Brian Noe and George Wrighster talk PAC-12 and Jake Paul!

Brian Noe and George Wrighster talk college football realignment, what ultimately caused the collapse of the PAC-12, another edition of According to Monse, the Jake Paul – Nate Diaz bout and what to make of Paul’s fights, the proper path to team building, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Who's got it the worst?

Speaker 3 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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(00:27):
way tire buying should be. So three candidates as of late,
who has it the worst? There would be uh Nate Diaz.
Last night he loses to Jake Paul. That's that's not great.
There's a Tim Anderson of the Chicago White Sox who
got floored. He got knocked down by Jose Ramirez in

(00:48):
a baseball brawl. So he's on the table. And then
we also have to pack four.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
We have that I love you, love you, I love
how you said. Tim Anderson got knocked down. No, he
got knocked him. Tim Anderson got knocked him out.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's what he did.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
It seemed like he got, you know, knocked the bleep out,
and you could argue that's the case. But he got
knocked down, He got knocked out. He was staggering. He
was staggering, George, So maybe that counts as a knockout. Maybe, so,
so the.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Question it's not gonna be made that were the UFC,
he would have immediately received ham hammer fists and if
it and if it and if he weren't able to,
you know, grab onto a leg or something just to
buy a little bit of time.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, the ref would have been stopping that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So the question is would herb dean UFC referee, would
he have jumped in in time to prevent the hammer
fists from Jose Ramirez? That that's the question, because you're
right that was that would have followed it up with
Tim Anderson seeing stars on I don't know if he

(01:55):
was on the grass or on the dirt, but either
or at the Guardian's home field.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Not good.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
So who has it worse, George? Is it Tim Anderson
or the Pack four? It's got to be the Pack four? Right,
come on?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
What do you mean? Of course the Pack four?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Tim Anderson is still getting his checks. This didn't stop
Tim Anderson's checks, his at bats, anything like that. The
Pack four are sitting on an island, solo bro. They
are praying for some sort of you know, reasonable solution

(02:32):
is going to be way less than what they would
have wonted. And this is and you know that this
just touches me to every single part of my soul.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
And this was so avoidable.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Larry Michael Scott and I call him Larry Michael Scott
because he ran the PAC twelve like he was running
dunder Mifflin paper. He ruined it for everybody. Now, God,
please no, he ruined it for everybody. We do you
realize that the conference in twenty eleven they were getting

(03:10):
ready to pull Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
And Texas right.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
And you went from that too, and you have one
of the best conferences at the top this year and
you went.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
From that to extinction.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yep, dude, he signed a twelve year media deal.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Everybody else signed.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Everybody else got to go back to the table twice twice.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
He was like, what about the ACC, though, George, how
that deal goes? The ACC goes to like what twenty
thirty six? They're freless forever.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Their commissioner is equally as bad because that league is
getting ready to fall apart two.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It might be, it might be, but Matt, you go
back to like you're saying twenty eleven, they had the
opportunity to expand to sixteen and Larry Scott said, nah,
we're good. The USCAD at the time, Pat Hayden said,
we don't need to expand to sixteen teams. They would
have been ahead of all of this stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Georgia would been ahead of all of it.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
And then the new commissioner, well, actually, and even beyond that, right,
because Larry Michael Scott deserves a lot of credit in
this in terms of this failure. But you know who
deserves the most credit, Michael Crowe, Arizona State's president, who

(04:39):
just enabled this dude, and anybody who would say a
bad word about him, No, he's doing such a great job.
What stop it. He's not doing a great job. He's
doing a pitiful job. And he just kept on co
signing everything that this dude did. And the pre as

(05:00):
it's pretty much all of them are gone now, but
they all enabled him. They all enabled him to the
they redid his deal. And then when George Kleia Cuff
finally came in and was the commissioner.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh, hold up, hold up, hold up.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, prior to George clear Cuffs that coming in the
biggest sin of Larry Scott was was the PAC twelve networks.
He convinced the presidents that owning one hundred percent of
your rights that it was going to be a gold
mine on the back end, and then they spent way
too much money to produce an inferior product. They didn't

(05:42):
have the like it was essentially like big Baller brand,
where like, yeah, you got a good idea, but you
don't have the infrastructure to produce shoes like Nike and
Adidas and Puma and any of them. And then you
failed because you don't have that infrastructure. And that's exactly

(06:04):
what Larry Scott did. He failed because he didn't have
the infrastructure. And instead of selling the PAC twelve networks
part of it, you know, forty nine percent like the
SEC did, or or fifty one like the Big ten did,
or even the ACC, instead of doing that and letting
the professionals at Fox or CBS or ESPN produce your

(06:29):
your programming. Instead you're like, we'll do it ourselves, even
though we have no core competency to do this.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, it didn't work out well. And then also think
about this too. George is the latest commissioner. George Klovkov.
I'm ballparking it right. Are we close enough? Is this
sort of like the neighborhood play when you're turning to
old school in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm trying to Yes, yeah, that's a neighborhood play.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Bro neighborhood name right there, for sure, But think of
about this. This is Dan Patrick earlier in the week,
and he was explaining how last year the PAC twelve
was approached by the Big twelve and listen to how
that went down and how the tables returned this offseason.
Here you go.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Apparently there was a call last year from the Big
twelve to the PAC twelve to say, hey, the commissioners,
could we talk about maybe a merger here? And then,
according to Ross Dellinger of Yahoo Sports, the PAC twelve
commissioner said, no, weren't They weren't interested in a merger.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
And then fast forward to this year.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Reportedly, the commissioner reached out to the Big twelve commissioner
Bob Bolsby and went, hey, what about that merger?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
And then the Big twelve went, no, not interested.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's rough right there where it happened. It seems like
it took forever for it to get to this point, George,
But it was within a week. It was within a day.
Like we thought on.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Thursday, it was thirteen months.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
To completely unravel, to completely unravel. Just this week it
seemed like Washington and Oregon were staying put and the
next thing we know, Nope, they're going to the Big ten.
And then it was it was just dead. Pack twelve
is dead. It's no more.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's a damn shame.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Bro it is because look, man, I understand why these
schools chase the money, or as Deion Sanders says, chase
the bag. They're looking for a payday. I get all
of that, but for you, George, who played at Oregon,
played in the PAC twelve. Me as a fan, it's

(08:50):
just like, we're not winning when it comes to this stuff.
And I I try to have a positive attitude with
some of the realignment. Some of it can be interesting.
They're gonna be some more interesting rivalries and all that.
But the change and not knowing ultimately where it's headed,
it's just chaos right now. It is full blown chaos

(09:12):
with all this realignment. I just think of the NFL too,
is think if we had the equivalent in the NFL
where the Cowboys are playing in the AFC South, and oh,
you didn't hear the Eagles yet they're in the AFC West.
Actually you're like, why would they be in the West,
They're in Philly. It's like, that's just realignment. What's happening?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
A map now, it looks insane. The map of the
Big Ten looks insane. You you have Oregon, Washington, u C, L,
a USC all up and down the West coast, and.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Then you fast.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Then the next closest team is what Nebraska?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, Nebraska or Iowa. I got I gotta pull out
a map to see which one's closer.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's it's crazy, man.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
So, and when you think about the impact on the
student athletes, and and Eli Drinkowitch from Missouri talked about
this today. I posted it on my Twitter at George Reister.
He talked about the impact on the student athletes, not
so much to football players, because the football players this
is no big deal. I mean, you you play, you know,

(10:21):
six or seven home games, five five or six away games.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know, if you're in.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
If you're at Washington, does it really matter if your
away game is at Arizona or if it's at Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
I mean, it's it's like the it's like the same flight,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
So but however, though, for baseball, volleyball, softball.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Swimmings, Yeah, I mean what track, what what? Whatever?

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Other sports uh, you know may compete multiple times in
a week.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
That creates a natural problem.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
And the Big Ten says that they have solutions for
these things.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
But some athletes raised some valid concerns.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
They're like, yo, I didn't I didn't go to a
school to you know, because well, I went to certain
schools because I wanted to play regionally the way my
family could come see me play. And Eli Drinkowitch brought
up a good point that all of these coaches who
complain about the transfer portal complain about you know, the

(11:34):
nil and buying players and all of this stuff. All
the coaches that complain about that, how many student athletes
were asked about what their thoughts were about conference realignment
and it was about the money, right, So if it's
about the money, then then and it's good for all

(11:57):
the adults.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
How is that not good for the players.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
But our man, mister Sam has what Eli Drinkowitch had
to say, I thought the.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
Portal was closed. Oh, that's just for the student athletes.
The adults in the room get to do whatever they
want apparently, And it's look, my question is, did we
count the cost. I'm not talking about a financial cost.
I'm talking about did we count the cost for the student.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Athletes involved in this decision?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
We're talking about a football decision.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
They based off football, But what about softball and baseball
who have to travel cross country? Do we ask about
the cost of them? Do we know what the number
one indicator of symptom of or cause what mental health is.
It's lack of rest and sleep traveling in those baseball
softball games.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
You know those people, they travel commercial, They get done
playing at four, they got to go to the airport.
They come back, it's three or four in the morning,
they got to go to class. I mean, did we
ask any of them?

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Was he from a cave there, George? I don't know
if he was.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Just all that. All that matters is that we got
a chance to hear him.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
And it makes sense. But the thing is, okay, cool,
I hear him on all that stuff, But what's the solution.
All these schools are going to keep doing the same stuff,
you know, the hit chasing.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
His point was was like, you know, we didn't pay
attention that nobody was really paying attention to this, So
don't get to complaining about the players. Which I was like,
good job, buddy, good job, because he started with I
thought the transferred portal was closed.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Clearly, it ainate it. Clearly it is for the for
for the players.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
It ain't for the schools though, transferred portal is always
open for the coaches. Transfer portal always open. So I
don't say a damn thing about the players.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, yeah, and we'll have some sound of Deon Sanders
as well. He made a similar point, and listen, I
hear him on all of that. I absolutely make that.
I can understand that that assessment right there. We'll get
to the d on stuff around the corner. Hey, we
want to welcome in Charlottesville's Fox Sports one oh two
nine FM and also fifteen forty AM. That's in Charlottesville,

(14:27):
Virginia market manager Garrett Klingle replacing ESPN Power Move. Huh
when you think about that, George, we thought these schools
leaving the PAC twelve that was big news, nothing compared
to Charlottesville, Virginia leaven the four letter for the three
letter if you will, so shout out to him. Very
nice move there.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Let me up grade you.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
I remember the old Direct TV ads with Beyonce in
that song. It was a great tie in, very good
marketing campaign. You gotta the voice of an angel. I
have to say here, George, you've been singing the last
couple of shows we've done together.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
I think it's gonna you know, I'm trying to get
my DeMarcus where on.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
There you go?

Speaker 3 (15:15):
All right?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
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who's just benefited in general? That's on the way. I'm Brian, No,
he's George Reister. Keep it liked right here on Fox
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(16:33):
dot Com. You know, George, there was something that Jayhart
pointed out. So he writes for Yahoo Sports, and he
was just writing about all this realignment, and he said, uh,
pop quiz. Name a program that's elevated itself by moving
from one Power five conference to another Power five conference.

(16:54):
He wrote, name just one Texas A and m No,
Maryland and Rutgers Nope, Colorado, Virginia Tech, Pitt Boston College,
Miami No no, no, no, no, no, no, Nebraska hell no.
So you think about that, George, I understand these teams
are chasing the money, chasing the payout. But take Texas

(17:15):
for instance, has life gotten better for Texas? Where will
it when they moved to the SEC next year? They
can't do anything in the Big twelve? What are they
gonna do in the SEC? They get a bigger payday. Congratulations,
Are you a step closer to the playoff?

Speaker 9 (17:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Your steps backward. So that's the way I see a
lot of the realignment stuff is great, you get more
money and that can help. But if the competition is
stiffer than what you just left and you didn't have
great results before, what are you expecting going forward?

