July 25, 2023 • 31 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate who is more valuable to their team Elly Del La Cruz or Ronald Acuña Jr. And Jason gives you his top 3 best ways Chris Berman would report the Reds could trade Jonathan India.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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if we started covering beach offs in sports we could?
Uh we that's a market for that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Just make sure you uh enunciated properly. We'll be good
to have a beach off. Yeah, beach. I'm good at beach,
but I'm good at beach. Sure to beach off. I'll beach.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You know, here's the.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Man as we uh we flow into the week. I
mean it is Shark Week. Are we gonna see a
show where the shark actually wins? We're all about wins
a lot, I think.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I think in the Jaws movies, the shark wins a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I mean Jaws four it followed Michael Kane.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
All the way around. Well no, no, no, and followed
Chief Brody's widow. I thought it followed Michael Kane.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, you just got to happen to be there. He
was in the Bahamas, as you know, the man about
town that happened to have a.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Hell he was shooting. Blame it on Rio.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'll do this movie as well.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Look, he always says, I I'll never uh never be
mad about missing the oscars for the beach house that
I bought off of doing Jaws four. So true, right,
I mean he was pretty open about it. You are
only supposed to blow the bloody DAWs off, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I mean I keep waiting for like every year, like,
how do you top yourself with Shark Week? Like you
have to it?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I mean, what what now you bring in Jason Momoa.
But I saw some of the titles of things and
it seems pretty cool. But it also seems like these
could be titles of sci fi movies.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But how much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I mean, that's why, that's why, like something from is
this is this a real thing? Or is this from
shark Nado.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Well, we just celebrated the tenth anniversary at Comic Con
this past weekend Shark week.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean, I don't I don't know how you at
some point I got to think you need something like
maybe need talking sharks. I mean, I don't know, maybe
you need you need to spray paint the sharks. So
like you pretend like it's a it's a football game,
but like a Green eight that's Aaron Rodgers you put
on here and then you know they kind of fight
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
But I would wonder, you know, just you know, from
a straight production side, how much of this is old
footage that you're just kind of repurposing at this lot.
I don't know, no, no, no, no no, but I obviously so.
But the just the idea of all right, this was
actually filmed in twenty sixteen, Hey, cut that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Pie filmed in eighteen ninety eight. It wasn't three years
to go where else the sharks would be wearing masks.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's true, that's true. You know, we had we had
Michael Phelps racist shark. Can't we have somebody else round?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
But I mean, why why do we not have a
live breakdown of I mean a story that is pervasive
right now is that they're they're dealing with cocaine sharks,
yea out of Florida right now. Everything that's getting dumped
off both drugs exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Is that one of the shows that they feed cocaine
to the sharks and you watch them.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, no, I mean just right now, they're they're fearing
that they're ingestic because you've seen some erratic behavior a lot,
a lot more off.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
The coast of Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, you already already have a lot of erratic behavior
in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But now they're finally getting the man's right.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Man, the stuff he had out in the ocean. It's like,
oh no, we saved that for the next generation. And
now bam did not have La dela Cruz throw a
ball faster than a shark, right, I know, right here
we have more that's like the thing like the shark
and Ellie de la Cruz are like in some kind
kind of thing together and he's got to throw balls
to try to keep the shark away.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
From he's got to live for like thirty seconds. Why
do you want to hurt the shark? Tell you man,
maybe maybe sharks. Maybe the shark is fast in water.
How I mean, look, if he can cut through water.
I mean, now we're talking about a new skills company
walks on water.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Hey, just because he hit the last two nights, Okay,
he's been struggling before he hit a home run last night.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But there's a lot of oh for.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Fours, yeah in that game log here over the last
couple of weeks, but we don't cover those.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, but Elie de la Cruz and Knight had a
bit of a home run.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No, no, no, it's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, no, a little bit uh no, which we're
gonna hear because it's a great call. We're gonna hear
that coming up in a few minutes because look, the
debate about something like we talked about m v P
right and how Ronald Lecunya most likely is going to
win n L m VP because every day people want
he's only forty home runs away from me. The first
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eighty eighty guy in MLB is yes, I know. No,
I mean you like to project forward, You're on.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
A pace for nice. Yeah that's nice, I guess. But
you just hate him because he's a brave. No, no,
just be honest with you. No, but you know what,
be true to yourself, look in the mirror and just
be honest with yourself. It's because he is against your
rival and your team sucks after spending a lot of money.
So you're mad that he's performing and came back performance.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So there were a lot of performer.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
There were a lot of folks kind of wondering, all right,
had had a down year, he's he's been hurt, and
then he comes back with a vengeance. You thought maybe
you'd move along, and then Austin Riley suddenly starts hitting
home runs every night.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So you're a little salty. That's part of your aims
in this process. Look, look, look, Mike, my feelings of
the braves aside. Uh, when you talk about MVP, right,
and this is what everybody still confuses, MVP is not
Player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If it was okay, it would be Player of the Year,
and the person who had the best year statistically would
win the MVP. And I've said for years, hey, let's
have the Hank Aaron Player of the Year award. Make
it weit it just like MVP, and you can give
that award to the guy with the best stats, who
had the best year overall. Yes, you can have a
Player of the Year award, but MVP is most valuable
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to your team. And let's say the Braves didn't have
Ronald Lacunya. Now, if only we had a stat that
could tell you how valuable. Oh that's right, we do.
We have war and he's got a great war this year, right,
Acunya's war is five. So let's just say the Braves
have five less wins than they do right now. If
they have five less wins then they do right now,
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it is still an eight game lead for them in
the NL East. So without Ronald Lacunya and his five war,
and you can talk about whoever you put in there
in the outfield in centerfield, just be an even war.
You're still having an eight game lead. You had eight
all stars. So how valuable is Akunya. He's a great player, yes,
but how valuable is he de la Cruz, who the
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Reds were terrible, Now he's come up. Look where they
are right now. They're a game out of first place
and they were in first place for a little while.
Milwaukee's gotten hot over the course of the past ten games.
We knew that was gonna happen. Milwaukee's pretty good, but
the Reds went from being nobody's to suddenly here they
are in the thick of the playoff chase. When Ellie
de la Cruz came up. Yeah, that's an MVP type situation.
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And again, because that's what the award is most valuable
to your team. I know that Ronald Kooney is valiable.
Is he more valuable to the Braves than Ellie de
la Cruz is to the red No, not even close.
