October 2, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us if they’d rather root for a team like the San Diego Padres (who are always competitive but never actually win anything) or the Miami Marlins (who normally stink but win championships every blue moon). Plus, sports media personality Mark Gunnels swings by to discuss all the biggest Big Ten football headlines in this week’s edition of College Kids. Finally, the Odd Couple Crew debates athletes-turned-actors in this week’s edition of Shop Talk.
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fs R and subscribe. And Kelvin don't forget to get
the college kids coming up. Mark Dunnell's this week. Last
week with Sierra, remember she was trying to sell us
that I think you followed her that this wasn't your
daddy's Alabama against Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Or whatever thin and boy would be wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, you and Sierra were wrong. But the Mark Gunnals
will be by in about eight months. Yeah, I know
that was that was something there. I know most people
thought it was over. I was gonna say, the Padres
are mounting a rally. It's three to one now, and
I told you Fred not you know what their picture
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The Cubs pitchers hit two battles in.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
A row, just hit somebody. Yeah, he shook it. He
shook it.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He shook because this is the second guy and you
can't put guys on.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Let me see, I don't know, get hit.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
But did it hit the dirt first? Is that what
they're trying to see? If it hit the dirt first,
it might be trying to see that.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
It's crazy and nerves do those nerves elimination game? Those
nerves get to go?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What do we just what did we just talk about
about getting those final three outs and how hard it is.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
He's out, he's out, of the game.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, and the Padres hit a home running the top
of the ninth three to one, and now they have
the tying runs on base. You're double away from tying
the game and a three run hold one out of way. Yes,
they're in this.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, this is why we like playoff. This is why
we love playoffs in generating sport. But this is why
we love playoff baseball. Baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Every pitch matter matters, everything matters. It's not over. I
know it's cliches, not over till it's over.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's why I was telling you in the seventh inning,
and I'm trying to do you might be right with you.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I know, I was like, but you might be right.
I'm I was hoping I was right. But it doesn't
look like that. All right, But here's the question, And
Rob G jump up, jump in on this, uh, because
we talk about it all the time, and Kelvin you're
big on this about being relevant. But Rob G, when
we talk about teams like the Padres and maybe the
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Marlins set the table for us.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Please, well, you know the reason why rob is so
invested in this game right now? What's happening currently in
this Chicago Padres and.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
We should pull the curtain back.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Rob G producers inside the Parker for the last six
years or whatever it's been.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
And for the last five of them, Robins picked the
Padres to make the world serious. So if there's anybody
outside of San Diego that's for the Padres tonight, it's
none other than Robert.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Lee Parker Junior.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And we're obviously with you nind this game.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
But one conversation that's come out, especially when it comes
to a team like the Padres, and we see across
other sports as well, is would you rather be a
team like these Padres?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
That's always right there.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
I mean rob is picking them to make the World
Series every year, not because he's going out in the
limb he's trying to make a hot take.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Because they got players right, talent, they.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Got a roster, they got everything you would look for,
everything you'd think you would need hypothetically to win big
in the postseason, and they just can't seem to get
it done.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Every year.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
They're close, but they can't quite.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
They had the last year right, they cannot break through
the glass ceiling. On the flip side, you got teams
like the Miami Marlins who are a laughing stock ninety
five percent of my adult life. They also got two
World Series champions that's right, from ninety seventy two thousand
and three, and the Padres, last night check have zero.
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So if you are a sports fan, or in this case,
a baseball fan, would you rather be rooting for a
team like these Padres who are close, close with even
right now they're closed, they're right there? Can they get
over the hump who never actually breakthrough? Or you're rooting
for a team like the Marlins, who most of the
time are gonna give you nothing to cheer about, but
once every fifteen twenty years might win the big thing.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I'm gonna tell you right now. I know, Kelvin, you're
big on being relevant. I'm big on winning a championship.
Like the Kansas City Royals. They won a World Series
in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I take that.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
If I'm a Royals fan, I got my moment. I'm
not expecting them to win every two years. It doesn't
work like that. That's not what I'm looking for. I
want my team to be able to be good. I
want to have a magical season that I can remember.
The Mets have not won a World Series since nineteen
eighty six. Do I remember nineteen eighty six? Back then,
I was just turning into being a professional right sports writer,
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and it was magical and I'll hold on to that
for my whole life. And that's the point that I'm
trying to make, is that you would rather your team
win a championship than to always be good or always
be in the mix, or you always feel like they
have a shot. I'll take one championship and nine bad years.
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I would I take nine bad years for one championship
compared to being relevant all ten years but never winning,
because it is about winning and ultimately, you want to
win and you're not gonna win every year. Like the
Denver Nuggets finally won, right those fans, Okay, they haven't
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once in two years. Those fans don't feel like, oh
my god, what happened? We only won that one time? No,
you take that, because there's the Utah Jazz who have
never won.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
We just mentioned the Padres who have never won.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The Tigers haven't won since nineteen eighty four, Like there's
so many teams. The Mets' once since nineteen eighty six.
The Dodgers took thirty some odd years before they broke through.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
You remember they had won it since nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, Like,
I could go on and on and on, and.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Then some of these bad teams that we ridicule, they've
won more recently. Right, Right, the Yankees ever won since
two thousand and nine. Right, the Rangers had never won
they won. I could go on and on and on
about these teams.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Where are you?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah, so here's here's you know what I wish we
could go back two days.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know why because I would go to trash talking Tuesday.
You know who I would trash right now? I would
trash rob G. Rob G.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
You only know I want to trash you because the
reason I want to trash you is because you brought
up the trash Marlins. Shout out to my man, Dontrell Willis,
that's my guy in all but Dagget. The reason I
brought this up is because there's one thing to be
We just haven't won, but we're competing in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And then there's I don't even know if this team.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Want to have a baseball andres lost Cubs, this survived, they.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Win, they popped up. Yeah, yeah, he would swing up
for fence.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
You know you saw that on the first pick.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, I don't blame them.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Look at the manager, the stoics like a stone face,
like another year with the Padres.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Could you have bunt it there? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And no no it's hours two.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah, there's no buts hey, hey, this is the perfect
time for this conversation. But back to what I was saying,
Rob G, can you can you you see the shirt
I have on right now?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I have on a bad boy Pistons shirt.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
And the reason why I think that would have been
relevant is because I would prefer it to be like
how the Pistons do you covered?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And Rob?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
They in the late eighties they were great, won a
couple eighty nine to ninety, fell off for fifteen years,
bounced back in one in two thousand and four, fell
off for a while again. Now they're popping back up.
Good you use the Marlins, Rob G. The Marlins don't
just they're not just bad. When they don't win that
you don't even know they exist. You don't even know
that they have an ownership who wants to actually have
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a baseball team. So dagget For my case, it's hard
to go with the Padres.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Bro my bad.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Yeah, because the Marlins sucks so bad as an organization
as a whole.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But I have to agree with Robin this one.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Like I said, I preferred to be more like a
Piston style but winning or maybe even the New York Giants,
the Football Giants.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Same thing right there. They have bad, a lot of bad. Yeah,
they got four championships.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
The reason why is because I got to be a
kid in the when the you know, we're using the
Pistons for example, that was amazing to see them win.
Then I went through some lean years and Gray Hill.
You know, they were solid, but they weren't great. And
in that twenty and four team, I just got into
business and that whole little run was just an amazing
run for a four or five year stretch to be
a part of. They obviously got one, they went to
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another one, So I have to agree. Unfortunately, you do
want to be the Marlins in this instance, the terrible team.