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Okay, now he's right on some level. Right.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
The difference though, between the what's previously happened and what's
happened now is is that there was a scarcity issue?
Is that the is that these teams when there is
such unequal pay disparity When you have you know, PAC

(18:12):
twelve pulling in you know, twenty seven million dollars this
last year from the conference, right, and you have the
Big ten pulling in fifty million. When you have Colorado
and Mel Tucker is your head coach, and Michigan State
says we want Mel Tucker.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
There's nothing Colorado can do to keep mel Tucker.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Because Michigan State will just say, hey, a mail mail,
you want to double your money and your assistance money
and your recruiting budget and everything else. How do you
how do you say no to that? I mean, look
at at Jonathan Smith over at Oregon State. He just

(19:04):
recently got a raise. How is the school gonna be
able to afford this? So the likely scenario is here
comes the school X from the Big ten. I mean,
when you know, if if UCLA loses Chip Kelly or
Lincoln Riley Golds City, NFL, who do you think they're

(19:26):
gonna be calling Jonathan Smith and instead of making four
and a half million dollars a year? USC is like,
hey yo, bro will pay you nine? No, hey, no, hey,
hey hey. I know that you like your job here, right,
but I want I want you to come over to

(19:48):
the George Reister Network and I will give you a
fully guaranteed deal for eight years at double.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
What is Brian No gonna do?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Am I working with you? Or do I get to
pick my co host? I'm just kidding, answering.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I mean, I mean, I'm a paying you double, so
you probably get.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You gotta take what you get.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, well, and you probably get to dictate some terms too,
because I want you really bad.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, that's nice to me. I hear you, trust me,
I hear you. Listen. Money can solve some problems, there's
no doubt. But just like life, money doesn't solve all
your problems. And so although you might be able to
keep your coach, if okay, let you move to a
bigger payday, right, you go from the big twelve to
the sec like Texas and Oklahoma are going to do,

(20:40):
or you a better example, these PAC twelve schools that
are going to the big ten USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington,
they're gonna make a lot more money. But if they're
not getting to the playoff, if they're not having that success,
there's going to be a ripple effect that way too.
So I hear you as far as the money goes,

(21:00):
but that's not everything.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
But but that's where the change is happening too, is
that there were only four teams in the playoffs and
after this year there will be twelve teams in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Who do you think is gonna get the majority of
those bids?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Well, a lot of them are gonna be from the
Power I don't know what we're gonna call them now,
Power four. As it stands, we're going to the Power three.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I mean less just I mean who if there are
twelve bids right there. They were supposed to be the
six highest Power five champions, but they're but that's gonna
be whittled down to five. So now you got seven
open spots left. Who do you think is gonna get
those seven spots? Well, that's pretty much comes in seven spots.

(21:43):
I don't know what conference. Well, it's gonna be SEC,
Big ten.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
But the thing that we're gonna run into starting next year,
it's it feels like twenty twenty three doesn't even matter.
It's like when all this stuff comes into play in
twenty twenty four, but when we expanded twelve next year,
I think that it's gonna be a really interesting debate
with a lot of teams that are trying to get
that eleventh spot, that twelfth spot, where you might have

(22:10):
an SEC team that played a gauntlet of a schedule,
might have a really impressive win, but they've got two
or three losses and they're duking it out with some
team from a smaller conference that maybe has one loss and.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
To get in.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
No, no, I'm saying, and the SEC or the Big
ten team is going to get in.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
You broke because the when, because these conferences are gonna
move to.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
They're gonna move to.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
UH to playing either nine or ten conference games, and
playing nine or ten conference games is going to be
rewarded significantly more than playing in the Mountain West.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
I don't know, because you have that now. I mean,
outside of the SEC and ACC, most of a lot
of these Big twelve's played nine conference games for a
long time. Big ten you know, yep, they play games.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
And what and the difference is is that you used
to not be able to fade losses. But the reality
is everybody's gonna have losses now, Like if you go
to nine or ten conference games, everybody's gonna have losses.
Nobody is gonna be able to remain undefeated. So it's
going to be a level playing field and those teams

(23:33):
are going to be rewarded. I mean, it's like the
SEC bias there will be big then there's Big Ten bias.
That bias of these are the biggest, baddest teams in
the world, will will hold true.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, they'll get most of the bids. I agree with that,
but I still think depending on the resume of one
of the smaller teams I'm just looking at, like, for instance,
Tulane last year, they were ranked in the top ten
late in the season. You know, does Tulane, who was
twelve and two do they get in? That That record

(24:08):
is a little inflated based on you know, they all
came and all that, right, right, But if they're eleven
and two right before they play USC, is that good
enough to get in over an SEC team that's whatever
eight and four, they're nine and three, right.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
It depends on who their losses were to and how
they looked.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's absolutely it matters. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
See.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
But the thing is is that their conference champion is
already going to be in. See, this is where it's
gonna trend a little bit more like basketball, where where
they're conference champions, Like you are going to have to
win your league to get in. If you're in the
Mountain West, if you're in the AAC, even though that
that may be getting ready to get raided by the

(24:53):
PAC twelve, you're gonna have to win your conference to
get in. And then if not you're gonna have to
pray for an at Larb's bid, and you and those
schools are gonna get one at the absolute most one.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
By the way, while we were talking about some of
the coaches and their views and all the realignment, we
had the Eli Trinquittz sound the Missouri head coach. This
is Deon Sanders, Colorado head coach. What he had to
say about chasing a payday.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Man, I don't care about no different teams moving. We're
trying to win, man.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Okay, what we play, Okay, I don't I don't care
what conference, who we're playing against.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
We're trying to win. All this is about money.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
You know that. It's about a bag.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Everybody's chasing a bag. Then you get mad at the
players when they chase it.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
How's that?

Speaker 3 (25:39):
How did how did the grown ups get mad at
the players when they chasing it? When the colleges are
chasing Yeah, that's true. I just know, you know it's true.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
A couple of couple more teams moving today, rumored. I
mean it's just crazy.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, same teams are talking about us.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
Right, Oh oh lord, that was good.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
I mean you can't argue with them. He makes a
great point. These schools are doing what the players are doing,
and it's interesting when some of the coaches get upset
about it. Lane Kiffin had some thoughts about it. You
mentioned before Dabo Sweeney, some of the things he said
in the past about players getting paid, and yet you're
seeing all this realignment and the schools are doing the

(26:21):
exact same thing. They're chasing a monster payday. So Dion
makes sense there. You can't only talk trash about the
players if the schools and the adults are doing the
same thing. There's no doubt about that. We also have
Monsey Bolangos with us this afternoon, very excited about that
to spin us around the sporting landscape. Hopefully good news.

(26:43):
Good news here, good news.

Speaker 10 (26:45):
I just bought Taylor Swift tickets.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
How much were they?

Speaker 10 (26:49):
Let's not talk about how much.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Let's not do that.

Speaker 10 (26:53):
Let's not do it.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
You know.

Speaker 11 (26:56):
I convinced my friends. She said, why not, let's do it.
That's a credit cards are for. And she has a point.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Wows a credit card?

Speaker 3 (27:05):
What credit cards are?

Speaker 10 (27:07):
Well to us? It is to us. It is so
good news there. I don't know if I'll regret it later.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Ham fordom tickets till twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 11 (27:17):
And you know what, I'm twenty twenty nine. When I've
paid it off, I'm gonna be like it was worth it.
That's what I'll be telling you.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Georgie, is this the most expensive concert ticket you've had?

Speaker 10 (27:27):
And I've seen Jay Z and Beyonce?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Is this a Is this a resale ticket?

Speaker 11 (27:32):
Or is this course it's a Georgie, of course it's
a resale ticket. Oh god, it has been sold out
for months and months.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Oh my gosh, you got so so. Not only are
you paying a too much money?

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Amount of much and the fees?

Speaker 10 (27:48):
Oh yeah, no, yeah, yeah, oh.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, so the uh so where are you sitting at?

Speaker 10 (27:53):
It doesn't matter, that's just it does know, it does matter, No,
it doesn't, it really does it. The point was I
wanted to see here and I'm in that's it.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Are you behind you not behind the pole?

Speaker 10 (28:07):
And I am not behind the stage?

Speaker 11 (28:08):
Are you where I'm not sitting behind an obstructive view
or a pole or behind the stage.

Speaker 10 (28:13):
I'm in front of the stage.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Okay, cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a legit scene.

Speaker 10 (28:17):
No, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
So now are you in front of the stage with binoculars.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
Probably, okay, probably, probably, it's all right. That's how I
saw Beyonce when she was on the rolls bl But I.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Am funny about where I sit at concerts because.

Speaker 11 (28:35):
I know I was gonna literally tell us go ahead,
flex it out.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Go ahead, tell us no, no, no, I'm funny about
where I sit at concerts and fights and stuff like that,
where like you have all these people that try to flex.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh, I'm sitting on.

Speaker 10 (28:47):
The floor and all the floor seats.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
No, floor seats are the worst, are the worst? End
up looking at.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
The jumbo trunt actually like sitting about five.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Rows up in the risers right, and then you can
look right now.

Speaker 10 (29:00):
I one agree with you, especially because I'm so short.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
You start to see a flex alert. But it's a
smart guy alert.

Speaker 10 (29:06):
No, it's also flex. It's awesome cos we know, George Reister, we.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Know I choose not to sit on the floor with
all the elites.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
The you did say, I mean, I'm not going to
go from the floor to the second day. You're like,
I'm going grow five.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
I'm not going sitting sitting in.

Speaker 11 (29:29):
The second see one on the edge, so nobody bothers me.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
George next to God, I'm not. I'm not going.

Speaker 10 (29:39):
I may be sitting next to God. I maybe maybe,
but you know what, don't take it away.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
You're there.

Speaker 10 (29:44):
I'm there.

Speaker 11 (29:45):
I'm there, and I'm stoked. I can't believe it. I
can't believe I got somebody to do it with me.
You know, I was ready to go by myself.

Speaker 10 (29:51):
No, I wasn't. I wasn't. But all the guys here
were like, do it. Do it? They were like, yeah,
all the guys here, do it. When else you're gonna
do it? Right? Exactly, exactly, Okay, let's talk NFL. No
more Tay Swift.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
At least for now, preseason is upon us, and according
to the NFL Network, Broncos head coach Sean Payton says
that quarterback Russell Wilson and their starters will play in
the preseason game against the Cardinals on Friday. Riocky quarterback
Bryce Young will play in the Panthers preseason opener against
the Jets on Saturday. The Panthers have also reached a
one year deal with four time Pro Bowl linebacker Justin Houston.

(30:27):
Let's move on to Major League Baseball. We've got three
games going on. It's a tie one between the Mariners
and the Angels in LA one one. They're about to
start the bottom of the sixth inning. The Giants have
taken the.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
Lead over the A's.

Speaker 11 (30:38):
It's four to three in Oakland, top of the fourth inning,
and the Diamondbacks are beating the Twins in Minnesota one zero,
top of the sixth inning. Overnight, the US women's national
team was eliminated from the World Cup. I know in
a round of sixteen, losing to Swede and five to
four in a penalty shootout after extra time finished scoreless.
This is the earliest exit from the US team and

(30:58):
Women's World Cup history. Defender Julie Ertz announced her retirement
from international soccer.