He's a great player. But they could win the NL
East without him. They can move on in the playoffs,
they can get to the World here, they won the
World Series without him. So all these things that you
have seen, Yeah, player of the Year, sure, MVP. This
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is where guys like de la Cruz. Sorry, well, they
cut through and what they've done so far, especially him,
since he's come up.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You can see the immediate reaction to his team from
when he came up.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
What's his actual war though, his actual war.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You're gonna ask me that right now, Ikne, You're gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I mean we decided to dial up the war. I
had the rodal, so like, if we're gonna go the
and use that as one of our data points to
make the argument. By the way, if you if you
strip some of the team names out of there, you
really just made the argument for Joel Embiid's m v P.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
That's that's Future New York Nick. Okay, but just for
this past year, many about saying that can happen. By
the way, so many people are saying that could happen. Yeah,
you heard it here first, but it was wild speculation
on your parts.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And he can come to us because he's upset, has to.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Come with stop.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, no, no no. That's what I've been reading.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
He and his hamburgers someplace else. Okay, what that that?
That one whole thing ticked me off. Someone's gonna give
you a couple of hamburgers. Like you just laugh, you say, yeah,
I'll post on it. Yeah, sure, you give me a
stack of burgers. Promotion, promotion, get in there and sell, sell, sell. Look,
I love your Elie de la Cruz argument, and I
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like the cut of your jib.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It has been voted upon the other way year after
year after they're not changing. But it's people vote that
way when they feel like it. Now. Sometimes it's we're
gonna vote for the guy with the best year. Other
times it's no, we don't like this guy, so we're
going to vote for somebody else. And then we're gonna say, oh,
now we're taking the true meaning of MVP. Yeah, but
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voters whatever is convenient for them, that's how they like
to vote.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
As much as I love Elie de la Cruz, I mean,
it is a great story, there's no question about it.
And he's fantastic and the highlight reel stuff is all there.
At this rate, he is a guy hitting two seventy
three with six home run nineteen RBI. And yes, he
has stolen a bunch of bases, I get it right.
We those those are the facts and evidence. They are
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not disputed. As it were, He's got seventeen stolen bases
for four punch outs. There the great stats and projected
another two months. Ronald 'cuna Junior is just blowing it
out of the water. Yeah, and you're forcingting what you're
asking to do. And remember we'ren't sports talk radio. And
(10:10):
while I like to think people like to go down
into the deep waters with me here and do the
nuance whatever. No, we like hot take nonsense, we like
it served on a plate, very easy. We're just talking
about highlight reels and all of those things, uh and
and what people like sheep.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like, it's time, it's time.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Give me my highlights, give me a top ten list,
all of those things. It's gonna take a lot because
it's a very nuanced conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Everybody loves, everybody loves Ronald.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Lacun I gotta give it to him. We got good.
Why why would we would?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Let's let's do it because we have to here.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay, he's a great player, but they could win without him.
They can win without him, right, but they go and
eight all stars. What none of the other guys, None
of the other guys gonna have MVP.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Also receiving votes.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
H Let's listen Ellie de la Cruz, who now the
the Reds are twenty seven and thirteen since he came. Sure,
let's listen to his home run from tonight, because this
call is legendary.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Da crube fly bin Sir.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Outside of the stad it went over the suv, It
cleared the stands that Ball.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Had a family.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Valley Sports on the call that Ball family.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's a good one. That's a good call.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's the and his highlight reads putting it over the suv, Like,
I don't know what they do.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Somebody just parked suv hit it over my suv that
I parked their driving.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm really curious.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I do you think the video company meant just yet
that would show me the suv?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
It's like Blake Griffin jumping over sure, But no, Look,
I love you the argument, and I love that it's
a consideration to try to look at the MVP term
a little bit differently, because that's that's what we always
want to shake it up. Right, We're having this big
conversation about the NFL and player payments and fair unfair
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reality versus what you would hope to accomplish with any
kind of larger labored discussion. Here we're talking stats, we're
talking impact, but we're talking about a young player who
gets you excited and gives you a highlight reel stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And wins and his team wins, his team win again.
The Braves would still be as good without Ronald le'cunya.
The Reds wouldn't be this good without Eli del.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I think the the answer I was looking for before
is his war is under a one.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, it's like point nine. Yeah, yeah, it's like point nine.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So but but but no, no, but you war I'm
telling you, I'm okay. But do you really think you
would the Braves be an eight game lead without Acuna?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I don't know. Yes, what you say?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Ask you what do you think? No, you don't think so.
So do you think war is completely it's irrelevant and
it's not measured. They're they're cruising. They're fine, they're cruising.
So without without a Counya, they'd still be out a
eight game lead. How much they struggle? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Was Warri's bigger? I mean, he's a glue guy, So
you think it's so, is Warri's bigger?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Is bigger than one nine? But you take five away
and they still an eight game lead for them, So
so you think it would be like a four guy?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So it was war should be.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Like yeah, But you're also trying to diminish the fact
that you know, you're trying to make excuses for the
fact that your mets suck and other teams conversation, because
part of that is beating the crap ass teams, including
the Mets.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
They beating other teams too. It's not just although they
did end the Mets season.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
With that series, you know, I just had to take
it to brass tags right there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
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Speaker 3 (14:00):
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
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Speaker 2 (14:02):
That is?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
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Speaker 4 (14:04):
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Speaker 1 (14:04):
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Speaker 4 (14:07):
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now, hey, listen, we talked about Ellie d Lacruz few
minutes ago. We got to get into a couple of
big topics from the NFL. But as promised earlier in
the show, I had two stories ready from today. How
would Chris Berman report them? Okay, and we gave you
you know, Tom Brady dating arena shake, Yeah, I gave
you that.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay, Well, now you know legend there's video evidence. So
then you had.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Shagan Beakman. Wait a second, there's video evidence of that?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, no, they're they're of the two of them together
and then walking into his house weekend, and then there's
video of him and her in his car and he's
got his hand on her cheek.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
But that's a lot different.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
No, yeah, that's there's video evidence that they were together,
is what I'm saying. I mean, look, the scene from
Ted two was more graphic.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, no, there's there's no video. There's this They were together,
is what I meant to say.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
There was there might be video, we just don't have it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah. Oh no, boy, that would be yeah, no, I
that would Yeah, I don't sell more than if he'd
been with Kim k Yeah. Whoa, I don't know about that.
I mean, this is a new territory. Yeah, but I
mean Kim Kardashian's a she's a fashion that you're icon.
