Steve Hartman & Vj Huskey Talk NBA Conference Finals, Flag Football, Faces Of Basketball, And So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Live the Dream
once again here on a fully loaded Sports Sunday. This
is Fox Sports Sunday and we're coming you live from
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is a Memorial Day Sunday.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
The Indy five hundred is underway after a rain delay
or a couple of crashes already. We'll get into that
obviously later on today. Eastern Conference Finals. The Knicks trying
to get a win in this series against the Bacers.
Remember teams that are down three to zero in any
kind of playoff series, oh and one hundred and fifty
nine in NBA history.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
So yeah, Nicks lose, it is going to be over.
So we got a lot of NBA we're gonna get to.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
But Vday. Here we are on this glorious Veterans Day Sunday.
By the way, do you have a special family celebration
on this Veterans Day weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Memorial Day weekend? Did I say veterans?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm sorry, no, Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I should know that. Much Sun's birthday is next Saturday.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, no, I don't have anything especially I do with
be in a former military man in the Army. Myself
fourteen Romeo Air Defense Artillery. Coming from a mother who
was a lieutenant colonel. Shout out to my mom's the
great glendor Spearman PhD and retired Lieutenant Crown and Pentagon.
And then my father was an eleven Bravo Airborne Infantry
for twenty seven years in the military.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Also to shout out to you also, Dad, VJ. Senior.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I just this is not a celebrated Tory weekend
for me because of what it stands for and because
I come from the military. I lost two friends in
nine to eleven. My friends specialists from the Air Force.
Jamie Fallon, who I've known from the elementary school was
killed in one of the trade towers, and then friend
of mine, Ellis was killed overseas once they went. Once
we went over there and start do wors. So because

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of nine to eleven, I lost two friends. So Memorial
Day for me is more of a just a reflection
of the soldiers who have given their life over the
time of this country, in the time that we've been
at war with other countries. For the red, white and blue,
the stars and stripes. Oh, so you can see type
of deal and just when you go into the military

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take an oath like you raise your right in, you
get sworn in, and that sticks with you forever. It
doesn't ever cycle fraternity, it doesn't ever go away. So yeah,
well we'll get on the grill and stuff and do something.
But it's more just a reminder to me for the
all the soldiers, all the brave women and men who
put their own personal things aside for the greater good

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of the green and the red, white and blue, and
to go defend the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
So that that's kind of what I do this weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, I know I speak for a lot of people
listening out there.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I want to thank you again for the service to
our country, because without that kind of service, we would
not enjoy, obviously, the freedoms that we are graced with
in the greatest country in the planet, being US, the
United States of America. Well, VJA, it is going to
be a very busy Memorial Day week, and you know,
I want to we're going to get to something that
we're gonna have a little fun with right now. But

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I do want to mention this very quickly about the
Indy five hundred because we'll be falling and racing everything
else and I am from Aeration where the Indy five
hundred on Memorial Day weekend was something used to listen
to on the radio when I.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Was a kid.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Because the television did not have Love Life coverage, ABC
would carry the race on delay after the race had
actually been completed. But this is something that I remember
sharing with my father. My dad was always outside the
house working on the house. That was a constant, and
so Memorial Day weekend was one of those times when
he'd be working on a new deck or something that

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he was trying to build around the house. And then
I was that annoying son that you know, he had
zero patience of me as his helper. But I can
always remember listening to the radio of the Indianapolis five hundred,
especially like the last lap.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
They're like, let's go to turn one, let's go to
turn two.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Obviously, you know, when we had the split of the
IndyCar series USAK back in the mid nineties, it sort
of took away from the impact. But I still remember
a time with the aj Foyts and the mari Andretti's
and the Unser brothers and Johnny Ruther and those legendary
drivers back in the late sixties, seventies into the eighties.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, when the five hundred.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
And I don't know if you've ever been to the
speedway out there, never been there for a race, but
I have been to the speedway. They have one of
the greatest, if not the greatest museum that I've ever seen. Now,
we talk Halls of Fame, right, you go Baseball Hall
of Fame, But if you go to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
they you know, the first race was in nineteen eleven

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and they had the foresight.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of preserving the history of the race.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
You see these cars from the from different eras and
it is one of the absolute greatest sports museums that.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I've ever been to my entire life. That would be cool.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
So I g I said, I've ever get out to Indianapolis,
you know, go out there, stop by the speedway and
definitely do that. All right, I want to talk a
little bit about a decision that was made in the
NFL this week. In fact, Chris had to question this one,
you know, whether this was going to get approved, and
I said, absolutely, they're going to prove it. It was unanimous,

(05:03):
unanimous approving the idea of NFL players participating in the
twenty twenty eight Olympics in the flag football competition.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So why was this.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Unanimous, Well, it was unanimous for one very simple reason.
The NFL is looking at this opportunity with their participation
in the twenty twenty eight Olympics in flag football, to say,
have the same international impact for their sport that the
Dream Team had for the NBA back in nineteen ninety two.

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And when you think about the expansion of basketball on
the international game, when you look at all the international
stars that have dominated the NBA in recent decades, it
all goes back to the Dream Team in nineteen ninety
two of Barcelona. Okay, And so that's what the NFL
is hoping VJ. Even if it's flag football, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
If anything. The good news about flag FOOTBA.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
You get to see their faces right right, You see
the faces of these great NFL stars on an international
stage and just saying, look, fag football is that first step.
You know, you play a little flag football as a kid,
it's the next step to take it to tackle football
and then it goes from there. So one, because by
the way, I know, Vj's already working on the roster

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for the United States team. But do you think that
the NFL can get that kind of spark to truly
make American football an international phenomenon and have the same
impact as the Dream Team had for the NBA back
in nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
For me, it is a resounding yes. Wow, And it's
a resounding yes And I'm gonna go a little deeper here.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Man, let me land.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm in flight right now, but just let me land
for a second.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
This is why I always say the NFL has always
been king. The NFL is king, and the NFL will
always be king. We've had incidences with players, We've had
incidences with Neely, we had incidents, We've had so much
stuff that happens with the NFL. Does it ever derail
the game? Does it ever derail fantasy football? Does it
ever derail all the merchandise sales and all the jerseys

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and T shirts and hats and commercials?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
It does it?

Speaker 3 (07:12):
The NFL, they're like the nice bully on the block.
They'll show you who they are if you don't respect them.
They're like the nice bully.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
There's not the.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Bully looking walking down the block looking for a fight.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
He's just standing out on the corner and everybody sees
him and everybody knows he's there. Don't pat him off,
don't take him off, walk around him, don't bump into him,
don't walk near, and get out of the space because
if he has to flex on you, it's gonna be ugly.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
The NFL has been setting this up.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
For a decade.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
When they started putting out the stories that moms didn't
want kids to play football because of CTE, when that
was all really big. You had the bullying scandal with
the Miami Dolphins and the offensive line at Richard in Conito.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
You had so much stuff going on, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
The NFL did say, you know what, we're gonna get
ahead of this, but we're not gonna let y'all know
we getting ahead of it. And then what they started doing,
they started promoting flag football.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
If you watched any NFL over the last couple.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Of years, oh my god, the commercial commercial after another
at flag football, flag football, flag football.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
You and I are old enough to remember punt kick
the past exactly competitions.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's back in the eighties, man, Yes, that was I
did that in elementary school. Kick there you go.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
I did it an enterprise elementary school I did it
a Bede Middle School, Soners Middle School school. I went
to a Northern Virginia so it was even going on
back then.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
So then what the NFL started to do is they
started to include moms into this flag football thing. Then
guess what the NFL did to us. They hit us
with another swirly world we didn't see coming. They changed
the Pro Bowl. They changed the Pro Bowl, and we
all got upset about it. Yeah, all got upset about it. Right,

(08:49):
Oh my god, this is crazy. I'm not gonna watch it.
And guess what my hands in the air. Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls across the nation list on spot listening
on Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Ready, I was one that was just upset as well.
But they were playing.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I can't see it any other way, Steve, Yeah, because
I know how smart Jada motion.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
You mentioned getting the boys involved this too, but like
flag football, you're you're getting girls involved. The only sport
on Earth where you can't just go out and like
play racket.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Let me let me land because I coach at Birmingham
High School right here in Casino, we have the number
two rate girl in the.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Nation in girls high school flag FL.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
She is a beast. Her last name is Hoffey. Look
her up.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
She's a no.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean, when we're gonna have the women's division in
flag football in the twenty eight Olympics, this is going
to be huge. I I one hundred percent agree with you.
But the question is, now, if you're not familiar with
flag football, a lot of people think seven on seven.
This is not.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
This is five on five. There are no blockers.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Seven seven, eight, and there's nine o nine. There's a
lot of different divisions.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
This is going to be five on five, which basically,
if you're trying to figure it out, you have a
center obviously someone asked to snap the ball, who's also
an eligible receiver.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
You have the two receivers, you have the quarter back.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's I mean, it's a pure passing game with a
lot of skill involved, absolutely, and then you have sort.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Of the X factor guy on offense.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Now on defense, the way it's formated is you can
rush the quarterback, but you have to start seven yards
behind the line of scrimmage and that it's.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Sort of like a one and then you can go
to put pressure on the quarterback.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
But that will be the format for the Olympic version
of flag football coming up in twenty twenty eight. All right,
so you've been working on a roster right now, I
got to start with the office, right because what they
want to do is duplicate the dream team that we
had in the NBA players back in nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
So give me.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
And by the way, you can have separate players on
offense and defense. So you're really looking at a ten
person roster. I don't know if they're gonna have substitutes.
I'm sure they'll have a couple of weeks press. Oh,
you'll probably have a lea well, I would imagine again,
I think fifteen to seventeen players is what they well,
that would be.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
I'm gonna be curious too, and like how much they
open up, like you see this in soccer all the time.
Eligibility for other countries if you're like attached to another
country too, Like, yeah, most of these guys are playing
in America?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
How many?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
How many? If you have an heritage somewhere.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
You'd be surprised how many other countries are playing flag
football right now. It's just not televised.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
The German fully loaded the German a lot of the
European countries because you got these fast in shape athletic
soccer guys.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right, nice is that I'm on Rossaint Brown one.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Let me ask you this, do you actually have to
have like dual citizenship to participate for a country?

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Or if it's just like your heritage like you know was.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
In Hungary, can I can I compete for.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
The AA basically like eight.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
I don't remember all the rules, but there's basically an
open enrollment period when it comes to this international They.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Want this thing to pop off right now.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
They don't want it to have to wait until what
the thirty The next one will be the thirty two Olympics, right,
They don't want to wait until the thirty two Olympics.
They want this thing to pop up right now. But
the answer you're an initial question really fast, is that
the reason why that they are doing this is because they're.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Going, not trying to they're going to have an.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
NFL franchise, possibly too, because they go to thirty one.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Hold it right right there?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Hold it right there, DJ.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Okay, because you're absolutely on track with that.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
So again we're talking about the idea that the NFL
unanimously approved. The ideas everybody says yes, let the NFL
stars participate in the twenty twenty eight flag foot.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
And important too. There's a lot of players who want
to do this too. Heard like some shows being like, oh,
you're gonna have to have contracts and slut guys, was like, no,
plenty of these players they want to in the Olympics.
It is you heard from soccer and hockey. I was
all the time that medal.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
They want that gold medal. All right, So we'll have
again where this is going long term for the NFL
and VJ has got his dream team put together.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
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Hope everyone's having a great Memorial Day weekend out there.
Of course tomorrow will be a holiday, and so enjoy it.
One Indy five hundred is going on right now, very
early in the race. There was a rain delay in

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the Indy five hundred. We got obviously NBA playoff basketball.
We're gonna get to a little bit later on the show.
Also we've got I guess who's going to be joining us? Yeah,
the one the only coming up in the next hour,
JP Morosi Jumpall is going to be joining us. He's
excited because Rek Scuobel today through a complete game, two

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hit shutout for the Detroit Tigers. Not complete game, complete
game nine, two hits, shut out, thirteen strikeouts, no walks.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
So JP pitch one and three miles a.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
He was cooking at the end.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, Well, I would only hope that other teams would
take notes that, Yeah, pitchers can still throw nine in
and say right and still be strong.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
The pitchers can go past five and nowadays, Wow, but I.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, really crazy stuff. All right, So we have been
talking and we're we're into this now big time.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
So this was the week that the NFL made it official.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Not only are they allowing NFL players to participate in
the flag football competition the twenty twenty eight Olympics in
Los Angeles, they are encouraging they want to put together
a dream team.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
So during the.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Break of VJ you found out that each roster will
be allowed ten players on the roster. That's it, just
ten And if you think about it, you got a
quarterback where you better have a backup quarterback. So that's
spots left. Yeah, that now you just have eight slots meeting.
Guys will have to play both offense and defense. So

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again the format five on five in the Olympic brand
of flag football, you have a center, you have two receivers,
you have the quarterback, and then sort of the wild card.
It could be a running back, you could line up
a wide receiver, and you do have a single designated rusher.
On the defense, they have to delay start of the
seven yards back of the lineus commits before they can

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rush the quarterback. So you got to take a lot
of consideration on you know, who fits the.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Bill to play flag football.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
And oh, by the way, one other quick note, we
were talking about here's the thing about flag football. You're like, wow,
we got the best football players in the world. How
much flagpolling have you been doing?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know now you've been so zoned in since that
probably high school that you know, you're focused in on
making tackles and that is not flag football.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh oh, one other quick note.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
My dear friend Eric Dickerson played flag football as a kid.
He did not put on a uniform until he was
thirteen years old. Basically when he got into high school
was the first thing. And when my kids were playing
flag football, my boys, he came out one time. It
was hilarious. So Eric comes out to this big field,
all these flags, and of course the dads are like, wow,
there's Ed.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
He's had kids, of course had no idea who this
guy was. But he He's always maintained that one of
the reasons that he felt that he was able to
have the kind of endurance he had during the course
of a long NFL career is the fact that he
did not play tackle football as a kid. He participated
in flag football. All Right, that being said, I know

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you've been working on this roster.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
So what he got right now?

