July 5, 2024 • 40 mins
Arnie Spanier & Bernie Fratto discuss the Copa America soccer tourney and why Team USA's men's soccer may have been a little let down this year.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Just just one little side note.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I had to laugh today.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There was a story I saw about Russell Westbrook selling
his house and you know, of course he's gonna go
ahead and get a new team, but he was selling
his house in Los Angeles. It made me think of
my aunt, who passed away a couple of years ago.
My aunt bought a house in Los Angeles for under
two hundred thousand dollars back in the sixth Yeah, it
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was like it was. It's funny back in the sixties,
early sixties, and it was. It was in Brentwood, California,
before Brentwood was a big thing, and it was on
a street called Tigertail Road. I'll never forget a Tigertail
rod Well. In twenty eighteen, Russell Westbrook bought a house
also on Tigertail Road, right up the street for my aunt.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Bought hers, and when my aunt.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Sold it, I remember she thought she was like the
big real estate mogul, going, would you.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Believe I got over a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They think you don't know who they're dealing with a
million dollars. Russell Westbrook bought his house for forty five
million dollars for I didn't get the selling price.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He's staying with the clippers at four mil per year.
Didn't think.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I don't know, but he's selling his house in La
So but forty five million dollars. I wonder what my
aunt would be thinking now if she.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Heard about that.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's how you get rich in that real estate date
real estate very trubelievable. By the way, what's going on
with you one hundred and sixteen degrees or something like
that in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I know, I know you must get tired, you can't
go out right and you have that.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh well, I lived through seventeen Detroit winters and this
is my sixteenth Las Vegas summer.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, but it would easier, and come on, I.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Joke, you know, in some senses they are. I mean
we got people dropping deadly heat. I mean, we've got
a ten day forecast. It will scare you. We're talking
about three potential days of one hundred and seventeen next
weeks state record. There will not be a based on
the ten day forecast. There will not be a day
we were one hundred and twelve to day. Starting tomorrow,
it will not be a forecast a day of under
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one hundred and thirteen for the next ten days one hundred,
thirteen hundred and fourteen hundred and fifteen, sixteen three, one seventeens.
I don't want to say it was hot on it,
but I saw two thiefs still in Hubcapsley were in
of admits the other day. So it is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It is.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You know, you get used to it, but it does.
It does have a cumulative effect.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
People think you just want to wear shorts and a
short sleeved shirt all day, but you really can't do that.
Some people that you have to wear long pads of
the log sleeves.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You get. People got to go to work. I mean,
you know you were you you you adjust, all right.
The larger issue, believe it or not, is you're in
and out of air conditioning all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes, and it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Completely reeks havoc with your sinuses. That is a real thing.
You're bringing that you check that you're breathing that crappy
recycled air conditioning air all the time. We don't. I
love Vegas to death. We don't have great air here,
and we don't have great water, right, And it's when
I travel to the east or travel to the north,
the water tastes better. It's the air is fresher and
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all that. Everything else is great. But yeah, we are.
We are having one hell of a heat wave here.
But we've had this before. We've had this before.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
What's your electric pill in the summertime? I must through that.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I just got I just got it. I like to
keep my house cool. This month, it's about two eighty six.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, that's not bad.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, it's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's not bad at.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All, not that bad. I when I you know, I
put it up like seventy five during the day and
I get home at night, I got I gotta have
a cold when I sleep on it. I can't sleep
in a hot. You know what.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm sure you have a pool because everybody in Vegas
and Phoenix and Tucson, everybody has pools. But that doesn't
cool you off. The pools like lukewarm. It never gets
cold enough. You know, you just can't get it cold enough.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Because of the chlorine, and you get out, it dries
you out quite hostly. You know. If you I'll say,
our movie theaters have the best air conditioning in the nation.
You want some sick air con if you hang meet
in those movie theaters, right, But I'll be honest with you,
you just adjumped. I walked out today. It took a
little stroll. It was like one hundred and nine. You
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just get used to it. But the culative effect, yeah,
you you, the cumulative effect is what really starts to
wear on you. Because, for instance, right now, it's ten
o'clock at night, two hundred and two.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh no, yeah no, no, he's fuck again.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So it's making national lose. But it's hot everywhere. And
I know people scoff with this. They don't know what
they're talking about. It is a dry now, what does
that mean? I spent seventeen Detroit summers and you know,
just ninety it's humid and wet and sticky. And that's
too bad, too sad dry heat. If you get out
of the direct sunlight, you feel genuine relief. If you
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get in the shade, you genuinely have relief. In dry heat.
You don't have that same luxury when it's humid. I
got it. Go to Houston a couple of weeks that
is hot and humid. Now it's not as hot as hear,
slightly more uncomfortable because of the humidity. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, And you know what the worst is when you're
flying the Vegas with that heat and heat rises so
it causes the plane to go up and down because
you're coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oh you get some rough landing, yo, do it is
scary birdy you're not joking?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Who not ins some scariest I'd never like that. I remember,
Oh ladies first time fighting in the Vegas and she
looks to me. I go, man, it's like this every flight.
Don't worry about.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, you're gonna have rope prints from your rosary and during.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That party, brod Or already is bad. You're here on
Fox Sports Radio. If you want to jump into through Twitter,
it's real simple. At Bertie Frado, I'm astinking genius one.
You know, Bertie, I know every year, but he talks
about the Bobby Benilla contract, how he gets one a
little bit over a million dollars per year, Yeah, until twenty.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Thirty five, five, twenty thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Five, which is amazing. But he's not the only one
that's still getting paid. I remember, I don't know if
you remember a basketball player by the name of Ernie
d Ernie, d.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Ernie Digagorio for Providence. He played for the Lakers, and
that's d Guard ye lef cannon guard.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Sure, he had a contract that paid him a long
long time though, I think it'll be like twenty five
thirty years back in the day that contract's done. But
other people are still getting paid, right, there's still people
getting money out.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
He's not the only one. Obviously. The Bobby Benia Day
on July first has become sort of this national punchline
for a lot of folks. And by the way, this
isn't going anyway anytime soon. Look at Shohio Tani's contract.
He's getting six hundred and eighty in deferrals for the Dodgers.
I mean they set aside sixty eight million of his
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seventy million dollars annual salary for the next decade. So
Chilo Atanic be paid a while. So wow. And by
the way, there are legislators now the government's I thin're
gonna get involved. They they're concerned about Missigan on this
critical tax revenue. But that's a story for a different day.
So you got Bobby Benia. He gets one point one
nine million annually from the Mets every year until twenty
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thirty five. Now, Prince Fielder's just inspired. A couple of
years ago that was frankly worse. How about Kim Griffy Jr.
He's still be paid. He's still being paid three point
six million a year. He got a sixteen year, fifty
eight million dollar deferral from the Reds. I think back
in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was gonna say he'd be like the third highest
paid player on the Mariners. Right now, that's well, I'm
not kidding about that, bru.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah. How about Manny Ramirez Man a sixteen year, thirty
two million dollars contract. He'll be paid through twenty twenty six.
He gets two million a year every year. Ja's almost
Remember Chris Davis, the Baltimoreosoft.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That was crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
He was so good for that one year and did
nothing for Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
They gave him everything.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You know, Chris Davis is gonna beat Bobby Benina. He'll
be paid all the way through twenty thirty seven. He
gets nine million a year. He deferred one hundred and
sixty one million dollars forty seven through twenty thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Chris Davis, that's insane. That's some serious money for that.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And you want to hear you want to have a
real laugh about Bobby Benia. Okay, sixty one years old.
Now here's the deal. Everybody remembers who he played for,
except they don't remember he played for the Oriols. Do
you remember he played for the Oriols at the end
of his career?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No, he did.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
He got Okay, in addition to the million one he
gets from the Mets, he gets five hundred thousand from
the Oriols. And that doesn't ntil twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's insane.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
By the way, the Mets are really good at this.
Brett Saberhagen got a deferred contract a million years ago.
It pays. I say, it's only in quotes two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year from the Mets, and
it doesn't expire until twenty twenty eight. At to your point,
you look at what these guys are making. There's some
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stars in a major league right now. Ellie de la
Cruz makes seven hundred grand a year. You got guys
that haven't played since Nixon was president. They're making more
than Ellie de la Cruz. Anthony Volpe are the Yankees,
Gunnar Anderson. These are studs right now in the game
that are making less. So yeah, Bob Ebanita clearly is
the punchline. He's the gold standard, but he ain't the
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only one.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
By the way, if you want to get ahold of
us at Bertie Fradoh, I'm it's think of genius. One
william says, two Kings. Sorry you had the work, but
I'm happy to hear both of you out there. Jake,
we like working these holidays, are we, Bertie?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Bertie?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
We worked last year? I believe on the fourth of
July always gives you right. That's want to work. You
know you could work. If you don't want to work,
you don't have to fill it. Believe me, there's a
lot of people that like to fill and Bernie, we know.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That I'm one of them and you're and you're one
of them, and yeah, I mean I know. Plus you
got to look, I know you gave the Saga the
night off, but you're not allowed to give two guys
a night off in the same night. Is that cruise?
