When that team turned around, you know
that when they went out and spent the money and
got Miggie Caberra Hall of Famer and.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Got to couple World Series. They didn't win it, but
they were always in a mix that.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, they sold out the building for years, you know that,
the Tigers. It was a place to be Like the
Pistons at two thousand and four Pistons run. The Tigers
had a nice eight or nine year run where that
place was jammed and they were always in a mix.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
They just didn't get it done.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yep. Another team who got it done.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
The Padres bounce back from losing from the Cubs the
ninety four.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
They get it done today three to nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Maddy Machado has a big game and they tie that series.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Up one one.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So that'll be a good one heading into tomorrow. You
had the Padres, that was your NL pick.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Yeah, I would have been shocked Kelvin had they not.
Had they gotten swept and that was the end of
it for them.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I'm sure it looked great.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
You're able to get a shutout in Chicago right game
two after only mustering one run. So after two games
they've scored four runs. They lost three to one, and
the Cubs have scored only three runs. You know, like
this is playoff baseball, so you know, the Padres, I
expect them to move on.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I expect them to win, I really do.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And people panic after one game. I get it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
The team that wins game one has seems to have
a big advantage. You only have to win one of
the next two when the other team has to win two.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
But it's baseball. Winning two games in a row is
not impossible.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No not.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
People make it like that, like it's the end of
the world. Oh my god, No, you win today. You
can't win two games today. You win one game. That's
what Cleveland did today. They won one game. That's what
the Padres did. They won one game. That's what the
Yankees need to do, right. You win and then you
go to game three and you worry about that.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
You can't. It's just one game. That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You know what else? Two?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Uh? When you look at the road teams they've been
they've been doing well, and he's watched the new format.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
The wildcard series.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Road teams have done well too, So this isn't you
know where it's just to give it all right, Well,
we won, We got the home field, you know, home
field advantage, got a couple of games. You just don't know.
These wildcard series we've seen I think it's eight to
twelve over the last couple of years, this new format.
The road teams have one, if I'm not mistaken. So yeah,
so you gotta be wary if you're one of these
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teams and feel like, all right, at least we're at home.
It's not the case in baseball, and more importantly with
this World Series format, and it is no home.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Field, and it's not like basketball where you're in a
gym and people or whatever are going crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
It just doesn't work like that.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
It sounds good, but I don't think, especially in baseball,
it matters.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And we got a group one going on right now,
three to three tie with the Yankees and Red Soxe,
your Red Sox in New York series. Of course, bosson
up one. So we'll keep you updated throughout the day
on that one. So some good baseball going all the
way around we'll get you updated. We got Shekel City
player of the day on the way, plus a team
that just cannot stay healthy to say their life, what
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are they going to do?
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right now it is time for Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Welcome to Shekel City, a home base for Rob Parker's
day picks against the spread.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
All right, Shekel City was very very rough to me yesterday.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
How about an old for four? How about that? My god?
Oh for four in the baseball playoffs.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
That brings my record to twenty seven and twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And today we only have to.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Add, which is the Dodgers hosting the Cincinnati Reds. Do
I want the Reds to make this a series and
make this one one with the winner take all Game three?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I would love for that. But do I think that's
gonna happen. I do not. Their best pitcher was Hunter Green.
He got beat up last night by the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
So I'm gonna go with the Dodgers minus one and
a half runs.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
So the Dodgers minus one and a half, best bet,
maybe I can get a win.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
They they got load. To be honest with you, baseball,
that's just baseball.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Yeah, they look at even last night ten to five.
They're not I've never seen it more than two and
a half runs, you know what I mean, even with
against bad teams. That's that's that's a lot of runs
in baseball. But anyway, Dodgers minus one and a half
against the Reds taken on Cincinnati at Dodgers Stadium tonight
in Los Angeles. And remember, Calvin, I'm not telling you
(33:57):
who to bet on. I'm telling you who I bet on.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
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We talk about this all the time, and in certain teams,
right we talk about this where you look at a
Kawhi Leonard and even before why the Clippers are they
snake bitten?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Are they are they cursed every time they go up something?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Have Chris Paul's injured, or Blake Griffin's injured, now Kawhi's
and or Paul George is injured, and so on and
so forth. You look at maybe the Philadelphia seventy six ers, well,
dang it, the forty nine ers are kind of like that.