But because winning ultimately you have that to last for
your rest of your life. You can always tell your kids,
your grandkids, boy that time we won. In ninety seven,
boy that time and O three when we won, let
me tell you, the city was on fire.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I listened to dontall. I sit next to him when
I do Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
He just tells the stories of what it was like
being with that Martins, being in Miami during that time,
you know, those couple of years where they were good
and relevant.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He just talks about it.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
So ultimately, you as a fan, you as a player,
you want to be in that city, that environment when
they win.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So that is the answer. But you picked a terrible
I mean the Marlins.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
No, but the Marlins are an example of that.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
As bad as they've been, they've been on both spectrums,
but they what team are you laughing at?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Has won two World Series since ninety seven?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Right, in the last twenty five years, you'd be hard
pressed to name. The Tigers had Verlander, David Price, mat Suzer,
Miguel Cabrera, maglio'ordoniez.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yep, you beat me like all these.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Guys, and they got pud They got nothing, they got
nothing to show for it.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Got to they got to a couple of World series
that got.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Their right, I mean they did, but you get my point,
And then you got like, the Marlins won two World Series?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Can Marlin's fire a less low floor?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
My gosh, it's either we won a World Series or
we might as well be dis evolved from the major League.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Can they find a you know, and we're.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Not radium somewhere happy media? You know, maybe were the
Angels at times.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Guys.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Getting back to the Padres, you just mentioned all those
great players that played for the Tigers, and if you
really look back on it, it's incredible how many great
players they.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Have the team.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Do you think ten years from now, like you say
you did with the Tigers, ten years from now, we're
doing the same thing with the Padres. They has He's
and Machado and and Darvish and all that you think they're.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Gonna have For a year.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Sotoe even worked out Jackson Merrill, a up and coming rookie.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Star Could they be like the Tigers of this decade?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's absolutely Rob Jek absolutely could be because they have
nothing but star power.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
And we talked about it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Great ballpark, great fans, Kelvin Arrean situation. It's not too
many teams where there's no football, there's no basketball, there's nothing.
They are everything to the right. They have the city
to themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
The only thing I will challenge that is when you
brought up the Tigers again, rob G is at least
they got to the World Series. And the Padres, you know,
the boogeyman is the Dodgers. For them, the boogeyman is
you know, whether it be the NLCS. Like they just
can't get past that. And I think that makes it
worse because again, at least the Tigers, if you want
to play that game, kid, say well, dagge, we at
least tasted the World Series. The city was lit, you know,
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we got there a couple times in a handful of years.
The Padres just can't even seem to do that. And
they've been an advantageous situations where you think this is
the year, it ends up falling short. So I don't
even know if they have that, you know that to
at least put.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
In their back pocket.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah that's true, but it's talent wise.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
You're gonna say that, Yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You're gonna look at it and say that they couldn't
even get there, like like that's the heart that's so
crazy that that they just can't seem.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
To get over the hump.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I really thought I picked them, Rob G knows I
like their team.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Every year.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
For year six, Andre's Yankees World series.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I know I said it two years ago, but this
time it counts year six.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
No, I don't know about that next show.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
No, hey, hey, Robgzie, we'll give him he got about
what six seven, eight months. He'll pounds back and they
be like, you know what, They'll make one nice little signing.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Something right, the Dodgers are going to acquire Bryce Harper
in the office.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
He'll still be like the Padre the.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Padres, they got just as much up and Doce.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Harper, you're calling it now? Bryce Harper's washed. Won't even
be an All star Padres.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
In the World Series.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
What you guys imitating?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Does I sound like yes?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
You do?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh my god? All right?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine, six sixty three sixty nine. As a sports fan,
would you rather root for a team like the Padres
who always compete but never win, on a Marlins, who
really compete but win every once in a blue moon.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
We'll continue that conversation next with you.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
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go in about seven minutes or so, we'll do some
college ball with him. That should be fun. And look
at that. We talked about it earlier. The Niners, man,
they find ways.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
These games you think they should not.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
They don't scored a touchdown on the Rams. So we'll
keep you updated on that throughout this game.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's why we.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Play the games, you know. It's not that automatic.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Like every week we'd say, oh, now, so and so
should win, or this should be a piece of cake.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
It just doesn't work like that, man, It doesn't every week.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
We get absolutely every week we get a couple of
games where you're like, Okay, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
How that happens? So all right?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Rob g pose
a question, and it really was, would you rather be
like the Padres, got a bunch of talent, win a
bunch of games.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Go to the playoffs, seven operations?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yep, yeah? Or would you rather be like the Marlins?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Hey, give us a few years, we might win one,
give us ten fifteen years with my son, but dgg
we get we got a ring or two? Which one
would you rather be like? Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, who we got.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Jay in Georgia. You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Jay?
Speaker 10 (16:50):
We're going on, guys, how y'all doing doing great?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Good? Man doing good?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Rob?
Speaker 11 (16:56):
Rob Parker?
Speaker 10 (16:57):
I can't, Man, I kind of agree with y'all, man,
But Rob, you at your god dang on mind. What
about the same thing the Andres are going through right now?
That's what my braids went through for like fifteen or twenty.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Years, like oh yeah every year.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Yeah, you know, anyone we don't have living and so for.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It, we got one.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I know. Reason, I mean you know what. That's what
I was gonna say, the reason.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, yeah, they've at least got one. They got one.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But you're right.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And the big thing, Jay, you know this and Kelvin
they had three Hall of Fame pictures on the same
staff for ten years.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Yeah, I'm talking about that old three team. Tripper Jones,
Andrew Jones, Rob Parker should be a Hall of Famer
about the way. I'm gona keep letting you know that.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Okay, I'm not and I'll keep not giving you my vote.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
How was that, Garrett Garrett Field, i'malking about that old
three team was loaded, man, I'm talking about the brains
have at least like five or seal.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
But remember remember in ninety six.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
In ninety six, they they bludging the Yankees in the
first two games, yeah, in New York, and then they
went and lost all three games in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
They don't want to remember. Ro bring it up. Good points.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
But man, that's another bad early exit. I mean, come on, man,
I know you're playing in Chicago. I know the Cubs
had a good year, but they were the favorites to Padres.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't care what anybody says, right.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
The Cubs were very yeah, complete team.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
But that's what I was thought about the Braids when
we had this conversation, like, at least the Braids got one,
and at least they had made it to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's the difference too, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
John and Louisville. You're in the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, John?
Speaker 12 (18:43):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
How are you say that again? John?
Speaker 12 (18:50):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, enjoy it, enjoy it.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
So I heard you guys talking about the Marlins. Would
you rather be a Marlin's fan or pod I hate
the Marlins. A is a Cubs fan for one reason.
They won two World Series before the Cubs got theirs right,
and then we had two thousand and seven. They suck
as a franchise, but.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
They got I know, and that and that's really it.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
But they have even with their bad fan base and
all that, they they got people down there who are
like I got two in my lifetime.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I saw that they do.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And that's why it's weird that you That's why I told.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Yeah, yeah, and the rest of the time there so
I ain't lying about that. Rather be a pre fan
than a Marlins fan.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I hate Marl, all right, Yours is personal and this
time I get it.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Yeah, this person I get franchises. You gotta be like,
how how do we have one yet? Okay, all right,
all right, on the way, we got college kids with
Mark Gunno's well, have some fun talking to college football
him in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But right now, Monty Bilano is gonna get you set
on what's trending. Hey, Botzy.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
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swear they know college ball takes it into the yeah right,
fundamentals are gonna show up.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Are there?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Take sophomore at or graduation worth it? Robin Calvin book aside,
bring them on, yo.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
We need to tell Ricky and Vido to update that
imaging because if one thing we've learned for the first
couple of weeks of this segment is that Mark Gunnals
knows ball, specifically in the Big Ten, he doesn't know
he's more accurate than your favorite prognosticator. Again, Mark Gunnell's
sports mean a personally in with the akaba Mark, what's
that buddy?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Are you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yes? Good Mark?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We had to beat up on Sierra last week. I mean,
you know, but we'll see how you make out.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Mark.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
All right, now, quick professional course to all you knew bees.