Speaker 10 (31:04):
Following the heartbreaking loss. This is according to ESPN.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
Well Alex Morgan, in an interview, says she's not planning
to hang up her boots any time soon, so at
least there's that I can keep wearing my Alex Morgan
jersey and back to you guys, that's.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Rough for you gotta announce your retirement. I know early
it's the exit in US women's national team history. And
then right after it, this is what I'm gonna announce
my retirement. That's rough.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
We saw this was coming though, Yeah, but I mean
they just didn't have the energy and the and the
you know, and the and the everything that they needed
to be able to win. And this was an inevitable outcome.
But the reality is they just gave us back to

(31:53):
back World World Cups. They weren't gonna win five in
a row. I mean just I mean, like some some
times you need one of these things to be like,
oh wait, we're not invincible, let's get hungry again.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
And I also think though it's how they went down.
I can understand them not winning it, but this is
the earliest exit ever for them in a women's World Cup.
They had one win, three draws, and four goals, right right,
Like that would be that'd be like the Nuggets winning
at all and then getting booted basically in the first

(32:29):
round or swept in the second round, like just a
beat down, you know what I mean, That's what just happened.
That that's rough, man. I can appreciate them not winning
it again, but the way they lost was like that
was that was eye opening how quickly things changed.

Speaker 12 (32:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I don't know what was going on that led to that,
but they never got on track at all whatsoever. That's
the way it went down. We got a lot to
do over here. We've got, according to Monsey, right around
the corner. I don't know if there will be a
Taylor Swift theme.

Speaker 10 (33:05):
It's gonna be all Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
It'll be all Taylor Swift observations.

Speaker 10 (33:10):
All of it, all three of them.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
At least one might have might have something to do
with the cost of concert tickets, the exorbitant fees if
you're on one of those websites. Right, Oh, brutal, just
freaking brutal. So we'll get to that around the corner,
according to Monsey, stick with us here. Brian Know and
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you got something else there? Real quick there, George. I
didn't mean to cut you off, just you.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Know, no, it's fine, Okay, everybody.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
We got this.

Speaker 10 (35:23):
Let's dive in corn and now it's time for absolutely
that's it's not gonna be pretty.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
According to Monsei, I love it.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Uh yes. According to Monsei, controversial take to begin that
she would rather watch Tim Anderson square off than YouTuber.

Speaker 11 (35:43):
Jake Paul, I do not understand why anybody is into
watching Jake Paul box retired old UFC fighters. I truly like,
I don't understand how this is impressive? Uh Jake Paul
I heard I found out today comes from money. So
it's like, okay, so this YouTuber who has money and

(36:06):
has YouTube some stuff that I don't like or support,
has all the money to pay all these trainers to
learn how to fight, and instead of fighting boxers, he
is fighting retired UFC fighters who have never boxed before.
It and everybody's like impressed, like why are.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
We paying money to watch this guy?

Speaker 11 (36:26):
And I'm not like a huge boxing or UFC fan
in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 10 (36:30):
But how is this not.

Speaker 11 (36:32):
Taking away from the sport of boxing itself?

Speaker 10 (36:36):
If this guy is out there doing this.

Speaker 11 (36:38):
I don't understand the infatuation. I don't get the hype.
I don't get why anybody would pay to watch him fight.

Speaker 10 (36:46):
I don't understand how this is a big No, what
are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (36:52):
There is real boxing and then there is like inter right,
I mean.

Speaker 10 (36:55):
Like wwe, okay, go do that. But this he's taking
this seriously.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
This is good. People to stop buying it, That's what.

Speaker 11 (37:03):
I'm saying, Like we're literally giving this guy money over
watching him fight people who can no longer go to a.

Speaker 10 (37:08):
UFC ring and actually or actually fight a boxer. Like
I'm just not everybody you have fought.

Speaker 11 (37:14):
I'm not impressed by it, and this guy thinks he's
like hot still.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. I think one of
you guys said that earlier today. Yeah. I just don't.

Speaker 11 (37:23):
I don't get it, Like, no, give me Tim Anderson
squaring off and getting knocked out any.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Day, any day, according to Monsey.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
According to Monty, everybody needs to know who I don't
even know.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Thanks Bryan Dooley.

Speaker 11 (37:40):
Yes, this is such a great story. It came out
like two days ago and I was like, oh my god,
I have to talk about this. Brian Dooley is the
captain of the Eastern Michigan football team. He has just
given his scholarship up to his teammate, Zach Konti, who
is a senior walk on and has been paying his
way through school to play football, even sold his plasma

(38:02):
just to keep playing football. And this guy who's the
captain has just given up his scholarship because they couldn't
get one more scholarship to give to Zach Konti.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
Nobody does that.

Speaker 11 (38:12):
There's people out there, famous people who have scholarships who
should not get a scholarship.

Speaker 10 (38:16):
I'll leave it at that.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
You never hear people doing this, and this guy just
did it for his teammate.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Where was this at again, it's Eastern.

Speaker 10 (38:23):
Michigan, Michigan, Eastern Michigan Eagles.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Hey, that sounds like that they need some donors to
pony up some dollars. That's what that sounded like to me, right.

Speaker 11 (38:31):
I mean the coach apparently came out and begged for
them to get one more scholarship. I think they had
eighty four eighty five, and he begged for one more
and they did it.

Speaker 10 (38:39):
So the captain gave it up for his teammate. I
love that. I'm gonna cry.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Story According to Monsey.

Speaker 12 (38:47):
All right. According to Manzi, a tater todd is the
worst potato you can offer me.

Speaker 10 (38:52):
Why who likes tater totster to.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Catch up?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Wow?

Speaker 10 (39:00):
Absolutely not. Bring me a French fry, bring me potatoes
is a grotten with the like cheesy things. Those are
so mashed potatoes.

Speaker 11 (39:08):
Any potato, a tater tot, I'm just like, it's not
I see it and I dip it in ranch, I
dip it in ketchup and I eat it. I'm like,
this is not good. Why is anybody into tater tots?

Speaker 12 (39:19):
This is the most controversial.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
There.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
But but but I will say there are some subpar
tater cuts.

Speaker 10 (39:27):
Most are subpart like you.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Like, like you do have to do tater toyes right,
like you can't do like the little chipo like tater cues.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
You gotta make them doing.

Speaker 11 (39:36):
Even the most perfect tater tot that is crispy on
the outside, I'm just.

Speaker 10 (39:40):
Like not into it. Like, give me any all.

Speaker 11 (39:42):
I love fried food, and I'm so disappointed every time
I have a fried little tater to and I don't come.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
You put on it a little gritty, you know.

Speaker 10 (39:49):
Like I rather have hash browns. Like I just don't
like a tater talk.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
And I don't know if super type thing where you
talk trash about cheese. It's for a while and then
you try a certain time and you're like, I'm on board.

Speaker 11 (40:03):
This is not because I've tried tater tots in different ways,
loaded tater tots non, loaded, this that, no, and I'm
never I'm never satisfied, not once.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
And cheese it, cheese it, sir, thumbs down.

Speaker 11 (40:15):
Yes, thank you, Georgie, thank you.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
More controversy here at George, No more controversy. Jesus, I
respect the hustle.

Speaker 13 (40:24):
Do you.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
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(40:52):
You know, George last hour we had, according to Monsey,
and Moncey was like, get this YouTuber Jake Paul out
of my face. Don't want to see this guy, which
I can understand. I can appreciate that, but here's my
stance on it. It's working right. This guy, he's got
a formula that is working. He is fighting big name

(41:16):
opponents like Nate Daz. Nate d Is is a big name
in mixed martial arts. He's not a boxer, and so
what happens. Jake Paul goes out there, he beats this guy,
Nate Diaz who's not a boxer, and Jake Paul gets
a lot of notoriety, he gets a lot of money.
It's a hustle that's working out. It's a smart approach.

(41:36):
It keeps working time and time again.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
See it works, but it's also getting a little bit tired. Sure,
and I'm a person who by who watches Jake Paul fights, right, So.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
The issue is is that.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Like Nate Diz didn't look in great shape yesterday, Ben
Astron didn't look in great shape. Anderson Silva was a
shell of himself, Like, honestly, I would rather see him
fight Adrian Peterson or you know, like somebody who is

(42:18):
steal up and at him.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
You know, yes, because Leveon Bell knocked out.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Yes, I would rather see him fight Leveon Bell because
it's just a like Jake Paul. I appreciate him because
he's he is like really boxing and it takes courage
to get in that ring. And I remember before his
first fight, I should see him over at my son
used to have practice over at Calabasas High School and

(42:47):
I should see him and his brother on the track
running every single day, and I was like, bro, they
look like they're training for boxing. And then it turned
out that they were, and I was like, oh, they're
really about this life. Now when you watch him fight,
like nothing about him looks like Aerol Spence and Bud Crawford,

(43:08):
like technique wise and all of that. But he's been
doing it all of like thirty minutes. So I don't
mind his hustle. But I do think that there's an
expiration date on fighting. Has been UFC fighters now has
been boxers. Okay, cool, Like I would not mind seeing
him get in there with I mean, hell, you could

(43:31):
put him in there with Roy Jones and I would
buy it. You could put him in there with with anybody.
You can put him in there with a retired boxer
who's recently retired, and I would pay for that. He's
gotta go from the UFC guys to guys who can

(43:54):
who actually have a pulse boxing.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
That's gotta be the next step.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Too far, don Antonio Tarvor, you got excuses tonight, Roy,
and he's not just recently retired. That's what I just
I just.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Saw Antonio Tarvar in Vegas UH for the fight, and
nothing about Antonio Tarvor looks like he's ready to get
back in the ring right now.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Perfect Date's like, that's the next guy right there, I hear.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
You, Dude, Dude, Nate. Nate was dad Bob bro. Yeah,
he had a dad.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Bob fighting fighting against him.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
He didn't look he looked woefully unprepared, to the point
where I was like, is he paying these dues to
take a dive?

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Well, I mean, who knows. I doubt it. But that's
a whole other can of worms right there.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
I just think that you just mean he got he
got more to fight Jake Paul Right. The the estimates
were that he got a half a million dollars UH
for this fight plus pay per view a percentage of
pay per view. So in Jake Paul's last fight against Fury,

(45:03):
he got like three million dollars fear he got one
and a half, and then they split the pay per
view sixty five thirty five Jake Paul. So now let's
say that they did that except for this fight it
was two million for Jake, half a million for.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Half a million.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Four uh what's for Nate Das And then plus let's
say they get another you know, a few million off
of pay per view buys. That's worth it for Nate
ds Absolutely worth it. He's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna
take this to the bank.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Well yeah, I mean, listen, he's printing money. He's way
bigger than Nate Diaz. Also like he's not even in
the same weight class. Uh so it's working. And I
hear you. You want to turn the page and see
something new, and maybe there will be something new down
the road, but for right now, it's working where he's

(46:01):
beating these UFC guys who have names like Anderson Silver
was a huge name. He's not what he once was.
But the build up and you're like, okay.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Has an expiration date that that that what he's doing
has an expiration date. That that right now, I think
that we are at the point where we're like, okay, okay, okay,
we we see you can beat washed up m m
A fighters. Let's see you fight a washed up boxer
or a current athlete. I would not mind seeing Jake

(46:36):
Paul fight a professional athlete, a current professional athlete who
who boxes in the off season, because when when I
was playing, even though we were in two different weight classes,
if I were playing in the NFL, oh, I would
have stepped in there with with with with Jake Paul
and whooped his ass because I used to train in

(46:57):
the off season in boxing, and I'm a better athlete, stronger, faster, everything, ma'am.
Ain't no ain't no way, ain't no way. That's what
we need to see.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Okay, now, real quickly here, let me circle back to it,
because I want to stick with the theme of hustling forward,
hustling backwards. I want to get back to you, you know,
with the uh the fists of fury over there, going
back to Jaguars training camp. Okay, we're gonna weave our
way to that, but let's stick with hustling here for

(47:29):
a second, because hustling backwards, that would be your Los
Angeles Angels there where they've lost life straight. Yes, they
are absolutely hustling backwards. They're like, I'm on my MLB
app they've been so bad they booted me out. They're like,
you can't watch them right now. They're so bad. We
we can't let you see. I just saw the Mariners

