Brian Noe and Veejay Huskey talk The Masters and NBA Playoffs!

Brian Noe and Veejay Huskey talk about The Masters and the possible end to Tiger Woods time, the NBA postseason picture comes into focus, FSR NFL Insider Adam Caplan stops by, the dilemma that faced Scottie Scheffler, thoughts on the NFL Draft, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yes, sir, another great Fox Sports Radio Sunday in the
building live from the tire rack dot Com studios here
at Shermdos, California. I'm the big Vanilla Funny VJ. Verner Husky,
my co host, my man Brian. Don't you know, no
good will be with us so long shortly, But as
Charles Barkley likes to say, at some point, somebody's gotta

(00:25):
drive the bus. So I'm gonna drive the bus. Of course,
we have the awesome and always on appointments. Monte Bilanosen
for updates. Bow is the man running the show as
the producer, and mister Chris Purfet, mister mister Ohio Toledo
himself will be on the wheels of steals and engineering
the show today. Great show for you guys. Line up today.
We have tons of NPA stuff going on. I was

(00:46):
on my way in and I was just listening to
Monci your last update where you were breaking this stuff down.
They gotta play them. If they lose, then they gotta
play them if they lose, or they lose it this
lose and then Bow throws a monkey rich in there
and says if you're the Lakers. Do you throw the
first game to avoid that? Just so many great things
to talk about today. We got the Masters going on

(01:07):
right now. They're battling it out for the green jacket
with Scheffler and two other young gentlemen. Tiger Woods. Is
this the end for him? We'll touch on that a
little bit. And I got beef what Philadelphia did to
my man, Bubba Chuck. The answer Alan Irison with that trophy.
That wouldn't a statute with that trophy that we gave him.

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But all that and more coming up today on Fox
Sports Sunday. So I want to start this show today
with the Masters, and that's because this is Master Sunday.
We have plenty of NBA and MLB news, we'll get
to scores and highlights, but the Masters, to me, has
always been the sign of the spring, like the sign
that spring is here, even out here and lovely Los

(01:49):
Angeles where we are experiencing typhoon type storms if you
believe the alerts that you're getting on your phone winner advisory,
which is always funny to me. I grew up on
the coast that lived up in the northeast the Pacific Northwest,
where you know, you get real snow. I lived in
Connecticut where you get real two feeters, so it's a
real winner advisory, but not what we have here in California.

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But it's spring. It's spring. You have a men corner,
you have Jim Nance with his soft voice. The Masters
has probably the best theme relaxing music you can go
to sleep to that you can go to the beach
and read a book and put your headphones on and
put the Master's theme music on to your headphones and
have a very relaxing day on the beach. But what

(02:33):
Master Sunday brings does the opportunity for another gentleman to
inch his name, etch his name, could seement his name
concrete into the history books. That I believe is one
of the top ten championships of all the sports you
can win. There's the Daytona five hundred, there's the dy
five hundred, there's the Super Bowl. And Olympic gold medal

(02:53):
in the one hundred meter dash is another one that
to me stands up there. A green jacket to me
goes right along with that. And that's what that brings today.
And Tiger Woods we've seen over the last two days.
Just let's just call it what it is. He completely
fell apart. He looked really good in rounds one to
round two, but you can start to see that this
may be it. And it hurts a Tiger fan like

(03:15):
me because I've been with the guy all the way
to where he was wearing the white shorts that was
too small, with the big white beach hat, winning the
Amateur Championships back to back, you know, with the pink
and white stripe polo on, you know, playing for Stanford
when they used to televise that stuff on ESPNU back
in the day. I've been with Tiger Woods since then.
When he won his first Masters, I was in basic
training about to graduate in Fort Seal, Oklahoma. We snuck

(03:38):
out the Bears and ran over to the PX because
someone that went over there to get some socks told
us that Tiger was in the lead the last day
of the Masters. We snuck out the barracks on the
Sunday afternoon to go to the PX and stand in
the electronics section and watch him close off the Master.
So for me, it's really touchy because I'm a guy
that gets attached to the athletes that I love and

(03:58):
the teams that I love, Coaches, over the years, and
I hate to say, when you watch him walk, he
looks like he's in pain. He looks like, you know,
it's more irritable for him to try to be out
there than it is for him not to be out there.
I don't think this is his last Masters, but in
order for him, in my opinion, to play these majors,

(04:21):
he's gonna have to play some of the smaller tournaments
moving forward and get his body in mind ready. When
he went out, his quote was, I have no idea
how the back, the knee, the calf, the forearm, the hands,
the thing. He had no idea how his body was
going to react. Saturday probably took it out of him
because he had to finish up his first round on

(04:43):
Saturday and then complete a full second round. And by
his postgame quote saying, it was a long day with
that kind of Tiger smirk, sarcastic, you know, a hole
smile that Tiger's been giving us when he's not in
the best of moves to talk to people. That's what
I saw. But I will say it's been a great ride.
If this is the end for Tiger, twenty four straight
Master cuts, he is number one all time and tour

(05:06):
wins number two and majors and for my money, the
greatest golfer that the world has ever seen. I know
there was Jack. I understand that Jack was there, and
Jack had been there all this time first, but you know,
we had Jordan right, and now there's the conversation whether
there's Kobe or or Lebron Right, we had Babe Ruth
and then a Barry Bonds comes along, and then a

(05:26):
Mike Trout comes along, and then a show Atani comes along.
There's always gonna be somebody that comes along that will
have us debating question what used to be the best
and what used to be the barometer and the standard.
And I think that's what Tiger was from everything from
the fist pump, from the clutch, from the torn acl
having to play a Monday round and you know at

(05:48):
the US Open, you just don't play a hole. If
it's a tie at the end, you have to play
another whole round, one on one, and that's what he
did that day on the torn leg and ended up
winning the US Open at Pebble Beach, one of the
hardest golf courses. The back to back Masters, I think
it was the years eight and nine. Tiger won a
total of fourteen or fifteen tournaments in just a two

(06:10):
year span. So so you know, for what he's given
us from the memories, the red shirt on Sundays, and
I tell you this, I want some Tiger gear. He's
left Nike, He's got his own line. It looks dope.
I'm a golfer. I'm not very good. I suck okay,
but I love to get out there and get on
the cart and light up p a stogie and have

(06:31):
a few cocktails and work on my game. My driver
sprays everywhere. I'm pretty decent iron guy, and I can play.
But as far as being any type of real golfer,
you know, it's more fun for me. But Tiger will
is the reason why I started going out and playing golf.
And there's the reason why a lot of people in
this generation, where you think about the people that have
come under him and come behind him McElroy, people are

(06:54):
ready for him to win his career slam, and this
for him also, it was a master's that was all
hard forget. Tiger finished his dead last with all the memories, man,
I just say, if this is it for Tiger, it's
been one hell of a ride and good luck golf,
PGA Live golf, good luck man trying to keep up
with what he brought to the game. And whoever is

(07:17):
gonna so call uh be next in line. I'm not
sure who I know? Spate, had a had a run,
had a Jordan deal. Want some some majors? Rom is
a guy who's one a couple of majors. Mikkelson, I'll
tell you this. You talk about a guy that recognized,
did you guys see Phil mickleson at the Masters? This
guy's lost, He's lost a bunch of weight. He looks
super tan. I'm trying to figure out what play based

(07:37):
uh die that he's on. But yep, Tiger could be done.
We're not sure yet. But today and yesterday we're really
really hard uh to watch. So we'll figure out how
this golf tournament, the Masters is gonna end up here.
As on the leader board, Scheffler now has a two
stroke lead. Right now, he's shooting two under today. Over

(07:58):
is it a Berg? Is high? You pronounce this gentleman's name.
I believe that's the Finland factor old Berg. So it's
it's the A but it's pronounced. Oh, that's what the
little accent mark is over. Okay, so old Berg two
strokes over old Berg and Homa is seven under. Also
mc morikwa, excuse me more, Cowa. He has now slipped down.
He started off under six. Today he's plus one at hand.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
A double bogie on his last hole.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh double, yeah, that brought him down.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
He was there, he was the top tied for the
top of the leader board. Double bogie on his last hole.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
And you know what this show is, Monci, is whenever
I hear people say things like, oh, golf is so stupid,
all right, I hear this about like Nascar. And I'm
a big NASCAR fan. I'm a guy that fancies myself.
I watch every race on Sundays. I mean I get
to it to two of winsday because you guys know,
I'm the DVR sports king of this business. But when
I hear people o Nascar, they're just driving a car
around the golf. They're just swinging. If you don't know, man,

(08:50):
how you got to hold the club hit some of
these balls. The way they the way they arrange these courses,
and the way they changed the pen in the tournament
from day to day. Right, so yesterday you could play
this slope tomorrow. You can't play that slope, and you
can't play this slope either because now they put it
to where the bonker now comes into play when you
have to be tuned and locked in for four straight days.

(09:12):
One shot MONTI, one swing.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
See, I think you hit it right on the head.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Those are the two sports that people say that golf
is slow, right, like it moves slow in comparison to
other sports. But I think it's just that people have
never tried to swing a golf man club. And then
obviously racing that's another one, Like I can't imagine racing
the crashes that happen.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Like it is intense. But golf to me is so hard.
Hitting that stupid little ball is the most.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Satisfying feeling and you actually hit it well and you
see it take off, man, And so I think people
just don't know how difficult it actually is. And with
this one particular, sorry Chris the Augusta. You know the
course itself, it is hard. You can't replicate it anywhere
like you can practice.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
It, and it made it hard over the years. Remember
they started putting trees in the fairway because guys like
Tiger was chilling the ball off the team and the okay,
time you go your five times back to bag. When
it last time in twenty nineteen, when he was so
called old and couldn't do it anymore, they changed courses.
It's almost like with Wilt Chamberlain. They changed the rules
to try to stop Will. Then they did it again
for Jordan, then they did it again for Ai and golf.

(10:22):
When Tiger came along, they started to say, okay, and
we got to put more fifty foot oaks right here,
because he is we gotta make this harder, not just
for everybody, but this guy. He's about to annihilate the
business if we don't make changes to courses. That's how
great the man was in his time. But golf is
one of those games you can hit twenty bad shots

(10:45):
and hit one good shot. It's the only sport where
one good play erasis everything else. If you are If
you go and play ball and you shoot oh for
your first twelve, and then you hit a three from
like twenty seven their feet, you're now one of thirteen.
It didn't erase to o for twelve. When you go
play golf, you hit ten straight t shots and then

(11:08):
you hold the club right you keep your shoulder down,
you keep your knees bit, you keep your back straight,
you keep your left arm straight, and.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
You keep looking down and you keep your head down.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I have a problem with wanting to see the balls.
But that's lead, That's that's logical. Why can't I see
where my ball's go? Don't worry about it. The guys
you're playing with will tell.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
You where men the hell with them?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I want to see where the ball.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
But then you keep your head down and you actually
hit it, and you're like, oh damn, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's like a baseball swing. You can feel it. It
feels different in your hand when you get a good
one and you know it. So when you knock it
down the fairway straight and.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
When you when you hit that ball too, then you
have to go march over to where it is. I
think a big thing about what Tiger is getting old
with the leg injury and everything like this started happening. Yeah,
as he's marching up and down these links three, four
or five, however many times they have to do this
to yeah, like that's.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
You ain't got no golf carts. He was walking up
a fairway yesterday. That was completely uphill. I just I
don't remember what hol it was. Don't hold that against me.
But when the camera shot caught him face on, you
can see he was actually sweating. Yeah, you know his
body's hurting because we've seen it for what six or
seven years now, So it's when you you can see it.
Like when Lebron's nicked up, you can see it because

(12:19):
we've seen it over the last seven eight years. When
he gets nicked up is very noticeable. When Tiger is
in pain, that's where you can see. Okay, then he
starts to come to overcompensate for something and swing. The
last tournament he was in out here in California, he
had to withdraw.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
He need to.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
He had to withdraw, and that's because he took a
bad swing and his back just spas him out on
him and it just took one swing and that was
that was hit for him in the tournament. So that's
my little soliloquy man on Tiger and then the Masters today.
I hope it's not the last we see of him,
because I'm the type of guy, Hey, quit whatever you
want to, don't let the fans and media tell you.

(12:57):
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Show for Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. When we come back, man,
we're gonna get into some of his NBA news talk.
Alan iverson all that and more coming up on Fox
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are things, man?

Speaker 2 (14:36):
What's really good? Everything goes good to scrap. If it wasn't,
I wouldn't tell anybody but god him a therapist. Anyway.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Well, it's how you and I differ because I am
in a freaking surly mood. Surly mood VJ.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Surly. Oh wow, that's that's a that's a's a very
hard word, right there, baby, Explain what's going on?

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Man?

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Freaking night mare trying trying to find the studio in
New Orleans. Okay, it's not like this VJ. Sometimes you
plug in the address on your GPS, you go there,
you park in the building, you go into the building.
No problem. That's not how it is here, that is,
that's not how it is.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Great city, the great city though, and for my money,
the best food city in America. And it's not even close.
So make sure you make yourself feel better. Man, go
get you some chicken for Willie Shack. Go on, canw
when you get done? Okay?

Speaker 5 (15:28):
All right, Yeah, we hit up a seafood place, a
little boil if you able to get down with the
boil action there.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Let me tell you so, I eat the charbroil oysters
down there, the frygator every I don't turn anything down
when I'm in New Orleans. I try new cuisines. But man,
the food down there, bro it'll make you want to
move down there. But I'll gain thirty pounds in a month.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
So well, I got my cardio in.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's the thing.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
If that's the uh, that's the like the push pole
type thing. Yeah, if you need too many calories, just
try to use the studio downtown.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah and boom, you've worked that often. That's yeah, man, Nah,
you're still looking lean. I see you, man, I see
you out there making around you and your lovely lady.
You guys go to the games and stuff. You get around. Man,
you're still looking lean, brother, You're still handling your grown
man business.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Well, thank you, v JA. I appreciate that.