If the guys like Mark's take, he's gonna be graduating.
If they don't, he's going back to school because he's
real sophomore. It's very simple, and Mark's got three very
hot takes related to Big Ten football.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
So let's get started.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Take number one, Mark says Oregon will beat Indiana next
week en route to going undefeated and hoisting up the
College Football Playoff National championship.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Mark, explain yourself.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
Yeah, I'm convinced.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
Now, I'm all in.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
I mean, two weeks ago, coach, you guys that Dante
Moore was the best quarterback in the Big Ten. Scratch
that he's the best quarterback in the country.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Went into Penn State.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
It's a happy valley, got away with the victories and
organ You know, they're known for being the finesse teams.
Speed not no more. They still have that, but they're
physical that one of the best officer attackers in the
country and Isaiah World, they're the best tighten in the country.
I mean, what else do you want? And they had
won the best defensive ends in the country and Matteo
(22:14):
Uga Lake. I got it right, I got it right.
Oregon will be Indiana next week, it's in Eugene, and
after that, I mean, their schedule is a cupcake central.
They would win the first national championship in school history.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
All right, you are graduating. Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I gotta tell you what, Like Rob g said, Mark Man,
you made some good calls.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You were talking about Dante More.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I pushed back on you a couple of weeks back
you right, he looks good, And I tell you what
you brought up something. Oregon historically be more of a
finesse speedster team, right, because they had to do that
in the Pack ten. That's kind of how the Pack
ten Pac twelve was, I should say. But then they
have the luxury now that they're in the Big Ten,
and they started to get some big started to play
a little tougher styles, starting to move the ball in
(23:03):
different ways, and I think that's what makes them and
a couple of other UH teams that came to the
Big Ten later started to be more complete teams. So
they're scary, I agree, and we do have to watch
out for them as the season goes along. In the
college football playoffs, I get graduating sophomore.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
Back to his cool, back to it's cool.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Did they blow out Penn State?
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Yeah? It was an state.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I said, did they blow them out?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
No, they did not blow them out.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
No they won, and I'm not gonna take it away
from them, but I didn't leave there going that's the
best college football team I've seen all year. I just
think there's a long way to go. And while they're good,
I'll give you that, I'm not ready to crown them.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Go ahead, you want to crown them, then crown their houses.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
They are who we thought we thought they are. That's right.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I'm just not there yet. Crown their ass.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
I'm crowning them.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
If you want to crown them, they crown their ass,
all right? Take number two.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
If Oregon is the best team in college football, then
U c l A.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
My Bruins might be the worst team.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
In fact, Mark is gonna say with a straight face
that even after they fired Deshaun Foster their head coach
and got rid of like half of their staff.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Mark was right.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Or it's gonna get even worse because Mark's saying they're
gonna go win.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
List this football so far? Tell us why.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
I mean, I feel like I keep ragging on these Bruins,
but they're so easy to pick on, man, I mean,
what a storyline. You fire your head coach after I
called it, and maybe you want the issue. I mean,
look at their schedule. I mean they played Penn State,
at Michigan State, Maryland at Indiana, they got Ohio State.
I mean, you keep.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Going on and on.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
They won't be favored in any of these remaining games
on the schedule. Where does the win? Where's the win?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
All right? I got that. I'm gonna say, sophomore, can
you mentioned it?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Win me? Where's the win?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
There's a school called Maryland on the schedule. They can
slip up easily. I give you the other schools. Maryland
is a world beater. Now they can't have a bad night,
a bad game. I'm Maryland is to win. How about that?
Ucla puts it together Kelvin for one night, right and
beats a Maryland.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
They're not going winless.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Rob, You're lucky.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
It's about Mark right now, because I would tell you
you are sophomoric. No, Marcus graduating? What I wanna tell you?
Speaker 8 (25:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
When you got a team that's dag near averaging a
baseball scorer averaging fifteen points a game, it's some baseball
teams pitching dogs look like they average fifteen runs a game.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
What is going on in UCLA?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I thought that was one of their power forwarest points
per game, fifteen point three points per game. You can't
have a team that's averaging that. They got sixty one
total points in the season.
Speaker 13 (25:57):
Rock.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They got six touchdowns with a hole. Some teams at
that in a half man, it's all bad right now.
Players check out.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
They start to think about what girl are taking the
homecoming or who they're gonna see, or I can't wait
to go home to get mama's Thanksgiving. It's a rap
I feel fat, bad form, but they get they're gonna
have to focus on UCLA men's basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Sorry, Rob, jeez.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Tough scene.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Tough scene, all right, last one again College games with
Mark Gunnold, sports media personality in with the Odd Couple
talking Big ten college football. Here on the Odd Couple,
the last take of the night, the hottest taken the night.
Mark says that Michigan at USC is essentially an elimination
game for the college football playoff. Mark tell us, why yeah?
Speaker 13 (26:43):
I mean you look at these two teams schedules.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
They both have one loss. But for USC, they don't
have any marquee games left from the schedule except later
in the season.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
They do play at Oregon.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
You got Notre Dame, who's a French top twenty five team, but.
Speaker 13 (26:56):
Lose this game, that's two losses. You probably got one
more in there are still I'm not convinced man. And
then you got Michigan, their only market game less this
last game of.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
The season, and I guess Ohio State. I think they
lose this year to the Buckeyes. So you can't lose.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
This game and then have a be a three loss team.
Speaker 12 (27:14):
So I really think with what.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
Twelve teams now get your second loss next week, it's
gonna be.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Hard sledding for one of these teams to make the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
You know what, Mark, you're graduating.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I always congratulatings.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
As we say at Southern Connecticut, you graduate eting because
you are and what a I think you're right here.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
This is one of those games.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
One of these two will not be standing after this,
and I don't know for some reason, I'm thinking it
might just be USC not standing. I'm just putting it
out there because I already got paid for the month,
so I'm okay.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
I'm good for right now.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
The check clear mark for the first time for me
today you're sophomore back to Here's the reason why I
say that. It's still very early in this season. As
we all know, most teams have only played give or
take five games is and so the reason I say
that is every year towards midway towards the end of
the season as well, we get a team in two
(28:18):
that pop up in the top twenty, top fifteen ish
that all of a sudden because they've only you know,
they started to keep winning teams. And that can happen
with a couple of teams left on Michigan's schedule, where
if these other teams win a handful of games in
a row, all of a sudden they are are ranked
in their higher ranked team in Michigan can beat them,
and all of a sudden, that's a good win to
have on their on their season. So I still believe
(28:39):
there's hope aside from justice USC game, because as it
has been for the last handful of years with USC,
they prove to not be a great team at the
end of the year.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
All right, Mark's college kids, good job, Buddy, good start.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Mar Hey, appreciate you as always.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
Hey Man, appreciate having me. I can't wait to be
back in studio.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
That's right, to get you in studio in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Always good stuff there. All right, that was college kids.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Next up, Mark say, Mark, Rob's we got a little
shop talk. We gotta get into Rob G cooked up something.
We'll do some shop talk calling up here in just
a minute. It is the odd Couple plus will keep
you updated on these baseball scores and also Thursday night football.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
John Carlos stan Thort he had a home run.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Did you see it? I don't know if you can
the screen see it.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
So he was watching it and it hit the fence.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Thank god he made it the second base because if
he would have got thrown out, people would have been pissed.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
It looked like it was going Watch.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Now, man, let me tell you something. He would have
missed every ice cream truck when he was a kid.
