October 24, 2025 • 26 mins
Rob and Kelvin explain why the Los Angeles Dodgers dominance has actually been a great thing for Major League Baseball, tell us why they have a problem with people who are trying to re-write history as it relates to the Daniel Jones Era in New York, and explain why this just might be the worst time in NBA history to be a fan of The Association.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know what tonight is?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It's Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is time?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I heard you talking crazy on TV? What what crazy?
What are you talking to?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Everybody's jumping with the Dodgers. Let me be the one
to tell you. Well, Rob, what are you think is
gonna happen? Let me tell you Steven Nelson?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Did you say that?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I saw that. I'm gonna tell you what it is.
Bring up. This is what you're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm gonna bring it down for you, all right, Come on.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
If you want me to make it through this show,
please do not do this, Alex. I'm serious. I was
waiting on it. I was waiting on it. I'm still nervous. Wow, Okay,
go ahead, oh man? The reason back to you because
fin right, Okay, the Toronto they are a formidable team
to absolutely, but for you because the Dodgers dominated the Brewers,
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So then I like, the Brewers weren't the best team
in baseball year.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Just give the love and credit to the Dodger the
lowly Brewers. How are you lowly when you're the best
team in baseball? No, but it's about how you play now,
not how you play. Smoking people except the random of
buzz Saw named the Dodgers they were terrible. Dodger did
lowly Brewers? Mat I almost jumped through my phone and matrix
to you wherever.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You want to see.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Stevens like, yeah, they're pitiful.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't know how to have you thought you had some?
You're like, is he with me?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Like anyway, continue being sarcastic. Okay, yes, so anyway, here
we are. And you know, the conversation about the Dodgers
being bad for baseball is moronic. It's ridiculous. And as
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much as I'm bashing on the Dodgers and whatnot, I
don't think they're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I don't believe that they are bad for baseball. Rob g.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
There are so many numbers, right, it ain't about how
much money you spend. We talk about it all the time.
The New York Metropolitans had the highest payroll.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Correct, Robert g. Twenty three.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I believe it was they had the highest payroll. Yeah,
did not make the playoffs. The Yankees have been in
the top three for the last since two thousand and nine,
have not won a World Series, rob Gen. There are
some other numbers that are spectacular that just tell you
that it's not based on how much your.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Payroll is not at all.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Since two thousand and one, the highest payroll has only
won it all three times.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Think about telling now you don't even need any more
numbers there, But that's a that's a solid number, tells you.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
As recently as twenty twenty three, the top two highest
paid teams didn't even make the postseason.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The Yankees.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Okay, if the Dodgers win this World Series, that'd be
three out of six.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right, that's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Did you forget that the Giants won three out of
five and nobody said they were ruining baseball a few
years better Mouse.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
People don't look at the Giants like that.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Just in terms of the top ten contracts by dollars,
The Dodgers got two of them, which is a lot.
Right Otani and Mookie Betts. The Padres also have two
of them. Nobody says that the Padres are ruining baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, one guy picks him every year. Bob said, they're
ruining baseball, and you can't go again. In fact, it's early.
In a Lot of form.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Piece by The Athletic, an anonymous small market exect argue
that the Dodgers dominance and visibility, not only they're not
ruining baseball, they're actually great for baseball. Here's what you
said quote, the game benefits from the Dodgers in Japan.
If it wasn't for the Dodgers, we wouldn't have the
fans based there that we have. So when we get
this next big streaming deal, we're all gonna benefit from
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the Dodgers. We're gonna be watched all around the world
because of the Dodgers. I know that's probably not what
people want to hear, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And you know what, I agree, the Dodgers the visibility.
And I'll say this, I didn't think what sho Otani
did but check the box and made him the greatest
player of all time. But ain't no way, Kelvin. You
can sit here and say that Sports America was buzzing
after his performance.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Am I right all over social media?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The kids, people who don't even follow baseball like that
know who sho hal Tani is no defeat that he did.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
The Dodgers have that that. Los Angeles a big market.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
They got some people, we know Mookie Bets, we got
people with some personality.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Last year in the World Series. Same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You hit a walk off Grand Slam home run to
win a World Series. Everybody knows who you are, what happened.
It's good for the game, and it's good when you
have teams that have those kind of players that win.
People like winners. People want to follow I. You know,
you could say, oh, they're going overboard and spending too
much money. I'm never gonna buy into that because it's
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how you spend your money that determines.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It, right yep.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And even the Mariners who were trying to make it
in and came one game short, they only the pay
rolls like one thirty six and they were one game short.
They just lost on a three run home run in
the seventh inning. They were that close.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The Tigers were one of the best teams in baseball
to the last month or so exactly. You and I
have talked about this a million times. We're giving a
million examples that we talked about the Giants, we talked
about the Royals, we talked to Tampa Bay Rays, like
teams that they've either won it or made it, the
Angels of O two. I mean, you have a shot
in baseball year in year out, whether you spend the most,
spend the least, you got a shot because if you
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get the right pitcher and he's playing well, if your
farm system is working, if your bats are hot, if
you have a great just a great coaching staff, you
can get hot. You can be doing well in baseball.
Baseball is by far the hardest to predict. Every year,
all the Yankees or the Mets, you know, or the
Padres or the sudn set doesn't happen, or the Dodgers, well,
they get there, but they don't win, are they. We
saw the Rangers win a couple of years ago out
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the Blue great example. So I mean the Tigers pop
up in the World Series a couple of times. They
didn't win it, but they got there. Like Kansas City
War yesterday, so you just in baseball, you just don't know,
and that's the beauty of it. However, however, you do
need some villains, which is why the Yankees have always
been great for baseball, because they've been the evil empire.
