04/24/2021 – The Fellas with Anthony Gargano - Fox Sports Radio

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You're listening to Fox Sports. Oh good morningbuddy. Well, hey, happy, happy, happy,
Happy is Saturday morning to all across the nation. I'm
Athana and I called me because and we hang out.
We preside over the Fellas today a little sad because

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it's our first Saturday without the Big Man, Big Link,
who is doing well and uh is in bed sleeping
right now. And do you know that we will do
our best. The Fellas move on with our whole crew,
Figgy and Chris and Bow and well some guests in
the whole nine. But we're gonna geek it out and

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have some fun every Saturday morning with you guys, and
we kick it off on an incredible night of basketball
and baseball. I want to start off in the NBA
because again Brooklyn Man, without the Beard, without k D,
they survived Boston. The Sixers play Milwaukee tonight and suddenly

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the Eastern Conference is up for grabsy It's it's been
a strange NBA season, right, guys, because it's been a
weird year. Guys are sitting out, Who doesn't play, Who
gets hurt? Right lebron a dear hurt, the whole thing.
But I do believe that the playoffs are gonna be great,

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and I think it's actually shaping up to give us
some high drama over the last few weeks of this
season as all the jockeying for all the seeds again,
with the Arenas opening up and with fans being allowed
this and the Arenas again, it's gonna be key. It's
gonna be paramount to get the one seed. I know
here in the East it's a big deal between Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Milwaukee,

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Philadelphia as to who gets that top seed. Sixers have
their own issues now because Ben Simmons is gonna be
out a little bit. So with ban out, you got
some issues. They lost the other night in Milwaukee, and
it's gonna be up to the m v P Joel

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em Bead to carry the Sixers out west. How dangerous
will the Lakers be? Is Utah real? And meanwhile, you
got Phoenix that is a dark horse, that's playings right ball.
And PG showed you last night that he's still a

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great player. We'll see what happens come playoff time if
he shrinks again, but he was fabulous. He's had a
great regular season. The Clippers look fantastic, and of course
we'll touch on that we'll touch on a lot of draft,
will get some baseball going, because last night I'll tell

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you to me. Dodgers Padres is the new Yankees Red
Sox high drama. It's been a great two days of
that series. Again. Tatis, Fernando Tatis goes yard twice. Darvish
shuts down the Dodgers and the Pods. They're looking good,

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They're looking mighty good. And of course, out east where
I'm at, Jacob the ground fifteen strikeouts, he dominates the Nationals.
Mets feeling good about themselves. Baseball up out to a
great start, the Oakland A's winning twelve straight. And perhaps

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the best news I got all week was the ratings
in Major League Baseball up forty three percent, up on ESPN,
up on Fox, up on MLB Network Baseball. Might it
be the nation falling back in love with baseball? We'll

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discuss that as well. Time to say hello to my
main man. Who's gonna be with me? My little brother,
the one, the only figgy, my man? What's oh? Just
loving life here? Brother? How are you good? My mom?
I'm a geek out mode, of course, I mean it's

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your time of year, NFL, you have coming up. You mentioned, uh,
in base baseball is in full swing and as you mentioned,
very encouraged at the ratings are up. Streaming ratings are
up as well, if you know those are the kids.
You know, we talked about the younger audience, and the
streaming numbers are up as well for that. And then
of course the NBA is uh, we're coming down the
home stretch, an exciting time in sports, always here in

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the spring, so I'll of it. Week was good. Week
was good. You know a lot of a lot of talk,
you know, on our local affiliate and five seventy l
A Sports about the Dodgers and Padres series and is
it a rivalry? Is it not a rivalry? You know
a lot of Padre fans will tell you that it is.
Dodger fans will say no, not quite yet. We haven't
played enough meaningful games. But if nothing else, certainly exciting

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um and the Dogs do you say now, I, at
this very moment still say no, because even you talk
about Yankees Red Sox, and even if you want to
go back to the early two thousand's and the Yankees
pretty much before two thousand and four, we're still winning
fairly consistently. That was a long standing rivalry that lasted
decades and decades and decades. The Padres, you know, for

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the most part, have not really been a true threat
to the Dodgers for a long period of time. The
Dodgers rival had always been the Giants. So it's getting
closer to it now, and obviously both teams. I think
there's no question that the Dodgers and Padres are the
two best teams in the National League easily, um, But
until they face each other in a meaningful series, whether
that's down the stretch of the regular season or whether

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that's in the playoffs again. They played in the playoffs
last year and that you know, funky format when the
Dodgers ended up sweeping them. If they play again, maybe
in the NLCS, maybe we'll have something brewing. But at
this very moment in time, I don't think anybody from
the Dodger standpoint views this as anything close to a rivalry.
You know what I'll tell you, because here I am

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right three thousand miles away, and I've been mesmerized by
those two teams, so like I've been interested in watching them,
and I'll tell you I'm not alone out here, And
so yeah, I mean you're right and everything you say,
and you would know better than I would. I'll just
tell you that Dodgers Padres, it's really interesting man. Yeah,

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but you know what I mean, Like I know, I
may do. I have no rooting interests in either team
and just loving the sport. I love watching those two
teams play. You feel like it's must watch TV to
a degree. You mentioned Yankees Red Sox, and that's how
it was back then, and that's to a degree how
it is now. They're two teams that have made giant splashes,
have all the star power in the world. Their pitching

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staffs are littered with cy young winners, all stars up
and down the each roster. It is is a very
formidable and exciting potential matchup between the two. Um but
I just don't know if if right now, at this
very it could be the start of a rivalry. I'll
give you that, but it's not as a rivalry at
the moment. But it's definitely must watch TV, absolutely, and

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it's it feels great to have to have East Coast
audience is interested, major really interested in what's happening, uh
for teams on the West, because usually that's not the case. Yeah,
a couple of buddies a Thursday night. We're like, it
was kind of a light sports that we had the
Bucks and the Sixers and the whole thing. But it

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was like, I can't wait time. I'm gonna watch the
Little Pods Dodgers and it's for us. I burned the
midnight oil right doing that. No, it's been great, Like
it's been fantastic. So I like, and I love tattoos man.
Oh he's amazing, I do. I just love him. And
he just comes up big last like kerscha on the
mouth and he's just such bright lights man, that kid,

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and having to make an adjustment on the fly then
basically telling him, you know, change the way you swing
because if you don't, your shoulder is gonna pop out
of place every single time. You know, that's hard for
a guy to do. So to do that, he's still
batting under the Mendoza line, but again, consider the injury
he's coming back from and what he has to work
through to be able to do that against one of
the best pictures in the history of the sport. Twice

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over at Dodger Stadium is pretty impressive. And I just like,
and you know the fact that he brings some passion
to the game. We talked about trying to bring younger
audiences and and what makes baseball more exciting someone like him.
The fact that he's one of the faces of baseball
is what makes it exciting. He plays with enthusiasm. You know,
I love Mike Trout to death, but he's as entertaining
as a rice cracker. You know. It's just Fernandal Tattoos

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Junior brings another level, another element of passion and joy
to the game of baseball. And I think he is
the kind of player that they need. Although, dude, how
about the ball Trout it the other day? Yeah, oh
my god. See, like I love for anyone who forgets,
you know, oh yeah, for for who anyone who forgets

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said he's not a great player. He's getting overshadowed a
little bit by his teammates show Ayo Tani because he's
been so amazing. Yeah, yeah, the two way thing. But
don't in case you forgot, Mike Trout is still the
best player in baseball. Oh my god. His power is
off the charts right now. It's ridiculous. He's just I
love him. He's my favorite player. I just I love him.

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I absolutely love him, and I know he's a Jersey
South Philly guy, so I'm probably has a little bit
to do with it too. But yeah, well I gotta
go my hometown thing. Yeah, so, let let me ask you,
because I'm really excited about baseball. You mentioned the stream
mean members up, which means young people. It was a
big week for baseball and youth in that MLBT show

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beyond youth too, because you know, I love it MLBA.
They show drops this week and I know a lot
of a lot of downloads, a lot of people in
the wit. Is this the renasisance that we've wondered if
it would ever happen. Well, we'll have to wait and see,
because as you mentioned, this is their early returns on

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the start of the season. We're only a few weeks
in or about a month into the regular season beginning,
So you know, what are these ratings gonna look like
once the NBA playoffs start, once the dog days of
summer hit. And by the way, this summer is different
than last summer because conceivably people are going to be
back to somewhat normal out and about doing their thing,
not cooped up at home like they were last year.

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So it'll be interesting for me to see what the
ratings look like, say, come June or July. You know,
I doubt they're going to be up, you know, better
than they were last year. But if they're up instead
of down, that's certainly the positive trend that baseball will take.
But it's an encouraging sign that the ratings are are
at the level that they are at the moment, especially
considering people thought ratings would go down after the political

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stuff and the All Star Game being taken out of Atlanta,
and it's actually, I don't know if it's had if
there's a correlation between the two, but it certainly has
had the opposite effects, where baseball is actually being viewed
more widely than anybody would have could have assumed it
would be at this point. Yeah, listen as someone who
just loves the sport and roots for it. And after
we get done this show, I got a driving hour

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and a half to near Atlantic City to where my
eight year old is playing in the Travel Baseball Game.
Oh nice, that's a bit of a trek, but hey,
ye for an eight year old for your kids, you know.
And I love listen. I'm aboutnna lie. I love watching
it and I love watching the kids and watching the play.
But I'm just thrilled that I think people are falling

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back in love with that game. We'll talk about that
and brother n b A all right, I got lots
of sure we got you know, I had Chris brussorry
all the other day. I don't know if he told
you right anyway, So of course the odd couple, and
I love the odd couple with Rob and Chris. Try

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Chris on. He's one of the voters for the m
v P. So I tried the strong arm and of
course there's no strong arm and Chris, but I tried,
So I gotta run that conversation by it. We'll take
a look at the landscape as Brooklyn takes over the
Eastern Conference. Phoenix stays hot, Clippers on the on the

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tails of both utahd Phoenix, and of course you gotta
watch the Lakers. So it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Let's get into some NBA coming up next. Where the Fellas,
I'm causing he's figgy and you're gonna hear from the
from Bow and the courts Psycho Chris. That's all there,
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s R to listen live. Welcome back, Fellas, Chris always
talking about give me some slick rick every man. Every

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morning it's the Fellas Man, exactly. How was your week, Chris?
It was? It was fun. Um, I got good news.
I've been dealing so I've been dealing with my cat
who's been sick for the past week, or somebody got
a clean bill of health. So that was that was good.
And then um, then I got to sit back and

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watch this proposed European I'm sorry I'm bringing in soccer here,
but European super League. I got to watch that splode spectacularly. Um.
So it's always very fun when you get to see
a bunch of billionaires running around who think themselves so
smart and then just see them to run. To see
them run into a buzz saw was very fun. I

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spent a lot of shot in Freud was the big
was the big word of the week for me? You
are for your treasure? Man said again, what is it?
The word? Shot? And Freida? All right? Nice God bless. Yeah,
it's it's j Jeremy, you know, taking pleasure. And yeah,

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I hear that's hysterical. I know Bo's upset because ta taste,
ta taste his Dodgers bow. What is it? Is it September?
Did I did? I fell asleep? A here he goes
look at him, come roll you to give it up. Man.

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They're good, they're they're currently two games above five hundred.
They have they have three more wins in the Philadelphia
Phillies right do right right now? Because because it's it's
look at you now. You know what's funny, Figgy, I
go Dodger blue like I have no I have no

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uh like rooting interests right between the two. But like Figgy,
I I like the root for like I root for
the Raiders for link. You don't do that, Figgy, I
go Dodgers like I've never root for the Lakers. I can't.
I can't blame me there, but liked just like you know, listen,
yeah this is don't mean the Phillies are in and
I look, I get it. Then I look at you

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and then you make me want to root for Padres. Well,
I mean that's the trendy thing to do, isn't it? Oh?
Look at yeah, look is tellout the show? No, I yeah,
I'll get the show. I get the show when it's
like five bucks. I got the show five dollars, so
I'll install that. I don't like it. I don't like

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it enough to spend. Uh. I think it's seventy now. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's a little out of my price. Rane, I
get you, your poor radio guy. You know, I think
I wanted to say real quick, A lot of people
haven't mentioned it. Well, I mean at least I haven't
heard it. But Tatis hit to her home runs tonight
on the same same night that his dad hit two
grand slams and one against the Dodgers. Yeah, that's a

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that's a bit of crazy baseball symmetry. That only. Yeah,
it's awesome. And what you brought that up? Yeah that's wild.
That was wild. Two grand slams his father hit. It's
crazy crazy all right, um fig let's talk coops. Alright,

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so last night a couple of thing. Let's go over
last night. First Brooklyn, No Hard, no Durant. They outlast
a south down Celtings. Yeah, yeah, I mean they they
started surging a little bit over the last two weeks
or so, but they're still hovering around five dred So

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they're not having the kind of season that you would
have expected them. I mean they, I mean Tatum was
a big reason why they weren't playing well. He individually
has been amazing the last month or so. He's been
great and had dropped thirty eight last night as well. Well.
Interesting how they win last night because they win with
great balance. Kyrie gives you fifteen, eleven, nine, Joe Harris

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is hot for threes, twenty Green nineteen Brown off the bench,
and Blake fifteen and thirteam that it's they played some
defense last not against Boston so and they're so small,
but Brooklyn fig takes over first place in the Eastern

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Conference over my six years, they're half game back and
the Bucks now three games back. Right. Well, I mean, look,
and this is a scary thing about Brooklyn. They're they're
not full strength and really haven't been outside of what
seven games or eight games whatever it's been with the
big three playing together. Yet they've still found ways to
win games even despite the fact that most nights they

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might not play the greatest defense. But look, it's not
just about the big three. Joe Harris can fill it
up with anybody. He's one of the best shooters in
the entire league easily. You know. Jeff Green has had
a bit of a resurgence for them. Uh, Landry Shammon
had a good game a couple of nights ago. Um,
So they're getting contributions from other people, and this can
only help them once they actually are full strength. I
know there's chemistry issues and trying to get all those

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guys acclimated to playing well together, but what makes it
more seamless or easier for them is the fact that
all three of them are just as a depth playing
on the ball as they are off the ball. So
you know, they can all create, but they can all
just catch and shoot too, and that wasn't always the case,
and trying to get a lot of these super teams,
you know, getting themselves matched up together. So that's that's

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why I've been so bullish on Brooklyn despite the fact
that they don't play the greatest defense. I really don't
think they need to. They didn't need to play decent
enough defense, and almost nights when they're fully healthy, they're
gonna get you five easily, you know. I'm like listen,
you're you mean they're dynamic. I agree. I mean when

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they're there, they're gonna be dynamic. And I understand. I
just keep wondering. See I won. There's a couple of things.
One and I know I go overboard the defense thing,
and it's important, especially on the postseason. I'll give you that. Yeah,
I just think it slows down though. I think there's
gonna be if you look at seven games series, they

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win two to three games because they're unconscious, right, Yeah,
that's the thing for can you beat them? Can you
hold them down offensively enough or outscore them enough four
times in the seven game series? That's the question. And
you're not gonna You're not gonna really outscore them. It's
gonna be. It's gonna be. So let's let's think about

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this for a second. Two games they're not gonna shoot well,
so you're gonna win. Three games they are going to
shoot well, right, and they're gonna win. So that's where
I look at it, and I look at you know,
it'll be those two games that comes down to the
wire where can you get enough stops to beat them?
And and they and again with the sixers, it's gonna

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be they have really good defenders. Now they have better
defenders of Milwaukee. Right, so Brooklyn beats Milwaukee. Sixers have
a chance because you know if Simmons now, Simmons is
a huge worry right now, Yeah, big time. And have
they even disclosed exactly what's wrong with him, because I

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feel like they say he's missed a few games, but
it's not cover related. They say that's some sort of illness,
but it's not an injury. It's been nebulous as to
what the issue with him actually is right now. Yeah,
I think it's probably more personal by nature, got you right?
So and I think, you know, I think they're worried
right now. I think they're you know, the first there.

