June 27, 2023 • 38 mins
Bernie Fratto fills in for Ben Maller and is joined by legendary Vegas sports bettor Bill Krackomberger to discuss the greatness of Jaws, upcoming NFL odds, and much more!
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The way tire buying should be. All right, Pete swake,
the kids, alert the neighbors, Grandpa, put on pants. We're
gonna rock and roll the next to four hours. But
before we get started, I want to remind the folks
you know, in many ways, I'm just a simple guy. Hell,
I had a lunchable for dinners earlier tonight, and I
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like to keep my life simple, and as such, there
are two things I truly avoid like the plague. One
going through the drive through line at my favorite burger
joint and two going to ATM machines. You intend to
keep things simple, and then life intervenes, because every time
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I go through a drive through, all I want to
do is get my happy meal and be on my
way quickly. But it never fails. I'm always behind somebody
who's ordering dinner for the fifth fleet and they pay
with the spare change from their piggy bank. Every time
I go to an ATM, I just want to get
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my two hundred bucks and beyond my way quickly, but
it never fails. I'm always behind somebody who's trying to
orchestrate a leverage bank buy out on an HTM machine.
And I do my best to avoid these situations, but
sometimes I lose focus. But I'll tell you what else.
I also like to avoid annoying people, and hopefully I'm
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not that guy you know who's talking to loud on
his cell phone at the library. You get it. I'm
not gonna give all the examples. You know, there are
two types of people in this world, those who have
something to say and those who just simply have to
say something. And when I saw Travis Kelsey open his
piehole again the other day, don't disrespect my quarterback? All right,
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I'm thinking to myself, you are fast advancing towards making
that top ten annoying list. You know, I was wandering
around my house yesterday because sometimes I got that time
to kill, and I happen to notice. I want to
give these folks credit. A small little newspaper down in
in Knoxville, their readers and their writers decided to have
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a little fun and they picked the most annoying sports
figure in the current you know, pantheon of sports personalities.
By the way, bottom of the hour, we're gonna bring
in the crew. I want to get their thoughts. We
got Iowa sam In tonight, Eddie Garcia of course, Coop,
justin Cooper, you were phenomenal last night on what My Name?
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Will Chop it up? At two am? And I want
to get them involved because they have fertile minds, and
you know, I like to have mind share and gather
thoughts from other people. But who is the most annoying
sports figures? Because there are objective truths in our personal feelings?
This is gonna be more about people's personal feelings. But
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I think there are some objective on that. There is
some objective analysis here, because we all know what makes
us annoying. Right. So what this small newspaper in Knoxville
did was ask their fellow sports critics and even readers
to who weigh in on who's the most annoying sports
figure rocking and rolling these days? And some of these
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are priceless. Somebody name Marie writes sentence says, there are
quite a few athletes who are annoying, but I have
to give my vote to Aaron Rodgers. Here's where it
gets just delicious, right. Quote, He's a self satisfied wanna
be millionaire bohemian, want to be millionaire, and dude's made
like three hundred million, but forget it. You know, we
didn't give up in the Germans attack Pearl Harbor. So
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she's rolling, I'm rolling. He's a self satisfied wanna be
millionaire bohemian who, when answering any questions, either one model
syllables his answer after a long, boring stare check or
launches into an off the wall crazy tangent. For example,
listen to Pat McAfee's interview in the Dark retreat he
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entered for a week and discussed going to the bathroom
in complete darkness. What's with that? Yeah, he's a fun
quarterback to watch, but the Jets are gonna make him crazy.
I mean he was off center, no pun intended. In Wisconsin,
New York could be a whole new ballgame. Literally, there's
that word. Everybody likes to use, the word literally. Not
a bad effort, Marie. The response from someone else who
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read that, it's as though he's trying to guard to
prove he's not just some dumb job, but in fact
he's a deep thinkers. What was a risk taker going
to bathroom in the dark? That said, he's one of
my all time favorite quarterbacks. I also love Tom Cruise movies,
even though his beliefs indicates a total nut job. These
people could just get over their shiness. Someone named Kevin
writes in Lebron James is the most annoying sports figure,
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as UFC fighter Colby Covington stated quote, I see all
the hypocrisy from Lebron. He claims to be about social justice,
but he won't say free Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He
won't talk about all the women that he's profiting off
of in the Chinese sweatshops that are making all of
his shoes for dollars, that he's coming over to America
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and selling them for a hundred and profiting millions off
of here in America. That's a quote I'm reading, of course,
a quote. That's someone's quote, A little bit of a
word salad. They're a little clunky, but the point taking
a gentleman obviously understands is geopolitical history. Their response to
another reader, former number one pick Kwame Brown, now regarded
as one of the league's biggest busts, also isn't the
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in the lebron fan club. He recorded a video for
social media after the Lakers lost in four games of
the Nuggets. He ripped James for not getting off a
shot in the final seconds. Kwame Brown went on to say, quote,
I've never seen a guy of your caliber or supposed caliber.
The dude does have four championships. You don't even get
a shot off. You're probably the best score of the game.
You got all those points, but you were looking for
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a bell out. Again, as you can see, these folks,
they are annoyed by one Lebron James. You can't say
you're great. You gotta do great things. That's where greatness lies. Yeah, okay,
this you got to get these people an a for effort.
My guess he may have bet on the Lakers and
you know, was a little disappointed. Someone named Chris writes in,
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now we got to let me take a little bit
of a left turn here. I would have to say
it's John Calipari. Yes. Again, A big part of it
is because I'm a ut fan. However, I actually liked
him as a coach until they got to Kentucky. I
can't stand it when coaches treat everyone like idiots and
act like they're the only ones who know anything about
the sports day coach, the sarcasm and the excuses, the
complaining is just old and basically makes me want to
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throw up. The response from a reader. Kentucky's recent failures
in the NCAA tournament are also causing severe stomach problems
for the Big Blue fan base. Hm, not bunyans, not
my gream headaches, stomach problems. Someone named Daryl writes in,
my Lakers just got swept and I started venting. Here's
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a family friendly reply. Lebron James annoys me immensely. For
someone that has made it and has it all, he
whinds way too much. You go, Daryl, Here goes Darryl.
James declares himself, quote the goat. It doesn't work that way.
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All players, past and present, sports media, and all fans
decide who the greatest of all time are. James showed
this past week he can't carry a team when he's old.
James has been barking way too long. Go ahead and
retire as a top ten because James ain't even in
the top five all time NBA if you include the postseason.
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Did you go to like seventy eight finals in a row?
And look, I'm not a James fan, but you know
I'm not going to turn into Mickey the Dunst because
I don't like the guy. But these people are stellar
people that are ready again speaking their mind. Some other
response from another reader. Maybe James will feel better about
things if he went to a retreat with Aaron Rodgers.
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Now this one goes way back in the cookie jar.
With apologies to our good buddy Jason Smith, the most
of all, the most annoying Mike Rights in Mark Gastoneau.
I met Gaston in Palm Springs once many years ago.
Great guy, he's a cool guy, the original New York
Jets sack exchange. Mike called him the original mister show bull,
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look at me. I did that. Undoubtedly, Gastona did change
the behavior of athletes on the field and the way
he celebrated. And he became entrenched, you know, as I
think an outstanding player, kind of a highlight reel. But
this gentleman thought he became entrenched as a detrimental part
of the sport and courtioning of society. These are deep thoughts. Well,
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this was a response from a reader. Nonetheless, I think
the New York Jets fans finally remember Gastono's dances as
part of the New York sack exchange in the early eighties.
