June 26, 2023 • 38 mins
Bernie Fratto fills in for Ben Maller and talks about all the latest in the NBA off-season including the drafting of Victor Wembanyama while being joined by NBA Insider Mark Medina to break it all down!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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buying should be. It's amazing how the news cycle in
the NBA never ends twenty four to seven including today.
Free agency starts next Friday. We just had a draft.
We've got everything from breakfast tacos to try the beal
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to well it looks like DeAndre eight and going anywhere.
Oh my god, who writes this stuff? That is why
we bringing this gentleman at midnight. It's that time. Oh
I'm not a little Badina Magic you know, covers the NBA.
He's all over the NBA like a hole on a
ham sandwich. He's got his finger on the pulse, He's
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got his whole body on the pulse. Mark, can you
believe it? There's news today? After we talked last night
about the thought that the Bradley Beal deal in and
of itself wouldn't be enough, And now they're saying DeAndre
eating going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Your thoughts, well, my thoughts, there's two things. As far
as you know, the news always having something new every day,
just buckle up this week. It's going to be like
that every single day. But the thoughts on that development,
I don't get it. I mean, they're going to be
top heavy. I think DeAndre Ayton will be a better
player under Frank Vogel. But if any of those guys
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get hurt, it's just going to be like a house
of cards crumbling down fast. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let me ask you a question, mark, could it be
a headfake because there have been gams, there have been
gms who have said we're not trading this guy and
then they do.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It could very well be ahead. I mean, look, at
the end of the day, general managers do two things.
They negotiate trades. Three things they negotiate trades, they sign
players and they lie. They lie the agent, they why
the player. So yeah, it very well could be a headsake.
The key words is when they say intend plan, want
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those aren't definitive words, so maybe it was something along
those lines that they told them, but at least maybe
for this upcoming season open the season looks like DeAndre
and will be in the Sun's uniform, but that could
always be subject to change leading into the trade deadline,
but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So the draft is forty eight hours in the rear
view mirror. But now are when the real start, you know,
stories start to come out in terms of the analysis
and who ostensibly did well. And now you're hearing the
comments coming from you know, Greg Popovich setting expectations for
Victor wim min Yama. What has been your biggest takeaway
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come out of this draft?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, I think the biggest takeaway is the fact that
Portland decided to use their number three pick on Scoot
Henderson instead of trading the pick in lieu of the
fact that Damian Lillard's made it clear that he doesn't
want to be on a young team right because suddenly
he's sealing the urgency of wanting to win a championship.
And I don't think that means that the Portland Trailblazers
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will ever say, look, we're going to trade you Damian.
That will really hinge on Damien pounding on the door
and saying I want out, which I don't know if
he'll do, but at least send a message that the
front office is going to make decisions that they feel
is best fit for the organization as opposed to what
a player wants. So that's the most interesting. But I
think with Victor Wee Binyama, we knew he's going to
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be the number one pick, but it's just cool to
see how he's immediately buying into everything. I mean, he's
getting dinner with all the Spurs luminaries, you know, David Robinson,
Tim Duncan, Shawn Elliott. He's making Tim Duncan and David
Robinson looked like small guards in this photo that he shared,
you know, the breakfast taco bit that you talked about.
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That's been amazing. It's already showing that he knows what
resonates with Santonio. So it just feels like this is
the beginning of a twenty year marriage that's kind of
yield a lot of winning a lot of championships. So,
you know, first fans are ready to enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, here's the thing. The Denver Nuggets very you know,
deservedly so are on the top of the heap. So
if you are a Golden State, if you are Phoenix,
can you really honestly say you did anything to close
the gap between where you're at and catching the Denver Nuggets.
And I haven't even brought up the Lakers yet. Amazingly,
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we didn't talk about the Lakers the other night. What
are your thoughts on the Lakers going forward? And is
it true that there's a rift between Lebron and the
front office.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Again, Yeah, as far as the Lakers go, I mean, look,
I don't think that they're realistic. We could have done
anything in the draft as far as using those picks
to land a blockbuster deal. They had a seventeenth pick
and a forty seventh pick, Like the mid first round
and second round picks aren't going to land to a star.
So I think that they did well with the draft
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all things considered. But I think the bigger question is
moving forward. Are they all about going all in or
are they trying to retain a lot of their players?
And I think that that's really what's going to happen.
They're going to retain rulya Chamora Austin Reefs for sure,
D'Angel Russell. I think it's going to be contingental if
they can find signed in trade suitors and then if not,
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can they sign him in a reasonable deal. Now, as
far as the rift between Lebron James and the front office,
I mean, look, he's going to stay a Laker for
you know, under contract, so he might be frustrated if
they make moves that aren't in win now, but it's
not going to change anything. He's going to show up,
he's going to punch in, punch out, He's going to
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be ready to play. He's going to be a professional,
and I don't think that he's going to get involved
in the front office. But yeah, he might be upset,
but I don't think it's going to change the course
of anything here. I think the front office is going
to do what I feel his best and Lebron James,
whether he agrees with it or not, will do what
he can to get healthy next season and still delay
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Father Times somehow in his twenty first NBA season.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So as far as the quest for a championship, when
you look across the league and obviously free agency is Friday.
But the one big name that you know, I think
it was a CYA deal Draymond Green. Can you see
any scenario possibly or Draymond Green is not a Golden
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State Warrior next year, especially in light of the fact
that the Warriors have moved on from Jordan one punch pool.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's a good nickname there. Look, I think the larger
part of them trading Jordan Poole is the size of
the contract and them getting flexibility of, you know, being
under some of these repeating taxes because of this new
labor deal. Gives them more money to maybe keep Draymond Green,
gives them more money to keep Klay Thompson after next
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summer when he becomes a free agent. But no doubt
there is a little bit of the elephant in the
room that you know that there was that awkwardness after
the punch. Now, I think what listeners have to understand
here is this is a professional sports league. So it's
about basketball. It's a business at the end of the day.
So the Warriors, they're not faulding Jordan Poole whatsoever, Like
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he did nothing wrong, he did nothing to deserve this punch.
But with that they're going to evaluate everything from a
basketball standpoint, and so with that, they clearly made a
line in the sand after the season ended that for
all the strength that Jordan showed as a player and
the weaknesses, it's about further leaning into the play that
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got some championships because they felt like they're more dependable.
So as a result of that, they're clearly prioritizing Draymond Green.
That's not to say they condone his behavior, but it's
a business. They're valuing the winning products at the end
of the day, so that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Talking with Mark mendena are Fox Sports Radio NBA guru,
you hear him all around the networking for a good reason.
He has his finger very much on the pulse. So
when we get to Friday, Mark, what do you anticipate,
which teams might be the most active, Will Dame stay
in Portland? What's the one blockbuster signing we're not seeing
(08:37):
right now that maybe you can prognosticate.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, that's the thing that's interesting. I feel like this
free agency, and I might be wrong when we talk
next week, because there's always things that happen, but it
feels like a lot of these moves are all like
fake hustle, Like these guys opted out of their contracts
and you think, oh no, maybe they leave, but it
was really because the going to go higher and they
can get a better deal and they'll wind up staying.
(09:04):
I really think the only like dominant free agent that
could be on the move and likely on the move
is Fred Van Vliet with the Toronto Raptors because he
opted out of his deal. While he owes a lot
of allegiances to Toronto, they signed him as an undrafted player.