That part of your contract? You're like a million a
year till twenty ninety five or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Don't I wish, don't I wish? My goodness, there's some
serious contracts out there. A couple of the things I
want to get to that we haven't touched in the
first three hours.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
One of them was USA Soccer.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Look, I'm not the big soccer officionado, Bernie, but I'm
getting tired of this. Every other year, it's supposed to
be our year and it's good and we don't even
get out of the knockout phase here. It is embarrassing.
It just didn't look right. Even when we won two nothing.
We were supposed to beat the pants off that team.
I don't know what to say anymore. We're gonna get
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a new coach.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
But it just are you sure about that?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We're not going to get a new coach.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, I see it hasn't been the either way. You know.
The only reason they brought them back is the players
had a revolt. They wanted them back, right, they wanted
it back. So I don't have any inside information on
this one. You're never gonna like the way you lose,
but the way they lost, you know you're aguay. They
tried to hang in there. The Panama game was almost
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said a bad word. That was terrible, and Bolivia was
even worse. So the truth of the matter is is
the United States. I was told this back in two
thousand and seven that the reason the United States will
never do anything in men's soccer is because the Adrian
Petersons of the world want to play football. This is
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a quote from a guy An insider. This is twenty
years ago. So when the Adian Petersons of the world
want to start playing soccer, then we're gonna win. And
I don't see that happening. I just don't know. On
the women's side, we get the best in the brightest.
My daughter was a Division one soccer player. Shit, and
all of the great athletes are high school They didn't
play volleyball, or they might have basketball, but soccer was
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the number one deal and the feeder program. She played
a national team of the Michigan Michigan Hawks. They do
they do such a phenomenal job getting these girls ready.
So the girls, we're attracting our best athletes in that sport,
not so much with the men. So Greg Berhalter obviously
is clearly the fall guy. He doesn't seem to do
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himself and he favors. But who you're gonna replace him with?
I mean, they've talked about Jurgen Klopp, They've talked about
other guys you've never looked to do it. Well, I
don't think they're gonna do it though, are they? They're
not going to listen. This has been a narrative, you know, Arnie,
my first year in radio, I began in ninety four
in June. That was the first year. There were four
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World Cup games that were played at the Silver Dome
that year and as you recall, that was the famous
game in the Rose Bowl, Boggio's misshot scene around the
world on the penalty kick and oh here we come,
We're going to be competitive. We tied, not we I
was on the team the US Alexi Loss was on
that team in ninety four, they tied Switzerland in their
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first game. He would have thought that they had just
you know, tipping over cars. He thought they just went
back to back Super Bowls. Well, what happened since ninety four? Nothing? Nothing,
They're just no matter what happens. In part of the
issue here, and I don't know who writes this stuff.
Maybe they know more than I do. They were saying
that this was the most talented roster in US men's
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national team history. That's what they said. Now they get
eliminated from Copo America, played right on our own soil,
and so now right around the corner you got the
twenty twenty six World Cup. And the theory is that
they may have a good roster, but Berholter does not
get the most out of his roster. So it's one
of those you know, what do you do? You gotta
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you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. These
players don't go on trees. I don't know what the
hell they do.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Why is it Dodd's story bigger about Polistic said after
the game that the reference, First of all, he was
playing in the referee like crazy, but the referees refused
to shake his hand that you have to be more professional.
If you're the referee, you've got to shake both team's hand.
You can't walk away from anybody. But nobody made a
big deal about that, Bertie, I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well they they did under the They did under the radar.
A lot of international pop public had even though Lexi
Lallace he said the referee was ridiculous for snubbing him
and not shaking his hand. Apparently Polistic was chirping during
the whole game, and there were a lot of controversial
decisions during the match. It was overshadowed by a lot
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of referee decisions. I mean it just you saw the game,
aren't he And you know there's an old joke you
get paid to ref. I don't want a ref but
that was not a good look for the referees. I
think he was in their ear all night and you know,
these people are human and but you know, you got
to rise above it. I don't know. I think there
have been some some reasonably substantial media outlets have talked
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more about it. It's just nobody cares. I mean, we
just have to be honest. Men's soccer in this country,
I think is right. You know, right behind ping pong
and a bowling. Well, listen, there are objective truths in
our personal feelings. I was rooting for the team we watched.
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There's a fandom here, but it's it's a it's a
distant second to just about every other sport. We just
it just has not. People don't know the players are
on the teams. I mean, look, we don't have royalty
in this country, aren't he Our athletes and our entertainers
are our royalty people other than Christian polistic. We don't
know who these soccer players are. It just it's one
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of those situations. And and although the game has grown
in popularity from a national standpoint, when the US doesn't win,
it doesn't help. It doesn't help their case.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, but what was the soccer revolution?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It was back when when I was in high school,
they said, remember those buffer stickles, New.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
York Cosmos and eighty thousand in the game. Even then,
it didn't catch on.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It used to say play soccer and you'd have the
a yso from playing soccer. Yeah yeah, and it was
you know, you would you would think that was the
next up and coming sport.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But it never never really caught on. Bardy never happened.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You know, well, there was a listen, let's let's get
into the weeds just a little bit here. Yeah, all right,
there was a referee by the name of Kevin Artega.
If you saw the goal the Urguay scourt, you cannot
tell me that the guy wasn't off sides. You cannot
tell me it was playing his day. You cannot be
ahead of the ball, especially when you're there that close
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to the goal. The way off sides works in soccers.
You're advancing down the field, the ball has to be
in front of you. As long as you're behind one
of the opposing team's players, you pass that player and
if the ball's behind ahead of you, then well that's okay.
But if it's ahead of you, I'm getting off track here.
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You just just go back and look at that goal
when Uruguay scored and it was off science and they
were furious. Polistic was furious, and I don't think Kevin
Ortega liked what they said about him, and he wouldn't
shake his hand. And when you put both the videos together, uh,
you know, I think what pissed the referee off is
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it's allegedly allegedly said that Pulistic went over to the
reference said why don't you go celebrate with Uruguay because
you gave him that goal. That's what was That's what
was said. Wow. But if you you can easily if
you go to if you go to Twitter and at
Fox Soccer and you look at the play and you
say yourself, how could they have not? How could they
have not? You know, ruled that this was off science
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because it clearly was.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
All right, Bertie, when we get back, I certainly want
to get a little bit into a little baseball obviously.
I want to touch on that you brought up the
Kansas City Chiefs earlier, whether they won two in a row,
can they make it three in a row? And I
do have that list about out to the completions and
I want to get to also, So all that's coming
off next here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (18:49):
Good anything, Everybody, Bertie Frado, Arnie Span, You're in for
the guys, Jason Smith and his best friend Mike Carmon
here on Fox Sports Radio. Bernie I had a list.
I think Warren Sharp put this out from Sharp Football.
I saw this on Twitter, the highest rate of incompletions
due to inaccurate passes.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So who had the highest rate.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Of incompletions strictly because they threw inaccurate passes?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, I'll let you guess Number one. He I'll give
you a hint.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
One of the highest rated or highest paid quarterbacks in
the NFL. I would say ninety five percent of the
people think he's overrated. Hasn't really done a whole heck
of a lot to earn his contract at all. You
want to take he thows forty three point nine percent
of his incompletions are because he throws an inaccurate pass.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You want to take a.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Guess, Well, you gave a really good hint there and
it comes to one of the highest paid. So you got, like,
you know, Trevor Lawrence and Lamar Jackson and Deshaun Watson
in that group. I know this is I don't want
this is gonna come out wrong. I'm gonna say Lamar Jackson,
even though I'm a big Lamar Jackson defender. But it's
a guess. And if I could just say one thing,
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aren't you haven't you covered the NFL for ten years
and done two hundred post game shows. There can be
receiver error. If the guy runs the wrong route, it
can appear.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
This is right, It could appear, But this is because
of inaccurate passes. So I don't think it's because of
receiver error.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Maybe, but if the guy's plastered and the quarterback intentionally
throws it so no one can get it, only the
receiver can get right. You know these are first of all,
this is a really good topic, right because it spawns
real discussion, although you run the risk of the the
Yogi barristat you know what a Yogi bear stat? No?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
What is that? Well? You know, one day Yogi went
four for four in Boston, and he looks in the
paper the next day in the Boston Globe, hadd in
three for four. So he calls up the editor of
the sports editor and says, what are you doing, man?
I went four for four years today? The editor said, relax, Yogi.
It was a typographical error. So what do you mean?
