Brian Noe and Kerry Rhodes talk Bradley Beal and Chris Paul!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio and everybody hope you're
enjoying your Sunday. You know what, I feel like the
sports gods knew that you were gonna be in today,
Carrie Rhodes. And just before the show we get this
huge story of Bradley Beale going to the Phoenix Suns.
I think it's gonna be a tremendous show. And I do.

(00:22):
I feel like you've got a hotline to the sports
gods over there.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I do, And I am so happy to be here
this day. Bradley bial I watched a lot of him
last season in Washington, so I'm ready to hop into
that one for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Absolutely. So what's the background. Are you a Wizards fan?
Are you from the area? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
No? No, I was. I'm a Chris stops Porzingis fan.
And right when he got traded to Washington, I watched
a little bit of him playing out there a lot
to see how he reacted with the trade and and
all that stuff. But really, you know, you kind of
see Bradley Beal from Afar and you think he's this.
You know, you hear the stories, he's an all Star,
he's you know, he was in thember one guy there

(01:00):
when John Wall left, and I kind of want to
see how he played as that number one guy, and
really seeing him as a number one guy, I was
really disappointed. So I think for him to go to
a spot where there's some other established guys and some
guys that can take some of the lowood all for
him would be a really good thing for him.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah. So the deal, as we understand it right now,
finalizing a trade. So Bradley Beal going to the Phoenix
Suns and in exchange Chris Paul Landry Shammitt several second
round picks and there's a pick swap thrown in there
as well, And you'd have to assume that Chris Paul

(01:38):
is going to be bought out and then maybe he
goes to the Purple and Gold, maybe he teams up
with Lebron and the Lakers. But what we do know
is Phoenix they make an aggressive move and they pick
up Bradley Beal. Really carry There's two schools of thought.
The school of thought number one was exactly what they did.
They went and got Bradley Beal, another high end player.

(02:00):
The school of thought number two was, hey, you're gonna
be too top heavy. Instead of going with Beal and
it's a huge contract, four years, two hundred and eight
million dollars left, factoring in his player option at the
end of that deal. Instead of going that route, you
try to solidify the bench. You try to have a
more significant, you know, roster as far as role players go.

(02:22):
Which door do you like? Do you like door number
one with bial or door number two with more depth?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I think I think you're swinging for the fences. I
think Phoenix has had so much success the last couple
of years and you know, not being able to get
over the top obviously, Yeah, you would want to probably
show up the bench a little bit and rock with
the players they have, But Chris Paul has been injured,
so you can't really count on that to kind of,
you know, materialize the way they probably saw it before
they made this deal. So I mean, I would go

(02:51):
for the guy that, you know, Bill that can possibly
add some more you know, some more stability, even though
he's been hurt these last couple of years as well. Yeah,
his his up his up end is a little bit
better than Chris Paul's at this point.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, there's no doubt about that. It's just man, that
is such a massive price tag the contract, the contract
mainly I think Landry Shammitt is a good player, but
you're getting rid of Chris Paul Shammitt, some second rounders
and a pick swap. I don't know if they threw
in like some deflated basketballs to sweeten the deal or what.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
A few pumps here and there.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Y yeah, yeah, gotta have them inflated exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
There's no what Brian, I think it's it's one of
those things where I mean, to be honest, how bad
was Phoenix bench last year? I mean, I obviously they
weren't playable for money and and and their coaching stuff,
But those guys were guys that played in the league.
You had guys Terrence, you had the guy that come
over from Jersey from Brooklyn to play on the bench

(03:53):
as well, Warren Warren as well, Like those guys are
guys that are certified bucket getters and can play. So
the fact that he wasn't really playing and those guys,
for me, I saw a little conundrum there. I don't
know what the disconnect was, but those guys were guys
that were established players that were on his bench that
he didn't play So were they really not playable or
was something else going on that was That was my thoughts.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, right, Like I mean, listen, DeAndre Ayton is still around.
You've got guys on the on the roster that can
can play. I don't want to make it sound like,
you know, they've got me as their sixth man, but
but like in comparison, we just saw what the Nuggets did.

(04:34):
When you look at the Nuggets beyond Jokich and Jamal Murray, right,
and they got a lot of dudes. Man, They've got
Michael Porter Junior coming off doing his things starting you
bring in Christian Brown, who's a rookie. You got Bruce
Bruce Brown there. Like, you got a lot of dudes,
and that's not what Phoenix has. So when you look
at the competition, it's a different perspective then if you

(04:56):
just look at the bench and I hear you, it's
not like they have a collection of sorry scrubs over there.
But in comparison, that's where it really stands out.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, I mean, I think you are as song because
you're you know, you're your top fifteen, right all we
all know that, we all know that depth is very important,
especially when it comes to the regular season, right, but
when it comes to the postseason, that kind of shrinks.
So even as deep as Denver was, as you saw
as the playoffs progress, that number went down. I mean

(05:25):
they were playing they were playing eight barely, right, So
it's still not like you have to have this super,
super impressive bench in the playoffs, but you need that
for the regular season. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, And how about Chris Paul. Chris Paul wanted to
be back in Phoenix, and Phoenix basically said, we just
can't trust it, We can't trust the health. To your point,
they did get Bradley Beal. He only played fifty games
last season. He's been banged up a lot too, but
it's not to the extent of Chris Paul, who's been
routinely banged up at the worst possible time, which is

(06:00):
the playoff.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's that par Brian this, he gets hurts, he gets
hurt at the wrong time. You just can't count on
him to play a full season. Number one. Obviously, he's
up in age, but he seems to always be hurt
in the big moments. You look back at Houston when
they had a chance to be Golden State, and he
you know, he gets hurt and can't play Game six
in game seven, So you go in those situations, you
just can't count the guy to be there at that

(06:22):
point of time.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's rough, right, Like the famous saying you can't help
the club from the tub. I mean, when it's the
postseason and you're in the tub. That's that is doubly rough.
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(06:45):
Tirack dot com the way tied buying should be. I
was thinking about this too. I was thinking about teams
that kind of have a stench, and it's so bad
that it hurts the individual rep of certain players. You know,
if you think about the Washington Wizards, Bradley Beal is
a three time All Star, right, but that is not

(07:08):
a great franchise. They have struggled to put it mildly
over the last decade at least. I started thinking about that,
if Bradley Beal wasn't in Washington this whole time, if
he was somewhere else, like there are a lot of
other franchises, if he played there to this point in
his NBA career, we'd be talking about this deal much differently.

(07:30):
But right now it's like, we know Bradley Beal is
a good player, but he's in NBA Siberia right now
with the Wizards.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
The Woozards are a very a very funny team, and
even last year they had pieces where you thought maybe
they can come into the season and compete some and
you know, maybe make a play in game, or you know,
they kind of hover around that. They haven't had any
real ambition to be any better that than that, it
seems since they lost John Wall, so to see what

(07:58):
they're doing right now, it seems like they're in a
straight rebuild and so we'll see where they go from there.
I know they got issues and things I got to
work out with with KP, with christophs Prozingis and and
and also Kuzma, so you know, I see those guys
probably being dealt as well now are going somewhere else.
So it looks like a straight rebuild.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
I love that europe Borzingis guy.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
You know what, same birthday he's a New York guy.
But also I kind of, you know, when he went
to Dallas, because I'm a Dallas Maverick fan. So that's
the reason I'm a Chris Stops fan. So when he
came to Dallas, I was obviously invested in that. But
you know, I love I kind of root for the
second guy. I root for the guy that's you know,
not the the ultimate uh you know, I guess you

(08:41):
want to call it the all star superstar type of person.
I root for that guy that's that all star, that's
trying to fight for something, trying to get better. And
you know, I saw him in Dallas and it was
kind of like a real unfortunate situation where he called
a lot of flak obviously because of you know, not
being healthy as well. And but when he was there,
he played well. He put up twenty and ten numbers there,
but the expectations were so high that he got kind

(09:03):
of this this negative taste you know, in everybody's mouths
as far as when they spoke about him moving forward.
But he went to Washington and and and even played better.
And so you kind of see this guy that's struggling
with a little bit of an identity thing and who
he really is really is as a player. So I
wanted to see what he would do in Washington, and
I thought he did a really good job.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
So you pull for Robin, I do.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I do. Go to the Batman movie and you pull
for Robin I do. And it's and it's been that
way since I was a kid. I mean, even you know,
being a Bulls fan back in the day, right the
Jordan and Pippen, Right, I was a pipping guy. Even
though I loved Jordan. I was a Pippin guy, you know,
I always had that.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
So you are more of a Jamal Murray guy instead
of Jokic.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, that's not push it. Let's not go too far,
all right, now, that's Jokisch is I mean, he's on
everybody's tongue right now. Obviously with all the stuff for
the MVP and him and EMBIID and going back and forth.
Did he deserve the third time in a row? I
didn't think he deserved it, deserved to be the MVP
three times in a row, But I mean seeing them
playing the playoffs and getting the chance to have you

(10:05):
know that that that visual on him when it really
mattered to see how he played.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
It was just it was it was amazing, man. You know,
I was just thinking about again with Beale in Washington,
if he were somewhere else, his individual rep would be
even better. What other franchises would you put on that
list in any other sport? I think the Lions have
to be on that list, the Rions for sure. Right
if you think about I'm in Ross Saint Brown is

(10:31):
a stud wide receiver. There are a lot of other franchises.
If he was doing the same thing, putting up the
same numbers, he would have a much greater individual rep.
I feel like the Lions are one of those teams
that they hurt individual reps with as bad as they've.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Been yet, what they do briand except for when you're
somebody like a Megatron, we have a name, we have
a name like that. You can't be buried. You're right,
you're right, but you know, like it is. It's one
of those things where right time, right situation, all that
stuff matters, man. And when you say somebody's had a luck,
you know, had a lot of luck in their career

(11:07):
or being in the right place at the right time,
that really does matter. And it's and it's very apparent.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Man, So I gotta know, when's the birthday that you
share with zingis August second?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm a Leo, he's a Leo, so us Leo stick
together for sure.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
How about with your Mavericks. How about the off season
for your guy? Huh looking trim, looking good over there.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
He's heard the rumors, he's heard the rumors, he's heard.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Doing some work in the off season.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, if he does. He's one of those ones that
really he obviously such a good player. I mean, like
franchise changing, you know, one of those people you're going
to talk about after after he's done playing, either positively
or negatively. But it doesn't matter what the what the
tenor of that that that chatter is, He's going to

(11:56):
talk about him forever. He's just that that good, that trying.
But he has to put some work in man, and
he has to develop his leadership skills as well. And
he's such a young guy being given the keys sort
of franchise like that at such an early age. It's
always a challenge. And I think he's seeing that. I
think he wants to be somebody that just plays ball.
But when you're that guy, you have to do all

(12:17):
the other things too, so he can be better. Good
to see him doing doing the workouts and getting ready
to go, because this is a big year and I
think I mean seeing Dallas, you know, really really close
up and personal. They're going to make some moves to
and I you know, all the chatter around possibly bringing
in Lebron and Draymond Green and all these you know,
these big names and names that can you know, really

(12:39):
push them in the right direction. It's gonna be interesting.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's a little bit of a Laker thing, aren't the
Lakers the team where we're gonna get this guy and
they don't get that guy. We're gonna get that guy
and they don't get that other guy.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
You know, Yes, and Dallas it's worse. Dallas is worse.
Dallas is one of those scenes where in the off
season they're always linked to these big names but never
pull him in.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, but hey, man, Luka, Doncic has been fantastic stick
to this point, and if he's putting in the work
in the offseason, he could be even more special. That's
a scary thought for the rest of the NBA. By
the way, my birthday, Carrie is on November fourth. I'd
have to look it up. Who other sports you know,
like athletes and stuff share that same day? Off the
top of my head, I know, randomly, Des Bryant, former

(13:20):
wide receiver, throw four, throw up the X right there.
I don't know who else. We'll have to look that up.
August second, November fourth. Who else in the sports world
shares that same birthday?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
We'll check it out for sure.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Curious about that. All right, we are off and running.
We got a lot to get into coming up next.
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We'll get into that. I'm Brian No, he's Carry Rhoades.
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(14:51):
this story is wild with former West Virginia head basketball
coach Bob Huggins. So, Huggins got arrested on Friday for
drunk driving, and a day later on Saturday, he was resigning.
He was resigning as the head coach over there at
West Virginia. And here's the thing, man, You look at

(15:14):
this carry. It was just six weeks ago he was
on live radio and said an anti gay slur a
couple of times, and they gave him a three game suspension,
and they altered his contract where he was gonna lose
a million dollars, but he could easily been fired for that.
So he got a second chance. And then just about

(15:34):
six weeks later, according to Pittsburgh Police, he was in
a black suv blocking traffic with a flat and shredded
tire and the driver's side door was open, and it's like,
what are we doing? He just got a second chance.
He had a dui back in two thousand and four

(15:54):
as well. So Bob Huggins resigns, and look, we'll get
to the Jah Morant storyline here in a little bit, right.
But when you look at Bob Huggins, who's sixty nine
years old, he's a grown man. He is the leader
of young men, and he just got a second chance,
and now he screws up royally again. I just I
don't know what you say. I'm not gonna sit here

