August 16, 2023 • 39 mins
The guys discuss the NBA ‘s real problem other than their in-season tournament. Conference realignments is almost over, Lionel Messi continues his impressive run with Inter Miami and the guys deliver their mid-week awards on “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.”
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Speaker 5 (01:26):
But before you get to what you want to see, Yeah,
I know you're going to pay off the tason on that,
but I did see something and I don't believe you
have it as part of the rundown that I feel
like a little more topical kind of curious as to
what the hell it is.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do you guys know what the NBA Cup is?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The n season tournament?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, Like what is?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I'm trying to understand the direction behind having an inn
season tournament to then eventually have a championship at the
I mean, if you've got load management issues, just calling
an in season tournament make guys want to play instead
of going for an NBA finals in a championship at
the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, it feels gimmicky.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I just I don't really understand it why they feel
like it's gonna make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I mean, but I guess is that any different than
when you're in high school or college and you have
like you know, like holiday tournaments, even though it has
nothing to do with if you win the state title
or anything like that. I mean maybe that's a way. Look,
but that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Is, I mean, we never had anything like this when
we got into high school, Like it was all not
even junior high like you always had your league championship
and high school you had your league, you had your
your region, and you had your state championship. There wasn't like,
you know, if you had a separate little invitational or something.
It might have been a mini tournament that was a
(02:52):
part of preparing you for the regular season and the
state title, but it wasn't something that like ultimately really mattered.
It was more of like, yeah, you'd love to win it,
but well does this matter? I mean I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
No. It almost feels like they saw what the bubble
was like and they thought, Okay, well this is cool.
That generated a lot of interest, and you know, people
kind of like this. It was a little bit different
and a little unique, so why don't we just roll
with this? And they still realize we were in the
middle of a pandemic. There were no.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Options, right, And so it looks like now basically, teams
play what eighty games used eighty two, but with the
two playing games, I believe they've kind of that number
has been knocked down a bit. And I think if
you factor in the additional games to the NBA Cup,
the championship teams would win d up playing eighty three
(03:44):
in total.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now you're getting back above that number, right.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
The players who win the tournament, that are on the
winning team, they get five hundred thousand dollars. That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You know, here's a thought. Here's a thought. Do you
think maybe because of how long the seasons are, the
season is for NBA and the amount of games that
you're just touching on que like, think about this the
reason why in so many ways it's like, Okay, you
get eighteen weeks with football teams, like that's eighteen Like
(04:16):
you get eighteen games, you know, like that's that There
there's a level of you know, should you say scarcity
or a limited amount of what you're going to consume,
whereas you get two games a week from from a
basketball team. So maybe you created a middle of the
season tournament because you get viewers an opportunity to see
(04:41):
an end very quickly. Like every game matters, like, Oh,
if you win like this, it's almost like you can
come out of that tournament saying, Okay, the team that
won won that tournament. That's pretty interesting to see how
well that translates or correlates into what takes place in
the rest of the season. I guess kind of gets you,
like in the end end, like an eight game.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I just don't know if you were playing in the
regular season and you go through a seven game winning streak, like,
how is that any different?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I mean, the solution to this, if they're worried about
people interested in their sport, the solution of this is easy.
Bump the season back two months. Stop opening your season
in the middle of football and college football and the
World Series and everything else that's going on. Because if
they did that, we'd be talking about the NBA Finals
right now and there's nothing really else going on other
(05:28):
than Hard Knocks trivia show.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That is true, man, because God Lee that week that
that y'all was hanging out, that's right happened there, Bruh.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Talk about talk about life, life, rafting. Oh, come on,
you're a content machine and you can figure that out.
Ten ten foot waves and me and Jeff were on
you know where you feel your Tom Hanks and castaway.
You're just yeah, that would have been more interesting than
(05:58):
the stuff that was going on too. I really do
think that's the only solution for the NBA.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
It is is you've got to kick back the season
to December.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I mean, why did I not do it? Mark?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Mark Cuban's been saying it for years, Charles Barkley's been
saying it. Why are we trying to compete with the NFL?
We can't win? So do you open up your season
on Christmas Day and then roll with it and you're
gonna have more eyeballs to the back end of your
season and you don't need to do gimmicky in season
two ends.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I'm not here for ending the season in August. I
think that's a poor decision. You ended in July. You
end in July where you don't have any competition whatsoever
outside of regular season basement.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's fine, yeah, because you don't want to bump.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Up into training camp and preseason games and everything else
that will win that battle either. So end in July,
started in December, like you're talking. We've talked about this
for years. But the other thing is some people have
talked about like playing less games to make the game.
I mean, you're not gonna do that because the TV contracts,
So that's out the door. I mean, there's really nothing
(07:02):
you can do for load management outside of spacing out
the games.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
More like if you look at some of the.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Soccer seasons, because this NBA Cup idea is in essence
the European soccer model, Which is funny to me because
even in the college football playoff expansion, which I know
we want to talk about at some point, a lot
of the discussions around that, people are like, well, there
should be relegation. I'm like, okay, so everyone's now just
coming on to this idea of what relegation is. And
(07:29):
anyone who's watched European soccer has seen it for forever
and it's a great concept that makes a ton of sense.
The economics to it for a college sport, though, have
to be in place in order to allow a team
that gets relegated to have a shot to get back up.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And because it's not privatized.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Right, you're talking about you know, state institutions at times
or private institutions that were more built for academia, you know,
they're not funded in that way. And maybe you say, well,
they just take a big, you know, donation from from
a donor to help them get back up on top.
It's not as easy to do that because that donation
going to the school. It's it can go to one
(08:11):
particular sport, but it's probably gonna get spread throughout.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Some other things as well.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
So it's just it's it's a little more complicated with
that model. But it seems like as we start to
grow and evolve, like everyone's angling towards some sort of
like influenced by a European soccer league that a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Here aren't really aware of.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And I was just saying, the last thing is, you know,
they've got to figure out a way because the NBA union,
the players union, is so much stronger. I'd say the
baseball and basketball unions for the players are there too,
strongest by far. And the one thing about baseball is
like the players have been able to implement changes that
they're okay with that have helped the game. I don't know,
(08:53):
because of how well NBA players are paid and and
and the way they're controlling things, I don't I don't
know if they care like it'd be one thing if
they felt like they wouldn't be able to make as
much because the ratings decline and the interest in the
sport is dwindling.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But they continually pay guys more and.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
More and more and more, and so because it doesn't
hurt their pockets, they don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But if we're being real with ourselves.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Like if Lebron and some of these others that are
the stars and the faces of the league, if they
really cared, they press the issue, and it wouldn't just
be more Cuban, it'd be the players too, saying, Look,
we're willing to say that we cannot compete with the NFL,
and we're willing to say that we'll play into our
summer as opposed to being able to vacation and go
(09:40):
a banana boat whatever they do in the summertime and
wherever they go as a group. But we're willing to
forego that to adjust the season to get the NBA
back into the limelight and have it as a part
of now our summertime programming that we usually don't have.
