May 25, 2022 • 37 mins
Chris and Rob explain why they’re hopeful that Colin Kaepernick’s tryout with the Las Vegas Raiders is a legitimate opportunity to get back into the NFL and not a PR stunt, debate whether or not college football would be better with a salary cap in the NIL era, and explain why Daniel Snyder should have been forced to sell the Washington Commanders years ago. Plus, MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble swings by to break down all the biggest baseball headlines in Foul or Fair.
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We got Fouler Fair with JR. Gamble of mlbbro dot
Com coming up at the bottom of the hour, and
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there's a lot going on in baseball ribs, so this
should be a good one and a fun one. Foul
or fair. And let me say this. Jr. Was in
attendance at the Hall of Fame seremon only it was awesome. Chris.
You know, I've known him since he was in college.
I'm the godfather to one of his kids, to his
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son JC, and his support there today him and another
friend of mine, Jamal Benjamin, who also works at mlbbro
dot com was awesome today. Does he live in New York, Jare, Yeah,
he lives on Long Eye on Strong Island. Yes, he
admitted out. Yep, it was great to see him. All right. Well,
we talked about it earlier. Rob Let's recap quickly Colin
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Kaepernick getting a tryout today? I rob gee, have there
been even got anti by what happened to today? Yeah? Okay, um,
but he tried out with the Las Vegas Raiders reportedly
trying out Wednesday, which is today. We assume it's already
taken place. But I'm glad for him and Mark Davis,
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owner of the Raiders, son of Al Davis, who was
a ground down breaking owner in terms of diversity, whether
it's hiring the first female UH chief executive, whether the
black black coach Art Schell, second player person to hire
Hispanic coach Tom flores Um wasn't the first time Spanic coach,
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Chris he was, He wasn't the first. I thought he
was the first Hispanic black coach. I mean, I know
in the story in ESPN it said he was that.
I believe it said he was the second person to
hire a Hispanic head coach. So the other gut that
out for us, check that out for I always thought
he was one. Chris. That's I'm just off the top
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of me. There must be somebody I just don't know.
Or maybe he didn't have any success, you know what
I mean. So he was only around for a cup
of coffee and a sweet role was Tom Fears about
a decade before that with the Saints? How long was
he there? He was there for three years? Okay, I
don't know. I didn't know he was Hispanic. Okay. I
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always thought Tom Flores was the first one. Okay. Yeah.
So um and uh so they trying giving Kaepernick a
try out, rob what do you think? I'm good with
it if it's real, Chris, if it's if he has
a chance and maybe he can surplant one of the
guys they already have under contract or whatever. If it's
a real, you know, a real tryout, where a chance
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that they're gonna pick the best three guys and go
with them, I'm all for it. If this is just
a dog and pony show, I'm out. I don't want
it to be a dog and pony show. Benefit from
it being a dog. Yeah, And I'm just saying just
in case. But you're right, you don't think so. But
I don't know. Um. Sometimes you know, we've we've heard
this that teams do stuff for the NFL right to
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get into good graces for the commissioner. We've heard that before,
so I'm with you. The Raiders have such a great
history of going against the grain doing different things, Chris,
that I would believe that this comes from the inside
and not from any sort of outside And were to
me worst case scenario, like even if it is, look,
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we just don't have a spot. Um, you look good,
but we already got two backups and we're paying them,
so we're not gonna do anything. Maybe Rob, it would
make other owners and other teams feel like, you know what,
it's okay. Um, the Raiders tried him out. There was
no big deal. Um, no negative backlash from their fan base. Yeah,
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you know we could. We could do it. So maybe
twenty twenty and people going to the streets, Chris, really
would it be backlash now after we saw some people
maybe you know, some segments of the population, but I
think for the most the masses right, And maybe it
would shame Pete Carroll and the Seahawks into you know,
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putting their money where their mouths are, because I mean,
I'm sorry, I got tired of Pete Carroll talking he
was saying the right thing, but you need a quarterback.
Raiders don't need just the whole time. And like Colin
Kaepernick deserves an opportunity, he deserves a hie where I
can't I give him a shot. My goodness, it's just ridiculous.
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So all right, we'll see what happens with that, Rob,
But hopefully it works out for him. I think it'd
be great to see him back in the NFL. Um
But speaking of football, Lane Kiffin coach at Old Miss,
now been in NFL, being at several stops in college football.
He Rob spoke to Sports Illustrate long interview about name,
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image and likeness, and his attitude was pretty refreshing. I
got me. He was like, look, is here to stay.
I'm not gonna be one of those guys that's, you know,
complaining about it and trying to figure out, you know,
what what can be done to stop it or this
or that. But he said, it is here to stay.
So I'm just gonna try to figure out a way
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to do well by it, right, do well in this system.
And he has some interesting points, Robed. He talked about,
you know the boosters, Rob, because the nil money is
going to come from the boosters, right, And boosters give
a ton of money to colleges through donations and that
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is typically what at least contributes to the head coach's
salary and helps build the facilities that they have. And
you know, some of these college facilities are off the chain,
and now some of that money is going to go
to players with name, image and likeness. And he was saying,
he brought up a few things, one of which was
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these boosters robbed will in a sense, could become like
owners in professional sports, where if they're paying a guy
a certain amount of money, they're gonna want to see
him play. And if you're a coach and you're like,
look he's not ready, so and so it's better, it
could get dicky. That's one situation he brought up. And
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he brought up another rob in which he said there
could be issues where these say, a high school kid
gets a huge nil to come to your school, and
not a few of them say, and now now they're
making all this money and the Vets aren't getting much.
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Could that cause a problem And he kind of equated
it to the NFL. And baseball's got a system, I
don't know how long that's been in place where you
know they're they're young hotshots don't get the most money,
and now all the sports do, But the NFL and
NBA didn't always have that robbing. You remember the NBA.
It was a mess because the guy would get drafted
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and hold out until he got a huge contract, and
he'd go to a team unproven and be the highest
paid player on the team or one of the highest paid.
And they obviously he dealt with that with the rookie scale,
which I thought was good, but he said that could
be an issue. He said, rob a hundred of the
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players now now may is that an exaggeration maybe, but
he said, all the players coming out of high school now,
the blue Chippers, he said, they're going wherever the money is.
And he was like, I don't blame him, he said,
but that's what they're doing. He said, there being guys
signed without visiting schools, there being guys signed without really
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meeting the head coach, just because the nil money was
going to be great. And so it was a really
interesting article. He brought up some interesting points and Robbie
all led to him saying he thinks the answer, if
you will is a salary cap. Your thoughts, you know,
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him against it? I just salary cap. No, I'm just
this is a free market system and all they ever
want to do is control what people earn. Let's have
a coach's cap. How about that? How about a coach's cap, Chris,
you can't make more than a million dollars to be
a top notch college football coach. Let me hear that.
