June 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Doug riffs on Lebron James. Doug reacts to what Joey Chestnut said to Covino & Rich about the upcoming July 4th competitive eating contest. Doug chooses among candidates Jason Stewart deems as most annoying today. Plus, Carmelo Anthony makes today's installment of "Because We Can".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, this is the Doug Gottlieb Show. Heres in
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
What Up, Doug Gottlieb Show at the Bonus Fox Sports Radio,
iHeartRadio app Welcome in. So last night we saw the
thunder take back on of control of the NBA Finals
winning Game five in Oklahoma City, holding Tyrese Haliburton without
a field goal. And we'll get into that sum in
(00:37):
the pod, but definitely got into that more in.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But I saw this story that Lebron James claims he'll
never coach in the NBA. So ye, obviously you have
Jason Kidd, Steve Kerr, We've seen Larry Bird coach, You've
seen Isaiah Thomas coach, and obviously there's lots of people
who talk about his basketball mind. He's talked about his
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desire to own a Las Vegas expansion franchise. I don't
I could be wrong. I don't see that being a likelihood.
And the reason is because Lebron's rich. I think other
people are wealthier. They just are and whoever gets in
Vegas is going to be a multi multi, multi, multi
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billionaire ten times over.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I just don't see it being the Bron.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Could he be part of a group, Yeah, and maybe
that gets it done, but he wouldn't be the only
NBA player. It's part of a group, and there will
be more groups than his. But I thought what was
interesting is he's like, I'm not never going to coach.
So what does Lebron do when his career is over?
You do the podcast. Now, most people think ESPN wants
to have him, you know, on their coverage. Obviously that's
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the only way they combat NBC having Michael Jordan. And
we don't know what Michael Jordan to do, and he
probably doesn't do very much, but Michael Jordan being part
of NBC's coverage, you probably got to go to Lebron
if you're a ESPN and they've positioned themselves for the
most part, especially posts Skip Bayless as a pro Lebron network.
(02:10):
My best guess is he's doing the podcast because then
he can do a podcast and be a Peyton Manny
where he can. I don't have to leave my home.
I can pick how I want to do things. I
can pick where I want to do things. And I'm
never going to come into New Yorker, Connecticut unless i
want to it for big events. Some guys, you would say,
(02:32):
when they get done, they really just want to kind
of disappear and go fishing. Lebron James has never done
anything to disappear. He's the same guy who dunked in
layup lines at his son's AAU game.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He makes it about him no matter where he goes,
and he's had enough success where it's going to be
about him wherever he goes. So my guess is that
a guy who loves and lives on that much attention
never wants that attention to stop. And so the only
way to get that attention is not to be an
owner instead, and not to be a coach instead. It
is to be a commentator, but in a controlled environment,
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and that's where you do it. Like Peyton Manny said it,
that's my best guys.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
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Speaker 3 (03:21):
Let's get to the Fox Says and now.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What does fuck say?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
All right? Every day?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
En that I got Liab showing the most podcast you
play for your portion of a previous show on Fox
Sports radio where Fox Sports one. This is from First
Things First. Chris Broussard said this about the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
You mentioned Durant's injury.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We know it will be thirty seven soon.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's only played sixty five or more games once in
the last five seasons one time, so that's how injury
prone he is. If I'm Houston and I've been talking,
I've talked to people around the lead to say Milwaukee
or Yannis is gonna give Milwaukee a chance, like he's
trying to get them. The better the team, maybe something
(04:02):
happens around the trade deadline if they're not playing well.
If I'm Houston, I'm waiting for Giannis. I'm waiting for Yannis,
and I think that would you know, you get Durant,
You've improved, there's no doubt. But with Giannis's age and
Durant's age, I am waiting for him, and I look
Shingoon Reads Shepherd, Tory Evans, you know that Easton. I'm
(04:24):
sorry Easton and some draft picks. I mean, that's a
good offer for Milwaukee. So if I'm Houston, I'm holding
off on it and waiting to see if I can
get Yannish.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, I mean again, the idea of waiting to get
Yanni's sounds great, okay, but there is a timeline of
deals that you have to make. And I think the
important thing for Houston is obviously they taking a massive
step and they play for a coach that everybody thinks
she's a hell of a coach. But what are they
willing to part with and how can they get there?
