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King of the Animals himself. It's LaVar Arnton. What's up, buddy?
What's going on? Mike? Shot out of a cannon this morning? Man?
So much going on in this great sporting world. We
get Game three of the first round of the World Series.
That's right, we're playing him in rounds this year because well,
that's kind of how we've elevated the Dodgers padres Um rivalry.

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And I'll put that in quote because we'll talk about
that in a minute. But how's the week? You guys
did some Dan Patrick show, and Dan Patrick been doing more.
First things first, it seems as though that's my my shift.
That's an early shift, man, So you're ready for today
it's like noon. Well, I'll be hosting all week on

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First Things First, this this upcoming week, So how about
getting your boy passed for the lot. I'll just crash
the set, start arguing. You know, it's crazy they filmed
that one out of New York. It's an East Coach show.
So I'm I'm I'm by, uh what's skype? Maybe Skype?
So yeah, So you know, it's been it's been uh

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an interesting, interesting deal. Really enjoy doing First Things First,
Nick Wright and Brandon Marshall and and you know General
Wolf and you know those guys. It's it's been, um
been been pretty awesome man. While it's Chris Wild, It's
it's uh, it's a great group, great cast, and you know,
I've been really enjoying that, and that's kind of been

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a shift. I've been doing that way more than anything
else on on FS one. So that was an interesting week.
And then you know we had up on Game yesterday.
It was super super good show man, It is really cool.
So you know, I'm enjoying that and it's it's given
me um the excitement to come into this one with you,
because it's such a different dynamic from doing doing each

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each show with all of the personalities that that you know,
you you work with. It's just it's really cool to
do media when you're doing media with people you truly
enjoy doing it with. And and so to have my
the end, like the end of the week, Sunday being
the last day going out into the next week, it's like,

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it's really cool being able to finish the week of
doing shows with you. Man. Yeah, it's a fun time.
Always shoot out of the out of bed, like all right,
what do we got today? What happened while I was
asleep for the four hours? And most of the time
it's really not a whole lot of anything, But there's
always just that hope when you log on and well

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Find me over at Swollen Dome. Look, I got back
out into the wild yesterday, as as one of the
folks that has gotten the the needle prick to his arm.
I decided, you know what, I'm gonna go, and I'm
gonna go get a burger, and I'm gonna go sit
at an establishment to do so, not through a drive

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through lane, something that was cooked for more than thirty
you know, more than nuked or under a heat lamp
for those thirty seconds. And I'll tell you what, it
was glorious. I hadn't had a beer in uh, probably
two months, and that was It tastes so good when
it hit the lips. Let me tell you, it was
a full old school. I did not frank to take anything.

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I had my meal, I had my drink, and I
moved on. But it was it was a beautiful thing,
just to uh, you know, start having some of those
creature comforts back. My kids went back to school this week,
you know, two days to start. But right I saw,
I saw that my baby went back. But but the

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rest of them, well, well, Marley, the older one that's
in high school, she goes. She she's in and out
of school as well, the way they have it set up.
But the twins, they're they're total Skype. Yeah, it's almost there.
Our ours go back full on the seven wherever you
are hopefully getting back to whatever normal is. And you know,

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as you're comfortable, you know, you take the take the steps,
as it were, and we see different events. And here
in Los Angeles where LaVar and I are doing the show,
I mean we actually had people back at Staples Center
as of Thursday, as of yesterday's game, and and those
were things I don't I don't believe a month ago

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when they started to talk about it, we would have
believed it like no, no, no, there's come on, that's
that can't be right. And well, lo and behold here
we are, bit by bit and so enjoying the fruits
of labor. After the show, I'll jet some forty miles
to go watch some soccer, so it'll it'll be some
beautiful things. As we go through. Watch my my daughter,

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you know, ruined the hopes and dreams of would the
scorers as she is so want to do. But as
we traverse into the world of professional sports, we've got
a lot of draft stuff. Right, We're almost there. A
week from Thursday. We'll get it on here Jay Glazer
and company, the best in the business getting it done.
We've got a lot of NBA for you, of course,
off the rails and mammals of the week and find

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your wins and we will. Bernie Fratto, our buddy straight
out of Vegas, he'll join us. Uh, talk about some
of the draft odds, some of the the fund that
flows out of San Francisco. Moving to the number three spot.
Why because we've got nineties seven narratives about how that
number three draft pick will be used LaVar Uh So,
lots of lots of fun to go with that. But

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mentioned it off the top is that it's it's beautiful
in the long season that is Major League Baseball, that
you get what feels like a heavyweight heavyweight fight right away,
right And I'm not talking about the uh the Jake
Paul stuff. Uh. We'll get in and we'll get in
to that. How good for that guy. Uh, he got

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it done in the first round. Man, he's got some
some anger uh flowing through those fists. There's no question
a joke. They ain't gonna keep thinking he's a joke
for long. Well, why don't while we're there, why don't
Why don't we just stay there for a moment? Uh?
It was something that build up. And I saw a

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couple of interviews right as Jake Paul takes down Ben
Askern and just obliterates him, but that he had that
stare on him like that. There was a clip going
viral of him, you know, talking to Pete Davidson and
on Saturday Night Live and some films you may have seen. Uh.
And they went in and they tried to, you know,

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just clown around with a little bit, ask a couple
of questions that you normally wouldn't get into pre fight interview,
and maybe that juiced him up a little more. But
he had he had that stare like he was laughing
with him, but kind of like all right, I'm ready
to go, and yeah and low and behold, he sure did.
He's he's physical. You know. The more I see him

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get down, the more I asked myself, why did Nate
Robinson think he could get in the ring and deal
with that man? That's weird. That dude is a real fighter.
I'm going out and I'm pouring one out for Nate
Robinson again, by the way, you know, because I saw
that clip again yesterday, it was like, wow, that was
that was bad? Well, it actually speaks to it. The

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more he does what he's doing, the more it actually
kind of absolves Nate Robinson. You know what I mean.
Now it's not it's not so much about Nate Robinson.
Now it's more so about Paul and how like he's
he's for real. It's like, uh, you fought Nate Robinson,

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died a die this that the dude didn't look like
he had ever trained to box ever in his life.
And you're looking at Nate like, yeah, man, you let
this dude whoop? You like that? Man, Come on, Nate,
it was all about Nate. Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate, Poor Nate, Nate.
This Nate, That Nate, Nate Nate. But no, man, that

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dude got something with him, got a little power in
that training. Because I know you guys had lamar Odoman
a couple of weeks ago and would want to fight him.
Don't do it more? Yeah, no, I don't. When you
got to reach or whatever else, it don't matter when
you're you know, it's a good strategy until you get
punched in the face. And I don't know, this guy's

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gotta get a little bit of power going on there.
I think it's a fascinating, fascinating thing that you know,
for boxing, it's always trying to find how do you
get back into the competitive landscape to what it once was.
And it doesn't have to get to that, but it needs,
you know, someone to give it a little bit of
juice for the relevancy across you know how many sporting

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options that we have and we talk about all the time.
At least for for these fights, it breaks through and
and folks can laugh about the production and how many
stars they try out, It doesn't matter. I mean, yes,
it's part of a show. But when the guy goes
out and delivers and twelve hours later we're talking about

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it because you watched you watch the replays, or maybe
you watched it live. I've certainly seen the punch probably
nine thousand times in my timeline. Was like, all right,
there's there's something here, and now everybody will try to
figure out how to best monetize it and get him
back into the ring as quickly as possible. I mean,
he's he's a celebrity now. I mean he was already

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an influencer, but he's like he's transcended just being a
social media influencer now like j'all ver quit playing with him?
Yeah right, if you're if you're if you were thinking
that it was something that it wasn't, you need to
understand that that that discussion as did put the rest

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time to bring out all the B list celebrities, celebrity boxing.
I saw one guy compared to celebrity deathmatch the way
he's knocking fools out at this point. He's LaVar Rnton
on my car and this is Fox Sports Radio. Fox
Sports Sunday mentioned Dodgers padres off the top. We get
nineteen of these fun and exciting contests over the course

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of a regular season, and when you have something, uh
in mid April, normally we're not paying attention to baseball
the way we have this series. It's it's just got
a different feel. Perhaps it's because we are in l A.
I'm still a little salty that the Sunday night game
is the Cubs and the Braves, and not just because
I'm a white Sox guy. It's like, why, why are

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why are they not gonna force feed Dodgers padres to
everyone they can just time and time again. So, but
the first two games there's a little bit of controversy.
Night one all the join because the Padre fans are
all chesty because while they hung with the Dodgers ended
up losing eleven to six. But the fact that it
was a contested game, so yeah, we're coming for you now.

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By the way, the Dodgers have won the first two games. Uh,
and yesterday's was a gem from Clayton Kershaw and to
preserve the shutout LaVar, they had to do it in
find fashion with a little Mookie Beats ball in the
center field diving catch made by Bets and the Dodgers
win it. Let's spectacular play by Mooky Bets. If he

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doesn't get it, it's a tie game. Instead, Bets saves
the day and the Dodgers shut out the Padres two
to nothing. Charlie Steiner AM five seventy l A Sports
Dodgers Radio Network on the call. But there's just a
juice to this in April, and I love to see

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it because we need rivalries, right and obviously the old
word we may be taking a little bit too far
because the Padres kind of have to win something for
it to be a true rivalry. But at least there's
a bit of animus and and angst in these games
where there has not been in years past. Yeah. Well, listen,

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sports always needs to have excitement and and certain sports
need to have that level of excitement. And when you're
able to generate that in the majors this early in
the year, you know, that's a that's a win, Mike.
I mean, there's just no way around that. So yeah,
I mean that was a big, big trade or a
big big signing, getting getting bets and you know, there

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you go. Now we've got a nice little call early
on in the season for it. There you go, we
get we get the victory. They'll play the final game
of the series later on this afternoon again, the third
of nineteen to come. Fernando Tatiss has either been solid
at the plate we saw him Homer on Friday, but
already the number of fielding errors. Uh. The I think

(14:57):
the Padres or a team that can we go back
and revote on the universal d h uh, because right
now he's gonna start getting the nickname of the butcher
in the field. Well, the butcher was a batman in
the movie I'll tell you that. Well, and you had
Abdullah the Butcher who terrorized people across the wrestling world
all over the Globe for decades. You like that, Go

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go go look up a little video of Abdullah the butcher.
Say it stumped me. You stomped the you know, you
stopped the guy. But the Butcher's you know, and you
know gangs, you know the What am I sitting here thinking?
What's the name of the movie? Coming the butcher Man?
Gangs of New York, Gangs of New York. I knew
it was Bill with a Butcher. It's a great day

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we're just getting warmed up here Fox Sports Radio, Fox
Sports Sunday. He's LaVar Arrington. I'm Mike Harmon. Coming up.
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Swollen Dome. Across this great social media landscape. Couple of
new things popping this week across the Twitter and Instagram
and all those different spots. Why because it's time to
start talking about fantasy football. Uh, so thoughts on that
more on the fine your winds dot com site so

(18:55):
so much that Uh LaVar you find him on FS one,
you hear him on on game Uh, you see him
out and about. He's a man about town with you know,
his fingers in many pies right now, trying to grab
the bag as it were. And you can watch it
all unfold at King of the Mammals. That is very true.

(19:16):
It does unfold that King of the Mammals on So
what I do, Well, that's just it. There's so many
different paths that we take. Uh. And one that we're
watching play out in the NBA right now. Uh, the
heroics of Steph Curry tenth straight game with thirty three
points or thirty points or more at at age thirty
three or older, uh tying the streak of Kobe Bryant

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did it back in And it's a metric that it's
it's cool, right. I certainly don't denigrate any of the efforts,
but we're talking also about a team that they lost
in this latest effort, right, So the lead is, hey,
he scored forty seven. Oh by the way, they lost,
and Jayson Tatum scored party four. So I think we

(20:02):
keep burying the leaves, like the statistical things. When a
guy's shooting shots a game, they're cool and he you know,
hit a double digit three point makes once again. But
it's also the volume shooting for a team that's really
not very good. So it's for Steph Curry. It's an

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interesting part because he was asked by Rachel Nichols in
an interview talking about being a lifer with Golden State
LaVar and and I think that's where my my interest
is more in that, like, this is a team that
maybe they make the play in game, and if they do,
then then they're dangerous. Right, you don't want to be

(20:43):
down there because he can have one shooting night that
sends you home, right, So, so I think that that's
where we're at in in this season as we're we're
looking at what Steph Curry and the Warriors are because
they lost wise men to injure Clay obviously out Draymond.
Draymond's half in the media world at this point, right,

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can still you know, the legend, can still mess you
up for a few minutes, and every now and again
he'll have one of those Draymond like games, but he's
not the same guy. But right now they're sitting in
the nine seed at eight and twenty nine, which means
they're they're they're in the play in and so if
you're and that's why Mark Cuban and Luca Dongees were
complaining a little bit, I think this week about the

(21:29):
play in tournament and how quote unquote unfair. It is
like you guys had plenty of time to get chesty
and fight the NBA on this. Obviously everybody thought it
was a good, good idea, so they kept it after
the bubble. So don't complain about it. Now, play better
and get yourself out of potentially harm's way where you
don't get a full series. But for for Steph Curry

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and the Warriors. It's also the longevity, as you've got
a guy that's got one year left on his deal
forty five point eight, and now he'd have to make
that decision looking at where his team is of what's
more important to you being a lifer in that jersey
or do you want to potentially add another ringer to

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to your you know, legacy, even though it might mean
that you you become kind of a mercenary as opposed
to that one franchise guy. It's got to be a
fascinating decision for what all that he's meant to that
Bay area. And I get that, but I don't think
that that will ever change. I used to have what

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you're the way you just presented it is more of
an old school, traditional way of looking at pro sports
and pro athletes, because I tend to agree with what
you said, like what what your legacy is, what what
you meant to the franchise that that you know should

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dictate what your decisions are um as you move forward
when you've had the type of career that Steph Curry
has had. But with that being said, in today's culture
and the way things are new school wise and and
even with some you know, listen, nobody meant more to

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their team than Michael Jordan's to the Chicago Bulls, right
he ended up in Washington. Dion Sanders, he meant a
lot to the Atlanta Falcons. Heck, he meant a lot
to the San Francisco Forty Diners, Dallas Cowboys, meant a
lot to the to the Washington football team, he meant

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a lot to a lot of people, Cincinnati, Atlanta. Where
else did he played baseball before he was done? So anyway,
I just that's just you know, one example. We can
use it in baseball when we we've had send aways
and go aways after um dynamic, amazing careers. That's happened

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in every sport, you know. I mean you can look
at hockey and and how that you know, how that
played out with some players. I mean, Gretzky comes to mind. Uh,
you know, I just to me it. It's a part
of sports. It's a part of the business of sports,
and it's a part of sports that sometimes the most

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beloved player for a franchise will end up going somewhere else.
And sometimes it's best for the franchise, sometimes it's best
for the player. Sometimes it's best for both and that's
just to me, that's where I'm at with it. Yeah,
it's just a different time, right. He cites talking having
talked to Kobe and durk Navitski about what the that