The Jets haven't had a winning season since twenty fifteen,
haven't returned to the Super Bowl since Joe Namath made
good on his victory guarantee in the third Super Bowl. Finally,
Mike rights in way deep into the cookie jar. Steve
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Spurrier is the most annoying person in the entire history
of sports. Now there's a moniker. The old ball coach.
He has negative comments about opposing teams. His pompous attitude
and his disgusting voice. They make my blood boil every
time he appeared on TV. Give these people some cookies
out of petty cash. I love the effort. And at
the bottom of the ar we're gonna bring in the
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crew with Sam and Eddie and Coop and get their
thoughts on who they think is the most annoying, because
these people do get under our skin sometimes. And the
Travis Kelsey thing sort of allows me to raise cause
me to raise my eyebrow because he's becoming one of
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those guys. Now, whatever happens, he's got a comment on him.
Comment on it, whether we ask or not. Coming up
the legend Bill Krackman Billy Krakenberger a great friend of mine.
You heard him Sunday mornings during football season on countdown
to kick off. So I want to move to Vegas.
There may be there may be no better guy to
ask about what it's truly like living here and things
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you gotta think about because everybody's moving here. Hell, the
A's are moving here, and you know we'll get an
NBA team here in a few years. And you get
the picture. I'm Bernie Fratto, Comedy Alive from Las Vegas,
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Crack Man.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
How you doing, buddy, Thanks for having me on, Bernie,
appreciate it all as well. Just sitting here in Vegas
watching an old time movie that I watch every year
about this time of the year. Jaws just turned it off.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, Roy Scheider, I've heard about you know, that movie
came out in the summer of seventy five to the
month and it actually still holds up. Give it up
to Steven Spielberg, one of his first great accomplishments.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
It's just a great movie that I remember. I was
working on the Jersey Shore. Literally that affected the business
for two years. My aunt Unclelada Pete stand on the
boardwalk and that affected the the Jersey Shore crowd for
those summers in a row. People just weren't going to
the beach. Means, they weren't coming off the beach going
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to the boards, you know, playing games and chants and
buying food and stuff. And it was such a piece,
like you said, it stands a test of time. I'll
watch it every year, but at the beginning of the summer,
so doing.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That, you know what, I just want to say one
thing because you know, obviously Richard Dreyfus, Robert Shaw and
the one scene this may be obscure for some people.
I know you remember it when Robert Shaw addresses the
city council because it want to pay him ten grand.
You're talking and he runs his nails down the chalkboard.
Oh yeah, yeah, you all love me, chiefy know what
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I do for a living. Well, we got here big fish,
no small fish, no blue gild, tummycott, big fish hole.
But I like, oh, he goes. I'm all you know.
Robert Shaw died a year after the movie came out.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, he died at fifty one years old, right after
making that one of the great all time old stage
and screen at and he really was one of the legends.
And during that filming, Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw did
not get along. So they did not get along during
the filming of that. And it was a great movie.
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I don't mean to go off on tangents on great movies,
but it just we do tangents.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I love tangents. All right, let's I want to have
you on for two reasons tonight, because you know the
NFL's around the corner. I want to get a couple
of things from me. Teams are gonna do a camp
in twenty five days, but you gave the greatest soliloqua
with the other day. So I want to move to Vegas. Look, man,
I realize people when we move here, none of us
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have jobs done of it has clocks. We you know, we're
twenty four seven. We all got buffets in our house.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It's not like that. Bring folks behind the curtain, crack man,
as to some of the things you got to keep
your head on a swivel for if you come to Vegas.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, you know, I got about ninety thousand unique views
on that tweet. It was a clip from a show
I did last week, talk about Las Vegas and people
that come here. You know, I said the same thing
when I was on Showtimes docu series Action, the same
exact line. And I don't mean to be repetitive and
have to go over again, but I will say or
people that have never heard her before. So people come
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here on vacation and they're on vacation, they're with their
their spouse, they're better have and they always say the
same not all of them, but a lot of them
say the same thing. Oh, you know, it's so great here.
The weather's perfect, and I think we should come here
and start over and just leave our problems behind us.
And well, it's just such a great feeling, honey. And
then they start thinking about should they move, and a
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lot of people actually decide I'm moving here. Listen, this
town has, you know, millions of millions of people here
now on like years past, because people come on vacation
decide to move here. But they what they don't realize
is there's life beyond the neon. There's a local community
and a local economy here that's made up of a
lot of people that come here. And they don't realize
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that this town is vice drinking, drugs, even could be
girls or gambling, and if it could be men, it
could be both sides and just but the local economy's
made up of a lot of different vices. And if
you have any vices, trust me, they usually not want
to be in this town. And I'm not trying to
be so negative too, because we have great restaurants, great
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shows and great there's so many great things here, and
family comes in town and visits and stuff, and they're
always like, oh my god, you actually live here. They
don't realize people live here and work here and breathe here,
and me, I moved here for sports spreading of course
when Cantor first came to town, and I wind up
staying here, I understand. And I don't mean to be
so down on the town. I just know from being
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friends with a lot of people in the business and
friends with people and even in law enforcement and stuff,
this town is not all what it cracked up to be.
You have to be very very strong in many areas,
and one of which is of course gambling, because gambling
can be a closet gambling. And I just try to
promote myself as being an advocate for their average guy.
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And I try to go off my forty year playbook
of just being around gambling in my life and stuff
and being broke many times before I found the way
to make money in sports, and being that small percentile
that makes money betting sports. It's very tough to do,
very tough town, and I just want to tell people
that now I'm not trying. I had a couple of
people out of the ninety thousand people everyone, most people
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are real positive and saying thanks cract, thanks for the advice.
But there's a couple of tables of why do you
live here? Well, I live here because I like the
idea that I can live in Vegas and take advantage
of a lot of different promotional things and sports betting
and be able to bet at certain places that take
bets here in town. But I go back and forth.
I'm going back to Jersey in a couple of weeks.
I go to Maryland. I go up and down the
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coast to different places that have legalized sports betting. I
cross the border over here in Arizona. I drive a
half hour forty five minutes away. So there's a lot
of other things I do besides just gambling in Las
Vegas and living in Las Vegas. Plus, we're a great
state that we have those state tacks. There's a lot
of good little reasons to live in this state.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Also, I love it here talking to Bill Crackman, Bill Krackenberger,
the legend here Sunday mornings on Fox Countdown to kick Off.
I always joke crack I've lived half my life in California,
half my life in Michigan outside of Detroit, Nova, Michigan,
and half my life in Las Vegas. And the thing
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I love about Vegas and you're gonna pick right up
on this. Remember the movie My Blue Heaven was Steve
Martin when he goes into the Witness Protection program and
he starts finding his old cronies. The thing I love
about Vegas is we are an amalgam of human beings
from all around the country and all around the world.
