Andy Furman & Geoff Schwartz Talk Biggest Headlines

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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My guy, my partner, my friend, Jeff Schwartz, how are you.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I am doing good. We had a little fun last night.
My wife's birthday is today. Happy birthday. He's not listening, so,
but happy birthday. We had a good night last night.
But I'm glad to be here. Man, someone's to talking
about you know. It's it's this is typically like the
time of Union, when we're we're going through like list,
you know, the top ten best players at some position,

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blah blah blah blah blah. But there's someone's to get
to you. In sports, it's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
This certainly is an a foot I'd be talking about
the College World Series. Now, we talked about the women's
softball a couple of weeks ago. I mean, I'm kind
of hooked. I mean, this LSU game yesterday against Florida
was unbelievable in the eleventh inning, It's unreal.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Really, Well, what I like about it most is this
College World Series has been one that has been lower
scoring than usual, and I always prefer games are lower scoring.
I think they're just crisper. Every pitch feels more important.
And the last two LSU games have gone to extra innings,
both in eleventh innings, and they've been very low scoring. Obviously,

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the weight game was too nothing. I believe last night
was what five to four? It was a four to
three or five to four, four to three, So man,
sign me up for those. I'll take low scoring defense pitching,
you know, I want. You know, I'm nice to get
a couple of hits every now and then, but I
must prefer that over anything else.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
And I'll tell you this much. If I had my druthers,
if I had to make a selection between watching the
College World Series or the XFL a USFL, I'm watching
the College World Series and I love football.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, I'm I'm watching the USFL because I do cover
it a little bit for for Fox. But yeah, I
mean it's it's you know, I've always said this, and
I have no problem even though I do I do
cover it a little bit. It's like, you know, I'm
glad the USFL has played after the football season because
you the XFL has played almost immediately, and you're like, oh,

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I just got done watching six months of football. I
just can't watch any more football. So the XFL is
the least. Here's the opportunity to breathe a little bit.
But you're right. I mean I have trouble sometimes watching
bad college football and the USFL. You know, it's not
bad football. The game. I watched a little of the
game last night. I mean, the games when the games matter,

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they're they're pretty good. But it's certainly much much different
than you know, college football or the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Right, And look, I'm not down in those legs. I
think there's a great opportunity for guys to get an
opportunity to play at the next level. That's basically what
it is. If you're a football junkie, that's what you do.
I can't see people actually wagering on it. I'm sure
there are lines on those games, but I can't see
how people can even play a bet on those games.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well you can't. You can bet on those games, you know.
Chris Filica the Bear works for Fox Sports with me.
He's really good at wagering on on on USFL. There's
there's money to be made if you would like to
make it at times, So just pay attention.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
All right, Okay, I'm listening. I'm trying. All right. I
want to go back in time a little bit to
this NBA draft. Okay, and all I heard about is Wemby. Okay,
Victor the first round pick. I mean I heard about
him way back in March. You're a kid from France.
They don't even know how tall the kid is. They
say seven to five with shoes, seven to three without shoes.
I mean, the hype is nuts. It's nauseating, it really is.

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And I think that you got to put the brakes
on the hype just a little bit because they say
he's the breast prospect the NBA has seen since Lebron
enter the league in all three Look, I get it.
It's great for the NBA. It's great for ratings, it's
great for the league itself. But could you stop a
little bit. It's it's got of control.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I actually feel like we're at a spot now where
people are going a little bit even even more extreme, right,
I mean they'll call him the best player of all time, right,
the best talent of all time, and the best this
and that generate. You know, everyone's everyone's a generational talent
all the time. Right, everyone's generational talent is something that
we throw around way too much. And so here's the deal.

(04:32):
I said this about Bryce Young in the NFL draft.
You never I think it's hard to say those things
about players that are outliers. And let me explain. Right, So,
Victor woman Yamas is seven to five, about two hundred pounds.
He is a is a tall fella, but a thin fella,

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and he is a player that is a place. You know,
you hear seven five ID and you're like, you know what,
that guy's a center. Well, web, he's like a three. Right,
he's Kevin Durant five inches.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Taller than.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
That. He is an outlier. Like that size and that
ability to move are things that put him his own
category ever in the NBA history. He's his own guy.
Watch his highlights that he's eighteen years old. Watch Hilent
in France as a professional player. There's nothing like him
ever before? All right? And so is he as physically

(05:29):
gifted as any player? Maybe? Ever? Sure? I mean his
size is the way he moves, his ability to shoot
and play defense with his length, all those things are
a plus. Right, But again, no one's done this like
him before, at that size and weight and age. Right,
you know Lebron James. There have been players that have

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been his size all the time. Is there a player
that's talented, like physically gifted with all the skills as
is Lebron? Ever, no, like Lebron is himself. But there's
players we've seen of his size before that have succeeded
over many generations of NBA players. We just haven't seen
seven foot guys. Man. They get foot injuries all the time.
Look look at chet holgre Right, Chet Holmgren, who just

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drafted this past draft, was supposed to be another Unicorn
and another generational talent, right hurt his foot in his
first like pro am game against Lebron in Seattle last year.
So to me, I think it's I think the potential
is all there. I am one hundred percent on board
with the potential of Lemanyama. I think he can be
a he can be a generational player in the NBA.

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It's just hard at times to just come out and
say that about every NBA player every draft, especially someone
who again size and weight and play style never been
done before.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Look, besides Lebron, I can't remember any player who's lived
up or maybe exceeded the hype. When Lebron was in
high school, he was on Sports Illustrated. You know, he
was some hype there, but he's exceeded that.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
He really did.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I think Andy that not enough is made and not
enough praise it's given to Lebron for this exact thing
he just said. I don't want to listen to lebron'side
I am a big fan of Lebron. I almost am.
I almost am a contrarian about it because people so
many people hate Lebron. I don't understand it. You know,

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he at a young age fifteen sixteen seventeen was hyped
up as the next greatest NBA player, and he's done
exactly what everyone said he would do. And he was
on as you mentioned, cover Sports Illustrated, he was he
was on national television play basketball each week. And he's

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not only done that, Andy, he's done that without getting
even in the whiff of controversial. The biggest controversi in
his career is that he decided to go on TV
announce where he was going well donating millions of dollars
with Boys and Girls club like that. That's his controversy
in the NBA, right, and you might not agree with
this politics Ball who cares? Like that? Is his biggest
controvers NBA is that he he decided to change teams

(08:02):
right and announced on television that's right exactly. He lived up,
He lived up to everything any but he fundamentally changed
the way rosters are built in the NBA, like he
changed a lot about how the NBA has played, how
teams are built. So it's he doesn't get enough credit
for for that ability to do all those things, you know,

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all at once in will maintaining you know, very clean image.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
And more than that, nothing off the court, no problems,
not even a parking ticket, nothing, no duy s nothing,
no bringing guns on a plane. I mean, everything that
we read about he's been clean, squeaky clean, and that's great.
I mean he certainly when you talk about role models.
He's there. There's no doubt about role as a player,
as a person, no doubt. And again you're right, you

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don't have to agree with his political stance, but so
on who cares.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, And so I just think it's really impressive his
ability to just uh do that. And and when Mayama
has a lot of love to right, he's gonna be
in that in that same category where you know, he's
gonna be looked at as as a savior of the Spurs,
which is all I mean, the Sixers are wont to
bucks of championships, but you know, Lebron was looked at
as a savior of Cleveland obviously from the area, when

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Mayama's from France. But he said come in right away.
And it's interesting if because if you listen to you know,
two people that you know cover basketball at a different
level than than we both do. There's a there's a
thought about about when Mayama maybe having you know, to
be load managed this year a little bit as he
puts on some weight and becomes you know, kind of

(09:36):
an NBA you know, NBA body, And there's an idea too,
like the Spurs we saw this year they tanked, right,
they tanked for the for the first pick. There's an
idea that maybe they tank for another pick next year
because you're not gonna get you know, free agents to
San Antonios. You have to get draft picks there. So
he might not even play as much as he should
in year one for those reasons. So I'm kind of
curious how that all plays out for him, you know,

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throughout the year. But look, it certainly makes the Spurs
way more exciting to watch, there's no mean though.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
The funny thing is that I think that sports like
baseball and the NBA need to have this hype to
sell tickets, I mean, to take up people involved. I
don't remember the last time the NFL had super hype
for a player coming into the league. A little bit
of Trevor Lawrence when he came in. Not much, but
but still I don't think the.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
NFL is probably Andrew luck was probably the last one
that I recall, is like, because he was looked at
as obviously maybe the best, you know, the best quarterback
prospect since the mid eighties. Right, It's like it's early
since like John Ella early eighties. Right, it's eighty three draft,
and he came in with that with that hype, and but.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
The NFL didn't need it. That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I think the NFL doesn't need doesn't need that to watch.
And it's funny because I don't baseball I feel like
needs those guys. But does it move me? Sho Hailshani
what he's doing right now is absolutely incredible. The anyone
watching Angels games like there's people are people like, man,
I gotta watch the Angels play.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well yesterday did when they won twenty five to one.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well, I know, but my point is like I don't
know if it if it matters in baseball. I feel
like baseball is still so team oriented. You're rooting for
the team first.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, I got one of Cincinnati to Elie de la Cruz.
I mean he is, yeah, I mean he could be
a generational player. He really could.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah yeah. Cycle the other night and think about him too.
I think this important is the Reds are playing better
baseball because of him. Like as a team, that's that's
impressive as a young baseball player to come up and
your entire team sort of plays better because of you.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I agree with that. I mean it's funny because how
one guy can change. And I hate to use the term.
But one guy can change the culture of a team.
I mean, his team basically was picked to lose one
hundred games going into this season. Now I hate to
say it, but they could very well be a contender
in that weak division that they're in.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah. Yeah, players can do. And of course for what
woman Yama, He's gonna be looked at it and he
goes to you know, this NBA Summer League soon, so
he's gonna be you know, getting the opportunity to play
right away and we'll be able to see him. I
mean a summer league starts early July, like we get
the chance to see these players almost immediately. There's eyeballs
on him everywhere he goes. Now, I think an advantage

(12:13):
of playing internationally, and obviously you know he's from France,
is that he's played professional basketball for many years down
in France, and so he's gotten to kind of play
in a limelight with with with focus and attention on him.
So I think he'll be able to deal with the
media kind of all over him and everything he's he's

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done will be watched because he's been able to do
that while he's played in France.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, But I don't think he's gonna dominate the game.
I think he'll be a good NBA player. I don't
think he's gonna be the goat by the because the
position he plays. He's not a seven to five, but
he's not a center. He's a perimeterive player.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, look if he can. There's a play of his.
I don't know if you remember you saw this year
where he he shot a three pointer. All right, he
missed it, but he followed his shot and he dunked
the ball on on the follow right, So the ball
came off the rim and he dunked it back. Yet
he shot a three. He followed his shot to the

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rim and he dunked the ball into the basket to
follow it up. Okay, the ball never hit the ground.
If he guys plays like that, Andy, he'll be a
generational player and we'll look at him is like, oh
my god. Now there's also the consideration of like, you know, Jordan,
did Jordan? Did Jordan change the NBA? Probably not, right, Like,

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I don't know if the NBA was changed because the
magic and burget can of credit for that, right, Yeah,
you know, Lebron, as I mentioned earlier, changed the way
teams are built Steph Curry changed the way teams play
offense in the NBA. Is Wemba Yama player who's going
to change the NBA has played? No, no, right now again.
Can he be one of the best to ever do it? Absolutely,

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there's all that potential is certainly there, But he's not
going to change the game quite those players. And that
doesn't mean he can't be a generational talent and one
of the best ever play. But I think that that
the hype is being put on him in like hey man,
like you're going to be this generational player which changes
the way the game is played, and you know you're
unicorn mole. There's just a lot of what IF's, I think,

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And you know, he's lucky. They can happen, like they
can all happen. I think the talent's there, obviously, no one.
No one debates that.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I would say this. He's lucky playing in San Antonio,
which is kind of off Broadway. If he was playing
New York, Chicago, l A, Atlanta or whatever it may be,
the hype would be ridiculous and he'd be criticized on
a nightly basis. San Antonio is a little quiet of
media situation of Broadway. So it's good for him.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
I think it's a perfect place. It's a perfect place
to go with a with a with a coaching staff
that has been obviously known to develop talent at a
high level. It's a really good place for for someone
to go of his of his stature. So I think
he should know. There was a chance he went to
like the Hornet's like, no, don't come to Charlotte. I

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live in Charlotte, man like no, one no, Like that's
gonna be bad for you. So this is I think
a much better situation for him. Obviously.