Can't stay healthy, have a good squad, have a good system.
Has been to a couple of Super Bowls, but every
other year it seems their star players or multiple star
(35:25):
players are out, are injured or hurt, and now you
got brock Perdy out, you got Kittle out, you got
their top three receivers out, you have Bosa out. I mean,
it's insane how many guys they're missing, and it'll be
interesting to see if they can still pull off a victory.
But my point is, man, this team has to be
(35:45):
feeling like, man, we finally got Christian McCaffrey healthy and running,
and even he was, you know, a little injury prone
or worried in the offseason, and my gosh, dude, it's
just do they need to get a whole new training staff?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Do they need somebody profile?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
They can do it, but it just seems like that's
where we are.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Though.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
It's it's a lot of teams and a lot of injuries,
hard for people to stay healthy. It's amazing sometimes how
bad it is, to be honest, and uh, how many
guys struggle, uh, you know, to stay healthy, and teams
seems to fall in and usually you do fire the
coaching staff, I mean, the training staff and the doctors.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
You just do it, even though.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
For the most part it really has very little to
do with them, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
But I get it.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
You don't want to just keep the same staff going
and things are going your way, and you start to say, man,
we need to change something. If you're not part of
the solution, guess what, you're part of the problem, dude.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Something's going on. I mean, they just are continuously have injuries.
And again that's a part of football. It's a brutal sport.
It's batters you. I mean, nobody makes it unscathed. But
my goodness, it just seems like, you know, for them,
it's bad, and uh to credit them, they've been able
to find a way to you know, get a couple
of games here there. But man, they go into a
season where a lot of people were kind of like
(37:08):
this could be a sneaky little team and that nobody
maybe is thinking about them because there's a handful of
other good teams.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
You got new people going different places.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Mike could go in different places, you know, year two
of Harbor, like other teams that you're thinking about, and
you know they had nowt here they are sitting three
and one, so they got a big one coming up
against the Rams, which I mean you expect that to
be lost, But then they got the Bucks coming up,
and you just wonder how long Brock Purdy will be out.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Piersoll been playing well.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
For them, been looking like a nice fine for them,
and so they got a couple of here's the thing, Rob,
they can make it past these next two games. Most
of their guys stay healthy between the Rams. Then they
go to the face the Bucks. Then they have the Falcons,
the Texans and the Giants. So there's a three games
stretch where you know what I mean, you can get
(37:56):
some get right if you can manage maybe win one
in one in this next couple of or even if
you lose both in your three and three.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
But that's all you need to do. You don't need
to write.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, you just need to tread water if you can,
you know what I mean, Like you just don't want
to lose three in a row, you know, like which
which could happen?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
And then all of a sudden you're three and three?
Speaker 8 (38:16):
Right?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
They just lost?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Uh, And Robert Sala had some words with the Jaguars
coach or whatever like that was a.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Fall into that. You do about the cheating about the numbers?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, yeah, he was besides stealing.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Coach is cheating, yes.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Man, it's signe stealing. That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
It's first of all, it's been happening for EANs, but
everybody calling everybody out college football, pro football.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
But if we see something to night Rob, we might
be heading towards seeing the best player of all time
in baseball.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
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When is the last time anybody has used trigonometry? You
know what I mean?
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Like Rob, we went to school, we learned all this stuff,
and when is the last time you use geometry?
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When is well, maybe geometry.
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I knew back then.
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No mores? Well the ten of the ten a round
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We got some football to talk about.
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Right, but let's start with the NFL. Let's do that,
Rob g.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I think we got to hear Shador Sanders speak loudly
about his NFL career so far, or maybe we didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Yeah, it was an interesting day in Cleveland. First thing
that happened was we found out officially that Joe Flacco
was being benched. His days are done there in Cleveland.
Dylan Gabriel will be the QB one. But what's surprising
about the move is that even though Flacco's getting benched,
he is still the backup. Shador Sanders did not get elevated.
