Steve Hartman & Rich Ohrnberger talk US Open and Ja Morant!

Steve Hartman and Rich Ohrnberger are LIVE on Father’s Day talking ideal breakfast spreads, the final round of the 123rd US Open, the Grizzlies suspension of Ja Morant, the importance of the quarterback position, the Eagles chances to get back to the Super Bowl, the prospects of the Wizards trading Bradley Beal, FSR MLB Insider JP Morosi joins the show, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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And who is here sitting next to me right now?
I did not expect to see him here on Father's Day,
but yes, rich Ornberger is here.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Richie.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, Happy Father's Day to you. Yeah yeah, Happy Father's Day, Steve.
Happy Father's Day to everybody out there listening. I love
Father's Day for a multitude of reasons. Obviously, it's the
only day where Dad, at least for part of the day,
gets celebrated. I mean because there's almost always some sort
of expectation that creeps along. It's like, eh, that wan

(00:58):
still has to get cut, can still got to get
dragged out to the curb. You know, there's something, there's
something coming. But enjoy it. While last however long it lasts.
And then the second reason, and maybe there's a third
as well. My son was born on Father's Day weekend,
so I became a father hours before Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
That is amazing. I forgot that with Tye. Here's the
thing yesterday. You know Bucky Brooks really well. Yeah, and
Bucky is a pretty low key guy. Right, So we
open up our second hour yesterday, I sort of brought
to attention that, you know, tomorrow would be Father's Day,
and I mentioned that because a lot of people don't

(01:38):
remember that there actually is Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
And that's true.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
By the way, Manci Bolanos, our News Update anchor, Yes,
she remembered to his father's.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yes, she did.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Look at this.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
She even got me a gift. Yeah, dude, how about this.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
You got a little yoga, a little anti purseprint. I
think she's trying to send a firm message message set.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yes. Now, she's just a very sweet Mondsey Thank you
very much. By the way, she's going to be doing
tequila shots with her dad later on.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
You mentioned that.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
So so anyway, we brought up this whole idea about
Father's Day, and I'd mentioned the fact that obviously a
lot more money is spent on Mother's Day than Father's Day,
and and the women's justification is, well, we have a
longer wish list.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Like women, they can give you more possibilities.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
How you smelling over there, dude.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm fresh, Yeah, I am very fresh. I think this
is going to be a really good Father's Day. Once
as his wife Anne gets a whiff of that, ye yeah, yeah,
it's going to be a great Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's fresh water. That's the same now.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But yesterday I felt like I struck a nerve with
Bucky because he won on a very pretty much of
a rant we did about Father's Day as two kids,
and he has one kid in college, one in high school,
and he just sort of got into very Unbucky like,
oh yeah, I ran about how fathers are really overlooked
and Father's Day is really sucking.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
And everything else.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
And I was like, okay, Bucky, I h yeah, I
know what the little undappreciate, But we appreciate the dads
out there. If you got a dad that needs a
little love, make sure today.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Is the day please call him. Trust me as a
dad now, I know one day these kids are going
to be out of the house. And I think right now,
my only request on Father's Day, honestly, the only thing
I ever asked for is at some point it doesn't
even have to be on Father's Day, you know me.
I love food. Yeah, a little breakfast in bed nice? Nice,
So tomorrow not just any breakfast, no, no, yeah, I

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gotta be a breakfast. So yeah, there there there's the
the I like to I like to do it like
pull out all the stops, like I want bacon. I
want the eggs over easy. I want the toast with
the jelly. You're me, I want I want the I
want the little knife, you know, the one that's just
for jelly.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Hold on, how are your potatoes made?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I mean, what do you do?

Speaker 7 (04:05):
Like?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Hash Browns? Do you like? But like the Finnish shoe
string hash browns you can make? And I love him
to be well done.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
See my dad was a hash Browns guy all the
way because I used to take him after my mom
passed away for you know, and my dad, you know,
he made it eighty nine.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Which is a long light. Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
So I would have this Sunday tradition of taking him
to a breakfast place and they served you know, potatoes
were really good, but he wanted hash browns. Yeah, and
so I knew the people might want of my son's
worked there, so I was like hash brows.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
And then I also like, like, so do you? I mean,
everybody remembers Winston Churchill, obviously famous Prime Minister of England
during World War.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Two and also famous for living longer than anyone that
consumed his breakfast should ever have lived.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, And see, that's the thing I do, the Winston
Churchill breakfast. Like this guy he finished every breakfast with
a scotch or actually I don't know if it was scotch,
but it was some sort of whiskey. Well, he had
and steak and he had a cigar. Yeah, and so
I don't ask for this ggar. I'm not allowed to
smoke in my house. But uh, but yeah, there's a steak,
there's over over over easy eggs, there's bacon. I mean,

(05:13):
if she's willing to do sausage as well, let's do that.
But toast on the side or Lynx. Oh I like Lynx. Yeah,
I've always been a Lynx guy. But I will say this,
you can't bother me with a good patty. Oh yeah, yeah.
But they're so versatile you can throw them on a sandwich.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Do you very like like? Does Huavo Ranchero swark for you?
Our eggs Benedict work for you?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Everything works for me Wavos Ranchero's. I've run into some
of those where, I mean, sometimes you can catch one
that's like, you know, the sauce is too hot. Yes,
there's no such thing as too hot, I know you.
And then uh, and then in terms of eggs, Benny,
I mean there's so many variations. Ham Benny, lobster Benny.
Give me a little short ribs Benny. Yeah, I mean,

(05:54):
as long as that yoke is dripping out. How about
try Tip Try Tip. God, I just had to tried
Tip sandwich yesterday. Did you wear well?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It was just we talked about when we dwan at
Pecko Park, home of the Padres there, try Tip not
only their try Tip sandwich but the tri Tip nachos.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, yeah, so ballpark Try Tips real good. I had
it at the house from my mother in law right
before I went over to the US Open at La Country.
Right now, I need to stop you right there.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, okay, so by the way, here we are sitting here,
we're gonna be on for the next four hours, ten
to two on the West coast and of course one
to five on the East coast. When we get off
the air, the leaders will still not have teed off yet.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
And I'm like, yesterday, I'm on till four o'clock West
coast time, and they didn't tee off until right as
we were getting off the air. I'm like, why are
they waiting so long Ricky to start.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
These final rounds at the US Open?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Because I'm doing the math, and I'm like, that means
that that last pair of Wyndham Clark and Ricky Foller
did not tee off until almost seven o'clock on the
East coast.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
So I was there, fed off. I was there for it.
So yesterday I walked the course. I mean I was
everywhere I was. I went to every single corner of
that course.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
How did you get on the course because I have
never ever and I'm you know, I've lived my whole
life here, I have never been to LACC.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
My mother in law got me tickets and uh and
I went out there with actually my brother in law,
my wife's brother, and you know, he works in golf,
so he knows a lot of people with the USGA.
So we're walking around everywhere and on the last, the
last hole, they're playing eighteen, heading back toward the clubhouse
and they teed off. They teed off in the dark,

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and so the approach shot was the last of the
light that you could really call twilight. And then when
they were putting Ricky Bogie's eighteen.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Did he miss that second putt because he couldn't see
the hole?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't think he couldn't. I don't think you could see.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
See when you're watching TV at these tournaments. They had
the lands, they could lighten things up. Sometimes they'll turn
it off to give you an idea of just how
dark it is it was.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Why are they so late? It wasn't like you couldn't
see your hand.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I mean they're starting about an hour earlier today, So
I think the leader is the final pairent again is
Ricky Fowler and Wyndham Clark would go off at two
thirty on the West coast.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Two thirty is the last group and that's Ricky and Wyndam.
Did you start a couple hours earlier? Yeah, it seems
like they should. And also the reality of that course,
anybody who's lived in southern California knows this. But you
get the marine layer early in the day during June.
So the course plays so vastly different between the morning

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groups and the afternoon groups. When Ricky and Wyndham t off,
they're playing a different course than the people who are
currently on the course right now. It's a completely different course.
The fairways and the greens are more receptive. There's the
last role on the ball. You know, by the afternoon time.
When I'd gotten there around noon, the course was cooked.

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I was talking to some of the caddies and this
one guy, and I don't want to embarrass his golfer,
but he was saying like, yeah, we just got our
teethcase been out there because you couldn't keep the ball
in the course. And then the other thing about La
Country Club which makes it such a unique venue for
this is either're wide fairways considering it's US Open, but
you're in trouble if you don't hit it to the

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right part of the fairways.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Right there's slope fairways, so they can just roll right
down the fairways. Look, what happened on Thursday was their
worst nightmare because it rained, actually rained Wednesday night. It
did so the early group and that June Gloom was
all day Thursday, so you literally had it was target practice.
It was pitch and pott and that's how you end

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up with two sixty twos and sixty fours and sixty
fives and sixty six is at a us SO. But
and it's gonna be interesting though, because they have scheduled
and I know you'll be first in line. Another us
soapen at the La Country Club in twenty thirty nine,
not twenty nine, twenty thirty nine, so you get your reservations.
But I'm sure between now and then they're gonna say

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because this was really an untested course.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
They haven't had tournaments there.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
They had the Walker Cup, which is like the amateur
version of the Ryder Cup, but they had had an
actual tournament to see how these players will play this course.
And I think they have found out they're gonna have
to tighten the screws a little bit, because even with
an all sunshine day yesterday, there were still some pretty
low scores in terms of what we compare US Open scores.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, the USGA when they throw US Open, for anybody
who doesn't know, their goal is for the winner to
shoot even part, right, that's the goal they want to
make the course.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
So John Ender maybe two, but the majority of the
field is over part and it has them in the case.
So again that's the problem you have with an untested course. Yeah,
they just don't host tournament golf.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I will say this though. Everything else about that that
club they did perfectly. It was a lot of fun
walking around there. The clubhouse obviously completely taken over like
any major tournament, and they built tens everywhere and they
had stadium holes. It was very cool, very well done,
really easily walkable. You had that foot bridge over Wilshire Boulevard,

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which was a I mean, that's a marvel that they
were able to put that thing up. I think the
bridge alone was like a million bucks to put it
over Wilshire Boulevard.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
My son went to the movies. He went to see
the new Wes Anderson movie in Century City, I think
this was Friday, and there's a huge parking lot, like
one of the biggest parking lot. It's a multi level
parking that you're going to see anywhere, and that thing
was packed because obviously that's where people were parking.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
There's no parking. Oh yeah, UCLA is right by anybody
who pays attention to UCLA. Just walk you see the
sky shots of the campus. Yeah, you're walking this intoor.
They're having shuttles going back and forth. Look, LA is
not set up in West LA for the level of
event that this is. No, but they're also only allowing

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twenty twenty five thousand people to walk the course every day.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
So how would you like to buy that property, which
basically is bordered by Beverly Hills, Westwood bel Air Century City.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, just for the Playboy mansion alone at being a
neighbor of Hughes Old Place, and.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
They refused Hugh Hefner's request to be a member for
his entire life.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
They built the wall. They were like sorry, Hugh. And
then meanwhile all the members I'm sure were like, wait,
you know that was okay if we just could have
like the oh.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
They had a change in the grotto area usually and
they usually wanted to see Sunday morning because they're just
bodies all over the place on Saturday. Leftover all Right,
So we will cover this final round of the US Open.
A great leader board. This should be an entertaining final round. Also,
we got a lot of basketball news to get to
in the NBA, including this decision by the NBA to

(12:46):
suspend Jean Moran for twenty five games. Did they make
the right decision? We'll discuss. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

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Speaker 3 (13:19):
I can't wait for this, Joe.

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Fox Sports Sunday, Happy Father's Day. We are live from
the tirag dot Com Studios. This is in honor of
Monsey Belanos, who is going to enjoy some tequila happy
hour with her dad today at a place called Lazy Dog.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah. Lazy Dog Yeah, I love that place. Off the appetizers.
We were talking about it earlier.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
All right, So here we are in this Father's day.
As we mentioned, we got this final round of the
US Open. We're looking forward to today. We'll have some
NFL news to get to. Obviously some MLB news as well,
but we want to get to a lot of NBA stories.
The Draft is coming up on Thursday. We have all
kinds of trade rumors that are going to get to.
But the big story out of the NBA, as promised,
once the NBA Finals are over, Adam Silver, the commissioner,

(14:25):
was going to lay down the law on Jean Morant.
I had sort of called for a fifty game suspenser
at least half the season. He decided twenty five games
was the appropriate number. I haven't heard any noise out
of the NBA players Union, So apparently everyone's on the
same page of twenty five games.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Well, no, I think they're going to fight it. They
called it excessive. Let me find you this statement. The MBPA.
They gave. They gave it hell, you know, they did
what the NBPA does, every players Union, every players association
in all leagues when it's a star player and they
feel there's an opportunity to maybe even win an inch, right,

(15:04):
you know, even if they knock it down to twenty
four games, they'll consider it a win. All right.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, here here's the bottom line. He hasn't broken any laws, right,
he hasn't technically cor admitted any crimes. But what he
has done is somehow make fun of holding a gun.
I mean, this is really what comes down to. You know,
there was all these Internet rumors that the second gun

(15:29):
was a toy gun, which honestly, to me makes it
even worse because if you're waving a gun around like
it's some kind of toy, and look at there are
a lot of gun owners in this country, obviously responsible
gun owners. There's a reason they own a gun. So
this again, when you work for somebody, when somebody is

(15:51):
signing your paid check, you got adhere to their rules.
And this does not put the NBA in a good light.
I think Adam Silver did the right thing. Honestly, I
would have leveled an even longer suspension like half the season,
which would have not only a negative impact financially on
Jahn Moran, but would have a negative impact on his team.
And that to me is the big thing. You're embarrassing

(16:13):
your team, You're letting down your teammates. That to me
is a way to get the message across that what
you're doing is going to be detrimental to your team. So,
whether the NBA Players Unit is able to knock down
the suspension at all, here's what I want to know,
rich what happens if he has a third offense.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Well, this is what MVPA executive director Tamika Tremaglio said
two days ago following statement regarding the suspension of Jean Moran.
Josus pressed remorse and accepted responsibility for his actions, and
we support him unequivocally as he does whatever is necessary
to represent himself, our players in our league in the
best possible light. As to the discipline imposed which keeps

(16:56):
him off the court until December and requires some unstated
condition to be met before he can return, we believe
it is excessive and inappropriate for a number of reasons,
including the facts involved in this particular incident. That it's
not fair and consistent with past discipline in our league.
We will explore with Jaw all options and next steps.

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End of statement.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
All right, Well, the bottom line is he lied to
the commissioner after his first offense, saying that he and
he made a public statement whether he wrote it or not,
that he had learned his lesson and that he understood
it was an embarrassment, I won't do it again. And
then he gets caught in camera doing the exact same thing.
So you know, sorry, you're a multiple offender, and you

(17:41):
basically looked in the commissioner's eye promised that it wouldn't
happen again, and then it happened again.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah. Look, I have no sympathy for Jean Moran getting
twenty five games. In fact, I thought that it was
going to be more. To be perfectly honest with you,
I thought that they were going to come down with
a heavier handed punishment here. But Jah being young and
Jah Morant being what they're hoping is going to be

(18:06):
one of the trailblazers of the next era of star
in the NBA still, because who else are you going
to turn to? They're hoping that he's going to grow
up some that maybe this is enough to scare some
maturity into him and this will be the last of
his issues, and who knows, maybe he can become a

(18:27):
guiding light for some you know, one of those great
comeback stories of you know, yeah, I was young and
I was silly, and I made bad choices. But you know,
with good people around me, I can make better choices
and become a little bit of one of those you know,
reclamation stories, which, by the way, this is the easiest
one to come back from, because, like you said, nobody

(18:48):
got hurt. He didn't use the gun on anybody or anything.
He didn't fire the weapon. Don't get me wrong. Is
it a good look for the NBA to have one
of your players posted up allegedly in a Colorado nightclub
brandishing a lethal weapon. No, that's probably a bad thing.

(19:09):
Is it good for your league? Then, after his public
apology and suspension and counseling, to be seen again with
what looked like a gun on an Instagram live post
from one of his friends. No, that's a terrible look.
But this wasn't a domestic abuse situation. He didn't get
caught with a pound of cocaine somewhere. You know, he

(19:30):
didn't break a law. He was charged of nothing. So
the way I look at this story is if the
NBA wants to spin this as it was young man
making poor decisions and he's grown a lot and he's
learned from it, and joh expects, or I should say,
respects what the NBA is looking to do here, and

(19:52):
the NBPA is just doing what the NBPA does. Again,
the union is going to protects its membership. They're just
speaking out and saying all the things to align themselves
with the players. At the end of the day, this
is still probably gonna be a twenty plus game suspension.
Jah is gonna do his time because he broke rules
at the business that provides him his paycheck, and everybody's

(20:14):
gonna move on.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
From this, all right, But answer this question, Yeah, what
if it happens again.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
If it happens again, it means what you're dealing with is.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
You talk about one of the young stars said a
year ago at this time, very similar to the Fernando
Tatist junior situation in Major League Baseball, where he was
suddenly going to be the face of the league, right
and then he gets busted for the peds. Here, you
have another guy, Jaan Morant, who was emerging as the
face of the NBA, face of the NBA future. Three strikes,

(20:48):
You're out.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
I don't think so. But I do think that he'll
lose all the opportunities to have or be the next
Lebron James. He'll lose all the opportunities to be the
next Jordan. He'll lose all all the opportunities to be
the next Magic. He's not gonna be able to be
the Wheaties Box Player of the Year. Like, part of
this is obviously your talent. Part of this is political.