I moved here in February of twenty ten. One of
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the first people I met here was you mete through
Kenny Thompson. We all went over had dinner at the
hard Walk. Who shows up with you, Teddy Atlas. We're
having dinner, right, remember that. So you're from New York, right, Kennyston,
New Jersey. Well like Jimmy Vicarrol's from Pittsburgh. We got
friends from Chicago, Mike Colbert, from all these guys, and
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you get to know them and then all of a sudden,
it's it's My Blue Heaven and it's look, I'm not
mixed up. Vegas isn't for everybody. It drives a lot
of people out. There's really no medium ground. You either
love it or you don't like it. Some people come
and leave and some people come and die, and that's
just a fact, right. But any city I've always believed
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you can you're gonna find what you're looking for. Good, badter, indifferent,
but you're I saw that and we were gonna have
you on anyway. I said, this is great, just this
is good radio stuff. So if we look ahead the
NFL camps, I only want to focus on one game
because it's getting a lot of talk, and that is
Thursday night, the Kickoff Classic, as it were. It's not
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the Kickoff Classic, that's an old college game. But the
Lions visit Kansas City as a seven point underdog. I
love the Lions, cover the team for ten years being
post Are you buying the hype? And I'm inclined to
look to take the seven that night, but I haven't
fired on it.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Well. I think I think I would wait, though, because
especially here in town and some of the more square
sports books. One of the reasons I do live in
Las Vegas. By the way, you'll find some some of
the places in town here, the local casinos that you'll
have all favorite Kansas City money you'll have, of course
the Super Bowl champ. People love to bet super Bowl champs. Historically,
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it's not a good bet for the first you know,
three or four weeks of the season. I would look
forward to that night, even if I can get a hook,
I won't be betting Kansas City, by the way, I
would be more inclined to take Detroit in that game.
And you know, you may be able to find seven
and a half here in town at one of those
sports books, like you know, a Stations or a Coast
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Casinos or one of the local places here, compared to
the sharper sports books like the Circa West Gates of
the world, where they're probably gonna be sevens or maybe
even seven dog money. So I definitely it's a little
bit too early right now for me there on that
particular game. However, there are other spots that first week
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that I went out with one of your other guys
that you have on the show a lot, Steve Zick,
that we actually, you know, like a couple of the
games the first week. I think maybe a better spot
would be maybe Dallas that that Sunday night laying three
against the Giants. There's still a couple spots to win
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Westgate stations that still have minus three. I think that's
a better spot for me. You know, I don't do
a lot of side betting, but I definitely agree. I
did a show over at that point the other day
and Steve text me about that game, so I definitely
like that game better as of right now. But I
would be inclined to agree with you if you were
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saying to the Detroit over Kansas City. But just to
throw out a little bone there, yeah, the Dallas game,
I kind of lean to that too.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Crack As always, there's never usually enough time. We'll get
you on again real soon. I would just say this,
there are six divisional games week one since twenty fourteen,
divisional dogs or seventy two percent week one. Take a
look at that. We'll chop it up next time we talk.
Enjoy your evening, buddy.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Look forward to it. Thanks for having me on stick Care.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Bill Crackman Krackenburger. You hear him Sunday mornings here on
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Before I get to the crew, I got a tweet
from Mallard prop at Mallard prop or in I stought,
he says, doctor Fradle, one of Ben Millner Ben Maller's generals,
is celebrating a birthday today. Robbie the Mariners Seahawks Fan
fan club. Robbie the Mariners Seahawks fan There we go.
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Did I fall for that one? Yes? I did, said,
Robbie's a good guy. Hey's a birthday, guys, it's a
birthday guy. Thanks Robbie. I hope you're listening. Very nice
gesture from mallor Prop. Happy birthday to Robbie the Mariners
Seahawks fan. That's how we roll here on the Band
Millers Show. As if I know, I'm sitting in for
Ben who Ben is enjoying his time off. I love Ben.
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I've been doing Ben per for over ten years. That's
a name drop, folks. All right, let's get back to
our our subject matter tonight, the most annoying figures in sports.
Let's start with a guy Iowa. Sam. I have a
very soft spot in my heart for Iowa was Sam
because when I signed on almost five years ago doing
Straight out of Vegas on Saturday Night, Sam was my producer.
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So we go way back in the way back machine. Sam.
Right you are. You have a very fertile mind. I
get the feeling full of manure. Well, probably from all
those cornfields in Iowa right where you. Yeah, you're a
forty year Iowa vet. Let's blurt out something.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Quite that many? That not quite that many, Bernie, but
twenty nine years there.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I got a few holes on my game, So Sam,
no longer shot that is well just remember my friend
Mark Twain once said, never complain about getting older. Many
fine people are denied the privilege. But we address all right,
definitely blurt out some names. Sam, Who annoys you?
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Who annoys me? I don't know, just off the top
of my head. You know Antonio Brown and this is
you know, he's just he's a crazy person and he
continues to just you know, exist in our sports consciousness.
And you know, I know that the bad kar is
kind of coming his way, the bad luck and stuff.
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I guess you can stand back and laugh a little bit.
But he annoys me with just some of his his shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Shenanigans is a mile away of putting it when you
take off your shirt run off the field in the
middle of the game. Plus he's had some legal issues
and things of that nature. And I'm guessing he still
wants back in the NFL, even though he hates the league.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
So and yeah, when he said about Brady and stuff,
it's like, man, come on, you want a Super Bowl
because of Brady?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He stand at Brady's house.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, Brady Brady did I feel like, did a
lot of things for ab. So I don't know, I
don't know, Antonio Brown might be just sitting in his house.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And things the top of your list is what you're saying.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
He might be, you know, just sort of manufacturing grudges,
and that annoys me.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
So what about the Aaron Rodgers and the Lebrons of
the world. You're gonna get him a hall past tonight
or just you know, let's keep going. We'll keep going
around the room here, I'll keep let's go to Eddie, Eddie.
What do you got, buddy?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Well, I think and Antonio Brown's a good choice, especially
since I'm a Steeler fan. I don't have any love
for him, but I kind of I kind of looked
at a list and kept it to players who actually
are still playing. I'm kind of, you know, Antonio Brown's
to me, he's kind of out of side, out of mind,
even though I know he kind of jumps back in
the news. But I can pretty much ignore him. I
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don't know that I have anybody that's too outside the box. Unfortunately,
as much as I tried to find somebody unique. I
think Lebron is on the list. I think Aaron Rodgers
is on the list, Draymond Green, Russell Wilson's but I
think I would have to go, and it's kind of
maybe surprising because I don't even really follow the sport.
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I think I would go with Kyrie Irving because it's
just so so ridiculous how he seems to be in demand,
bouncing from team to team. I know he won a
title in Cleveland, but it seems like he is a
cancer on pretty much every team he goes to. He's
been paid a ridiculous amount of money, and mostly because
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of all the ridiculous things he says and does social
media and then impress conference and things like that, I
would be uh, I'd be happy if if if he
just kind of went away somewhere and we never had
to hear from him again.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, that was a dumpster fire in Boston, a dumpster
fire in Brooklyn. Doesn't show up to work for a
couple of weeks, doesn't bother to call his boss, and
then as the audacity to see I can't believe I
was disrespected in Brooklyn, and it's obviously going to be
a drunk crossing an icy street in Dallas. He did
get the one ship thanks to Draymond going another region
when they were up three games to one, so there's
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kind of a there's kind of a part of there
that's a damn good Listen already, Coop, what do you
got for us, buddy?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Now we're talking just just athletes here, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Pretty much just athletes. But but but feel free to,
you know, to put forth any name that you know
we've all heard of that would drive you annoying.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
I'm gonna hold off on that. But as far as
athletes go, I mean the ones that have been mentioned.
You know, even though I'm a Lakers fan, Lebron I've
always found very annoying and dramatic. And then I don't
like Russell Westbrook either. That's that's one that I didn't
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here mention.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You are a Laker fan. Yes, so I think you're
raised an interesting issue here because had Rob polink and
not made that deal and moved Russell Westbrook at the
trade deadline, do you think the Lakers would have gotten
to the playoffs for won two rounds like they did
with Westbrook?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, I'm kind of with you on that. Go around
the room one more time, Sam, anybody we left out?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Actually, yes, One that came to mind is Connor McGregor.