She's dating Tom Brady. She was there to be a video. Yeah. No, man,
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I would say, you know what I would say. I
would say, okay, because I always say I used to
think about this when I was when I was younger,
date if I was going to date somebody, Yeah about
I think no, no, no, because I think about like, okay,
if I date you do I have to worry about
any ex boyfriend right becoming whether it's you want to
(15:57):
get back together, some kind of drama, or if I
find out you're dating somebody else, you know, And so
I would sit there and go. If I'm Tom Brady,
I would go date Kim Kardashian. What would Kanye do?
What exactly would he do? That's a fair question. What
would I do? Like? Would I wake up one day
(16:19):
and I would get a pair of Easy's in the
in the in the mail I got to or with
something I don't know. I don't I don't know what happened.
I don't know. It's tough. That's tough call.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It's a very tough He reportedly upset about the.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yes with yes her and Pete Davidson and all this
time telling you man, when I was would saying, okay,
if we date your ex boyfriend, not to mention the
just the ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well pretty well body has exes and stuffing. Yeah, but
it's exacumented with her of who they are? You want
much of anonymous?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's how you know?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, No, you know, I know?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Okay, great, God, I'm not worried about ray J showing
up again.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I'd bean.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But Kanye going, oh, Kanye is okay, he's uh yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He may figure out how to monetize whatever you do.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He might see your Mets gear and just feel bad
for you. Yeah, I would think, what how's this about me? Now?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Side with.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Think about I was single?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I think about it if we date?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Hell thinks about that stuff while you're dating the girl.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
No, no, no, it's before dating, like if we get
together as something, that's that's what something kept you from
shooting your shot.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That was no, no, no, well, maybe really be.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
With a couple.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well you know what, used to date the bigger guy
on the football team, and and it wasn't almost because
something would happen sometimes it well, I was really I
was friends with this guy, and this is weird.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We know each other, we hang out in the same circles.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's kind of weird all day.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But I don't mean, but, but Kanye would go, man,
I don't know what happened. Man, that would be very
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
No, I think he'd be fine. I mean I think
he'd show up at some performance and probably call you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Out performance his performance.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I mean, if you're accepting an award. He's gonna interrupt, But.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Beyond that, you can I could wake up one morning
and suddenly on Michael Douglas in the.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Game, like, what's happened to my life?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, but all of a sudden, you've got some excitement. Yeah,
we've got some intruth. I think dating Kim Kardashian just
in of itself would be enough, sure enough, But now
here to get back to this is I got the game.
I used to think about the well, I know, I
used to think about No, you see, you guys are
just twisting.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
No, not at all, that's what on the prize in
front of you. A couple of times would're worried about
the dudes behind.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What's good? Is it worth it? What's gonna happen? This's
guy gonna show up on a motorcycle outside my house
and throw stuff through the window.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, but this is where you sing like you're Rod
Stewart or Brian Adams are sting and you say you do.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It all for love.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Well, if I was okay, if I was really that's right,
look what I did.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
If I was really into her it was it wouldn't matter.
But if I was, like maybe is that.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, I would, I would I back off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, that takes you away? Huh A couple of times.
That's bad? What about it?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I mean, wouldn't the fear like heightened this, the emotion
of it all, maybe the passion of it all. Guys,
am I wrong?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Ear is you're a Your boyfriend's not the Oh no,
he still has the keys. He still couldn't come in
an any any moment he could walk in. There's some
excitement there, Okay, and this is what you're worried about.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well, actually no, it's not all the time. And it
was just a couple of times when I was young.
But there were times where things were a little bit
different where this one girl I dated, we were crazy
about each other. She had a bad ex boyfriend and
she was.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Like, oh this guy, this guy, And I'm like, okay,
and why was he a bad ex boyfriend?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is bad to her? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I didn't like him because he wore a leather jackets, smoked.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He just keeps smoking and oh my, the smell like smoke.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Now I leave him on the porch and I gotta
be able to No, he was They just never should
have been together, and it was just one of those
bad relationships where they didn't you know, they didn't treat
each other well, and it was just uh and but he, like,
you know, she told me once she goes, he ever said,
if I find out you're dating somebody else, I'm gonna
I'm gonna come win win you back from him. And
I'm going, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Bringing boom box outside her window. No, no, he was
in the process.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He was bigger, he was tall. Anyway, it was it
was he's wanted to kiss everybody. And so I went
to her house for a party we had. It was
like a Memorial Day party or barbecue or something. And
she says to me, uh, you know, we have this
party every year, you know. So I was there and
we were everything was great. Relation was great at that point,
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and and we were getting along great. We were in
love with each other. It was great. And she goes,
you know, but you know, he knows we have this
party every year, and I wouldn't be surprised if he
shows up. And I'm like, okay, So at like se o'clock,
I decide I'm gonna go downstairs and sit on the portion.
If he shows up, I'm gonna send him on his way.
So I go down there and I'm sitting there like
he did it but.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Proved.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And after about twenty minutes, I say to myself, this
is stupid.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
What if I do it?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm Matt David at the end of air. This is stupid.
I'm not gonna do This is just stupid.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So I'm like, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Am, I gonna go back upstairs because she knows, and
so she comes down. He goes, what are you doing
down here? I said, if he was showing up, I
was gonna tell him. She goes, oh my.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
God, that's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And then unless she love me, love me, love me
even more for that, he never showed up. But at
that moment, yeah, I was okay. I was ready to
throw down if something happened.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right, So, how did you screw it up?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh? No, I didn't screw it up. We just she uh.
We dated for a while. Everything was great, and then
but he want no, No, she wanted much more drama.
