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lock it in and rip the knob off. Dodgers lead
the Reds right now six three. Top of the seventh,
Reds cut the lead from six one to six three
with a home run a few moments ago. Meanwhile, Padres
and the Mariners. Mariners came from behind to take the lead.
Geno Suarez with a home run Geno Geneo g but
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the Mariners give it right back. Padres with a one
run lead. But again Mariner's batting bottom of the seventh inning,
this one again seven to six.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
They needed to make sure they kept the number of
Genos in the city proper.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Geno.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
There always have to be one gene YEA too many
Geno's doesn't work. One Geno, it says, no Homers, Gino
to have one. No Geno Suarez, No Gino Smith, Gino Suarez,
Geneo gene Oh gene oh gene.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
There's an ad for America's lean as bacon. Yeah, sure, fine,
lean bacon. Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So today's cut down day in the NFL. We get
down to fifty three. We'll have more football coming up
in a few minutes. But big announcement today in Major
League Baseball that the twenty twenty six MLB season is
going to begin sooner than any of us wanted to,
sooner than anticipation. It's actually going to start before this
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season ends. So the teams that are eliminated in September.
They will start next season in September. Oh good, so
they're gonna start ready. So when we start next season,
they're already in the mid They're already in the midie.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So you don't make Champions League, you're no, yeah, you're dead.
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The baseball season in twenty twenty six is going to
start on March twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The hell are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Big headline today? The Yankees and Giants will play on
March twenty fifth. No, okay, before you sit and there, well, okay,
where are they playing? South Korea? They're playing in Japan.
Are they playing in Berlin? Are they playing in Antarctica? No, no,
they're We're opening up and then the next day everybody
else plays. So we're getting the opening game on the
twenty fifth, and all the other teams play on March
(03:10):
twenty sixth. The season's also going to end sooner than
it ever has before before the right before the end
of September. But you're starting earlier than we have ever had.
March twenty fifth and March twenty sixth, the full opening
day for Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We're not expanding, not making any grandi of changes to thing.
Do we add another round of playoffs that I'm unaware of?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh? Maybe maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Because we already eliminated double headers. So it's not like
we're stretching out the season there is it like the
NBA where we got to give extra off days.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We're doing this because Hey, the expansion we talked about
in realignment's coming way sooner than you think. We're gonna
do all this in a couple of weeks in December. So, hey,
we start the season, everything is good.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Let's give you an extra couple of weeks before the
NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Every every day, two teams, two teams have TBA next
to who they're playing and where it's at.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We're going after March Madness by TBA TBA.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Eventually we're gonna be Look, we've already opened up opening
night of March Madness. I mean it's we've said for
a long time that the sports the way sports have
evolved over the course of the last years. I think
about this, right, as you get older, as people get
older in life and you do something you love for
a living, I don't think you lose the passion for it.
(04:30):
I think when you get to a point where you say,
you know, I still love doing what I do, I
just wish I could do it a little bit less, right,
And you see that from people that that get into
their sixties and ed you know, yeah, like, hey, I
used to be the five night a week anchor on
the five o'clock at eleven o'clock TV show. But I've
been doing this now for twenty five years. So what
(04:52):
do we do on my next contract? Well, You're gonna
work Monday through Thursday and I'm off every Friday. I
got that written into my deal. I still love what
I do, I just want to do it a little
bit less. And I kind of feel that way with
sports is that, you know, here we are in twenty
twenty five. Right, not to have a big, you know,
discussion about the state of sports, but we're in twenty
twenty five, and generally we are overserved with the amount
(05:16):
of sports that we get. Right, The NFL season is
getting longer, the college football season is getting longer, the
NBA season is stretching out with Batman no less back
to backs baseball, Baseball is already a six month season.
Now you're saying we're getting into over six months before
you to the playoffs, which is another five to six weeks, right,
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so it's a long time. It's all a six months season.
As then time goes on, we have not sports. We
used to be an underserved portion of society. Sports runs
are always underserved. We didn't get to see all the games.
We didn't get to not as many playoff teams got
to play. The playoffs were shorter. We were underserved. But
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as sports got more and more popular and the big
four sports, and you want to throw MLS in now,
the MLS they start beginning of February and they end
in December, and there's like two weeks off they start
the season again. It's like it's like an adult bowling league.
How long is your both? Like my dad was in
a bowling.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On holidays off my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
My dad was in a bowling league once that started
in March and ended after Thanksgiving. I'm like, Dad, how
do you dig Beau? I don't go every week? You go, Dad,
that's that's three quarters in the How do you how
many weeks that he goes? I don't know, thirty five
thirty six weeks? Skipped him out of trouble, like, how
do you do that?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Right? The length of a NASCAR season.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right, you know, so as time goes on, Really, we're
not underserved with sports anymore. Sports fans aren't underserved anymore. We,
if anything, were overserved, right, And look at football right now,
we have NFL Monday night, Thursday night, Sunday night. As
the season goes on, we get games on Wednesday, games
on Friday. We had games on Saturday. We get all
the holidays. Like, we're not that way anymore. And yes,
(06:55):
the general answer to always we play too many games,
because I don't think there's anybody that thinks all that
there's too few games, right, there's nobody things we could
think that way, maybe for the NFL because the NFL
season is really short, it's four months, so I had
another couple of weeks. But generally, overall, we get as
much football as we want, We get as many sports
as we want to. But it's hey, we're not going
(07:15):
to have less games because it's less money, right, it's
less money. Players get less money, leads less money. But
I will tell you this, right, could you think about
this and how early this is from Major League Baseball eventually? Right,
Eventually one of the sports leagues is going to be
that guinea pig, and they're gonna say, you know what,
we are gonna get a better deal. We're gonna be
able to sell them. We're gonna we're gonna do some
(07:36):
sort of do analytics and algorithms and say, you know what,
if we did less games, right, if we had less games,
we could sell tickets for a little bit more money,
make it a little bit more of a mussy thing.
Whereas if I don't go to this game, I'll wait
to get free tickets from this game, I can go
to another game. If there's less games, we can make
(07:56):
more money. If we increase the ticket prices a little bit,
then we will having regular ticket prices with so many
seats unsold for a long season. Right, they'll they'll find
a way to say, hey, look at this algorithm where
it works for seventy five games in the NBA and
will make more money than we will eighty two games
because of unsold seats. Or Major League Baseball might be
(08:17):
the first league to do that. In fact, I think
if I had to say which one of the four
sports leagues, it would be Baseball. That might go back
maybe it'll go back to one hundred and fifty four games,
but there's gonna be some sort there's gonna be an algorithm,
and there's gonna be some sort of proven analytics where, hey,
for baseball, instead of eighty two games a year, if
we go down to seventy five games, we increase ticket
prices for this will make more money and television ratings
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will go up more because there'll be a little bit
less games. There will be some one league will find
a way to say this works with less games, and
they will do it. We will get at some point
in the next few years, by twenty thirty twenty thirty five,
because again we're getting too flush with leagues. It starts
so much that they're gonna say, hey, this works more
for us if there are less games, and that will
(09:03):
fold its way in And for TV partners, you can say, well,
how's that gonna work for TV? Well, they're just gonna
sell their their product for a little bit more money. Nationally,
They'll still sell it for a little bit more money
to whoever's broadcasting games locally, because stations are still gonna
want this product, right, it's still gonna want it. Just hey,
you're gonna bid more money for eighty two Mariners games?
(09:25):
Are you're gonna bid more money for seventy five Mariners
games than you were for the last one, which eighty
two Mariners games? Why am I doing that? Don't you
want the product?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well? Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, if you're not gonna pay for it, somebody else
will and we'll be able to sell it so they'll
be able to still make that TV money. But it's
gonna take a league that says, hey, we're looking into
the analytics and cost of owners and what it means,
and we're gonna get one league with less games. And
if MLB expands, that's gonna be the first one where
they look and say, Okay, if we're expanding out thirty
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two teams, how are we gonna figure this out? Hey,
we can figure out a pretty good schedule at one
hundred and fifty four games.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, I have first brought that up.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You'll go down to one hundred and forty, Like, if
you're MLB, right, I'd be okay if you down to
one hundred and twenty. I love baseball like I love, love,
love baseball my whole life. But if you go down
a little bit, I'm not gonna say I'm not unhappy, right,
and with all sports like ll be like with with
basketball and hockey, you can do it. Football probably want
to keep it where it is, but it is the
shortest season, so you don't really need to do that.
(10:23):
But at some point there's gonna be some sort of analytics.