You need the person hate now the Dodgers. If the
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Dodge told Rob g I said, if the Dodgers win
this year, this will be the first time to me
that people start to go all right, now, this is
getting crazy because that will be three since twenty twenty, twenty,
twenty twenty, tweeny four and twenty twenty five, first time
back to back since the year two thousand with the Yankees,
and it can give confirmation bias to those who will say,
see what's.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Spending on all the money does because.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Then you would have a point because they bought Otani,
they bought Yamamoto, they bought who am I missing, they
bought Blake Snail, so you could say, see, I told
you it works, So you ever give credence to that
if they were to win back to back. But I
think that's a good thing because you need somebody, Hey,
you need somebody that villains. I'm sick of the La
La thinks it's all that. I'm tired of palm trees.
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I'm tired of ice Cuban. Today was a good day.
Whatever it is, I don't want to see Snoop again
except to the Olympics. In the Winter Olympics and every
other Olympics, You're gonna see Snoop forever. Point is, you
need a villain. You need a good versus evil, and
your team is the good whatever you're whoever your fan
base of, and you need a villain.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You need a hero.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You need a villain. So to me, I hope the
Dodgers win. I hope they build that. You need a Due.
You need a North Carolina. You need a Dallas Cowboys.
You need a you know, I mentioned, we mentioned the Yankees.
You need somebody NBA. You know, the NBA doesn't need
Oklahoma City to win. And then Denver the win, and
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then Indiana comes back with holler Burn the next year,
here they win. And then it goes to the Orlando Magic.
You needed the Warriors. You needed the Warriors, and Caves
and Lebron going at it. You need it Magic and
Bird you need it Bulls. Michael Jackson goes to play
baseball for two years, come back Jordan, Michael Michael Jordan,
and Michael Jordan wins three more. You need it as
much as people don't think they want that, you absolutely
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do want it.
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Speaker 4 (09:03):
You know, Ay, the Pittsburgh still is off to a
good start four and two and uh it is Kumbaya
in Pittsburgh. I mean so much so they love I
think that they would just eat Heines ketchup all day.
I mean, that's how excited they are to have Aaron
Rodgers fondly as their quarterback. And the kind words are
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just flowing and all the other stuff that's going on,
a lot of people didn't want them there, Like they've
all flipped.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, you, Aaron Rodgers, you hear all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Those guys have flipped now, Alex, which is crazy, but
rob G, what are you hearing?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeah, despite Aaron Rodgers saying himself back in June that
he's pretty sure this is the last season. That's why
I did a one year deal, despite them losing to
the Cincinnati Bungals on primetime television in them in their
most recent game, just saying I gotta keep it on undo.
Even wh all that said. ESPN's Jeremy Fallon, friend of
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the Show, reported earlier this week on his weekly Buzz
column that folks in Pittsburgh are hopeful that Aaron Rodgers
decides to for go retirement and run it back one
more time in twenty twenty. Guys, we're only through a
week seven, they've only played six games, and they're already
talking about re up in the contract.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'm not surprised, only from the standpoint, and we talked
about it before. The reason that they waited for him,
the whole idea is that this franchise was waiting for
a quarterback. And as you just saw, who was it
who just was at Mark Spears on ESPN who just
came out and said, Justin Field is not a starting
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quarterback in the NFL. Like like a lot of Marcus
I'm sorry, I said, Mark, spit, Mark, you.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Know what I mean, like like people are like, okay, like.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And the point is that even the Steelers who originally
wanted them back, you know what I mean, to come
back and sign or whatever. But the point is the
Steelers felt like they just needed a quarterback. He didn't
have to be Aaron Rodgers from twenty ten, even though
he's putting up some decent numbers, But they need a quarterback.
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And I think that they've seen that. They've seen what
he brings to the locker room, the respect level that
they have for him, and you know, him and Mike Tomlin,
they got a break like it's hot and heavy. So
there's a lot of good feelings. Even they haven't won
every game. He hadn't been perfect, nothing like that. Nobody's
looking for that, but I think he gives them an
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element that they feel like, if we could get our
defense together, we could.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Win this division.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The Ravens are down, you know what I mean, there's
an opening there for sure. And I just think that
there's good feelings because he came in with the right attitude.
The Jets didn't want them, playing a simple knot. He
went there. Jets didn't want them, and he came there.
Terry Bradshaw, one of the most celebrated guys, came and
trashed Aaron Rodgers up and down. He didn't take the
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bait that I respect him. I hope he gets to
know me.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I thought a smart Really, I can't win even if
you're right, or if you know, had would he comeback.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You could have.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Easily went off on Terry's old coupe, you know what
I mean, and blah blah blah whatever it would have been.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
He didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
That was and I just think it's the good feeling
of having a quarterback who they really feel is a quarterback,
and I mean can do a lot of different things.
He's not the best quarterback in the league, but I
think for the first time in a while, they feel
like they have a real quarterback.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think that's what the feeling is, and they can
feel that.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You ever had an old car that still rode pretty well,
still look pretty good, and you just enjoyed it, and
you always like, I just love this car, and you
know it's dangerous, and you hope is working and is
working out, but eventually you know you need a new card.
That's the Steelers right now. Aaron Rodgers is playing exactly
how I thought he would. I has said he's going
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to remind me of his hair better Russell Wilson. For
the Steelers, Russ came out, was on fire, looked pretty good.
They're happy. Russ looked bad. They started to lose, end
up losing five or six in a row, and I
think ultimately that's what just gonna be. I don't think
he'll be as bad as Russell Wilson, because he's a
better quarterback than you know at the Pantheons, But I
think it's I think there's gonna be a downside now.