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He's still QB three. Incidentally, Chador spoke to the media
before this went public, so they didn't know yet that
he was We're gonna happen with the quarterback situation, And
if you believe what he said or didn't say, certainly
sounds like he listens to the odd couple because recall
what Kelvin Washington told him to do last Friday with
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the microwave take.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Time to rehitt an old hot take that's gone cool.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
On the outside is to go in the metal.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's microwave take with the odd cup up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's okay to be Shdor.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, it's all right, nothing wrong with you being shtre.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I like that. You could keep it down. Sometimes he
didn't just keep it down. He didn't talk at all.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
He acted like a mime for about a minute and
a half for the reporter to do. They won't get
anything from him, Shador Sanders QB three. Still nothing changes,
Dylan Gabriel starting in Cleveland, and Shador had nothing to say,
nothing to add to the conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
First of all, let me say this is Rob's I
appreciate Shador listening to the eye couple.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That means a lot to me. I'm sure it means
a lot to you, Rob.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We always appreciate our fans, We appreciate everybody supports the
show and listens and is a part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But DA gets your doing. You took it too far.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I didn't mean Shdor as in now all of a sudden,
you are a.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Trade, world class trained mind.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I didn't mean that you had a show coming up
where you're gonna be part of the blue man group,
maybe the browner or orange man group in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
What this is?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What I mean when you tell somebody to do something
and they go too far. You tell them to take
an inch, they take a mile. All I was simply saying,
Rob was for chadeur. You don't have to always give
us what's on your mind.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
That's what the group chat is for, right, That's what
you jump in and you say, man, and these quarterbacks
playing like bums or I told you I think I'm
better than cam Ward or Dylan Gabriel or bow Nick
or some of the younger quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's what that's for.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The group Chet, you got like four or five brothers.
Hit your brothers up, hit your pops up. Hit Tom Bradio.
I don't care hit somebody, but you don't always have
to present yourself like that at all times. And Rob,
you know I've defended them at times. I said look better,
say young man. I still believe in the skill set.
But man, you ain't making it easy. When you were
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a fifth round pick. You're the third string guy on
this team, and you do things like that. Within now
they got to come in and ignore it. Stefanski doesn't
want to answer questions about the team, doesn't want to
talk about you. And then now you're miming and they're
being asked questions about your miming. So these are the
fast thing a fifth rounder, a third stream backup guy
needs to.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Be doing, and he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And you can do that if you're Patrick Mahomes and
you're having phone with the media about something because you're
just blowing it off and it took us so far. Okay,
you've earned that right, you have that equity, you've built
up that rapport with the city, the team, the franchise
and the community.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You don't have that right now, and so to be
doing these types of things, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Probably frustrating, probably annoying for them, and to me it
is damaging. At last point, let me tell you a
little something about Joe Flacco. Rod Parker, I told you
I thought they should start Dylan Gabriel or Shador and
that you're trying to find your guy they want with
Joe Flacco. We get it, Joe Flacco's approving guy, veteran
super Bowl champion, but we knew what this was gonna be.
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Joe Flacco has six interceptions in their first four games.
He's been sacked nine times, he has two touchdowns. That's
terrible football, but that's to be expected with the Browns
right now where they are. And the point of bringing
up Joe Flacco is because Chador isn't back up to
Dylan Gabriel, probably a large part because of the antics
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and all the other stuff. They now have him third
string when this was what I told you. If you're Chador,
this is what you wanted. I told you Joe Flacco
was gonna play his way out just because he's Joe
Flacco at this point in his career, and Dylan Gabriel,
because he's a third round is gonna be the starter,
and you could bump up the second and there's a
lot of football that we had. Maybe Dylan Gabriel is
a great, or maybe hurts himself and you're in. But
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now Joe flackos the backup, even though he's been trashed rob.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
It speaks volumes about Shador if anything. I mean, what
in the world would you do going back to a
forty year old quarterback unless you just don't believe Shador
is ready to be in and if what it's the
other reason, it doesn't even make sense. I didn't think
it weighed any sense to have two rookie quarterbacks on
the staff anyway. It doesn't make you gotta make a decision.
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You can't have two of them. It doesn't. It just doesn't.
That's why it can't be the backup. So you know,
if Dylan Gabriel has a couple of rough starts, then
you put in the other quarterback for a couple of
rough starts. It could be could be ugly either way.
