August 2, 2025 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers addressing the criticisms from Terry Bradshaw by inviting Bradshaw to get to know him better, Bryce Harper cussing out Rob Manfred when he came into the Phillies locker room, Maller's Mountain of Money: Lori Loughlin Edition, and more!
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So our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
We have a follow up to the follow up, follow
up to the follow up. Now, what is the follow
up to the follow up? You asked? Will the follow
up to the follow up? You might remember Terry Bradshaw,
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not that long ago. Terry Bradshaw, Yes, the four time
Super Bowl champ, the NFL on Fox Royalty, who's been
doing that forever and ever and ever and ever. So,
Terry Bradshaw. He went on a radio show in Arkansas
and said Aaron Rodgers should chew on bark, just chew
(02:12):
on bark. Go ahead now over the weekend. Rogers responded,
he did. He responded to that, not if he saw
this or not or missed it. So Rogers with our
guy Kyle Brandt, who used to work here, part of
the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, And here is Aaron
Rodgers giving his rebuttal to what Terry Bradshaw had to say.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Tigo, Liz, I've known Terry for a long time, being
a part of Fox Terry's a legend.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He's an absolute legend.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
He won four Super Bowls, He's had a legendary career
in the media. But Terry, like a lot of people,
doesn't know me, and so he's got an idea of
what he thinks about me based on what I've done,
the documentary, what I've said, Darkness a Tree, whatever the
hell you want to talk about.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I'd love to get to know Terry on a deeper level.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And I feel like if he gave me a chance
to get to know him, they would have a good friendship.
Because for me, I have nothing but the utmost amount
of respect and deference for what the greats have done,
because they laid the foundation for us to be able
to play in this great game, to be paid like kings,
and to carry on the tradition of excellence that guys
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like the Bradshaws of the world in the seventies and
Mart Starr in the sixties, and Lombardy and Joe Montana
and Steve Young and Troy Aikman.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A Brett Farb I got jall.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The main part of that is he said, Terry's a legend,
and I'd love to get to know him, and he
doesn't know me, and he just knows me from the documentary,
and he knows me from this, that and the other thing.
He said, I think we'd be friends. So let us
discuss the question, what did you make of the rant?
We played most of it? What did you make of
the rant of Steelers quarterback Aaron Rogers Very diplomatic, right,
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very diplomatic response to Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw telling
him to goach on bark. All right, So I've got
the spectrum, mannequin, and post office, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make Lunch with Terry. Actually followed Lunch with Terry years ago,
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a classic LA radio show. Terry Bradshaw did a talk
show for one hour day and it was well, if
you heard it, you know it was an all timer
back in the day. So number one, I said, number one,
This is so on brand for Aaron Rodgers. He's so
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perfect for Aaron Rodgers. Here, this is a guy who
essentially lives his life at this point like he's inside
some kind of Sundance documentary. And the whole thing he
mentioned a lot of it, right, He mentioned the Darkness Retreat.
I don't think he mentioned ayahuasca. Later on, we'll get
to the mystery wife that's out there as well, And
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so now he's trying to emotionally connect the two Harry
Bradshaw spoiler alert, spiler, Hey, Aaron, I hate to tell
you there, Terry told you to go gnaw on a trait.
He would like you to find a nice tree out
in the woods and start chewing. Okay, not come over
to have some tea with crystals. I don't think that
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was the approach that Bradshaw took. Now, Ry Aaron Rodgers
continues to be great for talk radio. He's also on
the spectrum this weird bizarro spiritual sitcom thing that's going
on here. And I'll go back to the fact that
he's got a wife no one has seen and this
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has been been a while now, and who knows, Maybe
she lives in an igloo or something like that. I
don't know. And now he's trying to build bridges rogers
with people who have mocked him, like Terry Bradshaw and listen,
it's it's definitely weak by Aaron Rodgers. And he might
be watching and we all might be watching the NFL's
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version of Just an emotionally available quarterback. Normally they're not
that way. But if you take a step back, right
Aaron Rodgers, who's now trying to make it go, go
one last run, one last moment in the sun in Pittsburgh,
we would not be shocked if next week, not this week,
but next week Aaron Rodgers shows up in some kind
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of hemp poncho and offers Terry Bradshaw one of those
forgiveness you know circle things that a retreat in Sedona.
They can just all go together, all expenses paid, and
go hang out in Sedona and have a great time.
So again, buckle up. We know there's a lot of
Steeler fans, y Inser fans, Buckle up. This is the
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Aaron Rodgers full experience. It's gonna be a long wild
ride with Aaron Rodgers. And I'm there for it. Listen,
I'm there. It's a page turner, every single page. I'm in.
I'm in now for us page number two. Speaking of
very now, we mentioned that Aaron Rodgers has a mystery wife,
and he talked about that. He went on the record
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kind of kind of in that same interview, we got
a little more insight, just a little bit more and
he's speaking to state sponsored NFL media at the Steelers
training camp. Rogers opened up about his marriage. Do we
have that? I don't know if we have that. I
guess we don't have that, all right, So, he said,
quote when you meet the right one and you're with
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the right one, your whole world changes. In a second,
Rogers said of the mystery woman, supposedly named Brittany, he said,
and to have that person that unconditionally loves you behind
the scenes, there's no better feeling in the world. Rogers said,
And I have the most incredible wife close quote all right,
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So does anything stand out? Is there anything here that
stands out about Aaron Rodgers yap loquaciously about his mystery
wife Britney, So, yes, yeah, I guess the whole thing,
the whole damn thing is it's ridiculous, Rogers saying that
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he's got the most incredible wife, and yet we still
have no there's no background info, there's no photo, there's
no nothing, there's no there there, there's no there there,
and not one paparazzo. Rogers lives in the off season
in Malibu. He is surrounded by paparazzo and nobody has
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a photo, So what is going on? It's like she
doesn't exist, Like seriously, like this supposed woman named Brittany
does not exist. You're telling me that this guy, Aaron Rodgers,
who's been in the public eye for years and year
starting quarterback in the NFL, and there's not one photo out,
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not one, not a friend of a friend of a
friend of a friend of a friend's gardener that said, Hey,
I saw so and so and I know who it is. Right,
you realize that in the times we live in, if
you sneeze, right, if you sneeze, TMC's got five different
angles slow mo, five different angles slow mo. It's twenty
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twenty five. That's how the world works in twenty twenty five, right,
This one not a single shot, not a single shot.
It's like we can't even get one of those grainy
Bigfoot esque you know that the images of Bigfoot, which
you're always kind of weird, and it's like, it's not
really a clean photo of Bigfoot, and it's like, what's
going on with that? You know? It's that kind of deals,
it's that kind of deal. So Aaron Rodgers has been
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going down this anti mainstream pseudo science, like rabbit hole
thing for for a long time, with all the stuff
we've talked about here, the ayahuasca, the darkness, retweets and
all that stuff. And so now is there a chance
that she's a ghast that Britney's a ghost from the
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haunted mansion at Disneyland, and that he married a ghost
from the haunted mansion at Disneyland. It's possible, right, she
might be imaginary. You can't totally rule it out, right,
you cannot totally rule it out. And it's a small
percentage chance, but you can't really rule it out. The
odds are low, but the odds are not zero. The
odds are not zero for Aaron rodgers Man. This is
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another level.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I mean, an incredible wife, but she I just wants
to keep a low profile. Okay, did she even say yes?