The thing that they're fortunate with and you can't help it.
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Sometimes fortune favors you know, the bold. Lamar Jackson's out,
Joe Burrow's out. Kill No right, I'm saying, but that's fortunate.
And Joe Burrow and the Cleveland Browns don't know what
they're doing, so that you have to take full advantage
of that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I'm saying they absolutely better take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But my biggest thing goes back to what we talked
about all on the offseason, all the things. My thing is,
if I bring him back at then what would he
be forty two? Next year? Three forty two? So he'll
be forty two years old. You know Keeley's a couple
of years ago was Torn would have had a solid season,
assuming this one that you would want him back. My
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thing is, you don't have anybody in the pocket. I
would love to have Aaron Rodgers for two years if
I'm Pittsburgh because I'm grooming my Jackson Dart, I have
my schedulers.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Nobody cares about you keep talking about because what's the point, Rob,
No hear me.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I really want to hear me out.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
If he goes nine to seven, like I predict, then
let's say it's tennis seven. I mean you said, let's
say it's nine and eight. Let's say it's tenants or whatever,
and they get in a wild card or something and
they lose.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
How about they win the division. They they're poised to
win the division right now.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, so they get the division, but let's say they went.
My point is they lose in their first game of
the playoffs. It looks the exact same as Russell Wilson did,
and you don't have someone to replace him. And my
point is who is their guy? And that's all I've
been saying. Is not that Aaron Rodgers is terrible. No,
he's Annon Rodgers. He played solid last year with the Jets.
My old thing was, you're in a division when they're healthy,
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you got Joe Burrow, you got the Raiders guy.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Who's the Raiders guy? That's the point.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Find that's find their guy. They brought in Geno Smith,
and you and I both said that wasn't the move.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay, And I can list you ten other teams. Who's
the clues Cleveland's guy Cleveland, they might be Melon Gabriel.
I'm saying, Okay, that's why I never wanted them to
play Joe Flacco.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Find your guy. If Dylan Gabriel. My biggest argument with
you is that's just not the way sports is set
up today. But that absolutely is. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Jackson Dart was the Giants guy. We knew that in
the offseason. We all knew that? Did we not all
know that? And then they bring in Russell Wilson and
James with all these guys would go okay, and they
start Russell Wilson for an They're still not winning. Jackson
Dart is their guy. They're not winning. They caught a couple,
but the they won a couple, the coaching GM might
not beat it. If they lose the last six or
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seven games, would we would jack be there next year?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
But I'm just saying, I'm saying they saw the it's
about winning now, It's not.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It is, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It's about winning, about winning in the prolonged amount of time.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, it's not.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's about winning every season the seas, given yourself the
best chances done right now, giving.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yourself the best chance to haven't won the game and
not trying to do.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You don't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're just guessing and they're not going that's literally what
we do going on.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No, mine has insight. I'm not that stuff. I've you're
saying it's insight.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It's the same guy that again put up the same
similar numbers. It was five and twelve last year, and
his team had similar numbers. They had similar numbers Russell Wilson,
and they looked the exact same.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
As they had the last seven eight.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And here's the problem with your your statistics or your numbers.
He's on pace to throw forty touchdowns if you take
his numbers that he has.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now, I'll take that bet he ain't. Would you like
to make it bet twenty eight. That's about where he'll be, for.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
He has tend the six games, got ten a already.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Would you like to make the better? You want to
have more than twenty eight. You said he's gonna have
the same numbers if you get if he gets thirty,
that's so lower. You said the same. No, no, no, let's
bet twenty eight. If he gets less thirty twenty, same thing.
Roight said the same. Note what you just sa you
just said said he no. No. What you said was
he's projected to get to forty. But that's what already
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through the fast that's so put the bet on what
you said he's projected to his thirty he's got fourteen already,
put the bet at forty. No, I'm saying you said no,
you said, I'm gonna look about the same.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'm saying, people, how could it look the same. He's
got fourteen thirty. You said it's gonna end up with
twenty eight. Let's bet that.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm not betting twenty eight because if it's twenty nine,
My point is it gonna be around the same as
what I'm saying, Rob, I'm saying it's gonna be much
more last year.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Forty eight or thirty. What are you guess?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's gonna be much closer to you last year than
forty not the point? That is the point.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I can settle this real quick. Yes, okay.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Aaron Rodgers on pace for forty touchdowns last year at
twenty eight. He's also on pace for seventeen interceptions last
year he had eleven?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Right, So is that better? Is that better or worse?
I'm just talking about the can you rab? Is that
better word? Are you yelling at me? You yelling at me?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
He's going to look just like Russell Wilson. They're gonna
be nine and eight, ten and seven.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
They're not gonna be nine and there. They're gonna be
ten and nine and eight.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, they don't even they haven't even played well
like they're They're not that great of a team.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They're a solid team.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I'm not even come on, man, and then and then
whatever you want, because you've been wrong on so many things.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That dude, And the whole point is they have a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
The same guy that you thought they had a quarterback
went to the.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's not what I said.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
No, listen, if you're say what I said to me,
I said, find out what you know.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's what I said.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You said, just to find out what you have.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
All the players they rallied around justin jail. That's what
they say, the quarterback of the future. I don't understand
why they're not playing it. That guy's my job in
New York didn't even win a damn game.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
When about them, Where's I tried to tell, where's Russell
Wilson right now? Tried to tell where's Russell Wilson. That's
what you told me, Russell Wilson. Where's Russell Wilson. I
know where's Russell Wilson. I told you he's Wilson. We
could go get the tape. I said, as soon as
Russell Wilson is healthy, he's gonna start.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Justin Fields is gonna start and said, no, they won't.
