October 24, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin explain why the Los Angeles Dodgers dominance has actually been a great thing for Major League Baseball, discuss Jaylen Brown’s assertion that the NBA getting so heavily involved with sports betting has actually hurt the players, make their official World Series predictions, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.
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Speaker 3 (04:49):
Let's let's get here, all right. You know what tonight is.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It's Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Time I heard you talking crazy on TV? What what crazy?
What are you talking to? Everybody's jumping with the Dodgers.
Let me be the one to tell you, well, Rob,
what are you thinks gonna happen? Let me tell you,
Steven Nelson, Yeah, I saw that. I'm gonna tell you
what it is. Bring up. This is what you're gonna
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talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm gonna bring it down for you, all right, come on.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
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. Okay,
go ahead, oh man, The reason back to you because
fin right, okay, to Toronto. They are a formidable team
to be absolutely but for you because the Dodger dominated
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the Brewers. So then I got the Brewers weren't the
best team in baseball year.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Don't do that. Just give the.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
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 spocause people the random of bus saw named the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
No, they were terrible lowly Brewers. Met almost jumped through
my phone and matrix to you wherever you.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Want, can see Stevens like, Yeah, they're pitiful.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't know how they have you thought you had?
Is he with me? Anyway? Continue being sarcastic?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
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 much as I'm bashing on the
Dodgers and whatnot, I don't think they're gonna win the
World Series. I don't believe that they are bad for baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Rob g. There are so many numbers, right, It ain't
about how much money you spend. We talk about it
all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
The New York Metropolitans had the highest payroll, correct, Roberts,
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 Genere are some other
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numbers that are spectacular that just tell you that it's
not based on how much your.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Payroll is not at all.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Since two thousand and one, the highest payroll has only
won it all three times.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Think about it. That's all you need now, you don't
even need any more numbers there. But that's a that's
a solid number tells you.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
As recently as twenty twenty three, the top two highest
pay teams didn't even make the postseason the Yankees. Okay,
if the Dodgers win this World Series, that'd be three
out of six.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Right, that's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Did you forget that the Giants won three out of
five and nobody said they were ruining baseball?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
A few years better because people don't look at the
Giants like that.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
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 baseball well pick him every year,
Bob saying baseball and I can't go again. In fact,
in a torn piece by The Athletic, an anonymous small
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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 fan base there that we have. So
when we get this next big streaming deal. We're all
gonna benefit from the Dodgers. We're gonna be watched all
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around the world because of the Dodgers. I know that's
probably not what people want to hear, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And you know what, I agree the Dodgers the visibility.
And I'll say this, I didn't think what Shohei Otani
did check the box and made him the greatest player
of all time. But ain't no way, Kelvin, you could
sit here and say that Sports America was buzzing after
his performance.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Am I right? All over social media? The kids, people
who don't even follow baseball like that know who Shohil
Tani is.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No defeat that he did. The Dodgers have that that.
Los Angeles a big market. They got some people, we
know Mookie Beds, we got people with some personality.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Last year in the World Series. Same thing.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
People like winners.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
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 how you spend your
money that determines.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It, right yep. And even the Mariners who were trying
to make it in and came one game short, they
only their payrolls like one thirty six and they were
one game short. They just lost on a three run
home run in the seventh. They were that close.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
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 given 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 are the Mets, you know, or the
Padres or the sun set doesn't happen, or the Dodgers. Well,
they get there, but they don't win, are they.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
We saw the Rangers win a couple of years ago
out the Blue, great example.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
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. Yes, 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.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You need the person hate. Now the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
If the 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 spending all the money does,
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because then you would have a point because they bought
O Tany, they bought Yamamoto, they bought h 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 to Hey, you need somebody the villains. I'm sick
of the La La thinks it's all that. I'm tired
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of palm trees. 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 the good whatever you're whoever
you're fan base of, and you need a villain. You
need a hero. You need a villain. So to me,
I hope the Dodgers win. I hope they build that.
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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 then Indiana comes back with Halliburn
the next year and he they win, and then it
goes to the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You need You needed the Warriors. You needed the.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Warriors and Calves 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 then Michael Jordan wins three more.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You need it. As much as people don't think they
want that, you absolutely do want.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
and we will give our World Series picks.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
We do that at Shekel City. We'll do that at
the Shekel City. Yeah, we'll do that on how many games?
We already know your in the Dodgers. You don't know, Yes,
I do know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, you know the best part about this is as
much as you knew I was picking the Dodgers, we
knew you wasn't picking the Dodgers. Who said that, Hey, Alex,
if the Yankees are playing, who's Rob Gott?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh? Easy? If you ain't got coach hold on you're lucky.
I don't have no glasses. I would do.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Who am I right now? I got the Let me
act like I don't know. Hold on my glass, hold on,
put my glasses off. Yankees minus one and a half?
Elijah by here, Yankees minus one and a half on
my time, Elijah, can you point it out for me?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I did these earlier? I did these earlier.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Elijah already has cemented on your dag on Sheecho City
Yankees minus one half.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Know that the y key is like broken down. He
can't even type you. You got a control v pace the Yankees?
Hey eight seven seven ninety nine on five? Or if
Elijah hru that's right? How do you know?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I say, hr You know, Elijah, that's what I want
to know.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I know it all.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
How do you know that that therapy says it's together?
I know your French has no food either. I know
at all?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Eight seven seven ninety nine l Fox is the phone number.
Are the Dodgers actually good for baseball? Or do you
agree with the narrative that they're ruining the sport? We'll
continue that conversation next with you. It is the odd
couple here on Fox Sporting and real quick. I gotta
give a shout out to my man Ben. My man
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Ben works at FS one stop by, and he gave
me this is this champagne? Ben, give me a thumbs up.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Ben, No, nota Ben. Is this champagne? Yeah? That's that.
That's that Ross bel Air, Belair blue. This is the
good stuff. And Ben works at FS one.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And we went to southern Connecticut, not at the same time.
He's a young guy, but Ben gave me this for
the press box. He couldn't make it to the celebration.