Who oh boy, I feel like his best punches are
behind him in.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
The past and coming back.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah, yeah, he's he's coming back into the national uh
you know, the public forum, but for all the wrong reasons.
And the guy we once knew as this great you
know UFC fighter has he's kind of he's been lacking
in that department lately and just been getting into the
news for all the wrong reasons. So Connor McGregor is
my second one. Maybe I think he even might replace
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Antonio Brown on the list.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You ever sample his proper whiskey?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
I have had it before. It's it's okay. It tastes
like water down Jamison, which is saying something so you know,
it's all right, it's it's it's a blend.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
It's probably like Canadian mysts like reject.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, well I don't back in today.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
I think they sell that.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Stuff Canadian listen. I've been Conroy for a couple of
dead weight. None of these are sponsors. What the hell
we talked about, Eddie? Do we leave any names out?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm sure we have. Maybe some listeners can can help
us out with that.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
But uh, now you're you are a HOWK aficionado of
the highest order. Is there anybody in hockey. Maybe Evander Keine,
Uh maybe, Uh, I don't know. Is there anybody in
hockey that that that sort of is a provocateur.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
That I think Brad Marshaan of the Boston Bruins very
high on that list. But he but he is very
talented and and you know, even like Aaron Rodgers with
all of his nonsense, I do actually like watching him
play football. So you know, there's there's there's that side
of it. I think it's uh for me to be
on the list. You know, at the top of the list,
it's somebody who I really don't like watching them perform athletically,
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and the extra stuff off of the court, field whatever, uh,
just adds to it. So, I mean, even Lebron, I'm
not a big NBA guy, but Lebron is an all
time great. I mean he's done some amazing things. I
you know, Victor Winbyama with all the hype around him.
I mean I was working here when Lebron came into
the NBA and I remember thinking, there's no way, zero
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chance that guy will ever live up to all the hype.
And he not only did he, but he's exceeded it.
Even though he is he is annoying. And we're in
LA and I'm sure there are Laker fans that are
happy he's on the Lakers to some extent, but he's not.
I don't get the sense in any way at all
that he is a beloved Laker here.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
In this town. In any way.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I think people are like, well, he's good. I guess
he's on the Lakers if you're a Laker fan. But
like Coop, he's not in love with Lebron James. I
don't think many people are around here, to be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I'm in agreement with all that for a lot of reasons,
which maybe we'll get to later. And I've talked about
a lot on my show in just terms of his
needy attitude as he is attention starved. He just needs
that validation over and over good stuff. And I think
to your point about Aaron Rodgers and Lebron and Brad Marsham,
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yeah they have accomplishments and Rogers, look, Rogers, I can
hold two thoughts. Concurrently, I think Rogers is a superb
quarterback and he's a first ballot Hall of Famer, and
he would I would be fine if he was a
quarterback of my team. Doesn't mean I want to take
a hot shower with him. Uh, Coop, you got the
last word on this. Anything we left out.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
Dylan Brooks, that's.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
A good one. That's a good one. He's a real disturber.
I'll leave out the four letter word you usually put
in front of that. Coming up, I want to share
a little bit of that. Aaron Rodgers nonsense. He's done
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Speaker 3 (33:37):
Well, thank you, Eddie. Give it up to Iowa. Sam rockin'
the Bachman Turner Overdrive, Overdrive. Easy for me to say,
Bachman Turner Overdrive. Sam, I knew you were an old soul.
Look at you. You're just an undercover badass.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Aren't you my element? I'm definitely my element right now, Bernie.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Look at you, go, you go. I should be for
a few hours. You are right now as far as
I'm consenting you. And by the way, Sam invoked the
word nonsense in the same sentence as Aaron Rodgers. Rogers
recently like fifteen minutes ago, and Rogers gets a couple
of things. Is this week? That really made my teethhitch
(34:17):
here's why. Okay, it appears now Aaron Rodgers may be
one of those folks with deep pockets and short arms, because,
despite having many millions in the bank, he's passing the
hat to fund an online sports venture. Are you kidding? P? T.
Barnum said it best. There's an ass for every seat,
there's a sucker born every minute, and Aaron Rodgers is
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finding more than just a few of them. According to
a gentleman named Chris Smith of the Sports Business Journal,
Rogers has launched an online sports platform, a sports information platform,
and he launched a crowdfunding campaign and his goal is
to raise one point three million dollars, which happens to
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be all what, maybe less than one to two percent
of his entire net worth. He explained that the effort
to pass the hat for free money was inspired by
the Packers and their habit of generating revenue of via
the sale of stock that really isn't stock. As you know,
the owner of the Green Bay Packers are their stockholders. Now,
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the stock never goes up, the stock never goes down.
They don't make any money. But you can walk into
your favorite pub in Green Bay and order a brot
in your favorite beverage and say, I am an owner
of the green Bay Packers spot. To lie. Yeah, you
may only have two shares, but you're not lying. But
what crazy people? I mean? There are people obviously loyal
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that are loyal to Aaron Rodgers because the passion they
had for the team is in some cases the passion
they truly had for Aaron Rodgers. You don't see this
right now. In the case of Rogers, same situation, you
wouldn't be owners, you'd be a donor. You're just gonna
be giving your money to a brand new platform that
no one's ever heard of. I haven't heard of it.
(36:05):
They think they're being loyal to Aaron Rodgers. The hope
is that Aaron Rodgers, well he will blindly maybe pass
along some of the profits to his fans and what
they have, well, then they'll feel compelled to use the
service in order to justify their decision. Rogers, he's got
to carry around one point three million in his pocket.
Are you kidding me? He's gonna make over one hundred
(36:27):
million in the next two years. And I'm pretty sure
he's made about two or three hundred million, about two
hundred and eighty million already in his career. And he
goes crowdfunding for adventure no one's ever heard of, and
you know what do they do with the fund So
I would say, you know, this is a very this
is an abuse of the go fundme concept. My humble opinion,
(36:49):
Rogers has the money to pay for his own damn
business venture. And anybody who considers giving money for nothing
but just feeling better about yourself should tell Rogers to
you know foh that's my thought. By the way, one
other thing, Aaron Rodgers quarterback pitch man pain in the
ass and now you have foremost authority on psychedelics. This
(37:14):
guy gets around, doesn't he? For someone who doesn't want
to be in the spotlight and doesn't want to be
on hard knocks. We're gonna get to that later in
the show. Build that's cool. The largest psychedelic conference in history.
I didn't even know what does that mean? Is that
like being the best hockey player in Argentina? I don't
get what that means. He spoke in the av the
(37:34):
conference was an advocate for the therapeutic use of therapeutic
use of psychedelics. Some experts say it can't be beneficial
in mental health treatment. Rogers spoke about his experience with ayahuasca.
He did it once. Think about something you may have
done once in your life, and you're gonna speak at
a conference because you're an authority. He said, he used
(37:57):
it and he benefited from it. Well, how did he
benefit from it? Okay? Now, apparently there's nothing in the
league's policy from players using nyahuasca, and they'll you know,
the truth of the matter is federal law ban psychedelics.
There is a potential for you know, problems. But I
do know they use it in war veterans to treat
ptsdm OK with that and people have supported them. People
(38:20):
in Congress have supported them, Democrats have supported them, Republicans
have supported them, and they're trying to decriminalize the use
of psychedelic mushrooms. Clearly Aaron Rodgers has gotten into the mushrooms. Yes,
he does annoy me, and I get it, and I
don't know why he's the foremost authority. After doing it
one time, he's probably been into Grampa's cough suroup as well.