Speaker 8 (16:13):
Man.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, we go from my surly mood, which hopefully I'll
get out of here sometime soon, to your surly mood. Yes, uh,
that you got a bone to pick with the Philadelphia
seventy six ers and the mini me iverson statue outside
the practice facility.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
What is this, dude? It's a bad Listen. This is
a and yesterday Martin tried to quantify it by saying, well,
all the statues are that small. Okay, Well that pissed
me off even more because I didn't know that. So
you mean to tell me, Doctor J and Moses and
those guys won you a chip and they got a troll.
They got like a replica trophy that I can order
from Amazon at the practice. Who goes to the practice
facility in New Jersey that's supposed to be outside of

(16:52):
the arena? Dog, And how do you do Bubba? Chuck
like this, Alan Iverson a guy who really resurrected your franchise,
and you haven't been close to real relevancy. I think
we talk about him because of the process, right and
then Embid's career. But Iverson had him in the finals
right last time. I remember when Larry Brown as a
head coach, the Kima Mutumbo Defensive Player the Year, Aaron

(17:13):
McKee sixth Man of the Year and Larry Brown Coach
of the Year, AI one's MVP. But the culture changed
that that man was. Whether people liked it or not,
doesn't matter the fact that he was a culture changed.
I don't know if you remember the Slam magazine Brian
now I recent on the cover with the black suit
with the tie kind of undone with the backwards for
door and then big white letters it said, I got

(17:35):
your dress code right here, because they were trying to
change things for the way. He started the trend of
players showing up, you know, dressed with the throwback jerseys
and the jeans and the chains and the do rags.
But you know what, fast forward to twenty twenty four today,
how's everybody dressed on the sideline now? Mister know and
sweats yeah, it's.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
There's no Adam Stern. There's that was when a commissioner
had a backbone. Yeah, you don't have that now. And
so it's open season. You can basically wear a wife
beater and whenever you're in your in your draws, you
can wear a wife beater in your drawings, maybe some sandals.
It's all good. Adam Silver. You ever hear like there's
a new sheriff in town. He's a new deputy in

(18:15):
town with Adam.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
He's not even Roscoe Pico training. He ain't Bass Hall. No, yeah,
David David Stern was Boss Hall.

Speaker 9 (18:23):
He was.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Adam Silver is not even Roscoe Pico Train, who was
the next one in him cleats? He's Adam said, Adam
Silver's Cletus. He's not even Yeah, he's not even Roscoe Man.
But this whole deal, it was embarrassing. I just don't
think you do this to a legendary player like Allen
Iverson is a legendary First BALLT Hall of Famer. For
my money, Isaiah's got the rings. But it'd be hard

(18:46):
to argue the greatest little man and and be in
the history of basketball, right. I know he didn't win
the championship, but pound for pound, Kobe was quoted once
as the same. I think we're all very blessed he's
not six five, because well, you know, if he's six five,
it didn't have been ugly.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
And it was ugly with him being exactly what he was.
And I hear you exactly. But man, if you think
this to me, VJ, it's like you start going down
the road of wrong and you're like, well, I've been
down this road long enough, and he's gonna keep going
down this road. If you have the miniature version of
Moses Malone and the mini me of doctor J outside

(19:22):
the practice facility, what were you thinking to begin with? Yeah,
and why do you continue going down that road? When
they unveiled the statue, and I iverson, like you just said,
he's not six ' five, he's not a big dude.
He's a small, you know, point guard. Yeah, And he
took the little tarp off the statue, and I'm like,

(19:44):
that's it. And then I saw the shot where yeah,
the other statues in the background are small. But it's
like you started off on this road of wrong and
you just just kept going down it. You got a
reverse course. We got Kobe Kobe got Bless him. He's
gonna have three statues outside of the actual arena, not

(20:05):
a mini me statue outside the practice facility. It's just
so stupid.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Not only was it stupid, like I said, it was embarrassing.
It was disgusting. I have now taken a pledge to
not root or cheer for the Sixers to win any
basketball game from this point on moving forward. And I
mean that I don't care who they play. I don't
care who's on their team until you rectify and fix that.
And like you said, you got a lot of rectifying
and fixing the dude because you got a miniature statue.

(20:31):
I didn't know about the miniature ones at the practice
facility until yesterday. So that's what made me even more.
If you're like, hold on, oh no, no, So you
didn't just make this mistake. You made a mistake on
Doctor J the former number one pick from the ABA
and the NBA, Moses Malone, the big man that invented
the stretch forward, the big man that invented the outlet

(20:51):
pass off the rebound halfway and full way up the court,
that guy who won an MVP. You disrespected those two guys,
and now you're gonna do it to the answer. Yeah, man,
I I was disgusted. It wasn't even funny to me.
I know a lot of people have fun with it
on social media, Brian, but it wasn't funny to me
because I just don't think you do that to those
type of guys. But guess what, that's why they don't

(21:13):
win anything since eighty three with Moses and Doctor J.
They don't win nothing, only been to one NBA Finals.
You wonder what the sports gods are the karma that
they're playing on the seventy six ers.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah, man, it's been a little bit. We'll go from
that franchise to a college team, where I wonder if
we're gonna go down a similar path at all. We'll
compare notes as far as that goes. Moncey Bolangos, the
one and only with us right here. If there's anyone
who can get me out of a surly mood, it
is Monty Bolanos. And maybe she waxes poetic about chees

(21:48):
its or something like that.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, you and your jesuits, Why get a better snack?
Brian so boring?

Speaker 5 (21:56):
Yeah, and I have Max Homer, Max, who's mine great,
and I just I get into the studio after two
miles of cardio unnecessarily.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
It sounds like you didn't plan right, and then he's.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
At it into a rake in the rough over it.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
It's what do we doing over you? And then I've
got the over in this uh Blazers Kings game, it's
tied to a parley monte that Blazers can't score to
save their lives. I'm a second away from throwing things
around in the studio.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
You know what, I'm gonna send you some cheesus. You've
had a rough day. I'm gonna send you some cheese its,
all kinds of flavors.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Send them the extra blast Cheddar ones or.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
The white Cheddar like ridge blast extra blast.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna send you some cheese its and
make you feel a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
I would send you a green jacket if I could too.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
In honor of the Masters today, Brian Scotti Scheffler trying
to pull away. He's been in the lead a lot
of this tournament. Currently eight under par overall. He is
one under for the day through eleven holes. Max Homer
Ludwig Oberg back in second place, but they are three
shots back, so Scheffler, so instead he.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Wins the race. He has the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Tiger Woods today finish sixteen over the entire tournament.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
He was five over for the day. It was definitely
a rough second half.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
For tiger Woods. But hopefully you know you'll be back.
But I don't know, fellas, I don't know. Let's check
in on the NBA. We still don't exactly know what's
happening when it comes to the playoffs in the Western Conference.
For the first time, a three way tie for the
top seed between the Nuggets, the Timberwolves, and Oka Seed.
Right now, the Nuggets are beating the Grizzlies one o
three to eighty four halfway through the fourth quarter. In fact,

(23:36):
I'm just gonna make sure my scores are refreshed and
up to date because we all know how the internet
works before I continue on.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
And I am I'm good, Okay.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
The Suns are up on the Timberwolves ninety four eighty
two early in the fourth quarter. The Lakers are beating
the Pelicans ninety nine to seventy nine early in the
fourth as well. With five minutes to go in the game,
the Thunder all over the MAVs. But I mean Luga
donc just wasn't playing. It's one twenty three to seventy
three the Spurs and Pistons.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Nobody cares Victor one.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Banyama's not playing, but still Spurs on top one twenty
two ninety two less than two minutes to go in
the game. It's still a close one between the Jazz
and the Warriors. Golden State on top one o nine
to one oh four. Halfway through the fourth. The Clippers
are now losing at home to the Rockets one oh
five to one oh two Nomagusta three minutes to go
in the game, and the Kings are beating the Trailblazers
one oh four to sixty four with about six minutes
to go in that one.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
On the East, we at least know what's happening on
the East. All day, we weren't sure.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Now we know, okay. So New York secured the second seed.
They will face the winner of the seven to eight
playing game between the Heat and the seventy six ers
on Wednesday. Then Chicago is gonna host the Hawks as
the nine to ten seeds. Also on Wednesday, the Magic
they beat the Bucks, but Milwaukee secured the third seed.
They're gonna face Indiana, who finished as the sixth seed.

(24:48):
After crushing the Hawks one fifty seven to one to fifteen.
The Warnets they took down the Calves. Cleveland falls to
the fourth seed. They're gonna face Orlando as the fifth seed.
What sucks about that one is the Calves could have
gon on the second seed, but they sat Donovan Mitchell,
they sat Darius Garland. They were in the lead in
the fourth quarter and they lost the game.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
And you know what, that's gonna be a mistake watching
the Orlando team in a playoffs.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Right, Orlando team, I don't know why they did that.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
I mean, they thought it was probably gonna be an
easy win against the Hornets, but they had again chance
to win.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
So they fall to the fourth seed on that one.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
We also got baseball going on, guys, my brain, I'm
telling you, I need a cocktail right now. The Nationals
are beating the A's four to one, top of the six.
The Cubs are blanking the Mariners three zero. They're about
to start the sixth inning in Seattle. The Diamondbacks are
beating your Cardinals. Brian, I'm sorry, it's just nothing right I.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Think can go right.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
It's two zero, bottom of the fifth victories already for
the Red Sox. The Orioles give the flowers to Andrew
McCutcheon his a three hundredth career home run as the
Pirates took down the Phillies, Blue Jays, one Braves, one Mets,
beat the Royals, Tigers over the Twins, Guardians walked it
off against the Yankees, Ray's beat the Giants, and the
Reds over the White Sox. Is the Astros to home

(26:03):
runs by Josel Tuve. They took down the Rangers again.
I need a cocktail. Back to you, guys, man, it
sounds like fully, yeah, I tried.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
I tried, trying to get tips. Always a drink a
cock Brian, not a drink, a cocktail.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Specifically, it's shot a tequila.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
When somebody needs a cocktail.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
It's been a day since I started.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
I was like, I can't keep multiple alcohols.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
You have no idea, you have no idea. There you go,
we'll have according to Monsey in about fifteen minutes. Looking
forward to that. Brian know and VJ. Husky with you
here on Fox Sports Radio, coming to you live from
the tiraq dot Com studios. So a lot to react to.
I want to start with what Moncy just laid out there,
because if you look at these playoff scenarios, you there

(26:59):
are some teams that will say, hey, we're trying to win,
we'll we'll take out whoever you put in front of us.
That would be the Knicks. The Knicks beat the Bulls,
they get Jalen Brunson in there, he plays heavy minutes,
they win in overtime against the Bulls. They're the two seed,
and as Monci said VJ, they get the winner of

(27:20):
sixers or heat and they're like, bring them on, how
about that? If it's Joellenbiid who is balling right now.
The Knicks didn't shy away from that. You can't tell
me for a second. The Calves didn't shy away from that.
If they're like, you know what, just coincidentally, let's just
let's not put Donovan Mitchell in there.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
You know.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Does that have anything to do with seed watching and
matchup watching? I think it does, And so you could
look at it as strategy. I look at it as weak.
If you're trying to figure out who your first round
opponent is, you're not gonna do anything in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, No, I'm with you, Mat, I think it's week two,
but there's this thing out about the NBA soft and
you know, sports just aren't the same anymore. I always
look at mindset, being a former military guy, that's like
the first thing you're putting into your brain is your mentality,
your mindset, How do you see things? Mine over matter?
My coach used to tell me, if you don't mind,
it don't matter. So it's just mine over matter. And
like you said, I don't care who's I don't care

(28:19):
who I'm playing. You gotta go through everybody to win
a championship anyway. But trying to like manipulate who you
play and looking at the seedings and listen, let's just
go out and play. The Clippers set a bunch of
guys today. That's the only team that I excuse because
they were gonna play the maps no matter what. This
was set almost two days ago. It was just gonna
depend on who was gonna be the four and who
was gonna be the five. And talking to ty Lou

(28:40):
over the last couple of weeks myself, I got a
sense from him that he really didn't care whether they
had to start out on the road. They're fine on
the road, they're twenty five and fifteen at home. They're
twenty six and fifteen on the road, so it doesn't matter.
It didn't matter to him. That's the only team. I think, Yeah,
go ahead and said PG, we know it's up with Kawhi.
We don't know the truth yet, but I think it's
coming Outmanti earlier this morning on when you were doing

(29:01):
your updates. I think it's coming out later on what's
really going on there. And then the MAVs already knew
who they were gonna play. They sat Luca today, but
other teams too, kind of like I look at the Lakers,
it looks like they're playing really hard against n O
because they're hopeful that they don't want to fall to
the eight or the seven themselves and would have to
play Denver of different ends up with the two, okay,

(29:22):
see ends up with the one. Like that's been to
talk openly on radio and LA, well, you don't want
to play this team, and you don't want to play
this team. So if the radio journalists are saying it,
they're getting it from somewhere. So I think you're right.
This is starting to really seep into the league, and
it's just mindset, man. People are trying to find the
easiest road to a championship. I despise that. That's why

(29:43):
I think Denver is set to repeat, because they don't
get so weak.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
It's so weak. Do you think the actual champions I
would love for someone to go back, and I'm sure
someone did this, but it's incredibly rare, the actual NBA champions.
Do you think those teams teams were like, oh, we
want to avoid the two seven matchup if we can never. No,
of course not. You think like the nineties bulls are

(30:09):
worried about, oh, we're trying to get favorable matchups early
in the playoffs. They're like, bring everybody on. You know,
that's what the champions mentality has. But these teams, these
weak teams that are like, oh, let's sit and hey,
maybe we can get Indiana instead of right, right, come on, man.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Halibert has a thirty five and seventeen night in game
two on the road and scales one from you. Then
it's like, yeah, you sure you wanted to play this team? Yeah,
I'm with you, man. I play play who's in front
of you, coulpee with who's in front of you. Don't
try to manipulate, and I hate to say this is
this is the Lebron effect of the NBA over the years.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Man.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
People hate it or call me a hater, that's fine, whatever,
But like, when did people really when did the league
really start to change and start to kind of well,
I want to go play here, or we want to
play this team. We want to avoid this team, or
I'm gonna sit tonight against the Bucks, or I'm gonna
sit tonight against whatever team you know, durance on to
just avoid that matchup so I don't look bad if
we lose. That's the league.

