Brian Noe & Ephraim Salaam Talk Game 7, Top Gun, Kaep, Slap & Cheese

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening. Oh what's going on? Everybody? Hope you're enjoying
your Saturday evening here. That's right, get the dj eirhorn
blairing left and right, Big Man a stunner on a
scale on a Salaam scale from one to ten, ten
being just shocked city. What was your reaction to the

(00:23):
Miami Heat heading to Boston and taking care of business
and beating the Celtics in Game six last night? It
was yeah, yeah, it was about an eight. It was
you know, I wasn't expecting that. I thought Boston would
come out with a little bit more fire, a little
bit more intensity and um and put their foot on

(00:44):
on the neck of the the fledgling Miami Heat. And
that did not happen. No, it did not. And the
main reason is one Jimmy freaking Butler. Jimmy Butler was outstanding.
Point nine rebounds, eight assists, just throw in for good measure,
four steels, just for the heck of it, and he

(01:06):
had one jacked up knee like he hadn't been close
to himself in the previous two games. And then he
has an all time performance. I think this too. I
think sometimes we might overreact in the moment. What we
just saw is the latest, greatest type thing. But I
also think it works the other way. I think sometimes
you guard against that and you don't want to go

(01:28):
over the top, and then you don't make as big
of a deal as you should with the particular performance.
And I think that could happen with Jimmy Butler. He
was outstanding. That was an all time performance from Jimmy
Bucketts last night almost took. It was at a point
where if they did Louise, he was gonna go out
on his own terms. And and that's the sign of

(01:51):
a superstar in the leader. Like you what we've seen
from jim the last two games. I don't know what
that was, you know, say it's the knee or whatever
it is, but that sense of urgency and it just
wasn't there. And and watching him last night, you know,
I don't know who's gonna show up for Game seven,

(02:13):
but I know last night he was like, I'm putting
it all on the line. And as we know, in
any seven game series, it's a coin flip home or
away in the seventh game. Now, I you guarded against
this before in the last series, right where it was
Jason Tatum who had an all time performance in Game

(02:36):
six on the road against the Bucks a lot in
my opinion, at least Lebron James back in is epic
fift and five game. Now, how about this Jimmy Buckets,
same Miami Heat team as Lebron, same opponent the Boston Celtics,
same venue, same game in the series, Game six? Was

(02:59):
it shades of Lebron last night? What we saw from
Jimmy Buckets? Well, I I don wouldn't say that, because
when Lebron does it, you expected to keep happening. You
know what I'm saying. Like his size, his stature, his
ability uh to become an unguardable force on on the court,

(03:20):
it parallels is second to none. So when Lebron does
something like that, number one is expected. Number two, It's like,
oh he can continue to do that? Can Jimmy Butler
continue to do this at that clip? But that's that's right.
But we know Lebron came with the year they lost
to Golden State in the finals. Lebron James should have

(03:41):
been the finals. MVP should have put the Jerry West
you know, you know, yes, he was in fifty point
games and losing, right fifty ten and twelve and stuff
like that. So when you when someone like Lebron James
taps in and he's having one of those moments, you're like, Okay,
this this is special, right. It can continue to happen

(04:04):
because he can get hot and he can just go.
But Jimmy Butler, we know in the playoff, Jimmy Butler
is a different animal. He's a different person, different being
whatever it is. But the consistency of it is what
you need and what you want, uh, moving forward, Like
he's gonna have to play like this every single game?
Can he do that? That's the question. I think back

(04:27):
when Lebron did it in it was an epic performance,
and I think there were more wow moments. There's just
something about the power. Yeah, it just looks different. But
Jimmy Butler, even though there weren't as many wow moments,
it was still an all time performance. And I also
think on on a knee that was jacked up, like

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that's all you had heard the previous two games. He
missed the second half of what was it Game four three,
Game three? One of those two? Uh, I think it
was Game three, and then he wasn't himself in games
four and five. But anyway, the knee impacted him for
three games and then all of a sudden he erupts
the way he did. So maybe not as many wow

(05:12):
factors as Lebron or wow moments as Lebron in twenty twelve,
but on one knee, that's no one saw that coming before.
And the question is can he do it again on
that same me. I know your body doesn't cooperate with you, man,
no matter how much your mind wanted to. I'm curious
how you feel about this. As a die hard hoops

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fan and obviously a thirteen year NFL veteran, There's been
talk and I initially rolled my eyes about having a
little bit more time off in between games in the
conference finals, and then I started thinking about it, and
I'm like, if there was a little bit more time off,

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it's just another day here, are there? Okay? The finals
are supposed to start on June two, so they start
on June sixth or seventh instead. And you look at
these conference finals, especially the Eastern Conference Finals. These teams
are the walking wounded, and I think that only one
day off in between games it has an impact. You

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saw it in Game five with Miami. Seven of forty
five from three point range. I'm not saying they're hitting
of their threes if there's an extra day off, but
I think the quality is better. I think there's a
better chance to have closer games at least a better
quality of basketball. I'm for it. I'm all for adding

(06:38):
it a day off here or there during the conference finals.
What do you think. I will say this, if that
were to happen, you would get a better product because
guys will be healthier. So if that's what you're looking for,
is that's if that's what you're aiming for, then yeah,
you're absolutely right giving them an extra day off. What,
without a doubt, enhanced the product that we get to

(07:00):
two days rest between games. Oh yeah, you'd be amazed
at what your body can can do and how it
can heal itself. Uh in two days. Been there, and
we see that in the finals, right the NBA Finals,
they get time up. You might see like a Tuesday
Thursday like quick turnaround, but then they won't play until Sunday.
When you travel, especially when you travel, so you'll take

(07:21):
those first two games and then you get alonger break
when you travel. Yeah, I like that. I prefer that
for the Conference Finals, and look, if it helps the
product I would rather. I'll put it this way. I'm
looking forward to Game seven tomorrow night. Would you rather
have a better product on Monday and one day off?

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Or are you just Jones? And for NBA action, It's
like I'll take a lesser product on Sunday. It's not
a guarantee it'll be a lesser product, but if your
odds are better that you're gonna get a better show
on Monday, I'll happily wait until Monday. Take the Monday
Memorial Day. Yeah, people at home. But you know, look,

(08:03):
we don't control that. The NBA un control that. The
advertisers do. So if that's the day the ESPN wants
the game to start, and that's the day it's gonna start, Yeah,
that's the way it goes. Brian Noany from Salam with
you here on Fox Sports Radio. There's a funny moment
after Game six Jimmy Butler's epic performance. This was his
teammate Kyle Lowry being asked about Jimmy Butler's performance. Kyle,

(08:28):
you made a bit of a face when Jimmy said
he had a decent game. So how would you describe
Jimmy's game bad bad, I listen, don't find NBA. Definitely,
definitely find him, y'all find me all the time. Find out.
That's spectacular. I about Jimmy Butler saying, no, NBA, that's

(08:51):
at least you gotta find him. Yeah, make it happen.
That's great that I thought. That's joy though, that's nothing
but joy when you had the press conscause it could
have been the other way. Well, you know, we had
our opportunities and oh man, I just we could have
just No, they got life, man, and and and and

(09:12):
in life and in these series is everything. You got
a shot? Do you buy this? Uh? The bulletin board
material where Draymond Green he had said after Golden State, Yeah,
they clinched the finals, right, they got past Dallas, and
they said, well we're gonna play Boston. We know we're

(09:32):
gonna play Boston. And Udonis Haslem he was very vocal.
This was Mark Jackson, the color commentator, describing what Udonis
Haslem was saying right after the win last night. He
wants to be relayed, he said, tell Draymond Green, thank you.
Draymond Green said, We're going to play the Boston Celtics.
To Donnis has a lawk over and says, thank you
for the inspiration. Oh yeah, bullets a board material. Especially disrespect, Yeah,

(09:57):
it's real, it lives. Disrespect is unacceptable. And you know,
Udonis had that locker room rocking, and he probably played
the clip over and over and over again, a lot
of cuss words and a lot of emotion because he
is the emotional chain of that team. It is linked
together through him. He hasn't played in three years, but

(10:20):
he's a player, and it's a reason why they keep
paying the millions of dollars to be around. It's important
and and having that type of leadership and inspiration from
a player's standpoint, it's paramount. Yeah, you had uh, Udonis.
He was talking to Chris Haines of Yahoo's Sports and said,
um uh. He said that was some bs. Basically, Draymond

(10:44):
broke the code. You ain't supposed to say something stuff
like that. That's disrespectful. He knows better than that. He
lets Shaq peer pressure him into saying some stuff. He
ain't got no business saying. I didn't sleep much after
he said that was some ball, you know what. Yeah,

(11:07):
he was fired up about that. Didn't care for that.
At all. Yeah, because it's disrespect Yeah, there's one thing
if you're playing in this series, but if you're not
and you're commenting on it, that's really that's really disrespectful. Okay,
So spin it forward, which is the better finals matchup?
Is it Boston taken on Golden State and we know

(11:31):
all the reasons that would be a great matchup. Or
is it Miami with an axe to grind against Draymond
saying we know we're gonna face Boston and that storyline
to final to to follow in the finals matchup? Or
the better matchup is Boston story franchise um going for

(11:51):
you know, unprecedented championship, just the the steak in the
lure of the Celtics in the finals. The league was
built on that. Literally, the league was built on that.
Like I'm not just saying that that. It really was
built on the Celtics in the finals. So just having

(12:13):
that and having them in in the finals would would
be a better matchup. And they have they have a better,
more exciting, uh brand of basketball and more stars, so
you always want to see star versus star in the finals. Yeah,
I'm with you, I'm with you. I do think that
the potential of a Heat Warriors Finals gets boosted a
little bit just because of the bad blood. I like that,

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but I don't think you're gonna have that storyline throughout
the entire You build the first game on that and
then it's over. Yeah, and then you're like, all right,
it's probably gonna win. Moving on. Not too much to
go from there, but yeah, no doubt. Plenty to get to.

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just gonna use my name the one thank you, Okay, alright,

(13:16):
gonna roll with that, no problem. Lots to get to tonight.
Quarterbacks in the news, quarterback school lore, a lot of
QB news in the NFL. Also uh, the two greatest
words in sports, in depth investigation on the way, big Man,
you got a new head coach in line over here
will react to that. And also it's interesting how criticism

(13:38):
is a one way street. That story on the way
as well. Lots to do. I'm Brian though he's from Salam.
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(14:23):
Let'sten to the Fifth Hour with Ben mallow on the
I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get
your podcast. I'm Brian, No, he's he from salam here
on Fox Sports Radio. I was just talking to our
guy Don Brown, Technical producer extraordinaire. It's excited to see
the new Top Gun movie. I know you're a movie buff.

(14:45):
You're excited as well. Yeah I am. You know what
I got I got a bone to pick though. Oh
all right, so Don or with the Don but let's
talk about this. Don you you? You? You? I would
I think you saw the first one? Right? Did you
see the first Top Gun? I might have seen. I

(15:07):
might have seen the whole thing. I've definitely seen it.
I know. Wait wait, hold on, hold on one and
Tawasaki talked to this man. So we started. You just started,
you know, you came back from breaking you said, I
was just talking to our technical producer, Dan Brown. He's

(15:29):
excited to see the new Top Gun. So that would
lead me to believe that he's a fan of the
first Top Gun, Right, Okay, if you're excited to see
a sequel, I mean you. You am I wrong for
for thinking that he was, you know, a fan of
the first one and excited about the first movie? Is that?