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You think that would work? Kiffin? Hell no, it wouldn't
work and guys would quit tomorrow. I hate it. No, No,
damn cap. You don't have a cap. Why should the
kids have a cap? You think it's bad that they
have a cap in the NBA and NS Yes, I
don't know what If Lebron was making fifty, that's fine.
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He's working whatever someone's willing to pay him. Making a
million whatever, he they're willing to pay him. I don't
think it would work out like that, Chris, because the
system always corrects itself and works out the way it can.
I'm just saying I'm not with it. Yeah, it does.
Baseball have been doing it for ye Baseball been doing
and a few other teams buy the hot and the
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Yankees haven't won a World Series since two thousand and nine,
the Atlanta Atlanta. The Atlanta Braves had a middle of
the role pay roll. They won. The Tampa Bay Ray
went to the World Series. All right, why I'm not buying?
What do you mean why I don't. It's the nature
of the sport. That's why no and and the Knicks.
And the Knicks have the The Knicks have the year
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after year to say the big markets that pay all
the money are the best teams. Okay, may not win that,
they may not win the World Series. You could go
to better teams year after year. You could go look
at the Yankees, Red Sox, Astros. No, that's not true.
Kansas City won the World Series Christis twenty. They won.
They lost, but they won. You can win without paying it.
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You're right, you can major of No, I get the NFL.
The Jets have the same paper that the Lions have
the same exact chance because of it's supposed to be
a salary cap makes it a level playing field. The
Lions have one playoff win since nineteen fifty seven. So
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tell me it's fair because everybody has the same money.
If I have a bad bad if I have a
bad GM, it doesn't matter what the money is it
doesn't work that you just got miss Man. Kansas City
didn't win a Super Bowl for fifty years, they just won.
Buffalo hasn't won. I could go on and on and on.
The Jets haven't won. New Orleans has won one championship
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in the last fifty years. I could go on and on.
The salary cap and only for owners to control what
the players make, I'll never sign off on it. Now.
Key to a salary cap, I don't mind a salary cap.
The key is that it's fair. And that's what the
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fear would be in college is would the owner, the boosters,
and the coaches conspire the NC double A all that
to put in an unfair salary cap. I'm totally with
you there. But in the NBA they've they've gotten anywhere
from fifty to sixty percent roughly of the revenue generated
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by the sport. And so as long as it's fair,
I think a cap is good. But it has to
be fair, and that's where you don't trust the nc
doblea and I get that. But it's interesting. I mean,
I'm not saying they have to We'll see, we'll see
how this works. But I'm not just philosophically against salary
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caps because it's sports, and you want competition, and you
want to give everybody a fair shot, and I think
they have a fair shot. I think it's just that
some teams are mismanaged by bad leadership. All right, we're
gonna throw it out to you guys though, eight seven
seven ninety nine five eight seven seven nine nine six
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sixty three sixty nine. What do you think do you
think college sports football, in particular basketball, I guess two
should have a salary cap for nil to try to
maintain some type of competitive balance. You'll turn away in
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Robinson just hits the three to go up twenty four
to seventeen. That's only the second three pointer in twelve
tries for the heat. Rob and Uh. The Celtics are
two for ten from three. Both teams shot about thirty
three percent, so they're tight um. But you know, maybe
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they'll loosen up. At least it's close twenty four to
twenty right now, so that's good news, is not yet? Yeah? Absolutely?
Eight seven seven ninety nine on fix salary cap for nil.
Your thoughts? Uh? Tony in Texas, you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up, Tony? How are
you doing? Man? How are you? I'm just I'm just
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tired of hearing these coaches crying. You know, double Treening
gets almost nine million dollars a season and has a
buyout of forty eight million dollars from Clinton. I mean,
and these guys crying because these kids want to transfer
and these guys couldn't even get my money for McDonald's
because they get suspended by the NCAA. I mean, these coaches,
these kids have always gotten screwed. These coaches promised them,
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come to my school. We're gonna win some rah rah.
They get a better job, j jed off for more money.
Leave these kids here. But sometimes they didn't even tell
them anything. They just leave at night, you know, And
you're here on the radio and all these coaches crying
and crying cry. I mean, I think the kids have
a right if you coach leaves, they have a right
to go to another school that wants to take them.
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And now they do. Wow. But at one time you
got Peno lives right. And Kiffin made a great He
was honest. He said, Look, this is professional sports. These
professionals which forever the NCAA basketball. What the nine billion dollars?
What they get six billion dollars? You have not an amateur?
I mean you you you gotta try to tell me.
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Nick Saban's not a professional coach, right, he makes every money. Right,
everybody's professional, as Andy Reid like, no doubt, no doubt.
Jay in the NATI, you're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Jay? God? I thank you
so much for taking my car. I love your show,
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and Ron, you were dead on, dead on. The salary
cap is a farce for teams to say in the NFL,
to just play mediocre and get rid of a guestar
player and just say, oh, it's the salary cop. And
this is the thing. Look at all those bad teams
in the NFL, they still have them one because what
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a salary cap. The thing is that it's a farce.
And in college, think about it, mainly white coaches pretending
to care for African American players saying that all they
should go to college, they should do this. What was
their motive when we were in the dumb, a decrepit
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high school. Can inner city school do w they cramping
them to get a better education? Then no, but only
when it benefits down always said, I've always I don't
think the salary caps are first. But I've always said,
if you if you care so much about education, do
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you really care about that nineteen year old African American
who graduates high school and doesn't go it doesn't run.
They don't care about them. You know, he's going to
work at an autobody shop for McDonald's or something. You
care about him now, of course they don't. And Jay
spot On, I'm with you about the salary cap. Never
been a fan of it. John in Wichita, you're in
the odd couple. Fox Sports Radio, what up? Thanks for
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taking my call, you guys. I appreciate it, and thank
you John. And I just want y'all know that I'm
kind of for the salary cap for the college boys
just to be equal, but I don't want the NCAA
be involved in it. Right the coaches they need to
have it. I don't come race rules out and that way,
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because these kids aren't going to play with each other
when one's making a million dollars young, there's gotten nothing. Yeah,
it to be fair, and that's if the NCAA and
these coaches are enviroved, they might get the kids twenty percent.
You know what I mean. Like you, it's gotta and trust.