Speaker 10 (31:10):
Now.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
You got teams looking to try to get into a
certain position so they can avoid this team and avoid
wouldn't you want to say we took out the defending
champions in the first round. I don't want to avoid them.
I want to go beat them, right right.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah, that's how I see it too. It's funny too,
because I was doing local radio in Portland at the
time and the Blazers tried to do this. They tried
to get a what they thought was a more favorable
matchup in the first round, and they kind of screwed
it up. They're playing the Sacramento Kings, they rested all
their main guys and Anthony Simon's went crazy. They wou

(31:47):
They got Oklahoma City in the first round, who they
were trying to avoid. And the weird thing is that
was the walk off series winner by Dame when he
hits the thirty seven foot step back three on Paul
George and is waving bye bye to the thunder. They
tried to orchestrate a different first round matchup and mess

(32:09):
it up, But the point is you go throughout those playoffs.
They beat the Nuggets in a six game series that
was seven game series is tremendous, and then what happened
against the Warriors. They got freaking swept. That's what I'm
talking about. When you're like, oh, let's try to avoid
OKC in the first round. You just told me everything
I need to know about you.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, and not only that is a player. How do
you feel like, even if your coach is saying this,
I would kind of I'd lose a little bit for you, man,
Like the coach should be the main one saying, guys, look,
it doesn't matter who we play. It's like home court,
you gotta win on the road anyway. You eventually are
gonna have to beat a team on the road because
you're eventually gonna lose a home playoff game. So home
court is fine if you want it all the way

(32:49):
through the finals. But in the first round. I think
this narrative, Brian, that this is so wide open, I
think is so falsely and hugely exaggerate this brother playoffs.
The playoffs are not wide open. They're not close to
being wide open. There are two teams that are gonna
win the NBA Championship this year, and that's it. No
one else is winning the championship this year.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
We're your two teams.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's either Denver or Boston. Yeah, nobody else is winning
the chair. No one, definitely from the East is winning
the championship. Yeah right, exactly. Okay, so we can wipe
all those teams away. So let's jump over to the west.
You trust a young ok thunder, oh oh ck thunder team.
I don't you know what they remind me of. They
remind me of the Sacramento Kings from last year. And
I picked Golden State with Mark mcdeen on radio in

(33:32):
seven as the six to beat them. Young teams, Brian,
don't win championships. You gotta go through the trade You
gotta go through the hard the hard paying losses. You
gotta go through the bad moments. Look at the greatest
basketball players of all time, only magic, but Magic came
in already with Cap on the squad already kind of
to a Madi Reid championship team, Him and Bird everybody else.
You gotta go through the years where you win fifty

(33:55):
something games, but you get sent home in the second round,
or you get upset in the first round, so you
can learn and come back and build off of that.
You trust Minnesota with Cat coming back. I love Edwards,
but go Bear's non points a game. I need somebody else.
It's commonly gonna be that guy for me right there.
Don't trust the Clippers long distance, don't trust the Maps
and it stops right there. The Pels, the Suns, the Lakers,
the Kings, the Warriors, no those seems to win a

(34:15):
championship this year.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Man.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
You know, here's the thing, though, this is my pushback.
I completely hear you, but I would I would look
at it differently. I don't look at one particular team like, hey,
do you really trust the Thunder It's like I really don't.
But look at Denver's path do you trust the path
against Denver? Right, Like, if it's Denver New Orleans first round, okay,

(34:41):
maybe they survived that. It's Denver Minnesota the second round, Okay,
maybe they get past that. That's Denver and whoever they
face in the conference finals. You know what, that's a
tough path in the West. And I would put my
money on Jokic and the Nuggets. But I don't think
that it's like just clearcut. I'd be surprised if to
Sell don't come out of the East. I wouldn't be

(35:02):
as surprised if the Nuggets don't come out of the West.
The West is just tough, man, it's deep.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think somebody could take them six games. They have
Jokis that the best player in the league. Murray's coming back.
Loved their bench players, I'll tell you, man, Porter Junior.
People must forget this kid was the number one ranked
kid coming out of high school and was projected to
be the number one overall pick. Missouri paid the bag
on to the table to get him there because it's
the only reason why he chose to go to Missouri.
We all know that. And then he has the back surgeries.

(35:28):
But the good thing when you're young. That body heels
fast him and Gordon. Gordon is the lynchpin to that team. Man,
I just just tell me who's stopping them. I think
somebody could take them six, Brian, But that's about it.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Yeah. Well, hey, we were surprised last night or two
nights ago when the Spurs got him. They came back
from twenty three. Pretty great wimby, big wimby. Yeah, yeah,
no doubt. We've got, according to Monsey, right around the corner,
very entertaining. Hopefully they'll be a cheese at rant. I'm
not trying to, you know, dictate what she's talking about,

(35:59):
but I'm hopeful fingers crossed. We'll see how that goes.
I'm Brian, though he's VJ. Husky. Keep it locked right
here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian, though he's VJ.
Husky here with you on Fox Sports Radio. Will come
to you live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Let's dive into this.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Corn and now it's time for absolutely.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
That's according to Monci.

Speaker 9 (36:24):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
Ah, Yes, according to Manci, you can't get mad at
something that almost happened.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah, this is just a good life lesson for all
of us.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
But let's talk about last night.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Padre's left fielder Jerrickson profar battle for real.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
I don't know what he was thinking.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
He overreacted against the Dodgers because of a pitch from
Gavin Stone that was inside and almost hit him. That's right,
the ball didn't touch him and he threw a fit.
And let's not forget to mention that Stone was in
the middle of a perfect game.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
I didn't. I didn't know until watching this game, guys
that you could flop in baseball until I saw this,
because I was like, are you crazy?

Speaker 3 (37:02):
What are you mad about? Someone needs to tell him
that it's mid April, that were only fifteen games into
one hundred and sixty two game season. You need to relax.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
Also, you're not Manny Ramirez who had five hundred and
fifty five career home runs.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Let's take a trip down memory lane everybody.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Game three of the Alcs against the Yankees Red Sox
back in two thousand and three. It started with Petro
Martinez hitting Kareem Garcia in the fourth inning. Then Roger
Clements throws a high pitch to Manny Ramirez, and Manny.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Ramirez throws a fit or real one.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
The bench is clear.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Ramirez was ready to throw it down, but the stakes
and emotions were high.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
It was the playoffs, New York Boston again.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Many had five hundred and fifty five career home runs
and with the batting average of thirty twelve.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Profi in his career has eighty nine home runs.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Propart, you cannot act like a soft baby, just like
catcher Will Smith said after the game, why would the
Dodgers try to throw at him?

Speaker 3 (37:52):
He's irrelevant again. You can't get mad at something that
didn't happen.

Speaker 5 (37:56):
Please out, no Magusta, no magustae.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Maybe according to Monsi, I'm sorry, this is this is
new for me.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
So oh I texted you. You're just not looking at
your phone.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh no, I'm not. Try to focus in. Okay.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
According to Mansi, tradition matters and everyone should do it.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Okay. The Masters are going on today. We all know
it's been going on since nineteen thirty four. It's a tradition.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
I enjoy watching it from the golf course that we're
talking about, Augusta to the green jacket. But the tradition
that I need other sports to jump on is the
prices of the food and drinks.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Inflation does not exist.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
At Augusta for five dollars, you can get a chance
a sandwich, chips and soft drink of Georgia peach ice
cream sandwich three dollars and even though the price went
up for beer, it's only six dollars.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
So I have an idea.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Hear me out, guys, Teams across sports should do a
surprise Master's Day. Make all the concessions half the price
that they normally that they normally are. Do it as
a surprise so fans can't pick like the Master's game.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
And if you're thinking, well the tea is gonna lose
a lot of money that day, oh no, no, no,
that's not gonna be the case.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Can you imagine you're going to You're going to a
game expecting to spend fifty one hundred, two hundred dollars
on food and drinks. You find out you're gonna be
spending a fraction of that. I would be so excited.
I would still spend my money at the team store
and walk out with a new Clippers jacket. Fans would
be so excited they would still spend the money elsewhere
and whatever team does this would gain mega Brownie points

(39:26):
on social media.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
The attention would be just worth it.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
According to Months, I'm just going a new clippers jacket
right outside of stables for ten bucks.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
That's true. According to Months, all right, I got it
now for you Months, Months, I'm here now, baby, all right.
People are making up their own rules when driving, and
it's really annoying me.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
I know we're in LA and I'm not gonna complain
to you about traffic. That's not what this is about.
What's annoying is that people are turning on their hazard
lights to cut me off, to go down the bike lane,
to just stop in the middle of nowhere just because.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
You have your hazard lights on. Does I mean you
could do whatever you want? The hazard lights are for
an emergency. I'm literally so over it. I thought we
as humans were gonna be better drivers with smart cars
and stuff. We're worse. We are worse.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
I'm about to beat you know, and the water boy
Ferusa Balk who has that sign that says want me
to kill him when she's talking to Bobby Bouche.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm gonna have a.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Sign in my car that says you suck, and I'm
just gonna start flashing it at people who cut me
off and have their stupid hazard lights and think it's okay.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
No, it's not, guys a lot.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
It's funny. It's like the volume you have on radio
is just tremendous. Yeah, but I'm just picturing the same
volume you have in real life. I'd be like, Manzi,
this is okay, settled down a little bit here, but
on radio, I'm like, yes, more volume, MANSI.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Now that's how Monty talks in persons. Yeah, radio or not.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
This is it.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I'm loud too, so I identify with it.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
And it's a good point too. Come it up next.
The backlash would be much different if this leg legend
ended his career like this other legend is.

Speaker 11 (41:04):
Man.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
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(41:25):
should be so VJ Man I was watching Tiger Woods.
Yeah today yesterday.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, yeah, it was rough man after really good first
and second round. Man, he was steady, he played park golf.
He the one bogie had he answered it with two birdies,
and he looked like he goes into the clubhouse after Saturday,
you know, plus one and he's only eight off the lee.
I don't think he's gonna win it, but hey, maybe
Sunday we get some vintage. At least Tiger goes on

(41:56):
a run, gets a little excited, and then things fell
apart Saturday.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Yeah, it really did because what Friday, that was the
twenty three whole day, right, Yeah, he had to finish
the first round, yep, a little bit extra golf, finished
the first round and then played the entire second round
on Friday, and it was like his body on Saturday
was like, whoa, twenty three holes, This is not how

(42:21):
we roll anymore. And it was just ugly. He had
a triple bogie on the fifth hole today. So it
was a rough go for Tiger Woods, There's no doubt
about that. As for the my calculator says maxed out
here in terms of what he finished the tournament plus sixteen.

(42:41):
This is Tiger Woods over here. You know what I mean,
And I know this is the end of his career
and all of that, but you know what I'm thinking
of As Lebron James is getting interviewed right now after
the Lakers beat the Pelicans. Can you imagine, VJA, what
would be said about Lebron if his career ended similarly

(43:05):
to what we're seeing with Tiger Woods. It would be
open season, whether it's fair or completely unfair. There would
be critics every single day absolutely crushing Lebron, And with
Tiger it's like, you know, hey man, he's got fifteen

(43:26):
majors and if anything, it's like, hey, had a legendary career.
We're not going to criticize the guy. We're not gonna
call him out.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
We know what it is.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
But you know as well as I do, it would
be like Christmas in whatever month you are in in
the NBA season, you know, March, April, what have you.
If Lebron his career was diminishing and going straight downhill
the way Tiger Tiger Wood's career is right now.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah, I agree with you, he would be getting killed.
But to my Lebron, my lovely Lebron hater, sigh is
that also Lebron he he opens the door for a
lot of his own criticism, so it's not just people
just hating on the guy. He opens the door for
a lot of his own criticism. And Tiger's also been
in a car accident where they thought they were going

(44:14):
to amputate his leg. Sure, Tiger's had some personal stuff
that was nobody else's business. I'm just you know, that's
how I was raised as men. Men mind their own business.
We don't worry about another man's business. But the media
is differently. So He's been through some personal stuff and
it threw his business all out there. Then he's had
what three or four back fusion surgeries, and then he's
had the leg surgery, And I mean, it's the reason
why I don't think Tiger is gonna nearly nearly get killed.