Who knows? Could she? Could a ghost say yes? Could it?
I don't know. That's another level of bizarro, just another
level of bizarro. And it's like, hey, did he marry
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a mannequin? Did he find her in a display case
somewhere and then took her to a ceremony in Missoula,
Montana to get married? Because there's no one no one
in Montana, and it's like she's under the witness Protection
program or she's under house arrest if she's real. Are
they not living together? Is that what's going on? Like,
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what's what's the deal on this? Yet he's walking around
and letting people know they trust me. He's like, it's like,
trust me, bro she's really amazed. Trust me. Broh. Yeah,
you know what it sounds like back when I was
in high school and there'd be the everyone had a
friend who had a girlfriend, but she went to a
different school. She went to a different school, and you know,
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you wouldn't know her and never came around you knowing.
You know, they't even are lying. They didn't have a girlfriend,
they didn't go to another school. He's made it up.
So anyway, well see someone'll come out here and we'll
have a different song to sing at that particular point.
But geez, there was also that movie about ten twelve
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years ago called called Her, which was not a great movie.
Not a great movie. But it is possible that he's
falling in love Rogers with an Operating System. I think
that was a Scarlet Johansson film, if I remember correctly.
So it's possible that.
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We are back at it and I love this story.
I absolutely love this story from Philadelphia, and it involves
someone we talk a lot about on this show, and
we talked about this person for many, many years. We
are in the doghouse with this sport because of this
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particular person. But we'll go to the locker room drama
ol rama in the Delaware Valley. As we have learned
through various reports that the Philadelphia Phillies YouTube kid, he
was originally the YouTube kid. I remember seeing clips on
the Internet of this guy when he was in high
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school in Vegas. But Bryce Harper stood nose to news
belly to belly with the clown Commissioner of Major League Baseball,
Rob Manfraud. Now this is during a meeting between the
Commissioner of Major League Baseball, that would be Manfraud and
the team last week. Now, if you didn't see this
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or hear about it, maybe you missed it. We're told
that Bryce Harper ended up getting in the face of
Rob Manford and telling him to get the F out
except he to say F. He said, now forward, he
did not say F. He said, he's a grown up.
He said the fault. We're on radio. After I got
kids F word, he said, get the f out of
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our clubhouse. He said, if Manford wanted to talk about
the implication of a salary cap, ooh the boogeyman. Now
that confrontation came in a meeting. We are told that
the slimy commissioner of Major League Baseball is going around
trying to improve communication relationships with every team and all
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the players. And the meeting lasted an hour. Must have
been very boring. My god, must have that been boring. Anyway,
they talked for an hour. Manford never said the words
salary cap in quotes. You never said that. The discussion
was about the economics. And that is what raised the
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dander of one Bryce Harper, who loves the Philly fanatic
and I love the Philly fanatics, so I have that
in common with Bryce Harper. So let us discuss the question.
Philly star a multi time MVP, Bryce Harper going I
to eye mono a mono with Commissioner Rob Manford over
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the salary cap who's side on? I am in the side.
Now I'm gonna tell you who side. I think you
know who side I'm on. I've got dog Whistle, Art
of the Covenant and sopranos, and we'll put all these
things together and we're gonna make the gobba gool is
what we're gonna make. We're gonna make the gobbagool all right.
So hey, listen, I am on the side of truth,
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justice and the sports talk way. Bryce Harper. Here we go, prize,
here we go. Yeah, come on, Now, I love it.
I love the visual in the cartoon bubble over my head. Uh,
it's great. That little clown weasel, your little weasel, Rob Manford, right,
little clown commissioner Major League Baseball. There he goes down
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you sashch is his way into the Phillies clubhouse saying,
oh man, I'm just gonna go in there and blow
smoke in that clubhouse and boom boom boom boom boom boom,
nose to nose with Bryce Harper. So good, so good, Bravo, Encore, Encore.
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I say, someone had to say, now I love that.
It's Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper doesn't need to do this.
He's already got his money. He's already got the three
hundred million dollar contract. Why is he what's he care?
He got his Normally, the way this works is if
you get the bag, you don't care about anyone else.
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You got yours. You don't go to each their own,
screw everyone else. Right, you got paid. That's it. Do
you know how rare it is that someone gets that
kind of wealth to play baseball and is still out
there screaming and barking and saying, no, we're not doing
a salary cap. Normally, you know this, when you get
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the bag, just stop caring about the other players. Anyone
who understands basic math, by the way, not just malar math,
basic mathunderstands the cap is cramp like. No one that
knows economics wants the salary cap, and baseball is the
worst thing in the world. Right, you're just announcing you're
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an idiot. If you said I want a salary cap,
he says I want the owners to make more money.
That's what you're saying. You're moron, your dummy, is what
you're saying. The salary cap talk is always a dog whistle,
all right. It's a dog whistle for how can we
keep salaries down from the ownership side, but yet convince
dumb people, the fans, the idiots, that we're doing the
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right thing for competitive bounce. You realize, with no salary cap,
baseball has more of a competitive bounce than any of
those sports that have salary caps. Hello, what does that say?
What The teams that actually try end up winning have
success in baseball. The problem is not the salary cap.
The problem is the teams that don't give a crap
about winning. Sacramento or Sacramento of the A. Is that
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scumbag John Fisher, the Marlins in Miami, the Pirates, teams
like that. That's the problem. You can win the Tampa
Bay they don't spend any real money playing a minor
league ballpark now because the hurricane took out their stadium.
And I know they're having the greatest year, but considering
the amount of money they spend, they find ways. The
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Milwaukee Brewers have been wonderful in recent years, a consistent
playoff contender or playoff team over the last decade or so.
They don't spend a ton of money. It can be
done right, and you're not. Really The issue is like
teams that don't want to win. That's the problem. It's
not the salarycap. The salary CAP's not going to fix
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anything in terms of well competitive bounds. You already have
that right. And the dirty little secret in Major League
Baseball is that you look around and you see that
the teams that actually put an effort into it generally
find some success. But you can make a lot of
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money and have a baseball team that is just a
golden goose without even There's like seven people that go
to Marlins games, and I know one of them, Marlin's man,
and even he doesn't go to many Marlins games, and
he lives in Miami, but he'd rather travel around the
United States and see games in other stadiums that don't
involve the Marlins because the Marlins blow. And yet the
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Marlins make money. And you know, the Athletics left Oakland.