(04:59):
And I think by now you'll know can we get
into the Janna sweepstakes or do we make a move
before that? Here's Jonas Knox and LeVar Arrington talking about
Jerry Jones and Michael Parsons in the contract negotiation.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I don't think there's any question that the deal's going
to get done this offseason.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I just don't think Jerry Jones cares at all about
it taking longer and costing them more.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
I don't think he cares. I really don't.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Yeah, I buy that. I buy that. At this point,
I think it's happened enough where that feeling of that
sense of drama, will it get done like it was
at the most craziest of a feverish pitch with Dak
Prescott and the unthinkable happened like he got it damn
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he got it everybody. I mean, I'll say unthinkable. Based
off of the conversations that were being had before he
got his contract, people thought the number that he was
going for, what was it, like forty million at that point, Yeah,
I believe, yeah, like forty million a year, and people
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were like, yeah, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Do I think my Comparsons gets his money? I do.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Do I think my Comparsons needs to grow up a
little bit? I do, right, just and far be it
from me to be a radio host and basketball coach
to tell you that, you know, what you say in
a podcast, what you say on radio can be a distraction.
(06:41):
But again, the the difference here is he is a player.
The difference here is that he it's not his main
source of income. He doesn't need it, it's not who
he is yet that world is always going to be
out there for But again, if you look at some
of the commentary, some of the topics that they choose
to go out.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
When you're doing a podcast, you can literally choose your topic.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now, maybe it's who's ever producing it and encouraging him
to do more NFL topics, but it does feel like
some of the off the field stuff can be a
bit of a distraction. I don't think it's what's hurt
the Cowboys, But again, cowboys noise is always louder than
anybody else's noise, and so Jerry can be really smart
about it. Do I think he wants Michael Parsons?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Do I think Michael Parsons is as good a fit
for this defense as he was for the original defense
that he was brought into play with.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I do not. Is he gonna resign him? Of course
he is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Does it matter timeline dead Jerry? I think last year
he felt rushed in the Dak Prescott thing. It felt
like they didn't have the they didn't want to sign
Dak before the year, and they end up kind of
rushing it and it's a lot more money to get it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Done than they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
As long as it's within the timeline of when Jerry
wants to do it, I think it gets done. Here's
Competitive Eating Icon Joey Chestnut talking with Covino and Rich.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
It absolutely didn't and the way we wanted to or expected.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
But uh, it's it's been a little bit of work,
but uh it's we Yeah, we we took some communicating.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
And last year communication broke down and we all kind
of good things don't happen when you're not talking. So
this year I think we we.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I saw you ride around the Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Yeah it's uh man, it's like almost immediately after that
we started really talking.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
And uh.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
It just took a while to get for them to
be comfortable with the things that that I that were
bothering the last year and for me to h you know,
if we had to meet in.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The middle, what was the hurdle, man, what was the
issue that you guys had to overcome there?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
There was there was that issue with the with the
plant pat plant based food.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
So they we were making a deal where you know what,
I I can still do meatless mondays uh and and
promote another brand. But I'm I'm gonna be I've always
been Uh dude, Nathan's hot dogs are one percent the
only hot dogs as promoting, so there's not gonna be
any confusion. I'm not gonna work with I never wanted
(09:18):
to eat plant based hot dogs on the fourth of July.
So there's we were just clarified some things and we
uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm back.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Plant based high tugs on the four of July. Just
sounds wrong, but uh, those are two superpowers, Nathan's hot
dog eating contests and Joey chess at that they they
are kind of uh peanut butter and jelly, you know,
can they survive individually? Peanut butter more so than jelly,
but combined it's a superpower.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's what the fuck said.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Say.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Let's find out who What's annoying? Jason Stewart.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And now it's your annoying.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Hey, Doug.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
I love getting feedback from our listeners. Thank you everybody
who's listening to this right now, Thank you very much
for listening. You've got literally three million choices. You could
have listened to anything the last fifteen minutes, and you
chose us.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Thank you. Then there's John Boat Giants.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I knew that was coming, Hey, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
Good Instagram is his name is John Boat Giants. So
he's referring to the story that I covered on the
pod and the radio show yesterday about the Latina singer
who chose to sing the Star Sangle banner in Spanish
despite the Dodgers saying please sing it in English. Hey idiot,
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freedom of speech, look it up, Okay, John Bot Giants.