Some league is gonna say, yeah, we figured out the money. Right,
If you can figure out a way for the Mets
to say, hey, we're okay giving Bobby Beinie a million
dollars every July first because we made money on it
all the way back thirty years ago, you're gonna find
a way to say, hey, less games, we can still
make as much money, if not more, because of certain
(10:43):
things we can do.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
By the way, congratulations Ken Griffy Junior. You got his
last three plus million dollar check from the Reds. Oh
that's over now, Yeah, it's final.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh really, I love of other guys. Yeah, but I
like the fact that Ken Griffy was still getting paid.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, no, that was much right. Oh, White Sox all
fame and they just did a bobblehead date over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
How about that the White Sox paying any of that
money or no, oh, okay, I'm said, really, I thought
that Ken Griffy Day was still going.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But anyway that I like the cut of your Jim,
And if you're disappeared tomorrow, it's been good knowing you.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Okay, sure, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Between players, unions, and league officials and advertisers and TV.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Partners, someone's gonna do it. Some forward think league is
gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Robmanford's talked about it in the realignment and reconfiguration of
things from Major League Baseball that maybe one hundred and
fifty four is the magic number. He's floating that out
there just so it doesn't get, you know, come out
of out of nowhere and shock folks. To your point
about ticket sales, et cetera, Well, we've seen the largest
of the TV deals and what each team walks home with,
(11:54):
right because of the Packers being a public company, public entity.
We saw that they got four hundred and thirty two
million dollars from the national cut. That's more than operational expenses.
And they're a unique circumstance as well is that the
season ticket waiting list is generational. But all of that say,
(12:16):
baseball might be the spot, particularly if you can't get
to an agreement where you raise the spending floor and
and force the pirates the aforementioned White Sox again. They
took bites at the apple in the past and failed
and then went the other way. And now they're a
bunch of young guys running around that are just straight
out of Double A and Triple A. All fun to watch,
(12:37):
a couple of potential stars there, but eventually they'll need
to get paid. Go to the Rockies, go to some
of these other teams. You got four or five teams
that it's pretty easy to just say, okay, raise the
floor and force them to compete, as opposed to trying
to police the top end of things. Figure out how
you squeeze the middle, you know, like you made your
sandwich and now you're smushing it together in a panini press.
(12:58):
So yeah, I made it about sandwiches. Now I got press,
Now I have your attention. But it's the it's fuzzy math, right.
You know, we've also been as a sports populous underserved
maybe once upon a time, and now that it's the
glut to where everybody complaiins like you know what, you know,
you don't need all two hundred seventy two NFL games.
(13:21):
You know what, don't buy package X, don't buy package
why whatever. Go back to what you once had. You
had the networks and Monday Night football. You had it all,
but now you have your choice. And if you're paralyzed
by choice, like if you see a big menu and
you get something like you go out to eat and
(13:41):
all of a sudden you're at a place that rivals
the cheesecake factory and suddenly you have stage right, Uh,
then then maybe this is not the playing surface for
you and someone else should be making your decisions. But
in terms of giving back any of that money, like
the algorithm would really need to be fool proof.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
True.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, again, Like I always say, smart people, they will
figure something like that. They can figure out it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
They'll figure something out.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I like your they'll figure it out.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And if it goes to one hundred and twenty two
twenty games, like you say, I will glue lead.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
We will cut the games down. We will be able
to offer a season ticket package at X amount of
money and get more people to buy individual than having
empty circus. We'll have some sort of giveaway at whatever
it is. They will figure out an algorithm to make
it work.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
By the way Major League Baseball attendance is through the
roof right now, So you know, just just run with it.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, you know what, let's still I think there's lots
of teams on getaway days, on Thursday Day games and
Monday Day games where they're like, why are we even playing?
Why are we play? We got we got five thousand
people here? Why are we playing this game? Okay, talk
about this, think about it straight. Eventually it's gonna happen.
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down Day in the NFL, we get to the fifty
three man rosters. And in case you missed everything all day,
well look what was today? Not a day where you
saw a whole bunch of guys. Oh my goodness, this
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guy got cut. We gotta go sign him. The biggest
cut at DJ. The biggest cut cut was clearly Tommy
cut Let's who was cutlet from the Giants earlier today.
Tommy DeVito, the odd quarterback out in New York. They
weren't keeping four guys. They were keeping Russell Wilson obviously,
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Jackson Dart, Jamis Winston, Tommy Cutlets, Tommy DeVito is out
of work.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
First cut is the deepest. Said it hurt his heart. Yeah,
not that he couldn't have seen this coming from a
mile away a local boy. Hey, yeah, it's one thing
to not see the you know, the blitzing cornerback who
flashes late this one.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And look, here's the thing is that he's gonna get
somewhere because he has shown that sometimes he can get
the job done with a limited ceiling. And that's absolutely
what you want in a backup quarterback. Right. He's the
new Gardner Minshew. He's colorful. He can move the team
from time to time. You don't want him to play
(18:15):
too too much, but if he has to play a
little bit, you'll be okay because you can move. He
can move the team up and down the field. But
that's it. He's the new Gardner Minshew. Like Gardner Minshew
has to to give a pair of jorts and a
mustache him and say, listen, I'm passing down the title
of most popular colorful backup quarterback in the NFL. I
had my run. It was a great run, Tommy cutlets.
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Now it's you and he hands in the jorts. Maybe
a pair of ze Cavarricci or something. Here's a jorts
you put him on, Tommy. All right, I'm handing this
off to you.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
We go from clipboard Jesus yeah to Gardner Minshew, who
will be on display in Brazil.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Gardner Minshew is way.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
More interesting than clipboard Jesus, way more. He played more
like Jesus. I know, but do you want to change religions?
I gotta book that was written by Jesus.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No, no, no, it could be dirty Jesus.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Did you know that Jesus lived here in the good Usa? No, no,
it's dirty. I don't think we have dirty Dirty. That's
a whole other thing. Man, you're going to hell. That
sounds like a Metallica album Dirty Yeah by Dirty jaw
Men rocks men.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Don't let it on Napster now, I got it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, Lar's all work is gonna come kick your ass.
After saying that, just at this point, he'll take the downloads. Man,
they're still trained off of the stranger things.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'm sorry we have to play in the millennials. What
Napster is.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Napster was a music sharing program early in the two
thousands that gained popularity. Well, you could get albums by
not paying for.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Them, so Spotify.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Uh, well it comes well, no, you actually you didn't
have to pay anything, like, you had to pay zero
money and you got to own the songs you had
him like you, you own the you had them.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You can make you girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Here, I'm gonna put I'm gonna put for whom the
bell tolls on for you because you know it's our
song and the live version?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Which live version would you like?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I've got fourteen of them and by the end of
the night, I'm gonna have forty two.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
How would you like load on your playlist?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
What? What about reload?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Load is better than reload. So Tommy and I give
him the nod because I always want to give somebody
the nod for something. Hey, I give him the nod
for being someone to carve out such a popular career
just because his nickname was Cutlets and his agent dressed
like a guy you would expect to be from New
(20:45):
Jersey who was maybe in the Sopranos, leaning into that hole. Yeah. Hey,
they're seeing all the Steve Sharipa memes today of you know,
Tommy Cutlet's getting cut Now. I'm coming for you. Now,
I'm coming for you. You're cutting Tommy Cutlets, I'm coming
for you. Giants coming for you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Silvio Dante's showing up at your door.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I mean, don't, I don't think it's the case the
extent of where, hey, we're changing our logo, we're boycotting.
We don't like the new logo. We're boycotting the Giants. No, no, no,
we love Jackson Dart. We're not boycotting the Giants. It's fine.
It's just an internet thing with the Sopranos and Tommy
Cutlets and we're okay. That was a good bit.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Over the course of the day, I think I relived
the entire series through the release of Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
A couple of could you movies mixed in Could you
tell the story of Tommy DeVito? In uh in Sopranos
splot lines like, okay, Tommy DeVito ascends to the starting
quarterback job.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, can you do that? Can you like? Can
you mirror Christopher's rise with Tommy DeVito and then the fall?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I guess Tommy and that restaurant thing is kind of
like what Christopher wanted to be in the.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Movie business, seeing he listened, don't stop believing.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He just like salts his food, looks up at the
end and it cuts the black.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is where you get cut, Tommy, This is where
you get cut.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
That's not bad. Get aid to put that together, make
it happen. But no, I mean had a good run, right,
Like like Jeremy Lynn before him. You trade on a
little bit of performance and then the hype and circumstance,
and you know, we got that great story about the
restaurant deal where he had an appearance and then suddenly
(22:19):
now out of the price of poker's gone up. It's
like bad, bad stuff and that's where we really found
out about his agent. A little bit more as that
went on. But it's the NFL. In the last five years,
we've had sixty plus quarterbacks start again. Bad things happen
all over the place, so just give it time.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So on cutdown day, while hey Tommy cutlets got cut
and it figures this was a you know them doing
this today? Maybe you saw this story.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It was popular like off track betting in the Himalayas,
but a little bit more popular.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Leave off track betting alone. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey
are in wait what and there?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
These two what one's a singer and one's a foot
one's a gym teacher and one is an English teacher.