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You're good friend, Jeff, You're good friend. Aaron Rodgers back
in the news, who's at a conference, a psychedelics conference
in Denver just the other day, and he proposed their acceptance.
He said that even these psychedelics are life changing. What

(16:19):
is wrong between the ears with this guy? Certainly a
first round Hall of Famer, but I tell you a
lot off the field, he's got some issues.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I think, well, you know, it's into alternative you know,
life treatments and stuff. I mean, is I don't, I don't.
I don't really knock anyone for finding different ways to
live their life. You know, just we've seen this be
very unique in his Quarterbacks typically aren't at psychedelic conferences. Right,
and it's something that you just have to accept if

(16:46):
you are a Jets front office member, is that he
he's going to be different, like just Aaron Rodgers is
going to be different, and you hope it doesn't affect
his play. You hope it doesn't change, you know, the
player that you have signed up up to have on
your team. But I think it's hard. I think it's
hard to say that it hasn't changed you. Rogers is

(17:09):
now again he is. He came off to MVP seasons,
played a little bit, you know, a little bit down
ish last year compared to his standard. Maybe that was
his injuries, maybe it wasn't, but I think it's I
think it's difficult to to think you're gonna get that
MVP player just based off of his talent on the field.
Right again, last year it wasn't as good. And that

(17:30):
happens when you get older. I think that's what it is, right,
He's getting older and we look at a player like
Tom Brady and think that's how everyone ages. No, No,
everyone ages like Aaron Rodgers does, right, where you get
just a little bit worse sort of, you know, each
short year you get older, things diminish a little bit,
And the question is whether or not, you know, maybe
he's preparing and mentally in the same place he was

(17:51):
a couple of years ago. And I don't know if
that's really the case right now. I think that's the worry,
right and again, you can believe whatever you want, who cares.
But the worry is that it's going to make him
a little bit less of a player. And that's obviously
what the Jets, you know, they signed up for, you know,
search up a player, and they're hoping they get that guy.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Look, he said he used his drug. I think it's
ayauasca alahuasca, and he said that he first used it
in twenty twenty, and he says now he wants to
talk about it, but said the NFL said that last
year the Rogers' use of that was not considered a
violation of the NFL's drug policy because it wouldn't have
triggered a positive test result, not either the substance abuse

(18:31):
or performance enhancing substance policy. So what's the big deal
that I guess he could use it. Let him use it.
Then if he wants to push it, that's fine. Let
him push it. But he says it helps him bomb
with his teammates. If he thinks it helps him play better,
let him use it, you know, I mean he wants
to sell it to everybody else. Let him use it too.
It doesn't bother me. I just think that here's a
guy that just likes to betistical, right.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
I mean, yeah, Look, I think the question obviously is
is does any of this make him a better quarterback?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
He says, a worst quarterback?

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Like is this? Is it? Are these things that that
he's been taking that tournament into m v P or
tournament to sort of what we saw last year? Right?
Like that? Is that? To me? Is the question. It's
not whether or not he's taking a secon dalleks or
what he believes politically, or if he you know, I
saw him in the in that conversation about you know,
debating and the you know, we whatever whatever man who cares.

(19:27):
It is a question of whether or not any of
these make him a better quarterback or worse sort because
you're you're you're either getting better or getting worse, right,
there's no one between. And the Jets obviously hope that
he's a player that's getting better than he is currently
is now, and we won't know that until you know,
the season's played.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Obviously, I found it very humorous. I think he had
a quote several weeks ago he said that he didn't
get much support in green Bay. Now I look at
the New York Jets rosters like green Bay East, It's
it's amazing. Really, I mean, does he realize what he's saying?
I mean, I get it there was some problems greet.
The problem we had a Green Bay is when they
drafted a quarterback, Jordan Love. That was his major problem.

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I guess without without checking in with him, so to speak.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Well, I think what's crazy is that, you know, he's
continued to talk about Green Bay and they have moved
on from him, and he sounds like, you know, kind
of like the scoring lover, right, because I promise you
no one in Green Bay is talking to Anon Rodgers.
They're not They're on Jordan Love. They're getting in for
their season and they're not at all thinking about what

(20:34):
what Avery Rodgers saying or doing. Yet he is just
won't stop talking about him. And I don't know if
he's trying to convince the fans like, hey, guys, this
is this is why I left, and you have to
support me. And who cares well, fans are on this season.
He just he won't stop talking about him. Man, he
just won't.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I'm not a psychiatrist by any leaps of a bounds,
and no doubt about that. But here's a guy from
a distance just listening to him and watching him in action.
Wants to be loved big time. He needs to. I
mean he wants attention on and off the field. I
mean that It started about a year or so ago
with he wanted to be hosting Jeopardy. I mean everything
he did was all about him. And that's fine. You

(21:13):
know people, there were many people like that. But look
this is where he's at now. He's into the psychedelics. Fine,
take him, I don't care. You want to sell with
everybody else, that's fine, he claims back in twenty twenty,
and helped him win an MVP. All right, fine to.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Take it again again. If it's helping your play, no
one cares at all. Right. If it's hurting your play,
people care. And it's that simple, by the way, for everything,
not just psychodelics. Anything you do in the game of football,

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if it helps you win, it's a little on traditional. Great.
If it doesn't help you win, then people are gonna
are gonna talk about it and make it become an
issue for Rogers again. If he plays up to this capability,
and the Jets have the longest playoff drought in pro
sports right now, after the Mariners made the playoffs and

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then the Kings made the playoffs in the NBA, and
so the Jets are twelve years. If he's able to
help him make the playoffs, no one cares what medicine
he's taking for his body. No one cares what the
delxy's taking. No one cares if he's immunized or as
a vaccine shot and he you know this, no one cares.

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They will only care if you help them win or lose.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
The more I hear about him, the more I read
about him, the more I realize how much pressure is
on the Jets to win now, not just make the playoffs.
You have to go deep in the playoffs, say the
super Bowl. They got to win and win bit big
because if they don't, I think they have got a
clear house GM coach. It'll be big time gone. That's
the way it.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Will be bad. And if they don't win, like Jets
fans have said, well we haven't we haven't won it
so long, Like who cares like we can No, no, no,
you better you better in like immediately now because otherwise
you're gonna it's gonna be bad. You have two years
of Aaron Rodgers. You have to win now, there's no

(23:11):
you just have to do it. I think the minimum
this year has to be a playoff appearance. I would
say that getting to the division around is probably the
most important thing right now for this year. Like, if
you make the division around, you feel like you're in
the right direction. That's important to feel that way after
year one.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I'm with you right there, Jeff Schwartz, Andy Furman. This
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Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, it was an offensive output for the record books
for the La Angels on Saturday night. They beat the
Rockies get this twenty five to one, and they were
ahead twenty three nothing after only four innings. And it's
the most run scored through the first four innings of
a game in the last fifty years. The previous franchise
record for the Angels a twenty four to two win

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against the Toronto Blue Jays back in nineteen seventy nine.
And get this for a stat the Denver Broncos for
us poorly as twenty twenty two win for them. They
had one loss by twenty four points or more. The
Rockies on Saturday match that dubious number. There was a
trade that went through after that game concluded, the Rockies

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and Angels agreeing to send Mike Mustakis to Anaheim in
exchange for a couple of minor league players. The Dodgers
were to come from behind win. They beat the Astros
eight to seven, getting the go ahead run on a
back hall in the bottom of the eighth inning. The
San Francisco Giants beat the first place Arizona Diamondbacks seven
to six, and the Cubs beat the Cardinals nine to one.

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In the London series, the Reds twelve game winning streak
comes to an end as the Atlanta Braves snap it
no seven to six win, each team with four home
runs in that game. The Blue Jays beat the Oakland
Athletics seven to three. Is Oakland now just twenty and
fifty nine on the season. Kansas City Royals aren't doing
much better, but they did have a win on Saturday.

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They beat the best team in baseball, the Tampa Bay Rays.
Final score in that one nine to four. The upstar
Baltimore Orioles get an extra innings win against the Mariners
six to four. The Mets with a four to two
win over the Phillies. The Yankees shutout the Rangers won nothing.
College World Series opening game of the Championship round. LSU

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gets a home run in the eleventh inning to beat
Florida four to three. Opening game of the Gold Cup.
In soccer, US men's national team draws to Jamaica.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Back to you, guys, thank you, Kevisee. In an hour,
his words won't mean the damn thing. We'll tell you
why in just about a minute. He's Jeff Schwartz, I
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got to eat my Schwartz in about seven eight minutes
from now. But Trent Dilfer, your good friend. Trent Dilfer,
the former NFL quarterback now coach at UA B University
of Mama Birmingham. He's ready to go public with names
should Power five coaches come calling for one of his
UAB players. I mean, really, I mean, are you just

(26:27):
trying to make noise. It's not gonna mean anything. Tampering.
Who has ever called out another coach today? It doesn't,
it doesn't happen that way.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Well, the only one I can I can remember. You know,
it's just not gonna matter because the way the rules
are set up, it's just it's it's just not gonna
change very much. Right, So, for those who are maybe unaware,
if you listen to the show, good morning, Welcome in

(26:58):
college football. Now. The transfer portal, right, is the capability
for you to commit to one school, be playing at
one school, then leave without without recourse to a second school.
And it used to be you have to sit out
a year, and it was a big deal for you
to have to transfer. Not anymore, And it has become
a situation where it's basically the NFL fregency with no

(27:21):
limitations right in the NFL. In the NFL, you have
to you're a salary cap, you have you know, certain
number of players you can sign, sort of much of
money you have to spend college football, and it's a
free for all. Right, what's happening? And I get this.
I have a funny who coaches as a head coach
at a group of five school, So I understand, I understand.

(27:42):
It's pain. I've talked about this before. Is you have
these group of five programs like UAB that you know,
they get a lower tier player out of high school,
a two, two star, three star player. They coach up
that player, and then all of a sudden, a power
five school comes and calls that player and says, hey, man,
do you want to come to my school? And of

(28:04):
course they want to go, right, because who wants no
offense to to turn Delfer into Alabama and Birmingham. But
if Nick Saban comes calling, you're going from UAB to
Alabama like very simple, right, And coaches are just openly
doing this now, right. It used to have to be.
It used to be something where it was done quietly.
But because of the new rules of the open transfer

(28:27):
portal of the way that your communication can be had
now via direct messages and and other ways to communicate
with with players. Coaches are now just openly recruiting players. Uh,
it's it's you know, and I get it right, ageain
you if you're trying delfer, you've you've spent time and
energy in trying to develop a player at UAB. You

(28:49):
get that player to develop, you do a good job.
You do your job, and then a school comes calling
who really you know and don't have an interest and
said player years ago, and then that player is gone.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's hypocritical because someone comes calling for Trent Dilford, if
Alabama comes calling for him, he's gonna go to just
just a nature to be it's hypocritical.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
But also it just you know, he can also do
the same thing, like he can also tamper and get
other players to come to U A B. And I
think it's just very difficult for him to be the
situation and say, hey man, I'm gonna I'm gonna rode
on my coaches because that it's not gonna be great again.
I feel I feel bad for him because you know,

(29:32):
it definitely is it's not great when you have a
situation where you develop a player and then all of
a sudden that player leaves. But that's the name of
the game. Now.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
I read a couple of coaches he said the other days,
unquoting him. Right now, by the way, come and try
to get my guys. This is what he said. I
dare you, I dare you, palifies. I got a pretty
big platform me that I can step on. And if
I find out you're getting my kids d MS directly
club and if I find you talking to the high
school coaches about my kids, if you're in my roster,
I'm gonna call your ass sound I'm going to say
it by name to the biggest voices in TV today.