(44:39):
He's gonna be able to play as bad as he
wants until he says I've officially retired from the PGA tour.
It's simply because of the memories and what Tiger gave us.
And we're also talking about undoubtedly it's not a debate.
It's either Jack one Tiger one b R Jack or
Tiger one Jack one to be like, there's no there's

(45:01):
no debate. You like, tell me the last goat conversation
you saw on Undisputed for golf, right, like it it's
not it's not gonna happen because it's just undoubtable. And
he's he he's always been guarded, so he's never Tiger's
never given us a reason other than like I said,
the personal that he's never given you a reason to go, ah, God,

(45:22):
I hit that guy. I've never heard anybody Brian ever
say I don't like Tiger Woods. So I think that's
why he's not gonna get that. He's gonna be more
of a ceremony of souls that when he decides to
say he's done.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
And I think that's how it should be. I'm not
advocating for we should just be crushing. I'm not saying that.
I just think that it's interesting that remember the what
was it, the Blade Runner, Yeah, murderer, Yeah, yeah, right,
You're talking about Tiger with his leg injury in the

(45:54):
car crash, and Lebron could somehow be like the Blade
Runner in basketball right where he could have just been
no legs and he's still continuing his career on blade
or But they wouldn't stop anybody from crushing him. That
he would still be getting killed if that were the case.
Because look, man, there are some people that they're not

(46:15):
only against Lebron, they are they take everything so personally. Look,
you don't have to love the guy. You don't even
have to like him. But I think you still need
to be fair. When I hear these unfair criticisms, it's like,
just say you don't like him. It's fine, you don't
have to. Just don't tell me something that's completely inaccurate. Ye.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
No, I'm with you, and I've always said that in
this especially in our business, Brian, I believe you are
allowed to like who you want to like. You're allowed
to not like who you don't want to like. I
don't get on people for not being a Kobe guy.
I just want to know your reasons and then when
you tell me your reasons and then we can go
from there. But just ah, you're a hater. No, there
might be a personal type read, there might be a
reason why you don't like Kobe. I want to hear

(46:56):
your reason. I covered Lebron for the first time my crops.
I seen him play live. But as far as covering
him part of the media last Sunday night against the Timberwolves,
and when I walked into the arena, I put all
biasness aside. I wanted to just stand courtside, sit courtside
and be a professional, but still have the fan of
wanting to see greatness within me. And I watched the

(47:18):
man that's been in the league for twenty twenty one years.
And anybody that you see my tweets, you know how
I gets down. Don't like the guy, did never like
the guy, not gonna like the guy, but I do
respect his ability. I do respect his greatness as a
basketball player. Whether I think he's the good or not,
he's still one of the greatest players I've ever seen.
Watching him live court side was a pleasure of mind

(47:40):
for a guy that I don't care for, because I
just got to watch a guy the way he moves
on the court, the pump fake, the first step, the second,
the way he sees the floor. It gave me an
appreciation of Yeah, I see why so many people like
this guy. He's a hell of a player. I still
don't like him, but tonight I'm not going there, I
want to say. And he had thirty one or thirty points,
so they got I was hitting shots, hitting some threes, flexing,

(48:02):
doing the show to flex thing. When he got an
and one for dude, I found myself in the third
quarter yelling, hey, man, give it back to him. Man,
he couldn't give it back to him, like I want
that Lebron to have the ball because I wanted to
see him do more. You know what I'm saying. So
I think that I have more people. I think Brian
saw some of these guys they claim they don't like play.
I think a lot of the foolish comments like you'll

(48:22):
never hear me go, oh Lebron's over rate, or he's
not that good. No, he's great. I just look at
the variables of how you got your rings? Who would
you go play with? I look at that stuff. I mean,
the coaches should keep getting fired. How many times that
they got to keep changing the tame for you? I
any great players, do you have to keep playing with?
You know, to keep winning or to be relevant. That's
the stuff I judge. But the silly stuff you're talking about,
I agree with you, you know, I just based on

(48:43):
what you were saying. I've got a new idea. Okay,
let me try this out on you. Let's go hater fest. Okay,
Now here's how it looks.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
Because you know as well as I do, these people
that go on Twitter and write some nasty stuff if
they meet you in person, they never some times out
of ten, if it's if you meet Lebron like this,
people just dog Lebron on social media. If they met
the guy, they'd be like, hey, Lebron, can I get
a cellphone?

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Right? Most of them.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
So that's what we need. We need hater fest where
Lebron does meet and greets with the known haters that
just absolutely it's open season and every single thing he does.
We need something like that because it would a lot
of those people would turn around or get them courtside
seats because you might dislike him like crazy, but for
him to be thirty nine years old, yeah, playing at

(49:29):
this level, it's insane what he's been able to do.
And you'll get old heads, you'll get former players like
Kevin Garnett saying he's on that balco. They won't even
give him credit as far as that goes.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Well, here's the thing about that. Now, what Lebron has
been very fortunate is that the media, the media Lebron
made there's been some type of wink wing hang and
choked handshake. Dale. You have a current player, okay, who
owns an agency that we're told it's owned by another guy,
but we know who's We know who owns the damn agency.

(50:05):
Let's not let's not play stupid, Okay, that can that
can actually control where other players go because they have
a lot of different clients, right, So they get control
where other players go. And now he can also take
former players and then and have networks employ them to
sit on their TV shows, which pushes his narrative even

(50:26):
more and floods the narrative even more. I mean, it's
not secret. You can go to Google and see that
Perkins is with Clutch, that JJ is with Clutch, that
Nichols was with Clutch, Like it's it's it's it's public knowledge.
So I'm not telling tales out of school here. I
think that's where you get guys like Garnett or thebaccle stuff.
There was the Miami. There was the Miami. You know

(50:47):
the Royal drug raid where Rich Paul's name is down
and it was supposed to be for Savannah. The whatever
he was picking up was for Okay, fine, if that's
your story, cool man, but don't get mad at the people.
That's like, nah, bruh, come on, you got bigger. The
body doesn't get better. I was in sales in the
fitness industry, Brian, before I got into the sports talk.
I used to sell personal training packages. I used to

(51:09):
have a NASM certification, which stands for National Academy for
Sports Medicine. The human body doesn't get better, Brian. That's
just not how it's made. So you know, look, if
the leg's not gonna do anything, I hope they ain't
testing too hard for the Olympics. Are somebody going to
your trouble?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Well, hey man, it's uh. I think if you are
in the basement with your buddies and you have some
conspiracy theories about someone using peds, fine, But if you're
a former great NBA player and you go on your
podcast and say he's on that balco, it's like, bro, did.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
You have a problem with that route?

Speaker 5 (51:46):
For absolutely?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Really?

Speaker 5 (51:48):
Okay, Yes, you can't just toss stuff out there willy
nilly unless you got some data behind that, and if
you have it, you got to share it. That was
just throwing it out there like yeah, I'm skeptical he's
playing at this level naturally. Okay, if we're going down
that road and you've got thousands of listeners and you're KG,

(52:09):
you're not just Joe Schmoe who works a regular nine
to five, your words have a lot more meat to him.
I just you got to bring more than just I'm
speculating this is the case because he can't be this
good naturally. I just I didn't think that was cool
at all.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Okay, so no problem, I'll give you that one on him.
What about the UFC what's show showing? Oh cha? How
you say this guy's name? I'm not a big UFC fan,
but the guy that goes yeah, I know he's on
it because we both have the same We both have
the same guy. Now, when you got a guy that
says it like that, does that still ring the same
to you and this guy saying listen, we have the
same guy, not oh, he's on I get you saying

(52:45):
about KG. KG probably should be a little more responsible
in that fact. But this the UFC guy is right, dude,
we have to say we have the what's his name?

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Both?

Speaker 7 (52:55):
Okay, so had his own motives for accusing did he.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Okay, all right, yeah, see I'm listen like, well, I guess,
like I said, I'm I'm not. I don't have any
proof myself. The only thing I do know is that
the human body just doesn't get better if it is natural.
More power to them. But see, Lebron does things like
so like last year, right the father Time commercial with
Aquaman what it was the name Jason Momoa, the Father
Time commercial, Like he purposely does these things to say,

(53:21):
oh no, look, no I'm beating Father Time when we
all know nobody beats Father Time. Brian's like Lebron likes
to poke and then people are gonna poke back. But yeah,
you know, but he's thirty nine, yeah, fifty nine. You
know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
You get me in good shape thirty nine.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yeah, if you've been even great and you've been drinking.
I'm a very simple guy. Man. Drink your water and
stretch in the off season. Young athletes, trust me. The quad,
the hamstring, the calves, the groin, It won't bother you
if you drink your water and stretch during the off season.
Trust me. Why the why are their players that can
play eighty games and this one guy, these certain guys,
another quad strained another hams training another that's water and stretching. Brother,

(53:59):
that's nothing else but that. By the way.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
On a side note, we got to keep Max Homa
at minus five.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Okay, I'm looking at the leaders that were you, So
where'd you have him at? Would you take them more?

Speaker 6 (54:09):
So?

Speaker 5 (54:09):
I just so he's got three more holes left.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
I took him at under seventy two and a half
for his final round. You just got to have an even.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Round, even round these last three.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
Yeah, And he was minus two for the day. And
then just when I got in the studio after our
two miles of unnecessary cardio in New Orleans, as I
was looking for the studio, he hit a double bogie.
So he's at even for the day. So we need
him to at least stay even just the final three holes.
So I know, right, you might want to get on

(54:41):
him to at least have one bogie.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
All right, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna channel my inner
VJ juice man and send some of your way for
this to go down.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Man, I pulled for the people I work with. I
don't go against him that this is what you put down.
I hate to see you have him even more of
a data you've already had.

Speaker 5 (54:56):
Man, Hey, man, I'm with you. It's all good.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
You don't yeah, right under, it's no doubt, all.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Right right around the corner, something is much different than everything.
We'll explain what the heck that means. I'm Brian, No,
he's VJ. Husky. Keep it locked right here on Fox
Sports Radio. I'm Brian know he's VEJ Husky Here on
Fox Sports Radio. We're coming to you live from the
tire rack dot Com studios. Man, my girl, Mary, I'll

(55:22):
tell you what VJ.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
She just asked me.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
She was like, any uh song requests here? I was like, yeah, Slayer.
I should have said how you are supposed to? You know, like,
are you do you have any love for Slayer?

Speaker 9 (55:38):
There?

Speaker 2 (55:38):
VJ.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
You're pretty eclectic.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm plori eclectic a little bit. My my
my metal goes really hard with Metallica. I think they
are just the gods. And had a chance to see
them out here so far. Man, it was just such
an experience. I felt like my music life changed seeing
them live out here and so far back in August.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
Yeah, so that's you're telling me a nice way. That's
as deep as your metal roots go, Is that what
you're saying?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Well, no, because I love guns and Roses. Also to
guns and roses, poison, Uh, Ozzy h.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
A C D C.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
No, there's some other Are those considered like metal?

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Though?

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Why don't they be considered like hard rock.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
Or hard rock?

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Okay? I don't well, okay, I'll be honest with you.
So I don't really know then what I thought, that's
all still like rock and roll metal. I didn't know
really broke down like Ozzie's not metal?

Speaker 7 (56:25):
No, I thought. I thought, Brian, like, I think we're
gonna lose him. When you called poison metal, I.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Thought, yeah, well listen, okay, I'm black. So I got
to learn this. I know the difference between rapping hip hop,
poe yeah, yeah, poison. My teammates in middle school football,
you know, the guys that play will put me on
the guns and Roses and poison because we listened to
our rap and then on certain days they got to
play the radio, so they would play their rock and stuff,

(56:51):
and that's how I learned some of that music. So,
but yeah, that's what that's not metal, bro. But as
far okay, my bad, well, as far as metal goes,
it's it's Metallica for me.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
No, and that's fine. I just it's funny because you
know how angry I was because I couldn't find the
studio earlier. You know these This last hour plus has
been very therapeutic. I feel much better until you said
to both points poison with the metal.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Hey, I don't have a problem. And when I'm off
and wrong? Man, I didn't know him. Sorry. I thought
that was all like rock or so what are so?
What's poison? This just rock? So that's just rock.

Speaker 7 (57:25):
Rock if you want to be specifical.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Okay, So then who's hard rock? Give me, like, who's
the best hard rock band?

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Name?

Speaker 5 (57:31):
I would not hard hard rock would be it's more
like radio rock, like.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Hard rock.

Speaker 10 (57:37):
I'm asking for a band, so that's hard So a
c DC's hard rock? Okay, it'd be like god Smack,
you know, Okay, Smashing Pumpkins, they got it Smashing Pumpkins
as songs that.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
I like Smashing Pumpkins? Would that really? That's more alternative rock?

Speaker 5 (57:53):
Yeah, you're probably right.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Man, just is getting too deep for me.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Mary's all over.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
I knows she's great. Well, she's just on Saturday where
Martin and VJ with us, Man, I'm surprised you know
this much about this, don't Mary, I'm not going.

Speaker 9 (58:05):
Because I've i know, like death metal, like this is
the first time I heard Slayer, but I know, like
in terms of like metal, bring me, bringing her, bring
me the horizon, asking Alexandria, you have to I'm also
like one.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
She said something there is it is very key right
VJ where she's she's all over this, like which categories
these bands go in and I'm like, you can marry
over it? And then she's like, this is the first
time I heard of Slayer, though.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
It is man, Brian, what's death metal? Who what's a
popular band that would because Slipknot, Slipknot is death metal?

Speaker 5 (58:43):
They are. Yeah, Okay, hey, let's get back to the
metal thing in a second here, but let's welcome in
first Adam Kaplan, FSR NFL Insider Inside the Birds podcast.
You know, Cap, Well, we'll talk some NFL with you
obviously here, but we're just discussing hard rock metal the
indulgent either.

Speaker 11 (59:04):
I'm more of a classic rock seventies and eighties music.
That's pretty much you know what I listened to.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Metal a little bit hard rock, yes, light rock yacht rock.

Speaker 11 (59:19):
Yes, I'm a little different. But no, here's to be
honest with you. Like I'll listen when I when I
play tennis to get ready, I listened to A C. D. C.
Or Jimmy Hendrix. Okay, like when I played hoops in
my twenties and thirties, when I have when I played
in like you know, over thirty league whatever, Like there's
certain music you want to get you psyched up. You know,

(59:40):
everybody has their music when having to do something athletic,
and that that's what I would use it for.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
I like that you get psyched up for tennis, you know.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
What I mean?

Speaker 11 (59:48):
I do because I'm new to it, and like I
have a ust match next week and I'm new to tennis.
I've been playing four years and I need it because
I got to be in like a trance to beat
these people way better than I am.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
It's hard, I believe it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
You know, just real fast on your tennis game. Yeah,
what do you suck at the most? And what have
you back and close? My shirt is pretty good. Yeah,
my shirt is pretty good. The backhand is so tough. Yeah,
you know, I watch a lot of tape on YouTube
just to get used to it. It's it is a
you know, I don't do pick a ball. I've done it,
but I don't enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
I like to run.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
But man, it is the pros to do.

Speaker 11 (01:00:25):
You know, the pros obviously I watch and the people
who have been playing tennis for twenty five thirty years.
If you have a good backhand man, you must play
a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
It is really hard, really hard.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
As far as the NFL Man Draft right around the corner,
just about a week and a half away. I'm trying
to find the major curveball, especially at the top of
the draft, like the top ten, top fifteen picks. Do
you have any theories about something that we might see
where we would all say, WHOA, didn't see that one
coming that wasn't on the mock drafts.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Well, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 11 (01:00:57):
Steve Hartman, who's hosts on FSR and Saturday, asked me
the similar question because it's been quiet.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
I know we've had a couple of trades over the.

Speaker 11 (01:01:04):
Last couple of months, but is there anything that could happen? Well,
look last year, Okay, I'll give you an example. Okay,
we a lot of us thought that Will Levels would
go in the first round. I never said he's going
to the top ten. I just said I thought he'd
go in the first round. He went in the second round.
There's always information that we're not We just don't know
how teams see certain players. I feel pretty confident in

(01:01:29):
who the first three picks will be. But it's after
that the Cardinals, who have the worst roster in the
National Football League, what will they do? Will they trade out?
Will the Raiders trade up for a quarterback? That's the
Raiders are sort of a team. They're sort of hot
spots for quarterbacks. Could the Giants surprise us and skip
on a receiver and go for a quarterback. They're locked

(01:01:50):
into Daniel Jones's contract, no one to trade for him.
No one's going to trade for that contract. And then
they're locked into the money, which is fully guaranteed. It's
just what happens with these quarterbacks. And I'll tell you
what the biggest surprise in my career, and I was
there in Philadelphia when it happened, and nobody knew what.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Why?