But Ben, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I appreciate ooka. Then you're back to you drinking now.
I mean.
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The chest that should chill eate good, that should sh
ain't good? Is right? All right?
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Speaker 3 (16:34):
Man. My haircut to today, Yeah, I saw it. Man,
good out here feeling good finally, you know I feel
much about that.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Listen, you know I got cut to I might get
lucky this weekend, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Think?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, what's Alex? What you want to say about the ID?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
It's a siw Oh god, it's not for me. Wait
when you get like, where do you go?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, usually it's gotta get my approval on my MasterCard.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's what I was saying. You just in the home
and swipe them, go right, go right in, Okay? If
he was out here in the streets eight seven, seven
ninety o on Fox, Dodgers good for baseball?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
What they're doing? Are they? Are they ruining baseball? What
say you?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
We both agree it's great for baseball, putting n eyes
on it. And there's no such thing as just just
because you spent a bunch of money guarantees of victory.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We got New York Metropolitans. Harrold in Chicago. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Harrol?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
What's going on? Guy?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Long time listeners?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Second, man, my man.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You don't have the radio one behind you, do you?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
I do?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Let me let me turn it down.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well, I'm talking to you the way I want to
talk to you, except for one thing.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You forgot to turn down the radio? Right?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Go ahead? Harrow, yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 10 (17:47):
Oh yeah, no, No, Dodgers winning is great for baseball.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
Everybody remembers dynasty. No one cares about one off.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Just as you have the best player in the world,
you have to you have to keep winning.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Uh uh remember the Yankees because of their dynasty, we're
running the Bowl the Lakers, no one.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
No one remembers when did Texas win three years ago?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, all right, I hear you, Harold, Thanks for call
and appreciate it. What about our man truck or Don
and Boston beantown of baseball town?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
What's un? How are you hi?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Thanks take my call? Real good?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Hutting around Texas right now? And uh yeah, good, good topic.
And I want to start off real quick by wishing
my son a happy birthdays in the Navy. I'm going
to visit him.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh what's his name?
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Don?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Chris?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Happy Chris? Yes, very nice?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Awesome, Thank you guys.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Anyway, yeah, no, you guys are dead on the money.
Is great for baseball. I think just the opposite. I
think that low paying team teams are bad for baseball.
You know, when you put a team of minor leaguers
up against major leaguers, it's just and they charge twelve
dollars for a beer, there's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
No, So no, I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I talked about that. You didn't agree that I want
a ceiling. I want to now dollar floor.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Now that's where I give you the NBA reasoning on
why I don't want a floor to just be where
I have to pay people who want that good. I
want you to spend money. You got to try to
compete a little bit. You got some teams out here,
like what we're gonna do is not pay anybody. Go
to John Contact whose nickname was John Contract because he
got a ridiculous contract.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
All.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Remember I like Austin Reggie in Indianapolis. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Reggie?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Hey, v Man, what's happening with y'all? Man? I can't
believe them on the phone with you.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Appreciate the support.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Heyolis one of Chris Bruce's home.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, Chris got like fourteen hometown. You know that, Regie, Hey, Hey.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Rod Man, I really appreciate you guys. Man, Hey, you
got outstanding the show. And hey, it doesn't matter how
much it died. Just pay the yeggies paid. It doesn't
matter at all.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Man.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Hey, just like you guys said earlier, anybody can win
and they have man, so they have no what they're doing.
It doesn't matter to.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Me, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Reggie, thank you. Thank for the support that Randy. I
could tell Randy a smooth player. I could tell no doubt. Yeah, Reggie,
wasn't it Reggie. That's why I said, Reggie, No, you
thought I said rand Bro Maine.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I think he misremembered. Sake focus.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Okay, just you know Maine in Arkansas. You're in the
yard couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
We're going on?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Guys know what I mean. I don't think unless Charny
bad what the Dodgers are doing for baseball, but I
think it's bad for the future.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Man.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
You reference one executive saying I don't when the stands
come through, we all get to split the money. Well,
it all becomes the business transaction. The fan always lose.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
This man.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Goes out the window and then it's on. For the
love of the money. I know, I know money is great,
you know for the game and everything, but the fan
loses when everything becomes a business transaction.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Now man, Main and man, I feel like is it main?
Like like what's up?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Main?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Now? Main?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
All right, no doubt? Man. Now, look this is my
thing to you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Baseball has had a boom when we've had and you
and I Robinson, here is our first year together, last
year of how great it was when you had this
great postseason then you ended with the Yankees and the Dodgers,
which we had years it's eighty one or whatever. I
think you need that at times, like you need the
big machines to go at it from times. I know
that have to be every year, but you need that,
(21:53):
and I think it fuels everything and it makes people
more interested and it only adds, you know, another layer
in another fan base as well. A good conversation. We
appreciate it. Pre HG eight that if I can speak
English all the way, Jalen Brown has something to say
when it comes to the whole gambling scandal. We'll tell
you what he said in just a bit right now,
Steve the Seger, get your set on what's up trendy Steve.
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the way. But right now, Jalen Brown, who's the president
of the NBA Players Association, had a lot to say.
He was asked about obviously the scandal and just his
latest thoughts on it.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Roger, do we had a sound of that? Let me
hear This is what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
I think the open having a conversation. I don't think yet.
Once from my conversations with the Union of the NBA
has been like how can we protect players more with
the environment. There's been little to no conversation around that.
It's all about how can we increase business and it
creates revenue, and I'm not sure, you know, if we're
having enough conversations like what is the aftermath for the
consequences some of that stuff has I think a lot
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more could have been done to help players or prepare players.
But even in the aftermath, I don't think little care
or attention to detail goes into it. They like, you
make x amount of money or X, y and z,
you should be able to deal with all the extra
negativity the people approaching you is leading to situations that
we can avoid if more conversations were at right.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now, and I couldn't agree more. I think the NBA
did not count the cost. I think the NBA did
not consider the collateral damage that would be from gambling.