(15:51):
Is that wrong for me? Assuming that? I don't think so?
If I if I'm playing Devil's Advocate, I would think
of Now, this is a stretch. But hear me out.
If it's one of the Marvel movies, maybe you're excited
for the new Doctor Strange movie and you hadn't seen,
but that's different. We're talking to one Top Gun movie, right, Yeah,
that's a fair assumption. Okay, So then I asked him, Hey,

(16:12):
did you see the first one? The first thing he
says to us after saying how excited he was to
see the second one was seen the original? Are we we?
I can't with him? Okay, so let me let me
I can't even do this. Man, Wait a minute. This

(16:34):
he is he should not be. He is without he's
outside the lines of good good taste to be excited
for this movie because he doesn't remember the original, correct,
And now he's invalidated any excitement whatsoever for the second one.
What if I said that sixty five of why I'm

(16:57):
so excited is heavily weighed on the sound design, just
just just pure appreciation for film. What's wrong with that?
I know it's gonna sound great. I might go to
the Dolbe at eleven thirty tonight just to hear it.
Turn your microphone off, tape it down, and never use

(17:17):
it again. Okay, you're you're barred from speaking. Okay, I mean,
good lord man, don't try to speak with sound effects, right,
but I would be sound effects. So I'll talk to
you and everybody, but done. Um. So for I was

(17:39):
doing some research. Do you guys remember the black pilot
in the original top gun. Yeah, yeah, right, I'm not
talking about the cool sunglasses. Do you know what his
call sign was? Oh yeah, a joker? No, no, not you,

(17:59):
not you oker, not joker. Oh man, this is indicative
of movies made in the eighties. Dang, you can get
away with pretty much anything. No, it was Sundown. Sundown.
The only the only black pilot in the entire movie.
Call sign was sun down. What was this? There was

(18:28):
Oh my god, they got that through and it was okay. Oh.
I was like, oh my god, this is out of control.
So racist. Sundown. We got Maverick, we got Googs, we
got ice Man, we got all the Sundown entered the room.
So you're not anticipating a Sundown two point oh and no, man,

(18:50):
they better come correct because that's bull. I was like, wow,
look at you recently, just to refresh your your memory.
Here I was. I was watching it because I was
preparing myself. I've seen it a hundred times. I was
preparing myself for for part two because I'm a fan
of the actual movie. Uh. And I was like, oh
my god, whose name is Sundown? And I googled it

(19:13):
and it was yes, Sundown, google it. Yeah, that is
a bit out of control. Now, Um, you're excited for
the new Top Gun movie. Are you equally more or
less excited about the new Lakers head coach Darvin Ham.

(19:34):
I'll say I'll say less only because I don't know
what they're I don't know Darvin Ham Ham's coaching style.
I don't know what that is, right, So I don't know.
I know he's been an assistant coach for a while.
It is good at what he does, great relationship with

(19:54):
the players. I just I'm like, uh, I have pt
D when it comes to the Lakers, because there have
been moves that have been made since they won the
championship that continue to make me duck and cover every
time something happens. So every time breaking news happens with
the Lakers, I kind of flinch a little bit. And

(20:15):
this is one of those situations where I'm not quite sure,
you know, if this is going to be a good
thing or a bad thing for my team. I have
my fingers crossed. Yeah, M but I don't know yet. No,
I think that's a fair assessment. I think, look, we
all know what the real deal is. You've got to

(20:36):
have better health first off. That that's the first part
of it, and look, this is a team that significantly
underachieved thirty three and forty nine last season, didn't even
qualify for the playing tournament. But it was I would
say mostly a health thing that's not the only factor.
Is also a chemistry issue. All of that, you still

(20:57):
have Russell Westbrook on the squad, who is a fish
out of water, Like he is not an off the
ball shooting guard. That is not what he does, and
that's basically his role with this squad the way that
they're built. So it's obviously a flawed roster. I think
it's like if you look at a car and there

(21:18):
are some good parts of the car and there are
some issues with the car, Like if you get new
tires on that thing, that's not gonna fix all your problems.
That's how I feel with Darvin Ham, Like maybe you
got new tires. Maybe it's not like Frank Vogel can't coach, right,
but maybe you just have different tires with Darvin Ham,

(21:38):
and it's some new energy, some new life. That doesn't
fix all the problems of the Lakers car. No, we
got we got problems. We got transmission problems. Yeah, okay,
we did that. That's not the alternator. That's the transmission,
all right, we gotta send it to the dude, you know,
the neighborhood, the neighborhood mechanic with the cigarettes, and you
pay them with soda. You paying we are we we

(22:01):
are literally literally had a mechanic in our neighborhood. You
pay him with stuff, not money. And that cigarette is
hanging by a thread and would never hit the ground,
never ever lit either, never lit just when. I haven't
even seen a cigarette stick to someone's lip when they talk. Stuck,

(22:22):
it's sick, it's moving though, it's it's speaking with him
and and and you know that's where the Lakers are
right now. They're at uh gus is Otto Emporium, which
is Gus's garage right in front of his house. It's
not the Attom Mechanic garage is the one right in
front of his house. I just pull it up around

(22:43):
the back. Man, look at all tornato. That's got to
get the whole transmission done. You know. Darvin Hamp's been
an assistant under Mike Budenholus going back to the Atlanta
days with coach and he was with the Lakers before that.
So he's with the Lakers from as an assistant, then

(23:06):
he joins Budenholzer's staff in ten that goes with the Hawks,
then to the Bucks. So he's been an assistant coach
for a long time. And I also think we always
talk about this in the NFL, big man, where it's
a copycat league, but the NBA is a copycat league also.
They all are, And I don't think it hurt Darvin
Hamm's chances at all. Email Judoka has done a great

(23:28):
job with the Boston Celtics as a first year head coach.
Willie Green did a great job with the Pelicans. I
think some of these first year head coaches having big
initial success. Boston is a game away from being in
the finals. I don't think that hurt Darvin Hamm's chances
whatsoever either. No. I mean, we've seen the youth movement
happened in the NFL as well. Right when you got

(23:50):
younger and younger hit coach, you got thirty two year
old head coach. You know, you know, twelve of the
players are older than the coach. Things like that started
happen when the Sean McVeigh trains start happening, and then
it was just like, okay, we gotta get younger. So
everything it's ebbs and flows, ebbs and flows, and and
that's where we are right now in the n b
A because you know, you want to get younger, you

(24:12):
want to get you know, more energy going. Guys can
relate to the younger coaches. And that's what we're saying now.
I like this a good transition because you speak about
ebbs and flows. We have an update anchor that just flows.
There's no ebbs here, it's just smooth flowing. That is
our friend Moncy Bologos, who was with us to see Brian.

(24:37):
Do you take days off? Weren't you just here like
less than twenty four hours ago? Yeah? I just the
microphone doesn't leave, you know, I just like the cigarette
is attached to the mouth. I just I attached it
to the headphones. You know, it's a mic headphone mounting
type thing. It doesn't leave me. By the way, that

(24:57):
image you just said about the ciarettes stuck on of
one's lips, I was like, oh my goodness, that's such
an image went right to that made me laugh. Thank
you for that, Yeah, thank you? And uh, guys, I
don't I don't know what the Lakers could have done
to fix. You guys are saying that they're they're fixing
the tires, but everything else doesn't fixed. I mean, they
had to do something right. So I don't think it

(25:18):
was gonna be fixed this season. It's gonna be a
bit of a process. I will say that I'm loving
that picture that keeps circulating on social media of darv
of Darvin Ham guarding Lebron James as a nineteen year
old back in two thousand four. So that's pretty awesome. Yes,
he did win a championship with the Detroit Pistons in
two thousand four. He played in the NBA for eight seasons,

(25:41):
was an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks, so he has
experienced all around. We'll see how it goes for the
Lakers next year. We got a lot of baseball going
on right now. Though. We had a doubleheader between the
Red Sox and the Orioles. They're onto their second game.
But what makes me so happy to tell you guys
that a picture pitched an entire game the Red Sox.
Nate Evaldi pitched the whole first game they beat the Orioles.

(26:05):
He only pitched a hundred and eight pitches on fire
seventy five strikes, only gave up seven hits, totally saved
the bullpen for their second game. Now, the second game,
the Orioles are currently beating the Red Sox four to one.
It's the bottom of the fourth, so we'll see what
happens there. We also had another doubleheader, the Nats to
game one from the Rockies seven, but right now the

(26:27):
Rockies are leading the Nationals two to one at the
bottom of the fifth. Earlier today, the Reds beat the
Giants three to two. But the big story with that,
which I'm sure you've already heard people have talked about it,
is that Tommy fam outfielder for the Reds, did not
play today because he slapped Jack Peterson yesterday during batting
practice because of fantasy football. Guys, is there something that

(26:50):
would have set you so much for you to slap
somebody like that? Oh yeah, absolutely. I don't know if
it would be fantasy football, but yeah, okay, right, but
like when you hear that fan to see fable and
then what's most impressive. It was like a year ago,
and so I've been waiting on it. So this is
what Jack Peterson had to say about it. Kind of
came up and said, like I don't know, you remember

(27:11):
from last year and I was like fantasy football and
he's like, yeah, where cheek? Like I said, it was
unfortunate situation for over a fantasy football league. Rule was
a rule and uh. And then the funny thing is
that one of the quotes that Tommy Famm said, he

(27:32):
was messing with my money, buddy, you just got suspended
three games and you're losing a hundred and eleven thousand dollars, Like,
where's the logic here? Where? What do you mean? What
do you mean? And he also said another quote, I'm
a big dog in Vegas. I'm a high roller at
many casinos. Guys, are you high rollers at many casinos? H? Yeah,

(27:53):
I don't me neither terrible, I'm terrible. I'm good, but
I choose not to be. Oh see, now that's a ball.
That's the answer right there, Tommy fam look alive a
little bit. We have other basebo games right now. Cubs
leading the White Sox two to one, and the Dodgers
and Diamondbacks top of the second early game, but the
Dodgers are leading the Diamondbacks one to zero. A tie

(28:13):
game between the Phillies and the Mets. Nobody on the
scoreboard yet and we got games later to go. But
a big game in the Stanley Cup playoffs today, Game
six between the color the Colorado Avalanche and the No,
that's not right, guys, I am lying to you. That
was yesterday. I just got excited because we're gonna have
a game six, so I just got excited. It's the
Hurricanes taking on the Rangers at Madison Square Garden in
New York. Here's the thing. The Hurricanes are perfect at

(28:36):
home during the playoffs. They have not one on the road,
and they're on the road. They lead the series three
to two. We'll see what happens. Tip Off isn't about
thirty minutes. Not tip off. The puck will drop in
about thirty minutes a p m. E. Stern time. So
we'll see if the Hurricanes can do it. Back to you, guys,
thank you, thank you very much. All right, Brian, noany
from Salon with you here on Fox Sports Radio. Now,

(28:56):
our guy Danny g trusted producer. He had as the
list in front of him, you might be the list
was the list of O G top gun pilots. Huh.
We can take a trip down memory lane in the
mid eighties over here. What's on the list? D G.
All right, we all know Maverick, Ice and Goose. Even

(29:17):
Don Brown knows that the Viper Jester of course, the
the the o g s that they were fighting against
in the Sky Cougar, Wolfman, Slider, Merlin, Sundown. Shout out
to Clarence Gilliard Jr. He was also in uh Walker,
Texas Ranger. I looked up Hollywood, Stinger and Chipper. How

(29:42):
all those dudes. That's a lot, man, I don't remember them.
I gotta watch it again. It's been too long since
I saw the original. All those names. One black pilot
they gave him Sundown, what in the Habodastri? And oh

(30:04):
and you know it was on purpose though. That's the kicker.
If it was the reverse and it was all black
pilots and one white pilot and his name was Ginger, Yeah,
what would be the equivalent, big man? I mean, I
don't know. I mean it's it's crack, yes, I got
a Bogey Cracker, right, I mean, it just be just blazing,

(30:28):
just out of control. I can you know they did
it on purpose, And that's the thing that gives me.
I'm like, come on, guys, we gotta be better. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to watch that again before thee here.
That's but you know, it's crazy because until I'm not
a movie buff to that degree. Have we had a

(30:51):
bigger gap between sequels like that. I mean we're talking
like box office big time movies, not like that. That's
that's a that's a huge jump. We're talking what like
thirty five years Yeah, and and and shout out the
Tom Cruise man. He he's and you know what the

(31:13):
what you what? Most people should know this by now,
but you know he's flying the plane right. No, I
didn't know that he's up there. Huh he's flying the plane. Yeah,
he this is this is his thing. So if you've
ever seen him like a helicopter or he learns how
to do these things, like that's his process. He learns

(31:37):
how to fly the helicopter. So when you're watching Mission
Impossible and he's flying the helicopter doing he's actually flying
the helicopter. He's flying this plane. That's crazy. You want
to talk about commitment, That's why he goes crazy on
sets when things aren't right, Like he's like, I need
the same effort I'm putting in. I need everybody else

(32:01):
to have that same ef he he's not in the streamers,
and another he's like, I don't make movies for the streaming.
I'm a movie star. I make movies for the theater.
He's like, bro, I'm committed. I'm gonna need the same
commitment out of everyone around period. All in, yeah, this
is no coming to America. To that was thirty three years.