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before we get started, I want to remind the folks
you know, in many ways, I'm just a simple guy. Hell,
I had a lunchable for dinners earlier tonight, and I
(01:12):
like to keep my life simple, and as such, there
are two things I truly avoid like the plague. One
going through the drive through line at my favorite burger
joint and two going to ATM machines. You intend to
keep things simple, and then life intervenes, because every time
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I go through a drive through, all I want to
do is get my happy meal and be on my
way quickly. But it never fails. I'm always behind somebody
who's ordering dinner for the fifth fleet and they pay
with the spare change from their piggy bank. Every time
I go to an ATM, I just want to get
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my two hundred bucks and beyond my way quickly, but
it never fails. I'm always behind somebody who's trying to
orchestrate a leverage bank buy out on an HTM machine.
And I do my best to avoid these situations, but
sometimes I lose focus. But I'll tell you what else.
I also like to avoid annoying people, and hopefully I'm
(02:19):
not that guy you know who's talking to loud on
his cell phone at the library. You get it. I'm
not gonna give all the examples. You know, there are
two types of people in this world, those who have
something to say and those who just simply have to
say something. And when I saw Travis Kelsey open his
piehole again the other day, don't disrespect my quarterback? All right,
(02:44):
I'm thinking to myself, you are fast advancing towards making
that top ten annoying list. You know, I was wandering
around my house yesterday because sometimes I got that time
to kill, and I happen to notice. I want to
give these folks credit. A small little newspaper down in
in Knoxville, their readers and their writers decided to have
(03:05):
a little fun and they picked the most annoying sports
figure in the current you know, pantheon of sports personalities.
By the way, bottom of the hour, we're gonna bring
in the crew. I want to get their thoughts. We
got Iowa sam In tonight, Eddie Garcia of course, Coop,
justin Cooper, you were phenomenal last night on what My Name?
(03:26):
Will Chop it up? At two am? And I want
to get them involved because they have fertile minds, and
you know, I like to have mind share and gather
thoughts from other people. But who is the most annoying
sports figures? Because there are objective truths in our personal feelings?
This is gonna be more about people's personal feelings. But
(03:46):
I think there are some objective on that. There is
some objective analysis here, because we all know what makes
us annoying. Right. So what this small newspaper in Knoxville
did was ask their fellow sports critics and even readers
to who weigh in on who's the most annoying sports
figure rocking and rolling these days? And some of these
(04:07):
are priceless. Somebody name Marie writes sentence says, there are
quite a few athletes who are annoying, but I have
to give my vote to Aaron Rodgers. Here's where it
gets just delicious, right. Quote, He's a self satisfied wanna
be millionaire bohemian, want to be millionaire, and dude's made
like three hundred million, but forget it. You know, we
didn't give up in the Germans attack Pearl Harbor. So
(04:30):
she's rolling, I'm rolling. He's a self satisfied wanna be
millionaire bohemian who, when answering any questions, either one model
syllables his answer after a long, boring stare check or
launches into an off the wall crazy tangent. For example,
listen to Pat McAfee's interview in the Dark retreat he
(04:51):
entered for a week and discussed going to the bathroom
in complete darkness. What's with that? Yeah, he's a fun
quarterback to watch, but the Jets are gonna make him crazy.
I mean he was off center, no pun intended. In Wisconsin,
New York could be a whole new ballgame. Literally, there's
that word. Everybody likes to use, the word literally. Not
a bad effort, Marie. The response from someone else who
(05:14):
read that, it's as though he's trying to guard to
prove he's not just some dumb job, but in fact
he's a deep thinkers. What was a risk taker going
to bathroom in the dark? That said, he's one of
my all time favorite quarterbacks. I also love Tom Cruise movies,
even though his beliefs indicates a total nut job. These
people could just get over their shiness. Someone named Kevin
writes in Lebron James is the most annoying sports figure,
(05:37):
as UFC fighter Colby Covington stated quote, I see all
the hypocrisy from Lebron. He claims to be about social justice,
but he won't say free Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He
won't talk about all the women that he's profiting off
of in the Chinese sweatshops that are making all of
his shoes for dollars, that he's coming over to America
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and selling them for a hundred and profiting millions off
of here in America. That's a quote I'm reading, of course,
a quote. That's someone's quote, A little bit of a
word salad. They're a little clunky, but the point taking
a gentleman obviously understands is geopolitical history. Their response to
another reader, former number one pick Kwame Brown, now regarded
as one of the league's biggest busts, also isn't the
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in the lebron fan club. He recorded a video for
social media after the Lakers lost in four games of
the Nuggets. He ripped James for not getting off a
shot in the final seconds. Kwame Brown went on to say, quote,
I've never seen a guy of your caliber or supposed caliber.
The dude does have four championships. You don't even get
a shot off. You're probably the best score of the game.
You got all those points, but you were looking for
(06:43):
a bell out. Again, as you can see, these folks,
they are annoyed by one Lebron James. You can't say
you're great. You gotta do great things. That's where greatness lies. Yeah, okay,
this you got to get these people an a for effort.
My guess he may have bet on the Lakers and
you know, was a little disappointed. Someone named Chris writes in,
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now we got to let me take a little bit
of a left turn here. I would have to say
it's John Calipari. Yes. Again, A big part of it
is because I'm a ut fan. However, I actually liked
him as a coach until they got to Kentucky. I
can't stand it when coaches treat everyone like idiots and
act like they're the only ones who know anything about
the sports day coach, the sarcasm and the excuses, the
complaining is just old and basically makes me want to
(07:27):
throw up. The response from a reader. Kentucky's recent failures
in the NCAA tournament are also causing severe stomach problems
for the Big Blue fan base. Hm, not bunyans, not
my gream headaches, stomach problems. Someone named Daryl writes in,
my Lakers just got swept and I started venting. Here's
(07:50):
a family friendly reply. Lebron James annoys me immensely. For
someone that has made it and has it all, he
whinds way too much. You go, Daryl, Here goes Darryl.
James declares himself, quote the goat. It doesn't work that way.
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All players, past and present, sports media, and all fans
decide who the greatest of all time are. James showed
this past week he can't carry a team when he's old.
James has been barking way too long. Go ahead and
retire as a top ten because James ain't even in
the top five all time NBA if you include the postseason.
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Did you go to like seventy eight finals in a row?
And look, I'm not a James fan, but you know
I'm not going to turn into Mickey the Dunst because
I don't like the guy. But these people are stellar
people that are ready again speaking their mind. Some other
response from another reader. Maybe James will feel better about
things if he went to a retreat with Aaron Rodgers.
(08:52):
Now this one goes way back in the cookie jar.
With apologies to our good buddy Jason Smith, the most
of all, the most annoying Mike Rights in Mark Gastoneau.
I met Gaston in Palm Springs once many years ago.
Great guy, he's a cool guy, the original New York
Jets sack exchange. Mike called him the original mister show bull,
(09:13):
look at me. I did that. Undoubtedly, Gastona did change
the behavior of athletes on the field and the way
he celebrated. And he became entrenched, you know, as I
think an outstanding player, kind of a highlight reel. But
this gentleman thought he became entrenched as a detrimental part
of the sport and courtioning of society. These are deep thoughts. Well,
(09:37):
this was a response from a reader. Nonetheless, I think
the New York Jets fans finally remember Gastono's dances as
part of the New York sack exchange in the early eighties.