They made money in Oakland. Nobody went to the games
in Oakland. Nobody's you know, the Sacramento a minor league
ballparks aren't even there. They're making money because you get
the TV money, you get the national revenue, and in addition,
you get the teams that spend a lot, like the
Dodgers and the Mets and teams like that. They cut
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your check for not even trying. Right. You can draw
seven hundred and seven thousand, whatever, doesn't matter. Put a
crap product, garbage at first base, trash at second, feces
at shortstop, and do doo third and you will make money.
You will absolutely make money. And while teams that try
to win, iind the Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees, teams
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like that, they have to pay a penalty for these
other teams, and then they just pocket the money. That's
the dirty little secret in baseball. I'm Rob Manford. He's
never going to address that. Why would he? All right,
why would he?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
So?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I love the fact that Bryce Harper got right in
the face of Rob Manford and just threw it down
right and should have tossed him right out there on
Broad Street is what he should have done. Now, the
second page on this why is the salary cap chatter
which is being cranked up. The labor negotiations will take
place in twenty twenty six, so it's not that far
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away the end of the twenty twenty six season, which
means they could be there could be a workstoppage prior
to that. Many in Baseball are preparing for the nuclear winter.
But why is this salary cap the chatter Inmajor League
Baseball ultimately a burger. Let me explain this to you
like you're five years old. The reason that this is
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a nothing burger. In order for there to be a serahcap,
you would have to have support of the players. There
is not support of the players. But even if you
could get support of the players, in order for this
to realistically work, you would have to do something that
you will not do. Something you cannot do, something that
you will not do. No matter what happens, you won't
do it. And what is that If you want to
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have an honest conversation about a salary cap in Major
League baseball, the owners would have to open the bucks.
They'd have to open the bucks, the bean counters. That's
never gonna happen, never ever, ever, never. And here's why,
the reason why, and most of us know this. They
are every team in baseball is making a profit. Now,
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not every team makes a big profit, not every team
makes a big profit, but they're making money, boat loads
of money in Major League Baseball. And these owners who
are making money hand over fist while at the same
time pretending like they're bleeding cash and morons. Oh, these
poor teams are losing money. No they're not dummy, No
they're not right. And the books are the holy grip.
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I've heard some stuff that I'm not allowed to say
because I don't want to get in trouble with certain people.
But I've heard things over the years involving the books
and the lengths that Major League Baseball has gone to
to make sure the financials don't get out. Some mind
blowing things have passed through my head from people who
work in baseball, the efforts that they have gone to
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avoid opening the books. Right, Like, imagine if you peeked
inside John Fisher's financials and realized the Athletics didn't have
to leave Oakwood. He was making a lot of money.
He just wants to make more money. And you know,
so it's that whole thing. Right, You're more likely to
see the arc of the covenant than you are the
financials of these these owners that cry they don't have
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any money. They treat the financials in baseball like the
nuclear launch codes. Okay, that's what they treated it like.
And it is such a scam. It is such a scam.
We need a cap for parody. We want to have
every tream. How about chance to win. It reminds me
of that used car salesman Bud Selik was going around
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in the early two thousands, in the nineties and saying, well,
we need new stadiums in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati so we
can have good teams on the field. These teams can
win the World Series if they get those stadiums. They
built new stadiums. Guess what, spoiler alert. The teams blow
chunks in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, right, they suck And they
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were taught, all you need is a new stadium. This
is the magic the magic pill. That's all you need,
right that's all you need. And so come on, it's nonsense.
You don't have it. You don't have it right now.
And yet more teams if you try, If the Reds
and Pirates actually tried, they would actually find a way
to make the postseason. And we know in baseball, just
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making the postseasons all you have to do. It's one
of those things. It's not like basketball where or even
football where if you're like a one or two seed
you have a very good chance of going to the
NBA Finals. With the super Bowl. In baseball, it doesn't
work that way. But again, it all goes back. You're
not going to open the books, so no matter how
much you said, when you're to show recap and you
try to get the dumb fans behind him, morons, all right,
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people with IQ's below thirty, and you say, okay, it
doesn't matter right, they're sitting on gold mines, these owners
and crying poverty. Now, I don't doubt that Scott Boris
was behind this leak of the Bryce Harper story. That's Scott.
It's my opinion. Can't sue me for my opinion that
Scott Boris and his team leaked that story, because why
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would Major League Baseball leak a story about Rob Manford
getting into a confrontation with one of the star players
in baseball? Would never do that. So it had to
come from Bryce Harper's camp, and Scott Boris is his guy,
So it makes a lot of sense. But you look
at everything. I mean, they make so much money in baseball,
owning the stadium, the parking lots, A lot of these
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teams have their own TV channels. They've monetized everything. Remember
I went to Wrigley Field when I was doing stuff
in another life. When I did stuff with the Dodgers,
we went there in the nineties and it was still
had the charm of the old Wrigley Field the way
it had always been. I went there a couple of
years ago, and it was like Downtown Disney. The Cubs
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had bought all the property around Wrigley Field, the Cub ownership,
and they had put their own branding on everything and
all that, and so it was a much different experience
than it had been in the mom and pop days.
Now final fun so after the Bryce Harper rob Manford
confrontation took place. After that, a former Big league player
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and now turned gas bag and schill for Major League Baseball,
Mark de Rosa, who works for Major League Baseball. According
to a story on The Athletic buried behind a paywall,
the Old Gray Lady, The New York Times owns the Athletic. Anyway,
Mark de Rosa, I was reading this story earlier. I
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just saw it. So the story says that he warned.
Mark de Rosa warned the Philadelphia Phillies players of the
commissioner's power. He warned them. Now this was taken as
a threat. According to the way the story was reported
by Evan Drelik, who I briefly did a radio show
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with years ago. So is that how it sounds to you?
Mark de ross acord to this story. Mark de Rosa,
who works for MLB. He warned the players that essentially
they're messing with the wrong guy. You're messing with Roubmanford.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All? Right? So the answer to this how does Yes,
it sounds like a threat. I would absolutely take that
as a threat. This is Sopranos style, is what it is.
It's organized baseball crime. If you will. Manford is the
mob boss. How long have we talked about Rob Manford
essentially being a mob boss of organized baseball?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And there you've got Mark de Rosa. Where is he
at here? So you've got Mark de Rosa, who played
a Major League baseball career, now he works from Major
League Baseball. He's the conciliary, right, He's he's the fixer,
he's the whisper in this right, and he's he goes
in there, he delivers the message for the mob boss
is what he does. And he gets his hands dirty
(29:26):
and all that, but not too dirty. Right, Let's not
forget who we're dealing with. Here, all right, And what
kind of power Rob Manford has? This is the same
Rob Manford If I'm wrong, correct me? Who shielded the
cheating Astros after the biggest cheating scandal in modern times.
A team cheated in the World Series, not just to
(29:50):
get to the World Chairs in the World Series. It
was in the MLB video highlighting the World Series. And
what did Rob Manford do? He let the players walk free?