U there is a left. Despite the fact that if
you're sick and tired of hearing about Travis Kelsey and
Taylor Swift and all of that. I get it. Look,
I'm not looking forward to all the wedding talkers. Man,
that's gonna really just nor But this is a lesson
(23:26):
that everybody can learn from that, right, and this is
the big This is the biggest thing to take away
from it. Shoot your shot. If there's someone you like,
shoot your shot because you never know. Right. The worst
someone can say is no, Travis Kelcey, shot is shot.
You thought it wasn't working out. Well, it did work out.
They went on dates. Look where they are now now
(23:47):
they're engaged. Right, shoot your shot. Would you ever think, oh,
Travis Kelcey and Taylor's and a lot of people are
showing pictures of Travis Kelcey from college now like this
guy's gonna marry Taylor Swift. But you'd never think, but
shoot your shot, right your shot, because you never know.
And and that's one thing in my life because you
know the kid, you know, It's one thing in my
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life I never had to worry about, like I'm gonna
shoot my shot because the worst thing someone can say
is no. The worst thing she could say is no,
what do why can't? That's no, that is absolutely the
worst thing.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yuck.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, And then you would then you say, that's just
a more elaborate yeah version, and then screen shots it
puts it on the internet, and then it goes viral,
and then everybody just starts talking crap about you.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well see, I'm not saying you shoot your shot with
someone you don't know. You know, you gotta have game,
you gotta find your way.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Makes it extra spicy.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The only the only thing that I will say is this, right,
shoot your shot. Be careful doing it at work because
the one thing, Look, everybody is special, right, men, women
were all special. If you keep shooting your shot at work, right,
and it's not working, when you get to the fourth person, right,
like it's like, oh hey, let's go out, Like, well, okay,
(25:04):
I'm not You asked out three other women here in
the last month. They all said, no, why am I
gonna go out with you unless you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, in the workplaces, work is dangerous proposition.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Went well, yeah, it's a dangerous proposition. Uh, And so
you gotta shoot your shot, right, You got to shoot
your shot, but you got And that's the one thing
I will say, is that at work? You gotta you
gotta be careful about it because everybody, everybody's special and
and uh I knew this when I was I didn't care.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Okay, you just gave participation trophies to the human pis.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, no, look, no, no, everybody everybody spent. You meet
that special someone, you're spent. But I don't feel special
if you've asked out three other people at work and
now you're asking me, no, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No, sorry, I was only four thou chart.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's why you always, and I'm always a big proponent
of asking someone out early. Rather than than waiting and
getting in the friend zone to ask someone out, you
seize that moment. You know they always say high point
the football, right, high point to touch the football, highest point,
get those hands up, ask that person out at the
point where the most likely thing they're gonna say is yes,
or give you their phone number, whatever it is. But
(26:12):
shoot your shot right. Because on when I was younger, man,
I was the Tony Gwinn of shooting my shot. I
had about a three fifty percent of success rate at
dates and phone numbers. That means three and a half
out of every ten. Yes, that means six and a
half for seven was a no. But okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You know I didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, right, what am I gonna do? We're not dating
if I don't ask her out. So what's gonna like
the Wayne Gretzky line, Right, you miss one hundred percent
of the shots that you never take. You will miss
one hundred percent of the putts that you leave short
on a golf course. Whatever sports analogy you want, you
want to use, you will not. You will throw incomplete
one hundred percent of your screen passes, if you're justin fields,
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if you bounce the ball to a wide receiver, all
of these things are true.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I just defaulted.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
He was just having a flashback to some but asking
out circumstance.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was not.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I was then.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean sometimes I'd go three for five. Sometimes I'd
go oh for four and oh for four and go whoa.
But like that's okay, you you'll never you never know
what could happen. So get past that fear. And if
some if if you like someone and and you're talking
to them and you're getting that vibe back, okay, go ahead,
And did you shoot more shots than justin fields? Will
(27:24):
throw passes in the season. Justin Field is gonna throw
eight passes this year. So yes, I shot my shot
more times when I was younger. Yes, okay more times, yes,
Justin I mean now running running attempts. No, running attempts.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
No, this is beyond the A romantic interest is like
it asked answered, all right, you want to raise it work?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, why we're gonna like me. I want to know.
No one's gonna walk up to you and just give
you money.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It goes past it goes past romantic and go back to.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
The Jerry Jones thing that we should have had Jason
cole chap in on this was he the dad, the
mom or the kid?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah, that was Yeah, that was a tough one.
I looked at the clock.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I'm like, he would have probably taken nine minutes to
trying to parse it out.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It wouldn't have worked.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But all of that to say, you gotta ask, you
want the extra cookie? Maybe you hit a good night?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, mom, dad, whoever's giving you you know watching over
you is having a good night.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah, go ahead, yeah, go ahead, have a cook.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You know they're happy because Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey
got engaged Benny, it's an extra dessert night.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I don't know, Benny. My dog knows that lesson. And
he's a dog, dog my dog, because he knows I'm
the weak one in the house, Like I'm the one
that's gonna give him treats right like, Benny, you're listening, treat,
you want a treat, Want a treat? Right now, He's
running to his cabinet like he knows I'm gonna be
the one to give him treats. But I'm not gonna
give him treats all the time. Sometimes he's got to
eat his food. Sometimes he's not gonna get treats all
(28:47):
the time. But it doesn't matter. He shoots his shot
with me all the time because he's like, okay, Bennie,
it's only been three minutes. But you know, his memory,
he doesn't remember that. He's like, I had a trip.
I want another one. And he stands there at me
and and I'm like, I'm sorry, you got to go
eat your food, or I already gave you one. He
knows after after a minute or two, I'm not gonna
get one now. Doesn't mean he's not gonna shoot a
(29:08):
shot again eight minutes from now, Like you shoot you,
you never you never know what I'm gonna say. Ah,
you know what, look at me with those puppy dog guys.
Here you go, here's another treat for you. Just equated
Kelsey to a dog. No, I'm just saying there's different.
I'm saying shooting your shot is in many different ways
of lisolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Hey you whether you whether.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You want to treat, whether you want to raise, whether
you want to date somebody. If you're applying to colleges,
go do it.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Always do it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yes, and the extra couple of bucks. I'm never gonna
get in there.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Unless you apply, you never know. The school might say
we really want you, you know, okay, hey, we like that.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
This goes back to your everybody special. They might look
at you and say, there's something about you. We like
the cut of your jib, you like, we love that
thousand dollars bill you sent us in your application. Yeah,
you're in the school, man, You're good as long as.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
They opened the book and actually get to it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But that's a bit because Travis Kelsey, I want to
detailor swift. What's the worst can happen?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And think about this. Now, let's say she said no,
and okay they're not They're not dating right now? Are
we talking about? When we talk about Travis Kelce, would
that even be the first thing that comes to mind?
It would be how great a tight end he is?
Is he nearing the end of his career? It would
be just the biggest Remember he tried to detailor swift? Oh, okay, great,
like we wouldn't even So many athletes on social media
(30:24):
have tried to shoot their shot with different women and
vice versa. That but you forget about that. I still
remember Jeanie Bouchard, right, the tennis player, extremely attractive, talented
that just a regular guy, right, wasn't an athlete, wasn't
just shot his shot with her like on social media
somewhere and they wound up dating for like two years.
(30:46):
I'm like, wow, they could actually work, Like that could
actually work?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, we know, we know plenty of folks that have
worked with and around us that plenty of athletes and
celebrities have shot their shot.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Man. Look, I'm the crassest of terms.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I shot my shot with Pam and when we first
met at ESPN, she had been dating her boyfriend for
nine years.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You wrecked that guy nine years? Well, never together again.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
At that point. It was also the point where, hey,
you've been together nine years, you're you're not getting married,
you're not getting engaged. You moved away from home. Uh yeah,
I think you guys should have broken up. You know,
the right people were together in that situation.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We got to yeah, oh he was.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
No, he's a nice guy, nice guy, met him a
couple of times when they were dating.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Was a nice guy. Not saying there was like a
little did you stare in his eyes. It's not like.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Dropped to zero and get with the Hey I'm stealing
your girlfriend. They should know they should have never stayed together.
It's one of those things. Yes, we'll say dated on
and off through height. They broke up and got back
together a bunch of times. Okay, well, well he was
a Tigers fan most likely, so that that's how it works.
But no, he's a nice guy and worked, he moved somewhere,
(31:59):
got married, guy, kids, everything else. Look, Pam moved away
from They dated for nine years. Pam moved away from
home to move to ESPN for a job. That should
have been the sign, right there, we're together for nine years.