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I think their first um concern has been and his family. Okay,
it's one of these so I I and I think
that's there. And I know the Sixers are are you know,
they're they're great people. And I know that there behind
Ben and and you know he needs to he needs
to take care of some things to give his head

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right the thing. So I think that's the case with Ben.
And right now I'm I'm concerned because there is no
real timetable or end it for this thing, right you got.
I mean, I don't know what the one of the
sixers have thirteen, fourteen possibly games left in the season
at this point. So you're coming down the home stretch
here too, you are. And it's tough because like you

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got the second game against Milwaukee tonight and it's it's
it must win. It really is a must win game. Yeah,
it's just for your for your confidence and also obviously
for the standing is more than anything else if you want. Yeah,
but it's hard when you're you're you're a man down,
and that's an important man to be down, you know
what I mean. Ben Simmons defensively obviously, he's like the

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trigger man all on offense, but even on defense. You know,
he's in the top of the list for a lot
of people for defensive Player of the Year. He's been
that good all that end of the floor. Um, so
that's that's he does a great job. Yes, absolutely, And
he's he's a guy that honest. Between him and Joel Embiid,
they'll they'll they'll both guard him and it frustrates, it

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frustrates your honest, no doubt, no doubt. So he he's
a he's a if they can get a victory without
him in the lineup, that would be huge. Um. But
I mean I think that goes without saying the Sixers
aren't going anywhere unless than until they get Ben Simmons
back into that lineup and hopefully that when he is
back in there that he's right. You know, yes, yeah,
it's it's big. Now, let me ask you, I don't

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think the Bucks can beat Brooklyn in the game in
a in a seven game series. But you know, I
got this weird hunch. I've had it, much to my dismay.
I got a weird feeling. I think that I think
it's the year of the Bucks. Yeah, and they're not

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that good, and they're and they're not that good. If
now they're playing better, Drew Holidays fit in better, and
but I just get this weird feeling that all there
was no expect or the last couple of years, with
all those expectations that come up small. Now there's no expectations,
and it just feels like somehow, and I don't know,

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because again I agree with you, I think and if
you look at the matchups, I think they match up
with Brooklyn, right, I mean, I think Brooklyn matches up
with them. Yeah. I mean, look, teams come out of nowhere.
There was the year that the the Mavericks beat the
Heat in the finals, and you know, they swept the Lakers,
and Lakers had just come off of winning two championships,
and nobody thought that the Marvers are gonna do anything.
They came out of nowhere. You know, Yannese is still

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the two time defending m v P. He has had
some struggles, especially at big moments in the postseason, so
who's to say he doesn't turn the corner. My issue
with Milwaukee and absolute now the problem. Harden has a
little bit of h he has a handicap here, or
he has some help. You know that he has Kyrie
Irving and Kevin Durant. He can play terribly and it

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might not matter at least early series. For sure. The
deeper and deeper you get in, the better competition you play.
I think all those guys need to be able to click.
But with Milwaukee, they're just lacking. They have no depth whatsoever.
I mean, once the playoffs start, they're Big three, You're
You're Yannice and your Middleton and in holiday those guys
are gonna have to play thirty seven thirty eight minutes

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every single night because they just have nobody else to
go to. You're hoping against hoping that those guys don't
get injured or have you know, terrible off nights. Those
guys have to be on every single night because to
your point, they're not good enough defensively. It'd be one
thing if they were just dominant on defense, but they
haven't been that this year. That's the that's the thing
that that's the reason why I can't get on board
with Milwaukee. They don't have the depth, they don't have

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the horses. Yeah, I listen, I think you're right. Listen,
I think the way you do what I think is right.
That's why I said it's it's more of a hunch
than a thought, because I see it the way you said.
You know, I think that they have issues with depth,
with defense, with just even balance. Like I like Middleton

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and he could score, and I like true Holiday, you know,
and Brook Lopez can can shoot threes, and you whatever,
they got those three guys. You know, you got a
couple of dudes that can that can get hot and
hit some threes for you. But man, they played no defense, right,
And your honest is still gonna become you know, he
still has to be that guy down the stretch and

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make his free froze. Yeah, he's he's a guy that's
easier to defend, especially when you put you know, versatile
defenders on him that keep them out of the paint,
and they make him to make him to a perimeter player,
and he has shown has not shown I should say
that he can beat you consistently from the perimeter, and
until he shoes up that part of his game, that's
a giant hole that they just won't be able to
fill the problem with. You know, Middleton Holiday, they got

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a bunch of threes, or I guess, as Chuck would say,
Charles Barkley got a bunch of Tito Jackson's. There's no
slight to them as individual players, but neither none of
those guys are legitimate I guess Robbins to Janice's batman
those but all those guys are like better threes and
they are twos. And I think that's what they've run
into a multiple times in their postings and runs these
last couple of years, and they haven't done much to improve,

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if anything, they've gotten, But they did have decent depth
previously they got at that depth when they traded for
Holiday this offseason. He's a better individual player, but you
need to have more depth on your roster, and that's
something that they just don't have, and that that's that's
something that's gonna hurt them in the postseason. Yeah, I'm
with you, brother, I really am. Hey. By the way,
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All right, when we talked to my Major League Baseball,

(27:24):
the big game of the night on Friday, the Padres
guaranteeing at least a split of their four game series
against the Dodgers this weekend. They get a six to
one victory in l A You Darvish, the former Dodger,
allowing just one run in seven innings of wort. Clayton
Kershaw gave up two home runs to Fernando Tattoos Jr.
And Suffer at the lost. Today's matchup will be a

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pretty good one to two former Cy Young winners Blake
Snell for the Padres and Trevor Bauer for the Dodgers.
In San Francisco, Mika Stritsky went deep Alex Would another
former Dodgers seven strong innings as the Giants beat the Marlins.
Cardinals nearly blew a five nothing lead, but they did
hold on for a five to four win over Cincinnati
White Sox over the Rangers. Kansas City with the Wind

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the Yankees with the victory as well, Oakland winning its
twelfth in a row after beating Baltimore in the NBA.
Steph Curry thirty two points leading the Warriors to an
upset victory over the Joker and the Denver Nuggets. John
Moran thirty three points thirteen assists as Memphis defeated Portland.
We talked about those nets getting that victory over the Celtics.
Despite Jason Tatum's thirty eight points, Hawks with a big,

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big win over the Heat. They didn't have Trey Young,
Orkland Capella in their lineup and Paul George at thirty
three for the Clippers in a victory over Houston, and
some NFL news on Friday as well, the Ravens trading
offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. To Kansas City for three
draft picks, including their first round pick next Thursday. Back
to the Fellas, Yeah, how about that? That was with

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beat Ay Reid and Patrick Mahomes. It's right, the old line. Yeah,
the greatest quarterback in the world. If you didn't have
time to throw, it doesn't matter. That's right. Amen, brother, Amen,
we are the Fellas. He's Figgy. We got Chris, we
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(29:52):
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Oh yeah, I know, I love it. I love it. Boy.
We're hoops mode. That don't don't cloud because you know

(30:13):
I'll go off the team. That's that's happening. So all right,
so how do we view the East right now? So
the big picture is net Sixers Bucks Nets are obviously
now taking his track all in the conference. You guys
make any think of it Nick's and how well that

(30:34):
they've played other than the It's a good story about
the fact that they're not necessarily, you know, top to bottom,
the great the most talented team either. I think coach
TIBs probably should get serious consideration for Coach of the
Year for the job he's done, and Julius Randall probably
come back Player of the Year if nothing else, as
amazing as he's been. I don't think they'll make much

(30:54):
of an impact against any of the top three teams
in the Eastern Conference, but it's a good story and
I do echo Braun James tweeted earlier this week that
the the NBA is better when the Knicks are at
least relevant, even if they aren't great, at least they're relevant.
They're in the playoff race. You know, you need that.
You definitely need that from one of the market franchises
in the league. Yeah, the the Knicks would be uh,

(31:16):
they would be fighting to stay out of the playing
games if they were in the Western Conference. And that's
if they had as any wins as they did playing
more more competitive teams out West. Yeah, I mean, listen,
I mean we're we're gonna go out West at the moment.
There's listen, there's no I would never argue his strength

(31:36):
and the power of rankings of the West versus the East.
It's not even close. And it's funny because when you
look at the East and I'm just remarking about New
York and even in Atlanta ahead of Boston in Miami,
the Miami thing is confusing to me. I thought that
they would be better. Yeah, they've had some guys take

(31:59):
some steps back, namely Tyler Hero, who was phenomenal for
them in the bubble, and he has come nowhere near
to matching his production. And there was a report from
an unnamed source earlier this week, you know, saying that
he kind of got caught up in the quote unquote
Hollywood life and his focus isn't there and he has
some personal stuff going on. Um. I don't know if
that's true or not. But you know, he had a

(32:20):
song named after him, He's dating a supermodel, so I
don't know if some of his success kind of got
to his head a little bit. And look, and a
lot of this this was discussed last year too, how
much of the Heat success was a product of the
bubble environment and that they were just built better for
that sort of situation under pat Riley, you know, uh,
you know, with their head coach and spolstra, and that

(32:42):
they are built better to outlast something like that than
other teams were. And they weren't necessarily the better team,
they were just better built for that particular situation. Yeah,
and look, Jimmy, Jimmy was playing at an elite level
and uh, and you know, listen, Jimmy. If Jimmy's not happy, Yeah,
and if Jimmy's not happy with the squad, it could

(33:05):
go bad. It could go bad quick, real quick, you know,
And Jimmy's probably talent. Tyler Hero. Listen, women weaken legs.
That's the golden rule. Yeah with me, we can title chances,
all right, chip chances and like is stat line has

(33:26):
improved from last year, but it's consistency is not the
same for Tyler Hero anybody that's watched them consistently this year.
So yeah, I said, Jimmy patients. Jimmy's patience runs very
thing very quickly, as you mentioned. Uh, but just you
would think that pat Riley would crack down on something
like that too, if that is, if that's even true.
By the way, again, that was an unnamed source that
brought that up. But people are trying to find reasons

(33:47):
as to why they haven't performed. Well, Look, they also
got off to a very slow start because Jimmy and
a bunch of other players on the team were caught
up in covert protocols. So it's hard when you're when
you're playing from behind, you know, it could be very
difficult to get the momentum and get yourself back into it.
So that's to the intrigue of the of the first
round though, right, I mean when you look at it, right,
I mean, listen, Atlanta doesn't play defense, but they got

(34:09):
some dynamic stars. The Knicks can beat you up, and
Miami is dangerous, and even Boston to a certain extent,
even though they're so small, can be a little damers
can push you a little bit. So those top three
favorites in the Eastern Conference could potentially get beat up early. Yeah,
Like you can see maybe the Sixers getting pushed to

(34:30):
six games in the first round, depending on who their
opponent might be. I don't think there's any true threat
for any of the top three seeds to lose the
first round, but you have to get pushed a little bit, yeah,
to go six possibly art with the seven game series.
I can definitely see that, especially with the team like
the Knicks, who who you know, as you mentioned, grind
you out, beat you up. You know, play real old

(34:50):
school nineties type of basketball, nineties Knicks type of basketball
on top of anything else. To be honest with you,
I covered that team too. Oh yeah, so you know
you know about that writ and grind. It's a little
bit a little bit of a different form nowadays. Now,
if you hold a team to a hundred and twelve points,
that's good, that's good defense. So you know, back back then,
you know you had to you know, it was if

(35:11):
there was if a team was going seventy points, pat
Riley was, you know, pulling the gill out of this hair.
So a little bit of a different game, but it's exciting.
You know. We talked about this to contrasting styles, which
is what made the NBA so great, it made sports
in general so great. You have a little bit of that.
It's still a lot of teams shooting a lot of
three pointers and analytics and all that, but you have
teams that are built at least somewhat differently, playing a

(35:32):
somewhat more diverse style of basketball, which which we enjoy
and we haven't seen enough of over the last few years. Yeah,
I'm with you, brother. All right, let's do this. Let's
take quick t O will come back and we'll dive
deep into the Western Conference and take a look at
the landscape that is the West, which is the true
power where the Fellas I'm cousin, Figgy Psycho, Chris. Oh,

(36:00):
that's us every week right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Fellas on a Saturday morning in April, the week of
the NFL Draft. By the way, Fish, how do you

(36:24):
think you went over in Philadelphia when Nick Sirianni gave
us the Rock, Paper Scissors, Oh, glowing reviews. I'm sure
absolutely loved it. Oh my god, real analytical and smart

(36:46):
way to uh, you know, do your evaluations. You're the
problem is like you got a one hand there was
a story, right, forgive me because I'm I'm at a
low point with my football team, right so, and you
guys gotta forgive me and I'll get off from believe me. No, look,

(37:07):
I understand because it's a source of aggravation talking to
our Raider fan, trust me. So it's one thing that
the organization has empowered the analytics department so much so
that in an in an Athletic story it was called
the black Ops department with a special line to Jeffrey
Lory had its own wing on the side of the buildings,

(37:30):
led by uh, believe he's thirty now, Harvard guy, right,
young Harvard man, barely thirty years old. And you wonder
why their drafts have been disasters because they don't listen
to their scammon department is showing what the scouts say

(37:51):
and what the football people evaluate for analytic stuff. Right,
Like I'm trying not to go revenge in the nerds
and go low hanging fruit. But you know, dot dot dot,
you gotta get understand what it is. So on one end,
you got you know, the the uh this the child
from Harvard and on the and on the other side,

(38:13):
you got the childhead coach playing rock paper scissors with
drafts potential draft picks, Like, are week serious? Oh, it's
like the Philadelphia frat house is what it's turned into. Yes,
it's dude, it's sickening. Like well, I keep fearing. So

(38:33):
that day they have their draft news conference and so
we air it on my station, my local station, and
I got text Matt and things going on, and I
had six former Eagles, six text me out of the
blue who were listening to that, with like, are you

(38:57):
bleeping kidding me? Like what happened? Like it was me?
Like they all of them, six of them, And that's
no exaggeration, within fifteen minutes of each other. That's insane, dude,
Are you hearing this? Bro? Are you serious with this? Bro?
Are you kidding me? With this team? Like these are

(39:18):
and these were respected players and I'm going, yeah, dude,
you know, I'm trying to commiserate with all of them.
Look look at this freaking disaster. Yeah. The unfortunate part
is this isn't like it's not like the Browns, and
they brought in, you know, Paul Dipodesta and all these
guys in the front office, and the ownership could just
blow them all out. The problem is Jeffrey Lewis is

(39:39):
the one who's behind all this. He's the one that's
doing it like he's empowered Roseman and those guys are
kind of, you know, seemingly attached at the hip when
it comes to this when the owner is the one
that's empowering them. That you can't go higher than that
of the food chain, So there's nothing you can really
do at that point. That's what the helpless feeling, you know,
it is it is, and and you're in. So they

(40:02):
drive twelve and you go. Even if Mica Parsons is
there and they have nobody on defense, they have nobody
under the age of thirty. Who's any good, Right, you're
not gonna take him. They're not gonna take a linebacker.
Where are they going? They'll go with a wide receiver

(40:22):
arthego whiteside again. Yeah, I'm probably I guess they're gonna
go with one of the one of the Batman receivers
who should be there. And listen, I mean, I love
Waddle and I love Davonte Smith. I can't the good
but they failed miserably with those receivers before, and they're
gonna go right back to it. Oh, I can just

(40:43):
see it. They're just horrible. Anyway, I'll Stary'll shut up
about him. We got to talk about the NBA West.
That's next with the fellas right here Fox Sports Radio.
Oh right, welcome back, happy, happy Saturday morning to all
across the nation. Seven am in the East, four am
in the West, as we get ready for another big

(41:06):
sports Saturday. And it is the final weekend before the
NFL Draft first round Thursday, and we will dive deeply
into the NFL Draft a little bit later on. In fact,
in the program, we're gonna have a guy named Brad Feinberg,
who is a betting analyst, really good betting analyst, who's

(41:28):
gonna go over the NFL Draft from a betting angle.
And uh, it's interesting because as we see the confluence
of sports betting and the games themselves potential outcomes, you know,
you can find a lot of clues into what transpires

(41:48):
through the through Vegas and the numbers fake. That's one
of the things that you know, you can look at
and you can see wow, you know, especially when it
comes to something like the NFL draft, where information is
really a premium. Oh yeah, well the thing is too,
you don't you never know when you're getting you know,
certain deflections of one team is trying to throw another,

(42:09):
you know, throw the public off of the trail, and
that influences how you would decide to bet. So I
guess you'd be I'll be interested to find out, you know,
how the the the odds makers of you that sort
of thing, and how they're influenced by what the teams
say publicly versus what their intel privately tells them. Yeah,
and uh, and that's where confidence comes into play, right,

(42:31):
Like you know, when you look at certain numbers, certain odds,
you know, that's where it's gonna come from. It's gonna
come from confidence. And uh, I think I listen, I
think this draft is is is fascinating, right because I
think if you look at it, I think five. I
think the five quarterbacks going to top ten. So we'll

(42:55):
see trades and I do believe that the five quarterbacks
will go in the top ten. Okay, and you and
you believe that some team will move from the teams
or the twenties and trying to jump into the top ten. Yeah,
I think Caroline is ripe now that they have Donald's.
So I think Carolina could move depending on the price.