Ol boo oove that punk Bregman. Now with the Red
Sox Springer, there's still a few left. He's in Toronto.
I let him all walk free. And why is that?
There's a theory that baseball needed the business partners in
(30:13):
Houston to be happy, and they would have been upset
if those guys had been suspended. There's one theory that's
out there. So if Manford likes you, if he likes you,
he'll protect you like family, just like a good mob movie.
Right your family? Now, if you cross him? What happens
(30:33):
if you crossing? Let's see here? Oh, I have an example.
Trevor Bauer. Remember Trevor Bauer, Cy young winning pitcher, Trevor Bauer. Yeah,
Trevor Bauer, who I think right now is sipping some
saki in Japan rather than pitching in Major League Baseball.
When starting pitching blows, Rob Manford, commissioner. Now technically Bauer
(30:54):
is allowed back. But he Bauer did something you're not
supposed to do. He trashed Trevor. Trevor Are trashed Rob
man for every chance he got. So now he's in Japan,
he's pitching on dusty mounds in Mexico. He's probably trying
to get a work visa to pitch in Afghanistan at
this particular point. And that's because he messed with Rob Manford.
(31:15):
No one will touch him because Manford don't want him
in baseball. That's the theory, right, And so Manford plays favorites.
And as far as this other guy DeRosa, he doesn't
work for the players anymore. He's a former player. He's
on the payroll for Major League Baseball a right. And
he's sitting there at the MLB network commentating and apparently
giving friendly warnings wink wink, nod nod, like he's reading
(31:39):
some kind of bedtime story. While the message is rather
loud and clear. I think the message is rather loud
and clear here that you don't talk back to the
boss where the boss will get you. Right, you'll be
sleeping with the baseballs. If you talk to the boss
that strikes on. We can still we can still manipulate
the strikes on. We can. You know, next year we
(32:00):
can't do it. But this year we can still manipulate it.
You know, fifty to fifty calls something the empires might
be going going away from Bryce Harper. You're not gonna
get those calls anymore. Right, I'm just saying, you come
at the King, You come at the King, and they
say your best not missing.
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Let's do it quickly. Jacob in Delaware, who do you
want to partner up with? Jake? Have you got me?
Or Coop? Who do you want?
Speaker 5 (32:39):
You're a loser?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And Jay in Cincinnati, j Who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Okay, you ain't Loraina going?
Speaker 5 (32:49):
You don't want to team up with Loraina?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I was practicing in the break.
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It's bad, it would be entertaining, but Unfortunately, I'm told
you have to play with me. We'd have you play
with Eddie, but the company whacked him, so he's not here.
All right, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
What are the categoriesquick? Right?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
This is the Lori Laughlin addition. She turned sixty one
years old today. The categories are the new Kids, full House,
Hudson Street, and Critical Mass. Jacob, which category do you want?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Full House?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Full House? Alright? And Jay? How about you.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Do I pick a bit on?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah, Hudson Street, Critical Mass? Are the new Kids?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Critical Mass?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Okay, go ahead, you're up well forty five seconds on
the clock, Coop, right, yes.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yes, forty five seconds. I need the first and last name, Jacob.
These athletes have lots of children. Forty five seconds. Let's begin.
Current wide receiver for the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was
the quarterback for the Rams when they won the Super
Bowl in Saint Louis, Kurt Owner. Yes, this guy was
the running back for those teams. Yes, this guy is
(33:56):
the current head coach of Michigan basketball. Okay, this guy
was an MVP for the Angels. His son is now
in the Toronto Blue Jays. Yes, this guy had like
fourteen children. He couldn't even remember all their names. He
was a cornerback for the Jets. Yes, this guy has
(34:18):
the NBA record for most assists in the game. He
was also a head coach.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
All right, we're no, all right, all right, you didn't
get by the way, Joan Howard no longer the coach
of Michigan. No, he's.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
No.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yes, and Scott Sky all right, here.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We go, Jay forty if you picked their critical mass.
He's a big fatties okay, people out of shape? Yes,
you ready? Jay? Yeah, first and last name, all right.
I came to the Lakers from the Mavericks in the
trade this year. Luca don Yes, the big Diesel he's
on TNT. Was with Kobe with the Lakers. Yes, the
(34:56):
Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, just got in the Hall
of Fame African American picture for the Yankees. Played with
the Cleveland Indians as well. Yes, Fat quarterback for the Raiders.
Out of ls. You threw the ball really far, didn't
watch fil Yes, fat running back for the Green Bay Packers.
(35:18):
Bowling ball guy in the two thousands. Last name is
like a girl's name. Okay, the panda for the Giants.
Third baseman when they were when they're winning.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The World Panda.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
I said that Eddie Lacy was the running back that
he missed and Pablo Sandoval the panda.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
What's the score? Sixties?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
All right? So your back up? Jay and Ben? Do
you want the New Kids or Hudson Street?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Jayd all right, these athletes all won Rookie of the Year.
You know what that award is, Jay, Yes, sir, okay,
let's go forty five second of the clock. We're all
on our way.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Current running back for the New Orleans Saints right now,
he got in a bar fight in Vegas at a casino. Yes,
Philadelphia Philly star got into it with with the commissioner
of Major League Baseball. We talked about him. Yes, he
won a championship with the Celtics, but he came over
from the Oh no, that's what incorrect. He's currently playing
(36:22):
for the Rockets. He starred with Golden State, played in
Oklahoma City with the Sonics. Star forward catcher for the
Giants when they won the World Series all those years ago. Yes,
Japanese pitcher for the Dodgers in the nineties, started a
mania with the well no different first name, A white
(36:43):
guy three point shooter for the Mia Yeah, you got
it right, that's good. He got it all right, we'll
give you a Dyl Melmo. Now it counts.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. So he
got three of them, right, he got Bryce Harper, Alvanning.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
That's three seventy. All right, let's let's go Jacob. We've
got Hudson Street. These athletes were all born in New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Are you ready? Let's begin?
Speaker 6 (37:03):
All right, he's in the star for the Angels. He's
like native to the playoffs once. Yes, this guy is
a star on the Knicks. Not Jalen Brunson, the other
guy down. Yes, this guy was a quarterback for the Ravens.
He won a Super Bowl. But he's not that good.
No more recently. Yes, uh, this guy's a running back
(37:28):
for the Colts right now. He was a bonkers Yes,
this guy was forward for the Warriors back in the day.
He shot a free throw underhanded?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
That enough?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Did I get it?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Lorena?
Speaker 8 (37:43):
I count it?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Lrea wantcaming score? What are you doing doing? One job?
Keep score? Lorena? I counted.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Then I win.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
If she didn't keep score, I won. That's a win
for us.