Like Baseball made the adjustment with the pitch clock, and
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's saved baseball.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
But it's made it fun as heck to watch it
in person on TV.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It's been great. It's been great.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The NBA needs to make some sort of change by that,
and the NBA Cup is not it?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Sorry, By the way, I was gonna mention this as
well too. There's a movie that was on in the
studio here a short time ago that is something that
Brady Quinn quietly roots for us. In fact, I would
I would argue this is one of your under the
radar favorite movies from back in the day. Can you
guess what movie that was? Brady Quinn under the radar,
(10:33):
something maybe a lot of people wouldn't expect that you
would have liked.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Can you give me like a genre.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Eightieska rom com? Oh no, I think department.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Store, Apartment Store, Mannequin.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Damn LeVar, you're good. He's so good Mannequin. I haven't
seen that movie in years, in.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Decades, not years, decade. It's you gotta be like kind
of a slight undercover perv to have gotten it that way.
That's generally speaking, back then, that was how you got
your like little nasty boy fixes you know what I mean? No,
I do not know what you mean, it's like it's
like you start having your first little like like girl
(11:19):
crushes and stuff like that. So it's like that's like
your material.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It's it's real.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's innocent. It's like, yeah, innocent.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
It's like it's like a blow up doll with no flexibility.
Oh my gosh, it's very rigid.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It's just pre It's just it's pre heathen, you know
what I mean, Like you're not full blown heathen. It's
like it's like preheathen.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I thought that was like good housekeeping and like victorious
secret magazines of the house.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yes, yes, it's like we're the launch Remax. We're on
the same page that must there you go there.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
What is the name of the actress that was in
Mannequin because she was a kind of a smoke show.
Oh yeah, Kim Control?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is that it was? No, it was Kim Control or
still Getty?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Hold on a second, hold on, well, which one is it?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Which one is it? Lee? It was Kim Control. Kim
Contrell was Emmy.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Wow, that's impossive. What else is she in? Was she
in the what was that HBO show Sex and the City?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
The City and that one as well too? What a
character by the way.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, that's great. Yeah, well she was hot, so I'm
not going to judge this guy for falling in love
with the mannequin.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You know what he did was Kim control. Yeah that's fine,
or even Kim control.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Now although I just heard no, I mean whatever he did. Yeah,
just go back to the movie though.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like you got to go back to Oh I remember
the movie. Yeah, I told you the movie.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
She played such she's played that role in Sex and
the City. So well you're like that that's just her,
that's not that's just her.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah no, i' man, I mean, what are you talking about? You?
You're definitely in I mean, Today's Kim Cattrell, That's what
I'm saying. Yeah, I just think we've hung out. I
know this, Like I know, I'm really going to do this.
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
All right, you just out in me saying he spends
some quality time we have that we're about to some more.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, yeah, shall see.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It is two pros.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Have a little positivity. He does not think this is
going to happen. He does not.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
What is your very low expectations on everything? And then
just hoping for the best.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
He's crossed his fingers. The guy hates travel.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Hoping for the best.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
That's the truth is I mean, what could go wrong
at this point? What is the problem. There's one thing
that could go on? What's the one day? Good? Say,
we got a meeting that's kind of tight. It's tight
to that flight schedule. I'm saying what you say, what
y'all talking about? Speak clearly there's a meeting that someone's got,
not me, not Jonas. And if you didn't say my
(14:21):
name though you didn't say you're not Jonas or LeVar,
it could be Todd. We don't know. I'm just saying
it's tight to the flight schedule. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
By the way, you should send Todd in.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
For you to if there is an alarm clock that's
not like working properly that day, it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Could throw annch in the whole thing. Yeah, you're right,
but I do radio in the morning, so thankfully, I'm
already awake well before the time of that appointment. You
always come through. I don't I don't doubt that, That's
what I'm saying. I don't know what what Jonas's problem is.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I know, I'm just I'm hoping for the best, that's all.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, it is best? Is it not happening?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah? Just And that's a that's a reckless.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It sounds so like subtly calm, but just very very
like pessimistic man, Like.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I'm the air Lingus on this show, all right, Like
I'm all about travel. So like, don't you don't you
guys accuse me of anything false like that? Damn air
Lingus on this show. It is Two Pros and a
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some light at the end of the tunnel that basically
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college football realignment might be over. Are we done with
this crap?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I think for now, And I think the hard thing
that a lot of people are probably coming to a
realization of is with Stanford, cow Washington State, Oregon State,
if they take deals in the AAC or Mountain West,
they're gonna be losing money. I mean, that's the reality
of it. Because of the movement of the other Pac
twelve teams not taking the deal that Apple provided them,
(17:25):
They're gonna have to take deals that are less than
obviously the Big twelve, the a CC, the Big ten,
the SEC, and ultimately wind up be probably losing money
from that, but at least still have stability for the
future of whatever. You know that the financing looks like
from a TV METEA writes deal. But I think for
that reason you're seeing everything slow down. And one of
(17:48):
the most interesting notes is, you know, Florida State, throughout
a lot of it made a lot of public comments
about leaving the ACC doesn't sound like they're going anywhere.
If they're not going anywhere, it's a little harder for
anyone else to make the declaration to want to leave
as well. And for the TV networks, I'll keep saying this,
that's what's behind the scenes driving this. And if a
(18:11):
TV network is already getting the rights to have Florida
State games for less, why would they want them to
move the SEC just to pay them more.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Now.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
One of the interesting notes too, that came out of
all this realignment in the Big Twelve, which is split
between ESPN and Fox. When teams are added to the
Big Twelve, the Big Twelve gets paid more from ESPN,
it is not from Fox. And that's a unique construct
of that particular agreement. So KUDU is to brett your
(18:42):
mark forgetting that. It obviously incentivizes them to add more
teams to the conference, especially if one of the networks
is giving you more money for it, but not necessarily
the wisest business decision by a TV network. But that
being said, I think we're starting to see now football
is almost here. There's not going to be a ton
of moves being made now This is kind of where
(19:03):
we're at and probably something to revisit in twenty twenty four.
The only other thing that's out there that that potentially
will be impacted is the College Football Playoff, and this
year it's four teams. Next year it's going to be
twelve teams, and then how we go about defining who's
playing in it since we're most likely not going to
have the Pac twelve. What is now the Pack four
(19:25):
viewed as a Power five or Autonomous five conference.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Do you think you guys could predict at least three
of the four teams it'll be in the College Football
Playoff right now?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I feel like I could too.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, let's see Georgia.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Alabama, Michigan, and then we'll see who the number four
team is.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Wow, there's some people right now in the state of
Ohio and Pennsylvania that are really ticked off.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I mean, they haven't beat Michigan in like fourteen years,
so the last time Ohio State, they haven't been Michigan
since Craig Crenzel was there. So I'm not going to
it here and try and ball wash the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I think Troy Smith and Cardil Jones and J. T.