(43:17):
I know that a lot of people have Fields dropping.
I got news for you. I can't see Fields getting
out of the top ten because if I'm a team,
if I'm like the Patriots or I'm a team I
need a quarterback, I'm Denver. I mean I like Field.
I I would definitely take a chance with Fields. Yeah,
and I would not sleep on Atlanta. You know a

(43:39):
lot of people are saying that Atlanta like, well, they'll
you know, they're trying to get, you know, another offensive
weapon to put in there with Matt Ryan. You know,
Matt Ryan's what thirty six thirty seven years old, and
he's still good. But you probably have to start looking
towards the future, and you know, how high in the
draft are you going to be. I don't think Atlanta
expects to be four and twelve or three and thirteen
or whatever they were this past year. Again, I think

(44:00):
they're better than that. So what are the odds. How
often are you going to be in the top four
the draft and have an opportunity to take a potential
franchise quarterback. I think that's something they have to take
into account, So don't discount Atlanta possibly making a splash
and taking too quarterback at number four to I'm also
not ready to pen in mac Jones for San Francisco either,
Like no, no, I think I think we've kind of

(44:24):
like started chasing a bit of shadows when it comes
to mac Jones. I I still think that Justin Fields
could be a very good fit in San I mean
in San Francisco. And I think some of this stuff
about Mac Jones has been fascinating, But I mean, just
when it comes down to it, just pound for pound,
Justin Fields is the better quarterback. It's it's really hard

(44:45):
to argue against this. I mean, I I would even
think Fields kind of looks like he feel fits better
in a Kyle Shanahan system. If they really think mac
Jones is better than all power to them. But I mean,
just just flip this scenario or round. If San Francisco
passes on Justin Fields and takes Mac Jones, suddenly we're
talking all the scenarios we see then, is about this

(45:07):
feeding frenzy of teams coming up to try to get
Justin Fields. But if you flip the script and San
Francisco takes Justin Fields, I guess my question is how
many teams do you see giving up all of that
capital move up into the top ten to take mac Jones?
And is not as many as Justin Fields? You know,
I don't know, I because you know it's weird, I do.

(45:31):
We hear a lot of a lot of love from
mac Jones, like, don't you feel that? No, go on,
it's okay, I say, don't you feel that mac Jones?
It's it's the you know, the the prospect with all
the upside versus the closer to the finished product Justin Fields.
You know, we know how talented he is. He can
do all this with on the run and he can
make throws, and man, if I can just get him

(45:52):
into my system, we can mold him and make him
so much better and he can be a dynamic player.
Whereas Mac Jones, we kind of know what he is
to protect him well enough. He's an accurate pastor. When
he has a clean pocket, he's not gonna outrun anybody, um,
and you kind of know exactly what he's gonna give you.
And if I put him in my system and protect
him well enough, he can be a good enough player.
And I think that's why people believe that San Francisco

(46:14):
is the right connection to make, because Kyle Shanny and
believes in his system more than he necessarily believes in
trying to have an individual player, and he believes that
Mac Jones can actually execute a system better. I do
believe that Chris is onto something though that if if
Justin Fields were to be taken by San Francisco, I
don't know if there would be a giant clamoring for
people to move up to take Mac Jones like that, Yeah,

(46:35):
just the Fields is kind of He's the new paradigm, right,
He's just this quarterback that could be mobile. Where's Mac Jones?
Everyone bangs on him for one thing. It's like, well,
he can't move outside the pocket, which I don't think
that's the bang on him that that It is just
because we've seen plenty of quarterbacks work inside, like who
are statues in the pocket and they succeed in the

(46:55):
NFL just because if you land in a good place
with a good offensive line. You can do that. But
you know, the Bigs got a complete statue though. I mean,
he's big and he's mobile, and you know, like I like,
I think you guys are right when you say his

(47:18):
skill set is more attractive. I think the same thing
with Trey Lance, because Trey Lance could move and he's
got it. Like he listen, he may be raw, but
Trey Lance could be. We talked about Josh Allen. That
could be Tray Lance could be Josh Allen. Yeah, a
lot of Trey Lance. Truk has suddenly just curiously dropped
off too. I'm not sure why. And I was talking

(47:39):
with somebody in the league that does not need a
quarterback and they were talking they were in love with
Tray Lance, and I was like, really, you're like yeah,
because it was more we went through the quarterbacks. And
it's funny because he this guy who was a quarterback man,

(48:00):
he liked all of them. He said, listen, I don't
have a crystal ball, and it's all about the right system.
And there's gonna be a buster too, because that's just
how it works. But if he asked me right now,
having looked at them all in my system, I think
I could have success with any of them. I wonder
how much early success you can have with Trey Lance

(48:21):
considering he just doesn't have a lot of experience in
playing the position you're not, I mean, looking at Josh Allen,
took you two years before you can get him right,
So it's like do you can you do? You try
to take a Jordan Love type of approach with him
and drafted him and hoping that you don't have to
play him in his first year and him have him
be able to sit and learn. Allow Patrick Mahomes to
a certain degree as well, because he just doesn't have

(48:42):
You're gonna have preseason this year, by the way, which
I think it'll be a big help. Um. Look, some
guys don't need it. Joe Burrow obviously didn't need it
last year, But for someone like him who just needs
more reps because he just hasn't had him and even
in his last full season, you know they were a
predominantly run oriented team. He didn't throw the ball a lot.
He's like you, slinging it around the field left and right.
So you just want to have to get in a

(49:03):
situation where you can get him more live game reps.
And I don't know if that's something conducive that's conducive
to success. If you have to put him in there
in his rookie season, I think it'd be best for
him to go somewhere where he can actually sit for
a year. Yeah it has to be Chicago, It could be, Yeah,
absolutely could be. I think Chicago would be risky just
because I feel like at some point they're going to

(49:26):
try to have to the coaching staff is gonna have
to try to save their jobs and throw out ball quarterback.
But yeah, I mean you got Dalton and the Bears
are gone with Dalton. Yeah, I just don't know how
long Dalton lasts into the season just because he's Dalton.
I could see Carolina doing it, by the way, you know,
throw Donald in there and see what he can do.
But you draft the young kid and to to to
develop behind him. If Donald does anything, you ship them

(49:48):
off for a second round pick and you throw Lance
in there next year. I could see that with like
in Atlanta or a Detroit to both have established quarterbacks,
but and both can obviously benefit neither of their situation.
And is either with Jared Goff in Detroit or Matt
Ryan it Atlanta are long term situations where you could,
you know, sit a guy like Trey Lance. Detroit would

(50:09):
be interesting because Detroit could be a long play place,
that's a long play option, and you know that they're
they're entering a rebuild, so they don't necessarily have to
get an impact dB or pass rusher or whatever that
you will look for at the top of the draft
to make you instantly better. It would be a long
play for them, So that would actually make a lot
of sense if they were to take Tree Lance there.

(50:30):
So so my point is the five quarterbacks going to
top ten, right, So then you would have the five quarterbacks. Pitts,
who I think is the next best player in the draft.
He's phenomenal, right, Like, he's incredible. You got Chase, you
got certain Soul go up there, yea, I would. I've

(50:54):
seen later going up the boards too. I think people
are realizing how good both Will and Slater are as offensive.
Soul's awesome. We heard Link talk about him and the
fact that he's got a mean streak at his a tackle.
I like him better, much much better. I don't think
he's close. I don't think Slater is close to him.
I think Slater might go up, especially if there's teams

(51:16):
that are tackle needy, like the Raiders, and maybe they'll
be fearful that somebody might snatch him and they might
trade up a spot or two to try to get him.
So I think that's why you know he might go
up the board, because the team that may have a
need to fill will go up to try to secure
him before he gets taken by somebody else. Slater also
is just versatile. He can play guard too, So I
mean he's he's not the suel Is, but he's not

(51:38):
far behind either. Yeah, he is, like he listen, I
hear you, and he's the next best. I agree with you,
he's the next best guy. But I think soul is
a start. I don't think. I mean, and he's a
great day Like, here's the thing, you know, you gotta
tackle right where a Slater. I agree with it. I

(52:01):
think he's versatile. I think he'd be okay. I think
you'd be maybe decent at tackle and then in the
in the NFL, I think he would be okay. But
he's not soul tackle tackle. I mean that's where you
know that position and his skill. I love soul like
cards on the table as as a Lions fan. I
want the Lions to take Soul if he's there. I

(52:23):
don't think he'll get past Cincinnati, but if he feels
I'm running the envelope up there. If he gets past Cincinnati,
we should all start a crowdfunding to buy the Bengals,
try to fix that franchise be a disaster. Did you see?
Do you see the Bengals announced their nice new uniforms
and they got a picture of Joe Burrow sitting on

(52:44):
a throne and you can see that nice that nice,
big old a c L surgery scar on his knee.
That should be hanging. That should be hanging in the
Bengals draft room. Right, Okay, y'all forgot you know quarterback
can't walk. There's a reason for that. It's classic. Uh
So anyway, So that so if you have Slater and

(53:06):
Soul with Pits and Chase, that's nine thirteen ten at
Parsons eleven DeVante Smith waddle, right, you can you figure
twelve thirteen. I gotta believe that that and maybe j C.

(53:26):
Horner is getting a lot of love, but I'm might
in love with Jake C. Horn I think that is
your thirteen in no particular order, Can I throw in
one more name that I think might fly up the
draft boards that maybe I think we've devalued a bit
old didn't hold the thought. Okay, all right, because we'll
get into that, and I promise we'll get into the
Western Conference of the NBA as well. We're the Fellas.

(53:50):
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we're all overdraft, a lot of good NBA. We gotta

(54:33):
get to the Western Conference. Have been. We've been sidetracked
by the draft because that's Thursday. There's all kinds of intrigue.
So just in passing, I went over the players because
just tuned in, I do think that there are thirteen
players in no particular order, are gonna go. Now we

(54:54):
understand that Sunshine goes one, and we ah believe that
the next pick will be Zack Wilson. And then there's
all kinds now is that you look at different mocks.
Obviously mac Jones is a lot of people have him
going to San Francisco. We talked about the prospects of

(55:16):
them going elsewhere, like justin fields. So either way you
look at it. We believe first five, the five quarterbacks
will go in the top ten. There'll be some trades,
some jockeying for position, and the first five, the first
five quarterbacks that have NFL potential, will go in the

(55:40):
in the top first ten picks. Then you got the
Cheli of locks, Kyle Pitts, who's the best player in
the draft. You have Jamar Chase, who's the best wide
receiver in the draft. Despite the year off, he's still
a stud. He's gonna go. You got Sould. We talked
about him because he's the best offensive lineman in the draft.

(56:01):
He's a legit, tenure starter stone stud. You got Slater,
who's clearly the number two offensive lineman. And then you
would have certain your best cornerback Parsons I think your
best overall defensive player. I mean Michael Partston's is a

(56:25):
is a flat out stud. You got the two Alabama
wide receivers, DeVante Smith and Waddle. You know, listen, I
know that Davante Smith was one sixties six and people
are wondering, you know, about how slight he is. But
he still reminds me of Stefan Diggs, just the way

(56:46):
he glides like he runs on a cloud. And so
and then Waddle was their best receiver before he gets hurt,
before he hurts the foot. So I think those those
guys and you can throw warn in as a possibility,
would be those that you have. Chris, you have a

(57:08):
long shot dark horse. I have a name. And honestly,
like maybe it's because I've I've fallen in love watching
him a little too much. Maybe I consider him as
good as Parsons. Uh. And that's from Notre Dame Jeremiah
osu Koramoa. Uh what he's not as good as Parson
I he played this year, which just everything he did

(57:32):
this year is incredible. Everything he's done at Notre Dame
has been incredible. Uh. Pro Football Focus graded j ok
as the second highest slot coverage grade in FBS. And
he's a linebacker. He is like tweeners get a bad name,
but I can't think of another linebacker last year who

(57:52):
was as good in both in both pass rush and
in coverage as Jeremiah Osukoramoa. And I think, you know,
I understand where the love is is coming on Micah Parsons,
but I think that j Okay is he's he. I've
seen a lot of mocks keep him probably in the

(58:13):
near the halfway point of the first round, but he
is a defensive prize like no other. And I think
a lot of people should be keeping an eye on
j Okay. I just I think the world of what
he did. He he won the Butt Kiss Award, and
he's just I mean, just the stats and and some
of the grades he's poured out is just wow. I mean, listen,

(58:35):
I know, undoubtedly he's got He's a skilled guy. You
said it before about Tweener. I don't think he's close
to the impact play that Parsons is. But you know,
fig what do you say? I mean, I liked them both.
I think I don't think it hurts Parsons a little
bit by the fact that you know, didn't play um

(58:55):
the past year. But I so it hurts Parsons, but
not Chase. Yeah, I mean well as also. I mean
think of the value of positions too, and you know,
linebacker is and I know Parsons can kind of do
a little bit of both. He was a pass rusher
by trade initially before they made him into a stand
up linebacker. Um. But as it's just more of a
premium or more important placed on the receiver position, that

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is on the linebacker position, he's thought of as being
an elite player versus ausu um. So I mean, if
it were me, I would take Parsons over him, but
I would tend to agree with Chris. Actually, I don't
think the gap is as wide as some people believe.
I love Parsons, man, I do. Now again, I've seen
a lot of them because I'm, you know, not far

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from bed State, right, so there is a little bit
of that, and I've seen a ton of them, and
I just think he's a true playmaker. However, Jay, okay,
I agree. Listen, well, watch a lot of Notre Dame
and he played and he's got ability without a doubt.
I just think it's a different age for some linebackers
because as we said that we're a tweener and that

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was always kind of a it's always I've seen in
the past kind of as a draft knock, but in
this day and age with defense, having that kind of
verse linebacker is more of a it's more of a
benefit than anything. Yeah, the fact that you can cover
legit cover. I don't want to say it, but yeah, yeah, no,
I I agree with that notion, and I think and

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Parsons is good at both by the way too, I mean,
he's gonna be an excellent cover guy. And he's great
in you know, pursued and coming downhill. He's a he's
a he's a like a locomotive. Sometimes it was detriment,
so you know, I love the kid. I got to
look if he if he's a teeth guy, yeah, I don't.

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I don't know if he'll be there for the Raiders
at seventeen, but if he was, I was scoop him up.
And if you stumble in and it gets the eight, nine,
ten and he's not there, I started thinking of trading
up to get him. So it's gonna be interesting who
tumbles because you know, if you know, we haven't talked
about Quinny pay who is also people like him me

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to the edge Russia, and I think it's more of
a position because this is not a great draft for
edge roshers, right d line in general. They say this
is a pretty weak draft across the board, so you'll
be drafting for need at that point, which and I
don't know if that's I'm generally not a big fan
of that. I'd rather just draft. I like the philosophy
of best player available. Yeah, I listen, I'm I'm with you.