The NCAA is borderline organized crime. I would not look.
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I'm serious, I wouldn't look for them to do anything.
Look at what they did, Chris for so long, and
they never did the right thing by these kids. And
they will only forced because they've been to California. They
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it was a big week in the Big League. Who's
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is it foul or is it fair? And now from
mlbbro dot Com here's JR. Gamball. That's right, it is
foul a fair. Here on the R Couple of Fox
Sports Radio, say where we go around the diamond to
discuss all the biggest storylines in Major League Baseball. In
order to do so properly, we had to get a
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real Hall of Famer. One guy is a Hall of Famer,
not some guy who used you know, mops hallways. One
guy mop to Hall. That's Rob Parker, the star of
MLB bro, the face of the Inside the Parker Podcast.
No No, then Jr. Gabble, Hey, what what's the fellas? Then?
Which took Rob thirty six years? Only thirty six years
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to actually hit on net? I mean, and he spent
his whole high school career missing jumpers and after thirty
six years he made the Hall of Fame. Hey, let
me say this, and I don't want to get sappy,
but you being there today meant the world to me.
You know how much I care about you, and you
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know when you made me a godfather to your only son.
It means a lot. Alex draw some luth yas give
me a sack for you. For you to be there
today on my special day was was amazing. You and
Jamal Benjamin And I'm serious. I mean, you guys can
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make it. I'm a woman, You're Chris came Wow, Jr.
I just want to let you know he said the
same thing and Chris when the show started exactly word,
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not at all. Man. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Yeah,
Man Jr's the best is why do we get him
on every week for the Fowler Fair segment? Because he
is the real deal. Holy Field. Yes, so let's get started.
I got three baseball topics Jr. Because you are the
start of the segment. You get first ups at every
single one of us. Let's get do it now. Yesterday, well,
really it's been the story all week. White Sox short
stopped Tim Anderson. He shut down Josh Donaldson's defense that
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that infamous Jackie comment was just a joke, saying he
told Donaldson three years ago he didn't like it and
that the Yankee Star was just trying to provoke him.
That's what he's trying to do with that in mind, Jr.
Foul or fair to say the one game suspension handed
down by Major League Baseball actually was too light foul.
That is the one game and the fine. That's enough
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for me. Donaldson should have just ate the suspension really
and accepted and kept it moving. You know. His defiance
and lack of understanding of what he did to me,
that's worse than actually what he did. So maybe you
give him two more games for being an even biggest jerk,
but you don't know the fact is, regardless of people
think about the punishment, it was a tasteless joke. Tim
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Manderson said he didn't like it then, so Donaldston should
have left it alone. Let him learn, And in the
words of announced to Doug Glamville, he said it back.
He said, you don't get to decide what you want
to call me. I get to decide. If I get
a piece d tomorrow and I come on this show
and I decide you need to call me Rob Parker Junior,
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then you call me Christ Mussar Junior. Was gold all right,
I'm saying foul too. I don't know if it was racist.
If he's yelling racial epithets at a player, then it's
got to be more than a game. But I don't
know that this was racial because he could always say, look,
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it had nothing to do with race. He called himself
the next Jackie Robinson in this article. So I was
getting under his skin with that. And I'm gonna be honest, JR.
If I'm just saying something that's not out of bounds
to get under an opponent's skin. I think that's fair game.
I mean, I get what Glanville is saying in normal society,
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but if if we're playing a game and I'm guarding
you on the basketball court and I'm like, come on,
you know, bird, Come on, Larry, come on, you think
you bird like that, that's fair game. Whether you like
it or not, I'm trying to get under your skin
as long as it's not, you know, out of bounds.
And I honestly don't know if he made minute racially,
but I don't think there's enough evidence to say that
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he definitely meant it as a racial insult. So I
think one game was fine. I'm gonna say it's foul
as well a foul ball. I think Baseball wanted to
do something they didn't have grounds to do. More than that,
I don't think they just wanted to let it slide
because it did start a bench clearing brawl, right, Chris
and Jr. Right, they did, So somebody has to be
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who sinstigated that. It could have been worse, and that's
what they don't want. So I think that's why he
gets the game, and ultimately he's going to lose. Usually
if they if you appeal it and they give you
two or three games. They might reduce it by one,
but they won't reduce it one game suspension to none,
and that's not gonna happen. So I'm with JR. Just accepted,
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pay the fun and move on. You already got teammates
not backing you, so it's foul all you move on
question number two. Staying in New York, the Yankees mayor
league bet thirty and thirteen entering Wednesday's action. And while
Aaron Judge has gotten all the headlines to servilely so
he's an MVP candidate. The Yankees relievers currently lead the
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majors in Era park adjusted RA and home runs allowed
per nine innings. JR. Foul or fair to say the
Yankees bullpen deserves more credit than Judge for the New
York hot start ball. Mean, of course wins championships often timely. Yeah,
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but sister stats keep you evident. Now you know today's
game where relievers are fitting mosted the game, and five
intings for starting to the teams who are the champions
or the contents, they naturally have a strong pitched fast
and the bookpans right, so you are getting very start
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I'm a thirty stable of arm coming out of so
Yankee bullpen abous some starts of the season, but Judges
the reason why we come to the ballpark. That's amazing difference.
I'm gonna say, foul. That is a foul ball. I mean,
I love, I love that the bullpen is doing well,
but that somebody has to give you a lead for
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the bullpen to hold it. You know, like if you
don't have a lead, the bullpen becomes irrelevant. And Aaron,
Judge and Stanton have done that. And the other part
that's not mentioned is their starting pitching. Chris has been
lights out for the Yankees, so it's been a combination.
But I'm gonna say Aaron, Judge and Stanton giving them
those leads have made the bullpen uh more viable. I'm
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gonna say it. And the question wasn't standing and Judge.
It was Judge all right, and he's standing right, but yeah,
but no, yeah, pitching. It's about pitching, all right. C J.
Crone's having a great year too, I mean, not quite
as great as Judge, but a great year. How that
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helping in Colorado? All right? Because they don't have the pitching,
so I don't care how good Judge has been, and
he's been phenomenal. It is the pitching that has them
running away with it right now, All right, here we go,
last one foul a fair here on the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio JR. Gamble from MLB bro yea
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featured guest here Jr. Last question entering Wednesday, Padres all
star Mannie Machado leads the NL in batting average, on
base percentage and sluggy percentage, and he leads the entire
majors in war at three point five Roland, He's killing
the game. Simple question, foul or fair to say Machado
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has been the best player in baseball through the first
quarter of the season. Fair Manny, Machado's one my favorite
players has been for the last decade under the raising
in my opinion, you know, the future Hall of Famous
been one of the best players since he stepped on
the scene with the Orioles. He's one of the greatest
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defensive third baseman already in history. For a two hundred
and fifty nine homers He's only twenty nine, and he's
hit over thirty five times, and he's even had a
fifty double season, and people don't do that anymore. So,
if anything, he's one of the underrated players of the game.