Barrett have a lot to say about that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's been a long time.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It's been since before COVID, so I need to see
it from Ohio State before. And they are slight favorites
to win the Big Ten Conference over Michigan, although I
think Michigan is favored to win that matchup with Ohio State, which.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wouldn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, whoever wins that game, would I'm assuming would win
the Big Ten.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I don't assume that.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
You can't assume that Penn State.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, why can't I assume that? Because you can't. We
just told you. Yeah, there's a third team there is.
For the value we are. Penn State's play for the
value right now.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Now, if you get in the season and they drop
a game, obviously you're gonna wish you didn't make that pick.
But that's very true Penn State for the value and
for the talent they've got. And if Drew Aller is
what I think he is, I'm telling you, man, don't
sleep on the Nittany Lions.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, so Penn State's got they opened up with I.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Just filmed a special. Well I don't know if it's
a special, but I did it. Yeah, I guess it
is a If you're a part of it, it's special. Yeah,
it's big. It's for big news. But I'm saying, if
you're a part of it, it's special. Yeah. It's about
Stick City. It's a place, it's a place, and now
everybody's going to hear about it. You know.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
That's what people don't realize is like every tier of
your defense, you've got someone special.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Baller, every baller you.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Know, from Chop to Abdul Kaylin King like you, you
guys got ballers, And like Penn State's not good enough
credit for what they've got, what they're bringing back this year,
probably the best left tackle next to Joe Al in
the game though there was both.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Those guys will be top ten.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they got a problem Week ten.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Our backfield is a problem. I'm just telling you, hey,
it is a para Islan and Singleton, is it? I
don't know that. Is there a better Is there a
better duo in the country. Nick Singleton's legs look like Sakwan's,
but they're both like bruh, they're like mutants. I did
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their media day, so my media company did the media day,
and my guys that were shooting there. Like those running backs.
He said, those those running backs, they they look like
artificial intelligence. What do you mean? He said, they didn't
talk and they kind of moved like they were like machines.
(22:45):
We're gonna be all right this year. Them babies out
there got people freaked out. But they don't talk much.
They just they just look super human man like. A
couple interesting things too, though, about what Jonah said. As
far as we pay. You know, Georgia, I knew starting.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Quarterback obviously highly talented, but you know, and they've they
always recruit well, Kirby Smart's a hell of a coach,
but new quarterback, you don't know how they're going to
step into that role. Stetsan Bennett has been so clutched,
so good in big moments over the course of the
past two years. You know, Bama, same thing. What's their
quarterback situation? New offensive coordinator? However, I want to say,
(23:22):
the last time Nick Saban was ranked and Alabama was
ranked this loan the ap pull, I think they won
the national championship.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So I think they're all safe picks. I would have
made the same picks, to be honest. My question is
more like this time of the year. I think, look,
pick at teams is great. It's especially if you get
some some really nice odds out of it. I always
am more curious, like, which conference do we think is
going to get two in? Because the Big ten got
two in last year SCC and see, I don't know.
(23:49):
I think it's going to be the Big Ten. I
think it's gonna be the Big Ten again.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
You're shut again, I mean, especially since he fairly pointed
out that it according to the gambling market, they would
have been favored over three of the four teams in
the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So, I mean, it was an interesting point.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I just didn't realize we were there in college sports
where that was going to be the basis of our argument.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I wonder if Kirk Farrens pointed that out to anybody, like,
wait a second, this guy's talking about gambling lines.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
And here's the tough part is like TCU earned the
opportunity to be there, and they weren't going to be
favored versus anyone, right, So like what do we what
are we saying then, just because they wouldn't be favored
and even though they've earned it, they shouldn't get.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
A shot that's not how it works. And beat a
legitimate team in Michigan to get to where they were going.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
It's no different than saying, like the Tampa Bay Bucks
won their division yet with a losing record. So what
are we saying they didn't earn to be in the
NFL playoffs last year? Like, once you get in, you're in.
And if they get a shot at winning it, so
be it. But it doesn't matter if they're going to
be underdogs in every single one of the games they play.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's why I like the expansion of the playoff. Yeah,
to be honest, that's that's that's the biggest reason to
me why I like You know why I like it.
Another chance to go to Happy Valley.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You know, maybe they're hosting a playoff game in the
in the cold weather the mountains to have a little
snow one.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh man, say that's that atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Stayed a graduate hotel in State College?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, man, I don't know if they have one there.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Are you sure about that? You looked at one? I'm
sure he's not looked it up. He does that something.
I'm sure he's very unsure.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Look up.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Graduate hotel State College is one of them.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
There is one. I think he's right. No, he's definitely right. Well,
he's tried to look it up, but he was already
online looking it up.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Jonas is the type though, he'll say things like that
without looking it up and then hoping.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Pray it's right.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, and if I get it wrong, we just don't
put or take it out of the podcast.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Which we never do, Like I listened back to the
podcast often and we never ever make those corrections.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Attention to it, so then it doesn't make sense to
take it.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well, that's the whole point, though, is anytime Jonas brings
up stuff like this, we bring more attention to it,
so then it makes it impossible to take it out.
And then he looks like it, he looks like a
jackass for it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's too bad.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Too bad.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
By the way, did you guys hear Jim Harbass comments yesterday?
So he hasn't spoken since his four game fiasco that they.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well, no, the cheeseburger cheer paradise apparently.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So apparently he's got this go to saying whenever there's
a situation he can't really publicly speak on, and so
he was asked about how the players at Michigan are
handling the distractions there from this supposed four game suspension
that was going to be waived that apparently they canceled
the agreement afterwards, and everybody got a little pissy. Here
was the Michigan head coach.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Of my dad's matra attack each day with an enthusiasm
unknown to mankind.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He just frames it right there.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Attack each day, Attack this day.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
For the enthusiasm unknown man guy, and living living by
it daily been good.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's worked, so that clears enough.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I don't understand dang word that. I think it's almost
like a running joke with coaches.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I don't know if they like giggle about it behind
closed door, but it's like, hey, wat's what I'm gonna
say to this and they just say nothing. I mean,
it's coach talk. That's coach talked for. I can't talk
about it. I don't want to talk about it. I'm
not going to talk about it, so stop trying to
make me talk about it.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm gonna make.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
You sit through a twenty second response that makes no sense,
and I'm gonna waste that portion of time in your life. No,
that's essentially what coaches do it's I mean, players do
it sometimes, you know, when they really have been in
it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Now, when you leave an interview that you gave some
sort of canned answer that you didn't want to, like,
do you guys when you get in the long groom
going dodge the bullet there? Or can you believe their aspect.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Do something that's unknown to mankind?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, well he does drink milk with a steak that's
unknown to mankind.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's not unknown, he doesn't we know, That's what I'm saying. Like,
I wonder where you got the milk from from the almost.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Please crawl space by the way, if you're just tuning in.
Lee to Lap admitted on the air to clearing out
a homeless guy's crawl space on his property yesterday and
found found a gallon of milk there for some reason
going bad. Yeah, I can't imagine why. I thought for
sure he'd have a fridge up there.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It was, by the way.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So oh see, Lee, you've got to tell us these things.