I'm moving to go take a job somewhere. Okay, that's
not me. I did not know.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
What's a question.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
How about a fresca at Fox Sports Radio at Swollen Dome.
If the kids are listening to this right now and
you can recognize that Jason Smith is part of your
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Speaker 3 (32:29):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Out about a frasca exit Swelling Dome? Shoot your shot?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Time?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
How to find out what's trending in the wide world.
The sports managed going to tell you that the Mets
now have a four game leading the lost column over
the last wildcard spot in the National League because the
Dodgers just beat the Reds.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's Chris Purfett.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Well, you just did my job there, so I guess
I can go home.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Good, Just go to the next hurry. You know.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Well, you know what, I'm kind of worried because last
time you talked about Pam on the air when I
was around, she ended up calling in when you were
complaining about how she did laundry.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That we we we still have that discussion.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I see on the laundry guy, I do the laundry.
I do the laundry. When she doesn't like, I gotta
do it again.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
And this is where this is why I have a
clip of her saying on the phone, you are full
of it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Oh okay, I'm still in.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
The good good good, We'll delete that. Yes, No, that's good.
That's good.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
That's good.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Why why would I let you delete that? That is
that is golden, That is perfect. All right, Yes, let's
catch you up on we'll start. We'll start with some baseball,
just just you know, as a treat, as a treat.
The San Diego Padres just closed out the Seattle Mariners. Uh,
the I think the Tigers and the Athletics, by the way,
(33:41):
cannot take shots of my Tigers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Don't do that to me. Don't don't do that to me.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I just had to say it was back when the
Tigers weren't very good.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, that's a lot of different.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Hey, that's still Cecil Fielder smacking it off the top
of old Tiger Stadium anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Sorry.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
The Dodgers, Yes, the Dodgers did close out the Reds
six to three. The Giants crushed the Cubs five to two,
Rockies take care of the Astros six to one, and
US open. We're still getting some matches going on to
the night. Zevarev taking on Tabillo right now in New
(34:17):
York City. Earlier in the US Open, Nami Osaka and
Coco Goff both punching their tickets the second round, Coco
Goff advancing on three sets, Osaka on straight sets. Egaswiontek
defeated Emiliana Aarano in straight sets, Yennick Center moving on
in three sets. Around the NFL, it was cut down day,
but we had some other stories to really talk about,
(34:38):
and hey, you know, not everyone is getting cut. Some
make the roster and make people happy, including preseason star
for the Dallas Cowboys James Houston, who winds up who's
been a bit of a phenomenon for them in the preseason.
He makes the final fifty three man roster and probably
he was going to see some work here soon, pass
rushing considering the Micah Parson situation. Tommy Devide was waived.
(35:01):
He is a fan favorite, and uh he moves on
and I will still forever have his throwback Giants Tommy
Devido Jersey. The Detroit Lions are down to just fifty
of fifty three men right now, indicating they might make
some transactions. They waved rookie defensive vent Ahmad hassanin with
an injury settlement. The Seahawks are releasing veteran wide receiver
Marquez Valdez Scantling, and the Jets. The Jets, excuse me,
(35:24):
cut sophomore wide receiver Malachi Corley in a stunning reversal
after the team last year traded up to the first
pick of the third round to select him. So easy,
come easy, go back to you guys.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Thank you, seep, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, we'll always have Halloween when you dropped the football
before the goal line, Malachi corn thank you, thanks for that.
Uh coming up next, if you think we're set to
see a superstar play Week one in the NFL, as
head coach said, hang on, hang on, that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
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Speaker 1 (36:02):
We are, I guarantee, the only show on the radio
that plays Eddie Murphy's Party all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
That makes us great.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I don't think if Eddie Murphy had a radio show,
they would play Party all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You're probably right.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Guh, you can't understand it. Why you want to hit me?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I'm Rick James. That's different. It's different.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He's the producer and wrote this different song.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Different anyway, So go watch the video. Is I get It?
I get It?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I get it yep. Two different stories involving everybody's favorite
upset NFL superstar Michaeh.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Parsons.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
One involves a trade rumor one involves what his head
coach said today. Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said that
he wouldn't get into the specifics of what went on
when he met with Michah Parsons because he didn't wear
his jersey laying down on the table during Friday's preseason game,
but he did say he thinks that Parson's going to
be available opening night against the Eagles budd He did
(37:08):
say that potentially he could be limited.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
In the game.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Depending on how things go between now and the beginning
of the season, so it could be limited now. This
also on the heels of report today on social media
by a guy with a check mark. He's got fifty
thousand followers. It says hey deal on the table with
the Cowboys and Packers for Micah Parsons. Parson's gonna get
forty five million dollars a year right now. I love this,
(37:37):
but both of these are actually related. Okay, because we
told you in the beginning, this is more personal than
anyone wants to think it is. It's it's past the
point of money. This is Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons
and and Micah Parson's agent being at odds publicly with
insults going back and forth between the sides. This never
(37:59):
happened with Jerry Jones and anybody else. Michah Parson's made
it personal early and laying on the table like that's
you know. We talked to Jason Cole early in the show,
and he's been covering football for forty years.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I've never seen a player do that, right.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Micah Parsons wants out the reason this has become a thing,
Why this trade er. It doesn't matter if this rumor
is true or not.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I love the write up from from Yahoo Sports. We'll
get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Micah Parsons is going to get forty or forty five million.
He's going to get that from his next team. His
next contract is gonna have a two in front of it.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
If you think it's gonna be oh, it's gonna be
a three year forty million dollars deal. It's gonna be
a TJ. Watt kind of deal. Not happening. This is
the best defensive player in the NFL. He's getting a
contract with a two in front. It's gonna be forty
some million dollars a year. This is what the best
defensive player in the NFL who's twenty four is going
to get. This is how it goes. So if Jerry
(38:55):
Jones says, well, we thought we had a deal, well
they didn't obviously because Mike Parsons and his agent thought, well,
we can get more money than this. Jerry Jones isn't
suddenly gonna go from whatever the deal was to forty
five million dollars a year. That's not gonna happen. So
tell me how this ends. Tell me how this ends
with anything other than Parsons being on a different team.
(39:16):
Jerry and Micah Parsons can have the can can can blink,
can have a staring contest until we think someone's gonna
blink and I'm gonna I'm gonna Francis, I'm gonna do
all of this. But eventually Michael Parson's gonna leave and
he's not gonna play he's gonna sit out, and Jerry
Jones gonna have to sit there and say, man, I'm
losing this negotiation. At some point, Jerry's gonna have to
sit there and say, now I need the best possible
(39:38):
outcome instead of the best outcome, the and most. The
best possible outcome is I trade Micah Parsons. I get
a bunch of draft picks. We have money saved up
to spend on other players. Because that's where this is going.
Micah Parsons is gonna get way more money than Jerry
Jones thinks he's gonna be able to pay him. That's
how this is gonna end.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Try to fight it out. I mean, I'd be curious
to see what kind of numbers were spoken. Is sweet
nothings all those months ago before you know that pesky
agent was gonna get involved, and certainly his history of
holding guys out and contentious negotiations is well established along
(40:16):
the way. I love the speculation on the trade. We'll
go back to that for a second. The beginning of
this article, and I want to know if it was
Ai written or actually someone Do you believe in Spuds
Mackenzie wearing an NFL hat.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
If you do get excited.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
A secret of the NFL source known as Ricky, who
used the images of the aforementioned celebrity dog and his
Twitter avatars, back at it with a rumor about the
Packers and the Cowboys and a deal.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
That's why it doesn't because because it doesn't matter. But
you're going, that's the money he's he's gonna get forty.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
But that's where we keep getting back to.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I'd love to see what the actual numbers and what
the guarantees were, because that's really what matters. Right when
we get to it, it's it's a dollar more than
than Hendrickson, and you know that's great, But what's the guarantee?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Does it get him and make him feel satisfied? And
you're again negotiating with a guy who got a fully
guaranteed deal for a quarterback. He's the guy that brought
this all in the play, right, Yeah, So don't tell
me that that isn't in the background of all this
in terms of.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Dealing with him.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
But but going forward, like Michael Parsons has always struck
me as the guy that he just wants to be
on the field. So he's the pouting kid there that
it's not necessarily the unhappiness, Like I think the two
can can work in parallel. They cross over obviously in
the end game, but that it's just I want to
be out there.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
But eventually he's gonna have to not He's got to
make that decision that he's got to make that decision
of I'm not going out there. That's why that's the
next thing we got to see, which guy longer it's
Michah Parsons has to say I'm not playing because if
he still shows up and plays, then why does Jerry
Jones ever have to pay him?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
He's gonna pay week three, like Evan Smith showing up
all pissed off.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
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big positive story on cut
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lock it in and rip the knob off. Dodgers lead
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Reds cut the lead from six one to six three
with a home run a few moments ago. Meanwhile, Padres
and the Mariners. Mariners came from behind to take the lead.