(01:01:30):
I'm with you in a big way, so it'll be
like to me, it's and the same thing with Jay C. Horner.
I think he's a product of his position too. Yeah.
J C. Horne is, Uh, he's very physical and that's
not gonna fly in the NFL the way it doesn't. Yeah,
I I worried about him. I'll tell you one thing

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I like. I still like Caleb Farley. I know he's
heard and I know there's some issues, but man, he
you know, he's athleticism is really good. I I you know,
I I think you can get good value. And I
don't know about the medicals, obviously they will, but I
like Caleb Farley. Yeah, I had my eye on Farley,

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and like I know, some people were talking about him
probably at the level or ahead of certain when it
came to cornerback prospects in this draft until the news
of the surgery for his back came out. And now
he's just absolutely tumbled. But if someone's willing to take
that risk, and it is a big risk to come

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back from that kind of you know, injury full strength,
But if someone can take the risk and the risk
pays off, then by all means you are probably getting
just an absolute beast in the backfield. Yeah, yeah, and
again he always have to be careful, especially at that
position and the kind of risk, and that's where the
medicals come into play. But you know, I do. I

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loved him way more than Horn, and you know the
fact that Horns now the is the safer option. He's
kind of skyrocket and oh yeah, and I feel Farley
because of the medical is likely gonna he might fall
out of the first round completely, you know, even though
it's like it's a it's a Jalen Smith sort of
situation from Notre Dame where he was easily going to

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be a top ten guy and then still went higher
than people thought he would when the Cowboys took him
in the second round. Uh So, I think that could
probably happen with Farley too, But yet Horn is making
a giant leap. I like Asante Samuel Jr. And he's
not raised extremely high either from a lot of for
a lot of people. But that guy is a baller,
you know, just like I'm with you, I was gonna,

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I was gonna say the same thing. I think Samuel Jr.
Is gonna go in the first round before everything said
and done. Yeah, and I think he should. And I
don't know because Florida State isn't the Florida State that
we've known and loved over the last couple of years.
But he's a baller, I think. I think with defensive backs,
especially like one of the things you should look for
is like the place they come from in the pedigree

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there and Florida St. Eight has turned out, you know,
Jalen Ramsey, Derwin James, other guys at that at that positions.
I think Samuel's gonna. I think he's gonna. I think
he's gonna find his way in the first round. Someone's
either going to trade up to get him or someone's
gonna gonna take him, and it's gonna surprise people. But
I don't think it should. You mentioned this earlier, but

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it is funny just how edges kind of it just
doesn't feel like there's a lot of value to edge
in this draft right now. You mentioned Quitty Pay and
I and Gregory Russo I've seen him kind of. I
don't know where he is on some of these mock
drafts anymore. Just everyone's kind of just bailing out when
it comes to edge and finding more value in these

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other positions before they get to your you know, your
edge rushing, which was always like the star of getting
your defensive talent in the first round. And now Russo Pay,
I don't see either of those guys going to the
top fifteen. Yeah, I agree, and that at all. And
you're right. I mean, let's face it, it's edge. Corner
tackle is how it'll go when it comes to defense,

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you know, and you just don't have any edge. But
the guy who does have edge is Figgy. Figgy's some
trending baby. You know, somebody has some edge to him.
Fernando Tatzis Jr. And oh, and he bawled out on
Friday night at Dodger Stadium, hitting two home runs off
of Dodger as Clayton Kershaw leading the Padres to a

(01:05:24):
six to one victory over the Dodgers. A former Dodger
U Darbish on the mount for the Padres seven strong innings,
allowing just one earned run as the Padres have won
the first two of this four game set at Dodger Stadium.
Jacob de Graham, also pitching a gym on Friday night
complete Game two, has shutout fifteen strikeouts, actually drove in

(01:05:44):
a run. He's driven in more runs than he's given
up so far this season. Jacob Degram mets beating to
the National six nothing. Yankees have won three of their
last four. They get a couple of home runs from
gian Carlos Stanton. They get a five to three victory
over Cleveland. Alex Would giving up one hitting seven inning
for San Francisco as they beat the Marlins Houston What
they walk off single from Robail Garcia in a tenth

(01:06:07):
inning victory over the Angels. In the NBA, Steph Curry
scoring thirty two points leading the Warriors over the Denver Nuggets.
Paul George at thirty three as the Clippers beat the Rockets.
John Morant thirty three points also at thirdteen assists as
mitp has got a big win over Portland's Charlotte, Atlanta
and Brooklyn with victories in the NBA as well. Back
to the Fellas, thank you, back to us, because you

(01:06:31):
are a fella. It's Figgy, It's Bow, It's Psycho Chris.
I'm cause together the Fellas. Right here on Fox, we
talked to our man, the Big Link, who's doing good
this week and uh, he's getting some good, much needed
rests as he gets ready for the Raiders and the
Raiders draft. Uh, Fellas, And let's talk finally about the

(01:06:56):
NBA Western Conference. So it's been on the doctor for
a while, and when we look at the West, it's
become a great race between the Jazz the Sons, who
have been the story of this season. Let's face it,
Phoenix has had an incredible year forty two and seventeen

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the Clippers, who are playing some great ball. Two and
a half games separates Utah Phoenix and the Clippers. Fig Yeah,
big race to the top. The Clippers almost quietly have
been playing well. Then they're not even fully healthy. Sergeonbaka
has been out for almost two months. You know, Kawhi
Learnd has been in and out of the lineup. Paul

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George been playing out of his mind despite the fact
that he has a foot injury. He's been actually nursing
an injury throughout this entire time, and it's playing his mind.
Is it rivals the line the stat line he put
up when he was in Oklahoma City and he finished
second in m v P voting that year despite the
fact that he was playing with Russell Westbrook. But honestly,
I spected the Clippers to be where they are. To

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be honest with you, most of us expected Phoenix to
be better. I don't think anybody thought they'd be fighting
for the top seat in the Western Conference in the final,
you know, three weeks of the regular season. I mean,
that's that's incredible to me. Um that there, And look,
I know they played well in the bubble, but we've
talked about how much of an anomaly the bubble was.
You know, Chris Paul, say what you want. He gets

(01:08:22):
banged up at the end of the season. He's not
there when you need him in big games, uh in
the postseason. But he's a bit of a culture changer,
and I think he really added to that. He might
not be the best player on the team, but that
team has definitely been elevated to a different level. And
really the only major move that has been made, the
only major difference on that roster, has been the addition
of Chris Paul uh and he has been a major

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addition to them, and I think he should probably get
legit m VP candidate candidacy conversation because he's played so
well and made such an impact. I'm with you. First
of all, I was always a CP three fan, but yeah,
I I love Chris Paul because he He's exactly he said.
He he's a consummate pro. He's such a such a

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great ballplayer bad. Yeah, he's so. He's just such a
great ballplayer, and he's a winner, like I always think
of him. It's funny because he hasn't won, but I
think of him as a winner. Yeah. Everywhere he goes,
you know, bad organization, you know, goes to the goes
to the Hornets or the Oaklahoma whatever, the Oklahoma City
back when they were still down there, and turns them around,

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takes them to nearly the conference finals, goes to the Clippers,
who have been historically terrible, turns them around. There a
perennial playoff contender, and that has carried on to today.
Phoenix has been the dregs of the NBA for the
last ten years, turns them around and all of a
sudden they're fighting for a top seed. I don't think
that's happenstance or just happens by a coincidence. There's a
reason for that. I think you're dead on and and

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he should get a lot of consideration because he is
the veteran presence on that team. He is because he
became the different book I love Booker and eight you
can play and that's a it's a good squad mantor
coach well, and they've got some good roles like the
good role players. But I'm with you. I mean that

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that to me is it's all about him coming in. Now.
With that being said, I'll say this, I mean, if
you're a team like say the Lakers, who he's you're
holding on for dear life, fighting for you know, somewhere
between four or five and six with Denver and Dallas,
if there was a team in the top three that
you would most rather face, it is Phoenix so as
great at the season as they have, and you know

(01:10:33):
you don't you don't want to run into Utah and
something you brought up earlier in the show. You know,
as we get closer and closer to the postseason and
more and more of these arenas and stadiums open up,
home court advantage now becomes a thing all of a sudden,
and Utah is one of the best home court advantages
in the NBA. So you really don't want to. No
one's really pining to want to have to go to
Utah in a potential game seven, regardless of who you are.

(01:10:56):
Are are talented, you are, so Phoenix is definitely the
team of all the teams at the top of the
conference you most want to face in a seven game series. Yeah,
I'm with your brother. You know again that you taught
teams nasty and I agree with you. You don't want
to play there. That is you know Utah. Oh yeah, fans,

(01:11:19):
it's just a different world. They kind of remind me,
but like like a souped up version. Remember that Atlanta
Hawk team with Paul Millsap, you know, Shrewder was coming
off the bench. They want like sixty and they were dangerous. Yeah,
and they're they were good. They were depth. It was
like the hole is better than the sum of their parts.
They didn't have a star player. Utah is like that.
But they do have a star player. Donovan Mitchell can

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turn it on, you know, as we saw, as we
saw at times last year before you know, they fell
apart against Denver. But I guess who didn't other than
you have a great big yes and Rudy Gobert to
lock down that pain. Absolutely, you have bogdanovitch Back, who's
who's an excellent score. You have Mike Conley, who was
big playoff moments at times back going back to his
Memphis days. So don't sleep on Utah. I just think

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they're just a regular season darling and they'll fade. We
got Clarks off the bench. Yes, that fills it up
for you. That's a it's a they're a real squad
and they are an actual, real threat. I would not
just to steal a line from Rob Parker, pooh poo
the Utah Jazz, it's just a you know, regular season
you know story, and then they're just gonna flame out
in the playoffs. I don't see that happening. I a

(01:12:23):
great speak to guys who are bowling right now. I mean,
not for nothing, but Steph is ridiculous, ridiculous, I mean,
he's just putting on a show, dude. The last night again,
Golden State blows out Denver. They're playing good ball, they're winning,
and look, I know they're fighting for playing the whole thing.

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But he he's been on display, my lord, and doesn't
is it more impressed? It's more impressive because you know,
he doesn't have the safety outlet. He doesn't have Kevin
durand he doesn't have Clay Thompson. Everyone knows is his show.
He's getting the ball, he's jacking it up and they
can't stop him. He's shooting as well from the outside

(01:13:05):
as efficiently as he ever has, and that's the crazy part.
He's shooting more and he's making more. It's absolutely ridiculous
what he's doing right now. I mean, he's not gonna
get legit m VP thoughts, so I know that's what
he says he should be, but he's not gonna get it.
But he's definitely going through. For anybody that doubted whether
or not he can actually put up these same numbers,

(01:13:26):
if he literally was the alpha dog and there was
no other help from great players around him, all that
doubt has been wiped away, especially considering this last month
that he's had or he's putting up historic numbers. My god,
he really is. He's he's just nasty, all right. So
how do you view the rest of the conference? Now?

(01:13:49):
The Nuggets leaking oil? Yeah, now, you see, they're a
different team without Marry Well. I mean, they were just
coming off of a four game winning a winning streak
before they lost to Golden State. They are definitely a
different team, but they have not fallen off the face
of the earth. You know, they're they're still in the mix,

(01:14:11):
uh for for at least the top two or three seed.
I don't know if they'll be able to catch Utah
for one, but they can. They can catch Phoenix, they
can catch the Clippers potentially. Right now, you're three and
a half games behind the Clippers for the third seed.
And I believe they play the Clippers one more time.
I believe of the double check on that. Um, it's
not out of the remo possibility, but it certainly isn't likely. Yeah,

(01:14:36):
they play the Clippers one more time, so, and they
played Utah in Utah one one more time as well.
So it's gonna yeah, it's gonna be tough sledding, quite honestly,
no matter what they do in the regular season, uh
the playoffs that it's a different beast and they're not
gonna make a deep run in the playoffs without Jamal
Murrays look as great as the Joker was. Jamal Murray
was out of his mind last year in the bubble

(01:14:58):
for them. You know, he's that X factor and and yeah,
and I know he wasn't as dynamic during the regular
season this year, but what he but what he does
is he spaces the floor for the Joker, like he's
there Michael Porter. You know, when you have that kind
of guard ploy to go with Porter and the Joker,

(01:15:20):
you you just space the floor that way. Yeah. Well,
what he also does is give you another playmaker because
right now they're only playmaker is Yokick. You need somebody
to give him the ball in the half court and
then you can run everything through him. You really don't
have anybody else to to run any offensive sets through.
And you can't do that with Jamal Murray went off
the pick and roll. So that's that's gonna hurt them
big time, especially in the postseason when you're playing the

(01:15:42):
same team over and over and over again. You know,
every single every single night, against a different opponent, you
can kind of get by a little bit. Uh, it's
not gonna work that work itself out that way in
the playoffs. And the Joker, I could say he's exposed
without Jamal Murray, but he may not be as good
as Joel and Bead with limited what's around him. Wow. Um,

(01:16:09):
I'm not surprised by that sentiment from Anthony. That's jeez,
were you were growing about? I think uh, I think
my biggest takeaway from the Western Conference so far is that, um,
there were a lot of a lot of Laker fans
like Rob g super producer, who were convinced that the

(01:16:31):
Lakers were going to fall into like the eight nine
seed without Lebron and Anthony Davis, and they really managed
to tread water. And I haven't lost too much ground
in this like, which is shocking. Yeah, the same thing. Yeah,
I I I thought they would maybe fall the six
or seven. But yeah, I think uh, I think Lebron

(01:16:52):
will be back probably in the next week or two here,
and I I think they might climb into that force speed,
that force spot with Denver kind of of struggling to
three games behind Lakers. At three games behind Denver, I agree.
I we'll talk about it, but I do I think
the Lakers can catch them. We'll see where the Fellas.

(01:17:16):
That's it. We got Figgy and Bo and the Psycho
Chris some cause together the Fellas right here on Fox
Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Fellas as we hang
out big, big day to day this weekend for the draft, NBA, baseball,

(01:17:38):
the whole thing, and we're going through the NBA and
the arcing towards the playoffs. You give any not just
shame figures that you know, look at two teams that
are kind of similar. They're both fun to watch, but
they're not real contenders, and that's Portland's Dallas. Yeah, well,

(01:17:59):
especially poor It was dealt with the same issue for
the last seven years or whatever it's been with. You know,
they have c J. McCollum and Damian Lillard, and it's
you go, I go, you shoot, I shoot, and I
can get you through the regular season, but it's not
gonna get you through in the playoffs. You know, they
had this one anomaly a couple of years ago where
they made it to the conference finals because literally every
team they ran up against the playoffs got hurt, so

(01:18:21):
and then they got worked over by the Warriors when
they got there. But yeah, they just don't have I've
always said if they're going to make it, they're gonna
have to make a decision to move off of one
of those guys and get help in the front court.
Either you're trading Dame for somebody, you're trading CJ for somebody,
and it's likely going to be c J. To try
to just get more more depth in your lineup outside
of being so guard dominant, and then he had Dallas.
They just aren't good enough defensively to stop people and

(01:18:43):
they were they rely on Luca too much. And quite honestly,
if Chris as Porzinkis could just stay healthy, which he
can't and never has, and maybe at this point with
a big guy with his history of injuries, possibly, I
hate to say it may never will, you know, I
just don't see them making any large strides to improve either.
If you was a hundred percent healthy, I think they
can actually do something because you know, Chris Taps New

(01:19:04):
York New York Knicks. Kristaps was amazing, but we were
so far removed from that and I don't know if
he'll ever actually get back to that. On a consistent basis. Yeah,
I'm with you on that, So, yeah, I need the thing.
It's depressing because they're fun to watch. Both teams are
Lucas grit fund to watch. Damian Lillard is amazing to watch,
and there's a few players you want with the ball
in their hands and the clock running down in a

(01:19:26):
tie game or you're down by a couple, then Damian Lillard.
So what's let me ass you, being that that's your squad,
you're there, what's the what's the feeling, what's the sentiment
around the Lakers that they just need to get Lebron
and a D back healthy? Is what it is? You
know that it's very impressive, the grit that they've showed,

(01:19:47):
the way they've played that the seventeen games they haven't
had either of those guys in there, they've been seven
and ten, which if you would have told Laker fans
you were going to be three games under five hundred
with Lebron and a D being out, you would take
that every single military time. So the fact they've played,
they've over exceeded expectations, and I think that's a testament
to Frank Vogel. They're defensively they've been as good as

(01:20:09):
they were when those two guys were healthy. So for me,
and I think for a lot of Laker fans, is
actually a positive sign that they can play that well
and that gritty and that well defensively without those guys,
because once they get integrated back in the d N
a of the team is still gonna be there. We
know that we can grind teams out, we can play hard,
we can stay competitive without those guys. Now once we

(01:20:29):
get them back into the lineup, you know, the sky's
the limit. I mean, you're basically gonna have a five
or a six seed that in a true year when
nobody is injured, is easily one or two. So your
road through the postseason is gonna be a little bit tougher. Uh,
if you have to place the face. It seemed like
a Denver or potentially the Clippers in the first round.
But if you're if you're fully healthy with Lebron and

(01:20:51):
a D, I don't think it necessarily matters. It's interesting,
you know, it's funny because can you if anybody can
just turn it on, it's those two, especially Lebron. Yeah,
you know a D. I'm a little less convinced of
but Lebron for sure. Yeah, I just wonder, are though
are like against the Sons, I could see it right

(01:21:13):
Against the Jazz though, it might be different, And against
the Clippers it could be different. The Clippers, absolutely, the Jazz.
I think they match up decently with the Jazz when
they're healthy. The Clippers will be a tough one. That
would be a tough out. And if I had to
pick right now, and I don't, I honestly probably picked
the Clippers to beat the Lakers in a seven game series.
Fellas right here on Fox. Oh, welcome, good morning, good morning,

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early returns up for MLB. That's heartening, heartwarming. M hmm, figure,
I gotta drive after this. I gotta go my little
My little massumo is um. So he goes to Catholic school, right,
so he's making his holy communion coming up in in

(01:22:44):
like three weeks. So today he has this reconciliation they
call it. Right, it's gonna say it's a church and
it's gonna take like an hour. So I got to
meet him at the church right after we get done
in about an hour. He's got to have his uniform
under his clothes, and I gotta drive him an hour

(01:23:06):
toward Atlantic City where he's got a game at twelve thirty.
Now what what position does Moss play? Third base? And picture? Okay,
so he uh, we're off to a decent start. Dude,
I gotta tell you this is outrageous. Right, So we

(01:23:27):
have a tournament last weekend, and you know, like the
like it's eight year old travel and you go, you know,
all right, cousin, you're eight years old, but like they
take it serious. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So we're playing. So
it's one of those deals where it's double elimination tournament.
So we're we're like one on one going into Sunday.