So you started with back in the day, it was
just trash talk boom. You know, if you're rooting for
the Celtic, you had the Lakers suck or oh the Celtics.
So that was kind of the thing. Okay, cool, Hey,
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you know, you say something funny to a player. Then
it turned to you're ruining my fantasy team, fantasy fantasy,
fantasy fantasy players.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That to deal with it. Now.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
This is a scarier one, Rob, because we've seen some
players put out the dms, take screenshots, put it out there.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
We've seen reports where.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Guys are getting hey, I lost my family because you
didn't hit the parlay, I lost my family because I've
lost my job, or I'm in major debt because of you.
In the violatility in the messages, it's gone up. You
get what I mean. It's one thing boom, you're on
the opposing team. Now it's guys making big threats. Hey,
this didn't happen because you getting hit a lousy parlay.
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You can hit one more three And some players are
outing people. This guy said this, this guy threatened me.
Here's a screenshot. And I think the NBA while falling
into bed with all of these, I mean, I'm watching,
I'm watching ESPN tell me about the gambling thing, and
literally their next segment, all right, let's go to ESPN
bet and they do a whole segment on that.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And I'm just dying laughing, like this is just where
we are.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
But I do think there's something about not counting the
costs and considering what this does the players now where
they're getting threats and your money's involved.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It's one thing my team boo you I got a
different jersey.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Now people are feeling like you cost me my livelihood,
in my family, in my house because I put all
this money on you.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
That's kind of sens I'm gonna say this and and
and I hear that, and I'm not gonna try to
pooh pool what gambling has done. But these current players
are big babies about everything though. I mean, I mean,
I'm not that gotta be two things that have to
be mutually exclusive.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
But I just want to like uh Russell Westbrook trying
to get somebody thrown out of a game because they.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Called them Westbrook. Do you do you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
So, so there's there's two levels here where they don't
want to be a criticized from anybody, right from the writers.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
They don't want to be criticized.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
They don't want to be criticized from Kenny Shack or
Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
They don't want those guys to criticize.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
They actually went on a campaign said that the reason
that the ratings were down was because there's too much
negative talk from players. They want everybody to do happy
talk and tell how great the game is. Yet there's
those same some of those same people were downing the
former players, saying they were plumbers and they couldn't play,
and they this, and like like none of it makes
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any sense. And I'm just saying, the players to me
are overly sensitive. Now, don't get me wrong. Now, I
understand the gambling aspect, which has brought a different dynamic
to it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
So I do see that, and I do agree with that.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I told you yesterday that the league is just as
negligent as the individuals. And I'm not trying to pass
it off and say Chauncey and Damon Jones and Roziah
you know, are scott free and they didn't do anything
wrong or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And this is rob g and I talked about this analogy.
You know, there's always that conversation is it the person
or is it the gun? And obviously, you know what
I mean. Guns don't kill people.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
People kill people, that's the argument, right, right, But but
but there's a mechanism there that you've allowed this gambling
thing to happen, right as the as the league.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And not only the gun.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
To go with that analogy, but you know what I'm saying,
I'm staying with it. I'm saying you you you also
gave the bullets and ammunition. You provided those, You know
what I mean, Like, it's not just all gambling exists.
You're providing. This is entertaining and taking money from right,
and this.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Is what this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And that was like what I brought up earlier about
how much they were so against Las Vegas and get
form of decade to decades. Right, Nope, there'll never be
an NBA team in Las Vegas. There will never be
a baseball team and lost, there will never be a
football team.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
What we got they're about, she's gonna move there, and
then that Vegas Aces already there. You got the Oakland,
the Vegas Raiders a on their way.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And obviously Lebron, biggest face of your league, always saying
to have a team.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And if you would have.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Told me twenty five years ago there be a team
and loss fan, I would tell you crazy. Just like
if you told me I would be walking around with
a phone that I could check email, I would say
you're crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But the NBA is partly responding absolutely complicity. And this
is where it's going to eternally become complex to me,
because you can't just say, all right, well you should
have known better not to gamble when it's first of all,
let's there were obviously since this, we've heard lawyers, we've
heard psychiatrists, people who come on psychologists about the person,
like if somebody has an addiction of gambling, addiction and
(28:39):
then you're gambling, gambling, gambling every commercial, every billboard, everything,
and you're okay. And you got Lebron with Kevin Hart
doing drive King commercials, and it's like, subconsciously you're like,
all right, this is not a big deal Lebron Hard
doing it because it's been normal, it's normalized, it's so
easily accessible.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
It used to be you felt tabooed. Yeah, you feel
you need a bookie. Who do you know somebody who
will take the world is right? Who can take a
bet or whatever? Like really can I can I bet?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Well?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Do you know somebody? Like that's what it was? What's
you know?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
What you rob g Tell me I'm wrong When you
go on something. Let's say they post whoever the Fox
Sports post something on their Instagram page and it's Steph
Curry hitting. First thing they say is twin you couldn't
do that on my parlay. Yes, he's running nodding his head. Yes,
Like that's the first thing people say. Steph goes crazy
that he ain't hit that when I had the parlay
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for like that's all everybody talks.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I'll give you another one, seriously, And I'm not trying
to be nasty or anything.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I'm that serious. It's like the pornography thing you used
to have to like the VHS to or magazine or
like you have to like like you know, you have
to kind of slip it, like how do I get
this or whatever.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Now it's like it's everywhere. I don't even have to
I don't even have to be looking for it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Was that like a hypothetical, I don't Yeah, of course
I want to make sure because like I don't in
the theory, so you know what, it's all hypotheterical. I
want to make sure we didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Know we mop floors daily. Yeah, Rob, it's very telling.
There's a lot of references you could have used.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know black more things that are
my pervasive that you could have.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I still can't Rob.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
You just said it, but I can't let it go
the rest of my life in Wolfsburg Pennsylvania used to
be like a peep show kind of place.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And on the marquee or the big sign out there,
what are we mop every fifteen minutes? I cannot let
that go.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That was.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, but that was but that was out on Like
for anybody driving in Wolsburg.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You imagine your parents, what is that? What do you?