That makes complete sense. Then what's the difference it doesn't perish? Yeah,
Like you don't have to refrigerate it. Lee, This is
the kind of stuff you can't leave out.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yeah, but now I'm on this side of the homeless
guy's you know, good for him, I guess habits.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
So Levar's point though almond milk is more expensive, it
means he's making money.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Yeah, but it's like a probably a dollar or two
more expensive, and it's not perishable like that they can
get in a box and keep it out there in
the heat.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's all right. I'm just saying almond milk.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And he's got intolerance, like that's what I'm more curious about,
or like dairy intolerance. I mean like maybe he maybe
he went and got the testing done. It was like, man,
I can't keep instead of playing, he went and got
the testing done. That's what I'm saying. He got the
alcat test blood. These are all and they're like, sir,
forget about your living habits.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You should not.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Drink everything else. Everything else in the dumpster is fine.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No milk, just do not have any dairy, all right,
But almond and milk in a crawl space. I've heard
it all. I'm done.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
By the way, it is two pros and a cup
of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
The way he can't have dairy.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Oh yeah, I don't drink almond milk though, I just
the dairy at all.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Okay, coalmon milk's not dairy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Well, I mean I don't want I don't want milk.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You know, you don't use like oat milk, milk, coconut milk.
You're not milking anything.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Only sponsors. If they're a sponsor, I'll use it. But
if not, no milk. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
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Speaker 4 (30:19):
I mean, more like a Panini Sports trading card milk.
Like if they had one of those.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
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You might be missing.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
That's a great point.
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Let's go Nashville need I'm a big Nashville guy.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
What they so much fun to root against? Jonas?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Are they be the Nashville Cowboys or whatever they're called?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
What do they call that sounds about right.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
The Nashville MLS team, Nashville s C.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, soccer What do with soccer club over football club? Yeah?
Do you think they thought like, hey, it's America, we
can't we can't use the football club. But there's a
lot of other fcs.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
In the MLS, right, Yeah, So interesting little twist on things.
But whatever it is, they're going to take care of this.
You know, Facade that is the great Lionel Messi in
the MLS and that inter Miami.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You enjoy him for like the year or two he's
playing in the MLS.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of South
Beach being uh no.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You thought to be washed up.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
He's coming so far and completely changed the dynamic for
Enter Miami and you can't appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I'm just tired of it.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Guy's like a nice dude, to think about it.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
He wasn't shopping in publics with his family, Like, no
one's going to recognize him like a normal guy.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
How awesome was that?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I mean, if you if.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You should support anyone, it should be him because you
do the same thing. Although you I don't know where
you go out there we go sprouts or what's the.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Uh well, I mean you know, I'll dive into a
spring every once in a while. Ralph One baty in
the South, it was pig wiggly. I'm more of a
piggy wiggly. Now public's guy.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Might makes sense. You seem like a piggy wiggy. You're
a guy.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Well that too, Lee, We're not here to judge.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Wow, yeah, I mean Lee from the top rope.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, how could you?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I did not see that coming.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It is two pros and a cup of Joe here
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Speaker 3 (34:20):
There are some good things that happen, and there's some bad,
and then there's some downright ugly things. It's type for good, bad.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
And luckily all right lead to lap who's got what well?
As we do each and every Wednesday, we started with
the good and this week we have LeVar.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, I mean I think the good is is definitely
this new crop of quarterbacks. I fill a level of
excitement seeing seeing all of all of these young guys
out there and doing what they're doing, and it's made
preseason preseason games bearable for me. So I'm gonna go
(35:02):
with the youth movement at quarterback. I think their sound
bites have been funny. C J. Stroud's soundbites were pretty funny,
but candid and good. I thought Richardson in the way
that he handled things and discussed things was really good.
I just I like this this young group of qb
so I think that's really good.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Roll.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Guys can't have good without the bad. Brady, what was
bad this week?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You know, what's bad? All right? The New York Liberty.
All right, they finally get their first trophy.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
They're one of the leagues three remaining original franchises that
that hadn't had a chance to win the Championship Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
In the w NBA.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
They just actually blew out the Las Vegas ass and
Jonas Caven put on his rundown. You know, he puts
in all these good notes and helps from you. Didn't
want to bring it up either, Lee, It's just it's unbelievable,
John cuwel Jones. She had a wonderful performance, got MVP
for sixteen points fifteen rebounds.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
So that's what's bad. You know that the w NBA
not getting the type of love that uh that that
they deserve. Might put some light on.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
It, in fairness, In fairness, it was on there right
in between Bass Masters and the w w E. So
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was there.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
It was listed, and the fact that we haven't gotten
to it yet just shows you we've got a full show.
It's stacked, so it's hard the range we've got.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
You know, if you guys thought were just football, you
were dead wrong. Okay, did we were also football? All right,
we food, foodball.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Or soccer as they stay in the States. W n
b A is a part of this.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Yeah, and by the way, we solved the NBA's problem.
They won't listen to us, but we did solve their
problem earlier this hour, so I feel like we've done
our part.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Okay, we're trying.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I apologize for not putting that on you in or
out yesterday. I just figured everyone was in, So yeah,
I didn't need to discussed that one.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
But assumed, yes, you assumed we.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
You know, with assuming guys from bad to worse Jonas
what was ugly this week?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Right, So we've talked about Blippy on this show before. Correct.
It's for those of you, well, for those of you
that are you, I can't believe this actually aired, which
is why I'm bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
So for those of you that.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Aren't familiar, Blippy is this complete geek who it's like
a kid's program. He rides around with like a little
funny hat on, he's got suspenders, he's got blue and
orange on at all times, and he's like teaches kids
games and like like how to you know, learn how
to spell things, and he goes on like he goes
(37:36):
and visits tractors and goes and does arts and crafts.
It's it's a kid's program. So my son watches it
from time to time. I've almost got him out of
that phase. I've got him now watching the program twice
a week. So I'm gonna ratchet that up a little
bit here as we get closer to football season. And
so I happen to notice that Blippy's on the television downstairs,
(38:00):
and I glance up and the fing guy's fly is down.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
What and why are you looking the okay?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Because it was right in my face, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
The camera it was it was that obvious, and I'm
thinking to myself, this isn't live, This isn't Blippy live.
This is recorded, and then it's put on YouTube and
it goes up and everybody watches it. Nobody in post
production said, hey, Blippy horses coming out of the barn.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Maybe maybe sip down there, Jonas it's a kids show.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
They should have been looking there. That's bad post production.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Like let's say about you though, that I have an
eye for this.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Okay, and and I should be hired by that production
crew to make sure this guy doesn't have his cash
and prizes out when he's trying to teach some kid
how to spell helicopter, like it just the whole thing
is a disaster.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Are you are you the helicopter watcher? Is that? Yes?
I'm the spotters just spotter helicopter.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, I'm air traffic control. When it comes to blippy
and it catch, apparently it just like how does that happen?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Topter spot You guys have film stuff before it that,
Like nobody.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I went to the restroom.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
My kids had the orientation for By the way, shouts
out to all the parents out there, we started school today.
Hell yeah, it's this is the parent's super Bowl where
the kids go back to school. So let's get excited
about that.