And I and my whole point you were, why would
I move on?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The guys that was four and two because you and
I stand by that cause he's no good. Russell Wilson
and Russell Wilson about Justin Field looks and that's my
no one basking you looks horrible. Okay, that's my point,
and find out what you have We already what point.
He's been on three teams in three years? Five out
Aaron Rodgers. Four Aaron Rodgers been on three teams and
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four years? No?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh has it?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Packers, Jets steal it was hurt one year? That don't
even count four. Otherwise I would have said three. I
gave you a hurt year.
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Speaker 4 (20:21):
The question is, with all the stuff that's going on,
the gambling or whatever, I think this is the worst
time ever to be a sports fan, especially NBA. I
really do break it down. I think this is if
you're a sports fan and you love the NBA, there's
nothing worse than the current NBA and the current scenario
and circumstance that you're faced right now. And here are
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the reasons why Kelvin style of play, all the threes,
all that just the style of play isn't basketball that
I love to watch and watch all these games. I
don't want to see teams taking a million threes.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We've seen it.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
The NBA All Star Game scores over two hundred. No defense.
We used to watch the All Star Game. It was
never this bad. Okay, load management guys decide they just
don't want to play, Teams arresting people, people paying five
hundred dollars for tickets, and the players decide they don't
want to play. They don't want to play back to back.
(21:19):
Michael Jordan this last season in the NBA played all
eighty two games like it's just that's another part of it.
But there are two other parts. The fantasy sports, which
is just ruined, just ruined.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Do you have terrible conversations with your friends because you
think it's going to talk about the game. It's just
he didn't do this, he didn't do we talk about
the game.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, they don't care about the game. It's only what
the player that they have and whether or not what
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
And then the last part, which is why to.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Me this is relevant today is the gambling aspect and
the idea of parlay and not about winning or my
team winning. Being mad watching the game, being mad that
the coach pulled the player out of the game, but
he needs two more rebounds. Wait a minute, why do
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you do what? He needs another assist? Get back out there, Hey,
you need another free throw?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Head? What are you doing? Angry?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Your team wins but they didn't do they didn't get
your parlay. How in the world are you enjoying this
when I give you all these scenarios for.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
The style of play?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Too many threes, load management, a black guy on the sport,
paying your good heart, earn money.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Nobody's showing, and then they don't want to play.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Fantasy sports. Everything's about fantasy rather than the game of
me caring about my team and them winning. And last
the whole parlay thing. My god, is that really where
it's about the parlay? Not that my team won and
they won by sixteen men, that was a great game.
That No, no, why you bothered your team won? Lebron
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didn't get his although he missed it, he needed one
more rebound.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Dude, we're the odd company over No, we're the eye couple.
But on this subject. We are the even couple. I
have a good friend of mine who was by far
my great friend to talk sports with. You know what
I mean, just check in watching. You know, he could
be all across the country. You're watching his game right now.
World here you can just talk about the world. To
(23:29):
watch this game. Wind be looked great and you just
talk who who you think is better?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What do you like? You crazy? I'm taking hit?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Just that was my guy. Drive home, I got an
hour drive home. That's talk sports. We all have that
guy or you got several and he started getting heavy
into parlays.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
He's the one guy. He's that guy.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You even go back and be like remember in the
old five finals when you was rooting for man that
that was my friend man that started to call him
and man, ah, what what happened?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I needed him to hit a mother eleven three? Like what?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But ain't you going for the rooting for or that's
not even your guy like that? I don't even know
who this kid is. I know, but I had the
team at over twenty five to threes so and it
started to change everything. I'm texting them by man, the
running bass gotta run harder? Though, why would you go
for third and six and he's like, man, random game
about some guy needs to get two more assists.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
And I'm like man, and they ruined that friend. Who
I the conversations that sports.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I couldn't agree with you more if you're not into
it and your buddy, your buddies, that crew that used
to be all about going to the bar and watching
the game and meeting at somebody's house. It's changed everything
now to get back to everything else you were saying
style of play, because it while it looks while it
may be scientifically the better thing to do to shoot
(24:46):
the three and together the it's also stylistically boring, right.
I like mid rangers. I like guys getting to the rack.
I like post up moves. Just simply shooting threes and
and all. You know, operating like that is bad. And
as you mentioned, there was a moment when I was
questioning the competition like everything was a business decision. I
gotta wait right now, low Management. I don't want to
(25:07):
play because I'm not fully where I need to. I
don't want to play an all star game in the
Dunk contest because if I lose what I have to gain,
if I don't do it. If I don't, everything became
business decisions versus just the pure love of the game.
And you start to see that now the silver lining
or the hope that I have is in this new
crop of stars. Win min Yama is about win ning.
(25:28):
He don't want to be just I'm good and look
at me in an All Star. He wants to win.
He wants to take your part out. He wants to dominate.
Ant is running through laughing at all these vs. Steph
get out of here, Lebron, get out of here, Luca
get out of here. So ant Man win, Ben Yama,
Cooper Flag is left to determined. I like his motor.
Some of these young guys that are facing k cunning him,
(25:49):
they want to win. They're all in. It gives me
hope that maybe, just maybe the competition, the Karen the
want to crush each other, you know not. I mean,
you guys can be cool, but we don't have to
be uber fragnizing in front of us. I'm hoping we'll
get back to that. But I from one of This
is one of those times, for the most part, we're
in the same page with this man, and again that
(26:10):
part is just it's just it has ruined you to
talk to your frinds anymore. Par parlay
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know what tonight is?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It's Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is time?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I heard you talking crazy on TV? What what crazy?