(21:13):
Part of this is can we put you? Can we
put you on our branding? Can we make you a
part of what makes our league special? And right now
the jury's out right now from a business standpoint, he's toxic.
Can he can he have a complete one pint eighty?
Can he turn around from this and become that player

(21:34):
that can be a ten poll for this league for
years to come. I do think there's still a chance
he can do that. I do think there's a chance
he can come back from this. What this may boil
down to is one bad month of his life. These
incidents were six weeks apart, so you say, are we
gonna give grace? Are we gonna say? Yeah, everybody can
have a bad six weeks where nobody got hurt, nobody

(21:55):
was charged of a crime, and he learned a lot
and a lifelong lesson from it, and now we move
on with business as usual. I think we can same
with Fernando Tatis junior a MLB. You know, give him
a year to reclaim his you know, his position here
is standing in the league. Maybe he plays here in
the postseason. Maybe he's a part of something special in
San Diego with the Padres. We'll see. But the two

(22:17):
things that are actually similar about these stories is they're
up and coming stars on up and coming franchises in
city where you don't usually think about pro sports, San
Diego and Memphis. This could be huge for these two
leagues if these young stars mature fast enough. The question
is can they If he does it again, he cannot
be a part of that brand anymore. I know this.

(22:37):
You and I are Jamaran fans. Oh yeah, jah Morant fans.
I just hope, hope.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
That the message has been delivered the second time, because
the third time again could be three strikes in your AUP.
All right, Once again, let's find out what is trending
right now. And Moncey Belgas. By the way, Moncey, you're
sort of dulled up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's it. I think it's just.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
That.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I mean, it looks like you're going out somewhere. I mean,
it's just are you going to go from here to me? No?

Speaker 9 (23:13):
No, I know.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I was telling Sam. I was like, I'm going to
work out after this before I go to have hour.
I gotta work out today.

Speaker 9 (23:19):
No, I think it's just the red lipstick and like
every you know, I brush my hair, Okay, I say, because.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Normally it's a mop.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I washed my hair. I mean a little Rihanna lipstick.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
I literally just put on the deodorant or any person.
And that Manchi was so kind of bring here because
I realized that she handed me the bag. I was like,
it's probably because I never wear any no.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
I at all.

Speaker 9 (23:44):
You know, it's funny because over the years, you're like,
what do boys want?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
And this has to do with what we talked about
with Bucky Bricks. What do boys want?

Speaker 9 (23:52):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Like, yeah, you want food, I get that, but maybe
I don't want to buy you food. Okay, So like.

Speaker 9 (23:58):
This bath and body has started this like men's line,
and it's been so great. I buy it for my boyfriend,
I bought it for my brothers. Yeah, it's so great.
I think it smells delicious. And then the skincare, I'm like,
you know, hey, you guys, don't think about it. I
think about it for you.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's it's a fine line.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Like in golf, we have what we call most you know,
you hear draw and fade. If you're like a real golfer,
it's hook or slice for the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
There's a thing about let's say musk and then like stench, right, right, right,
I'm a little musk right, can work?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right, It's not the same. No, no, no, no, no, no, shoh
is different.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, yeah, I want my I want my musk to
be fresh water.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
And they all smell delicious, they all smell so good.
So you know, I was like, I'm gonna give you
this instead of food.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Ever since he put on this deodor, and I've been
inching a little.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Closer to just very glad. He's not even aware.

Speaker 9 (24:59):
Yeah, pretty soon his life.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
I can't wait for that.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
This is.

Speaker 9 (25:07):
So yesterday when we were here, Steve I told you
that the Yankees and the Red Sox was postponed for today.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Well they're on a rain delay, so everything's the same.
Still not playing, but the Cubs started off hot.

Speaker 9 (25:18):
Mike Tauchman, who is their leadoff hitter, just started things
with a home run. So the Cubs are beating the
Orioles one zero bottom of the second inning. Good news
for the Mets because Pete Alonso is back, and boy
do they need him. He was supposed to be out
three to four weeks. He got hit in the wrist
with a pitch. It didn't look very good. They put
him on the ten day injured list. He's already coming back,

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so good news for Mets fans. Let's move on to
the NBA three times six Man of the Year, the
league's all time leading bench score former Clipper Lou Williams
has announced his retirement from basketball after seventeen seasons in
the NBA. He didn't play last year, but he hadn't
officially retired. He's officially retired. The Charlotte Hornets are expecting
to conduct a second round of workouts and interviews with

(26:02):
Alabama's Brandon Miller and g League z Ignite Scoot Henderson
on Monday. Michael Jordan is supposed to be there, and
you know the NBA Draft is on Thursday. Charlotte has
a second overall pick, so this is definitely a bit
of an audition. And the Athletic reports that the Heat
and the Suns have some serious offers that the Wizards
are contemplating. Miami would offer Kyle Lowry, Duncan Robinson, and

(26:23):
multiple first round picks. Phoenix would offer a package with
DeAndre Ayton or Chris Paul.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Back to you, guys, Hi Monzie, thank you very much
to check in you with the you a little bit
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(26:52):
the fight, and he basically had two choices, either we
fire you or you resign, and he chose to resign smartly.
This after Bob Huggins, and by the way, Bob Huggins,
I'm trying to do the math here. He is six
foot three, six foot four, probably tips the scales at

(27:14):
around three hundred pounds. Would you say he's.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
A big fella. He's big. He's a big fella.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
So if you're six three, let's i'll give him the
benefit of the Let's say he's two eighty. Okay, he's
probably three, but I'll just give him the benefit of
the depth.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
He might be pushing three bells.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, So if you're six three, six four, three hundred pounds,
do you know how much alcohol you have to take
in to get your blood level up to point two
to one? So they found bags of empty cans. He
was an all day bender. Somebody was trying to do
the math. Essentially, he must have consumed at least thirty

(27:50):
to forty beers. Wow, to get a man that size
to get that blood level to that level.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Who's doing that math? Like?

Speaker 7 (28:00):
What?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, they were just trying to figure it out, because
zero point two to one for let's say a one
hundred and twenty five pound woman as opposed to a
three hundred pound man, you really have to drink a
lot of alcohol at that size to get that blood
level up to point two.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
One, I guess, but I mean, well, yeah, and I
guess you factor in normal drinking speed and all that stuff,
because I bet you could get there real fast if
you're drinking real fast, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
All Right, So look at we've all, I don't say
all most of us in our younger days have you know,
consumed way too much alcohol.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Please never have a boy, stop.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
So but when you're sixty nine years old. And by
the way, this is a sixty nine year old who
had a massive heart attack a few years ago. I mean,
had people not been on site, he would have been gone.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I mean his heart stopped like it was like cardiac arrest,
complete full cardiac arrest. And fortunately for him, there was
somebody there to revive him, and he went back to
He never lost away. I was thinking about Huggins. He
never really changed his temperament at all. Apparently they cleaned
out his system enough for him to continue to survive.
But I'm just trying to get into the head of

(29:10):
a sixty nine year old man who, by the way,
has just you know, had his salary cut was reduced
to one year contracts after his homophobic slur on a
radio show which he you know, tried to you know,
you know, apologize for what would drive a man to
do this. I mean, I worry about this guy. And

(29:31):
the guy's in the Hall of Fame, he's had a
great coaching career. But what is going on in the
life of a sixty nine year old Bob Huggins that
he would drink that much alcohol and, by the way,
then get on the road no less, what could possibly
be going through his head.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
I'm not I'm not a thousand percent sure because I
don't know, like none of us here do now Bob
Huggins the person. But what I can say is, look,
I mean, I'm hoping that he doesn't have an issue
with this, that he has an issue well I'm saying

(30:07):
like I'm saying, like something that he can't get control of,
because this story only gets darker from here. Obviously, we've
all known people who have been actively involved in addiction.
It's a lifelong struggle. And if he is struggling with
something like that, poor judgment. I mean, it comes hand
in hand with abusing alcohol or drugs, and so if

(30:30):
he is struggling with that, I hope he gets to
help he needs, and I hope that he's able to
live out his days making better choices. The other side
of that coin, though, is almost a little bit darker, unfortunately,
where if you are, you know, an older man who
doesn't have struggles like that, but just making poor choices

(30:51):
just at random, I mean, what leads to that? Like
like what I mean maybe again, you know, same way
we were talking about Ja Morant. You know, maybe it's
just a bad month, but I mean, those were those
were harsh and disgusting words he used on that radio show.
We all heard it, and you know, to have an
incident like this, like you said, at this advanced stage

(31:13):
in life, it's unacceptable if you want to be a
head coach. It's unacceptable in general, But if you want
to be a head coach, because the reality is in
your formative years as an athlete, especially during that time,
and I experienced this with my own college coaches, with
my high school coaches, you need to exemplify responsibility in

(31:34):
a different way.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I want to ask you this because I heard you
talk about this yesterday. So as a high school athlete,
as a college athlete, yeah, we're not talking about professional coaches.
But hopefully by that time, unless you're Jah Morant, you've
understood how to behave like an adult as a player.
But how important is it if you're in a position

(31:56):
as a high school or as a college coach to
really set an example to not just talk the talk,
but actually walk the walk.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's as important as the sport you're coaching, because the
reality is when you're dealing with kids who are, you know,
ages thirteen to eighteen in high school, and you're dealing
with kids who are eighteen to twenty two twenty four
in college, you're dealing with kids. How much growth do

(32:29):
we all do in our early twenties. The answer is
a lot. And the reality also is your brain isn't
even finished developing until you reach thirty. I mean, that's
scientific fact, you know. So we know that there's a
lot that can be improved and worked on and can
be imprinted upon you because you are very impressionable when

(32:50):
you're those ages, especially that you need to have some
good people around you to help you make better choices.
The problem for Huggins or any that gets involved in
things like this is what happens if one of his
student athletes all of a sudden gets involved where he
said a racial slur to a student on campus or

(33:14):
a derogatory remark towards a homosexual on campus. How can
Bob Huggins be the guy to chastise or punish or
speak about making better choices if he's at sixty nine
years old or however old, he is making those choices himself.

(33:35):
If you have a player who maybe is getting after it,
burning the candle at both ends a little too partying
a little too hard and not concentrating on to schoolwork
or practicing enough because he's out drinking and you're Bob
Huggins and you just wrecked your car hammered drunk. How
do you have that conversation with a young athlete and
they take you seriously, can't do the job anymore?

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, exactly that's what I say. Do as I tell you,
not as I do. Doesn't fly, No, it doesn't. If
you're a young guy and you're doing young guy things
and the coach says don't do it, You're like, what
are you talking about, coach, I'm just doing what you're doing. Yeah,
I mean, I can't even imagine sitting now with parents

(34:18):
trying to get a recruit saying I'm gonna take care
of your son. I'm gonna make sure I'll take you know,
and it's like, dude, you have zero credibility. My wife
and I were just talking about this. Are our eight
year old. He's gonna turn eight on Tuesday. You know,
you realize they sound just like you. They repeat the
things you say, but it's little, just the things you say,
it's the way you say it.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
So it's so important, like because children are looking to
the people they look up to to learn how to
act in this world. That process isn't done at eighteen.
That process isn't done at twenty. That process isn't done
at twenty two. So if you want these athletes to
come out into this world after graduation, which most of
them are just graduating and they're going on to sell

(35:00):
insurance or sell houses, or work in accounting or help
people in civil services, or maybe go on and be
a copper whatever. If you want them to be good people,
active participants in society, you gotta have good role models
around them. And right now that is not Bob Huggins.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Unfortunately, it is Father's Day, and there have been some
great Father's Day stories in the world of sports. We'll
share a couple with you. This is Fox Sports Sunday. Wow,
classics stuff there, Sam, I love that guitar.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Here we are once again. This is Fox Sports Sunday.
Steve Harbin and Rich Orenberger wish you to have a
Father's Day out there. We are live from the ti
raq dot Com studios. There have been many Father's Day
stories related to sports over the years. I've done, you know,
a lot of Father's Day shows and we've had callers
share Father's Day experiences and everything else. Two of my

(35:56):
favorite stories Rich in terms of sports and Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
By the way, Father's Day was.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
First recognized in nineteen ten by the state of Washington,
but it wasn't get this until nineteen seventy two that
Father's Day was recognized actually as a national holiday by everybody.
So in nineteen sixty four, Jim Bunning, Hall of Fame
pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, who, by the way, later

(36:22):
was become a United States Congressman and senator. At age
thirty two, he was already a father of seven. It
was like the Philip Rivers of.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
His day, right yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
And on Father's Day, as a father of seven, he
pitched the first perfect game in the National League in.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Eighty four years. Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
It had not been since eighteen eighty that a national
league pitcher had thrown a perfect game, and he did
so on Father's Day. So that was an amazing story.
But to me, the all time story on Father's Day
had to do with the US Open back in nineteen
ninety nine, Atinhurst, Payne Stewart, and Phil Mickelson. So they
get to the eighteenth hole final round final pairing and

(37:09):
Payne Stewart has a one shot lead. Phil has a
twenty five foot putt for Bertie to tie, and Payne
Stewart has a fifteen foot putt for parr. I mean,
there's a potential that, you know, the one shot lead
could be in Mickelson's favor. What made it even more
dramatic was Phil Mickelson's wife was expecting their first baby,

(37:32):
Oh I remember, and he has a pager because she
is like literally due any day. And he had made
it clear when he teed off for that tournament he
had never won a major at the time, that if
she goes into labor, I'm leaving. I'm not sticking around.
So he misses his putt. He missed that twenty five
foot Bertie putt by six inches, but Payne Stewart still

(37:55):
has to make a fifteen footer to win the tournament,
and he drains it and the fist pump there at
Pinehurst and everything else, and then he goes up and
he tells Phil there's nothing like being a father, puts
his hands on Phil's face, Phil's wife. Now, if that
had been a tie, had they tied, which was a
very real possibility, that's when it was an eighteen hole

(38:17):
playoff on Monday.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Yeah, you got to come back for the next day.
Next day.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, remember Tiger and Rockamedia Torrey Pines in two thousand
and eight.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
That's right. The USGA recently changed those rules just.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Right now, it's a three pole playoffs, right, So back
then it was an eighteen hole playoff. Well, as it
turned out, obviously, if they had tied, they would have
had a playoff the next day. Phil wouldn't have been
there because the next day was the day that his
first daughter was born.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
That's crazy. I mean, that almost gives me chills to
think about it.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Right, And then, of course, unfortunately for pay you know,
later a few months later he met his fate, you know,
on that playing situation. But yeah, that would have been
unbelievable because Phil had maintained the whole week that you know,
my wife, you know, I'm going to be there for
the birth of my first child. If he would have literally,
had they been ready to tee off on Monday for

(39:08):
a playoff, whether or not, he would have said, I
gotta go.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
And it's amazing, it's amazing. You mentioned Phil Mickelson in
Father's Day and some of the stories of Major's past
where I know the I mean the lion's share of
the discussion of golf leading up to the Open was
this merger between the PGA and Live You barely hear
about it. Once the Major t's off. Oh yeah, you know,

(39:32):
it gets down to hey, Ricky Fowlers out there. He's
tearing up the course and Rory's roaring up the ball
and up the board, and he's you know, and and
he's got a real shot to catch you know, win
them Clark. And it's it's just amazing like that, all
these things that have happened in you know, I guess
it would be the past nineteen months with Live Golf

(39:54):
and the PIF and the dp World Tour and the PGA,
like it all evaporates once we get to major time
because this is what true golf fans and really fringe
golf fans people are just tuning in for the majors
care about. It's the legacy of these majors and this
is an impressive and important one because it's first time

(40:14):
it ever came to La Country Club.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
And we've had some already great stories in this US Open,
including the re emergence of Ricky, follow up much more
on the tournament, and we got a lot of trade
rumors to get to in the NBA. This is Fox
Sports Radio rolling along on this Fathersday. This is Fox
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Speaker 3 (40:51):
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Speaker 2 (40:52):
He's gonna join us in our final hour on this
Father's Day, So look forward to talking a little MLB
with him.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
By the way, did you because we.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Always like to talk a little hockey with him as well,
the big Saturday night party in Vegas. Yeah, normally you
don't have victory parades at.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Night, but it is Vegas.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
It is Vegas, and the streets of Vegas were just
packed as they celebrated the Golden Knights bringing the city
of Las Vegas its first team sport championship.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
You would never expect a better venue for parade to
be Las Vegas, but that looked like the most fun
a parade could be. I mean, and look.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
That's because that's what that's the city of night.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
It's set up to be a party, and I mean
their name is literally the Vegas Knights, like so it
just it sets up perfectly for them to you know,
just parade down the Strip and to have a big
setup on a stage and to do the whole thing
the way only Vegas can. And it makes a strong
argument for the NBA coming to Vegas. It makes a

(41:56):
strong argument for the Raiders to get their stuff together
and win the damn championship because that's a party town.
People are starting to grow and I'm talking about the
surrounding Vegas residents and allegiance, especially to the Golden Knights.
They've been set up there for six years. But the
Raiders games, they're sold out and they're starting to grow

(42:18):
a local fan base. And if the NBA and Major
League Baseball will be first with the A's, it looks
like if they get all fours pro sports leagues in town.
I mean, it's it's already been proven that they'll get
out and they'll support a team, So it makes sense. Man,
it looks good. It makes for good TV, and players

(42:38):
from everything I've heard, at least on the NFL side,
they love being there.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Do you feel sorry for a city like Oakland? I mean, yeah,
the Warriors played in Oakland, yep, because their oracle was
right across obviously from the Oakland Coliseum right there. They
lose the Raiders, they lose the Warriors who move over
to the city, and ry Vermund's like, well, it's the
Bay Area.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Believe me.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Oakland and San Francisco are as different as LA and
San Diego. Okay, they might be closer proximity, but there's
a big difference between Oakland and San Francisco. And now
the A's, who obviously have had success over the years,
even recent success by the way they suddenly rattled off
a winning streak after you know.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
They hindled it the Rays recently. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
So for a city like Oakland that has such a
rich tradition with the A's and the Raiders, and yeah,
I mean, it's it's it's sad they will be empty.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, it's sad, isn't the word. I mean? The reality
of the situation is when a city loses a sports franchise,
it's it's because it's because an owner sees greener pastures
from a business standpoint, that's it. It's it's play and
simple as that. It's not because the fans screwed something up.