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So our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
We have a follow up to the follow up, follow
up to the follow up. Now, what is the follow
up to the follow up? You asked? Will the follow
up to the follow up? You might remember Terry Bradshaw,
(01:51):
not that long ago. Terry Bradshaw, Yes, the four time
Super Bowl champ, the NFL on Fox Royalty, who's been
doing that forever and ever and ever and ever. So,
Terry Bradshaw. He went on a radio show in Arkansas
and said Aaron Rodgers should chew on bark, just chew
(02:12):
on bark. Go ahead now over the weekend. Rogers responded,
he did. He responded to that, not if he saw
this or not or missed it. So Rogers with our
guy Kyle Brandt, who used to work here, part of
the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, And here is Aaron
Rodgers giving his rebuttal to what Terry Bradshaw had to say.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Tigo, Liz, I've known Terry for a long time, being
a part of Fox Terry's a legend.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He's an absolute legend.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
He won four Super Bowls, He's had a legendary career
in the media. But Terry, like a lot of people,
doesn't know me, and so he's got an idea of
what he thinks about me based on what I've done,
the documentary, what I've said, Darkness a Tree, whatever the
hell you want to talk about.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I'd love to get to know Terry on a deeper level.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And I feel like if he gave me a chance
to get to know him, they would have a good friendship.
Because for me, I have nothing but the utmost amount
of respect and deference for what the greats have done,
because they laid the foundation for us to be able
to play in this great game, to be paid like kings,
and to carry on the tradition of excellence that guys
(03:24):
like the Bradshaws of the world in the seventies and
Mart Starr in the sixties, and Lombardy and Joe Montana
and Steve Young and Troy Aikman.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A Brett Farb I got jall.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The main part of that is he said, Terry's a legend,
and I'd love to get to know him, and he
doesn't know me, and he just knows me from the documentary,
and he knows me from this, that and the other thing.
He said, I think we'd be friends. So let us
discuss the question, what did you make of the rant?
We played most of it? What did you make of
the rant of Steelers quarterback Aaron Rogers Very diplomatic, right,
(03:55):
very diplomatic response to Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw telling
him to goach on bark. All right, So I've got
the spectrum, mannequin, and post office, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make Lunch with Terry. Actually followed Lunch with Terry years ago,
(04:16):
a classic LA radio show. Terry Bradshaw did a talk
show for one hour day and it was well, if
you heard it, you know it was an all timer
back in the day. So number one, I said, number one,
This is so on brand for Aaron Rodgers. He's so
(04:36):
perfect for Aaron Rodgers. Here, this is a guy who
essentially lives his life at this point like he's inside
some kind of Sundance documentary. And the whole thing he
mentioned a lot of it, right, He mentioned the Darkness Retreat.
I don't think he mentioned ayahuasca. Later on, we'll get
to the mystery wife that's out there as well, And
(04:57):
so now he's trying to emotionally connect the two Harry
Bradshaw spoiler alert, spiler, Hey, Aaron, I hate to tell
you there, Terry told you to go gnaw on a trait.
He would like you to find a nice tree out
in the woods and start chewing. Okay, not come over
to have some tea with crystals. I don't think that
(05:19):
was the approach that Bradshaw took. Now, Ry Aaron Rodgers
continues to be great for talk radio. He's also on
the spectrum this weird bizarro spiritual sitcom thing that's going
on here. And I'll go back to the fact that
he's got a wife no one has seen and this
(05:41):
has been been a while now, and who knows, Maybe
she lives in an igloo or something like that. I
don't know. And now he's trying to build bridges rogers
with people who have mocked him, like Terry Bradshaw and listen,
it's it's definitely weak by Aaron Rodgers. And he might
be watching and we all might be watching the NFL's
(06:03):
version of Just an emotionally available quarterback. Normally they're not
that way. But if you take a step back, right
Aaron Rodgers, who's now trying to make it go, go
one last run, one last moment in the sun in Pittsburgh,
we would not be shocked if next week, not this week,
but next week Aaron Rodgers shows up in some kind
(06:26):
of hemp poncho and offers Terry Bradshaw one of those
forgiveness you know circle things that a retreat in Sedona.
They can just all go together, all expenses paid, and
go hang out in Sedona and have a great time.
So again, buckle up. We know there's a lot of
Steeler fans, y Inser fans, Buckle up. This is the
(06:47):
Aaron Rodgers full experience. It's gonna be a long wild
ride with Aaron Rodgers. And I'm there for it. Listen,
I'm there. It's a page turner, every single page. I'm in.
I'm in now for us page number two. Speaking of
very now, we mentioned that Aaron Rodgers has a mystery wife,
and he talked about that. He went on the record
(07:08):
kind of kind of in that same interview, we got
a little more insight, just a little bit more and
he's speaking to state sponsored NFL media at the Steelers
training camp. Rogers opened up about his marriage. Do we
have that? I don't know if we have that. I
guess we don't have that, all right, So, he said,
quote when you meet the right one and you're with
(07:31):
the right one, your whole world changes. In a second,
Rogers said of the mystery woman, supposedly named Brittany, he said,
and to have that person that unconditionally loves you behind
the scenes, there's no better feeling in the world. Rogers said,
And I have the most incredible wife close quote all right,
(07:52):
So does anything stand out? Is there anything here that
stands out about Aaron Rodgers yap loquaciously about his mystery
wife Britney, So, yes, yeah, I guess the whole thing,
the whole damn thing is it's ridiculous, Rogers saying that
(08:15):
he's got the most incredible wife, and yet we still
have no there's no background info, there's no photo, there's
no nothing, there's no there there, there's no there there,
and not one paparazzo. Rogers lives in the off season
in Malibu. He is surrounded by paparazzo and nobody has
(08:35):
a photo, So what is going on? It's like she
doesn't exist, Like seriously, like this supposed woman named Brittany
does not exist. You're telling me that this guy, Aaron Rodgers,
who's been in the public eye for years and year
starting quarterback in the NFL, and there's not one photo out,
(08:55):
not one, not a friend of a friend of a
friend of a friend of a friend's gardener that said, Hey,
I saw so and so and I know who it is. Right,
you realize that in the times we live in, if
you sneeze, right, if you sneeze, TMC's got five different
angles slow mo, five different angles slow mo. It's twenty
(09:19):
twenty five. That's how the world works in twenty twenty five, right,
This one not a single shot, not a single shot.
It's like we can't even get one of those grainy
Bigfoot esque you know that the images of Bigfoot, which
you're always kind of weird, and it's like, it's not
really a clean photo of Bigfoot, and it's like, what's
going on with that? You know? It's that kind of deals,
it's that kind of deal. So Aaron Rodgers has been
(09:41):
going down this anti mainstream pseudo science, like rabbit hole
thing for for a long time, with all the stuff
we've talked about here, the ayahuasca, the darkness, retweets and
all that stuff. And so now is there a chance
that she's a ghast that Britney's a ghost from the
(10:01):
haunted mansion at Disneyland, and that he married a ghost
from the haunted mansion at Disneyland. It's possible, right, she
might be imaginary. You can't totally rule it out, right,
you cannot totally rule it out. And it's a small
percentage chance, but you can't really rule it out. The
odds are low, but the odds are not zero. The
odds are not zero for Aaron rodgers Man. This is
(10:22):
another level.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I mean, an incredible wife, but she I just wants
to keep a low profile. Okay, did she even say yes?