Geno Suarez with a home run Geno Geneo g but
(01:20):
the Mariners give it right back. Padres with a one
run lead. But again Mariner's batting bottom of the seventh inning,
this one again seven to six.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
They needed to make sure they kept the number of
Genos in the city proper.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Geno.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
There always have to be one gene YEA too many
Geno's doesn't work. One Geno, it says, no Homers, Gino
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Geneo gene Oh gene oh gene.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
There's an ad for America's lean as bacon. Yeah, sure, fine,
lean bacon. Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So today's cut down day in the NFL. We get
down to fifty three. We'll have more football coming up
in a few minutes. But big announcement today in Major
League Baseball that the twenty twenty six MLB season is
going to begin sooner than any of us wanted to,
sooner than anticipation. It's actually going to start before this
(02:19):
season ends. So the teams that are eliminated in September.
They will start next season in September. Oh good, so
they're gonna start ready. So when we start next season,
they're already in the mid They're already in the midie.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So you don't make Champions League, you're no, yeah, you're dead.
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The baseball season in twenty twenty six is going to
start on March twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The hell are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Big headline today? The Yankees and Giants will play on
March twenty fifth. No, okay, before you sit and there, well, okay,
where are they playing? South Korea? They're playing in Japan.
Are they playing in Berlin? Are they playing in Antarctica? No, no,
they're We're opening up and then the next day everybody
else plays. So we're getting the opening game on the
twenty fifth, and all the other teams play on March
(03:10):
twenty sixth. The season's also going to end sooner than
it ever has before before the right before the end
of September. But you're starting earlier than we have ever had.
March twenty fifth and March twenty sixth, the full opening
day for Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We're not expanding, not making any grandi of changes to thing.
Do we add another round of playoffs that I'm unaware of?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh? Maybe maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Because we already eliminated double headers. So it's not like
we're stretching out the season there is it like the
NBA where we got to give extra off days.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We're doing this because Hey, the expansion we talked about
in realignment's coming way sooner than you think. We're gonna
do all this in a couple of weeks in December. So, hey,
we start the season, everything is good.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Let's give you an extra couple of weeks before the
NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Every every day, two teams, two teams have TBA next
to who they're playing and where it's at.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We're going after March Madness by TBA TBA.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Eventually we're gonna be Look, we've already opened up opening
night of March Madness. I mean it's we've said for
a long time that the sports the way sports have
evolved over the course of the last years. I think
about this, right, as you get older, as people get
older in life and you do something you love for
a living, I don't think you lose the passion for it.
(04:30):
I think when you get to a point where you say,
you know, I still love doing what I do, I
just wish I could do it a little bit less, right,
And you see that from people that that get into
their sixties and ed you know, yeah, like, hey, I
used to be the five night a week anchor on
the five o'clock at eleven o'clock TV show. But I've
been doing this now for twenty five years. So what
(04:52):
do we do on my next contract? Well, You're gonna
work Monday through Thursday and I'm off every Friday. I
got that written into my deal. I still love what
I do, I just want to do it a little
bit less. And I kind of feel that way with
sports is that, you know, here we are in twenty
twenty five. Right, not to have a big, you know,
discussion about the state of sports, but we're in twenty
twenty five, and generally we are overserved with the amount
(05:16):
of sports that we get. Right, The NFL season is
getting longer, the college football season is getting longer, the
NBA season is stretching out with Batman no less back
to backs baseball, Baseball is already a six month season.
Now you're saying we're getting into over six months before
you to the playoffs, which is another five to six weeks, right,
(05:36):
so it's a long time. It's all a six months season.
As then time goes on, we have not sports. We
used to be an underserved portion of society. Sports runs
are always underserved. We didn't get to see all the games.
We didn't get to not as many playoff teams got
to play. The playoffs were shorter. We were underserved. But
(05:57):
as sports got more and more popular and the big
four sports, and you want to throw MLS in now,
the MLS they start beginning of February and they end
in December, and there's like two weeks off they start
the season again. It's like it's like an adult bowling league.
How long is your both? Like my dad was in
a bowling.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On holidays off my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
My dad was in a bowling league once that started
in March and ended after Thanksgiving. I'm like, Dad, how
do you dig Beau? I don't go every week? You go, Dad,
that's that's three quarters in the How do you how
many weeks that he goes? I don't know, thirty five
thirty six weeks? Skipped him out of trouble, like, how
do you do that?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Right? The length of a NASCAR season.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right, you know, so as time goes on, Really, we're
not underserved with sports anymore. Sports fans aren't underserved anymore. We,
if anything, were overserved, right, And look at football right now,
we have NFL Monday night, Thursday night, Sunday night. As
the season goes on, we get games on Wednesday, games
on Friday. We had games on Saturday. We get all
the holidays. Like, we're not that way anymore. And yes,
(06:55):
the general answer to always we play too many games,
because I don't think there's anybody that thinks all that
there's too few games, right, there's nobody things we could
think that way, maybe for the NFL because the NFL
season is really short, it's four months, so I had
another couple of weeks. But generally, overall, we get as
much football as we want, We get as many sports
as we want to. But it's hey, we're not going
(07:15):
to have less games because it's less money, right, it's
less money. Players get less money, leads less money. But
I will tell you this, right, could you think about
this and how early this is from Major League Baseball eventually? Right,
Eventually one of the sports leagues is going to be
that guinea pig, and they're gonna say, you know what,
we are gonna get a better deal. We're gonna be
able to sell them. We're gonna we're gonna do some
(07:36):
sort of do analytics and algorithms and say, you know what,
if we did less games, right, if we had less games,
we could sell tickets for a little bit more money,
make it a little bit more of a mussy thing.
Whereas if I don't go to this game, I'll wait
to get free tickets from this game, I can go
to another game. If there's less games, we can make
(07:56):
more money. If we increase the ticket prices a little bit,
then we will having regular ticket prices with so many
seats unsold for a long season. Right, they'll they'll find
a way to say, hey, look at this algorithm where
it works for seventy five games in the NBA and
will make more money than we will eighty two games
because of unsold seats. Or Major League Baseball might be
(08:17):
the first league to do that. In fact, I think
if I had to say which one of the four
sports leagues, it would be Baseball. That might go back
maybe it'll go back to one hundred and fifty four games,
but there's gonna be some sort there's gonna be an algorithm,
and there's gonna be some sort of proven analytics where, hey,
for baseball, instead of eighty two games a year, if
we go down to seventy five games, we increase ticket
prices for this will make more money and television ratings
(08:40):
will go up more because there'll be a little bit
less games. There will be some one league will find
a way to say this works with less games, and
they will do it. We will get at some point
in the next few years, by twenty thirty twenty thirty five,
because again we're getting too flush with leagues. It starts
so much that they're gonna say, hey, this works more
for us if there are less games, and that will
(09:03):
fold its way in And for TV partners, you can say, well,
how's that gonna work for TV? Well, they're just gonna
sell their their product for a little bit more money. Nationally,
They'll still sell it for a little bit more money
to whoever's broadcasting games locally, because stations are still gonna
want this product, right, it's still gonna want it. Just hey,
you're gonna bid more money for eighty two Mariners games?
(09:25):
Are you're gonna bid more money for seventy five Mariners
games than you were for the last one, which eighty
two Mariners games? Why am I doing that? Don't you
want the product?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well? Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, if you're not gonna pay for it, somebody else
will and we'll be able to sell it so they'll
be able to still make that TV money. But it's
gonna take a league that says, hey, we're looking into
the analytics and cost of owners and what it means,
and we're gonna get one league with less games. And
if MLB expands, that's gonna be the first one where
they look and say, Okay, if we're expanding out thirty
(09:54):
two teams, how are we gonna figure this out? Hey,
we can figure out a pretty good schedule at one
hundred and fifty four games.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, I have first brought that up.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You'll go down to one hundred and forty, Like, if
you're MLB, right, I'd be okay if you down to
one hundred and twenty. I love baseball like I love, love,
love baseball my whole life. But if you go down
a little bit, I'm not gonna say I'm not unhappy, right,
and with all sports like ll be like with with
basketball and hockey, you can do it. Football probably want
to keep it where it is, but it is the
shortest season, so you don't really need to do that.
(10:23):
But at some point there's gonna be some sort of analytics.