You know how you had to run and chase it
down for that man him and running, they'll go hand
and hand him.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
And but he knew he had to get the second base.
You can't up hit a ball that far and be
at first base.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Yo, what's the sports radio equivalent of what stan just did?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Like when Rob goes scorch third and he's got the
presidential themes on behind him and he was like he
had a great segment and then no calls.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
The equivalent, Rob G, you had to do that moments
Robbie so mad too. He's like, hey, Rob, g Matty,
he was so mad. He always take it out on
me and you.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah, and we should have talked about that to this
a bad topic.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I'm like, Rob, there's two Monday night football games going
on right now.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh man, it's the odd couple. Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, this was Alf. Is this Olf? I don't know
why I remember this being Alf.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
We were in some weird stuff in the eight late eighties,
a couple Rob Parker Kevin Water.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
At least that was on there were They were creative,
not the same old family.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Yeah, they tried to do stuff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They try. I'll get you that listen, and we did
a lot of that, even in the movies. Now they
just redo everything.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
They just like, we don't like it's so born like.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
It's like the radio host who has the sixth iteration
of the art couple and trash Talking Tuesday, which has
been in existence since uh Detroit in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Oh my god, I just love.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
When guys have original ideas.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And yes, you know what, there's super original st Yeah
we might have done.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
It's just there's nobody called Rob right now his phone ring.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Like even this last segment we did College Kid with
sounds original if it really does, right, but it's really
just foul or fair.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
But with football, Rob.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
G, you're a producer, Stop snitching on yourself.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Exactly what are you doing here? Rob G? Well you
know what, Hey, the formula works. I'll tell you that.
How about that Robbed.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
You said they're saying about today's sitcoms, Rob the formula word.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, they don't worry. We see it. No Trumpers aren't there.
I stay with you, Rob Parker Radio, what's that act?
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Speaker 6 (32:19):
You're gonna find a day's full show best of a
version posted right after we get done it is time
now for another segment that has been recycled, apparently retitled
It's time for shop talk.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Ain't nobody ain't nothing to that in the nineties.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
Lens that destroy I'll tell you what Lebron to be
Lebron His show is like the dig Stars that he
gets it.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It's kind of a snooze fant.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
It doesn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
You get massive, massive stars and it just doesn't do anything.
Maybe it's Gouda drinking wine in a barbershop and I've
never seen that in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
All right, Rob Dreie, what you got Rob?
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Yes, it is shop talk. Here in the Oco, we'll
say when we talk about something happen outside of the
world of sports. By the way, touchdown Niners about to
be up fourteen to nothing on the road against the Ramley.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
What what did I say to you?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Do?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
We just say that, like like what looks obvious.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
That's why Las Vegas is still standing because there are
games where you look and.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Go, oh yeah, this is up.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
What's called you go and put all your money down
on it and you wind up getting hurt.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Shout out to you.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
They about to give Rock Party money to Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
They might have to, they might have to.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
Well, guys, this week's topic of shop Talk comes to
us from the world of You Guessed at Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
We just talked about it and I don't know if.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
You guys know this, but The Rock has a new
movie coming out called The Smashing Machine, and everybody who
has seen it at all the you know, high Faluton
film festivals say it's one of the best films of
the year. In fact, The Rock is already getting Oscar
buzz I think The Rocks are terrible actor, so that
tells you how good this movie must be. But it
got me thinking, guys, who is the best former athlete
(33:57):
turned actor in Holly with history?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Wow a, you know I thought, you know, I thought
of an old guy in black and white right off the.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Bat, of course you did.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Uh So I'm just gonna start naming people first.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
So Jim Brown, you know he was one. Uh oh,
Jason one Way.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
He the one where Roquel Welch and him are back
in the day. Yeah, yeah, the first game that was
back in the day. Rob do you ever see that movie?
Rockel Welch she has I do know, Rock, I don't
know I've seen that one.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Shoot Rober, you gotta give us some option.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Here here's the list on I m dB.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
This is this is.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
How they list as the top ones. Fred Dryer, who
is a friend of the Ben Mountain Show.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Fred Dreyer's definitely.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Like, we can get him if you want him. Ye know,
I'm big, Fred, big friend of friend of Fred's. You
remember show Hunter on NBC. Yeah, Jim Brown, Bubba Smith,
Oh j Simpson, I said, oh, ja, yeah, Andre the Giant.
Oh God, I don't know if this counts Bob Uker
if you want to count him an act?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Was a giant played Andre the Giant? He did?
Speaker 4 (35:11):
But Bob you could no, no, no, We wasn't miss on
mister Belvedere, wasn't he on that show?
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Bob Rob's archie nemesis, Terry Bradshaw, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Lou
Ferrigno and Carl Weathers out of the top ten.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Now, how I was Chuck Connors, who played third base
for I Believe.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
The Cubs, the Rifleman. Chuck Connors wasn't act.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah that show.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
I got my answer, and I'm kind of cheating, but
I got my answer. So I'm gonna go last because
it's too easy. No, no, no, it's too easy. Okay, none
of y'all have U So I'll go first. Bruce Lee.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Bruce alex Is, Alex had it ready, hat his headphones on.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
That's what you get for not going. Bruce Lee is
my answer. Carl Weathers is actually not a bad one.
By the way, I'm not saying he was a regular
Daniel day Lewis, but you know I like that.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Bruce Lee is my answer.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Martial artists turn actor turn icon man.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
I got one, all right, good, Rob g And this
is based not, as you mentioned, on his acting chops,
but more on the watchability of the things he puts out.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
It's Arness Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yeah, I mean no, yes, Rob, just because no, no,
I'm agreeing.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
I'm actually agreeing.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Arnold had a run there from like the mid eighties
to the late nineties.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It was a movie star.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
It was a movie star.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
He was a movie He was everything the Rock hopes
he could become. And he was awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
Wait wait, that's I don't know. The Rock might be
up there, Arnold. No, Arnold's movies are better. I agree,
but I think you're under selling how he was. The
Rock is for some reason you got.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
But I think that the Rock is more because of
how big wrestling god.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
You know for him. Yeah, I don't disagree with you, you
know what I mean. And I'm just saying Arnold.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
If you were have said and you didn't know what
Arnold had done prior, right, rob g like you just
looked at them and put their stuff together.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Arnold had way better, Yeah, way better.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
I mean, Commando, Predator, Kindergarten Cop, running Man, Twins, total recall,
Twins is amazing. Tonight night, bro to night is your night,
bro Twins, Harminators with.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Anybody got another one?
Speaker 14 (37:34):
This one's easy. Also, it sucks that you took Bruce
Lee because that guy's a coon. But shout outs Kaitlyn Jenner,
I'm gonna go o. J Simpson. This guy was such
a good actor. He acted himself out of prison. Think
of that.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
You go very nice? Hey, what was that? It's not wrong?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Naked gun though, it's funny when he's in the wheelchair.
The rent a card thing was good.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah yeah, but I saw it from like OJ. Really
he wasn't really getting his act on. I mean he was.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
He was funny in what he did the way he
acted like that glove didn't fit.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
He's not black, he's oja wait, mute Kareem.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
He was in the airplane, remember an airplane? Who else?
Speaker 6 (38:20):
Are you missing? Anybody else? I'm trying to think. Was
there a basketball player turned.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I'm going down the list here a lot of older
people like.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
I'm trying to think there are more?