(01:23:49):
We win the early game. And then we got a
game against like the guerrilla team, right, the monstars of
Little League base right, Like, so there's just aerrilla team
that is not affiliated with the town. They're like at all. Start,
get all the kids from the area and put them
from different teams, and put them all from the right.

(01:24:12):
They're bringing in ringers from New York. So it's this
guerrilla team. First of all, you look at it and go,
but like you you knew it was gonna be tough.
So well, that eight year old of shaving, that's weird.
You know exactly what. It's the best kids twenty two?
What are you doing out here? So I gotta give

(01:24:35):
my boy a little a little props because we're down
one offense, bottom of a bottom. The first two outs
run around second and Massy comes up ropes a double
ties the game, and the kids are like, oh, we
got a shot, right and get all right. We're get excited.
Then the guerrilla team starts to play to here's a kid.

(01:25:02):
I swear to god, I thought I was looking at
Jim Tony like if Drago was eight, he would be
this kid. He's left handed, all right. So they're playing
at a field it's it's a decent shot to get
it over the fence, like it's it's shot, like you know,

(01:25:25):
it's meant for like eleven twelve year olds. Was like
how often or eight year olds hitting home runs out
of this particular park, you know, right, Like so put
it this way. I've never seen anybody had come close
hit the fence on a couple of hops and he
swings out of his shoes and he's a big kid.
But this kid, oh my god, he not only cleared defence,

(01:25:47):
he cleared it by twenty ft. This thing was majestic.
Oh my god, he's eight years old, this kid and
it it was be like this swing was beautiful, like
that left handy eight years old. Oh my god. You

(01:26:10):
can tell this kid spent some time in the cages.
It's one of those. And like key know this kids
a ballplayer, right. So this kid like it's he screams
basement like he just the way he tugs at his
elbows like he just stepping out of the box like
like he's eight. I'm like, there's no way in the
world that this kid is eight years old. It's unreal.

(01:26:33):
I Mean they were talking about, you know, cardmen and
name it right right? Oh my god, this shot this
kid hit it's it's not still like and it was
just fourth one of the spring Wow. And and how
when did you guys start when I when did the
league player this all this tournament start for you guys, dude,

(01:26:55):
well it started Friday. It's it's just so it's only
been a week. Wow. Okay, so he's probably hit like
nine more already. Yes, So yeah. Has anyone actually legitimately
tried to check into this kid's uh, you know, his
age and his background when I don't want to say nothing, like,
you know, like I'm just and plus the father listens

(01:27:16):
to me, right nice sky right, like I don't want to,
you know, go to You're not trying to go Bertha
on the kid on the kid exactly Like I'm like,
I just shook the guy's hand. I went, man, you're
such help of a ballplayer. I've never seen anything like
it when you're feeding that kid. Really, it was, it was,

(01:27:37):
it was incredible. But it's you know what's cool is
like being a part of that whole baseball thing with
the kids. It's it's dynamite like they you know, because
they're in the weight and I just want the sport
to to not die, right, You want to have kids
be interested in playing and watching, you know exactly. And

(01:28:00):
that's a part of it, right, Like it's great to
play it and all, but you should also watch it,
which is not common or for for a lot of
players nowadays. And you know a lot of these I
think specifically in the NBA, a lot of the players
don't know the history of the sport. They're like, who's
been Ard King? You never heard of him? And it's like,
all right, right, I'm sure you never saw him play
neither die, but I know who he is, you know.

(01:28:21):
You know the fact that Shaq didn't know who Lenny
Wilkins was when he was coaching him in in the Olympics, Like,
I don't know how that happens. I know, it's weird.
It's one thing. You know what the greatest eye opener
is that I found in especially when you get to
know a lot of a lot of players, is that
they're really not fans. Right. It's a rare thing to

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get an athlete who's a fan of the game, like
who knows like Lebron as a superstar, being a fan
is completely unique. Definitely, those guys are few and far between.
He was like that. Kobe was like that, you know,
but a lot of these guys, I mean, Kobe knew everybody,

(01:29:07):
you knew all the history of the game, right, And
I just it's odd to me that there's that sort
of disconnect because when we were kids and many of
us realized we had no aspirations whatsoever being a pro athlete.
But you know, watching the sport got us interested in
playing the sport or vice versa, you know, so that
it never equated to me how you could love playing
a sport but not be a fan of the sport itself. Yeah,

(01:29:30):
I mean most athletes, right, it's and it's funny, especially
football guys like and they're not into In fact, they
don't even watch other games. Oh yeah, a lot and
a lot of your right, and a lot of football
players will explicitly say that, you know, unless I'm watching film,
I don't watch football. I don't. I won't sit on
my couch, you know after we played on Sunday and

(01:29:51):
watch Monday night football like that. Most of those guys don't.
So it's weird. And why do you think it's funny?
Because I often wonder why that is. I never told
to a guy, um, who I would do. I used
to do a show with right, and he like he
didn't pay attention to anything, right, Like he didn't know anything, okay, right,

(01:30:14):
And so you always asked me, like, what about this guy?
What about this team? You know, like just could be
like something, so I could say something right like that
was his his take off things right, Right? And I go,
I can do but what you know? Not wats the
super Bowl? Hell No? I was like, really, He's like, nah, man,
I'm gonna wait four hours watching the super Bowl. Two

(01:30:37):
teams and guys I hate. I want to win no way.
Part of me gets that to a degree. I'll also
say football is unique in that, you know, it's a
one weekend event. You spend an entire week watching so
much film and doing so many practices, and when you
have a day off or you have a night free,
I can maybe understand why you wouldn't want to just

(01:30:57):
sit there and casually watch other guy do what you've
been doing every single day for the last especially you
get into October, November, December. It kind of makes sense
football from a football standpoint. Uh, But a lot of
times I think in basketball you often see you know,
how many times do you see Lebron tweet oh my god,
damn great shot or you see that a lot in

(01:31:17):
the NBA, right, And I think universally in the NBA,
you see a lot of guys who give props to
their friends. And the NBA is also different than that.
These guys travel a a you friends from high school,
they support each other and all of that. So a
lot of it there's just supporting friends of theirs that
they grew up playing against, their playing with, you know,
so it's a little bit different. Um, I don't think

(01:31:39):
football to a certain degree for players, it gets a
little bit exhausting having to go through the preparation process
and then when you actually have time to exhale, to
sit down and watch more football. It does make sense
to me from that standpoint. And you know what else too,
I think with the film thing, and they're so locked
in their position that and you know it is you play,

(01:32:02):
you don't you're locked in the your position, right. You know,
if I'm a guard, I could care less what the
receivers are doing, you know, and forget about the other
side of the ball. Yeah, I mean like that's you know,
that's that never happened. So it's it's an interesting dynamic
as to when you look at a lot of the

(01:32:22):
NFL guys and growing up, but a lot of teams.
It's funny because too, because they don't have a lot
of like favorite teams or anything like that. And it's
weird because it's you know, it's all it's it's the fan.
It's the divide between fan and player. But I agree
with you the NBA is is a little different when

(01:32:43):
it comes to that. Yeah, there's a bit of an
old school mentality when it comes to that. So you saw,
you know the I don't know if you saw the
unfortunate news about Steve Mango McMichael of those Great Bears teams. Uh,
he has a ls that's all going through a pretty
tough time right now. But even he you know, keeping
his humor and anybody that that had met him or
knew him that he had a great sense of humor,

(01:33:03):
was always very upbeat says like, you know, but it's
it's still it's still it's still not as bad as
getting beaten by the packers or said something like that.
You know, it's just a cames tho. The rivalries, you know,
it's such a thing back then, and the players took
it personally. It was less of just a transactional business,
and they actually owned it back then more so than
they do now. And there's something refreshing about that. Yeah, Yeah,

(01:33:26):
that's a great point. That's a great point. We'll come
back and we got four stories that we're going to
debate a little bit. I want to throw them out,
and uh, we want the whole the old team, a
little variation of four. There's gonna be four stories that
we debate as a group, and you could best believe

(01:33:50):
one of them is the NBA m v P. We're
the Fellas, Figgy Bo Psycho Chris. I'm because right here
Fox Sports Radio, all right, Fallas, how was about to
say to Lincoln Kennedy, Anthony Garcatto, fig Happy, It's gonna

(01:34:13):
happen from time to time, Big Link to step it away,
And uh, he's doing well. He's probably still sleeping right now,
but I told Tom Earl here, he's early in the week.
He's doing good. Good God. I know we all love him,
and I know you do fig big time and Link
and I worked together thirteen years. He's like a brother.

(01:34:34):
I love the guy. Before I even started working with him.
So yeah, and you realize how that he's even a
better guy, Like he's one of the greatest people you
ever want to meet, no doubt, no doubt. I mean,
I can never say enough great things about that guy
as a man, great father, great friend, he is, uh

(01:34:58):
and of course a great raider. That's right. So here's
a deal. It's Figgy and it's Bow and it's Psycho Chris,
and we're gonna do the four, but we're gonna do
a little different spin. It's gonna be more of uh.
I don't want to say a fight, but debt. Sometimes

(01:35:20):
I'd like to say that, yeah, break out the gloves,
let's go, you know what I mean. So because we
we always from time to time we'll go at it
and it's all in fun, and it's all in good fun.
So we're gonna begin the four with the first topic.
Here's the melee. It's the n B A m v P.

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And I'll start off and I go, it's not even close.
But that was kind of ridiculous. But I would say
that Joel Embid should be the m v P. And
here's my quick argument that and b need plays right now,

(01:36:02):
a team that is a half game out of the
number of the one seed is clearly the better player,
that's the best player on that team. He has shown
you with ridiculous numbers, and in fact they only have
two scores, him and Tobias Harris, unlike Denver who's got

(01:36:27):
more scores, and unlike the Joker, Joel and b plays
defense and he's on a better team, a team right
now that is vying for the top spot of the East.
The Nuggets aren't a bit of a fall like we

(01:36:49):
talked about. There are three teams clearly ahead of them
that they probably won't catch. Now. I understand that the
number of games is going to become an issue. You
but the Sixers clearly, and again despite the winning record
with Adam slightly winning record with Adam, if you saw

(01:37:11):
the teams they played, and you watch this team day
in day out, you know that the Sixers without Joel
and Bead would be an eighth seed at best. So
to me, he's the definition of the most valuable player.
Have that boys, Either of you guys want to go first?

(01:37:34):
I mean yeah, I think uh, I think a beat
is probably going to win it, just because he'll be
the best player on a probable one seed. But I
think if you're going letter of the law, uh, you know,
most Valuable Player, it's hard to not like, look at
what Steph Curry is doing, even though the Warriors aren't
that good, but Curry has been on an insane run

(01:37:57):
and really, um yahn Us is doing the exact name
stuff he's been doing for the last two years when
he won MVP. Then, so you can make a case
for you honest, I think it's just that the Bucks
aren't as good as a team as they have been
in the past. So I I think you're right, it's
probably going to go to EMBIAD, but it's it's a
lot murkier this year than than it has been in
the past. Yeah, I don't think it's going to go

(01:38:19):
to EBEAD. I think the voters, like my friend and
colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, Chris Broussard of the
odd Couple with Rod Parker, make sure you listen. He's
gonna holding the gate. Told me he's gonna hold it
against Joe. I don't I don't know, and he's a voter.

(01:38:39):
If if the Sixers end up with the one seed
in the East and the Nuggets fall into like the
five seed like I think they might. It's going to
be so hard to convince everybody to vote for for
your Kitchen instead of Joel. Like, I don't know if
you saw that shot the other night against Milwaukee. And
I'm not talking about the one where it's like a
quarter backpass off the miss free throat that almost ties it.

(01:39:03):
I'm talking about the fall away three that a guy
who's seven foot two, three hundred and thirty some odd
pounds should never make. I'm talking about a guy, a
big who shoots his free throws at an eighty five
percent clip and who plays defense, is a rim protector.

(01:39:26):
He's the best player in the league. That might be
a stretch. I was on your side, but wait, wait, wait,
and you gotta can't. You can't say that I just did.
Look he's playing well right now, um, And I'll be
honest with you. My stance has changed from last week
with nicolea Yokig being the m v P. But I

(01:39:47):
have not swayed over to do oil and beat. I
have swayed more towards the direction of the gentlem when
I brought up earlier being Chris Paul. Now, granted he's
not the best player on his team. I will readily
admit that he's absolutely not the player I love Chris Paul,
but most valuable player to a team that went nowhere
last year or the year before and has been terrible forever.

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And the only thing that has changed for that roster
has been him, and they have gone from being the
dregs of the Western Conference to being the top of
the Western Conference, which is by far better than the East.
At this point in time, they have a better record
than the Sixers due playing in the tougher conference. He
has played big in big games on the big stages. Again,
Devin Booker is a better player than him. I would

(01:40:32):
never deny that, But if we're talking about the most
valuable player to the team that he is on currently,
I'm given that nod to Chris Paul. And by the way,
it doesn't hurt or help Joel and beat He's not
gonna end up playing even like seventy of the games
for the Sixers this year. And I do think durability
does have to play into a factor of being the
for for the m v P race, and he just
he got one injury and it was a hyper extended

(01:40:55):
need that kept him out for a couple of weeks.
That's not his fault, but unfortunately that does get factored in.
And I saw stat earlier this week, and I'm gonna
maybe misquote the numbers a little bit, but only one
player has won an MVP award and he's played less
than eighty percent of his team's games in a season.
That's precedent too. I mean, part of being a great,
you know player and a valuable player is your availability

(01:41:17):
on the court. So and it has nothing to do
with him being out of shape or anything. It was
an unfortunate injury this Hurst Lebron. By the way, Lebron
was one of the front runners for m VP before
he got hurt. Now he has zero chance of winning
it too, because he's even if he comes back and
plays phenomenal the last eight or nine games or whenever
he returns, the body of work isn't gonna be there
for him. Chris Paul, who has historically been injured a lot,

(01:41:38):
especially down the stretch of seasons, has been there most
nights for the for the Phoenix Suns and has played
at a very high level in games that mattered the
most for them. So it's not a career achievement of
war because I'm not a fan of that. I'm not
gonna say he's been a great player for so long
and he's gonna get it now because he was passed
over by Kobe and No. Eight or anything like that.
I think, just based on his body of work this season,

(01:41:58):
for the team he's playing with and the conference he's
playing in, here for me, will be the most viable
player this year, Chris. I just want the award to
go to someone who's been I'm with I'm I want
someone who's been playing for most of the season. So no,
I'm sorry, Like I just this this whole, like I

(01:42:21):
don't know. I meant, Harry, what are you gonna do?
Let me let me just read you numbers? Okay? Can
I can I do that for you a little bit?
The eye popping numbers. And this is over his last
few games, all right. So thirty eight seventeen four assists, block,

(01:42:52):
steal fourteen and twenty three three threes, seven of nine
from the line. Then it goes again twenty eight thirteen
eight assists, thirty six, thirty four, thirty nine, thirteen, thirty
six seven, twenty seven ten one doug fourteen nine thirty

(01:43:16):
five six, twenty four eight, and these are in blowouts
twenty three seven, forty nineteen, twenty four, thirteen, forty two thirteen.
I mean, and he plays defense. I just don't understand.
He's like, how you can say he's not the best
player in the league this year he's playing, He's played well.