Speaker 3 (17:03):
All right, So the way I'm looking at this is
if you got ten men, okay, eight really spots because
you got to have two quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, my two quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm taking Pat Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, I'm taking those two quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
You gotta be mobile, gotta be mobile, you gotta be accurate.
And you also have to send the face of the
league to the Olympics. You have to send the face.
Every sport sends the face of their league.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Baseball does it, Basketball does it, Hockey does it. You
have to send your face to the Olympics, especially for
the very first time. Those are my two.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, then I just stop you for a second. Okay,
I'm not arguing these are obviously great choices. MVPs, multiple
MVPs to both of these guys. Do you consider it,
Joe Burrow, do you consider it Josh Allen? Do you
consider any other quarterback?

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Consider them? But this is flag football.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Can't neither one of them dudes move at a Josh Allen.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Runs great because he can run over people.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Correct, he don't run away from nobody in flag football.
Lamar Jackson breaks the pocket and there's only five guy.
The rush was gone, right, So there's four guys that
catch Lamar Jackson and flag football.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you have the one guy coming at you, but
you can see no shots. He's not hiding be he's
got no shocking. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
And then so your center, he's got to be able
to go both ways. You don't send a center. I
like an athletic, like superstar running back to be my
center and be my Rusherkuon Barkley.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, interesting again, Barkley's gonna have to learn a little
bit of a different skill set because you do need
to have a guy that can accurately snap the ball
that you can work on that by the Olympics, I
know you can.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
You can work on is your center and and my
rusher because you got to play both ways because you're
only sending ten people, so a lot of guys got to.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Play both ways.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
One of my receivers that I think can play dB
because he's just a natural gifted athlete. I'm sending Justin Jefferson.
I'm sending just no brain. He can flip on, he
can flip both sides. Another guy I want to send,
young guy, all Pro, all first team All NFL guy
that I know can play both sides.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's gonna be great.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Maybe he's not as much as receiver, but on the
defensive side, Patrick Patrick Surtain JUNR.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Wow, absolutely, why not?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
You're talking about the league's best corner And he played
offense like he played offense in high school. They played boothways.
A lot of these guys played both ways. Guys, they
just don't do it in the NFL. And then I
can't give credit to this one. I got to hand
it off to our great engineer guy here, Chris perfect.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Travis Hunter, who.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Ways come on this show and he's a young face
from the NFL. You want to get immediate promotion of Yeah,
Travis Hunter is a no brak.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Think about it.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
By this time, Travis Hunter would be going into year
four of his career because this isn't until twenty eight.
This isn't coming up. So he's another guy I threw
out there. And then, uh dare I say? I got
to get a dolphin in there? How do you have
a flag football tournament without Tyreek Hill? Yeah, the fastest
guy in the league.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Hopefully he's still able to move it.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's the thing. It's still three years. It's still three,
but I do think I'm three years from now.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
The sports is different now, Steve. Guys, there's not a
lot of contact. Even in football, guys could play longer.
We're seeing guys play into their middle late thirties now,
not just at the quarterback position. Look at a guy
like Kalays Campbell who's in the trenches and he's a
big guy, so he's not a small target that you
gotta get down low for. And you got this guy
is six six sixty seven. He's a big guy to

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see it hit. And it's still out here dominating guys
ten years younger.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Talking about my dear friend Mercedes Lewis twenty five years
in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's my guy, man.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
I actually saw him when I was doing high school
games for Paul, because you know, he came out of
Paul Long beats.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
Yeah, yeah, he's a jack still in the league. No,
he can't, he can't go ahead. You know, those are
just some of the names out throughout there.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Another defensive guy that I think is athletic enough to
play a little bit boys, because don't you got to
kind of have a tighty, kind of bulgy, big guy.
I like a guy like Michael Parsons as far as
his athletic ability, but then on the defensive end cool,
but on the offensive end, it's like I'll put a
question mark over him. But right there, this seven names

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that I think you can fill in. You get your
two quarterbacks, You got JJ Patricks, ertain, Travis Hunter, sa
Kwon Barkley. I wrote down Jamar Chase because he is
a big guy, six four six five.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Young young guy, young face.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
But once again, we are talking three years away from
where we're currently sitting right now. So justin Jefferson was
the first voice to come out there and say I.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Want to do this?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Are you gonna want to do this three years from now?
After the wear and tearing your body. He's already paced
injuries his last two seasons and miss half a season,
bulk of games.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Three years from now, Who's who's the next?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
What is is?

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Do we send Arch? What does Arch look like three
years from now coming out of Texas? Maybe by three
years from now, Pat Mahomes think about it, he's older
at that point, Lamarzo. But as we sit right now,
that's why I kind of threw these names. Uh through
these names?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Now, well, you're definitely on.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I mean, like I said, if it's going to be
limited to ten players, and you gotta have two quarterbacks,
very tight, and you have to have guys that could
play both ways.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
I remember, you still have guys that play both.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Ways in high school, right, It's not like they don't
play both ways still on the high school level.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
So it's not something new.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
And a lot of these guys would say I'd love
to play defense again or I'd love to play offense
again and.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Get on both sides.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
By the way, Marcedes Lewis did play all seventeen games
a year ago. Did it for who?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, he's who with Jacksonville last year?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Guys that Tristan Thompson nol I believe it was with
the Bears last year. He played every game there. It
is Wow, he played seventeen games, even had four stars.
He only caught a couple of pass on one pass,
but he's still blocking out there. Points take it seventeen years.
Would we saw.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
These played nineteen years in the NFL?

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Man?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
My point proven right there nineteen years So the game
is different. Even three years from now, some of these
guys will still have the mindset and body to do it.
These are just names, like I said I throw out
right now, we don't know who's coming on. Arch Manning, though,
is another name that I think is going to be
a prolific NFL quarterback.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And if you think about it, by that.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Time, he'll be going into year three of his career
because he's coming out after this year.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, you definitely want to be marketing the NFL.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
This is what it's about, just like it was with
the Olympic team in nineteen ninety two, the Dream Team
that changed the whole dynamic of the NBA on an
international level.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Instant, all right, in an instant.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Let's find that's good stuff. All right, Well, let's find
out what is trending right now. Speaking of international superstar
Montcy Belanos, I mean we are heard around the world.

Speaker 8 (23:37):
That's true, that's true. You're right, you're right.

Speaker 9 (23:40):
The ND five hundred, which after a rain delay after
a crash that happened for Scott McLaughlin during his warm
up lap, causing him to just burst into tears because
he could not participate it after that crash. But the
ND five hundred in action, you can catch it all
on Fox TV right now.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
It is Takuma Sato who is in the lead.

Speaker 9 (23:58):
After sixty six lap, so Stuart early when it comes
to the Indy five hundred, a.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Full slate of baseball games.

Speaker 9 (24:04):
Though right now the Brewers are still on top of
the Pirates three zero. It's the top of the third inning,
Nationals on the scoreboard, but the Giants are up three
to one.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Bottom of the fourth inning.

Speaker 9 (24:13):
The Reds are edging the Cubs four to three, top
of the third raised on the scoreboard thanks to a
Brandon Low two run homer. They're up on the Blue
Jays two zero, top of the fourth inning. The Twins
have scored first against the Royals one zero, top of
the second inning. Seattle on the scoreboard, thanks to Mitch
Garver's two rbi doubles. So they're beating the Astros in
Houston to zero. Bottom of the first inning. Rangers on

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the scoreboard. Up two zero against the White Sox top
of the second inning. Diamondbacks also up early on the
Cardinals two zero.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
Bottom of the first inning.

Speaker 9 (24:44):
And yes, you already talked about Trek Scooble pitched a
complete game, his first complete game of his career.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
It's just crazy, all these guys, and wasn't a no
hitter and that's almost game hits, thirteen strikeouts, walk.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Exactly, so I mean no surprise that he can do that.

Speaker 9 (25:03):
We saw it last year, but the Tigers shutting up
the Guardians five zero. After that performance at the French Open.
On the men's side, Americans Francis Tiaffo and Tommy Paul
both won their first round matches at Roland Garros. In
the NHL, the playoffs continue with Game three of the
West Final. That series is tied at one apiece between
the Stars and the Oilers. The pucket is set to
drop in about thirty minutes three Eastern from Edmonton, and

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of course, the NBA playoffs continue with Game three of.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
The Eastern Conference Finals from Indiana.

Speaker 9 (25:29):
Where the Pacers already lead the series to zero against
the Knicks.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Tip Off is at eight Eastern.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Back to you guys, all right, MONSI thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Once again, Hartman and Husky with you here Fox Sports Sunday.
We're in the Fox Sports Radio studios. By the way,
you mentioned the French Open which is going on right now,
and one guy that is not going to be participating
having retired from his legendary career as Rafael Nadal, and
they honored him today when you look again at his

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amazing record.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
At Rollo girl, yeah owns.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
It fourteen times. Fourteen times he won that tournament. In fact,
he only participated in the tournament nineteen times, and last
year was almost a ceremonial first round loss. I mean,
when you think about domination of an event, I know

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it's tennis and not everyone's into tennis, but I always
admire those that are just so far above the rest.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
And the doll on the clay forget it.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, well, I mean the doll on the clay, you know,
Tiger on the grass, Serena. I mean, we can go
Jordan like that. That's why domination matters. That's why it
matters when we start talking these conversations about sports and stuff.
That's why Tom Brady, Joe Montana, That's why it matters.
Barry Sanders, who never really won anything, but the guy
single handedly like dominating and carried a franchise for nine

(26:58):
ten seasons literally by himself. Guys, that that's what we
talk about. But it was sad for me because he's
my favorite tennis player all the time. I have an
infatuation with Andre Agassy that was in my teenage years
when I thought I could play tennis, and I did
play for a year, but I sucked really bad. But
Raf was always my guy. I used to love when
he would beat Djoker. He would beat Djokovic, and when

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he would be a federal whenever he would beat them,
I was. That was like for me, that's like when
Barcelona beats Real that that I'm bragging, I'm talking my ish,
I'm I'm going, I'm going at it.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
But yeah, Man was retired now, so he that first
round loss again, he was heard. He was more ceremonial.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Even with that.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
His record there one twelve and four.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
It was I mean it was also as the record
there of straight set wins. I mean he was he
was wiping people out six one, six two, sixth zero,
move next round six three, six, one six one.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Like he was. It wasn't close for a stretch.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Like you said, he he owned it and a lot
like Arena when Serena was on her run.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Man, it was just this Serena slam. Yeah right, you know,
so yeah, I love that kind of domination out there.
All right. One other thing about the NFL.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
All right, NFL, what did you what did you make
of the push against the bush tush push.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
There was some. It was it was some.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
You know, it was funny when I was I was thinking,
I was I was thinking to some people were talking
about how the beginning Bay Packers one of the teams
really against this, and I'm like, when you think back
to the Green Bay Packers of Vince Lombardi, you know, yeah,
pretty much three yards and a cloud of dust, the
powers sweep.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean that was sort of that kind of an
offense maybe, right, I mean, that was the core of
the Lombardi offense. I don't think Vince Lombardi would be
against it.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
He would be more like, well, figure out a way
to stop it, or try to figure out a way
to duplicate it. The problem is not every quarterback can
squat six hundred and fifty pounds hurt.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
That's not hurts fault.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
And this reminds me of a line from one of
my favorite movies that is actually quite the tier Jerkert
the end in League of their Own, and the famous
line in that movie is there's no crying in Baseball
by Tom Haynes. All Right, football is such as a
coaching I'm coming from this as a coach. I can't
stand players that cry I can't stand playing it's a
contact collision game. You already know what you're getting into. Okay,

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this is why we issue helmets and shoulder pads. This
is why we issue thigh and knee pads and hit
pass This is why we give you that stuff because
you have to take your body and you have to
throw it into another human body, just unconsciously.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Over and over and over and over again.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
If you're not ready to do that, there's flag, there's
the debate team, there's the chest, there's other things.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
You can go do.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
You don't have to play football. So when I hear
football people complaining about this, it's the old ADAGS is,
if you could do it, you wouldn't complain about it.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, they can't stop it, that's why they're complaining. Well,
so they've been working on this for several years now.
Since Eagles put this out there, maybe a lot of
people think he Jason Kelsey, that sort of made well, no,
well he retired, yeah, he retired and they still had
the same impact. Oh that's right. They won the Super Bowl,
dominating the Super Bowl, by the way. So this is
a lot of complaining about teams that are just like

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tire because we can't figure it out. We can't stop.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
That's my problem with it. Just see when you can't
stop it. See, I'll use the analogy of Nick Saban.
You know why I banged on Nick when he retired
away retired and went on TV started running his mouth
about nil.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
We know for sure, sir, that you we.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Know what goes on the college football.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
But because you couldn't monopolize it no more, and because
you couldn't bring kids down the Tuscaloocia Winner's absolutely nothing
to do.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
But play football.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Now you have a problem with kids actually getting something
out of it. Now, that's how I feel with this
whole thing with the touch push. Because you can't stop it, Well,
find your quarnerback or get somebody that can squad six.
I'll tell you a quarnerback. Look, we want to run
the toush push. By the way, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Here's what I never understood about this, all right, Like
I said, you don't have a lot of quarterback other
than Hurts that can squatch six hundred and fifty pounds.
But there are plenty of players in this league that
can do that. You don't have to play the quarterback exactly.
Everybody knows what's coming, so you're not going back to
the fridge, right. So when Dicka decided to give this
rookie William Perry, you know who was very nimble on

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his feet at that side, I know the whole Walter
Prayton thing in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
But nonetheless it was it wasn't just sort of a gimmick.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
He realized, I've got a three hundred plus pounder that
has quick feet, and he can go a yard or two.
And if he gets through the line, there's not gonna
be some too. He'll run over those linebackers and get
into the end zone. We'll get a first down.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
What about the lineman they put in the goal catch
touchdown passes?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Are you mad about that?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
We'll find you a six foot five you know, dancing
bear is what we call him in for you. That's
a dancing bear, right see that I can't right there.
That's a dancing bear, which means that's a big guy.
But man, he light with his feet. You want what
lineman doesn't want to catch a touchdown pass? Warren Sett
had a celebration dance for the touchdown pass. Get Mike
vrabel like they caught like seven of them. So this

(32:03):
this idea that because we can't stop it, we're gonna
we're gonna piss and moan about it bothers me as
a football guy. Either figure it out, or how about this.
Keep them out at third and one, keep them out
of fourth and one, keep them out at third.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Keep them out of it.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
When Nick Sirianni tells the press, we feel like we
never have first in ten, we have first and nine.
He said that out of his own and a guy
like me link back. I said, wow, that's moxy right there.
We ain't got first in ten. We are first in eight.
If you don't stop us for eight yards, you know
we're gonna touch push. You know it's coming. So the
cap on it man either way tired of hearing about it.