We know early in his career he had some media problems.
He was confident, brass, you know, the bat, the back
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lash with the bat, hidden catchers and getting into competations.
But I said it before and I continue to say it.
Any Machado for then at and Robert has a love
fat at Pas. Machado's the best player Adre. He's been
a pop player, but this season, yeah, he's having an
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MBPS season. Manny Machado. I'm gonna go h foul. I'm
going with Aaron Judge. Wow, chicks dig the long ball,
j are you know that? And he seventeen homers what's that?
Five more than anybody else in the league. He's darn
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here on a seventy home run pace, and obviously he's
driving in a lot of runs, is what I know.
He's not leading the league, but I'm gonna give it
to Judge right now. I mean that dude, he's obvious.
He's hitting over three hundred as well. So yeah, I
mean Machado's being been phenomenal and I'm glad to see
him kind of put it all together. But I'm going
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with Judge. I'm gonna say fair. You know, I'm a
Frinando tattas junior guy, but for him to be out
Chris and for the Padres to be a half a
game behind the Dodgers without arguably the best young star,
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I mean, uh, Tatts and what he's done. And I
know Machado's a great player, but Tatts in his first
hundred games did things that nobody who ever played the
game did not, even Hank Aaron or Willie Mayson and
Ken Griffey junior a Rod his first hundred games were
better than anybody who's ever played the game. And to
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not have them and to be in the race and
the half a game behind the turn this into a
Fernando tat tribute. To be able to do it without
Fernando Tatts tells me how great Manny Machado has been.
All right, I'll just talk about Manny. I'm a woman,
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all right, Great, great stuff, Jr. We appreciate you as always, man, Yes, sir.
And the Chris the podcast which he's a part of,
Inside the Parker drops tomorrow. We have former major league
outfielder Rod Alan and also Jack Curry from the yes network.
He talks about of course the Donaldson stuff, Chris and
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also his new book with Paul O'Neill. You remember we
were talking about that. Yeah, so yeah, we had we
had Jack on to talk about the new book. Can't
wait to hear it. You know, I never miss inside
this all right, couple covering your way Aaron Rodgers had
some beautiful balls. Oh god. Fox Sports Radio has the
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I tell you what, there's nothing to worship about the
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first half of this Eastern Conference finals Miami forty two,
Boston thirty seven. This doesn't make any sense. We just
saw Boston go bonkers? Right, what is this? Yeah? I
mean the one saving grace I guess is that it's close.
But I don't man the teams, I don't know if
they feel like Game five, they know how big it is.
(32:23):
They seem tight. Boston Rob shooting thirty eight percent four
for sixteen from three. That's twenty five percent. I'm sorry,
that's yeah, that's Boston. Yeah, Miami shooting thirty seven percent
four for twenty one from three. That's nineteen percent, and
yet they have the lead. So hopefully the second half
(32:44):
is better. You want close games, but you want good
basketball as well. So yeah, it is disappointing. Yeah, yeah,
let's let's end it with bait with some football Rob
g Dan Schneider. There's a report that the owners are
are at least considering, uh potentially getting rid of him. Yeah,
(33:06):
they're they're considering making Rob stop watch his own highlight videos.
That's no, I can hear it. But yeah, you know,
Dash Tiers with in the headlines for all the wrong
reasons for a while. Now, Now you recall back in
February you had the House Committee on Oversight and Reform
in DC. So not just like the NFL League office.
But this is the big the government had to investigate
(33:28):
the allegations of a toxic workplace culture and u pervasive
sexual harassment and misconduct within the franchise you had, uh,
you know, it was really a big story. You know.
They and most recently, back in April of last year,
again the government, the US Hout Oversight Committee sent a
(33:48):
letter to the Federal Trade Commission because they found evidence
that the commanders were engaged on an unlawful financial conduct.
They were skimming from money which should have been pulled
with the rest of the teams, you know, as it
related to terrible some parking and things like that. Well,
according to our friend friend of the show, Jared Bell
(34:11):
of the USA today, NFL owners have grown increasingly frustrated
by Daniel Snyder and are considering voting him out of
the league altogether. You know, that's one of those things
where we didn't mind that you were doing others wrong.
You know, this right right, and now it's now that's
(34:35):
the final straw. And I get it they feel disrespected,
but this, look, this should have been in the works
long ago. What what rob What those women said went
on in DC. What one woman said she had been
sexually harassed. She estimated five hundred and fifty times. Others
(34:57):
were like two hundred times. And I I get it. It
It might just be every day it's a crash joke,
or it's a hay, sweetheart, you're looking good and ask
or whatever it is. But I don't want my wife
or my daughter being subjected to that. So no woman,
no woman should be subjected to that. And so it
(35:18):
shouldn't have taken all this right. But bottom lines, I
think he should be out. I mean, this is ridiculous.
It's just been so many things that have been bad
for the league, and just it's it's been. It's not
like it's been a greatly run organization either, Chris. I
mean it's been ass and that franchise it used to
(35:38):
be they not remember they had to cover up seats
because people weren't buy like to think that in Washington,
they weren't selling out games, like seriously, Chris, that used
to be one of the more key franchises and they
had to cover up the seats because there were so
many empty seats. Absolutely, No, that's a great point. I
mean it looks even if he was a great owner,
(35:59):
in turn is a winning you still can't be doing. Yeah, yeah,
I'm saying, what are you waiting for? And I get looked.
A lot of these dudes might have skeletons in the closet,
rob and a lot of might know each other's skeletons,
you know, So it is that is that some of
what's going on? You know, why you're not out? I
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don't know, but um, I just I just don't see
how with everything that's happened there that it's it's a
it's even up for debate, right, like, what are we
what are we waiting for? What you talking? You know,
it's a privilege to own an athletic team in this country,
(36:41):
particularly football, basketball, baseball, right, and so you you should.
Nobody's gonna be perfect, but you you owe it to
your employees, the fans of sports have yeah, and to
have a welcoming work environment for everybody. All Right, it's
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Get this party. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. All right,
it is The I Couple, our number three of a
three hour show. We're live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
We got Fouler Fair with JR. Gamble of mlbbro dot
Com coming up at the bottom of the hour, and
(00:47):
there's a lot going on in baseball ribs, so this
should be a good one and a fun one. Foul
or fair. And let me say this. Jr. Was in
attendance at the Hall of Fame seremon only it was awesome. Chris.