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Uh, David Washed, I forgot, but Denzel's son, he was
a football Think he.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Had a couple of coffee then, But wait a minute,
Terry Bradshaw shouldn't count because what didn't he play like
a dead guy and he just had no lines.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
He was just laying in the coffin.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Wasn't Burt Reynolds, Mark Harmon, It's Bruce Lee
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the college kids coming up. Mark Dunnell's this week. Last
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that I think you followed her that this wasn't your
daddy's Alabama against Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Or whatever thin and boy would be wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, you and Sierra were wrong. But the Mark Gunnals
will be by in about eight months. Yeah, I know
that was that was something there. I know most people
thought it was over. I was gonna say, the Padres
are mounting a rally. It's three to one now, and
I told you Fred not you know what their picture
(02:02):
The Cubs pitchers hit two battles in.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
A row, just hit somebody. Yeah, he shook it. He
shook it.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He shook because this is the second guy and you
can't put guys on.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Let me see, I don't know, get hit.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
But did it hit the dirt first? Is that what
they're trying to see? If it hit the dirt first,
it might be trying to see that.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
It's crazy and nerves do those nerves elimination game? Those
nerves get to go?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What do we just what did we just talk about
about getting those final three outs and how hard it is.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
He's out, he's out, of the game.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, and the Padres hit a home running the top
of the ninth three to one, and now they have
the tying runs on base. You're double away from tying
the game and a three run hold one out of way. Yes,
they're in this.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, this is why we like playoff. This is why
we love playoffs in generating sport. But this is why
we love playoff baseball. Baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Every pitch matter matters, everything matters. It's not over. I
know it's cliches, not over till it's over.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's why I was telling you in the seventh inning,
and I'm trying to do you might be right with you.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I know, I was like, but you might be right.
I'm I was hoping I was right. But it doesn't
look like that. All right, But here's the question, And
Rob G jump up, jump in on this, uh, because
we talk about it all the time, and Kelvin you're
big on this about being relevant. But Rob G, when
we talk about teams like the Padres and maybe the
(03:29):
Marlins set the table for us.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Please, well, you know the reason why rob is so
invested in this game right now? What's happening currently in
this Chicago Padres and.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
We should pull the curtain back.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Rob G producers inside the Parker for the last six
years or whatever it's been.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
And for the last five of them, Robins picked the
Padres to make the world serious. So if there's anybody
outside of San Diego that's for the Padres tonight, it's
none other than Robert.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Lee Parker Junior.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And we're obviously with you nind this game.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
But one conversation that's come out, especially when it comes
to a team like the Padres, and we see across
other sports as well, is would you rather be a
team like these Padres?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
That's always right there.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
I mean rob is picking them to make the World
Series every year, not because he's going out in the
limb he's trying to make a hot take.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Because they got players right, talent, they.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Got a roster, they got everything you would look for,
everything you'd think you would need hypothetically to win big
in the postseason, and they just can't seem to get
it done.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Every year.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
They're close, but they can't quite.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
They had the last year right, they cannot break through
the glass ceiling. On the flip side, you got teams
like the Miami Marlins who are a laughing stock ninety
five percent of my adult life. They also got two
World Series champions that's right, from ninety seventy two thousand
and three, and the Padres, last night check have zero.
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So if you are a sports fan, or in this case,
a baseball fan, would you rather be rooting for a
team like these Padres who are close, close with even
right now they're closed, they're right there? Can they get
over the hump who never actually breakthrough? Or you're rooting
for a team like the Marlins, who most of the
time are gonna give you nothing to cheer about, but
once every fifteen twenty years might win the big thing.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I'm gonna tell you right now. I know, Kelvin, you're
big on being relevant. I'm big on winning a championship.
Like the Kansas City Royals. They won a World Series
in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I take that.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
If I'm a Royals fan, I got my moment. I'm
not expecting them to win every two years. It doesn't
work like that. That's not what I'm looking for. I
want my team to be able to be good. I
want to have a magical season that I can remember.
The Mets have not won a World Series since nineteen
eighty six. Do I remember nineteen eighty six? Back then,
I was just turning into being a professional right sports writer,
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and it was magical and I'll hold on to that
for my whole life. And that's the point that I'm
trying to make, is that you would rather your team
win a championship than to always be good or always
be in the mix, or you always feel like they
have a shot. I'll take one championship and nine bad years.
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I would I take nine bad years for one championship
compared to being relevant all ten years but never winning,
because it is about winning and ultimately, you want to
win and you're not gonna win every year. Like the
Denver Nuggets finally won, right those fans, Okay, they haven't
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once in two years. Those fans don't feel like, oh
my god, what happened? We only won that one time? No,
you take that, because there's the Utah Jazz who have
never won.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
We just mentioned the Padres who have never won.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The Tigers haven't won since nineteen eighty four, Like there's
so many teams. The Mets' once since nineteen eighty six.
The Dodgers took thirty some odd years before they broke through.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
You remember they had won it since nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, Like,
I could go on and on and on, and.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Then some of these bad teams that we ridicule, they've
won more recently. Right, Right, the Yankees ever won since
two thousand and nine. Right, the Rangers had never won
they won. I could go on and on and on
about these teams.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Where are you?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah, so here's here's you know what I wish we
could go back two days.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know why because I would go to trash talking Tuesday.
You know who I would trash right now? I would
trash rob G. Rob G.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
You only know I want to trash you because the
reason I want to trash you is because you brought
up the trash Marlins. Shout out to my man, Dontrell Willis,
that's my guy in all but Dagget. The reason I
brought this up is because there's one thing to be
We just haven't won, but we're competing in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And then there's I don't even know if this team.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Want to have a baseball andres lost Cubs, this survived, they.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Win, they popped up. Yeah, yeah, he would swing up
for fence.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
You know you saw that on the first pick.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, I don't blame them.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Look at the manager, the stoics like a stone face,
like another year with the Padres.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Could you have bunt it there? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And no no it's hours two.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah, there's no buts hey, hey, this is the perfect
time for this conversation. But back to what I was saying,
Rob G, can you can you you see the shirt
I have on right now?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I have on a bad boy Pistons shirt.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
And the reason why I think that would have been
relevant is because I would prefer it to be like
how the Pistons do you covered?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And Rob?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
They in the late eighties they were great, won a
couple eighty nine to ninety, fell off for fifteen years,
bounced back in one in two thousand and four, fell
off for a while again. Now they're popping back up.
Good you use the Marlins, Rob G. The Marlins don't
just they're not just bad. When they don't win that
you don't even know they exist. You don't even know
that they have an ownership who wants to actually have
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a baseball team. So dagget For my case, it's hard
to go with the Padres.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Bro my bad.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Yeah, because the Marlins sucks so bad as an organization
as a whole.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But I have to agree with Robin this one.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Like I said, I preferred to be more like a
Piston style but winning or maybe even the New York Giants,
the Football Giants.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Same thing right there. They have bad, a lot of bad. Yeah,
they got four championships.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
The reason why is because I got to be a
kid in the when the you know, we're using the
Pistons for example, that was amazing to see them win.
Then I went through some lean years and Gray Hill.
You know, they were solid, but they weren't great. And
in that twenty and four team, I just got into
business and that whole little run was just an amazing
run for a four or five year stretch to be
a part of. They obviously got one, they went to
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another one, So I have to agree. Unfortunately, you do
want to be the Marlins in this instance, the terrible team.