(32:40):
Either learn how to stop it, learn how to do it,
or just keep your mouth shut about the players.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
And coaches plays.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Do you know in advance one hundred percent of the
time what they're gonna run one?

Speaker 8 (32:52):
One?

Speaker 1 (32:52):
One? This is it? One?

Speaker 2 (32:54):
We exactly what they're.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
Gonna do one.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
They are literally telling it, all right, it's time for that?
All right?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Oh the league can't here's the thing the league can't.
You can't step in and tell a team they can't
do something that's within all legalities of the game.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
But you see that this one can't do that.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
We go back to the Reggie Bush push of Matt
Liner against Notre Dame, which apparently at the time was illegal.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
You can't put it, you know, And that was the.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Old push Bush rush, right, and uh at the time
that was not a legal play at the collegiate level.
And so they exactly and then Liners spun in for
the touchdown to beat Notre Dame keep their winning streak alive.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
So if you want to do the outlaw of that.
But the NFL, I think.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
The NFL loves this.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
See the NFL loves again.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
The marketing of the NFL is genius on top of
genius on top of genius.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
All right, Memorial Day weekend, and what are we talking about?
They think about Memorial Day weekend? And what do we
leave the show with the NFL?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
All right, we do get some NBA playoff talk going in.
We got two series going on right now. One is
on the brink of elimination, the other very much alive.
Just what did that Timberwolves blow out win against OKC
mean as far as the Western Conference finals, will break
it down.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
This is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Harman and Husky
Fox Sports Sunday. I've got VJ just on the floor
right now.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, that was very timely.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
That was hilous milkshake. Absolutely, by the way. Uh, just
a quick note about the Indy five hundred the winning share.
By the way, have you ever wondered how much how
much money do you get by winning the Indianapolis five hundred?
Let me guess, I don't know. I'm not looking at
the screen anything. So last you know, winn your Gardens

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won the last two. But I got his number that
he won last year, five million. Close, it's a little
less actually.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Four point three millions. Hey, I was okay, you're in
the vicinity.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
That's a nice chunk though for one race.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah, new is New Garden out of this race already.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I believe he had believe he crashed or was involved
in a crash. I'll have to check on that. Uh,
but New Garden won the last two. So anyway, we
got the NY five hundred going on right now. We
also getting ready for the Eastern Conference Finals matchup between
the Knicks and the Pacers, and obviously the Knicks have
to win to have any chance to stay in this

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That's where the Minnesota Timberwolves were going in Game three. Again,
no team has ever overcome a three to zero deficit
in any NBA playoff series. Ever. We've had it one
in baseball, We've had it in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
We've never had in the NBA where a team's down
three on and come back to win any series. So
that being said, last night, the Minnesota Timberwolves came out

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and made a statement and was on fire early at
sixteen points in the first quarter.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
They end up winning by forty three. I mean, you
have to save your stuff.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
You have to pause for a second when you just
talking about OKC sixty eight wins, dominant team all season long? Well,
how dominant can you be if you lose any game,
especially a playoff game by forty plus points? Are you
smelling the fact that the t Wolves could still be
a team of destiny and find themselves in the NBA Finals?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Can they come back to win this series? I think
they can And you said it right.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
They sent the message last night and last night wasn't
just let's go get one at home we're down two.
Also listen when the home team goes up to oh,
I'm always on the side of Okay, they did what
they were supposed to do. Correct, You won your two
home games. Now I get to come home and play too,
and in front of my crowd, sleep in my bed,

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go to my dry cleaner, drive my way to the
arena that I like to drive, have my pregame from
the local eatery and restaurant that already has my food
prepared for me for my runner to go pick up
like it's a different It all matters.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
And you can see it last night Aunt Edwards and
I asked, just.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
At the beginning of the season that was gonna withhold
judgment on him. It's to see how this year played out.
But I gave a comparison. He could either end up
being Brandon Roy if you look at the both their
type of games now without the injuries. Brandon Roy had
the knees, but both type of same game are Aunt
Edwards can be Dwayne Wade. That's where his career sits

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right now. Are you gonna be Brandon Roy when it's
all said and done or can you really be Dwayne Wade?

Speaker 1 (37:28):
And I made a comment.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
About this was about Wade's time, about fourth or fifth year,
where he had the playoffs on his shoulders and just
showed out.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
And then that's when everybody.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
This is before Shaq got there, and this is of
course before the heatles Wade put the world on notice.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Okay, I'm that guy. That's why when you got shocked,
it's like.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Oh wow, you guys gave Wade shocked with a chip
on his shoulders, still end of his prime shock.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
And we saw what they did.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Didn't win their first year together, but then closed the
door and won the championship.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Their second year they were together.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, they had to get a real coach on the sideline.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
He got Pat Rowley. Well, they also ran into my pisiness.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
But when I looked at Aunt last night, you could
just see it in his face. And you can see
in his game twelve or seventeen, just thirty minutes last night.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, for thirty points.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
And by the way, we'll see what your MVP did yesterday,
SGA right, exactly one teen points.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Well you know that's because four of thirteen shooting when.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
When ants in his face and when you got when
you got David Chindo coming off the bench coming at you,
they were blitzing him and getting the ball out his hands,
which is how I would guard him. Now he's an
MVP's averaging over thirty point three years in a rowat
shooting over fifty percent. There were only two other people
I believe they ever did that in the league in
the history, and that was Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan. Okay,
so he's in that type of company as far as
his last two years ago. But I want to make

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this more about ant because we all know this series
hinges on Aunt Edwards. As far as Minnesota, Thunder has
been seen as a team all your long. How do
they do their post games on the court, doesn't matter
who you grab, All those guys come and stand around,
and they presented themselves in a team. They act as
a team. We talk about them as a team. SGA's

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the MVP didn't really feel like an MVP though, right,
It's just like you gotta give it to somebody this year,
but we still don't.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Kind of you did have Kitch whether his history kay.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Exactly, but he I think voted for t which I hate,
but I know it's a real thing. I hate voting fatigue,
but I know it's a real thing, and that's why
he probably didn't get it this year. But but what
Minnesota did last night to me was a message that
this thing is far from over and I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
To figure out who's the best player in this series.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
I know SGA's the MVP, but when you look at ant,
I think An's gonna win an MVP at some point
in his career.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
He's gonna have a MVP season at some point in
his career.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
But that's that was the message last night was more
and is saying, Okay, guys, just get on, just get
on my shoulders. And then Randal kind of comes back
around after six points in Game two, nine to fifteen
last night, for twenty four points.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
And that's what you need. You need those two guys going.
But it all starts with a well again, forty two
point victory. In any playoff game, it's mind blowing. But
this is an OKC team, of course, that won sixty
eight games this year. By the way, I got a
big identity question for you coming up, Plus John Paul Morosi,
this is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Roll along here on this Memorial.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Day Sunday, a very busy day in the world of sports.
This is Fox Sports Sunday and we are live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. We're almost at the halfway
point right now of this year's Indy five hundred. Was
delayed because of rain at the beginning, but right now
we are keeping.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Our eye on that race.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
So they're approaching the one hundred lapmark, which would be
the halfway point. You have to by the way, if
you've never been to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it is huge.
I mean, there's a reason why they have like three
hundred thousand people show up on the infield and everything else.
That place is like a city within a city. It
is that huge. The Endiapolis Motor Speedway just phenomenal facility.

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So and a lot of history there, one hundred and
ninth running of the Indianapolis five hundred. Also, we've had,
you know, we got the game that we were just
talking about the Minnesota and okay, see they're gonna have
their next game coming up tomorrow Minnesota. The te Wolves
are going to try to even up that series. Of course,
later today we're gonna get the Pacers and the Knicks.

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I want to play a little identity game right now.
By the way, John Paul Morosi will be joining us
here in about eighteen minutes. So we're talking about Anthony
Edwards and Shay Gilless Alexander, two of the bright stars
obviously of the NBA, and we've been talking a lot
about the idea that the NBA is really searching for
that identifiable star. So let me let me play this

(41:39):
game with you right now. I'm gonna give you three names.
I'm gonna welcome in just an average sports fan, so
they're not really a die hard, They're just an average
sports fan, like, yeah, I follow sports, you know, sort
of like that thing.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
But they're not us.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I watched the playoffs that why that time. And I'm
gonna throw them three photos. I'm gonna give you a
photo of Anthony Edwards, I'm gonna give you a photo
of Shay Gildess Alexander, and I'm gonna give you a
photo of Angel Reese. Which one of those three do
you think just the average person would more readily identify

(42:16):
over the other two. Who do you think would get
the majority of those saying I know who that is?

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Injuries, It's not even close injuries. I mean, I'm not
even gonna throw Caitlyn Clark right now.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Caitlyn Clark outside of maybe Lebron and Steph, maybe Kevin Durant,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
No, she's more recognizable than Kevin Durant.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Tody talking to the average sports fan. H, I'm talking
to the average sports fan.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
You got Lebron, you got Steph, you got Caitlin Clark. No,
it's gonna be Lebron probably number one. Uh oh, people
know who stuff it's gonna be. People know Steph.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
But I mean you know football rules too, so you
gotta put Pat Mahooney up there.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Okay, well I'm talking about basketball. O. No, no, no, I'm
just I'm just I'm just talking about basketball alone. Probably Kaitlyn, uh,
probably Kaitlyn Clark too.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
You're talking to the average, average, average sports fans.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
So the average sports fan sees Kaitlyn Clark and all
the Angelies stuff and all the stuff from Iowa, and
all right, she shoots like Steph and then they're they
talk about him Good Morning America. So yeah, people, that's
not even sports fans that watch Good Morning in America
every single morning. So if they see her there, then
they're gonna know who she is. Kevin Durant ain't never
been on Good Morning America. I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I do. I think that Kevin Durant's more identifiable than
Kaitlyn Clark. No, I do not, not to the average
you said the average average fans. Hey, I watch it, Paul,
do you what do.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
You say, Chris Paul? Chris Paul identifiable?

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, that's a good one because of the commercials. But
he doesn't even do those commercials anymore.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Well, but but he didn't, but he did him for
ten years.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
He didn't for team I mean, Blake Griffin's out there
doing a lot of commercials.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah, he's got He's got a red lobster commercials in.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Okay, Well, let's get Shay's perspective here. I'm just talking
basketball alone, and I'm talking about who is the most
identifiable current current I'm not talking Michael Jordan. I'm not
talking that most identifiable current basketball player Lebron James. All right,
Lebron James is one who is too. Who's right, Caitlyn Clark?

(44:21):
Right right, Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
But are you in.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Agree with with when I when I think would be
when I talk about Shay Gil just Alexander, shay Gil
just out who just won the m v P A
where and you talk about Antony Edwards and and you
and you mentioned Angel Reese.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
She's more identifiable than both those guys.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
I got Caitlyn two and I got Andrew Reese three
over Steph. Nah.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
And you're asking, but the person I'm only going by,
I'm only going by, Okay, So all right, so then
we gotta put Steph.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
This stuff's got to be above Kaitlyn Clark than guys.
We can't. I know, I personally think it goes like
Lebron's Steph and.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Then Okay, that's what I with that, that's what I heard.
That's I think I have Lebron's Steph and then Caitlyn.
But I mean the idea that Reese is fourth, Yeah,
because she's attached to She had a McDonald's. She had
a McDonald's meal.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, she sure did. She has an identifiable look. Okay,
but it's nice.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
But also she also shows up at awards and like
she's not she shows up at games, she shows like
it's not just basketball. Andrew Reese is all over the place, man,
She's she's a market. This gets me back to why
is it that these young stars are not more identifiable.
Why are we still talking about Lebron and Steph. Well,
Lebron and Steph are helped by the fact they were
in the NBA Finals against each other fourth eight years.

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That's how you get identified by being in the biggest
series every single year.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Steph was there five years in a row. He was
there six.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Times, including their twenty twenty two run. You know, we
got Lebron in the finals ten times. So one people
talk about, isn't this great with the parody in the NBA.
We're gonna be guaranteed our seventh different NBA champion in
the last seven years. Okay, that might be good for
the competitive bounds of the league, but it's not good

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for the league itself.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
It's not good.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
At all because every time we're like, oh, Yanni's breaks,
so you want a champions He's the next thing.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Jokics is the next thing.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
We've been talking about this over and over and over again,
and just when you sort of like, you know, get
into the NBA finals, Wow, how great is he?