The Jets haven't had a winning season since twenty fifteen,
haven't returned to the Super Bowl since Joe Namath made
good on his victory guarantee in the third Super Bowl. Finally,
Mike rights in way deep into the cookie jar. Steve
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Spurrier is the most annoying person in the entire history
of sports. Now there's a moniker. The old ball coach.
He has negative comments about opposing teams. His pompous attitude
and his disgusting voice. They make my blood boil every
time he appeared on TV. Give these people some cookies
out of petty cash. I love the effort. And at
the bottom of the ar we're gonna bring in the
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crew with Sam and Eddie and Coop and get their
thoughts on who they think is the most annoying, because
these people do get under our skin sometimes. And the
Travis Kelsey thing sort of allows me to raise cause
me to raise my eyebrow because he's becoming one of
(10:38):
those guys. Now, whatever happens, he's got a comment on him.
Comment on it, whether we ask or not. Coming up
the legend Bill Krackman Billy Krakenberger a great friend of mine.
You heard him Sunday mornings during football season on countdown
to kick off. So I want to move to Vegas.
There may be there may be no better guy to
ask about what it's truly like living here and things
(10:59):
you gotta think about because everybody's moving here. Hell, the
A's are moving here, and you know we'll get an
NBA team here in a few years. And you get
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Crack Man.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
How you doing, buddy, Thanks for having me on, Bernie,
appreciate it all as well. Just sitting here in Vegas
watching an old time movie that I watch every year
about this time of the year. Jaws just turned it off.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, Roy Scheider, I've heard about you know, that movie
came out in the summer of seventy five to the
month and it actually still holds up. Give it up
to Steven Spielberg, one of his first great accomplishments.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
It's just a great movie that I remember. I was
working on the Jersey Shore. Literally that affected the business
for two years. My aunt Unclelada Pete stand on the
boardwalk and that affected the the Jersey Shore crowd for
those summers in a row. People just weren't going to
the beach. Means, they weren't coming off the beach going
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to the boards, you know, playing games and chants and
buying food and stuff. And it was such a piece,
like you said, it stands a test of time. I'll
watch it every year, but at the beginning of the summer,
so doing.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That, you know what, I just want to say one
thing because you know, obviously Richard Dreyfus, Robert Shaw and
the one scene this may be obscure for some people.
I know you remember it when Robert Shaw addresses the
city council because it want to pay him ten grand.
You're talking and he runs his nails down the chalkboard.
Oh yeah, yeah, you all love me, chiefy know what
(13:42):
I do for a living. Well, we got here big fish,
no small fish, no blue gild, tummycott, big fish hole.
But I like, oh, he goes. I'm all you know.
Robert Shaw died a year after the movie came out.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, he died at fifty one years old, right after
making that one of the great all time old stage
and screen at and he really was one of the legends.
And during that filming, Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw did
not get along. So they did not get along during
the filming of that. And it was a great movie.
(14:14):
I don't mean to go off on tangents on great movies,
but it just we do tangents.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I love tangents. All right, let's I want to have
you on for two reasons tonight, because you know the
NFL's around the corner. I want to get a couple
of things from me. Teams are gonna do a camp
in twenty five days, but you gave the greatest soliloqua
with the other day. So I want to move to Vegas. Look, man,
I realize people when we move here, none of us
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have jobs done of it has clocks. We you know, we're
twenty four seven. We all got buffets in our house.
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Now.
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It's not like that. Bring folks behind the curtain, crack man,
as to some of the things you got to keep
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Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, you know, I got about ninety thousand unique views
on that tweet. It was a clip from a show
I did last week, talk about Las Vegas and people
that come here. You know, I said the same thing
when I was on Showtimes docu series Action, the same
exact line. And I don't mean to be repetitive and
have to go over again, but I will say or
people that have never heard her before. So people come
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here on vacation and they're on vacation, they're with their
their spouse, they're better have and they always say the
same not all of them, but a lot of them
say the same thing. Oh, you know, it's so great here.
The weather's perfect, and I think we should come here
and start over and just leave our problems behind us.
And well, it's just such a great feeling, honey. And
then they start thinking about should they move, and a
(15:37):
lot of people actually decide I'm moving here. Listen, this
town has, you know, millions of millions of people here
now on like years past, because people come on vacation
decide to move here. But they what they don't realize
is there's life beyond the neon. There's a local community
and a local economy here that's made up of a
lot of people that come here. And they don't realize
(15:57):
that this town is vice drinking, drugs, even could be
girls or gambling, and if it could be men, it
could be both sides and just but the local economy's
made up of a lot of different vices. And if
you have any vices, trust me, they usually not want
to be in this town. And I'm not trying to
be so negative too, because we have great restaurants, great
(16:18):
shows and great there's so many great things here, and
family comes in town and visits and stuff, and they're
always like, oh my god, you actually live here. They
don't realize people live here and work here and breathe here,
and me, I moved here for sports spreading of course
when Cantor first came to town, and I wind up
staying here, I understand. And I don't mean to be
so down on the town. I just know from being
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friends with a lot of people in the business and
friends with people and even in law enforcement and stuff,
this town is not all what it cracked up to be.
You have to be very very strong in many areas,
and one of which is of course gambling, because gambling
can be a closet gambling. And I just try to
promote myself as being an advocate for their average guy.
(17:02):
And I try to go off my forty year playbook
of just being around gambling in my life and stuff
and being broke many times before I found the way
to make money in sports, and being that small percentile
that makes money betting sports. It's very tough to do,
very tough town, and I just want to tell people
that now I'm not trying. I had a couple of
people out of the ninety thousand people everyone, most people
(17:24):
are real positive and saying thanks cract, thanks for the advice.
But there's a couple of tables of why do you
live here? Well, I live here because I like the
idea that I can live in Vegas and take advantage
of a lot of different promotional things and sports betting
and be able to bet at certain places that take
bets here in town. But I go back and forth.
I'm going back to Jersey in a couple of weeks.
I go to Maryland. I go up and down the
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coast to different places that have legalized sports betting. I
cross the border over here in Arizona. I drive a
half hour forty five minutes away. So there's a lot
of other things I do besides just gambling in Las
Vegas and living in Las Vegas. Plus, we're a great
state that we have those state tacks. There's a lot
of good little reasons to live in this state.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Also, I love it here talking to Bill Crackman, Bill Krackenberger,
the legend here Sunday mornings on Fox Countdown to kick Off.
I always joke crack I've lived half my life in California,
half my life in Michigan outside of Detroit, Nova, Michigan,
and half my life in Las Vegas. And the thing
(18:24):
I love about Vegas and you're gonna pick right up
on this. Remember the movie My Blue Heaven was Steve
Martin when he goes into the Witness Protection program and
he starts finding his old cronies. The thing I love
about Vegas is we are an amalgam of human beings
from all around the country and all around the world.