(24:45):
meant to them. But even Kobe had his battle where
he was demanding to be traded, short lived, but it existed.
And guys playing twenty years that's also, I guess more
common now quote unquote. I mean, we still have our
very long tale of guys that are in for a
year or two and gone, so the averages are always

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going to be shortly. You look at the NFL, you know,
we always talk about three years four years for a
career between injuries and fit and new coaching regimes and
just being the odd man out, and there's four more.
You know, if you're in your fourth year, that's four
years of guys who come into the league. And as
we know, if you can fill pieces almost the same

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a lot cheaper, what's gonna happen. That's generally the way
the business works in that regard um quote. You never
know what can happen, obviously, but I feel like it's
always been something that means so much to me. And
you want to stay competitive, and this is where he
opens the door. You want to stay competitive, You want
to stay in that fight where you're winning championships. If
you can accomplis If I can accomplish both, that's the

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ultimate goal. So anybody that tries to just kill this
saying no, he's a life lifer as a warrior, I
don't buy it. Like you mentioned grad Schy, I mean,
think about going from Edmonton to l A to St.
Louis to the Rangers. Would you think a guy would
change teams that many times? As as the king of

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the sport. No, it's just a different time. Guys have
different pursuits. It is a different time. But again the
and you're right, the pursuits are what you know obviously
in sports, that's what drives you, right, I mean whatever
you're in pursuit in a pursuit of So I listen,

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if Steph Curry decided to go somewhere else, you know,
that's his choice. If he feels as though he's done
all he can do in in Golden State, and you know,
for for that team, then that's his choice. So I
don't I don't find that to be you know, a

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takeaway or or a diminishing of what his his legacy
is in in Golden State. I think that if he
if it's time for him to turn the page and
go to a different chapter, then that's what it is.
But he's had such a prolific career there. I don't
think that that would diminish. I don't think that would
diminish anything. But I think it's interesting in the process

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of it is there's always been this battle over whose
titles those second and third word right, because Durant wins
the m v P in the finals, but Steph, you know,
had built the and in the others Clay Thompson, Draymond
Green had built the base. So wondering if on some level,

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if Clay and Draymond are gone, there isn't something where
he'll have a chip on the shoulder, said, I gotta
win without these guys, otherwise I'm never getting my just do.
It's all about feeding me, trying to figure out what
feeds the ego. Best I guess is where I go
with it, and trying to read into people's minds, because
well that's what we do here. We played junior psychologist

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son and lawyers and doctors. What else do we do here?
Business people, GMS coaches. I mean that's at least five
jobs that we do here every Sunday on Fox Sports
Radio plus Talk so actually talk show hosts. So that
full full six right there. Well, I'll tell you what

(28:24):
if we build a successful UH duo, and we continue
to build a successful, successful duo and we had the
results that Steph Curry has had UM with, you know,
if it's Draymond, if it's Thompson or whatever it may be, UM,

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then you know what if we build that type of
legacy and that that type of success here and become
iconic figures, everybody has to have conversations about how you
you keep it together, how you keep going through you know,
and I think that's ultimately what it comes down to
is is everybody has to feel comfortable and confident about

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how you move forward if you're getting to a place
where one of those players is wanting to go, especially
if it's the player that you know meant the most.
So it just is what it is. Always be a
legend in my own mind. And what's fun though as
as we talk about all all well thanks funny all
the scoring of barrage that Steph's doing and will always

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be known as this prolific three point score UH and
using that to bolster himself to great heights. At this point,
he's still only seventy seven in the all time scoring
list hm I, behind guys such as Mark Aguire, Dwight Howard.
Dwight Howard's played about four hundred more games. But the

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point just being there, there's a lot of a lot
of miles to pick up there in a lot of
three point shots before he's even anywhere nearer the top
of the charts in that regard as well, because we
hear all about the the prolific scoring in the the
big totals and in this streak is fantastic. Just remind
yourself there there's a there's a lot more to the

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game that that goes back in. UH, and we'll see
how how much he's able to climb before it's all
said and done, with many miles to go on those legs. Yeah,
And that's more for records because everything else he's accomplished,
you know, it's just more about how how much more
can you do? You know, It's like looking at Tom Brady,

(30:34):
it's like how much more can you do? You've accomplished
pretty much everything. But then when you say, if you've
accomplished everything, there's still records out there, they're still you know,
things that he can do to set the bar high,
so high where when he's done playing it, it just
you know, it's just you look at and you just
you say, you know, how did you how were you

(30:56):
able to accomplish all of that? You know? And so
it's like Bruce Smith get into two hundred sacks man
for me as a defender. I mean, that's that is
a number I don't think anyone will ever break. I
don't think anyone who ever get two. It's funny you
bring that up, because I'd like to transition to a
guy who's looking to augment his sack total. Signed a

(31:17):
new contract this week. We'll talk about him on the
other side, because we've got Isaac Loew and Kron our
Man in the Update studio to tell us everything that's
happening in our sporting world. What's going on. Good morning, Michael,
Good morning. LaVar was quite a Saturday night in sports,
and you guys alluded to him. Steph Curry and who
cares that his Golden State Warriors lost the game with

(31:40):
Jason Tatum. Do you won the game? Which is three
less than Steph Curry. I'm just saying we won the game.
Good point alright, So the Celtics one, and yes, indeed, Michael,
they won six in a row and eight of their
last nine, just by Curry's forty seven and eleven three pointers.

(32:02):
Curry with forty four three pointers over his last five games,
the most three pointers in a five game span in
all of NBA history. Russell Westbrook with fifteen triple doubles
over a twenty game span. That's also never been done
in NBA history. The fifteen came at a one point
win over the Detroit Pistons that saw Bradley Beal score

(32:23):
thirty seven points. And how about this, the San Antonio
Spurs surprising the Suns in Phoenix by twenty six points
one eleven to eighty five. Have any idea what you're
talking about? Get out of here. No, it was it
was Popovich. He was doing his best. You know there,

(32:45):
there's an interesting dichotomy that I just picked up. Lave
are very good problem. They are kindred spirits. I mean,
Shack went to high school in San Antonio and Popovich
did that funny intentional foul five seconds into that opening
night game when Shock played for the Phoenix Suns. I
don't know, and then he was dancing with the Jabberwocks.

(33:07):
So good. Well, that's right, that's what the Jabberwocks. A
lot more connections out there than people think. He interesting
fact about Shock. I could fit my shoes that I
wear inside of Shock shoes. Yeah, I have no doubt
about that. Did you Did you do this personally? Yes?

(33:28):
I own a pair of game Warn Shack shoes. And
come on, you've been working out all week trishes there
showing go ahead. A guilty confession is I walked around
my kitchen and I cooked breakfast with my shoes on
inside of Shack shoes. It's great. See I thought about

(33:49):
feeling like a kid. Talk about a day. No one
could say I've never spent a moment a day in
Shock shoes, because I literally did. I thought that you
were like in a party at his house or something,
and it was getting late, and you know, glasses of
wine had been consumed, and you decided to, you know,
walk around in his closet and see if you could

(34:10):
fit in his shoes. I would have liked that story
a lot better, but making Breton, What did you make
for breakfast that particular day? You know it's probably something simple,
some eggs, some grits or something like that. Grits. I
know I had an apron on. You know, it's funny.
I should somebody should have took a picture of that,
But I think I was about myself. I have not

(34:31):
had grits since the pandemic began. So when we all
get together, we'll have to have a potluck. I'll bring
in something and you bring in your grits. Can good grits? Okay?
Do you do sugar and brown sugar? Choice? Var choice? Yeah,
more savory than sweet. So I would have put you

(34:51):
talking about your cooking or your personality. Hey, well I'm
kind of like both. Yeah. I love flirting with me
on on on Live. He wants to be part of that.
He wants to make sure the next time you're making
breakfast he gets an invite. That's all. I go savory
with my grits. I do butter and pepper and even
sometimes maybe some saute onions in there and nice. Yeah. Yeah,

(35:15):
but some people like brown sugar and stuff like that.
It's like, do you like salt or sugar? On your watermelon. Well,
I'm a big salt guy. Put salt in my coffee.
You put salt in coffee? Yes? About that. Here's what
it does. It takes away the bitterness and it adds
tremendous flavor. It enhances the flavor. It takes away the

(35:37):
bitterness as long as you don't put in so much
salt that it gets salty. Speaking of salty, dude, you
you just hit the point right there. It's like you
work at sports talk radio and you're trying to take
away the bitterness. That's that's what's that's the sports talk radios. Also,
I refer back to me gloating about Steph Curry. Thanks

(35:59):
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off the rails an hour from now. A couple of
stories to come up for your next one signing. And
then one guy reportedly turned down seventy million dollars. Wow.
Ilo referenced his squad here a few moments ago and
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(36:21):
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(38:13):
To all of you out and about driving the highways
and by ways of life. I raised my cup of
coffee to you. I get it. It's early, takes a
little extra kick to maybe get you moving, but we're
here for you for the next three hours and change
here on Fox Sports Radio and LaVar. There was a
contract signed earlier this week. We'll talk about one that

(38:36):
did and what one that didn't. Jadevion Clowney becomes the
latest member of the Cleveland Browns. Three time pro bowler.
Guy that came into the league with so much hype
and excitement, and now he's I don't want to call
him a vagabond, but he's becoming a hired gun. Well, hey,

(38:59):
look if he's long as you're still getting contracts, and
in this case, you're getting too common contracts with the
extra extra digit at the front. I mean, because look,
we're talking ten million, we're not talking Hey, this guy
had to sign for you know, a million dollars with
a ton of incentives, Like he's still got paid, but
the expectation, Like we watched him go from Houston working

(39:20):
alongside J. J. Watt, then he had his thirteen game
raun in Seattle last year, played nine or eight games
for Tennessee and now moves to Cleveland, where if you're
Miles Garrett, you're feeling pretty good if you get what
we've seen Jadavion Clowney b at times, like I know,
a lot of folks immediately go to his sack total

(39:41):
say I've been a gross underperformer, and yes, you'd love
to see that number rise. And I think working opposite
Miles Garrett, you should at least have some opportunities there
in But like you spend the money, you take the shot,
and and for him, it's you're going to a that's
got a lot of a lot of good to it

(40:03):
in a tough division, no doubt, but and an opportunity
to reclaim some of that career. It's too late, too late,
It's too late. And listen, can Jadavian clown he be
a serviceable player? You know he he plays the run

(40:26):
well as as a defensive end. But to look at
him as being anything more than a serviceable player, UM
like to say he can compliment Miles Garrett or make
things better for Miles Garrett. And I think that that's

(40:47):
I don't know that you can go down that road
and and make a strong case and definitively say at
this point in his career, I think he's going into
year eight, Um that that he can be that player
in Cleveland in the a f C North. Now, I'll
say this, what works to his advantage is the a

(41:08):
f C North is a very run heavy. Um. But
when you're talking about going against guys that can throw
and run, UM, that's it. It's I mean, we don't
know what's gonna take place in Pittsburgh with Ben Roethlisberger.
You should be able to get to Ben at this

(41:31):
point in his career. Um, Lamar Jackson can throw the
ball and you're probably not going to have a well,
I don't know, you should get the t off on
Joe Burrow it could work out. I just don't think

(41:51):
that you look for Jadeveon Clowney to be anything more
than what he's already been. And I don't know that
you look at what his post, at what he's been
in his past, is feasible to think that he could
be his most in Cleveland at this point. Yeah, looking
at this signing and we'll get to Brad Stevens in

(42:12):
just second. Uh. You did bring in Anthony Walker. I
bring him up a good linebacker, an Indie and a
Northwestern guy, so we get him his mention in here
in the first hour. Uh, you have Troy Hill comes
in as nickelback. Uh. And normally we'd be playing photograph
under it. Uh if my during the week, Alex Tischer

(42:34):
would be tormenting all of y'all with that. But they
do still have a Sheldon on the defensive line. They
got rid of Richardson, but Sheldon Day is there, so
you know, one Sheldon in another another out as it were,
because they needed to free up some money to bringing
in Clowney. Yeah, I don't. I don't think he's a
world beater, but they made some other moves to the
bolster the back seven for for a team that really

(42:58):
should be ready to compete, because Pittsburgh is gonna be
a curiosity. Enough moving parts there, Baltimore, did they make
that next push? Um, well, they haven't in terms of
their their downfield weapons yet, but we'll watch the next
year of evolution of Lamar Jackson. You know how bullish
I am on him. I think he's just an incredible talent,
still learning on the job as you go. Uh. And

(43:21):
then you know, we look at Cincinnati and well, just
duct tape Joe Burrow because he's a lot of fun
to watch. They've got some offensive web hey, behind that
offensive line. I mean, the guy was a punching bag
last year. Still put up some numbers, all right. Now
we moved to the back to the world of college
buckets and to the NBA. Uh. Indiana hired Mike Woodson

(43:41):
last month and a little bit of a surprise, but
there were a lot of a lot of smoke that
Brad Stevens was being wooed for the job. Now the
Celtics winners of eight of nine. They weathered the storm
of a lot of the illness and injury early in
the season and they're getting right. We talked about Jayson
Tatum at his forty four points last night, they win
the game against the Warriors, oh, Jalen Brown didn't play,

(44:02):
and they've won eight of nine down the stretch. But reportedly,
according to woes Over at ESPN, Indiana was prepared to
offer Stevens a seven year, seventy million dollar contract and
he said, no, thanks, Hm, how you feel about that?
I I think if if you've decided you've got unfinished

(44:23):
business at one level, why you're moving back? Because he
can always go back and coach college buckets. True, So
if you think you you've still got a team that
can run and maybe win a title here and you're
a young guy, because Bratt Stevens still a young guy, right,
So I mean it's colleges aren't closing. This is the
thing I always say when guys bemoan the oh this

(44:45):
guy left he didn't finish his degree. Like, look at
the number of guys that have gone back. You can
go back and get your degree. Colleges aren't closing. In fact,
it's easier now to get a degree than ever. You
could sitting here underpants and log onto the internet. And
that was before the pan demick I was making that
argument true, So for Brad Stevens, I think the money

(45:05):
is always always going to be there, another opportunity, and
and let's face it, Uh, it's gonna take a lot
for Woodson to get Indiana out of where Indiana is
because it ain't nineteen seventy six and Bobby Knight anymore. Hey,
coming up next. The NFL p A has a little
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(45:49):
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(46:11):
can get the download the podcast Apple podcast, google Play,
wherever you find your audio. Myself, I'm yelling at Jason
Smith five nights a week. Uh. Last week he was
off on Monday, LaVar in with me and and there
were a bunch of New York based stories that we
were able to just shrug at and move on. It
was great. You want to talk that. It was like Christmas,

(46:32):
LaVar Hm. Wow, sports is booming, man, business is booming.
Get you. I'm happy for it to be booming. Oh,
it's so good to have it all back and flowing
right now. And and look a lot of pitfalls along
the way. We still have some some outbreaks and concerns
in different parts. We had a game postponed yesterday and

(46:53):
Major League Baseball, But for the most part, we're getting
people into the stands. I've been able to experience at once.
I itching to get back to another one, trying to
figure out a way in the schedule to go to
invade Dodger Stadium, uh and figuring it out and hopefully
getting a little bit of a road trip in as
the year goes on, visiting home and getting my Wrigley