He flourished under the organization, becoming an All Star, winning
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a championship. The writing on the wall is clear. The
Raptors are in rebuilding mode, and I think Fred van
Vliet is in winning mode, and he's going to get
a lot of suitors that have the cap space to
get him, or maybe they do sign in trade because
Toronto is about collecting assets. So if I had a guess,
you know this marquee free agent that's going to leave,
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it would be him. But I think a lot of
the other guys you look at James Harden, Kyrie Irving,
Draymond Green, like, I don't think any of those guys
are going anywhere, But look, anything can happen in the NBA.
So maybe we talk next week and I'm proven wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, your insights are always very good and the final
thing I have for you. It feels like, all of
a sudden now after the fact, the Marcus Smart to
Memphis deals being called into question somewhat, and people are
asking did Boston get better swapping basically Christo porsingis and
moving Marcus Smart when Marcus Smart was kind of the
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heart and soul of the team, as it were, kind
of the heartbeat of the team. What are your thoughts
about Boston next year and what kind of impact can
Marcus Smart have in Memphis?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, I think that I like chrisoffs Forerzengis. He's a
complete offensive player. I do have some questions about his health,
but I do also understand that he had better health
last season with Washington. He explained to me when I
talked with him for a substantial period of time this
last season, how he's done a lot of things to
improve his body and that the injury issues weren't as
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a result of his body composition. They were just specific injuries.
But Mark Smart. By losing them, the Celtics became a
worst team.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's not to say they can't win a championship because
they still have Jason Tatum and Joe and Brown the team,
But yeah, Marcus Smart was their heart and soul. Great defender,
occasional three point shooter, great passer. He held those guys accountable.
So yeah, what he brings to Memphis is he's going
to reduce all the bs that's been plaguing Memphis. So
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John Morant's nonsense, some of the immature behavior. Look, Dylan
Brooks is probably not going to be back with the
Grizzlies anyway, so maybe it's a new point. But I
think the larger point is Sean Morant and just kind
of be enabling culture that they had around that team,
and I think that Marcus Smart will eradicate some of
that and that he'll also fit in with the on
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the court play because that grit and grime mentality that's
Marcus Smart's game. So yeah, they really need him for
every reason imaginable, and he's going to do wonders for them.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
All right, buddy, great stuff. As always, enjoy your week ahead.
It will probably be a slow news week, don't you think.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, nothing's gonna happen in the NBA this week at all.
Think we have nothing to talk about when we link
up on the airwaves again.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Thanks so much, my man. That, of course is Mark Medina,
our Fox Sports Radio NBA guru Medina Magic. He's on
my show every Saturday night at midnight because really, the
new cycle in the NBA is always twenty four to seven.
I appreciate the Mallard Militia family allowing Mark in tonight
because the new cycle ever stops in the NBA. Coming up,
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and I'll bring it to you.
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
Thanks Eddie. You know what a difference a year makes.
Hold that thought. Saturday night, the Cincinnati Reds twelve game
winning streak came to an end. They lost to the
Brave seven to six at the Great American Ballpark, and
it came down to the last out. Here's what is important.
This is crazy. Can't make this stuff up, the Reds.
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They have actually twenty six come from behind wins this season.
They trailed at some point and seven other twelve wins
during the streak. Right on point. They fell behind in
the second inning against Atlanta Saturday, and they got within
around several times, but they can never get over the hump,
even after they hit back to back home runs in
the bottom of the ninth against the Bridge closer Rossiel
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and Gleasias, who happens to be conveniently a former Cincinnati Red.
But this whole thing started on June tenth and Saint Louis,
the Reds beat the Cardinals eight to four. Cincinnati entered
the game that night with a season record of twenty
nine to thirty five. They sat in third place in
the National League Central. Now, the Reds have actually lost
two in a row now, but there's still forty one
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and thirty seven and hanging on by a thread over
the Brewers in the National League Central they won twelve
in a row by grit. It wasn't pitching, that's for sure.
They had a bunch of comfort behind wins in Park
because they kept falling behind. But hey, come on, man,
the team's two top starters, Hunter Green Nickelodolo, they're on
the injured list and they've had plenty of other injuries
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beyond that. Now can this continue? Can the Reds continue
to stay in first place? This is the part that's tough.
All of those twelve wins in a row, eight games
were against last place teams like the Cardinals, Royals, and Rockies. Okay,
the Reds did have a sweep in Houston, and they
did win their first game at home against the Braves,
which continues to be the top team of the National League.
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But the schedule doesn't get any easier. The team only
plays two teams with losing records through the All Star Break.
They do get to host of patters next week, and
they had to Washington the first week in July. But
they continue to get people hurt. That part isn't fun.
But here's the difference the year makes last year in April,
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the Reds came under fire and their president Phil Castellini
did something very interesting. This took the coyones of a burglar,
all right. He sent a very clear message to the
fans who said that his family needed to sell the team.
He actually did this. He says, if you don't get
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on board with the current ownership, then baseball is gonna
leave Cincinnati. Yeah, right, the Queen seat. Come on, man,
it's one of the great baseball cities in the country.
But he doubled down. He said, where the hell are
you gonna go? Well, you know who do you want
me to sell the team to? And he was on
seven hundred WLW in Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati Inquirer reported
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on this. He goes, that's the other thing you really
want to have this debate. What would you do with
this team to have it more profitable or make more
money or compete more in the current economic system that
the game exists in. For that before pick it up
and move somewhere else, be careful what you asked for.
I think the dude was kind of serious. However, look
at the other side of the coin. It's easy to
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see whether Reds fans were pissed at the organization. Since
the Castellini family purchased the Reds back in twenty oh six,
which they did for about two hundred and seventy million dollars,
the team has had ten losing seasons. He only made
the playoffs four times. They haven't won a postseason series once,
and they've gone actually just two to nine in the
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eleven games they've played in the playoffs. But hope spring's eturnal.
That's baseball right. Even this year as it carried over,
the Reds were only drawn about seven thousand fans a game,
but they actually sold out both Friday and Saturday nights.
They're an interesting group. Have you seen the Reds play?
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They got a star rookie shortstop six foot five. Maybe
he's the baseball's version of Victor Wimbinyama. His name is
Ellie de la Cruz, and I think he's entering freak
show territory. He's like a Johannison tennakoople who plays baseball
on Friday. Elie de la Cruz became the first ever
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Major League baseball player in history to hit for the cycle,
steal a base, and drive in four morun. I think
he drove in five runs within the first six innings
of the game. He not only hit for the cycle,
stole a base, and drove in four runs. He did
it in the first six innings. He only made Elie
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de la Cruz only. He made his major league baseball
debut nineteen days ago, and he already has twenty three hits,
eight steals in a three fifty nine batting average. You know,
I don't want to hear about sample size. If you
watched this guy play, it's been nuts. And by the way,
the Reds are winning, Okay, twelve and two in the
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last fourteen. They got to turn around. We'll see, but
Joey Vado came back immediately smack three home runs. The
team wins twelve straight. I love stories like this because
first of all, the Reds were going nowhere, and then
all of a sudden, two days after they call up
Ladler Cruise. Now they're in first place now and men
can't continue. I don't know, hopefully we'll see. I like
the stories in baseball. What's interesting is there's a topic
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I may I think I'll bring the crew on this
later in the show. There are some rumblings very prominent
baseball officionados guys like John Smoltz are actually pushing for
or at least are recommending the baseball consider going to
a split season. They would, you know, stop tanking and
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if you look to the second half of the season,
it would create interest in September. I don't know if
I'm florider against it. I know we just had, you know,
in nineteen eighty one, because of the fifty days strike,
there was a split season, and coincidentally or ironically, however
you want to look at it, the Cincinnati Reds, even
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though they had the best record cumulatively for the entire
eighty one season, they missed out on the playoff because
they didn't win the first half of the second half.