(01:43:39):
He's playing well right now. For sure. He's having a
phenomenal stretch. He's having a phenomenal stretch the whole year,
the whole year. Is being healthy to play the entire year.
So I mean that that does one stretch, It does
It does matter, you know, your durability does matters. Yes, unfortunately,
I'm done ff. I'm being fair, Yes, absolutely be fair.

(01:44:03):
That indeed is so much it's so much better then,
and it's more important to hit. Look to his team.
He's gotta score, he's gotta board. He's he's the best
big of the game. I don't think the gap between
him and Yokich is as big as you believe. It
is a bunch of too Okay, he's yeah, listen to

(01:44:25):
triple doubles. I get it. But he plays no defense,
and he's on a team that's got other players around
them all right, and again in a in a tougher conference,
which I think is can't be discounted. And again if
I'm taking joker out of it, and I go back
to my guy Chris Paul. Look where he has them
at the top of the Western Conference. What's said with
only seventeen losses, Joel em beat is And I call

(01:44:47):
I honestly, if Joel Embiad had not missed that stretch
of time and he was putting up this numbers, I
would have no debate with you. If he wins the award,
I won't have a giant debate. I'd see I can
see it happening. But for me, your durability. No, he's
not giving I'm not giving him a vote. No, give
it to the tight cuz vote. Oh and I look,
I love him Beat. You know we've talked about this

(01:45:09):
for years, how much I love Joel and Beat. I
have nothing against him personally, the Big Felts love Man,
Big mag It's no love Hey. I'm with I love Hey.
I wanted a revolution to the big Man. I love
the fact that Doc hasn't putting his butt back in
the post and stop shooting all those threes. You know
he's also a great three point is he's improved as
a three point shooter as well, but he's he's establishing himself.
He's like, oh my god, he's as complete. But I

(01:45:33):
my Like the other night I watched him and I
went like I had Marvel sometimes, Like to me, it's
like walking through the ancient streets of Florence and seeing
the to Wombo or a Sunday stroll to love like
I'm watching the art of movement. And I have not
I have not felt that way or seen anything like

(01:45:57):
that in an NBA game since that Marvel with a
guy I'd act said the same thing. At his size,
how does he do? How does he do that? And
that's iverson and with Irish, I went, oh my god,
his size, how does he do that? Being among the
trees and fearless and scores it will and and being

(01:46:18):
at seven to I go, oh my god, it his size,
how does he have that handle and that touch and
that footwork? Well, I mean I think I Kim did
it before him, But yeah, he was six eight seven too, Yeah,
I mean, and that was three pounds. Is he three thirty? Yeah? Yeah,

(01:46:40):
he was like three seventies. Is he still pounding? Those
o those in and out. He's he's pretty lean for
three thirty. I'll say that that's a. That's a he
carries it extremely well. If that's I mean, you know,
like like trust me, like he's I would have gone
to sixty or two to seven dirty. Now he's over

(01:47:01):
with three hunt. Yeah, he's over three hun. He may
you know again, I'm I'm gonna be exaggerating three thirty,
but he might eat definitely. Now he's a monster. Again,
I would not be I would not have a giant
argument if he wins it. But he's not getting my vote.
I'll put it that way. All right. All right, Uh,
thank hit us with some trending, and then we'll get

(01:47:22):
to the next topic. All right, Well, we'll start with
some us A Major League Baseball action in Los Angeles,
Padres picking up their third straight victory over the Dodgers,
second in this current four game series in l A.
Six to one was the final score. Fernando Tattis Jr.
Had two home runs off of Clayton Kershaw, former Dodger
Yu Darvish, allowing just one run in seven innings of work.

(01:47:43):
Jacob the Graham of the Mets pitching a gym complete
game shutout, drove in a run as well. It struck
out fifteen batters as the Mets beat the Nationals six
to nothing. John Carlos Stanton went deep twice for the
Yankees as they beat Cleveland. Giants beat Miami. Yadier Molina
with the home run as the Cardinals beat Cincinnati in NFL,
the Chiefs acquiring the Pro Bowl offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr.

(01:48:03):
From Baltimore for four draft picks, three of which will
be in next weekend's draft, including Kansas City's first round pick.
Baltimore will also send the Chiefs their second and sixth
round picks in this year's draft. In the NBA, Carrie
Eving had fifteen points, eleven assists, and nine rebounds as
Brooklyn defeated Boston. Atlanta dominated Miami despite not having Trey

(01:48:24):
Young and Clint Capella in the lineup, and Steph Curry
thirty two points, leading Golden State over Denver, Memphis getting
thirty three from John Morantz in a victory over the Trailblazers.
Back to the Fellas, All right, that's us, we are
the Fellas. That's Figgy Psycho Chris bo I'm caused right here,
every week Fox Sports Radio. I the second part of

(01:48:48):
the four second thing we argue. Rich Hill this week
said he talked about MLB rules and all the experiments
that are going on in the monor leagues, and Rich
Hill said they just lead the game alone. That you're
trying to change the game for a bunch of people
who don't like the game, who don't care about the game.

(01:49:10):
So what's the point two part argument? Should the Should
the MLB change its rules? And does the fact that
this early season and the numbers being up so dramatically,

(01:49:31):
does that mean anything to the idea and the concept
of changing the rules since these are all rules that
are in the minor leagues. So for the the first part,
I tend to agree with rich Hill. I mean, look,
you have to look at every individual situation. If you
look at starting the runner onund second base, I'll admit

(01:49:52):
I hate it the rule initially. I'm kind of warmed
up to it ever since last season and coming into
this season. As long as you're not drastically changing how
the game is being played, I don't necessarily mind it.
You know, people talk about the automated strike zone. I
might be able to get on board with that because
you see too too often work umpires are just destroying

(01:50:13):
games and getting bad calls after bad call. That's something
I wouldn't necessarily mind. The defensive shift situation is a
tough one for me because it's all within the rules.
At this point, you're talking about telling teams where they
can and can't position people defensively. I think it's up
to the hitter to adjust, not for the defenders to
stop playing defense. So there's some things that I'm willing
to bend on, but every time about drastically changing the

(01:50:36):
way that the game is played to appeal to people
to riches point who don't like the sport anyway, and
by the way, may not like it even after you
change the rules, I wouldn't. I would not do that.
And look, the upticking ratings are encouraging, but I would
want to see a longer return than just a month
and a half or two months of results before I
start saying baseball is back and everybody loves it again

(01:50:56):
and it's perfectly fine. Yeah. I agree with rich Hill too.
I go bleep them. Yeah, listen, you don't like the sport.
They don't like the sport. I mean, it gets what
is what it is. Yeah, I don't really care for
the run around second and extras. All right, Like, I'll
live with it, So I'm not gonna go cry. I'm
not gonna cry about it. It's not the most egregious

(01:51:18):
thing for me. The one thing I will cry about
that I hate is the seven inning double heads. Yeah,
I'm not a big fan of that. Yeah, I don't.
I don't like either of them. I I am in
favor of automated strike zones though, Okay, yeah I can.
I can get behind that. It's it's especially egregious for
a team like watching the Dodgers, who there guys don't

(01:51:41):
chase like we the none of those batteries go up
there and swing it pitches out of the zone. So
when you have umpires calling balls that are like six
inches off the plate strikes, it just screws up their
entire approach. And I I have to think that that's
part of why they're just slumping so badly offensively right
now too, because they have not been getting any favorable
calls on those outside balls. Yeah, yeah, I I hear you,

(01:52:06):
and I would be behind that, um Chris. So as
far as changing up the game, I'm kind of with
Rich Hill, like I'm getting the sense on where the
seven ending doubleheaders are coming from and where the you know,
the runner, the runner to start extra innings is coming from.
In that, I think it's less about I think I

(01:52:28):
think it was intended to try to get people to
watch who just aren't gonna watch. But I could see it,
I can see an argument for it in the sense that, look,
we we're just burning through pictures like NonStop. Sometimes, especially
in the stage where you know it's not it's not
just you know, you have your starter in for six seven,
couple of bridge guys and a closer bullpens are more

(01:52:49):
dynamic than that. Um. However, as far as where this
you know, the season starting, I mean obviously not because
of these rules. But I think we're baseball is really
being good right now, is that we're finally getting storylines
in baseball. And that's what makes a sport at the
end of the day is what kind of storylines you have?
What can you sell to people? And again the Padres
with with tattoos is good, The Dodgers is good. West

(01:53:12):
Coast baseball has been fantastic, even out you know East,
you have times and tribulations with the young Akil But
Do has been fantastic. I know, you know, you keep
mentioning Rob Parker, Rob Parker, you want to talk about
a guy who believes in Nakilba Do right there. He's
been hot, hot as you can be. And just teams

(01:53:32):
and just teams all around. We're talking. We have so
many storylines in baseball that we just wouldn't have in
years past. And I think that, more than anything, like
baseball is is tinkering with I think problems it never
really had. People weren't really minding games going long. People
weren't really minding doubleheaders or you know, extra innings that

(01:53:53):
would go to twelve or thirteen. They reminding that they
didn't know who anyone was. They didn't know like you,
you can't sell just brand logos. You have to sell
them players. And that's where the you know, people talk
about Mike Trout not having much of a personality. That
does hurt it. But I mean there's you're telling me
baseball lacks for personality. Go find some guys and put

(01:54:13):
them on the big screen or or hype them up,
or do whatever you gotta do. And yeah, and they're yeah,
and they're other fence whares. They've done that a lot,
more so specifically with tattoos. You can't watch a broadcast.
You can't watch a football broadcast without saying a commercial
add with Fernando tattis in it. I don't know whether
that's him in his marketing or if that's Major League Baseball.
Regardless of who it is, you know, he is definitely

(01:54:36):
like one of the faces of baseball that you want
to promote right now to kind of get it out
there for a younger audience. And I know, yeah you
mentioned I mean Trout. Obviously they weren't able to do
it in Bryce Harper. I think they tried to sell them,
but just I don't know, Harper didn't really catch them.
I think they are onto something with tattoos, and there's
other young guys coming up that, uh, we'll definitely get
some play. They tried too hard to lean into the

(01:54:58):
like the guy to play the game the right way,
and then you know that was when you had a
chance to really get like Mookie Bets and Mike Trout
his household names. And now that they have tatis, they're
going really hard the other way and trying to trying
to do the you know, let the guys have fun.
I would hope they would have seen a few years
ago we had the pleak mania, Like how much people

(01:55:19):
glommed onto that, Like they tried to suppress that. They
suppressed that. Now he ended up being you know, a
bit of a bit of a nutcase too, and in
different senses outside of his baseball and he was a
bit of a locker room cancer. But just for his
flair on the field or with the enthusiasm that he
played with, they tried everything they could to try to
hem him in and not you know, put him in

(01:55:40):
the spotlight. And I think you're right, that was a
mistake and I think maybe they're learning from that with Tatis. Now. Yeah,
and you're just having exciting teams out there, be it
the White Sox, the A's, the Mariners, the Red Sox,
all of these teams, the Mets or the Dodgers, or
about you know, having star powers strike out. It's amazing

(01:56:01):
star power and major markets, you know, having the Mets
have de Graham and having lind Or. Now, I know
the Yankees have gotten off to a slow start, but
look at Boston. You know they've gotten off to a
faster start than anybody would have thought they'd be out
to straight for Oakland is just yeah, yeah, now then,
and they're good. And they started really started six or

(01:56:22):
something or they at least lost six in a row
early in the season one and seven. Yeah, yeah, amazing,
amazing stories. Man. I a great baseball uptick. We love it.
Coming up. We're gonna give you two more, including we'll
go to college football. And we passed four twenty this week.

(01:56:47):
What you do when you got the munchies. We had
a big argument over where you're heading. Okay, yeah, this
is good. All right, so we'll do that as well.
Fellas on Fox. All right, welcome back, Fellas. Here we go.

(01:57:07):
You're ready, let's get right to it. College football Figgy,
And it's interesting the committee, and it's something that arguing
before for a few years now. The Committee is considering

(01:57:28):
expansion and has even discussed as many as sixteen teams
in a playoff. No, I'm not gonna say who long
ago came up with a sixteen team playoff and was
left at by the great Lincoln Kennedy in the Great

(01:57:50):
Figgy laughing Kevin figures. But here it is the College
Football Committee is saying, you know why, let's have a
real tournament. Let's go sixty. No, they're not saying let's
go to six team. They've discussed up to sixteen. Let's

(01:58:11):
let's not you know, hold on, hold on, Anthony, some
objective editing of the copy here correct from six teams,
which I love to sixteen is the range? Yes, your
thoughts about that? Well, first of all, I say it's
about time, and also it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

(01:58:33):
They're still gonna let the contract run out through. But
I'm encouraged at the very least that they're at least
talking about this, because I believe we can all agree
four is not enough for sure. Now for me, I've
always said I can deal with eight, but six is
a sweet spot for me because I want to maintain
the integrity of the regular season and I want to
s should not be like the NFL. The college football

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in the NFL are two different games, and they should
be two different games. And I do believe big time
regular season match ups, specifically specifically late season matchups, will
lose a lot of meaning if you have two teams
you know are going to the playoff facing each other.
How many classic old school sc Notre Dame games if
we had in the last week of the season, Well,
if one is twelve and one and one is eleven

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and no going into the game and they both know
they're going to the playoffs in the sixteen team or
a twelve team format, the game has no meaning, you know,
back in the day. Now, I'm not saying BCS was
good and we shouldn't do that. That's that was ridiculous too. No,
I mean, how you could either have seeding right could
mean something higher seed, you can have home field depending

(01:59:38):
on how they play that probably not, but yeah, I
don't think they do that because they still want to
maintain the bowls too. So if you're not playing for
a potential home for home field, then what are you
playing for? And even like, well, it's a rivalry game
and it's still important. I was like, maybe early on
to a point that that will be true, But eventually,
why why wouldn't they start low managing guys at the

(01:59:58):
end of the regular season in game that's meaningless to
the in from the standings or the playoffs standpoint. And
that's my fear of expanding the playoff going too far.
When you start getting into ten twelve sixteen eight. I
think you can probably deal with there's like, there's so
there are so many teams. You know, you think about
the NFL, right, and then you think about big time

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college football, it just lents itself to way way more teams.
But how many teams have a legitimate shot of winning
a Nashville championship if we're keeping the real if we're
being honest with ourselves. All right, so you know you
got your SEC SEC squads, right, yes? By three? Four
of them every year, usually three of them are in

(02:00:42):
the playoffs as it is to begin with, So just
give me four, right, right, you would have four SEC.
I mean you might have four big tents, three Big ten.
That's kind of underlying my problem about any kind of expansion.
Like you got SEC, you got Big twelve, I mean,
you got a C C and you got Packed twelve.

(02:01:05):
I mean, and then you'll have a couple of teams
that are from the if we're looking at just the
top eight last year in the college football playoff rankings,
we've been including Florida at eight, three, Coastal Carolina eleven,
and oh yeah, I want to see Coastal play. But
they I mean I just and and they have the

(02:01:26):
number two pick in the draft. I just don't believe
that as long as we maintain this faux pole that
plenty of people can look at it and can't point
to that it's deserving. And plenty of people come up
with ideas saying this is more about teams that would
look good on TV, like we we need a better
system of getting smaller conferences and all of the Power

(02:01:47):
five conferences into this as far as automatic bits rather
than just whatever a committee thinks looks good. Yeah, well
that's where that's where the six team comes in. Yeah,
but I mean, so the coastal has to be in it.
But I mean my argument sixteen bring back the BCS.