(47:15):
Field and guaranteed rate field. I'll never that'll never flow
off my lips, but there it is guaranteed rate field
for the White Sox and the excitement being on air Wednesday,
I was telling the guys, uh for Carlos Rhodan's no hitter,
uh near perfect game, one of the highlights of my
job and my experience in all these years. And it

(47:37):
was interesting because the day before was the anniversary of
Kobe bryant sixty career finale, So like back to back
nights just talking about what an honor it is and
how much fun as a sports fan to be the
talking head bloviating over these fantastic performances, trying to still
stay professional right where you're not yelling just like an

(47:58):
idiot and it's intelligible, but you know the I don't
believe what I just saw kind of moments back to
back and piling up, and you know, you and I
talked about it all the time here on Sunday mornings,
like it's live theater on a whole other level, right,
because look at Broadway, they may sing it a different

(48:19):
octave on a given night, maybe the guys not not
feeling it, and he can't hit that high note, so
it's a little bit changed, or maybe you get the
card in your program when you walk in. It's the understudy.
Still the same play with sports. You may thank you know,
the only thing you can count on is that you're
gonna get dominated. If de gram or Clayton Kershaw is

(48:40):
on the mountain, we can stipulate to that. Everything else
is a roll of the dice and we watch it
play out for three hours, two hours, whatever it may be,
and that's the beauty of it. And as we get
closer and closer to the draft, we're dissecting the number
three pick and we'll do a little bit of that
as the show goes on. What want Something came up

(49:01):
this week LaVar that I think is curious and to me,
it doesn't work. But Demorris Smith saying it's in players
best interest to sit out voluntary workouts this season quote,
I think what a lot of players have said, they've
heard from their coaches that they need to show up.
We've known for years that this is a voluntary workout
where a lot of coaches put their finger on the scale,

(49:22):
and when they call it voluntary, they expect players to
show up. Well, yeah, I think that what you're seeing
now is for the first time players exercising their voice
to say no, and it's frankly probably one of the
few times that players have ever heard players are coaches
have ever heard players say no. And so we've seen

(49:43):
the same statement issued by what half the league at
this point saying, hey, we're not And there's guys with contract,
you know, incentives that will show up to make sure
they collect their cash, but they keep citing concerns over
quote adequate protocols to return safely amid the pandemic. Like

(50:04):
you just played a season through it. You just had
protocols that that we we didn't see. We had a
couple of games that had to be moved around, but
the season went on, and now you're gonna raise that
flag for a fight that more more specifically just seems
a hey, we we were able to make it worth

(50:24):
work without showing up to the normal paces last year,
so we're not going back to that. That's the argument.
It's that that's being made here, but they're couching it
under the well, we've got these COVID concerns. At least
from where I said, it's a convenient excuse right now.
I just think that whatever the rhyme and reason is

(50:49):
for you know, the p A to do what they're
doing and the players that not want to or or
be a part of that where they don't report in.
I would think because some guys do get paid off
of being at you know, O T A s and
being a mini camps and being at at offseason workouts,

(51:10):
that they would want to be there. You know, some
guys always choose to go work out where they want
to go work out, and other guys are there to
get their bonuses. I mean, those are built in bonuses. So, uh,
you know, I don't know what the right answer is
to to this in particular, and I don't want to
speak out of uh out of line, because I don't

(51:32):
know all of the intimate details connected as to why
they would want to not have off season gatherings. Um,
but I I will say anything that can strengthen the
business is going to help your cause. You know, if

(51:52):
the NFL went away today, there would be a lot
of people that that don't even play in the NFL
anymore that would be impacted by the NFL going away.
People that play in the NFL would be impacted by
the NFL going away. People that haven't made it to
the NFL would be impacted by the NFL going away.

(52:13):
So to me, anything that maybe challenges or or weekends,
what what the product can be on the field, what
the amount of of development and and preparation can be
on the field is diminished in some way if it's
not feasible to look at the reasoning why as as

(52:38):
a very very good reason to go in a different direction. Uh,
you know, it's hard for me to to kind of
comprehend why guys would make the decision to not want
to go in and have an off season together. You're
gonna have an off season somewhere, I would see, I
would assume perceivably, why would you not want to be

(53:00):
at your team facility? Not only is it not not? Uh?
Which is this is interesting? Right? Why? Like if you
go to your facility and you train, and you train
with you know, what are perceived as the best strength
trainers in the game. You train with the best speed

(53:21):
people in the game, I mean as a whole, right,
I mean maybe they're specialists, but you're not hiring somebody
out these franchises that isn't really great at what they do.
You you have access to sports medicine, you and rehab.
You have access to film rooms and and the footage.
You have access to a field, to fields in general,

(53:45):
to indoor facilities, and it's free. And not only is
it free, you get paid. I don't, I don't confusing. Yeah,
it's missing, it's missing something to me, you know, as
you lay all that out, not to mention that in
that work environment, we're talking about the investment in every
one of those athletes and the training staff. You know,

(54:08):
we're talking about billion, multibillion dollar companies, all of them,
right all the way down to Franchise thirty two, whoever
you put down there Jacksonville. We're still talking about having
a a multibillion dollar assessment on them at this point
for what the league is and where the league is going.
So are they going to skimp on the safety protocols? No, No,

(54:32):
because they know that it's a look with all the
other things that hit the shield. And I use that,
you know, with tongue in cheek, because that's how folks
refer to the league. But to protecting the brand, given
all of the other things that swirl around to a sail,
the sanctity of the league, right, all of a sudden
they're embracing gambling. Good Why because there's more legal standing

(54:55):
in a lot of states. So it's like, okay, we
can we can actually talk about that now. Talking with
Smith the other day when he was working at NFL Network,
he brought up a story. At one point they were
assessing a player who was iffy on a Monday night,
and he goes, hey, you're gambling if you think he's
gonna be able to play, And they almost had to
reshoot an eleven minute scene, you know, a segment yelling

(55:16):
at each other off air because they want to cut
it over the word gambling used in that term. Right.
It wasn't even a hey make a bet on this guy.
It was hey, you know you're gambling with your lineup,
so you know, we we see how they make strides there.
I I offered this theory as well from a veteran standpoint.
This is an advantage though, right, fewer fewer reps and

(55:39):
looks and and time in among the team for young
guys and the young bucks to come take your job.
Maybe because because we saw the change in structure at
the top of the draft, right, nobody gets a giant,
you know, lottery winning novelty check like they used to.
Veterans felt as though, why do rookie who have done

(56:00):
nothing to prove that they can be successful in the
National Football League UM get higher contracts, bigger contracts than
guys that have proven that they can do it in
the league. So that became a big conversation when you
got like the guys like JaMarcus Russell, you know what
I mean, Like you got guys coming in there this

(56:21):
they're that they're getting these crazy contracts and they don't
know how to handle it, and and in fact didn't
do not one thing that would be considered to be
um justification of the contract that they got coming in
other than the fact that their drafts, their draft pick
number justified it. Legitimately, it was a lottery ticket at

(56:44):
that point, and why you needed to uh do everything
you can to get your agent to talk up a
good game to make sure you weren't number two, number three,
number four, whatever whatever that number was, because they you
saw the and now it's on the scale, but back
then you're talking tens of millions of dollars for a
couple of draft spots. Yeah, well it's slotted now, and

(57:10):
and so now you you come in, you know, unless
you're a quarterback. I think that I think it's slotted. Listen,
I don't know all of the details of it. I
don't think number one pick quarterback would get the same
slotted money as a number one pick, you know, cornerback.
I don't think they get the same money. I could
be wrong, but I don't want to speak out of term.

(57:30):
But all I'll say is is that you still are
in a situation now where you got to prove. You
gotta prove what what the situation? Um, you know what
you can be as opposed to just that giant P word. Yeah, correct, correct? Correct?
So uh, all I know is this right as it

(57:54):
applies to to the league itself. These these there are
so many conversations that take place to try to benefit
the players, and and I think that that should be
made known. I mean, there are some some really good
um people out there that really really work to have
the conversations to benefit the player as much as possible,

(58:16):
because the player ultimately is what what drives the league itself.
So when when you think about you know everything that
we're we're discussing, and and you know what the talent
levels are and and you know, the different things that
are put in place or the protocols that govern what's
what's taking place. Ultimately, if you don't get the best

(58:36):
players doing their best, it hurts everyone. And I think
people got to understand that. So when I'm looking at
this situation where you know they're coming out and they're
saying that, you know, as a collective group, they don't
want to work out at the facilities and and do
these things. If you don't think that the NFL is
going to have better protocols than the places you're gonna
go work out, I would challenge that. I would challenge you.

(59:01):
I would challenge you to prove to me that the
places that you're gonna go work out and do your
off season programs because you're not going to check in
and do O T A s or do many camps
or do those things um based upon the pandemic in
the situation, I would challenge you to show me the
protocols of the places of where you're going and how

(59:21):
many of you guys are going there, and how are
you doing it and and how does that look? Mike.
I just think that sometimes we get so carried away
into looking at certain things and And there's a lot
of layers to this conversation because we're going from talking
about draft picks and draft slots and how much they
make to where guys people are working out in different

(59:42):
things like that, and I just you know, for me,
I think if you if we just kind of um
narrow the scope of it and just look at it
from the angle and the perspective of what do you
think the ultimate task and the ultimate goal is of
a National Football League franchise? What do you think that
the ultimate goal of the National Football League is? I

(01:00:06):
think it's to put on the best show that you
possibly can put on so that you can reap the
benefits of improving your bottom line and growing growing the sport.
So if that's what their ultimate goal is, then all
of these conversations that we're having, and even as they
surround uh the pandemic and COVID nineteen, I would sit

(01:00:27):
here and I would certainly say that you're you definitely
want to make the best representation of yourself as players.
There's nothing wrong with that. So as a player's association,
represent yourself the best way that you possibly can, but
also understand that your success is is ultimately how the

(01:00:50):
National Football League is going to thrive, so they're not.
I mean, this isn't some type of big conspiracy theory.
Come into the facilities, come here and be here, and
and we're putting you in harm's way. Yeah, yeah, that
that's the thing, though, LaVar is that for me? You know,

(01:01:12):
I would look at it going you want, if you
want to put on the best product, shouldn't isn't more
time together in the facility, with the trainers, with all
these and coaches and film rooms and all of these
things that you have that you will not And obviously,
if you're a veteran, you you're able to say, hey,
I figured out my training, I know what works for me,
and look at here's my results. But from a team

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perspective moving forward, you still need to get that cohesiveness.
And you don't want to have it happen after week four,
right because we're bouncing out preseason games which guys weren't
playing anyway, and now you're you're gonna limit your offseason workouts. Look,
I get it. You flex where you can, you use
leverage where you can. I don't think this is good

(01:01:58):
for the long term effect of the product, and I
would look to have some pushback here, uh in short
order against d Smith in this type of decision. The
Eagles the latest team to add their their name to
the list of veterans saying Nope, not coming back in
voluntary is just that I'll stay home and I'll run

(01:02:19):
my xbox, okay, or I'll train at the local park
or with my guy or whatever. And you don't know
what they're doing either. So there's just so many holes
that get created through this, through a pandemic. It seemed
a you make the best of it and do what
you can. And now to try to try to use
this flex be careful. They'll they'll that bag may shrink

(01:02:40):
a little bit on the back side of this based
on what you're doing. That's the problem. Now, I know
we go into a break, but that is the problem, Mike,
is that you gotta be careful what what you what
you leverage yourself into, because sometimes you be leveraging, and
you leveraging and leveraging and then you'd be like, wait, wait, wait,
hold on, we thought that this would happen if we

(01:03:01):
did this. I didn't know that that was going to
happen if we did this, And and once that happens
you know, sometimes you got to really really take into consideration, Um,
can you fix it? That's it? And sometimes it just
ain't fixable, and trying to figure out exactly what long
and short term mean in all of this. He's LaVar Arrington.

(01:03:23):
I'm Mike car I'm a great discussion there Fox Sports Sunday.
Here on Fox Sports Radio, coming up next to a
case of mistaken identity, and I asked, how the hell
do you mistake this guy? We'll talk about it next
year on Fox. Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome
back in Fox Sports Radio. It's Fox Sports Sunday. What

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if I told you the most terrorizing man in the NFL,
Well it was mistaken. It was just somebody else in
an attack. Yes, my car. But we were back into
the segment, I know, because and then I have to
reintroduce us. See that that's crazy different structure, man, you know,

(01:04:09):
keep it. I mean you just totally brain screwed me
just then. I mean, you take us into the break
with that. You came out of the break and shot
that out there. It's a beautiful thing. Uh. My garment
alongside LaVar Arrington. He's at the edge of his seat,
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our show is preemptive, guess what, go pick up the
I Heart Radio app. It's free, take us with you
wherever you go. Uh. But there was a story earlier
in the week LaVar where it became a potential disaster
for the Los Angeles Rams and all defensive line right right,
because the in the immediacy of this a man named

(01:05:16):
da Vincent Spriggs, he accused Aaron Donald of assault. Earlier
this week out there was an attack outside a Pittsburgh
area nightclub, right, Aaron Donald, the legend in the areas
we've talked about here on the show. Uh, and he
was attacked, saying he bumped into a guy and and

(01:05:36):
it spilled outside. And everybody I think has seen the
photo of this guy's swollen eyes. Spriggs at this point
and right, and it was everywhere else and put it
on him as wow, this guy attacked me. So immediately
it's like, ah, here we go rams, you know, trying
to match what the Buccaneers did this past year, or

(01:05:58):
being able to host and try to win a Super
Bowl as the Super Bowl festivities come here to Los
Angeles this year. But now you're looking at all, right,
he's gonna end up in the player conduct policy, you know,
and he's gonna lose six games. Can the defense with it?
So like you immediately start going down that road. And
I was raising my hand going there's gotta be some
videotape of this. There just has to be. Even if

(01:06:20):
it's just a looky lou who's hammered and is you
know Za Bruner film is waving because he can't stand
up straight, We've still got to have something to do
with this. And well, now it's an apology to Aaron
Donald in the case of mistaken identity. And the video
showed that Aaron ran over to try to help this

(01:06:42):
guy to pull people off him, trying to get the
kids off of Spriggs. He gets two or three people
off him at that point in time, someone grabs Aaron said,
it's not a good situation. Let's get out of here.
M so there shooting, Well the potential, Yes, well I'm
from there, so I can say this and I can

(01:07:02):
shoot it without any type of of hesitation. He when
that's when the shooting starts. So, I mean, but this
is one of those stories. I think. It's just it's
it's it's one. How do I say this? I can't
stand it when people do things like this because the

(01:07:26):
court of public opinion, Now, the fact that it came
out that it was a mistaken identity was like days later,
days later. It wasn't the same day, it was days later.
So you know what happens. Oh he raped me, Oh
he assaulted me. Oh he beat me, he beat me up.