Speaker 11 (01:02:07):
Why are the Bears trading up for a quarterback to
number two with the Niners when they traded up for
Mitch Trubisky. You could have pushed me over and knocked
member with a feather. I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Nobody knew it.

Speaker 11 (01:02:17):
Even John Fox has told the day before they were
going to do it. So to answer your question, it's
usually something we don't know, and it particularly on a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Adam Kaptin VJ running Husky here man. Great to be
talking to you. Uh, let's stick with that theme right there,
because I think the easy thing everybody's been saying is one, two,
three is a lock, and I for the last month
and a half have been saying it would just be
so new England to back out of three. You talk
about a team that needs roster overhaul. You got a
new coach, you know, even though he's been there under

(01:02:46):
Bill Belichick. I just don't see them sitting there. The
mistake that I don't want to see one of these
teams make is to try to take what's left over,
whether you're Drake may guy or Jaden Daniels guy. Being
that we know Caleb's going to be number one with
you at five and six, what happens with the Giants there?
Talk to us about the Chargers there Man, I'm hearing
some rumors out here in LA that Jimmy could slide

(01:03:09):
out of that spot and help rebuild that line, or
they can stay in pat and go get a bomb
receiver right there too. Also if you could throw Minnesota
in there too, is there any connection that they can
work a deal there between eleven and five.

Speaker 5 (01:03:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:03:21):
And obviously the Vikings because they made the trade and
they wanted to have two first round picks to give
themselves the ability to trade up if they needed to so.
And what I've tried to explain to people is one
of the reasons why the Vikings haven't done anything yet
is because if JJ McCarthy is their guy, it's a
very good chance he's going to be there at eleven.
As I've reported for Profootballnetwork dot com. I mean, I've
got teams that I've spoken with that I've given him

(01:03:43):
a mid second round grade. One area of scouts given
a third round grade. He's going to go in the
first round. Because quarterbacks always get overvalued. I've used the
example of Mark Sanchez for years. He shouldn't he should
have been a second round pick. I know the Jets
got to back to back in AFC championship games with him.
But he he's a guy, wasn't very talented, played put
up good numbers in college, played for some very good

(01:04:04):
teams at USC. Quarterbacks always get over vied. No, let's
go to number five with the Chargers. The Chargers don't
need a quarterback, they need help. But receiver, You're absolutely right.
Receiver to me would be the guy Milik Neighbors I've
got going there as of now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
For my mock that will go to.

Speaker 11 (01:04:22):
Pro fooball network dot Com tomorrow, it should be Milik Neighbors.
I can't imagine the Cardinals if they keep the pick,
you know, you talk about trading out. I can't imagine
if they stay there they don't take Marvin Harrison Junior.
He's he's the best player for the Straft folks, right,
he just is. He has a chance to be better
than his father.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
Would you be?

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
You might be? Would you be blown away? If one
team says, hey, we know Marvin Harrison Junior is a
tremendous talent, but this Molik Neighbors is just explosive, you
know what, And they took Neighbors over Harrison Junior.

Speaker 11 (01:04:53):
I didn't believe that two months ago but two receivers
coaches I know very well. One mentioned that he goes
Man and he goes We're having a debate of our
grade on both of these players.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:05:06):
See, Neighbors is more explosive. He's nowhere as big physically
as Marvin Harrison Junior. Junior is way taller and bigger
physically than his father. He's just he's the one receiver
that's ready to go week one where there's no doubt.
He's your starting X receiver, that's the single side receiver.
It's your prototypical number one receiver. Well, Molik Neighbors is

(01:05:27):
what we call move receiver. He's what we call Z.
You move him around to create matchups. He's not physical
and big and physical like Harrison Junior. It would surprise
me though, but I'm giving it more credence. And now
to answer your question than I would have a couple
months ago, Adam, let me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Throw this at you about Marvin Harrison June. Let's think
right there. What if I told you that I just
felt like this year to Ohio State he was kind
of a cruise control. There were some games where he
would you know, you go about two and a half
quarters and It's like, Wow, we haven't heard the eighteen.
We haven't heard you know, Maserati, Marv, haven't heard that
that Gus Johnson called yet. But what if I told you?

(01:06:04):
I felt like he probably didn't even not say he
didn't want to play. But now, listen, I'm a first
round pick, I'm a top five guy. I'm the best
guy going to this draft. No combine, no pro day.
Really didn't want to talk to the teams, just like listen,
put the tape on well I feel like a lot
of this talk with him and neighbors is like you said,
we start to overvalue things that we get what I

(01:06:25):
call prospect fatigue, where we just talk talk talk talk
so much. You gotta start to find things the knit
and pick. But you can't tell me Arizona would be
that silly at four not to take a generational guy
like Marve here.

Speaker 11 (01:06:38):
Honestly, and the generational talent thing I think is almost
always wrong, particularly when people talk about quarterbacks. At Caleb
Wells is definitely not a generational talent. And he's talented.
I'm with you on the watch, but he's not anywhere
close to the hype. Just like with Trevor Lawrence when
people said that they's just wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
There's nothing.

Speaker 11 (01:06:55):
It's a good player, by the way, it's been a
good uarterback. But he's not generational. But getting back to
that pick, mar and Harrison will be close to general
retional receiver. There's there's no weakness. He's not a Blazer,
but it doesn't matter. He gets open. Yeah, Now, now
what they could do, because it's if they were drafting
for Need, they shouldn't do it. Not only is it
Dallas Turner, not that he shouldn't be that highly rated.

(01:07:18):
Dallas Turner should go probably in the back of the
top ten. If they drafted Turner over Harrison junior, they're
strictly going for Need and that would be a mistake.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Cap It's always great to catch up with you men
before you go. What would be your favorite ac DC
song and your favorite Jimmy Hendrix song?

Speaker 11 (01:07:34):
Oh, I mean back and Black, I mean you got.
I mean if you can't get excited for that song,
I don't know what's wrong something wrong with you? Jimmy
Jimmy Purple Haste to me is very very underrated. I mean, look,
you could take there's so many songs, obviously, but yeah, Hendricks.
You know, we were you know, I was I was

(01:07:55):
just born, you know, barely alive when he when when
he was huge. But it's just one of those things.
I wish I was old enough to appreciate him before
he passed away. It's kind of sad.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Yeah, I'm a voodoo child guy. That's the best one ever. Yeah,
that gets me going.

Speaker 11 (01:08:10):
But I mean, I like see again, it depends on
There are probably four or five of the next time
we talk, I'll give my top five hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
So I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
We'll look forward to that. Cap awesome stuff. Ben, guys,
what enjoy your day. Cap. We'll catch you soon.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Bud. Thanks you there.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
He is Adam Kaplan, FSR NFL Insider Inside the Birds Podcast.
I respect people's opinions of their favorite songs, except if
they said, oh, Crosstown Traffic my favorite Jimmy song.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
It's like, that's just wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
That can't be it's your favorite song.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Man A Joe is another one too, that makes my
mind go to different places, really like in a good
or bad way, both both both. Hey Joe, I mean,
listen to the words of the song. Oh sure, yes,
it's not the best, it's not the most positive words, man,
but it makes my mind go to places.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
You know what, well, Manzy Bolanos is gonna make our
sports mind go in many places here because there's a
lot to dive into, Manzy, what is going on here?
We need Max Homa to at least.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
I don't know what's gonna happen there, Brian. I'm not
gonna lie to you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
I can't tell you that Scotti Scheffler has pulled away
even further from everybody else at the Masters eleven underpar overall,
he's through sixteen holes for the day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
The next one up is Ludwig Oberg. He is four
shots back.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
Colin wore at Kawa and Max Homa are six shots back.

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
So, Manzi, how how closely does our own boat Benz
and trusted producer look like Scottie Scheffler to you? Is
the resemblance at all? Not even not even remotely close?

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Think now, I gotta now, I'm gonna think about it.

Speaker 7 (01:09:56):
That's the first time hearing of this, and I'm actually
kind of offended.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
I maybe it's just your facial hair. Yeah I was.
I did not think that until you brought that up.
Fair Now I'm gonna stare at him and get and
pull up some more pictures of Scott.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
There's certain Yeah, listen, I'm not saying.

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
No completely, but I'm saying I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Have to dissect this after the update.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
He looks zero.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
A cooler version. That's better.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
He does. He does have a backwards cap on because
he Yeah, he's the g over. Here is our producer, Fellas.
The NBA regular season officially in the book, so we
know exactly what's gonna happen. In the Western Conference. The
thunder Secure secured the one seed, the Nuggets, two seed, Timberwolves,
third seed. They're gonna take on the six seeded Suns.
The Clippers four seed take on the fifth seed in Mavericks.

(01:10:56):
So on Tuesday, the play in starts with the Western
Conference first the seven eight seeds Pelicans and Lakers, the
nine and ten seeds Kings and Warriors. Then on the
Eastern Conference on Wednesday is the playing games seven and
eight seeds, he seventy six Ers, nine and ten seeds,
Hawks and Bulls. Out of the Eastern Conference, no question,

(01:11:19):
the Celtics number one seed, Nick's number two seed, Bucks
number three, they're going to take on number six, the
Pacers number four, the Cops taking on the fifth seeded Magic.
That is what we know in the NBA. And then
on Friday will be the other playing games. You know,
the winners and the losers that happen on Tuesday and Wednesday.
That's going to happen on for Friday in the NFL.

(01:11:40):
This is just in out of an ESPN story. Bengals
wide receiver t Higgins told reporters at is You the
football camp today that he does plan on playing, even
though he's been franchise tag he requested a trade earlier
this season. He says he does plan on playing and
that he has grown a love for Cincinnati that he
didn't think he would.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
This just out of ESPN.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Apparently he told this to the reporters from w xixt V.
So Higgins should be playing for the Bengals. Three games
going on in Major League Baseball. The A's are up
on the National seven to six bottom of the eighth inning.
The Cubs, with a slight lead over the Mariners, is
three to two bottom of the ninth inning.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
In Seattle. They're down to their final two outs. They
don't have a man on base.

Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
The Diamondbacks are blanking the Cardinals five zero, top of
the ninth inning in Arizona. And since I actually have
a breather, I can tell you about the NASCAR Cup
Series coming out of Texas. Chase Elliott is currently in
the lead with about thirty two laps to go, and
Denny Hamlin is.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
In second, Ross Chess Stain in third.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
Back to you guys, great stuff, Manzi, Brian no VJ
Husky with you here on Fox Sports Radio, coming to
you live from the tire raq dot com studios as
I keep my eye on Max Homo over here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Hey, Brian, with all that said, like we were just
talking about before in the break before last segment about
teams trying to dodge other teams. Uh huh, So the
Lakers have been trying to avoid who guys, Who's everybody
been saying the Lakers don't want to have to play
the Nuggets. Well, guess what happens if they beat the
Pelicans in the play in on Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
Night, they'd have the Nuggets.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
They get the Nuggets, so trying to even play the
game that they were playing over the last two or
three games. They get to tonight and they go blow
New Orleans out. I don't even think they leave the city,
right do they is Sunday? You might as well stay
there because guess where they got to play the other
where they play to tonight, They're gonna have to play
at New Orleans again. So but the winner of that
game will get automatically get the seven and what's your

(01:13:40):
consolation prize? The defending world champions and maybe three time
MVP Nicola jokicch Man.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
I think, are you saying they're gonna try to blow
that game on purpose?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
I think, well, bo Act's last show right before they entit,
their show with Harmon bo asks, Hey, if you're the Lakers,
bo jump in you.

Speaker 7 (01:13:58):
Actually, I was just throwing out a hypothetic I don't think.
I don't think they should do it because everything, you're
gonna have to beat the Nuggets. Eventually, you're not gonna
get to the finals if you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Be Do you want to have to beat them in
the first round?

Speaker 7 (01:14:09):
I mean it's not ideal, but like you said, like
you can't you're scared of playing.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
Right, can't be scared. And that's the other thing too,
is if you intentionally try to avoid the Nuggets, you
have to win the next play in game, Yes, just
to make it me in your face in the Thunder.
You know, it's not like, oh, well we get the
one seed.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Good, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:14:27):
I mean, if I'm the Lakers in the first round,
I'd rather play the Thunder. I think they just match
up better. But like, it doesn't, it doesn't matter ultimately,
And yeah, the I I'm not that high on the
Warriors anymore, like as a franchise, but I wouldn't want
to play them in a one game playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
So Lakers get the seven?

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Do they?

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
What's the series against the Nuggets? Lakers win it our
Nuggets in five or so.

Speaker 7 (01:14:45):
I think the Nuggets would probably win it in six. Yeah,
I mean, like I said, like, I know, they didn't
win the series last year, but those games are about
as close as they could do. It's just the Nuggets
were a better team overall. So yeah, I don't I
don't think the Lakers are gold buy them.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
But yeah, by the way, just groaning in the background
because it's Scottie Scheffler all day, every day right now,
which is great. He's zeroing in on a Master's win,
and so most of the coverage is on him, and
I just glance at the leaderboard and I see my guy,
Max Halma.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Freaking guy. Listen, man, when the show's over, you can
get out on the town. Go get you a cocktail,
channel your inner Monsey. Go get you a cocktail. Get
you some flame broil oysters out there, man, and from
when you're down there New Orleans, Man, get you some gator,
get you some chicken. You'd be a man.

Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
So let them like the pop the pep talk right there,
bro Holy hell, all right, coming up, Mex. Something that
Charles Barkley said about his team that could apply to
another team in the NBA playoffs. This is really interesting

(01:15:56):
point by Chuck. I want to throw it your way,
see if you buy into it or not. Brian, he's
VEJ Husky, keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
I'm Brian. No, he's VJ. Husky here on Fox Sports Radio,
coming to you from the tire rack dot Com studios. Okay,
so here's the scenario. VJ.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
What's up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
My guy?