I'm glad you asked me this because I actually majored
in broadcast journalism and I take a keen interest in
freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I take
a keen interest in how things are covered. I think
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politics have taken a massive downturn and how it's covered.
And that's fine, But John Bot Giants, I just need
to take this second to educate you and then the
rest of the listeners about what freedom of speech means.
You have a birthright to freedom of speech. In other words,
if you're born in this country, you have the right
to say whatever you want, wherever, whenever. And don't give me.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
The no you can't. You have fire in a theater.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
No, no, no, Actually, two thirds of the reasons you
would utter fire at a theater are legal. If there's
a fire in a theater, you could yell fire in
a theater. If you have a suspicion that there is
fire in a theater, you could yell fire in a theater.
The only time it's illegal is that if you're doing
it to arouse a stampede chaos. But anyways, John Boat giants,
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she has the freedom of speech. She could do whatever
she wants in that moment to protest. The Dodgers have
not said a word about this other than one thing.
She's welcome back to the stadium and she's not banned. So,
in other words, she received zero persecution for her freedom
(12:38):
of speech. She was not arrested, She's not going to
be prosecuted. She has probably received nothing but love from
her inner circle vacuum of liberals. So I don't think
the freedom of speech saying applies at all. John Boat's giants.
One thing freedom of speech doesn't protect you from is
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being an asshole. You could be an asshole and exercise
your freedom of speech. So if you're going to be
an asshole, that means people could actually call you out
for being an asshole. She put the Dodgers in a
horrible position. The same organization that gave her the platform
and the opportunity to sing that song, she shit on them.
(13:22):
That's what my problem was with her. Had nothing to
do with freedom of speech, Doug.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I think the biggest issue with freedom of speech is
that people do not understand what it means. And I
think you lined it out pretty well. I'll give a
shorter version. You're free to say what you want, You're
not free from repercussions with that speech, you know, And
really it's again, it's a lot like the right to
bear arms. You have the right to protect you against
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the tyrannical government. That's what's speaking out against. For example,
if you don't like how President Trump is handling the
Iran is really conflict or the Ukrainian Russian you have
the right to speak out not be arrested for saying, hey,
I don't agree with this, this is wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But freedom of speech is not. You are and this
is what I talked about.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You have the privilege of singing the national anthem at
Dodger Stadium, and the team that granted you that privilege,
it's like, hey, you get sing a Nash anthem. We
want you to sing in English and you do you opposite,
So you don't that that is not for That is
not protect that is not protected speech. That's when you
expose yourself of not really understanding the constitution.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
So we didn't get to this yesterday because there was
so much to get to. But I there has been
an awful announcing piece written since you know, and awful
announcing is is you know, the go to source for
media information. Stephen A. Smith was playing Solitaire on Friday night.
For those that don't know, here's the quick story. He's
playing Solitaire on his phone. How do we know this
(15:00):
because people were videotaping him playing Solitaire on his phone
while the game was going on. Stephen ad took to
Twitter when he saw that video and all the comments,
and he said, what do you say, Sam, something like
I could multitask?
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
He's like that, Yes, that is me, and in fact
I can multitask.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
And it was during a time out.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
And then after that video surfaced and many video serviced
of him actually doing it, and they panned back in
the video and the game is actually going on, Game
four of the NBA Finals. He's paid twenty million dollars
a year to talk about with authority the NBA, and
he's playing a game app on his phone during play.
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So the annoying part to me is this, he saw
what the reaction was and he thought that he could
send out a tweet to defend it, and to me,
it's like, in this day and age with social media,
you just kind of have to eat it. Bad optics
should just have to eat and then maybe just correct
things moving forward, as opposed to going on and making
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it worse and lying and trying to defend yourself. You're distracted.
Stephen is distracted. Anyone who watches his platforms. He's doing
a political conversation with a political influencer every single night.
He's doing a lot of political content. He last week
I was announced it. He's he's taken on two more
(16:29):
shows at Sirius XM, at the UH, at the what
do you call it? Scourge of uh? Michelle Beatle? Is
that the word scorge? But anyways, he's distracted. And here's
here's the important thing. The eye test his on our
content is suffering. He's he's not as good on NBA
(16:50):
as he once was, and that's the only thing that
should matter to him. The optics of that and Solitaire
should be like awake call as opposed to I'm just
gonna defend this with a tweet and put a lie
in it.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But I I completely agree with you. It's I it's
bad optically, and then it becomes even worse when you
put it in a tweet.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What else? Hold on?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I'm annoyed just by the fact that there's this perceived
demand for Steven A.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Smith.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Why do we Why is he getting all these shows?