(01:07:49):
Oh he he robbed me. For two days, for three days,
whatever amount of time elapses from the time at that
acute that accusation comes out on that person, the court
of public opinion cast its vote, The jury comes in

(01:08:11):
and they turn in their verdict before there's any due process,
before there's any real conclusions, it's cast. And so to me,
I ultimately feel like and and here's here's where the
slippery slope of all of this comes in right, and
I gotta be mindful of this because it it makes

(01:08:32):
I have no idea why this chime and my place
continues to go off. I apologize folks bringing out the guns.
I had no idea from where I had. I have
no idea. So everybody out there, I apologize to you
for hearing this chime clock without without yours. It's my
house alarm. I have no idea why it continues to

(01:08:54):
go off there, And and I know that the Court
of Public Opinion will be out on me that I
just don't care about doing this radio so so that
my chime continues to be a part of the show,
I apologize. I do not have traffic coming in and
out of my house or anything like that. I have

(01:09:16):
no idea why this chime continues to go off. Um,
all right, So back to my point. When the Court
of Public Opinion cast its vote, it has been known
to ruling not only somebody's career, Mike, it can ruin
their life. And and in this scenario, in this situation,

(01:09:38):
all I could sit there and think about when it
was coming out was like, man, somebody that ran up
on a D. A D is not a big dude.
He's not big, all right, if you see him in person,
he is a slab of of granite. But he's not
a physically big, imposing dude like big Zeus rest Is

(01:10:02):
rest Is Child big big zoos And I'm not talking tiny,
I'm talking Orlando Brown Zeus. Dudes like that big Daryl
Gardner from you used to play with the Dolphins, played
with me and uh and and uh Washington. Those are
people that you see and you say, I'm not messing

(01:10:22):
with him, Like I see him out, I'm not messing
with him. You see a D a d you might
not even be able to pick him out in a crowd, like, yeah,
he's not physically super big. So the one thing that
I have always encountered and I've always dealt with, it's crazy.
When I played ball, was I go out and when

(01:10:45):
I go to like sports bars or or anywhere where
I watch games and stuff like that, to be able
to be in the mix. Or during my radio shows.
When I did radio shows back in Washington, the first
thing that people would say to me is you're not
as big because I thought you were. And then it's like, oh,
you know, no big deal, Like yeah, you know, hey,
I'm a person like I got a big heart. You know,

(01:11:08):
I play hard and I got a big heart. But
they assumed that I'm a bigger I was a bigger
person for some reason, I don't know. But then as
the night goes on, Mike, or as the day goes on,
you know what happens after a few more beers going
or a few more going, Not only are you not
so big, it's like I could take you. While they're
putting their hands on you, like you're you're putting your hands,

(01:11:30):
like you're pointing into me, like your point your finger
into my chest, or you're grabbing my shoulder, like you're
trying to sudden me. This has happened to me, Like
you have no idea the amount of times this has
happened to me. They put their hands on him, And
I was taught growing up you can allow words to

(01:11:50):
to bounce off of you, but if somebody touches you,
you have the right to to destroy them. Like my
parents told me, you don't start it, you don't touch anybody,
but if somebody touches you, you have the right to
finish it. That's what my parents brought me up on.
That was my rules growing up. So for me, it

(01:12:11):
took another level of of adjustment and adapting. And and
sometimes when when it turns into a friend or Phoe
type of situation where they're saying I could take you,
and they're putting their hand on you, and it's kind
of like a little physical like, well, I get my bill,
pay my bill, game might still be going on whatever,

(01:12:34):
or I might be working, so security or somebody after
the restaurant has to actually remove this person from either
being around me or from the premises altogether. So that's
the first thought process I'm going through with Aaron Donald
as somebody didn't tried him, and he didn't put his
hands on him, and Aaron Donald didn't shut him down

(01:12:56):
low and behold, he hasn't done anything. And then the
more or the story comes out the dude was trying
to help to me here and and and where I said,
the slippery slope is is that if somebody really did it,
it's somebody like if if somebody really, you know, raped somebody,
if somebody really assaulted somebody, if somebody really did it,

(01:13:20):
then I don't want the people who had it really
happened to them be afraid to say that this happened
and report that this happened. But I also don't want
innocent people on the other side of it. Us as athletes,
us as pros, we're targets. So I don't want them

(01:13:41):
being in a situation where people can just so easily
say he assaulted me, he did this to me, he
did that to me. You know, that is a very
very hard balance to find because this could be something
that had altered the uh, the trajectory of Aaron Donald's popularity.

(01:14:03):
It could have altered his career, like he could have
ended up on the Commissioner's exempt list, some type of
disciplinary actions. There's all kinds of of of you know,
things that could come out of if Aaron Donald had
really assaulted somebody. So it's like, kind of how do
you find the balance in that, because once that damage
is done, it's done. It's no going back, like, oh,

(01:14:27):
three weeks later, three months later, four months later, you
found out, oh they dropped the charges or they dropped
the case, or he was found innocent. Well, he wasn't
found innocent because he's already been made guilty. You know,
you might be pulling his jerseys down off of off
of the uh you know, off of the racks, you

(01:14:47):
might remove his his image or the videos that he's
a part of on your on your video. Wait a minute, now,
you're bringing this into de Shaun wat what you did.
I'm not trying to bring it into Deshaun Watson, but
I'm just saying, can you imagine, just imagine this for
one second here? All right, people are bringing all of

(01:15:10):
these civil suits against Deshaun Watson for what's taking place.
All right, let's say that out of the women I
believe twenty or twenty one that fouled the civil suits
and are willing to come out and use their names,
which you know, that's a whole another conversation, but let's
just say for the sake of conversation, all of those

(01:15:34):
charges are he beats every last one of those those suits, right,
he is now forever stained. He doesn't remove that stain
even if he wins, so that that impacts his That

(01:15:54):
impacts his his his ability to live a healthy life.
It impacts him to live a lucre if life impacts him.
So to me, it's like I almost feel like there
needs to be something there that if you lose, you
should have to pay what he was going to have
to pay if he was. If you lose and he

(01:16:15):
was supposed to go to jail, and in certain situations
that person should have to do to time that the
person you accused of you should have to do the time. Well,
as related to the Watson situation, we've got two different
avenues right now. We've got the twenty three civil suits
and there's like one that got dropped because of the

(01:16:36):
privacy concerns because of the order from the court that
they had to release their identity. But there's one there's
one criminal and there is a criminal. Yes, but they're
they're running in parallel right now. So we're a long
ways off from finding um the finish line there. But
to your point, yes, if it's proven that it's all fabricated,

(01:16:56):
there should be some repercussions and you're never adding your
full reputation back. We know that nobody sees the retractions
or gives you necessarily the benefit of the doubt because
remember there's always the hey, he had a good lawyer
argument that comes into play in those regards as well.
He's LaVar Arrington out of my Carmen. This is Fox

(01:17:18):
Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Radio. Let's kick it over
to Isaac Low and draw if you give us an update.
What's trending in the sporting universe? What's Up? By Michael
and LaVar. We start with some breaking Major League Baseball news.
J Bruce of the Yankees has just announced his retirement
after fourteen seasons. Bruce was a three time All Star.
On the field Saturday Night, Dodgers leading the Padres two
to nothing with two outs in the bottom of the

(01:17:39):
ninth inning, but the Padres had runners at second and third.
Here's Charlie Steiner on a five seventy l a sports
on a fly ball in the center field, diving catch
made five bets and the Dodgers win it. Let's spectacular
play five Mookie bets. If he doesn't get it, it's
a high game. Instead, Bets saves the day and the

(01:18:05):
Dodgers shut up the Padres to to nothing. NBA Saturday
Nights Celtics prevailing over the Warriors one nineteen to one
fourteen is. Jayson Tatum scored forty four. The Celtics on
a six game wedding streak. They've won eight of nine.
Steph Curry forty seven points and eleven three pointers in
a losing cause. Bradley Beale scored thirty seven of the
wizards twenty one point win over the Pistons, Russell Westbrook

(01:18:27):
with his fifteenth triple Devil in his last twenty games,
that's never been done before in NBA history, and the
Spurs shocking the Sun's in Phoenix by twenty six points
one eleven to eighty five. Not word yet on whether
Gregg Popovitch celebrated the victory with the cheto or a
winsome yet robusteen switchback Ridge Cavernet Michael LaVar. We'll find

(01:18:50):
out from our guy, Will Blackman. He'll be on the
scene and he'll figure that out for us. Yeah, he's
a good he's a good man, as he definitely knows.
He's a Somalia or champage. Yeah, no, Somali A got
through that first test. Gotta catch up. See see if
he's got that second level yet. But at Will Blackman
where you find him, uh super Bowl winner, Uh teammate

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Limitations do apply. And to that, I just say, as
we talk about a lot on the show, LaVar, don't
let one thing define you, right, one relationship doesn't define
you as a person overall, and certainly your job in

(01:19:54):
your career. You've got a long life, and while football
is one piece of you. Man, there's a lot going
on deep waters. Yeah, man, you know I love being diverse.
Diversity is is the key because everything isn't always going
to work. I've been in I've been in losing positions,

(01:20:15):
I've been in winning positions. I've been in the highs
of highs, I've been at the loads of lows. And
the one thing that I've I've always always realized is
um by by continuing to develop yourself and and to
identify what you're passionate about and and how it it
matches your purpose in life. Uh, it can ultimately guide

(01:20:38):
you into opportunities to improve your not only your you know,
economics standards, standing in status, but it can improve your
emotional and mental status as well by just continuing to
develop yourself and and letting that development kind of lead

(01:20:58):
the way into you know, where you're ultimately purposed to be.
And I almost feel like that's like a spiritual connection
type of deal, like in your gut, Like if you
feel it's right, you can can do it. I always
say God lives in your gut, so you know, yeah,
I enjoy being multifaceted. I enjoy working with multi faceted guys.
You're a multi faceted guy. A lot of the guys

(01:21:20):
I work with our multifaceted. I find it to be
very fun. I found it to be motivating and inspiring.
And you know, we just keep pushing each other, you know,
and that's how it's supposed to work. That's right. And
we push folks along and they push right back at us.
It's a beautiful thing. He's LaVar Arrington and Mike Armen.
This is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Radio. Coming
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listening to Fox Sports Radio cursing along here. Fox Sports Radio,
Vince and I having a nice little session. Uh, Fox
Sports Sunday, Mike Armen alongside LaVar Arrington. Now I feel
like I need to do like some azer size or something.
Get the sex. Yeah, definitely. It's a fast moving music.

(01:22:09):
It's almost oddly reminiscent of that thing they used to
do with they dressed that guy in the oldld Man
outfit for uh what was it six flags? That dancing
around like I know it was. It was addictive, it
was stupid, but it was like a super fun commercial. Yeah,

(01:22:29):
the first time I remember it. Yeah, he was dancing hard. Well, no,
he was working it out, There's no question about it.
You know who also is working hard. He's got a story.
I'm sure that will throw the masses. Let's kick it
over to Ilo. We all do. Double Takes its curious headlines,
but it takes a keen eye to makes sense of them.
Here's our man reporting on the theater of the absurd.

(01:22:55):
It's Isaac Glowing Cross and this is off the rails.
The rails today the previously seemingly humdrum stayed and how
shall I say it, boring Canadian Parliament. But earlier this
week Oh, Canada. It happened when a Canadian lawmaker previously

(01:23:17):
completely anonymous named William Amos. Mr. Amos is a member
of the Canadian Parliament representing a district in Quebec. Was
a little bit late to a Canadian House of Commons
zoom meeting, so he was going out for a jog,
got back to his office a little late and changed

(01:23:39):
his clothes from his jogging clothes into his suit right
as the zoom conference meeting was beginning. There was only
one slight problem. I'm sure you can guess where this
is going. He accidentally forgot to turn off his zoom
camera on the zoom meeting, change ching his clothes completely

(01:24:03):
naked during a zoom meeting during a Canadian House of
Commons meeting. Scream out to him and tell him turn
your mama. No. Yes, something they did, but in the
most Canadian of ways. Madam Madame Claudet de Belle Fuier,

(01:24:27):
who was actually a member of the opposition party, the
opposition party of Amos's party, was presiding over the meeting
and said in the most Canadian way ever, and I quote,
it may be necessary to remind the members that a
tie and jacket are obligatory, but so are a shirt, boxer,

(01:24:50):
shorts or pants. We have seen that the member is
in great physical shape, but I think members should be
reminded to be careful and control the camera. L Now,
that's a member of the opposition party. But like complimentary
the guy's physique. That is a polite society, ladies and gentlemen.
Can you imagine in America a politician complimenting the physique

(01:25:13):
of someone in the opposing party. A most tweeting afterwards quote,
I made a really unfortunate mistake today and obviously I
am embarrassed by it. My camera was accidentally left on
as I changed into work clothes after going for a jog.
I sincerely apologize to all my colleagues in the House.
It was an honest mistake and it won't happen again.

(01:25:36):
Unquote oh Canada. Indeed, it's the greatest moment in the
House of Common zoom calls that they had. Are you kidding?
These guys now become a legend now called the House
of Uncommon? Exactly, Well, you've got nothing to need, I really,
I really don't. When you're when you're told by a

(01:25:57):
woman in that setting, Um, I've had nothing man, you
gotta get that mole checked. Thanks HLO, appreciate you. And
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Four hours of our all goodness every Sunday morning. Mike
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and we've got Vince close. We remember him. He had
abandoned us for a while. He's act at least for

(01:27:01):
one night, maybe one night only, I don't know. And
Isaac lowing Crown on the updates. We thanked them for
making a sound oh so pretty as we bring you
all the greatness from the sporting universe. So much going on,
so many great stories. Uh second half disco ball still down?
Did you figure out what that chime was in the background?
For those that missed it, As LaVar is making brilliant,
cogent arguments and stringing together life examples, it has been

(01:27:27):
just random chimes in the background, as if to say,
all right, I mean, it's almost like an orchestra trying
to play you off. Is it the den room door
was open or something that we don't have a den,
so I don't know. I'm not sure um where that
was coming from or how they programmed the alarm system
um to say that. So my apologies, but yeah, it

(01:27:50):
seems as though we we've got it, got it fixed.
The technical difficulty has been uh uh yeah, we fixed
the glitch to steal from off his space. I'm not gonna,
not gonna, not gonna work here anymore, is what they
did with that. But one guy who's getting ready for
his big moment, a right big moment on the stage,

(01:28:11):
has had his surgery. We've dissected his game, actually we
really haven't. We've left him alone until this week when
a Sports Illustrated article came out. That's Trevor Lawrence, the
presumed number one pick. They say he's digesting the Jacksonville
Jaguars playbook. Oh so well. But there were comments in
this Sports Illustrated article LaVar that got everybody all in

(01:28:33):
a tizzy and I just shrugged. So the fact that
Trevor Lawrence felt that he then had to respond to
the criticism meant we've hit a sad point, uh in
this process, Like I have to defend myself on being
a good person. It's it's just crazy where we are.
That's where we are in the world today. A person

(01:28:54):
has to defend himself for being a solid person in
the In the Sports Illustrated piece, he quote it's not
like I need football from my life to be okay.
I want to do it because I want to be
the best I can be. I want to maximize potential.
Who wouldn't want to You're kind of wasting it if
you don't, okay. And then people got all all mad

(01:29:17):
because he doesn't have the right mindset, right, and you
have to have a large, healthy chip on your shoulder,
so you have to. Yeah. The thing that that bugged
me most was that, hey, let's bring up Andrew luck
when talking about it, because that that's the guy who
with the most recent comp of had other things going