It was a clean single up the middle. So these
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stats can be deceiving, But cad, I'm gonna blurt it
on it. I'll see, I'll tell what I'll sayd Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, it's Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
He's right there in front of me.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Got that Deshaun Watson forty three point nine percent one year. Now,
you're not gonna guess two through four. It's Tyrod Taylor
number two, Trevor Simeons number three, Bryce Young at number
four makes sense about.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
The pressure he had, though, right exactly, you've.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Got you guessed five and six.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Lamar Jackson and Jordan Love, followed by Trevor Lawrence and
c J.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Stroud.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Why are those those are four big, high price, you know,
high talent quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson thirty six point seven, Jordan
Love thirty six point two, Trevor Lawrence thirty six point one,
c J. S Droud thirty five point six. They throw
most passes incompletions due to their inaccurate passes.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That that's got to be concerning, especially for just on this.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
List, he was one of the most inaccurate passers in
the league. Maybe he threw less passes.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That could be the percentage wise right exactly. So I
thought that was interesting on why those big name talents.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Just you asked me about a certain team earlier in
the show, you know who's very accurate? Designate enough credit
Russell Wilson. Where was he on this list?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He well after after a C J. Stratta was Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Can he Pickett Easton Stick, Matthew Stafford, Joshua Dobbs, Daniel
Jones in Tua that was it?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Okay, so he's near the bottom and he's he's not
he's not near the top.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, he's not near the top.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So he's considered well, yeah, I I don't know, is
there an algorithm to this? I mean, how many passes
did you have to throw? Right? If you're playing the
defenses you had to play against.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And but you know, some people say it's not a
fair list to do, and you know it's not. You know,
just it doesn't it's not an indication how good these
guys are. I just thought it'd be interesting.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Here's what's interesting, though. You look at Okay, you mentioned
Jordan Love playoff team, Trevor Lawrence playoff team C just
a playoff team, that's true, So there's not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
A correlation between that and not making the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm not disavowing the statistical analysis here. It's just said
you have to interpret it in a way that has
some meaning.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Way to take my list, to throw it out the windows.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
War Sharps list. Yeah, I mean, I think I think
you raise an excellent topic, Arnie, because it's you know,
it's kind of a Chicken and an aig deal. It
really is. I mean, there are a lot of times
that the untrained eye a quarterback looks like he misses
a guy receiver ran the wrong route.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, you know that, Bertie Fratto, Arnie Spanier here on
Fox Sports Radio, Bertie's got a list of these second
half stories coming up in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
One of them should be.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That most of the divisions are almost decided. That's not
gonna be good for the race down there. But first
the final check and what's trending with our buddy Kevin Wyatt.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
K W Yeah, everything has gone final in Major League Baseball,
of course, the fourth of July day full of the
National Past time. And in Los Angeles things ended not
too long ago, but the Arizona Diamondbacks really piling it
on the Dodgers, winning at nine to three. They'd taken
two out of this three game series. Christian Walker a
huge reason why he went deep last night and the
(24:28):
Diamondbacks win. He went deep twice tonight in Arizona's ninth
three victory, also had three RBI's three runs scored, as
again Arizona wins the series against Los Angeles. The Rays
beat the Royals ten to eight, Rockies hold off the
Brewers four to three. Giants go ahead home run for
Matt Chapman to help him take down the Braves four two,
Mariners snapping a losing streak as they beat the Orioles
(24:50):
seven to three, holding off the Astros. The Asters are
red hot. They've been charging up the standings and they've
gotten themselves a win against the Blue Jays of five three,
so they're just two games back of Seattle. The Oriel
despite losing, still two games ahead of the Yankees, as
New York was swept by Cincinnati, including an eight four loss.
On Thursday, the Cardinals and Pirates goes to extra inning.
Saint Louis wins at three to two. The day began
(25:12):
in the Nation's Capital, the Washington Nationals, shutting out the
Mets won nothing. Red Sox Marlins goes to extra innings.
Boston wins at six to five and twelve. Guardians over
the White Sox eight four. Twins found the Tigers twelfth three.
Although the game did and a little early, it was
the main official in seven innings. Ian Happ four for four,
two three run home runs help lift the Cubs over
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over the Phillies ten to two. As Philadelphia is still
the best team in baseball at fifty seven and thirty,
but Ian half a huge day at the plate for Chicago.
The Padres getting a home run from Jerks and Profar
as they beat the defending champion Texas Rangers three to one.
Athletic shout out the Angels five nothing as that complete,
said the slate there in Major League Baseball. Back to
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you guys, Thanks a.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Lot, Kevin, enjoy the weekend. Bernie fred Alredy Spaniard in
for the guys, Jason Smith and his best reread Mike
Harmon real quick perty before we get the second half
storylines in Major League Baseball. You know that Twitter address
old Takes Exposed.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, Freezing Takes or somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Obviously they didn't have Twitter eighty five years ago, but
I do want to give you this was on old
Freezing Takes Exposed and a Freezing Cold Takes whatever they
call it. I think it's a great website, our a
great Twitter address. This was in the newspaper and it
was written by a sports writer talking about lou Garrick. Okay,
(26:38):
he writes personally, this was eighty five years ago to
the date. He goes, personally, I don't care what Garrick's got,
but I like to exchange my body for his during
the next forty or fifty years. Let us say, I'm
pretty sure. Wait a minute, let us say, I am
pretty sure I would do all right, regardless of the
(26:58):
experts argument over the Latin or Greek is decline that
he has something wrong. It seems to me that Garrick
was merely getting too old to play hell for leather baseball,
and that the scientist of ailments that they're giving him
is his way of getting out gracefully, with like a
(27:18):
graceful exit.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That he didn't have an illness and that they're just
making this up because he wanted a graceful exit out there.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
So that's perhaps the worst freezing they'll take ever.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And it's sensitive too. It is the als disease for
crying out. Now, the guy died and I think thirty
nine something like that, an incredible athlete, usually the freezing takes.
I mean, Steven A got caught about a week ago.
He said that Yukon team back in twenty, well they
don't have the NBA players and now four are playing
for the right.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That was awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, you should lose their life. That's that's a rough one.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I gilb Be, you got second up stories for Major Arnie.
Look now, there should be some good wages started Aaron
Judge with the thirty two home runs.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
That's unbelievable, and we'll see if that can continue. I mean,
one year, Reggie Jackson thirty eight at the All Star
break and only hit nine more the rest of the way.
But along those lines, there's a pretty good MVP race
taking shape in the National in the National League between
Shohey Otani and Bryce Harper. And I think Mookie Betts
would have been in it, but he's out with a
(28:26):
couple of he's out with his broken wrist. Ellidego Lacruz,
you can't you can't count him out as well. The
Houston Astros on May eighth, they were in last place.
They lost four straight games. They were twelve games under
five hundred, nine games out of first place. You look
up June eighteenth. Now they're making ground on the Mariners.
They've been a dominant franchise over the last decade. I
(28:48):
think one of the real storylines is can the Astros
come back and do what they do? They're twenty six
and sixteen since that streak. They just swept the Oriel
over the weekend. Here's the kicker, the Orioles and Yankees.
You notice we really don't have penna rass like we
used to. The days are the great penna rases. No
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one is noticing this. The Yankees and the Orioles have
a hell of a penna RaSE forming.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
That's the whole In the Nationally, it's pretty much all
the side and Phillies are gonna win the division, Milwaukee
and probably the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So yeah, but when you have a kind of okay,
only one team can win the Al East, Okay, right now,
the Yankees and Orioles. Uh, And you have quite a
penna RaSE and you got so many divisions and it's
kind of, you know, watered down compared to what it
used to be. But here's the deal. The team that
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wins the division over the one that doesn't, that's a
substantial win. You get a weekend off at the start
of the playoffs, or you face the fight Steve Wildcard
team in the best of three. That's why they And
by the way, both those teams are good enough to
get to the World Series and win it. Will they
do that? I don't know, but I am watching that
Yankees Orioles battle in the second half of the season,
as well as the Astros. Finally, one other storyline. I
(30:07):
think that's worth mentioning. Just a little over a year ago,
Paul Skeens in addition to dating a gymnast, he's doing
pretty well. He's winning it life. I think he had
a hell of a year at LSU, wins the College
World Series. They call him up to the big leagues
and he's been unreal. Now in this day and age
of I mean, they actually have load management in baseball.
They'll shut a guy down with his innings because of
(30:30):
he's a power pitcher, he's a young pitcher. They want
to keep him out. The Pirates are going to have
to keep him in the rotation because the Pittsburgh Pirates,
believe it or not, they're alive in the wildcard chase.
In the National League, there are a bunch of teams
are in a typical year where you might see them
start to shut Paul Schemes down gradually towards the end
of the year. Maybe they'll get me an extra day
(30:51):
off now and then, but I think you're going to
be treated to see Paul Skans all the way to
the end of the year, unless Pittsburgh falls completely out
of the race, and then they'll shut him down. They'll
keep him fresh, right, But that's how they manage guys now.
But what a gift for Pittsburgh, What a boon for
the good fans of Pittsburgh who wishes you know, they
you know, they could do something in the postseason for once,
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Paul Skeins is actually giving them hope, right right, And.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Therefore I think four games out of a playoff spot.