You know, I've known him since he was in college.
I'm the godfather to one of his kids, to his
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son JC, and his support there today him and another
friend of mine, Jamal Benjamin, who also works at mlbbro
dot com was awesome today. Does he live in New York, Jare, Yeah,
he lives on Long Eye on Strong Island. Yes, he
admitted out. Yep, it was great to see him. All right. Well,
we talked about it earlier. Rob Let's recap quickly Colin
(01:31):
Kaepernick getting a tryout today? I rob gee, have there
been even got anti by what happened to today? Yeah? Okay, um,
but he tried out with the Las Vegas Raiders reportedly
trying out Wednesday, which is today. We assume it's already
taken place. But I'm glad for him and Mark Davis,
(01:54):
owner of the Raiders, son of Al Davis, who was
a ground down breaking owner in terms of diversity, whether
it's hiring the first female UH chief executive, whether the
black black coach Art Schell, second player person to hire
Hispanic coach Tom flores Um wasn't the first time Spanic coach,
(02:17):
Chris he was, He wasn't the first. I thought he
was the first Hispanic black coach. I mean, I know
in the story in ESPN it said he was that.
I believe it said he was the second person to
hire a Hispanic head coach. So the other gut that
out for us, check that out for I always thought
he was one. Chris. That's I'm just off the top
(02:38):
of me. There must be somebody I just don't know.
Or maybe he didn't have any success, you know what
I mean. So he was only around for a cup
of coffee and a sweet role was Tom Fears about
a decade before that with the Saints? How long was
he there? He was there for three years? Okay, I
don't know. I didn't know he was Hispanic. Okay. I
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always thought Tom Flores was the first one. Okay. Yeah.
So um and uh so they trying giving Kaepernick a
try out, rob what do you think? I'm good with
it if it's real, Chris, if it's if he has
a chance and maybe he can surplant one of the
guys they already have under contract or whatever. If it's
a real, you know, a real tryout, where a chance
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that they're gonna pick the best three guys and go
with them, I'm all for it. If this is just
a dog and pony show, I'm out. I don't want
it to be a dog and pony show. Benefit from
it being a dog. Yeah, And I'm just saying just
in case. But you're right, you don't think so. But
I don't know. Um. Sometimes you know, we've we've heard
this that teams do stuff for the NFL right to
(03:43):
get into good graces for the commissioner. We've heard that before,
so I'm with you. The Raiders have such a great
history of going against the grain doing different things, Chris,
that I would believe that this comes from the inside
and not from any sort of outside And were to
me worst case scenario, like even if it is, look,
(04:04):
we just don't have a spot. Um, you look good,
but we already got two backups and we're paying them,
so we're not gonna do anything. Maybe Rob, it would
make other owners and other teams feel like, you know what,
it's okay. Um, the Raiders tried him out. There was
no big deal. Um, no negative backlash from their fan base. Yeah,
(04:27):
you know we could. We could do it. So maybe
twenty twenty and people going to the streets, Chris, really
would it be backlash now after we saw some people
maybe you know, some segments of the population, but I
think for the most the masses right, And maybe it
would shame Pete Carroll and the Seahawks into you know,
(04:50):
putting their money where their mouths are, because I mean,
I'm sorry, I got tired of Pete Carroll talking he
was saying the right thing, but you need a quarterback.
Raiders don't need just the whole time. And like Colin
Kaepernick deserves an opportunity, he deserves a hie where I
can't I give him a shot. My goodness, it's just ridiculous.
(05:11):
So all right, we'll see what happens with that, Rob,
But hopefully it works out for him. I think it'd
be great to see him back in the NFL. Um
But speaking of football, Lane Kiffin coach at Old Miss,
now been in NFL, being at several stops in college football.
He Rob spoke to Sports Illustrate long interview about name,
(05:34):
image and likeness, and his attitude was pretty refreshing. I
got me. He was like, look, is here to stay.
I'm not gonna be one of those guys that's, you know,
complaining about it and trying to figure out, you know,
what what can be done to stop it or this
or that. But he said, it is here to stay.
So I'm just gonna try to figure out a way
(05:54):
to do well by it, right, do well in this system.
And he has some interesting points, Robed. He talked about,
you know the boosters, Rob, because the nil money is
going to come from the boosters, right, And boosters give
a ton of money to colleges through donations and that
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is typically what at least contributes to the head coach's
salary and helps build the facilities that they have. And
you know, some of these college facilities are off the chain,
and now some of that money is going to go
to players with name, image and likeness. And he was saying,
he brought up a few things, one of which was
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these boosters robbed will in a sense, could become like
owners in professional sports, where if they're paying a guy
a certain amount of money, they're gonna want to see
him play. And if you're a coach and you're like,
look he's not ready, so and so it's better, it
could get dicky. That's one situation he brought up. And
(07:03):
he brought up another rob in which he said there
could be issues where these say, a high school kid
gets a huge nil to come to your school, and
not a few of them say, and now now they're
making all this money and the Vets aren't getting much.
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Could that cause a problem And he kind of equated
it to the NFL. And baseball's got a system, I
don't know how long that's been in place where you
know they're they're young hotshots don't get the most money,
and now all the sports do, But the NFL and
NBA didn't always have that robbing. You remember the NBA.
It was a mess because the guy would get drafted
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and hold out until he got a huge contract, and
he'd go to a team unproven and be the highest
paid player on the team or one of the highest paid.
And they obviously he dealt with that with the rookie scale,
which I thought was good, but he said that could
be an issue. He said, rob a hundred of the
(08:09):
players now now may is that an exaggeration maybe, but
he said, all the players coming out of high school now,
the blue Chippers, he said, they're going wherever the money is.
And he was like, I don't blame him, he said,
but that's what they're doing. He said, there being guys
signed without visiting schools, there being guys signed without really
(08:30):
meeting the head coach, just because the nil money was
going to be great. And so it was a really
interesting article. He brought up some interesting points and Robbie
all led to him saying he thinks the answer, if
you will is a salary cap. Your thoughts, you know,
(08:53):
him against it? I just salary cap. No, I'm just
this is a free market system and all they ever
want to do is control what people earn. Let's have
a coach's cap. How about that? How about a coach's cap, Chris,
you can't make more than a million dollars to be
a top notch college football coach. Let me hear that.