So I don't know if the players' Union is for
this idea or against this idea. But we're in a
little different bit of world now, and we have inter
league play year round and some real changes, and there
are thoughts. Okay, I mean teams have star players that
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missed the first couple of months, they start slow, they'd
have enough time to catch up. You start afresh the
second half. We'll see some Maybe we'll talk about leader
in the show with the crew. But I would say
this The Reds are a quirky, funny story. You gotta
watch his team play. They're crazy and for what it's worth.
Encyclopedia of Useless Information. Joey Vado made his debut in
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two thousand and seven in the major leagues. By the way,
Ellie Daila Cruz was five. If you don't think we're
in a crazy world, what's Victor wimbin Yama most excited
about going to San Antonio?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Breakfast tacos. We're talking breakfast talkers. I'm not talking practice
talking breakfast talkers. What the hell's a breakfast I know
what a breakfast burrito is. Well, it turns out that
breakfast tacos in San Antonio, they are the pride and
enjoy of the city.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You'll find them, I'm hearing. And by the way, ben
to San Antonio, great city, stayed on the riverwalk like
it there. You'll find them at every tak Year's morning
menu in the city. What are they? It's a breakfast plate.
It starts with a giant flower tortilla, and they consist
of any combination of refried beans, eggs, cho potatoes, bacon,
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and cheese, among other types of feeling and yes, Victor
woman Yama a freak, has already had one. Maybe this
will be his pregame meal. Maybe I should make it
my pregame meal. But we're talking breakfast tacos. That's what
he's excited about.
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Speaker 1 (22:03):
Eddie, thanks so much. Question for you. Have you ever
been driving down the road and perhaps driven by a
barbecue place and the smell of smoked meat or what
have you is wafting through the air and you're like,
oh man, I could use some of that. Have you
ever had that experience?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I can't say that I have, although that's something that
I probably would enjoy. But there was a gas station
on my way home that I would specifically sometimes stop
that because it was right next to the in and
out burger, and the smell of grilled onions in the
air was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There you go. Or perhaps like at one point or another,
all of us lived in an apartment or something. Maybe
you were in an apartment and one of your neighbors
was barbecuing some burgers or steaks, and you happen to
get a whiff of that something like that, and you
said to yourself, oh man, wait a minute now, maybe
I got to rethink my dinner plans. You know, I
was gonna bologney. I feel like for me and your
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grilled onions. To your point, right, those are things that
delight the senses. Coop, how about you? What would be
your answer to that question? The smell of any food
makes me hungry. Okay, fair? So where the hell am
I going with? Is Bernie? According to a report in
The New York Post. There is a landlord of a
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high falutin apartment complex who's a vegan, and I got
nothing against vegans. Live how you want to live in America.
You don't want to eat meat, that's more for us.
Matter of fact, my understanding, PETA stands for people eating
tasty animals. That's what I thought it was. Maybe I'm wrong.
Moncey Bolano is one of the stars on a network.
She hates meat. I respect you do what you gotta do.
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I got no problem with that. I can't do it right.
I was actually a vegan once for about four and
a half hours and I quit. I can't do it.
So this vegan New York City landlord he lists these beautiful,
spacious apartments in New York City with these beautiful views,
but he will only rent to prospective tenants who agree
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not to cook any meat in the kitchen. Basically, meat
eaters not apply. Are you kidding me? He actually put
it in an online listing. There were a couple of
pricey one bedroom apartments up for grabs and a very
exclusive neighborhood hater to be in Brooklyn, Brooklyn's Fort Green
neighborhood and the landlord's my understanding, his name is Michael
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lhr from pronouncing it right. In the listing, he's quoted
as a wonderful vegan landlord, and he simply by his
own verbiage, does not want the stench of non plant
based juices. According to the broker who represents these apartments,
by the way, these are not cheap apartments, all right.
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Some of the rents are as high as almost six
thousand dollars a month, and they start out like a
think a forty five hundred. So if you want to rent,
you cannot cook meat on site. And I understand the
newspapers tried to contact him, and he wouldn't he wouldn't comment,
But some of the locals have responded in a fairly
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negative fashion. And actually some of his competitors are superintendents.
They've actually spoken out. He says, I didn't know you
couldn't tell people what to eat what not to eat.
A local competitor says that ain't right. I would not
want to live there. And by the way, they shore
there's pictures in these apartments in the interior. They are spectacular.
And then you know. A bike mechanical responded to a
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newspaper interview said, that's a new one on me. Can
you legally do that? Can you outlaw smells? Because if
you can, I'd outlaw whatever. They help my neighbors cooking
constantly because it stinks. Now. Interestingly enough, the Big Apple
New York their human rights law landlords they aren't allowed
to consider multiple characteristics obviously age, race, sexual orientation when
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they decided to approve or deny a perspective tenants application. However,
a tenants dietary preference is not on the list. Now,
what we don't know is how many people prospective runters
looked at these apartments said hey, these are pretty cool,
and then when they found out they couldn't cook meat there,
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they couldn't barbecue hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks, whatever, they said, Ah,
not so much, thanks Eddie. If you were shopping for
a dwelling to live in and you looked and you said,
I really liked this place and the landlord says, okay, great,
you can't cook meat here, what would be your response?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It would put me off initially, but I you know,
I'd consider my options to finally decide. You know, if
that was the place for me, I will say this,
it's not food related but when I was looking for
a place to live here in Los Angeles, it was
a non starter for me if they did not allow
the direct TV dish on the you know, somewhere on
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the falcony or on the roof so I could watch
the Sunday ticket. So I'm not above something like that
determining where I live.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That's fair. You want to have creature comforts, right, you
work hard, you come home, you got to recharge your batteries.
For me, not be able to not being able to cook.
I mean I barbecue the back here tonight, but you
know it's ninety six degrees here in Vegas. What you do?
And yes, it happened to be carnivore type stuff. Coop
your thoughts on this? Would it be a showstopper for you?
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Or you could say, hey, no, you know I could,
I could, I can withdraw from cooking meat. No, I
love meat? So you would not live there, right? Absolutely not?
So how do you respond to this? Just in sort
of a generic conversational aspect, What are your thoughts? I mean,
what goes through your mind when you hear something like
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this classic vegan move? You get the feeling they're sort
of commons sending like they're going to save us with
their mortal and intellectual superiority. Is that is that? Where
is that the thought?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Look, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Vegans love to talk about being vegan, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay with that, But when they tell us that we
can't eat meat or we shouldn't eat meat, and they
become preaching and they're not all like that. This this
caught my eye because this was a condition of tendency
if you decide you want to live at this apartment complex.
And look, there was a situation where Chris Weber went
(28:38):
into a high Falute in New York steakhouse, probably twenty
years ago. I don't know, there's some really good ones there.