I don't even understand what they're doing from that standpoint,
but it speaks volumes about Shador that they're not even
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interested in seeing what this guy could do in an
NFL game, And and you know, I'm just it's strange.
It really is strange because none of it makes sense.
I don't think it has anything to do with the
antics and the other stuff. I don't believe that that
it has more to do with just him and his ability,
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because what else could it be.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And I don't know, maybe they just holding on to him.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Maybe they think somebody will be desperate and come around
and they could get a draft picked, because that is
obvious that they're not interested in. And you know how
quarterbacks get hurt and things are happening, somebody might go, man,
we need a spark, we need something. Let's do something.
Let's let's get energizing franchised.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Let's just go for it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Let's just throw.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Caution against the wind right and go get your door.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
And then the fan base, oh my god, you know
we're owing for but you're the Jets and.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You just decided, hey, let's let's give your door the reins.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You know you're not gonna get anythings going with Justin Fields,
or you realize maybe he's just he is what he is,
you know what I mean, and he is not going
to be anything long term, and maybe you make a
decision like that, and that's something that could happen, and
they say, hey, we need a third round pick or
fourth or a couple of picks or something, and then
that fifth round pick turns into.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
To capital, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
For Cleveland, that could be the only reason, because they
keep them there. They let Zapi Bailey Zapi on the
practice splitting reps wish shador, which you don't see that happen,
and none of it makes any sense to me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So also it has to be.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
And I do want to bring one last thing up.
I think you were part of it. You know Eric
Dickerson and all his conspiracy about the NFL, and I
think you guys were all wrong with the reporting that
says that the Eagles and the Ravens were both interested
and told not to draft him, that that he didn't
want to go there. So there was all this, and
you know, Eric Dickerson had a reporter that he talked
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to people and they blackballed them and the league didn't
We're gonna show him. I never bought into that, and
I think the reporting points that out that this was Shador.
Schador was the one who did not want, you know
what I mean, to go to the Ravens or go
to some other Eagles where they have two star quarterbacks,
and he didn't want to go there.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
So so this is where we are.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
That makes more sense on why he dropped to me
when you add that reporting.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But I'll still say this, talent wise, I absolutely believe
that he was not a fifth round pick.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I'll I'll die on that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Heels They say, could it be again his meetings or
some other things that was a sixth round pick.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Tom Brady wasn't great guy.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Tom Brady played quarterback at Michigan.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
He was.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I saw one of his snaps. He was. He was good,
he was and great.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Okay, But you make it like you make it like
it's like Joe Montana was a fourth round pick. You
make it like, oh my god, how about uh, what's
the Rams quarterback?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It wasn't even drafted Kurt Warner?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Wait? What what you're throwing me off? What do you
I don't even give what you're saying. Like, My point is,
you make it.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
You make it as if like it's an exact science
and guys like a Kurt Warner wasn't drafted or Tom Brady,
that's what they are.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You making it like, oh no, but no. My point
is that you're talking about, oh, for sure he was this,
or that I don't believe that.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's for nobody. Guys, you know, nobody knows. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But the reason why this was a big deal and
you had guys who've been doing this for thirty forty
years losing their minds is because we've never seen this.
Rob You gotta at least admit that we always have
a sleeper a guy comes out the blue, a fifth round,
fourth round, sixth round, undrafted.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That happens all the time. You get your brock parties.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But we don't have guys who are projected as a
first rounder drop to the fifth round unless there's something
that happens, some violent thing in their past or something
like that comes up.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's what made this unusual, all right?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
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We got Shekel City Player the Day on the way
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Some great baseball action in fact happening right now as
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just a little bit. Taking phone calls eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, Shador Sanders took it too far
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when I.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Said Shore and now he's miming to the media.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's just not a good situation. Who we got, Robb
a seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Let's kick it off with dre in Michigan. You're on
the couple of Fox sportuadio.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's up, Drake?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
What has gone on?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Fellas?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
All right, yes, sir? What's that? Where you've been?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Where you been?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Oh? I'll be calling brother Nock like that. You the
want to be keeping me on on Red?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, it's just crazy man trying to get in. Sorry
about that.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Man.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Y'all hot y'all, y'all the hotness, y'all.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Hey man, we like the river Rock. We like the
river Rock. Back in the day, of Detroit.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Oh, he's saying river Rock. But you know rob Os
spot with old legends. What was that called when they.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Changed legends yesterday?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
It was I forgot it? What if I just running
a rod down there?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
That was his old spot.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Yeah. But I think the problem is is that they
don't want to put him as number two because they
don't want to put that pressure on great on Gabriel,
because we know how to go. Everybody's green for the
backup quarterback. So if Gabriel don't come out hot, what's
the first thing the gonna do. We're putting into sugar,
put it in your door. So by keeping it with Flacco,
I think that kind of alleviates some of the pressure
of Gabriel. And then for his minded things, it's like
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the young man, he's like, he's darning if we do, darn.