(47:50):
hit go ahead home run. They were up to one
at last. Look, but the Angels have lost five in
a row. They are just dwindling, dwindling, dwind dwindling. It
was a mistake, George, it was a mistake.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Now they just went all in, though, No, they just
went all in. So they sold their farm system, which
they had finally had looking like a reasonable farm system,
right because the Angels farm system had been grossly bad,
and then they finally got it looking decent, and then

(48:27):
they throw it in the trash to try to go
all in for a world series right now, and now
they and now they stink worse.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
They're awful. Right now they have tied it up. So
there's a glimmer of hope here, George.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
We're not up. You look at the standings, I know,
look at the standings.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
They've lost five in a row and now they are
six and a half games out of a wild card
spot when they were like three.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, that's not looking good. And they've got a couple
of teams ahead of them in the wild card race.
So there's six and a half out. Yes, come up
with wild guard.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Man today, Seattle, Seattle, the Yankees, Boston. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
So the wild card teams right now. You got the Rays, Astros,
and Blue Jays. Those are the three wild card teams
right now. And ahead of the Angels, you've got the Mariners.
You've got the Yankees, You've got the Red Sox, You've
got all these teams. They're one of two four, six
seven teams vying for three spots. That's where they're at

(49:30):
right now. And look, man, I understand you don't want
to be known as the team that traded show Hey
o Tani. I understand that. But when we fast forward
to the offseason and he leaves and you get nothing,
you're gonna be known as the team that didn't get anything.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Between like sixty five and seventy five. Wow.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
That's man, that's huge for the future right there. You know,
think about this too.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Never mortgage your future, never ever, ever.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
This is.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Unless you are terminally ill, never mortgage your future. I mean,
it's it's insane to me. Why teams do this? They're like, oh, man, like,
look at what the Rams did. No, they mortgage the
entire future. And they're one of the few teams that

(50:27):
have actually done it and won a championship. Right, yeah, ye,
Now the Rams are gonna miss the playoffs again this year.
They were awful last year, and yeah, they won a championship.
But but how are Rams fans feeling going to be
feeling after this year when they missed the playoffs again?

Speaker 3 (50:47):
About that Super Bowl and about the team in general.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
They're not gonna be feeling great exactly. It's a trade
off worth doing. But you gotta.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
I would rather be the I would rather be the
Pittsburgh Way Steelers.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
No way, no way.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
Where do you put out a team that we can
respect every single year and we will occasionally win a
Super Bowl and but every year we are going to
have a winning record. I don't like that you buy
your season tickets that way. When you buy your season tickets,

(51:26):
know you already know that you can show up to
the stadium every single week and believe that we're gonna
win that game.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Okay, which would you rather be? Would you rather be
the Rams who won that Super Bowl and they bottomed
out last season a lot of injuries. It wasn't just
roster situation, but a lot of injuries. They bottomed out.
Would you rather be the Cowboys. We're not talking about
the mid nineties Cowboys that won three of four, right,

(51:55):
We're talking after that. Would you rather be the Cowboys
who have had some strong seasons? They we went twelve
and five last season and they're a punchline, you know.
Would rather be relevant in the mix? Winning just not
winning at all or winning big come playoff time? Or
would you rather be the Rams who boom, we popped

(52:15):
and we won it all and then we're not so great?

Speaker 4 (52:19):
I'd rather let's say the Rams missed the missed the
playoffs for the next five for five straight years.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
It's worth it? Still worth it?

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (52:30):
No, absolutely worth it?

Speaker 3 (52:32):
No way.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Congratulations, you're the Bills. You're the Bills who had a
lot of success, got to the Super Bowl, didn't win
it ever.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Hey hey, hey, and and And the funny thing is,
who is one of the most passionate fan bases in
the entire NFL. The Bills exactly because they they love
their team, They love that they can, that they are,
that they put out a respectable product every single year,

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and the Rams are in LA they don't put out
a so far will be empty.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
So far will be empty.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
If they two next season, if they missed the playoffs again,
it will be their.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Fair Wether Fairweather, George. The Bills went from two thousand
until twenty nineteen. From twenty to twenty eighteen, they didn't
win double digit games in any season. Yet those fans
are die hards like they had a lot. They almost

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had two decades worth of not winning ten games in
any season. So they've been good lately. They've had four
straight double digit win seasons. But between the Jim Kelly
era Bills and the Josh Allen ara Bills, man, it
was slim pickens over there. I give that fan base, diehards.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
It was terrible. Nobody wants that.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
Nobody wants once that that would that would be like,
what the what the Rams are doing right right now? Okay,
like at least give me, at least give me a
super Bowl if that's what you're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
How about this, I'm saying, would the Bills make this deal? George,
be totally honest with me, and I know you will be.
Would the Bills fans make the deal right where, Okay,
you're winning double digit games with Josh Allen the last
four years, like beginning in twenty nineteen, ten wins, thirteen.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Wins and thirty they gotta go through another nineteen years
of not making the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Bills fans would absolutely trade that.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
No, here's the deal. Okay, you win a Super Bowl.
I feel like Bill's Mafia would be like done, make
the deal done. I don't care you win the super Bowl.
But the trade off is all these double digit win seasons. No, no, no, no, Right,
we're not seeing eleven, twelve, thirteen win seasons playoff berths

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doing some damage. You got a chance where you're not
seeing that. You're seeing like two thy to twenty eighteen,
no one playoff berth. But a lot of seasons where
you're not winning double digit games. Would they make that deal? No, absolutely,
they would, absolutely no, they would not. They'd be out
of their minds.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Not if they knew that for eighteen more years that
they were going to be bad.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
But to win a Super Bowl, you finally win one
super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
See, I would rather be the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's who
I want to be. That's that's the franchise that.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
But you get the best of both worlds, right, It's
got to be the either or. That's the thing. Because
the Steelers they've won multiple Super Bowls.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
You know, people try to like, pooh pooh, what's what's
going on there? They have not had a losing season.
I mean, if you think about it, the Pittsburgh Steelers
haven't won a Super Bowl since two thousand and eight,
so it's been fifteen years since they won a super
Bowl and their fans obviously won a Super Bowl. And

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in those fifteen years, they've missed the playoffs one, two, three, four, five,
six times.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
But do you know how many times they've had a
losing record.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
None?

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Zero.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
They have not had a losing record since my rookie
year in two thousand and three.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
It's all about you, George, it always comes. I'm kidding me.
We got something from our trusted producer, Bo Benson.

Speaker 12 (56:34):
Okay, So, George, would you rather be the Cleveland Cavaliers
who did everything they needed to get Lebron James to
come back? And break through and win a championship, or
the Boston Celtics, who built the team the right way
and are always good but haven't won in almost twenty years,
and before that it was twenty years since they last
won titled again. Like, I'm not tracking here.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
You gotta get the breaking Celtics weren't.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
And I do think that there is a little bit
of small town, small market thing going on because the
Milwaukee Bucks fans I've talked to, their their their fans.
When when when when I'm talking to Dan Byer, He's like,
that championship was worth it We never went again because
he's great.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
They have no expectations to win.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
Or maybe I'm just a big city guy, or maybe
I'm just used to cheering for winners because because I
know that the Lakers just won a championship in twenty twenty,
If we turn around and have eighteen years of missing
the playoffs and futility, I am gonna be hot.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
I am gonna be hot at fish.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
They tho it's worth it.

Speaker 12 (57:44):
They did that though they were awful for like ten years.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
Yeah, but I'm saying is that is that is that
what I would I rather be The Boston Celtics who
keep winning every year and and then losing the finals
or losing the Eastern Conference finals rather than that.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Absolutely, no, you're crazy.

Speaker 12 (58:03):
And also if the Rams missed the playoffs this here
and they're losing, they have a losing record, they'll just
draft Kla Williams. So I think the fans would be
fine with that too.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
Well, they're not gonna be worse than Arizona, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Well, hey, we got to get to your fists of
fury stories here as we monitor the all In Angels
who have lost five straight will lose show. Hey, Otani,
we'll have nothing to show for it. Well, we'll keep that,
keep finding ring that gig. Can they snap the skid?
Can they snap it? And also George letting the fists fly.
We'll circle back to, uh, you know, which would you

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sign up for as a fan? Would you sign up
for one ring and some losing seasons to follow, or
would you sign up for stability winning seasons with no ring.
I I sign up for the ring every single time.
But we'll circle back to that as well. I'm Brian No,
He's George Reister. Keep it locked right here on Fox
Sports Radio. I'm Brian No. He's George Reister here on

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five Sports Radio. We're coming to you live from the
tirerack dot Com studios. I feel like this is appropriate music.
In the background there little old school Metallica for kill
Them All. You know, George, you in training camp. This
is the way. It was an advance. It was a
tease a week in advance. As the show ended last week,

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I asked you if you had been in a training
camp brawl or you saw a really good fight, because
Travis Kelce, the Chiefs tight end at the time, he
smacked one of his teammates. So I asked you at
the very end, and you said, yeah, it was a
great brawl and it was involving me. I'm just gonna
kick back. I got some lemonade over here. I want

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to hear this tale of who you smacked around over
there in Jack's camp. What's the scenario here?

Speaker 3 (59:49):
All right?

Speaker 4 (59:49):
So this was a crazy situation. I actually had to
apologize for it.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
So we were in camp and for some reason, I
was in a very very bad mood that day, very
very bad move and one of the younger guys.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
It's just I mean, the coaches were on my ass
that day.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
And something else wasn't going right, probably something in my
personal life. I was mad at coming out that day
in practice, ma'am. And we were doing goal line and
we were uh and we were live live during this
during this for like these three or four plays at
the goal line, so we're live. So that's full game time,

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except for you are against your own team, so you're
kind of supposed to take care of guys on some
level and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
So man, I.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Pushed this this young kid over the pile. And then
because because he had been talking trash too, he had
been talking trash that day and I I was just
sick of it. I drove him over the pile, and
then I got up, stood over him, and then I
kicked him mmmm full fledged, like like.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Albert Hainsworth remember when he did that, kicked.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
The nah he like stomped on him. No, I kicked
him like I was John.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Jones, Okay, all right, yeah, and and like kicked him
into stern hum or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
And then I just walked off.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
And then when we got into the team meeting a
couple of people, I don't know how many people actually
saw it because it was like a pile and all
of that stuff. I stood up before the yo before
we watch film. I need to, you know, one of
the leaders on the team. I need to apologize to
I forgot his name. Need to apologize. I acted out

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a character, bro I was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
And you forgot his name, Brun.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
You know that was like thirteen fourteen years ago and
so and it wasn't like I kicked Fred Taylor in
this start nam. I just didn't remember the dude's name.
I don't even know if he made the team. And so,
I mean, it's a it's a damn shame because you
do run through a lot of teammates over the course

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of years, because guys are there for camp, because you
start out with what eighty some guys and then you
end up at fifty three and that happens every single year.
Plus the guys who get hurt in the year, and
guys come for a second and leave, So like some
of the guys have never even learned their name, and

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and you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Know, I was dead wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
I apologized in the team meeting room and people had
no clue why. And then when we watched the film
that every day the coach stopped the film, everybody looked
at me and was like, Bro, you serious, this is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
What you did?

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
I was like, yeah, yeah, They're like you was tripping
because that was not a character for me. That's not
type type of stuff I would do. But that's an
even bad guy. Even good guys go wrong sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
So let me make sure I have the timeline.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
You apologized before they saw the film of you kicking
this guy? Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Did they? Okay? You apologize and then they saw it,
because would have been worse the other way around. You
are a proactive apologizer, you know what I mean. They're
not just showing it on video and you're like, hey,
you know what, pause to tape. I need to apologize, right,
it was you apologized before they saw it. That was
fea I got out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
I was wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Yeah, well, and then I knew I was going to
embarrass the kid, and he didn't jump up and do
anything because he really couldn't. He probably would have got
kicked out of practice had he retaliated against me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
So we'll just call him the kid. I guess I
don't know his name, mystery man, the kid, the kid
who got kicked in the sternum by good guys.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
We don't know his name. We don't know this sport
man's name got kicked in.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I mean, what how else would you like for me
to refer to him? I like.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
John or oh yeah, Joe from Southern miss or I
don't know, something, something that can identify him as, you know,
a person other than I don't remember. I remember, how
hard would it, George? How hard would it be to
figure out if you had to be together?