(09:18):
You think that would work? Kiffin? Hell no, it wouldn't
work and guys would quit tomorrow. I hate it. No, No,
damn cap. You don't have a cap. Why should the
kids have a cap? You think it's bad that they
have a cap in the NBA and NS Yes, I
don't know what If Lebron was making fifty, that's fine.
(09:42):
He's working whatever someone's willing to pay him. Making a
million whatever, he they're willing to pay him. I don't
think it would work out like that, Chris, because the
system always corrects itself and works out the way it can.
I'm just saying I'm not with it. Yeah, it does.
Baseball have been doing it for ye Baseball been doing
and a few other teams buy the hot and the
(10:04):
Yankees haven't won a World Series since two thousand and nine,
the Atlanta Atlanta. The Atlanta Braves had a middle of
the role pay roll. They won. The Tampa Bay Ray
went to the World Series. All right, why I'm not buying?
What do you mean why I don't. It's the nature
of the sport. That's why no and and the Knicks.
And the Knicks have the The Knicks have the year
(10:26):
after year to say the big markets that pay all
the money are the best teams. Okay, may not win that,
they may not win the World Series. You could go
to better teams year after year. You could go look
at the Yankees, Red Sox, Astros. No, that's not true.
Kansas City won the World Series Christis twenty. They won.
They lost, but they won. You can win without paying it.
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You're right, you can major of No, I get the NFL.
The Jets have the same paper that the Lions have
the same exact chance because of it's supposed to be
a salary cap makes it a level playing field. The
Lions have one playoff win since nineteen fifty seven. So
(11:12):
tell me it's fair because everybody has the same money.
If I have a bad bad if I have a
bad GM, it doesn't matter what the money is it
doesn't work that you just got miss Man. Kansas City
didn't win a Super Bowl for fifty years, they just won.
Buffalo hasn't won. I could go on and on and on.
The Jets haven't won. New Orleans has won one championship
(11:35):
in the last fifty years. I could go on and on.
The salary cap and only for owners to control what
the players make, I'll never sign off on it. Now.
Key to a salary cap, I don't mind a salary cap.
The key is that it's fair. And that's what the
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fear would be in college is would the owner, the boosters,
and the coaches conspire the NC double A all that
to put in an unfair salary cap. I'm totally with
you there. But in the NBA they've they've gotten anywhere
from fifty to sixty percent roughly of the revenue generated
(12:19):
by the sport. And so as long as it's fair,
I think a cap is good. But it has to
be fair, and that's where you don't trust the nc
doblea and I get that. But it's interesting. I mean,
I'm not saying they have to We'll see, we'll see
how this works. But I'm not just philosophically against salary
(12:40):
caps because it's sports, and you want competition, and you
want to give everybody a fair shot, and I think
they have a fair shot. I think it's just that
some teams are mismanaged by bad leadership. All right, we're
gonna throw it out to you guys though, eight seven
seven ninety nine five eight seven seven nine nine six
(13:02):
sixty three sixty nine. What do you think do you
think college sports football, in particular basketball, I guess two
should have a salary cap for nil to try to
maintain some type of competitive balance. You'll turn away in
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Boston seventeen. Both teams incredibly tight. It's been ugly ball Duncan.
(14:07):
Robinson just hits the three to go up twenty four
to seventeen. That's only the second three pointer in twelve
tries for the heat. Rob and Uh. The Celtics are
two for ten from three. Both teams shot about thirty
three percent, so they're tight um. But you know, maybe
(14:28):
they'll loosen up. At least it's close twenty four to
twenty right now, so that's good news, is not yet? Yeah? Absolutely?
Eight seven seven ninety nine on fix salary cap for nil.
Your thoughts? Uh? Tony in Texas, you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up, Tony? How are
you doing? Man? How are you? I'm just I'm just
(14:49):
tired of hearing these coaches crying. You know, double Treening
gets almost nine million dollars a season and has a
buyout of forty eight million dollars from Clinton. I mean,
and these guys crying because these kids want to transfer
and these guys couldn't even get my money for McDonald's
because they get suspended by the NCAA. I mean, these coaches,
these kids have always gotten screwed. These coaches promised them,
(15:12):
come to my school. We're gonna win some rah rah.
They get a better job, j jed off for more money.
Leave these kids here. But sometimes they didn't even tell
them anything. They just leave at night, you know, And
you're here on the radio and all these coaches crying
and crying cry. I mean, I think the kids have
a right if you coach leaves, they have a right
to go to another school that wants to take them.
(15:35):
And now they do. Wow. But at one time you
got Peno lives right. And Kiffin made a great He
was honest. He said, Look, this is professional sports. These
professionals which forever the NCAA basketball. What the nine billion dollars?
What they get six billion dollars? You have not an amateur?
I mean you you you gotta try to tell me.
(15:57):
Nick Saban's not a professional coach, right, he makes every money. Right,
everybody's professional, as Andy Reid like, no doubt, no doubt.
Jay in the NATI, you're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Jay? God? I thank you
so much for taking my car. I love your show,
(16:19):
and Ron, you were dead on, dead on. The salary
cap is a farce for teams to say in the NFL,
to just play mediocre and get rid of a guestar
player and just say, oh, it's the salary cop. And
this is the thing. Look at all those bad teams
in the NFL, they still have them one because what
(16:40):
a salary cap. The thing is that it's a farce.
And in college, think about it, mainly white coaches pretending
to care for African American players saying that all they
should go to college, they should do this. What was
their motive when we were in the dumb, a decrepit
(17:01):
high school. Can inner city school do w they cramping
them to get a better education? Then no, but only
when it benefits down always said, I've always I don't
think the salary caps are first. But I've always said,
if you if you care so much about education, do
(17:21):
you really care about that nineteen year old African American
who graduates high school and doesn't go it doesn't run.
They don't care about them. You know, he's going to
work at an autobody shop for McDonald's or something. You
care about him now, of course they don't. And Jay
spot On, I'm with you about the salary cap. Never
been a fan of it. John in Wichita, you're in
the odd couple. Fox Sports Radio, what up? Thanks for
(17:42):
taking my call, you guys. I appreciate it, and thank
you John. And I just want y'all know that I'm
kind of for the salary cap for the college boys
just to be equal, but I don't want the NCAA
be involved in it. Right the coaches they need to
have it. I don't come race rules out and that way,
(18:05):
because these kids aren't going to play with each other
when one's making a million dollars young, there's gotten nothing. Yeah,
it to be fair, and that's if the NCAA and
these coaches are enviroved, they might get the kids twenty percent.
You know what I mean. Like you, it's gotta and trust.