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
Max Homer And I say my guy just because I
have a final round bet on him. Yeah, to be
under seventy two and a half, so just needs to
be even for the day. He's got a long putt
for Bertie and after he bogied seventeen. We're gonna need
this long putt for Bertie or the dream is dead.
That's what we're looking at here. That's the scenario. We

(01:16:37):
gotta get to minus five, and I think there's almost
no chance it happens.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
So he needs this bogu. I'm looking at it right now.
So he's up that that puts short from uh this
guy he's playing with, so from uh Oldberg Olberg short,
he's not another put I guess to part that out.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
So he's got oh, okay, all right, I thought you
weren't letting me down gently. You're like, oh, I thought
you were saying, homie like, ah short, No, no, no,
no no, I wouldn't do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
That to you. I wouldn't blow out for you, man,
I wouldn't blow out for you. I'm the DVR king
in this business. I get mad when people blow games
and blow things in sports for me. Like you guys know,
I DVR a lot. No, I have not watched the game.
I'm gonna watch it later tonight once my kids are
down and I have some daddy time to myself. But no,
so he's got to drop this putt to get back
the five under and to get back to eating for today.
So I mean you still got a shot. Got a shot.

Speaker 5 (01:17:22):
That's a long putt, man, we've seen them drop.

Speaker 9 (01:17:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
But the way things have gone the last two hours
or so, VJ. I'm just happy to be alive. I'll
be honest with you. Surprised some sort of you know
crazy uh an act of God hasn't leveled the building
or you know what I mean, just something crazy. So yeah,
I'm just counting my blessing. Say, okay, here we go.

(01:17:46):
So uh, I don't know where you are, but he's
lighting it up. He let it go and it's left.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Oh you're a little head, that's why. Yeah, you're a
little head of the screen I got going up here.
He just put it now over on this TV to speed,
just to speed.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
Yeah, yeah, line that last put up from a foot
away there, Max? Man, Sure you make that one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
You call you call Homer, you call you cost you
cost Brian. Don't you know, no, good man? You cost
my man, VJ.

Speaker 5 (01:18:18):
Do you know who's dead to me?

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Bright Homer?

Speaker 5 (01:18:21):
Max Homer.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
See you're like me. See that's how I get down.
You let me down. You cost me money. Yeah, I'm
not a fantasy guy. Fantasy. I don't care. Oh he
didn't play well last year. I'm not gonna draft man.
I'll draft if I need him, I'll draft him again.
I'm not that guy. But when you start costing my pockets,
you costed me money. Now, now I got a problem
with you.

Speaker 6 (01:18:40):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Now I gotta now I got a problem with you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:43):
Yeah I say that. But you gotta have a you
gotta have a forgiving heart. Yeah, forgetful memory, you know
what I mean, because.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Nah, you know you cost me money. Man, I'm no,
you can't.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
You can't have beef with everybody who costs you cash,
or there's not gonna be any But he left a
bet on you know what I mean, Like you get
back on it. Okay. So here's what Charles Barkley was
talking about. This was just a couple of nights ago
inside the NBA. He was talking about the Celtics, and
so the Celtics, the way they ended the season was
pretty alarming. They won their last two games, but they

(01:19:19):
lost to Milwaukee, they lost to the Knicks, and it
was just ugly basketball, you know. And Charles made the
point he was like when he was with the Suns
and this was the year that they made it to
the finals against the Bulls. Yeah, he was like, we
shut it down the last week or two weeks of
the season. He was like, we lost to the Lakers

(01:19:41):
the first two games, and that was back when it
was the best of five series. They had to win
three straight games to win that series and move on.
He was like, it took us two series to get
back what we lost by shutting it down. And I'm
just wondering if anything similar will happen to the Celtics
where they have a tougher time in the first round

(01:20:02):
than you would think. And a lot of this depends
on who they're facing, but it's something to keep in mind.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Yeah, never shut it down. Never shut it down. You
keep the foot on, You keep the foot on the throat.
When Kobe could play eighty two, he played eighty two.
When Jordan could play eighty two, he played eighty two.
When you if you were able to play, you play.
You don't let you know when you let the foot off.
When you're holding to Larry O'Brien at the end of
the year, and then guess what you got about a
week and a half to celebrate that you got to
get right back to work and get back to training,

(01:20:27):
because it's harder to win again after you've already won win.
It's harder to repeat.

Speaker 6 (01:20:31):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
I don't like them. I don't pick them to win.
I think the East is weekend while they will come
out of the East. But it wouldn't surprise me if
they didn't come out.

Speaker 8 (01:20:38):
Of the East.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
Brother.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
Yeah, I mean they were losing by thirty some to
the Knicks, and that's that's tough to go from that
to just ramp it on up. All right, coming up next,
what would you do if you were in the exact
same shoes? What would you do in the same shoes
if you're facing the same scenario. We'll get to that.
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So Scottie Scheffler is just gonna tap it in, tap
it in, and he's gonna win the Masters here in
twenty twenty four. This will be what his second major.

(01:21:24):
He's an amazing golfer his second major VJ.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Yeah, he's number one ranked in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:21:28):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
But that's the great thing about golf, which makes this
such a great sport. In the first second opening the show,
I talked about my love for Tiger and Tiger his
performance and the Masters, and you know what it probably
means for him, But just how hard this game is.
I'm a golfer. I'm not very good, but I love
to play. I have a set of clubs I've been
playing since I was in late teens when I first

(01:21:51):
heard of this Tiger Woods guy and made me want to,
you know, get more into golf. But it's hard, man,
It's hard to go course to course week the week,
four days and really, you know, perform man puts the
way these greens is said of Brian. They changed the
holes from day to day, bro, Like that's so cool,
Like yesterday you could play this slope, but guess what,
you can't play that slope tomorrow. And you can't play

(01:22:12):
the slope that you think you could play because they
wind the bunker a little bit. Now the bunker's in play,
and now the water to the rights in play. And
I mean the you know, first and second round the
win was just whipping them. How do you even prepare
for that? Now you got a slight shots, so you
got a hook shots. This is such a mental mental game.
That's why I love it. And when you see a
guy like Scotty Scheffler about to get a second major,

(01:22:33):
number one ranked player in the world, I think he
would be now the only the fifth golfer to ever
be ranked number one in the world and win the Master.
So that's a feed in itself.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
Well, that's the thing too, is you think about how
successful Scotty Scheffler has been and only one major, and
he didn't let that trip him up at all, right,
Because some people, especially golf man, you get inside your
own head and you start thinking, oh, man, here we
go again. It's like the sh Chicago Cubs syndrome, the

(01:23:03):
lovable losers for one hundred and eight years. You can't
tell me that a lot of players over a lot
of years didn't feel that pressure of like, oh no,
here we go again. It's starting to unravel here. And man,
Scottie Scheffler was nails in this Masters tournament this year
and he's going to probably win by a good four strokes.
He's got a four stroke lead right now and she's

(01:23:24):
got to tap it in. So yeah, hats off to him.
Here's the other part of it where he let it
be known that he was going to leave this tournament
should his wife go into labor. And I love that
he said this. He said, let me get his exact
quote right here. Yeah, we have open lines of communication

(01:23:45):
and she can get a hold of me if she
needs to. I'm ready to go at a moment's notice.
And that's great, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
I wonder this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:55):
If you're in that position, he can do it. It's
an individual sport. He can do whatever he wants to do.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
If he wants to leave the tournament and be there
for his firstborn child, God bless him. He makes that
decision up on his own. If you are in those
same shoes, feed Jay. Okay, And it's the same scenario
you've grinded for years and years and years. You're the
number one rank golfer, you have one major, you have
a chance to win a green jacket at the Masters. Yeah,

(01:24:22):
you haven't had a child yet. Your wife could go
into labor at any time between Thursday and Sunday. With
the Master's tournament, let's say she does. Let's say it's Saturday,
you gotta go. It's either we're leaving and seeing the
firstborn or we're sticking around and finishing this thing at
the Masters. What are you doing well?

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
I never heard a father criticized on his father and
skills because he wasn't at the birth of the child. Okay.
I think that when you marry a pro athlete, you
sign up for certain things. It's like marrying someone that's
in the military. And I come from an army family,
so I can beat to this from experience. The saying is,
you didn't marry Brian know. You married the Air Force,

(01:25:06):
you married the Marines, you married the Navy. Because wherever
they tell Brian, no, he's gotta go, and when he's
gotta go, and when he's gotta be there by, you
either staying behind with the kids, or we're packing up
the kids and everybody's going to Okinawa, or everybody's going
to Bremahamm Germany, or everyone's going here, going there. You're
going where they tell you to go. I think that

(01:25:26):
falls in line with the with an athlete, it's the Masters,
it's Sunday, you're in the lead, finish it out. Collect
the three point six million. Hey, guess what that Scheffler
kid and he's got a pretty good financial head start
because his dad just tapped in at the eighteenth to
win a green jacket. Congratulations being born with all the

(01:25:47):
money he's already won. Here's here's here's another three point
six million son that I missed the berth for. Yeah, man,
you gotta you gotta finish this out. I understand it's
the first birth of your child, but this is what
you say sign up for, or if I can, you know,
play Devil's advocate, plan it out differently. You knew you
were gonna play in the Masters. The Masters is the

(01:26:08):
same time, Brian, every single year. It doesn't adjust like Easter.
It's the same time. It's the same week in April
every single year. You know you're gonna play in it.
If this is something you and your wife had discussed
could happen, Let's plan the pregnancy a little differently so
we don't run into a good thing.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Look at the way the Heaven's played. This guy got
three point six million, won a second major, won a
Green jacket, and the child hasn't even been born. He's
gonna be able to be there for the child, so
he's gonna get both. But I'm staying and winning my
green jacket.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
Okay, So the first thing that I latched onto is
kind of interesting. You go hot Tub time Machine at first,
and it's like, what were you guys doing getting it
on nine months ago?

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
What's up with that?

Speaker 5 (01:26:48):
Likely is June and July no fly zone?

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Okay, yeah, because this could run into the Masters. You
gotta play.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
Yeah, Look, man, I'll be completely honest with you, please,
It really depends on literally being in the same shoes
what my answer would be because there are so many
factors here.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:27:13):
If my girl, what is her stance on this, you know,
is she adamant that we're a family. You need to
be there for the family, right, If that's part of it,
I'm going to weigh that into my decision. I'm not
going to be just like, hey, listen, you married a
pro golfer. What comes with the territory?

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Babe?

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
You know I would absolutely weigh that, and I would
want to be in two places at once, and you know,
I would need to know how it felt throughout the
years of all the struggles trying to earn my.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Card.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
You know what I mean like getting all the way
to number one. Now I'm on the cusp of probably
the easily the achievement of my professional lifetime. Of course,
there's a lot to weigh right there, and I think
from just your couch, you looking at the situation from afar,
you don't feel it the same way. It's impossible to

(01:28:10):
so without feeling it. I would have to literally be
in that shoes to give you a completely honest answer
what I would do.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Okay, well, I'll wear a black hat on the show.
I'm not Yeah, I'm staying. I'm staying. Yeah, I'm staying.

Speaker 5 (01:28:22):
Come on, what if she's like, you got to be
there for the family? What you just stand your ground?

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Well here, no, here's the thing. Now, we've talked about
this before, but once again, when you marry a pro athlete,
these are just kind of the things that can happen
in life that you sign up for by marrying a
pro athlete. It's like, if you marry a lady that
travels a lot for a job, you can't eventually get
upset that she's out of town every six weeks. You
knew that going into the marriage that she travels a
lot for her job, and It was cool at first

(01:28:48):
because it's like, yeah, my woman's this this corporate lady,
and she's done so well on her job, and it's great.
She flies around. Oh one time I went and I
met her in Hawaii when I had a conference there,
and she flew me out to Chicago to meet up
within her when I had a conference. Yeah, it's all good, man,
until it's not anymore. So these are things, like you said,
that you have to prediscuss before you get to these points.
I get it, But it's the masters. I'm pretty sure

(01:29:09):
it was. He He's saying all the right things because
nowadays and pro Yeah, if it proa act, he says,
if he's still up there, so what I'm saying, they'd
be chilling him. Oh my god, he doesn't care about
his wife. Look, let's cancel him. No more PGA, no
more Peach golf shirts. Anything he's wearing, we're not doing
anymore because he won't go be there for the birth
of his I mean like, nah.

Speaker 5 (01:29:31):
Yeah, that's the thing though, too is it's one thing
to say it, it's another.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Thing to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
It was easy for him to say it, bro, Yeah,
he didn't have to make that decision. To actually do it.
He was adamant that's what he would have done. But
we'll never know that for sure. It's not like he
got that phone call on Saturday and you know, and
you know, I was like, yo, it's going down and
he's like okay, and he had to make that decision
whether the stay or go.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
And it makes him look like more of a hero
now because he can always say, what I would have left, dude,
I'd have left, dude, Like, come on, dude, my child
is the most important thing. That was the greatest day
of my life. Is watching he now will be just
a legend forever because he can always say, yeah, I'd
have left. It was a star move Ida left.

Speaker 7 (01:30:19):
Do we know where his wife is located.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
They're still back home. I think that's yeah, she's not there.

Speaker 7 (01:30:25):
Yeah, labor lasts so long, Like what if you leave
Augusta with your you're in the lead, and then what
if you gets suck at the airport or something like that, Yeah,
or the.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Baby just delays coming. I've been I've had, I got kids,
so I know how labor goes. It doesn't Oh, when
you show up to the hospital, they run you in
the room and go okay, let's have the baby. That's
not how it works. I was there.

Speaker 5 (01:30:43):
Can you imagine Can you imagine if he left the
Masters and was late to see the birth of his child?
Is it double whammy?

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
That sucks? Brian? That would that now did not be
am I gonna get there in time? Something happens. They
have to douce labor. They have to do an emergency yeah,
see yeah, yeah, they have the emergency delivery. Yeah, that
my son was an emergency delivery. We thought it was
gonna be hours down the line. They came into the
room and said, okay, can we talk to you to

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for a second. We're like yeah, And they told us share,
we're gonna go in now. We gotta yeah, we gotta
get them out. We're gonna go in there now. So
that you're right, that could have happened. But like I said, man,
like how the sports guys played this guy and now
it could just be a hero forever.