Some league is gonna say, yeah, we figured out the money. Right,
If you can figure out a way for the Mets
to say, hey, we're okay giving Bobby Beinie a million
dollars every July first because we made money on it
all the way back thirty years ago, you're gonna find
a way to say, hey, less games, we can still
make as much money, if not more, because of certain
(10:43):
things we can do.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
By the way, congratulations Ken Griffy Junior. You got his
last three plus million dollar check from the Reds. Oh
that's over now, Yeah, it's final.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh really, I love of other guys. Yeah, but I
like the fact that Ken Griffy was still getting paid.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, no, that was much right. Oh, White Sox all
fame and they just did a bobblehead date over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
How about that the White Sox paying any of that
money or no, oh, okay, I'm said, really, I thought
that Ken Griffy Day was still going.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But anyway that I like the cut of your Jim,
And if you're disappeared tomorrow, it's been good knowing you.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Okay, sure, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Between players, unions, and league officials and advertisers and TV.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Partners, someone's gonna do it. Some forward think league is
gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Robmanford's talked about it in the realignment and reconfiguration of
things from Major League Baseball that maybe one hundred and
fifty four is the magic number. He's floating that out
there just so it doesn't get, you know, come out
of out of nowhere and shock folks. To your point
about ticket sales, et cetera, Well, we've seen the largest
of the TV deals and what each team walks home with,
(11:54):
right because of the Packers being a public company, public entity.
We saw that they got four hundred and thirty two
million dollars from the national cut. That's more than operational expenses.
And they're a unique circumstance as well is that the
season ticket waiting list is generational. But all of that say,
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baseball might be the spot, particularly if you can't get
to an agreement where you raise the spending floor and
and force the pirates the aforementioned White Sox again. They
took bites at the apple in the past and failed
and then went the other way. And now they're a
bunch of young guys running around that are just straight
out of Double A and Triple A. All fun to watch,
(12:37):
a couple of potential stars there, but eventually they'll need
to get paid. Go to the Rockies, go to some
of these other teams. You got four or five teams
that it's pretty easy to just say, okay, raise the
floor and force them to compete, as opposed to trying
to police the top end of things. Figure out how
you squeeze the middle, you know, like you made your
sandwich and now you're smushing it together in a panini press.
(12:58):
So yeah, I made it about sandwiches. Now I got press,
Now I have your attention. But it's the it's fuzzy math, right.
You know, we've also been as a sports populous underserved
maybe once upon a time, and now that it's the
glut to where everybody complaiins like you know what, you know,
you don't need all two hundred seventy two NFL games.
(13:21):
You know what, don't buy package X, don't buy package
why whatever. Go back to what you once had. You
had the networks and Monday Night football. You had it all,
but now you have your choice. And if you're paralyzed
by choice, like if you see a big menu and
you get something like you go out to eat and
(13:41):
all of a sudden you're at a place that rivals
the cheesecake factory and suddenly you have stage right, Uh,
then then maybe this is not the playing surface for
you and someone else should be making your decisions. But
in terms of giving back any of that money, like
the algorithm would really need to be fool proof.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
True.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, again, Like I always say, smart people, they will
figure something like that. They can figure out it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
They'll figure something out.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I like your they'll figure it out.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And if it goes to one hundred and twenty two
twenty games, like you say, I will glue lead.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
We will cut the games down. We will be able
to offer a season ticket package at X amount of
money and get more people to buy individual than having
empty circus. We'll have some sort of giveaway at whatever
it is. They will figure out an algorithm to make
it work.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
By the way Major League Baseball attendance is through the
roof right now, So you know, just just run with it.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, you know what, let's still I think there's lots
of teams on getaway days, on Thursday Day games and
Monday Day games where they're like, why are we even playing?
Why are we play? We got we got five thousand
people here? Why are we playing this game? Okay, talk
about this, think about it straight. Eventually it's gonna happen.
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down Day in the NFL, we get to the fifty
three man rosters. And in case you missed everything all day,
well look what was today? Not a day where you
saw a whole bunch of guys. Oh my goodness, this
(17:07):
guy got cut. We gotta go sign him. The biggest
cut at DJ. The biggest cut cut was clearly Tommy
cut Let's who was cutlet from the Giants earlier today.
Tommy DeVito, the odd quarterback out in New York. They
weren't keeping four guys. They were keeping Russell Wilson obviously,
(17:28):
Jackson Dart, Jamis Winston, Tommy Cutlets, Tommy DeVito is out
of work.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
First cut is the deepest. Said it hurt his heart. Yeah,
not that he couldn't have seen this coming from a
mile away a local boy. Hey, yeah, it's one thing
to not see the you know, the blitzing cornerback who
flashes late this one.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And look, here's the thing is that he's gonna get
somewhere because he has shown that sometimes he can get
the job done with a limited ceiling. And that's absolutely
what you want in a backup quarterback. Right. He's the
new Gardner Minshew. He's colorful. He can move the team
from time to time. You don't want him to play
(18:15):
too too much, but if he has to play a
little bit, you'll be okay because you can move. He
can move the team up and down the field. But
that's it. He's the new Gardner Minshew. Like Gardner Minshew
has to to give a pair of jorts and a
mustache him and say, listen, I'm passing down the title
of most popular colorful backup quarterback in the NFL. I
had my run. It was a great run, Tommy cutlets.
(18:36):
Now it's you and he hands in the jorts. Maybe
a pair of ze Cavarricci or something. Here's a jorts
you put him on, Tommy. All right, I'm handing this
off to you.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
We go from clipboard Jesus yeah to Gardner Minshew, who
will be on display in Brazil.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Gardner Minshew is way.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
More interesting than clipboard Jesus, way more. He played more
like Jesus. I know, but do you want to change religions?
I gotta book that was written by Jesus.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No, no, no, it could be dirty Jesus.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Did you know that Jesus lived here in the good Usa? No, no,
it's dirty. I don't think we have dirty Dirty. That's
a whole other thing. Man, you're going to hell. That
sounds like a Metallica album Dirty Yeah by Dirty jaw
Men rocks men.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Don't let it on Napster now, I got it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, Lar's all work is gonna come kick your ass.
After saying that, just at this point, he'll take the downloads. Man,
they're still trained off of the stranger things.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'm sorry we have to play in the millennials. What
Napster is.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Napster was a music sharing program early in the two
thousands that gained popularity. Well, you could get albums by
not paying for.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Them, so Spotify.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Uh, well it comes well, no, you actually you didn't
have to pay anything, like, you had to pay zero
money and you got to own the songs you had
him like you, you own the you had them.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You can make you girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Here, I'm gonna put I'm gonna put for whom the
bell tolls on for you because you know it's our
song and the live version?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Which live version would you like?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I've got fourteen of them and by the end of
the night, I'm gonna have forty two.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
How would you like load on your playlist?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
What? What about reload?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Load is better than reload. So Tommy and I give
him the nod because I always want to give somebody
the nod for something. Hey, I give him the nod
for being someone to carve out such a popular career
just because his nickname was Cutlets and his agent dressed
like a guy you would expect to be from New
(20:45):
Jersey who was maybe in the Sopranos, leaning into that hole. Yeah. Hey,
they're seeing all the Steve Sharipa memes today of you know,
Tommy Cutlet's getting cut Now. I'm coming for you. Now,
I'm coming for you. You're cutting Tommy Cutlets, I'm coming
for you. Giants coming for you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Silvio Dante's showing up at your door.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I mean, don't, I don't think it's the case the
extent of where, hey, we're changing our logo, we're boycotting.
We don't like the new logo. We're boycotting the Giants. No, no, no,
we love Jackson Dart. We're not boycotting the Giants. It's fine.
It's just an internet thing with the Sopranos and Tommy
Cutlets and we're okay. That was a good bit.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Over the course of the day, I think I relived
the entire series through the release of Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
A couple of could you movies mixed in Could you
tell the story of Tommy DeVito? In uh in Sopranos
splot lines like, okay, Tommy DeVito ascends to the starting
quarterback job.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, can you do that? Can you like? Can
you mirror Christopher's rise with Tommy DeVito and then the fall?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I guess Tommy and that restaurant thing is kind of
like what Christopher wanted to be in the.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Movie business, seeing he listened, don't stop believing.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He just like salts his food, looks up at the
end and it cuts the black.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is where you get cut, Tommy, This is where
you get cut.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
That's not bad. Get aid to put that together, make
it happen. But no, I mean had a good run, right,
Like like Jeremy Lynn before him. You trade on a
little bit of performance and then the hype and circumstance,
and you know, we got that great story about the
restaurant deal where he had an appearance and then suddenly
(22:19):
now out of the price of poker's gone up. It's
like bad, bad stuff and that's where we really found
out about his agent. A little bit more as that
went on. But it's the NFL. In the last five years,
we've had sixty plus quarterbacks start again. Bad things happen
all over the place, so just give it time.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So on cutdown day, while hey Tommy cutlets got cut
and it figures this was a you know them doing
this today? Maybe you saw this story.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It was popular like off track betting in the Himalayas,
but a little bit more popular.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Leave off track betting alone. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey
are in wait what and there?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
These two what one's a singer and one's a foot
one's a gym teacher and one is an English teacher.