(32:25):
We got to what is it, thirty six the number
one movie. None of you will guess this, So sixty
four years. Oh cartoons, cartoon movies, Disney, Jordan's not that old,
Alice in Wonderland, Bambi and Bambi two sixty four years apart,

(32:48):
Oh number one, Top Gun number two sixty four years.
We need a baby coming to America. Third, dude, we
need a Bamby too, though that still get to the
end of it. Years between the Blade Runners. Okay, so
right there. Did you like the Blade Runners? I did

(33:10):
both of them. I know, I know I've seen parts
of it. Who truly to turn your microphone back on? Man,
go back. I just love that Don Brown's conscience was like, no,
can't do this. I'm lying. Yeah, alright, coming up next.

(33:33):
It's interesting how the criticism only works one way. I'm
Brian No, He's he from Salam This is Fox Sports Radio.
I'm Brian No, He's he from Salam here on Fox
Sports Radio. So it's kind of interesting to be big man, curious,
what do you think about this? So the Golden State Warriors,

(33:54):
they're back in the finals again. Made it back a
couple of years off, right, bunch of injuries with Clay
Thompson torn a c L, torn achilles, Steph Curry had
the broken hand. So two years not in the finals,
two years not doing much of anything in the playoffs,
and now they're back for the sixth time in eight years.
Quite the accomplishment. And Steph Curry, he won the m

(34:19):
v P for the conference finals. It's the new magic
Johnson Western Conference uh m v P of the Western
Conference Finals. Right, And so I immediately thought about Kevin
Durant because this is the first time that Golden State
is back in the finals without Kevin Durant as their teammate.
And it just took me down memory lane. And it's

(34:42):
funny to me because Kevin Durant got an ocean of
criticism and I was one of those people criticizing him.
I thought it was a weak move joining the team
that took him down, YadA, YadA. But what was interesting
to me is Steph Curry didn't get any criticism whatsoever.
And the way I look at it, if Kevin Durant

(35:02):
is getting criticized so heavily for quote unquote taking the
easy way out, how does Steph Curry get no criticism
whatsoever as a two time m v P who's recruiting
Kevin Durant to join the team. How is that not
the easy way out? Because he won a title without him.
So that's the caveat that says, well, I mean if

(35:25):
he would have came, yeah, of course he wants to
have him. The team gets better, but they've won without
him and that was one of the things that Draymond
and remember when Kevin Durant and Draymond got into it,
that was one of the things he said, we don't
need you, right, you needed us. We did this without you.
And so that's why Steph doesn't get criticized like that,

(35:47):
because no, they did. They won championship without uh Kevin Durant. Yeah, look,
I can understand why it's not the same criticism for
obvious reasons. UH staff and the Warriors beat Kevin Durant's
Oklahoma City Thunder team, So it's gonna look way worse
for Kevin Durant to join that team than it is

(36:09):
for the Warriors to recruit Kevin Durant. I understand it's
not gonna be the same criticism, but if we're talking
about the easy way out, like flying to the Hampton's
to recruit Kevin Durant, that's also the easy way out.
And so while the criticism isn't going to be the same,
it was nowhere near. It was all directed at k

(36:30):
D and none of it with the Warriors. And I
think if you go team by team, as long as
you're on the team beforehand, you can do all the
recruiting you want and no one's gonna criticize you for
taking the easy way out. It's just the player that
joins the team you are already on. It's weird how
that works out. Well, because they're coming to you, You're
not going to them. They're coming to you, so you

(36:54):
are above reproach. When it comes to criticism. It's like no, no, no,
they needed us, they needed they came to us. Hey, man,
I get it, but that's the that's the only way
it's looked at. And it's funny where the recruiters you're
just in the clear. You're just trying to boost your odds,
strengthen your chances. All good, all above board, right, But

(37:16):
if you heaven forbid crawl over as a member of
a rival team to join forces, you you have the
scarlet letter. You know, the recruiters are in the clear.
It's funny how it works like that. I'll tell you
this as it stands, that has gotta be to go
down as one of the the all time great uh missteps.

(37:41):
With Kevin Durant leaving Golden State, he's gotta be to
go to Brooklyn and play with Kyrie irving championships. There.
That's the key right there, that it's gotta be one
of the It's it's almost worse than Jackie the joke
Man deciding he Stern show. I mean what you know

(38:07):
that that goes down as one of the all time
blunders of ever on any level. But this one, you know,
and it depends on how this thing continues to play
out for Kevin Durant if he doesn't win another championship.
I mean, Golden State wanted him. They were going to
pay him a bunch of money to come and rehab.

(38:27):
You imagine Kevin Durant on that team right now, Oh
my gosh. Yeah, I hope he would to go hang
out with his boy Brooklyn. It'd be a rap if
he was still over, like even more so than it
is right now. Yeah, I look, I don't have a
problem with Kevin Durant leaving, um, but it's it's really

(38:48):
who he left the Warriors four, that's the whole point.
If it's someone more stable, if it's a star that
is there, unlike Kyrie, that's a different deal. I can
understand why you would want to leave and do his
own thing, and fine, but man, to leave, You've got

(39:09):
the cushiest job you could have and if you want
to leave it to find something else on your own, Okay,
I get that, But man, it's got to be a
good situation, right, at least a good situation to leave
a great situation. Yeah, it does. And you know, yeah,

(39:30):
you can't do that, man. You can't walk out on
your marriage for you know, crackhead, right, You're gonna leave
your stable situation for I don't know, maybe it doesn't work, Like,
come on, man, straight smoking. I just love that. That's

(39:54):
where your mind went. That's the comparison right there with
Kad leaving the Warriors for the Nuts beauty. It makes
zero sense. Yeah, I mean, how about this. You don't
have a problem with the I don't know it's the
best way to say it. But are you against the
leaving to begin with, or more so who he left
the Warriors? I'm against the leaving. Pride got in your way. Yeah,

(40:17):
but then you made it worse by who you left for. Yeah.
Interesting alright, plenty more to get to next hour. Best
two words in sports. Also, the coverage is much greater
than the talent that is on the way. Keep it locked.
What's going on, everybody? Hope you're enjoying your Saturday evening,

(40:41):
big man. It was quite the talk during the week
the Raiders. They invited Colin Kaepernick in for a workout
on Tuesday. Workout went well. No signing is imminent, but man,
it was the talk right sports team, the sports talk

(41:01):
radio cap Cap Cap Raiders, Raiders, Raiders. I'm just curious.
We'll just start simple here. What was just your general
takeaway from the Raiders inviting Cap in for a workout
and the reaction to it, Well, the first seg away
was why. M hm, you know, I wanted to know why? Why?
Now was it so important for them to bring Cap

(41:29):
in and and give him a workout? Their quarterback room
seems pretty full now. I know they've gone on record,
Mark Davis, what's going on record saying he definitely should
be in the league way back in and he was

(41:49):
all for um, somebody you know, signing Kaepernick. He was
all for his people signing Kaepernick, but they never did.
So now I'm like, okay, well, what are we doing.
You brought him in for a workout, and guess what,

(42:10):
he's still not signed, right, So what do you know?
That's how it works, right, And then a lot of
people don't know how it works. When you go in
for a workout or try out or something like that,
they bring you in and if they like you, and
if you perform well, they don't let you leave the building.
They sign you. And none of that's happened. So I'm

(42:35):
wondering why. Yeah, No, it's a decent place to start, right.
I think that you can have all the lovely words
that you want if you don't have the actions, the
words don't matter. They do not. There have been a
lot of complimentary words from numerous organizations, Raiders, Seahawks, and

(42:56):
when push comes to shove, they haven't given the contract.
So what do the words really matter without a contract?
I um, you know the crazy thing is, um, Spike
Lee is doing a documentary on the on the whole thing,
and it just, ironically enough, he was going to speak

(43:19):
to the Raiders because of the tweets that Mark Davis
had sent out years earlier about he should be in
the league and you know, we should sign him. You
know the owner. This is the owner saying, you know,
I would sign him, but then you don't. M hm.

(43:40):
And so there's a disconnect between ownership and the people
making the football decisions. Yeah, the people making the football
decisions may not think it's a good idea. I thought
the reaction was interesting too, because Cap was in for
a workout as if they had signed him. The reaction
was like the Raiders, open minded, progressive, Mark Davis is

(44:03):
just doing what Al Davis originally did. And it's like,
you realize this is just a workout, right, that's not
a contract, And now it's changed where oh, why isn't
he signed? And it's like you just jumped the gun.
The reaction was well ahead of where the news was
at the time. Yeah, so you know it. You know,

(44:25):
I I smell something here, So I want to I
just wanted to know in terms of just for me, why,
you know, why why bring him in? Why do all
this posturing? And then you find out that Spike is
doing a documentary and just so happens that he was

(44:46):
going to interview Mark Davis then the next and two
days after they scheduled to work out. So I'm like,
what is that? M Yeah, yeah, kind of interesting. It
seems kind of fishy right out of the blue, all
of a sudden, let's get Cap in here. I'm good man.