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Speaker 5 (01:26):
But before you get to what you want to see, Yeah,
I know you're going to pay off the tason on that,
but I did see something and I don't believe you
have it as part of the rundown that I feel
like a little more topical kind of curious as to
what the hell it is.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do you guys know what the NBA Cup is?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The n season tournament?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, Like what is?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I'm trying to understand the direction behind having an inn
season tournament to then eventually have a championship at the
I mean, if you've got load management issues, just calling
an in season tournament make guys want to play instead
of going for an NBA finals in a championship at
the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, it feels gimmicky.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I just I don't really understand it why they feel
like it's gonna make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I mean, but I guess is that any different than
when you're in high school or college and you have
like you know, like holiday tournaments, even though it has
nothing to do with if you win the state title
or anything like that. I mean maybe that's a way. Look,
but that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Is, I mean, we never had anything like this when
we got into high school, Like it was all not
even junior high like you always had your league championship
and high school you had your league, you had your
your region, and you had your state championship. There wasn't like,
you know, if you had a separate little invitational or something.
It might have been a mini tournament that was a
(02:52):
part of preparing you for the regular season and the
state title, but it wasn't something that like ultimately really mattered.
It was more of like, yeah, you'd love to win it,
but well does this matter? I mean I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
No. It almost feels like they saw what the bubble
was like and they thought, Okay, well this is cool.
That generated a lot of interest, and you know, people
kind of like this. It was a little bit different
and a little unique, so why don't we just roll
with this? And they still realize we were in the
middle of a pandemic. There were no.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Options, right, And so it looks like now basically, teams
play what eighty games used eighty two, but with the
two playing games, I believe they've kind of that number
has been knocked down a bit. And I think if
you factor in the additional games to the NBA Cup,
the championship teams would win d up playing eighty three
(03:44):
in total.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now you're getting back above that number, right.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
The players who win the tournament, that are on the
winning team, they get five hundred thousand dollars. That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You know, here's a thought. Here's a thought. Do you
think maybe because of how long the seasons are, the
season is for NBA and the amount of games that
you're just touching on que like, think about this the
reason why in so many ways it's like, Okay, you
get eighteen weeks with football teams, like that's eighteen Like
(04:16):
you get eighteen games, you know, like that's that There
there's a level of you know, should you say scarcity
or a limited amount of what you're going to consume,
whereas you get two games a week from from a
basketball team. So maybe you created a middle of the
season tournament because you get viewers an opportunity to see
(04:41):
an end very quickly. Like every game matters, like, Oh,
if you win like this, it's almost like you can
come out of that tournament saying, Okay, the team that
won won that tournament. That's pretty interesting to see how
well that translates or correlates into what takes place in
the rest of the season. I guess kind of gets you,
like in the end end, like an eight game.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I just don't know if you were playing in the
regular season and you go through a seven game winning streak, like,
how is that any different?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I mean, the solution to this, if they're worried about
people interested in their sport, the solution of this is easy.
Bump the season back two months. Stop opening your season
in the middle of football and college football and the
World Series and everything else that's going on. Because if
they did that, we'd be talking about the NBA Finals
right now and there's nothing really else going on other
(05:28):
than Hard Knocks trivia show.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That is true, man, because God Lee that week that
that y'all was hanging out, that's right happened there, Bruh.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Talk about talk about life, life, rafting. Oh, come on,
you're a content machine and you can figure that out.
Ten ten foot waves and me and Jeff were on
you know where you feel your Tom Hanks and castaway.
You're just yeah, that would have been more interesting than
(05:58):
the stuff that was going on too. I really do
think that's the only solution for the NBA.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
It is is you've got to kick back the season
to December.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I mean, why did I not do it? Mark?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Mark Cuban's been saying it for years, Charles Barkley's been
saying it. Why are we trying to compete with the NFL?
We can't win? So do you open up your season
on Christmas Day and then roll with it and you're
gonna have more eyeballs to the back end of your
season and you don't need to do gimmicky in season
two ends.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I'm not here for ending the season in August. I
think that's a poor decision. You ended in July. You
end in July where you don't have any competition whatsoever
outside of regular season basement.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's fine, yeah, because you don't want to bump.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Up into training camp and preseason games and everything else
that will win that battle either. So end in July,
started in December, like you're talking. We've talked about this
for years. But the other thing is some people have
talked about like playing less games to make the game.
I mean, you're not gonna do that because the TV contracts,
So that's out the door. I mean, there's really nothing
(07:02):
you can do for load management outside of spacing out
the games.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
More like if you look at some of the.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Soccer seasons, because this NBA Cup idea is in essence
the European soccer model, Which is funny to me because
even in the college football playoff expansion, which I know
we want to talk about at some point, a lot
of the discussions around that, people are like, well, there
should be relegation. I'm like, okay, so everyone's now just
coming on to this idea of what relegation is. And
(07:29):
anyone who's watched European soccer has seen it for forever
and it's a great concept that makes a ton of sense.
The economics to it for a college sport, though, have
to be in place in order to allow a team
that gets relegated to have a shot to get back up.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And because it's not privatized.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Right, you're talking about you know, state institutions at times
or private institutions that were more built for academia, you know,
they're not funded in that way. And maybe you say, well,
they just take a big, you know, donation from from
a donor to help them get back up on top.
It's not as easy to do that because that donation
going to the school. It's it can go to one
(08:11):
particular sport, but it's probably gonna get spread throughout.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Some other things as well.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
So it's just it's it's a little more complicated with
that model. But it seems like as we start to
grow and evolve, like everyone's angling towards some sort of
like influenced by a European soccer league that a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Here aren't really aware of.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And I was just saying, the last thing is, you know,
they've got to figure out a way because the NBA union,
the players union, is so much stronger. I'd say the
baseball and basketball unions for the players are there too,
strongest by far. And the one thing about baseball is
like the players have been able to implement changes that
they're okay with that have helped the game. I don't know,
(08:53):
because of how well NBA players are paid and and
and the way they're controlling things, I don't I don't
know if they care like it'd be one thing if
they felt like they wouldn't be able to make as
much because the ratings decline and the interest in the
sport is dwindling.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But they continually pay guys more and.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
More and more and more, and so because it doesn't
hurt their pockets, they don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But if we're being real with ourselves.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Like if Lebron and some of these others that are
the stars and the faces of the league, if they
really cared, they press the issue, and it wouldn't just
be more Cuban, it'd be the players too, saying, Look,
we're willing to say that we cannot compete with the NFL,
and we're willing to say that we'll play into our
summer as opposed to being able to vacation and go
(09:40):
a banana boat whatever they do in the summertime and
wherever they go as a group. But we're willing to
forego that to adjust the season to get the NBA
back into the limelight and have it as a part
of now our summertime programming that we usually don't have.