(01:29:38):
on that we knew of, right, because normally we want
our quarterbacks just focus. Man, if you're talking and thinking
about anything else, that you're just wrong. That's why some
folks still I want to blindly shout at Windmills related
to Russell Wilson because he's got other things going on.
But with Andrew Luck, they brought that up. Andrew Luck

(01:29:58):
did retire so he could go and and just see
the earth. Yes, he had a baby, and and that
is part of it. Andrew Luck was a broken man physically, right.
I mean, that guy just piled up injuries one after
the next, took a lot of hits during his NFL career,
and I held out hope that somehow, some way maybe

(01:30:21):
he'd want to find his way back. But he's in
the retirement and he's doing just fine. And they'll always
have that banner that they put up for that a
f C Championship Game appearance. Let that barnade for a moment.
But to say that because this guy's got some other
interests and that it's not live, breathe die football, that

(01:30:45):
it's a problem. So he he told Sports Illustrated, I
don't have this huge chip on my shoulder that everyone's
out to get me, and I'm trying to prove everybody wrong.
I just don't have that. I can't manufacture that. I
don't want to seem as to have worked out pretty
well for him thus are in terms of his performance,
and then to suddenly say, well, you know what, we
need that other thing. So he had to go to

(01:31:07):
Twitter to respond to a couple of days of the
attacks on his football acumen and just himself. I'm proudly
I could say Smith and I didn't spend but thirty
seconds just saying hey, it's out there and isn't that interesting?
And we moved on. Quote. I'm internally motivated. I love

(01:31:30):
football as much or more than anyone. It is a huge, capitalized,
huge priority in my life. Obviously, I am driven to
be the best I can be and to maximize my
potential and to win. I don't need football to make
me feel worthy as a person, but I love everything
that comes with the game. The fact that he he

(01:31:54):
felt and his team felt like he had to respond
to this, I would have just been putting up the
double liddle finger like I was. Stone called Steve Austin.
I said, the dude is so solid that this is
this is the best that could be manufactured leading up
to the draft because quite frankly, there has been nothing

(01:32:16):
said about Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, it's like the first time
in the history of the draft. We almost made it.
And and even this, I feel horrible even you know,
having to respond to to to this, and I've had
to talk about it ever since it's happened because it's

(01:32:37):
the biggest news connected to Trevor Lawrence and it's the
only entertainment value that that media has been able to
grasp with Trevor Lawrence. But it just goes to me,
I'm gonna take this a step further and and and
just how things work and in in life, you know,

(01:32:58):
you look at how they are handled and how the
caliber and the types of people handle them. And we
don't know who creates these narratives. We don't know who
sometimes where the origin of why things are stated, the
way that they're stated, where they come from sometimes, but

(01:33:20):
nonetheless it comes and and it's directed at somebody specifically.
So what I'm getting at here is when you do right,
but people are looking for wrong, they will find wrong.
But it's fun when you do wrong. It's interesting that

(01:33:43):
they will talk about the wrong, but depending on how
people want the narrative to go, they will look for
the right right. So people try to justify things one
way or the other, and people decide who they want
to like, who they want to dislike, who they want
to support, or who they want to treat as an adversary.

(01:34:03):
And we see that play out. I call it social
media culture. Right. I could tell you all the right
things in social media, and people will still tell you,
I hate your guts, I hope you die, drink poison,
jump off a bridge, you know, use a broken bungee cord,
gotta dit this down to other They'll tell you everything

(01:34:25):
that is the most despicable, disgusting ways to communicate. And
then you have other people that will sit there and
they go the other way with it. They're encouraging, they
give inspirational comments, they're very supportive, they're very nurturing, they
embrace you different things like that. And the one thing

(01:34:45):
that I noticed is the more you say, the more
the people that do what they do are going to
do it. It's like it's the wildest thing. It's it's
like there's no way it's ill give you a great
example of how weird like our society is and our
culture is. So I did undispute it this week, right,

(01:35:06):
And I did undisputed and co hosted, and I mean
the type of responses that were comments that were on
social media. Get these in words off of off of
the show, Where's Where's a hold on? Hold on? Where's
Where's Uncle? Where's Uncle? Shannon? And we're Skip data da

(01:35:27):
I changed the channel when these these fill ins and
these busters and Ambama's is on and all these other
names and data data, that's that and other, Right, But
when you look at Shannon and Skips comments under theirs,
it's people saying the same type of craziness about them
and how it refers to the show and how they feel.

(01:35:48):
And then you have the other ones that's like, oh,
I love what you're saying, I love what you do.
I enjoy when when Shannon and Skip are taking a break.
I enjoy the commentary of these guys filling in data
this down the other. So the point I'm making, Mike
is that people that hate themselves and hate the life
that they're living and living misery and and can't seem

(01:36:11):
to to exercise sense that would lead to them having
maybe a chance out of more productive life they choose
to live and be that that that negative force that
that tries to bring any and everything down to the
level where they are. And I feel like this is

(01:36:32):
a classic example of that. Like it's it's entertainment to
say what people are saying about Trevor Lawrence as it
applies to his mindset and this this comment that he made,
but it is one of the most complete, most well
rounded ways of of approaching what what you're doing in
your life in any category that a young man could have.

(01:36:55):
And yet we find ourselves questioning and some people even
condemning Trevor Lawrence for having an evolved, mature approach to
how he lives his life. It's crazy, Mike, Well, to me,
it's it's always gone back as I've been around sports,
you know, obviously my whole life, but in the professional manner,

(01:37:16):
I'm coming on two decades and been in around a
lot of practices, talked to a lot of a lot
of players, you know, in the game and in their
post career, and I've had many many guys, more than
I think the average fan would ever want to and
will let that become known as that that didn't necessarily

(01:37:37):
love the game, right. They started as kids, maybe playing
a bit, but then there was a point where it's saying,
you burn out, but you're realizing I have the body,
the physicality, and this is a means to an end.
Some people burn out. Man like, most people that have
what Trevor Lawrence has have burnt out because people see

(01:37:59):
the potential, people see what they can be, and all
of these outer forces come and push and push and
push and prod and control and and guide and this
and that, and they burn out. They burn out. Always
say it's crazy because I had the same type of

(01:38:20):
approach that that Trevor Lawrence had. I was not a
football player. I was a person that played football. That's
always been my thing. I was not ever a basketball
player of tracks, track and field person, and and I
was something else after. I was a person first, and
whatever else I did is I'm the person that did this.

(01:38:43):
So when people make it a point to say that
it's a badge of honor to to be like, I
am a football player, that's what I am. I am football,
That's what I'm you know. I never I never had
a charm with my number on it, you know, anything
like that. I'm not walking around with no no, I
hate it. Going to tow uh player gatherings with my

(01:39:07):
game jersey on, I hated it. Don't recognize my number,
Recognize me, Recognize my voice, Recognize my words, my reasoning,
my thoughts, How I care, how I how I approach
what I recognize that I know who I am as
a human being, not as this number like a number.

(01:39:30):
You know, just kind just remember it all goes away too,
oh man. And that's and that's the thing. The more
guys yelling I'm all this that the other. As soon
as it's gone away, where's the identity? It's gone? And
we've seen that how many times, how many hundreds of
thousands of examples, and I mean people end it, Mike.
They end it because of that can handle not being

(01:39:53):
that number, can't handle not being that that that football player,
that basketball player, that guy, And they end it. Why
we're talking about diversity, diversification, and it's not just for
your portfolios. Whatever portfolio you have, remember to pay yourself
first on payday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, and keep building.

(01:40:13):
But to that at that end as well, keep learning.
We were talking about it before. I always want to
have something else in the pocket. A lot of you
subscribe because they came to your emails back in in April,
or may have last year, and you bought your stack
skills and you bought all of those. Do you have
access to all sorts of courses? You get to chart
your own path. If you paid for him, go use them.
If you haven't, there's still deals to be had. You know,

(01:40:36):
don't have to work and walk in a straight line.
He's LaVar Arrington, I'm my Carmen, and you know what
we're gonna do. We're gonna try to figure out some
investing uh as related to the draft and some other things.
Our buddy Bernie Fretto is gonna stop by here on
Fox Sports Sunday talk about the odds of the number
three overall pick. What did San Francisco trade up to find?

(01:40:57):
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(01:41:18):
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(01:41:41):
time to head out to the hotline, LaVar. I'm gonna
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Michael Lava, how are you on this fine cerulean blue

(01:42:02):
Sky morning? And by the way, Mike, I'll have those
TPS reports to you after the show. I would appreciate that.
A game day voice. He's trying to keep just trying
to keep up with you, Pence, Dad, guys are well,
thanks for getting up with us today. Bernie. You know,
I know you and I have chatted a little bit
off air. A lot of excitement over that number three

(01:42:25):
pick and well action to be had as to betting
odds and excitement of what San Francisco may or may
not do up at that pick. Either way, they've got
options and what what are the numbers? Tell us? Well,
the betting market has changed quite a bit the last
forty eight hours, but you really can't glean a whole
lot from that. Mac Jones had been the favorite since

(01:42:48):
March and then just prior to Justin fields Pro Day,
a ton of professional money came in on him. But
there are a couple of things that play here. Part
of it is recency bias, part of it is prison
there at the moment, Justin Fields is very impressive. However,
what you're really seeing is a maneuver that professional betters
employ here. It's called scalping, and what it is, it's

(01:43:11):
a short term betting strategy designed to lock in small profits.
In order to do so, you need to place two
opposing bets against each other to guarantee that profit. Here's
what I mean. So on March twenty nine, Matt Jones
was plus one seventy five to be the number three
pick a thousand dollars. If you wagered that would bring
you back sev undred and fifty. Then on Justin Fields

(01:43:33):
pro Day he was as highest plus two twenty five
before the steam came in and that went way down,
But the thousand would have brought you back fifty. So
now you've locked in profits no matter who goes number three.
If it's Jones, you've netted seven hundred and fifty dollars.
If it's Fields, you've won fifty. I wouldn't read too

(01:43:53):
much into that. I feel strongly I'm I'm gonna stick
to my guns, and I have a lot of good
reasons for saying this, uh gun to my head. Seventy percentage,
Matt Jones, Justin Fields five percent, It's Tree Lands. What
are some other what are some other uh sports betting
lines to go out there as it applies specifically to

(01:44:17):
the two thousand and one NFL Draft, Yeah, there's a
ton of props LaVar. They're starting to roll out, and
you'll see more and more emerge as it gets closer
to April. In addition to all the quarterbacks, I mean,
Trevor Lawrence is such a prohibitive favorite. Now you'd literally
have to put up one hundred dollars to win a
dollar that he goes number one, Zack Wilson eleven and

(01:44:38):
one at number two. Then it of course it gets
interesting at number three. But then as you go down
the roster. Here you've got who will be the first
non quarterback drafted? Right now, Kyle Pitts out of Florida
is the favorite. A hundred dollars would bring you back
a hundred and forty. Pence Will right behind him would
bring you back one fifty, and Jamaar Chase is plus

(01:44:59):
two fifty, meaning if you put up a hundred dollars
that would pay to fifty. Then you get down to
things like who will be the first running back pick.
Naja Harris is the favorite, just ahead of Travis at ten.
Now you like this LaVar right now, Penn State linebacker
Michael Parsons absolutely right, he's plus one tenants about even money, uh,

(01:45:20):
just ahead of Patrick's or Tan who is plus one.
But again, as we get closer, you'll start to see
day by day more products hit the board. Who will
be the first wide receiver, the first linebacker, the first
defensive lineman. It'll be uh positions specific cornerback, defensive player,
along with a number of who will be at a

(01:45:41):
certain spot in the first round, plus conferences, which conference
will have the most players drafted the most players in
the first round. You have head to head a SEC
versus Big ten, Big ten versus Pack twelve hominy Alabama
players will be drafted in the first round. So uh,
you will see a plethora of opportunity if you so
desire and you're feeling saucy and you think you can

(01:46:03):
predict the future. How much like when we're talking about
limits for these kind of badge Bernie, what are we
talking and and how how big does this get? I mean,
I could see where on the on the first night
of the draft, you could have a pretty crazy not
quite n C double a tournament type thing going on,
but certainly with a lot of action on the board,

(01:46:24):
may maybe a big event. Well you will get in
terms of it being a non game like you know,
an n c A basketball game or Monday night NFL game,
we won't get anywhere near that for a couple of
reasons because again the limits it depends by shop, but
you're typically around a thousand dollars per UH per wager.

(01:46:46):
When you juxtapose that against an NFL game, you can
get up to three dollars on an NFL game if
you want. So, the books are gonna limit the amount
you can bet because the pros are good at this there.
It all comes down to who can get the information
and when they it it, they're usually pretty accurate, and
so the books don't want to, you know, give themselves
any additional liability. But when you add it all up cumulatively,

(01:47:07):
when you've got probably a hundred different props and you've
got a couple of weeks to bet it, and and of
course here in Laws Vegas, you don't even need to
go into the casino. You can bet right from your app.
You can stay right in your living room. When you
add it all up, by the time Monday night or
check that Thursday night, the twenty nine throws around, it'll
be a decent size event for the books. Hmm, all right,
let me let me throw this one. Is Mr Irrelevant still?

(01:47:29):
Is that still a thing? Very much? So? It doesn't
quite have the cache that it used to. But there's
even a prop for Mr Irrelevant LaVar, So you can guess, well,
the will the final pick in the NFL draft be
an offensive player or a defensive player? And I don't
know how you possibly handicap that it's a pure guest.

(01:47:49):
It's like shooting babies at the moon. Just let the
coin and move on. We'll continue with Bernie in just
a second. But why don't we pause for a moment,
get some update, maybe some odds elevant information from our guy,
Isaac Lohen Cron, indeed Michael and LaVar and Bernie. Most
relevant because this morning in Major League Baseball, the Washington

(01:48:09):
Nationals a short time ago play Stephen Strasburg on the
ten day injured list because of right shoulder inflammation. Also
this morning, three time All Star Jay Bruce now the Yankees,
announced his retirement after fourteen seasons and three hundred and
nineteen career home runs. Excuse me. Dodgers last night shut
out the Padres two to nothing as it came down

(01:48:31):
to the very end. Listen to this two outs bottom
of the ninth fitting Padres at second and third. Here's
Charlie Steiner on m five seventy l A Sports. We're
on a fly ball in the center field, diving catch
made by Bets and the Dodgers win it. Let spectacular

(01:48:52):
play five Mooky Bets. If he doesn't get it, it's
a tie game. Instead, Bets saves the day and the
Dodgers shut out the Padres to to nothing. They're now
on an eight game winning treak and at thirteen and two,
they have the best record after fifteen games ever by
a defending World Series champion and in the NBA. On

(01:49:14):
Saturday Night, a spectacular duel in Boston, as the Celtics
prevailed over Golden State one nineteen to one fourteen. Jason
Tatum scored forty four for the season, a six game
winning treak. They have won eight of nine. Steph Curry
and a losing cause, scored forty seven, nailed eleven three pointers.
Curry has made forty four three pointers over his last
five games, the most three pointers over a five game

(01:49:38):
stretch in all of NBA history. Back to Michael LaVar
and Bernie Appreciate Hilo at Isaac Lowen Cod where you
find him on Twitter. Coming up, about fifteen minutes from now,
we will do our Mammals of the Week as LaVar
will take to the pulpit and and unveil a couple
of heroes from the the last couple of days here
in the Sporting universe on the hotline with us right

(01:50:00):
out of Vegas, you here at eleven pm Pacific time
every Saturday night here on Fox Sports Radio. You can
download that as you do all our podcast, Apple podcast,
google Play, wherever you get your audio. You find him
on Twitter at Bernie Fratto. Uh, speaking wisely and bringing
numbers to bear. That's what he does each and every week. Uh.
Big arguments and and then the data to back it up,

(01:50:24):
no question, as well as uh tales from a lot
of experience covering the Lions LaVar. The man has, Uh,
he's seen some things. I'm certain that would certainly do
it ahead, but really real quickly, It's funny, guys, I did.
I was part of the pre and postgame show broadcast
team from to two thousand and eight, and I'd like

(01:50:46):
to say I think I saw everything because was Barry
Sanders last year and two thousand and eight was the
year that Rod Marinellian Company went owen sixteen. Oh wow, Yeah,
you've seen a lot. Yeah, I know that's that'll scar
a person, alright. So so moving forward, Look, we're looking
for hope, we're looking for things to open up, and

(01:51:07):
we're looking for opportunity and the gift that keeps going
giving the NFL. We're talking about the draft and the
next crop and what does that mean? Well, how are
they going to play into the over undertotals that were
unveiled on Friday. Now, it's an incomplete book because obviously
between the draft and we still have a bunch of
quarterback positions for teams that are our giant question marks. Bernie.