Peter Lueger's comes to mind. I don't know which one
it was. And Weber got a steak and he asked
for a bottle of ketchup. He wanted to put ketchup
on a steak, and apparently the chef came out and
dressed him down. Now there's two schools of thought. Okay,
(29:00):
if Chris Weber orders the steak and it's probably one
hundred dollars steak, and that was the you know, everything's
ali cart there. You know, you order a steak, don't
ask them what comes with They're gonna say the plate.
You want potatoes, spinach, and sparagus, sad orders salad. It's
gonna cost you. Okay, you get the steak, or say
with a one you want a one, fine, you're paying
for it, No problem, Live how you want to live.
(29:24):
My only question is is why go to a high
falutin steakhouse and I like a one sauce. But if
you're gonna pay that much money for a steak, to
think about a one sauce. No matter what, you pour
a one sauce on, it tastes like a one sauce.
You could eat a boot. You could go to a
Texas rodeo and buy the boot from the guy who
(29:45):
just you know, rode rough shot on the back of
a bucking bull, and you pour you want to eat
that boot, You pour your a one sauce on it.
It tastes like a one sauce. But I digress. When
I hear these things, it's it's laugh to me that
someone would. I just feel they're acting morally superior. Now,
the good news is you can eat meat there. You
(30:07):
just can't cook meat. There because the landlord doesn't want
to smell it as you are paying him six thousand
dollars a month. This to me is craziness. Coming up
a little bit more craziness. Connor McGregor is in the news.
(30:27):
Had a whale of a time, a jolly old time
in Miami this past week, and now there was an
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You got some thoughts about any of the things we
talked about. A lot more stuff to get to top
of the hour. I want to take you behind the
(31:09):
curtain just a little bit on this PGA Live Golf Tour.
And by the way, you may or may not know this.
Saudi Arabia, I believe has designs to push for sports expansion,
and you may see them perhaps a little bit more
active in the sports world. As a matter of fact,
(31:31):
they were recently active. This kind of got buried behind
the NBA draft purchasing steaks in and I'm talking about
the steaks you eat like the one like the ones
you can't eat at that apartment. I'm talking about a
situation where there are now the folks that the fund
in Saudi Arabia has decided to invest in three professional teams,
(31:56):
all based in Washington, but coming up well, chop up
the Connor McGregor mess in Miami. I'm Bernie Fratto, come
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Speaker 1 (32:50):
Thank you Eddie. By the way, quickly before I get
to Conor McGregor, Jarahawk tweets in what regarding the landlord
who will not allow you to cook meat in his
fifty seven hundred dollars a month apartment complex? Jara Hawk says,
what's to stop someone from moving in and then cookie
meat in their kitchen? Anyway? Is that policy enforceable? By
(33:13):
the way, think about that. I was thinking about that
because it takes months to evict somebody, and you got
to ask yourself, is this really worth it? That's what
you call getting to the meat of the issue. Jared Hawk. Nice,
he done. Let's go out to the phone lines. We're
joined by Andrea. Andrea welcome back in How are you
this fine? Truly? And Blue Sky Evening?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Yes, good.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
How are you doing wonderful?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Yes, you know I'm the sports sorceress, Andrea the astrologer.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I remember, I remember I asked you to read my
astrology and you said I had no future. Go ahead,
never mind.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Why I did not, Bernie, I wouldn't do that. Yeah,
why don't you let me know your birthday? I'll we
have to look that up for you.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It's June twenty first. I just had my birthday. Oh
right on the cum Gemini Yeah, man.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Commer Solstice and Gemini.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Oh what time were you born?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I was born one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
One thirty am.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And where Detroit, Michigan.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Excellent? And what year?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Nineteen fifty seven?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
Okay, yeah, I'm glad. You have your vital stats June
twenty one, nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well you're going to take my vitals now.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Well that's what astologist called.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
My blood pressure is one twenty over eighty.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Oh, that's normal.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I like long walks on the beach. My favorite color
is magenta. And I believe I believe in the designated
hitter uh uh and long wet kisses. The last three days,
you've got the floor, Well, you know you're the.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
Right name for the job. If you're a Gemini, that's
a sign of the communicator of the zodiac, writer, teacher, talker,
So this is a natural fit for you. So that much,
I know, right on the cusp of Gemini and cancer.
I'll look up the rest of your chart and I
can be happy to share it. Do you have like
an email address you want to text it, tweet it
(35:02):
to me.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Let's hold off on that now, but give me what
you got and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Yeah, Well I'm in Berkeley, so I'm in the Bay
Area and I went to the reverse boycott that the
eighth had.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, you're one of the twenty seven thousand were
for you.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Thank I think I saw you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
It was a pretty passionate crowd. It was great to
have twenty seven thousand of the Coliseum on a Tuesday
night playing the Rays. And it just showed, you know,
sell the team stay in Oakland. We were chanting, and
you know, it just showed the fan base is really there.
And today in the I think it was the East
(35:42):
Pay Times, there's an article that says they're not gone
just yet, and they say one expert believes Fisher selling
the team could be an avenue for the Ace staying put.
So there's all these fits and starts, Bernie, because they
announced the move April nineteen and Mercury was about to
retrograde April twenty one, so they announced it on the
(36:05):
cusp of Mercury retrograde, which rules communication, and that's not
a really auspicious time to announce a move of that
magnitude when Mercury is about to retrograde. So all the
you know, delays and fits and starts and so on.
But you know, they do have approval from the Nevada
legislature and the governor, but you know it's not a
(36:26):
done deal yet, so it'll be interesting. I mean, Fisher
doesn't speak to the media, and a colleague of mind,
Dave Newhouse, he wrote a book called Goodbye to Oakland
that details the exodus of the Raiders the Warriors, so
he's saying, you know, there's stuff is still on the
table that can be worked out.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
So well, it happened before with the Giants in nineteen
ninety two, and Andrew unfortunately, I'm up against it, coach.
Once you do me a favor, yeah, yeah, you can
call back Monday night, I'm back in this time slot
Monday night with the guys.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Okay, so you can.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Pick up where you left off, and actually maybe I'd
like you to have it doing an astrological reading on
the oaklam As himself. How about the Oh yeah, no,
that's great.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
I actually did a whole YouTube and podcast about the As.
I'd be happy to share that.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Right, we'll catch you. We'll catch you on Monday. I
don't mean to cutch you short, but hey, look, could
the A's be sold? Look? Man, everybody's got a price
you don't believe. So you're about the one. The guy
walks into the bar, he's the most beautiful woman he's
ever seen in his life. So will you go to
bed with me for a million dollars? She goes a
million dollars? Yeah, I will. Will you go to bed
meet for ten dollars? What do you think I am
a whore? Well, we've already established it. Were negotiating price now.
(37:36):
So the longest short of it is, anything could happen
with the Oakland A's. Do I think it will happen?
I'm not so sure, but you know, maybe if the
Saudis get involved. When they say, hey, mister Fisher King,
would you like two billion dollars? He would I'm guessing
he would. He would not turn them down. Coming up,
we're gonna unpack the live PGA merger. How did it happen?
(37:58):
Why did it happen? What? What broke? What's the straw
that broke the camel's back? And how serious are the
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the NBA never ends twenty four to seven including today.
Free agency starts next Friday. We just had a draft.
We've got everything from breakfast tacos to try the beal
(00:46):
to well it looks like DeAndre eight and going anywhere.
Oh my god, who writes this stuff? That is why
we bringing this gentleman at midnight. It's that time. Oh
I'm not a little Badina Magic you know, covers the NBA.