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Next year, they're gone. Let me read this, They're gone.
Let me read this to you guys. Here here, here's
the first, second and thirteen voting.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Right.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
We know the first team was Yanna's Shay Joker, Tatum,
and Donovan Mitchell. I have swapped up Donovan Mitchell for
Anthony Edwards, of course, But if you look at the
first place votes that Yanni's Shay Jokis and Jason Taylor got,
it was all one hundred.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
By the way, there was time first time ever that
four of the five first teamers.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Were unanimous unanimous.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
So that means that no one everyone it is those
are So you have to call those guys the top
four players in the league, which is what I was
saying about Jason Tatum last week. No, they're the top
four players in the league because when it came down
to the NBA team, no one else thought nobody else
was better than those four guys. Then if you go
down from there, you got Stephan Lebron. I'm not how
Lebron makes second team when he had a minus ninety
five for the season. Everybody else had plus on their

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plus minus. He's the one minus guy that gets in.
I think, by the way, he came in seventh in
the voting, right, Yeah, which is even even worse. But
I'm just talking about identifiable stars. So you have Lebron
in Steph, so we take them out on the second
team he had and Evan Mobley and Jaylen Brunson, third team,
my Man Motor, k Cunningham, Karl Anthony Towns, Tyree's Jayla Williams,

(47:38):
who's an All Star this year and All Defensive Team,
and then James Harden. So when you talk about trying
to find a star, your question was why don't we
know these stars? I think I kind of answered we
had this talk about a month ago. Honestly, it's it's
our business, Steve. We instead of talking about like we
were talking about Cleveland and OKC and these other teams
that are playing well, we're still talking about six and

(48:01):
seven teams that have no shot to win the title.
We're talking about the Lakers every week, our every day,
we're talking about Golden State. We're talking about Steph. We're
talking about and at the end of the day, let's
get real, Steph gets hurt, that series is over.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
But the Lakers didn't get hurt. They were sent home
in five in the first round.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
So when you put that much energy, that much talking
time and TV time, and radio time and face on
into those people.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
We don't talk.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Teams anymore, so therefore we can't find the other identifiable.
And if you're looking for them to consistently be in
the NBA finals, I don't think that's gonna happen at
least for the next four I.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Ask you this, seven straight years the champion gets knocked
in the second round. The Halloween team that won sixty
eight games? How many times was OKC on TV.

Speaker 6 (48:40):
In the year?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
There you go? But not? We know it him that
nobody you never get to. You got to be able
to market these guys. Again, if you look at the past,
why did Jordan Byrd Magic go down the list of
the superstars of the NBA. It's because they were there
and the biggest games at the end of the year,
matched up against each other. We saw him year after
year after year after year. It is a revolving door

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right now. And this when I hear people saying, wow,
this is really good for the nbm cringing, No, it's not.
You want dominance. You want dominant players. Every one of
these guys has the talent to be that guy. The
problem is is that they're not getting enough exposure even
by accident. The WNBA is doing a better job of

(49:24):
marketing those women that are resonating that are getting eyeballs,
and the NBA is.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Right now, that's the point that I'm making. You're making
my point. I think we're saying the same thing in
a different way. The reason why they're not getting eyeballs
on them is because think about what you just said
about the Jordan days, the Barkley days. There was no
sports talk radio. There was no sports talk TV at
that time, so you didn't have talking heads. We're talking
with radio, but it was really small, right, you know that,
But we didn't have talking heads on TV actually forming

(49:51):
narratives and sending people's brain weighs and minds to a
topic into a player and beating you down with it
every single day.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I say this about the low news.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
If you want to be scared of a part of
town that you don't really need to be scared of,
just put the news on. They'll make you scared to
think that.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
This part of town.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
I don't want to go over there.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
But because you watch the news every evening, and all
they're gonna show you is all the bad stuff that
happens in that part of town. They're not gonna show
you none of the good stuff. So you formed this
thought process of I don't want to go there. We've
formed this thought process of well shape. And I tell
you this, I actually did do some research on SGA.
How have we missed on the guy averaging thirty points
and shooting over fifty percent the LAS three years in

(50:29):
the league. If that was Steph Wow, if that was
Lebron Wow? Right, But we don't do that. This guy's
a legitimate ball and they have a great game less Okay,
it happens.

Speaker 8 (50:37):
There's games.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Jordan din't have great playoff games.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
But this guy is legitimate.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
He is super legitimate, and we don't want to give
him anything because we're still too worried about Lebron James
and Steph Curry. But that that's part of our business.
We've shaped and formed that river of narrative.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Right, and what teams do they put on TV? Lakers? Lakers?
That's all they're going to talk about?

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Alsa ram See.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
I mean, come on, I mean, Boston was a defending
champion this year.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Let's get real, guys.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Did we really talk a lot of Boston on radio
TV this year?

Speaker 2 (51:10):
I talked about Jason Tatum this wh I talk about
this all the time. Well, he's unanimous first team guy,
So I don't get it. He doesn't resonate for people.
He just does it. He's a nice guy. He hasn't
done anything wrong.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
No, why you know why he doesn't resonate. He doesn't
resonate because, like you said, he we like always I
say this about music. Ain't even like acting in TV
and stuff. Being in an entertainment industry too.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
We like fake we really do. We act like we don't,
but we don't.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
We don't want.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
We say we want nice people, we want good people.
We want a good young man. He's a good young man,
doesn't do anything wrong.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
And when the NBA hands you want like Jason Tatum,
we walk away from it. When they hand you wont
like SGA, we put our hands up and walk away
from No. We rather deal with Anthony Edwards honestly, and
all the little off course stuff he's got going on,
and Lebron James sitting down with another former coach that
he never want nothing to play, never one night so
he can get off his chess out he feels about.

(52:03):
We feed into these things. Man, we say we want something,
but do we really want to Steve.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
I'll tell you the guy on the All NBA team
that can be that guy for a second or third
Jalen Brunson. Brunson can be that guy, but only if
the Knicks win. If the Knicks were to ever win an.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
NBA championship, he never smiles, but it's a game he's got.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
He doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
He's got doesn't matter. We're not gonna adjust to that game.
Jalen Brunson has turned into that player.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
You either love him or hate him. Well, that's a
good thing. He's a polarizing guy.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Think he's polarizing, Well you just said that. Some people
hate him, some people love it. To me, he's polarizing.
He's a To me, he's a I think Brunson has that,
but then they have to win.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
He's a rich man's Patrick Beverly. He's a rich man's
Patrick Beverly. He's a rich Let me, let me, He's
a rich man's Patrick Beverly with a better jump shot.
He's one of a little, small, feisty guys. He does
a lot of cheap lots of Player of the Year stuff.
I don't care although I hated that three point shot.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
He why did they call time out?

Speaker 1 (53:08):
What is Tims doing?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
What is he doing?

Speaker 1 (53:11):
He is as responsible for the Knicks being down two
on the series as any.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Player in Indian giving a prop.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
So if you go back and watch that replay, that
guy is fake like he's gonna foul.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
So Jalen smartly things, Okay, let me try to get
this up and the guy pulls off.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
He got a guy in the sideline. He's overrated. The
guy's just sitting there with his hands, arms crossed. Do
some coaching. There's a reason one that may take.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
That's a hot one, you think, Tim, It's just, oh yeah,
he's standing there on the sideline with the you know,
we'll get back into that match that was coming up
a little bit later on. Yes, thank you very much.
But that's all he does. All right. Coming out on
the other side, we're gonna catch up with the legend himself.
He's got to be an exciting Tigers fan today. John
Paul Morosi, this is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve Hartman VJ Husky,

(53:57):
Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
This is maybe one of the greatest songs.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
As my as my favorite Earth winning fire song of
all time. Unbelievable. My birthday month is it? Yeah? Yeah,
September twenty second? Really why I love this song? So wow?

Speaker 2 (54:12):
That's why I loved it? My favorite earth Winding Fire song.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Man hid It?

Speaker 2 (54:15):
I saw hi about the form ninth Row Center, Man Live.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
You want to hear this? I saw in nineteen seventy eight. Okay,
Parliament Funkadelic, Shut Up and the Blackbird. You went to
a Parliament fucking delic concert.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
At the La Sports Arena.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
You went to a Parliament fucking delic concert.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Imagine nineteen seventy eight. So my girlfriend at the time
was the music editor of the college paper I worked
at UCLA. Right, Okay, and.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
She's she adds tickets, right, so let's go down to
watch Pete Parliament fuck Ofdellas?

Speaker 8 (54:54):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (54:55):
And I'm seeing a lot of concerts at that time,
But I never walked into a concert like that. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean my face really stuck
out in the crowd. In fact, this is a true story.
At one point, uh, my girlfriend she had to go
to the bathroom during the concert. Right, everyone's dancing like

(55:17):
no one is seated the entire cul right, everyone's having
a great time. So I decide, I'm she's so I
go with her. And I decided to get a couple
of drinks, a couple of Coca Colas, right, so I
get up the.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Color so I'm not kidding you. I get in line.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Just imagine how everyone's dressed, right, and I ordered, I go,
can I get two cokes?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
And the girl behind goes you sure you don't want seven?

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Up?

Speaker 2 (55:45):
And she was so nice. I'm like, yeah, I go, no,
you don't want to dart. It was an.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Unbelievable experience that I will never forget. All right, once again,
it is a golden opportunity. I don't know if this
guy's ever seen Parliament Funkadelic in concert, I would doubt it,
but he has seen everything else. He is, of course,
our Fox Sports Radio MLB analyst, the man that has
got the inside word on what just about everything, the
great John Palmer ROSI JP.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
How is your Memorial Day weekend going?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
So far?

Speaker 5 (56:16):
Outstanding? My friends? It has been a great smogasboard of
sports for me. I was at the Guardians Tigers game
in Detroit last night, and of course a scoopl with
a masterpiece earlier today the Tigers to salvage a game,
we'll certainly talk about him. And at the moment, we've
got two like split screen hockey games. Right now. You've

(56:38):
got Dallas at Edmonton playing a pivotal Game three, and
then you've got the US trying to win a gold
medal at the Men's World Hockey Championships for the first
time since nineteen thirty three. That game is happening in
Stockholm right now. It is scoreless second period. Connor Garland
of the US was just stopped on a penalty shot,
so we've got early drama. Our country is shouting to

(57:01):
do something they have not done in hockey since nineteen
thirty three.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Wow, So a lot of history being made there.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Obviously, the Oilers are also trying to do some history
right now, a Canadian based team winning the Stanley Cup.
But I got to get back to this Schoobol game today,
the complete game, So I'm watching the end of this game.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
He had a perfect game going for a while.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
He ends up with a complete game, two hitch, shutout,
thirteen strikeouts, no walks. He only threw ninety four pitches,
so it's a reason to some degree that he was pitching.
It was that last pitch clocked it over one hundred
miles an hour, and I mean it was like one
oh three on the gun or some crazy number at
the end of the game. But why can't we see

(57:44):
more of this? I mean VJ and I are of
the same mindset. Can we see a few more complete
games than guys going for no hitters?

Speaker 5 (57:51):
What?

Speaker 1 (57:51):
What is the crime about a dominant pitcher going nine innings,
especially when you saw what Scoobol was throwing in that
ninth inning.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Why can't we see more? Though?

Speaker 5 (58:00):
My goodness, Well, first of all, Scoopball is a one
of one. He is the best left handed pitcher in
the world right now, and I really don't know that
it's that close, to be honest with you, in terms
of the best left hander the best right hander. Conversation
I think is pretty robust. You could argue schemes, there's

(58:21):
certainly some others. The ground right now is I think,
back towards the peak of his powers. Max Freed I love,
but I just think Scooble is a cut above. I
mean that kind of stuff that late in the game,
there's no one, no one who is doing right now?
What schoobl can do. And I think the reality is
that the way the game has evolved, Steve, it's just

(58:41):
that every pitch is so pivotal, and every starting pitcher
is putting such emphasis and pressure on every single pitch
he throws. That the notion of what used to be
back in the day of pacing yourself so you can
stay around for a third time through the lineup, it
doesn't happen anymore. The mentality that a lot of starter
to bring out there is almost a reliever mentality, a

(59:03):
closer mentality. I'm coming here to close the first inning,
and I'm going to go max effort as long as
I can, and then as soon as soon as my
stuff dips a little bit, I'm out of the game
because someone else coming in can also throw ninety six.
It's just a total change in philosophy. It's it's not
necessarily the best for the entertainment product. I think what

(59:27):
happened today for schoobl is what we as baseball fans
want to see. We want to see dominance. We want
to see the greatest pitchers still on the mountain in
the eighth and ninth inning, because that's what we saw
with Roy Halliday with Bob Gibson, with Cofax, with the
greats of the greats. So that to me is when
is when baseball is at its best. There's a reason

(59:48):
why we still talk about the ninety one World Series
and it's Jack Morris against John Smoltz. It's that romance
of two great aces in the bullpens being quiet and
everybody in the ballpark knowing that that you're going to
getting nine inning's out of both pitchers. It so rarely
happens that way, and that's why what happened today for
schoobl is somebody. I think we're going to celebrate.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
All season long, my man, JP, BJ Vernon Husky or
how you doing. Happy Memorial Day weekend for you your
lovely mom Many.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
Is safety you? My friend? I appreciate it. She's she's
been watching the Tigers today. She's up in the lake
and enjoying our beautiful home state on this World Day weekend.
So I appreciate the good wishes all the same to
you and yours my friends.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
That's what's uping man, So quick question, you talk about
the greatest Where we talking about what the greatest pictures
and things of that nation something else that America is
trying to be the greatest enter. Dy've approved for NFL
players to play in the Olympics, and Steve and I
love to show off with that because I think this
is a huge topic, and I think the underlying factor
this is just how smart the NFL is and how
they've been setting this thing up for at least a decade,