(01:51:29):
But were there any that stood out to you as
a Hey, I've got I'm linking my chops and I'm
calling around for my best price right now because there's opportunity. Yes, Mike,
there were. There were actually two. And since we talked Friday, uh,
a fair amount of money has come in on the
Kansas City Chiefs over that's now driven that wager to
minus one thirty. Went from even money to minus one thirty.

(01:51:51):
Here's what that means. So and we start got to
get our minds around when you look at these numbers.
They're playing seventeen games this year, not sixteen, but the
Chiefs are under total is twelve and I really like
the over and I'll tell you why. First of all,
the Chiefs have gone eight straight years going over their
win season total of twelve, and if you break it
down numerically, twelve and five is a free roll. The

(01:52:16):
only way you wouldn't cash this bet is if the
Chiefs lose six games in one. I just can't picture
the Chiefs losing six games. My moles are telling me
they're very ticked off that the optics of the Super
Bowl are sticking in their craws. And I think you're
going to get max effort out of them this year.
Not so inconceivable to think they can go thirteen and four.

(01:52:38):
They went fourteen in two last year with a sixteen
game record, So I like a sixteen game schedule, So
I like the Chiefs over. Also like the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers over last year after starting seven and five. No
O t a s, no preseason, no officials or no
up minicamp, none of the things you'd normally have to
get a new quarterback in a new offense together of

(01:53:00):
the poor Brady's having to throw rob trees to his
receivers and some parking lot at NAP Auto Parts and
people are calling the cops on him. So they really
weren't able to have And are you both of you guys?
You know how important timing and rhythm is in these offenses.
Once they figured it out, you talk about complimentary football,
that defense is a problem. They did put up thirty

(01:53:21):
one points in the Super Bowl, So some folks you
think that it was all defense, Well it was, but
they did put up thirty one. I think they go
over there eleven and a half wins this year. You know,
it sounds like a college team. The statu I'm gonna
tell you they've got all twenty two starters back. But
I'll tell you the one real quickly, the one number
that really jumped to me. I haven't touched it. The

(01:53:43):
overrunning on the Raiders is seven and a half and
the under is shaded to minus one five. That's not
a good futuristic I to look for the Raiders if
if you were what would be the opposite bet of
of a Tampa Bay or Kansas City, Well, you would
think if you were if you were predicting or betting

(01:54:03):
to predict a fall off, what is that like? They
don't make the playoffs as they're aligned on stuff like that. Yeah,
so those will be coming, It's excellent question. Those will
be coming out of our You'll have individual futures bets
on your odds to win the division and a C
North if c us that type of stuff. To make
the playoffs yes or no, and they'll be plus minus numbers,

(01:54:25):
and some of them are kind of ridiculous, like, for instance,
to make the playoffs, somebody like the Chiefs will be
probably minus. You have to lay up sixteen dollars to
win one that they make the playoffs. But you might
get your real plus money coming back, meaning that you're
ben you're banking on something going wrong. But that's that's
an excellent question. There will be plenty of opportunities after
the draft as we get into the summer to bet

(01:54:46):
whether a team makes the playoffs, yes or no, whether
they win the division yes or no, whether they win
the conference yes or no, whether they go to the
super Bowl and or win the Super Bowl. Hey, Bertie,
going back to last year, because right now we've got
all these votes and we keep an eye on it
with the offseason workouts and the NFL p A saying hey,
don't do it. They're voluntary, and you gots some guys
that have their their contracts where they can go make

(01:55:08):
some serious bank for the workouts. How much did that
impact play early on last year? Can you ascribe some
numbers to it at all? Uh? That aspect, virtually none,
virtually very little because once the guy has been in
the league three years, and I know our Lavark can
attest to this, you can make a case you really
don't need a lot of those early offseason activities. And

(01:55:30):
it's presumed you're working out in your practicing your craft. Now,
if you're new, if you're new to the organization, are
you trying to get to your ceiling from year one
to year two? Those types of things. But to answer
your question, the things that affected last year the most
were the fact that there were no fans and so
therefore teams going into what used to be hostile environments
really didn't exist as much anymore. You could hear yourself

(01:55:51):
think your quarterback could you know, could make could run
the offense from the line of scrimmage. So the home
field advantage last year was maybe one point, maybe half
a point. The second thing is the referees decided not
to make holding calls and there were very few defensive
past interference calls, which led to a ton of games
going over the total MIC, more so than in previous years.

(01:56:12):
And there are a lot of numbers to back that up.
But in terms of correlating the fact that they missed
o t s and there wasn't no preseason or mini
camps didn't seem to affect the plan in the field.
I thought the play looked pretty good last year. I
can't wait to see whether they actually call holding this year.
All right, last one for me on the way out
going to the NBA real quick, Bernie and some of

(01:56:32):
these efforts. And I'm putting that in quote on a
night tonight basis, where you see teams getting drummed by
by twenty five points at thirty points, we saw Golden
State get drummed by fifty a couple of weeks ago.
Do we just see those as noiser or there are
ways to start reading the tea leaves, uh that you've

(01:56:53):
been able to, you know, get to some common denominators. Well,
you try to look at past performance. And of course
the betting line is the great equalizer. One of the
super strong trends that's been in the NBA and started
in February of where home favorites check that road favorites
of between five and ten points. If you blindly bet
road favorites in that area, you were cashing over seventy

(01:57:17):
of the time. So if Miami, for instance, went into
let's say Memphis, and they were laying seven and a half.
If you blindly bet that because it's a road favorite
of between five and ten, you were cashing right and
left on a night tonight basis, the NBA is very
difficult to uh handicap because you don't always know who's
playing and you don't know what happened the night before.
And the truth of the matter is the motivation can't

(01:57:39):
always be there night after night after night they're trying
to you know, it's it's it's all about surviving and
advancing and getting to the playoffs. But so to that end,
the NBA is a is a much more difficult proposition
to bet right now. But road favorites have been pretty good,
fantastic stuff. That's our guy, Bernie Fried out straight out
of Vegas every Saturday night avn PM and giving you

(01:58:01):
all sorts of goodness on on Twitter during the week
at Bernie Fratto. Thanks for getting up with us, buddy,
Appreciate the insights. Enjoy your day, guys. It's plea be
with you. See, we really we ran the gamut there.
We got some deep thought pieces, we got some big
data points and and a little look at the draft.
Don't worry there, there's still more draft fun to come

(01:58:21):
next week as we count down the hours at that
point to waiting to see where your guy, Micah Parsons
is gonna end up. I think he's gonna end up
at that team. Yeah, and I'm gonna be so happy
when they call his name. There you go, ye and
Jason Jason way Away absolutely my my, my whole. I

(01:58:44):
would love for him to go day one. So we'll
be good. Well, we'll see next a week from Thursday
at thirty two. Chances a lot of movements still to come.
We've seen a lot of trades and I'm sure we'll
see a bevy of activity on that day as well.
Reminder Fox Sports Radio, we'll have you covered Draft Day
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(01:59:07):
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first round ends, Uh, Jason Smith and I will come
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(01:59:30):
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Thanks for being part of the extended family. Oh, I
can't wait to walk coast to coast and give you
all a big, fat hug you know as you're willing
of course, Uh, because I am a big teddy bear

(02:00:38):
Mike Harmon alongside the legend, the King of the Mammals himself.
It's our guy, LaVar Arrington. I will do that too,
by the way, offer hugs. I mean, I'm all about
positivity and bringing people together. That's me. I'm a unifying
force and a unicorn at that. There's no question. Hey,
how about we uh celebrate some great new for the week,

(02:01:00):
LaVar Let's do it. Are ready to speak wisely, Let's
do it, Let's go. It takes an eight pex predator
to properly assess situations and spot potential greatness, no matter
how big or small. LaVar Arrington puts the spotlight on
them all. These are his mammals of the week. Yeah,

(02:01:27):
welcome to another edition of All Mammal Mammals of the Week.
You know, when your mammal you, you're willing to to
put those knuckles down on the ground, go all fours
and do what you need to do. Scuff them knuckles
up and do do what needs to be done. You
know why, because that's what mammals do. Man. And we're
gonna start off with my guy Russell Westbrook straight mammal

(02:01:48):
logged this seventh straight triple double. That makes a tin
shy away from the great Oscar Robinson, Mike Harmon, you
know what I mean. It's the big yeah man. His
statistical hot street carries him ever close to an untouchable
record that Oscar set so many years back. That deserves

(02:02:10):
him getting a tag and a label of well all mammal.
You know what, one of the best parts of it
is the LaVar they're actually winning of late well because
he's had a lot of triple doubles where they haven't,
so winners of what seven of their last eight. That's
a good thing. That's good progress. Let's stay on the
roundball and let's let's let's, you know, keep it on

(02:02:32):
the court. We've we've been talking about it. If you've
been listening to the show, you you've got a great
idea because quite frankly, Ilo does a great job of
highlighting those who have had great weeks, and Steph Curry
is one of those guys. Um forty seven points the
Golden State Warriors. It now matches uh attempt straight game

(02:02:53):
scoring thirty or more, only done by you know who else.
One Butter being coached. Yeah, man, so that's awesome. You know,
there's been a lot of discussions obviously. You know, Kobe
continues to be a driving force in in the conversations
on the daily basis ever since his his tragic uh,

(02:03:15):
you know, death, and and and for Steph Curry to
to be able to accomplish at this level, there has
also been a lot of debates about what the level
of greatness and how we should view Steph Curry um
as a player as well. So for this moment, we
don't have to debate anything about if he is all mammal,

(02:03:35):
because you know what, he is all mammal. Baby. You
average thirty nine nine for a month, and that's where
we're at right now. Nine games here in the month
of April. Kingdom shooting fifty from the field. Yeah, yeah,
I put you in the kingdom of the mammals. You

(02:03:56):
know who else is living in the kingdom of the mammals.
You gotta be able to leap been the action. You
not gotta be able to stretch out and get what
it is that you need to catch so you can eat.
You eat what you kill when you're a mammal. And
you know what Mookie Bets did the same thing. He
reached out, he made that catch and you know what
he did. He ended the game. It could have been

(02:04:17):
a tie as we heard, could ended up going into
extra endings as we heard against a rival. You know,
they held him to to to know runnings, how about that?
And they beat them by two so they only got
two rights. This was a great game. UM obviously defending
World Series Chants their second straight drama phil when UM

(02:04:40):
with a divisional rival, So when the lights are shining
bright and the spotlight is on you and you make
something happen and you do it in the emphatic fashion
that Mookie Bets was able to do, then it justifies
bringing them in. And then it also justifies him being
and all man all of the week. That's right, he

(02:05:01):
got your three Russell Westbrooks, Steph Curry at Mookie Betts,
they are all Mammal Baby fantastic metal stand for this week. Uh.
Something we talked about at the top of the show.
If you missed any part of this Fox Sports Sunday experience,
that's what it is. It's an experience. It's not a
radio show. It's an experience. It's like you know, bringing

(02:05:23):
the congregation together. That's what we do here. Uh. You
find it on Apple Podcast, Google Play, the I Heart
Radio app, wherever you get your audio, look for it. Uh.
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and go download his podcast of that he t J
Houshmnzada and Plexico Burris did yesterday. Here. I'm live ten

(02:05:48):
am to noon Pacific time every Saturday, and the podcast
goes up shortly thereafter. When we were talking at the
start of the show about the Dodgers and the Padres,
and look a lot of offseason building towards rivalry. You
know where we had the small r. I think it
took two games for us to accelerate that. Right. We
had what was called the BS swing on the catcher's

(02:06:10):
interference call at a very hot and angry Clayton Kershaw
going after Jerkson Profar with a lot of pointing and expletives,
and pro Far got mad and came off the base.
We had benches clearing on Friday night. I think we're
in for a thought and exciting um Major League Baseball
campaign and this becomes one of the uh, the big

(02:06:33):
spotlight series every time out. Well, you know, let's keep
checking it out, man, and let's let's keep enjoying these
these sports spectacles that take place, and then we'll find
a game when they're properly on Sunday night baseball instead
of in the middle of the afternoon. Look, I'll watch
it either way, in between soccer games and running around.

(02:06:54):
But there's no way the Cubs going. The Cubs and
Brave should be the Sunday night game. Flexibility. Give the
people what they want more Trevor Bauer, which is who
you'll get later on today as they finish off round
one of nineteen games. Right, this is Game three of nineteen.
So many more great theatrics to come, no question about it.

(02:07:17):
I just like that there's another story in baseball. And
even though you've got the World champs, that you've got
someone chirping. It's kind of like when you know to
be the man, you gotta beat the man. As Rick
Flair would always say, well, oh for two so far
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(02:08:00):
LaVar Rankton. Yeah, that's why we heard. In the background.
We were having a conversation about n f T S
and I heard you screaming, so I figured we'd you know,
did you hear? Yeah, you're you can you can mute
your microphone? You know? No? I can't. How do I
mute it? You got a Comrex box, there's a mute button.

(02:08:21):
I was told I could not mute you know Comrax
where I could put when you put the the microphone
up at the top of your headphones, it automatically muted it.
I had one of those. I don't have that with
this one. You don't have. You don't have a mute
button on there kind of machine they give you. I
don't think I have a mute button. Well, I was screaming.
But we're just really valuable with some really really valuable

(02:08:45):
items of jewelry were dropped in a rush to go somewhere,
and they were in the driveway, not as though day well,
not as though I live in a place where they
would be taken out of my driveway. You know, I
live in the top of mountain. But in the end,
I mean it's outside and it's exposed in to the

(02:09:06):
top of the mountain. You have been um, maybe a
raven or a hawk or something like that might have
swooped down because it was shiny and glittering, and it
might have been gone. So that's what I was yelling about. Wow,
that got serious from very bossed around around here. By
the way, man gotta fight back. No, I'm tired of fighting.