At one point there was like seven or eight teams
separated by two games, so things were absolutely nuts on
that Aaron Judge thirty two home runs, we're almost at
the halfway point. Don't go by the All Star game.
Almost at the halfway point. I think he can easily
get sixty though, but not easily.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Well, he can, but you know, back to the MVP argument,
He's got another guy on his team, Juan Soto, who's
gonna get MVP votes. And you know, having just mentioned
the Oarriers Oriols, Gunner Henderson is another guy that is
an MVP type player. So look, there are some storylines
in the second half of the year certainly to watch,
not the least of again, which is the Dodgers. Right
(31:59):
with the money they they spent about a billion dollars
in the last two or three years. I understand. Tonight
the Dodgers did and they lost nine to three, and
they were booed coming off the field.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Come on, man, remember when twenty game winners we used
to celebrate them.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
We don't get that much any hour. You know that
doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, Danny mccleann, I'm pretty sure it'll be the last
thirty game winner. I don't know, going on a limb arty.
Yeah see, I don't think there's gonna be any thirty
game winners anymore. But think about that. The Dodgers, okay,
and they you know, they're what eighteen nineteen games above
five hundred. They got a solid seven eight game lead
over the potecast Yeah, six okay, they're ten games over
(32:39):
five hundred in the row, ten games over five hundred
at home. Their boot coming off the field to night?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Who peeding their cornflakes? I mean, what are we really
doing this? Are we really doing this? Do we know
why they were booed? They were bowed?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Well, Arizona had scored I believe four runs in the
top of the knight.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
If that could have something to do with it.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Maybe you know that's you know, there's no time clock
and baseball. Aren't they gotta get you out twenty seven times? Man?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well the score was five three at the time. That
made it nine three. It was all downhill. It just
it looked like they were disgusted. The Roberts had to
look on his face like he was just mad.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Almos said, there'd be days like this, Tyler sorta, he said,
listen the beauty. Spark and Anderson used to talk about
the marathon. That's what made the beauty. The Pennant Race
is so special. It was truly a marathon. And Tommy
and the Sordi used to say, no matter how good
you are, you're gonna lose a thirty your games. No
matter how bad you are, you're gonna win a thirt
of your games. Right, So the Dodgers can go one
(33:34):
hundred and eight and fifty four lose a third of
their games. Well you get the picture. They're still playing
almost seven hundred baseball. So you know, don't make me
call the good fans of southern California a bunch of thieves.
In front Runner says they sit there and listen to
us on five seventy am. I don't know what happened, right,
but when you're booed and you're in first place by ten,
I don't know what people want.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Well, the Dodgers have now lost two in a row.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I think, oh no, it's it's been tough when they
get to the playoffs, though, Bertie, it's not like they've
had an easy time of it, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
I remember one time back and I want to say, guys,
she's like back in eighty one the Dodgers. Of course,
they won the World Series. In the split season that year,
they had a stretch where they lost like nine or
ten or they win a game for a couple of weeks,
and then Jerry Rice or somebody went out and beat
the Potteries, and he was so excited after the game.
He goes, you know, if I don't know, itn't been
this much fun, we'd have done this week's ago. So
you know, you try it a wain and the baseball
(34:25):
is not an easy game.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
He's Bertie Frado. Marty Spanier will wrap things up one
segment to go. Bertie has all the records for Joey,
just nut and did he put in an impressive performance.
But it wasn't a Coney Island. We'll get to all
that coming up next year on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
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Speaker 3 (34:55):
All right, good evening, everybody, Bernie and Artie right here
on Fox Sports Radio. Final segment. Of course, some guy
ripping me on Twitter. Bernie, I'm not gonna read it.
They made my list racial, so that they're getting into that.
Always people, there's always somebody that's going to complain, Bernie.
There's there's always somebody that's going to complain.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
My friend, yep, I think to play the complete departments
up on the fourth floor. Lets you go see them.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
And it's not a racial list. Okay, it wasn't even
my it's list and it's based.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
On statistics, which I think we questioned because they can
be misinterpreted based on a lot of factors. That's why
I told the Yogi berra.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
You know, I never got to my list of top
twenty five players under the age of twenty five. Also,
I saw somebody put that was very interesting list. I
had a few disagreements with it, but it was interesting list. Uh,
you had a list of Joey Chestnuts records. Joey Estut
had an unbelievable day in just five minutes, compared to
the guys at the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest that
(36:00):
they had ten minutes, right.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
My friend, Well, it was unreal what Joey chestnutt did. Yeah,
he not only had fifty, he did it in five minutes.
And he went down to Fort Bliss today to take
on a group of soldiers who were big fans. And
it was four on one and the soldiers made a run.
They landed on forty nine hot dogs, but Joey Chestnut
had fifty seven by himself in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
So, yeah, fifty eight was the winner, by the way,
or excuse me, yeah fifty eight or in the sixties, I.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Believe was the winner in ten minutes. Though for the
Nathan's hot Dog getting contest.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Correct, that gives it, That gives them some perspective. But
let's have a little fun with this, Arnie. You like
twinkies by any chance? Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I love twinkies.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
How many twinkies could could you eat? If if time
was you know, well, let's say eight hours, I mean,
how many? How many twinkies? Wow?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Eight hours is a long time.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
I don't know how many I could put down there,
But if you were like, in about twenty minutes, I'm
sure I could put down about twenty twin keys I
could eat.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Pretty that's pretty impressive. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. Well, uh,
Joey Chestnut did one hundred and twenty one and six
minutes twenty twenty one twinkies in six minutes. You're like, no,
I can't do you chicken wings?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Aren't you like chicken love chicken wings, love them?
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Tell me me, gell me what you can do in
chicken wings and what and like, let's say thirty minutes
and then twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Thirty minute, let's do thirty minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
In thirty minutes, I could probably eat about five or
six pounds maybe is that a lot?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
I don't know how many comprise a pounds six, I know,
let's say ten.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Let's say ten, though.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
So you can eat thirty that's pretty that's pretty impressive.
Joey Chestnut in thirty minutes the world record, one hundred
and eighty two chicken wings.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
That's insane.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
He did a twelve hour He did a twelve hour marathon,
did four hundred and thirteen chicken wings in twelve hours.
Hell my, I would need arthroscopic surgery after that. Even
if I could put the damn thing down, you got
to be hurting. Who does like? By the way, we
talked about this earlier in the show, Nick Wherry, Mickey
Pudo's husband, did fifty hard boiled eggs in three minutes.
(38:08):
Joey Chestnunt also the record world record for hard boiled
eggs one hundred and forty one hard boiled eggs in
eight minutes. Now, aren't you like grilled cheese sandwiches?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Don't you love grilled cheese sandwiches?
Speaker 4 (38:18):
How many could you eat in ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
In ten minutes, I can't eat more than one a minute. Maybe,
if I'm pushing it, maybe fifteen.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Oh my god, you might hear that's a lot. Well,
Joey Chestnut forty.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Seven forty you're choking on that.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
For I'm choking just thinking about eating forty seven grilled
cheese sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now, how do you get those down? Do you dip
them in water?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I told you well that I don't know, but you said, look,
they're not eating. They've basically turned their mouth and their
jaws into a wood chipper. It's basically what they're not
eating anymore. Okay, here's one for you, Big Max. Everybody
Jason Smith loves a big man.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Yes, yes, I love big.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
You've got the world record. How many could you eat?
They say, I give up.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
In a half hour. I'm sure I could eat about
seven or eight.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Again, very impressive. Joey Chessmutt thirty two, Big Max in
thirty eight minutes. Thirty two they have.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's almost one a minute. I don't know how you
last one.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
I'll tell you it. They got they got taco belling
for no right.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Some of these people don't like having condiments on it.
I wonder if all these condiments on it.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, I'm sorry, as long as you don't put ketchup
on a hot dog. Okay, just don't do that, or
I'm gonna fill the room with uppercuts. Last one they have,
they have tackle. They have taco bell in Vermont. Right,
of course you like those soft shell beef tacos. Love them.
How many.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I could probably put out? About forty or fifty and
a half.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Hour, fifty three and ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh, I'm not even close.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Why you've actually thrown out some pretty impressive numbers there.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I gotta tell you, yeah, but I don't know if
I can let you do it. I'm throwing out the numbers,
but you know if I could do it, Oh, I
gotta look. I gotta thank to go Frizzell. Thank to you, Bertie.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
I appreciate you sitting in and doing the four hours.
We had a great time. Was a quick show.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Thanks for having me, man appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Thanks to the crew out there, Mary Squared Patrick, of course,
Kevin White on the updates, Thanks to Bernie, and of
course thanks to Smith and Harmon for letting us fill in.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
You know who's coming up next.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
So chup big Ben Mallord. Stick around for him and
the Mallard Militia. I'm sure he's got plenty to say
on this fifth of July. That's next year on Fox
Sports Radio.