Speaker 5 (01:31:29):
And I think that's the other thing too, is it's
so much different in an individual sport like golf compared
to what if you're the star quarterback of a team sport.
You know, that's way different, right there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
Would you miss the Super Bowl, Brian, You're the start
quarterback for Super Bowl team. Your wife goes into labor
while you're warming up. Your handler runs out to the field.
Bro bro bro bro, no dog, missus nos in labor
right now, right now, and the hospital is like two
hours away. Are you playing for them? Lobardi? Are you leaving?

Speaker 5 (01:32:03):
That'd be hard to be there. I gotta be honest
with you and be hard to I'm warming.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Up, I've already got my lather.

Speaker 5 (01:32:10):
My reaction wouldn't be like, oh, yes, it's time.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
My reaction would be like really now, like, well, you
know what, I'm already lathering up. I'm already got my
uniform on all right, got my ankles taped. Ain't no
need to take it all this stuff off?

Speaker 8 (01:32:24):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:32:25):
That would wow, that would be rough. And again it's
the same answer VJ. I would really have to feel it,
like all the struggles throughout the years, my teammates, these
guys that are my brothers, that are counting on me,
you know what I mean? And then what what's my
girl's stance is She like I've had this conversation with

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my sister before. I'm like, what would you tell Matt
you like your husband. If this was the same situation,
she was like, hey, man, if duty calls, it's all good.
You don't. I don't demand that you're there. Some some
women feel that way, some don't. Some are like, I
need you there, and we're a team, and so it
really does depend on a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
That's selfish right there. Man, Yeah, we're a team. I
know we're a team. I will but I'll be Daddy
got what if Dad's got we gotta work. Dad's gotta work, right,
Daddy gotta go. I'm at babe, Daddy gotta work. I'll
be here. I'll be here with a three point six
million dollar jack.

Speaker 5 (01:33:22):
You're like, yeah, baby, we are a team. We're the
Philadelphia Eagle.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Yeah, we're our team. We're part of the PGA. And
also to look at the Masters, right only Tiger repeats
man that you don't get back here. Look at Rom.
Rom won it last year. How this rounds go, How
this tournament go this year? You don't just come right back.
It's once in a lifetime event to get a green jacket.
We don't see I mean different winners we had over
the last twenty years, guys, right, it's right everybody doesn't

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get this, man, And when you're number one in the world,
you got a chance to add to even that being
the fifth golf forever is the number one to win
the green jacket. I gotta stay and get it, man.
I'll be there when I want, as soon as it's over,
and I do all the stuff, kiss the trophy and
all the flash bumps, I'm out and I'll be there.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
Yeah. It's a rough one, right, because you could rationalize
it in a lot of different ways. Is uh, you know,
which which feeling that you missed out on would you
regret missing the most? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
It's a trophy, and it's a green jacket, and there's
prestige and there's all of that, But it's your family,
you know, and the reason you weren't there. It's one
thing if hey, look, man, the weather, I was catching
a flight. I couldn't get out of town, like people
are gonna understand based on certain situations. But if you
had the power to be there and you chose not

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to be there, like right, there are layers of this.
I would just say this. If you're not there for
the kid, it's time for baby number two.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
Child's first dope Man, I was there for journey and
for camera. Man, I'm not in Bo. Bo's had one
now too, Man, I tell you it is different, especially
when the first time they open their eyes and they
see you smile or they make a sound that's like, wow,
you really did know? That was me talking through the
wound all those months. Oh yeah, I ain't gonna frin that.

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Filling a hold in my son for the very first
time dog that was Yeah, that's over any championship I've
ever won in my life.

Speaker 5 (01:35:15):
See. That's what I'm saying, though, is you got a
weigh that with you know what it feels like to
win a prestigious event like the Masters. You know, I
just wonder what you'd be kicking yourself over. We're talking
ten twenty thirty years down the road of like what
the hell was I thinking?

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
You know that green jacket out there?

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
Like, what the hell was I think I could have
had a green jacket?

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
Yeah, I was about to say a green jacket is
still hanging in the closet, though. That green jacket is
gonna be there forever. Your son at eighteen is not
gonna go You know what, Dad, you weren't there when
I was born but I was born into a mansion
and millions of dollars. But God, that one day you
weren't there that I don't even remember. Yeah, I'm gonna
hate you now right. I don't think I don't. I
don't think that's happening.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
I don't think so either. All right, come it up next.
This has something to do with it, It certainly doesn't
have everything to do with it. We'll explain. I'm Brian No,
He's VJ. Husky. Keep it locked right here on Fox
Sports Radio. I'm Brian No. He's VJ. Husky. Here on
Fox Sports Radio. We're coming to you live from the
Fox from the Tyreck dot Com studios. We got breaking news.

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Let's go to Manzi right quick.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
That's right, fellas.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
Scottie Scheffler will become a new dad with two green jackets.
He just won his second Masters, ending eleven under part overall,
four shots ahead of Ludwig Oberg. So for his win,
Scheffler gets a trophy trophy replica of Augusta's clubhouse, a
green jacket.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
And a three point six million dollar check. Not too shabby.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
This is the biggest person in history for the Masters,
so Oberg who went it in second place, playing in
his first major turn. He's getting two point one six
million for finishing in second. Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa,
they cracked a million dollar mark for sharing third place.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
It's not a bad day.

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
At all.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Soon to be dad, that's right at all.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
And how about that he's won two of the last three.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Masters correct twenty seven years old.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
Yeah, so if the wife went into labor when he's
already got a green jacket. You know what I mean?
Is that factor into your equation there at all?

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
Absolutely not?

Speaker 7 (01:37:32):
Two?

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
No, two are better than one. Pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
What I'm saying like, if Sean was pregnant and I
was playing in Game seven of the NBA Finals, I'd
be like, you're on your own, baby, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
After I went see, I thought I was I see.
I thought, well, you know, it's always funny about these posters,
these postgames. There they're at the partner where they're in
the clubhouse talking. So they have this year's Masters, then
they have the amateur highest rank and finish your amateur
and then last year's Masters champion. The dude who won
last year always looks super pissed. Rom looks like he had.
Look at him. He does not want to be there.

(01:38:04):
Hold it, look I got his jacket over his wrist,
over his army. Dude, you're wrinkling it. Come on, man,
let that thing go. Don't be mad because you didn't
win this year. He looks like he wants no part
of being and who does. Right, They don't have the
last year Super Bowl champion hand the Lombardi two this
year's champion. I'm not giving you.

Speaker 5 (01:38:23):
I always thought that. At Wimbledon, remember the marathon match.
Oh yeah, And they took a picture the two players.
It was like, mahoot and Isner right, and so isnerwan
and mahoot, poor mahoot. I think he's from Germany. It's like, hey,
I'm mahoot. You just lost this marathon Wimbledon match took

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hours and hours and hours, many tiebreakers. I'll always take
a photo next to the scoreboard over here. What do
you think I'd be like, God, yeah, yeah, do it
without me. I'm freaking out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
You kidding me.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
I'm not taking a picture as far as that goes.
I just lost.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
Even when they do the trophy presentation at Wimbledon, how
they give the loser their little their little silver one
and then they hand the winner the big go like,
give me mine in the locker room, don't give me
mine out on the court. I just got my ass
kicked in front of all these people wearing all white
on the Sunday, and I gotta stand here now, step
to the side and be gracious and with a smile

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on my face. And then watch the select the winner.
And it's fits Serena. You know, she's jumping up and
down and krip walking on you. So you got to
sit there and endure all of that for it's Federer.
He's gonna cry, so you don't feel as bad. But yeah,
I'm not. I'm not one of the loser, I mean
the winner from last your hand and all.

Speaker 7 (01:39:35):
Have you guys seen the movie Basket Paul, Yes, yes, yes,
the losers shirts and hats that they have to wear
in the lock I think we should bring that in.

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
A good touch right there. I'm gonna switch things on
you here really fast. So Spencer Strider braves ace Yep,
he's done for the season.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
The Tommy John surgery had to get the UC repaired,
and so it's a lot of talk about the pitch clock,
you know, and here's here's where I stand on it.
I'm curious where you stand. But the Players Association, the MLBPA,
they're blaming the pitch clock for all these pitcher injuries
we got, Spencer Stryder, Shane Bieber went down right. MLB.

(01:40:21):
They're pushing back and they're blaming higher velocities and spin rates,
and that absolutely contributes. There's no doubt. Here's the thing.
I think the pitch clock means something. It doesn't mean everything.
That's where I push back. It's like, okay, so if
it's just the pitch clock, then we just had what

(01:40:44):
Steven Strasburg officially retire. You know, he had all these
arm injuries before the pitch clock even came to be.
Like Jacob Degram is an absolute stud. He can't stay
healthy because he's had all these arm issues that was
before the pitchclock also, So don't make it all about
the pitch clock when we have so many injuries from

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the past that had nothing to do with the pitch clock.
And at the same time, there's some nuance here. I
can admit, yeah, it's probably got something to do with it.
You can't blame every injury. Oh oh, we got this
pitch clock here right, Like, that's just over the top.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Yeah, that's over the top. And I'll tell you where
my mind is. It's got nothing to do with the pitchclock.
Whenever something goes wrong, Brian, in sports, we have to
find a reason for it other than whatever the real
reason probably is. So in my professional opinion, the reason
that we're starting to see these type of injuries to
these pictures is because it's the same thing that I
say about football, if you don't let guys hit right

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enough in practice and during the summer, which they have
all these rules in place. Now they're talking about player protection. Okay, fine,
I think it's a I think it's fake. You know,
it's got to always do something about money. It's never
like we really care about the players. No, there's some
money involved some way, somehow, some sides trying to get
an advantage. That's why you're acting like your care So
in baseball, start taking pictures out of games. Early started

(01:42:05):
pulling pitchers out of fourth fifth because he's pitched so
many he's thrown so many pitches. Analytics, nerd numbers, and
doorkisms have done this to baseball, and what happens is
in sports you played. Man, if you're not actively playing,
you can't just rev up and then shut down, and
then rev up and then shut down and then rev

(01:42:25):
up and then shut down. As a picture today, could
you imagine going out not even knowing if you were
be able to get through four to get through five innings.
I'm I'm in my mid forties, Okay. I come from
the era of Nolan Ryan. I come from the era
of a Randy Johnson. I come from the era of
guys continuously going seven to eight innings. There was no
setup guy for some teams. Some guys had starter, the

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brains had starters and it had a closer. The Oakland
A's had the starters and it had a closer dinner. Secretly,
now we got set up sixth man, set up to
seventh man, set up the eighth man. Say they're four
and five pitchers. They're not letting pitchers get the longevity
in their body. So now when they go out to
the mound, Brian, they think, Okay, I got I gotta
get hot fast because I could be pulled in four,

(01:43:08):
I could be pulled in five. I think that plays
more into this than a damn pitch clock. Like you said,
Strasburg had all types of injuries. Carrie Wood is another
young phenomenon that we could think of. Right twenty K game,
guy right had a lot of army wide. There was
no pitch clocked in So what do you see exactly? So, no,
it's got nothing to do. They just need a scapegoat.

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
I'll say real fast and we'll get bo in this.
He's got something to add where it's a little like
load management in basketball, where Stan Van Gundy has talked
about this, where it's like, why do we have all
these hamstring injuries? And we got like we had guys
we were we were running, you know, running them hard
in practice on top of games, you know, and there

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was a lot of wear and tear. But your body
gets accustomed to things, and sometimes when you're there is
such a thing as taking it a little too easy
at times and then trying to ramp your body up
and your body just doesn't respond. So the point is
it can be a lot of things that lead to
an arm issue or injury. It's not just the pitch clock.

(01:44:12):
That's where I'm at. It's got something. I think it's
something to do with it. You say, nothing, Van, It's
just not everything. We can agree it's not everything, but
we want to get our trusted producer in on this.
What do you have on it?

Speaker 7 (01:44:23):
I think that it is. Honestly, I think it's everything.
I think every time I hear a pitcher talk about
what they think is causing these issues, I think they
all have valid points and thoughts and opinions on it.
Tyler Glasnow was giving an interview while he was with
the Rays and he mentioned how the complete and total
ban on any sticky stuff completely altered the way he
gripped the ball, and he noticed the day after his

(01:44:44):
best start that he'd had in his career at that point.
He noticed waking up the next day that he felt
pain and muscles that he'd never felt before. You have
Alex Wood of the Giants talking about guys now throwing
year round. They don't take a break. When he was
coming up, guys would not throw off a mound until
like the second week spring training. But now you have
guys throwing year round. You have Justin Verlander talking about

(01:45:04):
how everything now is about max spin and max velocity,
and at the end of the day, like the overhand
throwing motion that all these guys do isn't a natural
throwing motion, so you're already you're already doing something in
your body isn't designed to do so. I And on
top of that max max velocity, max spin stuff, yeah,
like asking guys to repeat that motion in a quicker
time frame than they already have before. And don't forget

(01:45:25):
that they shortened the pitch clock again this year, like
you know, two weeks before the season started they said,
with runners on, it's going to be two seconds shorter.
So I think there's and Kershaw Clayton Kershaw gave an
interview today where he said, you know, if somebody says
that they have it all figured out, like in terms
of what's causing these injuries, he doesn't listen. He's not
going to listen to them because nobody knows for sure.
But I think it is just a confluence of all
these different things. And I think this is one of

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those things where I don't think anybody is particularly wrong
with how they view what's causing these injuries. It's just
bad for baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
But also real quick with the with the with the
pitch clock, what about guys that like the workfast. There's
there's been pictures that there's pictures that like the workfast.
The pitchclock didn't bother. Yeah, when a pitchclock and now
my dude, I don't care. I want to work that box.

Speaker 7 (01:46:04):
Oh yeah. Everybody's different though. That's the thing, like, maybe
those guys aren't getting hurt. I think a guy like
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is kind of the ideal pitcher for this
era because he's always not worried about throwing velocity. He's
worried about control and his his offseason workout stuff. Isn't
that he's more focused on staying nimble and staying agile
than he is about just building muscle all that stuff.