(16:16):
and say it's okay what Joe's doing when he's in
his young twenties. It's not okay at all. But it's
even worse for a guy who's almost seventy years old
to be screwing up the way Bob Huggins has.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, it's that whole thing, man, where you know, we're
putting these people in positions of power and in a
position to mold our future and our kids, and you
know they're not even well equipped to handle that. So,
I mean, it's sad to see, but it's really been
the culture around the old school coaches anyway, Like the
old school coaches have a different way of doing things,

(16:51):
and you know they were brought up and taught a
different way as well, So you no, what are we
teaching these kids and who are we putting in positions
to teach these kids? Are It's such a dangerous game.
So you know, with the guy like Bob Huggins obviously
had so much success as a coach, and you know
it's always been a guy that's been you know, deemed
as a tough guy, a a an old school guy

(17:13):
that you know coaches in the same vein of a
Bobby Knight or somebody in that in that in that
same vein, right, So you see those guys that are
still empower from the old school methods, the whole school
way of teaching things. And I think This is a
this is a valuable lesson for us to start vetting
these guys and making sure that these guys are really
you know, well off and you know, if they have

(17:34):
to do psych tests and do certain things for themselves
to even get those jobs to be in those positions
of power. We need to do that. We need to
really vet, really vet these guys and make sure that
the people that are leading our kids and leading these
young men to be you know, not only good at
whatever sport they're participating in, but to be good men
and good people in life. And so you can't have
those guys leading your team. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
This was part of Bob Huggins's statement after he resigned
from West Virginia. He said, while I have always tried
to represent our university with honor, I have let all
of you and myself down. I am solely responsible for
my conduct and sincerely apologize to the university community, particularly
the student athletes, coaches, and staff in our program. I

(18:19):
must do better, and I plan to spend the next
few months focusing on my health and my family so
that I can be the person they deserve. All that
stuff sounds great, I mean I can read you various
apologies from John Morant, and it all sounds great, and
most of it's carefully crafted and well worded, and you're like,
all right, cool, Yeah, I'm on board, and then you know,

(18:42):
six weeks later it's another huge screw up. I'm not
asking for anyone to be perfect, Carrie, but one, it
depends on what you do wrong. And two it depends
if you can learn from the original mess up and
if you give me these flowery words, and then six
weeks later mess up royally again and John Morant's can't

(19:03):
the case doing the same thing again. You know, I'm
just done with the flowery words. It's just all about
actions at this point.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, the words mean mean very little. A lot of
those times, those those statements are prepared by agents and
by managers and all that thing to to you know,
to get in front of whatever the said be mess is.
And so you know, you kind of take that, like
you said, with a grain of salt. But at the
end of the day, it doesn't matter, the age, doesn't
matter how young or how old you are. We all
make mistakes, right, But did you learn from that mistake?

(19:33):
Did you really do the due diligence of what that
mistake entails and how that affects every everybody that's not
not only you, but the people that are in your life,
and especially if you're in positions of you know, of notoriety,
like the people that look up to you. Like especially
for John Morant, right like, he's one of those, uh superstars,

(19:54):
one of the most marketable, marketable players the NBA has
right now, especially for his age group and the way
he plays. He's flashy, he has all the intangibles. He's
you know, he's with the culture as they as they say,
and so you know, you got to be really careful
of what you put out there and what you're and
what message you're sending out to the world. And so
I just hope he learns. Man, it's not about how

(20:15):
young or how old, it's about learning from the mistaken.
Like you said, will he do that? I don't know.
I mean, will he get a chance in these twenty
five games to turn it around and do some things positively? Yes,
but we'll.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
See, Yeah, we will see. And hey, man, I'm pulling
for the kid too, Like, well, he's a young man,
he's got a child, you know, he's not a kid anymore.
I don't mean it literally, But you know, I'm pulling
for him to make better decisions because he's been blessed
with some great, great talent, man, and I just hope
he doesn't flush it away, you know. I hope that

(20:47):
he does figure it out. But at this point you
have to wonder when he's screwing up and doing the
same thing again six weeks after the Flower rewards, following
the first gun video, you know, it's like, I don't
know that he gets it. I hope that it finally
has sunk in now. And look, that's a pretty significant
punishment twenty five games.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
It is.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's more so the money involved there. That's a lot
of money tied to the games that he's going to miss.
I think it's what should have been done. I do
not agree with the NBPA that said that it was
excessive and completely over the top, And no, I think
that it was warranted. I think, if anything, it was

(21:28):
a little light on the games, but in the neighborhood
of twenty five thirty games, that's what I thought it
would be. Yeah, but I don't think that is excessive
at all. What are your thoughts on the punishment.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, I don't think it's excessive as well. I think
the twenty five games. You know, the money adds up, right,
obviously it adds to a high amount, But he's not
losing anything. He's going he still hasn't lost his contract
of Nike. He's still with Nike, so he's still pulling
money from there. I'm sure there'll be other investment deals
and things like that that are going on for him.

(21:59):
So I don't know if the money part, UH is
even is even enough to be honest, To be quite frank,
he's he's he's fine. He's gonna be well off in
that department. But I think for him, really it's about
what is he gonna do with his career and what
is he going to do uh as a person moving forward?
Is he going to still keep those same guys around.
I know we get to a point of, you know,

(22:21):
because I was an athlete, right, I stepped into that
space of you know, you you leave, you leave the
quote unquote hood and you go out and you get
a chance to go better yourself and and be on
be in the market where you know, now you have
the people that you left saying that you know he's
changed and and he's not the same guy. That he was,
and he seems to be trying to illustrate that he
is that guy, and so just really been able to

(22:44):
come and to come to grips with Yeah, this is
a new age and a new day in my career
and in my life as a person. I'm moving forward
and putting all my focus on my craft, the craft
that got me in the position that I am right
now making this money and having this visibility. So am
I going to step into that fully? Or am I
going to pull along and try to pull this part

(23:06):
of me, this part of my life that's should be
the past with me, because the past, you know, always
comes comes back around and bites you and has a
chance to haunt you. So I hope he's able to
differentiate between the two, move forward and be the and
go be the John Morant, the superstar that he can be.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah. I just thought of my dad here on Father's Day, Carrie,
where he always used to say, I'm from the show
me state, show me. He would say that all the time.
And the funny thing is he's from Alton, Illinois, and
Illinois is not the show me state. It's Missouri. So
it's a little confusing right there. For whatever was right
next door to the show me stake. But the point is,

(23:44):
with Bob Huggins, with John Morant, it's not about well
crafted statements. It's about showing us, showing there well in
John Morant's case, showing his franchise, showing his teammates, showing
your family, showing the world what you can do. Because
it's not about words, man, it's about actions. At this point,

(24:05):
we can all agree on that. Hey, we can all
agree the show is much better when Monzy Belagos raises
us with their presence. Manzie, what's going on today?

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Day? Hi?

Speaker 7 (24:15):
Brian CAREYTI, how are you?

Speaker 8 (24:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Are you good?

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Are you a father? Should I be saying Happy Father's Day?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
No?

Speaker 7 (24:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (24:22):
Perfect? And he's not either, Brighton. So yeah, Happy Father's
Day to.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
Us non fathers that are here celebrating and working, and
of course happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
Happy to be here on this Sunday hanging out with
you guys. So much is going on, So much is
going on, But we're gonna start with the big news
of the day, which you guys were already talking about,
the Washington Wizards finalizing a trade to send All Star
guard Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns a Big three. Supposedly,
I don't even want to get into it. Devin Booker,
Kevin Duran, Bradley Beal. Supposedly, the Sons are expected to

(24:57):
send Chris Paul Landry Shammon multiple second round picks and
pick swaps to the Wizards. Chris Haynes of NBA on
TNT and Bleacher Report, he's reporting that the Miami he
are actually focusing in on Damian Lillard, that they have
a genuine belief that this is the off season that
he is going to seek a change of scenery. I

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love Damian Lillard so much, but it's like I don't
want him.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
To leave Portland.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
He's like a god there, you know what I mean,
Like he's a god, He's a hero there. I know
he hasn't won, and I know it's been unfair, but
I would hate to see him leave. He would be
one of those few players that spent their entire careers
with one team, Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, you know what
I mean. So part of me doesn't want to see
him go, but I love him so much that I.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Want him to win.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
I know daytime. Maybe it is dame time. But you
know what I'm saying, It's like, oh but no, stay that.
I'm so torn.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
I'm so torn.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
I'm so torn about it. But it's like I love
the guy, can't I can't help it.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
A lot of baseball going on today. The Rangers and
the Blue Jay as still going at it. The Rangers
came to life after being down by six runs. Now
they're up by four runs. It's eleven to seven. They're
about to start the bottom.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
Of the eighth inning. The Phillies are still blanking the A's.
It's two zero. Bottom of the fifth inning.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
Mariners have a slight lead over the White Sox two
to one.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
Bottom of the sixth inning.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
The Guardians have extended their lead over the Diamondbacks. It's
seven to one. Top of the fourth inning. The Giants
are beating the Dodgers five to two.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Top.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh, I need them, that's my last leg of a parlay.
Oh right, going on? Here?

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Are you? Are?

Speaker 7 (26:31):
You needing the Giants to win?

Speaker 1 (26:33):
No? I need the Dodgers to come.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
Okay, yeah, yeah, after what happened last night, just embarrassing.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
We need the Dodgers to do a little some but
the Giants are five to two, top of the sixth inning.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh my god, another.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Hit out a spot. That last leg, the last leg, Man, the.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Last leg always screwsy up Carrie.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
Yeah, six six two six to San Francisco up.

Speaker 8 (26:57):
And the Padres are currently up on the best team
in baseball.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
The Rays four two is the score top of.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
The fifth inning. But we got to talk about sho
he Otani.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
Because he is just on five year.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
He hit his twenty fourth homer of the season today,
leads Major League Baseball. That's fifty eight RBIs leeds major
League Baseball.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
He has a fifteen game hit streak.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
And the Angels with the five to two victory over
the Royals, and the Brewers completed a sweep of the
Pirates five to two. The Reds just completed a sweep
of the Astros. Yay, I don't like the Astros. Nine
to seven and ten innings was the final score, and
the Red Sox took game one of their doubleheader against
the Yankees.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
Formula one's Canadian Grand Prix.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
It was Max bes.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
Stoppin as the winner. He won it last year, so
he's the reigning champ again.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Back to you guys, Thank you man.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Good job, Hugh right there, very well done. Brian though,
and Carrie Rhodes with you here on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah. Man,
here's the deal with Damian Lillard. So, Carrie, I did
local radio in Portland for three years. Oh wow, and
so I covered Dame from I forget the years. I
think it was eighteen to twenty one, so recently, not

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that long ago. And look, I completely love that he's
been as loyal as he has. He has been a
godsend to that franchise. But I just hope that he
doesn't stay there and not get it done, you know
what I mean. I look at it like this. You

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could be best case scenario. You could be Dirk and
you stay with the same franchise and you win that
championship and it all works out great. Next best KG
where he's loved by the Minnesota Timberwolves fan base, but
he goes to Boston, he gets his ring. He's loved
in two spots, and then there's door number three, maybe

(28:48):
like a Reggie Miller. Maybe like that where you stay
with one franchise the whole time and you don't win
that ring. I just hope Dame doesn't stay in Portland.
The whole time, doesn't win a ring, and then when
it comes to that point if it does, he regrets it.
I just hope that doesn't happen for you.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
You know what. It doesn't seem like he has the
personality to regret anything. And so I'm I hear you
on that. I really feel he's one of those guys.
He's such an alpha in his head and in his mind,
and he is obviously on the court as well. But
he would definitely want to get it done in Portland,
and he's had the opportunities. There's been teams where they've

(29:27):
had chances to win, and so can he get the
right pieces there? Can you get the right pieces to
come to Portland via free agency? No, but if they
make some trades here. And I don't know all the
assets that Portland has right now, but I know they
have a lot of like interchangeable parts on that team.
So if they can just bring in somebody, I mean,
you know the CJ. McCullum years with Dame, and you

(29:50):
know those years with those years were fun. They couldn't
get over the hump they made the Western Conference finals,
they had a chance to get there, like they've had
those opportunities. So I think they've passed by on and
missed that window there. But can they bring somebody else in?
I would hate to see Dame in the Miami heat
Jersey wout Miami.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, that's the thing, man, is I agree with you
that is not a free agent destination in Portland, and
so there's only so much they can realistically do to
truly build a championship contender around Dame. They're far away
from a championship right now for sure. Yeah, and then
if he went to Miami or somewhere else, there is

(30:32):
a fourth door here. Behind door number four is a
guy like Karl Malone right where he's with Utah for
so long and then he goes elsewhere toward the end
of his career and he doesn't win a ring with
the Lakers, and then you hear all of that, Oh
he was ring Chason and blah blah blah and he
didn't win that ring. That's the other possibility. And I'm

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sure Dame is a smart dude. I'm sure that he's
thinking of all angles here and he might under you know,
he said numerous times and interviews he can live with
staying in Portland and not winning a championship and being loyal,
being loyal to the grind and all that. I absolutely am.
I think that's really cool. But if he you know,