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
I had to laugh today.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There was a story I saw about Russell Westbrook selling
his house and you know, of course he's gonna go
ahead and get a new team, but he was selling
his house in Los Angeles. It made me think of
my aunt, who passed away a couple of years ago.
My aunt bought a house in Los Angeles for under
two hundred thousand dollars back in the sixth Yeah, it
(01:01):
was like it was. It's funny back in the sixties,
early sixties, and it was. It was in Brentwood, California,
before Brentwood was a big thing, and it was on
a street called Tigertail Road. I'll never forget a Tigertail
rod Well. In twenty eighteen, Russell Westbrook bought a house
also on Tigertail Road, right up the street for my aunt.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Bought hers, and when my aunt.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Sold it, I remember she thought she was like the
big real estate mogul, going, would you.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Believe I got over a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They think you don't know who they're dealing with a
million dollars. Russell Westbrook bought his house for forty five
million dollars for I didn't get the selling price.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He's staying with the clippers at four mil per year.
Didn't think.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I don't know, but he's selling his house in La
So but forty five million dollars. I wonder what my
aunt would be thinking now if she.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Heard about that.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's how you get rich in that real estate date
real estate very trubelievable. By the way, what's going on
with you one hundred and sixteen degrees or something like
that in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I know, I know you must get tired, you can't
go out right and you have that.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh well, I lived through seventeen Detroit winters and this
is my sixteenth Las Vegas summer.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, but it would easier, and come on, I.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Joke, you know, in some senses they are. I mean
we got people dropping deadly heat. I mean, we've got
a ten day forecast. It will scare you. We're talking
about three potential days of one hundred and seventeen next
weeks state record. There will not be a based on
the ten day forecast. There will not be a day
we were one hundred and twelve to day. Starting tomorrow,
it will not be a forecast a day of under
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one hundred and thirteen for the next ten days one hundred,
thirteen hundred and fourteen hundred and fifteen, sixteen three, one seventeens.
I don't want to say it was hot on it,
but I saw two thiefs still in Hubcapsley were in
of admits the other day. So it is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It is.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You know, you get used to it, but it does.
It does have a cumulative effect.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
People think you just want to wear shorts and a
short sleeved shirt all day, but you really can't do that.
Some people that you have to wear long pads of
the log sleeves.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You get. People got to go to work. I mean,
you know you were you you you adjust, all right.
The larger issue, believe it or not, is you're in
and out of air conditioning all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes, and it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Completely reeks havoc with your sinuses. That is a real thing.
You're bringing that you check that you're breathing that crappy
recycled air conditioning air all the time. We don't. I
love Vegas to death. We don't have great air here,
and we don't have great water, right, And it's when
I travel to the east or travel to the north,
the water tastes better. It's the air is fresher and
(03:38):
all that. Everything else is great. But yeah, we are.
We are having one hell of a heat wave here.
But we've had this before. We've had this before.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
What's your electric pill in the summertime? I must through that.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I just got I just got it. I like to
keep my house cool. This month, it's about two eighty six.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, that's not bad.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, it's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's not bad at.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All, not that bad. I when I you know, I
put it up like seventy five during the day and
I get home at night, I got I gotta have
a cold when I sleep on it. I can't sleep
in a hot. You know what.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm sure you have a pool because everybody in Vegas
and Phoenix and Tucson, everybody has pools. But that doesn't
cool you off. The pools like lukewarm. It never gets
cold enough. You know, you just can't get it cold enough.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Because of the chlorine, and you get out, it dries
you out quite hostly. You know. If you I'll say,
our movie theaters have the best air conditioning in the nation.
You want some sick air con if you hang meet
in those movie theaters, right, But I'll be honest with you,
you just adjumped. I walked out today. It took a
little stroll. It was like one hundred and nine. You
(04:33):
just get used to it. But the culative effect, yeah,
you you, the cumulative effect is what really starts to
wear on you. Because, for instance, right now, it's ten
o'clock at night, two hundred and two.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh no, yeah no, no, he's fuck again.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So it's making national lose. But it's hot everywhere. And
I know people scoff with this. They don't know what
they're talking about. It is a dry now, what does
that mean? I spent seventeen Detroit summers and you know,
just ninety it's humid and wet and sticky. And that's
too bad, too sad dry heat. If you get out
of the direct sunlight, you feel genuine relief. If you
(05:15):
get in the shade, you genuinely have relief. In dry heat.
You don't have that same luxury when it's humid. I
got it. Go to Houston a couple of weeks that
is hot and humid. Now it's not as hot as hear,
slightly more uncomfortable because of the humidity. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, And you know what the worst is when you're
flying the Vegas with that heat and heat rises so
it causes the plane to go up and down because
you're coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oh you get some rough landing, yo, do it is
scary birdy you're not joking?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Who not ins some scariest I'd never like that. I remember,
Oh ladies first time fighting in the Vegas and she
looks to me. I go, man, it's like this every flight.
Don't worry about.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, you're gonna have rope prints from your rosary and during.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That party, brod Or already is bad. You're here on
Fox Sports Radio. If you want to jump into through Twitter,
it's real simple. At Bertie Frado, I'm astinking genius one.
You know, Bertie, I know every year, but he talks
about the Bobby Benilla contract, how he gets one a
little bit over a million dollars per year, Yeah, until twenty.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Thirty five, five, twenty thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Five, which is amazing. But he's not the only one
that's still getting paid. I remember, I don't know if
you remember a basketball player by the name of Ernie
d Ernie, d.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Ernie Digagorio for Providence. He played for the Lakers, and
that's d Guard ye lef cannon guard.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Sure, he had a contract that paid him a long
long time though, I think it'll be like twenty five
thirty years back in the day that contract's done. But
other people are still getting paid, right, there's still people
getting money out.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
He's not the only one. Obviously. The Bobby Benia Day
on July first has become sort of this national punchline
for a lot of folks. And by the way, this
isn't going anyway anytime soon. Look at Shohio Tani's contract.
He's getting six hundred and eighty in deferrals for the Dodgers.
I mean they set aside sixty eight million of his
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seventy million dollars annual salary for the next decade. So
Chilo Atanic be paid a while. So wow. And by
the way, there are legislators now the government's I thin're
gonna get involved. They they're concerned about Missigan on this
critical tax revenue. But that's a story for a different day.
So you got Bobby Benia. He gets one point one
nine million annually from the Mets every year until twenty
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thirty five. Now, Prince Fielder's just inspired. A couple of
years ago that was frankly worse. How about Kim Griffy Jr.
He's still be paid. He's still being paid three point
six million a year. He got a sixteen year, fifty
eight million dollar deferral from the Reds. I think back
in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was gonna say he'd be like the third highest
paid player on the Mariners. Right now, that's well, I'm
not kidding about that, bru.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah. How about Manny Ramirez Man a sixteen year, thirty
two million dollars contract. He'll be paid through twenty twenty six.
He gets two million a year every year. Ja's almost
Remember Chris Davis, the Baltimoreosoft.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That was crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
He was so good for that one year and did
nothing for Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
They gave him everything.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You know, Chris Davis is gonna beat Bobby Benina. He'll
be paid all the way through twenty thirty seven. He
gets nine million a year. He deferred one hundred and
sixty one million dollars forty seven through twenty thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Chris Davis, that's insane. That's some serious money for that.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And you want to hear you want to have a
real laugh about Bobby Benia. Okay, sixty one years old.
Now here's the deal. Everybody remembers who he played for,
except they don't remember he played for the Oriols. Do
you remember he played for the Oriols at the end
of his career?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No, he did.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
He got Okay, in addition to the million one he
gets from the Mets, he gets five hundred thousand from
the Oriols. And that doesn't ntil twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's insane.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
By the way, the Mets are really good at this.
Brett Saberhagen got a deferred contract a million years ago.
It pays. I say, it's only in quotes two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year from the Mets, and
it doesn't expire until twenty twenty eight. At to your point,
you look at what these guys are making. There's some
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stars in a major league right now. Ellie de la
Cruz makes seven hundred grand a year. You got guys
that haven't played since Nixon was president. They're making more
than Ellie de la Cruz. Anthony Volpe are the Yankees,
Gunnar Anderson. These are studs right now in the game
that are making less. So yeah, Bob Ebanita clearly is
the punchline. He's the gold standard, but he ain't the
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only one.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
By the way, if you want to get ahold of
us at Bertie Fradoh, I'm it's think of genius. One
william says, two Kings. Sorry you had the work, but
I'm happy to hear both of you out there. Jake,
we like working these holidays, are we, Bertie?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Bertie?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
We worked last year? I believe on the fourth of
July always gives you right. That's want to work. You
know you could work. If you don't want to work,
you don't have to fill it. Believe me, there's a
lot of people that like to fill and Bernie, we know.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That I'm one of them and you're and you're one
of them, and yeah, I mean I know. Plus you
got to look, I know you gave the Saga the
night off, but you're not allowed to give two guys
a night off in the same night. Is that cruise?