(01:46:24):
So I think that's what you're gonna have to see.
But it's not, as Justin Verlander said, it's not something
that you're going to see overnight. Like these kids are
being told that they have to throw hard with a
bunch of spin while they're sixteen years old. So well,
it's it's just messy.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
It can't be everything, because if it were everything, then
no one would have gotten hurt before the pitch clock.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:46:45):
And don't forget too everything. Major League Baseball loves to
change the balls just randomly.

Speaker 5 (01:46:50):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of stuff that contributes.
It's not just one thing. But I think the pitchclock
is the new Tom Thibodeau of MLB. This is what
I thing, VJ. You know how the Knicks head coach
TIBs he plays his starters heavy minutes yep. And there
are a lot of people that blame every single injury
on the workload, And the workload can contribute at times.

(01:47:14):
It's not the explainer of every single injury, you know
what I mean. Like there might be a Knicks player
where someone sets a hard screen and he hurts his
shoulder and people are like that, there we go TIBs,
and it's like it didn't. I think that's what the
pitch clock is becoming. It's just the catch all for
every pitching injury. It's just not accurate.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
Yeah, No, I'm with you too on that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:36):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
No, it's not everything, but I I lean on we've
softened so many leagues, We've softened so many things. It's
going to affect the product on the field. Why Like,
for instance, why are there's certain players that could play
eighty two or eighty or even seventy eight, seventy nine,
And there's some guys who can't get past fifty games.

(01:47:58):
Why there's a reason for it. There's training, there's eating,
there's stretching. There, there's so much that goes into it.
And then something else too, I'll throw at you, guys.
There shouldn't there be a universal type of medical training
like curriculum that each pro team training staff should have
to pass or have a level of, because you you'll

(01:48:20):
hear players go, yeah, I couldn't stay healthy there because
their training staff suck. If you're in the league, you
can't let a training staff suck, and it keeps products
off the field, the court, the diamond, which is true.
My nephew was in Phoenix with the Suns. They I
heard stories from other players that were there. The trainers
just weren't as good as with other teams. Shouldn't a
league be on top of that?

Speaker 5 (01:48:40):
Well, I think this is real fast. Could you tighten
the screws in some areas from certain team to certain team?

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:48:48):
Yeah, But at the end of the day, you're asking
your body to do a lot, and you're just a
human being. At some point, stuff's gonna go wrong, you
know what I mean. You're not iron Man, and if
you're a Pitcher. It's taxing if you're a football player,
and depending on your position to wear and tear, there's
only so much you can do to put your body

(01:49:09):
in the best possible position to avoid injury and be
as healthy as possible. But at the end of the day,
you're asking your body to do a ton and at
times stuff is just gonna go wrong. That's that's how
it is. Hey, nothing goes wrong when we hear from
Monzi Bolanos though, and she's got an update for us. Monzi,
what is the latest? I don't want to hear anything
about Maxoma.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
You don't want to hear okay? Can I tell you
about Scotty Seffler.

Speaker 5 (01:49:32):
I would love to hear it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
Okay, great, So he's gonna be a new dad, and
guess what, he's gonna have two green jackets to go
along with his new son. I think he just won
his second Master's, ending eleven underpar overall, four shots ahead
of Loot big Oberg. So he really like controlled the
last two rounds. It was all Scotti Scheffler the entire time.

(01:49:53):
And he gets not only a green jacket, but a
nice three point six million dollar check.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
What a nice little day. For Scottie Scheffler.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
Congratulations out of the NASCAR Cup series that was happening
in Texas, Chase Elliott, when's that one? In the NBA,
we finally know what's happening in the playoffs and the
playing games start on Tuesday with the Western Conference the
seven and eight seeds Pelicans and Lakers, nine and ten seeds,
Kings and Warriors. On Wednesday, the seven and eight seeds

(01:50:23):
out of the Eastern Conference, the Heat and the seventy
six ers, and the nine and ten seeds the Hawks
and the Bulls. And then on Friday we'll finish out
the play in situations and then officially go into the playoffs.
The other thing we didn't know starting today was how
the Western Conference was going to end in the top
three because we had a three way tie. So the
Thunder secured the number one seed, the Nuggets got the

(01:50:44):
number two seed, and the Timberwolves got the number three seed.
In Major League Baseball, there is a rain delay here
in LA between the Padres and the Dodgers, but they
should be starting soon, in about ten minutes or so.
I think they're officially gonna get going. But we did
have rain today out of the game that already wrapped up.
We had a victory by the A's. They took down

(01:51:04):
the national seven to six. The Cubs edged the Mariners
three to two. The Diamondbacks blank the Cardinals five zero.
Jose Altuve hit two homers for the Astros.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
They beat the Rangers eight to five.

Speaker 4 (01:51:15):
The Reds they outscored the White Sox eleven four, while
the Rays beat the Giants in nine to four. The
Guardians walked it off against the Yankees eight seven.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
And ten innings.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
The Tigers edged the Twins four to three. The Mets
beat the Royals two to one. The Braves with a
nine to seven victory over the Marlins. The Blue Jays
blanked the Rockies five zero. The Pirates nine to two
over the Phillies Andrew McCutcheon with this three hundredth home
run of his career. The Orioles beat the Brewers six four.
The Red Sox took down the Angels five four. What

(01:51:46):
a day, fellas, And guess what I'm doing next.

Speaker 3 (01:51:49):
I'm going down. You have no idea. I'm just today.
I'm telling you, I feel like at one point smoke
was coming out of my ears.

Speaker 5 (01:52:01):
Brian I felt the same way. Trust me, numerous times.
Couldn't find the studio to save my life.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
Yes, that home was screwed it up.

Speaker 5 (01:52:09):
I couldn't get the Blazers to score it all for
the over to hit last leg in the parlay off.
So frustrating. I just hope when you go get the cocktail,
is somebody parked out front with the hazard lights on started.

Speaker 4 (01:52:23):
I'm telling you, I'm y'all like I need to chill
out on the road because I'm gonna I'm gonna punch
somebody on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Mons is gonna get to the bar. In the first
three drinks she's gonna order, They're gonna be out of
that liquor. I'm gonna go home.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
I've got some shows to catch up on the Dodger game,
So I'm gonna go home where I have my best tequila.

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
Okay, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
But Brian, you need a cocktail.

Speaker 4 (01:52:49):
Too, yeahs is plenty while you're at it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:55):
Yeah, I gotta get some good food, you do. You
know that'll make me feel a lot quick.

Speaker 4 (01:52:59):
Sobar over, Okay, you really need to like think about overrated.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
You need to take you back around the building and.

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
I don't need sugar, and I don't need powdered sugar
all over my damn clothes while I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Parties.

Speaker 4 (01:53:13):
VJ.

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
I haven't had.

Speaker 5 (01:53:17):
By the way, VJ. What Moncey was talking about giving
all the scores? The one that sticks out the most
of me? What did the Pelicans? What happened today? Matt?

Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
I don't know what a loss?

Speaker 5 (01:53:27):
So you fall from sixth and you're now in the
play in against the Lakers, the same team that just
smacked you around. You give up all these points in
the paint. Today. I was driving to the studio that
I couldn't find, you know, and listening to the game
and the Pelicans played by play crew. They're just like,
this is just a freaking clinic against the Pels here.

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They can do nothing right. They were so expressive it
was hilarious. But man, what a leg they laid to
day That was brutal.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
And not only that, they were very confident coming off
of a big win a few nights ago where all
four of their stars did the post game with with
with Hayes, with Chris Haynes and you know, and Zion
left off by saying, hey, and you know, we getting
b we get b I back. He looked right into
the camera said stop playing with us, man, y'all know
what it is. And I was like, okay, that was

(01:54:21):
I feel, y'all moxie homie, but didn't show up like
that today. And uh and and let and let Lebron
put it on you like that, like and like I said,
you got to turn right around on Tuesday at four
thirty Pacific times, seven thirty Eastern time and play this
same team. I hope coach. I hope Willie Green gets
in them today man, and gets them and gets them right,
because that was that was embarrassing what they put out there. Today.

Speaker 5 (01:54:43):
It's a big day for the Suns also, so the
Suns they jump up from seven to six.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
They get there.

Speaker 5 (01:54:50):
Yeah, they're not in the play in and you get
the timber Wolves, which again tough team, but they don't
have this illustrious past, and the Suns just smacked him
around today. That's their first round opponent is Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
I called that yesterday Martin and I did our show.
We looked at the top three teams. I thought Minnesota
would lose, and I thought Denver would win, and I
thought Okac would win. So That's what shaped out Denver
at Minnesota loss to Phoenix because Phoenix, Phoenix did not
they did not want to be in that plan, and
they knew they had a shot to get to the six.
You get to the six, which means you have all
week off. Now, playoffs don't start till Saturday, so and

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they probably won't schedule Phoenix until Sunday. I could see
them winning. The league likes their bigger stars that open
in Sunday, so you know the Lakers are going If
the Lakers get in the Lakers are going to play Sunday,
and I think Phoenix is gonna play Sunday. So you
get Durant, you get Lebron, big marquee faces on national
team for the playoffs for the opening weekend. But yeah,
good job by Phoenix today. They needed it.

Speaker 5 (01:55:44):
Those are two big wins by them. So they beat
Minnesota today, the Suns did. And then on Friday they
had a big comeback win at Sacramento. They were down
by like thirteen points or something like that late against Sacramento,
came back and won that one. So they avoid the
get to the sixth spot. We gotta look at the
West real fast, sure, VJ. And also, what were you

(01:56:05):
talking about with the NFL draft. Sometimes we get bored
and we just overanalyze things.

Speaker 2 (01:56:09):
Yeah, it's called prospect prospect fatigue.

Speaker 5 (01:56:12):
Prospect fatigue. I want to I want to get to
like the other side of that coin. Okay, Okay. And
it's something it's a phrase that I just made up
that I want to throw your way and see if
you buy it at all. Okay, Okay, we'll do that
right around the corner. He's VJ Husky. I'm Brian No.
Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm

(01:56:32):
Brian No.

Speaker 7 (01:56:32):
He's VJ.

Speaker 5 (01:56:33):
Husky here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, VJ. We're going
rapid fire style here, let's go. Okay, so real fast
NBA question. We'll get to the NFL draft stuff, well,
shoehorn as much good stuff as we can at the
end of the show here, all right, put the Nuggets
to the side. Okay, all right, which none Nuggets team

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in the West do you like the most? Now that
we know the playoff matchups outside of the playing.

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
Right Minnesotaesta, Yeah, could I like defense? The more defense
in the league. Rudy Gobert is probably gonna win his
fourth defensive player of the Year. Yeah, and Edwards is
a really good perimeter defender. So is Michael Conley. So
you got veterans that can do that. Just really gonna
depend on what they're gonna get from their bench. But
I think Anthony Edwards is primed to make us all
kind of how we first saw Dwayne Wade when we

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first all got Waide into the playoffs and Wade went ballistic,
I think, and then we go, Okay, this kid's got
a d ass shack. A few years later and then
they go win the championship. But when he got his
first playoff Sean he opened eyes. I think Anthony. I
think Anthony Edwards is gonna do the same thing. So
if it's not the Nuggets, give me Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
Yeah, no, I'm with you. I love how Minnesota defends.
You gotta defend come playoff time, and especially when you
think about the way the last couple of months, how
these officials have just swallowed their whistles. Man, A lot
of times, it's football on hardwood out there, they're just
bother me. Yeah, I'm cool with it. But if there's
no blood, there's no foul, they're just like, no play

(01:57:58):
on It's like, Wow, that really benefits a team like Minnesota.
I'm really curious to see OKC in the playoffs because
they have shot the freaking lights out all season long.
We know about SGA, but come playoff time, I want
to see if they can still hit shots at a
similar rate, because man, when the chips are on the

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table and you get a little tighter, can you still
hit shots one after another like they have in the
regular season. I'm really curious to see OKC in the playoffs.
Let me throw this football thing at you here, VJ.
So I totally agree with you. Sometimes there is prospect
fatigue when we're talking about the upcoming NFL draft, and
Caleb Williams would be a great example of that. I've

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heard so many negative things about the USC quarterback where
it's like, good lord, do you realize he's a baller?

Speaker 1 (01:58:48):
Though?

Speaker 5 (01:58:48):
Can we talk about that part of it too? I
would say there is certainly prospect fatigue. There's something else
I think at play here, VJ. I want to know
if you agree with this or not. I call it
mock draft gospel syndrome. Okay, where you just start reading
these mock drafts which don't vary a ton at least

(01:59:10):
in the top ten picks, and you just believe it's gospel.
And every single year a team does something unexpected where
you're like, whoa wait a minute, I didn't see that
in the mock drafts, and you think it's wrong. It's like,
there are a lot of things that would be viewed
as radical at the time that would have been smart
in the long run. If you go back to twenty seventeen.

(01:59:30):
I was just thinking about this. If the Browns they
had the number one pick, they went with Miles Garrett,
If the Browns had selected Patrick Mahomes, it would have
been viewed as freaking radical at the time. Mahomes went
tenth overall, right, it would are did he go tenth
or twenty? He went tenth overall? Yeah, yeah, if he

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went first overall, it'd be like, what are they doing?
It would have been the smartest thing they could have done.

Speaker 11 (01:59:54):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:59:55):
So sometimes you just think these mock drafts, this is
the way it should be, This makes all the sense,
it's gospel. A lot of times are freaking dead wrong.
Don't be beholdened to those mock drafts.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
I stop reading mark drafts about five years ago because
I come up with my own I look at what
the team needs. I watch a ton of football, I
rewatch games, I rewatch film, stuff like that. So my
mock draft always comes up about three days before the draft,
so it'll be out next week, and I just go
with my feeling. I just go with the teams that
I think are gonna make moves. I think the Patriots,
the Chargers, and the Giants. Two of those three teams

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are trading out. Those teams. Those three teams are not
gonna stand pack. Two of those three teams are gonna
trade out. It only makes sense to do so. If
you're the Chargers and you're Jimmy Burger's in the building,
I know he wants a star receiver. You can get receivers.
This is a deep draft. You can find him next
year also too, Hey, rebuild that out, jeff It Salon.

Speaker 5 (02:00:41):
It was good hanging with you, man. We gotta shut
up now,