Who knows? Could she? Could a ghost say yes? Could it?
I don't know. That's another level of bizarro, just another
level of bizarro. And it's like, hey, did he marry
(10:50):
a mannequin? Did he find her in a display case
somewhere and then took her to a ceremony in Missoula,
Montana to get married? Because there's no one no one
in Montana, and it's like she's under the witness Protection
program or she's under house arrest if she's real. Are
they not living together? Is that what's going on? Like,
(11:11):
what's what's the deal on this? Yet he's walking around
and letting people know they trust me. He's like, it's like,
trust me, bro she's really amazed. Trust me. Broh. Yeah,
you know what it sounds like back when I was
in high school and there'd be the everyone had a
friend who had a girlfriend, but she went to a
different school. She went to a different school, and you know,
(11:34):
you wouldn't know her and never came around you knowing.
You know, they't even are lying. They didn't have a girlfriend,
they didn't go to another school. He's made it up.
So anyway, well see someone'll come out here and we'll
have a different song to sing at that particular point.
But geez, there was also that movie about ten twelve
(11:54):
years ago called called Her, which was not a great movie.
Not a great movie. But it is possible that he's
falling in love Rogers with an Operating System. I think
that was a Scarlet Johansson film, if I remember correctly.
So it's possible that.
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We are back at it and I love this story.
I absolutely love this story from Philadelphia, and it involves
someone we talk a lot about on this show, and
we talked about this person for many, many years. We
are in the doghouse with this sport because of this
(14:58):
particular person. But we'll go to the locker room drama
ol rama in the Delaware Valley. As we have learned
through various reports that the Philadelphia Phillies YouTube kid, he
was originally the YouTube kid. I remember seeing clips on
the Internet of this guy when he was in high
(15:19):
school in Vegas. But Bryce Harper stood nose to news
belly to belly with the clown Commissioner of Major League Baseball,
Rob Manfraud. Now this is during a meeting between the
Commissioner of Major League Baseball, that would be Manfraud and
the team last week. Now, if you didn't see this
(15:40):
or hear about it, maybe you missed it. We're told
that Bryce Harper ended up getting in the face of
Rob Manford and telling him to get the F out
except he to say F. He said, now forward, he
did not say F. He said, he's a grown up.
He said the fault. We're on radio. After I got
kids F word, he said, get the f out of
(16:00):
our clubhouse. He said, if Manford wanted to talk about
the implication of a salary cap, ooh the boogeyman. Now
that confrontation came in a meeting. We are told that
the slimy commissioner of Major League Baseball is going around
trying to improve communication relationships with every team and all
(16:22):
the players. And the meeting lasted an hour. Must have
been very boring. My god, must have that been boring. Anyway,
they talked for an hour. Manford never said the words
salary cap in quotes. You never said that. The discussion
was about the economics. And that is what raised the
(16:43):
dander of one Bryce Harper, who loves the Philly fanatic
and I love the Philly fanatics, so I have that
in common with Bryce Harper. So let us discuss the question.
Philly star a multi time MVP, Bryce Harper going I
to eye mono a mono with Commissioner Rob Manford over
(17:05):
the salary cap who's side on? I am in the side.
Now I'm gonna tell you who side. I think you
know who side I'm on. I've got dog Whistle, Art
of the Covenant and sopranos, and we'll put all these
things together and we're gonna make the gobba gool is
what we're gonna make. We're gonna make the gobbagool all right.
So hey, listen, I am on the side of truth,
(17:26):
justice and the sports talk way. Bryce Harper. Here we go, prize,
here we go. Yeah, come on, Now, I love it.
I love the visual in the cartoon bubble over my head. Uh,
it's great. That little clown weasel, your little weasel, Rob Manford, right,
little clown commissioner Major League Baseball. There he goes down
(17:48):
you sashch is his way into the Phillies clubhouse saying,
oh man, I'm just gonna go in there and blow
smoke in that clubhouse and boom boom boom boom boom boom,
nose to nose with Bryce Harper. So good, so good, Bravo, Encore, Encore.
(18:09):
I say, someone had to say, now I love that.
It's Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper doesn't need to do this.
He's already got his money. He's already got the three
hundred million dollar contract. Why is he what's he care?
He got his Normally, the way this works is if
you get the bag, you don't care about anyone else.
(18:30):
You got yours. You don't go to each their own,
screw everyone else. Right, you got paid. That's it. Do
you know how rare it is that someone gets that
kind of wealth to play baseball and is still out
there screaming and barking and saying, no, we're not doing
a salary cap. Normally, you know this, when you get
(18:50):
the bag, just stop caring about the other players. Anyone
who understands basic math, by the way, not just malar math,
basic mathunderstands the cap is cramp like. No one that
knows economics wants the salary cap, and baseball is the
worst thing in the world. Right, you're just announcing you're
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an idiot. If you said I want a salary cap,
he says I want the owners to make more money.
That's what you're saying. You're moron, your dummy, is what
you're saying. The salary cap talk is always a dog whistle,
all right. It's a dog whistle for how can we
keep salaries down from the ownership side, but yet convince
dumb people, the fans, the idiots, that we're doing the
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right thing for competitive bounce. You realize, with no salary cap,
baseball has more of a competitive bounce than any of
those sports that have salary caps. Hello, what does that say?
What The teams that actually try end up winning have
success in baseball. The problem is not the salary cap.
The problem is the teams that don't give a crap
about winning. Sacramento or Sacramento of the A. Is that
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scumbag John Fisher, the Marlins in Miami, the Pirates, teams
like that. That's the problem. You can win the Tampa
Bay they don't spend any real money playing a minor
league ballpark now because the hurricane took out their stadium.
And I know they're having the greatest year, but considering
the amount of money they spend, they find ways. The
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Milwaukee Brewers have been wonderful in recent years, a consistent
playoff contender or playoff team over the last decade or so.
They don't spend a ton of money. It can be
done right, and you're not. Really The issue is like
teams that don't want to win. That's the problem. It's
not the salarycap. The salary CAP's not going to fix
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anything in terms of well competitive bounds. You already have
that right. And the dirty little secret in Major League
Baseball is that you look around and you see that
the teams that actually put an effort into it generally
find some success. But you can make a lot of
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money and have a baseball team that is just a
golden goose without even There's like seven people that go
to Marlins games, and I know one of them, Marlin's man,
and even he doesn't go to many Marlins games, and
he lives in Miami, but he'd rather travel around the
United States and see games in other stadiums that don't
involve the Marlins because the Marlins blow. And yet the
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Marlins make money. And you know, the Athletics left Oakland.