The NCAA is borderline organized crime. I would not look.
(18:27):
I'm serious, I wouldn't look for them to do anything.
Look at what they did, Chris for so long, and
they never did the right thing by these kids. And
they will only forced because they've been to California. They
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it was a big week in the Big League. Who's
(19:32):
is it foul or is it fair? And now from
mlbbro dot Com here's JR. Gamball. That's right, it is
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(19:53):
real Hall of Famer. One guy is a Hall of Famer,
not some guy who used you know, mops hallways. One
guy mop to Hall. That's Rob Parker, the star of
MLB bro, the face of the Inside the Parker Podcast.
No No, then Jr. Gabble, Hey, what what's the fellas? Then?
Which took Rob thirty six years? Only thirty six years
(20:15):
to actually hit on net? I mean, and he spent
his whole high school career missing jumpers and after thirty
six years he made the Hall of Fame. Hey, let
me say this, and I don't want to get sappy,
but you being there today meant the world to me.
You know how much I care about you, and you
(20:37):
know when you made me a godfather to your only son.
It means a lot. Alex draw some luth yas give
me a sack for you. For you to be there
today on my special day was was amazing. You and
Jamal Benjamin And I'm serious. I mean, you guys can
(20:59):
make it. I'm a woman, You're Chris came Wow, Jr.
I just want to let you know he said the
same thing and Chris when the show started exactly word,
(21:25):
not at all. Man. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Yeah,
Man Jr's the best is why do we get him
on every week for the Fowler Fair segment? Because he
is the real deal. Holy Field. Yes, so let's get started.
I got three baseball topics Jr. Because you are the
start of the segment. You get first ups at every
single one of us. Let's get do it now. Yesterday, well,
really it's been the story all week. White Sox short
stopped Tim Anderson. He shut down Josh Donaldson's defense that
(21:49):
that infamous Jackie comment was just a joke, saying he
told Donaldson three years ago he didn't like it and
that the Yankee Star was just trying to provoke him.
That's what he's trying to do with that in mind, Jr.
Foul or fair to say the one game suspension handed
down by Major League Baseball actually was too light foul.
That is the one game and the fine. That's enough
(22:14):
for me. Donaldson should have just ate the suspension really
and accepted and kept it moving. You know. His defiance
and lack of understanding of what he did to me,
that's worse than actually what he did. So maybe you
give him two more games for being an even biggest jerk,
but you don't know the fact is, regardless of people
think about the punishment, it was a tasteless joke. Tim
(22:36):
Manderson said he didn't like it then, so Donaldston should
have left it alone. Let him learn, And in the
words of announced to Doug Glamville, he said it back.
He said, you don't get to decide what you want
to call me. I get to decide. If I get
a piece d tomorrow and I come on this show
and I decide you need to call me Rob Parker Junior,
(22:57):
then you call me Christ Mussar Junior. Was gold all right,
I'm saying foul too. I don't know if it was racist.
If he's yelling racial epithets at a player, then it's
got to be more than a game. But I don't
know that this was racial because he could always say, look,
(23:21):
it had nothing to do with race. He called himself
the next Jackie Robinson in this article. So I was
getting under his skin with that. And I'm gonna be honest, JR.
If I'm just saying something that's not out of bounds
to get under an opponent's skin. I think that's fair game.
I mean, I get what Glanville is saying in normal society,
(23:41):
but if if we're playing a game and I'm guarding
you on the basketball court and I'm like, come on,
you know, bird, Come on, Larry, come on, you think
you bird like that, that's fair game. Whether you like
it or not, I'm trying to get under your skin
as long as it's not, you know, out of bounds.
And I honestly don't know if he made minute racially,
but I don't think there's enough evidence to say that
(24:03):
he definitely meant it as a racial insult. So I
think one game was fine. I'm gonna say it's foul
as well a foul ball. I think Baseball wanted to
do something they didn't have grounds to do. More than that,
I don't think they just wanted to let it slide
because it did start a bench clearing brawl, right, Chris
and Jr. Right, they did, So somebody has to be
(24:26):
who sinstigated that. It could have been worse, and that's
what they don't want. So I think that's why he
gets the game, and ultimately he's going to lose. Usually
if they if you appeal it and they give you
two or three games. They might reduce it by one,
but they won't reduce it one game suspension to none,
and that's not gonna happen. So I'm with JR. Just accepted,
(24:48):
pay the fun and move on. You already got teammates
not backing you, so it's foul all you move on
question number two. Staying in New York, the Yankees mayor
league bet thirty and thirteen entering Wednesday's action. And while
Aaron Judge has gotten all the headlines to servilely so
he's an MVP candidate. The Yankees relievers currently lead the
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majors in Era park adjusted RA and home runs allowed
per nine innings. JR. Foul or fair to say the
Yankees bullpen deserves more credit than Judge for the New
York hot start ball. Mean, of course wins championships often timely. Yeah,
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but sister stats keep you evident. Now you know today's
game where relievers are fitting mosted the game, and five
intings for starting to the teams who are the champions
or the contents, they naturally have a strong pitched fast
and the bookpans right, so you are getting very start
(25:52):
I'm a thirty stable of arm coming out of so
Yankee bullpen abous some starts of the season, but Judges
the reason why we come to the ballpark. That's amazing difference.
I'm gonna say, foul. That is a foul ball. I mean,
I love, I love that the bullpen is doing well,
but that somebody has to give you a lead for
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the bullpen to hold it. You know, like if you
don't have a lead, the bullpen becomes irrelevant. And Aaron,
Judge and Stanton have done that. And the other part
that's not mentioned is their starting pitching. Chris has been
lights out for the Yankees, so it's been a combination.
But I'm gonna say Aaron, Judge and Stanton giving them
those leads have made the bullpen uh more viable. I'm
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gonna say it. And the question wasn't standing and Judge.
It was Judge all right, and he's standing right, but yeah,
but no, yeah, pitching. It's about pitching, all right. C J.
Crone's having a great year too, I mean, not quite
as great as Judge, but a great year. How that
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helping in Colorado? All right? Because they don't have the pitching,
so I don't care how good Judge has been, and
he's been phenomenal. It is the pitching that has them
running away with it right now, All right, here we go,
last one foul a fair here on the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio JR. Gamble from MLB bro yea
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featured guest here Jr. Last question entering Wednesday, Padres all
star Mannie Machado leads the NL in batting average, on
base percentage and sluggy percentage, and he leads the entire
majors in war at three point five Roland, He's killing
the game. Simple question, foul or fair to say Machado
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has been the best player in baseball through the first
quarter of the season. Fair Manny, Machado's one my favorite
players has been for the last decade under the raising
in my opinion, you know, the future Hall of Famous
been one of the best players since he stepped on
the scene with the Orioles. He's one of the greatest
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defensive third baseman already in history. For a two hundred
and fifty nine homers He's only twenty nine, and he's
hit over thirty five times, and he's even had a
fifty double season, and people don't do that anymore. So,
if anything, he's one of the underrated players of the game.