(43:54):
It's not because they didn't support their team well enough.
It's because an owner decided that the best way to
make more money for himself, for the ownership group, for
the family that owns the team is to leave the
city they're currently in and to go find quote unquote
greener pastures elsewhere. That green, of course, is money. It

(44:16):
has nothing to do with the fan base, and the
fan base for many are the ones who carry the
blame and the shame of all of it. Shame on
these owners, Shame on the greed of people who are
literally in the game of selling hope to people like,
that's your deal. This is a religion. That's what religion is, right,
It's faith, it's hope. What are sports? Sports is religion.

(44:38):
You're selling hope. You're saying, Okay, hey, we stunk this year,
but guess what next year, We're gonna be great one
Why because the draft is coming up. You are selling
people hope. You are literally making promises on a year
and year out basis by our laundry represent us, where
the names of our players, and we will do good
by you. We will make good on the promises. And

(45:01):
then you go up and you leave a town high
and dry because you try to shake them down for
money to build you a new ballpark. Screw you. John
Fisher should be ashamed of himself. Instead, there are people
out there who are blaming Oakland fans like they screwed up.
Shame on you. If that's your take, it's an embarrassment.

(45:24):
It's an indictment.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Well again, it comes down, like you say, to money,
and these these leagues for seen teams to build new stadiums. Yeah,
bill new arenas.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Otherwise we want to have the World Series in your stadium,
you know, or the Super Bowl in your stadium, otherwise
we won't carry out we won't carry out events in
the offseason at your in your city. Yeah. I mean,
but again we say league, like the league isn't made
up of the owners. These owners are pulling all the streaming.
It's not like Bob Manfred has any control over Major

(45:56):
League Baseball. It's not like Roger Goodell. They're puppets. These
owners are making these decisions. Don't let them off the hook.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
By the way, speaking of owners, Michael Jordan, who is
obviously in the two man argument for goat in the
NBA with Lebron be and the other and their sides
definitely take him on both sides of that. It has
to go down as one of the least effective owners
in NBA history.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
We're talking about thirteen years as the.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Principal owner down there with Orlando and they never even
a playoffs.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Oh I mean in Charlotte and Charlot excuse me.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
And they never won a single playoff series in his
thirteen years as Pencibal owner. But his share gets sold
for three billion, you know how much he bought a
four two hundred and seventy five million.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Not a bad investment. So I mean makes some money
out of it, right, Yeah, but we And the thing
about it is, look, I am supportive of players becoming
parts of ownership groups in sport because I mean, if
you really think about the majority of of team owners
at this point are legacies. They're people who are born
of owners of teams and they inherit these teams and

(47:08):
in some cases run them directly into the ground. Other cases,
you know, they have some savvy, they have some understanding,
they spend time around the business, but in many cases
they don't. They're they're not football people. They're not baseball people.
They're not hockey people. They're not basketball people. They're just lucky.
They just they were just born of the right couple.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Jan would be the ultimate basketball person. So why, as
great as a player as he was, was he so
ineffective as an owner.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
It could be a multitude of things, but I look,
you gotta wear a lot of blame if you're an
owner in the NBA and it doesn't work. And the
reason why, I think is because you can you can
hire executives and who can have who can have great
great fortune putting together the right group of players or
scouting the right talent to change your fortunes. Immediately look

(48:02):
at the balls Boston Celtics and their executive group and
Brad Stevens merging his way into the front office when
he stepped down from coaching. Like, it's a smart group
of people who put good players together and they're consistently
perennially in the Eastern Conference or the NBA finals. Now
you look at.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Miami Heat with Pat Riley and his hand picked successor,
Eric Spolstra level of consistency. And by the way, we're
starting to see it in Denver now, oh sure they
stay with Michael Malone as their coach. Even though there
were up and downs over eight years. They had a
nucleus of players that they put together through the.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Draft, Bob Myers out there and with the game plan
just stepped down. I mean, there are And the reason
why I say in basketball especially is because again it
could take one or two players to change your fortunes
for a decade, especially in basketball. Yeah, so you got
to make the right higher there, and MJ didn't. You know,
just because you're a great basketball player doesn't mean you're

(48:58):
going to be a great practitioner of hiring good basketball
minds to come into the program and handle things Unfortunately
for him, he didn't do that. But again, like I said,
I like the idea visually optically of having people who've
had success on the court have a say in how
things are in It's not always going to be successful,
as was proven in Charlotte, but it just feels right

(49:21):
to me. I don't know why. Like I even when
Rob Polinka got the opportunity to be the Lakers general
manager and they've now netted a championship as a result
of that hiring. They brought in Lebron, and they brought
in ad and things have happened, and Lebron has a
lot of obviously credit given for Anthony Davis playing in
Los Angeles. But my point being when they when they

(49:43):
hired Polenka, I thought to myself, like, that's really interesting
taking an agent and turning him to a general manager.
But then I thought better of it. I was like, yeah,
but that's the job, like making relationship with other agents,
making relationship with other players. Like I'm not saying every
agent can make a successful general manager, but it's only

(50:04):
outside the box. Because it's the first of its kind,
it makes sense. It feels like a step in that direction. Anyways,
you know, if you're a good agent, you're a good
scout of talent. Obviously played basketball in Michigan with the
Fab Five. He was one of the bench players. But
you know, that's the type of person who, to me,
to my eyes, makes sense to have jobs like that.
And that's to me the reason why Steve Kerr has

(50:26):
had success as a head coach in Golden State and
Phil Jackson had success in both Chicago and LA as
a head coach, because he's a basketball man. He lived
and breathed, and I think at the executive level or
the ownership level, I like I said, optically, it makes
sense to me. It did not work out for Michael Jordan, though, with.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
The NBA Draft coming up on Thursday and all kinds
of trade rumors. Got much more NBA talk coming up
a little bit later on the show. On the other side, though,
I want to get back to a little golf.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Now.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I know for a lot of you out there, golf
is a big yawn, but there is something very unique
about golf that makes it worthy. We'll explain. This is
Fox Sports Sunday Golf. I actually like this Madonna song,
you know, Papa don't preach. Yeah, I'm in trouble deep.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
I don't know what we're having a baby? Oh yeah,
I forgot that's what the song was about.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Yeah, yeah, she got knocked up all right. By the way,
we are live from the tirac dot com studios. Well,
they had a movie called knocked Up, so.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
I can't do that words.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Yeah, So we are waiting and waiting and waiting for
the leaders to actually tee off today in the final
round of the US Open. Keep no one's really making
much of a move from back of the pack. Jordan Smith.
I don't know who that is is minus four through
six holes, But we won't see the actual final pairing

(51:51):
of Winning Clark and Ricky Fowler tee off until two
thirty West Coast fight thirty East Coast.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
So we are a long way away from that.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
You know, golf is we're minded again when we get
all these stories about LACC. It's an exclusive club, very
exclusive club, so much so that they frown on if
you're let's say, a guest to play there of revealing any.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Actual members of LACC.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
There's and we've heard stories about two hundred and fifty
thousand down to join these clubs. The perception of golf
overall for most people is hey, they like to go
to the municipal course and hack around and have a
good time, you know, drink a few beers and you know,
just have a good time.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
That's one form of golf.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
And then there's tournament golf, especially when we talk about
these majors playing at these exclusive country clubs and everything else,
or even if their public courses they're very pricey.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
It's an expensive sport, it's.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
An elitist sport, and it's by and large at sport
dominated by a single race, and that really has not
changed even with the emergence of Tiger Woods. It's ironic
when Tiger Woods won his first Masters in nineteen ninety seven,
there were actually more African Americans on the PGA toward
then than there are now, which seems not believable, but

(53:21):
it's the truth. So there are a lot of reasons
if you're not a golf fan to not be a
golf fan. The one thing that I've always enjoyed about
golf is this. So there were one hundred and fifty
six golfers that started this US Open, sixty five made
the cut. That means that ninety one golfers who played

(53:44):
on Thursday and Friday, are not playing this weekend and oh,
by the way, are not getting a pay check? Right,
there's no other sport like it. Now the Live Golf
wanted to step up and saying we're going to change that.
In other words, you're going to get paid aid regardless.
Not only are you a lot of guys getting a
bunch of essentially appearance money, you know, up front money,

(54:08):
but if you're in the field playing fifty four holes
of golf, even if you finish dead last, even if
you stink up the place, you're still going to get
a paid check, which I can understand is very appealing
to golfers, but for someone like myself on the outside
looking in, this is the one aspect that.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
I've always loved about this sport.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Because there's nothing else like it. Where else do you
play and not get paid, even if it's a major
golf championship if you miss the cut. And to illustrate
how incredible this is, right, so you know this rich
because your wife's family is very involved in golf. So
for every tournament save majors, they have what we call

(54:51):
a qualifying round. Yeah, so on a Tuesday before the
golf tournament. They have a qualifying round, so if you're
not already in the field, there's a chance as for
you to get in the field. So and these guys
are on their own dime. Oh so if especially if
you're a fringe guy. Right, so, you're trying to make
the PGA Tour, so you you spend money out of

(55:11):
your own pocket to go for this qualifying round on
Tuesday and get this, you make it. So now all
of a sudden, you have to spend more money on
where you're gonna stay Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday,
and then you miss the cut. You still end up
with zero money. Well, even though there's more money out

(55:32):
of your pocket, I will offer this, this is where
most golfers are on the fringe. We only see the
stars and they've got hundreds of millions of dollars in
their bank account or millions of the least.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
It's changed a little bit, and I'll tell you how,
and it's it's mainly social media, because you can be
anybody and be famous on social media. It doesn't matter
who you are, if you spend the time, if you
create the content, if you're creative enough, if you're interesting, enough,
and there's a lot of golfers who may have maybe

(56:04):
have have had zero success on tour, who have made
themselves successful in terms of the business side of golf,
getting sponsors interested in them, following their journey, getting followers
on social media, nil money, leaving college and things of
that nature. It's changed the game. It's made it a.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Little bit a pretty exclusive club.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
No, it's true. The thing about golf, and I agree
with you that that makes that allures me to golf
is there. It is more of a meritocracy than most
sports means. It's merit based. If you're good enough, you
make the cut. If you're not good enough, you don't.
If you're good enough, you finish in the money. If
you're not good enough, you don't. There's no safety net.

(56:45):
You're either in or you're out. And that is a
very cool aspect of golf. But there's another side of
it that I like a lot too. Yes, you're right,
the barrier to entry is high because golf clubs are expensive.
Golf balls are expensive like tea times, green fees are expensive.
Everything about golf is expensive for the average person. However,
I like the fact that you can watch the best

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in the world on a course and then you can
go out there and play that exact same course. Now,
again it's for a fee, and maybe you got to
save up. Maybe it's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
But how often do you get to see the Denver
Nuggets win a championship and then you get to go
out to the arena they won on and shoot hoops
over there. You don't, you don't, you know? But when

(57:30):
the US Open came through Long Island, New York and
they played at beth Page, if you live in the
state of New York, you could play the beth Page
Black for a pretty for I mean a pretty reasonable
amount of money.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Well, I mean some of these public courses like Tory Pines, Yeah,
Pebble Beach, I mean, they're expensive.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
The Farmer's Insurance Open, it's played every year at Tory Pines.
If you're a resident in San Diego, and again it's
not cheap, but you pay seventy you pay seventy bucks.
You could get on and you can play where the
real golfers play and you can see exactly how hard
it is. That's one of my favorite parts of it.
You do not get to play at lacc Well, no,

(58:10):
but again, but you don't get to play at any arena.
You don't get to play at any stadium. You don't
get to play at the Swamp. You don't get to
play in Tusca Lousa. You don't get to play at
Beaver Stadium. You don't get to play at the Horseshoe.
If you're a college football fan, you don't get to
play at Jillette Stadium. You don't get to go down
to Peco Park or Chavez Revie. You don't get to

(58:31):
play anywhere that the pros normally played. But in golf,
you could buy tea time and you could go, and
you could play the exact same holes that Tiger played,
and you can compare your game to Tiger. I think
that's my favorite part about golf.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
So, your wife's family has been immersed in the golf
world for a long time, And how do you feel
I mean for you. I don't think golf was a
major part of your upbringing. I would imagine, no, I
watched majors and I hacked around it, but I mean
hanging out with golf people until you until you entered

(59:08):
Anne's world. So how do do you feel like an
outsider at times when you're amongst the elite. I mean,
when you're out at LACC. This is an elite country club,
sure right, smacking the most of I mean the property
alone is worth something like eighty billion dollars, some ridiculous
amount of them.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
They don't know, They have no idea that. I mean,
it's it's worth who knows.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
I mean, it's you talk about Some people say you
talk about a waste of real estate if you're not
a golf fan. But I mean, how do you how
do you relate because sometimes you're I'm not saying this
about your wife's family, but I'm just saying, you know
what I'm talking about a country cup elite that is
very much of the golf scene.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Well, the crazy thing about people are their people. Everybody
like at the end of the day, cut you out
and you're made of the same parts as anybody. As
a pro athlete, one of these things. Well yeah, but
as a as a pro athlete, I remember people being
nervous to talk to me, and I was like, don't
be I'm just some guy. Like that's the reality of

(01:00:15):
the situation. Like it's not like these these golfers, Yeah,
they're high. They're in heavy concentration this weekend, and maybe
they're going to be short with fans. It's you know,
these guys are working out there, but it doesn't matter.
Like they're just people at the end of the day.
They have struggles. They they they have wives and girlfriends

(01:00:36):
and kids and lives, and you connect with people on
a human level. It doesn't matter who you're talking to.
If they're interested in talking to you, you can strike
up conversation. So it doesn't matter if you're starting again,
because everybody starts somewhere in golf, like if you're if
you're just a hack playing with a scratch golfer, as
long as you don't slow them down, you can have

(01:00:58):
conversation and you can learn a lot like so just
keep up that. That's that's been my whole life, my
whole life. When I started playing football, I stunk. I
was a lacrosse player, you know, So the thought process was,
I gotta figure out how to keep up with this crowd,
and you do eventually you do. That's the advice to anybody.
It doesn't matter where you are, find someone like you

(01:01:20):
start talking to them and life gets easier. This this
what's interesting about this, or, I should say the most
interesting about this is a lot of these golfers have
never even stepped foot on this course, right, whereas most
courses most majors. They have opportunities to play at the
courses that the majors are coming up at, and maybe

(01:01:41):
they'll even try to sneak around in between tournaments that
they're playing in to get used to it, because these
are so important toward their legacy. But that is the
thing about exclusivity and golf sometimes that really hampers the
performance of players. The majority of this field has never
even never even seen La Country Club.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Although for Max Homo, who got a lot of attention
going in because not only had he played this course,
he had the course record he shot sixty one a
little different setup obviously when he was on the PAC
twelve Championships with everyone was focused like he knows this
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trending as MONSI is back and so MONSI give us
more details about hanging out with dad. Is it just
you and your dad? Your brothers? I mean, what's going on.

Speaker 9 (01:02:36):
One of my brothers is I don't know, somewhere in Texas.
Remember he's going across the country with his wife, so
they're making their way back.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
I don't know where he's at right.

Speaker 9 (01:02:44):
My other brother, who is a dad, I think my
little nephew's a little sick, so I don't know if
they're going to step out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
So it's just going to be you and your dad
and the boyfriend. Oh and your boys, and the boyfriend
will be there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
And your dad likes your boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Yes, yeah, they get along.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
That's the other thing about being a father, especially of
a dog.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Right now. I've been dating since I was like in kindergarten.
So poor dad.