What do you? Mommy? That sure make a lot of
messes and Mommy's just like they do, baby, they do
all right?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh god, so sticky, all right, all right, let's get
back to gambling, which I can't believe it's better than that.
This conversation point is, this is just that we got
the World Series kicking off today. You're gonna hear or
see depend if you're listening to radio or what, there's
gonna be a bunch of advertising about gambling. Right but
right now I'm looking at this, this wrap, this Bucks
Raptor game massive on the court on the baseline is FanDuel.
(31:20):
You see it right there, and it's just it's so
it's like, don't gamble.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It's bad. It's bad. It's hot. Right of this screen.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's called a FanDuel Sports net FanDuel Sports Networks, FanDuel
on the.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I mean just think about ABC NBC, says FanDuel. And
so yesterday everybody's looking around going, how do you even
get away from it? You can't get on, you can't.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It's it's everywhere, man, So just expect it. And by the way,
we know Cash Betail running the FBI. Director of the
FBI says, what did he say? Oh, there's just a
tip of the iceberg. There's more coming. All I'm gonna
say is I'm gonna give Cash credit.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know what I'm saying. I give you that one.
That took me a second, but that was actually good
still processing.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
When you get it, you'll be like, all right, Rob,
I wasn't mad at that playing today. Shekel City on
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Daley Dicks against the spread?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Did did this choir I've ever seen? I knew that
was about seven hundred people on the on the base.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Did I do that? Why did I do that? All right, well,
I'm doing that. You do last night? One and two,
two and one and one? There you go, very very
happy with that. I am now Where am I now?
All right? Two and one, I'm now forty nine and
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he make money roging? I'm not yet. I'm at five hundred.
I need to get better than that. There's a lot
of people look at that, dude.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's the biggest chore I've ever seen in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
In Toronto, and then you know, Dave Roberts will be
mad because the pebble will we'll hit off because the
field was messed up for that so many people on
the field. All right, I got Toronto Blue Jays plus
one and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
What a shaker, right, plus one and a half.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Man, I got the Cleveland Cavaliers minus eleven and a
half taking on the nets in Brooklyn eleven and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Doctor j is not walking through that due.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
And I got the Rockets minus six and a half
against the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Wow, on the road, they had a good like, that's
to me good, but they can do something.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
That well, Kate had a bad shooting night, tooty start,
but they became back.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
They actually tied the game.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
They had a good they got the nice spreading out
of the points and everything like.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
All right, So again, Rockets minus six and a half,
Cavaliers minus eleven and a half, and I'm taking the
Blue Jays to win Game one in Toronto World Series
against those Dodges. Well, you know whoever they say go ahead,
I'm not telling you who the bet on.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Well, don't do that right now, I ain't pair for that.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Terry Rogier is telling you, I mean Jones, there you go,
stop it, all right? That was Shekel City speaking of
now that we talked about. So Game one for you
goes to the Blue Jays with about two, three, four, five,
six seven.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I actually, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I want to say the blue Jays in five, I do,
but I'll say six. Want I want to say five?
And why do you want to say five? Because I
think they're averaging six and a half runs a game.
I think that the Dodgers pitching is good, not as dominant,
not as dominant as we saw.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Blake Steel has like a he a. It's good. We
can get roughed up tonight. I'm just saying, the blue
Jays swing the bats six and a half. Yeah, that's
about to be swung. About to swing a bad at you.
Six and a half runs and baseball is a lot
in the post. No, look, that's a lot of runs.
And the Dodgers haven't been scoring.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They have, so I'll see your six, but I'll raise
you a Dodgers, Dodgers in six.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
They ain't lying about this field. I hope it ain't.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
No ladies out there with no high heels, trust the whole.
Look they said, y'all get these same white shoes. Uh No,
give me Dodgers and six and you have listen. I
think it'd be compelling and hence the six. And I
think the Blue Jays absolutely have bets. They're swinging great
right now.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
But that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
They went up against his bus saw four starters like that,
and the Dodgers make enough timely hits.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's that's why I happened Center scores many runs. They
don't need to. When I got guys pitching incredibly, what
you got, Robger?
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Now the youtubeians, the Instagrammians and with all them, they're
all weighing in right now.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Here's they're saying about Rob Parker's pick. But you can
flip this or you can leave that alone and.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Fly because Rob has been on multiple outlets already said
Blue Jason five. But then when it's time for my show,
I'm gonna ahead change it to Blue Jess. I'd say,
I heard you all it took. Are you thinking you
know what I'm gonna change my pick. I'm just gonna
change my pick.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I said, I wanted to say five, And you know what,
I'm gonna stay consistent. I'm gonna have two brand muffins
and say the Blue Jayson five. I'll be consistent. No,
because now you have flipped again. You flip more than
the pancakes they flipped for ROGI that you eat. I
get roped in it is I said flipped.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
You may flop or you may flip flop. I'm not
a flip flopper. That's the one thing I'm not. I'll
give you. Just did it twice. Well, I'm going back
to uh Blue Jays and five? So you wait, wait, wait,
so you're going with five?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Now?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yes, I see if I can flip and go back
to six. And you know what, I'm gonna sing, Old
Canada when they win Game one, we'll get it going.
Drake will beat you to it. He's well, is Drake
even there?
Speaker 7 (38:37):
I'm sure he already posted a thing about Hey, Jason
Smith knows ball. He said the Dodger is gonna put
up creaking numbers in the first two innings.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Really, it's what he said.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Okay, And he talks baseball more than anybody in his network.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Right, he doesn't
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Shoot y'all even got me Bob Costas out here in
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Let's let's get here, all right. You know what tonight is.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It's Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Time I heard you talking crazy on TV? What what crazy?
What are you talking to? Everybody's jumping with the Dodgers.
Let me be the one to tell you, well, Rob,
what are you thinks gonna happen? Let me tell you,
Steven Nelson, Yeah, I saw that. I'm gonna tell you
what it is. Bring up. This is what you're gonna
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talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm gonna bring it down for you, all right, come on.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Listen.