(31:18):
he probably thinks if I stay in Portland don't win
a championship, that's probably easier to deal with than going
elsewhere and not winning a championship there either.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
That's the point, Brian, Like, you can go chase and
do all those things and go to these different teams
to try to have a chance to win a ring,
but it's not guaranteed, so then it's tainted anyway. So
I understand the conundrum there with him, But you know,
I would love to see him get a chance to
compete in Portland and not anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Man.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
I don't even see him, you know, being playing second
fiddle anywhere. And you know, once you start seeing you know,
star players go through that transformation of not being a
star player anymore, it just it doesn't even look fun
It doesn't even look good. It's not even one of
those things you want to see. And I don't want
to see it, Bam.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know it's funny too, man. I'm sure you can
speak to this as a former pro athlete. Is there's
often a difference between what we want and what they
want for sure, you know what I mean. Like he
might want to see Dame go elsewhere and compete for
a championship, have a better spot. He might not want that.
He might want to truly stay in Portland and be

(32:24):
loyal to the grind over there. He said that numerous times. Yeah,
think about endings two careers where maybe a guy like
Tom Brady, some people have said that, oh, you win
that Super Bowl, You're right off into the sunset. Maybe
he didn't want that. Maybe he would have really wrestled
with could I have won an eight eight three? And
could I think I could have? I'll never know Brett
Farve's ending, right, Like he had a really good year

(32:46):
in Minnesota, didn't win a super Bowl, but that next
year was freaking awful. Like the list goes on and on, right,
But I think we can oftentimes mess that up where
what we think is ideal for an athlete, they don't
think think is ideal for them.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, but you know, we as fans, I'm in the
fan boat now. We have these grand grand visions for
our teams and our superstars and our players, and you know,
we probably feel that we know more than they do,
and we want what's better for them than more than
even more than they do. Right, So that's that's the
ultimate fandom stuff. But at the end of the day,
these these guys are humans and they have their their

(33:24):
own values and their own ways of seeing things. And
I mean, obviously, like you said, you've covered Dane, but
I've seen a lot of his stuff and he says
the same stuff. He doesn't really have any variance in
what he says. It's he says what he means and
it seems that way. So doesn't look like he's going
to be looking for anything. But if Portland feels like
they need to make a move, then I think that

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will be the recipe for something happening.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
By the way, I hate to put a sour bow
on this whole exchange here the Giants just scored again.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Oh come on, man, your last leg is in danger.
It is in danger, Brian.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Tony Win has been fantastic this except for the day
I needed him.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
That's how it is real. They'll win tomorrow. Don't worry
about it.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
I don't. They'll win thirteen to one tomorrow, no doubt.
All right, coming up next, According to Moncy, she's got
some strong stances. Maybe a hot take or two. We'll
find out. That's on the way. I'm Brian No, he's
Carrie Rhoades. Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
I'm Brian No, He's Carrie rhads here on Fox Sports Radio.
Are coming to you live from the Tireck dot Com studios.

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No time to waste. Let's dive on into this Corrine
and now it's time for her.

Speaker 7 (34:36):
Absolutely, that's it's like to be pretty.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
According to Monsey, I love it, okay.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
According to Monsie Bradley, Beale hate the wrong choice.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
Isn't it obvious for so many reasons.

Speaker 8 (34:50):
I Mean, we knew he had a no trade class,
so I'm blaming him because he had the choice. Miami
has been a contender the last decade. They made the
playoffs seven out of the last ten years. They've gone
to the Eastern Conference Finals four times in those last
ten years. Bal could have been a number two to
Jimmy Butler. He would have become the second scorer on
that team. Bam out of Bio could have focused on

(35:12):
defense instead of taking twenty shots a game.

Speaker 7 (35:15):
Bam shouldn't be doing that with the Suns. He's gonna
be what maybe the third option.

Speaker 8 (35:21):
Maybe the Suns did not need another scorer coming from
their starters.

Speaker 7 (35:26):
They needed the depth this big three. I don't see
how it's gonna work.

Speaker 8 (35:29):
It's one of the gonna be a point guard all
of a sudden, do we have like a random point guard?

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Now?

Speaker 7 (35:33):
Is that okay? Got it? Carry's saying, yes, okay, that
makes sense.

Speaker 8 (35:35):
And if things don't go well, who's gonna be blamed.
It's not gonna be Katie or Devin Booker. It's not
gonna be Frank Vogel. He's new, he's a first year coach.
The blame is gonna go to bial maybe DeAndre Ayton
if he's lucky with the heat.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
It's a team effort.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
We saw Butler tak you know, responsibility a lot like
come on, he was the obvious choice.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
The weather is better in Miami, the ladies are hot
and sexy. I mean, come on, I mean, guys, let's
be real.

Speaker 8 (36:07):
Also, also, this is not for Bradley Beal if the
Suns win. If they do win, this will diminish Kd's legacy.
It's only gonna show that he cannot do it alone.
That's all that's gonna do.

Speaker 7 (36:19):
He needs to be on a quote quote super.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
Team, according to Monsey.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
According to Monsey, Rob Manfred is an ass.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Oh man, what an ass?

Speaker 7 (36:33):
This is not a hot take. We all know he sucks.
We all know Rob Manfred sucks.

Speaker 8 (36:37):
He literally let the Astros get away, which he in
twenty seventeen and did nothing. Oh yeah, they find him
five million dollars draft picks. Yeah, okay, no, you should
have taken the championship away from Houston.

Speaker 7 (36:47):
Let's be real, but I digress.

Speaker 8 (36:48):
He literally decided to double down on how much he
sucks earlier this week with his comments about the Oakland
A's straight up blaming the city, blaming their fans for
relocating to Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
And he wasn't even subtle about it. He made that
comment that.

Speaker 8 (37:03):
It was nice to see the amount of people that
are average in every other stadium just for one night
when they did that reverse boycott.

Speaker 7 (37:10):
He's like, that's a great thing to see at one time.

Speaker 6 (37:13):
Should have Rob.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Manfred, you suck. And it's so it's crazy.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
You have to be like a special kind of stupid
to want to be so obviously an awful person.

Speaker 7 (37:23):
You suck, Rob Manfred you suck.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I loved everything you said about the tough God.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
He sucks.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
Even if it's true, don't say that you were the
commissioner of baseball stupid.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
No one, Buddy Hoarding to Monci.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
All right, I was just gonna say, Bonzi.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
Sorry, No, it's okay, Please please.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's like it's just like, you know, Roger Goodell employed
by the owners. Yeah, the same thing with Rob Manfred.
You know he's gonna lean ownership than fan base.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
I hear you.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
At least he pretends. Rob Manfred is not pretending. That's
the difference.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
It means Hollywood Hogan, you know he's a straight heel.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 9 (38:03):
We can just hate on Rob Manford for the rest
of the city week.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
There's enough. I think she's going in quite a bit
on him. So I think we're I think we're good.

Speaker 9 (38:10):
He's the worst ours. According to Mansi, the hate on
Ayisha Curry is ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (38:16):
Oh did you guys see what just happened to this
part girl? We do so a video surface that was
not even a new video. This happened in twenty.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Nineteen, by the way, are you serious?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (38:25):
So, everybody, including me, I thought it I thought it
just happened.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
I was duped.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
Okay, I was duped.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
And even when I saw it, I was like, I
don't get what the big deal is. She's obviously being funny.
She was on one of those talk shows like The View,
I don't know the View Talk and it was an.

Speaker 7 (38:39):
Attractive waiter, black waiter that.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
Came out shirtless and she pretends to take her ring
off because he's an attractive looking man, and everybody is like.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
Attacking her on social media. This happened in twenty nineteen,
and if you go to her picture, like.

Speaker 8 (38:54):
Today she put a picture saying Happy Father's Day to
Steph Curry, attacking her. I don't get why women are
attacked on social media when it comes to relationships.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
Yet men Tiger Woods love him, cheats on his wife.
It's fine, No, it's okay. What's that guy? Nick Cannon
has twenty seven kids with.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Fifteen women, thirty eight.

Speaker 7 (39:12):
Nobody says thirty eight kids now thirty eight kids, Nobody
says anything women like.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
They're literally saying that she the meanest things coming from men,
that she's ruining her relationship, disrespecting Curry.

Speaker 7 (39:23):
This happened in twenty nineteen. They're still together, so y'all.

Speaker 8 (39:27):
Need to relax and mind your own business when it
comes to the curries.

Speaker 6 (39:31):
Yeah, yeah, they're ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
They did the whole thing with that though. They compared
to Savannah.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
Correct, yes, yes, And then they're comparing, they're saying that
she is a cheater, that she is just ruining his career.

Speaker 7 (39:44):
Y'all, relax, This happened in twenty nineteen. They're still together.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Everything's fine.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I'll tell you who's ruining what. It's the freaking Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
He's over the whole Savannah is about the Dodgers right now.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
But you're right, mind, see that's as well said there. Hey,
we'll circle back to Rob the hater Manfred in a
little while. But coming up, did this player make the
wrong deal? We will dive in momentarily. Oh, what's going on, everybody?
Did Beal make the wrong deal? That is on the way.
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should be okay, Kerry. So, according to Scham's Bradley Beal,
who is on his way to Phoenix, he was choosing

(40:39):
between the Sons, the Heat, the Bucks and the Kings. Okay,
so if you are in Bradley Beal's shoes, are you
choosing the Sons over the Heat, Bucks and Sacramento Kings?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Ooh, that's a good question. Who right, That's a tough,
tough one. I think the Kings are on the come up, right.
I think they're gonna lose possibly Harrison Barnes. I'm looking,
I've been seeing, I've been reading some stuff on that.
I mean, they're gonna lose some of the players from
that team possibly. So the Kings would be a nice

(41:17):
little chance to still kind of cement himself with a
team that hasn't done anything yet, right, they just made
the playoffs for the first time and forever, and so
to kind of join with that group and take a
swing at it and kind of cement your legacy there
as a player that put that team over the top,
that would be interesting. I mean, obviously, Miami's a choice

(41:40):
that you know a lot of people are saying this.
They're gonna say right now, coming off the success that
they had the run that they had deep in the playoffs, right,
But do I see them being that same team and
having that same run and having all the stuff happened
for them the way it did this upcoming season. You
never know. So you know, they were a mediocre team
all season, and you at Bill to that team, and

(42:02):
you know they could be They would have been fun
and they'd been fine, But I still don't think that
we'll put them over the top. So I would think
of saying, like the Kings would have been fun to try.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know, thinks like that's a It depends
on what you value, you know what I mean? If
you're thinking chance to win a championship legacy, how much
shine am I going to get if we do win it?
All Man Sacramento, they've been a doormat for a long time,
exc and if Bill went there and they won big,

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he would get a lot of credit for that. I
think Milwaukee would have been a great spot for him,
se him up with Giannis, a little one to two
combination there. I don't know what the trade package would
have looked like, and I don't know who would have
been left there. But if you've got Drew Holliday still there.
I don't know what happens to Middleton. You got to
give up something to get something, so I don't know
what the Bucks would have had to give up, But yeah,

(42:52):
I know Rihannis would have been there that much going anywhere.
So for that to be your running mate, that is
pretty attractive to me. He goes to Phoenix, and like
Monce said last hour, he's a third option over there.
It's KD and it is Devin Booker and your number three.
We talked about you celebrate Robin Carrie. I don't know

(43:14):
who's next in line. It's Batman, Robin. Who's the next person, uh, batgirl?
But yeah, Phoenix, something like that.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
But you know it's funny, Brian, it's he's going to
be the third option in Milwaukee as well, if they
didn't get rid of jew Holiday. I wouldn't take badly
Bill over ew Holiday m So you know, I mean
it's that maybe it's more of a one and then
it's Robin A.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, no, I hear you.
I think it's I don't think you would look at
it and say, you know, it's not a Phoenix thing
where he's clearly third in the package right right, right,
right right right with Drew Holliday. Like you said, I
think you're looking at two Way to Bye and you're
looking at like dual Robin rolls. Yeah, I think that's
a good spot. Here's my question. How much does like

(44:02):
Phoenix versus Milwaukee matter here? Because Milwaukee's not exactly tropical.
If you took the Bucks roster and that was in
Phoenix and the Sun's roster they were located in Milwaukee,
you know what I mean? Yeah, is Bill still going
to Phoenix?

Speaker 2 (44:22):
I think so what it looks like this is just
my own guesstimation here. I mean, obviously I know Bradley
Bill and Kevin Durant. They were very fond of each other.
So you know, it's always again the fit. Who are
you around? Are you comfortable around those people in that organization?
So I don't know if it's really really matters about

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the location. So, I mean, as much as we're thinking here,
but I would think it came down came down more
to the personal relationships.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Our trusted producer Bo Benson has something here.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
What you got both?

Speaker 9 (44:57):
Yeah, you know, I think it might come to out
of the fact that the Son CEO is the actual
son of Bradley Beal's agent. There you go, yeah, yeah,
that that might have something to do. I just keep
thinking about what it would look like if the Lakers
had traded for Bradley Beal and it came out that,
you know, Rob Polenko was the son of the agent

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for Bradley Beal. But the son that's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Too bad, too bad for you. Bo was not the case.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Both, you know, you know Bradley Beal, and it could
be Polenka's dad that that happen, you.