We know early in his career he had some media problems.
He was confident, brass, you know, the bat, the back
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lash with the bat, hidden catchers and getting into competations.
But I said it before and I continue to say it.
Any Machado for then at and Robert has a love
fat at Pas. Machado's the best player Adre. He's been
a pop player, but this season, yeah, he's having an
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MBPS season. Manny Machado. I'm gonna go h foul. I'm
going with Aaron Judge. Wow, chicks dig the long ball,
j are you know that? And he seventeen homers what's that?
Five more than anybody else in the league. He's darn
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here on a seventy home run pace, and obviously he's
driving in a lot of runs, is what I know.
He's not leading the league, but I'm gonna give it
to Judge right now. I mean that dude, he's obvious.
He's hitting over three hundred as well. So yeah, I
mean Machado's being been phenomenal and I'm glad to see
him kind of put it all together. But I'm going
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with Judge. I'm gonna say fair. You know, I'm a
Frinando tattas junior guy, but for him to be out
Chris and for the Padres to be a half a
game behind the Dodgers without arguably the best young star,
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I mean, uh, Tatts and what he's done. And I
know Machado's a great player, but Tatts in his first
hundred games did things that nobody who ever played the
game did not, even Hank Aaron or Willie Mayson and
Ken Griffey junior a Rod his first hundred games were
better than anybody who's ever played the game. And to
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not have them and to be in the race and
the half a game behind the turn this into a
Fernando tat tribute. To be able to do it without
Fernando Tatts tells me how great Manny Machado has been.
All right, I'll just talk about Manny. I'm a woman,
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all right, Great, great stuff, Jr. We appreciate you as always, man, Yes, sir.
And the Chris the podcast which he's a part of,
Inside the Parker drops tomorrow. We have former major league
outfielder Rod Alan and also Jack Curry from the yes network.
He talks about of course the Donaldson stuff, Chris and
(30:56):
also his new book with Paul O'Neill. You remember we
were talking about that. Yeah, so yeah, we had we
had Jack on to talk about the new book. Can't
wait to hear it. You know, I never miss inside
this all right, couple covering your way Aaron Rodgers had
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it is the eye couple wrapping up a worship Wednesday,
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I tell you what, there's nothing to worship about the
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first half of this Eastern Conference finals Miami forty two,
Boston thirty seven. This doesn't make any sense. We just
saw Boston go bonkers? Right, what is this? Yeah? I
mean the one saving grace I guess is that it's close.
But I don't man the teams, I don't know if
they feel like Game five, they know how big it is.
(32:23):
They seem tight. Boston Rob shooting thirty eight percent four
for sixteen from three. That's twenty five percent. I'm sorry,
that's yeah, that's Boston. Yeah, Miami shooting thirty seven percent
four for twenty one from three. That's nineteen percent, and
yet they have the lead. So hopefully the second half
(32:44):
is better. You want close games, but you want good
basketball as well. So yeah, it is disappointing. Yeah, yeah,
let's let's end it with bait with some football Rob
g Dan Schneider. There's a report that the owners are
are at least considering, uh potentially getting rid of him. Yeah,
(33:06):
they're they're considering making Rob stop watch his own highlight videos.
That's no, I can hear it. But yeah, you know,
Dash Tiers with in the headlines for all the wrong
reasons for a while. Now, Now you recall back in
February you had the House Committee on Oversight and Reform
in DC. So not just like the NFL League office.
But this is the big the government had to investigate
(33:28):
the allegations of a toxic workplace culture and u pervasive
sexual harassment and misconduct within the franchise you had, uh,
you know, it was really a big story. You know.
They and most recently, back in April of last year,
again the government, the US Hout Oversight Committee sent a
(33:48):
letter to the Federal Trade Commission because they found evidence
that the commanders were engaged on an unlawful financial conduct.
They were skimming from money which should have been pulled
with the rest of the teams, you know, as it
related to terrible some parking and things like that. Well,
according to our friend friend of the show, Jared Bell
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of the USA today, NFL owners have grown increasingly frustrated
by Daniel Snyder and are considering voting him out of
the league altogether. You know, that's one of those things
where we didn't mind that you were doing others wrong.
You know, this right right, and now it's now that's
(34:35):
the final straw. And I get it they feel disrespected,
but this, look, this should have been in the works
long ago. What what rob What those women said went
on in DC. What one woman said she had been
sexually harassed. She estimated five hundred and fifty times. Others
(34:57):
were like two hundred times. And I I get it. It
It might just be every day it's a crash joke,
or it's a hay, sweetheart, you're looking good and ask
or whatever it is. But I don't want my wife
or my daughter being subjected to that. So no woman,
no woman should be subjected to that. And so it
(35:18):
shouldn't have taken all this right. But bottom lines, I
think he should be out. I mean, this is ridiculous.
It's just been so many things that have been bad
for the league, and just it's it's been. It's not
like it's been a greatly run organization either, Chris. I
mean it's been ass and that franchise it used to
(35:38):
be they not remember they had to cover up seats
because people weren't buy like to think that in Washington,
they weren't selling out games, like seriously, Chris, that used
to be one of the more key franchises and they
had to cover up the seats because there were so
many empty seats. Absolutely, No, that's a great point. I
mean it looks even if he was a great owner,
(35:59):
in turn is a winning you still can't be doing. Yeah, yeah,
I'm saying, what are you waiting for? And I get looked.
A lot of these dudes might have skeletons in the closet,
rob and a lot of might know each other's skeletons,
you know, So it is that is that some of
what's going on? You know, why you're not out? I
(36:21):
don't know, but um, I just I just don't see
how with everything that's happened there that it's it's a
it's even up for debate, right, like, what are we
what are we waiting for? What you talking? You know,
it's a privilege to own an athletic team in this country,
(36:41):
particularly football, basketball, baseball, right, and so you you should.
Nobody's gonna be perfect, but you you owe it to
your employees, the fans of sports have yeah, and to
have a welcoming work environment for everybody. All Right, it's
the id couple signing off. You know what to do,
keep it locked. Jason Smith and Mike harmon our next
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and those brothers they bring heat.
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