(45:07):
So unless they would have signed him and like, hey,
we were lucky to having part of our you know,
our organization. You know, he's gonna come in and this
Derek's Cars team, and you know, we believe he belongs
in in in the league, and we'll see give him
an opportunity and training camping in preseason to see if

(45:28):
he still belongs in the league. That That's what I
wanted to hear. Other than that, and you know, I
feel a certain way about you know, Kaepernick wanting to
play or says he wants to play in the league,
and you know, myself and a bunch of other players
who you know, you know what it takes two be

(45:51):
in the league, and and and and and certain things
that you have to do to get in the league
or get back in the league. And he didn't. He
didn't do those things. Yeah. Well, it goes back to
it works the same way. It's words versus actions. Right,
you can say all these things, I want to be back,
I want to be there. Okay, that's great, but the

(46:11):
actions have to support that, and they haven't. They haven't
always supported that, and so it just made me think, Okay,
what's the point right now, what's going on? Why all
of a sudden, now is this happening? And then you
have the documentary and he's like, okay, well something doesn't
feel right. Yeah, Brian, noany from salam with you here

(46:32):
on Fox Sports Radio. I'll throw one other thing at
you relating to this. I think it might have been
last week's show where, uh, last week or two weeks ago,
we're talking about Baker Mayfield and I just said to you,
Baker Mayfield gets the media coverage as if he's way
more talented than he actually is. You know, like we

(46:54):
talked about Baker is if he's the top five, top
ten guy and he is not. And I can't help
but think about those though that statement right as it
relates to Kaepernick, I mean, think about this. I understand
why he's gonna be talked about the way he does.
He goes in for a workout with the Raiders and

(47:15):
it literally is national news. We're hearing about it all
over the place because he is a story. But I
think it's very similar to Baker Mayfield, where both guys
are stories. But even when Cap in his five years
as a starter, his his numbers are so similar to

(47:36):
Baker Mayfield's it's eerie. And I think that Cap, ever
since Henelton the anthem stuff and all that, the storyline
blew up. Everybody has a an opinion on Kaepernick now
and that's why he will continue to be a storyline.
But I think it's very, very comparable to Baker. They

(47:57):
both get a ton of media coverage and the talent
was never on the same level as the coverage is.
Do you see it the same way I do? And
but you know, not to take anything away from from Kaepernick,
he did take the team to the super Bowl. He
had playoff wins. He is a better quarterback than Baker Mayfield. Period.

(48:20):
He's just a better quarterback in Baker Mayfield, he brings more,
he has more intangibles. Uh, He's played at a high level.
There are one play away from winning the Super Bowl,
so you know that one play could have changed everything forever,
you know. And and so to compare him to to
what Baker Mayfield hasn't has not done, which you know,

(48:41):
there's a lot of room for for there for Baker
Mayfield to catch up to Colin Kaepernick and and the
things that he's done. Uh, but you know, I don't
I don't see Baker in in terms of the same

(49:03):
as I would you would see a Kaepernick because it's
just it's it's different because one as one at at
a high level for a while, you know, and and
and and had some success and one has not. Yeah.
And look, I think that the first part of this is, um,

(49:30):
they both get a lot more media attention than their
talent would suggest that they should get. That's the that's
the main comparison. But when you dive into the the
nuts and bolts, I think this, I think that the
mainstream opinion would be like, oh, Cap, Cap is way
better than Baker Mayfield. And you know me, big man,

(49:50):
I don't think Baker Mayfield is a difference maker at all,
but it is. It is actually eerie how similar their
career stats are. I'm not gonna throw a million numbers
at you, but I think if some people looked at
just a side by side comparison, I think they'd be like, Wow,
I didn't realize their numbers were so similar. I really

(50:12):
do think that would be the takeaway. I'll throw a
couple at you. Baker Mayfield's record as a starter is
twenty nine and thirty. Caps is twenty eight and thirty.
Like that part is whoa I think with Cap, you
have that unforgettable performance in the playoffs against the Packers
where he rushes for a hundred and eighty one yards.

(50:34):
He was spectacular that and that sticks with you. That's
a big picture moment that you're not going to forget about.
You remember Cap being in the Super Bowl and being
on the doorstep of winning the thing. That's what you remember.
But over the course of nearly sixty starts for each
you know, their completion percentage very similar. Passer rating. Cap

(50:57):
is at eighty eight point nine, Baker's at eighty seven
point eight. Like they're right in the same neighborhood. So
in terms of overall yardage passing rushing, it's pretty much
a wash. Statistically over almost sixty starts wash. But the
rushing isn't the same. That's the that's the element where

(51:18):
um where Kaepernick has exceeded, and he has always six
exceed what Baker is able to do. There's no doubt
about that. And what I mean by that is, so
I Cap rushed for over seventeen hundred more yards than Bakers.
He's a much better runner. Baker through for over eighteen

(51:42):
hundred more yards passing. Why So that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
but no doubt. Yeah, Cap is let's get that straight.
Cap is certainly the better running quarterback than Baker is.
But I just think that over the years, because look, man,

(52:02):
I think that's the shame of it. There's a lot
of emotion when it comes to Colin Kaepernick. The people
that don't like the guy, they make him sound like
he's an awful quarterback and that's just not true. And
I think some of the people that are on board
with cap. They make him sound like he's a top
ten guy and he never was. He was better than
average and he had a couple of spectacular moments, one

(52:25):
being on a playoff stage against the Packers. That's really it.
He was better than average as a QB. Yeah, he was. Um,
I just think um when you when you when you
talk about him, the thing that puts him ahead of
Baker is the success. And it's like that. You can

(52:46):
see what you want about Jimmy G and his numbers.
He's had success in the postseason consistently, and so now
it's you that automatically puts you in a completely different conversation.
It just does me because that's what that's what it's
all about. You look at Nick Foles, he's a Super
Bowl MVP. It's like what, But the conversation changes because

(53:12):
he was able to have that success and no matter what,
you can't take it away from him. I like your
comparison with Jimmy G. With if you compare Colin Kaepernick
to Jimmy G. There's a lot of stuff that lines up.
Um where they're individual numbers. If you look at certain areas,

(53:33):
you're like, ah, that could be better, that could be
a lot better, right, Like, but Jimmy G played in
the Super Bowl. Like Cap, Jimmy G's want some playoff games,
whether it was because of him or the strength of
the team around him. But what's interesting when you look
at those two guys, if it's a Jimmy G Cap comparison,
maybe it's just recency bias. After Jimmy G stunk it

(53:55):
up in the playoffs pretty good, especially they're loss against
the Rams in the fourth quarter where man it changed.
There are a lot of people late to the party
where before the playoffs it was Jimmy she just wins.
He's a winner, and then those people are scratching their
heads looking at the floor like, oh gosh, it's uh,
he's closer to just a guy than I was saying

(54:15):
he was after the playoffs. Yeah, it's it's there and
you can see it. Um. And and it's what people
have to realize. It's it's extremely difficult to win in
a pullseason. I mean it is every everything is on
the line. Uh, It's it's everything has to go right,
you know, everything has to to be going right. Um.

(54:39):
And it's a lot of pressure and a lot of pressure.
Did you know we've seen a lot of quarterbacks and
not live up to Yeah, I just think with with
all three and if we go back to the original
comparison Baker and uh Colin Kaepernick, I think that you
just got to keep it straight in your head. There's
a big difference between a story and the difference maker.

(55:04):
Like both of those guys are stories. They're not difference
makers in terms of starting game and game out for
an entire season and being you know, a top ten guy.
Neither Baker or a Cap or those guys. Cap wasn't
that guy five years ago. He's certainly not gonna be
that guy after five years away from the NFL. But

(55:24):
I get why they're going to be storylines. They're going
to be talked about, people have opinions about him, and
that's fine, um, But all I'm saying is, don't get
it twisted as if a storyline equals difference maker, because
that's not what's going on with Baker and Cap here.
No storyline does not make equal difference maker. And and look,
I want to know how hard it is to play

(55:47):
in the league, and I know how hard it is
to play in the league. After well, I don't know
how hard it is. I wouldn't have ever done it
to try to come back into the league after being
gone for six years. It's just, you know, it's hard
to do. Yeahh insanely hard to do, especially for a quarterback.
Just offenses change, they adapt, um defenses, the different looks

(56:13):
that they throw at you. It's a lot to keep
up on. Man, that that's not something you you know,
you take a break from and just pick up where
you left off. That's just not how it goes, all right,
plenty to get to come it up next. What did
the five fingers say to the face? I'm Brian No,
he'sy from Salam This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No,

(56:40):
He's he from Salam. Here on Fox Sports Radio. So
we had a little dust up before the San Francisco
Giants and Cincinnati Reds played last night, and it stems
from a fantasy football argument. You've got two baseball players,
Jack Peterson of the Giants and Tommy fam of the Reds. Uh.

(57:05):
They had a disagreement stemming from their fantasy football league,
and Tommy Fam slaps Jack Peterson in the face before
the game, and then Tommy Fam agrees to a three
game suspension because of this it's that every day you
get a dust up between baseball players because of their

(57:26):
fantasy football league. Big man, no King, no any Uh.
I think it was over payment, right, because he said,
don't you know it, don't mess with my money. Well
here's the Now this is a little lengthy here, but
I think it's just hysterical. This is Jack Peterson of
the Giants explaining what led to the beef, right, what

(57:50):
led to the slap. So here's Peterson were fantasy together. Uh,
I put somebody a player on the and grew reserved
when they were listed as out, and um added another player. Uh.

(58:11):
And then um uh there's a text message in the
group saying that I was cheating because I was stashing
players on my bench. And then I don't know, I
looked up the rules and sent a screenshot out. The
rules out says that when the players ruled out, you're

(58:33):
allowed to put him on the I R. And uh,
that's all I was doing. And then uh, it just
so happened that he had a player, uh, Jeff Wilson,
who was out, and he had him on the I R.
And I said, you literally have the same thing on
your tea on your bench. And then I guess he

(58:54):
was in two leagues and then one of them he
was on the IR and one of them he wasn't,
So maybe that was confusion. But on the US family,
we were in it. It was listens out. So it's like,
it's feels very similar to what I did. Uh, And
that was basically all that. There's not much more to it.

(59:16):
So there you go. Jock just put an injured player
on his bench, grabbed somebody else. So what's that I'm
reading between the I'm listening between the lines here, okay,
all right to me what it sounds like is okay, Yeah,
all of the technical aspect of it, okay, you're right

(59:37):
on m stashing players not stashing players, okay, But the
text message exchange, that's where the juice is. That's where
it is. That's right, depending on And I'm sure it
wasn't as amicable as he stated or I just said
he was doing this I did, so, I'm sure that's

(01:00:00):
where if there was disrespect, that's where it happened. Yes, yes,
that's where it really bump. We don't, we don't. We
were not getting that aspect of the conversation. Are are
the the event in question? But I would surmise that
that's where some things were said that yeah, the other

(01:00:23):
didn't take kindly to now listen to this. This is
what Tommy fam told reporters. He said, I slapped Jock.
He said some stuff I don't condone. I had to
address it. It was regarding my former team, the Padres.
I didn't like that, and I didn't like the sketchy

(01:00:44):
stuff going on in the fantasy. We had too much
money on the line, so I look at it like,
there's a code. You're effing with my money, then you're
going to say some disrespectful stuff. There's a code to this. Yeah, no,
there it is, right. It's like after the exchange is like,
you know what on site means, Brian, like you on site,

(01:01:09):
somebody's arguing with you over the phone in artext and
they were like, you know it's on on site, but
all they gotta put his on site. Yeah, that means
when they see you. And I'm sure that was reiterated.
And you know what, a couple of years have been paid.
A year or so had gone by. So he walked

(01:01:30):
up to him and he's like, hey, you remember fantasy
football and he was like, yeah, you last year. Yeah,
that's right, right. Remember when I said on site, that's
literally what Jock said. He's like, yeah, he came up
and was like he kind of came up and said,
I don't know if you remember me from last year,

(01:01:51):
and I was like, fantasy football. He's okay, good. Yeah,
so that I'm I'm pretty sure if we go back
and dissect the text, messages on site would be in
there somewhere. And this is the first time he got
a chance to see him again. So uh, he made

(01:02:13):
good on his threat. I think Monsey made a great point.
If you're talking about someone messing with your money, you
messed with your own money. Unless you are in for
two hundred thousand dollars buy in for your fantasy foot
you never know. I've seen possible praisey uh bets, and
in gambling, it's possible. I'm gonna say it's unlikely, but um,