Speaker 9 (45:31):
Know, it could any any number of things.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah, I would go personally, if I was in Beal shoes,
I would go Team Milwaukee myself. I would link up
with the Honis and Company. You you go in Sacramento yourself, Carrie.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
I would go Sacramento just just for what I said,
just the lure of actually, you know, not joining the franchise.
Like I said, that hadn't really know any success. And
then you know, they have a little hint of it
this year and play really well in the playoff. And
then you add to that, you add to something that's
building and not something that's already been established for the
last couple of years and you feel like there's a

(46:07):
piece away or whatever, like Sacumento came out of nowhere
this year and Buda doors off expectations. Now you add
to that and in that place is crazy, crazy excited
about their team and the energy that that would infuse
into the organization would be huge.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, I'm so curious how he broke it down, like
what he really thought about and what swung his decision there.
Because what's interesting too is the Suns they don't have
a championship as a franchise. Nope, they don't have one,
and but they've been so good for a while, they've
been relevant for a while where I don't know, we

(46:45):
think of the Kings as like, oh gosh, man, if
you went there, what it would do for your legacy,
And it's true, but the Kings, right, they're very similar
to Phoenix in terms of like franchise success and even
the Kings they've got one, they've got one championship. But
the Kings, like recent run over the last fifteen plus years,

(47:07):
they've been so bad they finally made the playoffs what
was like a seventeen year drought or wherever whatever.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
It had been. I think, yes, seventeen eighteen years. Yeah,
it was a long time. And then you can only
only when you think about the Kings, you just go
back to that that the Weber Diva, Bibbie, yeah, Christy
all you know Jackson, those days rights so fun. It
was so fun to watch. And then from there Nco

(47:34):
remember he was there too. Yeah, they had a squad
man great times. But Phoenix pretty much every decade they've
had success though they just haven't won it. So you can,
ye know, you definitely, it's it's such a contrast and
in the belief system of what those two franchises have achieved.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Matzi brought up something that was interesting
about Kevin Durant and let's just say they win a championship. Okay,
they trade for Bradley Beal, they win a championship. Are
the naysayers going to be coming out of the woodwork saying, ah,
you couldn't get it done without Beal joining the squad

(48:13):
And you're gonna get some of that, But I don't
think it's going to be crazy allowed when you win
a championship with a second franchise, I really do think
I'll put it this way with Beal there, that's not
a roster like KD joining a seventy three win Warriors. No,
you know what I mean. So it's not the same,
and I don't think that you would get even close

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to the same kind of like eye rolling of oh,
you had to go there to win your championship. I
really don't think. I think you would get more props
than scrutiny if he wins it all.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, I think so. I think there's a certain vitriol
that comes with Kevin Durant's name right now. I mean,
and it's all stems from the Golden State time, right
you leave an OKC team that was up three to
one against against those Warriors and had a chance to
win on their own, and then you lose to that
team and you joined said team the next year. That's

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just it just left a nasty taste in so many
people's mouths, and so you have that kind of lingering
with him, and it's gonna always stayed with him forever.
But yeah, I don't think it'll be the same as
that in Phoenix if he wins, for sure.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah it was it was Hito Turkleu. I think I
jacked up his name, but that's who I was going.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Oh, yeah, yeah, well you said Carolinko.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yeah, I was like kid Turk Carolinko seven. Yeah, I
didn't mean Kerlinko. I met Turk Lou, but it kind
of came out kerlink I don't know. I think I
combined both their names.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
But anyway, I got it. I was with you.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
If Beio went to Sacramento, it might have been a
blast from the past in terms of those Chris Weber
days and being so close to a championship.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
And full that way. Man, that team was so fun.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Man, it was okay. So now here's another question for you.
So if Chris Paul has the choice, I don't know
how it's gonna go. Maybe he's bought out. His contract
is bought out in Washington, like Monci said, maybe there's
a third team that enters into this deal and they

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get Chris Paul. So, according to Chris Haynes, the Clippers
are expected to pursue a reunion with Chris Paul. But
let's just say Chris Paul has the option if he's
bought out with his Washington contract, he could go to
the Lakers. He could go to the Clippers. Which do
you think is the smarter option?

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I think it is the Clippers. I think it's the Clippers.
You know, history already told us that Chris Paul's never
going to the Lakers, so we can throw it out,
throw it out the window.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
No more, David Sturt exactly.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
So I would say the Clippers, man, I really feel
I mean, obviously that team doesn't stay healthy at all,
but if they have their compliment compliment of players all
together and really have a run at it, that team
is one of the most talented teams in the league
and association steal, so it'd be good. They've always talked
about having a natural point guard there. If they can

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get the point god Chris Paul there, I could see
it really working out.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Yeah, I just wish the dude could stay healthy when
it matters most. You know, and think about that, think
about all the injuries from If Chris Paul rejoins the
Clippers with Kawhi, with Paul George, it's the ultimate squad
of If they're on the court and healthy, yeah, they
could do major damage. But there's a better possibility all

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three of them won't be on the court.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
We'll all be wearing street that's the playoffs progress. Yeah,
it's tough. Where else would he go, though, I mean
where else would they be?

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Pretty much down to that, right, it's pretty much Lakers Clippers.
I think at this point, I really can't see him
going elsewhere. Who knows, there could be a curveball coming.
I think it comes down to those two, right, and
you'd go team Clippers.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
I'd go Clippers. Yeah for him? Yeah, I mean, I know,
you know, Lebron's guy, and you know all day and
a boat, you know, yeah, I do know. But yeah,
I mean just as far as if he's playing to
win a championship, I mean, I see the Clippers as
a more talented team.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Do you are Bo's eyes turning red right now? As
a diehard Lakers fan with me saying that, I.

Speaker 9 (52:23):
Mean, I don't know which one was in the Western
Conference Finals last year? Which team was that?

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (52:29):
Well, I think with with the thing like the Lakers
would sign him for a veteran minimum, like they wouldn't
be giving him any money. If the Clippers are going
to get him, they got a trade for him, and
he's got a huge contract, so I'm reading they would
have to send out twenty two point six million to
match his deal.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Oh wow?

Speaker 9 (52:43):
So they would have to send out some combo of
Eric Gordon, Marcus Morris, and Robert Covington, so they would
once again have to deal from their vaunted Clippers' depth yep,
to get a guy who's going to be hurt when
they need right.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Yeah, I'm not giving up that depth for Chris Paul.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 9 (52:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
If this is like the Wizard's trying to see if
the Lakers will trade for him so they can get something,
but I wouldn't trade. I wouldn't trade for Chris Paul.
The only way I would take him is if I'm
getting him for basically free.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I mean, the names you the names you just you
know said Covington didn't play, Morris is injured, he's done
now and then so I mean, at the end of
the day, it's not like you're losing two guys that
are going to play moving forward.

Speaker 9 (53:20):
It's it's just it's needing to match the salary.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who were the three that you rattled
off bow.

Speaker 9 (53:28):
Eric Gordon, Marcus Morris, and Robert Covington. I think Gordon
is the biggest Eric Gordons.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
There and Robert Covington he gave you some minutes here
and there.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yeah, down the stretch he was actually yeah, down to stretch.
He wasn't playing at all though, which is weird. Yeah,
it's weird.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Like your your depth is, man, that's a deep, deep squad.
It's all. It's like role reversal. Right, You're normally like
the Suns where your stars are going like KD and
Booker and then maybe the lack of depth bites you.
But with the Clippers it's the op. The depth is there,
it's rare and to go and it's like, we just
need our stars here in the stars are in stream cloaths.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
It's crazy. That's what makes the NBA so fun, man.
You really you can say all these things, and you
have all these prognoses and diagnoses of all the things
going on, but at the end of the day, if
you're not healthy, it just doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yeah. That's wild, man. You normally talk about that in football, yeah,
more than basketball, but it has it's been like a
war of attrition in the NBA lately. There's been some
huge injuries in the bow season that have swung things.
It's wild, all right, Coming up next, we got to
get to our guy Adam Kaplan FSR NFL Insider does

(54:40):
a tremendous job. There's a lot to talk about. We've
got Stefan Diggs drama in mini camp. Is that a
big deal or a little deal. We'll compare notes with
Adam Kaplan coming up. I'm Brian, No, he's Carry Rhodes.
It's uh. We're live here from the tirerack dot com studios.
Keep a locked right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm
Brian know he's roads here on Fox Sports Radio. We're

(55:01):
committee line from the tire rack dot Com studios. Please
to welcome in Adam Kaplan FSR NFL Insider. I don't
know this is becoming a tradition now, Cap, I ask
you about non NFL stuff. What is it today? Is
it a little baseball little US open you got going
on with NBA trade?

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Maybe ab trade?

Speaker 10 (55:19):
Yeah, that one's interesting because you know in the NFL
sometimes the facilitate to facilitate a trade the team that
have the player they want to get rid of, who's
got a massive contract. They'll take on some money. But
this is insane. I'm in fifty million a year and
Bills are good players. Just obviously one of the top ten,
top twelve shooting guards in the league. But to move

(55:41):
that money is just that that helps Washington because they're
clearly going to rebuild, and I kind of like that.
I get what Washington's doing and Fannings is all about
trying to get that ring.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
You know, I'll ask you a couple of NFL questions
here too, cap you know, like, how about Stefan Diggs
the drama during the week where I mean, it's June,
you know, it's not that big of a deal, But
when you look down the road, if they lose too
straight and they're going into week twelve, like there's drama
in June. You know what I'm saying, Like, do you

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think this could become a big deal when it does
matter down the road? He is known in coaching circles
as an emotional player.

Speaker 10 (56:21):
You know how he got his way out. He wanted
out of Minnesota going back to University of Maryland. Talked
to someone who worked for the foot operations over the years.
I remember saying that they were not sad to see
him leave. They were done with him at Maryland.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Look, and this.

Speaker 10 (56:35):
Guy Dig's byways a great football player, But think about
this as great as he is. He didn't go where
his talent told him a fit third round, maybe even second.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
He was a fifth round pick.

Speaker 10 (56:45):
Why they were concerns with him his attitude, maturing and
stuff like that. But yet I've talked to guys who
coached him or work with him over the years. They
love him because he's a baller, the guy wants to play.
He's a great football player, pretty good teammate. But he's
emotional and what he is like when he doesn't like something,
he doesn't always keep it in house, so to speak.
And this one if you saw, of course Josh Allen

(57:06):
trying to cover for him. But that's it's not good.
Like you said, it's good, it's if it's going to happen,
have it in June, but this cannot happen in training
camp for the regular season where you've got a real problem.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Yeah, I mean I could see that. I see step
On Diggs as being a guy that's very emotional. What
do you feel about the relationship between him, between him
and Josh right now? How are they working things that?
I know Josh came out and made some statements, but
has anything changed from that front?

Speaker 1 (57:30):
No? I mean, look, it's when you work with him.

Speaker 10 (57:33):
When you play with them, you know they're gonna be
there'll be a challenge during the season every once in
a while, but they from what I understand, they have
a pretty good relationship. Now, Josh should not talk about
what the issue was last season where there was a
communication issue now that they claim it's not football related,
but well, what could it possibly believe.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
It's not football related? It just doesn't make any sense
to me.

Speaker 10 (57:54):
And you know, their offense was not very good during
the playoffs. In fact, they really need to talk to
someone today. A team insider said, like, the offensive line
is the problem there. They've not done a good job
of drafting there. They've they've done a good job everywherewhere else,
but they just have not done a good enough job
in the interior. And that's something to take a look at.
But you know, the pressure is gonna be all with

(58:16):
the football team since you brought a Buffalo guys, they keep.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Getting to that doorstep, but they're not breaking through.

Speaker 10 (58:21):
They haven't they haven't gotten Super Bowl, haven't got to
the championship game, and you really have to wonder. I
get it, the Chiefs are their nemesis, but they barely
got by Miami in the first round last year.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
He's Adam Kaplan FSR NFL insider. So we don't know
who's going to be featured on Hard Knocks yet and
they're a warrant. Teams on the Jets would probably be
the most interesting, but it has to be. How about
this though, cap where the Detroit News reported that the
league reached out to the Lions to see if they

(58:50):
wanted to do it for a second straight year. So
which would be more entertaining to you? Would it be
the Lions for a second straight year or the Bears,
Saints or co.

Speaker 10 (59:01):
Oh yeah, come on in, I forget about because the
teams that you're ud are the ones that are eligible
that can't say no. So it barring something highly unforeseen.
The heavy money's on the Jets to get it because
of Rogers, because everybody expect them not. It'll be a
playoff team push the Bills for the AFC East could
do something in the playoffs, and they're a fascinating team.