Like Baseball made the adjustment with the pitch clock, and
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's saved baseball.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
But it's made it fun as heck to watch it
in person on TV.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It's been great. It's been great.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The NBA needs to make some sort of change by that,
and the NBA Cup is not it?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Sorry, By the way, I was gonna mention this as
well too. There's a movie that was on in the
studio here a short time ago that is something that
Brady Quinn quietly roots for us. In fact, I would
I would argue this is one of your under the
radar favorite movies from back in the day. Can you
guess what movie that was? Brady Quinn under the radar,
(10:33):
something maybe a lot of people wouldn't expect that you
would have liked.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Can you give me like a genre.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Eightieska rom com? Oh no, I think department.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Store, Apartment Store, Mannequin.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Damn LeVar, you're good. He's so good Mannequin. I haven't
seen that movie in years, in.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Decades, not years, decade. It's you gotta be like kind
of a slight undercover perv to have gotten it that way.
That's generally speaking, back then, that was how you got
your like little nasty boy fixes you know what I mean? No,
I do not know what you mean, it's like it's
like you start having your first little like like girl
(11:19):
crushes and stuff like that. So it's like that's like
your material.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It's it's real.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's innocent. It's like, yeah, innocent.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
It's like it's like a blow up doll with no flexibility.
Oh my gosh, it's very rigid.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It's just pre It's just it's pre heathen, you know
what I mean, Like you're not full blown heathen. It's
like it's like preheathen.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I thought that was like good housekeeping and like victorious
secret magazines of the house.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yes, yes, it's like we're the launch Remax. We're on
the same page that must there you go there.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
What is the name of the actress that was in
Mannequin because she was a kind of a smoke show.
Oh yeah, Kim Control?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is that it was? No, it was Kim Control or
still Getty?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Hold on a second, hold on, well, which one is it?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Which one is it? Lee? It was Kim Control. Kim
Contrell was Emmy.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Wow, that's impossive. What else is she in? Was she
in the what was that HBO show Sex and the City?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
The City and that one as well too? What a
character by the way.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, that's great. Yeah, well she was hot, so I'm
not going to judge this guy for falling in love
with the mannequin.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You know what he did was Kim control. Yeah that's fine,
or even Kim control.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Now although I just heard no, I mean whatever he did. Yeah,
just go back to the movie though.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like you got to go back to Oh I remember
the movie. Yeah, I told you the movie.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
She played such she's played that role in Sex and
the City. So well you're like that that's just her,
that's not that's just her.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah no, i' man, I mean, what are you talking about? You?
You're definitely in I mean, Today's Kim Cattrell, That's what
I'm saying. Yeah, I just think we've hung out. I
know this, Like I know, I'm really going to do this.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, whatever they do, I hope they least clean up
afterwards and use some Irish Spring, because the fresh scent
of Irish spring and those sensational Irish spring SuDS are
just the reset you need to own the day Irish spring.
When the spring hits you, you're ready pick up Irish
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
All right, you just out in me saying he spends
some quality time we have that we're about to some more.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, yeah, shall see.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It is two pros.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Have a little positivity. He does not think this is
going to happen. He does not.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
What is your very low expectations on everything? And then
just hoping for the best.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
He's crossed his fingers. The guy hates travel.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Hoping for the best.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
That's the truth is I mean, what could go wrong
at this point? What is the problem. There's one thing
that could go on? What's the one day? Good? Say,
we got a meeting that's kind of tight. It's tight
to that flight schedule. I'm saying what you say, what
y'all talking about? Speak clearly there's a meeting that someone's got,
not me, not Jonas. And if you didn't say my
(14:21):
name though you didn't say you're not Jonas or LeVar,
it could be Todd. We don't know. I'm just saying
it's tight to the flight schedule. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
By the way, you should send Todd in.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
For you to if there is an alarm clock that's
not like working properly that day, it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Could throw annch in the whole thing. Yeah, you're right,
but I do radio in the morning, so thankfully, I'm
already awake well before the time of that appointment. You
always come through. I don't I don't doubt that, That's
what I'm saying. I don't know what what Jonas's problem is.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I know, I'm just I'm hoping for the best, that's all.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, it is best? Is it not happening?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah? Just And that's a that's a reckless.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It sounds so like subtly calm, but just very very
like pessimistic man, Like.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I'm the air Lingus on this show, all right, Like
I'm all about travel. So like, don't you don't you
guys accuse me of anything false like that? Damn air
Lingus on this show. It is Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington,
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some light at the end of the tunnel that basically
(16:57):
college football realignment might be over. Are we done with
this crap?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I think for now, And I think the hard thing
that a lot of people are probably coming to a
realization of is with Stanford, cow Washington State, Oregon State,
if they take deals in the AAC or Mountain West,
they're gonna be losing money. I mean, that's the reality
of it. Because of the movement of the other Pac
twelve teams not taking the deal that Apple provided them,
(17:25):
They're gonna have to take deals that are less than
obviously the Big twelve, the a CC, the Big ten,
the SEC, and ultimately wind up be probably losing money
from that, but at least still have stability for the
future of whatever. You know that the financing looks like
from a TV METEA writes deal. But I think for
that reason you're seeing everything slow down. And one of
(17:48):
the most interesting notes is, you know, Florida State, throughout
a lot of it made a lot of public comments
about leaving the ACC doesn't sound like they're going anywhere.
If they're not going anywhere, it's a little harder for
anyone else to make the declaration to want to leave
as well. And for the TV networks, I'll keep saying this,
that's what's behind the scenes driving this. And if a
(18:11):
TV network is already getting the rights to have Florida
State games for less, why would they want them to
move the SEC just to pay them more.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Now.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
One of the interesting notes too, that came out of
all this realignment in the Big Twelve, which is split
between ESPN and Fox. When teams are added to the
Big Twelve, the Big Twelve gets paid more from ESPN,
it is not from Fox. And that's a unique construct
of that particular agreement. So KUDU is to brett your
(18:42):
mark forgetting that. It obviously incentivizes them to add more
teams to the conference, especially if one of the networks
is giving you more money for it, but not necessarily
the wisest business decision by a TV network. But that
being said, I think we're starting to see now football
is almost here. There's not going to be a ton
of moves being made now This is kind of where
(19:03):
we're at and probably something to revisit in twenty twenty four.
The only other thing that's out there that that potentially
will be impacted is the College Football Playoff, and this
year it's four teams. Next year it's going to be
twelve teams, and then how we go about defining who's
playing in it since we're most likely not going to
have the Pac twelve. What is now the Pack four
(19:25):
viewed as a Power five or Autonomous five conference.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Do you think you guys could predict at least three
of the four teams it'll be in the College Football
Playoff right now?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I feel like I could too.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, let's see Georgia.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Alabama, Michigan, and then we'll see who the number four
team is.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Wow, there's some people right now in the state of
Ohio and Pennsylvania that are really ticked off.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I mean, they haven't beat Michigan in like fourteen years,
so the last time Ohio State, they haven't been Michigan
since Craig Crenzel was there. So I'm not going to
it here and try and ball wash the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I think Troy Smith and Cardil Jones and J. T.
Barrett have a lot to say about that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's been a long time.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It's been since before COVID, so I need to see
it from Ohio State before. And they are slight favorites
to win the Big Ten Conference over Michigan, although I
think Michigan is favored to win that matchup with Ohio State, which.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wouldn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah, whoever wins that game, would I'm assuming would win
the Big Ten.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I don't assume that.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
You can't assume that Penn State.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, why can't I assume that? Because you can't. We
just told you. Yeah, there's a third team there is.