(01:02:39):
he probably cost himself more getting suspended for three games
than whatever they had on the line in this fantasy football. Yeah.
I mean, it's gotten so bad in locker rooms, like
coaches have have put rules in place to stop guys
from gambling with each other because it will ruined the
chemistry of your team. If you're on a team with

(01:02:59):
somebody and you got has been gambling on trips and
planes and Boo ray and black Jack of poker or
whatever it is you're playing, and sometimes these parts gets up,
you know, upwards of a hundred thousand, hundred fifty and
you don't pay. Oh, oh, there's a problem in the
locker room. Oh it's a problem. We got a problem.
I gotta see you every day and you're gonna pay
my money. And I know you gotta check every Monday,

(01:03:21):
every Monday. I know what you're checking. Your check is
based on your salary and you're not gonna run me
my my ants. Oh no, we remember the uh remember
when Gino Smith got his jaw broken. Yes, yep, that
wasn't like a gambling thing, but it was. It was
like a football camp or something. And the guy what

(01:03:44):
it was and Pinale I have to go look at
e K and Pinale I think was the guy who
just broke his jaw. He was waiting for Gino Smith
to pay him back for this whole thing, and he
was dragging his heels a little bit and e K
was not playing that and yeah, that was a little
bit more damaged for Geno Smith than Jack Peterson and

(01:04:05):
that thing. Don't play with my money. Yeah, d G,
you've got some figures on this thing. What are we
talking about? The dollar amount for this fantasy football league? Potentially, Yeah,
the rumor is that it is a high roller league.
Both in and six figures were involved for the prize money.
That will get you slapped, Get you slap just thinking

(01:04:27):
about it, everybody. The buying was grand and it's ten
people in there. Yeah, this is real. I mean this,
this happens. You buy. These guys have guaranteed country. They're
making millions and millions of dollars the buying if grand
winner take all. Have you ever written or received a

(01:04:48):
text saying on site, no, no, no, I try to
stay above the fray, I'm a little bit too old
to be fighting, and that when I was fighting, there
were no text messages, you know what I mean, Like
back when there was a problem that you know you,

(01:05:09):
I couldn't sit in that on text. Okay, now, the
statutes of limitations of come and gone, right, But if
cell phones were part of your you know, teenage years
young adulthood. We have a lot of on site on site,
a lot a lot of a lot of pull ups.
Right when you say pull up, that means you know

(01:05:30):
where I am. Come see me right now? Right, that's right,
that's absolutely right. Come outside, you know what I mean
all of that. I'm outside. I'm outside. That means you
know I'm gonna be out and about you come find me.
Just what took you to class? Right there? Man? One

(01:05:52):
of my favorite I just had a flashback. I'll tell
you this will take ten seconds. I was at the
grocery store and I was in the parking lot and
it was just two people. They were beef and for
whatever reason, I wasn't a part of this at all.
And uh, one of the guys in his car, he's
he's chirping at the other guy, and the other guy goes,

(01:06:13):
all you got to do is come on? That was it,
and that sums up everything. You know. You you don't
have to talk like, all you gotta do is step up,
and that's all that needs to happen. I always love
that quote. All you gotta do is come on. All
you gotta do is come on? Applies to Moncy Bolognos
and another sports update. What's going on? Mons? Oh? I

(01:06:34):
got some more story about Tommy fam and Jock Peterson
for you. Okay, So a San Francisco Giants beat writer
just tweet at this, Okay, I'm gonna read it verbatim
as to what he tweeted. Jack Peterson was waiting for
us after the game. With receipts from his group text
exchange with Tommy Fam. He sent a gift of three

(01:06:54):
weightlifters with Giants, Dodgers and Padres logos superimpos on them.
The Padres guy collapsed under the weight of his dumbbell,
Peterson read verbatim from the group chat, which included four
to five other Padres. FAM responded, Jock, I don't know
you well enough to make any jokes like this. Peterson

(01:07:16):
wrote back, it was meant to be all fun in games,
no hard feelings. Sorry if you took it that way.
This was around September. A few weeks later, Fam dropped
out of the league. Peterson confirmed there was a lot
of money involved in it. Seven months later, VAM slapped
Peterson boom, so don't send gifts over a gift guys

(01:07:43):
that a Padres guy collapsed under the weight of his dumbbell.
That's what this beat writer has tweeted. You can't make
that up if that was on one of the satire websites,
you laugh, happen that just happened, Just happened. No, Yeah,
he just tweeted this a couple minutes ago, and there's
more to it. He wrote another article and I try

(01:08:03):
to read it, but it's one of those articles I
have to pay for, so I didn't do. But yeah,
he put this in his tweets, so we have a
little bit more information. I'm sure it's gonna keep coming out,
kind of like our colleague earlier today, Jason Smith, he tweeted,
He's like, this is the biggest story in sports. Cancel
the finals, cancel the World Series, Cancel the quarterback golf event,
cancel everything. This is the biggest thing because it is nuts, nuts, nuts, nuts.

(01:08:27):
What else is nuts? Probably everybody at Madison Square Garden
right now. The Rangers are staying alive. They're actually up
to to zero against the Carolina Hurricane still the first period,
still a lot of game to go, but again they're
trying to keep their season alive. Carolina Carolina Hurricanes are
up on the series three to two and have it
one on the road. This playoff series yet or this

(01:08:47):
whole playoffs for them, and the Rangers seem to be
keeping their season alive right now to to zero still
about seven and a half minutes left in the first period,
so a lot of game to go in Major League Baseball.
The games we have going on right now, my boys
in blue. The Dodgers are currently losing to the Arizona
Diamondbacks two to one. We're in the fifth inning on
that one. The Phillies are beating the New York Mets
two to one. Fourth inning. On that we got the

(01:09:10):
Cubs beating the White Sox three to zero. We're in
that fifth inning, and we have Game two between the
Orioles and the Red Sox. Orioles are winning game two,
four to one. And we have Game two between the
Rockies and the Nationals, the Rockies winning game two three
to two. We still have the Angels taking on the
Toronto Blue Jays later on today. Guys, that's all I

(01:09:31):
got for you. Good stuff, very well done. I love
all the back story that Jack Peters and things. Celievable money.
He probably he probably got out of the league, which
means he probably took his money with him, right right, Yeah,
you're not just like I keep my buying for me

(01:09:54):
That's why I mean, but you've seen that happen in
the little league we do, right, Guys don't want to
pay at the end. You've seen that, right, guys not
paying up. And what did I tell you when I
wont What did I tell you? What you got my problem?
You were like, I was like, hey, man, I want man,
run me my money. He was like, hey, but everybody
hasn't paid yet. I said, that has nothing to do

(01:10:15):
with me. That has nothing. I don't know what. That
has zero to do with me. What I know is
I won the league. So send me my money. Whatever
you have to do with them and collect their money.
That has that's all you play. That's it. Did you
run me my Running me my ends into your credit
You did, right, Like, I don't know who. I don't

(01:10:37):
even know all the people in the league, so I
don't know how long it's gonna take you to get
the money. My suggestion to you was make people pay
up front. If you do not pay, you are not
in the league starting week one period. Yeah, that's the
right way to run it. Of course. The way I
do it is it's maybe three days before the NFL

(01:10:59):
kicks off, and I'm like, we should put this together
at the last minute. You know, are we getting back
to that? Are we gonna just stick to US? I
think we got to get back to I might try
to do the league. I mean I enjoyed US. US
was good. I mean we could do both, right, Like
we could have the head the head. We could also
have the league. I'm gonna do head. But you know,
when you start picking that much, right, there's gonna be

(01:11:22):
some crossover. You get what I'm saying. I see what
you're saying now that six games were picking. Yeah, I
got you. Well, it's up to you, right that the
right or we can just making us up the money
or you know what we do a thousand thousand last
time we did I took it home, making two thousand

(01:11:43):
this year. You know what I mean? Whatever you want
to do? Many running how it goes? Yeah, look at
you you are. I like this. This is the new
offensive gambler, right, you're you're normally not as aggressive here.
But what was it game? I think it was three
of the Warriors Grizzly series where we put a nickel

(01:12:07):
The Gamblers always talk about that, right, put a nickel
on it, and that was the game. The Warriors smacked
around your grizzlies and so you're ready, you're you're looking
not my grizzlies, not my grizzlies, but the game three Grizzlies. Yeah,
just just Game three. But I'll say that, you know,
before the game was over, did you have your ends?

(01:12:28):
You did? I did have, very prompt I had. I
think it was a middle finger emoji. Also, yes, you
got the money and and this bird, right, but but
the bird flew the money to you, right, it was
not in the same place. The bird flew it over
to Venmo. That's right, absolutely all right. Coming up next,

(01:12:48):
a couple of tweets that are pretty interesting and also
a criticism that you might not have seen coming. I'm
Brian No, he's from salam This is Fox Sports Radio.
I'm probably no, he's he from Salam here on Fox
Sports Radio. Um, so, I'm surprised this wasn't a bigger

(01:13:08):
story than it then it could have been. Maybe it
was the storyline of Colin Kaepernick getting a workout with
the Raiders earlier in the week. But Lashawn McCoy former
NFL running back Shady McCoy, he was talking about Eric
b Enemy, the offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs,

(01:13:30):
and he said some things that were pretty eye opening.
Here he was on the I Am Athlete podcast. Here's
what Lashawn McCoy had to say about his time in
Kansas City with the enemy and the reason why I
finished because me and a corner didn't. We had a
difference about the fifth things right. And I'm gonna say this,
it's the reason why every year they keep hyping him

(01:13:52):
up to get a coaching job. Hey, coach or office
coordinator job for a littlehere else, and you don't get
one because he's talking yea and a player because some players, right,
he talks on a certain way, and some players would
take it. I want to take it like whoa you know?
And some questions I would ask. Everybody's accountable. That's why

(01:14:13):
it's not because he's a black coach. That's not the reason.
Three is that because he won't get into that. But
that's the reason why that every year I come up
to get a job, and then when the time comes,
nobody hard and because they know what type of coach
he really is. Why you stopped playing in Kansas It
was wow, I didn't see that coming, big man Um,

(01:14:36):
But hey, Shande McCoy feels a certain way. And okay,
now this is the interesting part. This is another perspective.
This is Andy Reid. So of course Andy Reid head
coach of the Chiefs. He was over in Philly, of
course when Shady McCoy was the star running back. So
Andy Reid and Lashawn McCoy go back a number of years.