(59:22):
They've got a dynamic young head coach and Robert Sala.
They've got a good football team. The expectations are high.
Talking to them, they love having Rogers. How could it
not be Now. I did see I did happen to
see a lot of hard knocks last summer. Dan Campbell's awesome.
Duce Staley, the former running back coach who's now with
the Panthers, same job. He was great with Aaron Glenn,
the defensive coordinator. They were great and by the way

(59:44):
they pushed, they were right out on the doorstep of
the playoffs. But I just don't see any scenario where
it won't be the Jets. And remember, the league will
make the call here and if you're HPO, you absolutely
want the Jets, and plus are a huge media market,
as I think our friend here is doing the show.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Do you know that that is correct, Adam. I was
about to say, when you guys talk about the Jets,
you say Carrie's Jets.

Speaker 10 (01:00:05):
That's the It was a cardinal way it was coming
to your team is the Cardinals and Jets with that looking.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Right, that's it? Yeah? Ok, yeah, yeah, so you gotta
always say carries Jets first. But no, we can't have
you on, Adam and not talk about Philly. What's going
on in Philly right now? We know Jalen just got
the new contract, and you know a lot of things
are happening with that, But I mean the noise surrounding
that organization is just how much they love the guy
and how great of a leader he is. Can you

(01:00:31):
comment on that a little bit?

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Yeah, you know, it's a great story carry with this player.

Speaker 10 (01:00:34):
This is a player that and I've covered this business
now twenty one years. Yeah, cover the entire league, not
just Philly, except I'll live here, so I have an
expertise in it. But I just can't remember a team
drafting a backup quarterback in the second round. Now, the
way it works is you never drafted back from the
second round, no matter what position it is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
But remember he was drafted in twenty twenty.

Speaker 10 (01:00:56):
Carson wentz Ha just signed his extension nine months before that, right,
and talking to the Eagles, No, they they thought that
if it worked out well with once his injury history,
maybe Jalen Hurts starts four to five games and a
guy you you might have gone up against the Eagles
got played the same. Now, they didn't draft this guy
in the same round, but A J. Pheeley might remember him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
A J.

Speaker 10 (01:01:17):
Feeley I think was a fifth round pick out of Oregon.
He McNabb got hurt and he had to play and
played really well, and Egles flipped Phelly for a second
round pick.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
That was their thought process with Hurts, right, because.

Speaker 10 (01:01:29):
The Eagles have they've spent money, and they've they've they've
drafted quarterbacks over the year, so they're thinking, was, Okay,
let's this draft Hurts. If he needs to play, hope
the tape is good and we'll flip in for a
second by the end of his contract. And who knew
that once it would go south. It's just sometimes you
get lucky. And part of it is they got lucky.
But I know the owner, by the way, Jeffrey lewis
heavily involved in that decision to draft Hurts, and it

(01:01:51):
was it was definitely controversial.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
I'll let you know what before we move on. Here
is interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:01:55):
So I was I was home during work, doing work,
doing the draft and so on. A personnel with another
team texted me. He said, I don't believe it, with
explanation commation points. And I was not watching and I
turned to my television. I just couldn't even process it.
I was in total shock because I know what that
means when you draft a quarterback of the second round

(01:02:16):
that guy's got to start and that was one of
the most shocking things when it comes from a Nagal standpoint,
that they did that. But look, sometimes you get lucky. Yeah,
that's crazy. It worked out. It worked out great for them.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
How about this cap where there was an interesting back
and forth between Jamar Chase, Bengals receiver and Patrick Mahomes
where Jamar Chase just put he just said Pat who
and then Mahome I didn't see that picture. Yeah, he
tweeted a picture with his championship rings. It just wrote
that's who. I started thinking, like right here, right now,

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not historically, but more so twenty twenty three Chiefs Bengals.
Where are they in the packing order of great rivalries?

Speaker 10 (01:02:57):
It's up there because you've got to the best quarterback
to the national football He got one and then maybe
either two or three. The Bengals have finally started to
build their offensive line, their defense is better. It's it's
the Chiefs that any Reid and Mahomes are one of
the best head coach quarterback tandems in NFL history.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
But Burrow now is really he's right up there. He's elite.
They've got this thing turnaround. It didn't look great.

Speaker 10 (01:03:20):
When Zach Taylor became the head coach, people around the
league were wondering the defense was awful. But they've got
it going on now. Now they've lost some players. Now
they've they've definitely lost some players on defense, so that
wears you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
But they're right there. They're just the Chiefs are a
little bit better.

Speaker 10 (01:03:33):
And the thing that so impressive last season with the
Chiefs was, and I'll admit it, without tyrak Kill, I
just didn't think they could do it. But Andy Reid
found another way to manufacture points. That's really what they did.
That a lot of shifting motions, a lot of by
the way, a lot of not only two tight ends,
they did three tight end sets, which is not Andy
Reid's background, but they had to figure out another way

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to Jimmy rig the offense. And I give any Reek credit,
who's a Hall of Fame head coach, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Right, we talk about the AFCNNE individually. As you know,
the AFC has more powerhouses up top that seem like
they are ready to contend or contenders, right, But in
NFC we have Philly and then fill in the blank
of who are those top three four teams that can
compete with Philly in the Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:04:16):
And look, the thing with the Niners is Rock Purty
now talking to them, they feel he's gonna be ready
for training camp, whatever that looks like, whether he's gonna
be limited or not, he definitely they believe will be
ready for the season.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Minnesota's going to drop off.

Speaker 10 (01:04:27):
They've had a lot of free agent losses and the
cut Dalvin Cook. They overchieved, guys, they set an NFL
record with most wins in the fourth quarter. It's just
crazy what they did. But they're not going to make
the playoffs. Tampa Bay without Brady. The teams that I
think are going to take a big jump is Detroit's
my breakout team. We always try to find that one
team no one talks about. Detroit would have been in

(01:04:48):
the playoffs. If you remember, they beat Green Bay a
Sunday night football. But what happened was in Week eighteen
the Rams outplayed the Seahawks. Seahawks got the benefit of
several calls which went their way. But I'm gonna pick
Detroit as that team to make the playoffs to win
not necessarily well, you know what, I probably would pick
them as off now to win the NFC North, but

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they'll get obviously, if they do that, they'll get in
the playoffs, and then they're going to be one or
two teams that no one's talking about, like the Panthers
and Bryce Young. If Young is healthy, he's so talented,
they could be a wild card potentially. And by the way,
that the the NFC South now without Brady. Remember the
Bucks won that division at eight and nine, so that
division's wide open.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Yeah right, wow, isn't that crazy? Hey, Cap? Great stuff? Man,
hope you enjoyed the rest of your Sunday. Guys, same
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Thank you. There he is Adam Kaplan FSR NFL Insider.
We got to talk some ball here around the corner
carry I mean goodness, we're starting to break down the NFC.
But that's an interesting topic. Is there're gonna be a
couple of surprise teams in the NFC because it's just
not top heavy. You got a couple of teams and

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is wide open for like four other teams to make
the playoffs. So we'll compare notes on that in a second.
First though, Manzi Bolangos with the latest, do we have
just a crazy Dodgers comeback on the horizon. Is that.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
A little bit? Why why would you start with that?

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Ryan?

Speaker 6 (01:06:17):
Come on, I need it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I need it, Barlow, I.

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
Need it for just my sanity. But it's not working
out for either of us. No, the Giants are still
beating the Dodgers in La.

Speaker 8 (01:06:28):
It's seven to two. It's the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Dodgers have a man on first and second, but
they're down to their final two outs. Freddy Freeman right now,
maybe he can do a three run homeer, make this interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Come on, no, he just greway. Oh, it's an era
though an area.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Let's goas loaded.

Speaker 8 (01:06:46):
Let's go it's all right, all right, Maybe we need
to do try to do play by play between the
two of us and give the Giants some bad luck here.
The Padres are still beating the best team in baseball,
the Rays.

Speaker 7 (01:06:57):
Five to two, top of the eighth inning in San Diego.

Speaker 8 (01:06:59):
The Guardians have been on fire against the diamondback sits
twelve to three bottom of the sixth inning in Arizona,
and the Phillies are holding on to their lead over
the A's. It's three to two, top of the ninth inning.
They are playing in Oakland. But the final round of
the US Open continues and the leaders have finally teed Ah. Finally,
Wyndham Clark is alone in the lead eleven under par

(01:07:22):
through four holes, Rory McElroy one shot back, Ricky Fowler
now two shots back, and Scottie Scheffler is at seven
under par through four holes.

Speaker 7 (01:07:31):
So this is the final round. We will have a
winner at some point. It might be nighttime, it might
be dark outside. I don't know, but we will eventually
have a winner.

Speaker 8 (01:07:38):
And the big story in the NBA, the Wizards are
sending Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for
Chris Paul Andrey Shammon, multiple second round picks and some pickswaps,
but this deal is not official. They're looking for a
possible third team to be a part of the trade
that would give Chris Paul a chance to land with
a contender. That contender could be my LA Clippers as

(01:07:59):
ridiculus us as this is at least I can bring
out my Chris Paul jersey again from the Clippers. It
was that season where they wore T shirts.

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
Remember that season?

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
I hate.

Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
Well, I like it.

Speaker 8 (01:08:12):
I like this, so I have the blue Powder Blue
Clipper t shirt. Chris Paul Jersey, So at least if
he comes back, I can rock that again.

Speaker 7 (01:08:22):
It's that tape and I'm gonna put a four.

Speaker 8 (01:08:27):
If that happens, I will be so so upset. And Brian,
you guys were talking about what I said about Kevin
Durant and the Sons, and you were like, I don't
think it's going.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
To diminish his legacy. Here's my thing with that.

Speaker 8 (01:08:37):
I agree when he went to the Warriors, that's the
worst thing he did, of course, of course, But I
think this is this was an opportunity to prove that
you and Booker could do it together.

Speaker 7 (01:08:47):
Chris Paul got hurt.

Speaker 8 (01:08:48):
And I'm going to give it to you that you
guys didn't have enough time to figure it out. You
need some time to gel and to get each other's
style of play.

Speaker 7 (01:08:56):
With this, it's like, Oh, you can't do it alone,
really cannot. That's how I look at it. But you're right,
the Warriors.

Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
Were like the worst thing he could have done for
his legacy to join the team he couldn't beat.

Speaker 7 (01:09:09):
He was like, Oh, you're so good, I'm gonna go.

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
Play with you instead.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
He took your ball. I'll come join your.

Speaker 7 (01:09:14):
I'll come join you know, that's the worst thing. I
agree with that. I just think you could have proved
us that you and Booker could have done it together.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
You know, I hear you. I think there's something about
doing it with a second franchise at the Huge. You
get four Brownie points for that.

Speaker 7 (01:09:29):
Yeah, but you know, Kevin Durant.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
We'll see, We'll put it this way. He'd happily sign
up for a championship even with Beale, and he'd deal
with a.

Speaker 7 (01:09:39):
Yeah, he don't care how he wins. He does care
about what people say, Yes he does. He does care,
but he doesn't care how he went.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Absolutely. Okay, Bonsie, let's get let's rally and get five
fronts at least, let's go. I say it this way, Carrie,
my June eighteenth Dodgers. I'm not a Dodgers fan. I'm
a Cardinals fan. Gambling on the Dodgers here, Carrie, So
they're my June eighteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Listen, Brian, I get it. I got into the uh,
you know, the parlay stuff a little bit here recently
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
And there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
And the track record is not that pretty you'll you'll
win one and think you're like on a hot streak.
All of a sudden, the next thing you know is
a drought. Yeah, it's a drought.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
And I know it's not a wise way. That's why.
I just it's subtle dabbling. It's not anything major.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
On the Dodgers tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
It's just not a way to make a consistent living.
You'll win some here and there, yeah, but it's that
last leg that will mess with you. Winning day though, Carrie,
winning day. If the freaking Dodgers just took care of business,
it would be a a mega day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
It would be a big day, megad Let's go Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
Come on, come on. If we look at the NFC
for a second here, Carrie, outside of look at the
top teams, right, Philly Niners would have to be in
the mix. I think the Cowboys are up there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
They're up there. Yeh.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Very talented team. It's why open from that point on. So,
like Adam Kaplan talking about the NFC South, I'm not
saying any of these teams are gonna win at all,
gonna win a title, ye, but what if Bryce Young
plays well in his rookie season, Derek Carr should be
better than everybody they've had last year in New Orleans.
What if desbon Ritter's pretty good with the Falcons. All

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three of those teams have legitimate shots to be playoff teams.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Yeah, I think the NFC South is going to go
through the Saints. I think they're really good defensively already,
they have weapons. Michael Thomas is coming back. I think
Derek Carr will be a stabilizer there and give them
a chance to at least, you know, you know, compete
and be solid. So I think they will be the
team to beat in that division. But also Carolina defense

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is no joke as well, And like I mean, everybody's
really rallying around Bryce Young. He's just I hope he
stays healthy because he is the most talented passer I've
seen come in in college in the draft this year.
So to see him get chance to lead a team
and lead that defense and run the ball, which they will,
they have a chance as well. It's it's wide open though,

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And even with Philly, I'm obviously they're the front runner
right now. But for some reason, I don't know, it's
something about them that I can't I tend to jump
off that bend wagon with them. I don't know why.
It's something about them that keeps me a little on
edge about thinking they're going to get a chance to
go back to the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Really, okay, there is you're not quite bought in with
not quite?