He's all over the NBA like a hole on a
ham sandwich. He's got his finger on the pulse, He's
(01:07):
got his whole body on the pulse. Mark, can you
believe it? There's news today? After we talked last night
about the thought that the Bradley Beal deal in and
of itself wouldn't be enough, And now they're saying DeAndre
eating going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Your thoughts, well, my thoughts, there's two things. As far
as you know, the news always having something new every day,
just buckle up this week. It's going to be like
that every single day. But the thoughts on that development,
I don't get it. I mean, they're going to be
top heavy. I think DeAndre Ayton will be a better
player under Frank Vogel. But if any of those guys
(01:42):
get hurt, it's just going to be like a house
of cards crumbling down fast. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let me ask you a question, mark, could it be
a headfake because there have been gams, there have been
gms who have said we're not trading this guy and
then they do.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It could very well be ahead. I mean, look, at
the end of the day, general managers do two things.
They negotiate trades. Three things they negotiate trades, they sign
players and they lie. They lie the agent, they why
the player. So yeah, it very well could be a headsake.
The key words is when they say intend plan, want
(02:21):
those aren't definitive words, so maybe it was something along
those lines that they told them, but at least maybe
for this upcoming season open the season looks like DeAndre
and will be in the Sun's uniform, but that could
always be subject to change leading into the trade deadline,
but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So the draft is forty eight hours in the rear
view mirror. But now are when the real start, you know,
stories start to come out in terms of the analysis
and who ostensibly did well. And now you're hearing the
comments coming from you know, Greg Popovich setting expectations for
Victor wim min Yama. What has been your biggest takeaway
(03:02):
come out of this draft?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, I think the biggest takeaway is the fact that
Portland decided to use their number three pick on Scoot
Henderson instead of trading the pick in lieu of the
fact that Damian Lillard's made it clear that he doesn't
want to be on a young team right because suddenly
he's sealing the urgency of wanting to win a championship.
And I don't think that means that the Portland Trailblazers
(03:25):
will ever say, look, we're going to trade you Damian.
That will really hinge on Damien pounding on the door
and saying I want out, which I don't know if
he'll do, but at least send a message that the
front office is going to make decisions that they feel
is best fit for the organization as opposed to what
a player wants. So that's the most interesting. But I
think with Victor Wee Binyama, we knew he's going to
(03:47):
be the number one pick, but it's just cool to
see how he's immediately buying into everything. I mean, he's
getting dinner with all the Spurs luminaries, you know, David Robinson,
Tim Duncan, Shawn Elliott. He's making Tim Duncan and David
Robinson looked like small guards in this photo that he shared,
you know, the breakfast taco bit that you talked about.
(04:08):
That's been amazing. It's already showing that he knows what
resonates with Santonio. So it just feels like this is
the beginning of a twenty year marriage that's kind of
yield a lot of winning a lot of championships. So,
you know, first fans are ready to enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, here's the thing. The Denver Nuggets very you know,
deservedly so are on the top of the heap. So
if you are a Golden State, if you are Phoenix,
can you really honestly say you did anything to close
the gap between where you're at and catching the Denver Nuggets.
And I haven't even brought up the Lakers yet. Amazingly,
(04:45):
we didn't talk about the Lakers the other night. What
are your thoughts on the Lakers going forward? And is
it true that there's a rift between Lebron and the
front office.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Again, Yeah, as far as the Lakers go, I mean, look,
I don't think that they're realistic. We could have done
anything in the draft as far as using those picks
to land a blockbuster deal. They had a seventeenth pick
and a forty seventh pick, Like the mid first round
and second round picks aren't going to land to a star.
So I think that they did well with the draft
(05:16):
all things considered. But I think the bigger question is
moving forward. Are they all about going all in or
are they trying to retain a lot of their players?
And I think that that's really what's going to happen.
They're going to retain rulya Chamora Austin Reefs for sure,
D'Angel Russell. I think it's going to be contingental if
they can find signed in trade suitors and then if not,
(05:39):
can they sign him in a reasonable deal. Now, as
far as the rift between Lebron James and the front office,
I mean, look, he's going to stay a Laker for
you know, under contract, so he might be frustrated if
they make moves that aren't in win now, but it's
not going to change anything. He's going to show up,
he's going to punch in, punch out, He's going to
(05:59):
be ready to play. He's going to be a professional,
and I don't think that he's going to get involved
in the front office. But yeah, he might be upset,
but I don't think it's going to change the course
of anything here. I think the front office is going
to do what I feel his best and Lebron James,
whether he agrees with it or not, will do what
he can to get healthy next season and still delay
(06:22):
Father Times somehow in his twenty first NBA season.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So as far as the quest for a championship, when
you look across the league and obviously free agency is Friday.
But the one big name that you know, I think
it was a CYA deal Draymond Green. Can you see
any scenario possibly or Draymond Green is not a Golden
(06:48):
State Warrior next year, especially in light of the fact
that the Warriors have moved on from Jordan one punch pool.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's a good nickname there. Look, I think the larger
part of them trading Jordan Poole is the size of
the contract and them getting flexibility of, you know, being
under some of these repeating taxes because of this new
labor deal. Gives them more money to maybe keep Draymond Green,
gives them more money to keep Klay Thompson after next
(07:17):
summer when he becomes a free agent. But no doubt
there is a little bit of the elephant in the
room that you know that there was that awkwardness after
the punch. Now, I think what listeners have to understand
here is this is a professional sports league. So it's
about basketball. It's a business at the end of the day.
So the Warriors, they're not faulding Jordan Poole whatsoever, Like
(07:38):
he did nothing wrong, he did nothing to deserve this punch.
But with that they're going to evaluate everything from a
basketball standpoint, and so with that, they clearly made a
line in the sand after the season ended that for
all the strength that Jordan showed as a player and
the weaknesses, it's about further leaning into the play that
(08:00):
got some championships because they felt like they're more dependable.
So as a result of that, they're clearly prioritizing Draymond Green.
That's not to say they condone his behavior, but it's
a business. They're valuing the winning products at the end
of the day, so that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Talking with Mark mendena are Fox Sports Radio NBA guru,
you hear him all around the networking for a good reason.
He has his finger very much on the pulse. So
when we get to Friday, Mark, what do you anticipate,
which teams might be the most active, Will Dame stay
in Portland? What's the one blockbuster signing we're not seeing
(08:37):
right now that maybe you can prognosticate.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, that's the thing that's interesting. I feel like this
free agency, and I might be wrong when we talk
next week, because there's always things that happen, but it
feels like a lot of these moves are all like
fake hustle, Like these guys opted out of their contracts
and you think, oh no, maybe they leave, but it
was really because the going to go higher and they
can get a better deal and they'll wind up staying.
(09:04):
I really think the only like dominant free agent that
could be on the move and likely on the move
is Fred Van Vliet with the Toronto Raptors because he
opted out of his deal. While he owes a lot
of allegiances to Toronto, they signed him as an undrafted player.
He flourished under the organization, becoming an All Star, winning
(09:24):
a championship. The writing on the wall is clear. The
Raptors are in rebuilding mode, and I think Fred van
Vliet is in winning mode, and he's going to get
a lot of suitors that have the cap space to
get him, or maybe they do sign in trade because
Toronto is about collecting assets. So if I had a guess,
you know this marquee free agent that's going to leave,
(09:44):
it would be him. But I think a lot of
the other guys you look at James Harden, Kyrie Irving,
Draymond Green, like, I don't think any of those guys
are going anywhere, But look, anything can happen in the NBA.