(01:14:56):
So this is what Andy Reid had to say about
Leshawn McCoy's criticism of Eric b Enemy. And you can
say the love that the players have for him. I mean,
he's got all these guys standing up for him and
saying positive things. He's a football coach and uh, you know,
I'm disappointed that he hasn't had a chance. I'm optimistic
that he's gonna have one in the future. Here, okay, now,

(01:15:18):
he also said that Shady McCoy wasn't the youngest pup
in the kennel, right, and he was saying he's a
proud player, he's he thinks he's a Hall of Famer. Okay,
here's the other part here, here's where Andy Reid was
talking about that. And sometimes it's hard on a veteran
player that maybe they're their level, performance level isn't what
it used to be, and it's hard to take sometimes,

(01:15:41):
but he's gonna push it and trying to maximize what
you've got. Um that's one of his strengths. He's gonna
come in and shoot you straight. Sometimes you want to
hear it, sometimes you don't. You know, I'm a big
Leshan fan in my eyes, he's a future Hall of
Fame running back if you look at statistically, was tremendous.
So but he wasn't the youngest pup you know in

(01:16:01):
the kennel here man, he was on back side, and
sometimes that's hard to take. So interesting to do very
different perspectives. I mean, look, uh, I think this big man,
I think that you're never gonna get a coach. Bill
Parcelves comes to mind where um, I think of Carl Banks,

(01:16:23):
the old Giants linebackers saying there were a lot of
players that couldn't stand Bill Parcelves, but they played hard
for the guy like that. That's coaching. You're not gonna
be everybody's best buddy in the world. So if Lashawn
McCoy didn't like the tactics of the enemy, that doesn't
mean the enemy is unfit to be a head coach, right, like,
welcome to coaching. Not every player is gonna like what

(01:16:44):
you have to say it to them. Yeah, to me,
it sounded like a player who had a personal issue
with the coach and put it on you know everybody else.
Everybody knows this, Like when you start making statements like that,
everybody knows. You know why he doesn't, you know, but

(01:17:08):
guys know, and it's it's a personal issue. You got
to remember that Super Bowl Kansas City one, uh Lesha
McCoy wasn't active. Do you think that has something to
do with it? Yeah, I'm sure there's some sour grapes.
Right after playing thirteen games and rushing for four d
and sixty five yards one hundred one carries. He was

(01:17:32):
inactive for that Super Bowl. M And when you are
a certain age, once you're longer, I think that was
year with twelve for him. With year eleven, you know,
he wasn't gonna be featured. He wasn't going to get
the ball like the young players. And he I'm sure

(01:17:52):
he felt a certain way m hm. And you know
you just say a coach, I want to do this
and was like, no, you're not doing that. You run
into that all the time. Now, that's not the reason
the enemies not a head coach because of that interaction, Right,
And has anybody else come out and said those things

(01:18:15):
about Eric b enemy, not that I know of, right,
and and look, maybe true, maybe it's you know, he
was rubbed every boy, all the players the wrong way.
But we've had players come out and speak in favor
of him and what he should uh and the opportunities
he should be given as a head coach. So you
get one guy at the end of his career who's

(01:18:36):
not happy about how his career is ending, and then
you you know, you you have your truth and whatever
that is. I mean, is Lashawn McCoy Hall of Fame
running back? I think he's borderline. Andy Reid thinks he's

(01:18:56):
in there, But I mean he had a great career.
I don't know if in thousand yards, Yeah, what does
that stack up. Let's look all time rushing, all time rushing.
You know, we can find out real fast and and
and in and see where he stacks up amongst the greats. Yeah,

(01:19:21):
you know you're you're googling skills are They're about as
good as your Game three bet between the Warriors and
the Grizzlies big Man, just telling you is that what
it is? That? Is that what you're doing to me
like that? I think this though, too, that isn't helpful
for Eric the enemies head coaching search for a former

(01:19:43):
player to put it on wax like that. You know,
I don't know that this puts a roadblock, and well
the seals that he's never gonna be a head coach.
I'm not gonna blow it out of proportion, but Eric
b enemy. I think he should have had a job
by now. But a former player coming out and saying this,
that doesn't help him. And Shady McCoy had no problem
with putting it out there the way you did, right.

(01:20:04):
You know, Leshan McCoy is in the league in rushing
eleven thousand, one d and two yards. O J. Simpson, Yeah,
Corey Dylan, Corey Dillon has has more as he and
the Hall of Fame. He's going to be a little
Stephen Jackson, Fred Taylor, come on now, yeah, coming up next?

(01:20:29):
What is the deal with this organization? Oh? What's going on? Everybody?
Hope you're enjoying your Saturday evening and evening with no
NBA big Man. You know, we gotta get ready for
Game seven tomorrow night, which, as we all know, are
the two second greatest words in sports. The two greatest

(01:20:54):
words in sports are super Bowl. We all know that, right.
I hear all this false advertising of the two greatest
words are game seven. That's not true. It's not true.
Two greatest words are super Bowl. Are you with me
writing with the world? Yeah? For us in America anyway.
By the way, before we get to Game seven, looking

(01:21:17):
back to Game six last night, all time performance by
Jimmy Butler. It was an odd game from Jason Tatum
because he played really really well, scored thirty points but
on only twelve shots, and he only had one field
goal attempt in the fourth quarter. Like, how can that be?
Tatum goes nine for twelve from the field, scores thirty points,

(01:21:41):
but only takes one shot in the fourth quarter. I
just gotta see more aggression. I gotta see him be
a lot more aggressive in Game seven. And if he's
more aggressive last night, it might have been a rap. Yeah,
and it might have been. But we've seen him come
out and be aggressive and close out of series, so
we know what's in them. We know he has it
in him. Um it just needs and that's the difference

(01:22:04):
between greatness. Right. Greatness shows up in close out games. Mhm.
We just watched Jimmy Butler do it. He was fantastic, right,
So that's you have to match that energy. And that's
a great point because Jayson Tatum's Game six the previous
series against the Box was an elimination game for Boston

(01:22:28):
and he was tremendous. That's to say, that's the level,
and you have to and it's hard. It's hard to
keep that level or no, when it's needed. It's easy
to say, right, you damn six, it's closed out, you
gotta be, but it's hard to tap into that. And
and the great ones know when and how to tap

(01:22:49):
into that and they show up. So if we spend
it forward to game seven tomorrow night, I think this
is where this is where the odds even up in
terms of the steaks. It's an elimination game for both teams.
It was only an elimination game last night for Miami.
And that's why I love Boston in game seven. You

(01:23:13):
I like Boston in Game seven as well, But Game
sevens man, it's tough to bet on those because anything
can happen. Anything can happen. Man, those are dangerous. Yeah,
you can also make a lot of money. I just
gotta pick the right team. Is that what we're doing?
Is that is that we're throwing some shillings on there.

(01:23:33):
I mean, hey, are you on the heat bandwagon? No?
I'm not on the heat because if we're on the
same side, this is a tandem effort. You know, what
are the odds the I'll don't look what what would
you guess they are? Who's favored by? How much? In
Game seven? Celtics by four? I'm not bad. Pretty close

(01:23:56):
Celtics a little less two and a half. Get this, man,
this is a throwback. The total, the point total combined
score one. They're expecting a grinder for today's NBA doing, Man,

(01:24:19):
I would like to dangerous. I remember the days. It
was about a decade ago. I'll keep you a brief
gambling story one of my good outcomes. Normally have bad
beat stories for you for days. It's actually a good one.
I was betting the over of the Sixers back when
they had Andre Iguadala. These are the Iggy Sixers against

(01:24:42):
the Celtics with KG and company. And the total I
think was one seventy four and I think it was
seven to three at halftime. No one could score. It
was just brutal. And then all of a sudden the
second half, Iggy gets hot. Both teams are scoring points
and it's at one seventy three combined, and it was

(01:25:06):
about a double digit lead. A double digit lead for
I forget who was even winning that thing. Might have
been Boston. And uh, I'm like, oh, shoot, like they're
just gonna run the clock out and out of nowhere.
My man, Keion Dueling, he fouls Jodie Meeks. Must have

(01:25:28):
been Sixers, must have won that game and they were
up comfortably. Um, but he filed Jody Meeks and Jodie
Meeks just swishes two free throws in the over hits.
I thought they're just gonna run the clock out. But
for no good reason whatsoever, Keion Dueling committed the foul
on two. Maybe it's possible. Yeah, Okay, So I'm thinking

(01:25:50):
Celtics when I think they I think they went out right.
I'm very strong on that. I would put them. I
picked them to cover the two and half the total. Uh,
I don't know, man, you like the over what do
you like the most in that game. I like the over. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. They both teams worry me, man, I

(01:26:12):
just have nightmares of Miami the last time they were
in that building shooting seven for forty five from three. Yeah.
That it wasn't great. That was rough, right there. Brian
No and E from Salam with you here on Fox
Sports Radio. How about this, Let's turn our attention to
the Baltimore Ravens and what's going on with Lamar Jackson. So,
Lamar Jackson is not at O T A S. And

(01:26:35):
Chris Sims, former NFL quarterback, had something to say about it.
This is Chris Sims on Pro Football Talk Live. Check
it out. And I've heard Lamar Jackson say he wants
someone super Bowls. He wants to win a bunch of
Super Bowls. I mean, I think there was a time
where he was like, I want to be like Brady.
Remember him saying that early in his career, Well, Brady
wouldn't be missing O T A S and your four
of his career. I just that's where I want to

(01:26:56):
say to some of these young quarterbacks. They always I
hear like I want to be like Brady. I wanna
have a career like Brady, Well, then do what Brady does.
Brady didn't miss an O t A until he had
played in four Super Bowls, and you know, started to
get married and then started to miss a few O
t a s. But then things didn't go that great
in two thousand and ten and eleven and twelve, and
you know what he's started to doing. I'm gonna be
back at O t a s. I'm gonna get a

(01:27:17):
little bit better and we need this. That's where, just
from the football standpoint, I just don't get it. I
don't at all. Okay, So that's Chris's uh thoughts? How
about this? This is Lamar Jackson's response on Twitter. Lamar wrote,
Lamar wants to be Lamar, Chris, this part of O

(01:27:37):
t S is voluntary. My guy, I will be there,
just not on your watch. It's probably other quarterbacks not
attending voluntary O t a s either, But since it's Lamar,
it's a huge deal. Find something else to talk about.
So who do you think makes the better argument? There? Um.

(01:27:57):
The one thing I know for sure that quarterbacks don't
like to be criticized by other quarterbacks who have less success,
not done anything. I'm trying to be politically correct, who

(01:28:19):
who have who've had less success than them? I hear
because now it's like who are you talking to and
who are you talking about? So if this is Steve
Young saying the exact same, different kid, lands completely different
because it's like, oh, this is an all time great
talking Chris Simms. I mean, yes, you know what I mean, Like, okay,

(01:28:51):
m no, no, he you know he started what is
that fifteen games in his or your career. It's like
you just can't take the criticism from someone like that,
Like it doesn't work. Like literally, you could be saying
all the right things, but it's not going to land

(01:29:14):
because it's like who are you? Who you think you are?
I hear you, trust me, I hear you. It's just
weird that it works that way. Well, listen, if Chris
Simms makes a good point, whether he's a Pro Football
Hall of Famer or a dude with fifteen career starts
that didn't pan out. I mean, if he makes a
good point, it's a good point here, but it comes
to it even comes different from an analyst like you

(01:29:37):
are you know, Colin Cowherd or somebody who hasn't even
played but they've been in the business. They've been in
the media business and covering sports for decades. It even
lands different there. But when a subpart player at the
same position comes out and questions your work ethic, you're like, oh, bro, no,

(01:30:02):
not you, bro. You know my guy, my boy? Right yeah, yeah,
those are slang terms, right right, absolutely, I got this,
my guy, you know, worry about you, my boy, but
you know you know what I mean. So so it's
it's not chief chief there, so it's not landing, and

(01:30:27):
it's it's like it's it feels like disrespect. Right, You're going,
you the guy who's started fifteen games and five years,
are going to critique how I need to be doing this.
You know. By the way, there is a bit of
a contract dispute going on right between. That's what the
crazy thing is where Jeff Darlington of ESPN he reported

(01:30:52):
and he's like, this is peculiar. This is just this
is odd because you would think, oh, Lamar is not
at O T A S because Lamar wants a new contract.
But Jeff Darlington's like, that's not what is going on
right now. So Lamar, as it's been reported, and this
doesn't make sense to me, But this is just a

(01:31:12):
report is that Lamar doesn't feel like he has earned
the money, I guess, or whatever the reason is, he's
not going to the bargaining table because the GM is like, hey, Lamar,
get on in here and let's hammer this thing out.
And Lamar isn't engaging. And so that's on one side.