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
Yeah, yeah, this was my nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
I am so glad I have two little boys, because
I mean, I don't know. I mean, well, Steve, here
here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Like right now, So my daughter, my youngest daughter, is
my only daughter, is twenty two now, okay, you know,
an honor student and everything else. She beautiful young lady.
And she has a boyfriend right now, and he's a
nice enough guy. He doesn't really talk all that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Much to me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
He's probably scared of you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
And they're sort of hanging out a lot together in
the house because she's home for the summer, you know,
away from school, and you know, like she's in a
room and she was the boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Oh the boyfriend wasn't allowed it. I mean I've been dating,
no joke, since I was in kindergarten.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
I know she's at like sixteen, she's twenty two.

Speaker 9 (01:03:52):
I was not allowed my boyfriend. I think I was
like thirty and my parents were still like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
Nope, you can't have the boy in your room.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Oh no, yeah, I don't want to be the door
household you want I mean maybe a curtain.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
I mean, well, I just.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
You know, and like, you know, you know, a little
knock on the door and I come in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
They're just you know, sitting there and Glane and everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
I'm sure, and I'm like, I want to be the
cool dad. That is. This is my nightmare. This is
I'm getting I don't even have a daughter. I'm getting anxiety. Right,
this is my nightmare.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Is it because you were a bad boy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Yes, okay, most of us were.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
See that's because I know what guys are, and that
is a terrifying proposition that you bring some wonderful person
into the world and then they need to be exposed to.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Here here's the crazy thing, him or me, or any guy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
He's the most jerks in there. I'm looking at you.
So he who was walking around, No, I don't trust
him as far as I can tell him about if
I have a daughter, he's got that young face. So here,
here's the weird thing. So my daughter now is the age.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
That her mother was when I met her mother, and
I was already like thirty four years Oh, I mean like.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
I would have kicked you out of your fuck. Imagine
I was patient. There is no way it would have
legitimately been like that old tale of like, yeah, he's
shining his gun in the limbs.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
I meant at the time, it seemed to very natural
for me. But she looking at the situation like that
was weird.

Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
Yeah, No, for sure, I don't get weird.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
I am, But it's like, can you imagine if your
daughter brought home a thirty four year old I would
just lose it. What would you say to that person.

Speaker 10 (01:05:54):
Good, goodbye, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
I do remember her mother when we started dating, writing
with me alone and saying what exactly are your intentions here?

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:06:05):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Yeah, sir, yeah, what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
You person who's close to collecting retirement and your four
one k look like I was like wow.

Speaker 9 (01:06:15):
So anyway, Jannis ante Zakompo feels the same way as
Bucky Brooks Brooks because he tweeted, Happy Father's Day to
all the dads out there. I'm so excited to get
my gifts today. Two high fives, a fist pump, a
pair of socks, some drawers, and a basic white T shirt.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
That's pretty good. That's a good home.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
That's a good one.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
I wrote.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Cobodies don't need gifts because we get when we need something,
we just get it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
You know what I did buy? I was at the
us opiing ac sud. I did buy my dad a hat.
You need to know. I saw a picture of him
wearing one of the old golf outs that I got them,
and I'm like, man, that things get torn up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
That's time for an upgrade. Yeah, that was a Ben
Hogan hat. Can we update that one?

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Dad?

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
Well?

Speaker 9 (01:06:56):
Formula ones Canadian Graham Prix is underway.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Ma Verse stopping' is that? How I say it?

Speaker 9 (01:07:02):
Verse Stopping, who won it last year, is currently in
the lead after twenty two laps. Lewis Hamilton is behind
him in second place, and in Major League Baseball, lots
of games going on. The Astros are up on the Reds,
who have won seven in a row.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
The Reds have won seven in a row.

Speaker 9 (01:07:18):
Astros are up though, two to one, top of the
second inning. The Tigers have scored first against the Twins
one zero top of the second as well. The Cardinals
are up on the Mets, who have scored some more,
but Saint Louis is still on top. It's sixty four
bottom of the third inning, Yankees holding on to Glaber
Torres's two run homer. How he started the game two
zero in Boston. Marlins beating the Nationals four to two.

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Bottom of the fourth, and the Braves are on the scoreboard.
Eddie Rosadio hit a three run homer, but the Rockies
are still on top. It's five to three bottom of
the third, Cubs beating the Oriols.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Three to two. Top of the sixth inning. Back to
you fathers, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Min you appreciate that, all right, So once again we
are we're talking a little golf today because it is
the final round of the US Open. The Ricky Fowler story.
We talk about Father's Day and you were mentioning a
rich that these guys are just like the rest of us.
I mean, they got family lives, and this is what
they do for a living. They play golf. Ricky Fowlers comeback.

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I mean you talk about I mean there's a lot
of great stories. Obviously, if McElroy wins, or anyone Wyndam Clark,
you know, his mother passed away ten years ago. They're
talking a lot about this guy who's never had his
highest finish in six majors that he's played in is
T seventy five. Wow, He's only twice made the cut
and once he finished seventy fifth and once he finished

(01:08:38):
seventy six. So he's quite a story. But the Ricky
Fowler story, I remember when Ricky first hit the scene
and I was down in San Diego and he would
play down there at Torrey Pines and it's still when
he had the long hair, you know, and he was
like this sort of the fashion guy of the young
golf or the bright orange callapuma stuff with stuff that

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he would wear, and so he you know, and he
was always super friendly, like he's one of those easy interviews,
very accommodating, and he was one of the best golfers
in the world. You know, twenty fourteen he was top
five in all four majors. The next year he wins
the players. You know, just a matter of time before

(01:09:20):
this guy's going to win a major. And then a
couple of years ago, i mean the wheels fell off. Yeah,
where a year ago he was ranked one hundred and
eighty seventh the world. He no longer hadn't played in
the Masters in three years because he hasn't qualified, He
had not played in the US Open the last couple
of years. I mean, this guy completely went off the rails.
But in that interim from being one of the big
stars of golf to disappearing, he got married, he had

(01:09:44):
some kids, and when we talk about how becoming a
father changes your life, yeah, you know, you can sit
there and talk to somebody about you know, what's it
like to be a dad if you're not dad, But
there's no way to understand it unless you're actually a dad,
you know, because everyone's experience as a dad is different, obviously,

(01:10:08):
but I'm always amazed when we talk about, especially an
individual sport like golf, where.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
Focus is such a key to this game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
I mean, all these guys can swing the club and
the thousands and thousands of shots and everything else, and
one day everything's dropping and the next day he can't
seem to hit anything.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
And Ricky Fowler went through this.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
And for this guy to persevere as he has to
emerge from oblivion, literally oblivion as a golfer, to find
himself as a co leader going into the final round
of this US Open, I'm rooting for him. I mean,
there's a lot of stories here, but for a guy
like Ricky Fowler, who and they made this point even

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when he was down, his demeanor with the fans never changed. Ever,
he was still accommodating the fans because he was still
Ricky Fowler. He changed and that's why so many people
are rooting for this guy because he's the real deal.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
He's a genuine guy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
He's now a father, he's got a couple of kids,
he's got his beautiful wife and everything else. But for
him to get this game back together, to get refocused
and find it once again. You get to see it
in the press conferences over the last couple of days.
He is excited to just be in the mix. Oh yeah,
oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Like I mean, look when you've had a taste of
it in the past and then all of a sudden
you just fall off the map the way he's done,
especially over the last two years. I mean, twenty twenty one,
he missed the Masters for the first time. Twenty twenty two,
the struggles continued, and like you said, this is the
first time his name has been relevant at a major

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in a very, very long time. It's we like redemption
stories in this country. I think. I think it's a
human interesting I can't speak, you know, personally about this
from the purview of other countries, but I think in general,
as human beings, we like when somebody can pick themselves
back up off the mat and can rise again. There's

(01:12:07):
something cool about that. I think it's part of the
human spirit, you know, to dust yourself off, and everybody
experience it's from time to time in their life where
things don't go your way and you persevere through something
small or big, and it makes you feel a lot
better about the accomplishment. On the other side. Even if
it's only you who notice how much effort it took.

(01:12:29):
In a situation like this, on such a grand stage
where the world is watching golf, it's even more impressive.
And like you said, there is something about the psychology
of golf that's alluring too, because you have nobody else
to blame except yourself when things go wrong out there.
And we've all been in that situation too, and to

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have success after consistent failure and to continue to stick
to it is impressive in its own right. And I
know it gets easier when you're a famous golf for
like Ricky Fowler is because he doesn't have to worry
about money anymore if he's smart about money. And it's
not about that, it's about, hey, how do I get
back to the top, Like how do I get to

(01:13:10):
where I was when? And it takes a ton of work,
and sometimes it does taking down, setting down some roots
and having a little bit of a different perspective. I know,
it's just look, I'm sure this is every father out
there listening today. Having children was the moment my life
changed more than any other moment ever. And that includes

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being drafted in the NFL, and that includes some of
the great successes that I have along a playing career
where I had some really cool things happen. Nothing could
prepare you for fatherhood, and it changes your entire perspective
on life and why we're here and what we're doing
with our lives, and you know it just it provides

(01:13:51):
a lens that can either maybe settle you down and
make you more confident or honestly, for some golfers, I'm
sure they go, why am I still doing this? Well?

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
That see, that's what a lot of people think about.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Everyone wants to get rich because if you have money,
then I don't have to work anymore, right, you just
kick back and enjoy the rest of your life. What
motivates all these athletes when you've got generational money? You know,
I think it was Marvin Hagler, the late great, marvelous
Marvin Hagler, talking about, you know, when you wake up

(01:14:26):
in silk pajamas and then we got to run fifteen
miles today, bought harder to train four thirtieth morning? Really
do I still want to do that? How do you
keep that hunger? The greats do it? They somehow they
still maintain And then again, like you said, Ricky Fowler
has generational money in his bank account. He doesn't have
to worry about a thing. What he was worried about
is getting back to being an elite golfer, and at

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least for three days, he is very much in the
mix and could walk away with his first major golf championship.
All right, on the other side, we're going to get
back to, by the way, what was the greater challenge
for you being a far doing radio with me? Which
was what was? By the way, On the other side,
we're going to get back to the NBA. We've got
all these trade rumors going around, and to be honest

(01:15:11):
with you, none of them makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
We'll explain why. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Steve Harbin and a Rich Armburger. This is Fox Sports Sunday.
We are alive from the ty rack dot Com studios.
Wishing all the dads out there very happy Father's Day.
So a little NBA news as we get ready for
the draft on Thursday. A lot of trade rumors going on.
One in particular I want to talk about is Bradley Beal.

(01:15:42):
So Bradley Beal has been a really good player for
the Wizards, but you don't know about him because well,
we don't see the Wizards.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Knocking on the door of any championships.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Okay, And a couple of years ago he had back
to back thirty point per game seasons, But the last
two years he's averaged twenty three points a game.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
And so there's rumors that the Bucks and the Suns
are interested in Bradley Beal. Here's what I would tell
both those franchises. Beware Bradley Beal's current contract situation next year.
This year he made forty three point three million dollars.

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Next year, he makes forty six point seven million. This
is all guaranteed money. In the twenty four to twenty
five season, he's guaranteed fifty point two million, twenty five
to twenty six guaranteed fifty three point seven million, and
then the year after that he has a player option
forget this fifty seven point two million. I'm gonna guess

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he'll exercise that player option for Bradley Beal, who obviously
has never had a sniffe and an NBA championship.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Why would you saddle yourself if you're the if you're
the Bucks or the Suns, do you honestly believe that
Beal is worth that kind of money, because once he's
on your books, he ain't going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Let me tell you part of it, part of the
intrigue is because we know the salary cap is in
place because you want to have you know, all teams
with similar competitive advantage in blah blah blah. But teams
routinely go over the cap. They pay their fines, their taxes,

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whatever we want to say. I mean you, you can
find a way to pay anybody if you want them
bad enough. But is he a difference maker Bradley Beal Well,
when we're talking about a trade. The tricky thing is
also it's not just the salary on board, it's also
what leaves your building in order to get a player.
And with a player Beale the upside because you've seen

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it before. He can be tremendous on a basketball court.
He's a score, he's a scorer. The upside's huge, The
potential is huge, and you have a bargaining chip, you
have something to negotiate. You can bring up some of
the things that you've just brought up and say, hey,
look he's not worth what you want for him. So
you may be able to get Bradley Beal on a bargain,

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and then he comes and now it's not a bargain
paying him, But like I said, the salary cap is
it's more of just a nuisance to some of these owners.
They'll pay whatever it takes to keep their players, to
keep a good team on the court, and to win championships.
And it looks to me like the Sons are looking
to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Or all Suns already took a step backwards. Right two
years ago they won what sixty four games, and then
they make the Durant deal, gutted the depth of their roster.
How did that turn out for them? Monty Williams goes
from coaching a year to fire well.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Right, But but again, like you have a window now,
you have to get it done soon. So that's the
reason why the Sons are in this conversation the Miami Heat.
They realize they have a window now too, because it's
not like Jimmy Butler's getting any younger. Like, so that's
another name that's gotten tossed out there in terms of
interest in Beale. And again, like I said, you may
be able to divorce yourself of less prospects than it
would take to get saying Anthony Davis from the Pelicans

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to La. You know, you get him on a bargain
from a trade standpoint, and then he plays over his
head paired with the superstar, whether it be a Miam
salary for salary.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
So that's the way it works in the NBA. So
when you got a guy who's making fifty million a year,
you're gonna have to part with something. It's not gonna
You're not gonna be able to part with a couple
of second round picks to get.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Rid of the no.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
But I'm yes, and I mean when we saw what
happened when the Clippers had to make the deal for
Paul George, they had a jettison their draft for seven.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
But a lot of time salary for salary plus, and
you're talking about prospects over and above that because there's
a bidding war. That's why I'm saying you could potentially
get him for a I get it. I get it,
and I think it's smart for certain franchises.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
All Right, So we got some NFL news we're gonna
get to in the next hour, along with all the
golf and the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
Keep it right here.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
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this final round of the US Open. They are not
going to tee off the final pairing of Wynham Clark
and Ricky Fowler for another two and a half hours.

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I can only imagine how agonizing it is for those leaders.
They are anxious to get out there and let's get
this thing going, they have to sit around all day
and then once they get and by the way, how
dark was it when they finished that round yesterday?

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Oh yeah, it was dark. I mean the sun had
firmly set. You barely had enough light to read a green.
And I think that contributed to the fact that Ricky
Fowler bogie at eighteen because there was a great drive.
Both him and Wyndham Clark put it right in the
middle of the fairway. Both approaches look great. Windham was

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much further from the hold than Ricky. His approach shot
garnered a huge roar from the gallery and then he
stepped up and just kind of screwed up the green.
Because even with a short putt, how many of these
golfers putt at night. The answer is none. I mean,
when you're practicing out on a golf course, you're practicing

(01:21:39):
obviously you're practicing sand shots, and you're practicing tough rough
shots or bad lives, or lies that are beneath your feet,
lies that are above your feet in case you're playing
off a hill or whatever the circumstance. But rarely are
you practicing at night, because it's so rare that you're
playing at night. But that's exactly what the circumstances were,

(01:21:59):
and that's a reason why Wynham Clark has a share
of the lead today.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
By the way, scoring is possible. Jordan Smith, this is
pretty much anonymous golfer through ten holes, is five under
on the day, three birdies and an eagle.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
John Ram is two under on the day after four holes,
so it looks like potentially scoring, but it's going to
be a very different course in the afternoon. If the
sun comes down, gets a little hotter, and you know,
the greens get a little tougher. So we'll continue to
update you on any news coming out of the US Open. Also,
we got plenty of NBA news to get to. I
want to get to a little NFL and I want

(01:22:33):
to get your thoughts on this. So we have this little,
you know, window of inactivity around the NFL, relative inactivity.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
The mini camps are over, OTAs are over.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Now we're just waiting for training camp. The Kansas City
Chiefs have now won two Super Bowls in the last
four years, been to three Super Bowls in a four
year span. Of course, they lost that one super Bowl
to Tampa Bay. They've had some defections, they lost some
free as, which is part of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
But let me ask you this, when.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
You have Patrick Mahomes and a year ago at this time,
remember I was one of those people that doubted whether
or not the Chiefs could get back to that level
when Tyreek Hill left, because I thought, all right, you
know he used to be pick your poison, Tyreek Kelsey,
you eliminate one. It made them a little more defensible.
And now I have to acknowledge I was wrong. The
bottom line is is that Patrick Mahomes is clearly the

(01:23:26):
best quarterback in the NFL, and he has the best
coach to be the best quarterback in the NFL, and
Andy Reid, So I'm on board with all that. We've
mentioned the fact that over the history of the National
Football and going into the nineteen forties, every single decade
has had a clear dominant team. Sure, in the forties
it was the Bears, fifties of Browns, Packers, and the sixties,

(01:23:48):
Steelers in the seventies, forty nine, Ers in the eighties,
Cowboys in the nineties, and.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
Every step of the way. You can name the Court
and the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Patriots in both the two thousands and the twenty tents.
Are the Chiefs, Yes, yes, I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
Mean are they.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
A clear notch above every other team in this league
right now?