(02:09:27):
I'm just tired. I'm tired. I'm trying ringo, I'm trying real,
but I'm tired. Look at that we got. We we
got some pulp fiction in here. You know who else
is tired? NBA players? How about that Fred Van Vleet
of your Toronto Raptors. He's got his eighty five million

(02:09:49):
dollar deal right, and he's been pretty honest throughout the
course of the last year dealing with covid on Zoom
Zoom CA halls. You know, when when given an opportunity
to kind of speak about what it's all been, you
know what he when he had COVID and even coming
out of it, you know, hitting that conditioning wall and

(02:10:11):
still trying to push through. And there have been points.
Really we're talking about the Celtics a little bit earlier.
They went through their their issues and Jayson Tatum talking
about being using an inhaler and different effects that we've had,
and you weather the storm and you hope that you
can get everybody healthy to make a playoff push Toronto.
Raptor has been a tough year for them, no question

(02:10:32):
about it, But talking about the off off season and
the way the truncated schedule has come together, the quote
certainly ups and downs to this thing more than I've
ever experienced, to be honest, probably the most unpure, impure
year a basketball that I've ever been part of, just
from the whole league and rushing the season back. It's

(02:10:53):
pretty much all about business this year on every level.
And it's hard to hide it now. Okay, well, yeah,
it's always there. You know, there's a promo playing because
we we had a little bit of the discussion Smith
and I earlier in the week about you know, Mark
Huban and Luca done. It's bemoaning the existence of the

(02:11:14):
play in opportunities right for your eight, nine, and ten
seeds to get down there. Well, just because you happen
to be in the seventh seed doesn't subtly mean crisis.
It was okay when we all voted on it, we
put it in and decided to keep it. But now
that we're in the seventh seed, you know what, it's unfair. Likewise,
the truncated schedule that went to seventy two, and I'm

(02:11:35):
sure there was a lot of yelling about that because
why they're trying to make up all their cash lost
a lot during the pandemic. They had the multi hundreds
I mean we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars loss
from the issues they had with the with China and
that trip and everything that went down, Darryl Morey's comments,
and and the trickle down effect there that that you're

(02:11:58):
all looking to get your money back, and what happens
for everybody to get their bag, you've got to make
some concessions and and agree to things on the schedule
and in the there's gonna be some problems that that
are coming out of it. And right now a lot
of handwringing's done because of the number of stars that
got hurt. But just remember the players Association agreed to

(02:12:22):
the deal, so you can't have it both ways and
now say, oh, it was unfair, Like no you. I
think we all had the foresight of recognizing it could
be really hard on your bodies, and I figured we'd
just see more guys taking games off. We saw that
this past week, whereas like no, no, no, you're getting fined.
Toronto actually got fined for it the other day when

(02:12:42):
they didn't have everybody fielding in the NBA decided well,
we'll make an example of them and we'll find them
for not being, you know, compliant with the days off code.
But it's a grueling schedule, no question. But this was
for everybody to make sure they got made as whole
as they can be. So it's hard with less than

(02:13:02):
a month left to see story after story of guys
complaining about where it's at on their body. I appreciate
the candor on one hand, but on the other it's
like this, you signed up for it. Well, I mean
that kind of sums it up. But but people are
always going to have opinions. People are some of those
people that may be complaining may not have felt like

(02:13:23):
they had a voice in the other players in the
players uh Union Association creating the deal, agreeing to the deal.
So you're always going to have those conversations where you
have the people who who who subscribe and the people
who disagree. And as far as is getting through an

(02:13:43):
NBA season, I've never been through an NBA season, but
I have been through a pro season versus a college season,
and it's very different. It's very different on your body.
There there's a you know, there's a whole, a whole
another season that is connected to pro pro foot all
versus what you do in college. And and so when

(02:14:04):
you start to think about the workload that's on your body,
you have to understand that being a professional athlete means
a whole lot more than just going to practice and
playing the games. Right, we talked about all the guys
who spend these millions and millions of dollars on on
the care of their bodies. Your body has to be

(02:14:26):
your body and your mind. Um, they have to be
your your primary focus of attention when you're an active player.
And it's interesting, I'll reference this back to the Trevor
Lawrence conversation a bit because I know for me, I

(02:14:48):
did not obsess over my care of my body and
and the approach probably the way that I should have
as a professional on So what I would offer up
to Trevor and and what it is that he's got
going on it it makes perfectly great sense to not

(02:15:10):
let yourself be defined by what it is, um that
you do and you know, in your life in terms
of being a player or whatever your profession. Maybe um,
you don't have to to lose yourself and what it
is that you do. But also I would also urge
to make sure you understand what it means to be

(02:15:32):
a professional and how much goes into being a professional
and what you need to do in order to keep
your body performing at a a very high level, because
that's what your job is, that's what you're being paid
to do. So while you don't need to obsess over
being uh, you know, a professional or have this crazy

(02:15:55):
chip on your shoulder that has you doing all of
these different things to um, make sure that you're preparing
your body and maintaining your body in a way UM
that that leads to the success that you want to have.
You just have to find the balance. You have to
understand what works for you and and find that and

(02:16:17):
and and execute it and and feel good about it
for yourself, because to me, there's never going to be
a perfect scenario as we as we apply it to
this NBA deal and um, you know how people are
feeling about the grueling schedule and and the things that
have been agreed to. Um, there's never gonna be a
perfect scenario. Whether whether you had it exactly the way

(02:16:38):
that you had anticipated it or not, there's still going
to be something that presents itself that isn't a perfect
scenario for you to be able to deal or to
be able to just have, you know, have it the
way that you wanted. So you have to have your
mind and your emotions set to be able to handle
whatever the given scenarios are going to be because you're

(02:16:59):
always going to have moving post, You're always going to
have moving situations and situations and sets of circumstances. So
there's no reason to to dwell in on what isn't.
You should constantly be focusing in on what is and
what the solutions are to any given scenario that finds
its way in front of you. With with what you're

(02:17:20):
dealing with. And we look at Toronto right now twenty
three and thirty four, sixteen and a half back. That's
not the number that matters right now. They're just percentage
points away from the number ten spots Chicago with a
number of injuries. And we've seen Washington playing better of late.
You gave Russell Westbrook a nod as one of your
Mammals of the Week, so they've been playing better basketball.

(02:17:42):
And other team, just like Toronto, a lot of health
issues throughout the year and and just trying to get
healthy to make a little bit of a late season push.
I want to spotlight one other thing that Van Vleet said,
and and this is the most self aware of it all.
I'm directly profiting of it. We voted on a season
we wanted. They gave a few options, and I think

(02:18:04):
for the most part, most of the players picked this option.
So we're in it, you know what I mean. I
can't complain about it, but I can't point out that
it is what it is in the pros and cons,
and that's good. And again, the timing is always, you know,
one thing that we take into account and all of
these like when you're fighting for a playoff birth and

(02:18:24):
it's borderline excuse making like I love again love the candor,
but timing is always just kind of curious. You're hitting
a wall and this is the normal time of year
you'd hit a wall. I think the hardest part has
been I remember seeing a thing. It was about a
week ago the Lakers had there. I think it was
practice of the year. Think about that, you've been grinding

(02:18:48):
for months together and a lot of moving parts. As
we see the roster turnover that we we we love
and hate in the NBA, that you literally all right,
we're gonna're gon learned to play with each other as
part of the regular season, which is kind of an
interesting flow. But the NBA, that was always one of

(02:19:08):
the arguments of hey, maybe the season could be shorter,
you know, if you had your normal off season workouts
in preseason, is that you don't need all those games.
And but as you and I well know, lose games,
lose gate, lose money, and nobody's given up any portion
of their cash. Right You're trying to grow that pie

(02:19:30):
and for this year, you're trying to recover pieces of
pie that you feel we're taken from you, and you
gotta figure out how to do that, right. I mean,
because look at stable centers right right, stable center the
last two games they've been able to have two thousand
fans capacity. Salaries still have to be paid, they're guaranteed, right.

(02:19:55):
So there there's a lot you've got to do to
try to recover. Man. There there's play. The have ideas.
You can raise a lot of money once able to
do it to just say hey, come meet your team
and your stars have to be there for the two
hours to signing graphs, and you can charge whatever premium
you need to you want to start getting getting some
of that bag back. You can do that pretty fast

(02:20:17):
with a couple of big, big donor meet your fans
kind of events along the way. But it's gonna be
curious to see what the next iteration is. Do they
stay with the shortened schedule for next year? Do the
players fight for more days off to where we don't
have back to backs at all? Like how does the
calendar start to work as you push forward? Because by

(02:20:39):
way of contrast, we look at the NFL, they're adding
that seventeenth game this year, and some guys, you saw
what Alvin Kamara had to say about it. Yeah, it's
a very flattering So there's a gain, and that was
agreed to, but that's just it. They could have implemented
that for years and they didn't, and then they finally said, hey,
you know what you as want. But like the players

(02:21:01):
have to be realistic too. You want the salary cap
to go back up. You want to be able to
monetize to the best with TV deals and everything else.
This is one of the GIFs we've got to make.
It means, you know, you sit down against the you know,
worst team, or you maybe have in the first month
of the season that second running backs taking a little

(02:21:22):
bit of your carries, You're still gonna have one more
game to make up some of that yardage and some
of those numbers to get you where you need to be.
So I appreciate Alvin Kamara also a guy who has
not spent a dime of his contracts. According to him, Yeah,
well hey, if you can pull that off, all the better,

(02:21:43):
right He and Gronk and Marshawn Lynch and a few
other guys. Marshawn making the rounds this week. Uh having
a blunt conversation with Dr Faucci. I'll make sure to
tweet out a link to that because Mark Marshawn's and
entertaining and very intelligent. Dude, don't let the you know,
I'm just here so I don't get fined. Bit, don't

(02:22:04):
let that define him. No, no, no, there's a lot
going on there. He's LaVar Arrington on Mike Carmen Deep
Waters here on Fox Sports Radio as well. Uh, coming
up next second Pro Days and now the Falcons are
in play. We talked a little bit about the number
three pick with Bernie Fratta. But if you're the Falcons,
which way do you go? I'll ask LaVar. I've got

(02:22:25):
some thoughts too. Next year on Fox you're listening to
Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back in It's Fox Sports Sunday
here Fox Sports Radio, Mike Armen alongside LaVar Arrington, the
King of the Mammals himself, three time pro bowler, they
all American. Catch him on FS one all this coming week. Yeah, man,

(02:22:49):
be on first things first early, Hey, if you're on
the West as early. If if you're on the East,
then that's your morning coffee show. Well, but maybe out
here on the West right, if you're working in the markets,
maybe uh, heading to the construction site. You know what,
Get up early, get after it, Get on your peloton,

(02:23:11):
get on your treadmill. Let's go here in the West,
they lean in them lacks in vestl on your chest.
That's my man, Joe Beese. He's actually from Pittsburgh, but
he was rapping for Aftermath. That was a bar out
of no which was a song that was on the
soundtrack of The Wash. That was a movie done by

(02:23:33):
well Dr Dre and Snoop Dog Snoop. That's right, remember
The Wash. That's a good movie. Had eminem minute, you know,
some some good It had tiny in there. You know,
it's a good It was a funny movie. It's one
of them like little cult classics. I did that. There
you go. Now that you've got some appointment viewing tonight,

(02:23:54):
I've got one more season of the Sopranos to go
back through. I never had HBO with like regularity, right,
we'd have our free previews and I'd catch up as best. Really, yeah,
we didn't have a grown up like we just didn't.
And so now I'm going back and as soon as
I finished that, I'm taking the word and Cinemax don't
know what they call cinematics late nights. It's a different world. Now,

(02:24:18):
it doesn't even matter. Now skin A Max is probably
so like that is like, that's so laughable now. Yeah,
But back then, scandalous skin A Max Man, Holy moly.
I used to go downstairs because we had cable boxes
all over our houses. Shots out to my parents and
I go downstairs and I'll be watching and and and

(02:24:39):
then it would transition into skin A Max. And my
dad would be like, Hey, what are you doing down there?
I'd be like, just watching TV. I'm watching the highlight reels. Dad.
I was like, what's this? The first time I'm reviewing film.
I was like, Oh my gosh, what is this? What

(02:25:00):
have you've been all my life? What is this interaction
that I'm saying on this television screen? Exactly as Quagmar
would say, Uh, nice work, thank you. I always Sam
on the Ones and twos, Vince Close in today as
our executive producer, and of course Isaac Lowencron on the

(02:25:21):
updates all day. Uh. We've had second pro days all
over the place. LaVar. We talked about it a little
bit last week and then it became in vogues like
I got one too. And part of it is because
of travel and restrictions of how many people you can have.
There's been the all right, now you can attend this
because maybe you would have had them, you would have
had to make a choice, like when you used to

(02:25:42):
have to take your and I don't know how it
works right now. My kids just went to the local
public school here in southern California, but entrance exams, right.
I went to a private high school. It was where
are you gonna go? And I remember at the time
I was pretty good playing football. I knew I wasn't
growing anymore, but for the moment, I was still as
tall as most folks as they were entering high school.

(02:26:04):
So I'd go, mom, was I was as tall then
as I am now? Like I didn't didn't No, thanks
five six when I've got the lifts, When I've got
the lifts. Yeah, but now they're all jacked up on

(02:26:26):
all their steroids in the meat and everything else. So
it's a different world now, h I wish I was
a little bit tall. I really wish. I really wish
I was because I wish I had a rabbit in
the hat. Well, you know what, you can always learn
magic take you down to the magic castle. You can
get some guys to give you some training, and you'll

(02:26:48):
have your own magic show in no time. I've always
wanted to do my own magic. You want to do
the Magic Hour, we could recreate that where you're spinning
a ball like your Magic Johnson, one of the greatest
opens and television history. Well not Magic Johnson. I wanted
to do magic, like I really want to learn how
to do magic tricks and stuff like that. We can

(02:27:09):
make to the ceiling. And you know you're watching now.
You see me the other day work, you know I've
actually this is a true story. So me and Kevin
Plank used to be really really close, right, and and
so I would go to private parties that they had
different things like this, and not every private party, he
had this same dude that was a magician that was

(02:27:32):
at every party. Yeah. Yeah, So so he did some
of the most ridiculous magic tricks and everybody loved them.
And all I can sit there and think about was, Man,
I started putting my face on the dude, right like
I'm seeing my face doing the magic tricks, and it's

(02:27:53):
like the dude had a cool personality, but it was
like man if LaVar was doing that magic trick with
the way I tell stories, it would be way doper.
And then I'm sitting there and I'm I'm like imagining
it and I'm like doing it and I'm executing the tricks,
and I'm like, oh, LaVar, you're the man. And then
I'm seeing everybody in the room. They're like, oh, LaVar,

(02:28:13):
you're the man. And I hear LaVar, LaVar, LaVar. And
then I realized it was my wife asking me to
go get her a drink. And again I say, I
don't fight. So I came out of my tri So
I came out of my dream and and my you know,
being a superstar magician, and I went and got heard

(02:28:35):
the drink of the beverage of her choice. Yeah, but
you know what that we gotta we gotta get you
to learn some magic, because then, I mean, you could
wear the big cape. Think about it exactly. You can
come into this or you come into Abra cadabra. I
mean there's lots of magical like songs that you can
get after think about that. Six four and swollen. I

(02:28:55):
mean normally they're either guys that let the last mile
they ran was Jim and x grade or they're they're
whiskey dudes here all mammal coming out to give you
some magic tricks. Yeah, all mammal, magic tricks. We get
you magic tricks show, because then if we could get

(02:29:18):
that to take off, and then we could sell one
of those kids with your picture on the box. See
it all. We got the marketing and merchandizing. Everybody gets
a T shirt in there see magic Edition. All I
know is it ain't magic that that uh Jake Paul
got going on in this room. Y'all better leave Jake Paul.