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
Probably pretty pretty hard. I don't even remember which. I
don't remember which year it was. I don't remember whether
it was a linebacker or a dB, you know, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Don't know his name. So yes, I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
So sorry, sorry if you're if you're listening and you
remember I kicked you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Sorry, Yeah, you know what that's That's a quick that's
not really a brawl. That's not like a knockdown drag out.
There have been some crazy training camp fights that just
sounds like it was a Yeah, that was a quickie.
That was a quick fight right there. This is a
kick and take that with you and on with Yeah, it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Wasn't a fight.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
That was that was that was more of a sucker punch,
a sneak attack or I mean I I can. I
can accept the negative things that come with that because
I messed up.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
The old training camp sucker kick. You know you have
that every now and then. We got Monzi Belanos with us,
who has the latest here? Quick question for you, MONSI,
would you sign up for option A, which is you
win a championship and then you endure some losing seasons following,

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or you have a bunch of winning seasons and don't
win a championship, which is your preference right there?

Speaker 10 (01:05:58):
What score am I playing? Because you can pick the
sport because in.

Speaker 11 (01:06:01):
Some sports man that that championship has valued so much
more than another sports Like I feel like in the NBA,
as we're experiencing with Damian Lillard, it's like you keep
you here, well you don't have a ring where you
don't have a ring, And I feel like in the
NFL it's not like that. I feel like it's not
like that in Major League right yeah, So call me crazy,

(01:06:23):
but if I have like a twenty year, okay, ten
year career in any professional sport, YEP, I think I
would like the success no, for majority of my career ring,
I think so, I really, if you're telling me majority

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of my career, I'm gonna have success.

Speaker 10 (01:06:49):
I think I would take that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Would you rather not individual players that just team accomplishment? Wise,
would you rather be Dame or Kyrie? Because you just chose.

Speaker 11 (01:07:00):
Dame, and I think I would choose Dame. I think
Dame is is a hero to many many people.

Speaker 10 (01:07:08):
Kyrie is not true.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
But you gotta have the ring on the resume.

Speaker 10 (01:07:13):
I mean, I just gave you a perfect example.

Speaker 11 (01:07:16):
I feel like Kyrie, like as much as he has
a ring to whatever.

Speaker 10 (01:07:20):
You kind of side eye Kyrie when you talk.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
About he's a first ballot jackass. You know that's clouding things.

Speaker 11 (01:07:29):
Wow, But I yeah, no, I as much as it matters,
I really do think I would rather just have a
overall successful career.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Okay, now you went player wise, fan.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
You are a winner every single year?

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
Yeah, and if you get a Super Bowl or ring, sure, yes,
then then we did it the right way as opposed
to having to play for five different teams. Yes, you like,
oh yeah, here we go, James James Harden, who's your
football team?

Speaker 12 (01:08:02):
You can't ask Monty this question, though, guys, because I'm
a Clippers, a Clippers fan, so this is kind of
like the entire Clippers experience. Yeah, I mean good every
single year, but not.

Speaker 10 (01:08:14):
Even that good, like you exactly, Like the teams you
guys were comparing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
To, they have a ton of regular season success, right.

Speaker 11 (01:08:20):
But I'm not talking about regular season success. I'm thinking
when you guys presented this to me, I'm thinking, like.

Speaker 10 (01:08:25):
That I get far. Maybe I don't. I get at
least to the conference finals.

Speaker 11 (01:08:29):
Like that's what I would did that one time, one
one time, one time in my it's my lifetime.

Speaker 10 (01:08:35):
That I remember. You wouldn't trade that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
You wouldn't trade a ring winning it all and yeah,
you have some losing seasons afterward, you would just keep
it status quo. But we get to the playoffs, we
might advance, but no ring, you'd rather keep it that
way instead of winning it all.

Speaker 11 (01:08:50):
But if you're telling I feel like you're telling me
it's one or the other. I win one time and
then the rest is not fun, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Right, that's just we're setting it up then, right, So yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:08:58):
I'd rather have fun most of my career.

Speaker 12 (01:09:02):
Yea, But is it fun to have the expectations and
then not come through? Like it's miserable being a Dodgers
fan at times how.

Speaker 11 (01:09:10):
Could you say that the Dodgers have such a good
history and like that's that's crazy to say.

Speaker 12 (01:09:14):
That when I their their good history was all after
or before I.

Speaker 11 (01:09:19):
Was sure they still won one they did won and
they won how.

Speaker 10 (01:09:22):
Many divisions in a row?

Speaker 12 (01:09:23):
They won one hundred and eleven games last year and
loss of the Padres in the first round.

Speaker 11 (01:09:27):
Dodger fans can even watch so many postseason games and
also something to not take it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
I think you're right.

Speaker 12 (01:09:34):
I think you're right, but also like at some point
you do have to win, of course, I mean.

Speaker 11 (01:09:39):
If somebody has to win, of course, but no, I
rather have a successful overall career.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
The Dodgers are a great exemp. The Dodgers have won
it since eighty eight.

Speaker 12 (01:09:49):
If they have it all, if they have one ring
out of the thirteen years that they have Mookie bets
in the seven years they have Freddie Freeman, I think
that's a complete and total failure. And what the the
twelveth eighteen years they may have sho you only get
that one ring?

Speaker 10 (01:10:03):
Like that's I mean, you have a point there. You
want one percent? I agree with you. I mean, yeah, no,
I'm going to stick to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Stick to my decision stick to winning regular season games
and not winning jack come playoff time.

Speaker 10 (01:10:16):
Okay, yeah, I mean I didn't know it was just
regular season games.

Speaker 11 (01:10:19):
I thought it was just a successful time even in
the postseason, but you just might not win.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
I got this team, the Dallas Cowboys. You might want
to become a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Speaker 10 (01:10:29):
This, No, I'm good, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
No, Hey, it's better than being a Clippers fan. I'll
tell you that much.

Speaker 10 (01:10:35):
No, yeah, I'll stick with my Clippers. That's vibe, is No, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
Better to be a Cowboys fan than to be a
Clippers fan. Why because at least the Cowboys have one.

Speaker 10 (01:10:44):
Not in my lifeline, That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Made our whole argument here to life. It's in your life.

Speaker 10 (01:10:51):
When did they win the Cowboys? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:10:54):
Yeah, yeah, you're five Okay, yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:10:58):
Yeah no, See like I don't rememb I wouldn't remember
that even if I was a Cowboys fan at five
years old.

Speaker 10 (01:11:03):
Like, how do you, Manti, how do you You're not supposed.

Speaker 11 (01:11:05):
To ask a woman that I'm thirty five if I can, No,
you're not on air thirty four four, I mean thirty four.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
A right, you're a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Okay when she's been around since the Cowboys have won
their trio.

Speaker 11 (01:11:19):
But like again, even if I was a Cowboys fan
and they won when I was four five years old,
that what am I gonna remember from that?

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
You're younger than my sister.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
It's like being a Nebraska fans ancient history.

Speaker 10 (01:11:29):
Now, So should I give an update or should we
just rat up here?

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
We'll tell us a few things. I tell you, let
me tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
You didn't even do your work yet? What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
This is a good debate, Yeah, this is a good
it's good good talk.

Speaker 11 (01:11:46):
Diamond Backs and Twins are tied to two in Minnesota.

Speaker 10 (01:11:49):
They're about to start the bottom of the eighth inning.

Speaker 11 (01:11:52):
Matt Tice is the guy who tied the game for
the Angels with the solo shot to two against the Mariners.
It is the bottom of the ninth inning in LA,
but the Angels are down to their final out and
the Giants are still holding on to their lead over
the A's. It's six four, bottom of the sixth inning
in the NFL. The NFL Network reported earlier today they
put this video out that apparently Jamar Chase is telling

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Joe Burrow to not come back. Week one Joe Burrow
is supposed to be back week one. They're saying he is,
but apparently Jamar Chase is like, no.

Speaker 10 (01:12:21):
No, no. Allegedly he's like, please don't if you're not ready.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Mark Chase said week five, yes.

Speaker 11 (01:12:27):
That as long as you're ready by week five, because
he just doesn't. I guess you know, calf injuries they
linger and you don't want to come ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
What what big of a difference that that is?

Speaker 10 (01:12:36):
One to five?

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Yes, how hurt that his calf really is or the
top of his achilles that that they're talking about that, man, come.

Speaker 10 (01:12:45):
On, that's yeah madness. Yeah no, I mean, but I
understand where it's coming from.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
This is an abundance of caution, yes it is.

Speaker 10 (01:12:54):
But I don't blame him back to you guys, good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
I try the content of Manzi, content with not winning
at all. This is what I've taken from that content, because.

Speaker 11 (01:13:07):
Then I'm gonna be like, I would hate, I would
hate if I had just a one off win and
then the rest of my career was crap.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Can I say, don't have to be that bad? We
just this whole debate began with the Rams who won
it all right, and then they were five and twelve
last season, right and their roster, I mean, the FM
pix model has absolutely had an impact on the way
their roster looks right now, and so that's where it became.
But it was worth it. In my opinion, it was

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completely worth it. You want it all. Not everybody thinks
that way, George. I don't know where do you say
it wasn't worth it to win it all and bottom
out the way they have. Is that where you're standing
on this one, George.

Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Yes, Like I'm talking about just for the fan experience.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Look at the Florida Marlins.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
They've won two World Series after example, they have been
tremendously bad, and you know how their fans treat the team.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Yeah, but they're completely fair weather. They're not diehards any.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
Why do you think they're not Because they don't have
anything to cheer for on a year on a year
in and year basis no way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
I completely disagree if that same thing happened in Buffalo.
They're just there are some areas in the country where
the fans are all in regardless, and there are other
areas where that's never gonna be.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
Their team has given them something to cheer for for
a long time and then they can.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Deal with those lulls, should they if you should the
Packers have traded for a wide receiver to like keep
Aaron Rodgers in town and maybe win something.

Speaker 12 (01:14:40):
Or is it like fine that they kind of just
went along with what they did and never won anything exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
You gotta go all in. You've got to get that
rink that do not another with your future.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
Do not.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
There are times that you have to try to win,
but don't mortgage your future.

Speaker 11 (01:14:57):
So let's say in seven years you bring up the
Rams again and they haven't done anything because of what
they did.

Speaker 10 (01:15:03):
Is it still worth it because.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Yeast and tickets will be low. You will be begging
for people to come. You will you will be doing
bogos for tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
It ain't good, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Coming up next another thought on mortgaging your future, because
that is a great discussion. When do you do it?
I don't know if there's ever a time that you
would want to do it, George, but we'll dive back
into that. I'm Brian Nough, He's George Reister. Keep it
locked right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian no
He's George Reister. Here on Fox Sports Radio. We're coming

(01:15:37):
to you live from the Tirack dot Com studios. Man,
it's a great selection by Iowa Sam on topic didn't
we almost have it all? Talking about winning a championship?

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
We almost have it?