If we don't, it's like, Okay, we want you tal
but don't talk too much. You should be quiet. You
only fit wround draft. But we're gonna come ask you questions,
you know, So it's like, you know, hey, I think
he's just kind of get Just because they.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Ask you questions don't mean you have to you don't
have to do any of that, like you know, like
you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I get it like that.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
That's the job of reporters to ask questions. But players
have a right to not comment. There's not there's nothing
going on.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, Dre, I you I don't. Yeah, go ahead, Dre
know about saying.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
But at the same time, if they don't answer, and
then they just gonna create a whole in there. Oh,
he's difficult.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You're seeing it ron a question.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
About what he's a third string quarterback, Dre. I challenge you,
d challenge you to go get me quotes from a
third string quarterback from any other team in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Go go, go, go show me the.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Quote one points because nobody's asking the third grade quarterback anything.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
No, and my point is he doesn't have to answer.
It's about his celebrity. I get that in his last name.
That's why teams don't want guys like that on their team.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's exactly what you just said. That's why.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, And my point to Dre appreciate the call, Dre,
would have been also, listen, you're trying to play and
nobody's saying, don't answer the questions. But all I was
saying is keep in mind part of playing especially that position,
is also being the front guy of a franchise.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Right. We talked about that all the time.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
When you're a quarterback, you are a franchise that you're
the guy at the podium.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You're and they don't want.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
A guy that hasn't even played a lick yet in
an actual meaningful game and bashing all the other quarterbacks
and do it, honest, I play better than it, like
you haven't had the chance to do that. I told
Rob g earlier, Muhammad Ali could do that because he
can go out there and back it up whether he
was right or wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We got to see it.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Shador can't even get on the field right now to
be talking about I'm better than It's a bad quarterback play.
I've been rooting for him. But you also have to
know sometimes you got to play the game. It's called
a game of life, and every now and again, we
all got to play it sometimes.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And that's what I'm saying is sometimes you don't have
to fall into that. And even as a reporter, sure
is it good for us, Sure it is. But this
time when I respect somebody to say not today, guysing
there's nothing to report. Thank you for coming by my
lock Dion in Texas. You're in the couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, Deon?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Guys.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
I agree with everything y'all said. And think about this.
Mister Door didn't want to go to Baltimore. He probably
would have been starting this weekend. We probably could have
got a chance to see what he can do for
the next two three weeks. But his but is right
where he need to be third string.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
There is a certain decorum, there's a certain attitude that
the starting quarterback of a franchise has to. They got
to have that type of swagger. He don't have that. Man,
He's a little immature right now. But I'll tell you
this before Joe Flack, I'll start another game. I do
want them to see if, unless say Gabriel gets hurt
or he's not doing very well, maybe ten, you know,
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after a tenth or eleventh game. I would like to
see shredor get a get an opportunity later on the season.
But he got to mature. He gotta be ready when
when he's called.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Thanks guys, all right, Deann, thank you. Let's squeeze it,
Randy real quick. Calvin from New Orleans. Randy, you're on
the yye couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
N How y'all doing doing well? Ready, dude, dud dude,
that's the first thing.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
First thing to me is to be a good teammate.
And he could have just said, I'm happy for Dylan.
I hope he plays well if and when my time comes,
I'll be ready to please. Yes, no disrespect to no disrespect.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
To Ryan Clark.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
But I know I never pleased football. But I do
know how to be a decentmate. But let me put this.
Let me tell you like this, Uh I was so
great college. Uh he should have been. He should have
been a first or second or third pick or whatever.
I understand, you know, people feel how they feel about it.