What are you talking to?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Everybody's jumping with the Dodgers. Let me be the one
to tell you. Well, Rob, what are you think is
gonna happen? Let me tell you Steven Nelson?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Did you say that?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I saw that. I'm gonna tell you what it is.
Bring up. This is what you're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm gonna bring it down for you, all right, Come on.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
If you want me to make it through this show,
please do not do this, Alex. I'm serious. I was
waiting on it. I was waiting on it. I'm still nervous. Wow, Okay,
go ahead, oh man? The reason back to you because
fin right, Okay, the Toronto they are a formidable team
to absolutely, but for you because the Dodgers dominated the Brewers,
(01:21):
So then I like, the Brewers weren't the best team
in baseball year.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Just give the love and credit to the Dodger the
lowly Brewers. How are you lowly when you're the best
team in baseball? No, but it's about how you play now,
not how you play. Smoking people except the random of
buzz Saw named the Dodgers they were terrible. Dodger did
lowly Brewers? Mat I almost jumped through my phone and matrix
to you wherever.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You want to see.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Stevens like, yeah, they're pitiful.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't know how to have you thought you had some?
You're like, is he with me?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Like anyway, continue being sarcastic. Okay, yes, so anyway, here
we are. And you know, the conversation about the Dodgers
being bad for baseball is moronic. It's ridiculous. And as
(02:11):
much as I'm bashing on the Dodgers and whatnot, I
don't think they're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I don't believe that they are bad for baseball. Rob g.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
There are so many numbers, right, it ain't about how
much money you spend. We talk about it all the time.
The New York Metropolitans had the highest payroll.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Correct, Robert g. Twenty three.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I believe it was they had the highest payroll. Yeah,
did not make the playoffs. The Yankees have been in
the top three for the last since two thousand and nine,
have not won a World Series, rob Gen. There are
some other numbers that are spectacular that just tell you
that it's not based on how much your.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Payroll is not at all.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Since two thousand and one, the highest payroll has only
won it all three times.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Think about telling now you don't even need any more
numbers there, But that's a that's a solid number, tells you.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
As recently as twenty twenty three, the top two highest
paid teams didn't even make the postseason.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The Yankees.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Okay, if the Dodgers win this World Series, that'd be
three out of six.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right, that's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Did you forget that the Giants won three out of
five and nobody said they were ruining baseball a few
years better Mouse.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
People don't look at the Giants like that.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Just in terms of the top ten contracts by dollars,
The Dodgers got two of them, which is a lot.
Right Otani and Mookie Betts. The Padres also have two
of them. Nobody says that the Padres are ruining baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, one guy picks him every year. Bob said, they're
ruining baseball, and you can't go again. In fact, it's early.
In a Lot of form.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Piece by The Athletic, an anonymous small market exect argue
that the Dodgers dominance and visibility, not only they're not
ruining baseball, they're actually great for baseball. Here's what you
said quote, the game benefits from the Dodgers in Japan.
If it wasn't for the Dodgers, we wouldn't have the
fans based there that we have. So when we get
this next big streaming deal, we're all gonna benefit from
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the Dodgers. We're gonna be watched all around the world
because of the Dodgers. I know that's probably not what
people want to hear, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And you know what, I agree, the Dodgers the visibility.
And I'll say this, I didn't think what sho Otani
did but check the box and made him the greatest
player of all time. But ain't no way, Kelvin. You
can sit here and say that Sports America was buzzing
after his performance.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Am I right all over social media?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The kids, people who don't even follow baseball like that
know who sho hal Tani is no defeat that he did.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
The Dodgers have that that. Los Angeles a big market.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
They got some people, we know Mookie Bets, we got
people with some personality.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Last year in the World Series. Same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You hit a walk off Grand Slam home run to
win a World Series. Everybody knows who you are, what happened.
It's good for the game, and it's good when you
have teams that have those kind of players that win.
People like winners. People want to follow I. You know,
you could say, oh, they're going overboard and spending too
much money. I'm never gonna buy into that because it's
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how you spend your money that determines.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It, right yep.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And even the Mariners who were trying to make it
in and came one game short, they only the pay
rolls like one thirty six and they were one game short.
They just lost on a three run home run in
the seventh inning. They were that close.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The Tigers were one of the best teams in baseball
to the last month or so exactly. You and I
have talked about this a million times. We're giving a
million examples that we talked about the Giants, we talked
about the Royals, we talked to Tampa Bay Rays, like
teams that they've either won it or made it, the
Angels of O two. I mean, you have a shot
in baseball year in year out, whether you spend the most,
spend the least, you got a shot because if you
(05:56):
get the right pitcher and he's playing well, if your
farm system is working, if your bats are hot, if
you have a great just a great coaching staff, you
can get hot. You can be doing well in baseball.
Baseball is by far the hardest to predict. Every year,
all the Yankees or the Mets, you know, or the
Padres or the sudn set doesn't happen, or the Dodgers, well,
they get there, but they don't win, are they. We
saw the Rangers win a couple of years ago out
(06:17):
the Blue great example. So I mean the Tigers pop
up in the World Series a couple of times. They
didn't win it, but they got there. Like Kansas City
War yesterday, so you just in baseball, you just don't know,
and that's the beauty of it. However, however, you do
need some villains, which is why the Yankees have always
been great for baseball, because they've been the evil empire.