Why is he everywhere? I don't think I've not heard
one person say, you know what I need more Steven A.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Smith content. I just don't get it, Like I go away.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
The surface answer.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Is this, Yeah, I can give you an answer, Go ahead,
give me yours.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
He does a lot of conservative podcasts. They seem there
seems to be a thirst from the conservative postcast podcast
group for him, and it's like surface level. He's a
man of color who's got a lot of opinions that
disagree with Democrats. He calls himself a but he tends
(18:02):
to contradict that and a lot of what he says
on these podcasts, and I think that's probably the surface
reason why there's thirst first even.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Eh correct, I mean, look, you nailed it, Jason. I
also think the irony to it is this is this
is my least favorite part of politics is where here's
a guy who identifies himself as I've won. I don't
I just the reason I don't do political commentary, like
any sort of deep political commentaries. I just don't know
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enough about it. I have opinions occasionally I'll share them.
I know a lot more about, for example, Israel than
ninety five percent of the people who speak about it
on radio and TV, having lived there, having been a
dual citizen, having spent time there. Okay, but I don't
know everything about Israeli politics. I know that their politics
are just as messy as ours, but I know a
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lot more about the situation than, like I said, ninety
five percent of the people. I think putting himself into
the political field is a lot like when he puts
himself into talking about the NFL, where knowing a little
is not enough because you make yourself look like a
You can't fake it till you make it at that
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level when you're offering opinion, because there has to be
some substance behind it to answer your question as to
why there's a thirst for Steven A.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Smith.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Jason's right, and then again like he's the biggest known
black commentator, most known black commentator in the US. That's
really what it comes down to, and everybody wants their
show to include you know, Republicans can say like they
don't like DEI, which is sad and kind of comical,
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but a lot of it is because of what DEI became,
not the original ideals of DEI.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I'm not scared of.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Like the world needed to be needs to be more diverse,
right as opposed to just have it. On the other hand,
people need to be qualified, so we can't go all
the way on the other side of hey, people aren't qualified,
but there are plenty of qualified black people of color, women,
and in a variety of of workplaces. But DEDI tried
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to kind of shortcut, if you will, and that's why
there's such a pushback against it, which I understand. Again,
all of these things, if you take they'll be like, oh,
you kind of sound like a moderate. Yeah, I call
myself a radical centrist. One of my issues with politics
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is that there's the assumption that even Jason made, but
the right especially makes, where hey, if you're a if
you're a Democrat, you you can't then you have to
agree with all these democratic, super progressive, super left ideals.
Like that's bullshit in and of itself. Not every Democrat
(21:03):
believes in d I never democrat believes that there shouldn't
be a death pen on it.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Ever, democrat believes in all of these different things that
people say Democrats believe in. That's part of the agenda
that's pushed by the right to make the extreme left
seem like the moderate left.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's not just like the.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Left tries to tell you that the extreme right, you know,
that that's all Republicans. That's not true. But the answer, really,
Sam is as easy as it seems, is that we
just continue to not have enough people of color that
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have the credibility to be on radio shows or TV shows.
And I don't know who deems them to be credible.
But he's been in the media space long enough to
where people know him, so maybe he's more knowledgeable, or
his name is he has name credibility or name recognition
more so than credibility. But we're, you know, especially Republicans,
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are find me a black guy who can sort of
agree with us and put him on air.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
That's what it feels like to me.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Isn't that Jason Whitlock's job?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Uh? Yeah, now, Jason Witlock is.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But Jason Witlock is so disliked by many, and I
think Steven as working his way there. The crazy part
about it is Jason.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Wentlock was a college twelve player, and I think a
pretty good one. Steven A.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Smith basically never played shit, and yet somehow steven A.