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
And George, you are h you sound like a Packers
fan right now where you're you're about playing it calculated,
laying it safe.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
First of all, they should have absolutely drafted a wide
a wide receiver, right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
But I will say.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
Though, that not throwing away their their future for for
Aaron Rodgers, Dude, if you want to leave, sayonara, buddy,
don't let the don't let the door knob hit you
where the good Lord split you, buddy, Like, I'm not
begging you to stay. I'm going to try to do
things to make you want to stay. It's like being

(01:16:32):
in a relationship.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
If if if my wife today, if she comes home
and is like, yo, I want out of here, I'm like.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
All right, well let's go to counseling.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Okay, cool, And after we do that, if she's like, listen,
I don't want to be I'm not gonna try to
force her to stay. Like it's it's a losing proposition
and and the reality.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Is is that is that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
If we never become billionaires and you know, and never
get to have one hundred foot yachts and all of
this stuff, can we have a great life and be
extremely successful and happy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Yes, Okay, we don't.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
We don't have to hit the lotto to be happy
and successful. Like there's there's that whole philosophy and like
all that that I can't be happy unless I have
everything you're.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Talking about, like relationship stuff here, like the same thing
with you bring it back to Aaron Rodgers at the end,
like this offseason, Fine, you want to move on, you
want to go in the Jordan Love direction. Aaron Rodgers
doesn't have that much time left. Fine, Fine, I totally
get that. But if you look at Aaron Rodgers, one
of the best quarterbacks in the game at the time

(01:17:52):
and only having one ring, a lot of that is
due to them being way too passive, way too safe.

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
It's not in not going through to him being bad
in the playoffs at time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
It's not just that. It's not just that. It's also
look at the Rams. This whole discussion started with the
Rams who were in FM pix mode and were aggressive
and it paid off. Think about Odell Beckham Junior, who
they besigned and they didn't give him a ton of cash,
but they were willing to do what the Packers were
not willing to do. They're like, ah, how much money?

(01:18:23):
I don't know, And obj he was on course to
be Super Bowl MVP if he didn't have the A
C L. He made a big difference for them, and
the Packers are like, I don't know, it's a little risky.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
What do you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I hate when teams play it safe to a fault.

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
No, I think that there's a difference between playing it
playing it safe and because because what I'm never gonna
do is I'm never going to risk my future for
and granted, granted, and there's a there's a difference because.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
What am I going to be willing?

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
Like? I love what the Dodgers are doing this year
in particular of course they're paying Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman,
they have a high payroll, right, But at the same
time they're like, uh, Trey Trey Turner, Sorry, sorry, buddy,
we got we we got a young prospect that is

(01:19:23):
a little that you're better than at this point time.
I mean, well, the hell he ain't better than this
year because Trey Trey Trey Turner hit the broadside of
the barn this year. But but that, but that, they're saying,
instead of spending three hundred million dollars on t On
Trey Turner, let's develop these young guys.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
Hey, sometimes that makes let them be good. But sometimes
the future is now. It's not about Hey, we gotta
be careful. Let's not overspend. We might need that money
down the road when you're building a team. Sometimes the
future is now. Sometimes you've got the odds in your favor.
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George just happened. It's a final. The Angels lose again.
They have lost six straight.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
Hey, did you bet on them today.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
No I didn't. I should have bet on the Mariners.
Man should have been on Seattle because they've been hot
and the Angels have not been. It's just one of
those things in baseball is weird.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
You could be watching a game and you're like, the
team's down three nothing, but I'm pretty sure the team
with the lead has almost no chance to win this game.
Sometimes it feels like that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
Yep, Baseball is funny like that, where it's totally a
momentum game where you're just saying, dude, they are just
hitting the ball to the two gloves, they are hitting
it hard, exit v lows are looking ridiculous, and you're like,
if any of these balls find the like that, eventually

(01:21:29):
this is going over the fence.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
And now what you have with the Angels is you
went all in with Otani, didn't trade him before the deadline,
and now they've lost six straight games. George, now here's
the thing. I think there were two options for the Angels.
You might disagree with this. I don't know, and it's
not to go nuanced to the point where you're like, wait, what,

(01:21:54):
I think there are two options for the Angels. Option
A was trade Otani, Get as much as you can
for the guy at the deadline because he's most likely leaving.
That was option A. That's absolutely the option I was
standing on the table for. You gotta get something. You
can't let him walk for nothing. Option B was keip

(01:22:19):
Otani and then go all in, make trades, hopefully you
get hot, you make a playoff run, convince him to stay.
That's what they chose to do. And how about this
last out against the Mariners today, George, it was CJ.
Cron who they just traded for. They traded for Cron,
they got a couple other pieces, Gilito right, and they've

(01:22:42):
lost six straight games. I think this. I think it
was a mistake to keep him. But if you were
going to keep him, I don't have a problem with
them going all in in an effort to try to
win as much as possible and convince him to stay there.
I think it's the wrong option, But if you're choosing
option B and you're keeping of Tani, I do think

(01:23:06):
it made sense to go all in, try to win
as much as he can, try to convince him to stay.
What do you say to all that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
No, No, you couldn't go all in and convince him
to stay like that's the that's the biggest mint of
this whole thing I know. Is that is that is
that going all in meant mortgaging your future. And if
he doesn't feel like the future is bright, it doesn't
matter whether you win a championship or not this year.

(01:23:33):
He's like, the team's gonna be bad going going forward,
so I.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Don't want to be here.

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
I mean, that's where that's what I'm saying, is that
the Angels mortgaging the future for this season only only
probably equal magnified the chances of show Hail Tany leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Right. Well, that's the thing is, let's whittle it down
to the first part. Option A trade Otani, Option B
keep Otani. Okay, you had a decision, you start with that.
I would have chosen Option A. Trade him. He's probably
going to leave anyway, Get as much as you possibly

(01:24:16):
can for this unique just you in a corn of
a talent. Trade him. They should have done that. They didn't.
They kept him. I think, and I don't know what
you think about this. If you're going to keep Otani,
I don't think it's good enough to just be like, well,
you know, let's shrug our shoulders and hopefully we get hot.
They took proactive steps to try to improve the team.

Speaker 9 (01:24:38):
You know, F the future, if you might full full
just on you know, you know what we are trying
to win this year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
I will trade my mother.

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
If necessary, I will get Yeah, that's what they I
would have been trying to get. I'd been like, listen,
get how can I get Verlander or Scherzer and just
hope that there's something left in the take. I would
have been on all on one year rentals every if

(01:25:12):
I'm going f them picks and f the future, I
am going full fledged, like there's no half stepping.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
That's legit. That's legit right there. So it sounds weird
where I would have traded Otani for all the reasons
I mentioned. You gotta get something for the guy when
he's most likely gonna walk. But if you're keeping him,
I don't hate what they did. Now it's failing miserably,
but I get the concept.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
So you're saying that they should have just went further.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
Yes, if you're going like, if you're taking option B,
which is we're keeping Otani, then bro it is it's
all about trying to maximize this window, which might be
two more months. You do as much as you can
to win now and to try to convince this guy
to stay. If you're taking option being keeping the guy,

(01:26:03):
I think it's all about mortgaging the future and hopefully doing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Already already Moreno got in got his pride, got in
got in the way. Because if I was them, I'd
have been like, hey, Dodgers, you you will want show
show hey because you don't want him to go to
the Yankees, do you? And then and then mess around
and like it out there. You don't want him to

(01:26:28):
go to Seattle and mess around and like it out
there and decide to stay out there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
You So, so we gonna need Gavin Lux. We're gonna
need your We gonna need your little young little bull uh,
your little young farm system because you do a good
job with him.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
So we need your picks.

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
And but but he was so dead set on not
trading him to LA I would have fleeced the Dodgers
for everything that they would have given up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Well, that's I comple completely agree with you, holy.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
And and that's and that's if I was going to
trade him, because I did say I was on record
saying I would not have traded him because because of
the curse of old tiny.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Oh you trade him whole day, I'm trading No.

Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
No. Say, if you traded him and he messed around
and broke the home and he messed around and hit
sixty three home runs, you would have been cursed.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
But but he's not going to hit sixty three home rensident.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
And that's the thing, man, only there's no curse of
the bam nourse the bull guards. There's no curse. It's
get better players and wow, shocker, you win. It's Chris
crazy how that works out?

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Like oh no, none, no, no, because.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
It's like said win for eighty six years and it's like, wow,
what do you know, We've got pitching, we've got hitting,
like we want it all crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
Yeah, curse and you and you don't have the ball
roll through Bill Buckner's legs.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Hey, I can't say, don't like, Hey Buckner, you gotta
feel the ball. Man, it's not about the bambino. You
can't go five hole right there. You know it's on him.
But that was the thing, George, what the Angels were
faced with. It was one of two things. It was
either f them picks right, which is we're keeping Otani.
We're just setting picks on fire. We're just getting as much,

(01:28:21):
we're acquiring as many assets for the here and now.
F them picks. We don't care about the future. It's
about now. Or it was all the picks, meaning we're
trading this guy. We need all the picks you can
give us. They chose f them picks, and that's the
wrong move. They should have moved on from the guy
because the handwriting's on the wall. Man, the odds were

(01:28:44):
overwhelmingly against you that he was gonna walk, and instead
they made this I don't know, they made this push
to try to win. And now I think what you're
seeing is the angels pressing right like they know it's
slipping away. They know that they're going the wrong direction
in the standings in the wild card race, and now

(01:29:05):
they're starting to press and it's just getting worse. Starting
a snowball on them.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
It's bad, but there's nothing worse in pressing, Buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Think about this too. Go ahead, George, what was pressing?

Speaker 4 (01:29:16):
Pressing? Pressing will will absolutely cause you to.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
Fail, especially in baseball, especially in baseball too. But think
about this where you being known as the organization that
traded him, which is, let's just say he ends up
on the Dodgers. Okay, so your crosstown rival. Let's say
that there are two possibilities here. You could have traded

(01:29:41):
him to the Dodgers before the deadline, and like you
just said, George, get all these assets, get all these picks,
get as much as you possibly can for the guy.
Or you can do what they actually did, and he's
probably gonna walk. And now he might walk to the Dodgers,
so he could still he'll be playing for the Dodgers.

(01:30:02):
And option A you get which as you trade you
get a bunch of stuff for him, or you get
absolutely zilch and he's he's still with that same team.
You're much better off trading him to your or.

Speaker 4 (01:30:14):
You could have if you didn't want to trade him
to the Dodgers, trade him to anybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Well yeah, there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
Right, Yeah, Well, well listen, unless they goal. You know,
how many games do they have left? Probably like forty
eight or so, forty eight forty nine games.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
Yeah, ballpark probably around there roughly.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
They gotta go what probably thirty and no, they got
to do better than thirty and nineteen, because that would
only give him eleven games.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
Then the other teams are gonna win to.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
Like they're gonna need to in their last forty nine
fifty games, go go forty and forty and ten to
make the playoffs. I think guarantee making the playoffs forty
and ten.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
I don't think they'd have to be that good. I mean,
it depends what's happening around them the wild card race.
You're looking up at the Red Sox, looking up at
the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
No, no, they're already six and a half games back, right,
So forty and ten puts you forty put you thirty
games above five five hundred, right, and then and you're
five hundred now and then you're already six and a
half games back, So that puts you down to twenty

(01:31:37):
three and a half. So now you gotta win, So
like you gotta win six and a half games more
than the than the other teams. Yes, you're gonna need
to go third. I mean because if the team's in
front of you, if they go you know, thirty five

(01:31:59):
and fifteen, you missed the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Man that the Angels are a game under five hundred.
Now they game under five hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Yeah, you know what, seven and a half games back.

Speaker 12 (01:32:12):
You know what part hasn't even been mentioned really so far, guys,
what's that? Lucas Giolito's first start with the Angels was
a disaster too. He went three three and two thirds
innings and gave up like nine runs.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
C J Cron he fouk out to lose the game,
and they gave.

Speaker 12 (01:32:28):
Up like real tangible prospects for Gildo to rent him
for two months.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
Yeah, that's Copel. It's just it's not good business, right.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
I mean, is this worth laughing at them yet? Or
is it?

Speaker 11 (01:32:42):
Do?

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Or do we wait?

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
I mean, listen, I thought the whole time they should
have traded the guy, because you gotta play the odds.
And look look at where it's at right now. How
is this gonna get any better? Like they're a game
under five hundred? How is this ever realistically gonna swing
back in the Angel's favor? Think of all that would
have to happen for them to get on this hot streak.