As you can tell by this that I was willing
to go along with, like she really wanted told you
she really liked drama, and I didn't see that. And now,
(22:02):
of course you love drama. I said, no sports teams,
that's all that. I don't like it my relationships. I
have enough drama with my team.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So I didn't want it. And I realize, okay, now
she she just wanted drama. And I'm like, you know
what this is. This is not good. This is just
this is and and and it just I said this
is going to end any day now. And then it
ended and I was like, okay, all right, that's it,
all right?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
We yeah, no, she never ever ever getting back together,
so it can all be tied together with swiftly.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah it was, But that was that was the whole
thing was was was that at that point.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
All right, I'm I'm I'm ready for this. I'll stand
up for it sometimes like yeah, I don't know, I mean,
really do that?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Do you think Brady wants to wake up every day
and go, what what did yeasy say in the in
the in the you know, on the internet today?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
What? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now? What's what's happening now here? That's tough, man. I'd
like to think Tom Brady's above all that.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, now he's got to read a shake, he's got
to read even if he'd gone the other route and
he's better than that, well, you never know.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Maybe he is going to be dating Kim Kardashian at
some point soon. Maybe he'll change his name. He'll be
Tom Kardashian. Maybe he'll be Tom Kardashian West Brady.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
What's his middle name?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
North? He's Tom North Kardashian West Brady.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'm Peter North Brady. No, there you go. You know,
we're just spanning the decades.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
At some point there's a conversation that needs Okay, anyway,
So anyway Edward, yes, because that's his kid's name. Who
is nicknamed? Whose initials? His Jet? Jonathan Edward Thomas isn't
j E. T. So he's gonna play quarterback for the
Jets one day he owns the Jets.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now, we talked about Elie de la Cruz all the
way back to this. How would Berman announce that that
Jonathan India really good infielder, rookie of the year, big
story today the Reds may trade him?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Okay, so how would Berman report this story? We're still
doing this and I'm just a little bit here.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And again again I have because of Frostburg and and
knowing that there's certain ones that you're going to be
grown about. I've made my top three the top three
best ways for Burman to report the Reds could trade
Jonathan India. Now there is some celebration when there are
grown worthy ones like that's part of the entertainments. But
(24:26):
I mean it's just like American idol or like guys
getting caught on hard knocks. Let's keep it sports. Yeah, Okay,
there's something watching that part of the process. All right,
here we go. So I'm gonna lead you up from
from number one to number three. All right here we
got all right, TJ. Memo to any team who trades
for Jonathan India, ink him to a new contract as
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soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Indian inc.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I like that Indian because I had thought as soon
as you started going down that road, let's see if
it shows.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Up TJ a shocking headline the Reds made trade India.
Ari really going to do it? You didn't get it, India?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Ri? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I like that right, Tyshu even got that one.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I don't know. I explained to tight to India.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Ari.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is I think that's that's before his time? It's a
band that yes, sure, yeah, Oh so we're going okay,
all right, very good, he knows.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
All right, here's my last one. This one promise, promise
to say your loves these, I'd rather do these, You'd
rather me do these?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And have him tell you what's trending, putting him on
the training blok DJ, The Reds are telling the reast
of Major League Baseball this deadline season. There is a
passage to India, DJ, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Okay, it was a famous movie. A Passage to India
was I think it won the Oscar for Best.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Be year it did? What year eighty three? Oh gosh,
who is Gandhi?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Passage to India? Hang on, I think it won hang on,
let me see it right here? Hang on a okay
India film? Okay, nineteen eighty four, and yeah, Oscar Oscar
Oscars gross supporting Ago.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
There we go Picture, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress,
Judy Davis. See, I really thought you were going to
tie it back to the Captain Jack Sparrow that we
threatened every once in a while and the East India
Trading Company.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I was gonna get that in. That was a tough
that was too tough to get. I thought that was
too obscure. So I want to hit you with India instead. Yeah, DJ,
with a passage to India. You want there is a
passage to India to make this trade.
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Speaker 1 (27:06):
And one trend and it's hard to see a trend
that everybody can agree on, but the latest rip of
NFL alternative uniforms that have been announced in the past
few days for games this year. Everyone is a winner
except no, No, the Jets was great. Are you kidding, dumb,
dumb hall Man. You had the Seahawks. You had the
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Seahawks going back to the nineties with their blue and
and and and greener, not the highlighter uniforms.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Right, absolute win.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Right, you had Tennessee now going back They're gonna wear
Houston Oilers.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, Campbell, right, awesome. I get that way. At Houston.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's ours, No Tennessee the team that left, that's gonna
look awesome. And the Jets announce today they're gonna wear
their legacies with the old Jets logo that did so
much losing in Man Home Man. They lost so many
games in those jerseys. They're gonna wear those. A couple
of cans. You you're gonna have to wear it again.
If you go back to the eighties and nineties in
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sports for uniforms, you can't lose. You can't lose. Oh,
take the seventies into everything. Seventies well, but I'm just
because the seventies is not as much video and sometimes
the colors aren't as vibrant as you get from it.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I just wanted to go nineties back and now into
the decade.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Look.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'm good with things like Look, the Vikings have going
back to the seventies for some of their uniforms, and
that looks great. I love the Dolphins the awkward green.
But you go back to the eighties or nineties for
a uniform for your team and it's an automatic win.
It's a no brainer. It's how do we make money
because people will buy these. No one's gonna not buy them.
No one's gonna not go out and try to get
Oh we're putting out these new uniforms from the I'm
(28:50):
gonna go out and get I'm gonna get a hat,
I'm gonna get a T shirt, I'm gonna get a jersey.
So I don't know why every team doesn't do it
and say, hey, we're gonna have eighties game, right, this
is eighties week, and everybody wears a units from the
eighties in a week for the NFL. Pat and Penning
got a call Rodger Goodell with that idea. Or and
have a nineties week where they they all do journeys
from the nineties. How do you not do that? Because
everybody loves that is is is the past and retro
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that everybody loves. There is no one that walks away.
Well I hated those uniforms in the eighties. No, everybody
loved the uniforms in the seventies and eight we get
the creamsicle uniforms. Yeah, eighties and nineties, go back and
do it. I don't know why every NFL team does
not do that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, I want to go history all all together, because
then I can get those prison uniforms that the Bears
used to wear in the throwback games, or the bumble Bees.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I know they push those away in Pittsburgh. No, no, no, no,
come on, those are great. They're so bad. They're great now,
some of those when they go really far back. Hey,
they wore these uniforms in nineteen thirty three. Oh my goodness,
it just looked like bumble.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Bees in the same of knitting and same fabric that
they used in nineteen thirty three. Other helmets exactly leatherheads.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Because if you go back like that, remember when they
did in the nineties, when they would go back and
like the Packers, here's are nineteen thirty five U fourth beards,
here's are nineteen twenty seven year it was like, oh,
those things are terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Those are awful, but it was fun. Those are awful
ideas to the eighties and nineties. Everybody loves it. I
don't understand. I wrap it all with a big bear hug.
Wherever you can monetize, I don't care. And that's it.
You gotta go and figure out the next hat scheme.
That's why you can go buy a red Yankees doesn't
make any sense. No, Twitter, it out about a fresco
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sorry x X. And how about as you're not catching
eckx one x Mike, it's swollen doma eggs.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It's a uh.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Coming up next, we have a big story out of
the NFL where one group of position players isn't happy.