But I've been watching about my entire life and I
don't seen college quarterbacks when the Watson camp played the
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year award and go make the draft. It's not an
exact science.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
When you draft.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
That's what That's my point.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
That you're immature. That usually will set you back a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It doesn't matter about how.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Did you flit.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
When you get to be at a certain level, your maturity,
man I appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Com no doubt, I hear you on that, all right,
Ro appreciate it, But I.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Argue with that because it's not an exact science, and
that that was my point on.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
How I got what.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
You're all over the board when you know, when you say, oh,
I know he's a top whatever pick, I just I'm
just not convinced of that, like, especially especially if the
reports about him coming with headphones on and being unprepared,
like those are the things that could turn.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
People off as well.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I just yeah, just we there was he's been
his whole last six months have been very interesting because
we sold on one thing didn't happen now here we
are so which we knew this was gonna be a
roller coaster Ryan, right before we get to trending, last
twenty seconds from me, Rob, I do think it'll be
interesting if they didn't announce him as a backup, just
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they don't hear the noise, so that then if something
does happen at the den the game, did they sneak
him in without like without the pressure having to do
that because you announced that he'd be the backup earlier.
That will be interesting to see, all right, right now,
we got Steve A. Saga, gonna get a set on
what's trending. We got the MLB postseason whip around.
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Speaker 1 (24:42):
And Rob, you and I have been talking about it
for really, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Starting last year around this time, we had a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Of great baseball conversation because it was just a great
It was a great postseason, a little bit of some
maneuvering throughout the off season. You got the biggest story
win Soto going to the Mets. So we've kept up
with the conversations. Now we are here with the postseason.
Man and as Ilo was just mentioning Tigers lose six
to one today coming off the school Bol masterpiece the
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day before. This is why you and I talked about it.
They had to win that one, right, because they're not
built right now to be oh, we'll be all right
if we lose the school can't.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
No, don't worry about it. They had to win. Now.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Here's the issue though, To be honest, the series should
be over.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
The Tigers scored two unearned runs.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Both of their runs came on miscues by Cleveland. So
and then you add today to the mix. You know,
they had a run taken off the board. That was
a bad play in that you know, the runner didn't
score before the third out was made, right, that's one
of those technical things that has to happen.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So a run came off the board.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
So they had one run today, two on eurded runs
and with runners are scoring position in the two games?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Did two for twenty? Did two for twenty?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I just scored the only thing that that that allowed
them to even stay. They should have lost that game
one nothing if you take away the error, you know
what I mean, Like like, that's how bad it's been.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
For the Tigers. Two for twenty is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Now for twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And two for twenty, as you mentioned, and and baseball
isn't built how it used to be, rob We're okay,
we can try to manufacture runs, you know what I mean.
And back in the day, if this wasn't working, that
was where Okay, we're gonna try to steal. Okay, we're
gonna butunt here. Okay, we're gonna try to do this.
Guys used to be able. Teams used to be able
to manufactors runs better back in the day, and so
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you could try to get something going if if your
bats by just more the most more basic Rudi Mitchell
way isn't working, meaning you're not just getting regular hits.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
All right, we gotta figure something out.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And so yeah, now here's the thing about a wild
card series best of three.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You might not even be the better team.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And the Guardians have been playing the better baseball than
the Tigers obviously the last month or so. But if
you can sneak off one more, you can move on.
It's a fresh start, and you know the Alds. So
if you're the Tigers or anybody in this situation, wipe
your hands clean. Say, hey, one to one essentially zero
to zero in a one game series, you go out
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and you try to win, and then you can move
on and we'll deal with our products in the next round.
But here's my issue. I just this team is dead offensively.
I just it sounds good. Kelvin, You're right.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
One game, you don't have your ace on the mound
and you're not hitting. I just I would be stunned
if the Tigers beat Cleveland in Game three.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I just don't from where where are the hits where?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
You know, like you use your motown like like they've
been they've been dead for a while.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
This has been two months. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Like, listen, this is why it pains me. You and
I are doing our predictions and whatnot. You know, I
wanted to go Tigers Dodgers in the World Series, you know,
I want to do that. How amazing would that be?