They made money in Oakland. Nobody went to the games
in Oakland. Nobody's you know, the Sacramento a minor league
ballparks aren't even there. They're making money because you get
the TV money, you get the national revenue, and in addition,
you get the teams that spend a lot, like the
Dodgers and the Mets and teams like that. They cut
(21:46):
your check for not even trying. Right. You can draw
seven hundred and seven thousand, whatever, doesn't matter. Put a
crap product, garbage at first base, trash at second, feces
at shortstop, and do doo third and you will make money.
You will absolutely make money. And while teams that try
to win, iind the Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees, teams
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like that, they have to pay a penalty for these
other teams, and then they just pocket the money. That's
the dirty little secret in baseball. I'm Rob Manford. He's
never going to address that. Why would he? All right,
why would he?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
So?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I love the fact that Bryce Harper got right in
the face of Rob Manford and just threw it down
right and should have tossed him right out there on
Broad Street is what he should have done. Now, the
second page on this why is the salary cap chatter
which is being cranked up. The labor negotiations will take
place in twenty twenty six, so it's not that far
(22:44):
away the end of the twenty twenty six season, which
means they could be there could be a workstoppage prior
to that. Many in Baseball are preparing for the nuclear winter.
But why is this salary cap the chatter Inmajor League
Baseball ultimately a burger. Let me explain this to you
like you're five years old. The reason that this is
(23:07):
a nothing burger. In order for there to be a serahcap,
you would have to have support of the players. There
is not support of the players. But even if you
could get support of the players, in order for this
to realistically work, you would have to do something that
you will not do. Something you cannot do, something that
you will not do. No matter what happens, you won't
do it. And what is that If you want to
(23:29):
have an honest conversation about a salary cap in Major
League baseball, the owners would have to open the bucks.
They'd have to open the bucks, the bean counters. That's
never gonna happen, never ever, ever, never. And here's why,
the reason why, and most of us know this. They
are every team in baseball is making a profit. Now,
(23:50):
not every team makes a big profit, not every team
makes a big profit, but they're making money, boat loads
of money in Major League Baseball. And these owners who
are making money hand over fist while at the same
time pretending like they're bleeding cash and morons. Oh, these
poor teams are losing money. No they're not dummy, No
they're not right. And the books are the holy grip.
(24:13):
I've heard some stuff that I'm not allowed to say
because I don't want to get in trouble with certain people.
But I've heard things over the years involving the books
and the lengths that Major League Baseball has gone to
to make sure the financials don't get out. Some mind
blowing things have passed through my head from people who
work in baseball, the efforts that they have gone to
(24:34):
avoid opening the books. Right, Like, imagine if you peeked
inside John Fisher's financials and realized the Athletics didn't have
to leave Oakwood. He was making a lot of money.
He just wants to make more money. And you know,
so it's that whole thing. Right, You're more likely to
see the arc of the covenant than you are the
financials of these these owners that cry they don't have
(24:54):
any money. They treat the financials in baseball like the
nuclear launch codes. Okay, that's what they treated it like.
And it is such a scam. It is such a scam.
We need a cap for parody. We want to have
every tream. How about chance to win. It reminds me
of that used car salesman Bud Selik was going around
(25:17):
in the early two thousands, in the nineties and saying, well,
we need new stadiums in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati so we
can have good teams on the field. These teams can
win the World Series if they get those stadiums. They
built new stadiums. Guess what, spoiler alert. The teams blow
chunks in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, right, they suck And they
(25:38):
were taught, all you need is a new stadium. This
is the magic the magic pill. That's all you need,
right that's all you need. And so come on, it's nonsense.
You don't have it. You don't have it right now.
And yet more teams if you try, If the Reds
and Pirates actually tried, they would actually find a way
to make the postseason. And we know in baseball, just
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making the postseasons all you have to do. It's one
of those things. It's not like basketball where or even
football where if you're like a one or two seed
you have a very good chance of going to the
NBA Finals. With the super Bowl. In baseball, it doesn't
work that way. But again, it all goes back. You're
not going to open the books, so no matter how
much you said, when you're to show recap and you
try to get the dumb fans behind him, morons, all right,
(26:20):
people with IQ's below thirty, and you say, okay, it
doesn't matter right, they're sitting on gold mines, these owners
and crying poverty. Now, I don't doubt that Scott Boris
was behind this leak of the Bryce Harper story. That's Scott.
It's my opinion. Can't sue me for my opinion that
Scott Boris and his team leaked that story, because why
(26:40):
would Major League Baseball leak a story about Rob Manford
getting into a confrontation with one of the star players
in baseball? Would never do that. So it had to
come from Bryce Harper's camp, and Scott Boris is his guy,
So it makes a lot of sense. But you look
at everything. I mean, they make so much money in baseball,
owning the stadium, the parking lots, A lot of these
(27:03):
teams have their own TV channels. They've monetized everything. Remember
I went to Wrigley Field when I was doing stuff
in another life. When I did stuff with the Dodgers,
we went there in the nineties and it was still
had the charm of the old Wrigley Field the way
it had always been. I went there a couple of
years ago, and it was like Downtown Disney. The Cubs
(27:24):
had bought all the property around Wrigley Field, the Cub ownership,
and they had put their own branding on everything and
all that, and so it was a much different experience
than it had been in the mom and pop days.
Now final fun so after the Bryce Harper rob Manford
confrontation took place. After that, a former Big league player
(27:45):
and now turned gas bag and schill for Major League Baseball,
Mark de Rosa, who works for Major League Baseball. According
to a story on The Athletic buried behind a paywall,
the Old Gray Lady, The New York Times owns the Athletic. Anyway,
Mark de Rosa, I was reading this story earlier. I
(28:06):
just saw it. So the story says that he warned.
Mark de Rosa warned the Philadelphia Phillies players of the
commissioner's power. He warned them. Now this was taken as
a threat. According to the way the story was reported
by Evan Drelik, who I briefly did a radio show
(28:27):
with years ago. So is that how it sounds to you?
Mark de ross acord to this story. Mark de Rosa,
who works for MLB. He warned the players that essentially
they're messing with the wrong guy. You're messing with Roubmanford.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All? Right? So the answer to this how does Yes,
it sounds like a threat. I would absolutely take that
as a threat. This is Sopranos style, is what it is.
It's organized baseball crime. If you will. Manford is the
mob boss. How long have we talked about Rob Manford
essentially being a mob boss of organized baseball?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And there you've got Mark de Rosa. Where is he
at here? So you've got Mark de Rosa, who played
a Major League baseball career, now he works from Major
League Baseball. He's the conciliary, right, He's he's the fixer,
he's the whisper in this right, and he's he goes
in there, he delivers the message for the mob boss
is what he does. And he gets his hands dirty
(29:26):
and all that, but not too dirty. Right, Let's not
forget who we're dealing with. Here, all right, And what
kind of power Rob Manford has? This is the same
Rob Manford If I'm wrong, correct me? Who shielded the
cheating Astros after the biggest cheating scandal in modern times.