Smith has become more reputable than Jason Winlock, even though
Jason Winlock has a better working knowledge of at least
football alone, you know, and I think if you have
a good working knowledge of football, you can assimilate to
understanding basketball more so than somebody who didn't never really
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played even mind steven A went to Fashion school. He
went to Fashion school, So yeah, I mean, I think
there's lots of.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Didn't stephen A play have a cup of coffee with
college basketball at some point?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well, again, there's a The story is that he played
at one of the HBCUs Winston Salem State University, which
was coached by Big House Games Clarence big House Gaines,
who is a legendary iconic figure. But again, the story
doesn't really match up with anything you've been able to find,
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because he averaged what was it a point? Is it
a point and a half a game or a minute
and a half a game or something like that. It
was like something some bizarre stat that doesn't make He
played in one game and he averaged a minute and
a half a game that that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He was pulling the old Rudy just get in there,
get in there for a stat to be recorded.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But then he went on and became a reporter and
a beat reporter, and then turned that in and beat
opinioness like in many ways, it's a great American story,
right of a guy who finds an industry, gets in
passionate about the industry, tremendous or raider. I never read
his column, so I don't know if he's a good writer,
but I assume because he's he's good with the word
that he's probably good as a writer as well. And
use that and got on TV. That's great how it
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bridged into hey, you should run for president and commenting
on anything like, I don't know. I don't know no
idea other than people we need more black people on TV.
And he's the most known woman guy.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
I wanted to play this before we go. Raphael Devers
was traded from the Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, we talked about this yesterday in the show.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
And there's that whole story. So now they got to
the players, right, And what do they say? Players know players? Yes,
In other words, you get inside those clubhouses, they know
the real story. So this is their all star. Jaron
Duran having an exchange with the reporter about Raphael Devers,
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who is now a San Francisco Giant.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
What was Alex's overall message to.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
You guys that he trusts everybody that we got right now?
I mean, I trust everybody we have now, and we
can't let one little thing deter what we got in common.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
So far, it.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Seems like more than one little thing.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
It seems like it's one thing for sure, but it
seems kind of like a big thing to be honest.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Right, Who's making it a big thing? Though? I mean
losing a great hitter, I mean yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
I mean yeah, he's a great player. But at the
end of the day, it's how many guys twenty six,
all right, and it's just one guy. So we got
twenty five other guys that were playing on the same
line to win those series, not just one. So I
think we got to think about it like that as a.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Team that was code for this. For everything RAPHAELO Devers
offered as a player on the field, he was a
giant pain in the ass and very toxic in our clubhouse.
And we could not be happier to see him gone.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yep, yep, or hey, you know, we want volunteers, not hostages.
You know, I don't care about how talented you are.
If you don't if you're not in on the team,
if you're not in on working together, if you're not
in on you know, playing first base when you need
a first baseman, then we can't really use you.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
So we got the people that don't know what the
freedom of speech is, and then we got Steven A's
political aspirations. Yes, and I just think Devers is annoying
in general.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh, I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Go with people who don't know what the First Amendment is. Yeah,
that's that's annoyed.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Why are we doing this because we can?
Speaker 9 (27:08):
I think I think Michael Beasley may have challenged Carmelo
Anthony to one on one. There's this weird thing going
on with one on one and former players. I don't
think there's anything less interesting than watching or playing in
a one on one game. But I guess Michael Beasley
beat somebody recently in it was a big deal. I
don't know Anyways, he challenged Carmelo Anthony and this was
(27:29):
Carmelo's response.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
But I'm saying, I want this guy, let me get
let me clear this up. Clear, but let me clear
this up. Please, you need this. Let me clear this up.
I'm not losing a one on one game, bro, I'm
not stay at that ship. I've never I've never lost
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a one on one game. I'm not saying that I'm
going out there playing. What I'm saying is I done.
Did this one of the ship? I got for doing
this shit at the highest level, for being a one
on one.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So good? Yeah. I mean.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Michael Beasley. I there's this weird thing where people act
like Michael Beasley is the perfect example we were just
talking about with Rafael Devers, right, is that a game
of one on one? He was great, He's probably as
good as anybody in the NBA, But in a basketball game,
he couldn't couldn't play, can't guard, won't do it. You know,
(28:34):
you have to be defensive rotations, struggles to move the ball,
struggles to be a good teamate, struggles to get along
with coaching, and when you give him all that money,
struggles in terms of making sure his life is in order, right,
uh And and I'm not sitting there saying like he's
a bad person. I'm saying that despite all of his
(28:58):
immense talents, tell me one thing he did to help
a team win in the NBA. You can't find it.