But because winning ultimately you have that to last for
your rest of your life. You can always tell your kids,
your grandkids, boy that time we won. In ninety seven,
boy that time and O three when we won, let
me tell you, the city was on fire.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I listened to dontall. I sit next to him when
I do Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
He just tells the stories of what it was like
being with that Martins, being in Miami during that time,
you know, those couple of years where they were good
and relevant.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He just talks about it.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
So ultimately, you as a fan, you as a player,
you want to be in that city, that environment when
they win.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So that is the answer. But you picked a terrible
I mean the Marlins.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
No, but the Marlins are an example of that.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
As bad as they've been, they've been on both spectrums,
but they what team are you laughing at?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Has won two World Series since ninety seven?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Right, in the last twenty five years, you'd be hard
pressed to name. The Tigers had Verlander, David Price, mat Suzer,
Miguel Cabrera, maglio'ordoniez.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yep, you beat me like all these.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Guys, and they got pud They got nothing, they got
nothing to show for it.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Got to they got to a couple of World series
that got.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Their right, I mean they did, but you get my point,
And then you got like, the Marlins won two World Series?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Can Marlin's fire a less low floor?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
My gosh, it's either we won a World Series or
we might as well be dis evolved from the major League.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Can they find a you know, and we're.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Not radium somewhere happy media? You know, maybe were the
Angels at times.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Guys.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Getting back to the Padres, you just mentioned all those
great players that played for the Tigers, and if you
really look back on it, it's incredible how many great
players they.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Have the team.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Do you think ten years from now, like you say
you did with the Tigers, ten years from now, we're
doing the same thing with the Padres. They has He's
and Machado and and Darvish and all that you think they're.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Gonna have For a year.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Sotoe even worked out Jackson Merrill, a up and coming rookie.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Star Could they be like the Tigers of this decade?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's absolutely Rob Jek absolutely could be because they have
nothing but star power.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
And we talked about it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Great ballpark, great fans, Kelvin Arrean situation. It's not too
many teams where there's no football, there's no basketball, there's nothing.
They are everything to the right. They have the city
to themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
The only thing I will challenge that is when you
brought up the Tigers again, rob G is at least
they got to the World Series. And the Padres, you know,
the boogeyman is the Dodgers. For them, the boogeyman is
you know, whether it be the NLCS. Like they just
can't get past that. And I think that makes it
worse because again, at least the Tigers, if you want
to play that game, kid, say well, dagge, we at
least tasted the World Series. The city was lit, you know,
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we got there a couple times in a handful of years.
The Padres just can't even seem to do that. And
they've been an advantageous situations where you think this is
the year, it ends up falling short. So I don't
even know if they have that, you know that to
at least put.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
In their back pocket.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah that's true, but it's talent wise.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
You're gonna say that, Yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You're gonna look at it and say that they couldn't
even get there, like like that's the heart that's so
crazy that that they just can't seem.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
To get over the hump.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I really thought I picked them, Rob G knows I
like their team.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Every year.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
For year six, Andre's Yankees World series.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I know I said it two years ago, but this
time it counts year six.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
No, I don't know about that next show.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
No, hey, hey, Robgzie, we'll give him he got about
what six seven, eight months. He'll pounds back and they
be like, you know what, They'll make one nice little signing.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Something right, the Dodgers are going to acquire Bryce Harper
in the office.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
He'll still be like the Padre the.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Padres, they got just as much up and Doce.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Harper, you're calling it now? Bryce Harper's washed. Won't even
be an All star Padres.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
In the World Series.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
What you guys imitating?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Does I sound like yes?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
You do?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh my god? All right?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine, six sixty three sixty nine. As a sports fan,
would you rather root for a team like the Padres
who always compete but never win, on a Marlins, who
really compete but win every once in a blue moon.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
We'll continue that conversation next with you.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
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tire buying should be. We got the college kids, We'll
go in about seven minutes or so, we'll do some
college ball with him. That should be fun. And look
at that. We talked about it earlier. The Niners, man,
they find ways.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
These games you think they should not.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
They don't scored a touchdown on the Rams. So we'll
keep you updated on that throughout this game.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's why we.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Play the games, you know. It's not that automatic.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Like every week we'd say, oh, now, so and so
should win, or this should be a piece of cake.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
It just doesn't work like that, man, It doesn't every week.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
We get absolutely every week we get a couple of
games where you're like, Okay, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
How that happens? So all right?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Rob g pose
a question, and it really was, would you rather be
like the Padres, got a bunch of talent, win a
bunch of games.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Go to the playoffs, seven operations?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yep, yeah? Or would you rather be like the Marlins?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Hey, give us a few years, we might win one,
give us ten fifteen years with my son, but dgg
we get we got a ring or two? Which one
would you rather be like? Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, who we got.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Jay in Georgia. You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Jay?
Speaker 10 (16:50):
We're going on, guys, how y'all doing doing great?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Good? Man doing good?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Rob?
Speaker 11 (16:56):
Rob Parker?
Speaker 10 (16:57):
I can't, Man, I kind of agree with y'all, man,
But Rob, you at your god dang on mind. What
about the same thing the Andres are going through right now?
That's what my braids went through for like fifteen or twenty.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Years, like oh yeah every year.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Yeah, you know, anyone we don't have living and so for.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It, we got one.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I know. Reason, I mean you know what. That's what
I was gonna say, the reason.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, yeah, they've at least got one. They got one.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But you're right.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And the big thing, Jay, you know this and Kelvin
they had three Hall of Fame pictures on the same
staff for ten years.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Yeah, I'm talking about that old three team. Tripper Jones,
Andrew Jones, Rob Parker should be a Hall of Famer
about the way. I'm gona keep letting you know that.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Okay, I'm not and I'll keep not giving you my vote.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
How was that, Garrett Garrett Field, i'malking about that old
three team was loaded, man, I'm talking about the brains
have at least like five or seal.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
But remember remember in ninety six.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
In ninety six, they they bludging the Yankees in the
first two games, yeah, in New York, and then they
went and lost all three games in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
They don't want to remember. Ro bring it up. Good points.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
But man, that's another bad early exit. I mean, come on, man,
I know you're playing in Chicago. I know the Cubs
had a good year, but they were the favorites to Padres.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't care what anybody says, right.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
The Cubs were very yeah, complete team.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
But that's what I was thought about the Braids when
we had this conversation, like, at least the Braids got one,
and at least they had made it to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's the difference too, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
John and Louisville. You're in the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, John?
Speaker 12 (18:43):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
How are you say that again? John?
Speaker 12 (18:50):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, enjoy it, enjoy it.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
So I heard you guys talking about the Marlins. Would
you rather be a Marlin's fan or pod I hate
the Marlins. A is a Cubs fan for one reason.
They won two World Series before the Cubs got theirs right,
and then we had two thousand and seven. They suck
as a franchise, but.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
They got I know, and that and that's really it.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
But they have even with their bad fan base and
all that, they they got people down there who are
like I got two in my lifetime.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I saw that they do.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And that's why it's weird that you That's why I told.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Yeah, yeah, and the rest of the time there so
I ain't lying about that. Rather be a pre fan
than a Marlins fan.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I hate Marl, all right, Yours is personal and this
time I get it.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Yeah, this person I get franchises. You gotta be like,
how how do we have one yet? Okay, all right,
all right, on the way, we got college kids with
Mark Gunno's well, have some fun talking to college football
him in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But right now, Monty Bilano is gonna get you set
on what's trending. Hey, Botzy.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
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through the eyes of the young and inexperience. If they
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swear they know college ball takes it into the yeah right,
fundamentals are gonna show up.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Are there?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Take sophomore at or graduation worth it? Robin Calvin book aside,
bring them on, yo.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
We need to tell Ricky and Vido to update that
imaging because if one thing we've learned for the first
couple of weeks of this segment is that Mark Gunnals
knows ball, specifically in the Big Ten, he doesn't know
he's more accurate than your favorite prognosticator. Again, Mark Gunnell's
sports mean a personally in with the akaba Mark, what's
that buddy?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Are you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yes? Good Mark?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We had to beat up on Sierra last week. I mean,
you know, but we'll see how you make out.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Mark.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
All right, now, quick professional course to all you knew bees.