(01:00:49):
because it's not it's not if it's when they're going
to introduce the two new overseas franchises. I got one
being in Europe, the other one's going to be in
South America at point within the next I would think
five to seven years. Your thoughts on the players playing
the Olympics and your thoughts on changing my mind, buddy,
on these two overseas franchises that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
The NFL is already putting in the works. We just
don't know about it yet.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
That's a good, good call on both ends. First of all,
I think it's great and hopefully I think we all
know how important international baseball is. I think we would
all love to see major league players in the Olympics too.
I think that would fundamentally shift the perspective of a
lot of casual sports fans toward baseball in our country,

(01:01:34):
and you've been shut down the sport for a week.
But I think we can handle that. We've shown the
ability to adapt among a number of circumstances in the
last five or ten years as a sport to where
I think that we can adjust and the players will benefit,
the teams and benefit I think in a sense of
just interest of the game. We would benefit from that

(01:01:55):
for a long time to come, just like I think
there's probably more people following the Stanley Cup right now
because of the Four Nations faceoff and all the amazing
stories that came out of that, and I love it.
It's something too VJ where our football players, our American
football players rarely have ever had the chance to compete
for the country in anything, and so it's something that

(01:02:18):
they look around and say, well, we've got Olympic basketball,
we have occasionally at least Olympic baseball. We have Olympic
we have Olympic hockey, we have Olympic soccer, we have
Olympic everything except for this one sport of American football
that has become so close to our culture. And I
think if you make it flag football, you're able to
bring in more of the world through qualifying tournaments. And

(01:02:42):
that's a great way. By the way, you think about
continents where you don't see as much football played, Asia, Africa, Oceania,
you have the ability to bring in more teams through
the qualifying tournaments. And so yeah, they're probably not going
to be able to be competitive with our NFL Superstars
when it's the Team USA against many other nations around

(01:03:03):
the world, but the point is to get them playing
and then you get more people watching the game in China,
throughout Africa, throughout the Asian continents, millions upon millions of
people who can be introduced to the game through that way.
And so to your point about about expanding, I think
it's a great idea. I'll be curious to see where

(01:03:27):
how it all works. And by that I mean this,
with the NFL, you have the ability to with your
one game a week and the setup of okay, maybe
your your training base is in X city or X
plays and then you just end up playing your games
in a different location. We've got it happens. Of course,

(01:03:48):
as you know, throughout the NFL, the training base is
not necessarily where the games are actually played. On Sunday
and the NFL players are so used to traveling and
go to the hotel the night before the game anyway,
So why not have it be in Mexico? Why not
have it be in Germany. I think travel is as
close as it's gotten. Believe me, anybody that's ever been
out a flight from Miami to Seattle knows how big

(01:04:10):
our continent is, right, And that is and from my standpoint,
and the other thing too, the baseball has to deal
with it. And we talk about Mexico City and the
challenge of playing eighty one games there. It's not just
the logistics of living in a different country and travel,
it's the altitude. It is a difficult place to play
from a standpoint of just the games will be twelve

(01:04:32):
to ten because the air is so thin. I think
with football it's hard. It's hard in the way that
Denver is hard, but it's a little bit more normal
of a sport to play at altitude. Yes, you'd have
to deal with oxygen and cardiovascular issues, but it's not
quite the same, the same skewing of the numbers and

(01:04:55):
the sport as it is with baseball. Just the fundamental
nature of one game a week. You can play one
game a week almost anywhere, and I think that's that's
why football probably has the easiest time among the four
major sports of actually basing franchises in Mexico in Europe
on a more permanent basis.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Well, again, my problem again, I agree with everything you
guys are saying, but still you're gonna ask players to
live in a foreign country, I mean, at least during
the season, and the logistics of that tax purposes, there's
a lot of different things that factor in and then
how you approach, you know, because you are going to
be subjected to tax laws in those countries, right which

(01:05:32):
is far different than in our country.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
So that is something to be considered.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
A final word here, can anybody slow down the Panthers,
you know, defending Stanley Cup champions look better than ever
right now? Are they going to ease into a back
to back Stanley Cup victory? And if not, who of
these teams has the best chance to knock them off?

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Well, I think it's clear to me that they're the
best team in the Eastern Conference. Obviously last night finding
a way to beat the Caroline Hurricane six to two.
I think again, they were up three to nothing in
last year's Cup Final and then we're taken to a
seventh game by the Oilers. I think right now that
their toughest opponent would be Dallas. I think that Dallas,

(01:06:15):
with the way they play so well together Ranson and
coming in Hayskin and being healthy. I think they're going
to get better as this Western Conference Final goes on.
And I believe if the Stars advance, they are the
team that could shut down the Panthers. If it's Edmonton, yeah,
you've got the best player in the world and McDavid.

(01:06:36):
I just don't know that there's enough goaltending and defense
for Edmonton to slow down what the Panthers can throw
at you. And I think the Panthers have the best
goaltender still going in Nebraski. Although Angre I like with
the Stars, I think that the Stars are the tougher opponents.
And that being said, I don't think either of them

(01:06:57):
ends up beating the Panthers, but between the two, the
Stars have the better chance.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
JP enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day weekend. We
always appreciate the time, and I know your mom really
appreciated that Tiger scame today.

Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
I appreciate it. Gentlemen, always enjoy our conversations and certainly
everybody keeping our hearts. So those Peru Memorial Days is
meant to be this weekend. So certainly thinking about those
families and all of our amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Veterans over the years, well said, all right, thanks so much. JP.
There he is the great John Paul Morosi.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
All right, let's find out what is a trending right now?

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
And yes, Hi, hi engaged there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
I know. Well, I mean we you know, we we're gonna,
we're gonna milk John Paul Morosi for everything.

Speaker 8 (01:07:46):
That's what I thought you were doing. You know what
I'm saying. Yeah, that's it. That's exactly it. John Paul
Rosi is impressive, let me tell you. With the knowledge
he has.

Speaker 9 (01:07:55):
He also tweeted right as as he was telling you
about the US hockey game, that was good.

Speaker 8 (01:08:01):
He tweeted what he said to you. At the same time,
I was like, that is multitasking.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Oh yeah, it's fine. By the way, By the way,
I know the scoob Ol game. I was looking a
little more. He threw ninety four pitches, seventy two strikes. Yep,
seventy two shot, ninety four pitches. And how about this,
how those seventy two strikes. Twenty six were swings and misses. Yeah,
it was just dominant.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
That's called dealing from the bump.

Speaker 8 (01:08:25):
That it's impressive.

Speaker 9 (01:08:26):
It's just nice to see because you don't see it
very I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
See more of it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I know see and Simon, honestly, we we argue about
all these changes in all these sports and all these
topics we go through, and the most basic one that
we still honestly don't touch enough is why are we
snatching pitchers at a game? And the fifth the fifth
it's not that many good bullpens in the league.

Speaker 8 (01:08:46):
There there isn't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
But it's just change of it's.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
For the better.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
I think the pitch clock has improved.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Baseball shortened the game's great decisionlock.

Speaker 9 (01:08:56):
You guys, there's a lot that goes into what's happening
with pitchers. I think taking away their legal sticky stuff
has hindered their performances because I think they're on the ball,
spin on the ball.

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
It's like I think they're just overdoing it and they're
not prepared for it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Okay, so quick question back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Because you are they should allow people to do stair
Remember that's their worth toping.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Okay, yes, so should they allow pick because this is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
I'm on the opposite on the side of this, right,
I don't mind if a pitcher got a little something
on his head.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Yeah what either you get hit the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
Ball or you can absolutely because you can learn how
to Okay, this guy likes that little stuff when he
throws that curve or that slider that singer does.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
This, Okay, in the off season, I'm gonna go work
on that. Okay, but you can use that next year
and I'm gonna go work on that.

Speaker 8 (01:09:40):
And I think that's again it would save some of
these arms.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
It might, because we have more arm injuries than ever,
despite the fact they asked less of these pits exactly, unless,
of course, you're in the Dodgers' bullpen, which means you
have to pitch every day.

Speaker 9 (01:09:52):
Well obviously, but you saw that show how Taani was
taking live batting practice today that they haven't really they
just show little clips of it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:00):
But it's only the clips I've seen. We can only
see him, right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
They say the earliest if he's gonna come back, it'll.

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
Be after the All Star It'll be after so but
that's exciting, that's exciting.

Speaker 8 (01:10:10):
We do have the NHL Playoffs going on right now.
Stars and Oilers Game.

Speaker 9 (01:10:14):
Three West Final series tied at one apiece. They are
scoreless halfway through the first period. The Indy five hundred
also continues and Connor Day is currently in the lead
after one hundred and thirty one laps, and you can
catch all the.

Speaker 8 (01:10:26):
Action on Fox TV.

Speaker 9 (01:10:28):
We'll check in on baseball, where the Orioles are up
on the Red Sox three zero, bottom of the seventh inning.
The Birds and the Pirates are now tied at three
apiece after six innings. O'Neil Cruz just hit the fastest
ball in the stat Cast era. It was a home
run one hundred and twenty two point nine miles per hour.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Wow, that's insane.

Speaker 9 (01:10:49):
That is Yeah, that's a fast that's a fastball. The
Giants are up on the Nationals three to one, top
of the ninth inning. In Washington, the Reds have extended
their lead over the Cubs eight four bottom of the
sixth inning, all raise against the Blue Jays nine zero
bottom of the sixth inning. Twins still up on the
Royals one zero, top of the seventh. The Mariners edging
the Astros three to two bottom of the fifth inning,

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Rangers holding on to their two to one lead over
the White Sox. Bottom of the sixth inning, about to
start Yankees and the Rockies. Let's just make sure it
was not, you know, a home run from Aaron Judge.

Speaker 8 (01:11:21):
No it was not.

Speaker 9 (01:11:22):
But Yankees and the Rockies are tied at to a
piece in Colorado. And it is the top of the
second inning with the Diamondbacks now on top of the
Cardinals three.

Speaker 8 (01:11:30):
To two, top of the sixth inning.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Back to you guys, all right, Monsie, thank you very much,
always appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Once again, Hartman and Husky with you here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
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the way, just a couple of quick notes on the
Indy five hundred. Hunter Ray right now is just taking
the lead. Let's see we are now into lap number
one thirty four. They have completed so sixty six laps
to go. But we mentioned new Garden trying to become
the first driver ever to win three straight Indy five hundreds,
and catser Nevis who's been in the mix as well,
trying to become the first ever five times YEA Indy champion.

(01:12:23):
So some history could be made. But sixty six laps
to go. Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
In this year's Indianapolis five is car as a flying man.
They're up to two hundred and twenty five miles an
hour right now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
When you when people talk about athletes and dismiss these drivers,
I hate it again. This is a five hundred mile race.
You are traveling at well over two hundred miles an
hour and the race takes two and a half three
hours to race. That is kind of focus that you

(01:12:54):
have to have. Don't tell me these guys aren't athletes.
Not just your car to the other cars, the other driver.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
We saw a record like ten minutes ago, right one
guy just got caught up in it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
He had nothing to do with it. But in two
twenty three miles an hour, you can't hit the brace.
This hasn't ventour boulevard and my and my big vanilla
Batmobile out in the garage. You know what I'm saying, Ay,
that's not what this is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
So when people say that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
About NASCAR, and I'm not much of a Formula One guy,
but I am a big NASCAR guy. When people go, oh,
they're just driving around a track. You can't drive from
here to Culver City without happening to use the bathroom
and get out the car and stretch. So don't tell
me that what they're doing on these tracks. And it's different,
you know, with NASCAR and Formula One because all the
tracks are different. So you're taking a different type of car,

(01:13:42):
a different mindset, and a different laser focus each week
to different tracks that require different type of drivers.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
So they are definitely athletes with you there. They're topping
two thirty right now. I don't think i've ever have you.
I don't even think I've ever driven one thirty in
a car before. One time I did it, I was
on the on the I had a I had a.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Ford Thunderbird super Coup was with the Thunderbird, right, you
know what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
It was a it was an anniversary model and it
was like the first major card that new car that
I actually bought.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
I was like thirty thirty years old.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
And so younger than I thought you would have had
so so, but it was a Thunderbird super Cooke and
it was the Anniversary model, and it was one of
those cars.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
That the control on it was tighter the faster you went.
So I was up on the grape vine. I was
up on the grape vine and I decided I'm gonna
because the Madama goes to one eighty right, So I
start pushing the gas and hit one hundred. I hit
one hundred and ten, I hit one hundred and twenty

(01:14:56):
and it is tight, like I don't feel anything. And
I get to a lit around one hundred and thirty
miles an hour. Then I got a little nervous and
back down a little bit. Okay, because I've been in
that Toyota Celebrity race, so I'd actually race cars, but
not at that speed. But yeah, but thirty one thirty

(01:15:17):
is hawking man in a regular car, not not a
souped up protected a regular whip.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
And you was pushing one thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
I was what one two?