(30:03):
Is I believe me talking a big game. But he
can't stop it. There's no way.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, he can't stop it. And I don't think in
the Indian's gonna call He's gonna you know, he's gonna
be the person that calls you know, players out and
coach you. Right.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
He's not gonna make any friends with coaches either by doing.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
This, and then you know they're all the all these
clients and stuff. I look again, I empathize with these
coaches who have to deal with this because it's it
makes their life. It makes coaching a lot more difficult,
and coaching obviously is already tough enough as it is.
So but again, I I don't feel terribly bad for them.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
You know, at this I don't think this is what
the n C Double A and college coaches envisioned when
they had the portal. I gotta believe this someddums to
this thing down the road.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
So I was I was anti transfer portal. I almost
anti trying portal, but I was. And I sort of
the way this was going just because of this reason,
like this felt very inevitable where it became fre agency
without without actually any sort of barriers. And I had

(31:16):
this debate with my radio coast and and Sean O'Connell
was fantastic. We've been doing radio for many years together,
you know, and he said, well, you know the portal
will be used for you know, by players that you'll
go somewhere, realize it's not a fit for them, and
move it along. And I said, no, no, no, no, it's
gonna turn into what it is now, which is just
a free for all, a free for all. And it
has because there's so much money evolved now and it's

(31:39):
hard to think that, you know, there's not going to
be a situation where, you know, these these major programs
with with with with money aren't going to try to
invest in players that they didn't have to develop. They're
already ready to go. And so this this is why
I figured what happened. It didn't it turned into like
again a free for all, or some of the best
players are leaving. You spent four or five years somewhere

(32:01):
and you're and you're out all of a sudden because again,
you know, like that you found a better place to go,
and it's not great. It's not great. The last thing.
This is a very kind of like, you know, get
off my law on old Man type of take. But
I do think that players, it's sometimes the at the
kind of first hit of adversity, are leaving, and to me,
that's really not what the portal should be about. You know,

(32:23):
you can there are times that it's worth to battle
through that adversity, and I don't think enough, I think enough,
I don't think enough players are doing that. I think
that they are. Immediately a coach doesn't like me, I'm
not playing I'm out of here. To me, that's really
not the reason for the portal either. Right where. You know,
I think most of us Andy have stories of of

(32:43):
kind of sticking through things in college football and becoming
a better player because of it, and that that kind
of goes away if you can transfer right away when
you're upset at your coach.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
You exactly right. I want to move on to something
else in just a second. I want to talk about
this nil name image and likeness situation I'm into. How
when I'm reading about this women basketball player LSU making millions?
Oh yeah, the women gymnast at LSU making millions. These
twin basketball players University of Miami, Florida making millions, How
does that happen? Where are they getting the money from?

(33:13):
I don't understand. Really, Okay, those women basketball players at
Miami will be making more money on NIL than they
would if they went to the WNBA.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah. The Cabinet twins, Yeah, they've retired now from basketball,
so they didn't you know, they didn't pursue. One of
them is really good. She's like a fifteen point game
point guard. So it's it's social media, Andy. They have
a lot of social media following and they're getting. So
there's two. There's two factors when it comes to NIL.

(33:43):
There's two. There's two buckets of nil money. The first
bucket of nil money is the traditional name image. You
like this, right, you have a following on social media,
You're going to get a marketing deal because of it.
Like that is. That's that's one. That's one bucket of it,
which is really within the intended purpose. And they age
like this right, is that you are again you know

(34:05):
you have a following. We're gonna use that following to
market who you are, and you're gonna end up with money,
which is what I me and you can do. Right,
if we have a social media following, if we have
attention toward us, we can go ahead and use that
following to make money. So that's what they're doing, right.
They have a lot of social media followers, they're marketable,

(34:25):
and they're getting social media deals and they're getting deals
to be brand brand ambassadors. It makes total sense. The
other part of the NIL is what we just talked
about kind of what the portal is that it's just
like pay for play now where players are getting money
to play at certain universities. That obviously is is different.
That's not really what the intended purpose of nil was.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Amazing, it really is. The whole situation is I'm gonna
say it's out of whack, but it's crazy. But I'm
happy for the kids. They can make the money. It's perfect.
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Speaker 2 (35:18):
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Speaker 3 (35:27):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Are you ready, Jeff, Yes, here we go.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Elie Delacruz, you mentioned just early on today he just
hit for the Cycle of Friday with the Cincinnati Rids.
What is the hardest thing in your mind to do
in the world.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Of sports hardest like single thing.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yes, the hardest feet like pitching a no hitter in baseball.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
I mean, I think, I think the one that will
never be broken ever is the caw Ripkens game starter streak.
I don't think anyone's ever gonna do that ever again.
Is that the hardest thing to do? I don't know.
I think, I think, I think. I mean, I think
hitting a baseball feels like one of the hardest things
to do in sports, right, the hardest.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Well, you say, you say the streak will never be broken.
I think the back to back Johnny Vandermer no hitters,
because you'd have to pitch three no hitters to break
that record. He pitched back to back no hitten Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
But it's not like a record from like from like
nineteen oh two.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
It's a baseball record. I mean, it's in nineteen thirties.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I think, like, yeah, that's why I see the baseball record.
Thing is there's a lot of baseball records that.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Angel You can't get a pitcher to pitch back to
back for complete games, little little no hitters.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah, so that feels But I think I think hitting
a baseball it feels like one of the hardest things
to do in all sports. That that's all. It's hard
and it's difficult. It's a difficult skill to have.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
All right, what about football? Any difficult skills in football?

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I mean, I'm playing offensive line is kind of hard.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Oh, okay, I know you'd go there.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. It feels
like a hard thing to do.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
We'll get to that later on.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Speaking of the Cincinnati rates, they're in first place in
the NL Central FC Cincinnati and MLS. They're in first
place in the MLS East and the Bengals are Super
Bowl contenders right now. So, which, in your mind is
the best sports city in America?

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Best sports in America? I mean it's got to be
Los Angeles, right, I mean, they're very passionate about all
their sports, other sports teams. Best sports city in America?
What would you give that? I don't even know best
sports in America.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I'm trying to think of college as well as pro
and uh, you know, New York is out, but because
there's no colleges to speak of basically in New York City, LA.
Maybe you know US.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Sorts City's you know, they were in Texas.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
There was a time when I would say Detroit, when
the Red Wings were tough and the Pistons were good,
and you got good college football there as well. So
but I think that's gone down the crapper over the years,
but Detroit was up there. Yeah, any volunteers, any volunteers.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
I feel like any of the I feel like a
lot of the college towns man they just just love
their their sports man.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Maybe what about Houston, University of Houston.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
But what what what makes someone a you know what
what makes a town a great sports town? Just winning
successful teams? I would think, yeah, yeah, since that he's
up there right now.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Now they are now, they'll see what happens. Okay, uh,
we'll leave it at that. Maybe someone could join us
on Twitter. LL give us a call next hour about that.
Speaking of best, Travis Kelcey won't let this few with Bengals.
WHI I receive a Jamar Chase Rest. What's the best
spat in sports? You must have seen it on the
teams you played, you know, guys that just don't like
other guys and other teams.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, there were some, there
were some of the Panthers come to mind. Uh, we
had a two to four year there was a lot
of infighting, a lot of players, you know, not liking
each other. I feel like on a team there's some
of that, but that you know, winning takes care of

(39:12):
that obviously. As I mentioned, when you're losing not great,
all right, it makes it much worse. But winning helps
cure a lot of that. But feuds, feuds between teams
is fantastic for sprits. Man.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
What about feuds between players on the same team. Yeah,
you guys that you played with you didn't like, but
I didn't like you.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yeah, there were times that I pretty much go along
with everyone. But there's obviously there's some bad apples in uh,
in every sort of situation, and you, again, you you
try to make it work as best you can. Winning
helps a lot better. Winning. Winning makes it happen. Man

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makes it happen.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Backup quarterbacks, I like in the Histani quarterback. Who knows,
But a trade that wasn't so smart. We'll tell you
all about that next. Right here, he said they needed balance. Well,
we'll get to that in just about a minute. Good morning, everybody,
this is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports. Already he's
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Speaker 3 (40:33):
Good morning. I am doing fantastic. It is a beautiful
summer day.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
And happy birthday to the missus.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Yes, yes, my wife is uh, it's her birthday today.
She is, I believe, peacefully sleeping right now. I don't know.
We'll figure it out when when I when I when
I got done with the show, you know, just one
one Sunday closer to you know to you know NFL
actions the way I look at it.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
There you go. Yeah, I got quick a quick question.
How many hours do you think you spend a week
watching sports on TV?

Speaker 3 (41:06):
A lot?

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I mean, but you would watch that, like I feel
the same way as you. You would watch that regardless
if you had to do a sports talk showing on
because you just love sports.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Oh yeah, but it's a great excuse to like it's
a great like, hey, Han, sorry, I gotta watch this
game because I got to talk about it tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Right That that's the key, that's the crutch we use,
that's the that's the life we live. It really is.
But there are some sports right now that I don't
think that I would watch if I didn't have to
talk about it. But there was some I watch even
though we don't talk about them. I mean, we don't
talk much about the College World Series or the Women's
Softball Series, but I watch them because they're intriguing to me.
They're they're cognating.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, the way that we can consume sports now with
the ability to watch them on your phone, on your iPad.
I mean there are many nights where I'm on my
iPad in bed, we're watching we just started watching Succession.
We're watching Succession in bed, and I'm also watching the

(42:12):
game of my iPad, Like we can do that, and
she accepts that that's that's gonna be the case. So
there's there's many ways to I don't have to just
watch on the television. Obviously, the you know, it's a
better experience. Possibly then also, you know, she falls asleep
in bed, I'll put the game on. But you can
just watch games a lot differently now. I mean, your
iPad is a giant screen, right, so I can do

(42:37):
it in many different ways. I don't have to just
sit there front of television to watch, you know, games. So,
but she is very accepting now of of my my
TV watching.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
There you go. You know a couple of bits and
pieces about the NBA Draft and that in particular draft pick.
But the Golden State Warriors they agreed on Thursday. I
believe it was to acquire Chris Paul from the Washington Wizards,
who was traded by Phoena to Washington exchange for Jordan
Poole and some draft picks. Okay, And I don't understand
why the Golden State Warriors would look for a thirty

(43:07):
eight year old guy in Chris Pool. I mean, to me,
you got to revamp the team and go young, and
they're trying to squeeze one more championship out of these guys.
With Steph is thirty five and Chris Pool is thirty eight.
That didn't make any sense to him.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Yeah, I think it was more about getting rid of
the Jordan Poole contract and less about Chris Paul right,
because that Jordan Poole deal just very clearly is not
going to work out. And I think the best teams
in sports we've seen this, whether it is in basketball,

(43:41):
but it's much easier, I think, in football to have
this because the roster changes so quick and impactful times.
You know, Bill Belichick has always done this, right, the hint,
the little hint that the smallest of hints that hey,
this is not going to work out, right, like we
just we we thought it would have work. We paid you,

(44:01):
it didn't work out, you're gone, or it's worked out great,
but you know we're gonna let you go one year
before we think you really are done. Okay. We see
this all the time, right, and we praised Belichick for that.
This feels like the situation with the Jordan Poole contract
where Jordan Poole in the playoffs this year is very clear,
like we paid this guy, you know, it's just it's

(44:25):
not what we thought we were getting after we paid him.
Plus the whole Draymond Green punch thing. It just it's
it's just it's it's not working like we thought. So
we're gonna move off your contract and we get Chris
Paul a veteran player, a leader, you know, someone who's
chasing a ring. So he's there for a specific purpose, right,
Like there's he knows what you know why he's there.