U there is a left. Despite the fact that if
you're sick and tired of hearing about Travis Kelsey and
Taylor Swift and all of that. I get it. Look,
I'm not looking forward to all the wedding talkers. Man,
that's gonna really just nor But this is a lesson
(23:26):
that everybody can learn from that, right, and this is
the big This is the biggest thing to take away
from it. Shoot your shot. If there's someone you like,
shoot your shot because you never know. Right. The worst
someone can say is no, Travis Kelcey, shot is shot.
You thought it wasn't working out. Well, it did work out.
They went on dates. Look where they are now now
(23:47):
they're engaged. Right, shoot your shot. Would you ever think, oh,
Travis Kelcey and Taylor's and a lot of people are
showing pictures of Travis Kelcey from college now like this
guy's gonna marry Taylor Swift. But you'd never think, but
shoot your shot, right your shot, because you never know.
And and that's one thing in my life because you
know the kid, you know, It's one thing in my
(24:08):
life I never had to worry about, like I'm gonna
shoot my shot because the worst thing someone can say
is no. The worst thing she could say is no,
what do why can't? That's no, that is absolutely the
worst thing.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yuck.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, And then you would then you say, that's just
a more elaborate yeah version, and then screen shots it
puts it on the internet, and then it goes viral,
and then everybody just starts talking crap about you.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well see, I'm not saying you shoot your shot with
someone you don't know. You know, you gotta have game,
you gotta find your way.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Makes it extra spicy.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The only the only thing that I will say is this, right,
shoot your shot. Be careful doing it at work because
the one thing, Look, everybody is special, right, men, women
were all special. If you keep shooting your shot at work, right,
and it's not working, when you get to the fourth person, right,
like it's like, oh hey, let's go out, Like, well, okay,
(25:04):
I'm not You asked out three other women here in
the last month. They all said, no, why am I
gonna go out with you unless you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, in the workplaces, work is dangerous proposition.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Went well, yeah, it's a dangerous proposition. Uh, And so
you gotta shoot your shot, right, You got to shoot
your shot, but you got And that's the one thing
I will say, is that at work? You gotta you
gotta be careful about it because everybody, everybody's special and
and uh I knew this when I was I didn't care.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Okay, you just gave participation trophies to the human pis.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, no, look, no, no, everybody everybody spent. You meet
that special someone, you're spent. But I don't feel special
if you've asked out three other people at work and
now you're asking me, no, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No, sorry, I was only four thou chart.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's why you always, and I'm always a big proponent
of asking someone out early. Rather than than waiting and
getting in the friend zone to ask someone out, you
seize that moment. You know they always say high point
the football, right, high point to touch the football, highest point,
get those hands up, ask that person out at the
point where the most likely thing they're gonna say is yes,
or give you their phone number, whatever it is. But
(26:12):
shoot your shot right. Because on when I was younger, man,
I was the Tony Gwinn of shooting my shot. I
had about a three fifty percent of success rate at
dates and phone numbers. That means three and a half
out of every ten. Yes, that means six and a
half for seven was a no. But okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You know I didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, right, what am I gonna do? We're not dating
if I don't ask her out. So what's gonna like
the Wayne Gretzky line, Right, you miss one hundred percent
of the shots that you never take. You will miss
one hundred percent of the putts that you leave short
on a golf course. Whatever sports analogy you want, you
want to use, you will not. You will throw incomplete
one hundred percent of your screen passes, if you're justin fields,
(26:51):
if you bounce the ball to a wide receiver, all
of these things are true.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I just defaulted.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
He was just having a flashback to some but asking
out circumstance.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was not.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I was then.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean sometimes I'd go three for five. Sometimes I'd
go oh for four and oh for four and go whoa.
But like that's okay, you you'll never you never know
what could happen. So get past that fear. And if
some if if you like someone and and you're talking
to them and you're getting that vibe back, okay, go ahead,
And did you shoot more shots than justin fields? Will
(27:24):
throw passes in the season. Justin Field is gonna throw
eight passes this year. So yes, I shot my shot
more times when I was younger. Yes, okay more times, yes,
Justin I mean now running running attempts. No, running attempts.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
No, this is beyond the A romantic interest is like
it asked answered, all right, you want to raise it work?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, why we're gonna like me. I want to know.
No one's gonna walk up to you and just give
you money.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It goes past it goes past romantic and go back to.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
The Jerry Jones thing that we should have had Jason
cole chap in on this was he the dad, the
mom or the kid?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah, that was Yeah, that was a tough one.
I looked at the clock.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I'm like, he would have probably taken nine minutes to
trying to parse it out.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It wouldn't have worked.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But all of that to say, you gotta ask, you
want the extra cookie? Maybe you hit a good night?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, mom, dad, whoever's giving you you know watching over
you is having a good night.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah, go ahead, yeah, go ahead, have a cook.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You know they're happy because Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey
got engaged Benny, it's an extra dessert night.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I don't know, Benny. My dog knows that lesson. And
he's a dog, dog my dog, because he knows I'm
the weak one in the house, Like I'm the one
that's gonna give him treats right like, Benny, you're listening, treat,
you want a treat, Want a treat? Right now, He's
running to his cabinet like he knows I'm gonna be
the one to give him treats. But I'm not gonna
give him treats all the time. Sometimes he's got to
eat his food. Sometimes he's not gonna get treats all
(28:47):
the time. But it doesn't matter. He shoots his shot
with me all the time because he's like, okay, Bennie,
it's only been three minutes. But you know, his memory,
he doesn't remember that. He's like, I had a trip.
I want another one. And he stands there at me
and and I'm like, I'm sorry, you got to go
eat your food, or I already gave you one. He
knows after after a minute or two, I'm not gonna
get one now. Doesn't mean he's not gonna shoot a
(29:08):
shot again eight minutes from now, Like you shoot you,
you never you never know what I'm gonna say. Ah,
you know what, look at me with those puppy dog guys.
Here you go, here's another treat for you. Just equated
Kelsey to a dog. No, I'm just saying there's different.
I'm saying shooting your shot is in many different ways
of lisolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Hey you whether you whether.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You want to treat, whether you want to raise, whether
you want to date somebody. If you're applying to colleges,
go do it.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Always do it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yes, and the extra couple of bucks. I'm never gonna
get in there.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Unless you apply, you never know. The school might say
we really want you, you know, okay, hey, we like that.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
This goes back to your everybody special. They might look
at you and say, there's something about you. We like
the cut of your jib, you like, we love that
thousand dollars bill you sent us in your application. Yeah,
you're in the school, man, You're good as long as.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
They opened the book and actually get to it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But that's a bit because Travis Kelsey, I want to
detailor swift. What's the worst can happen?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And think about this. Now, let's say she said no,
and okay they're not They're not dating right now? Are
we talking about? When we talk about Travis Kelce, would
that even be the first thing that comes to mind?
It would be how great a tight end he is?
Is he nearing the end of his career? It would
be just the biggest Remember he tried to detailor swift? Oh, okay, great,
like we wouldn't even So many athletes on social media
(30:24):
have tried to shoot their shot with different women and
vice versa. That but you forget about that. I still
remember Jeanie Bouchard, right, the tennis player, extremely attractive, talented
that just a regular guy, right, wasn't an athlete, wasn't
just shot his shot with her like on social media
somewhere and they wound up dating for like two years.
(30:46):
I'm like, wow, they could actually work, Like that could
actually work?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, we know, we know plenty of folks that have
worked with and around us that plenty of athletes and
celebrities have shot their shot.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Man. Look, I'm the crassest of terms.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I shot my shot with Pam and when we first
met at ESPN, she had been dating her boyfriend for
nine years.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You wrecked that guy nine years? Well, never together again.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
At that point. It was also the point where, hey,
you've been together nine years, you're you're not getting married,
you're not getting engaged. You moved away from home. Uh yeah,
I think you guys should have broken up. You know,
the right people were together in that situation.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We got to yeah, oh he was.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
No, he's a nice guy, nice guy, met him a
couple of times when they were dating.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Was a nice guy. Not saying there was like a
little did you stare in his eyes. It's not like.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Dropped to zero and get with the Hey I'm stealing
your girlfriend. They should know they should have never stayed together.
It's one of those things. Yes, we'll say dated on
and off through height. They broke up and got back
together a bunch of times. Okay, well, well he was
a Tigers fan most likely, so that that's how it works.
But no, he's a nice guy and worked, he moved somewhere,
(31:59):
got married, guy, kids, everything else. Look, Pam moved away
from They dated for nine years. Pam moved away from
home to move to ESPN for a job. That should
have been the sign, right there, we're together for nine years.