But even I had to keep it real. They just
don't have enough. Uh, the firepower isn't there. And what
they were able to ride off of last year, Rob,
the kind of the if you will, the Oakland A's
(28:15):
of the twenty twenties, of the small ball, the money
not having you.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Know, paid a bunch of guys or anything.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
The payroll was so low last year that it's kind
of bitting them in the butt this year. So will
be an interesting offseason to me, Rob, because if you
look at the team that's constructed, you'll say, man, if
we can just get a bigger bat here or there,
well we might be in the mix now for you know,
give our extend our run of another handful of seasons.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So it'd be interesting to see if they spent some
spend some money.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You know, they have to go out and get a bat,
like seriously and and just say we need to add
that that team. When that team turned around, you know
that when they went out and spent the money and
got Miggie Caberra Hall of Famer and.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Got to couple World Series. They didn't win it, but
they were always in a mix that.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, they sold out the building for years, you know that,
the Tigers. It was a place to be Like the
Pistons at two thousand and four Pistons run. The Tigers
had a nice eight or nine year run where that
place was jammed and they were always in a mix.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
They just didn't get it done.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yep. Another team who got it done.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
The Padres bounce back from losing from the Cubs the
ninety four.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
They get it done today three to nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Maddy Machado has a big game and they tie that series.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Up one one.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So that'll be a good one heading into tomorrow. You
had the Padres, that was your NL pick.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Yeah, I would have been shocked Kelvin had they not.
Had they gotten swept and that was the end of
it for them.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I'm sure it looked great.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
You're able to get a shutout in Chicago right game
two after only mustering one run. So after two games
they've scored four runs. They lost three to one, and
the Cubs have scored only three runs. You know, like
this is playoff baseball, so you know, the Padres, I
expect them to move on.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I expect them to win, I really do.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And people panic after one game. I get it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
The team that wins game one has seems to have
a big advantage. You only have to win one of
the next two when the other team has to win two.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
But it's baseball. Winning two games in a row is
not impossible.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No not.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
People make it like that, like it's the end of
the world. Oh my god, No, you win today. You
can't win two games today. You win one game. That's
what Cleveland did today. They won one game. That's what
the Padres did. They won one game. That's what the
Yankees need to do, right. You win and then you
go to game three and you worry about that.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
You can't. It's just one game. That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You know what else? Two?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Uh? When you look at the road teams they've been
they've been doing well, and he's watched the new format.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
The wildcard series.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Road teams have done well too, So this isn't you
know where it's just to give it all right, Well,
we won, We got the home field, you know, home
field advantage, got a couple of games. You just don't know.
These wildcard series we've seen I think it's eight to
twelve over the last couple of years, this new format.
The road teams have one, if I'm not mistaken. So yeah,
so you gotta be wary if you're one of these
(31:12):
teams and feel like, all right, at least we're at home.
It's not the case in baseball, and more importantly with
this World Series format, and it is no home.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Field, and it's not like basketball where you're in a
gym and people or whatever are going crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
It just doesn't work like that.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
It sounds good, but I don't think, especially in baseball,
it matters.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And we got a group one going on right now,
three to three tie with the Yankees and Red Soxe,
your Red Sox in New York series. Of course, bosson
up one. So we'll keep you updated throughout the day
on that one. So some good baseball going all the
way around we'll get you updated. We got Shekel City
player of the day on the way, plus a team
that just cannot stay healthy to say their life, what
(31:50):
are they going to do?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
We'll tell you next. It's The Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
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Speaker 3 (32:05):
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Speaker 1 (32:08):
A couple, Rob Parker covin Washington on a worship Wednesday.
Hopefully you are having a good one lot coming up
next hour as well, to stick around for that. But
right now it is time for Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Welcome to Shekel City, a home base for Rob Parker's
day picks against the spread.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
All right, Shekel City was very very rough to me yesterday.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
How about an old for four? How about that? My god?
Oh for four in the baseball playoffs.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
That brings my record to twenty seven and twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And today we only have to.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Add, which is the Dodgers hosting the Cincinnati Reds. Do
I want the Reds to make this a series and
make this one one with the winner take all Game three?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I would love for that. But do I think that's
gonna happen. I do not. Their best pitcher was Hunter Green.