(02:02:11):
I don't think by last year's rankings, no figure, but
there had to be a pack twelve team if you're
gonna expand it. That far right got a big conference. Fellas.
We'll continue all the side on Fox. All right, welcome back,
good good, good, good, good morning to all across the nation.

(02:02:34):
Where the Fellas. He's the fig Kevin figures, and of
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So I was at the New York Post and I
used to do these like really long features and essays.
I used to love it. I used to travel the
country and interviews, profiles and these long pieces. And so
I got really friendly to a lot of NFL stuff,
and I got really friendly with Jay. Jay was working

(02:04:47):
for the Giants Weekly, for the New York Giants Weekly.
I was like, was it the team paper or yes,
there was a team paper. It was a weekly paper
he called the Giants Weekly. There was a couple of
the Eagles had one, the Jets had one. Anyway, so
the Dolphins, I know, had one. So Jay was working

(02:05:10):
for that. We're working for that paper. And I go,
I taught my boss, I go, you gotta talk to
this guy. He's shot, he's really really talent, he's good,
he's he's you gotta talk to him. And my boss
was named Greg Gallo. He was a New York City
legend as one of these hard scrabble in stain wretches,

(02:05:36):
right like you know, he was a New York newspaperman
who would say I need you, but so I would
write these pieces and he'd say you gotta take your
pink panties off when you're right. It sounds like j
Jonah Jamison from Spider Man Face. Yes, that was it. Yes,
it was. In fact, he could have played I think

(02:05:56):
they got that character off. Maybe they created him off
of the Greg the guy you're talking about, that Greg Gallo.
In fact, his brother was a cartoonist for the UH
the our our competitive New York daily news. I remember
he had at that time. Rob Parker was there, he
was at Newsday and Chris Brussar was at the time,

(02:06:21):
so we were all we were all New York and
Jay was again Giants Weekly. So I told my boss
that are so he started. He hired Jay and Jay
did an NFL column every week look at notes column
with all rumors and the rest is history. Yeah, any

(02:06:44):
of those rumors that you remember that actually came true,
like a big trade or a big you know we
have No, he had great information. Was he still training
doing m m A fights back then? I guess of
the question. No, if it was, we're in his m A.
He was a good shape, but it was pre mm A. Yeah,

(02:07:06):
great dude, j and uh very very plugged in no doubt,
always has been. So it's a funny. It's a funny
story how you never know where your path may lead. Figgy.
That's right, that's the lesson of life. So let's get
back to it, because you're gonna be getting out of here.
We're gonna be shifted over to a little betting talk

(02:07:30):
and you want to you don't want to miss this
coming up, but a couple of things. Let's get back
to the college football. So you're so Chris's vote, your
vote is six, Chris's vote is what? You just want
to blow it up? I just want to. I I
think the problem in the college will playoff isn't the
number of teams. It's how the selection works, is my stance.

(02:07:55):
I don't. I don't how do you figure it? I mean,
what's your solution? I I don't have one other than
I just want to see more automatic bids for winning
conferences because again, like I can keep, I can go
back and this year in the top six team, we
wouldn't have had the pack twelve. We're going by these polls.
You got to give automatic if you're doing that, you

(02:08:17):
have to right. But again I think that's the more
pressing issue right now rather than if you go sixteen.
Now there's no complaints. But again, like the pressure is
not on the Playoff Committee to change their formats still
that to to go from this faux pole to anything

(02:08:38):
that would give conferences automatic bids, automatic seats at the table, well,
I mean even back in the BCS days, I mean
there were automatic bids for the major conferences, even if
you were ranked. I believe Pitt won the a c
C and they were like seven five one year and
they were technically ranked, but because they won, because they
won the conference, they got to a BCS Bowl. There

(02:08:58):
was a way to within the polls to be able
to make it work, right, But with the Playoff Committee,
it's it's kind of out the door. And again, like
I just look at Okay throw through last season now
because it wasn't really not everyone was playing the same seasons.
But even in Wisconsin at ten and four gets to
be eleven, while Memphis and Apps State, who are really

(02:09:20):
good teams those years, are way down at seven and nineteen.
They would have been left out of this. Of even
a sixteen team played. It's different because you're gonna do
a committee like you're gonna do the selection committee like
you would in the in the in the in basketball.
I mean, we we have a selection committee right now.
It's gonna be different. I mean, it's different than that.
It's not. But it's sixteen. You know that that point.

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She State's gonna be a part of it. You know,
it's always gonna be. It's easier to to do it
in basketball because there's so many teams. You know, it's
hard to to rank teams based on merit when they're
so even sixteen is just so few in comparison to
how many FBS teams there actually are out there. So
somebody's gonna be left out in the dark. Well, I
will agree with this. There's less of a gripe for

(02:10:02):
number sixteen or number seventeen arguing they should be sixteen
than four number five arguing they should be number four.
Understand that rightly. Point is that you're gonna have like
the Appalachian states in the world are going to get
in because they're interesting, are they? But that's that's my
whole point is that we have an opaque system right
now from a committee that doesn't really. They try to

(02:10:25):
give us an explanation, but I'm sorry those explanations are
always kind of after the fact. I nobody knows the
criteria for getting into the college football rankings or where
they put them, and some years it feels like they're
just making things up as they go. That needs to
be changed before I can commit to any kind of
major overhaul. They do have guidelines, you know about you know,

(02:10:46):
strength of schedule matters, a margin of victory matters, and
all of that. So they do have scalable, you know,
ways to determine who gets more points over another. Now
it's going to be difficult for your Cincinnatis or your
app States or you know, school like that, because unless
they just schedule two or three nonconference opponents who are
in major conferences, which few teams would do, you know,

(02:11:07):
you're just not gonna be able to get that. Um.
But there's I agree with Anthony, there's a way around it.
There's a way, and by the way, to be honest
with you, I don't I don't want it to happen, Anthony,
But I think we're probably skewing towards closer to twelve,
fourteen or sixteen because the more teams, the more TV
revenue you get, the more meaningful games that you're And
so we don't money drives everything I could see. I

(02:11:27):
I agree with that, especially since we've kind of seen
this last Bowl season, anything that wasn't a playoff Bowl
has just had its ratings just utterly annihilated. No one cared,
absolutely no. All Right, question number four, the four in
our four debate is the munches we passed fourth. I

(02:11:49):
had a funny we had a funny debate over the
best Uh let's just call it trans food. So if
one lay late night on a Friday or maybe tonight,
you're in a bit of a trance, uh, and you
get really, really, really hungry. What are you diving into? Oh? Man,

(02:12:11):
il right, Christ, your first give me something crazy? Well,
I made this for four twenty, to be honest, So
this is just showing you where I was. But it
is a Swedish casserole dish called flying Jacob. It is
shredded chicken. You put it in a casserole dish and
you cover it with a mixture of well and you

(02:12:35):
also put on top of it some sliced bananas and
you cover it with a mixture of whipped cream and
sweet chili that you've mixed together. Hold on, I'm only
halfway through it. So you put that in the You
put that in the oven, you let it bake for
about twenty minutes. You take it out, you serve it
with rice, and you top it with with chopped bacon

(02:12:57):
and peanuts, and I swear cheese. You're going to go
like frozen pizza or Doritos. This is the best thing
on earth, all right, this is this. You would not
think this works, and yet somehow this works. And it's
a real quick, real quick, let me indulge you. Banana
is whipped cream, shredded chicken, shredded chicken, banana, sweet chili

(02:13:24):
as well. That's a lot going on. Chili and pan rice, rice.
You get the chicken, the bacon, and the cheese. I'm
with you, No, there's no cheese and the rice. I
thought you said cheese. I just said cheese on top. No,
there's no cheese. Whipped cream, well, I mean it's like

(02:13:46):
heavy cream. But yeah, so now I think I'm passing
on that one. Where's the vomit emoji? Right? Green? Like, uh,
you got it to you? What? What powder? You say?
Curry powder? Curry powder. Yes, do you artists? This is

(02:14:08):
what psycho Chris, this is what happened. I got baked
one night and just say, what does I have in
the cabinet the most popular dishes in Sweden? Yeah no,
not that. Next time I'm Sweden, I'll go for it, Rob,
Not not that I've ever done the stuff that you're implying,
uh with this, but if you're late, like Trance and

(02:14:31):
you're hungry, what are you going to have? If I had,
I would say a peanut butter and powdered sugar sandwich.
That would uh you know, butter and powdered sugar. Yeah, yeah,
that was just taking some of the work out of
the jelly there. Yeah, maybe maybe I was feeling a
little loopy like two am, and those are the first
two things I saw in my cabinet. Water and powdered

(02:14:53):
on toast. No, just just basically a PP and J
with no jelly. One of the white bread. Yeah, yeah,
you know, I'm I might be able to get with
that bow. I do like me some powdered sugar. It
wasn't bad. It did. That's a lot better than I'm
gonna bring this in. But next time you're in town,

(02:15:15):
I'm gonna bring some of this in and you're gonna
try and you're gonna get blown away. Anthony is now
never coming to right, I'm gonna be doing the show
from like the from Malibo. Right, I'm Philadelphia. I'm not Malibou.
Um Man, Chris, that's crazy fake. I don't know. I

(02:15:37):
was just thinking, you know, you go Dorito's your pretzels
or right, So I'll go right, So I'll go goldfish,
which I think I've talked about it on the show
here before. I love me some goldfish. Uh. And like
the checks mix or the gardettos. I don't know if
you know what the guardettos are, but they're like a
little snack um. You have to get guardettos if you're
in like a gas station. Those are so good. What

(02:15:57):
is that? What's a gardetto? So it's hard, it's it's
not chips, but it's like a bunch of little um
um like many Italian breadsticks and rye chips and pretzels.
It's like it's it's a trail mix, but it's very
it's very like Italian bakery. Themes. I was gonna say,
a boogie er trail mix to this to a certain degree,
but it tastes great. Mix I've never had, and I

(02:16:21):
usually know all that stuffs are really good. But like
you can, you can never go wrong with this. Standard
Checks mix works too, you know, cheese Checks mix if
you're if you're feeling really froggy, you know. But that
was that's my goal. To give me some simple goldfish.
If there are some some nacho cheese doritos laying around now,
I'll pop those open. To keep it simple, keep the simple.

(02:16:42):
Maybe a little frozen something whatever. Oh that's classic. Where
you go. I go with either Potaties, barbecue ta chips
that I like, I don't keep in the house because that, Yeah,
trust me, I get that. Yeah, I crushed a bag
family like. I didn't realize it. I was just I

(02:17:03):
was in a trance. I don't know what happened. I don't.
I don't really remember peanut butter pretzels. By the way,
I do that to me too. I can buy it's
for me. It's sour cream and cheddar ruffles. I lived
in Canada. I don't like the ruffles, but I get it. Yeah,
but I lived in Canada for two years and they
did not have the Cheddars ruffles flavor up there, and
every time my mom would send me a care package,

(02:17:25):
it would be like, you've got to include me a
supersize bag of those ruffles. I'm gonna go insane. That's
all right, all right, fake you the man brother, great show,
Thank you, thank you, you fantastic. We'll see you next week.
You got it. Uh, we'll come back our betting analysts.
You don't love him. Brad Feinberg is his name, and

(02:17:45):
uh he's We're gonna go look at the NFL Draft
through the eyes of a better and hopefully you guys
can make some money. Where the fellas right here on
Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back fellas. I'm Anthony

(02:18:08):
Gargano and we got Chris Psycho Chris. Do you like that?
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(02:18:50):
our next guest. Now he's gonna be with us from
here on out. He's a terrific, terrific betting analysts and
he knows that's what I like him is that he's
a great guy. But he's and he's a great sportsman.
He's a geek like all of us who just love
the games. And uh, he's really good by the way

(02:19:12):
what he does. Let's welcome Brad Fineberg to the program.
Bradley Anthony, how are you, buddy. Great to hear your voice,
great to hear yours, my man. All Right, we do
this back in Philly, and I thought the nation should
hear your picks too. It's not fair. So I look

(02:19:32):
forward to helping making everyone money. Um. You know, it's
something I love to do. I love to get good information.
And uh, I have no doubt that we're gonna do
well for everyone. Alright, So and I can vounce that
every week you do very well for those people in
the Philadelphia area. So let us begin before we get
because I want to get heavy to the NFL Draft

(02:19:55):
coming up. But first before we do that, it's a
big day. It's a Saturday, it's a Saturday game Day.
What do you like? You like anything anything pop out? Yeah,
you know, and it's it's interesting with me and I
am gonna go in the NBA. There's there's two games
that stick out to me, first one being um, Milwaukee Philadelphia. UM.

(02:20:17):
You know, the line in this game is seven and
a half. You know, Anthony, this is just the game.
I don't quite understand why Milwaukee continues to get the
respect they're getting this year. They're just they've been a
mediocre team, certainly against the number the only twenty six
and thirty two, UM, and they're still being prices that
team that, to me last year and the year before

(02:20:38):
was the best team in the NBA. I don't think
they're the best team in the NBA right now. And look,
we have a Philadelphia team that you know, but Ben
Simmons probably not going to play today. Uh yeah, so,
I mean Ben Simmons is clearly one of the best
players in the NBA and Philadelphia second best player. But
right now, this line seven and a half. I just

(02:20:59):
think this line is way too high. Now. They just
did play two nights ago and Milwaukee did win by seven, UM,
but it was a game they actually even should have
won by more. So I get that, but um again,
I I think these teams are just much closer than
I made this line according to my power rankings without
Ben Simmons. Without Simmons, I thought this line should come

(02:21:19):
in like four and a half five. I think there's
real value taking Philadelphia. I think we're getting an extra
two and a half points here. Um because I think
Milwaukee just continuously is being priced as a dominant team.
Just don't see him that way. I think Philadelphia keeps
us one closed, wouldn't even be surprised if they win
the game. I think seven a half way too high.
And the other one that I like, uh, look, you

(02:21:40):
know you. The number one team against the spread this
year in the NBA has been the New York Knicks,
and stupid oh Is really, in my opinion, deserves so
much more respect than he's getting in terms of Coach
the Year honors. I knew they don't have the best
record in the NBA or anything like that, Anthony, But
in terms of covering spreads, which is a gambler, is
what we're looking for. No one's inbaried in this New

(02:22:01):
York team. There thirty eight and twenty one and against
the number. And look, they're playing a Toronto team that
is really kind of made their intentions known. They've kind
of been, you know, kind of tanking. They've been sitting
guys out, you know, day in every single game. And
you know who's gonna even play. Do we know they're
gonna play Kyle Lowry or guys like that Pascal seat them?

(02:22:22):
Maybe maybe not. But even if these guys do play,
I like New York. You're laying to um, you know,
I just the way these teams have played all year. Um,
Toronto again getting in respect is a is a good team. Still,
they haven't been a good team all year, Anthony, Um,
I thought this lawn should have been a couple of
points higher. I like New York very much. Laying the
two they've won eight in a row, I think, wow.