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
Because again, as you are naming the teams per decade, Yeah,
And I mean, look, I I don't I don't have
a memory that spans back or nor am I historian.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Sid Luckman, Otto, Graham bart Star, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana,
Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Yeah, those are the quarterbacks of all those teams, and
you remember them because you don't remember said Luck. No,
I never saw m was good. Sid the kid Luckman
out of Columbia. Yeah, I knew that too. Columbian Cougars. Yes,
the Lions. The Lions, of course, I know. I I
I've said this during my playing career because it became

(01:24:47):
very apparent during my playing career. When you have a
great quarterback, you have a chance. If you don't, you don't,
I mean, you just have zero chance. If your quarterback
can't play the sport or if he's not good enough,
you're going to struggle. It's as simple as that. Now,
it gets way. Hold on a second.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
The Ravens went with Trent Dilfer, and get this, he
wins the Super Bowl and got released.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Yes, and for good reasons for that season. You understand
why he.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Wins the super Bowl and then gets released. Trent Dilfer
was carried by the run game in the defense. Right,
It's fine. Look, I mean you know it's it's It
doesn't mean he's a bad person. Doesn't mean that he
can't be a good coach or a good analyst. I
mean Dan Orlowski is a great football analyst. I mean
he wasn't a very good professional quarterback. The Lions or

(01:25:34):
any teams he played for when he was the starting quarterback.
It's not like they had a good shot to win
when he was out there playing. And that's fine, but
if you want to win championships, you need to have
a great quarterback. If you want to even get to
the postseason, you usually need a great quarterback. Just look
at the teams that perennially make the postseason. The majority

(01:25:54):
of them have a very least a great or i
should say, a top.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Ten, top fIF team quarterback. If you don't have at
least that you're not getting in the tournament. Then to
win a championship you almost always have to have a
great quarterback. And then to win championships you desperately need
a great quarterback. And that's the reason why Montana and
Brady and Troy Aikman and Mahomes are able to do

(01:26:23):
it because they are that next echelon man. They are
top top of the heap or top three every single year.
There's no argument that they can do it on any
given year. Outside of injury. I mean, the only thing
that really slowed down Tom Brady throughout his career was
a knee injury. Outside of that, he was a perennial

(01:26:44):
playoff quarterback, and he always gave his teams chances to
make a Super Bowl run, and he did it so
many times. I see the same fate for the Kansas
City Chiefs with Patrick Mahomes. And then you go back
and you look at the coaches who were paired with
those players. The Jimmy Johnson's of the world, Bill Walsh's
of the world, the Bill Belichick's of the world, the
Andy Reid's. Now with the Kansas City Chiefs, there's greatness

(01:27:06):
there too. It is such a consequential part of the
makeup of a great football team. You need a great quarterback,
you need a great coach, and if you don't have
the two, you're not going to be a dynasty.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Just for the record, Dan Rolofsky as a starting quarterback
was two and ten in eight. His one year as
a starter with the Lions, he was ozho and seven And.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
By the way, great guy, great analyst. I'm a big
fan of his. I'm a buddy of his. I like
Dan Rolofski. But you're not winning championships with the Dan
Orlovski you're winning. You're not winning. I mean, look, it's
crazy that the Baltimore Ravens won a championship with Trent Dilfer.
It's crazy, but you can do it sometimes. Is anybody

(01:27:49):
gonna it's the explanation.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
I get a sense with the Chiefs coming off this
Super Bowl win as opposed to the first one. To me,
it's the second one is different. You know, even go
back to Tom Brady, right, So they have this unexpect
to run to that first Super Bowl championship, upsetting the
Rams in the Super.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Bowl next year. No, they were like a nine win team. Nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
The following year they win that second Super Bowl and
then immediately the next year win a third. I mean,
I look at what's happening with this Chiefs team right now,
and I'm gonna call it now on this Father's Day,
the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl. Nobody's going to
beat this team this year. There's good teams out there, Cincinnati, Buffalo,

(01:28:34):
the Eagles. I mean, there's some good teams out there,
but I don't see any team beating the Chiefs this year.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
I will hesitate to join you in the conversation because
I felt very strongly last year that the Kansas City
Chiefs were going to win the Super Bowl. The Philadelphia
Eagles are very very good.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
But keep the mind with the Eagles, no team is
repeated as NFC East champions in twenty years.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Yeah, but to me, it doesn't. That doesn't play like
I It doesn't play no, because I look, it's a
competitive division for.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Good Reasonals have been on a roller coaster right, and
I think they're going back several super The Giants have
gotten really right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
That's a great hire from Brian Dabule about the Cowboys. However,
they have a star running back who was a tenth
poll of their offense last year who may hold out
this season in Saquon Barkley. He's been talking like he's
not showing up. You have the Dallas Cowboys who have
a top five roster in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Well, don't you feel like the Cowboys are due?

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
At some point the football gods are gonna smile on
the Cowboys and say we have made you suffer enough.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
But I do feel to have a breakout season. I
do feel that the Philadelphia Eagles have leapfrog them for
one reason and one reason only, and it's Jellen Hurts.
I believe in his leadership, I believe in his talent.
I believed in him since he was at Alabama. I
loved what he did at Oklahoma. This is a guy
who can win the locker room and has and they've
only gotten better. DeAndre Swift now in their running back

(01:29:58):
room alongside Rashad Penny, who very people know about, but
he had a breakout end of the year two years ago.
He started off last season great, got injured again. Kenneth
Gainwell and Boston Scott both are great depth players in
that room. Aj Brown had the season of his life
last year. Devonte Smith incredible player and has a background
playing with Hurts, Dallas Goddard. I mean, this is a

(01:30:21):
stacked offensive and one of the best offensive lines in
all football. And you have Kelsey returning, and you have
Lane Johnson returning on the defensive side. They are monsters
in the trenches with Jordan Davis and Brandon Graham and
Fletcher Cox, I mean, Josh Wett, these are these are

(01:30:41):
like real real ballplayers up for him and I slay
down for a second.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Bo, Are you a little nervous of Rich talking up
your Eagles team right now like they're.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
They're the team to beat? No, because they are. I listen,
I'm having a hard time thinking of a team that's
going to be able to compete consistently with the phildelpgs.
Nick Sirianni's a great coach. I really do feel strongly
about that. It was a shaky start, those opening press
conferences felt real weird. But I think he's a players coach.
Players love to play with him. I think he's an

(01:31:12):
inventive offensive mind. It all comes down to this one thing,
and it is the most important thing, and it's what's
why I was just discussing about Tom Brady. What's the
only thing that's ever slowed him down during the course
of his career a knee injury. Jalen Hurts needs to
stay healthy because if you don't have a great quarterback,
you don't have a chance. I think Hurts is a
great quarterback. They're paying him like a great quarterback, and

(01:31:34):
they should. I think he's the reason. He's the engine,
he's the driver, and if the Philadelphi Eagles are going
to win, it's gonna be on his merit. They need
him on the field. They need to keep him up right.
And like I said, going back to the offensive line,
they have the group who can do it. I mean,
this team has gotten only better. They're basically Georgia Bulldogs North.

(01:31:54):
I mean that entire defense. Who we've been talking about,
this vaunted Georgia defense. They basically making them from Georgia
and implanted them in the NFL. I can't wait to
see this team compete next year. If I had to
do it today on this Father's Day. Who's going to
win the Super Bowl in the twenty twenty three season?
It is the Philadelphia Eagles?

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
All right, So how you feel bow? I have already
committed to the Chiefs. He's committing to the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:32:18):
I think it's going to be a repeat of that game.
I'm ready to run through a wall nough like Rich's
got me fired up for football season here, I'm so bumped.
Jalen Hurts was the best player on the field in
the Super Bowl game that featured Patrick Mahomes on the
other side. So as long as he continues to grow,
which I don't think given the work that he does,
there's any reason to think he won't. I disguise the

(01:32:38):
limit for that team.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
All right, we'll get you more revved up this conversation
about the NFL. Or Austin Ekrote, Okay, do you know
who Austin Ekroad is.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
I thought you're gonna say Eckler, But.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Austin Ekroad is on fire right now at the US
Open through eight holes today, He's six under through eight holes.
He has four birdies and he just eagled the eighth hole.
So this guy is now tied for eighth at four under.
Part if Austin eck Wrote can tear this course up

(01:33:10):
like he is right now, look out.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
This let's talking to his caddy yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
There he is. Austin actually just eagled the eighth holl
to go to six under through eight holes today.

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
I was talking to h Oh I forget his last name.
I think it's Coburn Stone Coburn, who's holding the bag
for ek Rote yesterday? He said it was a tough
day out there yesterday for Austin. But turn it around
out there, look at that card. Wow. Okay, so I'm
excited about that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
I know a lot of people are saying, ah, it's
good to have some below scores. Look, there's something that's
common with most sports fans who had to come to
those sports. We'll explain how this applies to what we're
watching with golf today. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve
Harbin and Rich Harnberger. This is Fox Sports Sunday. We
are live from the Ti Iraq Studios. I got a

(01:34:02):
question to you about being a dad. So when you're
a kid, you look at.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Your dad.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
As a role model, like he's bigger than life. Oh yeah,
I mean that's that's typical of sons with their dads, right,
And then you become a dad and you're like, am
I at the level my dad? Was?

Speaker 6 (01:34:27):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Sometimes I feel because my I have three adult children now, right,
and I mean they call me dad, but I don't.
I don't always. I mean, like, I know, I'm a
goofy guy, so I'm like, I don't. I really have
a hard time sometimes really grasping the idea even though

(01:34:49):
I've been a dad for quite a while now that I'm,
you know, the daddy and everything, am I I feel?

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
I don't know. I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Don't somehow see myself even though I am a dad
three times over in that I want to sort of
be part of the scene, you know, like when I'm
hanging out my boys or my dad whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
I don't know. I went through how you feel twice
in my life and one of them is being a father,
but also one of them's being a professional football player.
I remember when I got into the NFL thinking like,
you know, I used to look up to these guys,
and I mean even Tom Brady, my quarterback. When I
first got to New England, I was watching him win

(01:35:32):
super bowls in middle school. I was like, this is ridiculous.
How the hell are we in the same how are
we the same thing? I was legitimately watching the Patriots
win a super Bowl when I was in eighth grade.
And then I'm sharing a locker room with him.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
You got tom Brady's hands between your legs.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Yeah. The day one of practice, it's like, yeah, all right,
we got to do pre practice center quarterback exchange and
I remember him asking me how much center I played
in college and I was like zero. He was like really.
I was like yeah. He was like, oh, you can
stamp ball well. And I remember feeling like only like
Tom Brady just told me I could sample ball pretty well.
You know it would like you had to get over it. Yeah,

(01:36:11):
you had to realize like, okay, I belong here, like
this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And then
the same thing happens. Look, there's no instructional video what
you watch when you become a professional football. Same thing
with being a dad.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
You know, all of a sudden you make a kid,
and then they let you leave the hospital and they say,
all right, good luck.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
It's the same feeling all over again. It's like, am
I really doing this?

Speaker 9 (01:36:34):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
You go to like the playground for the first time
with your kid and they're sitting over there eating sand,
and you're just like, what do I say now?

Speaker 9 (01:36:40):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
And then you start looking around and you're like watching
other parents, like what do they do when they're kids
throwing sand? And you're just like, right, I'll do what
they do. Hey, knock that off, like you know, or hey,
hey Bud, we don't eat that sand. We play with
this sand Like you just don't know. You figure it
out on the run. And then the craziest about it.
And it hasn't happened yet because my oldest is eight,

(01:37:03):
my younger ones turning five this summer. Like at some
point they're gonna ask me for advice. It hasn't happened
yet because at eight years old, what advice he needed?
You know? He's just excited when I give him a
string cheese. But like, but like, eventually they're going to
ask me about like tough questions. Oh yes, and like
I'm going to have to legitimately either fake confidence or just,

(01:37:26):
I don't know, exude the confidence that what I'm saying
is the right thing for them to do in these situations,
at least in my case.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
And both my boys are in their mid twenties now.
They didn't ask me any of those questions. Good, no, good,
there was there was, there was none at ault. But
as they get older and suddenly realize what you know,
real life is like, then they start Yeah, then they
asked more questions. What a terrifying proposition about it? When
you were a teenager, you knew everything?

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Right? Well, yeah, you know it all.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
I mean when I was man, I'll tell you what
I knew.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
I was a handful for my dad because I asked him,
and I know if he were listening to me right now,
he'd be shaking his head. I asked him any question
that came to my mind, advice about everything. I just
wanted it because I was always a curious person. Just
it's always been a part of my nature, and so
I'll just ask all these questions, and I know at
some point he was just like, I don't want to

(01:38:21):
answer this question. I don't want to be honest about
this answer. I I was undaunted.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
I would ask anything, and how are his answers.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
Sometimes a little guarded, and I could tell that I
was getting to a sensitive spot. And there were occasions
where I'd pivot, and there were occasions where I'd lean
right in as a good interviewer, trying to get to
the crux of the matter. But he look, he humored
all of it because again, like all of us, any parent,
but Dad's like, you know, at some point you realize, like,

(01:38:54):
this is just what I have to do today. I
have to answer these questions. This is what the job
requires today. And I've got a fake it until I
make it. That that's what we're all doing.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
That's that's it right there, fake it until you make it.
I just keep faking it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Just that might advice to you if you're asking me
for advice, and i'd be a dad, just keep doing
what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
The one thing I'm a little disappointed today, Yeah, you know,
I got you know, my sister reaching out to me,
other people texting me about you know, happy Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
Sure, I have not heard from Danny Woodhead yet. Oh Danny.
Danny would always refer to me as daddy. He would yeah, yeah,
former Patriot, former Charger running back, yeah, and former Baltimore
Raven running back to you. And he still hasn't reached
out to us.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
I still has not whiched me because he used to
always refer to.

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
Me as That's true. Well, and and that's because on
the show one time you shared with him that everybody
in your family, well my ex wife or first to
me and louting your ex wife calls you daddy, right
and then dad Danny on he would always call me,
which just someday might be a little alarmed Danny. Danny
was very comfortable with it. He was very comfortable with it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Well, Danny, if you're listening right now, I'll I'll accept
your Father's Day wishes out there. Getting back to the
NBA something I wanted to talk about. We're up against
it here. But Genie Buss, yeah, who I've known forever
and I love dearly.

Speaker 3 (01:40:19):
Well, you want what you want.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
I think Costa and I back in the San Diego days,
had had her arm last time. Oh yeah, we had
her on one time, you know, and she she we
had a really good relationship, and you know, I haven't
seen her in quite a while, but I would expect
it still. But on the other side, I want to
share a story about her in something she said that
I think she wants to take back. Okay, okay, but

(01:40:42):
first let's find out what is trending.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
MANSI is here, I am here?

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Yes, So do you call your dad dad? Father, daddy?

Speaker 12 (01:40:53):
Baa is the word in Spanish, but I say bah.
And I made fun of my boyfriend because even.

Speaker 9 (01:41:03):
He says pa, he's like ba like everyone to even
I have friends from college that will call my parents
pie and ma because of how I called them ma, ba.

Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
That's how I call them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
So you never called him dad daddy? He was always pap.

Speaker 9 (01:41:19):
No, what was in a Austin Powers?

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
There was something I would call him? There was what
did I'll think of it?

Speaker 9 (01:41:29):
But when I was little, Austin Powers was popular and
there was like some name that I would call him from.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
That but I can't remember. Not dad, never been dad.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
My father used I used to call him woman.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
Yes, that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
It was that you talking like that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Made me think of it I called your father that,
how would he react?

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
I called my dad pop pop. I actually called my
my I call my in laws mom pop. I just
it's uncomfortable saying, like, you know, I don't like calling
people by their first name right right, well yeah, I
mean I guess like them like it's weird, Like you know,
it's it's her mom and her dad. Whe's mom dad?
Like so I did I say mom and pop? But yeah,

(01:42:13):
I don't know fajaa.

Speaker 9 (01:42:15):
I used to say that, and my brothers would call
my dad pops. So then sometimes when I call my dog,
I'm like, Pop, come over here.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
My dad's like, do you call me?

Speaker 9 (01:42:23):
Like, no, I don't say pops, I said pop.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
I call you pop now.

Speaker 9 (01:42:27):
I don't call you pops like my brothers do. So
sometimes he responds when I'm trying to call my dog.

Speaker 3 (01:42:32):
Who's gonna take the first drink tonight?

Speaker 9 (01:42:34):
You or him at the same time, same time, cowboy,
we're cowboy up.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
That's gonna be a shot you're gonna have.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
And oh my god, you guys, that's what the cowboy
up is.

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
You're gonna you're gonna have a boiler maker to start
Father's Day.

Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
Da shot and beer.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
He's gonna go tequila?

Speaker 9 (01:42:52):
Does I think he's gonna go He loves tequila. I
learned my tequila drinking skills from him. But he also
likes whiskey, So I don't know what he's gonna start.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
Going, Blanco, reposado or j If I'm doing shots, it's
not to be a blanco.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
If it's a shot, if it's an a.