I'm moving to go take a job somewhere. Okay, that's
not me. I did not know.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
What's a question.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
How about a fresca at Fox Sports Radio at Swollen Dome.
If the kids are listening to this right now and
you can recognize that Jason Smith is part of your
life at.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Out about a frasca exit Swelling Dome? Shoot your shot?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Time?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
How to find out what's trending in the wide world.
The sports managed going to tell you that the Mets
now have a four game leading the lost column over
the last wildcard spot in the National League because the
Dodgers just beat the Reds.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's Chris Purfett.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Well, you just did my job there, so I guess
I can go home.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Good, Just go to the next hurry. You know.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Well, you know what, I'm kind of worried because last
time you talked about Pam on the air when I
was around, she ended up calling in when you were
complaining about how she did laundry.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That we we we still have that discussion.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I see on the laundry guy, I do the laundry.
I do the laundry. When she doesn't like, I gotta
do it again.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
And this is where this is why I have a
clip of her saying on the phone, you are full
of it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Oh okay, I'm still in.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
The good good good, We'll delete that. Yes, No, that's good.
That's good.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
That's good.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Why why would I let you delete that? That is
that is golden, That is perfect. All right, Yes, let's
catch you up on we'll start. We'll start with some baseball,
just just you know, as a treat, as a treat.
The San Diego Padres just closed out the Seattle Mariners. Uh,
the I think the Tigers and the Athletics, by the way,
(33:41):
cannot take shots of my Tigers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Don't do that to me. Don't don't do that to me.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I just had to say it was back when the
Tigers weren't very good.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, that's a lot of different.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Hey, that's still Cecil Fielder smacking it off the top
of old Tiger Stadium anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Sorry.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
The Dodgers, Yes, the Dodgers did close out the Reds
six to three. The Giants crushed the Cubs five to two,
Rockies take care of the Astros six to one, and
US open. We're still getting some matches going on to
the night. Zevarev taking on Tabillo right now in New
(34:17):
York City. Earlier in the US Open, Nami Osaka and
Coco Goff both punching their tickets the second round, Coco
Goff advancing on three sets, Osaka on straight sets. Egaswiontek
defeated Emiliana Aarano in straight sets, Yennick Center moving on
in three sets. Around the NFL, it was cut down day,
but we had some other stories to really talk about,
(34:38):
and hey, you know, not everyone is getting cut. Some
make the roster and make people happy, including preseason star
for the Dallas Cowboys James Houston, who winds up who's
been a bit of a phenomenon for them in the preseason.
He makes the final fifty three man roster and probably
he was going to see some work here soon, pass
rushing considering the Micah Parson situation. Tommy Devide was waived.
(35:01):
He is a fan favorite, and uh he moves on
and I will still forever have his throwback Giants Tommy
Devido Jersey. The Detroit Lions are down to just fifty
of fifty three men right now, indicating they might make
some transactions. They waved rookie defensive vent Ahmad hassanin with
an injury settlement. The Seahawks are releasing veteran wide receiver
Marquez Valdez Scantling, and the Jets. The Jets, excuse me,
(35:24):
cut sophomore wide receiver Malachi Corley in a stunning reversal
after the team last year traded up to the first
pick of the third round to select him. So easy,
come easy, go back to you guys.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Thank you, seep, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, we'll always have Halloween when you dropped the football
before the goal line, Malachi corn thank you, thanks for that.
Uh coming up next, if you think we're set to
see a superstar play Week one in the NFL, as
head coach said, hang on, hang on, that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
We are, I guarantee, the only show on the radio
that plays Eddie Murphy's Party all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
That makes us great.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I don't think if Eddie Murphy had a radio show,
they would play Party all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You're probably right.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Guh, you can't understand it. Why you want to hit me?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I'm Rick James. That's different. It's different.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He's the producer and wrote this different song.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Different anyway, So go watch the video. Is I get It?
I get It?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I get it yep. Two different stories involving everybody's favorite
upset NFL superstar Michaeh.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Parsons.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
One involves a trade rumor one involves what his head
coach said today. Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said that
he wouldn't get into the specifics of what went on
when he met with Michah Parsons because he didn't wear
his jersey laying down on the table during Friday's preseason game,
but he did say he thinks that Parson's going to
be available opening night against the Eagles budd He did
(37:08):
say that potentially he could be limited.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
In the game.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Depending on how things go between now and the beginning
of the season, so it could be limited now. This
also on the heels of report today on social media
by a guy with a check mark. He's got fifty
thousand followers. It says hey deal on the table with
the Cowboys and Packers for Micah Parsons. Parson's gonna get
forty five million dollars a year right now. I love this,
(37:37):
but both of these are actually related. Okay, because we
told you in the beginning, this is more personal than
anyone wants to think it is. It's it's past the
point of money. This is Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons
and and Micah Parson's agent being at odds publicly with
insults going back and forth between the sides. This never
(37:59):
happened with Jerry Jones and anybody else. Michah Parson's made
it personal early and laying on the table like that's
you know. We talked to Jason Cole early in the show,
and he's been covering football for forty years.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I've never seen a player do that, right.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Micah Parsons wants out the reason this has become a thing,
Why this trade er. It doesn't matter if this rumor
is true or not.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I love the write up from from Yahoo Sports. We'll
get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Micah Parsons is going to get forty or forty five million.
He's going to get that from his next team. His
next contract is gonna have a two in front of it.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
If you think it's gonna be oh, it's gonna be
a three year forty million dollars deal. It's gonna be
a TJ. Watt kind of deal. Not happening. This is
the best defensive player in the NFL. He's getting a
contract with a two in front. It's gonna be forty
some million dollars a year. This is what the best
defensive player in the NFL who's twenty four is going
to get. This is how it goes. So if Jerry
(38:55):
Jones says, well, we thought we had a deal, well
they didn't obviously because Mike Parsons and his agent thought, well,
we can get more money than this. Jerry Jones isn't
suddenly gonna go from whatever the deal was to forty
five million dollars a year. That's not gonna happen. So
tell me how this ends. Tell me how this ends
with anything other than Parsons being on a different team.
(39:16):
Jerry and Micah Parsons can have the can can can blink,
can have a staring contest until we think someone's gonna
blink and I'm gonna I'm gonna Francis, I'm gonna do
all of this. But eventually Michael Parson's gonna leave and
he's not gonna play he's gonna sit out, and Jerry
Jones gonna have to sit there and say, man, I'm
losing this negotiation. At some point, Jerry's gonna have to
sit there and say, now I need the best possible
(39:38):
outcome instead of the best outcome, the and most. The
best possible outcome is I trade Micah Parsons. I get
a bunch of draft picks. We have money saved up
to spend on other players. Because that's where this is going.
Micah Parsons is gonna get way more money than Jerry
Jones thinks he's gonna be able to pay him. That's
how this is gonna end.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Try to fight it out. I mean, I'd be curious
to see what kind of numbers were spoken. Is sweet
nothings all those months ago before you know that pesky
agent was gonna get involved, and certainly his history of
holding guys out and contentious negotiations is well established along
(40:16):
the way. I love the speculation on the trade. We'll
go back to that for a second. The beginning of
this article, and I want to know if it was
Ai written or actually someone Do you believe in Spuds
Mackenzie wearing an NFL hat.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
If you do get excited.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
A secret of the NFL source known as Ricky, who
used the images of the aforementioned celebrity dog and his
Twitter avatars, back at it with a rumor about the
Packers and the Cowboys and a deal.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
That's why it doesn't because because it doesn't matter. But
you're going, that's the money he's he's gonna get forty.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
But that's where we keep getting back to.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I'd love to see what the actual numbers and what
the guarantees were, because that's really what matters. Right when
we get to it, it's it's a dollar more than
than Hendrickson, and you know that's great, But what's the guarantee?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Does it get him and make him feel satisfied? And
you're again negotiating with a guy who got a fully
guaranteed deal for a quarterback. He's the guy that brought
this all in the play, right, Yeah, So don't tell
me that that isn't in the background of all this
in terms of.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Dealing with him.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
But but going forward, like Michael Parsons has always struck
me as the guy that he just wants to be
on the field. So he's the pouting kid there that
it's not necessarily the unhappiness, Like I think the two
can can work in parallel. They cross over obviously in
the end game, but that it's just I want to
be out there.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
But eventually he's gonna have to not He's got to
make that decision that he's got to make that decision
of I'm not going out there. That's why that's the
next thing we got to see, which guy longer it's
Michah Parsons has to say I'm not playing because if
he still shows up and plays, then why does Jerry
Jones ever have to pay him?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
He's gonna pay week three, like Evan Smith showing up
all pissed off.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
We have more on this story and more on a
big positive story on cut
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