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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. Okay,
go ahead, oh man, The reason back to you because
fin right, okay, to Toronto. They are a formidable team
to be absolutely but for you because the Dodger dominated
(05:46):
the Brewers. So then I got the Brewers weren't the
best team in baseball year.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Don't do that. Just give the.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
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 spocause people the random of bus saw named the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
No, they were terrible lowly Brewers. Met almost jumped through
my phone and matrix to you wherever you.
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Want, can see Stevens like, Yeah, they're pitiful.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't know how they have you thought you had?
Is he with me? Anyway? Continue being sarcastic?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
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 much as I'm bashing on the
Dodgers and whatnot, I don't think they're gonna win the
World Series. I don't believe that they are bad for baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Rob g. There are so many numbers, right, It ain't
about how much money you spend. We talk about it
all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
The New York Metropolitans had the highest payroll, correct, Roberts,
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 Genere are some other
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numbers that are spectacular that just tell you that it's
not based on how much your.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Payroll is not at all.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Since two thousand and one, the highest payroll has only
won it all three times.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Think about it. That's all you need now, you don't
even need any more numbers there. But that's a that's
a solid number tells you.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
As recently as twenty twenty three, the top two highest
pay teams didn't even make the postseason the Yankees. Okay,
if the Dodgers win this World Series, that'd be three
out of six.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Right, that's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Did you forget that the Giants won three out of
five and nobody said they were ruining baseball?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
A few years better because people don't look at the
Giants like that.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
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 baseball well pick him every year,
Bob saying baseball and I can't go again. In fact,
in a torn piece by The Athletic, an anonymous small
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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 fan base there that we have. So
when we get this next big streaming deal. We're all
gonna benefit from the Dodgers. We're gonna be watched all
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around the world because of the Dodgers. I know that's
probably not what people want to hear, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And you know what, I agree the Dodgers the visibility.
And I'll say this, I didn't think what Shohei Otani
did check the box and made him the greatest player
of all time. But ain't no way, Kelvin, you could
sit here and say that Sports America was buzzing after
his performance.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Am I right? All over social media? The kids, people
who don't even follow baseball like that know who Shohil
Tani is.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No defeat that he did. The Dodgers have that that.
Los Angeles a big market. They got some people, we
know Mookie Beds, we got people with some personality.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Last year in the World Series. Same thing.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
People like winners.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
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 how you spend your
money that determines.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It, right yep. And even the Mariners who were trying
to make it in and came one game short, they
only their payrolls like one thirty six and they were
one game short. They just lost on a three run
home run in the seventh. They were that close.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
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 given 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 are the Mets, you know, or the
Padres or the sun set doesn't happen, or the Dodgers. Well,
they get there, but they don't win, are they.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
We saw the Rangers win a couple of years ago
out the Blue, great example.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
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. Yes, 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.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You need the person hate. Now the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
If the 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 spending all the money does,
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because then you would have a point because they bought
O Tany, they bought Yamamoto, they bought h 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 to Hey, you need somebody the villains. I'm sick
of the La La thinks it's all that. I'm tired
(11:47):
of palm trees. 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 the good whatever you're whoever
you're fan base of, and you need a villain. You
need a hero. You need a villain. So to me,
I hope the Dodgers win. I hope they build that.
(12:08):
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 then Indiana comes back with Halliburn
the next year and he they win, and then it
goes to the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You need You needed the Warriors. You needed the.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Warriors and Calves 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 then Michael Jordan wins three more.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You need it. As much as people don't think they
want that, you absolutely do want.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
and we will give our World Series picks.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
We do that at Shekel City. We'll do that at
the Shekel City. Yeah, we'll do that on how many games?
We already know your in the Dodgers. You don't know, Yes,
I do know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, you know the best part about this is as
much as you knew I was picking the Dodgers, we
knew you wasn't picking the Dodgers. Who said that, Hey, Alex,
if the Yankees are playing, who's Rob Gott?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh? Easy? If you ain't got coach hold on you're lucky.
I don't have no glasses. I would do.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Who am I right now? I got the Let me
act like I don't know. Hold on my glass, hold on,
put my glasses off. Yankees minus one and a half?
Elijah by here, Yankees minus one and a half on
my time, Elijah, can you point it out for me?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I did these earlier? I did these earlier.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Elijah already has cemented on your dag on Sheecho City
Yankees minus one half.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Know that the y key is like broken down. He
can't even type you. You got a control v pace the Yankees?
Hey eight seven seven ninety nine on five? Or if
Elijah hru that's right? How do you know?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I say, hr You know, Elijah, that's what I want
to know.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I know it all.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
How do you know that that therapy says it's together?
I know your French has no food either. I know
at all?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Eight seven seven ninety nine l Fox is the phone number.
Are the Dodgers actually good for baseball? Or do you
agree with the narrative that they're ruining the sport? We'll
continue that conversation next with you. It is the odd
couple here on Fox Sporting and real quick. I gotta
give a shout out to my man Ben. My man
(14:22):
Ben works at FS one stop by, and he gave
me this is this champagne? Ben, give me a thumbs up.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Ben, No, nota Ben. Is this champagne? Yeah? That's that.
That's that Ross bel Air, Belair blue. This is the
good stuff. And Ben works at FS one.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And we went to southern Connecticut, not at the same time.
He's a young guy, but Ben gave me this for
the press box. He couldn't make it to the celebration.
But Ben, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I appreciate ooka. Then you're back to you drinking now.