Speaker 9 (01:43:08):
Margarito or like a cocktail.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Surprise me.

Speaker 9 (01:43:12):
Okay, dealer's choice, you know what I mean. But if
I'm gonna shoot it, it's gotta be silver.

Speaker 1 (01:43:16):
It's got to be a blanco.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
Okay, you know what I'm saying. IL does feel like
the Crusa likes that sent you like that idea? Is
that your choice? I completely agree, Points of Light. It
may be waiting for you to say that. You could
see he was just waiting for the I'm a blanco
tequila guy, That's what I'm all.

Speaker 9 (01:43:34):
We may have had green tequila shots on Saint Patrick.

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
I'd have maybe we did have.

Speaker 9 (01:43:40):
Leg they were green, and that's all we cared about.
It's like the tequila green because if not, they.

Speaker 1 (01:43:46):
We're not celebrating. Let's talk a little baseball.

Speaker 9 (01:43:50):
The Rockies, who are taking on the Braves in Atlanta,
scored five runs in the first two winnings, and then
the Braves have responded with ten runs. Three three run
homers from the Braves Eddie Rosadio, Azzi Alby's Michael Harris
the second. So Atlanta is up ten to five at
home top of the six inning. Oriols still up on
the Cubs five to three. They're about to start the

(01:44:10):
ninth inning. In Chicago, the Marlins and the Nationals were tied,
not anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:44:14):
Marlin's up four to two top of the eighth inning.

Speaker 9 (01:44:17):
The Yankees and the Red Sox were tied, but not anymore.
Boston up three to two, bottom of the six inning.
This is game one of a doubleheader because yesterday's game
was rescheduled too today because of whether.

Speaker 1 (01:44:28):
The Cardinals and the Mets are now tied.

Speaker 9 (01:44:30):
New York just tied the game thanks to a two
run homer from Tommy fam So they are tied at
seven top of the six inning. Good news for Mets
fans because Pete Alonso has been activated from the ten
day injured list. They originally thought he was going to
be out three to four weeks. The Angels are up
on the Royals four to two. Top of the fifth inning.
The Reds have scored, but Houston is still up. Astros
up five to two. Top of the fifth inning. Tigers

(01:44:53):
beating the.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Twins four to one. Top of the fifth Pirates are
up on the Brewers two zero thanks to a two
run homer.

Speaker 9 (01:44:58):
From Brian Reynolds, and the blue Jays are exploding. They're
shutting out the Rangers six to zero, top of the
third inning. At the Canadian Grand Prix for Formula One,
Max Verse Stapping is still in the lead after sixty
eight laps. Who was the winner last year, Fernando.

Speaker 1 (01:45:13):
Alonso behind him, and then Lewis Hamilton.

Speaker 9 (01:45:17):
Back to you, guys, my fathers fathers, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
And join it as well. We could. You could probably
use it a couple.

Speaker 1 (01:45:23):
Of listen, don't don't. Don't threaten me with a good time.
I will maybe step outside.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Don't even play. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
You gotta see rich in full action. He's pretty pretty amazing,
by the way, I was just watching here with a
good time.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
Oh he can really knock him down.

Speaker 1 (01:45:44):
Oh I bet no, I bet serious.

Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
And by the way, he makes the best dirty martini anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
Thank you, Thank you, I'm.

Speaker 9 (01:45:51):
A huge fan of a j oh I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:45:55):
Not a huge fan. I'm not saying I won't drink.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
I haven't. I could also make a dirty Mark Tinez. Yes,
I will make a martini with tequila. Martinez Martin, I
never heard of that. Well, yeah, because I just amanted it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
That's amazing, the first time it's ever been spoken.

Speaker 3 (01:46:14):
Ever. Ever, it's gonna be basically hot sauce and tequila. Anyways, Look,
it's gonna be great. I just have to work on
the recip I'm into it, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
I was just watching here, uh the lead up here
at the US Open, and earlier we saw a smiling
Rory McElroy showing a little gray on the temples, you know,
I like that look. And he's walking in and he
just seemed very relaxed. They just showed Ricky Fowler walking
in and the zone zone like there was not a smile,

(01:46:49):
there was lazer.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
He was just walking in. I can only imagine what's
going through his head. I mean to come back in this.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Just in the last year, in fact, ago he was
the first alternate at the US Open, meaning he actually
showed up, you know, at the country club just in
case there was a late cancelation, somebody pulled out any injured.

Speaker 3 (01:47:14):
Something happened and nobody did so he didn't make the
field for the second straight year. What's so fun?

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
Now Here a year later he's the fifty four cold leader.

Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
And has been since day one.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, it's and you know what a
mental game about sleeping? Think about sleeping.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
You walked off the chorus yesterday on a bogie by
the way to share the lead with with Wyndham Clark,
and you got to sleep like like that that you're
not that he had a two shot lead going to
that final hole. That's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
I mean he had you know, after bogeys Clark birdies.

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
That's how you That's how your day ends, and then
you gotta go to bed and wake up and do
it all over again for eighteen holes. That's the craziest
thing about I don't that's how do you even put
your head to the pillow without thinking, rethinking every single
swing of the day. Crazy. Speaking of crazy, I heard something.

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
Of Genie Buss, the owner of the Lakers, that I
think she would like to take back. So I don't
know how this came up to Jeanie but she volunteered
her list of the five most important Lakers of all time.
Five most important Lakers of all time. Okay, so she

(01:48:32):
said Magic, Kareem, Kobe, Phil Jackson, and Lebron.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Okay, And I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
Thinking, like, Okay, there's there's two names that you completely
left out, and they both have the same first name.
One of them, obviously is Jerry West. Not only was
you know, a superstar player, but a superstar executive. And
then I don't know, how about your father. Hmmm, because

(01:49:10):
Jerry Buss as great as all these legendary players have been,
I dare say that no individual had a greater impact
on the Lakers than her own father.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
But who, as an owner literally created showtime.

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
Yes, I mean the guy who created Whether he's hiring
Jerry West, or drafting Magic Johnson, or giving the thumbs
up to make a deal to get a Shack or
making a tray to get Kobe Bryant, all of that
is under the umbrella of Jerry Buss as the owner
of the team. Lebron does not belong on this list.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
We'll hang on, hang on, hang on, Like, what we're
talking about here is maybe the difference of like maybe
in context of what she's saying, actual players.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
No, she said Phil Jackson. Hmmm, now it wasn't it
wasn't players.

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
She included her ex boyfriend's by the way, had Jerry
West basically exit the organization and by the way, getting
back to her father, remember her father. This is how
great an owner this guy is. He fires Phil and
then realizes I.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
Need him back and wins two more championships. Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:50:27):
Mean to me, if you're if you're really gonna say
the Jerry Buss may be the most important person in
the history of the NBA because his creation of Showtime,
the whole Showtime atmosphere, took the NBA from when he
bought that team showing their NBA Finals on tape delay.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
To star power. Well, and it's not only just the
Lakers or the NBA, it's also what he did to sports.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
I mean, look, one of my favorite things that I've
learned over the course of watching the new biopic drama
about the Lakers and Jerry Buss is the fact that
when you're watching that show, what you realize is oh yeah,
yea yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:51:15):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
He didn't just impact the NBA. He made the spectacle
of sport what it is today to a certain a
greater or lesser degree. But there is a personal, very
personal relationship with at least three of the men on
this list that she put down. And maybe there are
some hard feelings between her and her father, you know,
maybe there are some hard feelings between her and Jerry West,

(01:51:36):
and it's just her opinion. I agree with you. If
we're going to build them out rushmore plus one. Yeah,
I would argue that Jerry Buss and Jerry West need
to be up there. There's almost no arguing that point.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
By the way, I know you enjoyed season one of
Winning Time. Yeah, so I did voice work in three
of the ten episodes in season two.

Speaker 3 (01:51:57):
When's that season coming out by August?

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
Okay, man, I just finished recording again, so I will
Actually I was in three of the ten episodes as
a sports talk guy. I'm in five of seven in
season two.

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
Oh yeah, you can hear a lot of men.

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of Hartman now if
you love him here altho love him on Winning Time.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Although the scene that I actually shot in person, I
think that hit the cutting room floor.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
Oh I think you mean you mean like you had
an on camera roll, it's not just the voiceover. Well,
let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
Yeah, did you ever see the movie ET?

Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
Yes? Okay you all seen ET?

Speaker 7 (01:52:33):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
Do you do you remember how great Harrison Ford was
in ET? I do, Probably not because you never saw
he wasn't in it. He actually was in it. So
Harrison Ford had just done Raiders the Lost Arc with Spielberg.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
Wait, he didn't appear in it. Didn't he have like
the cameo in ET? So here's what happened. Yeah, he
had just done with Spielberg Raiders the Lost Art. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
So he's literally the biggest star in Hollywood. Right, he's
got he's hot solo, He's in Theanna Jones and now.
So he goes to Spielberg, whose next film was E T.
And he was like, you know, hey, you got a
role for me in Spielberg?

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
Of course I do.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
Yeah, I got a role as a teacher. Okay, there's
there's a thing where you're a teacher for the kid
in the movie. They shot the whole thing. But when
Spielberg edited ET, He's like, doesn't fit your cut.

Speaker 3 (01:53:21):
We we got cut right out of the film. Did
he ever appear in the bonus film, like did they?
Because I feel like, why am I remembering that? I
don't know why. Maybe I'm just remembering the store.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
So the fact that I may have been cut you
and Harrison and Harrison for are like the same person,
He's similar.

Speaker 3 (01:53:39):
I might be a better plane flyer than him.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
I love his crashing and this guy crashes.

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
All the time. It was on the golf course.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
Yeah, it was right down the road from where I live.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
As a matter of fact, Yeah, he's gotta, He's gotta.
They just have.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Although he mercifully is now saying this is his last
ride as Indiana Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
Oh, I think you're gonna say his last time as
a pilot. Probably that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
Exactly all right, coming up on the other side much
more as we count down to this final round of
the US Open. As far as the frontline, guys, it
is a Rory's time.

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
Do we care? We do. We'll tell you why.

Speaker 2 (01:54:16):
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who is an actual star and when Live Golf was

(01:54:58):
throwing all this money out to the likes of a
Dustin Johnson or Brooks Kapcar, Cameron Smith or if you're
know Phil Mickelson. I'm like, you realize you're not going
to get your return on the money. My TV station
in Los Angeles carries Live Golf. It gets a zero,
like no one's watching. There's only one golfer in the

(01:55:19):
history of the sport, history of the sport that moves
the needle, and that's Tiger Woods. Nobody, I mean, not Nicholas,
not Palmer. No one moves the needle. I mean they
have fan bases, yeah, and you watch them, and I
mean I'm old enough to remember. Certainly Nicholas in his
prime it was amazing to watch them, Lee Trevino, good

(01:55:40):
Tom watching. These are great golfs. Yeah, but I'm talking
about moving the needle. There's only one Tiger Woods. Rory
McElroy is another one of those guys. When this guy's
career is said and done, he is going to be
amongst the greatest to ever play this game.

Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
There's no doubt he is a dominant player.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
The fact that he has waited nine years to win
another major is mind boggling to me. And he's my pick.
I think finally the golf GUIDs are gonna go his way.
I like his demeanor this week. I like the way
that he has decided to not just try to bomb
out every hole and play it a little bit smarter.
And I like what I see. I think when it's

(01:56:24):
said and die, I think Roy McElroy will be a
US Open champion. But again, Roy doesn't move the needle.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
There's just no box office with Roy McElroy. There just isn't.
Like you know, the funny thing about golf and say
mixed martial arts, not a lot of people will connect
those two. You're not getting punched in golf, but they're
fringe sports. They are still in this country. Golf and

(01:56:51):
mixed martial arts are are kind of occupying that same lane.
They have a avid fan base. The people who support
you or Bellatore or any mixed martial arts they're really
into it. Same as golf. Same Now you'll have fringe
fans will come around when there's a popular name like
a Tiger Woods or Connor McGregor. But overall, you need

(01:57:14):
a star so obscenely talented, so good at marketing, or
so undeniably great. That's what's going to elevate golf. Rory
can't do it, Ricky Foller can't even do it. Phil
Mickelson tried for years to compete with Tiger, but he
just had the edge, the clutch, the ability to dominate

(01:57:35):
for as long as he did, and that's the reason
why he cut through. Same with Connor McGregor. I mean,
a champion in multiple weight classes and a tireless self promoter.
You need to have in a fringe sport somebody to
be bigger than the sport, and that was Tiger to golf,
and that was McGregor to UFC.

Speaker 2 (01:57:56):
Well, Muhammad Ali, I mean, was Mohammed al Lee really
the greatest of all time? He was in terms of
his impact on his sport, I mean boxing. When he
hit the scene was a hugely popular sport. Oh yeah,
I mean I Sugar, Ray Robinson, I mean Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
There were a lot of Jason Morman. He took it
into the stra There's a difference between being great and
being a star. I've always said this about certain basketball players.
Lebron James is a star, Kobe Bryant was a star.
Kawhi Leonard he's a great. Look, he's a champion. Steph
Curry's a star. Steph Curry's a star.

Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
To me still, when we look at the NBA, there's
Lebron and Steph. I'll give you another example, a great
players below them.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
But Tim Duncan was a great. He wasn't a star.
Now he's one of the greatest big men who ever
played the game. He's not a star. It's just it's
it's it's the Shack was a star. Shaq was a star.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
He was because he is bigger than Lie. How do
you feel about my Rory? I think I will I'm
a little the only other guy that I'm really thinking
right because I just I look, I'm rooting Riker Fowler.
Scheffler is the one. I mean because we know if
he can drop some putts, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
Tell you what. At the top of this board, there
are three names that could make a run and legitimately
win this Open. Schoffley, Scheffler, Rory, like any three of
those guys are ready. Because Scheffler is unbelievable. We were
just talking about it. For Schoffle, he's gone the wrong direction.
I know that. I mean sixty two, seventy seventy three.
But he's danced around the top of these these scorecards

(01:59:35):
for a.

Speaker 2 (01:59:35):
Long no, and he's only played, by the way, this
is his seventh US Open. He's been in the top
ten and five of the previously.

Speaker 3 (01:59:41):
It just feels like he's due. It feels like Rory's
over due, way over. Scotty Scheffler. Were talking about his
ball striking earlier. He's one of the purest golf shots
on tour.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
He's number one on the PG Tour in every single category.
T de Green got to make some putts, all right,
coming up in the next hour. Much more golf, much
more NBA. And yes, I'm Paul Morosi. This is Fox
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Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
Well, it's Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (02:00:23):
So we're gathering all the dads we know out there
and joining us right now is one of those guys.
I mean, he's so accomplished in everything he's done in life.
I wonder how how he feels about his position as
a father, what kind of job he's doing?

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
Pretty sure, I'm pretty sure he's crushing.

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
It, I think, So join us right now, of course,
is our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider mister Hockey himself, the.

Speaker 3 (02:00:48):
Great, the one and only, John Paul Morosi.

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
So, JP, how would you categorize yourself as a father?

Speaker 7 (02:00:58):
First of all, guys, Happy Father's Day to you both
all the dads out there. Here's what I would say
that in fatherhood as in baseball, I believe a lot
of parallels exist in these two pursuits, both of which
are very noble and very rewarding. One is which that

(02:01:18):
there is a game every day. There's a game every
day in baseball, and there's a game every day in parenting.
And I subscribe to a lot of the truisms about
it doesn't matter how many runs you won by yesterday.
The most important game is the one that's in front
of you. And I believe over the long scope of

(02:01:39):
a season, over the big one sixty two, or the
long run of being a parent, I think that it's
important to not mourn too much or celebrate too much
the game that happened yesterday, because there's another one right
in front of you. I really believe that is true.
The other part about I think baseball and parenting that

(02:02:00):
is also true. As long as we're on the great
sayings of the sport, it is there are two kinds
of people in baseball, humbled and about to be humbled.
I really think that's true parent thing as well. You
might think that that you just heard your kids say
the most amazing thing, that was just full of perspective

(02:02:22):
and humility and all the things that we love to
see in our kids, and then guess what, five minutes later,
either the same kid or one of your other kids
does something that completely embarrasses you and you just you
have to keep the same temperament no matter what the
consistency and being there. And I guess the one thing

(02:02:44):
I would say that I try to maintain all my
kids is that, hey, you can come to dad with anything.
I will I will listen to you. We're not gonna judge.
I'm just going to listen and love. And that's what
we got to do, I think as parents, and I
think this is the day for all of us to
talk about that, pursue take all the best practices from
each other, and try to raise our kids to be

(02:03:04):
as humble and as I think, as conscientious as possible.
Because to me, guys, I talk about this a lot.
My biggest goal is to raise good citizens. That's it.
If they're good citizens, everything else flows from matter terms
of being a friend, being a family member, everything else.

(02:03:25):
If they're good citizens, that they care about the people
around them, then that's all I need to do as
a dad every day.