So maybe we talk next week and I'm proven wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, your insights are always very good and the final
thing I have for you. It feels like, all of
a sudden now after the fact, the Marcus Smart to
Memphis deals being called into question somewhat, and people are
asking did Boston get better swapping basically Christo porsingis and
moving Marcus Smart when Marcus Smart was kind of the
(10:21):
heart and soul of the team, as it were, kind
of the heartbeat of the team. What are your thoughts
about Boston next year and what kind of impact can
Marcus Smart have in Memphis?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, I think that I like chrisoffs Forerzengis. He's a
complete offensive player. I do have some questions about his health,
but I do also understand that he had better health
last season with Washington. He explained to me when I
talked with him for a substantial period of time this
last season, how he's done a lot of things to
improve his body and that the injury issues weren't as
(10:54):
a result of his body composition. They were just specific injuries.
But Mark Smart. By losing them, the Celtics became a
worst team.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's not to say they can't win a championship because
they still have Jason Tatum and Joe and Brown the team,
But yeah, Marcus Smart was their heart and soul. Great defender,
occasional three point shooter, great passer. He held those guys accountable.
So yeah, what he brings to Memphis is he's going
to reduce all the bs that's been plaguing Memphis. So
(11:27):
John Morant's nonsense, some of the immature behavior. Look, Dylan
Brooks is probably not going to be back with the
Grizzlies anyway, so maybe it's a new point. But I
think the larger point is Sean Morant and just kind
of be enabling culture that they had around that team,
and I think that Marcus Smart will eradicate some of
that and that he'll also fit in with the on
(11:48):
the court play because that grit and grime mentality that's
Marcus Smart's game. So yeah, they really need him for
every reason imaginable, and he's going to do wonders for them.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
All right, buddy, great stuff. As always, enjoy your week ahead.
It will probably be a slow news week, don't you think.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, nothing's gonna happen in the NBA this week at all.
Think we have nothing to talk about when we link
up on the airwaves again.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Thanks so much, my man. That, of course is Mark Medina,
our Fox Sports Radio NBA guru Medina Magic. He's on
my show every Saturday night at midnight because really, the
new cycle in the NBA is always twenty four to seven.
I appreciate the Mallard Militia family allowing Mark in tonight
because the new cycle ever stops in the NBA. Coming up,
(12:42):
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and I'll bring it to you.
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
Thanks Eddie. You know what a difference a year makes.
Hold that thought. Saturday night, the Cincinnati Reds twelve game
winning streak came to an end. They lost to the
Brave seven to six at the Great American Ballpark, and
it came down to the last out. Here's what is important.
This is crazy. Can't make this stuff up, the Reds.
(13:41):
They have actually twenty six come from behind wins this season.
They trailed at some point and seven other twelve wins
during the streak. Right on point. They fell behind in
the second inning against Atlanta Saturday, and they got within
around several times, but they can never get over the hump,
even after they hit back to back home runs in
the bottom of the ninth against the Bridge closer Rossiel
(14:03):
and Gleasias, who happens to be conveniently a former Cincinnati Red.
But this whole thing started on June tenth and Saint Louis,
the Reds beat the Cardinals eight to four. Cincinnati entered
the game that night with a season record of twenty
nine to thirty five. They sat in third place in
the National League Central. Now, the Reds have actually lost
two in a row now, but there's still forty one
(14:23):
and thirty seven and hanging on by a thread over
the Brewers in the National League Central they won twelve
in a row by grit. It wasn't pitching, that's for sure.
They had a bunch of comfort behind wins in Park
because they kept falling behind. But hey, come on, man,
the team's two top starters, Hunter Green Nickelodolo, they're on
the injured list and they've had plenty of other injuries
(14:44):
beyond that. Now can this continue? Can the Reds continue
to stay in first place? This is the part that's tough.
All of those twelve wins in a row, eight games
were against last place teams like the Cardinals, Royals, and Rockies. Okay,
the Reds did have a sweep in Houston, and they
did win their first game at home against the Braves,
which continues to be the top team of the National League.
(15:05):
But the schedule doesn't get any easier. The team only
plays two teams with losing records through the All Star Break.
They do get to host of patters next week, and
they had to Washington the first week in July. But
they continue to get people hurt. That part isn't fun.
But here's the difference the year makes last year in April,
(15:28):
the Reds came under fire and their president Phil Castellini
did something very interesting. This took the coyones of a burglar,
all right. He sent a very clear message to the
fans who said that his family needed to sell the team.
He actually did this. He says, if you don't get
(15:49):
on board with the current ownership, then baseball is gonna
leave Cincinnati. Yeah, right, the Queen seat. Come on, man,
it's one of the great baseball cities in the country.
But he doubled down. He said, where the hell are
you gonna go? Well, you know who do you want
me to sell the team to? And he was on
seven hundred WLW in Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati Inquirer reported
(16:09):
on this. He goes, that's the other thing you really
want to have this debate. What would you do with
this team to have it more profitable or make more
money or compete more in the current economic system that
the game exists in. For that before pick it up
and move somewhere else, be careful what you asked for.
I think the dude was kind of serious. However, look
at the other side of the coin. It's easy to
(16:30):
see whether Reds fans were pissed at the organization. Since
the Castellini family purchased the Reds back in twenty oh six,
which they did for about two hundred and seventy million dollars,
the team has had ten losing seasons. He only made
the playoffs four times. They haven't won a postseason series once,
and they've gone actually just two to nine in the
(16:50):
eleven games they've played in the playoffs. But hope spring's eturnal.
That's baseball right. Even this year as it carried over,
the Reds were only drawn about seven thousand fans a game,
but they actually sold out both Friday and Saturday nights.
They're an interesting group. Have you seen the Reds play?
(17:13):
They got a star rookie shortstop six foot five. Maybe
he's the baseball's version of Victor Wimbinyama. His name is
Ellie de la Cruz, and I think he's entering freak
show territory. He's like a Johannison tennakoople who plays baseball
on Friday. Elie de la Cruz became the first ever
(17:37):
Major League baseball player in history to hit for the cycle,
steal a base, and drive in four morun. I think
he drove in five runs within the first six innings
of the game. He not only hit for the cycle,
stole a base, and drove in four runs. He did
it in the first six innings. He only made Elie
(17:58):
de la Cruz only. He made his major league baseball
debut nineteen days ago, and he already has twenty three hits,
eight steals in a three fifty nine batting average. You know,
I don't want to hear about sample size. If you
watched this guy play, it's been nuts. And by the way,
the Reds are winning, Okay, twelve and two in the
(18:20):
last fourteen. They got to turn around. We'll see, but
Joey Vado came back immediately smack three home runs. The
team wins twelve straight. I love stories like this because
first of all, the Reds were going nowhere, and then
all of a sudden, two days after they call up
Ladler Cruise. Now they're in first place now and men
can't continue. I don't know, hopefully we'll see. I like
the stories in baseball. What's interesting is there's a topic
(18:45):
I may I think I'll bring the crew on this
later in the show. There are some rumblings very prominent
baseball officionados guys like John Smoltz are actually pushing for
or at least are recommending the baseball consider going to
a split season. They would, you know, stop tanking and
(19:07):
if you look to the second half of the season,
it would create interest in September. I don't know if
I'm florider against it. I know we just had, you know,
in nineteen eighty one, because of the fifty days strike,
there was a split season, and coincidentally or ironically, however
you want to look at it, the Cincinnati Reds, even
(19:30):
though they had the best record cumulatively for the entire
eighty one season, they missed out on the playoff because
they didn't win the first half of the second half.