(01:31:33):
And then on the other side is the o t
a absence and the report is they are not connected,
which doesn't make any sense to me if that's the
actual case. Yeah, it's weird, right, very weird, and I
don't know, you know. And Lamar is represented himself. He
doesn't have an agent, so like you or your agent

(01:31:56):
will be like, hey, man, let's get this bag because
anything can happen to you next year. Yeah yeah, like you,
especially the way you play. What you don't want to
do is have the same injury problems and miss uh
significant amount of time like this past year. So let's
miss out on this guaranteed. So let's get you your
money right, put your your family's future, took that away,

(01:32:19):
and you go audio and play play ball. You're a
young man, You're gonna have to You're gonna re up again.
So let's get this money now. And then we're gonna
holiday that two hundred some plus million in a couple
of years. Yeah. Yeah, but he doesn't have an agent,
so it's just a different situation. Now, this is raven,
said coach John Harbaugh. Now see if you got to

(01:32:40):
read between the lines here with what he has to
say about Lamar's absence at O t A. S. We've
been down in stroad many times right through the years.
So I just let Lamar speak for himself on that's
for him to talk about. You can ask him, Okay,
we would, but he's not here, coach, Like, yeah, coach,
that's great, but he's not here to talk to talk

(01:33:01):
to coach, So could we talk to you and downs old? Right?
Yeahs Old. So he's you know, right in the thick
of it. This is this is he's going to be
a quarterback for I mean, he could be twenty more years,

(01:33:23):
twenty more years. I mean his style of play doesn't
lend to that, right, the style of I mean that longevity.
But you know, he's been in the league four years.
I would love to know what the actual story is, like,
what is really going out. I don't know, that's that's

(01:33:45):
I don't know, it's weird, right, Yeah, because I would think,
and this seems to be totally wrong, but I would think, hey,
maybe maybe the Ravens are dragging their heels a little reluctant,
like the style that he played days and we're guaranteeing
how much money? Like that's right, And so they haven't

(01:34:07):
met what Lamar is seeking. And so Lamar is like, hey,
how about you pay me and I'll be at O
T s and do all this stuff that seems logical.
But the reports are that's not what's happening. So the
obvious question is, well, then what is because what the
reports are make no sense at all. What quarterbacks says,

(01:34:28):
I don't think I've really earned the money just yet.
I'm reluctant to get to the negotiating table and and
get that contract signed. Like who does that? No one
does that? Yeah, nobody. And you know, you look at
Lamar and his brief four years, he's thirty seven inch
twelve that's bankable man completing sixty of passes four touchdowns,

(01:34:57):
that's bankable. Yeah, and that's not even the rushing yards.
I know it. Those are Look, those are difference making numbers.
He did not have a good season last year. But
his career has been very, very good. It's been amazing.
I mean he's rushed for three thousand, six hundred and

(01:35:18):
seventy three yards and twenty one touchdowns and four years
and was an m v P and year two he
doesn't have the playoffs success And that's a big deal, right,
big deal, huge deal. Yeah, but I'm saying, like, that's
a formidable weapons. So he's earned the money. I don't

(01:35:39):
know why he doesn't want to take it, but I
would say if he ever hears this, get your money,
get what you what you feel, your your your do.
You've earned it, and now you start building on your
next contract. Everything you do from here on that'll be

(01:36:02):
for the next one. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. Man.
Really interesting offseason for the Ravens where think about that
division you've got. The Bengals went to the super Bowl,
But you know how the NFL goes. You're great one year,
you might fall off the next year. Look at the Steelers.
How many games is DeShawn gonna be suspended for? If

(01:36:23):
he is suspended? Like that division is there for the taking.
And the Ravens just had this great draft and now
there's all this uncertainty with where are Lamar and the Ravens.
Are they on the same page or what's going on here?
You gotta get that sorted out, man, because I think
that division is there for the taking, all right, coming

(01:36:44):
up next? The message has been sent. You gotta read
between the lines. Though, I'm Brian, Though he's he from
Salam This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian. No, he's
he from Salam here on Fox Sports Radio. Now it's
a party. Now, it's official. Who are we listening to

(01:37:07):
right here? Big Man, Slayer Man, Well done by you?
You know, are you sure you don't want to hit
a mosh pit or two with me? No? You know,
not to take anything away from Dohn Brown, but because
of our earlier quips and rents about Top Gun, if

(01:37:28):
he would have threw some music from Top Gun and
when we came back, I mean that would have just
thank you, where's the Kenny that would have put the
chair on the top. But you know, for a guy
who's so excited to go see the second one, I mean,
you know who's in charge of the music of the show.

(01:37:48):
I just I don't know, man, I don't I don't
buy it. I thought that I was doing my best.
When I pulled out the filling in the air tonight,
that was like the closest thing I could imagined was
on the vibe of the well. If you would have
saw the original movie, then you would know that there
songs okay, but you know that's neither here nor there.

(01:38:11):
We've already established that. You know, down Brown should not
be speaking on the microphone or talking about anything popular
from here on out. Man harsh. Sometimes you just gotta
you know, you gotta put your foot down sometimes. Uh,
reality is harsh. It is telling us, Yeah, it is here.
I'm not here to pacify you. You're here to cut

(01:38:34):
through it, down to the heart of the matter. Down
look out that window right there. Huh, right outside there.
It's hard. The world is hard out there. The world
doesn't just come up and give you a hugged that's
gonna slap you across the face, like, oh boy, did
it Betty practice. Tommy Fam the life is Tommy Fam. Yes.
By the way, Tommy Fam was the same guy you

(01:38:56):
remember where there was there was a hard slide earlier
in the season and Tommy Fam was like, I've got
a like a mue tie, Jim. We can get down
if you want to. He's like, we can do this.
We can sanction it with Tommy. Fam is not opposed
to physicality. Let's just put it that way. On site,

(01:39:21):
it is Tommy on site fame from now on. Right now,
we were talking about Luca don Chitch and how he's
got to really commit himself. Right, You've gotta train, gotta
get in shape. He's a special player. He could be
even better if he does that. This is what the
Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd had to say after the season.

(01:39:42):
He doesn't call Luca out by name, but this is
absolutely directed at Luca. Now, it's about what's our appetite
come next season. Are we gonna just tiptoe into the season.
Are we gonna be hungry? And then are we gonna
train this summer to understand what it means to play
into May and June because it it's you know, it's
it's a long season. Mm hmm. Are we gonna train

(01:40:05):
this summer? Message? Look, Luca has been good forever, I
mean since he was a kid. But playing overseas it's
different than here. Right the game you can slow it
down there, you can be a ball dominant guard, and

(01:40:26):
and be all the rage when you come to the
NFL and you're and you're playing against guys who are
supreme athletes, who go hard, who trained hard, who are
physically able to play in a game for for long,
longer stretches. You have to match that, and Luca is

(01:40:48):
not matching that. First of all, he comes into the season, Oh,
out of shape. You can tell it's gonna play himself
in the shape and which is all that does is
wear you down by the end of the year, right,
And he's so he's uh, his user rate is at
the top of the league. He has the ball so
much that he has he's out completely out of gas

(01:41:08):
in the fourth quarter. That's why all those step back threes,
which he shouldn't be taking as many, they're short because
he has no legs. Right, that's right, And yeah, you
see that. Sometimes it doesn't work perfectly where you're like,
you know what, I'm not gonna just go all out
training in the off season. I'll get in shape during

(01:41:29):
the season. Well, every now and then you're not in
shape and you got a hamstring tweak and that sets
you back and now you're just you're working to get
back to where you should have been heading in. That
happens a lot more than you just magically. Yeah, I'm
a little roly poly at the beginning of the season.
But a month in, I'm starting to get my win

(01:41:50):
my legs. Now, second month, Oh it's on, I'm good
to go. It doesn't work like that a lot of
times either. No, you Lucas young, right, Lucas what twenty
two years old? Years old? Being in the conference finals,
all of those things. He's so much room to grow.

(01:42:13):
But with early success, you can get satisfied, right, Like
I came in a season out of shape. We went
all the way to the finals, and you started looking
at stuff like if we just had one more piece, right, like,
we can do it. No, that's not what it is.

(01:42:34):
You have to take the approach of being an all
time great and a team leader, and you have to
number he has to change his body. He has to
get quicker, his foot speed has to get quicker, and
that's for defensive purposes. But all of these things you
can he can do. I hope he looks at it

(01:42:54):
where again, he's a special player. I want him, if
I'm a member of that organization, to look at it
where he is the engine. He's the leader, he's the
tone setter, he's their guy, right like, he's the he's
the dude that makes it go. Look at it like
Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler is not am a little out

(01:43:15):
of this out of shape. I'll use the first month
or so to get in shape in the season like that.
Dude's a professional. Like you just gotta see Luca be
an all in professional. And if he is, he's special
as it is right now, Harden was special, right Like,
that's the comparison is there's got a lot a little
bit too much hardened in terms of training in the

(01:43:36):
off season and coming in fully prepared to just think
about where Harden could have been throughout his career and
also right now if he was fully dedicated. You don't
want Luca to be one of those guys where, yeah
he's still an all time great, but man that he
should have been better than he was. Yeah, it's you

(01:43:57):
don't want to fall into that, right, great, but you
know the greatest thing that happened to Charles Barklos Moses
them alone, that's right, he told him he fatten your
lazy But that's real. As good as he was as
good as Charles came in the league. It was reckon shop.
Some of you fatten your lazy and Charles Barkler will

(01:44:20):
be like, you got you crazy, ain't fatting lazy. I'm
look what I'm doing. He was like, oh okay, and
became a beast and became an all time great. Right,
Luca can find himself, you know, dealing with little injuries
here and there, missing year missing, and then you find yourself,
you know, staying the same. If if you stay the

(01:44:42):
same in the NBA or any league, any professional league,
you will be passed by. Those are the facts. You
will be passed by all that hype and everything he's
getting in and rightfully so, he's you know, been only
three years, been first team All NBA three years. Reason.
By the way, there's a purpose for this totally random question.