(44:46):
You know Steph Curry, if you noticed in in you know,
in the postseason, how much did he have to do
for that offense? Bring the ball up, control the you know,
control the tempo, control the pace, make plays. And now
Chris Paul being in the lineup can take some of
that pressure away from him. He doesn't have to do
everything offense correct. Now does Draymond Green come back? Who

(45:10):
knows he's he excites to player option, you know, Klay
Thompson needs to you know, kind of hopefully return close
to close to what he was, what he's been for
them to win. But it makes sense for those reasons,
just get out out of the pool contract. Like it's
it's just they don't want that contract.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Anymore, you know what, And you're right with the contract
because you know, when there's a question in sports, maybe
the question in life, you guys have to go back.
It's always about the green bags. But the guilt it's
all about money, it really is. But I think with
the situation with Draymond Green and Jordan Poole when he
smacked him around pretty good. I think it was in practice.
I just don't think the guy's a good egg to
be on the team. I think they wanted them out well.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
And you don't think he's a bad locker room teammate guy.
I just think that the Draymond Green Jordan Poole thing
was just not great for team chemistry, right. It's not
great when a veteran player hits a young player like that.
It's not great. The video got out. I mean, there's
many things that it's I think I think the Warriors

(46:09):
just said, look, man, let's get office deals. As I
just said, like we we it's best to move to
move it along, and that's what they did, and I
think that's I think it's smarter them to feel, okay,
like we again, we have what we determined that this is.
Is it like we've he's not our guy, Let's move

(46:30):
it along. A lot of teams take too long to
make that decision, right.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
A big question I got to ask, and it is
a general question in the world of sports, your thoughts
on free agency as a player, you know, because certainly
you don't want to be owned by by an organization.
In other words, you were for company A, and basically
a company B is across the street, and you perform
the same service for company B, and they go for
you twice a salary, you're gonna jump the company B.
But in sports is a different animal. I think people

(46:57):
I truly enjoy the fact that one guy was with
one team for ten, twelve, twenty years of his career.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Well, it's obviously if you're you know, a fan of
a team, the afraigency is not not really great, right
because you lose you mentioned like you lose players, right.
You know you're you're a Bengals fan, right, and you
know you got a couple more years of this kind
of group, and then you see if you can pay everyone. Right.
But also, if you are a fan of players, you

(47:23):
got to imagine you are a fan of them being
able to make as much money as possible, right, Just
like in your walk of life, you know you're able
to leave and find another job that you would like
as well, right, And so I think that's you know,
fragency has made it to where players have generational wealth now, right,
Players able to play the game of football and set
their families and their families and their families up for

(47:45):
for life, you know, much later, you know, after after
ball's done. So there's so many pausitives with Ragie. I
get it. As a fan, I get like it. You know,
my thing is toughest in baseball right where. You know,
I'm a Giants baseball fan and we're have an incredible
you know, June June, you know, end of May and June.
But you know this team is like completely different from
last year, just the way it is in sports, and

(48:08):
so I get it as a fan. It's really tough
as a player, man, you know, it's obviously it changed
my life. The ideal I was able to get it
took already year seven because I have health to get
that kind of second contract to quote unquot and second contract,
and I you know, the one thing I always find
so interesting when we talk about these things, especially social media,

(48:30):
is how many people seem to sort of root for
ownership in these situations, right they do. And maybe it's
because the ownership of a team it feels like it's
the team, right, like, and you want the best for
your physical team, right like, I'm again, let's use the

(48:53):
team like I'm a Chiefs fan, I want as a
Chiefs fan, let's just take my take me as as
a former player. You know, I'm I want the Chiefs
to succeed, and so I want certain players to stay
on the Chiefs because that helps the Chiefs be better.
So I'm rooting for players to stay on the Chiefs
because I want us to be as good as we
can be. And so when a player leaves for for

(49:13):
more money, I'm very bummed out. But guys, the player
is like getting is making money and taking the money
from the billionaire. Like if you were in any other
walk of life, you know you you'd be rooting for
the employee over the maneuv a little bit. But I

(49:36):
think that again, like people look at don't feel that
way about ownership because they you know, the ownership and
the team are synonymous. Again, and you in your in
your walk, in your job right now, if you're listening
to the show, you'd be like, stick out to the man, right,
stick to the boss boss, Like I yeah, yeah, make
as much money as you can. But for somehow, professional

(49:57):
athletes sometimes that that wiring its sweat. It's it's very interesting.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Because the paying fan, the paying slob that goes to
a game intrise a couple of beers and buys a ticket.
He sees Joe Blow wearing the team uniform with the
name of the city in the front and his name
on the back, and he's buying that jersey to wear.
And next year that guy's are on the team because
he because he thinks that guy has it as an
allegiance to the team, and he loves the loyalty. Didn't
even it's not that way. He's loyalty when the game starts,

(50:24):
but after it's all over, its business, there is no
loyalty anymore. Right, Yeah, Orlando Brown, Right, he played against
the Bengals for Kansas City. Now he's now he's blocking
for Joe Burrow in Cincinnati. I mean this proved positive, right, I.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Mean yeah, it's very interesting. I mean Orlando Brown is
a great, a great example right where the Chiefs changed
his life, right, I mean the Chiefs. He went from
the Bengal as the Ravens to the Chiefs. He won
a Super Bowl. He's a pro bowler now, and they
paid him a lot of money in that in that
kind of franchise that year. And then now he's a

(50:59):
Bengal and they're going to play the Chiefs December thirty
first in Kansas City. You know, the Bengals and Chiefs
have a rivalry now, which I think is fantastic for
for for football. And he's going to go into the
Arrowhead and he's gonna be booed right as a Beangal.
He's going to feel that the other animosity from Chiefs fans.
And just last year he was you know, he was

(51:21):
at that, he was at a you know, the parade
with the zero sack shirt on right. They love zero sacks, right,
And so mentally you have to make that switches a player.
I didn't have that situation in my career, but it's
very drastic for Orlando Brown to do that so quickly.
But that's it. But I think to Andy, a lot
of the players, you know, grown up in an era

(51:42):
of fregency, right I know, I certainly have you know,
Orlando Brown's father playing in the NFL. You know, with
the transfer portal now, as you mentioned earlier, college football
is sort of feels like fregency right now. So I
think there's not like this. It's not a new sensation
for players to have to have to leave because of
all these factors in college and growing up with you know,

(52:05):
seeing fregency kind of in your face. So players don't
feel I think, quite as as awkward about it, maybe
as fans might feel.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Look, I remember as a kid growing up, the saying
of the day was play me or trade me. You
don't hear that much anymore thanks to free agency. Man.
As a kid, I remember guys that were riding the
bench on various teams that I was rooting for, and
they weren't playing it. They go out and they be
very vocal in the media, play me or trade me,
and they management would trade them at times. But there

(52:36):
was no free agency back then. So I understand that.
You know, the bottom line is this play. You want
to have playing time and money, you know, maybe not
in that order, maybe money and playing time that's where
it's at right when you play?

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Oh yeah, I mean yes, absolutely. And again you know
everyone wants to get paid because it's generational wealth, right,
and you have to ask you to work for that wealth.
You have to be good, be good player and being
like one in the absolutely and again you know players
worked their butts off for me. I look, man, I
I was a practice. I was a seventh round draft pick.

(53:09):
I started my career in practice squad. I played two years.
I had hip surgery, another hip surgery. I got to Minnesota,
I had a groin surgery. You know. Twenty twelve was
my fifth year in the NFL. I was in Minnesota
again with that bad groin. Didn't play very well, didn't
play very much. I go to Kansas City, I'm healthy.
I finally get a chance to show what I can do,

(53:29):
and I get that big contract in year seven. Like
I worked my butt off of that contract like that. That,
And so there's a reward for a lot of guys
like me that you know, put in a lot of
time and sacrifice away from our families and and our
entire life. It's consumed by football, and we get that,
we get that payoff of them.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
How many times did you say to yourself, I'm packing
it in after all those injuries. And by the way,
I assume you were married at the time.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Did your wife I was not married yet.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
She would have probably said, it's enough, you want to
just quit right?

Speaker 3 (54:03):
No, you know, my wife, I don't know if she
like really paid attention to that at times, Like she's
just like, oh, you're still playing football cool. I don't
think she paid attention to like that the business part
of it at times. So I always you know, people
ask me this a lot, Indy, and I always say,
I just played football till someone told me I couldn't

(54:25):
play anymore. So I never thought of it as like, Okay,
I'm I'm near the end. I certainly felt that way.
My body felt that way in year nine, and I
certainly I think my family and I decided that that
wasn't probably my last year playing, but I don't remember.
I just kept playing until someone told me I couldn't
play anymore. There was never a time when I thought

(54:45):
my career was over. I knew I was a good
enough player if I just could get healthy, and I
didn't and was able to play a long time. I
never felt that way, India, and I just kept playing
man until someone told me I couldn't do it. I'm
gonna do this radio show till someone tells me I
can't do it anymore, right, Like that, just the way
I've always I've always been. I've worried about the what.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
If you know, had a beautiful, beautiful comparison you just said,
because look, I never played pro football and never never
been in your shoes. But I feel the same way
with the radio situation. Until someone says it gets a
hook and yanks me off, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Yeah, it's if teams are gonna call me and I'm
gonna keep getting a job, I'm keep playing, and then
eventually the phone call stop and your career is over.
Now I feel fortunate. So I was on basically four
teams in four years, the last year of my rookie
deal in Carolina, then Minnesota, and then Kansas City for
a year, and then the Giants. I was there for

(55:40):
two years. But you know, again like eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
four different cities, four different teams, and so I always
I always knew it'd be over at some point because
of just again, that's a lot of movement, right, a
lot of new every year, and you know, the one
year deals, like you just know it's over at some point.
And so I felt, you're very prepared for my next

(56:03):
my next life, right, because again I had spent so
much time, you know, in the NFL free agency in
the off season, not being on a team and start
thinking about my future, and so I was I felt
very prepared to transition to no longer playing football because
I just I you know, when when you when you
don't have that you know success at times in football,

(56:25):
and you just right I was. I felt very prepared
to be retired when it was time to be retired.
Or I think other players who have a lot more
success than I did in my career, and that you know,
play on a certain team for nine, ten, twelve years,
it's tougher for them to make that, you know, that
that tradition at times because they just everything sort of

(56:47):
you know, it becomes routine, it becomes easy, it becomes
something that you know, your life becomes playing for that team.
I didn't have that because I was on so many
teams in so many years.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
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That's next, it's the worst. We'll explain that in just
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(57:34):
I'm Andy Furman together with Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio and rolling along right now, and we talk
about the worst position to play in the NFL. I
always thought it was your position, Jeff, I really did.
I'll tell you why. It's a it's a grunt. I
hate to say this to you, but it's kind of
a grunt position. There's no respect, no respect, and there's

(57:54):
no stats. And I never understood how one could get
elected to the Hall of Fame playing an offense line
position because obviously there's no statistical relevance to that position. Really,
I mean, you know, touchdowns for a quarterback, running yards
for a running back, I mean things like that. There's
no stats to justify how good you are at that position.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Okay, so this is it's it's all pro votes, you know,
all pro votes, and they count I believe three different
you know, there's three different It's like the AP and
there's a couple of different you know polls they use.
So it's yeah, it's that, that's a that's part of it.
It's it's a p voting, all pro voting. You I've

(58:36):
always felt that, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. It
does feel though, like you know, typically it's the best
player or two of a generation. Like you get one
center of generation, right you get three to four guards
a generation. You get you know, three to four tackles
a generation, and you know, after X amount of years,

(59:00):
know who they are. Like currently right now in the
NFL playing Toron Smith is gonna be a Hall of Famer.
Jason Peters left tackle, and he's you know, he he's older,
but he's kind of still flown around. He'll be a
Hall of Famer.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Kelsey's brother at senta.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Kelsey's brother at center, Trent Williams will be a Hall
of Famer, Zach Martin will be Hall of Famer. That's
the five right now that will walk in as Hall
of famers right now, Okay, that's it. Those five, I'm
telling those five right now are or set. I'm might

(59:37):
be busy one. But I think those are the five
right now, Lane Johnson, Lane Johnson will probably be the
first right tackle. Willie Anderson, I think, should get in
the former Bengals right tackle. I hope he does. He
might and if he gets in, Lane Johnson Shirley getting in,
but Lane might be the first right tackle. And I
do think that now because of these grading services right

(59:58):
Pro Football Focus is one of them, there are more
eyeballs towards actual numbers and in tangible stats for off
its alignment. And I do think that Lane can be
the first. Again, I think Willie Anderson should be in first.
I mean when you're the best right tackle again of
a generation, especially when the game sort of transitioned and
he was still part of the you know, the run
the ball first and playac should pass and whatnot. But

(01:00:21):
he was so good, you know this, like he should
be the Hall of Fame. So if Willy gets in,
Lane's surely getting in. I think Willi will get in eventually,
but I think Lane's on that path too. Those are
probably the six right now that are like surefire, that's
it six, right, Like you don't get a lot in
generation because again it's difficult to quantify the stats. But again,

(01:00:43):
after six, seven, eight, ten years, you know who the
best are. It's not very hard.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Well, you know, it's funny because it's a position that
so valuable because a quarterback could be made or broken
because of that position. There's no doubt in my moment.
Oh yeah, and the running game as well. But again
there is no statistical information like after I mean what
they need to define a stat like holds? Maybe how
many times do you hold the defense? Some sort of

(01:01:10):
a stat to verify how good you are?

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Again, like you you, that's why I'm here, Like you
just have to You just have to like trust that
people like myself that watch the game, that study the position,
that we understand like okay, just trust me. And Zach
Martin right guard for the Cowboys, he's the best right guard,
Like you have to eat yea, trust me in that one.