So I don't know if the players' Union is for
this idea or against this idea. But we're in a
little different bit of world now, and we have inter
league play year round and some real changes, and there
are thoughts. Okay, I mean teams have star players that
(19:51):
missed the first couple of months, they start slow, they'd
have enough time to catch up. You start afresh the
second half. We'll see some Maybe we'll talk about leader
in the show with the crew. But I would say
this The Reds are a quirky, funny story. You gotta
watch his team play. They're crazy and for what it's worth.
Encyclopedia of Useless Information. Joey Vado made his debut in
(20:16):
two thousand and seven in the major leagues. By the way,
Ellie Daila Cruz was five. If you don't think we're
in a crazy world, what's Victor wimbin Yama most excited
about going to San Antonio?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Breakfast tacos. We're talking breakfast talkers. I'm not talking practice
talking breakfast talkers. What the hell's a breakfast I know
what a breakfast burrito is. Well, it turns out that
breakfast tacos in San Antonio, they are the pride and
enjoy of the city.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You'll find them, I'm hearing. And by the way, ben
to San Antonio, great city, stayed on the riverwalk like
it there. You'll find them at every tak Year's morning
menu in the city. What are they? It's a breakfast plate.
It starts with a giant flower tortilla, and they consist
of any combination of refried beans, eggs, cho potatoes, bacon,
(21:02):
and cheese, among other types of feeling and yes, Victor
woman Yama a freak, has already had one. Maybe this
will be his pregame meal. Maybe I should make it
my pregame meal. But we're talking breakfast tacos. That's what
he's excited about.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
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Speaker 1 (22:03):
Eddie, thanks so much. Question for you. Have you ever
been driving down the road and perhaps driven by a
barbecue place and the smell of smoked meat or what
have you is wafting through the air and you're like,
oh man, I could use some of that. Have you
ever had that experience?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I can't say that I have, although that's something that
I probably would enjoy. But there was a gas station
on my way home that I would specifically sometimes stop
that because it was right next to the in and
out burger, and the smell of grilled onions in the
air was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There you go. Or perhaps like at one point or another,
all of us lived in an apartment or something. Maybe
you were in an apartment and one of your neighbors
was barbecuing some burgers or steaks, and you happen to
get a whiff of that something like that, and you
said to yourself, oh man, wait a minute now, maybe
I got to rethink my dinner plans. You know, I
was gonna bologney. I feel like for me and your
(23:03):
grilled onions. To your point, right, those are things that
delight the senses. Coop, how about you? What would be
your answer to that question? The smell of any food
makes me hungry. Okay, fair? So where the hell am
I going with? Is Bernie? According to a report in
The New York Post. There is a landlord of a
(23:25):
high falutin apartment complex who's a vegan, and I got
nothing against vegans. Live how you want to live in America.
You don't want to eat meat, that's more for us.
Matter of fact, my understanding, PETA stands for people eating
tasty animals. That's what I thought it was. Maybe I'm wrong.
Moncey Bolano is one of the stars on a network.
She hates meat. I respect you do what you gotta do.
(23:48):
I got no problem with that. I can't do it right.
I was actually a vegan once for about four and
a half hours and I quit. I can't do it.
So this vegan New York City landlord he lists these beautiful,
spacious apartments in New York City with these beautiful views,
but he will only rent to prospective tenants who agree
(24:09):
not to cook any meat in the kitchen. Basically, meat
eaters not apply. Are you kidding me? He actually put
it in an online listing. There were a couple of
pricey one bedroom apartments up for grabs and a very
exclusive neighborhood hater to be in Brooklyn, Brooklyn's Fort Green
neighborhood and the landlord's my understanding, his name is Michael
(24:30):
lhr from pronouncing it right. In the listing, he's quoted
as a wonderful vegan landlord, and he simply by his
own verbiage, does not want the stench of non plant
based juices. According to the broker who represents these apartments,
by the way, these are not cheap apartments, all right.
(24:51):
Some of the rents are as high as almost six
thousand dollars a month, and they start out like a
think a forty five hundred. So if you want to rent,
you cannot cook meat on site. And I understand the
newspapers tried to contact him, and he wouldn't he wouldn't comment,
But some of the locals have responded in a fairly
(25:14):
negative fashion. And actually some of his competitors are superintendents.
They've actually spoken out. He says, I didn't know you
couldn't tell people what to eat what not to eat.
A local competitor says that ain't right. I would not
want to live there. And by the way, they shore
there's pictures in these apartments in the interior. They are spectacular.
And then you know. A bike mechanical responded to a
(25:37):
newspaper interview said, that's a new one on me. Can
you legally do that? Can you outlaw smells? Because if
you can, I'd outlaw whatever. They help my neighbors cooking
constantly because it stinks. Now. Interestingly enough, the Big Apple
New York their human rights law landlords they aren't allowed
to consider multiple characteristics obviously age, race, sexual orientation when
(25:59):
they decided to approve or deny a perspective tenants application. However,
a tenants dietary preference is not on the list. Now,
what we don't know is how many people prospective runters
looked at these apartments said hey, these are pretty cool,
and then when they found out they couldn't cook meat there,
(26:20):
they couldn't barbecue hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks, whatever, they said, Ah,
not so much, thanks Eddie. If you were shopping for
a dwelling to live in and you looked and you said,
I really liked this place and the landlord says, okay, great,
you can't cook meat here, what would be your response?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It would put me off initially, but I you know,
I'd consider my options to finally decide. You know, if
that was the place for me, I will say this,
it's not food related but when I was looking for
a place to live here in Los Angeles, it was
a non starter for me if they did not allow
the direct TV dish on the you know, somewhere on
(26:59):
the falcony or on the roof so I could watch
the Sunday ticket. So I'm not above something like that
determining where I live.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That's fair. You want to have creature comforts, right, you
work hard, you come home, you got to recharge your batteries.
For me, not be able to not being able to cook.
I mean I barbecue the back here tonight, but you
know it's ninety six degrees here in Vegas. What you do?
And yes, it happened to be carnivore type stuff. Coop
your thoughts on this? Would it be a showstopper for you?
(27:30):
Or you could say, hey, no, you know I could,
I could, I can withdraw from cooking meat. No, I
love meat? So you would not live there, right? Absolutely not?
So how do you respond to this? Just in sort
of a generic conversational aspect, What are your thoughts? I mean,
what goes through your mind when you hear something like
(27:51):
this classic vegan move? You get the feeling they're sort
of commons sending like they're going to save us with
their mortal and intellectual superiority. Is that is that? Where
is that the thought?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Look, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Vegans love to talk about being vegan, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay with that, But when they tell us that we
can't eat meat or we shouldn't eat meat, and they
become preaching and they're not all like that. This this
caught my eye because this was a condition of tendency
if you decide you want to live at this apartment complex.
And look, there was a situation where Chris Weber went
(28:38):
into a high Falute in New York steakhouse, probably twenty
years ago. I don't know, there's some really good ones there.