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Well, I was looking around making sure there was no
one around. You're brought too fast.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
You can't find them by the time. By the time
you see them there, they've clocked you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
You're done, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
What's fast right now? Me on the road or what
the pacers are doing right now? To the nixt We're
gonna breakdown what's gonna happen next with that big Game
three coming up in Indy, another big indie event coming
up later on today.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Can the Knicks get back into it? We'll break it down.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
This is Fox Sports Sunday, Harvin and Husky, Fox Sports
Sunday once again here in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Again.
Happy Memorial Day out there, hoping that everyone has a
great Memorial Day weekend. And as the veteran sitting next
to me here obviously very different emotions for him today.
But it's something we need to remember, those that have

(01:16:12):
made the ultimate sacrifice for what they have done for
our great country.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
And we've got all over it again. And we did,
I know me and I could speak for my brother,
we do it all over again. I wasn't really I
was in an army at eighteen eh like you know, honestly,
man ar fifteen m sixteen on my hand, claymore mine
on my hip, and let's go at eighteen nineteen years old,
straight out of high school.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Well again, thank you for your service, sir, I really appreciate.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
I'll tell you what, there's a team that's looking for
answers right now, and that's the New York Knicks. The
NBA office had to be hugely excited that the New
York Knicks, said, gotten past the Celtics and seemed on
the verge of a breakthrough getting to the NBA Finals,
which they did twice in the nineties, ninety four and
ninety nine, but haven't won a championships since Nixon was

(01:17:00):
president way back in nineteen seventy three. That was painful
one for me. That was the last time we saw
Will Chamberlain in the NBA losing that five game series
of the Knicks making up for the year before when
the Knicks lost to the Lakers in the NBA Finals. Yeah,
that's willis reed, that's Frasier, That's Earl the Pearl in
seventy three, and the Busher and Bradley and the Belieble team,

(01:17:21):
all of them, Bill to the great, the best defensive
forward probably in the history of the NBA. Anyway. Okay,
then the Knicks and they get to they have the
home court advantage. There at the garden, you got all
the celebrities of the Guard, all these New York celebrities
spiking country are all sighted Ueah, come on, Idioda.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Pacers we know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
And when you, by the way, when you go back
to the heyday of the Pacers Knicks rivalry back in
the Reggie Miller John starts, oh man, that was a rivalry,
fierce rivalry there was ever in the history.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Of the NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
But now that was back in the nineties and here
we are thirty years later and the Pacers are up
to oh right now. So when you look at what happened,
and especially in collapsing in Game one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
One of the all time meltdowns in the NBA playoff history.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
I told you earlier. I'm looking at their coach Tibbs,
and I'm like, what are you doing besides haviny.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Your arms cross?

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
How about how about doing cut time out? I don't know,
I don't know, how about how about do something on
the sideline. But what's your takeaway on why the Knicks
find themselves in the hole they are in going into
games Game three? Today?

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Indiana plays like a college team. They press you, They're
gonna press you ninety feet all game long. It's not
just some time. They're gonna do it all game long.
Nicks aren't used to that. Indiana is also a deeper team.
They play nine to ten players. Knicks don't. Tibbs is
known for running his starters into the ground. That's just
how the way he coaches. He's gonna play six or
seven guys. That bench is not deep, and it's catching

(01:18:52):
up to New York really fast. Jalen Brunch is just
not enough. I think called Anthony Towns is a shell
of himself because all he does now he's put together
a little bit of a pump fake drive game for
the three point line. But it's not it's not pretty.
It's some of the most sloppiest, unorthodox looking driving from
a seven foot I've ever seen. It looks just really sloppy.
And he throws up a few shots I'm going with

(01:19:13):
and one most of them are off and he's crying
for a foul. I just think Indiana might beat a
better team, and I think the better player in this
series might be Tyrese Haliburn. I know we love Jalen Brunson,
but they both made the NBA All Team Jalen May second.
He made third, but they're both all NBA guys.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
I just think maybe we need to pay a little
more attention to this Tyreese Haliburton guy, who's so called
the most overrated player in the league.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
That's what they said, ed overrated and led the league
and assists one year and has a gold medal to
his name too. So I mean there's that Jayalen Brunson
wasn't on that team.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
They didn't. They didn't take Jalen Brunton to the Olympics.
I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
I know they took Tyrese Haliburton. No, they take Jalen Brunson.
So I think they're in a lot of trouble. And
I think I think the Pacers go up three oh
to night and I remember they went up two oho
on the cas but then came home and then got
you know, beat really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
But I think they get to nights games.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Well, if they do get to three to zero, it's
over because no team's overcome a three to zero deficit
and NBA playoffs sh much more on that as we.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Continue here on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
All right, and join our Memorial Day weekend on this Sunday,
Fox Sports Sunday, once again in our Fox Sports Radio studios.
Now coming up here on the quarter hour, the return
of another edition of Over Under, Over Under.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
We won't give it a new name, not. We gonna
figure something out this week.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Yes, Chrispurherfett is going to be working on a new name,
new imaging and everything else.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Yeah, it's a process. It's a working title because over
and Under it's just it's it's just, it's just do
you do?

Speaker 9 (01:20:34):
You do?

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
You know how many legendary movies actually had an original
title changed. It happens all the time. You have, but
like a working title. It was like, uh, Paul McCartney
when he rode yesterday with scrambled Eggs, that was the
original title.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Case is extremely Paul McCartney.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Yeah, that was Paul McCartney was scrambled eggs and then
he changed it to yesterday. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
He didn't have any lyrics. He had the music, not
the lyrics.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
Yet there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:21:00):
Wad I don't even think would that even be his lyrics?
Like every every time I look at any kind of
history of the Beatles, like John Lennon is the one
who came up with like the real soulful lyrics. Every
Paul McCartney song when he went on his own is
like happy Happy, I'm happy, don anundstance.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Somebody's knocking at the door, somebody's ringing the bell. Do
me a favor, open the door and let him in.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Please.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Now that is one of the Christmas time Yeah, somebody
opened the door and let him in. Some of the
great lyrics of all doing Christmas season. All right, so
we now have about thirty five laps left. Ryan Hunter Ray,
former champion, by the way, won then five hundred way
back in twenty fourteen, is in the lead right now,
thirty five laps to go in this year's Indianapolis five hundred. Good.

(01:21:43):
By the way, our dear friend Arnie Spanier listening in Arnie,
all the best to you here on this Memorial Day weekend.
A couple of updates on this game coming up between
the Knicks and the Pacers. Listen to you. Thes are
expected to replace Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson in the
starting lineup. Zero desperation. Yeah, well, I mean, you're down

(01:22:05):
two owns. But then the league decided to step in oka.
This one is the real story of Game three so look,
it's no secret the NBA wants the Knicks to beat
the Pacers, and it's a near impossible task. However, breaking news,

(01:22:27):
the NBA has activated the series extender protocol as Scott
Foster will officiate Game three between the Pacers and Knicks.
So they go Adam Silver taking no chances here to
try to get the Knicks back in this series.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Scott Foster, it will be blowing the whistle.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
For Game three.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
I tell you this, man, this is why. And Steve
and I were just talking about this off the air
during the course of break.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
This is why people think the NBA's fixed.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
And I try to stay away from the fixed word
because we're in radio and TV kind of have to
just watch how you say certain things. It's just the
business that you're in and you learn it as you
go along. So I try to stay away from that word.
But I will literally have friends text me from back east.
Are people, cousins, relatives that they think I have some
inside track because I cover the Lakers and Clippers and

(01:23:18):
Chargers and Rams in LA sports and they do radio
and TV.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
Out here in LA.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
They think we have like some inside you think the
league's gonna tell me. They're not gonna tell me. They're
not gonna tell anybody. But the proof is just in
the putting. It's just like the draft, right, It's just
I don't care what anybody says until you do the
ping pongs live for us to watch. I don't know
how those envelopes came out back behind that door, Okay,

(01:23:43):
like we know about the frozen envelope in eighty five,
what backs up going Lebron the year that Cleveland's be
numb one pick Derek Rose, Orlando gets two back to
back pitch, but.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
We didn't be going to San Antonio like it just happened.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Then this year Dallas trades Luca and with a point
zero something something something.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Change point that a one day game number one pick.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Because it's almost like saying, okay, treye Luca, but we'll
make it up to you down the line.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
We got to help the Lakers out right now. We'll
make it up to with with.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
This cool Cooper flag guy coming, or or hey, you
could just trade to pick it go get You're gonna
be saved something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
You're gonna save a lot of money right now. We
know you want to move this franchise to Vegas, right exactly,
there's another thing that's going on which will give you
a more pick again.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Then right, we'll give you another one down. But understand this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
We gotta get the Lakers relevant again, right, we gotta
get the Lakers relevant. So we're gonna allow you, without
even investigating, to have the most absurd, one sided trade
in favor.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Of the Lakers to get Luca Donna in history lead.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
So he celebrates his twenty sixth birthday in a Lakers uniform,
right right, So.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
I get the whole Scott Foster stuff. I just you know,
but we all are smart enough to know. Would you
much rather watch the Pacers in the NBA Finals or
the New York Knickobaca's in the NBA? Just ask yourself
that if you're driving around listening, if you think that
what we're saying is off the wall. We're two conspiracy
theory guys. I think Steve is a different conspiracy guy

(01:25:08):
to me, but we're both pretty deep in it. Just
ask yourself if you don't want to listen to us,
just say, Okay, would I've rather watched the Indiana Pacers
in the NBA Finals or would I rather watch the
New York knickerbock is in the NBA Finals, and then
you have your answer there. Yeah, so we'll see how
it plays out today. Man, watch the whistle.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
I mean, I get right. Honestly, if you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Got the foul call discrepancy, where normally a Whome team
as the Pacers are, should get a slight advantage, that
would not be abnormal. But at the end of this game,
if you just see a parade of free throw shooting
by the Knicks over the Pacers, then we're gonna walk in.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
Way does that do to Indiana? Because Indiana likes to
play What fast? If you start blowing the whistles, what
happens the game? What slows down?

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
We have seen a far more physical style of play.
Allow right playoffs. If suddenly they start blowing the whistle
in this game, off the break, watch the first course,
Like what happened is not gonna take You're gonna start
blowing the whistle.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
It's not gonna take long, guys. Watch the first quarter.
Indiana's crowd will be crazy. They got the Indy five hundred.
They'll be playing that car sound on the arena there
that you know, the rude they'll be playing that on
the on the on the loudspeaker in the stadium. If
Indiana gets out big, watch the whistles start to blow
to slow this thing down and give the Nigs a
chance to kind of get back into it if they can't.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
So we'll say, oh, right now, you know, the the.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
New CBA in the NBA, we are now looking at
Shay Gildess Alexander about to sign a five year, three
hundred and eighty million dollar contract extension. By the way,
the last year in that deal, which would be the
thirty thirty one season, he will make over eighty one

(01:26:57):
million dollars. He'll be the first eighty million dollar a
year player in the NBA. So again, you know, we
we talk about the possibility. But let's say in Indiana
Minnesota matchup, right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
It's like, wow, that's that's rough, juicy, and you know,
two Midwest teams, neither franchise has ever won an NBA championship.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
The ratings are going to be miserable and they will be,
but it doesn't matter. Right, I just gave you the numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Salaries are going up three eighty million, eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Eighty million, eighty million dollars for one year. That's what
Jake Gildess Alexander would make in the final year of
that five year extension. How about that, Well, you sign
one million and guess what they have to put They
have to.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
Put it on the table, and he's going to sign it.
I mean, it's just where he's going to sign it.
It's just it just is what it is, man like,
you know, what do you want him to do?

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
And then they're talking about shortening the league and they're
talking about you know, uh uh you know the I'm sorry,
the what players don't play?

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
What do we call it? That waste management? Hoad management? Sorry, sorry,
we got to pick up your trash. Yeah yeah, load
load load management.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
But okay, yeah, here are the numbers on that extension.
I read this so he'll make The numbers are just
so mind boggling, all right. So the twenty seven to
twenty eight season sixty five point seven million, twenty eight,
twenty nine to seventy point nine million, twenty nine thirty
seventy six point two million, and then the thirty thirty
one season eighty one point four million. Can you imagine

(01:28:29):
sending over a piece of paper with those kind of
numbers saying sign here and oh, by the way, it's
all fully guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
See here's the thing about the finals number.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
So I just pulled something up right here, just single
game from eighty seven to present. What do you think
the most watched final game in the history of the
NBA has been?

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
This is easy for you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Uh, let's sit one game. Well, it would have to
be the Bulls. There you go, and I would say
probably that last game against.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Utah nineteen ninety eight, game six thirty five million. Thirty
five million, yeah, thirty five million people.

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
If you look at if you look at NBA five
and again, people are saying, well, you're talking about who's
watching TV anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
They're streaming there. There's a different allots and everything else.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
Of course, it does still at people try to get
that spin. I'm like, I'll tell you who doesn't look
at that spin as advertisers.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
But again, record.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Number amount of money being poured into the NBA, So
maybe it doesn't have that much effect, but it is
I think an interesting look at ratings. When you look
at the four consecutive series that we have between the
Cavs and the Warriors, the barn and Steph you know,
and throwing Kevin Durant for the last couple look at
those numbers as compared to every NBA finals since.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Yeah, that's what I'm going to go to right now.
So the least watch in shade.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
This is for you, all right, not a dig, but
this is just for you to understand why I say
what I say about the Bubble Championship.

Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Nobody watched. It was in the middle of their final season,
their finals. Okay, games one, games two, games three all
the most least watched NBA five finals of all come on, BJA.
It was during the middle of the NFL season.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
It wasn't really during the middle of the NFL so
it was October right the end of September, beginning of October.
I had you had games during the week where there
was no NFL games on. There's no NFL games on
a Tuesday and Wednesday, guys, you know there were there
was times to watch these games. The point I'm just
making is this, as time has gone on, it doesn't
even matter who's going to be in the finals.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
I just think that some of these game Game seven
of the twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:30:25):
Sixteen, that's the Warriors, and that's the lebron three one
comeback thirty one million people.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
So that's self explanatory.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
But the lowest rate and the least watch all the
twenty twenty games, and it just goes downhill from there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
These numbers are present. You could pull them all up.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Even last year they averaged the Celtics, the Celtics, the
Great Celtics.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
They averaged five point eight million per game, five point
eight million.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Even gave me a ninety eight with.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
The Bulls in the thirty five million, thirty five thirty
thirty million viewer different.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
And there are people, more people watching everything, and there's
more ways to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
Like you said, I'm with you when people go, well
no one watches TV, Yes you do. It's called streaming.
How the hell you think they paid a Game of
Thrones people? How you think they pay a Game of
Thrones people? All these other shows you know and you
all watch it on streaming. How do you think they
pay them? You know, are you streaming?