I moved here in February of twenty ten. One of
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the first people I met here was you mete through
Kenny Thompson. We all went over had dinner at the
hard Walk. Who shows up with you, Teddy Atlas. We're
having dinner, right, remember that. So you're from New York, right, Kennyston,
New Jersey. Well like Jimmy Vicarrol's from Pittsburgh. We got
friends from Chicago, Mike Colbert, from all these guys, and
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you get to know them and then all of a sudden,
it's it's My Blue Heaven and it's look, I'm not
mixed up. Vegas isn't for everybody. It drives a lot
of people out. There's really no medium ground. You either
love it or you don't like it. Some people come
and leave and some people come and die, and that's
just a fact, right. But any city I've always believed
(19:30):
you can you're gonna find what you're looking for. Good, badter, indifferent,
but you're I saw that and we were gonna have
you on anyway. I said, this is great, just this
is good radio stuff. So if we look ahead the
NFL camps, I only want to focus on one game
because it's getting a lot of talk, and that is
Thursday night, the Kickoff Classic, as it were. It's not
(19:51):
the Kickoff Classic, that's an old college game. But the
Lions visit Kansas City as a seven point underdog. I
love the Lions, cover the team for ten years being
post Are you buying the hype? And I'm inclined to
look to take the seven that night, but I haven't
fired on it.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Well. I think I think I would wait, though, because
especially here in town and some of the more square
sports books. One of the reasons I do live in
Las Vegas. By the way, you'll find some some of
the places in town here, the local casinos that you'll
have all favorite Kansas City money you'll have, of course
the Super Bowl champ. People love to bet super Bowl champs. Historically,
(20:31):
it's not a good bet for the first you know,
three or four weeks of the season. I would look
forward to that night, even if I can get a hook,
I won't be betting Kansas City, by the way, I
would be more inclined to take Detroit in that game.
And you know, you may be able to find seven
and a half here in town at one of those
sports books, like you know, a Stations or a Coast
(20:54):
Casinos or one of the local places here, compared to
the sharper sports books like the Circa West Gates of
the world, where they're probably gonna be sevens or maybe
even seven dog money. So I definitely it's a little
bit too early right now for me there on that
particular game. However, there are other spots that first week
(21:14):
that I went out with one of your other guys
that you have on the show a lot, Steve Zick,
that we actually, you know, like a couple of the
games the first week. I think maybe a better spot
would be maybe Dallas that that Sunday night laying three
against the Giants. There's still a couple spots to win
(21:35):
Westgate stations that still have minus three. I think that's
a better spot for me. You know, I don't do
a lot of side betting, but I definitely agree. I
did a show over at that point the other day
and Steve text me about that game, so I definitely
like that game better as of right now. But I
would be inclined to agree with you if you were
(21:56):
saying to the Detroit over Kansas City. But just to
throw out a little bone there, yeah, the Dallas game,
I kind of lean to that too.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Crack As always, there's never usually enough time. We'll get
you on again real soon. I would just say this,
there are six divisional games week one since twenty fourteen,
divisional dogs or seventy two percent week one. Take a
look at that. We'll chop it up next time we talk.
Enjoy your evening, buddy.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Look forward to it. Thanks for having me on stick Care.
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Speaker 3 (23:16):
Before I get to the crew, I got a tweet
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birthday guy. Thanks Robbie. I hope you're listening. Very nice
gesture from mallor Prop. Happy birthday to Robbie the Mariners
Seahawks fan. That's how we roll here on the Band
Millers Show. As if I know, I'm sitting in for
Ben who Ben is enjoying his time off. I love Ben.
(23:59):
I've been doing Ben per for over ten years. That's
a name drop, folks. All right, let's get back to
our our subject matter tonight, the most annoying figures in sports.
Let's start with a guy Iowa. Sam. I have a
very soft spot in my heart for Iowa was Sam
because when I signed on almost five years ago doing
Straight out of Vegas on Saturday Night, Sam was my producer.
(24:19):
So we go way back in the way back machine. Sam.
Right you are. You have a very fertile mind. I
get the feeling full of manure. Well, probably from all
those cornfields in Iowa right where you. Yeah, you're a
forty year Iowa vet. Let's blurt out something.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Quite that many? That not quite that many, Bernie, but
twenty nine years there.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I got a few holes on my game, So Sam,
no longer shot that is well just remember my friend
Mark Twain once said, never complain about getting older. Many
fine people are denied the privilege. But we address all right,
definitely blurt out some names. Sam, Who annoys you?
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Who annoys me? I don't know, just off the top
of my head. You know Antonio Brown and this is
you know, he's just he's a crazy person and he
continues to just you know, exist in our sports consciousness.
And you know, I know that the bad kar is
kind of coming his way, the bad luck and stuff.
(25:15):
I guess you can stand back and laugh a little bit.
But he annoys me with just some of his his shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Shenanigans is a mile away of putting it when you
take off your shirt run off the field in the
middle of the game. Plus he's had some legal issues
and things of that nature. And I'm guessing he still
wants back in the NFL, even though he hates the league.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
So and yeah, when he said about Brady and stuff,
it's like, man, come on, you want a Super Bowl
because of Brady?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He stand at Brady's house.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, Brady Brady did I feel like, did a
lot of things for ab. So I don't know, I
don't know, Antonio Brown might be just sitting in his house.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And things the top of your list is what you're saying.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
He might be, you know, just sort of manufacturing grudges,
and that annoys me.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
So what about the Aaron Rodgers and the Lebrons of
the world. You're gonna get him a hall past tonight
or just you know, let's keep going. We'll keep going
around the room here, I'll keep let's go to Eddie, Eddie.
What do you got, buddy?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Well, I think and Antonio Brown's a good choice, especially
since I'm a Steeler fan. I don't have any love
for him, but I kind of I kind of looked
at a list and kept it to players who actually
are still playing. I'm kind of, you know, Antonio Brown's
to me, he's kind of out of side, out of mind,
even though I know he kind of jumps back in
the news. But I can pretty much ignore him. I
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don't know that I have anybody that's too outside the box. Unfortunately,
as much as I tried to find somebody unique. I
think Lebron is on the list. I think Aaron Rodgers
is on the list, Draymond Green, Russell Wilson's but I
think I would have to go, and it's kind of
maybe surprising because I don't even really follow the sport.
(26:47):
I think I would go with Kyrie Irving because it's
just so so ridiculous how he seems to be in demand,
bouncing from team to team. I know he won a
title in Cleveland, but it seems like he is a
cancer on pretty much every team he goes to. He's
been paid a ridiculous amount of money, and mostly because
(27:10):
of all the ridiculous things he says and does social
media and then impress conference and things like that, I
would be uh, I'd be happy if if if he
just kind of went away somewhere and we never had
to hear from him again.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, that was a dumpster fire in Boston, a dumpster
fire in Brooklyn. Doesn't show up to work for a
couple of weeks, doesn't bother to call his boss, and
then as the audacity to see I can't believe I
was disrespected in Brooklyn, and it's obviously going to be
a drunk crossing an icy street in Dallas. He did
get the one ship thanks to Draymond going another region
when they were up three games to one, so there's
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kind of a there's kind of a part of there
that's a damn good Listen already, Coop, what do you
got for us, buddy?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Now we're talking just just athletes here, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Pretty much just athletes. But but but feel free to,
you know, to put forth any name that you know
we've all heard of that would drive you annoying.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
I'm gonna hold off on that. But as far as
athletes go, I mean the ones that have been mentioned.
You know, even though I'm a Lakers fan, Lebron I've
always found very annoying and dramatic. And then I don't
like Russell Westbrook either. That's that's one that I didn't
(28:26):
here mention.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You are a Laker fan. Yes, so I think you're
raised an interesting issue here because had Rob polink and
not made that deal and moved Russell Westbrook at the
trade deadline, do you think the Lakers would have gotten
to the playoffs for won two rounds like they did
with Westbrook?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, I'm kind of with you on that. Go around
the room one more time, Sam, anybody we left out?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Actually, yes, One that came to mind is Connor McGregor.
Who oh boy, I feel like his best punches are
behind him in.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
The past and coming back.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah, yeah, he's he's coming back into the national uh
you know, the public forum, but for all the wrong reasons.