A team cheated in the World Series, not just to
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get to the World Chairs in the World Series. It
was in the MLB video highlighting the World Series. And
what did Rob Manford do? He let the players walk free?
Ol boo oove that punk Bregman. Now with the Red
Sox Springer, there's still a few left. He's in Toronto.
I let him all walk free. And why is that?
There's a theory that baseball needed the business partners in
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Houston to be happy, and they would have been upset
if those guys had been suspended. There's one theory that's
out there. So if Manford likes you, if he likes you,
he'll protect you like family, just like a good mob movie.
Right your family? Now, if you cross him? What happens
(30:33):
if you crossing? Let's see here? Oh, I have an example.
Trevor Bauer. Remember Trevor Bauer, Cy young winning pitcher, Trevor Bauer. Yeah,
Trevor Bauer, who I think right now is sipping some
saki in Japan rather than pitching in Major League Baseball.
When starting pitching blows, Rob Manford, commissioner. Now technically Bauer
(30:54):
is allowed back. But he Bauer did something you're not
supposed to do. He trashed Trevor. Trevor Are trashed Rob
man for every chance he got. So now he's in Japan,
he's pitching on dusty mounds in Mexico. He's probably trying
to get a work visa to pitch in Afghanistan at
this particular point. And that's because he messed with Rob Manford.
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No one will touch him because Manford don't want him
in baseball. That's the theory, right, And so Manford plays favorites.
And as far as this other guy DeRosa, he doesn't
work for the players anymore. He's a former player. He's
on the payroll for Major League Baseball a right. And
he's sitting there at the MLB network commentating and apparently
giving friendly warnings wink wink, nod nod, like he's reading
(31:39):
some kind of bedtime story. While the message is rather
loud and clear. I think the message is rather loud
and clear here that you don't talk back to the
boss where the boss will get you. Right, you'll be
sleeping with the baseballs. If you talk to the boss
that strikes on. We can still we can still manipulate
the strikes on. We can. You know, next year we
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can't do it. But this year we can still manipulate it.
You know, fifty to fifty calls something the empires might
be going going away from Bryce Harper. You're not gonna
get those calls anymore. Right, I'm just saying, you come
at the King, You come at the King, and they
say your best not missing.
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Speaker 1 (32:32):
Let's do it quickly. Jacob in Delaware, who do you
want to partner up with? Jake? Have you got me?
Or Coop? Who do you want?
Speaker 5 (32:39):
You're a loser?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And Jay in Cincinnati, j Who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Okay, you ain't Loraina going?
Speaker 5 (32:49):
You don't want to team up with Loraina?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I was practicing in the break.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's bad, it would be entertaining, but Unfortunately, I'm told
you have to play with me. We'd have you play
with Eddie, but the company whacked him, so he's not here.
All right, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
What are the categoriesquick? Right?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
This is the Lori Laughlin addition. She turned sixty one
years old today. The categories are the new Kids, full House,
Hudson Street, and Critical Mass. Jacob, which category do you want?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Full House?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Full House? Alright? And Jay? How about you.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Do I pick a bit on?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah, Hudson Street, Critical Mass? Are the new Kids?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Critical Mass?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Okay, go ahead, you're up well forty five seconds on
the clock, Coop, right, yes.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yes, forty five seconds. I need the first and last name, Jacob.
These athletes have lots of children. Forty five seconds. Let's begin.
Current wide receiver for the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was
the quarterback for the Rams when they won the Super
Bowl in Saint Louis, Kurt Owner. Yes, this guy was
the running back for those teams. Yes, this guy is
(33:56):
the current head coach of Michigan basketball. Okay, this guy
was an MVP for the Angels. His son is now
in the Toronto Blue Jays. Yes, this guy had like
fourteen children. He couldn't even remember all their names. He
was a cornerback for the Jets. Yes, this guy has
(34:18):
the NBA record for most assists in the game. He
was also a head coach.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
All right, we're no, all right, all right, you didn't
get by the way, Joan Howard no longer the coach
of Michigan. No, he's.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
No.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yes, and Scott Sky all right, here.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We go, Jay forty if you picked their critical mass.
He's a big fatties okay, people out of shape? Yes,
you ready? Jay? Yeah, first and last name, all right.
I came to the Lakers from the Mavericks in the
trade this year. Luca don Yes, the big Diesel he's
on TNT. Was with Kobe with the Lakers. Yes, the
(34:56):
Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, just got in the Hall
of Fame African American picture for the Yankees. Played with
the Cleveland Indians as well. Yes, Fat quarterback for the Raiders.
Out of ls. You threw the ball really far, didn't
watch fil Yes, fat running back for the Green Bay Packers.
(35:18):
Bowling ball guy in the two thousands. Last name is
like a girl's name. Okay, the panda for the Giants.
Third baseman when they were when they're winning.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The World Panda.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
I said that Eddie Lacy was the running back that
he missed and Pablo Sandoval the panda.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
What's the score? Sixties?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
All right? So your back up? Jay and Ben? Do
you want the New Kids or Hudson Street?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Jayd all right, these athletes all won Rookie of the Year.
You know what that award is, Jay, Yes, sir, okay,
let's go forty five second of the clock. We're all
on our way.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Current running back for the New Orleans Saints right now,
he got in a bar fight in Vegas at a casino. Yes,
Philadelphia Philly star got into it with with the commissioner
of Major League Baseball. We talked about him. Yes, he
won a championship with the Celtics, but he came over
from the Oh no, that's what incorrect. He's currently playing
(36:22):
for the Rockets. He starred with Golden State, played in
Oklahoma City with the Sonics. Star forward catcher for the
Giants when they won the World Series all those years ago. Yes,
Japanese pitcher for the Dodgers in the nineties, started a
mania with the well no different first name, A white
(36:43):
guy three point shooter for the Mia Yeah, you got
it right, that's good. He got it all right, we'll
give you a Dyl Melmo. Now it counts.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. So he
got three of them, right, he got Bryce Harper, Alvanning.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
That's three seventy. All right, let's let's go Jacob. We've
got Hudson Street. These athletes were all born in New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Are you ready? Let's begin?
Speaker 6 (37:03):
All right, he's in the star for the Angels. He's
like native to the playoffs once. Yes, this guy is
a star on the Knicks. Not Jalen Brunson, the other
guy down. Yes, this guy was a quarterback for the Ravens.
He won a Super Bowl. But he's not that good.
No more recently. Yes, uh, this guy's a running back
(37:28):
for the Colts right now. He was a bonkers Yes,
this guy was forward for the Warriors back in the day.
He shot a free throw underhanded?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
That enough?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Did I get it?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Lorena?
Speaker 8 (37:43):
I count it?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Lrea wantcaming score? What are you doing doing? One job?
Keep score? Lorena? I counted.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Then I win.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
If she didn't keep score, I won. That's a win
for us.
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