If the guys like Mark's take, he's gonna be graduating.
If they don't, he's going back to school because he's
real sophomore. It's very simple, and Mark's got three very
hot takes related to Big Ten football.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
So let's get started.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Take number one, Mark says Oregon will beat Indiana next
week en route to going undefeated and hoisting up the
College Football Playoff National championship.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Mark, explain yourself.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
Yeah, I'm convinced.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
Now, I'm all in.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
I mean, two weeks ago, coach, you guys that Dante
Moore was the best quarterback in the Big Ten. Scratch
that he's the best quarterback in the country.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Went into Penn State.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
It's a happy valley, got away with the victories and
organ You know, they're known for being the finesse teams.
Speed not no more. They still have that, but they're
physical that one of the best officer attackers in the
country and Isaiah World, they're the best tighten in the country.
I mean, what else do you want? And they had
won the best defensive ends in the country and Matteo
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Uga Lake. I got it right, I got it right.
Oregon will be Indiana next week, it's in Eugene, and
after that, I mean, their schedule is a cupcake central.
They would win the first national championship in school history.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
All right, you are graduating. Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I gotta tell you what, Like Rob g said, Mark Man,
you made some good calls.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You were talking about Dante More.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I pushed back on you a couple of weeks back
you right, he looks good, And I tell you what
you brought up something. Oregon historically be more of a
finesse speedster team, right, because they had to do that
in the Pack ten. That's kind of how the Pack
ten Pac twelve was, I should say. But then they
have the luxury now that they're in the Big Ten,
and they started to get some big started to play
a little tougher styles, starting to move the ball in
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different ways, and I think that's what makes them and
a couple of other UH teams that came to the
Big Ten later started to be more complete teams. So
they're scary, I agree, and we do have to watch
out for them as the season goes along. In the
college football playoffs, I get graduating sophomore.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
Back to his cool, back to it's cool.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Did they blow out Penn State?
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Yeah? It was an state.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I said, did they blow them out?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
No, they did not blow them out.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
No they won, and I'm not gonna take it away
from them, but I didn't leave there going that's the
best college football team I've seen all year. I just
think there's a long way to go. And while they're good,
I'll give you that, I'm not ready to crown them.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Go ahead, you want to crown them, then crown their houses.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
They are who we thought we thought they are. That's right.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I'm just not there yet. Crown their ass.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
I'm crowning them.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
If you want to crown them, they crown their ass,
all right? Take number two.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
If Oregon is the best team in college football, then
U c l A.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
My Bruins might be the worst team.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
In fact, Mark is gonna say with a straight face
that even after they fired Deshaun Foster their head coach
and got rid of like half of their staff.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Mark was right.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Or it's gonna get even worse because Mark's saying they're
gonna go win.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
List this football so far? Tell us why.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
I mean, I feel like I keep ragging on these Bruins,
but they're so easy to pick on, man, I mean,
what a storyline. You fire your head coach after I
called it, and maybe you want the issue. I mean,
look at their schedule. I mean they played Penn State,
at Michigan State, Maryland at Indiana, they got Ohio State.
I mean, you keep.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Going on and on.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
They won't be favored in any of these remaining games
on the schedule. Where does the win? Where's the win?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
All right? I got that. I'm gonna say, sophomore, can
you mentioned it?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Win me? Where's the win?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
There's a school called Maryland on the schedule. They can
slip up easily. I give you the other schools. Maryland
is a world beater. Now they can't have a bad night,
a bad game. I'm Maryland is to win. How about that?
Ucla puts it together Kelvin for one night, right and
beats a Maryland.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
They're not going winless.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Rob, You're lucky.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
It's about Mark right now, because I would tell you
you are sophomoric. No, Marcus graduating? What I wanna tell you?
Speaker 8 (25:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
When you got a team that's dag near averaging a
baseball scorer averaging fifteen points a game, it's some baseball
teams pitching dogs look like they average fifteen runs a game.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
What is going on in UCLA?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I thought that was one of their power forwarest points
per game, fifteen point three points per game. You can't
have a team that's averaging that. They got sixty one
total points in the season.
Speaker 13 (25:57):
Rock.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They got six touchdowns with a hole. Some teams at
that in a half man, it's all bad right now.
Players check out.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
They start to think about what girl are taking the
homecoming or who they're gonna see, or I can't wait
to go home to get mama's Thanksgiving. It's a rap
I feel fat, bad form, but they get they're gonna
have to focus on UCLA men's basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Sorry, Rob, jeez.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Tough scene.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Tough scene, all right, last one again College games with
Mark Gunnold, sports media personality in with the Odd Couple
talking Big ten college football. Here on the Odd Couple,
the last take of the night, the hottest taken the night.
Mark says that Michigan at USC is essentially an elimination
game for the college football playoff. Mark tell us, why yeah?
Speaker 13 (26:43):
I mean you look at these two teams schedules.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
They both have one loss. But for USC, they don't
have any marquee games left from the schedule except later
in the season.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
They do play at Oregon.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
You got Notre Dame, who's a French top twenty five team, but.
Speaker 13 (26:56):
Lose this game, that's two losses. You probably got one
more in there are still I'm not convinced man. And
then you got Michigan, their only market game less this
last game of.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
The season, and I guess Ohio State. I think they
lose this year to the Buckeyes. So you can't lose.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
This game and then have a be a three loss team.
Speaker 12 (27:14):
So I really think with what.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
Twelve teams now get your second loss next week, it's
gonna be.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Hard sledding for one of these teams to make the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
You know what, Mark, you're graduating.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I always congratulatings.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
As we say at Southern Connecticut, you graduate eting because
you are and what a I think you're right here.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
This is one of those games.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
One of these two will not be standing after this,
and I don't know for some reason, I'm thinking it
might just be USC not standing. I'm just putting it
out there because I already got paid for the month,
so I'm okay.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
I'm good for right now.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
The check clear mark for the first time for me
today you're sophomore back to Here's the reason why I
say that. It's still very early in this season. As
we all know, most teams have only played give or
take five games is and so the reason I say
that is every year towards midway towards the end of
the season as well, we get a team in two
(28:18):
that pop up in the top twenty, top fifteen ish
that all of a sudden because they've only you know,
they started to keep winning teams. And that can happen
with a couple of teams left on Michigan's schedule, where
if these other teams win a handful of games in
a row, all of a sudden they are are ranked
in their higher ranked team in Michigan can beat them,
and all of a sudden, that's a good win to
have on their on their season. So I still believe
(28:39):
there's hope aside from justice USC game, because as it
has been for the last handful of years with USC,
they prove to not be a great team at the
end of the year.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
All right, Mark's college kids, good job, Buddy, good start.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Mar Hey, appreciate you as always.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
Hey Man, appreciate having me. I can't wait to be
back in studio.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
That's right, to get you in studio in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Always good stuff there. All right, that was college kids.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Next up, Mark say, Mark, Rob's we got a little
shop talk. We gotta get into Rob G cooked up something.
We'll do some shop talk calling up here in just
a minute. It is the odd Couple plus will keep
you updated on these baseball scores and also Thursday night football.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
John Carlos stan Thort he had a home run.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Did you see it? I don't know if you can
the screen see it.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
So he was watching it and it hit the fence.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Thank god he made it the second base because if
he would have got thrown out, people would have been pissed.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
It looked like it was going Watch.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Now, man, let me tell you something. He would have
missed every ice cream truck when he was a kid.
You know how you had to run and chase it
down for that man him and running, they'll go hand
and hand him.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
And but he knew he had to get the second base.