(01:01:36):
This is I think we got to a point where
sometimes we don't trust experts in their own field, like
I have no bias man, like just like Zac Marr
is the best. It is what it is. And we
just got to point now where you know, in society,
we just don't trust experts. We trust people that pay
for their blue check and have a bunch of followers
on social media.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Sometimes I'm not so certain that it is a good
move to have the Pro Football Writer voting for that.
I really don't think they understand how difficult the position is.
You know what it takes to be good at that position.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Really yeah, but I don't like how many for the
offensive line position. How many misses? I mean, how many
guys are you like, well, it's kind of putting you
on the spoty, We're like, man, that guy's not and
that's a that's a trap. It's not that many offensive
line They dig it eventually, Like I said, Tony Boselli
got in like that's the last. That's the guy was
really really, I mean every year, like every player. I know,

(01:02:29):
he was hurt. You don't pay seven years. He was
first Team All Pro three straight. He was ninety six
to eight to ninety eight, okay, And he was a
first team All Pro left tackle in the same time
frame as four other Hall of Fame left tackles. So
it was Ogden, Rof Walter Jones, and uh well, Orlando Pace. Okay, right,

(01:02:54):
when you are the first team All Pro and left
tackle with four or other Hall of Fame left tackles
playing at the same time, and some of those guys
were young, and Augton was young. When you're the best player,
it should be in the Hall of Fame. It's not
very hard. So I think for off of the lineman. Yeah,
look the writers and look, I've talked to writers about

(01:03:14):
pro football about you know, the Hall of Fame, and
there's like fifty of them. I think, right, I've talked
them about the process, like, I think it's okay the
way it works in the end. Yet fifteen years, like,
you're not gonna get screwed. If you're that good of
a player, you might not, like, you know, toroll Owan's
famously right, He's like, I'm not I'm not coming to the
Hall of Fames. I it wasn't a First Ball Hall
of Famer, all right. I mean you know, it was
only five and every year more and more players kind

(01:03:37):
of become, you know, eligible for First Ball Hall of
Famers the way it is. But uh, yeah, I it's
been Uh it's it's fun to watch the process. I'm
okay with it. Again, offensive line, I think eventually get in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
All right, we're gonna do this. We're gonna tell you
the worst position, according to one pro bowler, the worst
position in the NFL. We'll do that next. That's coming
up right here how Fox SPORTSNY Live Forthetirack dot Com studios.
But first let's hear from Kevin Wyatt with Olios.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
Well, it was a night for the record books for
the Angels on Saturday. They just absolutely have a destruction
of the Colorado Rockies, twenty five to one the finals
score there, and they led twenty three to nothing after
just four innings, a record, at least going back to
last fifty years, the Halos franchise record for most runs
in a single game was twenty four. They got that

(01:04:27):
in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays back in
nineteen seventy nine, So twenty five the new record for
the Halos, and the two teams agreed to a trade
after the game concluded, Mike Gustakis going from Colorado to
the Angels in exchange for a couple of minor league players.
Other baseball scores, Dodgers beat the Astros eight to seven.
Dodgers coming from behind the winning and they get a

(01:04:48):
back call in the eighth inning for the go ahead run.
The Giants beat the Diamondbacks seven to six. They're now
just a game and a half back of Arizona top
the NL West. The Cubs beat the Cardinals in London
nine to one. The Cincinnati Reds, they were the hottest
team in baseball, had a twelve game winning streak, but
that came to an end on Saturday, as the Braves,

(01:05:09):
behind four home runs, beat the Reds seven to six.
Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics seven to three. Oakland
now just twenty and fifty nine on the season. The
Royals not doing much better, but they did get a
win against the best team in baseball. They beat the
Rays nine to four. The upstart Baltimore Orioles get a
home run in the tenth inning to get an extra
innings win against the Mariners six to four. The Mets

(01:05:31):
beat the Phillies four to two. Yankee shutout. The Rangers
won nothing in the College World Series. It's LSU with
an eleventh inning home run against the Florida Gators as
they take the opening game of the Championship round of
the College World Series final in that one, four to three.
And in soccer opening game of the Gold Cup, the
US men's national team plays to a draw against Jamaica.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
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at about seven eight minutes from now. But it was

(01:06:13):
Melvin Gordon who said the worst position in the National
Football League was the running back. Okay, I guess it's
more of lack of respect for that position. He says,
we get no love. And basically he did say this,
and I'm quoting him right now. It's just so tough
for running backs right now. Man. Gordon says, you got
a running a lot of running backs out there. We
just don't get no love. It's literally the worst position

(01:06:34):
to play in right now in the NFL. And I
think he's saying that because in the money situation, you
look at some of these guys that there are high
priced veterans. They're looking for a job right now, like
Ezekiel Elliott, Dalvin cook A, Leonard Fortnette, Kareem Hunt. They're
still looking for a team. And I guess right now,
teams say, look, I could afford to get a running
back in the draft for a lot less money and
doing the same function that you're doing for less money.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Yeah, it's difficult right now to be one of those guys,
because you know, there is the you know, the the analytics,
we call it, you call it revolution, what we want
to call it. In in the game has has shown
that you can pretty much get a running back whenever

(01:07:21):
in the draft and be really good. You know, we
saw last year you know, uh, you know, but Chakeo
for the chief seventh round draft pick. We even saw
to a little bit last year when Christian McCaffrey left
the Panthers. The run game got better got better when
he left. And so I think there's a lot of
people that look at that and think, hey, man, you know,

(01:07:43):
let's not pay these guys as much as we should.
I and I don't disagree. I was building my team,
I would not draft a running back in the first round.
I would not pay a running back in a second contract.
That's the way I build my team. There's there's no
justification for for doing it. You just you just can't.
There's no way to you can no way to say

(01:08:04):
that we should be paying running back all that money,
because again, the production level does not equal the money
you're paying these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Look, if you had a chance to pay three million
dollars for a running back or eleven million dollars, you
know you're gonna go pick the guy with a cheaper
option three million. And I got to believe at the
end of the day, the production might be just about
the same.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Really, I mean, it's shown that the money is the same.
It is the same, like it like, I mean, the
production is the same for the amount of money you're paying.
You know, it seems like you know, for that you
know kind of position. A lot of it just comes
down to obviously, like offensive line blocking, uh more than
anything else. Like if you can, if you can, if
you're an offensive lineman, you know, and you you can block, well,

(01:08:50):
that's enough two to make your you know, your line,
your your run game go. And unfortunately that that's enough
to to not have to pay that running to not
have to pay running back a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
There's only two running backs in the last five, six,
seven years. I gotta believe that I've got big contracts.
One is Christian McCaffrey, right, the other one is Dereck Henry.
Other than that all these other big names advocates, would.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
You but again, like, is the Dereck Henry deal? Would
you say as a Titans fan that's worked for your franchise? No,
that that becomes a concern, right. Also, like, so I'm
gonna do this. I haven't done the research on it yet,
but I'm I'm I will and it's gonna be part
of what I do when I kind of preview the
NFL this year for Fox Sports, I'm gonna look at

(01:09:35):
it and I know this is the answer. But I'm
gonna bet every running back under for all. I'm gonna
make a project this year for all thirty two starting
rundbacks NFL, and if teams don't really have a start,
I won't do it. I guess I'm gonna bet the
under for rushing yards for every single one of them.
I will make a lot of money this year. That's
a you can say about quarterback, ride receiver. I'll make

(01:09:59):
money fading running backs this season because of the injury
rate and the ability to just kind of find a
second running back, you know, in an offense. It's just
the way it is. It's unfortunate. I empathize with running backs.
I mean, imagine my position became less valuable. Would suck.
It would suck, You make less money, you don't feel
as important. But the numbers show that you're able to

(01:10:22):
function as an offense without having that quote quote Bell
cou running back. Is it is? It is Christ McCaffrey.
Is it good for the Niners? Absolutely, he's great. But
the Niners are not winning this year because the McCaffrey.
They're winning if they have a quarterback. That's why they're
winning this year.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Andy, exactly right. You know, I guess some stats over here.
It's unbelievable. Back in twenty thirteen, the franchise tag of
a position for running back was eight point eight million.
That year, the number has gone and this year gone
the number's gone up to ten point oh nine million,
which is an increase of twenty five percent, which sounds
pretty good. But quarterbacks since that all have gone a

(01:10:59):
fourteen tzo point sixty four million and twenty thirteenth to
thirty two point four million, an increase of one hundred
and twenty one percent, and other than that. Listen to this,
linebackers have seen them their increase of of a hundred
of almost one hundred percent linebackers and defensive tackles from
eight million to eighteen point nine million. So basically, running

(01:11:21):
backs have fallen way behind behind quarterbacks obviously, but linebackers
and defensive tackles, it's amazing. You don't need a running
back to win. To win in the National Football League,
you really don't look happen with fullbacks. Fullbacks are dinosaurs
do now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
But I want to make it very crew though, you
need to have a running game. You have a running
game to be competitive. You don't need to have again, listen,
you don't need to have a you don't need to
have a running back like a bell can, but you
need a run game to be successful. You need you

(01:11:59):
need you need to be able to punch someone in
the mouth. You you be physical with them. So there is
you need some of that, some of that andy to
win in this league. Again, you don't need to be
the best run game of all time, but you need
to have a running attack that teams believe you can

(01:12:20):
punch them in the mouth. You need to have that.
You might not have to have the running back, but
you have to make them think you can punch them
in the mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
And we've seen changes in offenses because teams cannot win
with that run game. Example, the Baltimore Ravens, they will run, run, run,
that's all they did. What do they do. They stacked
up on receivers now, the kid out of Boston College
in the draft, and they made a couple of free
agent moves. They've gone receiving now and they may be
more of a passing game than a running game.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Yeah, I mean it was time for that. It was.
It was very clearly it was much needed to kind
of move on from from that and let Lamar kind
of operate in a more functional NFL offense.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
And they want them to keep them healthy too by
not running much.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
I'm sure. Absolutely, yes, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Amazing, it really is. And look I get it. I mean,
you could go far in the playoffs with a run game,
and a lot of times they'll use the running back
as a decoy passing out of the backfield. They'll use
your tight end to create the run game. In a sense, really,
you don't need it. You don't need a bell Cow
running back.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
You don't you're correct, you do not.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Well, that's the first time I have been correct. But
you know, every once in a while they hit on something.
But now and then, well, well now and then yeah,
maybe the moon was full last night. I don't know.
But again, we've seen changes in the NFL. I think
Dan Marino was the guy that came into the NFL
when Baby you can maybe call him the godfather of
the forward pass. They didn't pass much before Dan Marino

(01:13:45):
came in. He started passing and they kind of eliminated
the run game as much. And the full back position
used for running then it was used for blocking. I
mean what I think maybe two teams use a full back.
I think the Ravens use a full back. I don't
know who else uses a full back. Really forty nine
that's about it. Really, that's a position that's gone. Even
in the college game.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Oh, the college game has no has no uh has
no none of that. No fullback.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
It's amazing it really. Can you imagine guys that played
full back back in the day and that watching the
National Football League right now, say, what happened to my position? Really?
It's gone.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
It's it's a look everything look to think about Andeo's
everything sort of comes back. Like I'm curious if we're
gonna have a you know, at some point we're gonna
have a comeback where we see, you know, all these
positions that kind of left us all sort of kind
of come back. I'm curious about that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Well, it may may very well happen. I mean, there's
really nothing new. Is just the wheel that recycles. That's
what it is. That's basically what it is really in
all sports. Really, I mean, right now, I think there
was a picture the other day I read who was
signed a knuckleballer? The first knuckleball pictured like an eons.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're making they're making a little bit
of a comeback.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
So that too, right now, Balls coming back. I mean
back in the day, it was a Hoyt Wilhelm. They
all like knuckleballs, That's what it was, Tom Sturt of it.
I'm throwing names out there. As a kid, I remember
all legue knuckleball pitches.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Wilhelm.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Well, you know, you could say I'm aging myself. I'm
just an historian, you know what I'm saying. Right, it's
a good cover.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
You could have gone like Tim Wakefield. Everyone been like,
yeh yeah Wakefield.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
That think for me, it's bottom put my money to sleep.
You go get my money.