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Yeah, it's one great year.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
You want to see it again.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
I want to see it again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
There's anything wrong with that? And he had a tremendous year,
there's no doubt, but hey, if we're keeping it with Philly,
Carson Wentz was on track to win the MVP and
then had his torn acl right, right, Jalen Hurts was
on track to win MVP and then he had the
injury against the Bears. And it seems ridiculous to even
think Jalen Hurts could start to regress like Carson Wentz.

(01:13:00):
It's happened before in the NFL. Right, it has happened before.
So I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to
see him run it back. How about this? Think about
going into last year, what we said and how wrong
we turned out to be. We thought, okay, clearly it's
gonna be the top three teams. It's gonna be Tampa
with Tom Brady, right, it's gonna be the Rams who

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are the defending champs. It's gonna be the Backers. Yes,
nobody made the playoffs. Well I'm sorry, Tampa squeaked in
eight and nine. Yeah, Rams were five and twelve. Packers
didn't make the playoffs. So think about the top three
teams that most people would say heading into this year
in the NFC, Eagles, Niners, I think most people would

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say Cowboys. Of those three, can you see anyone just
completely falling off like the Rams or Green Bay and
not making the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
I think that possibility would be San Francisco. As good
as they are, and they're one of the teams that
I really I mean even in these past few years
when they didn't win it or you know, they were
right there fighting for positioning to get to that place.
They're so talented, so well coached in all the things,
but they seem to stay injured. And we talked about

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injuries in the NBA earlier in the earlier segment, but
to see San Francisco never is healthy at the right times,
and they always seem to have the key injuries when
when it matters the most. So they would be the
team that I would say would fall out of those
out of those three, but I don't. I don't think
that's gonna happen, But that would be the one I
would pick.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Interesting, what about you ran? You know, I think that
the Niners are a candidate because I'm not convinced they
have a franchise quarterback yet. Right Rock Birdy exceeded expectations,
but a lot of times he was throwing the wide
open targets, Like, I don't know that he is that
guy going forward. I don't know if they deal Trey Lance.

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They haven't had it solidified where they for sure have
a franchise QB. If you don't have that, then things
can go south pretty quickly. And they've had some big
time injuries. So yeah, I think the Niners are a candidate.
I think that the Eagles are a candidate. They're such
a deep, deep team. Though, I'll put it this way,
I would be surprised if any of the three didn't

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make the playoffs. But like we just saw it last year, happen.
It's the NFL. Crazy stuff happens, all right. The Dodgers lose,
I will uh, they whine around the corner, Yeah, whine
about who was this left? Fielder today. We'll get into that,
but also the main part of this. The goat in
one area, but a goat in another. That's on the way.

(01:15:41):
I'm Brian, He's Carrie Rhoades. Keep it locked right here
on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian. No, he's Carry Rhoades.
Here on Fox Sports Radio. We're coming to you, Lave
from the tirec dot Com studios. So the dream is dead, Carrie,
the dream is dead of a Dodgers comeback did not
work out. They lost last league of my parlay didn't work.
So this one guy, if you're scoring at home, David Peralta,

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the left fielder today, he was an agent against my parlay.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
You hate it. Hate those guys, right, you start disliking
players because they I.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Don't want to dislike this guy. Brief recap. So it
was a scoreless game. There's a fly ball to left field. Okay,
there are runners at the corners. He catches the ball
in foul territory. The runner at third tags up, he scores,
the runner at first, he goes to second. There's the
wrong play. Should have just let it go. So the
guy at second, he eventually scores. That's what started off

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on the wrong foot, So the Dodgers are they're running
up hill at that point. Then fast forward to the
end of the game. Carry Dodgers are trailing seven to three,
but the bases are loaded one out Peralta's at bat,
he's struck out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Yeah, he was definitely alerted that you're really close to
winning and took it upon himself to derail your dreams.
That's what happened, he did. We're gonna stick with that
storyam Killer.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Right, how about this? The dream is over for Michael
Jordan as an NBA team owner. Now, he did pocket
a nice chuck of change. He bought in for two
hundred and seventy five million dollars. He's selling his majority
stake of the Charlotte Hornets for three billion dollars. So
that nice little gain right there for him, Jay, a

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little bit, nice little bump right there. Didn't win a
playoff series in thirteen years. Now here's the thing, Carrie.
It's one thing to win championships. It's another thing to
not even be remotely freaking close to championships. And you
said earlier that you're a Bulls fan in that era,

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and I'm from South Bend. It's only about ninety miles
away from Chicago. I loved the nineties Bulls. I loved
the Bulls before the nineties. Believe it or not. Oh wow,
but Jordan, I love the dude as a player, But
you gotta call a spade a spade as a team owner,
not one playoff series win in thirteen years. Sorry, as

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far as that goes, it's an epic failure.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
It's a very epic failure. It also proves that you
can have a win in mentality as a player, and
that can be not advantageous for you as an owner
or a coach. I mean, we've seen that happen plenty
of times. But you know, the mindset of being the killer,
being the guy taking the big swings and missus as

(01:18:29):
a player can work out for you, but there's a
whole that's a whole, totally different skill set when it becomes,
you know, being an owner or a manager or somebody
in that type of position where you have to manage
other people and other things outside of what you do best,
which is you being that killer and getting it done.
So it's a totally different mindset and a lot of

(01:18:51):
times we've seen that that doesn't work out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
I just think you gotta be consistent, you know with
what if you're talking about sports, and what would you
say if we've got a new team owner with the Broncos,
you know what I mean? If they don't win one
playoff game in thirteen years, that's unacceptable, you know. So
you can't give me this sugarcoating with Jordan when they

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didn't win one playoff series in thirteen years. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
Yeah, no, I'll agree with you. It is one of
the most epic fails for somebody that's so accomplished that
I've ever seen. For sure. Yeah, that's no doubt about that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Yeah, in the spotlights even greater just because of him
being the goat as a player, you know what I mean.
It makes the ownership failure appear even worse. All right,
Coming up next, I've got three candidates for you. Okay,
awful awful comments. Who had the worst of the three comments?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Though?

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Oh what's going on everybody? Okay, I've got three candidates
for you. Who made the worst comment of the three?
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(01:20:12):
rhoades Man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
Oh oh, oh, I hear it coming out. I hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
We got some comments over here, and oh baby, let
me just prepare you not top shelf in terms of
where you'd say, Man, great point, right, that was insightful
insightful analysis. Okay, this would kind of be the opposite
of that. Okay, all right, so I want you to
come up with the worst of the three.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
We'll start off with Carl Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
He's a guest on the Pat Bev podcast, okay, and
he had this to say about remember when the Minnesota Timberwolves.
This was last year, not this past season, but before that.
So they won their play in against the Clippers, and

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they were celebrating like it was one shining moment. Oh
I remember that. I do got on the scorer's table.
Pat Bev threw his jersey into the crowd. It was
a whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Somebody said this is for you. I heard that. I think.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
There were tears shed the whole thing. They went on
and lost in a gentleman's sweep in the first round
to the Grizzlies. So Cat is comparing that run quote
unquote to the Nuggets just winning a championship. So check
this out from Cat.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
It was more special what we did in Minnesota because
we had.

Speaker 10 (01:21:36):
What like a month and then we had training camp
and it was like, you better figure it all out
right now, and we really figured it out quick.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Think about it. They have what's been the leading for years.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
If you think about you four years.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
We gotta done it all months.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Wow, got what done?

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
They want to play in game and then got bounced
in a gentleman's sweep.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Cat's Cat's in the interesting Cat. Yeah, he's one of
those guys that really believes in himself, which he should.
He is a good player. But I mean he's a
little delusional. It's one of the things. This isn't the
only thing he said. He said something prior to this too.
You know again, I'm a Dallas Maverick fan. He said
he was the greatest shooting the greatest shooting big man

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in history. So this isn't out of the norm for him.
This is things that he really believes. That's the part
that's crazy about it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
For me, here's the portion you're talking about, Carrie. Check
this out, Karl Anthony Towns.

Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
Are you the best shooting big man of all times?

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
To finish the rest of the question.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
So I've scratched by. I'm trying to think big man
in Dallas? Who who could that have been? Carrie? Huh yeah,
might have had a signature sort of step back, one
leg in the air.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Got a statue already, They've.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Got his silhouette on the court.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Still it is on the court. You have people now
attempting that move like he they're adding that move to
it to their arsenal Right, cat is and even cat
he does it. So the fact that he said that,
it's just it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
It is crazy, Dirk. It was an unbelievable shooting big man. Now,
this was the final one from Kat again on the
Pat BEV podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
Here, I feel like there's gonna be people who are
gonna say, you know that I changed the game, and
I'm going to be very appreciative of that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Everything's up for stipulation.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
And you know what I like to say is that
no matter when think, when this is all over, that
there's gonna be kids coming up saying that they're gonna
be able to play a different way because I played
in NBA and did it a different way, meaning lose.
Is that what he means? Because that would I would
be on board with that. I would be like, kids,

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how do you lose? How do you have a lot
of talent and you can do all these things but lose?
And then that would make sense to me. So other
than that, No, Brian don't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Yeah, no, that's a stretch. How about this? Kendricklkins on
first take, responding to Cat this is this is beautiful.

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
How can you change the game when at times we
don't even.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
Know you exist?

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
It is That's what I'm saying in a more polite
way than Kenji Perkins just said.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
That's right, That is right. Okay, So put that on
the shelf for a second.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
I don't want Carl. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
That's candidate number one. It's Karl Anthony Towns everything that
you just heard. Candidate number two, Jamar Chase Bengals wide receiver.
Now here's the deal, here's the backstory. So Joe Burrow,
Bengals quarterback. He was asked about who's the best quarterback
in the NFL right now. So Joe Burrow said, I
don't think there's any argument right now, it's Pat. Until

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somebody has a better year than he's had, he's the
one to knock off, right Okay, So Joe Joe Burrow says,
it's Patrick Mahomes. This is Jamar Chase being asked to
say same question. Who's the best quarterback in the NFL?
Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Everybody knows that VP, he said, who who? I like that?
I actually like that one though, Brian, That's one of
those one. It's just you know, it's you know, it's
just competitive competitive bands and're just having fun. Then that

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that could fly. That's that just adds fuel to the
to the ongoing rivalry right now. And man makes it fun.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
It does make it fun in this rivalry. I'm telling
you it. It's just been the last couple of years.
But Chiefs Begals ever go to the amusement park and
take like the speed pass to the ride.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
I do it all the time. That's my So we're
doing with this rivalry.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
We're taking the speed pass to this Bengals Chiefs with
burrow Heads Stadium and AFC Championship game matchups and like
it's been tremendous what's going on between them.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
And the games are so competitive though, so it's it's
been such a beautiful, beautiful start of something that can
go for the foreseeable future. And so you see those
guys and you have such star players on each side,
you have you know, organizations that you know, obviously at
this point in time, are you know, one of the
top two in football. So you get a chance to

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compete at a high level. You have the talking going on,
you have the games actually adding to the game to
the talk, and it's just it's beautiful. It's a beautiful
thing it is.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
And you're right as far as this who like the
pat who that's tongue in cheek more than anything. You know,
he knows that Patrick Mahomes is not Nathan Peterman out there.
I hope sounds some fun, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, but
I will look sideways at him even though he's vouching
for his own guy. And I get it. You can't
say that Joe Burrow is better than Patrick Mahomes right now.

(01:26:55):
You just can't. Even if you're a Bengals wide receiver.
That just it factually doesn't make sense at this.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a stretch, but it's also again,
it's just fun. Brian and they and you know, obviously
this guy has two championships and he can be MVP
every year moving going forward. So yeah, that's yeah, that's
just fun. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Candidate number three over here, we take you to the
Oakland A's in this saga. They're moving, they're moving to
Las Vegas. It's happening, and there was a reverse boycott
during the week. Yeah, so what what the heck does
this mean? So the Oakland A's fans, they were boycotting
the A's. They can hardly draw anybody. They've been under

(01:27:39):
ten thousand fans on average for the last three years. Okay,
so they're boycotting the team because ownership won't put money
into the franchise. You know, they're shipping off their good players.
So the fans say, we're boycotting. And then for one
night during the week on Tuesday against the Rays, they
said reverse boycott. Here, Carrie, they showed up. Almost twenty

(01:28:03):
eight thousand fans were there and they were loud and
they had some fun. So that's the backdrop. Marcus Thompson
is a fantastic columnist at The Athletic. He covers Bay
Area sports. He really does a sensational job. But he
screwed up. He's talking about the reverse boycott. He was

(01:28:25):
there and he was, you know, taking part in it
and taking it all in. And he wrote this. He
wrote just basically a fluff piece about the Oakland A's
fan base, and YadA YadA. This was the one line
that caught my attention. What A's fans can bring? What
was on display at the reverse boycott simply cannot be

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duplicated in this nation.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Oh my god, in the nation.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
Hey, can't be duplicated in the nation. What trying twenty
eight thousand loud fans? Really, you can't find that anywhere
nowhere in this great nation of ours.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
Brian, when you get caught up in the moment, people
say things and do certain things, you know that, you know,
you get elevated to this euphoric stance. And that was
his stance on it. He thought that that could never
be replicated or duplicated. And I just don't think that's true.
But man, I know that's not true. It's like actually
untrue right there. So now we get to this the votes.