Is there a solution for him? No, it's next, right
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
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Just make sure you uh enunciated properly. We'll be good
to have a beach off. Yeah, beach. I'm good at beach,
but I'm good at beach. Sure to beach off. I'll beach.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You know, here's the.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Man as we uh we flow into the week. I
mean it is Shark Week. Are we gonna see a
show where the shark actually wins? We're all about wins
a lot, I think.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I think in the Jaws movies, the shark wins a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I mean Jaws four it followed Michael Kane.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
All the way around. Well no, no, no, and followed
Chief Brody's widow. I thought it followed Michael Kane.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, you just got to happen to be there. He
was in the Bahamas, as you know, the man about
town that happened to have a.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Hell he was shooting. Blame it on Rio.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'll do this movie as well.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Look, he always says, I I'll never uh never be
mad about missing the oscars for the beach house that
I bought off of doing Jaws four. So true, right,
I mean he was pretty open about it. You are
only supposed to blow the bloody DAWs off, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I mean I keep waiting for like every year, like,
how do you top yourself with Shark Week? Like you
have to it?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I mean, what what now you bring in Jason Momoa.
But I saw some of the titles of things and
it seems pretty cool. But it also seems like these
could be titles of sci fi movies.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But how much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I mean, that's why, that's why, like something from is
this is this a real thing? Or is this from
shark Nado.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Well, we just celebrated the tenth anniversary at Comic Con
this past weekend Shark week.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean, I don't I don't know how you at
some point I got to think you need something like
maybe need talking sharks. I mean, I don't know, maybe
you need you need to spray paint the sharks. So
like you pretend like it's a it's a football game,
but like a Green eight that's Aaron Rodgers you put
on here and then you know they kind of fight
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
But I would wonder, you know, just you know, from
a straight production side, how much of this is old
footage that you're just kind of repurposing at this lot.
I don't know, no, no, no, no no, but I obviously so.
But the just the idea of all right, this was
actually filmed in twenty sixteen, Hey, cut that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Pie filmed in eighteen ninety eight. It wasn't three years
to go where else the sharks would be wearing masks.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's true, that's true. You know, we had we had
Michael Phelps racist shark. Can't we have somebody else round?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
But I mean, why why do we not have a
live breakdown of I mean a story that is pervasive
right now is that they're they're dealing with cocaine sharks,
yea out of Florida right now. Everything that's getting dumped
off both drugs exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Is that one of the shows that they feed cocaine
to the sharks and you watch them.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, no, I mean just right now, they're they're fearing
that they're ingestic because you've seen some erratic behavior a lot,
a lot more off.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
The coast of Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, you already already have a lot of erratic behavior
in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But now they're finally getting the man's right.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Man, the stuff he had out in the ocean. It's like,
oh no, we saved that for the next generation. And
now bam did not have La dela Cruz throw a
ball faster than a shark, right, I know, right here
we have more that's like the thing like the shark
and Ellie de la Cruz are like in some kind
kind of thing together and he's got to throw balls
to try to keep the shark away.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
From he's got to live for like thirty seconds. Why
do you want to hurt the shark? Tell you man,
maybe maybe sharks. Maybe the shark is fast in water.
How I mean, look, if he can cut through water.
I mean, now we're talking about a new skills company
walks on water.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Hey, just because he hit the last two nights, Okay,
he's been struggling before he hit a home run last night.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But there's a lot of oh for.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Fours, yeah in that game log here over the last
couple of weeks, but we don't cover those.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, but Elie de la Cruz and Knight had a
bit of a home run.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No, no, no, it's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, no, a little bit uh no, which we're
gonna hear because it's a great call. We're gonna hear
that coming up in a few minutes because look, the
debate about something like we talked about m v P
right and how Ronald Lecunya most likely is going to
win n L m VP because every day people want
he's only forty home runs away from me. The first
(05:00):
eighty eighty guy in MLB is yes, I know. No,
I mean you like to project forward, You're on.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
A pace for nice. Yeah that's nice, I guess. But
you just hate him because he's a brave. No, no,
just be honest with you. No, but you know what,
be true to yourself, look in the mirror and just
be honest with yourself. It's because he is against your
rival and your team sucks after spending a lot of money.
So you're mad that he's performing and came back performance.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So there were a lot of performer.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
There were a lot of folks kind of wondering, all right,
had had a down year, he's he's been hurt, and
then he comes back with a vengeance. You thought maybe
you'd move along, and then Austin Riley suddenly starts hitting
home runs every night.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So you're a little salty. That's part of your aims
in this process. Look, look, look, Mike, my feelings of
the braves aside. Uh, when you talk about MVP, right,
and this is what everybody still confuses, MVP is not
Player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If it was okay, it would be Player of the Year,
and the person who had the best year statistically would
win the MVP. And I've said for years, hey, let's
have the Hank Aaron Player of the Year award. Make
it weit it just like MVP, and you can give
that award to the guy with the best stats, who
had the best year overall. Yes, you can have a
Player of the Year award, but MVP is most valuable
(06:16):
to your team. And let's say the Braves didn't have
Ronald Lacunya. Now, if only we had a stat that
could tell you how valuable. Oh that's right, we do.
We have war and he's got a great war this year, right,
Acunya's war is five. So let's just say the Braves
have five less wins than they do right now. If
they have five less wins then they do right now,
(06:38):
it is still an eight game lead for them in
the NL East. So without Ronald Lacunya and his five war,
and you can talk about whoever you put in there
in the outfield in centerfield, just be an even war.
You're still having an eight game lead. You had eight
all stars. So how valuable is Akunya. He's a great player, yes,
but how valuable is he de la Cruz, who the
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Reds were terrible, Now he's come up. Look where they
are right now. They're a game out of first place
and they were in first place for a little while.
Milwaukee's gotten hot over the course of the past ten games.
We knew that was gonna happen. Milwaukee's pretty good, but
the Reds went from being nobody's to suddenly here they
are in the thick of the playoff chase. When Ellie
de la Cruz came up. Yeah, that's an MVP type situation.
(07:21):
And again, because that's what the award is most valuable
to your team. I know that Ronald Kooney is valiable.
Is he more valuable to the Braves than Ellie de
la Cruz is to the red No, not even close.