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
I'll put your brain to sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Oh baby, the man with the playing the big eighth
the miller, How you.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
Doing great to be here? Happy Sunday. Guys uh three
and two last week who both both Yeah? Not bad
at tie. You know, we'll take it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
I'll give them some competition, I really.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
Am, I think yeah anyway, yeah, it is a smirk.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
We're gonna start with college baseball because it's not that normal, right,
Like it's college baseball, all right? Cool? So it's Florida
minus one and a half, l s U plus one
and a half, Game two today at twelve oh five.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
I mean, if you're giving me plus one and a
half with LSU, I'll take the run in half. I
think Florida wins. But there's the matchup with LSU right now. Now,
I can make the case that Andy that like it
ends the magic just ends in game two, right and
then comes back in game three. But LSU has been

(01:17:08):
on a tear right now. I mean they have been
so good. I'll take the plus one and half. Yeah,
I think that's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
They've been very good. But a lot of luck too.
I'm gonna go with.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Flo Absolutely, it can end. It can end today, right
it could.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
I'll go with Florida.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
All right, nice splitters, all right. Now we're gonna go
to crazier ridiculous sports like cricket, and we're gonna go
to the Ashes Tournament. Whatever that is. I'm sure Jeff
will look into it. England versus Australia England plus one
ten Australia minus.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Andy. Don't you don't imagine, you don't use that, you're
not a tech talk person. But going to if you're
going on some of these some of these websites, you know,
like in these apps, and you know they just basically
track what you know, what what you're watching, and they
kind of show you more of that. Somehow I got
on cricket TikTok and uh, it's it's basically changed. But

(01:18:06):
like early last week, I just got the cricket videos
were just NonStop. I think I watched like one video
on something and I have no idea how the game
is played, but it is exciting on TikTok. What are
my choices here? Ethan again?

Speaker 5 (01:18:22):
Yes in Australia, Yeah, England Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
Yeah, I'll go to Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
I was going with England because I have some relatives
to My grandfather was from Golden's Green right outside of
London Sun Golden Wave to flag the you and you Jack.

Speaker 5 (01:18:37):
I got even showing your respect, I get it all right,
We're gonna go to darts, right, darts are very exciting.
We love darts. Here. We're gonna do Chris Gilane and
I think that's how you pronounced. Let's just say Chris
g for for times sake.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
You can take up the names. We wouldn't know if
you write it wrong anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:18:57):
Well, you never know. You know what Jeff likes throwing
on them some time?

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
And then James Richardson, Chris Chris gee Vers.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
James richards the guy that dame he can pronounce.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
Yeah cool, where's this match out?

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Did you give me a little more details?

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
I really I couldn't, you know. I'll look up the
series at the breaks.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
It's have another question, because Jeff's a big dark guy.
Do they have doubles in darts? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
You know what, that's a great question. Is another thing
I want to look out.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
It says online lively. I just bet On Richardson.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Really, you know, if you did on getting James G
I'll go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
With G.

Speaker 5 (01:19:34):
Chris. But it's fine. I would have made the same mistake. Uh,
all right, we are moving. We only have like ten seconds.
So yeah, it was nice playing with you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
I'll see you guys in an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
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Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
Good morning everyone. Is a wonderful Sunday again, one one
day closer, one weekend closer to some NFL. Actually, I'm
ready for football. I'm itching for football. Andy. I'm enjoying
you know, a little you know a little kind of
breaking time from work because you know, we had a
little travel coming up and some fun things to do.
But you've got Patwell Media Day, which I cover the

(01:20:52):
PAC twelve in like less than three weeks. Now it
is is well as you mean less than four weeks.
It's almost football.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Time, man, I hear what you say. But don't forget
Happy birthday to missus s Happy birthday. They don't forget that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Yes, my wife's birthday is today. I walked from my
studio during the break to the house and she's still sleeping.
So we're good. We're good. We're letting her sleep in
a little bits. Kids still sleeping. We're good. Morning, off
to a good start.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Good Now, I got a couple of things. They gotta
run by it because you're the voice of reason here,
you really are. Yesterday the Cardinals played the Cubs in London.
All right. I gotta believe that Major League Baseball is
always late to the dance. All right. You know, football
was smart. They went to Germany. They went to Mexico
to plan all over. They want to expand the program,
they want to sell all over the world. It's a
global game, okay, baseball. Why London cricket's the game over there?

(01:21:46):
They should have gone to Japan. They could have gone
to the Dominican Republic. They could have gone to Mexico.
That's their base, that's where they get their players from.
Why London, I don't understand it. I turned it in
just to see what it would look like. I don't
get it. Help me out here.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
You span the game right where we're finding new places
to play baseball. In the news yesterday was Derek Jeter
in the booth, him and a rod and and Big
Poppy together pre game getting it in. I look, I
I mean baseball has done a better job in recent

(01:22:21):
years of marketing themselves. I really think that young players
being able to show their personalities, right. I mean you
talk about Dela Cruz like he just is electric, but
he shows his personality right. And these players, man, it's
just it feels like it's more fun to play baseball now.
And I just think they're trying to expand the game

(01:22:42):
outward right and trying to find.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
I would hope. So, you know, you talk about Elie,
Dela Cruz, you talk about the college game right now,
and I love it because it's exciting. The LSU game
again they win. But the bad news is that those
guys in l s U, if in fact they do
get drafted. We're gonna have to weigh three for me
before to see them come to the big leagues where
that's why the NBA and NFL haven't made you watch
these guys in college and bang they're going to the

(01:23:04):
pros the next year and you follow their career. That
hurts baseball a little bit. Plus, there's a lot of
players in baseball, like Ellie, uh, they don't speak English
and that's tough. I mean, I watched the post game
into the other night in Cincinnati. They had the interpreter
on there with him, and it's just difficult, it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Yeah, he's a young player, though I imagine at some point,
you know, that gets that gets easier for him, you know.
But then we have players like it's just Otani is
so freaking good man and he's playing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
He's buried there, like very buried with the Angels.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Like that's the hard part about baseball. I lo baseball.
So to you, it's just a long season. It's just
such a long season. You know, again, you're you're a
Reds guy. Well you you you know you're a Reds
fan just by by where you live, right, I mean,
you know, if it wasn't your childhood team. I don't
think I'm a Giant. I'm a Giants fan, and the

(01:23:56):
Giants are playing great baseball right now. But it's like
it's still the middle of June. We have July, August,
and September, and it's hard to give your attention all
of baseball. I think when you have standalone events like
the London game, you do get more eyeballs to the sport, right,
you get it. It's an event, and that's what football
does so well, right. Football creates an event each week,

(01:24:18):
an event, and baseball is trying to do some of
that with these some of these games. Now, if I
have career, it's just they're playing one game in London.
That's it. I believe so series in London.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
But look, the problem with baseball is that they step
on their own fee. For example, when the NBA has
a draft, it's a separate event. When the NFL has
a draft, it's a weekend, it's like three days. Okay,
when they when Major League Baseball has their player draft,
they're still playing games. It's amazing. Okay, when the Major
when Major League Baseball and ducks players into their Hall

(01:24:50):
of Fame, which they'll be doing in July, right next month,
what do they do. There's still playing games. You have
to reserve, make it special, reserve that no games should
be played that day when they put guys in the
Hall of Fame. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Well, that's the Hall of Fame, I understand. But the draft, like,
come on, you mentioned it right, Like, there's a kid
on LSU, the pitcher for LSU, right right, he throws,
you know, half his pitches one hundred miles an hour.
He's gonna go in the top five, right, he might
have me the first picture draft. I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
Ty Floyd and what his name is, ty Floyd?

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Ty Floyd.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
He struck out seventeen yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
No, No, that's a different guy. Okay, No, No, their
their main their main picture pitched the game against wake Forest. Okay,
he's there. Yeah, yeah, they're they're good. That that's kind
of the point about why LSU is where they are
right now. No, the guy who, uh what's his name here?
Well that so Dylan Cruz won like Slugger of the

(01:25:48):
Year for LSU, and their picture is what's his name's
trying to pull up? Oh, Paul Paul Paul Skines he's
six six, two forty seven. He's incredible. He through the
other day nine innings, you know, bazilion strikeouts. But if
your team drafts him, you know you're not gonna you know,

(01:26:09):
he's not gonna be in the big leagues for another
you know how many I mean were he threw eight innings?

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
Let about that. But I think it creates the interest
where if you're a fan of Team X and they
draft that kid, you're gonna find out what level he's
going to play on, and maybe even the local media
will follow him to give the interest, because I know
in Cincinnati they were following the Louisville Bats by the
Triple A team when Elie Dela Cruz was playing, and

(01:26:35):
they've sent reporters down there, you know, when Ellie was playing.
So eventually it created the interest and the spark and
the breads event eventually brought.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Among Yeah, but that only happens at the end of
the of the road of the minor league, right like
it happens at the very end. And typically that only
happens too when you're not you're not playing your baseball.
They're like, you knowing, bring up this kid, right, bring
them up and give us A spark and not all
you know, Triple A teams are relatively you know, they're
not always near the major league team that they try

(01:27:03):
to move them as close as possible. Obviously, it's just
it's so difficult. So I think that I like the
idea of baseball going with stand alone, with a standalone
kind of game. It's a big event. There wasn't much
on this weekend. Let's focus on this big, major event.
Let's pump some energy into baseball and let's try to

(01:27:24):
get you know, a big, a big premiere. Hey, you
must watch this event because it's on It's on Big Fox,
and it's a it's a major baseball game.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
I am a fan of baseball, and I do enjoy
it and I love it. I love going to games,
I really do. But but again I keep on whining
and crying because I think there's certain things that baseball
could do to help themselves, and one of them would
very well be to go back to the old, the
old way of the old star game National League against
the American League. Now with this mixed roster is just you know, wait, wait,

(01:27:55):
it was National American where there was no inter league
play at the time. So the only time you could
see the stars from the other league will be either
the World Series of the All Star Game. And now
when in the league play, you know, it kind of
takes away the excitement and the mystery behind that. I'd
like to see them going to do away with it
the league play forget it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
So that's a very seven year old take. So I
appreciate that there, Andy, Thank you. I have said this
for ten years now. It's been one of my my
talking points around the Baseball All Star weekend is I
remember it always us. It's always so my birthday is
July eleventh, and the MLB All Star Game is always

(01:28:34):
that week, no matter like. It's always around my birthday.
You know, this year it's uh, it's July. It's actually
July eleventh this year, just on my birthday this year.
It's always that week, no matter what, because I remember
because I would go to my best friend's house and
as a kid, and we go and watch the home
run derby the day before, and then I'd go and

(01:28:56):
the next day and go to his house again and
watch and watch the game. Where's my birthday or not?
That was our routine, right, I go to my my
buddy's house, we watch the game. But the reason why
it was so much fun to your point was, you
know we're in Los Angeles. I get to watch the
Dodgers play now. As a kid. Obviously, we know that
TBS had the Braves, WGIt had the Cubs, so there
was some other options to watch. But if I wanted

(01:29:18):
to watch Ken Griffy Junior, but it's the only time
of year I got to watch him, was All Star weekend,
so I wanted to watch him hit home runs, it
was All Star weekend. If I don't watch calroq Vin
Junior play, it was All Star Weekend. If I want
to down, the Yankees were on national television more often.
If I want to watch a Yankee play, it was
All Star Weekend. And that's what for me as a

(01:29:39):
kid much watch television. I have to watch the home
run derby and the All Star Game because I don't
get to watch these guys on the regular. Even if
Interleague play was was gone was gone. Right, Let's say
they ended it tomorrow. We still get all the games
on television, so I get to watch any I could
pull up today my MLB TV the app and put

(01:30:01):
on any game that's not obviously blacked out in my region,
which is just a terrible thing that baseball does. That's
another thing that baseball does which I think is absolutely atrocious.
The blackout rules for their product is the worst in
all sports. I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. I have
four teams blacked out on the app, which.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
It would be considered Braves Country. Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
Well, yeah, okay, that makes sense. They're on local. I
can get the Braves on every night you want. Who else?
I'm blacked out to watch the Orioles, Okay, the Nationals
and the Reds.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Sense because I could see back in the day when
the NFL had the black rule, they were afraid it
would hurt a tennis.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
And they ended it because they're like this is stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
Right, But how would you be blacked out of the
Reds from Charlotte to see the Reds play?

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
But think about this, The blackout rule for the NFL
was only in your local market if you didn't sell
enough tickets. It wasn't like you couldn't watch other teams play, right.
I can't like, if I want to watch on the
MLB TV app the Giants at the Reds, I can't
do that. I have to pay for the the you know,
the the regional sports networks on direct TV to be

(01:31:13):
able to get those. So Baseball just they hurt themselves
in that way and the interest, Like I have no
interest in the All Star weekend right now? Like what
I watch. I get to watch Shohio Tani bat every day.
Every home run he hits, I watch eight times on
the internet. He hit a ball the other day that
was that was two inches off the plate and the
picture said, how the F do you do that? I

(01:31:35):
I have to watch. It happened on Dinnernet.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
But there's one thing of watching that. But you still
want to see him play against teams within his own division,
you know, the Ad Deleite play thing. You could see
him playing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
Oh no, he just he just hit a ball five
hundred feet in Colorado. That's not I kind of like that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Well, I hear what you're saying. I mean, he's a
great player, and look, I think maybe baseball should do
more to get him out there so people could see
him play. I mean, really and truly this they're trying
a generational player, you know, pitching as well as you know,
playing down a daily base It's amazing and he's buried
with the Angels. That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Yeah, it's not great. They're trying.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
I hear what you're saying. Look, there's a lot of
things baseball could do, but I think one of the
bigger problems is that we're in a society right now
that we want it now, and we want certain you know,
we want glasses in an hour, we want fast food now,
and baseball is just too damn long. You know, they
can't even do what football does with fantasy football. Fantasy
football has saved that sport to some extent because yeah,

(01:32:35):
I know it's gambling, but people learn the players' names,
they study them, and it's once a week. It's perfect.
It's a perfect situation. You can't have fantasy baseball. Who
has time to do that every single day? Who'd want
to do it every day?