That part of your contract? You're like a million a
year till twenty ninety five or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Don't I wish, don't I wish? My goodness, there's some
serious contracts out there. A couple of the things I
want to get to that we haven't touched in the
first three hours.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
One of them was USA Soccer.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Look, I'm not the big soccer officionado, Bernie, but I'm
getting tired of this. Every other year, it's supposed to
be our year and it's good and we don't even
get out of the knockout phase here. It is embarrassing.
It just didn't look right. Even when we won two nothing.
We were supposed to beat the pants off that team.
I don't know what to say anymore. We're gonna get
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a new coach.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
But it just are you sure about that?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We're not going to get a new coach.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, I see it hasn't been the either way. You know.
The only reason they brought them back is the players
had a revolt. They wanted them back, right, they wanted
it back. So I don't have any inside information on
this one. You're never gonna like the way you lose,
but the way they lost, you know you're aguay. They
tried to hang in there. The Panama game was almost
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said a bad word. That was terrible, and Bolivia was
even worse. So the truth of the matter is is
the United States. I was told this back in two
thousand and seven that the reason the United States will
never do anything in men's soccer is because the Adrian
Petersons of the world want to play football. This is
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a quote from a guy An insider. This is twenty
years ago. So when the Adian Petersons of the world
want to start playing soccer, then we're gonna win. And
I don't see that happening. I just don't know. On
the women's side, we get the best in the brightest.
My daughter was a Division one soccer player. Shit, and
all of the great athletes are high school They didn't
play volleyball, or they might have basketball, but soccer was
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the number one deal and the feeder program. She played
a national team of the Michigan Michigan Hawks. They do
they do such a phenomenal job getting these girls ready.
So the girls, we're attracting our best athletes in that sport,
not so much with the men. So Greg Berhalter obviously
is clearly the fall guy. He doesn't seem to do
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himself and he favors. But who you're gonna replace him with?
I mean, they've talked about Jurgen Klopp, They've talked about
other guys you've never looked to do it. Well, I
don't think they're gonna do it though, are they? They're
not going to listen. This has been a narrative, you know, Arnie,
my first year in radio, I began in ninety four
in June. That was the first year. There were four
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World Cup games that were played at the Silver Dome
that year and as you recall, that was the famous
game in the Rose Bowl, Boggio's misshot scene around the
world on the penalty kick and oh here we come,
We're going to be competitive. We tied, not we I
was on the team the US Alexi Loss was on
that team in ninety four, they tied Switzerland in their
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first game. He would have thought that they had just
you know, tipping over cars. He thought they just went
back to back Super Bowls. Well, what happened since ninety four? Nothing? Nothing,
They're just no matter what happens. In part of the
issue here, and I don't know who writes this stuff.
Maybe they know more than I do. They were saying
that this was the most talented roster in US men's
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national team history. That's what they said. Now they get
eliminated from Copo America, played right on our own soil,
and so now right around the corner you got the
twenty twenty six World Cup. And the theory is that
they may have a good roster, but Berholter does not
get the most out of his roster. So it's one
of those you know, what do you do? You gotta
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you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. These
players don't go on trees. I don't know what the
hell they do.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Why is it Dodd's story bigger about Polistic said after
the game that the reference, First of all, he was
playing in the referee like crazy, but the referees refused
to shake his hand that you have to be more professional.
If you're the referee, you've got to shake both team's hand.
You can't walk away from anybody. But nobody made a
big deal about that, Bertie, I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well they they did under the They did under the radar.
A lot of international pop public had even though Lexi
Lallace he said the referee was ridiculous for snubbing him
and not shaking his hand. Apparently Polistic was chirping during
the whole game, and there were a lot of controversial
decisions during the match. It was overshadowed by a lot
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of referee decisions. I mean it just you saw the game,
aren't he And you know there's an old joke you
get paid to ref. I don't want a ref but
that was not a good look for the referees. I
think he was in their ear all night and you know,
these people are human and but you know, you got
to rise above it. I don't know. I think there
have been some some reasonably substantial media outlets have talked
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more about it. It's just nobody cares. I mean, we
just have to be honest. Men's soccer in this country,
I think is right. You know, right behind ping pong
and a bowling. Well, listen, there are objective truths in
our personal feelings. I was rooting for the team we watched.
(15:21):
There's a fandom here, but it's it's a it's a
distant second to just about every other sport. We just
it just has not. People don't know the players are
on the teams. I mean, look, we don't have royalty
in this country, aren't he Our athletes and our entertainers
are our royalty people other than Christian polistic. We don't
know who these soccer players are. It just it's one
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of those situations. And and although the game has grown
in popularity from a national standpoint, when the US doesn't win,
it doesn't help. It doesn't help their case.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, but what was the soccer revolution?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It was back when when I was in high school,
they said, remember those buffer stickles, New.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
York Cosmos and eighty thousand in the game. Even then,
it didn't catch on.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It used to say play soccer and you'd have the
a yso from playing soccer. Yeah yeah, and it was
you know, you would you would think that was the
next up and coming sport.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But it never never really caught on. Bardy never happened.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You know, well, there was a listen, let's let's get
into the weeds just a little bit here. Yeah, all right,
there was a referee by the name of Kevin Artega.
If you saw the goal the Urguay scourt, you cannot
tell me that the guy wasn't off sides. You cannot
tell me it was playing his day. You cannot be
ahead of the ball, especially when you're there that close
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to the goal. The way off sides works in soccers.
You're advancing down the field, the ball has to be
in front of you. As long as you're behind one
of the opposing team's players, you pass that player and
if the ball's behind ahead of you, then well that's okay.
But if it's ahead of you, I'm getting off track here.
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You just just go back and look at that goal
when Uruguay scored and it was off science and they
were furious. Polistic was furious, and I don't think Kevin
Ortega liked what they said about him, and he wouldn't
shake his hand. And when you put both the videos together, uh,
you know, I think what pissed the referee off is
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it's allegedly allegedly said that Pulistic went over to the
reference said why don't you go celebrate with Uruguay because
you gave him that goal. That's what was That's what
was said. Wow. But if you you can easily if
you go to if you go to Twitter and at
Fox Soccer and you look at the play and you
say yourself, how could they have not? How could they
have not? You know, ruled that this was off science
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because it clearly was.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
All right, Bertie, when we get back, I certainly want
to get a little bit into a little baseball obviously.
I want to touch on that you brought up the
Kansas City Chiefs earlier, whether they won two in a row,
can they make it three in a row? And I
do have that list about out to the completions and
I want to get to also, So all that's coming
off next here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (18:49):
Good anything, Everybody, Bertie Frado, Arnie Span, You're in for
the guys, Jason Smith and his best friend Mike Carmon
here on Fox Sports Radio. Bernie I had a list.
I think Warren Sharp put this out from Sharp Football.
I saw this on Twitter, the highest rate of incompletions
due to inaccurate passes.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So who had the highest rate.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Of incompletions strictly because they threw inaccurate passes?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, I'll let you guess Number one. He I'll give
you a hint.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
One of the highest rated or highest paid quarterbacks in
the NFL. I would say ninety five percent of the
people think he's overrated. Hasn't really done a whole heck
of a lot to earn his contract at all. You
want to take he thows forty three point nine percent
of his incompletions are because he throws an inaccurate pass.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You want to take a.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Guess, Well, you gave a really good hint there and
it comes to one of the highest paid. So you got, like,
you know, Trevor Lawrence and Lamar Jackson and Deshaun Watson
in that group. I know this is I don't want
this is gonna come out wrong. I'm gonna say Lamar Jackson,
even though I'm a big Lamar Jackson defender. But it's
a guess. And if I could just say one thing,
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aren't you haven't you covered the NFL for ten years
and done two hundred post game shows. There can be
receiver error. If the guy runs the wrong route, it
can appear.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
This is right, It could appear, But this is because
of inaccurate passes. So I don't think it's because of
receiver error.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Maybe, but if the guy's plastered and the quarterback intentionally
throws it so no one can get it, only the
receiver can get right. You know these are first of all,
this is a really good topic, right because it spawns
real discussion, although you run the risk of the the
Yogi barristat you know what a Yogi bear stat? No?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
What is that? Well? You know, one day Yogi went
four for four in Boston, and he looks in the
paper the next day in the Boston Globe, hadd in
three for four. So he calls up the editor of
the sports editor and says, what are you doing, man?
I went four for four years today? The editor said, relax, Yogi.
It was a typographical error. So what do you mean?