He's a great player. But they could win the NL
East without him. They can move on in the playoffs,
they can get to the World here, they won the
World Series without him. So all these things that you
have seen, Yeah, player of the Year, sure, MVP. This
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is where guys like de la Cruz. Sorry, well, they
cut through and what they've done so far, especially him,
since he's come up.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You can see the immediate reaction to his team from
when he came up.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
What's his actual war though, his actual war.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You're gonna ask me that right now, Ikne, You're gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I mean we decided to dial up the war. I
had the rodal, so like, if we're gonna go the
and use that as one of our data points to
make the argument. By the way, if you if you
strip some of the team names out of there, you
really just made the argument for Joel Embiid's m v P.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
That's that's Future New York Nick. Okay, but just for
this past year, many about saying that can happen. By
the way, so many people are saying that could happen. Yeah,
you heard it here first, but it was wild speculation
on your parts.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And he can come to us because he's upset, has to.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Come with stop.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, no, no no. That's what I've been reading.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
He and his hamburgers someplace else. Okay, what that that?
That one whole thing ticked me off. Someone's gonna give
you a couple of hamburgers. Like you just laugh, you say, yeah,
I'll post on it. Yeah, sure, you give me a
stack of burgers. Promotion, promotion, get in there and sell, sell, sell. Look,
I love your Elie de la Cruz argument, and I
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like the cut of your jib.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It has been voted upon the other way year after
year after they're not changing. But it's people vote that
way when they feel like it. Now. Sometimes it's we're
gonna vote for the guy with the best year. Other
times it's no, we don't like this guy, so we're
going to vote for somebody else. And then we're gonna say, oh,
now we're taking the true meaning of MVP. Yeah, but
(09:22):
voters whatever is convenient for them, that's how they like
to vote.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
As much as I love Elie de la Cruz, I mean,
it is a great story, there's no question about it.
And he's fantastic and the highlight reel stuff is all there.
At this rate, he is a guy hitting two seventy
three with six home run nineteen RBI. And yes, he
has stolen a bunch of bases, I get it right.
We those those are the facts and evidence. They are
(09:50):
not disputed. As it were, He's got seventeen stolen bases
for four punch outs. There the great stats and projected
another two months. Ronald 'cuna Junior is just blowing it
out of the water. Yeah, and you're forcingting what you're
asking to do. And remember we'ren't sports talk radio. And
(10:10):
while I like to think people like to go down
into the deep waters with me here and do the
nuance whatever. No, we like hot take nonsense, we like
it served on a plate, very easy. We're just talking
about highlight reels and all of those things, uh and
and what people like sheep.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like, it's time, it's time.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Give me my highlights, give me a top ten list,
all of those things. It's gonna take a lot because
it's a very nuanced conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Everybody loves, everybody loves Ronald.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Lacun I gotta give it to him. We got good.
Why why would we would?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Let's let's do it because we have to here.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay, he's a great player, but they could win without him.
They can win without him, right, but they go and
eight all stars. What none of the other guys, None
of the other guys gonna have MVP.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Also receiving votes.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
H Let's listen Ellie de la Cruz, who now the
the Reds are twenty seven and thirteen since he came. Sure,
let's listen to his home run from tonight, because this
call is legendary.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Da crube fly bin Sir.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Outside of the stad it went over the suv, It
cleared the stands that Ball.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Had a family.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Valley Sports on the call that Ball family.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's a good one. That's a good call.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's the and his highlight reads putting it over the suv, Like,
I don't know what they do.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Somebody just parked suv hit it over my suv that
I parked their driving.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm really curious.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I do you think the video company meant just yet
that would show me the suv?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
It's like Blake Griffin jumping over sure, But no, Look,
I love you the argument, and I love that it's
a consideration to try to look at the MVP term
a little bit differently, because that's that's what we always
want to shake it up. Right, We're having this big
conversation about the NFL and player payments and fair unfair
(12:14):
reality versus what you would hope to accomplish with any
kind of larger labored discussion. Here we're talking stats, we're
talking impact, but we're talking about a young player who
gets you excited and gives you a highlight reel stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And wins and his team wins, his team win again.
The Braves would still be as good without Ronald le'cunya.
The Reds wouldn't be this good without Eli del.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I think the the answer I was looking for before
is his war is under a one.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, it's like point nine. Yeah, yeah, it's like point nine.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So but but but no, no, but you war I'm
telling you, I'm okay. But do you really think you
would the Braves be an eight game lead without Acuna?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I don't know. Yes, what you say?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Ask you what do you think? No, you don't think so.
So do you think war is completely it's irrelevant and
it's not measured. They're they're cruising. They're fine, they're cruising.
So without without a Counya, they'd still be out a
eight game lead. How much they struggle? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Was Warri's bigger? I mean, he's a glue guy, So
you think it's so, is Warri's bigger?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Is bigger than one nine? But you take five away
and they still an eight game lead for them, So
so you think it would be like a four guy?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So it was war should be.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Like yeah, But you're also trying to diminish the fact
that you know, you're trying to make excuses for the
fact that your mets suck and other teams conversation, because
part of that is beating the crap ass teams, including
the Mets.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
They beating other teams too. It's not just although they
did end the Mets season.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
With that series, you know, I just had to take
it to brass tags right there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
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Speaker 3 (14:00):
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
Here?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
That is?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
This is push?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Well?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I will well, ah will.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now, hey, listen, we talked about Ellie d Lacruz few
minutes ago. We got to get into a couple of
big topics from the NFL. But as promised earlier in
the show, I had two stories ready from today. How
would Chris Berman report them? Okay, and we gave you
you know, Tom Brady dating arena shake, Yeah, I gave
you that.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay, Well, now you know legend there's video evidence. So
then you had.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Shagan Beakman. Wait a second, there's video evidence of that?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, no, they're they're of the two of them together
and then walking into his house weekend, and then there's
video of him and her in his car and he's
got his hand on her cheek.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
But that's a lot different.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
No, yeah, that's there's video evidence that they were together,
is what I'm saying. I mean, look, the scene from
Ted two was more graphic.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, no, there's there's no video. There's this They were together,
is what I meant to say.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
There was there might be video, we just don't have it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah. Oh no, boy, that would be yeah, no, I
that would Yeah, I don't sell more than if he'd
been with Kim k Yeah. Whoa, I don't know about that.
I mean, this is a new territory. Yeah, but I
mean Kim Kardashian's a she's a fashion that you're icon.
She's dating Tom Brady. She was there to be a video. Yeah. No, man,
(15:35):
I would say, you know what I would say. I
would say, okay, because I always say I used to
think about this when I was when I was younger,
date if I was going to date somebody, Yeah about
I think no, no, no, because I think about like, okay,
if I date you do I have to worry about
any ex boyfriend right becoming whether it's you want to
(15:57):
get back together, some kind of drama, or if I
find out you're dating somebody else, you know, And so
I would sit there and go. If I'm Tom Brady,
I would go date Kim Kardashian. What would Kanye do?