(01:33:07):
And I don't know whether they go thirty five and
fourteen down the stretch whatever it would take to get
into the playoffs and then go on a run and
Otani's saying, you know what, I think, I do want
to see this thing out here. I'm staying realistically, what
would need to happen for that to be the case
is not realistic. That's the whole point. It's not happening.

(01:33:31):
So it was a bad bet. Is a bad gamble
right there. I'm not against gambling, George.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
You know that good, Yes, we know, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
But in this case, you gotta play the odds man.
You gotta know when to punt. The Angels are like
a football team that don't.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Know you should say like fourth times.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
It's like fourth and thirty three, and they're they're at
their own, like twenty seven yard line. They're like, I
don't know, why not go for it?

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
We can get to quarter and it's in the third quarter,
in the fourth quarter in in a one score game.

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You mentioned that a couple of NFL players going to

(01:35:32):
be on family feud.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
I think it's all.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
I think it's an all NFL family feud tonight. Actually
they're all NFL. So we got a couple of guys.
Uh CJ. Gardner, Johnson, I'm in Ross, Saint Brown, both
of the Lions right now. If you could pick any
game show to be on, George, which would you go with?

Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
Survivor?

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
No, No, well, Survivor would be number two. Actually, I'm
gonna go on one B to Amazing Race.

Speaker 14 (01:36:04):
You guys, remember how speaker you may guys remember how
big who wants to be a millionaire was writing in
the local papers like, ooh, the guy's going for five
hundred thousand tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
Everyone better watched like that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
That's my I just saw a clip which was the
best one of all time when the guy when he
won the million, and he called his dad for a
lifeline and he said, uh, and his dad come, come,
comes on And he says, hey, Dad, I didn't I
don't need a lifeline. I was just calling to tell
you I'm gonna win a million dollars because he knew

(01:36:37):
the answer already.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
Uh yeah, the Amazing Race. That's a good choice. I
feel like that's a very good choice. You're going. That's
in a different category. I feel like than game show though,
right if you're talking just a game show like Family Feud,
whatever's close to family feud? Would you say, as far
as that goes, I'd be a disaster on Jeopardy anything

(01:37:00):
that you have to be well rounded and know a
lot of things that would be awful, I'd be terrible.
And who wants to be a millionaire. I would never
go on there in a million years. What about Supermarket Sweep?

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
Oh love super Big Mike who runs.

Speaker 14 (01:37:13):
This place, was apparently on Supermarkets no kidding, According to bow.

Speaker 4 (01:37:17):
You got, I would have absolutely been on Supermarket Sweep
or the or the one with the.

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
Mall, the one with the mall.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
I don't know that you should.

Speaker 3 (01:37:27):
Come on like right after Supermarket Sweep.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
What was the concept of that one.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
That you would run through the mall?

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
Well, they had all these stores there and you would
try to get the most expensive items.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
Oh really, it's a little bit older. Was it Shop
till you Drop?

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
That would be fun. I like they brought back press
your luck with the whammies, no big Bucks, big bus,
no whammy. So I could do Grandma, I could do that,
or Wheel of Fortune. I'm not doing Jeopardy. I could
run through the because.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
Dude, you I'm you. You let everybody know it's the
type of person to be on Jeopardy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
And I'm not that unfortunate though. You get to hang
out with Pat c Jack it's amazing. Hey man, I'll
hang out with Pat. I might be able to solve
a couple of puzzles, but I got nothing for you
as far as Jeopardy goes. The only thing that's fun
about Jeopardy for me is if they ever have an
NFL or sports related category and they know nothing. That's

(01:38:35):
the only enjoyment I get out of Jeopardy because I
don't know hardly anything. You want to be what do
you have? George?

Speaker 4 (01:38:42):
I love Jeopardy bro Like It's one of my all
time favorites because I actually know some of the answers
and and in my in my mind, I feel like
that if I studied up for Jeopardy, I'd be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
Really I don't. I don't like the Rosie jump.

Speaker 4 (01:39:01):
I don't believe I would beat like the you know,
like the Grand Champions and all of that. But but
but I feel like on a regular day where you
get the average contestants on there, oh I can compete
with them if I studied up.

Speaker 14 (01:39:15):
Real quick notes to the family feud. I got some
more information. So it's basically it's going to be current
NFL players on one side of family feud versus NFL
Hall of Famers.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Oh okay, that's kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Like it matters to get that gold jacket, buddy. Matter
is the gift that keeps on giving.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
I want to know who the entire cast is. I
gotta know this. I gotta find out.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
Can we talk about the Hall of Fame for a second.
Cut out to you, okay? Because people were talking about
the Hall of Fame, like the twenty twenty four Hall
of Fame class, right yep.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
And and there's one name that I don't know if
you're gonna mention this one, George.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
Who who do you think I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
I don't know if you're talking about this guy. But
they threw it out there like, hey, Andrew Luck.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Oh my god, Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Andrew Luck.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
Not a Hall of Famer, not a chance, no way.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Eli Manning is a fringe Hall of Famer, and so
is Philip Rivers. They may not even get in. And
we're talking about Andrew Luck. Dude, people throw this, Oh
this dude's a Hall of Famer. One of the dudes
for the Carolina Panthers had the audacity to say, Andy

(01:40:37):
Dalton Hall of Famer.

Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
Hall of Fame, of whatsh TCU. Yes, he'd be in
the School Hall.

Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
Of Bengals, Bengals Hall of Fame, Bengals Ring Ring of Honor.

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
I don't even know if he'd be there.

Speaker 4 (01:40:50):
I don't even think he'd be there either. But the
idea is, dude, it is nonsense. People like, oh, yeah,
this guy's a future of what bro of what that's
like arguing that Cam Newton is a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
He's not.

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
Was he an MVP? Yes, see, a really good player,
one hundred percent. But uh, but the other name that
was on there. The other names that were on there
are Eric Barry, Jamal Charles.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
No chance Julius Peppers will get in.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
I don't know if he'll get in first ballot.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
I don't know if he be first ballot. He'll definitely
get in at some point.

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
Yeah, and Antonio Gates if he doesn't get into the
Hall of Fame, I'm gonna fight somebody because because I
almost fought people over d White Freedie. The fact that
the white Freenie did not get in on the first ballot.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
I was ready to I wanted to go to bat
for him.

Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
You're gonna you're gonna kick, You're gonna kick strangers in
the Is that what you're ready to do?

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Yeah, George, dude, for for what he did to our
tackles and what he did to me, and what he
and the and the type of insane things that we
did to try to block him. Like, people don't know
how effective the White Freenie was was because the things

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that we did to try to block.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
Him that didn't even work.

Speaker 4 (01:42:18):
Like there were times where that the that the tackle
was left alone with d White Freenie no chance, and
then they would put u and then they would send
a back to go chip him to no chance because
then he would spend and the tackle wasn't quite sure
how it would play out, so then he would end
up inside sack or tackle for loss or something the

(01:42:39):
same way.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
Then then they decided, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
Cool, let's let's put a tight end next to the
tackle to double team him and then send a back
that way to chip.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
Still ineffective.

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
Now I hear you on that. It's funny too, guys,
just thinking about it gives you a taste of what
boxing might be like, you know, where you're trying to
punch someone and you just cannot hit them. Yes, and
as a tight end or an offensive tack, got to
hit Bud Crawford, but you're trying to just put hands
on Dwight Freeney. And this isn't a guy that's a

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middleweight or you know, like a welterweight. This is a
man in front of you, and sometimes you can't even
get a finger on the guy. He was tremendous, there's
no doubt, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
And the other names that they put on this list
Adam Jones as impact man.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
Oh, come on, Doug Baldwin.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
It's not that these guys were not really good players,
because they were, so I don't mean this in any
way like if they're listening or their families or anybody
who likes them. This is not to disparage them in
any way, shape, form, or fashion, because these are really
good players.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
But Brandon Marshall Andrew Luck No.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
No, no, that was the one. Because I was just
watching Sports Center the other night and they're like, all right,
here are the guys that are first year eligible players
in twenty twenty four and they throw up a graphic
and I'm like, okay, Julius Pepper's Antonio Gates and they
highlighted They're like Andrew Lucke, this would be his first year.
I'm like, what, Andrew.

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
My former teammate is on this is on this list
and from a college, and I think that he may
get into the Hall of Fame eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
I know you're going with, yeah, Helothid, Yeah, yeah, and
but but.

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
I can't even.

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
I can't say, all right, HELOTHI should get in first
first ballot. I'm saying I'm hoping that my friend gets
into Hall of Fame. Yeah, that's fair, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
I do like how somebody thinks.

Speaker 4 (01:44:39):
I don't think that anybody would would frown right or
turn their nose up if Dwight Freeing, I'm sorry, if
Halothi got it got into Hall of Fame, maybe that's
okay cool.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
I like how some of the commentators George would really
accentuate the t. Some of them will be like, hello,
Ti Natah, okay, right, but no, he had a Hall
of Fame. I think a borderline career. And if you
voted for him, I don't think you're crazy at all
for doing something like that. But Andrew Locke, George Listen,
his first three seasons eleven and five each of his

(01:45:13):
first three years with a weak roster, that was tremendous.
But he had six seasons in the NFL, really five
and a half, dude, he missed the entire twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:45:25):
You only play six seasons, you better do some Terrell Davis.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
That's right though, And that's not what he did that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
That's not throw for.

Speaker 4 (01:45:33):
Fifty touchdowns like three straight years, and then it'd be like,
oh man, he got he got cut cut cut short.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
But he's one of the best.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
Like if Patrick Mahomes' career ended after this season and
another right.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
Well, well damn he would. He would.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
He would have two super Bowls too. Super Bowl I
mean three super Bowl appearance is two super Bowl rings
and two MVPs, so that, I mean, that's a.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
Whole different thing.

Speaker 4 (01:45:58):
But but if you only six years, that's the type
of stuff you gotta do.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
To get it's gotta be extraordinary.

Speaker 4 (01:46:05):
Patrick Mahomes should be if he retired today, he should
go to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
I'm fine with that because he has been extraordinary at
this point, Andrew luck was really good, not extraordinary. His
passer rating is sub ninety. It was eighty nine point five, Like,
you can't give me eighty nine point five over five
and a half years.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
Can you tell the story of this generation without Andrew Luxe?

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, you can.

Speaker 11 (01:46:34):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
Can you tell it without Drew Brees?

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
I know Drew Brees is absolutely a Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
Yes. Can you tell it without Philip Rivers?

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
You could? Yeah, yeah, you could. Yeah. Absolutely. Could you
tell it without Mahomes Absolutely not, No, you can't. You
can't tell the story of dude.

Speaker 4 (01:47:00):
The last five years, the Super Bowl has had to
go through Kansas City, literally through Kansas City, either the
city or playing them in the Super Bowl. They've been
to three super Bowls in five years. Yeah, and one
of them. He was the best quarterback in that Super
Bowl with Tom Brady, except for he didn't have two tackles,

(01:47:23):
and he was and he was diving on the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
Still was yeah, still throwing.

Speaker 4 (01:47:28):
The ball sideways, hidding Kelsey and everybody else in the
hands and him dropping it, you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
I wonder And it still might have played out similarly.
But that first Super Bowl win against the Niners. What
was it, George Like third and fifteen and Mahomes had
not played well in the first three quarters. Yep, if
they don't convert that third and fifteen, I wonder how
the last few years would have gone from Mahomes and
Listen is incredibly special, But I wonder if he would

(01:47:56):
have started pressing more right, Like, There's no way to
know how it would have played out. But what I
do know is in actuality last season, his season last year.
Sometimes we gloss over it, we'll think about it. He
lost tyreek Hill. He is battling against a bunch of
quarterbacks on their rookie deals. Like, think about how much

(01:48:18):
of an advantage it is to have a top quarterback
on a rookie deal. He went toe to toe with
Trevor Lawrence rookie deal, Joe Burrow rookie deal, Jalen Hurts
rookie deal all the way through to win a Super Bowl.
Oh and by the way, he got banged up, had
a high ankle sprain since the second quarter of their
first playoff game. It's insane what the guy just did. Insane.