(02:22:45):
I mean, they're an amazing story too. They are, they
really are. And I'll give you it's interesting bet, Anthony, Um,
you can still get this and it's it's widely available,
like most improved player. You know, Julius was going to
win this award, okay. And and as gamblers, sometimes when
you see a big number, you get intimidated. And he's right,

(02:23:07):
around minus four hundred minus five hud area. And you think, Okay,
there can't be value laying minus four hundred or something
like that. Well, certainly there can be, because if you
think there's a chance of that translate and he should
me to be minus nine. Um, there's no way Jolieus
Randal is not going to win the Most Improved Award Anthony.
There is no way. There is no way he will
not win it. Um. Again, I hate saying this, but

(02:23:29):
it's borderline free money in the sense that Randall is
just going to win the award. Uh. And I think
there's very good value taking him to win that even
had a big price minus four hundred five hundred area,
because it's just something that's gonna win. You wait a
few months to get your money. But um, it has
a lot of value anything we argue the n B
A m VT Award a little bit, or like I

(02:23:51):
know that your kitchen is a favorite. Yeah, but does
he take any hit now because without Mary, they're going
to slide and you know they getting sixers are now
a half came out so when deed, but it leads
back and he's gonna Hey, he has to play because
I think Ben's gonna be out for a little bit longer,

(02:24:13):
probably another week or ten days, so does does Indeed, then,
because you're gonna put up monster numbers? Is there more?
Is there any kind of that? Can he come back
and steal the award? You gonna look and the Actually
I think it's the opposite. I look, first of all,
the team's record right now, Denverse, they're pretty comfortable, okay,

(02:24:36):
right now. They just there was a big voting okay,
where they took a hundred media voters, okay, and they
have a hundred voters ninety one voted for your Kitchen
five for indeed, this was of less than a week ago.
So for m B two switch, the mind of it
was not about he didn't switch by half the voters

(02:24:56):
in the next few weeks. I would say, I think
I'm a mask guy, and I'll probably oldies guy. The
chance of that happening are so remote less than two
and again minus you can get him right around minus
three hundred. Again, yok just don't win m DT. Now
do I think he necessarily deserves it? That's a different argument, okay,
because I think indeed, uh you know, has been in

(02:25:18):
my opinion, the best player in the league this year.
But what I think is irrelevant. I'm trying to make
myself money, make any listener money, and the odds are
in my opinion, I think well above three out of four,
well above I think at least nine out of ten,
at least um that Yoki twins the award just because
everyone is giving him the award, and I don't see

(02:25:39):
barring injury, anthony barring injury. I don't think it's really
I think it would be almost statistically impossible for him
beat to catch him. And you don't see any Because
we were talking about Chris Paul's getting a little bit
of love and so Steph Curry. Could that kind of
muddy things up if those guys start to get even

(02:26:00):
more at tracks like carry could get more attraction. I
don't think he wins it, but he can get away
from the people. I think it's too hard. Again. There's
I think right now, there's only about like twelve games left,
okay in that area for most of these teams, and
he's just you'll get his numbers are just two out
of you know, two out of worldly. I mean he's
averaging you know, twenty six and a half points eleven rebounds,

(02:26:22):
nine assists, steal and a half. He's true shooting percent
angels like he's just been too good and uh it's
good as again the m v P anthony, it's just
only one guy to win it, and Chris Paul has
been tremendous and the Sons have been a great story
this year for sure. Um, Steph Curry's gonna run. He's
been on has been even for Steph Curry incredible. But again,

(02:26:43):
we're talking on MVP with only one person can win it.
This is not a thing where multiple people can win it.
You just gonna win the award, all right. Uh, sit
side back, because I want to get into the NFL Draft,
and you can bet on the NFL Draft, and Brad's
gonna give us some great hicks and we're gonna compare
our knowledge as the football guy and the betting guy.

(02:27:05):
But first we got to go to the Lord of trendings,
the one, the only ill. Hello, good morning, good morning,
my friends. Always great to talk to you. Let's continue
the NBA talk the action on the court. On Friday night,
the Golden State Warriors trouncing Nikolayokis Denver Nuggets by twenty

(02:27:30):
one points. One, eighteen to ninety seven. Steph Curry five
is thirty two in the second half. I like your evil,
villainous laugh there. I love you position that first dome man,
I know that was purely a coincidence. Draymond Green twelve
rebounds side of career high with nineteen assists, break up

(02:27:52):
the Washington Wizards. They won seventh straight. They wanted okay
see by twenty Russell westbrook Is twenty eight triple double
of the season, his ninth in his last ten games,
and Memphis winning at Portland's one thirty to one, eight
as jaw ruled John Moran thirty three points and thirteen assists.

(02:28:13):
Major League Baseball on Friday Night. Thank you very much,
glad you combat there. Major League Baseball Friday night at
the San Diego Padres, defeating the world champion Dodgers six
to one. How about this story. Fernando Tatis Jr. Hit
two home runs last night at Dodger Stadium, twenty two
years to the day that his father hit two Grand

(02:28:34):
Slam home runs at Dodger Stadium in the same inning
when he was playing for the Cardinals. Some college buddies
invited me to that game. I turned them down. Ye
absolutely true story met shut out the National six and
I think Jacob deGrom a complete game to which shut
out fifteen strikeouts, no walks as what I at Baltimore

(02:28:57):
three to one, a twelve game wedding streak for Oakland,
John Carlos Stanton to home runs and the Yankees five
three win at Cleveland. And finally, speaking of the Yankees,
right time for our jam master jam of the week
here where the Yankees facing the Rays with Rube ned
o'dor at the plates, swing on and they had all

(02:29:20):
right it us high, let us far it is God,
that's the first home run for Rugiador as a Yankee.
You are, oh the terrific. Shut the door, oh door,
and the Yankees now trail. Sure, you know what I

(02:29:42):
love he he'll break those out with the enthusiasm as
if they're winning the World Series, and then he'll very
subtly add that the Yankees are still trailing big like
that's a whoa from the Yankees trail. Uh, yes, thank you, Illo,
you are the best. He's the lord of trendings. All

(02:30:07):
welcome back, fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio, as
we uh give you a great sports Saturday every every
week right here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh and joining us.
Let's get back to our conversation as we're gonna hit
him well up with the NFL Draft over the rest

(02:30:27):
of the show. Brad Feinberg are betting analysts. All right, Brad,
let's talk a little NFL draft. My man, what are
you sniffing out? Before you were talking, I wanted to
say one thing, because you know anything, I love finding
like some very value as you know, and props, And
I got a great one for your listeners out there.

(02:30:48):
And again I want to I forgot to mention this.
We were doing the NBA Fred van Fleet, Okay, he
has played games this year. In those games he has
gone of his unner. First today is four and a half.
He's gone over that thirty three out of forty six games,
thirty three and thirteen. And the wh say, okay, well,

(02:31:09):
what's he done his last hundred seventy five? This is
a gem, a gem of a bet, Anthony. Again, this
is a bet that he's winning seventy five percent at
the time in the last two years. This is a
bet that this year is winning seventy two percent at
the time. The odds right now are four and a
half like even money. Either way. These are the kind

(02:31:29):
of bets that you can make, these kind of beats.
You could be a winning gambler. Take Fred VanVleet over
four and alphasis incredibly strong, Bed, Anthony, Oh that's awesome.
That's hey. I just want to say one thing to
the audience. So Brad is when Brad hangs out with us,
he's not selling anything. He's not telling you, he's not

(02:31:49):
selling his picks, right, He's not affiliated with any anybody
on the show. He We're are just legitimately talking about
who we like, what we like. And Brad's got no agenda, no, no,
I really truly just like to help people. It makes
me feel good. Um, and that's all I'm trying to

(02:32:12):
do again to show my work. Look, you could look
at it and say, Fred van Bleek you don't like it,
but I'm just again, I do the research again. His
last hundred games seventy is gone over four and a half,
thirty three and thirteen this year to winning Bed and
if you put in the time you can find gems
like that doesn't mean this the individual that's gonna win,
but I can tell you if you've played it a
hundred times. You're gonna make money on bets like this
every day. But I'll tell you, wow, let's do this

(02:32:34):
because we would have to take a quick break and
then come back for the draft. Let me ask you
any baseball today, because you're also a baseball man. Yeah. Look,
there was a few baseball games I did like Griffin
Canning of the Angels is going against Jacob to Reesy. Now,
Jaco to Reesy really struggled last year, He's really struggling

(02:32:54):
this year as well. Actually have Canning reading is the better,
better picture of the two, and I actually think the
Angels have a better lineup right now than the Astros.
Right now. You can get around plus a dollar thirty
two areas plus in that range on Anaheim. I think
that game. I made that game closer to a pick um.
I thought it should maybe minus one oh five each way.
Getting plus in the dollar thirties on Anaheim Anthony, in

(02:33:17):
my opinion, has real value. I think that's a really
nice bet. That was probably my best baseball game of
the day. Now, as a fans point of view, you
get a great matchup day of Garrett Cole going against
Shane Bieber. Uh that line calls a slight favorite. Again,
if anything on that game, I would lean towards the
Cleveland side. I think Bieber has been a little bit
better than Cold those past few years, but that's not

(02:33:38):
a game I'm personally betting. I try to bet only
if I see edge. Um. I thought that line would
come in around pick them holds a slight favorite. But again,
my favorite game today is definitely the Angels. Again, I
thought this line is overpriced and you get a dog,
you know, getting plus a dollar thirty something? Uh? And
again do you think should pick them? That's really nice value? Wow? Yeah, no,

(02:33:59):
I'm that's and uh, just for the audience purposes. Brad
is a master at the props, so he'll have some
props with this each week. And I really pride myself
on I researched it, I study it, and that's something
that look, I always say, what's so cool, guys about
everyone listening is now? And you don't you bet? It

(02:34:20):
doesn't have to be just who do you like in
today's game? You could do so many different things in
the prop are fun or easier way to attack things.
That's right, all right, we're gonna come back, and as promised,
the NFL Draft. And I know, Brad, you've already made
some bets on the NFL Draft, and this is uh,
You've got some good stuff. It should be a lot

(02:34:40):
of fun. So we'll take a look at that next,
the NFL Draft through a better's eye. That's next, Fellas
right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Fellas. Yeah,

(02:35:01):
I'm Anthony Gargano. We got psycho Chris and I think
he just left. I low the man, the producer, Brobell,
and joining us are betting analysts. Brad Feinberg, all right,
my brother, let's talk draft. Give us some good plays
if you want to actually bet on the NFL Draft. Yeah, Anthony,

(02:35:26):
a guy the one that I've been kind of really
been loading up on recently, he's been Mac Jones. Look,
this thing is all about information, right, um. And I
go by people who I trust in NFL circles, and
people in the know have all been saying, almost universally, Anthony,
that Matt Jones is going to go third, people whose

(02:35:47):
job it is to know. Now. Could they be wrong, sure,
but right now, Matt Jones to me, has real value
to go third. And look, this isn't if you you
have to search for this bet, but I just did
it again yesterday, so it is out there. You can
bet Matt Jones. There's an order of the three quarterbacks
between Jones, Fields and Lance. If you bet these two bets,

(02:36:08):
which I both bet yesterday, I think these are right
now the two best bets on the board. You can
get it Jones to go first, Lance to go second,
Fields to go third, getting twenty to one odds. And
you can get Jones to go first, Fields to go second,
Lance to go third getting five to odds. To me,
those are absolutely the most sensational bets you offer a

(02:36:29):
finance me. I cannot tell you how much value I
find in those bets. I will be very surprised if
Matt Jones just not go third. If you want to
take Matt Jones right now, he's around minus a dollar
fifty just to go third. I think that's a really
good bet as well. Um I will be if not.
If you think he's going third, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like

(02:36:51):
if you think Matt Jones is gonna go third, okay,
we'll instead of laying a dollar fifty. A better way
of attacking it is betting the order of those three quarterbacks.
And again I actually think yeah, and I think that
Lanta has a real chance, Anthony potentially going second head
of fields, and right now that Bet is twenty. I
see tremendous value in that and another one. I like Anthony.

(02:37:13):
It's interesting, is uh. I believe that DeVonta Smith from
what I understand and people and did I respect and
people I'm hearing I hear Davonta Smith is maybe slipping
a little in the draft because of his size. Not
that he hasn't been a great player. He clearly has
been a spectacular player in college. But you know a
lot of the NF that was based on size and

(02:37:34):
and just that that's how it goes by. And Smith
is really slight one of the six. Yeah, yeah, and listen,
I think he right. I think he's on he runs
on clouds, but you do have to be you're right.
One sixty six is pretty saw. I wish I could
get down on one sixt six right now. But anyway,

(02:37:56):
six ft he's legit. Six ft yeah, and you know
you could that's around it. And even bet right now,
who goes first? Rattle or Smith? Uh waddles maybe a
slight favorite. I think there's edge taking Wattle there and
actually in the way I attack. That was what I took,
which the order of the big three receivers, Jamaar Chase
Anthony again we talked about briefly. We talked about Yogas

(02:38:19):
winning nd PA WY. I think there's value my even
l three hundred and Rambo winning UH Most Improved even
laying minus four hundred minus five hundreds. Well, Jamar Chase
Anthony is nine five percent chance is going to be
the first receiver taken. You could still lay like minus
five hundred. He's the first receiver taken. It's something that's

(02:38:39):
going to win. In fact, they said it was just
interesting at me. All the scouts just had a thing
of the unit who they ranked the best Since Calvin Johnson,
Jamaar Chase became the first wide receiver to be unanimous
voted as the number one receiver coming out of the
draft since Calvin Johnson. He's going to be the first
receiver taken. Yeah, you have to put up five dollars
to in a dour, but you know what the BET's

(02:38:59):
going to in. But what I did was I bet
Chase to go first, Wattle to go second, Smith to
go third. Instead of laying a dollar twenty and had
to head matchup. I was able to take plus a
dollar forty and taking those three and that being the exact,
it was a way for me to switch the odds
in my favorite just by making Waddle going first, which
we already know he's going to be um. And I'll

(02:39:22):
give you a couple of others, Anthony, that I like
cha go first chases first. Look, you know right now,
Cleveland Browns, will they draft the defensive player first or
an offensive player first? I laid minus two hundreds on
them to draft a defensive player first. You know, look
right look that defense. Yeah, we know the only they're

(02:39:46):
not going to address the offensive line, which played great
last year in the off season when they got Conklin
and they in the first round pick was the first
round when they went off into line last year. They know,
we know they don't need a running back. We know
that there's no tight end even for them they yet
because Pits will be long gone. It's really could it
be a receiver's slight chance. But I would be really
stun Anthony, if they don't go um defense and you

(02:40:09):
could lay like minus you know, two hundred. I think
there's value there and I will give you a couple others.
Cowboys to draft a cornerback as their first pick, Anthony,
as someone who watched this team last year all the time,
this is a team that really needs help at cornerback.
Certain they all we all think they go Certain now
they're minus four seventy to draft the defensive player first. Well,

(02:40:33):
if they're winning minus four seventy, I'd rather take cornerback
at plus one hundred because in case somehow they do
sneak change, and maybe taking offensive lineman because that was
another area of need in my opinion for them. I'd
rather just get the odds of being even money on
them to take a quarterback, because I don't think they're
gonna go even though I do think he's a great player,
I don't think they're gonna go with Michael Parsons. I

(02:40:53):
really think Certain is gonna be there a guy, and
then even money, which I think is a real value, Anthony,
I really because I would be really surprised. And I
will say, if you look him for and I bet
that maybe get you some odds, which I think has
a real I think it's very live. I've heard coach
Zimmer talk for the Vikings all off season. I have

(02:41:15):
so many quotes talking about how important it is for
this team to upgrade his defensive line to get pressure
on the quarterback, how they didn't get pressure last year
on the quarterback, and how now they really need to
do that now. They also do need offensive line. This
is a team that that was one of their weakness
is an offense, even though they do have a great offense, Anthony,
but I like them to take a defensive lineman getting

(02:41:35):
plus two fifty. Um, I think it's going to be
a defensive lineman plus two fifty. Again. I like those odds. Again,
could at the offensive linemen. Those odds are around plus
one ten, but I'd rather take the longer shot getting
plus two fifty because I think that's the bigger need.
And I like that plus two fifty for the Vikings. Wow, yeah,
I'm with you. Do you have where Seul goes? Yeah?

(02:41:58):
Right now, Seul is over under anything. I like the
over here. He's a guy, it's it's over. There's five
and a half. So you're basically saying, Okay, is he
gonna go forward to Atlanta? Okay? Or is he gonna
go five to Cincinnati. I just don't think Atlanta is
gonna take him. Um with with with the dynamite having
a guy like Pits available, or potentially even taking a quarterback,

(02:42:19):
or if they trade that pick, it's clearly not going
to be Soul. And then look Cincinnati. I think I
know that they do have offensive line issues, but as
someone who watched a ton of Bengals games last year
as well, their issues were actually more their guards in
the center play, not so much. Joa Williams actually played
well at tackle. Um. I just think that to give

(02:42:39):
another dynamic weapon to borrow, I think they're more likely
to take a chase or if Pits to be fell there,
I think Souls will go over five and a half.
And he's actually guy I could actually see maybe if
there's a longer category to slipping after me, he'd be
my pick. I like it real quick because we're up
against it. Where could people find you? On Twitter? I'm

(02:42:59):
at Brad's Best Bets again, Brad's Best Bets. Try to
give out winning props every day to people. Again, Cats
know nothing. He's not selling anything. He's just a sports
geek who's really good at betting. Good job Brett, Hey listen, everybody,
thanks for Hanglings always have a great week.

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