You can't fucking waste of space. He's one of those
guys that could score a ton of points. You wouldn't
win because of it. He wouldn't win because of it.
So anyway, now kind of post NBA career, post professional career,
(29:21):
like ah Michael Beazy was a bucket. He was a bucket,
but he gave up more than he got. So it's
so now he's gonna challenge Kamel Anthony and Kamme Anthony
was a better version of that, right, Kammell Anthony scored
a lot, didn't help you win a lot. Was the
best scorer in the league for a good five years,
three level score.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But then late in his career he fell out of
the league.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And it wasn't until he kind of remade his image,
remade his game and just spaced and played off the
ball and played as a three point shooter that he
was able to get back into the league. So I
don't know the one on one thing is just sounds
like the big brother who knows that little brother's better
than him, but the only thing he can do is
play one on one and back you down and just
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be bigger and stronger and debo you.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
And that has no appeal to me.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Why do we play for you because we can't. That's
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Speaker 3 (30:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
What Up, Doug Gottlieb Show at the Bonus Fox Sports Radio,
iHeartRadio app Welcome in. So last night we saw the
thunder take back on of control of the NBA Finals
winning Game five in Oklahoma City, holding Tyrese Haliburton without
a field goal. And we'll get into that sum in
(00:37):
the pod, but definitely got into that more in.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But I saw this story that Lebron James claims he'll
never coach in the NBA. So ye, obviously you have
Jason Kidd, Steve Kerr, We've seen Larry Bird coach, You've
seen Isaiah Thomas coach, and obviously there's lots of people
who talk about his basketball mind. He's talked about his
(01:00):
desire to own a Las Vegas expansion franchise. I don't
I could be wrong. I don't see that being a likelihood.
And the reason is because Lebron's rich. I think other
people are wealthier. They just are and whoever gets in
Vegas is going to be a multi multi, multi, multi
(01:23):
billionaire ten times over.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I just don't see it being the Bron.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Could he be part of a group, Yeah, and maybe
that gets it done, but he wouldn't be the only
NBA player. It's part of a group, and there will
be more groups than his. But I thought what was
interesting is he's like, I'm not never going to coach.
So what does Lebron do when his career is over?
You do the podcast. Now, most people think ESPN wants
to have him, you know, on their coverage. Obviously that's
(01:50):
the only way they combat NBC having Michael Jordan. And
we don't know what Michael Jordan to do, and he
probably doesn't do very much, but Michael Jordan being part
of NBC's coverage, you probably got to go to Lebron
if you're a ESPN and they've positioned themselves for the
most part, especially posts Skip Bayless as a pro Lebron network.
(02:10):
My best guess is he's doing the podcast because then
he can do a podcast and be a Peyton Manny
where he can. I don't have to leave my home.
I can pick how I want to do things. I
can pick where I want to do things. And I'm
never going to come into New Yorker, Connecticut unless i
want to it for big events. Some guys, you would say,
(02:32):
when they get done, they really just want to kind
of disappear and go fishing. Lebron James has never done
anything to disappear. He's the same guy who dunked in
layup lines at his son's AAU game.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He makes it about him no matter where he goes,
and he's had enough success where it's going to be
about him wherever he goes. So my guess is that
a guy who loves and lives on that much attention
never wants that attention to stop. And so the only
way to get that attention is not to be an
owner instead, and not to be a coach instead. It
is to be a commentator, but in a controlled environment,
(03:07):
and that's where you do it. Like Peyton Manny said it,
that's my best guys.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
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Show weekday. He's at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
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Speaker 3 (03:21):
Let's get to the Fox Says and now.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What does fuck say?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
All right? Every day?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
En that I got Liab showing the most podcast you
play for your portion of a previous show on Fox
Sports radio where Fox Sports one. This is from First
Things First. Chris Broussard said this about the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
You mentioned Durant's injury.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We know it will be thirty seven soon.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's only played sixty five or more games once in
the last five seasons one time, so that's how injury
prone he is. If I'm Houston and I've been talking,
I've talked to people around the lead to say Milwaukee
or Yannis is gonna give Milwaukee a chance, like he's
trying to get them. The better the team, maybe something
(04:02):
happens around the trade deadline if they're not playing well.