What exactly would he do? That's a fair question. What
would I do? Like? Would I wake up one day
(16:19):
and I would get a pair of Easy's in the
in the in the mail I got to or with
something I don't know. I don't I don't know what happened.
I don't know. It's tough. That's tough call.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It's a very tough He reportedly upset about the.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yes with yes her and Pete Davidson and all this
time telling you man, when I was would saying, okay,
if we date your ex boyfriend, not to mention the
just the ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well pretty well body has exes and stuffing. Yeah, but
it's exacumented with her of who they are? You want
much of anonymous?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's how you know?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, No, you know, I know?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Okay, great, God, I'm not worried about ray J showing
up again.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I'd bean.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But Kanye going, oh, Kanye is okay, he's uh yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He may figure out how to monetize whatever you do.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He might see your Mets gear and just feel bad
for you. Yeah, I would think, what how's this about me? Now?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Side with.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Think about I was single?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I think about it if we date?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Hell thinks about that stuff while you're dating the girl.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
No, no, no, it's before dating, like if we get
together as something, that's that's what something kept you from
shooting your shot.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That was no, no, no, well, maybe really be.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
With a couple.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well you know what, used to date the bigger guy
on the football team, and and it wasn't almost because
something would happen sometimes it well, I was really I
was friends with this guy, and this is weird.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We know each other, we hang out in the same circles.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's kind of weird all day.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But I don't mean, but, but Kanye would go, man,
I don't know what happened. Man, that would be very
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
No, I think he'd be fine. I mean I think
he'd show up at some performance and probably call you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Out performance his performance.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I mean, if you're accepting an award. He's gonna interrupt, But.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Beyond that, you can I could wake up one morning
and suddenly on Michael Douglas in the.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Game, like, what's happened to my life?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, but all of a sudden, you've got some excitement. Yeah,
we've got some intruth. I think dating Kim Kardashian just
in of itself would be enough, sure enough, But now
here to get back to this is I got the game.
I used to think about the well, I know, I
used to think about No, you see, you guys are
just twisting.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
No, not at all, that's what on the prize in
front of you. A couple of times would're worried about
the dudes behind.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What's good? Is it worth it? What's gonna happen? This's
guy gonna show up on a motorcycle outside my house
and throw stuff through the window.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, but this is where you sing like you're Rod
Stewart or Brian Adams are sting and you say you do.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It all for love.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Well, if I was okay, if I was really that's right,
look what I did.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
If I was really into her it was it wouldn't matter.
But if I was, like maybe is that.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, I would, I would I back off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, that takes you away? Huh A couple of times.
That's bad? What about it?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I mean, wouldn't the fear like heightened this, the emotion
of it all, maybe the passion of it all. Guys,
am I wrong?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Ear is you're a Your boyfriend's not the Oh no,
he still has the keys. He still couldn't come in
an any any moment he could walk in. There's some
excitement there, Okay, and this is what you're worried about.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well, actually no, it's not all the time. And it
was just a couple of times when I was young.
But there were times where things were a little bit
different where this one girl I dated, we were crazy
about each other. She had a bad ex boyfriend and
she was.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Like, oh this guy, this guy, And I'm like, okay,
and why was he a bad ex boyfriend?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is bad to her? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I didn't like him because he wore a leather jackets, smoked.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He just keeps smoking and oh my, the smell like smoke.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Now I leave him on the porch and I gotta
be able to No, he was They just never should
have been together, and it was just one of those
bad relationships where they didn't you know, they didn't treat
each other well, and it was just uh and but he, like,
you know, she told me once she goes, he ever said,
if I find out you're dating somebody else, I'm gonna
I'm gonna come win win you back from him. And
I'm going, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Bringing boom box outside her window. No, no, he was
in the process.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He was bigger, he was tall. Anyway, it was it
was he's wanted to kiss everybody. And so I went
to her house for a party we had. It was
like a Memorial Day party or barbecue or something. And
she says to me, uh, you know, we have this
party every year, you know. So I was there and
we were everything was great. Relation was great at that point,
(20:48):
and and we were getting along great. We were in
love with each other. It was great. And she goes,
you know, but you know, he knows we have this
party every year, and I wouldn't be surprised if he
shows up. And I'm like, okay, So at like se o'clock,
I decide I'm gonna go downstairs and sit on the portion.
If he shows up, I'm gonna send him on his way.
So I go down there and I'm sitting there like
he did it but.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Proved.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And after about twenty minutes, I say to myself, this
is stupid.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
What if I do it?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm Matt David at the end of air. This is stupid.
I'm not gonna do This is just stupid.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So I'm like, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Am, I gonna go back upstairs because she knows, and
so she comes down. He goes, what are you doing
down here? I said, if he was showing up, I
was gonna tell him. She goes, oh my.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
God, that's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And then unless she love me, love me, love me
even more for that, he never showed up. But at
that moment, yeah, I was okay. I was ready to
throw down if something happened.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right, So, how did you screw it up?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh? No, I didn't screw it up. We just she uh.
We dated for a while. Everything was great, and then
but he want no, No, she wanted much more drama.