I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I am back all right late night with host This
on your chest, all right, with.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The chest that should chill eate good, that should sh
ain't good? Is right? All right?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
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Speaker 3 (15:18):
We're gonna talk about it. I'm a breaking down for you,
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Speaker 1 (16:06):
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Speaker 3 (16:34):
Man. My haircut to today, Yeah, I saw it. Man,
good out here feeling good finally, you know I feel
much about that.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Listen, you know I got cut to I might get
lucky this weekend, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Think?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, what's Alex? What you want to say about the ID?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
It's a siw Oh god, it's not for me. Wait
when you get like, where do you go?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, usually it's gotta get my approval on my MasterCard.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's what I was saying. You just in the home
and swipe them, go right, go right in, Okay? If
he was out here in the streets eight seven, seven
ninety o on Fox, Dodgers good for baseball?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
What they're doing? Are they? Are they ruining baseball? What
say you?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
We both agree it's great for baseball, putting n eyes
on it. And there's no such thing as just just
because you spent a bunch of money guarantees of victory.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We got New York Metropolitans. Harrold in Chicago. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Harrol?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
What's going on? Guy?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Long time listeners?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Second, man, my man.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You don't have the radio one behind you, do you?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
I do?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Let me let me turn it down.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well, I'm talking to you the way I want to
talk to you, except for one thing.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You forgot to turn down the radio? Right?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Go ahead? Harrow, yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 10 (17:47):
Oh yeah, no, No, Dodgers winning is great for baseball.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
Everybody remembers dynasty. No one cares about one off.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Just as you have the best player in the world,
you have to you have to keep winning.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Uh uh remember the Yankees because of their dynasty, we're
running the Bowl the Lakers, no one.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
No one remembers when did Texas win three years ago?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, all right, I hear you, Harold, Thanks for call
and appreciate it. What about our man truck or Don
and Boston beantown of baseball town?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
What's un? How are you hi?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Thanks take my call? Real good?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Hutting around Texas right now? And uh yeah, good, good topic.
And I want to start off real quick by wishing
my son a happy birthdays in the Navy. I'm going
to visit him.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh what's his name?
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Don?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Chris?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Happy Chris? Yes, very nice?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Awesome, Thank you guys.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Anyway, yeah, no, you guys are dead on the money.
Is great for baseball. I think just the opposite. I
think that low paying team teams are bad for baseball.
You know, when you put a team of minor leaguers
up against major leaguers, it's just and they charge twelve
dollars for a beer, there's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
No, So no, I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I talked about that. You didn't agree that I want
a ceiling. I want to now dollar floor.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Now that's where I give you the NBA reasoning on
why I don't want a floor to just be where
I have to pay people who want that good. I
want you to spend money. You got to try to
compete a little bit. You got some teams out here,
like what we're gonna do is not pay anybody. Go
to John Contact whose nickname was John Contract because he
got a ridiculous contract.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
All.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Remember I like Austin Reggie in Indianapolis. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Reggie?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Hey, v Man, what's happening with y'all? Man? I can't
believe them on the phone with you.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Appreciate the support.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Heyolis one of Chris Bruce's home.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, Chris got like fourteen hometown. You know that, Regie, Hey, Hey.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Rod Man, I really appreciate you guys. Man, Hey, you
got outstanding the show. And hey, it doesn't matter how
much it died. Just pay the yeggies paid. It doesn't
matter at all.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Man.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Hey, just like you guys said earlier, anybody can win
and they have man, so they have no what they're doing.
It doesn't matter to.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Me, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Reggie, thank you. Thank for the support that Randy. I
could tell Randy a smooth player. I could tell no doubt. Yeah, Reggie,
wasn't it Reggie. That's why I said, Reggie, No, you
thought I said rand Bro Maine.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I think he misremembered. Sake focus.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Okay, just you know Maine in Arkansas. You're in the
yard couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
We're going on?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Guys know what I mean. I don't think unless Charny
bad what the Dodgers are doing for baseball, but I
think it's bad for the future.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Man.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
You reference one executive saying I don't when the stands
come through, we all get to split the money. Well,
it all becomes the business transaction. The fan always lose.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
This man.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Goes out the window and then it's on. For the
love of the money. I know, I know money is great,
you know for the game and everything, but the fan
loses when everything becomes a business transaction.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Now man, Main and man, I feel like is it main?
Like like what's up?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Main?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Now? Main?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
All right, no doubt? Man. Now, look this is my
thing to you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Baseball has had a boom when we've had and you
and I Robinson, here is our first year together, last
year of how great it was when you had this
great postseason then you ended with the Yankees and the Dodgers,
which we had years it's eighty one or whatever. I
think you need that at times, like you need the
big machines to go at it from times. I know
that have to be every year, but you need that,
(21:53):
and I think it fuels everything and it makes people
more interested and it only adds, you know, another layer
in another fan base as well. A good conversation. We
appreciate it. Pre HG eight that if I can speak
English all the way, Jalen Brown has something to say
when it comes to the whole gambling scandal. We'll tell
you what he said in just a bit right now,
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All right, Steve, appreciate it.
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the way. But right now, Jalen Brown, who's the president
of the NBA Players Association, had a lot to say.
He was asked about obviously the scandal and just his
latest thoughts on it.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Roger, do we had a sound of that? Let me
hear This is what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
I think the open having a conversation. I don't think yet.
Once from my conversations with the Union of the NBA
has been like how can we protect players more with
the environment. There's been little to no conversation around that.
It's all about how can we increase business and it
creates revenue, and I'm not sure, you know, if we're
having enough conversations like what is the aftermath for the
consequences some of that stuff has I think a lot
(23:20):
more could have been done to help players or prepare players.
But even in the aftermath, I don't think little care
or attention to detail goes into it. They like, you
make x amount of money or X, y and z,
you should be able to deal with all the extra
negativity the people approaching you is leading to situations that
we can avoid if more conversations were at right.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now, and I couldn't agree more. I think the NBA
did not count the cost. I think the NBA did
not consider the collateral damage that would be from gambling.
So you started with back in the day, it was
just trash talk boom. You know, if you're rooting for
the Celtic, you had the Lakers suck or oh the Celtics.