You need the person hate now the Dodgers. If the
(06:39):
Dodge told Rob g I said, if the Dodgers win
this year, this will be the first time to me
that people start to go all right, now, this is
getting crazy because that will be three since twenty twenty, twenty,
twenty twenty, tweeny four and twenty twenty five, first time
back to back since the year two thousand with the Yankees,
and it can give confirmation bias to those who will say,
see what's.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Spending on all the money does because.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Then you would have a point because they bought Otani,
they bought Yamamoto, they bought who am I missing, they
bought Blake Snail, so you could say, see, I told
you it works, So you ever give credence to that
if they were to win back to back. But I
think that's a good thing because you need somebody, Hey,
you need somebody that villains. I'm sick of the La
La thinks it's all that. I'm tired of palm trees.
(07:22):
I'm tired of ice Cuban. Today was a good day.
Whatever it is, I don't want to see Snoop again
except to the Olympics. In the Winter Olympics and every
other Olympics, You're gonna see Snoop forever. Point is, you
need a villain. You need a good versus evil, and
your team is the good whatever you're whoever your fan
base of, and you need a villain.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You need a hero.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You need a villain. So to me, I hope the
Dodgers win. I hope they build that. You need a Due.
You need a North Carolina. You need a Dallas Cowboys.
You need a you know, I mentioned, we mentioned the Yankees.
You need somebody NBA. You know, the NBA doesn't need
Oklahoma City to win. And then Denver the win, and
(07:59):
then Indiana comes back with holler Burn the next year,
here they win. And then it goes to the Orlando Magic.
You needed the Warriors. You needed the Warriors, and Caves
and Lebron going at it. You need it Magic and
Bird you need it Bulls. Michael Jackson goes to play
baseball for two years, come back Jordan, Michael Michael Jordan,
and Michael Jordan wins three more. You need it as
much as people don't think they want that, you absolutely
(08:20):
do want it.
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Speaker 4 (09:03):
You know, Ay, the Pittsburgh still is off to a
good start four and two and uh it is Kumbaya
in Pittsburgh. I mean so much so they love I
think that they would just eat Heines ketchup all day.
I mean, that's how excited they are to have Aaron
Rodgers fondly as their quarterback. And the kind words are
(09:25):
just flowing and all the other stuff that's going on,
a lot of people didn't want them there, Like they've
all flipped.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, you, Aaron Rodgers, you hear all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Those guys have flipped now, Alex, which is crazy, but
rob G, what are you hearing?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeah, despite Aaron Rodgers saying himself back in June that
he's pretty sure this is the last season. That's why
I did a one year deal, despite them losing to
the Cincinnati Bungals on primetime television in them in their
most recent game, just saying I gotta keep it on undo.
Even wh all that said. ESPN's Jeremy Fallon, friend of
(10:03):
the Show, reported earlier this week on his weekly Buzz
column that folks in Pittsburgh are hopeful that Aaron Rodgers
decides to for go retirement and run it back one
more time in twenty twenty. Guys, we're only through a
week seven, they've only played six games, and they're already
talking about re up in the contract.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'm not surprised, only from the standpoint, and we talked
about it before. The reason that they waited for him,
the whole idea is that this franchise was waiting for
a quarterback. And as you just saw, who was it
who just was at Mark Spears on ESPN who just
came out and said, Justin Field is not a starting
(10:47):
quarterback in the NFL. Like like a lot of Marcus
I'm sorry, I said, Mark, spit, Mark, you.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Know what I mean, like like people are like, okay, like.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And the point is that even the Steelers who originally
wanted them back, you know what I mean, to come
back and sign or whatever. But the point is the
Steelers felt like they just needed a quarterback. He didn't
have to be Aaron Rodgers from twenty ten, even though
he's putting up some decent numbers, But they need a quarterback.
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And I think that they've seen that. They've seen what
he brings to the locker room, the respect level that
they have for him, and you know, him and Mike Tomlin,
they got a break like it's hot and heavy. So
there's a lot of good feelings. Even they haven't won
every game. He hadn't been perfect, nothing like that. Nobody's
looking for that, but I think he gives them an
(11:40):
element that they feel like, if we could get our
defense together, we could.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Win this division.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The Ravens are down, you know what I mean, there's
an opening there for sure. And I just think that
there's good feelings because he came in with the right attitude.
The Jets didn't want them, playing a simple knot. He
went there. Jets didn't want them, and he came there.
Terry Bradshaw, one of the most celebrated guys, came and
trashed Aaron Rodgers up and down. He didn't take the
(12:08):
bait that I respect him. I hope he gets to
know me.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I thought a smart Really, I can't win even if
you're right, or if you know, had would he comeback.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You could have.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Easily went off on Terry's old coupe, you know what
I mean, and blah blah blah whatever it would have been.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
He didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
That was and I just think it's the good feeling
of having a quarterback who they really feel is a quarterback,
and I mean can do a lot of different things.
He's not the best quarterback in the league, but I
think for the first time in a while, they feel
like they have a real quarterback.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think that's what the feeling is, and they can
feel that.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You ever had an old car that still rode pretty well,
still look pretty good, and you just enjoyed it, and
you always like, I just love this car, and you
know it's dangerous, and you hope is working and is
working out, but eventually you know you need a new card.
That's the Steelers right now. Aaron Rodgers is playing exactly
how I thought he would. I has said he's going
(13:08):
to remind me of his hair better Russell Wilson. For
the Steelers, Russ came out, was on fire, looked pretty good.
They're happy. Russ looked bad. They started to lose, end
up losing five or six in a row, and I
think ultimately that's what just gonna be. I don't think
he'll be as bad as Russell Wilson, because he's a
better quarterback than you know at the Pantheons, But I
think it's I think there's gonna be a downside now.
The thing that they're fortunate with and you can't help it.