As you can tell by this that I was willing
to go along with, like she really wanted told you
she really liked drama, and I didn't see that. And now,
(22:02):
of course you love drama. I said, no sports teams,
that's all that. I don't like it my relationships. I
have enough drama with my team.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So I didn't want it. And I realize, okay, now
she she just wanted drama. And I'm like, you know
what this is. This is not good. This is just
this is and and and it just I said this
is going to end any day now. And then it
ended and I was like, okay, all right, that's it,
all right?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
We yeah, no, she never ever ever getting back together,
so it can all be tied together with swiftly.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah it was, But that was that was the whole
thing was was was that at that point.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
All right, I'm I'm I'm ready for this. I'll stand
up for it sometimes like yeah, I don't know, I mean,
really do that?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Do you think Brady wants to wake up every day
and go, what what did yeasy say in the in
the in the you know, on the internet today?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
What? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now? What's what's happening now here? That's tough, man. I'd
like to think Tom Brady's above all that.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, now he's got to read a shake, he's got
to read even if he'd gone the other route and
he's better than that, well, you never know.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Maybe he is going to be dating Kim Kardashian at
some point soon. Maybe he'll change his name. He'll be
Tom Kardashian. Maybe he'll be Tom Kardashian West Brady.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
What's his middle name?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
North? He's Tom North Kardashian West Brady.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'm Peter North Brady. No, there you go. You know,
we're just spanning the decades.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
At some point there's a conversation that needs Okay, anyway,
So anyway Edward, yes, because that's his kid's name. Who
is nicknamed? Whose initials? His Jet? Jonathan Edward Thomas isn't
j E. T. So he's gonna play quarterback for the
Jets one day he owns the Jets.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now, we talked about Elie de la Cruz all the
way back to this. How would Berman announce that that
Jonathan India really good infielder, rookie of the year, big
story today the Reds may trade him?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Okay, so how would Berman report this story? We're still
doing this and I'm just a little bit here.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And again again I have because of Frostburg and and
knowing that there's certain ones that you're going to be
grown about. I've made my top three the top three
best ways for Burman to report the Reds could trade
Jonathan India. Now there is some celebration when there are
grown worthy ones like that's part of the entertainments. But
(24:26):
I mean it's just like American idol or like guys
getting caught on hard knocks. Let's keep it sports. Yeah, Okay,
there's something watching that part of the process. All right,
here we go. So I'm gonna lead you up from
from number one to number three. All right here we
got all right, TJ. Memo to any team who trades
for Jonathan India, ink him to a new contract as
(24:48):
soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Indian inc.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I like that Indian because I had thought as soon
as you started going down that road, let's see if
it shows.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Up TJ a shocking headline the Reds made trade India.
Ari really going to do it? You didn't get it, India?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Ri? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I like that right, Tyshu even got that one.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I don't know. I explained to tight to India.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Ari.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is I think that's that's before his time? It's a
band that yes, sure, yeah, Oh so we're going okay,
all right, very good, he knows.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
All right, here's my last one. This one promise, promise
to say your loves these, I'd rather do these, You'd
rather me do these?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And have him tell you what's trending, putting him on
the training blok DJ, The Reds are telling the reast
of Major League Baseball this deadline season. There is a
passage to India, DJ, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Okay, it was a famous movie. A Passage to India
was I think it won the Oscar for Best.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Be year it did? What year eighty three? Oh gosh,
who is Gandhi?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Passage to India? Hang on, I think it won hang on,
let me see it right here? Hang on a okay
India film? Okay, nineteen eighty four, and yeah, Oscar Oscar
Oscars gross supporting Ago.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
There we go Picture, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress,
Judy Davis. See, I really thought you were going to
tie it back to the Captain Jack Sparrow that we
threatened every once in a while and the East India
Trading Company.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I was gonna get that in. That was a tough
that was too tough to get. I thought that was
too obscure. So I want to hit you with India instead. Yeah, DJ,
with a passage to India. You want there is a
passage to India to make this trade.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
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Speaker 3 (26:39):
Enjoy Jay.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
We're not gonna get third eye blind.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You said you want to push push, I want to
push you air around.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I will, Well, they have a base like this, No,
that match Box twenty.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
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Speaker 1 (27:06):
And one trend and it's hard to see a trend
that everybody can agree on, but the latest rip of
NFL alternative uniforms that have been announced in the past
few days for games this year. Everyone is a winner
except no, No, the Jets was great. Are you kidding, dumb,
dumb hall Man. You had the Seahawks. You had the
(27:29):
Seahawks going back to the nineties with their blue and
and and and greener, not the highlighter uniforms.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Right, absolute win.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Right, you had Tennessee now going back They're gonna wear
Houston Oilers.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, Campbell, right, awesome. I get that way. At Houston.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's ours, No Tennessee the team that left, that's gonna
look awesome. And the Jets announce today they're gonna wear
their legacies with the old Jets logo that did so
much losing in Man Home Man. They lost so many
games in those jerseys. They're gonna wear those. A couple
of cans. You you're gonna have to wear it again.
If you go back to the eighties and nineties in
(28:07):
sports for uniforms, you can't lose. You can't lose. Oh,
take the seventies into everything. Seventies well, but I'm just
because the seventies is not as much video and sometimes
the colors aren't as vibrant as you get from it.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I just wanted to go nineties back and now into
the decade.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Look.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'm good with things like Look, the Vikings have going
back to the seventies for some of their uniforms, and
that looks great. I love the Dolphins the awkward green.
But you go back to the eighties or nineties for
a uniform for your team and it's an automatic win.
It's a no brainer. It's how do we make money
because people will buy these. No one's gonna not buy them.
No one's gonna not go out and try to get
Oh we're putting out these new uniforms from the I'm
(28:50):
gonna go out and get I'm gonna get a hat,
I'm gonna get a T shirt, I'm gonna get a jersey.
So I don't know why every team doesn't do it
and say, hey, we're gonna have eighties game, right, this
is eighties week, and everybody wears a units from the
eighties in a week for the NFL. Pat and Penning
got a call Rodger Goodell with that idea. Or and
have a nineties week where they they all do journeys
from the nineties. How do you not do that? Because
everybody loves that is is is the past and retro
(29:15):
that everybody loves. There is no one that walks away.
Well I hated those uniforms in the eighties. No, everybody
loved the uniforms in the seventies and eight we get
the creamsicle uniforms. Yeah, eighties and nineties, go back and
do it. I don't know why every NFL team does
not do that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, I want to go history all all together, because
then I can get those prison uniforms that the Bears
used to wear in the throwback games, or the bumble Bees.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I know they push those away in Pittsburgh. No, no, no, no,
come on, those are great. They're so bad. They're great now,
some of those when they go really far back. Hey,
they wore these uniforms in nineteen thirty three. Oh my goodness,
it just looked like bumble.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Bees in the same of knitting and same fabric that
they used in nineteen thirty three. Other helmets exactly leatherheads.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Because if you go back like that, remember when they
did in the nineties, when they would go back and
like the Packers, here's are nineteen thirty five U fourth beards,
here's are nineteen twenty seven year it was like, oh,
those things are terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Those are awful, but it was fun. Those are awful
ideas to the eighties and nineties. Everybody loves it. I
don't understand. I wrap it all with a big bear hug.
Wherever you can monetize, I don't care. And that's it.
You gotta go and figure out the next hat scheme.
That's why you can go buy a red Yankees doesn't
make any sense. No, Twitter, it out about a fresco
(30:42):
sorry x X. And how about as you're not catching
eckx one x Mike, it's swollen doma eggs.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It's a uh.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Coming up next, we have a big story out of
the NFL where one group of position players isn't happy.
Is there a solution for him? No, it's next, right
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