So that was kind of the thing. Okay, cool, Hey,
(23:59):
you know, you say something funny to a player. Then
it turned to you're ruining my fantasy team, fantasy fantasy,
fantasy fantasy players.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That to deal with it. Now.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
This is a scarier one, Rob, because we've seen some
players put out the dms, take screenshots, put it out there.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
We've seen reports where.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Guys are getting hey, I lost my family because you
didn't hit the parlay, I lost my family because I've
lost my job, or I'm in major debt because of you.
In the violatility in the messages, it's gone up. You
get what I mean. It's one thing boom, you're on
the opposing team. Now it's guys making big threats. Hey,
this didn't happen because you getting hit a lousy parlay.
(24:37):
You can hit one more three And some players are
outing people. This guy said this, this guy threatened me.
Here's a screenshot. And I think the NBA while falling
into bed with all of these, I mean, I'm watching,
I'm watching ESPN tell me about the gambling thing, and
literally their next segment, all right, let's go to ESPN
bet and they do a whole segment on that.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And I'm just dying laughing, like this is just where
we are.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
But I do think there's something about not counting the
costs and considering what this does the players now where
they're getting threats and your money's involved.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It's one thing my team boo you I got a
different jersey.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Now people are feeling like you cost me my livelihood,
in my family, in my house because I put all
this money on you.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
That's kind of sens I'm gonna say this and and
and I hear that, and I'm not gonna try to
pooh pool what gambling has done. But these current players
are big babies about everything though. I mean, I mean,
I'm not that gotta be two things that have to
be mutually exclusive.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
But I just want to like uh Russell Westbrook trying
to get somebody thrown out of a game because they.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Called them Westbrook. Do you do you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
So, so there's there's two levels here where they don't
want to be a criticized from anybody, right from the writers.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
They don't want to be criticized.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
They don't want to be criticized from Kenny Shack or
Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
They don't want those guys to criticize.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
They actually went on a campaign said that the reason
that the ratings were down was because there's too much
negative talk from players. They want everybody to do happy
talk and tell how great the game is. Yet there's
those same some of those same people were downing the
former players, saying they were plumbers and they couldn't play,
and they this, and like like none of it makes
(26:18):
any sense. And I'm just saying, the players to me
are overly sensitive. Now, don't get me wrong. Now, I
understand the gambling aspect, which has brought a different dynamic
to it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
So I do see that, and I do agree with that.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I told you yesterday that the league is just as
negligent as the individuals. And I'm not trying to pass
it off and say Chauncey and Damon Jones and Roziah
you know, are scott free and they didn't do anything
wrong or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And this is rob g and I talked about this analogy.
You know, there's always that conversation is it the person
or is it the gun? And obviously, you know what
I mean. Guns don't kill people.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
People kill people, that's the argument, right, right, But but
but there's a mechanism there that you've allowed this gambling
thing to happen, right as the as the league.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And not only the gun.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
To go with that analogy, but you know what I'm saying,
I'm staying with it. I'm saying you you you also
gave the bullets and ammunition. You provided those, You know
what I mean, Like, it's not just all gambling exists.
You're providing. This is entertaining and taking money from right,
and this.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Is what this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And that was like what I brought up earlier about
how much they were so against Las Vegas and get
form of decade to decades. Right, Nope, there'll never be
an NBA team in Las Vegas. There will never be
a baseball team and lost, there will never be a
football team.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
What we got they're about, she's gonna move there, and
then that Vegas Aces already there. You got the Oakland,
the Vegas Raiders a on their way.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And obviously Lebron, biggest face of your league, always saying
to have a team.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And if you would have.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Told me twenty five years ago there be a team
and loss fan, I would tell you crazy. Just like
if you told me I would be walking around with
a phone that I could check email, I would say
you're crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But the NBA is partly responding absolutely complicity. And this
is where it's going to eternally become complex to me,
because you can't just say, all right, well you should
have known better not to gamble when it's first of all,
let's there were obviously since this, we've heard lawyers, we've
heard psychiatrists, people who come on psychologists about the person,
like if somebody has an addiction of gambling, addiction and
(28:39):
then you're gambling, gambling, gambling every commercial, every billboard, everything,
and you're okay. And you got Lebron with Kevin Hart
doing drive King commercials, and it's like, subconsciously you're like,
all right, this is not a big deal Lebron Hard
doing it because it's been normal, it's normalized, it's so
easily accessible.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
It used to be you felt tabooed. Yeah, you feel
you need a bookie. Who do you know somebody who
will take the world is right? Who can take a
bet or whatever? Like really can I can I bet?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Well?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Do you know somebody? Like that's what it was? What's
you know?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
What you rob g Tell me I'm wrong When you
go on something. Let's say they post whoever the Fox
Sports post something on their Instagram page and it's Steph
Curry hitting. First thing they say is twin you couldn't
do that on my parlay. Yes, he's running nodding his head. Yes,
Like that's the first thing people say. Steph goes crazy
that he ain't hit that when I had the parlay
(29:32):
for like that's all everybody talks.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I'll give you another one, seriously, And I'm not trying
to be nasty or anything.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I'm that serious. It's like the pornography thing you used
to have to like the VHS to or magazine or
like you have to like like you know, you have
to kind of slip it, like how do I get
this or whatever.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Now it's like it's everywhere. I don't even have to
I don't even have to be looking for it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Was that like a hypothetical, I don't Yeah, of course
I want to make sure because like I don't in
the theory, so you know what, it's all hypotheterical. I
want to make sure we didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Know we mop floors daily. Yeah, Rob, it's very telling.
There's a lot of references you could have used.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know black more things that are
my pervasive that you could have.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I still can't Rob.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
You just said it, but I can't let it go
the rest of my life in Wolfsburg Pennsylvania used to
be like a peep show kind of place.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And on the marquee or the big sign out there,
what are we mop every fifteen minutes? I cannot let
that go.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That was.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, but that was but that was out on Like
for anybody driving in Wolsburg.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You imagine your parents, what is that? What do you?
What do you? Mommy? That sure make a lot of
messes and Mommy's just like they do, baby, they do
all right?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh god, so sticky, all right, all right, let's get
back to gambling, which I can't believe it's better than that.