It was a clean single up the middle. So these
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stats can be deceiving, But cad, I'm gonna blurt it
on it. I'll see, I'll tell what I'll sayd Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, it's Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
He's right there in front of me.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Got that Deshaun Watson forty three point nine percent one year. Now,
you're not gonna guess two through four. It's Tyrod Taylor
number two, Trevor Simeons number three, Bryce Young at number
four makes sense about.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
The pressure he had, though, right exactly, you've.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Got you guessed five and six.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Lamar Jackson and Jordan Love, followed by Trevor Lawrence and
c J.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Stroud.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Why are those those are four big, high price, you know,
high talent quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson thirty six point seven, Jordan
Love thirty six point two, Trevor Lawrence thirty six point one,
c J. S Droud thirty five point six. They throw
most passes incompletions due to their inaccurate passes.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That that's got to be concerning, especially for just on this.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
List, he was one of the most inaccurate passers in
the league. Maybe he threw less passes.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That could be the percentage wise right exactly. So I
thought that was interesting on why those big name talents.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Just you asked me about a certain team earlier in
the show, you know who's very accurate? Designate enough credit
Russell Wilson. Where was he on this list?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He well after after a C J. Stratta was Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Can he Pickett Easton Stick, Matthew Stafford, Joshua Dobbs, Daniel
Jones in Tua that was it?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Okay, so he's near the bottom and he's he's not
he's not near the top.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, he's not near the top.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So he's considered well, yeah, I I don't know, is
there an algorithm to this? I mean, how many passes
did you have to throw? Right? If you're playing the
defenses you had to play against.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And but you know, some people say it's not a
fair list to do, and you know it's not. You know,
just it doesn't it's not an indication how good these
guys are. I just thought it'd be interesting.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Here's what's interesting, though. You look at Okay, you mentioned
Jordan Love playoff team, Trevor Lawrence playoff team C just
a playoff team, that's true, So there's not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
A correlation between that and not making the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm not disavowing the statistical analysis here. It's just said
you have to interpret it in a way that has
some meaning.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Way to take my list, to throw it out the windows.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
War Sharps list. Yeah, I mean, I think I think
you raise an excellent topic, Arnie, because it's you know,
it's kind of a Chicken and an aig deal. It
really is. I mean, there are a lot of times
that the untrained eye a quarterback looks like he misses
a guy receiver ran the wrong route.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, you know that, Bertie Fratto, Arnie Spanier here on
Fox Sports Radio, Bertie's got a list of these second
half stories coming up in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
One of them should be.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That most of the divisions are almost decided. That's not
gonna be good for the race down there. But first
the final check and what's trending with our buddy Kevin Wyatt.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
K W Yeah, everything has gone final in Major League Baseball,
of course, the fourth of July day full of the
National Past time. And in Los Angeles things ended not
too long ago, but the Arizona Diamondbacks really piling it
on the Dodgers, winning at nine to three. They'd taken
two out of this three game series. Christian Walker a
huge reason why he went deep last night and the
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Diamondbacks win. He went deep twice tonight in Arizona's ninth
three victory, also had three RBI's three runs scored, as
again Arizona wins the series against Los Angeles. The Rays
beat the Royals ten to eight, Rockies hold off the
Brewers four to three. Giants go ahead home run for
Matt Chapman to help him take down the Braves four two,
Mariners snapping a losing streak as they beat the Orioles
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seven to three, holding off the Astros. The Asters are
red hot. They've been charging up the standings and they've
gotten themselves a win against the Blue Jays of five three,
so they're just two games back of Seattle. The Oriel
despite losing, still two games ahead of the Yankees, as
New York was swept by Cincinnati, including an eight four loss.
On Thursday, the Cardinals and Pirates goes to extra inning.
Saint Louis wins at three to two. The day began
(25:12):
in the Nation's Capital, the Washington Nationals, shutting out the
Mets won nothing. Red Sox Marlins goes to extra innings.
Boston wins at six to five and twelve. Guardians over
the White Sox eight four. Twins found the Tigers twelfth three.
Although the game did and a little early, it was
the main official in seven innings. Ian Happ four for four,
two three run home runs help lift the Cubs over
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over the Phillies ten to two. As Philadelphia is still
the best team in baseball at fifty seven and thirty,
but Ian half a huge day at the plate for Chicago.
The Padres getting a home run from Jerks and Profar
as they beat the defending champion Texas Rangers three to one.
Athletic shout out the Angels five nothing as that complete,
said the slate there in Major League Baseball. Back to
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you guys, Thanks a.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Lot, Kevin, enjoy the weekend. Bernie fred Alredy Spaniard in
for the guys, Jason Smith and his best reread Mike
Harmon real quick perty before we get the second half
storylines in Major League Baseball. You know that Twitter address
old Takes Exposed.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, Freezing Takes or somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Obviously they didn't have Twitter eighty five years ago, but
I do want to give you this was on old
Freezing Takes Exposed and a Freezing Cold Takes whatever they
call it. I think it's a great website, our a
great Twitter address. This was in the newspaper and it
was written by a sports writer talking about lou Garrick. Okay,
(26:38):
he writes personally, this was eighty five years ago to
the date. He goes, personally, I don't care what Garrick's got,
but I like to exchange my body for his during
the next forty or fifty years. Let us say, I'm
pretty sure. Wait a minute, let us say, I am
pretty sure I would do all right, regardless of the
(26:58):
experts argument over the Latin or Greek is decline that
he has something wrong. It seems to me that Garrick
was merely getting too old to play hell for leather baseball,
and that the scientist of ailments that they're giving him
is his way of getting out gracefully, with like a
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graceful exit.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That he didn't have an illness and that they're just
making this up because he wanted a graceful exit out there.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
So that's perhaps the worst freezing they'll take ever.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And it's sensitive too. It is the als disease for
crying out. Now, the guy died and I think thirty
nine something like that, an incredible athlete, usually the freezing takes.
I mean, Steven A got caught about a week ago.
He said that Yukon team back in twenty, well they
don't have the NBA players and now four are playing
for the right.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That was awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, you should lose their life. That's that's a rough one.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I gilb Be, you got second up stories for Major Arnie.
Look now, there should be some good wages started Aaron
Judge with the thirty two home runs.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
That's unbelievable, and we'll see if that can continue. I mean,
one year, Reggie Jackson thirty eight at the All Star
break and only hit nine more the rest of the way.
But along those lines, there's a pretty good MVP race
taking shape in the National in the National League between
Shohey Otani and Bryce Harper. And I think Mookie Betts
would have been in it, but he's out with a
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couple of he's out with his broken wrist. Ellidego Lacruz,
you can't you can't count him out as well. The
Houston Astros on May eighth, they were in last place.
They lost four straight games. They were twelve games under
five hundred, nine games out of first place. You look
up June eighteenth. Now they're making ground on the Mariners.
They've been a dominant franchise over the last decade. I
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think one of the real storylines is can the Astros
come back and do what they do? They're twenty six
and sixteen since that streak. They just swept the Oriel
over the weekend. Here's the kicker, the Orioles and Yankees.
You notice we really don't have penna rass like we
used to. The days are the great penna rases. No
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one is noticing this. The Yankees and the Orioles have
a hell of a penna RaSE forming.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
That's the whole In the Nationally, it's pretty much all
the side and Phillies are gonna win the division, Milwaukee
and probably the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So yeah, but when you have a kind of okay,
only one team can win the Al East, Okay, right now,
the Yankees and Orioles. Uh, And you have quite a
penna RaSE and you got so many divisions and it's
kind of, you know, watered down compared to what it
used to be. But here's the deal. The team that
(29:44):
wins the division over the one that doesn't, that's a
substantial win. You get a weekend off at the start
of the playoffs, or you face the fight Steve Wildcard
team in the best of three. That's why they And
by the way, both those teams are good enough to
get to the World Series and win it. Will they
do that? I don't know, but I am watching that
Yankees Orioles battle in the second half of the season,
as well as the Astros. Finally, one other storyline. I
(30:07):
think that's worth mentioning. Just a little over a year ago,
Paul Skeens in addition to dating a gymnast, he's doing
pretty well. He's winning it life. I think he had
a hell of a year at LSU, wins the College
World Series. They call him up to the big leagues
and he's been unreal. Now in this day and age
of I mean, they actually have load management in baseball.
They'll shut a guy down with his innings because of
(30:30):
he's a power pitcher, he's a young pitcher. They want
to keep him out. The Pirates are going to have
to keep him in the rotation because the Pittsburgh Pirates,
believe it or not, they're alive in the wildcard chase.
In the National League, there are a bunch of teams
are in a typical year where you might see them
start to shut Paul Schemes down gradually towards the end
of the year. Maybe they'll get me an extra day
(30:51):
off now and then, but I think you're going to
be treated to see Paul Skans all the way to
the end of the year, unless Pittsburgh falls completely out
of the race, and then they'll shut him down. They'll
keep him fresh, right, But that's how they manage guys now.
But what a gift for Pittsburgh, What a boon for
the good fans of Pittsburgh who wishes you know, they
you know, they could do something in the postseason for once,
(31:12):
Paul Skeins is actually giving them hope, right right, And.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Therefore I think four games out of a playoff spot.