He got beat up last night by the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
So I'm gonna go with the Dodgers minus one and
a half runs.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
So the Dodgers minus one and a half, best bet,
maybe I can get a win.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
They they got load. To be honest with you, baseball,
that's just baseball.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Yeah, they look at even last night ten to five.
They're not I've never seen it more than two and
a half runs, you know what I mean, even with
against bad teams. That's that's that's a lot of runs
in baseball. But anyway, Dodgers minus one and a half
against the Reds taken on Cincinnati at Dodgers Stadium tonight
in Los Angeles. And remember, Calvin, I'm not telling you
(33:57):
who to bet on. I'm telling you who I bet on.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
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Speaker 3 (34:47):
It is the way tire buying should be Rod.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
We talk about this all the time, and in certain teams,
right we talk about this where you look at a
Kawhi Leonard and even before why the Clippers are they
snake bitten?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Are they are they cursed every time they go up something?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Have Chris Paul's injured, or Blake Griffin's injured, now Kawhi's
and or Paul George is injured, and so on and
so forth. You look at maybe the Philadelphia seventy six ers, well,
dang it, the forty nine ers are kind of like that.
Can't stay healthy, have a good squad, have a good system.
Has been to a couple of Super Bowls, but every
other year it seems their star players or multiple star
(35:25):
players are out, are injured or hurt, and now you
got brock Perdy out, you got Kittle out, you got
their top three receivers out, you have Bosa out. I mean,
it's insane how many guys they're missing, and it'll be
interesting to see if they can still pull off a victory.
But my point is, man, this team has to be
(35:45):
feeling like, man, we finally got Christian McCaffrey healthy and running,
and even he was, you know, a little injury prone
or worried in the offseason, and my gosh, dude, it's
just do they need to get a whole new training staff?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Do they need somebody profile?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
They can do it, but it just seems like that's
where we are.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Though.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
It's it's a lot of teams and a lot of injuries,
hard for people to stay healthy. It's amazing sometimes how
bad it is, to be honest, and uh, how many
guys struggle, uh, you know, to stay healthy, and teams
seems to fall in and usually you do fire the
coaching staff, I mean, the training staff and the doctors.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
You just do it, even though.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
For the most part it really has very little to
do with them, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
But I get it.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
You don't want to just keep the same staff going
and things are going your way, and you start to say, man,
we need to change something. If you're not part of
the solution, guess what, you're part of the problem, dude.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Something's going on. I mean, they just are continuously have injuries.
And again that's a part of football. It's a brutal sport.
It's batters you. I mean, nobody makes it unscathed. But
my goodness, it just seems like, you know, for them,
it's bad, and uh to credit them, they've been able
to find a way to you know, get a couple
of games here there. But man, they go into a
season where a lot of people were kind of like
(37:08):
this could be a sneaky little team and that nobody
maybe is thinking about them because there's a handful of
other good teams.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
You got new people going different places.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Mike could go in different places, you know, year two
of Harbor, like other teams that you're thinking about, and
you know they had nowt here they are sitting three
and one, so they got a big one coming up
against the Rams, which I mean you expect that to
be lost, But then they got the Bucks coming up,
and you just wonder how long Brock Purdy will be out.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Piersoll been playing well.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
For them, been looking like a nice fine for them,
and so they got a couple of here's the thing, Rob,
they can make it past these next two games. Most
of their guys stay healthy between the Rams. Then they
go to the face the Bucks. Then they have the Falcons,
the Texans and the Giants. So there's a three games
stretch where you know what I mean, you can get
(37:56):
some get right if you can manage maybe win one
in one in this next couple of or even if
you lose both in your three and three.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
But that's all you need to do. You don't need
to write.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, you just need to tread water if you can,
you know what I mean, Like you just don't want
to lose three in a row, you know, like which
which could happen?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
And then all of a sudden you're three and three?
Speaker 8 (38:16):
Right?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
They just lost?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Uh, And Robert Sala had some words with the Jaguars
coach or whatever like that was a.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Fall into that. You do about the cheating about the numbers?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, yeah, he was besides stealing.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Coach is cheating, yes.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Man, it's signe stealing. That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
It's first of all, it's been happening for EANs, but
everybody calling everybody out college football, pro football.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
But if we see something to night Rob, we might
be heading towards seeing the best player of all time
in baseball.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Tell you who
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