(01:29:28):
We gotta tabulate the votes. Here, you can go with
Karl Anthony Towns ye and.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
His run last year like through the play in game
to a first round gentleman sweep out of the playoffs,
being better than the Nuggets just winning a championship. And
by the way, the Nuggets went sixteen and four in
their run here, swept the Lakers along the way a
couple of gentlemen sweeps of their own beat the Sons

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in six There's there's Jamar Chase talking about Pat Who
and then there's Marcus Thompson saying that can't be duplicated
in this nation what we saw with the first boycott.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Voting for it just makes me laugh. But you know
who I'm voting for. I stand very firmly against what
called Anthony Towns has set out of his mouth a
couple of times, and so he wins from me. What
would be yours? What would be your your yours?

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Out of those stories, man, it is I'm telling you,
it's a photo finish. It really is. Between Karl Anthony
Towns and Marcus Thompson. I just I have to go
with Marcus Thompson. It's so Carrie, it's so wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Bryan, but he was called but he was called up
in the moment, right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:56):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
I think he's been thinking about that for a while man,
that he really believes that. And so that's the part
that makes it so infuriating for me, Like, you be
confident in yourself one hundred, but when it's borderline delusional
and you say these things on multiple occasions, there's something

(01:31:18):
wrong there.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
You know what happens here? This is what it really
comes down to. You need no men in your life,
you know what I mean, Like you always have like
these yes men, yes, you need no men and women
in your life. That will just be like, no, that's
not right, that's not true.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Exactly, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
Because Karl Anthony Towns, he's doing the podcast with Pat Bev,
who's basically Flavor Flav to his Chuck d.

Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
That's ggster Carl. Yeah, absolutely, no doubt. And the same
thing with Marcus Thompson, who he's writing basically a love
letter to Oakland A's fans, and they're like, right on, Marcus,
you got it. That's right on the buddy, you need
no men in your life.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I agree with you. I agree with that. That's the
part that just if Carlyon Towns was on my show.
I keep going to carl any town I'm sorry, but
if he was on my show and he said that,
I would literally challenge that or say something like don't
agree with that. You know that's not true. Pat bav So,
I actually I partially blame Pat bab here for agnet on.

(01:32:28):
I know he wants ratings on the show. I know
he wants it to probably be outlandish, but come on, man,
if that was your boy, you would not let him
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
Yeah that's uh yeah, this was also you know, let's
get a little Pat Bevan here. Listen to what he
was saying. As far as who's the best big man
in the NBA, I have.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
My personal intake of who I think the best five
man is. Right. Conversation was Pat, who you played you
played with Kat, you played against him, b you play against?

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
Ok?

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
Who you think the best big man is? Right? And
I go, y'all not go like my ass?

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
They no, no, no, for.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Real, Pat, Like just like we're talking basketball talk, not
like Pat talking basketball time. I'm all right, cool, cat,
see what see my man? When it comes to like
offensively gifted players, I say, man, it's two people, bro,
it's it's Cat and this James Hard and I think
I got Cat one.

Speaker 6 (01:33:25):
He yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
See, I told you right, he'sging it on exactly like.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
Yeah, yeah, Cat, and you're that guy, You are that guy.
How can you play against Joker? You just we just
watched what he's doing on the offensive end, and also Embiid, Like,
how can you even say that much? Like, well rounded,
it's certainly not Cat, but how can you even say
just on the offensive end, he's the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
Because he played with him one and he probably wants
to go back. That would be the only reasoning behind
that at all. I mean, obviously it's Embeid and Joker.
It's not even close. Carson Towns is like I said,
he's a good player. So this is not a knock.
He is not any in any fashion form change in

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the game.

Speaker 11 (01:34:17):
No, no, no, he's no. And that's the problem is
what it uh was Jeff Van Gundy once said, comparison
is the thief of joy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Oh yeah, that's a great line.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
That's a great one.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
But Karl Anthony Town's doing this like he's putting himself
in a position to look worse. We're like, dude, you're
actually good. If you're you're selling it differently than we're
behind you. But if you're like I'm better than all
these other guys, it's like, no, you're not. No.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
And this man just won a championship doing putting up
numbers that have never been we've never seen before. Right,
it's just not the right time.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Yes, timing matter. Two time. MVP just won a finals MVP,
and it's like our run was better. And yeah, kat,
you are the best big met wow in bad timing,
man bad all right, come it up next. An indecent
proposal that will absolutely gain your attention.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
You got your attention.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Oh, it'll do even more around the corner. I'm Brian
know he's carry Roads keep it locked right here on
Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian. No, he's carry Rhoads here
on Fox Sports Radio. We're coming to you live from
the tire rack dot Com studios. Man, I ran across
this story here, Carrie, and let me just tell you
I was not anticipating it today. But the Vegas Golden Knights,

(01:35:47):
they want a championship in hockey, won the Stanley Cup
final just within the last week, and according to TMZ Sports,
there is now this is a Sunday, so ear muff
to the people here that I don't want to hear
something a little adult. But there is a licensed sex
worker by the name of Alice Little, and she is

(01:36:08):
offering something that is attention grabbing. I guess you would
say to the Vegas Golden Knights. She said, we here
in Sin City love the Golden Knights more than life itself.
I cannot express in words the joy I feel now.
The team won their first ever Stanley Cup, so I'm
going to express it through my actions. So she said

(01:36:32):
that her and some of her co workers, if you will,
they are willing to treat the Knights to any and
every carnal delight. They're offering a free orgy, is what
they're doing. Is Oh, that's the offer right now? Now,
this girl, Alice Little, you might remember this story as well.

(01:36:54):
She and fellow sex worker Caitlin Bell, they offered Jimmy
Garoppolo when he signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in March.
They offered him free sex for life. Is what the.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
Hey? That's that? Was that? Like in small print under
the contract?

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
Yeah, Jimmy the footage. Yeah, when they found out the
foot injury and he needed surgery, It's like Jimmy, we've
got to rework this offer for free, uh you know.

Speaker 12 (01:37:26):
Right free, uh hey, pleasant life, pleasant for life. Yeah, yeah,
that's very very forward and uh yeah, a little scary
and uh a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Yeah, it's it's a lot of things. I can think
of quite a few more things to say about it,
but it's yeah, that is the least interesting thing that
happened with the Golden Knights. I'm sure. I'm sure they
got other things that are on on on tap right now.
So we'll slide the man right, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:37:56):
That's when you win a championship, there are you have
access to new things in life.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
We'll just put it that way, right, you do, and
you just again hopefully make the right decision.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
Nights, right, that's right, think about the next night, nights.
You know, it's not just about tonight, all right, how
about this Iowa Sam was with this technical director for
the first two hours. Our guy John Ramos with us
right now. But what we did in the first hour
here at Carrie Rhodes you mentioned that you were born
on August second, and so we did a little bit

(01:38:30):
of digging. Bo Benson did his due diligence also, and
we came up with a list of some athletes and
some people in the entertainment world that share the same
birthday as you. Okay, let's hear it. August second. Okay,
we've got Dustin Hoffman.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
Great actor. Yes, Sir Matthew Perry was on Friends. Jason Momoa,
he's doing his thing. Was in the Last Fast and
Furious movie. Looks like he works out nine times a day,
twelve twelve, twelve times a day. Yeah. James Headfield are
you a metal guy? Metallica's lead singer slash guitarist, born

(01:39:09):
the same day as you.

Speaker 11 (01:39:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Wow, some some really good people. They're they're they're right
there neck and neck with me. It's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
Yeah. There's James Baldwin yep, the author. And uh, we've
got I used to do radio on Fox Sports Radio
with this guy, Cedric Sobalos. My guys, yeah, same birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Wow. Yeah, said from my Arizona days. Man said, hooked
up a couple of times and and just uh, you know,
seeing seeing him and see where he came from me.
I know he got sick a little bit here. Yeah,
well yeah, yep, yeah, he was in the hospital for
a while for a while Yeah, he was hurt, hurting.
It was scary, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
Also Grady Sizemore, remember the center fielder. Oh yeah, for Cleveland. Yes,
he was born on August second as well.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
The second is a good day, man, pretty good, really
good day. Yeah. What about you? Did we find what
we got?

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
There are a few? How about this November fourth? We
always also mentioned des Bryant. Throw up the x P
Diddy take that?

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Take that?

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
Okay, Matthew McConaughey, Wow, yeah, all right, that's right, Walter Cronkite.
We need a little bit of you know, we need
someone distinguished on the same day. Emma Stone.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Oh wow, you got a nice birthday as well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
Pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty solid. And our guy Bo
Benson he was born. He's got the same birthday as
Snoop Dogg and Tom Petty among others. The heartward Breakers, Yeah,
heart Breakers October twentieth for bo Benz October twentieth.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Wow. So if we were comparing those three, the people
and the dates, which one's the most impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
I'm a metal guy, so you and James Hetfield, I'm
telling you that that matters. That absolutely matters. But I
feel like the trio of Diddy, McConaughey, and Emma Stone.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
Pretty powerful.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
That's pretty powerful round.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Yea is it?

Speaker 9 (01:41:01):
Is it nonsports only because if.

Speaker 1 (01:41:04):
You're doing sports, sports.

Speaker 9 (01:41:05):
And that Mickey Mantle was born on the October twentieth,
so that helps your call.

Speaker 8 (01:41:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:41:09):
John Krasinski, yep, ye. Danny Boyle, the director, we're October
twentieth heads, We're we're we're out here.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
It's really good. Yeah, this is interesting. All three of
those are pretty good days.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
Pretty good days. We're gonna have to find out about
Moncey Belanos her birthday, well shares it, and she's also
got some hard hitting information for us as well. Monzy,
what's going on here?

Speaker 7 (01:41:34):
Hi guys?

Speaker 8 (01:41:35):
My birthday is January twenty fifth. I don't know anyone
who shares my birthday. I want to see maybe January Jones,
the actress.

Speaker 7 (01:41:42):
Maybe I'm crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:41:44):
I find out.

Speaker 8 (01:41:45):
I also don't care. I refuse to believe that other
people have the same birthday as me.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
They do, they do.

Speaker 1 (01:41:50):
There's what Alicia Keith see. Yeah, there you go falling.

Speaker 7 (01:41:57):
Okay, I love her, Okay, I'll take that one.

Speaker 8 (01:42:00):
Renbition go No, absolutely are you crazy? That's better than
he would have done. That's way better than I would
have done. So thank you Ryan for stepping in on
got you go? Oh no, absolutely not? All right, guys,
the final round at the US Open. It continues. Windhom
Clark is alone at the top, twelve under part through

(01:42:22):
seven holes. Rory McElroy two shots back through nine holes,
Scottie Scheffler five shots back through nine holes.

Speaker 7 (01:42:29):
So Wyndam Clark all alone.

Speaker 8 (01:42:31):
Ricky Fowler started the day tied with Wyndham Clark in
the league.

Speaker 7 (01:42:35):
Now he is all the way down.

Speaker 8 (01:42:36):
He is minus seven through seven holes in Major League Baseball.
Let's play it again, just because you're a Cardinals fan,
because Nolan had an auto was the real MVP today?

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
The pitch on the wave, a swang and a drive.

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
What found? It's a gunner?

Speaker 3 (01:42:52):
A home run for Nolan off Adham out of you
and the Cardinals go up eight the seven with one.

Speaker 6 (01:43:01):
A two home run.

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
Day for Cardinals Radio Network on the Carr.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
Yeah they won some games, yes, lord.

Speaker 8 (01:43:08):
They edged the Mets eight to seven. The Mets though
some positive news. They have taken Pete Alonso off the IL.
He's coming back. Originally they thought he was going to
be out three to four weeks after he was hit
by a pitch on that left wrist. He's already coming back.
So positive news for Mets fans because in the last
eleven games they're three and eight.

Speaker 7 (01:43:27):
No bwen no.

Speaker 8 (01:43:29):
But the Angels are boen no. They are are beat
the Royals today five to two. But it's Mike Trout
and Sho Halo Tani who we know are the stars.
Shoe hal TONI hit his twenty fourth homer of the season,
which leads Major League Baseball. He also has fifty eight
RBIs it leads major League Baseball. He's in the top
five and strikeouts. I mean, is there something he can't do? Like,

(01:43:49):
I don't get it. I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
They can't make the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (01:43:52):
Maybe this is the year though, Maybe this is the
year and it's is there anything he can't do?

Speaker 8 (01:43:57):
Ye victories for the Marlins and the Red Sox, the Orioles,
who snapped the Cub's five game winning streak coming out
on top six to three.

Speaker 7 (01:44:08):
The Braves have won six in a row. They beat
the Rockies fourteen to six.