For the value we are. Penn State's play for the
value right now.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Now, if you get in the season and they drop
a game, obviously you're gonna wish you didn't make that pick.
But that's very true Penn State for the value and
for the talent they've got. And if Drew Aller is
what I think he is, I'm telling you, man, don't
sleep on the Nittany Lions.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, so Penn State's got they opened up with I.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Just filmed a special. Well I don't know if it's
a special, but I did it. Yeah, I guess it
is a If you're a part of it, it's special. Yeah,
it's big. It's for big news. But I'm saying, if
you're a part of it, it's special. Yeah. It's about
Stick City. It's a place, it's a place, and now
everybody's going to hear about it. You know.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
That's what people don't realize is like every tier of
your defense, you've got someone special.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Baller, every baller you.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Know, from Chop to Abdul Kaylin King like you, you
guys got ballers, And like Penn State's not good enough
credit for what they've got, what they're bringing back this year,
probably the best left tackle next to Joe Al in
the game though there was both.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Those guys will be top ten.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they got a problem Week ten.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Our backfield is a problem. I'm just telling you, hey,
it is a para Islan and Singleton, is it? I
don't know that. Is there a better Is there a
better duo in the country. Nick Singleton's legs look like Sakwan's,
but they're both like bruh, they're like mutants. I did
(22:20):
their media day, so my media company did the media day,
and my guys that were shooting there. Like those running backs.
He said, those those running backs, they they look like
artificial intelligence. What do you mean? He said, they didn't
talk and they kind of moved like they were like machines.
(22:45):
We're gonna be all right this year. Them babies out
there got people freaked out. But they don't talk much.
They just they just look super human man like. A
couple interesting things too, though, about what Jonah said. As
far as we pay. You know, Georgia, I knew starting.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Quarterback obviously highly talented, but you know, and they've they
always recruit well, Kirby Smart's a hell of a coach,
but new quarterback, you don't know how they're going to
step into that role. Stetsan Bennett has been so clutched,
so good in big moments over the course of the
past two years. You know, Bama, same thing. What's their
quarterback situation? New offensive coordinator? However, I want to say,
(23:22):
the last time Nick Saban was ranked and Alabama was
ranked this loan the ap pull, I think they won
the national championship.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So I think they're all safe picks. I would have
made the same picks, to be honest. My question is
more like this time of the year. I think, look,
pick at teams is great. It's especially if you get
some some really nice odds out of it. I always
am more curious, like, which conference do we think is
going to get two in? Because the Big ten got
two in last year SCC and see, I don't know.
(23:49):
I think it's going to be the Big Ten. I
think it's gonna be the Big Ten again.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
You're shut again, I mean, especially since he fairly pointed
out that it according to the gambling market, they would
have been favored over three of the four teams in
the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So, I mean, it was an interesting point.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I just didn't realize we were there in college sports
where that was going to be the basis of our argument.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I wonder if Kirk Farrens pointed that out to anybody, like,
wait a second, this guy's talking about gambling lines.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
And here's the tough part is like TCU earned the
opportunity to be there, and they weren't going to be
favored versus anyone, right, So like what do we what
are we saying then, just because they wouldn't be favored
and even though they've earned it, they shouldn't get.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
A shot that's not how it works. And beat a
legitimate team in Michigan to get to where they were going.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
It's no different than saying, like the Tampa Bay Bucks
won their division yet with a losing record. So what
are we saying they didn't earn to be in the
NFL playoffs last year? Like, once you get in, you're in.
And if they get a shot at winning it, so
be it. But it doesn't matter if they're going to
be underdogs in every single one of the games they play.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's why I like the expansion of the playoff. Yeah,
to be honest, that's that's that's the biggest reason to
me why I like You know why I like it.
Another chance to go to Happy Valley.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You know, maybe they're hosting a playoff game in the
in the cold weather the mountains to have a little
snow one.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh man, say that's that atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Stayed a graduate hotel in State College?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, man, I don't know if they have one there.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Are you sure about that? You looked at one? I'm
sure he's not looked it up. He does that something.
I'm sure he's very unsure.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Look up.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Graduate hotel State College is one of them.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
There is one. I think he's right. No, he's definitely right. Well,
he's tried to look it up, but he was already
online looking it up.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Jonas is the type though, he'll say things like that
without looking it up and then hoping.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Pray it's right.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, and if I get it wrong, we just don't
put or take it out of the podcast.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Which we never do, Like I listened back to the
podcast often and we never ever make those corrections.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Attention to it, so then it doesn't make sense to
take it.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well, that's the whole point, though, is anytime Jonas brings
up stuff like this, we bring more attention to it,
so then it makes it impossible to take it out.
And then he looks like it, he looks like a
jackass for it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's too bad.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Too bad.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
By the way, did you guys hear Jim Harbass comments yesterday?
So he hasn't spoken since his four game fiasco that they.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well, no, the cheeseburger cheer paradise apparently.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So apparently he's got this go to saying whenever there's
a situation he can't really publicly speak on, and so
he was asked about how the players at Michigan are
handling the distractions there from this supposed four game suspension
that was going to be waived that apparently they canceled
the agreement afterwards, and everybody got a little pissy. Here
was the Michigan head coach.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Of my dad's matra attack each day with an enthusiasm
unknown to mankind.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He just frames it right there.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Attack each day, Attack this day.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
For the enthusiasm unknown man guy, and living living by
it daily been good.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's worked, so that clears enough.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I don't understand dang word that. I think it's almost
like a running joke with coaches.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I don't know if they like giggle about it behind
closed door, but it's like, hey, wat's what I'm gonna
say to this and they just say nothing. I mean,
it's coach talk. That's coach talked for. I can't talk
about it. I don't want to talk about it. I'm
not going to talk about it, so stop trying to
make me talk about it.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm gonna make.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
You sit through a twenty second response that makes no sense,
and I'm gonna waste that portion of time in your life. No,
that's essentially what coaches do it's I mean, players do
it sometimes, you know, when they really have been in
it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Now, when you leave an interview that you gave some
sort of canned answer that you didn't want to, like,
do you guys when you get in the long groom
going dodge the bullet there? Or can you believe their aspect.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Do something that's unknown to mankind?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, well he does drink milk with a steak that's
unknown to mankind.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's not unknown, he doesn't we know, That's what I'm saying. Like,
I wonder where you got the milk from from the almost.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Please crawl space by the way, if you're just tuning in.
Lee to Lap admitted on the air to clearing out
a homeless guy's crawl space on his property yesterday and
found found a gallon of milk there for some reason
going bad. Yeah, I can't imagine why. I thought for
sure he'd have a fridge up there.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It was, by the way.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So oh see, Lee, you've got to tell us these things.