Speaker 3 (02:03:32):
Such a good point. I remember recently I was having
a conversation with some people over at my kids elementary school,
and the best I'd look, you know, he's bright, and
he's doing all these things that are good. But the
one thing that stuck out the most was they said,
and he's so kind. I was just thinking to myself, like, gosh,
like that is that's the one that punched me right
in the heart. And I was like, yes, all right,

(02:03:52):
well we're doing something right because he's a kind kid.
He knows how to treat people. And yeah, so all
the dads out there working hard, it gets tough, and JP,
I know you are one of the hardest working dads
and hardest working people I know, especially in the world
that we revolve ourselves in. Yeah, we appreciate it because
the world needs good citizens. Man, there's no question about that. Hey,

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how about maybe the greatest athlete I've ever seen who's
not getting enough credit. I want to turn our attention
to Major League Baseball for a moment here to talk
about what sho he Otani is accomplishing. I mean, this
last series may have been one of the greatest series
we've ever seen a baseball player partake. In the Angels

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last series, I think I believe the final stats were
like he was seven of twelve, he had two game
winning moments. In terms of run generation, seven of twelve
pushed his average over three hundred for the year. Pushed
his ERA under three to three for the year. He's
inarguably one of the greatest hitters in the game. He's

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inarguably one of the greatest pitchers in the game. Is
he the Is he the greatest? Is he the greatest
athlete in the world right now?

Speaker 7 (02:05:13):
Is? For my money he is now? Certainly. It is
in many ways very difficult to make a cross sport comparison.
And I suppose that there might be arguments about a
tennis player or a golfer who's able to win a
lot of individual championships. But for me, Otani is changing

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the game, and he's changing a team sport, which is
really hard for any one person to do. And so
if there was ever going to be another player that
we would compare to show a as the best athlete
in the world, you'd have to give me a soccer
player who's changing the entire sport. You'd have to give me,

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and really a lot, a lot of examples on Patrick
Mahomes and it's great, but he doesn't also play defensive back,
right right, yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:06:06):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 7 (02:06:09):
This is like if if Dion had played both sides
of the ball for four or five, six, seven years,
that kind of that kind of a comparison. I mean's
just and let's remember he already gave us one of
the all time great moments in the history of the game,
in my opinion, in the World Baseball Classic, closing it

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out against his teammate Mike Trout, and that's we're never
going to see anything like that again. And oh, by
the way, he's now come out and he's one hundred
points higher than his career average in OPS and this
is the best offensive stretch of his career. I think
when you look at what he's done over a full
over a full year, his previous high in in OPS

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was nine to sixty five and he's fifty points above
that right now, and that, by the way, was in
his MVP year. In addition to that, he is pitching
in a way that is keeping the Angels in contention
for a playoff birth he's having one of his better
seasons as a pitcher. At this point, guys, there is
just no other player that is in contention for the

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American League MVP. Something extraordinary would have to happen. And
obviously last year it was Aaron Judge hitting sixty two
and play in center field that changed the voting and
changed the paradigm there. The reality is right now, Otani
already leads the majors in home runs, he leads the

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majors in RBI, he leads the major in ops plus,
and he's already only eleven home runs behind where he
was for the entire last season and we are barely
to the middle of June. So it is. It is
one of the greatest individual seasons that we've ever seen
in the history of North American teams sports. And I

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put it up against, to your point Rich earlier, anything
that any athlete is doing in the world anywhere in
any sport.

Speaker 2 (02:08:10):
Right now, I want to add to that. We just
ran a graphic on TV. He leads the Angels in
every statistical category, hitting and pitching. Right, he leads the
Angels in every single offensive and pitching category. So stay
with the Angels for a moment here. So we've all

(02:08:30):
been assuming that it's a done deal, that Show Hey
Otani is going to be done with the Angels, and
certainly this off season for Mike Trault. Maybe Trout has
never recovered from that strikeout in the World Baseball Classic,
But can you see any scenario where Show Hey Otani

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remains an Angel, Sure, I.

Speaker 7 (02:08:53):
Can a couple of things they would have to pay
him in this realm that we're talking about. Whether it's
four hundred million dollars more than that, visit half a
billion dollars, it's going to be probably one of the
richest contracts in the history of sports around the world,
and maybe the richest what once you consider all the

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different endorsements and everything else that's going to be lined
up with it, It's going to be an all time contract.
And I would imagine that whether it's the Dodgers of
the Padres or any other team contemplating this contract, their
FIGN officers are already thinking about how they can make
this contract offer the most compelling that any player has

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ever received, because that's what he has deserved in the
opinion of many people around around the sports world. And
I would say this steve. The path for the Angels
to keep him involves at the very least making it
to the playoffs and probably winning a round or two
once they get there. Because you have to remember the

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big picture here. If Otani looks back at his time
with the Angels and says that in six years they
made the playoff, once and didn't win a series. That
is a very underwhelming resume for a six year block
of time. We can't necessarily fall into the trap of

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the recency bias, where, oh, if they make it on
the last weekend of the season, all of a sudden,
he's definitely gonna come back. I think they have to
have some success, and Showy is such a smart baseball
guy that he's going to take a step back and say,
wait a minute, where is my best chance to win
a World Series? Because at the moment, at least, that's

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about the only thing he hasn't done in terms of
an individual pursuit or an achievement in the game. He's
won the World Baseball Classic, he's been an MVP, he's
received the Commissioner's Achievement Award. He has done everything that
you could imagine him doing. And I think the one
thing he wants to do now is is set himself

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up for the next chapter of his career, winning the
World Series, hopefully multiple times, but also building wherever his
legacy is going to be. He's still a relatively young player,
he's not yet thirty years old. He has I think
we all hope another decade of major League performance, So

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where does he want that to be? Whereas where is
he comfortable? Where is his family comfortable? All of those
things have to be considered. But the reality, Steve is this,
the more games the Angels win, the more rounds they
advance to the playoffs incrementally, the better their chances of
keeping show.

Speaker 3 (02:11:43):
A long term Yeah, you know, I don't know. I
don't know if if goes anywhere, and I don't want
to focus wholly and completely on this, but if you
can answer this really quick, goes anywhere to like a
big market, because it wasn't that a big part of
the reason why he ended up with the Angels in

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the first place. It just feels to me like how
much has changed, I guess from a personality standpoint from
then to now. Is he more comfortable with the idea
going to a major city like a Los Angeles or
a New York or is this always going to be
one of the things that's going to keep him from
maybe joining the ranks of the New York Yankees or

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the Los Angeles Dodgers, or you know, potentially joining a
super team of sorts to win championships or World series.

Speaker 7 (02:12:34):
I think he'll go anywhere rich And I think the
biggest difference for him now is that he's got six
years of living in this country at least during the
regular season, and he's six years more comfortable with the
American lifestyle, all the ballparks he's been to. If we
all imagine what it was like. If you were to think, Okay, Rich,

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you're gonna play the football in Germany, and that's where
you're going to go. You might have it in your
idea that you're comfortable maybe in a couple of places
that you know, but after six years of traveling the country,
it all seems a lot more familiar to you, and
I think that's what Shoe has experienced. I think the
other piece of it that's really fascinating is even on

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his most high profile day in this country, it is
a fraction and I mean a fraction of what he
would experience walking down the street in Tokyo any other
day of the year. And in fact, I really believe
this to be true, and I've spoken with players about this.
If you play for the New York Yankees and you

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walk around Manhattan, there are many people from many parts
all around the world to live in New York and
are not even a little bit aware of the Yankees
because it has everything. There's everything in New York City,
the best of the arts, the best of finances of everything,
and there are people that aren't really all that involved

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in whatever the Yankees are doing, as big as they are.
And I think that for that reason, show A would
be I think, able to live a mostly normal life.
I say mostly. I mean, he is a global sports icon,
but I believe New York in a lot of ways
would be a relatively easy place for him to play
relative to the fanaticism that he encounters any day that

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he's back in Japan.

Speaker 2 (02:14:29):
I want to bring up the Vegas scene. Big party
last night. You don't have a lot of parades at night,
but that's the Vegas thing. And they celebrated, obviously the
Golden Knights Stanley Cup championship. But I was interested in
comments by Bryce Harpru's a Las Vegas guy, about the
A's move to Vegas. And you know, it's one thing

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about having an expansion team like the Golden Knights were,
and here in their six season they win the Stanley Cup,
so the city grows up with the team. The Raiders
are the Raiders, and the Raiders have a brand that
is so big that you welcome that to Vegas, but
sort of dumping the A's on Vegas.

Speaker 3 (02:15:09):
Bryce Harper is not happy about it.

Speaker 2 (02:15:11):
They feel like, well, if you want to have Major
League Baseball in Las Vegas, give us a new team.
Why are we Why are you dumping a franchise like
the A's on the city of Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
How do you feel about that?

Speaker 7 (02:15:24):
Well, it's a very interesting point. And I know that
one of the Golden Knights marketing campaigns that still exists
to this day is Vegas born, Vegas born, as in
born in Vegas. That is where their origin is. They
will always be and nothing can ever change this. The

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Golden Knights will always be the first major League franchise
in Las Vegas. And as a result, you saw the
parade last night and how connected the fan base is
to their hockey team, and that level of emotional involvement
will never be there with the A's. It might approach it,

(02:16:06):
or it could evolve over time to become something at strong,
but that attachment to a Vegas born team is not
something that's the reality with the major League baseball franchise.
If it's moved there, and I really believe to your point,
it's not just enough for MLB to move the A's there,

(02:16:28):
build a stadium and say, okay, Vegas, you've got your
baseball team, let's play ball. There's going to have to be,
in my view, a really strong and sustained grassroots marketing
outreach that explains to the Vegas sports community and most
importantly Steve, Vegas families as to why this team is

(02:16:53):
there and why why it is worthy of your emotional investment.
With the Golden Knights, it was implicit, it was known
from the very beginning why it mattered. I think this
is now on MLB to really market this in an
authentic and in a very localized and speak directly to

(02:17:16):
the fans of Vegas about why this matters. You've got,
as you guys know, a lot of Dodger fans there
for generations. How do you find a way to say, no,
this is now going to be your team and let
me explain to you why. I think they're the most
important thing. To your point, Steve, MLB cannot take their
affinity for granted, because if they do, it's a mistake.

Speaker 2 (02:17:39):
I think they have to rebrand the team. I mean
I just I don't think you can carry the a's name.
Climb yeah somewhere else. Well, once again, we want to
wish you a very happy Father's Day, JP, and we
really appreciate you taking time out because I know you're
being showered with love today on Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (02:17:59):
They're just yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:18:01):
I'm blessed. I really am. I've got my daughter's with me, well,
my wife is here. It's been an amazing day. And
I wish all the same to you guys and all
the dads out there, and just keep as we said earlier,
just those values of trying to win, win that ball
game every day. It's in fun of you because it's
it is the best job. It's one of the harder jobs,
but it's certainly the best job in the world.

Speaker 2 (02:18:21):
All Right, JP, we'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 7 (02:18:23):
Thanks so much, all the best guys, Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (02:18:25):
Every great week that is, John Paul Morosi, Johnny us there.
And this Otawni story, Rich, I mean, this twelve game
hitting streak that he had, it's insane. With a no
ps of sixteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (02:18:37):
The last thought he did it again. They blew DC
what they did.

Speaker 2 (02:18:40):
They had an eight to two lead, and they looked
their bullpen imploded. They lose nine to eight. They got
to keep winning. You want to keepbow Tani Angels, you
gotta keep winning. But he had another four hundred and
thirty seven foot home run.

Speaker 3 (02:18:50):
Yesterday, and he hit another homer today. Yeah for a
four hundred few I mean, this guy is just absolutely
four hundred and twenty two feet.

Speaker 2 (02:18:57):
Stop the comparisons of Babyrouth. Baby Ruth did not do
what he's No, no, no, he's better than Babe Ruth. And
it's not even no one has ever done what he
is doing right now. As I mentioned, he literally leads
the Angels in every category.

Speaker 3 (02:19:08):
It's fifteen on base percentage he runs.

Speaker 2 (02:19:11):
I guess a picture era, I mean throw us that
every single category.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
It's it's ridiculous. All right.

Speaker 2 (02:19:19):
Coming up on the other side, we're gonna get back
to some big NBA rumors as we count down to
the NBA Draft.

Speaker 3 (02:19:25):
This is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Steve Hartbin and Rich Ornberger Fox Sports Sunday Father's Day.
We're live from the tyreg dot Com studios. The conditions
at the Los Angeles Country Club today. There are guys
wearing pullovers today June gloom is back, so the sunshine
of yesterday is not shown up yet today. And the

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scores they are lighting up this course today. Tommy Fleetwood
is six hunder on his round. Eck wrote it's five hundred,
Ram is five under. So some of those really low
scores we saw the first couple of days are back
at least early. So, yeah, the guys are wearing they're
not in short sleeves right now.

Speaker 3 (02:20:09):
Yeah, Steve, I'd like to update you guys on the sun. Okay,
we're watching it.

Speaker 13 (02:20:14):
Okay, well, look at look at Dodger Stadium. We have
the Dodger Giants game on, so you're coming out there. Yeah,
and these are in different places. They are well, but
it's still how.

Speaker 3 (02:20:22):
Many miles apart is the ravine from La Country.

Speaker 2 (02:20:26):
I'm watching the Dodger game. That's not sunshine. Sunshine.

Speaker 3 (02:20:31):
I looked out.

Speaker 2 (02:20:31):
We've seen Sunday games where it's so bright the reflection
off the uniforms is blinding.

Speaker 3 (02:20:36):
That's not this.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
But we're watching. But we're watching again, Ricky. But they're
not playing at Dodger Stadium. They're looking look at us now.
Now the sun's going to be coming out. I just
looked outside.

Speaker 3 (02:20:47):
Yeah, and it was.

Speaker 13 (02:20:47):
It's in the valley here in the San Fernando Valley,
it's sunny. The Ricky Fowler is bundled up.

Speaker 3 (02:20:52):
Would you argue that there different side of the hill
versus the other side of the hill?

Speaker 2 (02:20:57):
Yeah, yesterday was sunshine the whole day. Yes, yeah, it
has not been that too.

Speaker 3 (02:21:02):
I think it's going to break through here and then, well,
you you're a very optimistic guy, you know. I look
at the sunny side of things.

Speaker 2 (02:21:08):
However, if it remains anywhere like it is now, we're
going to see some low scoring. Which see I wanted
to even mention this quickly here because when it comes
to sports, if you are not a soccer fan, the
reason you're not a soccer fan is there's no scoring
in soccer.

Speaker 3 (02:21:26):
Oh, by the way, you don't even call yourself a fan,
you're a soccer supporter.

Speaker 2 (02:21:30):
Supporter, whatever it is. Yeah, but I mean the argument
against being.

Speaker 3 (02:21:34):
Because I'm on the pitch and I'm in my favorite
kid and supporting.

Speaker 2 (02:21:39):
Well, what is the complaint though from people that don't
really are not You just have a bunch of guys
running around on a big field. There's rarely any score.
I want to see scoring. I like scoring in baseball.
I like scoring in football scoring.

Speaker 3 (02:21:52):
You're saying when you go to a match and it's
nil all, you're not in for all.

Speaker 2 (02:21:58):
Every time I'm like, you know on TV and you
report and it ended up in a nil nil, I'm like,
what is this?

Speaker 3 (02:22:04):
Is this even a match?

Speaker 2 (02:22:05):
And people say, ah, yeah, barbarying it. So the idea
of a US Open and usually seeing guys struggle just
to achieve par, how do you feel would you prefer
a US Open where guys can actually drop some birdie putts.

Speaker 3 (02:22:21):
I like some low scores. Man, I do you know what?
I do? Appreciate US Opens again. We talked about this
earlier in the show. But the goal is for the
winner to shoot even par. Like they want to make
the course so challenging that the majority of players shoot
over par and in order to win you got to
play scratch golf. That's never really the case you either.

(02:22:44):
I mean, you either tweaked the course too much to
the point where it's so challenging that you'll have you'll
have winners who shoot over the par or you know,
you'll have these rare occurrences. And these are the exceptions.
But it has happened in the past, in the past
twenty years, where you'll have low scores. But we have

(02:23:04):
some breaking news.

Speaker 2 (02:23:05):
All right, hold on here, let's find out what's trending
and we start off with some breaking news with Mancy Belango's.

Speaker 1 (02:23:13):
Breaking news from Fox Sports. Just came out literally looking
at my phone.

Speaker 9 (02:23:18):
This is from the Athletic from ESPN breaking news. The
Washington Wizards are finalizing a trade to send All Star
guard Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns.

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
Any details on this trade?

Speaker 9 (02:23:30):
Eel's waving his no trade to form a new Big
three with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. Teams are still
working through framework, but Beal is headed.

Speaker 1 (02:23:38):
To the Suns.

Speaker 3 (02:23:40):
Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:23:41):
Isn't Chris Paul technically still a Phoenix Sun technically?

Speaker 9 (02:23:45):
So Shams has that they are trading him for Chris Paul,
Landry Shammitt and a handful of second round picks and
multiple picks swats.

Speaker 2 (02:23:57):
So that's how they were able to get the deal
done by getting Chris Paul's salary in the mix, correct, Wy,
Nothing like building your future around a thirty eight year
old point guard.