At one point there was like seven or eight teams
separated by two games, so things were absolutely nuts on
that Aaron Judge thirty two home runs, we're almost at
the halfway point. Don't go by the All Star game.
Almost at the halfway point. I think he can easily
get sixty though, but not easily.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Well, he can, but you know, back to the MVP argument,
He's got another guy on his team, Juan Soto, who's
gonna get MVP votes. And you know, having just mentioned
the Oarriers Oriols, Gunner Henderson is another guy that is
an MVP type player. So look, there are some storylines
in the second half of the year certainly to watch,
not the least of again, which is the Dodgers. Right
(31:59):
with the money they they spent about a billion dollars
in the last two or three years. I understand. Tonight
the Dodgers did and they lost nine to three, and
they were booed coming off the field.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Come on, man, remember when twenty game winners we used
to celebrate them.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
We don't get that much any hour. You know that
doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, Danny mccleann, I'm pretty sure it'll be the last
thirty game winner. I don't know, going on a limb arty.
Yeah see, I don't think there's gonna be any thirty
game winners anymore. But think about that. The Dodgers, okay,
and they you know, they're what eighteen nineteen games above
five hundred. They got a solid seven eight game lead
over the potecast Yeah, six okay, they're ten games over
(32:39):
five hundred in the row, ten games over five hundred
at home. Their boot coming off the field to night?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Who peeding their cornflakes? I mean, what are we really
doing this? Are we really doing this? Do we know
why they were booed? They were bowed?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Well, Arizona had scored I believe four runs in the
top of the knight.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
If that could have something to do with it.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Maybe you know that's you know, there's no time clock
and baseball. Aren't they gotta get you out twenty seven times? Man?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well the score was five three at the time. That
made it nine three. It was all downhill. It just
it looked like they were disgusted. The Roberts had to
look on his face like he was just mad.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Almos said, there'd be days like this, Tyler sorta, he said,
listen the beauty. Spark and Anderson used to talk about
the marathon. That's what made the beauty. The Pennant Race
is so special. It was truly a marathon. And Tommy
and the Sordi used to say, no matter how good
you are, you're gonna lose a thirty your games. No
matter how bad you are, you're gonna win a thirt
of your games. Right, So the Dodgers can go one
(33:34):
hundred and eight and fifty four lose a third of
their games. Well you get the picture. They're still playing
almost seven hundred baseball. So you know, don't make me
call the good fans of southern California a bunch of thieves.
In front Runner says they sit there and listen to
us on five seventy am. I don't know what happened, right,
but when you're booed and you're in first place by ten,
I don't know what people want.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Well, the Dodgers have now lost two in a row.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I think, oh no, it's it's been tough when they
get to the playoffs, though, Bertie, it's not like they've
had an easy time of it, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
I remember one time back and I want to say, guys,
she's like back in eighty one the Dodgers. Of course,
they won the World Series. In the split season that year,
they had a stretch where they lost like nine or
ten or they win a game for a couple of weeks,
and then Jerry Rice or somebody went out and beat
the Potteries, and he was so excited after the game.
He goes, you know, if I don't know, itn't been
this much fun, we'd have done this week's ago. So
you know, you try it a wain and the baseball
(34:25):
is not an easy game.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
He's Bertie Frado. Marty Spanier will wrap things up one
segment to go. Bertie has all the records for Joey,
just nut and did he put in an impressive performance.
But it wasn't a Coney Island. We'll get to all
that coming up next year on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
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Speaker 3 (34:55):
All right, good evening, everybody, Bernie and Artie right here
on Fox Sports Radio. Final segment. Of course, some guy
ripping me on Twitter. Bernie, I'm not gonna read it.
They made my list racial, so that they're getting into that.
Always people, there's always somebody that's going to complain, Bernie.
There's there's always somebody that's going to complain.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
My friend, yep, I think to play the complete departments
up on the fourth floor. Lets you go see them.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
And it's not a racial list. Okay, it wasn't even
my it's list and it's based.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
On statistics, which I think we questioned because they can
be misinterpreted based on a lot of factors. That's why
I told the Yogi berra.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
You know, I never got to my list of top
twenty five players under the age of twenty five. Also,
I saw somebody put that was very interesting list. I
had a few disagreements with it, but it was interesting list. Uh,
you had a list of Joey Chestnuts records. Joey Estut
had an unbelievable day in just five minutes, compared to
the guys at the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest that
(36:00):
they had ten minutes, right.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
My friend, Well, it was unreal what Joey chestnutt did. Yeah,
he not only had fifty, he did it in five minutes.
And he went down to Fort Bliss today to take
on a group of soldiers who were big fans. And
it was four on one and the soldiers made a run.
They landed on forty nine hot dogs, but Joey Chestnut
had fifty seven by himself in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
So, yeah, fifty eight was the winner, by the way,
or excuse me, yeah fifty eight or in the sixties, I.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Believe was the winner in ten minutes. Though for the
Nathan's hot Dog getting contest.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Correct, that gives it, That gives them some perspective. But
let's have a little fun with this, Arnie. You like
twinkies by any chance? Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I love twinkies.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
How many twinkies could could you eat? If if time
was you know, well, let's say eight hours, I mean,
how many? How many twinkies? Wow?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Eight hours is a long time.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
I don't know how many I could put down there,
But if you were like, in about twenty minutes, I'm
sure I could put down about twenty twin keys I
could eat.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Pretty that's pretty impressive. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. Well, uh,
Joey Chestnut did one hundred and twenty one and six
minutes twenty twenty one twinkies in six minutes. You're like, no,
I can't do you chicken wings?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Aren't you like chicken love chicken wings, love them?
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Tell me me, gell me what you can do in
chicken wings and what and like, let's say thirty minutes
and then twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Thirty minute, let's do thirty minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
In thirty minutes, I could probably eat about five or
six pounds maybe is that a lot?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
I don't know how many comprise a pounds six, I know,
let's say ten.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Let's say ten, though.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
So you can eat thirty that's pretty that's pretty impressive.
Joey Chestnut in thirty minutes the world record, one hundred
and eighty two chicken wings.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
That's insane.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
He did a twelve hour He did a twelve hour marathon,
did four hundred and thirteen chicken wings in twelve hours.
Hell my, I would need arthroscopic surgery after that. Even
if I could put the damn thing down, you got
to be hurting. Who does like? By the way, we
talked about this earlier in the show, Nick Wherry, Mickey
Pudo's husband, did fifty hard boiled eggs in three minutes.
(38:08):
Joey Chestnunt also the record world record for hard boiled
eggs one hundred and forty one hard boiled eggs in
eight minutes. Now, aren't you like grilled cheese sandwiches?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Don't you love grilled cheese sandwiches?
Speaker 4 (38:18):
How many could you eat in ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
In ten minutes, I can't eat more than one a minute. Maybe,
if I'm pushing it, maybe fifteen.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Oh my god, you might hear that's a lot. Well,
Joey Chestnut forty.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Seven forty you're choking on that.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
For I'm choking just thinking about eating forty seven grilled
cheese sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now, how do you get those down? Do you dip
them in water?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I told you well that I don't know, but you said, look,
they're not eating. They've basically turned their mouth and their
jaws into a wood chipper. It's basically what they're not
eating anymore. Okay, here's one for you, Big Max. Everybody
Jason Smith loves a big man.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Yes, yes, I love big.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
You've got the world record. How many could you eat?
They say, I give up.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
In a half hour. I'm sure I could eat about
seven or eight.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Again, very impressive. Joey Chessmutt thirty two, Big Max in
thirty eight minutes. Thirty two they have.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's almost one a minute. I don't know how you
last one.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
I'll tell you it. They got they got taco belling
for no right.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Some of these people don't like having condiments on it.
I wonder if all these condiments on it.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, I'm sorry, as long as you don't put ketchup
on a hot dog. Okay, just don't do that, or
I'm gonna fill the room with uppercuts. Last one they have,
they have tackle. They have taco bell in Vermont. Right,
of course you like those soft shell beef tacos. Love them.
How many.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I could probably put out? About forty or fifty and
a half.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Hour, fifty three and ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh, I'm not even close.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Why you've actually thrown out some pretty impressive numbers there.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I gotta tell you, yeah, but I don't know if
I can let you do it. I'm throwing out the numbers,
but you know if I could do it, Oh, I
gotta look. I gotta thank to go Frizzell. Thank to you, Bertie.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
I appreciate you sitting in and doing the four hours.
We had a great time. Was a quick show.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Thanks for having me, man appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Thanks to the crew out there, Mary Squared Patrick, of course,
Kevin White on the updates, Thanks to Bernie, and of
course thanks to Smith and Harmon for letting us fill in.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
You know who's coming up next.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
So chup big Ben Mallord. Stick around for him and
the Mallard Militia. I'm sure he's got plenty to say
on this fifth of July. That's next year on Fox
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