(13:30):
Sometimes fortune favors you know, the bold. Lamar Jackson's out,
Joe Burrow's out. Kill No right, I'm saying, but that's fortunate.
And Joe Burrow and the Cleveland Browns don't know what
they're doing, so that you have to take full advantage
of that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I'm saying they absolutely better take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But my biggest thing goes back to what we talked
about all on the offseason, all the things. My thing is,
if I bring him back at then what would he
be forty two? Next year? Three forty two? So he'll
be forty two years old. You know Keeley's a couple
of years ago was Torn would have had a solid season,
assuming this one that you would want him back. My
(14:09):
thing is, you don't have anybody in the pocket. I
would love to have Aaron Rodgers for two years if
I'm Pittsburgh because I'm grooming my Jackson Dart, I have
my schedulers.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Nobody cares about you keep talking about because what's the point, Rob,
No hear me.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I really want to hear me out.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
If he goes nine to seven, like I predict, then
let's say it's tennis seven. I mean you said, let's
say it's nine and eight. Let's say it's tenants or whatever,
and they get in a wild card or something and
they lose.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
How about they win the division. They they're poised to
win the division right now.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, so they get the division, but let's say they went.
My point is they lose in their first game of
the playoffs. It looks the exact same as Russell Wilson did,
and you don't have someone to replace him. And my
point is who is their guy? And that's all I've
been saying. Is not that Aaron Rodgers is terrible. No,
he's Annon Rodgers. He played solid last year with the Jets.
My old thing was, you're in a division when they're healthy,
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you got Joe Burrow, you got the Raiders guy.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Who's the Raiders guy? That's the point.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Find that's find their guy. They brought in Geno Smith,
and you and I both said that wasn't the move.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay, And I can list you ten other teams. Who's
the clues Cleveland's guy Cleveland, they might be Melon Gabriel.
I'm saying, Okay, that's why I never wanted them to
play Joe Flacco.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Find your guy. If Dylan Gabriel. My biggest argument with
you is that's just not the way sports is set
up today. But that absolutely is. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Jackson Dart was the Giants guy. We knew that in
the offseason. We all knew that? Did we not all
know that? And then they bring in Russell Wilson and
James with all these guys would go okay, and they
start Russell Wilson for an They're still not winning. Jackson
Dart is their guy. They're not winning. They caught a couple,
but the they won a couple, the coaching GM might
not beat it. If they lose the last six or
(15:54):
seven games, would we would jack be there next year?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
But I'm just saying, I'm saying they saw the it's
about winning now, It's not.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It is, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It's about winning, about winning in the prolonged amount of time.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, it's not.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's about winning every season the seas, given yourself the
best chances done right now, giving.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yourself the best chance to haven't won the game and
not trying to do.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You don't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're just guessing and they're not going that's literally what
we do going on.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No, mine has insight. I'm not that stuff. I've you're
saying it's insight.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It's the same guy that again put up the same
similar numbers. It was five and twelve last year, and
his team had similar numbers. They had similar numbers Russell Wilson,
and they looked the exact same.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
As they had the last seven eight.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And here's the problem with your your statistics or your numbers.
He's on pace to throw forty touchdowns if you take
his numbers that he has.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now, I'll take that bet he ain't. Would you like
to make it bet twenty eight. That's about where he'll be, for.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
He has tend the six games, got ten a already.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Would you like to make the better? You want to
have more than twenty eight. You said he's gonna have
the same numbers if you get if he gets thirty,
that's so lower. You said the same. No, no, no, let's
bet twenty eight. If he gets less thirty twenty, same thing.
Roight said the same. Note what you just sa you
just said said he no. No. What you said was
he's projected to get to forty. But that's what already
(17:26):
through the fast that's so put the bet on what
you said he's projected to his thirty he's got fourteen already,
put the bet at forty. No, I'm saying you said no,
you said, I'm gonna look about the same.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'm saying, people, how could it look the same. He's
got fourteen thirty. You said it's gonna end up with
twenty eight. Let's bet that.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm not betting twenty eight because if it's twenty nine,
My point is it gonna be around the same as
what I'm saying, Rob, I'm saying it's gonna be much
more last year.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Forty eight or thirty. What are you guess?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's gonna be much closer to you last year than
forty not the point? That is the point.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I can settle this real quick. Yes, okay.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Aaron Rodgers on pace for forty touchdowns last year at
twenty eight. He's also on pace for seventeen interceptions last
year he had eleven?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Right, So is that better? Is that better or worse?
I'm just talking about the can you rab? Is that
better word? Are you yelling at me? You yelling at me?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
He's going to look just like Russell Wilson. They're gonna
be nine and eight, ten and seven.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
They're not gonna be nine and there. They're gonna be
ten and nine and eight.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, they don't even they haven't even played well
like they're They're not that great of a team.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They're a solid team.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I'm not even come on, man, and then and then
whatever you want, because you've been wrong on so many things.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That dude, And the whole point is they have a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
The same guy that you thought they had a quarterback
went to the.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's not what I said.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
No, listen, if you're say what I said to me,
I said, find out what you know.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's what I said.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You said, just to find out what you have.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
All the players they rallied around justin jail. That's what
they say, the quarterback of the future. I don't understand
why they're not playing it. That guy's my job in
New York didn't even win a damn game.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
When about them, Where's I tried to tell, where's Russell
Wilson right now? Tried to tell where's Russell Wilson. That's
what you told me, Russell Wilson. Where's Russell Wilson. I
know where's Russell Wilson. I told you he's Wilson. We
could go get the tape. I said, as soon as
Russell Wilson is healthy, he's gonna start.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Justin Fields is gonna start and said, no, they won't.