Speaker 8 (01:44:12):
Colorado scored five runs in the first two innings, and
then Atlanta responded with this ready Eddie Rosario three run homer,
Ozzy Alby's three run homer, Michael Harris a second three
run homer, and then Eddie Rosadio was like me again,
Me again, two run homer. He has a career high
six RBIs. He's homered in four straight games. So Atlanta
has won six in a row. The Brewers complete a

(01:44:32):
sweep of the Pirates. Five to two was the final score.
The Reds completed a sweep of the Astros. Yay, they
won eight in a row. The Reds are half a
game behind Milwaukee for first place in the n EL Central.
Victories for the Tigers, the Rangers, the Giants who beat
the Dodgers in La. The Giants have won seven in
a row. They have passed La for second place in
the nl West.

Speaker 7 (01:44:53):
No me Gusta.

Speaker 8 (01:44:54):
The Padres just edged the Rays five to four, but
the Race still have the best record in baseball at
fifty one and twenty four. And it is official. The
Guardians beat the Diamondbacks twelve to three. The Guardians didn't
hit a single home run in this game. Twelve to
three was the final score. They had sixteen hits, not
one home run the Yankees and the Red Sox double header.

(01:45:15):
This is Game two and the Yankees are up one
zero bottom of the second inning, but the Red Sox
did win Game one earlier today. In the NBA, the
Wizards are finalizing a trade to send all star Bradley
Beal to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Chris Paul,
Landry sham At, multiple second round picks, and a couple
of pick swaps, but this is not official yet.

Speaker 7 (01:45:34):
They are looking for a possible thirteen to be a
part of.

Speaker 8 (01:45:37):
The trade that would give Chris Paul a chance to
land with a contender. That contender could be the La Clippers.
I don't know how I feel about that as a
Clipper fan. I don't know. Formula One's Canadian Grand Prix.
The winner Max ves Stoppin. He was the winner last year,
He's the winner this year again. Guys, it's been fun.
Happy Father's Day to everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
Back to you, great stuff, Monzee always you and Alicia
Keys born on January twenty fifth.

Speaker 7 (01:46:05):
I rather rap jay Z.

Speaker 1 (01:46:06):
You rather rap jay Z karaoke? You would go jay Z.

Speaker 7 (01:46:10):
Instead of instead of Nobody can do Alisha? Nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:46:15):
I got confidence in you. I hear your voice now,
I hear it, I hear the phone.

Speaker 7 (01:46:21):
I tell you what I can't do is sing I
can you keep a tune?

Speaker 6 (01:46:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:46:24):
Like I could, you know, be in the background, Like
I don't want background for like Beyonce.

Speaker 7 (01:46:30):
You know what I'm saying. Some harmonies, little harmony and
but absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
Not not elite singer.

Speaker 7 (01:46:35):
No, no, you don't want me to be elites.

Speaker 1 (01:46:38):
You don't want me there either. I did karaoke one time,
and I was listening to myself, like I heard the
speakers and I had no range. I was singing one
note the whole time.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
You thought you were going up till you thought you
had some fluctuation everything.

Speaker 1 (01:46:52):
Yeah, there was nothing. I'm like, I'm listening. I'm squinning
listening like that's me and it's the same note the
whole time.

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
You start closing the eye thinking you're reaching for something
else and it's just not there.

Speaker 7 (01:47:04):
Like is this really what I sell her?

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Exactly? Exactly put it down? All Right's Brian though, and
Carrie Roads with you here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm
want to throw something at you, Carrie. I'm curious if
you think the same thing or not. So with the
Ja Morant suspension. Okay, twenty five games, the NBPA put
out a statement, so the players Association they're going to
fight on the behalf of Ja Morant and all players.

(01:47:30):
I get that, but I don't like this statement at all.
So it reads like this, Jah has expressed his 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 him off the

(01:47:51):
court until December and requires some unstated conditions 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, and that it is not
fair and consistent with past discipline in our league. We
will explore with JAW all options and next steps. Yeah

(01:48:14):
here's my thing, Okay, real fast. I hate the statement.
I understand they're going to fight on his behalf, but
here's the thing, man, It's just it's too coddling. It's
basically saying this is heavy handed, it's excessive, it's inappropriate.
I mean goodness, he showed remorse for his actions. This

(01:48:34):
isn't any good, Like, it's just too much of that.
I would much rather they fight on his behalf. But
somehow craft it frame it like he messed up badly
again and it's time for him to mature something like that. Instead,
it was just like this is be us and the
true thing is you're supposed to fight on behalf of

(01:48:55):
the players. Right when you're sitting there saying basically, this
is bs. The last thing you want John Morant thinking
while he's suspended is that he got job.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
He's a victim.

Speaker 1 (01:49:06):
Yeah, wait, he's a victim. Right, He's suspended for far
too long. It's successive and inappropriate. That does him no goods.
I just hate the way that statement reads.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
Yeah, it reads as good parent, bad parent, good cop,
bad cop. It's almost like the dad made since his
father's day is It's like the dad made the ultimatum
or gave the you know, the punishment for the crime
to the kid, and the mom comes behind, or it
can be vice versa mom and dad whatever, and mom
comes behind and says maybe it's okay, Well we're gonna

(01:49:37):
do this. We're gonna talk to dad, we're gonna make
sure everything's okay and blah blah blah. Right, it's it's
got that type of seasoning on it. But yeah, it's
definitely not the right thing. I mean, he knows he's
made a mistake. He the first time he did this,
they had to talk to him and the commissioner, I'm
not gonna do it again. All the things that he
already said that he was gonna do, he's already reniged on.

(01:50:00):
He's already done it again. He's doubled down on the mistake.
So he has to learn, he has to get through it.
And this punishment is just the I feel, and you
just move on, you get better from this. There's no
I don't think there's any back door recourse that's going
to happen in this situation anyway. So let's do it.
You you do the crime, so to speak, and you
you know, you got you gotta do the time. And

(01:50:21):
so I think that's I think that's what it is.
I think that's what it really equates to in this situation.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Yeah, I like how you laid that out. You ever
see the show Scared Straight and they take someone that
is messed up and they take him to prison and
someone just gets into his face and is trying to
give him a wake up call. It'd be like the
Scared Straight for Jah. If it's the NBPA, they'd be like, Oh,
you didn't do anything really wrong and you're sorry, right

(01:50:48):
like this punishment this, no jail's not for you, Like
you're not gonna end up here at all. Like it's
just way too coddling. I look at it like this,
if I messed up, if I'm still in school, let's
just put it down way, and I messed up big time,
and the school was going to lower the boom. They're
going to punish me significantly. If my parents were like
this is garbage, it's excessive, it's inappropriate, I probably wouldn't

(01:51:12):
completely understand or think that I really did something wrong.
And that's I don't want Joe to think that at all,
because I want him to figure it out and I
want him to get back on track. He doesn't need
people coddling him and saying, oh, the people punishing you,
they're wrong. I just think the NBPA dropped the ball
on this whole.

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
No, I agree. And even if they did feel that
way and had internal conversations with Jaw, have those be internal.
You don't have to put that out for us to
have to sift through anyway. So if you can be
behind somebody and not have to make it publicly known.

Speaker 1 (01:51:47):
Right, Yeah, there's got to be a way to frame
it where you're like, he's accepting responsibility. He did screw up.
He messed up big time. But we still think this
is over the top. It just doesn't read like that
exactly right, does it?

Speaker 4 (01:52:02):
All Right?

Speaker 1 (01:52:02):
We got to have some fun before we get on
out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
We've got, oh man, what do we have on the
horizon here? We've got championship celebrations, and we have Carrie,
a really, really interesting candidate to take over for shall
we call it an institution in this country? Okay, you're
not gonna see this one coming. It's on the way.
I'm Brian No, he's carry Rhodes. Keep it locked right here.

(01:52:27):
On Fox Sports Radio, marcelle leads from first.

Speaker 5 (01:52:30):
The pitch swung on, hit high and deep the right
center field back does Doyle. He's at the one. He's
done it again. Not two run shot. He's got six
RBIs twelve to five, Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
They're ready for the final pitch of the game. Oh dude,
got him swinging strike three. And it's a poor game
sweep of the Rockies for the Braves. Atlanta now a
season best twenty game teams over five hundred. They did
it all today. They bashed the Rockies fourteen to six.
The battle score.

Speaker 1 (01:53:09):
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(01:53:31):
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Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
You'd be so impressed, and I think full of joy
to see what I was doing right now while you're.

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
Head you're washings and Bo Benson is what.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
I was air guitar in it, and yeah, yeah, I
was in. I was all in.

Speaker 1 (01:54:00):
Did you throw up? The horns like the metal sign
over there? Did you go all in there?

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
Carrie?

Speaker 2 (01:54:05):
My hands were full. I had my drink in my hand,
so I couldn't throw the horn.

Speaker 1 (01:54:10):
Oh man, do you have any love for heavy metal
as a man who has the same birthday as Metallica
front man James Hetfield.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
I do, and the reason being obviously knowing that information
that helps. But coming out at Louisville, that was our
That was our entrance song for game days, so it
always always it has a special place in my heart.

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
That's awesome. Okay, So it's uh, Virginia Tech is known
to have that like Inner Sandman and the Thing. It's
the same tradition at Louisville.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
Same one, same one. I mean literally, coming out, man,
it was so epic. It's such a big song. It's
if you don't like that song, it doesn't matter if
you like metal or not. If you don't like that song,
something's really really troubling and wrong with you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
Man, I'm telling you. I wonder if they got royalties
based on that song being played at stadiums and arenas.
Holy hell, it's played all the time. That's from ninety one, Carrie,
I know it's from ninety one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
It's amazing. Yeah, it's such a good song man.

Speaker 1 (01:55:17):
It really works with sports, it does, no doubt about that. Okay,
So Wheel of Fortune an institution, you would say, right
like Pat Say Jack, he's announced it's probably gonna be
his final season. So season forty one for Pat Say
Jack will begin in September and then he's expected to retire.

(01:55:38):
And so if you're thinking, Okay, who could I see
being the host to take over? You know you're starting
to brainstorm and all of that. This is probably a
name that you wouldn't come up with, Carrie. Oh, but
listen to this man throw his name in the hat.

Speaker 4 (01:55:56):
I want to throw my.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
Name in a hat. I ain't trying to give up
my day job. I ain'trying to give up my podcast.
I gotta tell you, if we'll.

Speaker 8 (01:56:02):
A fortunately call to ask me to host the show
for a couple of days, I wouldn't mind.

Speaker 1 (01:56:09):
Okay, so maybe not the permanent fill in host, but
for a few shows. Steven A. Smith, what do you think.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
For a few shows? I can see I can see
Steven Ay doing it for a few shows. But he
would be he would get to a point where to
probably be unbearable to watch it. And I like Stephen.
They so it's not like it's not that, but it's
he's doing enough. We don't need a steven A Smith
Will of Fortune reunion, a union down the line. A

(01:56:36):
couple of shows be fine.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
Man, I'll tell you what do you think? I respect
the grind of steven A Smith because my girl says
this all the time. She's like, he doesn't stop working.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:56:47):
He's working all the time and he's still looking at Man,
a couple of shows I could do that mentioned his
mom loved the show. He's a big fan of the show.
You know who I want? This would never happen in
a million years, So you got I want Bill Belichick? Oh,
I want Belichick to be the new host, and oh
it'd be so great. It would be so awkward. It

(01:57:07):
would be top shelf. How how like short he is?
My favorite would be if they lose at the end
and he reveals what they would have won and just
his delivery, Oh my gosh, I would watch every episode.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
I mean, I mean he would be anti How could
I put Bill Belichick hosting Will have Will of Fortune?
Would be so non animated, Yes, it is, it would,
it would. It might be funny because it's so not animated,
Like where is the emotion going into any of this?
And it's just like not happening, oh man. Like it's

(01:57:45):
almost like a like a Saturday Night Saturday Night Live
skit where you just don't know where it's going. Yeah,
and it ends up going somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
Okay. So the championship celebration, uh Nicola Jokic, Yep, he
did a one eight over here.

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
So after the Nuggets won a championship, he said this Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
Day, no, I need to go home.

Speaker 1 (01:58:11):
Okay. So I didn't want to go to the championship parade.
He didn't want a d He was at the championship parade.
He loved it, had a great time. This is one
of his comments.

Speaker 4 (01:58:18):
You know that I told her, I don't want to
stay on parade, but you want to stay on parade.

Speaker 1 (01:58:26):
I want to stay on parade. I love how he
said on parade. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
It's it's either pr coaching that stepped in and saw
the narrative around, not Karen or he loved it. So
I think it's the first one.

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
I too.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
Okay, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
I think someone got in his ear and was like joker. Yeah, buddy,
come on, you gotta be there. Just won the championship.
We need not gonna play well, yes, not gonna land well. Yeah.
He was back in Serbia with his horses. He was
at the horse races this week.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Yeah. I saw he was with his dad. He said
he was doing no interviews out there. Yeah, try to
stay away from all that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Yeah, but he was having a great time, made it back,
had the championship celebration. That's a two for one combo bladder.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Right now, Brian. I would love to just win and
then just go somewhere else off the face of the
earth and desk chill.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
No doubt. Hey, Carrie, great stuff, man. I appreciate it, man,
so great. Thank you, awesome man. Keep it locked here
on FSR.

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