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
But you know more people were watching in China? Now, yeah,
well that's what they want to say.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
Well, that's pouring a lot of money in so but
just where the money's coming from?

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
Just for twenty twenty average of NBA finally Finals years,
twenty twenty four point zero, twenty twenty one, five million,
twenty twenty two six million, twenty twenty three six million,
twenty twenty four five point eight million.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Yeah, so it's round.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
How do you think in the six million, and how
do you think in Indiana Minnesota final would be?

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
That's what I was writing down during a one commercial break.
I got the I got three point eight million. I do,
and I think I'm being generous.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Okay, watch all right, I mean I mean again, they
are playing the Necks, and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Why Scott Foster's out of the court tonight. Save our season.
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
Coming out on the other side, it has because the
most wildly popular segment in radio history. I'm not even
gonna say sports radio history. I'm saying radio history. And
we really don't have a title for it yet other
than over Under. If you haven't heard it, wait for it.
This is Fox Sports Sunday, Harvin and Husky Here, Fox

(01:32:19):
Sports Sunday in our Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
we're down to the last ten laps in this year's
any five hundred. Alex palou here we Go is current
leader with ten laps. Ago gets a little nervous time
right now, the big race of the finish he's not
even in a tough Honaray is falling off, but it's

(01:32:42):
a little It's always what happens at the end of
these races is you're trying.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
To stay fuel wise, right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
You'd make that late pit stop, and then sometimes some
of these leaders at the end are literally on fumes,
like keeping their fingers crossed so they don't run out
of fuel for the finish line.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
And that's where we are right now.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
I know fuel and tires towards the end is which
I noticed how it is a NASCAR, Like I said,
I'm not too you know, abreast with Indy, but I'm
pretty sure it's there are some similarities there. But yeah,
like you said, fuel that last pit stop, even if
you want to get two tires on, you're taking on
two tires and taking on four tires, whatever you're doing,
trying to top it off as much as you can.
And just like you said, cross the finish line. I've
seen races where the car has to be pushed to

(01:33:26):
victory or.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
One out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
It's happened in the five hundred years. We got eight
laps to go and they are man.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
I like this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Yeah, good stuff here at the end, look at the
the camera work is always amazing, especially the ink car
stuff when they have an accident and you can see
these guys because at some point you get to sort
of let go of the steering wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
Because otherwise you're aware to break your wrist breaking and so.

Speaker 1 (01:33:51):
You're you're there, snap your form in half. Okay, now
we have a segment and that we are working on
a title. Maybe some of our listeners can help us
out with this. So this was the brainstorm of Chris Perfet.
Yes by the way, I was asking him yesterday, do
you know any other Perfets?

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Have you ever seen anybody with that name?

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
No, it is as far as I can tell, just
from my my mother's side of the family, because it
got butchered up at Ellis Island. There's a lot of
Prefeti Perfett, and apparently it was Prefeto in the old country.

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Pet Perfet, but they go with Perfet, you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
Know, pFET I've ever heard. I've never heard of a
Perfet before.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
There's a Chris Profetti, who I kept getting confused with
on Abbott Elementary.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
So you have the I love that all right, so
you have like the Perfet pitch, you have the Perfet game.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
I thought it was going to be like my you know,
my podcast one of these days, and then.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
The pet Storm.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
There's a lot of puns we can come up with us.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
The Prefect Storm is a great podcast name. I don't
know for the segment, but for your podcast, that's a
great podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
You talk about a lot. It's about putting you guys
head to head here, Yes, exactly, all right, so this
is where you you give us an over under.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
Well, before we begin, let's talk about last week because
I have a big problem with last week. I believe
I gave you guys what you thought at the time
was very high Carl Anthony Towns points per.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Day, and I said it seemed like it was way
too high a number.

Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
Here's the problem. Something is tripped in my brain every
now and then when a name gets too similar. I
was thinking of Anthony Edwards the entire time, using Anthony
Edwards points per game. But I was saying Carl Anthony
Towns when I.

Speaker 1 (01:35:37):
Met explain why it was about why point?

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
So I'm throwing that one completely out.

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
That's on me. Now, we still should get that right though. Okay,
well I'll give you both the point, thank you. Yeah,
that's fine, that's fine. There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
That's the only one you agreed on. So let's move on.
Let's see here NFL rules proposal passing. I think we
just limited it to the tush put bush and flag football.
Steve had that correct that they would pass one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
VJ.

Speaker 4 (01:36:07):
Well, we're waiting on the brock Party one. That's the
long term one. And then I believe we had a
Clayton Kershaw three or was it three or five earned
runs no strikeouts?

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Was it thirty one thirty one strikeouts to three hundred
It was something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well either way, his his his start
got cut short.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
So VJ wins that on the under we go, there
we go, there we go. It counts, it counts, said
at the point, even if he gets pulled, no.

Speaker 3 (01:36:37):
Because you guys, you guys did the Rockies one door
in the game, So I get this.

Speaker 1 (01:36:41):
One alright, all right?

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
And then and then uh, VJ, did I mean, excuse me,
Steve did have Kaitlin Clark under a half a flagrant? Yeah,
granted I did believe she didn't get none as far as.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
I knew, Come on, kayl the sauce that mama, Well,
we're gonna be about We're gobout to go back to
that rivalry on the other side later on, but first,
in honor of Tarik Skuble getting a complete game, there's
that does the eighth complete game this of this MLB season.

Speaker 4 (01:37:07):
So let me ask you, by next show half a
complete game over under one under that no one throws
complete games over a complete game a week.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
So I'm going over you going on, I'm going over
because I think we might see something. I don't know
who someone else I'm not, but I know there's gonna
be about one hundred pitchers that did a chance, not pictures,
but what in the next week. You think he's weird
going over and we've had a total of eight complete Yes, yes,

(01:37:43):
I wonder, because there are teams that literally now go
through an entire season without a single complete game. I
wonder what is the ongoing most consecutive games without a
complete game currently of any.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
To look up, I'm curious how many, Like what the
history of complete I'm sure we could easily find two
complete games by season and look that up.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Crazy, Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Yeah, I'll take over, get a takeover. I think one
guy will do it. Let's go to the ice.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
We haven't.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
I mean, this is this is a weird sports week
because it's like I'm trying to go back to the NBA.
Well I do have one later, but looking at the
Panthers looking to sweep this the Carolina Hurricanes next game.
Let's talk about the Panthers, and they're scoring in this
series five and oh, five and two, six and two,
and they also had two six and one games against

(01:38:29):
the Maple Leafs before that, so I mean that's a lot.
It is game it is game four, uh, it is
coming up here later. So just this upcoming game over
under Panthers three and a half goals, and I know
that's high for hockey.

Speaker 5 (01:38:43):
But.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
Get me over there on fire right now. And they're
at home. They're gonna close this thing out. This thing
is a rap Bro Daily Cup champions. They're gonna put
up five goals.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
The bounce back game? Are you looking for the bounce
that game?

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
Steve Kay, I think there's a little pride that goes
on and this, you know, I mean, it's one thing
to get skunked in a series, but you know, keep
it competitive. So yeah, I will I will go the under.
Alex Palou, by the way, has just won the Indian
five hundred. Hell yeah, And I'm looking at his record

(01:39:21):
at Indy over the years, he's he's been in the
in the top five the last couple of years. He
did win the poll in twenty twenty three. Uh, he
was runner up back in twenty twenty one. But he's
finally broken through on his sixth Claws that team pens
to win. That's no, this is Chip Ganassi. Hmmm, So
this is Ganassi dad crying.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
This is the stuff right here?

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
Is there stuff right here? So he is finally broken
through after a four consecutive top ten finishes, uh, and
finally won his first Indy five hundred. Are They're wonderful?

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:39:53):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:39:54):
Two basketball ones, Let's start with the WNBA. So, after
a very competitive, after the chippy game that's basically set
the mood for the entire w NBA season of Angel
reespers is Caitlin Clark. Angel Reese's last game out was
not good two points, twelve rebounds. She kind of needs

(01:40:14):
a bit of a bounce back. They've got three games
coming up. Her Sparks, Mercury wings over under Angel Reese
in those three games combined twenty eight and a half points.
Before next show how many games three And she's had
one game where she had twelve points and then one
game where she eight and half twenty eight and a
half under. She's not a scorer, guys, No, she's not.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
She's one of the best rebounders in the game, and
that's what she will be known for. She's a very,
very maybe rebounding but she doesn't have an offensive game.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
And that dude, listen, I'm a fan, but I said
this is when she's an LSU. What bothers me is
she she threw She just throws it up.

Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
She knows she can go get to board. But she
hasn't really tried to refine her games.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
That she is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
Purposely trying to add her rebound stats by missing. No,
it's not it's not what I'm saying at all. She
just doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:41:02):
She just doesn't have because those shots went in for
her at some point in her life. But she has
to understand at the level you're on now, you have
to refine what you're doing, and she hasn't done that.
But she's gonna be a great to finish she's gonna
be a great rebounder when she's one of the best rebounders,
not the best rebounder in the lead.

Speaker 4 (01:41:16):
Shout out to my friend Ryan Matthews, who joked on
the Reese Clark play that Clark should just let her
miss the layup right because she's.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
From inside. Finally, no, it's just listen under. We ain't
even talk about under And that's my boo boo.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
Why you know what I brought Angel Reese into the
conversation today. I talked about that she's far more identifiable
to the average sports fan than both Aunt and SGA.
I'm gonna go there. She goes on a scoring spree
over Okay, okay, Ajol Reese is going over. So they're
playing the Sparks tonight. And then yeah, the Wings are

(01:41:54):
already oh and four. The Dallas Wing A and four,
so that's not great. Team like Sky are also o
and two. So it's been a rough start for some
of these teams.

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
Quick sidebar this celebration with Alex right now and his
team's taking his helmet off, throwing his gloves, running down
the track. This is what sports is about, man, This
is I ain't gonna get emotional little air. But this
is the type of stuff you sit at home and
you watch and you go wow, Like look at everybody's face.
Everybody celebrations, the entire pit crews out there.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
It does. It's so much. It's a team broing it
like it like Steve just gave us. He's been knocking
on the door. Yes of not if the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Biggest race, because they total five hundred, but the second
biggest race, if not the biggest race.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
On the war.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
And you finally cash in, he will be known as
an Indy five hundred winner for eternity.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
They can never take that away from now. Now here's
here's now.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
His name is usually pronounced Polo all right, pa l
o u, but because of his U Spanish heritage, a
lot of people have questioned how you actually pronounced his last.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
So p A l o u. How many people here
speak espanel?

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
Anybody, anybody, anybody that's the you think we should?

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
We asked mans to this. All right, let's are we.

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
I've got one more, always got one more, abste more tonight,
Nick spacers over under a half a choke sign. But
I think we were worrying about I think me and
Shaye were what we're talking about this, I'm worried it
might be some of their crowds.

Speaker 1 (01:43:29):
We're gonna look this one. I'm gonna say under because
again Under Haliburton was doing that to the Knicks, and.

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
He was doing it looking at Reggie Miller because he
pointed right to Reggie when Reggie it was it was,
it was a thing to Reggie. But you will get
none of that. I'll take Under for the rest of
the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Will they won't be another?

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
I don't know if that's if they clinched it at
the garden, I I would he might a game point
get out there. All right, all right, good stuff there.
We will come up with the definitive name uh down
the road. But first let's find out what is trending
right now. So Mantci the winner of the five hundred. Yes,

(01:44:11):
they announced it Polo, Yes, but p A l o u?

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
Is is that the proper pronunciation?

Speaker 8 (01:44:19):
That's how he says it.

Speaker 9 (01:44:21):
I found a video of him introducing himself because I
also was like, is that how he says it?

Speaker 8 (01:44:26):
No, he says polo.

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
I know he says polo because you know it's spelled
I guess polu, But hallo pup. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:44:35):
I don't know if he's changed it, but that I
just found of himself, Alex Polow.

Speaker 9 (01:44:39):
Alex has won the Indy five hundred, so yeah, good
for him.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
I'll go with the man that says his name is
how to say it right.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
This is how he says to say his name.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
I will never and.

Speaker 8 (01:44:49):
That's how I'm gonna say his name exactly exactly. That's
how he said. I looked it up to because I
was I was interested.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
It always gets back to when when j Moore was
here at Fox Sports Radio. So I was coming on
after Jay's show and uh To was coming in studio
do an.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
Interview, and so Jay jumps out of his seat and
he goes it was during the commercial, right, and he goes, Row,
what's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:45:15):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
He goes, that's terrill terror.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
Well, I was like, wow, did you just do that
to him?

Speaker 8 (01:45:23):
He sure did, he sure did.

Speaker 9 (01:45:25):
Uh say s Suzuki just gave the Cubs the lead
with the three run shot in the eighth inning. The
Cubs and the Reds. It's been back and forth. Now
Chicago back on top eleven nine. Eleven eight is a
score top of the ninth inning. The Birds still on
top of the Pirates six to five. Bottom of the
ninth inning about to start. In Pittsburgh, it's the top
of the tenth inning between the Royals and the Twins,

(01:45:47):
and Royals are up two to one. Top of the
eighth inn with the Mariners and the Astros tied at
three apiece, just like the Rangers on the White Sox
score tied at three apiece. It's the top of the
ninth inning in Chicago. The Rangers have a man on
first and second, they still have two outs to go.
The Diamondbacks are losing to the Cardinals now four to three.

Speaker 8 (01:46:04):
Top of the ninth inning.