You can't up hit a ball that far and be
at first base.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Yo, what's the sports radio equivalent of what stan just did?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Like when Rob goes scorch third and he's got the
presidential themes on behind him and he was like he
had a great segment and then no calls.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
The equivalent, Rob G, you had to do that moments
Robbie so mad too. He's like, hey, Rob, g Matty,
he was so mad. He always take it out on
me and you.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah, and we should have talked about that to this
a bad topic.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I'm like, Rob, there's two Monday night football games going
on right now.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh man, it's the odd couple. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, this was Alf. Is this Olf? I don't know
why I remember this being Alf.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
We were in some weird stuff in the eight late eighties,
a couple Rob Parker Kevin Water.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
At least that was on there were They were creative,
not the same old family.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Yeah, they tried to do stuff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They try. I'll get you that listen, and we did
a lot of that, even in the movies. Now they
just redo everything.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
They just like, we don't like it's so born like.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
It's like the radio host who has the sixth iteration
of the art couple and trash Talking Tuesday, which has
been in existence since uh Detroit in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Oh my god, I just love.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
When guys have original ideas.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And yes, you know what, there's super original st Yeah
we might have done.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
It's just there's nobody called Rob right now his phone ring.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Like even this last segment we did College Kid with
sounds original if it really does, right, but it's really
just foul or fair.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
But with football, Rob.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
G, you're a producer, Stop snitching on yourself.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Exactly what are you doing here? Rob G? Well you
know what, Hey, the formula works. I'll tell you that.
How about that Robbed.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
You said they're saying about today's sitcoms, Rob the formula word.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, they don't worry. We see it. No Trumpers aren't there.
I stay with you, Rob Parker Radio, what's that act?
It ain't? And in al Berger.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
If you missed any in today's amazing show, robb G,
you can catch the podcast search our Couple wherever you
get your podcasts right after the show.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Robb G may or may not put it up.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Be sure to fund rated five stars, and you can
also provide a review.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Again, just search the Couple wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
You're gonna find a day's full show best of a
version posted right after we get done it is time
now for another segment that has been recycled, apparently retitled
It's time for shop talk.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Ain't nobody ain't nothing to that in the nineties.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
Lens that destroy I'll tell you what Lebron to be
Lebron His show is like the dig Stars that he
gets it.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It's kind of a snooze fant.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
It doesn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
You get massive, massive stars and it just doesn't do anything.
Maybe it's Gouda drinking wine in a barbershop and I've
never seen that in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
All right, Rob Dreie, what you got Rob?
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Yes, it is shop talk. Here in the Oco, we'll
say when we talk about something happen outside of the
world of sports. By the way, touchdown Niners about to
be up fourteen to nothing on the road against the Ramley.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
What what did I say to you?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Do?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
We just say that, like like what looks obvious.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
That's why Las Vegas is still standing because there are
games where you look and.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Go, oh yeah, this is up.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
What's called you go and put all your money down
on it and you wind up getting hurt.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Shout out to you.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
They about to give Rock Party money to Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
They might have to, they might have to.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
Well, guys, this week's topic of shop Talk comes to
us from the world of You Guessed at Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
We just talked about it and I don't know if.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
You guys know this, but The Rock has a new
movie coming out called The Smashing Machine, and everybody who
has seen it at all the you know, high Faluton
film festivals say it's one of the best films of
the year. In fact, The Rock is already getting Oscar
buzz I think The Rocks are terrible actor, so that
tells you how good this movie must be. But it
got me thinking, guys, who is the best former athlete
(33:57):
turned actor in Holly with history?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Wow a, you know I thought, you know, I thought
of an old guy in black and white right off the.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Bat, of course you did.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Uh So I'm just gonna start naming people first.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
So Jim Brown, you know he was one. Uh oh,
Jason one Way.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
He the one where Roquel Welch and him are back
in the day. Yeah, yeah, the first game that was
back in the day. Rob do you ever see that movie?
Rockel Welch she has I do know, Rock, I don't
know I've seen that one.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Shoot Rober, you gotta give us some option.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Here here's the list on I m dB.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
This is this is.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
How they list as the top ones. Fred Dryer, who
is a friend of the Ben Mountain Show.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Fred Dreyer's definitely.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Like, we can get him if you want him. Ye know,
I'm big, Fred, big friend of friend of Fred's. You
remember show Hunter on NBC. Yeah, Jim Brown, Bubba Smith,
Oh j Simpson, I said, oh, ja, yeah, Andre the Giant.
Oh God, I don't know if this counts Bob Uker
if you want to count him an act?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Was a giant played Andre the Giant? He did?
Speaker 4 (35:11):
But Bob you could no, no, no, We wasn't miss on
mister Belvedere, wasn't he on that show?
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Bob Rob's archie nemesis, Terry Bradshaw, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Lou
Ferrigno and Carl Weathers out of the top ten.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Now, how I was Chuck Connors, who played third base
for I Believe.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
The Cubs, the Rifleman. Chuck Connors wasn't act.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah that show.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
I got my answer, and I'm kind of cheating, but
I got my answer. So I'm gonna go last because
it's too easy. No, no, no, it's too easy. Okay, none
of y'all have U So I'll go first. Bruce Lee.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Bruce alex Is, Alex had it ready, hat his headphones on.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
That's what you get for not going. Bruce Lee is
my answer. Carl Weathers is actually not a bad one.
By the way, I'm not saying he was a regular
Daniel day Lewis, but you know I like that.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Bruce Lee is my answer.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Martial artists turn actor turn icon man.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
I got one, all right, good, Rob g And this
is based not, as you mentioned, on his acting chops,
but more on the watchability of the things he puts out.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
It's Arness Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yeah, I mean no, yes, Rob, just because no, no,
I'm agreeing.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
I'm actually agreeing.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Arnold had a run there from like the mid eighties
to the late nineties.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It was a movie star.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
It was a movie star.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
He was a movie He was everything the Rock hopes
he could become. And he was awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
Wait wait, that's I don't know. The Rock might be
up there, Arnold. No, Arnold's movies are better. I agree,
but I think you're under selling how he was. The
Rock is for some reason you got.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
But I think that the Rock is more because of
how big wrestling god.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
You know for him. Yeah, I don't disagree with you, you
know what I mean. And I'm just saying Arnold.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
If you were have said and you didn't know what
Arnold had done prior, right, rob g like you just
looked at them and put their stuff together.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Arnold had way better, Yeah, way better.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
I mean, Commando, Predator, Kindergarten Cop, running Man, Twins, total recall,
Twins is amazing. Tonight night, bro to night is your night,
bro Twins, Harminators with.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Anybody got another one?
Speaker 14 (37:34):
This one's easy. Also, it sucks that you took Bruce
Lee because that guy's a coon. But shout outs Kaitlyn Jenner,
I'm gonna go o. J Simpson. This guy was such
a good actor. He acted himself out of prison. Think
of that.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
You go very nice? Hey, what was that? It's not wrong?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Naked gun though, it's funny when he's in the wheelchair.
The rent a card thing was good.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah yeah, but I saw it from like OJ. Really
he wasn't really getting his act on. I mean he was.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
He was funny in what he did the way he
acted like that glove didn't fit.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
He's not black, he's oja wait, mute Kareem.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
He was in the airplane, remember an airplane? Who else?
Speaker 6 (38:20):
Are you missing? Anybody else? I'm trying to think. Was
there a basketball player turned.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I'm going down the list here a lot of older
people like.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
I'm trying to think there are more?
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Uh, David Washed, I forgot, but Denzel's son, he was
a football Think he.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Had a couple of coffee then, But wait a minute,
Terry Bradshaw shouldn't count because what didn't he play like
a dead guy and he just had no lines.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
He was just laying in the coffin.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Wasn't Burt Reynolds, Mark Harmon, It's Bruce Lee
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