(01:45:06):
Are you a fan of cheese? It's big man. I
do like cheese. It's not as much as you do.
But I like him, Okay, but you do like him.
Do you know someone who is not that big of
a fan at all? Who that would be? Our girl
who we love Monsy Bolognos. This is this is a
skeleton in her closet. Doesn't think very fondly. If cheese
it's over there? What is your childhood? How did you

(01:45:28):
grow up? What that? No? That is no no, no,
no no no. Um. If I was gonna eat like
something cheesy like that, I'm gonna get doritos cheese. Of course,
does a bear poop in the woods? What? What? What
don't you like? It's not that I don't like them,

(01:45:50):
I just don't. That's never something I'm gonna go by.
I'm gonna crave never. I'd rather get cheesy doritos or
like cheesy pups or you know, something like that, every
single one. Don't tell me chees its are healthy? No,
but I mean and all that we can we find

(01:46:15):
out right now, right now, find out right now, listen,
and we're gonna find out tomorrow. Who's going to take
on the Warriors in the NBA Finals, A big Game
seven tomorrow. I agree with you. The two biggest words
in sports is probably Super Bowl, but Game seven is
also a really big one. That game except for eight
thirty Eastern time. Whoever wins between the Miami Heat and

(01:46:36):
the Boston Celtics will take on the Warriors. Now do
we think that Drake sports curse is over? You know
the Drake curse of who we bet? Oh? Because apparently,
um and let me tell you when it was, because
it wasn't just right now. He actually bet on the
Warriors in April to win the Western Conference Finals and

(01:46:56):
he won, and he won a million dollars. He bet
hundred thousand dollars on the Warriors in April to win
the Western Conference finals. So I don't know if the
Drake curses over, but if I'm the Warriors, I'm like,
please don't bet on us for the finals. Do you
bet on the other team? Please don't bet on us.
Let's not just shows how powerful the Warriors are, right, yeah,
doesn't I know? Crazy? Absolutely crazy that that's the thing. Uh,

(01:47:21):
we'll see if he makes a bet for the finals,
and we'll see if the curse continues. Right now in
the Stanley Cup playoffs, this game is nuts, you guys.
Everybody's scoring. I don't know what juice they drank, whether
it was a Jimmy juice that Jimmy Butler had yesterday
or Michael's secret stuff that the tune squad had, but
everybody is scoring. The Rangers. We have still seven minutes

(01:47:42):
left in the second period. The Rangers are up forward
to two at Madison Square Garden. Everybody's going nuts. But
it's like goal after goal after goal. It is so exciting.
We're in a power play right now. But yeah, the
Rangers are definitely keeping their season alive right now. Still
a lot of games to play. A little less than
seven minutes in the second period, we got a couple
of baseball games happening still right now. The Dodgers are

(01:48:02):
beating the Diamondbacks after being down there, up three to
two in the seventh inning. The Mets are beating the
Philly seven to do, also in the seventh inning, and
we got the Cubs beating the White Sox five to one,
also the seventh inning. Soon we're gonna have the Angels
taking on the Toronto Blue Jayson. We'll see how that
goes as well. Back to you, guys, that's all I've got.

(01:48:22):
Watch this Stanley Cup game. It's great, guys, it is great. No,
I gotta go on right now. It's a score fast,
I know. And it's like every ninety seconds I feel
like someone's scoring. It's crazy. Yeah. And by the way,
the Dodgers aren't scoring because they keep getting picked off
of what are you doing. I don't get it. I

(01:48:42):
I don't understand you to the base. Why are you
lifting your feet up? You know, I never understood that,
because in softball you can't leave your base until the
ball leaves the picture's hand. Yeah, you know, like so,
I always always found it funny that these guys are
like half off the base and the pictures still thinking
about what they're gonna pitch. I never understood that. Yeah.
And then three times in this Dodgers game where they

(01:49:05):
got picked off first base twice and uh it was
a guy at a second was tagging up to go
to third, got there in plenty of time, and then
just popped up off the base for a millisecond, was
tagged out like I did. I played softball for a
long time. I played club I was a picture. Let

(01:49:25):
me ask you this, because we have this debate, and
I don't know why, because we don't have it. We're
not an authority on softball. Did you start playing baseball? Um? No,
I didn't, no, no, no. I started playing softball first,
really really little, and in high school I almost played
on the baseball team instead of the softball team. So

(01:49:45):
let me let me ask you this, Why do women
play softball and not baseball. I don't have a good
enough answer for you. I don't know why. It's a
completely different sport. It really is, right, right, But but
I think it's just I think it's safer. I don't
know that we're not going to get hit with a
hundred mile and our ball we're gonna get hit with
a sixty. But doesn't that seem a bit yes, right, yes,

(01:50:11):
you know what I mean. It seems a bit misogynistic,
especially in a sport where there's not a lot of
contact with the other teams. Like I never I never
understood like if if if a woman can step up
the beat and that a hundred mile an hour fastball,
then or if she can throw a hundred mile an
hour fastball, if she can cover you know for a second,

(01:50:35):
like why why wouldn't women? You're making too much sense,
And in this world people don't like that. I'm like
underhand and all that. I'm like, why they just play baseball? Yeah, yeah,
I agree with you. I'm sorry. I just because I
didn't grow up a baseball guy. I'm getting into it
now because I coached my kids, but I was, you know,

(01:50:55):
we have little girls on our team, and I'm like,
oh my gosh, she's amazing. One of our pictures is
we had one girl on our team. She was a
pictures phenomenal picture, phenomenal hitter. And I'm thinking, like it,
eventually she's going to age out of baseball and and
be forced to play softball. And I don't think that's
fair for her. It's not. I agree with you. And
then you think about all the adults, male adults that

(01:51:18):
play slow pitch softball as an adult, Yeah, like I
just I would love to see a woman in the majors.
And I told her and her dream is to play,
and I said, look, you keep doing what you're doing, Gabby,
and you will be in Major League baseball. I don't
see why it doesn't happen. It is crazy that that's
not even possible, that it hasn't happened yet. Correct, I'm

(01:51:38):
with you again, because there's no physical contact. You can't
tackle me if you're afraid, you're gonna like it's so technical,
it's so technical, and if you can throw, you should
be able to play baseball. If you can hit, you
should be able to play base And those girls playing
softball can do all of those. They really can ye
really so, I just wanted to have that conversation with you.
Thank you for for that, of course, of course, but

(01:52:00):
can you just make too much sense? Yeah, you would
think you would listen to his stance on cheese. It's
while you're at it, like, why would you? Why would
you stop there? Listen? I missy fingers and you know,
what are you? What are you talking about? Like the
same snack? And I like to Reado's right, it doesn't

(01:52:21):
sound like it. I do. I love to read hater. No,
I'm no, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying you
were like, oh I don't like cheese. Possible say that
that is just not my preferred snack. I won't run
back to tape, but I swear she said gross. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:52:44):
we gotta leg into her upbringing man, and she got
some repressed memories of something. We got it. You know,
next time she's here, we got yeah, definitely all right,
coming up next, big man. We got a couple of
tweets here. Um, I don't know that they had their
listening years on previous discussions. We'll get to that and
we'll close it down in style A potential very tasty snack.

(01:53:07):
Details on the way, I'm Brian though he's from salam
This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian. No, he's he
from Salam here on Fox Sports Radio. We got some
tweets here, big Man got some tweets here, and Allen
in Vegas. I'll just read it for you here says

(01:53:27):
you guys are forgetting the fact that if Kaepernick would
to be signed, he'd be a backup, especially on the Raiders.
I don't I don't think we forgot that wouldn't be
star ahead, didn't have the listening years on It happens,
he wouldn't be starting anywhere but the Jaguars unless he

(01:53:48):
proves that he's improved from his previous experiences. I got
news he's not starting on the Jags either. No, he's no,
absolutely not. Now, I don't think. I don't know, man,
I don't know what people here sometimes, but well, sometimes
they're in and out, you know, whether they be in
the car or you know, they're doing things. They come back,
they catch a tell in of something, they're like, oh,

(01:54:10):
well that's not what you know. Yeah, blah blah blah
blah blah blah. Yeah. We got one from Dre here.
He checks in and says, I'm replying to this tweet.
It was a previous tweet of mine comparing Baker and
Kaepernick in terms of getting a lot of media attention,
and uh, the talent level just hasn't been to where
the media attention is. That was the comparison. He says.

(01:54:32):
I'm listening now, and I want to defend Baker. The
Browns have always been a poor franchise since returning. No
quarterback has done this much for this version of the Browns.
I totally disagree, Like, you can't look at the Browns
as if they're the same old Browns. They have a
lot of talent, A lot of talent, man, they have

(01:54:52):
a lot of talent. Defense was there. I mean if
you took if you took Kirk Cousins, well not don't
even go top tier quarterback. You put take Kirk Cousins
and put him on that Browns team. Yeah, they're into
the playoffs every year. If you put another number one

(01:55:14):
overall pick in Joe Burrow on the Browns, the Browns
would have been the Bengals. Yes, all day long. Absolutely,
So you know, we we get it and we understand.
But with the talent and the roster and what the
Browns have done. You need a quarterback that can facilitate

(01:55:35):
the talent level, that can elevate it. Yeah, that's the problem.
Baker is not an elevator. He does not elevate the talent.
He needs the talent to elevate him, and it hasn't
elevated him enough. That's why he's not gonna be there anymore.
I love this from I haven't said this ever before,

(01:55:55):
from Fox Sports Radio. Our guy Danny G's fingerprints are
all over this right now, Brian, noany from Salama talking
NFL and getting you ready for tomorrow's big Game seven
in Miami. Will there be a candy bar bet before
they sign off? Or are they on the same side
for once? I love that tweet from Danny G. Right

(01:56:16):
there and now we gotta put a candy bar on something.
I mean, what are we doing? Uh? Well, let's see here.
So I've got the uh, I've got the Celtics definitely
winning out right. I would lay the two and a half.
Are you in agreement with that? You want to go
with the heat plus two and a half. I mean,
I'll happily accept your candy bar if you want to

(01:56:38):
do that. No, what about you want to do it over? Unders?
What do you want to do? What's something? I mean?
I will just for the heck of it, which do
you like? You like over? Gosh, that's just so gross
to take the under on that. Fine, I will. It's
one of those lines where it just seems too good
to be true. So I'll roll the dice with the

(01:56:58):
candy bar candy bar bit there it is, And how
about this? This is outrageous. Mark checks In on Twitter
is replying to Monsey and says, I'm with you, cheese
it's are lame. I think he was listening intently had

(01:57:19):
the correct takeaway that Monsey is absolutely thumbs down on cheese.
It's he definitely heard right about this. Shout out to
our guy, Rob Parker, Fox Sports Radio colleague. So he
was inducted into his high school's Hall of Fame. He

(01:57:42):
went to Martin van Buren High School in Queens and
Rob started in all sports newspaper. This is back in night.
He went to the principal, had this idea, I want
to start this all sports newspaper. The principal said, now
the kids are just gonna throw it on the ground
and walk off and walk on it. You know, like
they're just gonna throw on the ground as trash. That's

(01:58:05):
what the principal told Rob Parker. And Rob's like, if
I can raise the money for this, will you sign
off on it? The principles like yeah, okay, And so
Rob wrote three letters to the publishers of three New
York newspapers. Didn't hear back from the Daily News. The
New York Times said it wasn't their company policy to
help other people start newspapers, and The New York Post

(01:58:32):
responded with a check for fifty dollars. He started the newspaper,
got it off the ground, went for years after Rob
had graduated, and now they induct him into their hall
of fame. There. That's that's amazing. It's a great story.
Are you indicted into your high school's hall of fame? No,
I'm still waiting for that invite, still waiting for that. Yeah.

(01:58:54):
It must have been like Brian no, No, They're like, Brian, No,
We're good. Yeah, you you in the Ring of honor
over there. Yeah, man, jersey's hung up in the gym
whole nine yards? Brother? Is it seventy four back then too?
Nah Na basketball jerseys hung up to So what are

(01:59:16):
the numbers and sixty four sixty four back in high
school outside linebacker defensive in you are sixty four as
an outside linebacker? Gross? Gross. Yeah, that's like when I
was my friend who got me into playing football, John
Hellman were number sixty five and when I joined a team,

(01:59:39):
I was just like me, sixty four, right, and didn't
I had zero I do what position I would be
playing or anything. Yeah, man, you don't see a whole
lot of sixty four outside linebacker. You see them when
they hit you under your chin, when they picked the
ball off, when they take it out. You can you
see a bunch of that? Are you in the market

(02:00:00):
for this? I know you love Cereal medley, you love
mixing things to How about Oreo and rits a cookie
and cracker mash up? That sounds terrible. You're not in
the market for this is a real thing. One side
the chocolate wafer in the Oreo cream, the other side

(02:00:22):
ritz and peanut butter flavored cream. No, you're not gonna
run out and get that, Okay, maybe next time.

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