And the guy we once knew as this great you
know UFC fighter has he's kind of he's been lacking
in that department lately and just been getting into the
news for all the wrong reasons. So Connor McGregor is
my second one. Maybe I think he even might replace
(29:24):
Antonio Brown on the list.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You ever sample his proper whiskey?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
I have had it before. It's it's okay. It tastes
like water down Jamison, which is saying something so you know,
it's all right, it's it's it's a blend.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
It's probably like Canadian mysts like reject.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, well I don't back in today.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
I think they sell that.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Stuff Canadian listen. I've been Conroy for a couple of
dead weight. None of these are sponsors. What the hell
we talked about, Eddie? Do we leave any names out?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm sure we have. Maybe some listeners can can help
us out with that.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
But uh, now you're you are a HOWK aficionado of
the highest order. Is there anybody in hockey. Maybe Evander Keine,
Uh maybe, Uh, I don't know. Is there anybody in
hockey that that that sort of is a provocateur.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
That I think Brad Marshaan of the Boston Bruins very
high on that list. But he but he is very
talented and and you know, even like Aaron Rodgers with
all of his nonsense, I do actually like watching him
play football. So you know, there's there's there's that side
of it. I think it's uh for me to be
on the list. You know, at the top of the list,
it's somebody who I really don't like watching them perform athletically,
(30:36):
and the extra stuff off of the court, field whatever, uh,
just adds to it. So, I mean, even Lebron, I'm
not a big NBA guy, but Lebron is an all
time great. I mean he's done some amazing things. I
you know, Victor Winbyama with all the hype around him.
I mean I was working here when Lebron came into
the NBA and I remember thinking, there's no way, zero
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chance that guy will ever live up to all the hype.
And he not only did he, but he's exceeded it.
Even though he is he is annoying. And we're in
LA and I'm sure there are Laker fans that are
happy he's on the Lakers to some extent, but he's not.
I don't get the sense in any way at all
that he is a beloved Laker here.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
In this town. In any way.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I think people are like, well, he's good. I guess
he's on the Lakers if you're a Laker fan. But
like Coop, he's not in love with Lebron James. I
don't think many people are around here, to be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I'm in agreement with all that for a lot of reasons,
which maybe we'll get to later. And I've talked about
a lot on my show in just terms of his
needy attitude as he is attention starved. He just needs
that validation over and over good stuff. And I think
to your point about Aaron Rodgers and Lebron and Brad Marsham,
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yeah they have accomplishments and Rogers, look, Rogers, I can
hold two thoughts. Concurrently, I think Rogers is a superb
quarterback and he's a first ballot Hall of Famer, and
he would I would be fine if he was a
quarterback of my team. Doesn't mean I want to take
a hot shower with him. Uh, Coop, you got the
last word on this. Anything we left out.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
Dylan Brooks, that's.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
A good one. That's a good one. He's a real disturber.
I'll leave out the four letter word you usually put
in front of that. Coming up, I want to share
a little bit of that. Aaron Rodgers nonsense. He's done
a couple of things lately that's sticking my cra want
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Speaker 3 (33:37):
Well, thank you, Eddie. Give it up to Iowa. Sam rockin'
the Bachman Turner Overdrive, Overdrive. Easy for me to say,
Bachman Turner Overdrive. Sam, I knew you were an old soul.
Look at you. You're just an undercover badass.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Aren't you my element? I'm definitely my element right now, Bernie.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Look at you, go, you go. I should be for
a few hours. You are right now as far as
I'm consenting you. And by the way, Sam invoked the
word nonsense in the same sentence as Aaron Rodgers. Rogers
recently like fifteen minutes ago, and Rogers gets a couple
of things. Is this week? That really made my teethhitch
(34:17):
here's why. Okay, it appears now Aaron Rodgers may be
one of those folks with deep pockets and short arms, because,
despite having many millions in the bank, he's passing the
hat to fund an online sports venture. Are you kidding? P? T.
Barnum said it best. There's an ass for every seat,
there's a sucker born every minute, and Aaron Rodgers is
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finding more than just a few of them. According to
a gentleman named Chris Smith of the Sports Business Journal,
Rogers has launched an online sports platform, a sports information platform,
and he launched a crowdfunding campaign and his goal is
to raise one point three million dollars, which happens to
(34:59):
be all what, maybe less than one to two percent
of his entire net worth. He explained that the effort
to pass the hat for free money was inspired by
the Packers and their habit of generating revenue of via
the sale of stock that really isn't stock. As you know,
the owner of the Green Bay Packers are their stockholders. Now,
(35:20):
the stock never goes up, the stock never goes down.
They don't make any money. But you can walk into
your favorite pub in Green Bay and order a brot
in your favorite beverage and say, I am an owner
of the green Bay Packers spot. To lie. Yeah, you
may only have two shares, but you're not lying. But
what crazy people? I mean? There are people obviously loyal
(35:43):
that are loyal to Aaron Rodgers because the passion they
had for the team is in some cases the passion
they truly had for Aaron Rodgers. You don't see this
right now. In the case of Rogers, same situation, you
wouldn't be owners, you'd be a donor. You're just gonna
be giving your money to a brand new platform that
no one's ever heard of. I haven't heard of it.
(36:05):
They think they're being loyal to Aaron Rodgers. The hope
is that Aaron Rodgers, well he will blindly maybe pass
along some of the profits to his fans and what
they have, well, then they'll feel compelled to use the
service in order to justify their decision. Rogers, he's got
to carry around one point three million in his pocket.
Are you kidding me? He's gonna make over one hundred
(36:27):
million in the next two years. And I'm pretty sure
he's made about two or three hundred million, about two
hundred and eighty million already in his career. And he
goes crowdfunding for adventure no one's ever heard of, and
you know what do they do with the fund So
I would say, you know, this is a very this
is an abuse of the go fundme concept. My humble opinion,
(36:49):
Rogers has the money to pay for his own damn
business venture. And anybody who considers giving money for nothing
but just feeling better about yourself should tell Rogers to
you know foh that's my thought. By the way, one
other thing, Aaron Rodgers quarterback pitch man pain in the
ass and now you have foremost authority on psychedelics. This
(37:14):
guy gets around, doesn't he? For someone who doesn't want
to be in the spotlight and doesn't want to be
on hard knocks. We're gonna get to that later in
the show. Build that's cool. The largest psychedelic conference in history.
I didn't even know what does that mean? Is that
like being the best hockey player in Argentina? I don't
get what that means. He spoke in the av the
(37:34):
conference was an advocate for the therapeutic use of therapeutic
use of psychedelics. Some experts say it can't be beneficial
in mental health treatment. Rogers spoke about his experience with ayahuasca.
He did it once. Think about something you may have
done once in your life, and you're gonna speak at
a conference because you're an authority. He said, he used
(37:57):
it and he benefited from it. Well, how did he
benefit from it? Okay? Now, apparently there's nothing in the
league's policy from players using nyahuasca, and they'll you know,
the truth of the matter is federal law ban psychedelics.
There is a potential for you know, problems. But I
do know they use it in war veterans to treat
ptsdm OK with that and people have supported them. People
(38:20):
in Congress have supported them, Democrats have supported them, Republicans
have supported them, and they're trying to decriminalize the use
of psychedelic mushrooms. Clearly Aaron Rodgers has gotten into the mushrooms. Yes,
he does annoy me, and I get it, and I
don't know why he's the foremost authority. After doing it
one time, he's probably been into Grampa's cough suroup as well.
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