(02:29:39):
You got knocked the blank out and stop messing with
that man. He didn't already he proved it to y'all
want you. I should have believed him. They say, when
somebody show you who they are, believe them. He showed
you who he was when he put Nate to sleep.
Y'all better stop messing with him. Man. He got a
lot of anger in there somewhere. I don't know. Man,

(02:30:01):
he had that thousand what is it thousand yards stare
young Jake Paul. He's not messing around. I could say this.
I wish i'd bet him geez, because I see a
lot of folks flexing that they did shout out Colin Coward.
Uh this morning that he did. Uh. We will get
into second Pro Days and more Sports Jeopardy to come. Yeah,

(02:30:24):
that's right, but first is Isaac Low and carl Let's
get it up, Michael LaVar. Busy day so far. We
started Major League Baseball, where the Washington Nationals placed Steven
Strassburg on the ten day injured list with right shoulder inflammation.
Also today, three time All Star j Bruce of the
Yankees announced his retirement after fourteen seasons on the field.

(02:30:45):
On Saturday night, the Dodgers holding a two nothing lead
over the Padres two outs bottom of the ninth inning,
Padres at second and third, Charlie Sider at the microphone
on a five seventy l a sports well in the
center field, diving catch made five bets and the Dodgers
win it. Let's spectacular play five Mookie Bets. If he

(02:31:09):
doesn't get it, it's a tie game. Instead, Bets saves
the day and the Dodgers shut out the Padres to
to nothing. Michael Lamore, we have some interesting breaking NBA
news that has just come down, sir. The NBA has
just fined the San Antonio Spurs twenty five thousand dollars

(02:31:29):
for violating the league's player resting policy because they rested
three players in the same road game yesterday at Phoenix.
I have an idea what you're talking about catches. The
Spurs still won the game, and they won the game
by twenties six points. It still sounds like shack oh man,

(02:31:52):
we also have actual basketball. Before you continuere update, Hallo,
just want to do and make sure that you upderstood
that you need to do the story on your line.
And Buddy, why are we why are we just discovering?
Just needs to tell you that we don't need to
discover anything right now. We just need to listen to

(02:32:14):
you do what you need to do on your DA
Why are we just discovering? You're better than Shack shock
impersonation this late in the game. We've done it before.
You know. The point is that you gotta let it marinate.
You can't give everybody every facet of yourself and show one.

(02:32:35):
You got to create a long arc. So you're basically
calling LaVar an onion saying repealing bam writers one at
a time. Any other we get to the end of
LaVar onions, any other impersonations you are currently developing LaVar sill.
It is so, it's more and more so I got more,

(02:32:56):
you know, I'll eat the onion hip the onion out
of eat the right there, Mike take I'll take the onions.
I'll take the onions, and I'll take the onions out
of his kids, and I eat those two. I've been
told that Mr. Tyson does not take kindly to people
who attempt to impersonate him, even though that was actually

(02:33:21):
a live reaction. By the way, I appreciated the Howard
Coast sell, but we're at the point where you actually
after people person on sports right there, the Terrible and
make sure you make sure you get your terrible towel

(02:33:42):
at your nearest thrift front. He invented the Terrible towels.
There you go, hidden talents here on Fox Sports Radio,
Joe Paterno, Hey, hey, what is getting that? Hey? Hey, hey,
get somebody else? Get him and the one they I'm

(02:34:04):
gonna be turning on the radio and we're gonna hear
a show hosted by Mike Tyson and his co host
is gonna be shocking. It's it's just gonna be you. Hey, Joe, Hey, Hey, Joe,
why are you telling the body to get out of it?
Why every I guess it would be telling get up, betty, betty, Joe,
are you telling you hey hey hey, shock, Hey Shack.
I'm the couch of this, Dave Shock you get hey

(02:34:28):
hey hey hey hey Joe to be like that Joe,
I played basketball, Joe believable. So what we're getting here
is some version, some mix of clumps. Boost is your
normal studio show. Tear both of your hots a night
eating Shock and Joe te both your hots are that's Mike,

(02:34:50):
that was a good one. Let's getting too close to Joe.
And it does get a little bit close at gig
of the mammals on Instagram, but they're both from New York. Yeah,
he's a man of many talents, many voices at Isaac
Low and Crown where you find Islo. Thanks Hilo. We'll
continue to bring in more and more impressions on the show. Hey,

(02:35:12):
that'll go well with your magic axe. You're a one,
one stop shop. It would be like, I'm gonna grab
my heead and we'll be talking like Shadow will be
like and Jen Loop and all these places doing you
want Lavard to do impressions, It'll work for you. It
will be labeled the worst impersonator ever. That's all right,

(02:35:34):
because you know what, the money is still green. I
would ensually doing it, but it would be the worst
impressions ever. But but you know what, why not? It
would be fun, all right, trying to make an impression.
See what I did their broadcast professional the second pro
days across the NFL Trey Lance saying, hey, don't you

(02:35:55):
forget about me? Over here? You've got the Atlanta Falcon
sitting at number four. Yes, and they still had Matt Ryan. Yes,
And you're looking at that squad going all right, is
it time to pick the era apparent? Or do you
go get him more help? There's the crossroom pick. I

(02:36:15):
think it's time to pick your heir apparent. I just
don't think that Matt Ryan is playing at the level
at this point where you don't start to decide to
go in a different direction, because folks, forget, he came
in in two thousand eight. I mean, this isn't you know,
He's been in the league five years, right, and we've

(02:36:36):
already hit that that point of he's good, good to great,
right as we look at guys who say, even from
the same draft class, go back to Joe Flacco had
his run might have just been a playoff run, but
he had it, and Ryan had his shot, and they
gave up their three. You still got Julio Jones and
Calvin Ridley bringing Russell Gauge. That's a pretty dominant You

(02:37:01):
want to let me let me give you an intriguing
thought process here, though, cow pits his his value has
skyrocketed through the ceiling. And I'm not so sure where
you're at right now that the first chance you get

(02:37:23):
where you don't necessarily need a player at that position,
and particular speaking of the quarterbacks position, that you don't
take the best guy on the board. And the more
I'm hearing about cow Pitts and his skill set and
his potential and what you're able to do with him,

(02:37:45):
he's almost and I you know, I want to be
careful on this one. But when you're looking at the
most impactful and and most like like feared uh play
are on offense in the National Football League this year,
who would you have thought it would have been? As

(02:38:05):
as a pass catcher? What name is the first name
that comes to mind. There's probably two names, and they're
probably on the same team. What no, No, in the NFL.
They've got him in Atlanta. See. To me, it's Travis Kelsey.
Travis Kelsey was the most dangerous, created the most fear

(02:38:27):
in all defenders across the National Football League. And some
may say Tree kill, but to me, it was Travis Kelsey.
I think cal Pitts is a step above the league
right now. And I think it's because of his size.
I think it's because of his speed, and I think

(02:38:48):
it's because of his skill and his potential level. You
can play him as a receiver, but you can play
him as a tight end. He brings both qualities to
to the set to the table. And I just think
that if I'm the Atlanta Falcons, I knowing that I
have Matt Ryan, I don't necessarily have to commit to

(02:39:11):
taking what could be an air apparent quarterback to Matt Ryan.
Since I still have them, I might take a a
franchise changing player, and that could be cow Pits. It's
starting to to kind of um established and develop as

(02:39:31):
as a true storyline that cow Pits is going to
be the guy that is the steal of this draft. Yeah,
he's the guy that getting outside the quarterbacks, certainly getting
the run right of all right, what's the ceiling? One
of the comps you bring up Travis Kelsey, I was
trying to be tongue in cheek kind of saying, well,
you got two really good pass catchers already there, uh

(02:39:54):
in Atlanta. You just need the guy that actually can
still deliver the ball at a bigger level. Because with
with Matt Ryan, there are times like, all right, get
the ball down field, what are we doing? And they
bolstered the defense. They brought in a couple of component
parts that should help uh, and no doubt during the
draft will do some more of that. But you look
at last year Ridley ninety catches, thirteen seventy four, nine

(02:40:16):
touchdowns and when sound and that's where we're at. And
the Julio Jones time continuum only played nine games last year,
So can you get him for a full run? Because
if you could take those two guys, like talk about
Gauge and and some of the other backup wide receivers,
add Hayden Hers who you acquired a year ago, and
bring in Pits, you've got one hell of an offense

(02:40:39):
that to deploy. And that middle of the field will
you can exploit all day long? Yes, you do. Yeah,
that that could be a lot of fun. So yes,
I would love depencil him in there. It's either that
or maybe maybe you go the other way and just say,
all right, we need to make sure that Matt Ryan
and his advanced age, and I do that in quotes
and with a chuckle, because let's call it what it is,

(02:41:01):
it's football years, not human years. Uh, that that sewell
becomes a piece on the front keeping. That's it. Yeah,
he's the outlier though, he is the outlier, but he
still is that his old man. You can't outlie your age. Yeah,
but yeah, but you know what, he plays like he's

(02:41:22):
twenty eight and still works like he's got a lot
to prove, which is a beautiful thing. Right, no days off.
He may not be with the Patriots anymore, but he
still has that attitude and that's the way it works,
and that's the way you win at life. Boom and
we'll win coming up here as well as we go
find our winds for the week. Mike Carmen LaVar Arrington

(02:41:43):
here with you. It's Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back in It's
Fox Sports a Radio coming up in ten minutes from
now on the network, Steve Hartman, Rich Ornberger spin in Yarns.
I know, M Burger is going to talk about the
classic eight by eight that he put down earlier this

(02:42:05):
week from in and Out Burger LaVar. Did you see
the video of that madness? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but
you you actually missed the fact that he came back in.
We came back into my song. You know what I mean,
this is one of my songs. I just had to
make sure I let you know before we talked about
richarn Burger and all the things I was going out
with it Burger and all that good stuff that I
let you know that this was the Sack Diesels. Schack

(02:42:28):
food is the scheck, the great scheck. This you know,
this is this is who I am when he was
hanging around with the food, schnickings and the few snickings.
I like the fact that you knew who I was
a big fan of Shack Diesel. Yeah, shock, just get
a tasket. I ripped down the basket. I'm so glad
that you know the work that I've done and throughout
the course of my history of my my career. I'm

(02:42:49):
I'm proud of you, my harm and I want to
send you fifty tho dollars just just so you can
go get something nice for yourself and for free kids
and stuff like that. You know what I mean, cutting
print that I'm holding them to that. Okay, but this
isn't really secked. This is just an impersonation of sex.
So you can't you can't make sure you gets me
and make sure that well, I'm just gonna do the
vocal patterns and replicate them to LaVar Harrington and to

(02:43:13):
court we go. Hey, you know what, let's find a
couple of wins while we're at locker room squabbles, struggling teens,
cheaters and no account owners. There's so much negativity at
sports that it can ruin your day. But not Mike
Harmon piece here to shine a light on the good

(02:43:33):
at sports with a simple mantra, find your winds. I
get dirty after dark. I'll treat you like Spielberg. You
get Jurass kicked in the park. That's right, it is
a big Sunday morning. I know I got skills, man,
I know I got skills. Mike Harmen here with you
on the find your winds part of our fun and

(02:43:57):
entertainment that we bring you every week here on Fox
Sport or T Radio. I want to start with a
man who made his long awaited at least in his household,
returned to Major League baseball. Is that we had a
player named Kasmar Jr. That's right, Shaan Kasmar Jr. Last
played in the major leagues in two thousand eight. Called

(02:44:20):
up over the weekend by the Atlanta Braves. He'll be
part of the spotlight game later on to night as
they play the Chicago Cubs. We've talked a little bit
about the long arduous journeys of players. I know I'm
celebrating as our White Sox fans every at bat from
your mean Mercedes who looks like a fire plug uh

(02:44:40):
and started his career with his aide for eight hits right,
first aided bats eight hits uh and beating out infield singles,
big home runs. Whatever. But those stories right that it's
not the immediate stardom. We've been talking a lot about
the NFL draft and guys that are going to come
into the league and immediately set the world on fire.

(02:45:02):
How about those guys that keep slugging away in the
minor leagues? So for all of you out there, the
minor leagues of whatever it is. The job that you're
working through the long grind is worth it and you'll
find that pot of gold at the end. You just
gotta stick to it. A video that's making the rounds
this morning, want to make sure to celebrate it properly.
The Miracle League of Arizona. Uh. It is a baseball

(02:45:25):
league teaching baseball and and going through the sport for
folks uh that development mentally challenged or disabled kids. And
they're out there and they've got their their coaches with them,
and video making the rounds today of one young man
who walked them off with a mammoth home run and

(02:45:48):
the reaction from everybody in the crowd. Uh. Just it.
It makes you a reminder of all of this that
we talk about that pure fandom, the pure joy. We
go to our kids games, we watch him and sometimes
it's the you're yelling at the umpire and getting caught
up in some of the minutia. We talked about club

(02:46:09):
sports and the good, the bad, the ugly and that right,
and you and I talked about these things all the time.
This is just purity of the of the product. So
a reminder that there is still some there. And yesterday,
because well we yell on the radio, I want to
just pay a nod to my guy that would have
been sixty seven years old yesterday. And obviously there were

(02:46:30):
some problematic portions to his character and persona, but the
late great Rowdy Roddy Piper, master of the microphone, and
a guy who was unfiltered, sometimes for the best, sometimes not.
I saw him when he was doing one night like
basically doing a little bit of stand up thing, you know,

(02:46:52):
tales from his his life, and then he would take
Q and A got to meet him after one of
those performances and and really revealing and telling off. But
my love for the microphone and wanting to do this
for a living comes from those loudmouths on Saturday morning
coming through the television. So I spent a little chunk

(02:47:12):
of yesterday going back through some of the greatest hits
and crazy adventures in the world of Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Well legendary stuff. Right. We celebrated WrestleMania last week and
seeing where the road goes next, but we've hit that
beautiful part of our sporting calendar. We've got everything in

(02:47:34):
motion coming down the stretch in the NBA regular season,
more games tipping off a little bit later today, full
slate of baseball, and I'm gonna go out to the
soccer pitch. After celebrating my first indoor meal in a year,
I now get to go and scream and yell. And
I found out my daughter really hates if I just
call her by her number. Huh. Last week out a game,

(02:47:57):
I said, hey, go get it thirty three, and she
just looked up into the crowd placed a pretty good
corner kick that gave them some action. But then after
the game goes, why did you keep yelling three? I
don't know, and I thought it sounded better than go
get it, sweetie. You know, just try to treat her

(02:48:17):
like I was just a fan. It's understandable. Good stuff,
all right, go back and figure out what that china
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