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
Oh and you know who else finally got into the
Hall of Fame that I.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
Was just like, come on, come on, come on, bro.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
And truthfully, he should have been in in front of
a guy who was the first ballot a couple of
years ago. Zach Thomas just got in and he should
have been in the Hall of Fame way before Brian Erlacker.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
Wow. Okay, so some some Zach Thomas Look listen, man,
I'm a I'm a Fens fan. I love Zach Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:49:06):
And because and I'm gonna tell you that even on
the Chicago Bears team, Brian Urlacker was not the most
feared guy on that team. On in that linebacker crew,
it was Briggs. It was Lance Briggs. But he didn't
go Hunter Hillenmeyer. No, Bro, hitting hitting Lance Briggs was
like hitting a brick wall or Adrian Peterson, because those

(01:49:29):
two things are the exact same thing. Hitting Brian Urlacker
pillow fight, really, pillow.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
Fight, pillow fight. Who man, there's some Irlacker disparagement right there.

Speaker 3 (01:49:44):
No, No, he was a really good, good player.

Speaker 4 (01:49:49):
I'm just saying that that that Zach Thomas should have
been in the Hall of Fame first.

Speaker 3 (01:49:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Well, hey man, it took him a lot longer, a
lot longer to get there, but it was it was
cool to see him get in. I loved his speech.
Zach Thomas's speech is very good. We gotta get a
speech sort of right now from one Moncey Bolangos with
the latest. What is going on here, Manci?

Speaker 11 (01:50:10):
The Dodgers just had a call overturned at the home plate.
It was Matt Barnes who bunted Keiki Hernandez slid into home.
Gary Sanchez did block him before the.

Speaker 10 (01:50:23):
Ball got to his slave. But it was close. I know,
but was like, it's obvious. I was like in slow motion,
it's obvious in lifetime. It was very very close.

Speaker 11 (01:50:33):
But Gary Sanchez did put his knee down to block
before the ball got to his glove.

Speaker 10 (01:50:38):
I hate that rule. I'm all about blocking the bag.
Why not block that bag? Get around me, do something.
But the call was overturned.

Speaker 11 (01:50:45):
So the Dodgers added another run after a two run
homer from Ahmed Rosario, and they're beating the Padres in
San Diego three zero.

Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
It's only the top of the second inning.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
Is by the way, Manzi, I have to say something
real fast.

Speaker 10 (01:50:57):
Please say love.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
I love when these teams they'll they'll have their guy
get thrown out by ten steps at home. Yeah, and
there are a couple of teams that will challenge it
and be like the catcher was kind of in the
bass path. Yeah, maybe we get a free run and
they're not overturning that, which I.

Speaker 10 (01:51:11):
Love, yes, right, because it's like, yeah, you weren't there.

Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
Right, you were ten steps out, dude, Yeah, don't try
to get a free run. No freebies, right.

Speaker 11 (01:51:19):
Yeah, No, this one was super super close, and when
you slowed it down you could see that kik it
went landed there first.

Speaker 10 (01:51:25):
But it was just very close, very very very close.
We got another game going on.

Speaker 11 (01:51:29):
It's the Aids trying to hold onto their lead over
the Giants at home. Eight six is the score, top
of the ninth inning. But it's been a full day
of baseball. The Astros they held on to beat the
Yankees nine to seven. Jake Myers had two three run
homers in the victory. The Mariners handed the Angels there
six straight loss, which you guys were talking about, beating
them three to two in extra inning. Seattle is now

(01:51:50):
right now two and a half games out of the
final wallcart spot in the AL.

Speaker 10 (01:51:53):
The Angels are seven games out.

Speaker 11 (01:51:56):
No Phillies beat the Royals eight to four home from
Bryson Stott, Kyle Schwarber, and Nick Castellanos in the victory.
The Nationals beat the red six to three, and it
all started with two pitches that equal to home runs
and the Nationals literally never looked back. The Cubs beat
the best team in baseball, the Brave six four. Matt
Olsen did hit home run number thirty nine in the loss.

(01:52:18):
The Cubs and the Reds are tied for the last
wildcard spot right now.

Speaker 10 (01:52:22):
In the NL.

Speaker 11 (01:52:23):
The Twins were tied and then Max Kepler gave them
or excuse me, Max Kepler tied the game for the
Twins in the ninth and eight with a solo shot.
Then Matt Walner walked it off with the two run
homer and the Twins beat the Diamondbacks five to three.
So Minnesota is four and a half games up on
Cleveland for the top spot in the Al Central. After
the White Sox beat the Guardians five to three. Earlier today,

(01:52:44):
the Orioles, you know, they beat the Mets no shock
there to zero. The Blue Jays dominated the Red Sox
thirteen to one. The Rays outscored the Tigers ten six.
The Pirates defeated the Brewers four to one, the Rangers
they blank the Marlins six to zero, and the Rockies
beat your Cardinals one zero.

Speaker 10 (01:53:00):
Boo, guys, it's been fun. Back to you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
The Cardinals are man always fun. That was the opposite
of like Simone Biles sticking the landing. You save the
Cardinals getting shut out one nothing by the Rockies.

Speaker 11 (01:53:18):
Just for you if you want to know, they're nine
and a half games out of the final walk.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
What did I do to you?

Speaker 10 (01:53:26):
I'm just telling you. I'm just keeping the information. That
is my job.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
Good this Wow?

Speaker 10 (01:53:36):
Oh yes, I actually really did leave that last just
for you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
I appreciate it was funny. I can't be mad at
something that's funny.

Speaker 10 (01:53:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
By the way, what is your favorite Taylor Swift song?

Speaker 10 (01:53:50):
That's hard. I've got a couple, but I can tell
you my favorite.

Speaker 11 (01:53:55):
Album is Red, Okay, Red, which is a while ago.

Speaker 10 (01:53:59):
Yeah, yeah, that's definitely my favorite album. But I've got
to I've got I'm going to sing the entire three hours.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
Like for Metallica, they say the Black album, you know,
do you say? Is that correct language? Like the Red album?
Is that what you say?

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:54:12):
I mean, it's called Red, but do.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
You say the Red album. It's it's uncool to say that.
You got to say just Red Red. It's just it's
Red Red. I want to be schooled over here. I
want to say the wrong thing.

Speaker 10 (01:54:23):
I mean, I guess you could say that, but no,
just George.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
Do you have a favorite Taylor Swift song? I bring
this up because Monsey is going to be paying this
debt for the next five to seven years to go
see Taylor Swift. Are you a Swift ye over there, George?

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
I see See.

Speaker 4 (01:54:38):
Here's the thing is I appreciate Taylor Swift because when
you pay to go to her concert, she performs.

Speaker 10 (01:54:46):
Yeah, yeah, she.

Speaker 4 (01:54:48):
Does, like like like she ain't shame playing playing shame
playing uh you know thing like she's for real, for real,
she is for real, Like she gonna give you three
hours of of greatness. They said she won't talk to
anybody before the show nothing.

Speaker 10 (01:55:06):
Yeah, but she's great.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
I'll give you a nugget right around the corner related
to this, can.

Speaker 13 (01:55:12):
I give you Okay? So, Connor McGregor tweeted this, I'm
looking at this right now tweeted this about an hour ago,
and then Jake Paul has responded, Okay, so Connor McGregor said,
I'm going to serve up your liver on a sandwich
in the trilogy, mate out straight.

Speaker 11 (01:55:30):
I won't even hit your face. That was abysmal last night.
Paul is a can I say retard.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
No, no you no, okay he said it though.

Speaker 11 (01:55:41):
Yeah, he's absolute garbage, moving backwards like I was watching
a fight in rewind. Holy garbage, embarrassing stuff all around
in my honest opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
Then Jake Paul, he responds.

Speaker 11 (01:55:58):
Jake Paul says, buddy, you need to get into rehab
and then USA DA. Until then, shut the you know
what up. Floyd toyed with you, Dustin chinned you up,
kabeeb and Nate choked you out, and I would put
you in the coffin for good, even.

Speaker 10 (01:56:12):
As juiced up as you are. That was Jake Paul's response.

Speaker 2 (01:56:16):
All right, we will respond to that coming up next.
We'll shoehorn as much good stuff in as we can.
I'm Brian, though he's George Reister. Keep it locked right
here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 15 (01:56:25):
No ball's two strikes, he delivers, sweet gonna miss a
fourcever upstairs, Salseta, let's out a yell as the murders
that big brooms baby, they've swept aside the Angels. The
Ems are Roland win number sixty on the year. They've
won five in a row, they've won ten of twelve,

(01:56:48):
and they're going home sweeping the Angels.

Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
I'm Brian, though he's George Reister here on Fox Sports Radio.
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(01:57:16):
Miriner's Radio network. As they finish off the Angels, little
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not trading. Otani is backfiring miserably as they've lost six
straight and plummet more in the standings, including the wild
card standings. So there you go. There it is now.

(01:57:40):
This was your Taylor Swift nugget here, So our own
Monty bolanos going to see Taylor Swift. We have not
gotten confirmation how much the tickets are are costing doesn't matter.

Speaker 14 (01:57:52):
Is it over or under what it would pay you
to get in to see Lionel Messi and Dallas.

Speaker 10 (01:57:56):
Oh, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 14 (01:57:57):
It's like three hundred and ninety something.

Speaker 3 (01:57:59):
Oh wait.

Speaker 10 (01:58:01):
Over that face value is more than that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
It's way over that. One of my friends put out
a tweet. He was like, I was just checking this out.
He's in the Bay Area. It's like, I'm just checking
out the cost of tickets. Yeah, and they were high up, moncey.
It was thousands of dollars, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy,
but hey, good for This was the nugget on Taylor Swift.
She has given bonuses to every person on the Aras

(01:58:29):
tour staff, totaling fifty five million dollars. Those are the
bonuses that she's given out. That's awesome. That is awesome.
But man, you talk about.

Speaker 10 (01:58:41):
I'm contributing to those bonuses.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
You talk about an uber successful tour where you've got
fifty five mil to just be like, hey, thanks for
being there for me, you know what I mean? Yep, yeah,
that is doing it. I'll tell you what heavy heart tonight, moncey. Yes,
why it's my last night with my girlfriend and the

(01:59:04):
cats that we've been babysitting for the last three months.

Speaker 10 (01:59:07):
This is why where are they going?

Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
They're not going anywhere, but we are. So we rented
this house for the last three months in Champagne, Illinois. Majestic,
tropical Champagne, Illinois. If you haven't been, you got to go.
So we rented this house. This is it the last night.
So after the show and I don't know, like forty seconds,

(01:59:30):
we're gonna use the grill, have a little barbecue on
the deck, and then we got to say bye to
the kiddies and we're off to our next place.

Speaker 10 (01:59:38):
Where did the kiddies come from?

Speaker 2 (01:59:40):
So we just found this place and they were like, yeah,
we need someone to just you know, rent the house
for three months. And we're like all right, cool, yeah
that should work. And they were like, by the way,
can you take care of our cats while you're here?
And I was like what, oh, yeah, you know cats,
just feed them, you know, change the litter box, that
sort of thing. I'm like, yeah, sure, I love.

Speaker 10 (02:00:01):
These freaking So now you're gonna go get cats. Moral
of a story.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
I'm more of a dog guy. I'm gonna get a
dog and a cat. Yeah, you should love them cats.
I love these cats, man I would miss them like crazy.
I might even shed tears tonight. It's that serious, Manzi.
There might be a little little left eye, a little like, uh,
it's just dusty in here. Just take them a little dusty,
all right. Enjoy the show.