If I'm Houston, I'm waiting for Giannis. I'm waiting for Yannis,
and I think that would you know, you get Durant,
You've improved, there's no doubt. But with Giannis's age and
Durant's age, I am waiting for him, and I look
Shingoon Reads Shepherd, Tory Evans, you know that Easton. I'm
(04:24):
sorry Easton and some draft picks. I mean, that's a
good offer for Milwaukee. So if I'm Houston, I'm holding
off on it and waiting to see if I can
get Yannish.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, I mean again, the idea of waiting to get
Yanni's sounds great, okay, but there is a timeline of
deals that you have to make. And I think the
important thing for Houston is obviously they taking a massive
step and they play for a coach that everybody thinks
she's a hell of a coach. But what are they
willing to part with and how can they get there?
(04:59):
And I think by now you'll know can we get
into the Janna sweepstakes or do we make a move
before that? Here's Jonas Knox and LeVar Arrington talking about
Jerry Jones and Michael Parsons in the contract negotiation.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I don't think there's any question that the deal's going
to get done this offseason.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I just don't think Jerry Jones cares at all about
it taking longer and costing them more.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
I don't think he cares. I really don't.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Yeah, I buy that. I buy that. At this point,
I think it's happened enough where that feeling of that
sense of drama, will it get done like it was
at the most craziest of a feverish pitch with Dak
Prescott and the unthinkable happened like he got it damn
(05:51):
he got it everybody. I mean, I'll say unthinkable. Based
off of the conversations that were being had before he
got his contract, people thought the number that he was
going for, what was it, like forty million at that point, Yeah,
I believe, yeah, like forty million a year, and people
(06:13):
were like, yeah, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Do I think my Comparsons gets his money? I do.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Do I think my Comparsons needs to grow up a
little bit? I do, right, just and far be it
from me to be a radio host and basketball coach
to tell you that, you know, what you say in
a podcast, what you say on radio can be a distraction.
(06:41):
But again, the the difference here is he is a player.
The difference here is that he it's not his main
source of income. He doesn't need it, it's not who
he is yet that world is always going to be
out there for But again, if you look at some
of the commentary, some of the topics that they choose
to go out.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
When you're doing a podcast, you can literally choose your topic.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now, maybe it's who's ever producing it and encouraging him
to do more NFL topics, but it does feel like
some of the off the field stuff can be a
bit of a distraction. I don't think it's what's hurt
the Cowboys, But again, cowboys noise is always louder than
anybody else's noise, and so Jerry can be really smart
about it. Do I think he wants Michael Parsons?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Do I think Michael Parsons is as good a fit
for this defense as he was for the original defense
that he was brought into play with.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I do not. Is he gonna resign him? Of course
he is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Does it matter timeline dead Jerry? I think last year
he felt rushed in the Dak Prescott thing. It felt
like they didn't have the they didn't want to sign
Dak before the year, and they end up kind of
rushing it and it's a lot more money to get it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Done than they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
As long as it's within the timeline of when Jerry
wants to do it, I think it gets done. Here's
Competitive Eating Icon Joey Chestnut talking with Covino and Rich.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
It absolutely didn't and the way we wanted to or expected.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
But uh, it's it's been a little bit of work,
but uh it's we Yeah, we we took some communicating.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
And last year communication broke down and we all kind
of good things don't happen when you're not talking. So
this year I think we we.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I saw you ride around the Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Yeah it's uh man, it's like almost immediately after that
we started really talking.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
And uh.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
It just took a while to get for them to
be comfortable with the things that that I that were
bothering the last year and for me to h you know,
if we had to meet in.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The middle, what was the hurdle, man, what was the
issue that you guys had to overcome there?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
There was there was that issue with the with the
plant pat plant based food.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
So they we were making a deal where you know what,
I I can still do meatless mondays uh and and
promote another brand. But I'm I'm gonna be I've always
been Uh dude, Nathan's hot dogs are one percent the
only hot dogs as promoting, so there's not gonna be
any confusion. I'm not gonna work with I never wanted
(09:18):
to eat plant based hot dogs on the fourth of July.