Peter Lueger's comes to mind. I don't know which one
it was. And Weber got a steak and he asked
for a bottle of ketchup. He wanted to put ketchup
on a steak, and apparently the chef came out and
dressed him down. Now there's two schools of thought. Okay,
(29:00):
if Chris Weber orders the steak and it's probably one
hundred dollars steak, and that was the you know, everything's
ali cart there. You know, you order a steak, don't
ask them what comes with They're gonna say the plate.
You want potatoes, spinach, and sparagus, sad orders salad. It's
gonna cost you. Okay, you get the steak, or say
with a one you want a one, fine, you're paying
for it, No problem, Live how you want to live.
(29:24):
My only question is is why go to a high
falutin steakhouse and I like a one sauce. But if
you're gonna pay that much money for a steak, to
think about a one sauce. No matter what, you pour
a one sauce on, it tastes like a one sauce.
You could eat a boot. You could go to a
Texas rodeo and buy the boot from the guy who
(29:45):
just you know, rode rough shot on the back of
a bucking bull, and you pour you want to eat
that boot, You pour your a one sauce on it.
It tastes like a one sauce. But I digress. When
I hear these things, it's it's laugh to me that
someone would. I just feel they're acting morally superior. Now,
the good news is you can eat meat there. You
(30:07):
just can't cook meat. There because the landlord doesn't want
to smell it as you are paying him six thousand
dollars a month. This to me is craziness. Coming up
a little bit more craziness. Connor McGregor is in the news.
(30:27):
Had a whale of a time, a jolly old time
in Miami this past week, and now there was an
alleged incident which is being called in to question. We'll
chop it up. Coming up. I want to remind everybody
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By the way, Mallard Militia or non Mallard militia or
any militia eight seven seven, nine to nine on thoughts
you want to call in, you want to check in tonight?
You got some thoughts about any of the things we
talked about. A lot more stuff to get to top
of the hour. I want to take you behind the
(31:09):
curtain just a little bit on this PGA Live Golf Tour.
And by the way, you may or may not know this.
Saudi Arabia, I believe has designs to push for sports expansion,
and you may see them perhaps a little bit more
active in the sports world. As a matter of fact,
(31:31):
they were recently active. This kind of got buried behind
the NBA draft purchasing steaks in and I'm talking about
the steaks you eat like the one like the ones
you can't eat at that apartment. I'm talking about a
situation where there are now the folks that the fund
in Saudi Arabia has decided to invest in three professional teams,
(31:56):
all based in Washington, but coming up well, chop up
the Connor McGregor mess in Miami. I'm Bernie Fratto, come
to you live from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio, Tarak
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In for Ben Maller, it's Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Thank you Eddie. By the way, quickly before I get
to Conor McGregor, Jarahawk tweets in what regarding the landlord
who will not allow you to cook meat in his
fifty seven hundred dollars a month apartment complex? Jara Hawk says,
what's to stop someone from moving in and then cookie
meat in their kitchen? Anyway? Is that policy enforceable? By
(33:13):
the way, think about that. I was thinking about that
because it takes months to evict somebody, and you got
to ask yourself, is this really worth it? That's what
you call getting to the meat of the issue. Jared Hawk. Nice,
he done. Let's go out to the phone lines. We're
joined by Andrea. Andrea welcome back in How are you
this fine? Truly? And Blue Sky Evening?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Yes, good.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
How are you doing wonderful?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Yes, you know I'm the sports sorceress, Andrea the astrologer.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I remember, I remember I asked you to read my
astrology and you said I had no future. Go ahead,
never mind.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Why I did not, Bernie, I wouldn't do that. Yeah,
why don't you let me know your birthday? I'll we
have to look that up for you.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It's June twenty first. I just had my birthday. Oh
right on the cum Gemini Yeah, man.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Commer Solstice and Gemini.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Oh what time were you born?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I was born one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
One thirty am.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And where Detroit, Michigan.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Excellent? And what year?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Nineteen fifty seven?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
Okay, yeah, I'm glad. You have your vital stats June
twenty one, nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well you're going to take my vitals now.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Well that's what astologist called.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
My blood pressure is one twenty over eighty.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Oh, that's normal.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I like long walks on the beach. My favorite color
is magenta. And I believe I believe in the designated
hitter uh uh and long wet kisses. The last three days,
you've got the floor, Well, you know you're the.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
Right name for the job. If you're a Gemini, that's
a sign of the communicator of the zodiac, writer, teacher, talker,
So this is a natural fit for you. So that much,
I know, right on the cusp of Gemini and cancer.
I'll look up the rest of your chart and I
can be happy to share it. Do you have like
an email address you want to text it, tweet it
(35:02):
to me.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Let's hold off on that now, but give me what
you got and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Yeah, Well I'm in Berkeley, so I'm in the Bay
Area and I went to the reverse boycott that the
eighth had.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, you're one of the twenty seven thousand were
for you.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Thank I think I saw you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
It was a pretty passionate crowd. It was great to
have twenty seven thousand of the Coliseum on a Tuesday
night playing the Rays. And it just showed, you know,
sell the team stay in Oakland. We were chanting, and
you know, it just showed the fan base is really there.
And today in the I think it was the East
(35:42):
Pay Times, there's an article that says they're not gone
just yet, and they say one expert believes Fisher selling
the team could be an avenue for the Ace staying put.
So there's all these fits and starts, Bernie, because they
announced the move April nineteen and Mercury was about to
retrograde April twenty one, so they announced it on the
(36:05):
cusp of Mercury retrograde, which rules communication, and that's not
a really auspicious time to announce a move of that
magnitude when Mercury is about to retrograde. So all the
you know, delays and fits and starts and so on.
But you know, they do have approval from the Nevada
legislature and the governor, but you know it's not a
(36:26):
done deal yet, so it'll be interesting. I mean, Fisher
doesn't speak to the media, and a colleague of mind,
Dave Newhouse, he wrote a book called Goodbye to Oakland
that details the exodus of the Raiders the Warriors, so
he's saying, you know, there's stuff is still on the
table that can be worked out.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
So well, it happened before with the Giants in nineteen
ninety two, and Andrew unfortunately, I'm up against it, coach.
Once you do me a favor, yeah, yeah, you can
call back Monday night, I'm back in this time slot
Monday night with the guys.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Okay, so you can.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Pick up where you left off, and actually maybe I'd
like you to have it doing an astrological reading on
the oaklam As himself. How about the Oh yeah, no,
that's great.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
I actually did a whole YouTube and podcast about the As.
I'd be happy to share that.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Right, we'll catch you. We'll catch you on Monday. I
don't mean to cutch you short, but hey, look, could
the A's be sold? Look? Man, everybody's got a price
you don't believe. So you're about the one. The guy
walks into the bar, he's the most beautiful woman he's
ever seen in his life. So will you go to
bed with me for a million dollars? She goes a
million dollars? Yeah, I will. Will you go to bed
meet for ten dollars? What do you think I am
a whore? Well, we've already established it. Were negotiating price now.
(37:36):
So the longest short of it is, anything could happen
with the Oakland A's. Do I think it will happen?
I'm not so sure, but you know, maybe if the
Saudis get involved. When they say, hey, mister Fisher King,
would you like two billion dollars? He would I'm guessing
he would. He would not turn them down. Coming up,
we're gonna unpack the live PGA merger. How did it happen?
(37:58):
Why did it happen? What? What broke? What's the straw
that broke the camel's back? And how serious are the
Saudis in investing more. I'm Bernie Frautlef sitting in for
Ben Mallor keep it locked right here. You're listening to
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