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's I used to play fantasy
baseball every day. Matter.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
It is hard, especially without a computer. Think about that.
It'll be nuts. You know, it's got his problem. But
I think it's coming back. I really do. I think
this College World Series has helped major League baseball to
some extent too, the interest in baseball. I really do, absolutely, Yes,
here we go all right. I don't know how we
got off in that tangent, but it was pretty good.

(01:33:12):
It really was Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
It's Sunday in the summer. We talk about this. Look radio.
This time of year is a lot of fun because
it's not as easy as football season, right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
More creative is more creative.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Now you write football season, you don't even have to
like it just shows up. But you don't have to
do it, even a rundown. There's just so much to
talk about it like it is what it is this
time of year, man, you have a little bit of fun.
We can talk about things, right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
I like it better when football begins. A lot of
times I turn on these shows. All I do is
run down game by game with their predictions, and their
predictions are as good as my predictions, which are no
good at all. Really. I mean, you know, I'm gonna
sit here and talk to you during the football season
and say, well, today the Giants are playing the Bears.
Who cares? I mean, no one wants to have a
gas bag like me giving a prediction, and they're gonna

(01:33:57):
spend their money when I say, no, don't. I'd rather
talk about the storylines of the games. That's what I
want to talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
Yeah, no one's no one look, no offense to you.
But I mean people when if they're listening to our
to us do radio during the season, they're they're listening
to me talk about and you talk about the big stories.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
And I'm gonna throw it to you and say, you know,
what do you like? Who do you like? Why do
you like this team? Sure, that's what it's all about.
But now it's great, Like usually we can talk about anything.
We even talk about darts. We talk about it all here.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
I mean, sure we could talk about it for the
thirty seconds that we do, you know, the wagering part
of the show. But I don't. I mean, I don't
have a darts breakdown for you right now.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
But you will and I know about that all right.
He's Jeff Schwartz. Get him on Twitter at g E O. F.
Schwartz and Andy Furman FISO. By the way, should we
do this, anybody who tweets you should get a free
copy of your book, Eat my Schwartz.

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
I have got the publishers, get the give a bunch
of books free copies.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
Left.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
Well that's it. There could be a second printing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
If we got enough enough enough people in now, Yeah,
we're in.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
All right, let's get him in here. And Andy Furman
FSR eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox that's our
phone number. That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
three sixty nine. We got the blame game at the
end of this house, and don't go anywhere. But he's
acting like a shield for the owners.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
That's next.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
He really has no clue. Let's right around the corner.
He's Jeff Schwartz. He's got a clue. I'm Andy Furman
together with Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio and
we're live from the ti rack dot com studios. A
couple of little items I want to run by you
because you are the voice of reason, mister Schwartz. Here's
you were okay? This back and forth now between the
AFC rivals Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals Travis

(01:35:36):
Kelcey and Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. It started last month
that Mahomes Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback in Kansas City, was
the best quarterback in the NFL, and Kelsey said there's
no argument to make until someone can knock him off
at the podium. Okay, So Jamar Chase, the wide receiver
of the Bengals, was back in Joe Burrow, obviously his teammate,
and he said that he gave his opinion. Chase said,

(01:35:57):
Pat who and then all of a sudden, Kelsey's get
us to the next level, you know, And he said,
just the other Dana on another podcast he was doing
the New Heights podcast. I was listening to that with
his brother, Jason Kelsey. It's just it is what it is.
Dog who doesn't love some good locker room banter. So
I guess is he playing? Does he really mean this

(01:36:18):
or he wants to create some controversy? What's this?

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
First of all, this rovalry has has gone on before,
you know, Jamar Chase made that comment. You know, we
saw obviously, you know a couple of years ago the
Bengals were dominating this series, right and you know then
the Ampty Championship game the Chiefs won, there was all
that Burrow head talk right right, and this Robwie is

(01:36:43):
great and you mentioned Jamar Chase. So Joe Burrow was
quoted saying Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL,
and Jamar Chase was asked about that, and his answer
was Pat who, And then that was the night of
the chiefs Ring ceremony. That was the day of the
chiefs Ring ceremony. And so the answer from Patrick Mahomes
was a picture of his two championship rings, saying that's who.

(01:37:06):
So it's great. I mentioned this anything last week. Rovery's
are great. They're fantastic, right, They're great for sports. And
Travis Kelsey is now a podcasters. He's in the media business,
him and his brother. You mentioned New Heights fantastic podcast.
You almost to Cincinnati there right with the New Heights reference.
And I just think that at times right now, Travis

(01:37:30):
is now in the media. You know, he's playing to
the crowd, right, He's playing to his fan base. And
so especially this time of the year when there's let's
to talk about, I think that's all this is. I
don't think there's anything more than Travis and and maybe
Jason kind of playing into a little bit of banter
back and forth. But yeah, December thirty, first New Year's Eve,
Sunday night in Kansas City. You know what this part

(01:37:53):
four now, Andy, this of this matchup, can't wait for it.
I think the Bengals. I think this is the Bengals year.
There has not been a back to back champion in
the NFL since two thousand and four, right when the
Patriots won their second title, third title in four years.
It's very hard to repeat in the NFL for many reasons,
and it feels like this sort of has to be

(01:38:15):
the Bengals year right within kind of the impending phrasings
they have having to pay Joe Burrow, and I think
they're really good. It would not surprise me if the
Bengals won the AFC this year.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
I was hoping that game would be pushed up a
little early. As a matter of fact, I thought that
may have been the opening night game.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
That there was no chance it was opening nights.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
Well because the Super Bowl rematch, right, but I thought
maybe an opening weekend. But the reason why I was
hoping to be earlier because by that time of the year,
god forbid, there could be some injuries on either team.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Yeah, but you know that time of year, it makes
it I think, just much more important right now.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
And when they meet again several weeks after that and play.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
It would have been important no matter when you played it,
because it's gonna obviously the two and I think you know,
the pecking order in an AFC for for home field.
You know, we're with with the with the Bills probably
saying that as well, but playing it that late in
the year again, it just feels way more important. You're
absolutely right. You know, injuries play a role and obviously

(01:39:17):
all of this, and we hope that everyone's healthy and
able to play in that game. But I like it
late in the year. Man, it's just gonna feel like
that game is gonna be so important to the league.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's great. I mean, you know, it's
funny because we talk about other sports and like, it's
amazing how other sports do not have this banter and
this hype. It's a hype machine, and it helps the sport.
It helps all tickets, it helps interest, it helps storylines,
it helps everybody, helps media, people, helps guys like us.
The conversations. I mean, I don't basketball to some extent

(01:39:47):
has that. It really does. Baseball lacks that. I don't
understand why. And it's not that hard to get it going.
It really isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
Because baseball is not It's not this. You just can't
do that in baseball, man, like, what do you there's
no way to to manufacture now there are you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
Can look if I'm a baseball player and i'm and
I'm a catcher, okay, and the guy's at bat and
he flips the bat, and I come out and say,
if did the game. Next time I guy flips the bat,
I'm gonna I'm gonna shove the bat when the sun
don't shine, you know, so the day ago, that'll start
it up again, right, Yeah, but they'll do that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
But yeah, but because there's not there's not the physical
confrontation that you have. Right. So in football, obviously there's
a physical nature to football. You're too you know, two
players are physically going at it. In basketball, when you talk,
you play each other. You physically play each other. Right
If if you talk in baseball, there's none of that.

(01:40:41):
You're not physically playing another player. And so I think
baseball is very much kind of uh. You know, fans
of teams do not like each other. Teams do not
like each other, right, Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, Red Sox. It's
not much of a player thing. It's hard. It's hard
to have a lot of personal grudges in baseball because
you don't get to take out on each other.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Yeah, I tell you what, they have a commissioner right now.
And I said, going into the sement, this guy's got
no clue onto about Robert Manfred. He was talking about,
you know, in England that he was talking about various
things happening in the game of baseball, and he talked
about the possible relocation of the Oakland agst to Vegas specifically.
Manford was asked about his recent comments in which he
appeared to cast blame at Oakland fans for the current

(01:41:24):
state of affairs. I mean, he was talking about the
fans came back for twenty five thousand when they showed
their support with that reverse boycott, and they wanted the
Oakland owner John Fisher to sell the team. And he
basically said that it was great, but he thinks there
was the fans that they don't come out of a
nightly baby. They're not coming out because the team doesn't win,
and the stadium is terrible. It's like a sewer, it
really is. And he's blaming the fans. Really, come on.

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
Well, okay, here's the thing about commissioners. Guys. You might
not like them, and there's there's you know, great reason
I like them, but they are paid spokespersons, spokespeople, spokesperson
for the ownership in certain leagues. So Roger Goodell gets
paid to be the shield for the NFL owners, that's

(01:42:11):
his job. Rob Manford gets paid to be the shield
for the for you know, the owners of the A's.
And so he's saying things that help and help again,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Really help ingratiate himself with the owners.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
But no one because the Oakland's fans, I mean, the
Oakland A's owner is a bazillionaire, right, so he can
definitely state in Oakland if he wanted to build his
own stadium. He's just a mouthpiece for ownership. I don't
know if Manford actually believes anything he says, and we've seen,
like at times Goodell, right, like Goodell I think at
times doesn't believe what he says when it comes to ownership, right.

(01:42:50):
We've seen many times where he's lately disagreed with ownership,
right when it comes to certain things about about the NFL,
especially when it comes to kind of player relations. So
this is his mouth man. He's a mouthpiece for ownership,
and ownership definitely is gonna blame the fans first, Right,
they're gonna blame anyone else besides themselves for the a situation.
And certainly Theo's ownership has enough money to build their

(01:43:10):
own stadium. They don't need public funds to build to
build a stadium. And they just want to get out
of Oakland. Everyone's to leave at Oakland. Right, we're seeing
they're gonna lose three franchises. Right, the Warriors went across
the bay. The Raiders are now in Vegas, and so
are the A's. Look, I am looking forward at seeing
baseball in Vegas. I think Vegas is a fun I
love visiting Vegas. I visit all the time. It's gonna

(01:43:32):
be obviously hot. I hope that's end or in or building,
but yeah, it's uh, he's his mouthpiece, buddy, that's it.
You anyway with them all.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
You want, but you hit it right on the head.
I should have realized is the commissions of various sports
serve at the pleasure of the owners. The owners vote,
vote these guys in, and then a shield for them
and the spokesperson, and they all just.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
I serve at the pleasure of you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Oh you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
People. People are like shorts me talking about like I
just serve at the pleasure of Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
No. No, I'm I'm your caddy on this show. But
here's the deal. I mean, the owners love the Commissioner
of Baseball because he's making money for them. What do
I mean by that? When he puts these games on
TV on Apple TV on Sunday mornings easton time at
ten o'clock, which I go nuts and he got to

(01:44:20):
pay for. The owners love that. It's extra revenue. He's
created revenue streams for these guys, so they love them.
That's what they do.

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
And I moved to Vegas will create more revenue streams
for baseball because the people are gonna want to go
to Vegas. It's it's a destination city.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Right If you aybe too late with the NBA there,
don't go there. They're going to go in there. And
I don't think it's too late.