And I and my whole point you were, why would
I move on?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The guys that was four and two because you and
I stand by that cause he's no good. Russell Wilson
and Russell Wilson about Justin Field looks and that's my
no one basking you looks horrible. Okay, that's my point,
and find out what you have We already what point.
He's been on three teams in three years? Five out
Aaron Rodgers. Four Aaron Rodgers been on three teams and
(19:58):
four years? No?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh has it?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Packers, Jets steal it was hurt one year? That don't
even count four. Otherwise I would have said three. I
gave you a hurt year.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
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Speaker 4 (20:21):
The question is, with all the stuff that's going on,
the gambling or whatever, I think this is the worst
time ever to be a sports fan, especially NBA. I
really do break it down. I think this is if
you're a sports fan and you love the NBA, there's
nothing worse than the current NBA and the current scenario
and circumstance that you're faced right now. And here are
(20:43):
the reasons why Kelvin style of play, all the threes,
all that just the style of play isn't basketball that
I love to watch and watch all these games. I
don't want to see teams taking a million threes.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We've seen it.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
The NBA All Star Game scores over two hundred. No defense.
We used to watch the All Star Game. It was
never this bad. Okay, load management guys decide they just
don't want to play, Teams arresting people, people paying five
hundred dollars for tickets, and the players decide they don't
want to play. They don't want to play back to back.
(21:19):
Michael Jordan this last season in the NBA played all
eighty two games like it's just that's another part of it.
But there are two other parts. The fantasy sports, which
is just ruined, just ruined.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Do you have terrible conversations with your friends because you
think it's going to talk about the game. It's just
he didn't do this, he didn't do we talk about
the game.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, they don't care about the game. It's only what
the player that they have and whether or not what
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
And then the last part, which is why to.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Me this is relevant today is the gambling aspect and
the idea of parlay and not about winning or my
team winning. Being mad watching the game, being mad that
the coach pulled the player out of the game, but
he needs two more rebounds. Wait a minute, why do
(22:13):
you do what? He needs another assist? Get back out there, Hey,
you need another free throw?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Head? What are you doing? Angry?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Your team wins but they didn't do they didn't get
your parlay. How in the world are you enjoying this
when I give you all these scenarios for.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
The style of play?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Too many threes, load management, a black guy on the sport,
paying your good heart, earn money.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Nobody's showing, and then they don't want to play.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Fantasy sports. Everything's about fantasy rather than the game of
me caring about my team and them winning. And last
the whole parlay thing. My god, is that really where
it's about the parlay? Not that my team won and
they won by sixteen men, that was a great game.
That No, no, why you bothered your team won? Lebron
(23:06):
didn't get his although he missed it, he needed one
more rebound.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Dude, we're the odd company over No, we're the eye couple.
But on this subject. We are the even couple. I
have a good friend of mine who was by far
my great friend to talk sports with. You know what
I mean, just check in watching. You know, he could
be all across the country. You're watching his game right now.
World here you can just talk about the world. To
(23:29):
watch this game. Wind be looked great and you just
talk who who you think is better?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What do you like? You crazy? I'm taking hit?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Just that was my guy. Drive home, I got an
hour drive home. That's talk sports. We all have that
guy or you got several and he started getting heavy
into parlays.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
He's the one guy. He's that guy.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You even go back and be like remember in the
old five finals when you was rooting for man that
that was my friend man that started to call him
and man, ah, what what happened?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I needed him to hit a mother eleven three? Like what?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But ain't you going for the rooting for or that's
not even your guy like that? I don't even know
who this kid is. I know, but I had the
team at over twenty five to threes so and it
started to change everything. I'm texting them by man, the
running bass gotta run harder? Though, why would you go
for third and six and he's like, man, random game
about some guy needs to get two more assists.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
And I'm like man, and they ruined that friend. Who
I the conversations that sports.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I couldn't agree with you more if you're not into
it and your buddy, your buddies, that crew that used
to be all about going to the bar and watching
the game and meeting at somebody's house. It's changed everything
now to get back to everything else you were saying
style of play, because it while it looks while it
may be scientifically the better thing to do to shoot
(24:46):
the three and together the it's also stylistically boring, right.
I like mid rangers. I like guys getting to the rack.
I like post up moves. Just simply shooting threes and
and all. You know, operating like that is bad. And
as you mentioned, there was a moment when I was
questioning the competition like everything was a business decision. I
gotta wait right now, low Management. I don't want to
(25:07):
play because I'm not fully where I need to. I
don't want to play an all star game in the
Dunk contest because if I lose what I have to gain,
if I don't do it. If I don't, everything became
business decisions versus just the pure love of the game.
And you start to see that now the silver lining
or the hope that I have is in this new
crop of stars. Win min Yama is about win ning.
(25:28):
He don't want to be just I'm good and look
at me in an All Star. He wants to win.
He wants to take your part out. He wants to dominate.
Ant is running through laughing at all these vs. Steph
get out of here, Lebron, get out of here, Luca
get out of here. So ant Man win, Ben Yama,
Cooper Flag is left to determined. I like his motor.
Some of these young guys that are facing k cunning him,
(25:49):
they want to win. They're all in. It gives me
hope that maybe, just maybe the competition, the Karen the
want to crush each other, you know not. I mean,
you guys can be cool, but we don't have to
be uber fragnizing in front of us. I'm hoping we'll
get back to that. But I from one of This
is one of those times, for the most part, we're
in the same page with this man, and again that
(26:10):
part is just it's just it has ruined you to
talk to your frinds anymore. Par parlay
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