That makes complete sense. Then what's the difference it doesn't perish? Yeah,
Like you don't have to refrigerate it. Lee, This is
the kind of stuff you can't leave out.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yeah, but now I'm on this side of the homeless
guy's you know, good for him, I guess habits.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
So Levar's point though almond milk is more expensive, it
means he's making money.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Yeah, but it's like a probably a dollar or two
more expensive, and it's not perishable like that they can
get in a box and keep it out there in
the heat.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's all right. I'm just saying almond milk.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And he's got intolerance, like that's what I'm more curious about,
or like dairy intolerance. I mean like maybe he maybe
he went and got the testing done. It was like, man,
I can't keep instead of playing, he went and got
the testing done. That's what I'm saying. He got the
alcat test blood. These are all and they're like, sir,
forget about your living habits.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You should not.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Drink everything else. Everything else in the dumpster is fine.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No milk, just do not have any dairy, all right,
But almond and milk in a crawl space. I've heard
it all. I'm done.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
By the way, it is two pros and a cup
of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
The way he can't have dairy.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Oh yeah, I don't drink almond milk though, I just
the dairy at all.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Okay, coalmon milk's not dairy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Well, I mean I don't want I don't want milk.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You know, you don't use like oat milk, milk, coconut milk.
You're not milking anything.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Only sponsors. If they're a sponsor, I'll use it. But
if not, no milk. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So like a progressive milk you do well.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I mean, more like a Panini Sports trading card milk.
Like if they had one of those.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Your face might be on a Penina sports trading card.
You might be missing.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
That's a great point.
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Speaker 1 (31:26):
What they so much fun to root against? Jonas?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Are they be the Nashville Cowboys or whatever they're called?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
What do they call that sounds about right.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
The Nashville MLS team, Nashville s C.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, soccer What do with soccer club over football club? Yeah?
Do you think they thought like, hey, it's America, we
can't we can't use the football club. But there's a
lot of other fcs.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
In the MLS, right, Yeah, So interesting little twist on things.
But whatever it is, they're going to take care of this.
You know, Facade that is the great Lionel Messi in
the MLS and that inter Miami.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You enjoy him for like the year or two he's
playing in the MLS.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of South
Beach being uh no.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You thought to be washed up.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
He's coming so far and completely changed the dynamic for
Enter Miami and you can't appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I'm just tired of it.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Guy's like a nice dude, to think about it.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
He wasn't shopping in publics with his family, Like, no
one's going to recognize him like a normal guy.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
How awesome was that?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I mean, if you if.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You should support anyone, it should be him because you
do the same thing. Although you I don't know where
you go out there we go sprouts or what's the.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Uh well, I mean you know, I'll dive into a
spring every once in a while. Ralph One baty in
the South, it was pig wiggly. I'm more of a
piggy wiggly. Now public's guy.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Might makes sense. You seem like a piggy wiggy. You're
a guy.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Well that too, Lee, We're not here to judge.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Wow, yeah, I mean Lee from the top rope.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, how could you?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I did not see that coming.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
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are going to have another edition of The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly, some midweek awards and yours here on FSR.
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There are some good things that happen, and there's some bad,
and then there's some downright ugly things. It's type for good, bad.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
And luckily all right lead to lap who's got what well?
As we do each and every Wednesday, we started with
the good and this week we have LeVar.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, I mean I think the good is is definitely
this new crop of quarterbacks. I fill a level of
excitement seeing seeing all of all of these young guys
out there and doing what they're doing, and it's made
preseason preseason games bearable for me. So I'm gonna go
(35:02):
with the youth movement at quarterback. I think their sound
bites have been funny. C J. Stroud's soundbites were pretty funny,
but candid and good. I thought Richardson in the way
that he handled things and discussed things was really good.
I just I like this this young group of qb
so I think that's really good.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Roll.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Guys can't have good without the bad. Brady, what was
bad this week?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You know, what's bad? All right? The New York Liberty.
All right, they finally get their first trophy.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
They're one of the leagues three remaining original franchises that
that hadn't had a chance to win the Championship Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
In the w NBA.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
They just actually blew out the Las Vegas ass and
Jonas Caven put on his rundown. You know, he puts
in all these good notes and helps from you. Didn't
want to bring it up either, Lee, It's just it's unbelievable,
John cuwel Jones. She had a wonderful performance, got MVP
for sixteen points fifteen rebounds.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
So that's what's bad. You know that the w NBA
not getting the type of love that uh that that
they deserve. Might put some light on.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
It, in fairness, In fairness, it was on there right
in between Bass Masters and the w w E. So
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was there.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
It was listed, and the fact that we haven't gotten
to it yet just shows you we've got a full show.
It's stacked, so it's hard the range we've got.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
You know, if you guys thought were just football, you
were dead wrong. Okay, did we were also football? All right,
we food, foodball.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Or soccer as they stay in the States. W n
b A is a part of this.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Yeah, and by the way, we solved the NBA's problem.
They won't listen to us, but we did solve their
problem earlier this hour, so I feel like we've done
our part.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Okay, we're trying.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I apologize for not putting that on you in or
out yesterday. I just figured everyone was in, So yeah,
I didn't need to discussed that one.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
But assumed, yes, you assumed we.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
You know, with assuming guys from bad to worse Jonas
what was ugly this week?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Right, So we've talked about Blippy on this show before. Correct.
It's for those of you, well, for those of you
that are you, I can't believe this actually aired, which
is why I'm bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
So for those of you that.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Aren't familiar, Blippy is this complete geek who it's like
a kid's program. He rides around with like a little
funny hat on, he's got suspenders, he's got blue and
orange on at all times, and he's like teaches kids
games and like like how to you know, learn how
to spell things, and he goes on like he goes
(37:36):
and visits tractors and goes and does arts and crafts.
It's it's a kid's program. So my son watches it
from time to time. I've almost got him out of
that phase. I've got him now watching the program twice
a week. So I'm gonna ratchet that up a little
bit here as we get closer to football season. And
so I happen to notice that Blippy's on the television downstairs,
(38:00):
and I glance up and the fing guy's fly is down.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
What and why are you looking the okay?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Because it was right in my face, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
The camera it was it was that obvious, and I'm
thinking to myself, this isn't live, This isn't Blippy live.
This is recorded, and then it's put on YouTube and
it goes up and everybody watches it. Nobody in post
production said, hey, Blippy horses coming out of the barn.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Maybe maybe sip down there, Jonas it's a kids show.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
They should have been looking there. That's bad post production.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Like let's say about you though, that I have an
eye for this.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Okay, and and I should be hired by that production
crew to make sure this guy doesn't have his cash
and prizes out when he's trying to teach some kid
how to spell helicopter, like it just the whole thing
is a disaster.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Are you are you the helicopter watcher? Is that? Yes?
I'm the spotters just spotter helicopter.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, I'm air traffic control. When it comes to blippy
and it catch, apparently it just like how does that happen?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Topter spot You guys have film stuff before it that,
Like nobody.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I went to the restroom.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
My kids had the orientation for By the way, shouts
out to all the parents out there, we started school today.
Hell yeah, it's this is the parent's super Bowl where
the kids go back to school. So let's get excited
about that.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
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