This conversation point is, this is just that we got
the World Series kicking off today. You're gonna hear or
see depend if you're listening to radio or what, there's
gonna be a bunch of advertising about gambling. Right but
right now I'm looking at this, this wrap, this Bucks
Raptor game massive on the court on the baseline is FanDuel.
(31:20):
You see it right there, and it's just it's so
it's like, don't gamble.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It's bad. It's bad. It's hot. Right of this screen.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's called a FanDuel Sports net FanDuel Sports Networks, FanDuel
on the.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I mean just think about ABC NBC, says FanDuel. And
so yesterday everybody's looking around going, how do you even
get away from it? You can't get on, you can't.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It's it's everywhere, man, So just expect it. And by the way,
we know Cash Betail running the FBI. Director of the
FBI says, what did he say? Oh, there's just a
tip of the iceberg. There's more coming. All I'm gonna
say is I'm gonna give Cash credit.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know what I'm saying. I give you that one.
That took me a second, but that was actually good
still processing.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
When you get it, you'll be like, all right, Rob,
I wasn't mad at that playing today. Shekel City on
the way. Plus, we're gonna do it. We'll give our
World Series picks as well as we're minutes away from
first pitch, we'll give those next.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's the Acaba. Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (32:30):
This sounds like a bad nineties TV show.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
That's about giving me about about eighty three eighty four.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Uh, eighty one, this is good.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
So this is a father for you. For eighty one,
I was about forty years old.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I remember that I was just probably like I was
not forty. Fox Sports Radio you weren't you? Lou look
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It's a disco ninety two yeah that.
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Speaker 3 (33:58):
It is the way tire buying should be. Now it's
time for Checho City.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
Daley Dicks against the spread?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Did did this choir I've ever seen? I knew that
was about seven hundred people on the on the base.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Did I do that? Why did I do that? All right, well,
I'm doing that. You do last night? One and two,
two and one and one? There you go, very very
happy with that. I am now Where am I now?
All right? Two and one, I'm now forty nine and
forty six, three games over five hundred? Is that? Did
(34:41):
he make money roging? I'm not yet. I'm at five hundred.
I need to get better than that. There's a lot
of people look at that, dude.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's the biggest chore I've ever seen in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
In Toronto, and then you know, Dave Roberts will be
mad because the pebble will we'll hit off because the
field was messed up for that so many people on
the field. All right, I got Toronto Blue Jays plus
one and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
What a shaker, right, plus one and a half.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Man, I got the Cleveland Cavaliers minus eleven and a
half taking on the nets in Brooklyn eleven and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Doctor j is not walking through that due.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
And I got the Rockets minus six and a half
against the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Wow, on the road, they had a good like, that's
to me good, but they can do something.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
That well, Kate had a bad shooting night, tooty start,
but they became back.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
They actually tied the game.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
They had a good they got the nice spreading out
of the points and everything like.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
All right, So again, Rockets minus six and a half,
Cavaliers minus eleven and a half, and I'm taking the
Blue Jays to win Game one in Toronto World Series
against those Dodges. Well, you know whoever they say go ahead,
I'm not telling you who the bet on.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Well, don't do that right now, I ain't pair for that.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Terry Rogier is telling you, I mean Jones, there you go,
stop it, all right? That was Shekel City speaking of
now that we talked about. So Game one for you
goes to the Blue Jays with about two, three, four, five,
six seven.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I actually, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I want to say the blue Jays in five, I do,
but I'll say six. Want I want to say five?
And why do you want to say five? Because I
think they're averaging six and a half runs a game.
I think that the Dodgers pitching is good, not as dominant,
not as dominant as we saw.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Blake Steel has like a he a. It's good. We
can get roughed up tonight. I'm just saying, the blue
Jays swing the bats six and a half. Yeah, that's
about to be swung. About to swing a bad at you.
Six and a half runs and baseball is a lot
in the post. No, look, that's a lot of runs.
And the Dodgers haven't been scoring.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They have, so I'll see your six, but I'll raise
you a Dodgers, Dodgers in six.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
They ain't lying about this field. I hope it ain't.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
No ladies out there with no high heels, trust the whole.
Look they said, y'all get these same white shoes. Uh No,
give me Dodgers and six and you have listen. I
think it'd be compelling and hence the six. And I
think the Blue Jays absolutely have bets. They're swinging great
right now.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
But that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
They went up against his bus saw four starters like that,
and the Dodgers make enough timely hits.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's that's why I happened Center scores many runs. They
don't need to. When I got guys pitching incredibly, what
you got, Robger?
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Now the youtubeians, the Instagrammians and with all them, they're
all weighing in right now.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Here's they're saying about Rob Parker's pick. But you can
flip this or you can leave that alone and.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Fly because Rob has been on multiple outlets already said
Blue Jason five. But then when it's time for my show,
I'm gonna ahead change it to Blue Jess. I'd say,
I heard you all it took. Are you thinking you
know what I'm gonna change my pick. I'm just gonna
change my pick.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I said, I wanted to say five, And you know what,
I'm gonna stay consistent. I'm gonna have two brand muffins
and say the Blue Jayson five. I'll be consistent. No,
because now you have flipped again. You flip more than
the pancakes they flipped for ROGI that you eat. I
get roped in it is I said flipped.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
You may flop or you may flip flop. I'm not
a flip flopper. That's the one thing I'm not. I'll
give you. Just did it twice. Well, I'm going back
to uh Blue Jays and five? So you wait, wait, wait,
so you're going with five?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Now?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yes, I see if I can flip and go back
to six. And you know what, I'm gonna sing, Old
Canada when they win Game one, we'll get it going.
Drake will beat you to it. He's well, is Drake
even there?
Speaker 7 (38:37):
I'm sure he already posted a thing about Hey, Jason
Smith knows ball. He said the Dodger is gonna put
up creaking numbers in the first two innings.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Really, it's what he said.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Okay, And he talks baseball more than anybody in his network.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Right, he doesn't
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Shoot y'all even got me Bob Costas out here in
the stream,
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