Speaker 9 (01:46:05):
Yankees have taken the lead from the Rockies four to two,
but they're on a rain delay. In Colorado, and it's
the top of the fifth inning. Philly's on the scoreboard,
but the A's are still up three to one. Bottom
of the second inning, and the Padres have scored first
against the Braves one zero. Bottom of the second inning
about to start. The Rays shut out the Blue Jays
thirteen zero. The Giants edge of the Nationals three to two.
The Oriols defeated the Red Sox five to one, and yeah,

(01:46:28):
the Tigers shut out the Guardians five zero, avoiding a
four games sweep. Trek Scooble a complete game, two hits,
zero runs, thirteen strikeouts. Not a bad showcase. We'll check
in on the Stars and the Oilers. This is Game
three of the West Final in the NHL Playoffs, and
the Oilers scored two goals within thirty two seconds thirty
six seconds of each other in the.

Speaker 8 (01:46:48):
First period, so it's two zero with about eleven minutes
to go in the second period. In tennis, how is
Ben Shelton doing?

Speaker 9 (01:46:56):
Ben Shelton split his first two sets in his first
round match Roland Garros against Lorenzo Senego.

Speaker 8 (01:47:03):
I'm gonna guess is how he says it.

Speaker 9 (01:47:04):
They're on their third set right now and Ben Shelton is.

Speaker 8 (01:47:08):
Up three games to two and already.

Speaker 9 (01:47:10):
Francis Tiofo and Tommy Paul are advancing to the next
round at the French Open.

Speaker 8 (01:47:14):
Back to you guys, by the way, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
MONSI as always talking about Polo winning the Inny.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
You know about dominance. We were talking earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
You want to hear his So he actually has won
the last two IndyCar season titles.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Three twenty twenty four Hey, I just looked that up.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
But this year he has been in six races, including today,
he's won five and the only time he didn't win
was the Long Beach Grand Prix was second. So he
has five wins and a second in six races so
far on the IndyCar circuit. So Polo's wins certainly no
surprise for those that follow the IndyCar circuit. And he

(01:47:53):
has finally broken through to win his first Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
Final and that has something else about on his first
win on a noval. So he's great on the race tracks,
he's great on the street courses, first one on the oval.
Also talk about dominance since two thousand and four, Honda
sixteen times. Wow, they're engine wins. All your record and
Civica drivers out there listening, hey man, go ahead and
go ahead and.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
Go ahead and give yourself ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
And my driver's great purchase. They w five hundred. I'm
driving a hondred Cord.

Speaker 1 (01:48:23):
I know, I know you are.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
I hear you, I hear your lead.

Speaker 3 (01:48:26):
Hybrids sounds so well, it sounds so cool, man, like
a little spaceship.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
Well, when you turn it on, you don't hear anything, right, silent, right, man, Yeah,
it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
There's a Tesla driver in here too. Man, he's writing
so much. Somebody's pushing the tesla around here. I hear
that bad boy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
When it's coming and leave it by the way, Revider.

Speaker 1 (01:48:44):
We're here in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Hey, don't
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Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever.

Speaker 1 (01:48:58):
You get your podcasts, and you'll see to show posted
right after we get off the air.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
Oh, I got dominated. I had no dominating in the
season right now.

Speaker 1 (01:49:09):
Again, he won the season titles each of the last
two years. He also won in twenty twenty one, so
he's been dominant on the circuit. But as you said,
he's had one final hurdle and he did it today.

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
Winning the Indianapolis five hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
So there you go. Good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
And again he's going to come.

Speaker 1 (01:49:25):
We don't know the exact number, but he'll be getting
close to five million dollars. Steve History Happens WORL on
air together, Rory have you Malcolm Roy? We by the
way he completed his slam.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
He did on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
By the way, we never even talked about what happened
last Sunday in the final round the PGA Golf Championship,
So I letally you know, it was going on as
right on, and Scheffler was beginning to come back, and
John Rohm was coming up, and the next thing I know, they're.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Even caught him at nine and John Olgam had a
couple of makeable Bertie putts and he could not put
them down. And Scheffler was just sort of shuffling around
and then rom just.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
Oh god, it's bogey, double bogey, double bogey the last
three holes. I fell out of the way the eighth.
But you know, talk about dominance, I mean, Scotty Scheffler
is in that mode right now. You think dominance. Just
how about this. I told you again, there's only one
golfer named Tiger Woods since they started the World Golf

(01:50:26):
rankings in the mid eighties, only one golfer, Tiger Woods twice,
by the way, has held on to the number one
ranking for more consecutive weeks than where Scotty Scheffler is
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
I got that man, But don't you gotta win a
little more. Okay, Well, I'm not gonna say, don't.

Speaker 8 (01:50:40):
He's me.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
You gotta win a little more, a little more.

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
Well, okay, what if he wins the US Open? What
if he goes PGA US Open back to back.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
That's impressive, that's impressive. But the US Open is the
hardest course.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
It's the hardest course of the year by far. It's
not close where par Is like a victory.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Right, No, if you finished two under, you're you've had
a great US Oh we saw the year Beth pays
Black where everyone was into plus.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Yeah, everybody was into plus.

Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
How about this my favorite and this going way back,
this time machine with me as always nineteen seventy four
wing Foot, Wingfoot, which is host to many US Opens.
Hailor Win won the first of his three US Opens.
His final winning score plus seven. Wow, plus seven won
the US Open.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
It means I just shot a plus seven. They call
it like the massacre at Wingfoot.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
It was just unreal. But I think that's what the
major courses should be. They should be the hard, should
be the test. But you don't want to get too ridiculous,
Why well, no, no, no, you want it difficult, very difficult,
but you don't want like the greens where it's just
you know, the ball can't stay on the green where
it just bounces off.

Speaker 3 (01:51:45):
You don't want then pull out, pull out the wedge
and pop it up in the air and drop it
straight down there.

Speaker 1 (01:51:50):
You didn't want it too ridiculous. I don't want it difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
I just don't want.

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
You want the rough to be deep, so you pay
a penalty for the absolutely that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
Yeah, I want.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Sand trumps around the green too. At least give me
two per hole I need in different play, Yes, you got,
it's want to get that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:52:07):
So it's got to be hard, hard, like it's when
you walk away.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
You gotta just get know.

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
The one thing.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
I also love playing one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:52:14):
I also by the If you win the Masters, you
can play for life. PGA play for life. With the
Open Championship, you can play until you're sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
They have like a cutoff age. The US Open gets
you a ten year exemption.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
That's it. That's it, that's it. You know, who does
not right now qualify for the US Open Tiger Woods.
I know he got to remember last year you got
a special you know for Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
He couldn't play right, and I love Tiger. His body
just can't hold. No, he couldn't play a US Opener.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
But like a guy like Phil Mickelson, who's never won
the US Open, six time runner up, he still qualifies
because of that PGA championship that he wanted you to
get arive your exemption, but that's about to run out.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
He couldn't win it right now though he didn't have
the game to win it right now. The US Open
is a young man's game. Yeah, the US Open is
a prime, but you also want any old guys. His
last one.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Nineteen eighty was forty went his last us there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
Yeah, But the thing about the US Open is also
you can get really surprise winners because this is going
you know, Scott Simpson wins the US Open, Lucas Glover
won the US Open, you get you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20):
Know, Jeff ogilv won the US Open.

Speaker 1 (01:53:24):
Michael Campbell, remember Michael Campbell had a New Zealand I'm
the guy never made another cut at a US Open
and won that one. And you know who duel that year,
a guy named Tiger Woods got that one all right.
Coming up on the other side, we're gonna give Vara
sneak peak, our preview of what's gonna happen the rest
of this week as far as He's NBA playoffs are concerned.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
This is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:53:44):
Steve Harvin VJ Husky, Fox Sports Sunday. We're here in
the Fox Sports Radio studios on this Memorial Day week.
I want to thank our crew today. Yes, the fabulous
Montsey belanias.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
Best update woman in the business.

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
Well, none of.

Speaker 9 (01:54:07):
It's always fun, guys. It's always a fun time here
on Sundays.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
Well, especially when you engage in deep conversation with Shay,
our brilliant producer out there. Do you want to share
any of your deep rooted conversations were do you you
sort of seek her out for advice or I'm not
sure what we were actually prepping for the next show
Marty and Kerry who will be on in less than
ten minutes to stay and wait for that, guys, But yeah,
we were just prepping for the next show. Very very good.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
That's why.

Speaker 9 (01:54:34):
Yes, when when I was kind of distracted, that's what
we were doing. So I apologize, apologize, we.

Speaker 8 (01:54:39):
Get animated, We do get animated, Okay, my.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
Suggestion and it wasn't there's a lot of animation. It
matters not to me because Glowys have a good laugh
of that anyway. But if she is in there to talk,
you know, programming while.

Speaker 1 (01:54:52):
You know we're sort of we are already well past
the bottom of the hour talking to John Palm Morosi.
My thing would maybe have him sit next to you
so you're still looking in this or he's looking you
know what.

Speaker 2 (01:55:04):
We're definitely gonna take that put in the pocket next week.

Speaker 8 (01:55:07):
You'll be better, absolutely, And then.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
That's this co host.

Speaker 1 (01:55:16):
You guys can do whatever you want. They have the
volleyball zero, they have the volleyball connection to when coach
former player.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
And then Moncy is out there setting up spikes on Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:55:31):
And of course Chris Purfett, who has come up with
a segment that it's definitely the buzz right now, the
perfect pick, the Perfet pick, the Perfet.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
The perfect pick for two.

Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
It just it just started his dumb questions and I
always have dumb questions to you and Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:55:48):
It all started with that.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
Half of how many snaps uh this year that Tudor
Sanders will take with the Browns and he throw that
to me, like with a straight face, that's why don't
you throw that one at VJ. Chris already knows he's
going to get a text a minute. He takes a second.
By the way, speaking of Sanders, he takes his second.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
I'm texting him like second, Yes, did the second?

Speaker 8 (01:56:13):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
Did you read what I read that Canny Pickett is
outperforming Shador Sanders Right now, I didn't read that at all.
You didn't read it?

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
No, or you're just ignoring.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
Man, I didn't read none of that.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
I mean, can we talk about this list? Is a
fifth round pick? All right? So at the very top
of the show, we're really getting into this. We're excited
about the fact that the NFL unanimously approved the idea
of NFL players participating in the flag football competition of
the upcoming twenty twenty eight Olympic Games.

Speaker 2 (01:56:43):
So VJA was trying to put a little roster together.

Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
We found out that each country will be max out
of ten players, ten players each and by the way,
there's a women's competition as well. Men.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
But now I see a list in front of whose list?
Is it? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:56:57):
So our great producer Shay walked down CBS Sports has
already put in their proposed twenty twenty eight Olympic roster.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
And what they did, which I reference, is.

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
They gave the twenty twenty eight age at the time,
I'll be pleased to say out a ten a cent.
I'm knocked on four from so I'll take these four first.
They have Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Travis Hunter and Micah
Parsons were three four guys that I mentioned. Now the
guys that I do like your quarterback that you said
you would sin you hit on your pick. They're calling
for Jayden Daniels. At that time, Jayon Dendles would be

(01:57:26):
twenty seven years old.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
That would make a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (01:57:28):
They have you gotta have the ability to play the
flag football QUARTERBA.

Speaker 3 (01:57:32):
They have him down his quarterback, running back. The running
back and receiver they have to start would be Jamiir
Gibbs from the Lions will be twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
Can you imagine that speed exactly?

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
Well, I give you the nothing, No, and he ain't
got the speed. The guy that's next, I'm gonna mention,
just got the speed. Devon a chain from my Miami Dolphins. Wow,
it would be playing. He'd only be twenty six. The
other three guys Derek Stingley Junior, which I agree with
the twenty six I would have taken Patrick Surtain. I
think those two guys are private to top quarters in
the NFL right now.

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
Best coverage guys.

Speaker 3 (01:58:01):
That's exactly Maxwell Harston from the excuse me Harston from
the Buffalo Bills, who will only be twenty four at
that time, and then Nolan Smith Junior, who's an All
Pro corner from the Eagles, so their team would round
out CBS, puts out Daniels Gibbs, A Chain, JJ, Chase,
Travis Hunt, Michael Parsons, Nolan Smith Junior, Derek Stingley Junior,

(01:58:22):
Maxwell Harriston.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
From all right, so Michael Parsons is your rusher.

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
You have to have him as right, they have him
and Nolan Smith Junior. Just to simply ask rush rush exactly.
That's what's next in the name there. But they only
have one quarterback because and I don't mind that, I
would take rolling the dice non contact injury.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
I get it, guys, but is there anybody else there
that can throw the football?

Speaker 1 (01:58:48):
Probably Travis Hunter exactly, there you go, Probably probably Track,
Probably Travis Hunter.

Speaker 9 (01:58:54):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
You got it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:56):
I mean, when you say, well, there's no contact in
flight foot, who's gonna get hurt? I mean, I think
Justin Jefferson and Chase probably could throw a fun I'm
pretty sure one of those guys probably played quarterback at
some point in their life. Well, you can run the ball, right,
you can just hunt and then run and have your
guys block you. I mean, I mean, I get the
ball on Jamier Gibbs's hands as much as possible.

Speaker 3 (01:59:17):
I think I'd take one of these rushes off and
as the second quarterback, I'd take off Nolan Smith Junior,
and I had any one rush and I'd add a
second quarter.

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
There's any of those other guys.

Speaker 1 (01:59:25):
If you need a rush, you could rush to me.
It's like Kyler Murray or Lamar Jackson is who I'm saying.
I mean, the way the rusher works in the five
on five flag football is they're gonna see you.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Coming right, not like that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:37):
It's not a scheme of stunts, nothing like that. You
don't line that you have to look through or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
All right, see the stuff. Honestly, you know what happened there.
They were listening to us, and they're right look at
that list.

Speaker 1 (01:59:52):
Why are we playing a memorial Day on my soldiers?
Falling soldiers out

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
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