Speaker 3 (01:44:43):
Oh think it's too late in Vegas right now? By
the way, you mentioned Golden Knights champions I'm shot.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
I'm shot that pro sports could survive in Vegas. I
always thought it was just a tourist place and didn't
think there was a base population that would support a
sports team there. I really didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
Well, I think like a lot of other cities in
America there that are growing right now, you have a
lot of transplants, right, and they root for different teams,
and so when that team is in town, that becomes
the team they root for on that day. But for
the most part, there's city pride, right. Like you moved

(01:45:19):
to Las Vegas, you're pride full of the place you're
now living, and so you become a Las Vegas Aces fan,
you become a Goal Knights fan. Now. Of course, if
you're from you know, Pittsburgh, and the Steelers show up,
or or the or the Penguins show up, you're rooting
for that team. We have this in Charlotte where the
Panthers are a relatively new team, right and for the

(01:45:41):
most part, the first season ticket owners of Panthers tickets
were fans of other teams first, and when those teams
showed up, they root for that team. But otherwise we
root for the Panthers.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
Logic, the Tampa Bay Rays should be joined fans out
the Wazoos. A they're winning, and there's a lot of
trans playing stand from the East, like from Borston to
New York, and they can't get flies. They But maybe
my thought process might be this, A lot of retirees
live there and they're a front to drive at night.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
It's not a bolnd all. Have you been to the Trump?
I wouldn't go to Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
No, it's bad. It's bad. The location's bad. But I'm
thinking also a lot of retirees live there and they're
afraid to drive at night to go to games.

Speaker 3 (01:46:21):
Yeah, I mean sure, I don't think about that, but
that's certainly possible. There's also a thing called uber now
lift and other ride sharing apps. You can get the
games quite easy now. But yeah, no, that's I think
this certainly is part of it as well. But you know,
you need to have the mendis And I think that
with a new stadium in Vegas, the A's will have

(01:46:41):
the amenities at the stadium that they just don't have.
The Oka Colosseum is a dump and they need to
get a new stadium. For sure.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
You're exactly right, And we'll see, and I think they will.
They will go to Vegas, no doubt about that. Right,
we move on. Jeff Schwartz, Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday
on Fox Sports Radio, And this name is a perfect
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Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
Yeah, great fit for sports.

Speaker 4 (01:47:04):
We do have a game baseball game coming up at
ten o'clock Eastern, seven am Pacific, an early morning game.
That's because it's gonna be in London, Cubs and Cardinals.
As it was, Chicago winning yesterday nine to one, taking
that first game of that two game London series. But
the records were set in Colorado, the Angels setting a

(01:47:27):
new franchise record for offense. They had twenty five runs
in last night's game, beating Colorado twenty five to one,
and they led twenty three to nothing after four innings.
That was the first time in the last fifty years
a team has scored that much that quickly. The Halos
franchise record for most runs was twenty four. They set
that back in nineteen seventy nine, so a new record

(01:47:47):
set on it Saturday. There was also a trade made
after the game between these two teams, Colorado agreeing to
send Mike Mustakis over to the Angels in exchange for
a couple of minor league players. Dodgers with to come
from behind win against the Astros eight seven, getting the
go ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning
on a bock call. The Giants beat the Diamondbacks seven

(01:48:09):
to six. The Cincinnati Reds, the hottest team in baseball,
had a twelve game winning streak going into Saturday, but
it came to an end at the hands of the
Atlanta Braves seven to six. That's inspired of the fact
that they were able to hit four home runs. The
Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics seven to three. Oakland
a dreadful twenty and fifty nine this season. Royals aren't
doing much better, but they did beat the best team

(01:48:31):
in baseball in the Tampa Bay Rays nine to four.
The upstart Baltimore Orioles they get an extra inning win
against the Mariners six to four. The Mets beat the
Phillies four to two. Yankees shutting out the Texas Rangers
won to nothing. College World Series Game one of the championship,
Brown LSU takes it against Florida four to three as
the Tigers hit a go ahead home run in the

(01:48:54):
eleventh inning. And in soccer, the US men's national team,
in the opening game of the Gold Cup tournament, played
to a draw against Jamaica.

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
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play golf at Ball State University. According to USA Today,
Gilmore's first name is Landin, but it began going to

(01:49:47):
be called by Happy as a nickname when he competed
in golf tournaments at the age of six. Unlike the
character that actor Adam Sandler played in the nineteen ninety
six film This, Happy Gilmore doesn't have any experience playing
high He played for Bloomington South high school boys golf
team since he was a freshman and the future Bullstate
golf were recently shot a sixty six at the US

(01:50:08):
Junior Amateur Golf Qualifier. He's ranking four ninety seven in
the Golf Week SAGRIM Boys rankings. This is ingenious because
now in NIL and with the branding, he's gonna make it.
This guy's gonna be a millionaire. Doesn't make a difference
how good he is in golf.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
Very smart, very smart. I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
Right now, have you seen anybody change their name throughout
your sports career? Nicknames? I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33):
I mean, I mean, run our test change his name
multiple times. I don't even know what it is right now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:38):
I think he had a change his name.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
Really yeah, I don't remember. I have a teammates change
your name? We had? I had teammates that like wanted
to be called yo. Is that jeff Like? Please call
me Jeffrey? Now I remember that type of stuff, but
not not like wholesale name changes. No.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
Now, what would you do if you were in the
NFL right now? To well? I mean, look, I mean
if you're in college, let's sen forget about the NFL.
You're in college right now, what would you knew to
do to to get the nil thing hopping for yourself.
But I guess it's difficult for for linemen, right, I
mean ni L basically receivers, quarterbacks, running backs in college.
They're gonna make the big bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
I mean I would have gone. I would have leaned
into probably the Jewish thing a little bit, you know,
get you know, get get a man of Chevet sponsorship
or something strikes maatsa yeah something. Yeah, No, I would
have I don't know, I'm off it's a lineman man.
I probably not getting very much. But I would lean
into social media, you know, the Jewish you know, the
Jewish part of it. That's probably what I would have done.

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
Yeah, yeah, I want you know, it's a difficult thing,
but this you get social media. I guess being an
athlete or your athletic skill is almost secondary to the
amount of followers you have, isn't that correct. I mean
I went to goin to go back to these girls,
the twins in Miami. They weren't great basketball players Miami. Yeah,
but they weren't like all America.

Speaker 3 (01:51:59):
They're not going to w NB A no no.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
But but they're on Twitter and they're on Facebook, Instagram
all over the place, and you know, people giving them
the bucks, I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
But again, like there is, there is some talent to
creating a high profile on social media, like you have
to have you have to understand what social media is
about and the best of the market yourself. And yeah,
people have a hard time with the idea that, you know,
people that aren't as talented as you expect kind of

(01:52:31):
get support and at that that level, right, I think
you have a hard time with that. But I don't
hate the I don't hate the grind man. I don't
like these these ladies. Man, they you got a big following,
like they know what they're doing social media.

Speaker 2 (01:52:42):
And at LSU, she's got millions to follow with millions
and she's making millions. But where does she go from there?
There's no professional gymnastics league. What does she do?

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
Uh m? I mean, whatever she wants. I don't know.
If she's in college. I think she's young. She still
figure out what you know yet.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
Literal the Olympics, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (01:53:03):
I mean, I don't think she's good enough to be
an Olympian, but I think that that's a possibility she
would do it. I don't know I mean, what does
anyone do when they leave college and find a job, right, Like,
I mean, so her job might be you'd be an influencer, right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
But he was my question initially when NIL came out,
I initially thought it was like the quarterback of a
local university would be paid by the local maybe auto
dealership to show up like after the season on Saturday
mornings to sign. I have yet to see on social
media any athlete attached to his name of a local sponsorship.

(01:53:40):
I've never seen that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
Oh so they're Oh no, they're they're they're around Andy.
It's just in the local market, you know, like you're
not going to see you. I'm an organ doucer. I'm
not going to see I live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I'm not going to see a car dealership deal from
a player who's in Eugene. But they're they're happening, and
that's that's the way players are getting a kind of
funnel that that money that we talked about was not

(01:54:03):
really the purpose of NIL, was not the front of NL,
but obviously it was going to be the end of
the outcome of NIL, which is that players kind of
that pay for play that we talked about earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
So in other words, if I'm if I'm a I'm
a graduate of Oklahoma State University, for example, I'm a
big fan, I'm a big booster, and in years past,
I'd give some money to athletes, let's say, under the table,
because I want to see big players come to Oklahoma State.
So now I'm doing it above board because it's legal.
I could give him the same amount of money and
saying that he's going to come out to my car
dealership on Saturdays when the season's over to sign autographs.

(01:54:36):
That's basically what it is, correct, Yes, right, So it's
it's legal above board, you know, buying players, that's basically
what it is. Oh yeah, but this kid may not
have a following.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
To be fair, you're not supposed to technically pay for
the players that that's not legal. But the way around it,
obviously is you say like, hey, when you get here,
we will get you this deal. But you're not allowed to,
you know, to say, come to my school for X
amount of money. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Okay, So I'm still that same booster and I find
out there's a five star quarterback in in im Butte Montana, Okay,
I want it to come here. Although he doesn't even
have a social media account, or if he does is
very very small. Okay, so he's does he still get
involved with nil? Nil is supposed to be with your
with your social media account.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
I mean it's not you. I'm now now it's about obviously,
if you're a five star player who cares about your
social media account? Football talents?

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
Yeah, there you go, all right, Jeff Schwartz, Andy Furman,
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. So many questions,
so little answers. Will continue this in weeks to come.
But right now, it's your fault, Yes it is. The
playing game is next, the blame game coming right up
about ten minutes now before the top of the hour.
By the way, top of the hour today, we got

(01:56:00):
some double duty. I believe it's Mike is it? Dan Bayer,
Dan Byer and Mike Harmon coming up at nine o'clock
easton right here on Fox Sport's ready a we're live
with the i iraq dot com studios and of course
the blame game cut up right now. So what are
we waiting for? Let's do it?

Speaker 3 (01:56:16):
You ruin me?

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:56:20):
What is all your fault.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Maybe it's everyone's fault, the liar. That's why there's the
blame game, the blame game. Let's figure out who to.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
Blame the blame game. Yeah, there's doing and the man
of John's the finger point himself, Ethan Miller of the Biggie.

Speaker 5 (01:56:38):
All right, guys, Uh to start off, Uh, here's who
we're gonna blame today. So four out of five players
uh first drafted in the NBA Draft on Thursday did
not come from an American college. Who's the blame for
this that? You know, college hoops aren't you know, I

(01:57:00):
don't have that big presence in the top five.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
College basketball itself. I mean, these players are making more
money playing in the G League and playing in the
the Night League, right, and that's what it is, or
overtime something like that. They're just making more. They're making
more money. I think the the one and done rule. Right.

(01:57:23):
You know, these players want to go to the NBA
immediately and they're not going to So they're gonna, well,
I go to college for a year when you don't
want to study, you don't want to get a degree,
Let's go play in the overtime league, right or let's
go play in the G League or whatever. So I yeah,
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:41):
You know, I think it's a credit, not a blame.
It's a credit to the success of the game of basketball.
How it's grown. I got four out of five guys
that didn't play in college. The only one was the
number two big Brandon Miller, who went to Alabama pick
by the Charlotte Hornets. But other than that, I mean,
I think it's a great situation. The game has grown
so much, it's so big. It's Look, I don't think
college is everybody anyway. So when you got these guys

(01:58:02):
that went to overtime e lead like the Twins, the
Thompson Twins a minute's are I mean, I think it's great.
You don't want to go to college, fine, go play,
Go play the game that you studied for basketball, And
that's great.

Speaker 5 (01:58:14):
So we see that there are you know, there's a
lot of time stoppage between plays because of instant replay
in the NFL and the NBA, and it's taken a
lot of time away from the game, adding more time
to the games on average twenty five minutes. Who's the

(01:58:36):
blame for this and how do we change on average Yeah,
on average, there's an extra twenty five minutes on average
when there's instant replay.

Speaker 3 (01:58:45):
And when there's instant replay, yeah, when there's I mean
it's much longer in the NBA. NBA like the end
of games is ridiculous. It could take it could take
three minutes on the clock. In thirty minutes in college
basketball is the worst of them all. I think the
NFL will review probably this as pretty quick for the
most part. Right it's they've been able to shorten up
and make it, you know, and now they're doing those

(01:59:08):
you know kind of review but with the sky judge
pretty quickly. I mean, I think the NFL does it
pretty well.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
I think the bottom line is you want to get
it right, and I get that. But the point is
that you take away the momentum factor and fans are
just getting bored, you know what. I think the referees
as a whole would vote against these replays because at
times it makes them look bad. You know what, It's
a human era. Human era happens in sports, has happened
all these years prior to replay. Go back to where
it was, go back to the way it was.

Speaker 5 (01:59:36):
All right, last one before we head off. DeVante Adams
recently had his assault charges drop. We see a lot
of athletes recently making poor choices off the field. Why
who's the blame for this?

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
It's a very small minority of players. There's a lot
of great players in all sports that don't get in trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
There you go.

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