Speaker 3 (02:24:07):
Yeah, well, I don't think that's really the purpose to
bring down get it. I'm pretty sure it's what comes
with Paul for Washington side of the trade. And like
I said earlier, this makes sense for the Suns. You
have a window, it is open for maybe a season
or two. Here. You got to strike while the iron's hot.
And so the Sons are looking to win a championship

(02:24:28):
next year or bust.

Speaker 1 (02:24:30):
If I was Beal, I would have gone to Miami better.
Whether the ladies are hot.

Speaker 9 (02:24:35):
They've been in the playoffs how consistently you know what
I mean, Like they're also a team.

Speaker 1 (02:24:40):
Well, I would have been Miami any day.

Speaker 9 (02:24:43):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (02:24:43):
I love out number two. Yeah, ladies are hot, I
mean hot chicks. Yes, it's gonna be great. Bradley, So
you got.

Speaker 2 (02:24:53):
I mean you got with Booker, Beale and Durant. I
mean these are all three scores.

Speaker 3 (02:24:59):
Ye hand the.

Speaker 2 (02:25:00):
Ball and I'm shoot, there's only one basketball on the
court right.

Speaker 1 (02:25:03):
If I was built another reason I wouldn't have wanted
to be the numbers.

Speaker 2 (02:25:06):
So now you don't have a point guard. You know,
Eighten is a guy.

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
I don't know. It's an interesting mix.

Speaker 1 (02:25:14):
That is an interesting mix.

Speaker 9 (02:25:16):
So I'll give you updates on everything else, even though
this is what we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:25:20):
Be talking about for a hot second.

Speaker 9 (02:25:22):
Max vers step In has won the Formula once Canadian
Grand Prix.

Speaker 1 (02:25:26):
It is official. He won it last year, so he's
the reigning champ.

Speaker 9 (02:25:29):
In Major League Baseball, the Braves are still hot fourteen
to six against the Rockies. They're about to start the
ninth inning in Atlanta. The Cardinals have just taken the
lead over the Mets. It's eight to seven top of
the ninth inning in New York. But good news for
Mets fans because Pete Alonso has been activated.

Speaker 1 (02:25:44):
From the ten day IL.

Speaker 9 (02:25:46):
We originally thought he was going to be out three
to four.

Speaker 1 (02:25:48):
Weeks, but it's show hey.

Speaker 9 (02:25:49):
Otah Me who has hit his twenty fourth homer of
the season leads Major League Baseball. That's also fifty eight
RBIs also leads Major League Baseball and are beating the
Royals five to two bottom of the ninth inning, and
the Reds have taken the lead over the Astros. Spencer
Steer tied the game for Cincinnati with the two run
homer in the seventh game. Now they're up six to

(02:26:11):
five in Houston bottom of the eighth inning, Tigers have
extended their lead over the Twins. It's six ' two
bottom of the eighth inning. In Minnesota, the Pirates and
the Birers. It's a close one, but Milwaukee on top
three to two. Bottom of the eighth inning. The Rangers
were down by six, not anymore. They're on top eight
to six against the Blue Jays. Top of the six inning.
Kyl Schwarver has hit a solo shot to put the

(02:26:31):
Phillies on the board.

Speaker 1 (02:26:32):
They are beating the A's one zero.

Speaker 9 (02:26:34):
Bottom of the second inning, Guardians have scored first against
the Diamondbacks. It's two zero bottom of the first inning
in Arizona. Victories for the Orioles. The Marlins and the
Red Sox took game one from the Yankees in their
doubleheader today. A little WNBA news because Brianna Stewart is
on a rampage. The Liberty did beat Mercury earlier today,

(02:26:54):
eighty nine to seventy one. She had twenty eight points,
fourteen rebounds, and seven assists. But Brianna Stewart is the
first player in w NBA history to record two hundred points,
one hundred rebounds, and forty assists in her first ten games.

Speaker 1 (02:27:07):
Of the season. Not too shabby.

Speaker 9 (02:27:10):
There's an awesome video on Fox mlbond.

Speaker 1 (02:27:14):
Fox on Twitter.

Speaker 9 (02:27:15):
It's from this Yankees Red Sox game, and it made
me think a little bit of rich because of his
two little boys. So there's a ball that is hit
in the stands. I don't know if it's a home
run or a foul ball. I can't tell from the angle,
but this gentleman gives a little boy the ball, and
the little boy just.

Speaker 1 (02:27:30):
Throws the ball back into the stadium.

Speaker 9 (02:27:32):
And he has an older brother maybe looks like eight
years old, and the little boys like five. And the
little eight year old boy starts crying in his father's arms.

Speaker 1 (02:27:40):
Because her little brother threw the ball back. And then
they show that.

Speaker 9 (02:27:44):
The Red Sox came and gave him a ball and
a jersey signed by ken Lee Jensen.

Speaker 1 (02:27:49):
But it looks so funny.

Speaker 9 (02:27:52):
This little boy's like crying in his father's arms.

Speaker 3 (02:27:55):
I'm walking here right now, and it's so good. And
these kids are really like on the nose, like the
ages of my son from Yeah, that's what I thought,
Like a five and eight year older looks like and
the older.

Speaker 2 (02:28:06):
Brother's like no, no, no, you know, you just see the.

Speaker 1 (02:28:09):
Ball the way that some stranger gave to us, and the.

Speaker 9 (02:28:13):
Dad is like trying to console him, but it's like, oh.

Speaker 1 (02:28:15):
My god, what would you have done?

Speaker 3 (02:28:17):
Rich? I mean, yeah, but I would. That's a tough
spot be like no, no, no.

Speaker 10 (02:28:22):
No, no, dopey, Yeah, I mean, what would trigger the.

Speaker 2 (02:28:29):
Kid to literally the second he's handed the ball to
throw it.

Speaker 3 (02:28:33):
Well, because that's what he's he's seeing all these baseball platies.

Speaker 9 (02:28:37):
But he looks mad, like like the guy hands on
the ball, little boy just throws it back like he's offended.

Speaker 1 (02:28:42):
And he got it in the first place.

Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
This dad handled it well. I don't know if I
would have handled that well. I don't.

Speaker 9 (02:28:49):
I know that dad was calm and but again Red
Sox made up for it. Gave him a sign Kenley
Jensen ball and jersey.

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
That's so nice.

Speaker 2 (02:29:00):
Wow. Well, Monsi, you have a wonderful time with your
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:29:06):
You two guys, you too happy ba ba.

Speaker 3 (02:29:11):
Hoday.

Speaker 1 (02:29:13):
You guys have a great rest of your Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (02:29:16):
Thank you very much, Monsi, and thank you very much
for our Father's Day gift. Because, like I said, I
have never been more drawn to Rich than I have.

Speaker 3 (02:29:24):
I'm gonna try the facial boy.

Speaker 7 (02:29:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:29:26):
I try to keep you guys fresh and young.

Speaker 3 (02:29:29):
We need that desperately.

Speaker 2 (02:29:31):
All right, let's let's let's talk a little bit about
this Bradley Beal deal to the Sun. First of all,
remember you have new ownership right in Phoenix, and they
decided it was time to fire Monty Williams and hire
Frank Vogel. What is well, you look a little uh yeah,
that's sort of a what is that? I'm a big

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lotion guy.

Speaker 3 (02:29:55):
Good, Yes, huge guy.

Speaker 9 (02:29:57):
Hyaluronic acid in it, keep you nice and yon?

Speaker 3 (02:30:00):
Is that a keeper?

Speaker 6 (02:30:01):
There?

Speaker 10 (02:30:01):
I feel the keeper. I feel moist. Sorry, daily face lotion. Yeah,
that might be twice daily for me, as.

Speaker 9 (02:30:12):
It should be very nice.

Speaker 3 (02:30:15):
Yes, my skin is a smooth all right.

Speaker 2 (02:30:21):
So I'm trying to make sense of what the sons
are doing right now. So they have the new owner,
right and he fires Monty Williams to hire Frank Vogel.

Speaker 3 (02:30:30):
Do you think that's an upgrade? Is that like? Oh, yeah,
there we go.

Speaker 2 (02:30:35):
I will say this, get rid of it, Monty Williams,
and you higher Frank Vogel.

Speaker 3 (02:30:39):
Vogel is a very talented defensive code. Well that was
the hype on him. Yeah, and they just got Durant,
Booker and Beale, so offense, you don't really have to
worry about any all right.

Speaker 2 (02:30:53):
So Frank Vogel in his last year with the Lakers
had lebron A d and Russell Westbrook, that's right, and
they went thirty three and forty nine, right, Okay, did not.
I'm just saying he had. But before that three stars.
Before that, he did win a championship down there right.
The Disney year with the Lakers, the record got war Well,

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that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:31:16):
Yeah, listen here, I mean, it wasn't just a little
bit like a tick down it. Here's here's the way
I look at this. This is to me, this is
this is what this is. The Phoenix Suns. They made
the they made the load management squad. They made a
crew because you know, Durant's gonna miss time. You know,
Booker's he's getting up there. He's young still, but he's

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gonna miss some time. They're all gonna miss some time.
This is a playoff squad they're gonna do justinough, how
many teams playoff squad?

Speaker 2 (02:31:46):
They won sixty four games three years they were in
the NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (02:31:49):
But I'm saying there.

Speaker 2 (02:31:51):
They were winning championships. That's why they made this straight.
They believe Beal will put them over the top.

Speaker 3 (02:31:55):
This is this is what teams do now. You can't
just run lie on two stars anymore. You have to.
That's the reason why the Lakers bowed out early. I mean, really,
the only exception is what Jokich has been able to
do with the Denver Nuggets, because he's so undeniably great
at what he's done. But the Nuggets, I mean, that's

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a dying that's a dying breed of basketball team. You
can't just have a Murray and a YO Kitchen say okay,
let's just roll the ball out there.

Speaker 2 (02:32:25):
You don't think right now the Denver Nuggets are a
team that could win multiple championships.

Speaker 3 (02:32:30):
No, they can, and that's my point. They are the
only team that can with only two.

Speaker 2 (02:32:34):
My point is then if they are now the standard,
which I think we all agree they're now the standard.
I mean they dominated the play They're lost four playoff
games now, and you know, we talked about the Golden
State Warriors. They sort of became the standards. So we'll
star teams like that three.

Speaker 3 (02:32:49):
Stars, right, the Lakers they're looking for their third star.
Maybe Austin Reevez is a third sick Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:32:56):
On the other side, I want to talk about some
names being floated out there with that team canning down
here on the US Open. Stay with us. Much more
coming up right here on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 3 (02:33:07):
Marcelle leads from first.

Speaker 2 (02:33:08):
The pitch swung on, hit high and deep the right
center field back does Doyle.

Speaker 3 (02:33:13):
He's at the one. He's done it again, a two
run shot.

Speaker 2 (02:33:20):
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who's fully decked out in Hawkeyes geared today.

Speaker 3 (02:34:03):
What's the occasion? Why why all.

Speaker 13 (02:34:05):
Hawkeyes today celebrating baseball, celebrating the College World Series?

Speaker 3 (02:34:09):
You know, And I got this jersey a little while
back and I want to wear it so interesting. I
love it.

Speaker 13 (02:34:14):
How how is the Iowa Hawkeye baseball program? They made
it to the NCAA tournament, but they did not get
this far. They have not been to the College World
Series since I believe like eighty two. Eighty two, Yeah,
a long time, about forty years.

Speaker 3 (02:34:26):
Find the old postseason players, though they get to they've
been to the tournament with their current coach three or
four times, so they're in a good run here. Just
about everybody makes an end.

Speaker 2 (02:34:35):
Of the tournament though, because yeah ten is not you
have the regional, then you have the supervision.

Speaker 13 (02:34:40):
A lot of Big ten teams will make it that far,
but they're not. They're not getting to the super regions.
In the beginning of the super region I don't know.
Maybe Indiana, Indiana was a super something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:34:50):
Yeah, Monsey, of course. Just she made our Father's Day
shine today, no question about that.

Speaker 3 (02:34:56):
I'm with them. I am more oisturized I'm gonna I'm
gonna lather up big time. Sh Yeah, I give you,
I've given you so many. I don't want a single
other dec so many, so many.

Speaker 2 (02:35:12):
And I knew his father's boat, you know. By the way,
so Bo, this is your second Father's Day?

Speaker 3 (02:35:20):
Is that correct? Yeah? Yeah, technically, but you know you
were dead.

Speaker 2 (02:35:23):
Yes, he has a daughter, yeah he has Yeah. So
she was only what two months old?

Speaker 3 (02:35:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:35:29):
Yeah, So now you're getting a little more recognition from
your daughter.

Speaker 3 (02:35:33):
Of course, yes, of course, yeah, fourteen months day. Always
remember to say happy father. Yes, I told you.

Speaker 2 (02:35:41):
My worst nightmare happened on uh Denise's first Mother's Day,
first Mother's Day, So Drake was like seven months old. Yeah, oh,
and we took them to lunch. It was like a
mother's day lunch. Her mom was there, her sister was there,
and we had Drake, our baby, obviously, and he his
first recognizable word.

Speaker 3 (02:36:05):
Data. No, that's not good on mother's Day. That's not good.

Speaker 2 (02:36:08):
I'm like, dude, you're really making my life miserable?

Speaker 3 (02:36:11):
Is this is it? Is this a sign of things
to come? You're really gonna do this to me. Both
of my son's first words were dad or dad? Yeah, dad, dad, yeah,
and I gotta tell you that is uh, that's not good.

Speaker 2 (02:36:24):
It's not what you want around her first Mother's Day.
Literally at the lunch table. I remember just say like
he just looked right, yea, Dada.

Speaker 3 (02:36:33):
I remember my wife. It was encouraged by my wife.

Speaker 2 (02:36:36):
She was sitting there, daddy, Yeah, daddy, now that she
calls me daddy.

Speaker 3 (02:36:41):
Yeah, all right, Uh, all.

Speaker 2 (02:36:44):
Right, Well, we're gonna have some golf coming up a
little bit later. I guess the good news is, I mean,
we're gonna be out of here and we're gonna be
able to watch the whole final rounds of the last
several pairings here. We still have like five paarings that
have been teed off for this final round the US Open.
As far as the lake, I want to get just
couple of Laker things in. It's because this deal where
Chris Paul now is a wizard at least temporarily, will

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I guess we'll take him off the list. I mean,
James Harden. They were trying to push the idea of
James Harden. Understand this, if you're the Lakers right now
and Lebron James made this clear after they got swept
by the Nuggets. When asked about next season, he goes,
I don't know what our roster is. That was his
way of saying, this roster, although improved, is still not

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good enough to be that team. Like, we just matched
up with that team and we just got swept. So yes,
we improved, but we're gonna have to add more if
we're going to be that team. And if I look
at the Lakers right now, I keep Reeves, I keep Hatchamura,
forget the Chris Paul's, forget the James Harden's, Zach Lavine's.

(02:37:51):
What they need to do is add some big bodies
because Denver's dominance is as much about size as anything else.
When they beat Denver the Western Conference Finals in the bubble,
they had McGee and they had Dwight Howard. Yeah, they
were the guys matched up with Jokich back in the day,
not Anthony Davis. He can't match up with Yokic on
the defensive end. So all this idea of bringing in

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another forget that. That's not the right answer.

Speaker 3 (02:38:18):
I disagree. Listen, There's two ways to do it. Either
you find someone in the league and name him if
you can, who can neutralize jokicch I'll wait to.

Speaker 2 (02:38:27):
Know, but I mean, if you are multiple players.

Speaker 3 (02:38:30):
You add firepower. Look, I think the you think Harden's
the right answer. Well, no, I didn't say Harden. But
about zach Levine.

Speaker 2 (02:38:37):
If you get zach Lavine, you would not be able
to re sign Hamura Ann Reeves.

Speaker 3 (02:38:41):
If there's a way, if there's a way to match
the firepower that Denver has by adding a score, you
have to do it, all right, So I just gave
it to you.

Speaker 2 (02:38:51):
If you were to get those are Zach Levine, who
it was an All star, Yeah, but you would not
have enough money to retain Reeves and Hatchamura.

Speaker 3 (02:39:00):
You gotta do something. You're not winning the championship with
what you have now, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:39:04):
So Reeves and Hatchamura, as good as they were, well,
res not enough.

Speaker 3 (02:39:09):
You might be able to retain depending on.

Speaker 2 (02:39:11):
Who Reeves they're already looking at. They expect Reeves to
get a one hundred million dollar contract off.

Speaker 3 (02:39:16):
Maybe you could get Chris Paul over.

Speaker 2 (02:39:18):
Well, if he's willing to work for nothing. I guess
if he gets released. Yeah, but the Wizards would have
to pick a dollary dump forty million dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:39:26):
I'm just saying it's a that's a bit dump. Washington
can eat some of.

Speaker 2 (02:39:30):
That, and then but why would they, I mean, I'm
trying to figure it out.

Speaker 3 (02:39:35):
That's well, they did it for prospects anyways.

Speaker 2 (02:39:37):
Okay, by the way, a very happy Father's Day to
you Rich.

Speaker 3 (02:39:41):
Yes, happy Father's Day too as well, and all the
dad's listening.

Speaker 2 (02:39:44):
Absolutely, and just keep it right here. This is Fox
Sports Radio.