So there's we were just clarified some things and we
uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm back.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Plant based high tugs on the four of July. Just
sounds wrong, but uh, those are two superpowers, Nathan's hot
dog eating contests and Joey chess at that they they
are kind of uh peanut butter and jelly, you know,
can they survive individually? Peanut butter more so than jelly,
but combined it's a superpower.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's what the fuck said.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Say.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Let's find out who What's annoying? Jason Stewart.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And now it's your annoying.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Hey, Doug.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
I love getting feedback from our listeners. Thank you everybody
who's listening to this right now, Thank you very much
for listening. You've got literally three million choices. You could
have listened to anything the last fifteen minutes, and you
chose us.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Thank you. Then there's John Boat Giants.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I knew that was coming, Hey, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
Good Instagram is his name is John Boat Giants. So
he's referring to the story that I covered on the
pod and the radio show yesterday about the Latina singer
who chose to sing the Star Sangle banner in Spanish
despite the Dodgers saying please sing it in English. Hey idiot,
(11:03):
freedom of speech, look it up, Okay, John Bot Giants.
I'm glad you asked me this because I actually majored
in broadcast journalism and I take a keen interest in
freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I take
a keen interest in how things are covered. I think
(11:24):
politics have taken a massive downturn and how it's covered.
And that's fine, But John Bot Giants, I just need
to take this second to educate you and then the
rest of the listeners about what freedom of speech means.
You have a birthright to freedom of speech. In other words,
if you're born in this country, you have the right
to say whatever you want, wherever, whenever. And don't give me.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
The no you can't. You have fire in a theater.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
No, no, no, Actually, two thirds of the reasons you
would utter fire at a theater are legal. If there's
a fire in a theater, you could yell fire in
a theater. If you have a suspicion that there is
fire in a theater, you could yell fire in a theater.
The only time it's illegal is that if you're doing
it to arouse a stampede chaos. But anyways, John Boat giants,
(12:18):
she has the freedom of speech. She could do whatever
she wants in that moment to protest. The Dodgers have
not said a word about this other than one thing.
She's welcome back to the stadium and she's not banned. So,
in other words, she received zero persecution for her freedom
(12:38):
of speech. She was not arrested, She's not going to
be prosecuted. She has probably received nothing but love from
her inner circle vacuum of liberals. So I don't think
the freedom of speech saying applies at all. John Boat's giants.
One thing freedom of speech doesn't protect you from is
(13:00):
being an asshole. You could be an asshole and exercise
your freedom of speech. So if you're going to be
an asshole, that means people could actually call you out
for being an asshole. She put the Dodgers in a
horrible position. The same organization that gave her the platform
and the opportunity to sing that song, she shit on them.
(13:22):
That's what my problem was with her. Had nothing to
do with freedom of speech, Doug.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I think the biggest issue with freedom of speech is
that people do not understand what it means. And I
think you lined it out pretty well. I'll give a
shorter version. You're free to say what you want, You're
not free from repercussions with that speech, you know, And
really it's again, it's a lot like the right to
bear arms. You have the right to protect you against
(13:51):
the tyrannical government. That's what's speaking out against. For example,
if you don't like how President Trump is handling the
Iran is really conflict or the Ukrainian Russian you have
the right to speak out not be arrested for saying, hey,
I don't agree with this, this is wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But freedom of speech is not. You are and this
is what I talked about.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You have the privilege of singing the national anthem at
Dodger Stadium, and the team that granted you that privilege,
it's like, hey, you get sing a Nash anthem. We
want you to sing in English and you do you opposite,
So you don't that that is not for That is
not protect that is not protected speech. That's when you
expose yourself of not really understanding the constitution.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
So we didn't get to this yesterday because there was
so much to get to. But I there has been
an awful announcing piece written since you know, and awful
announcing is is you know, the go to source for
media information. Stephen A. Smith was playing Solitaire on Friday night.
For those that don't know, here's the quick story. He's
playing Solitaire on his phone. How do we know this
(15:00):
because people were videotaping him playing Solitaire on his phone
while the game was going on. Stephen ad took to
Twitter when he saw that video and all the comments,
and he said, what do you say, Sam, something like
I could multitask?
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
He's like that, Yes, that is me, and in fact
I can multitask.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
And it was during a time out.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
And then after that video surfaced and many video serviced
of him actually doing it, and they panned back in
the video and the game is actually going on, Game
four of the NBA Finals. He's paid twenty million dollars
a year to talk about with authority the NBA, and
he's playing a game app on his phone during play.
(15:48):
So the annoying part to me is this, he saw
what the reaction was and he thought that he could
send out a tweet to defend it, and to me,
it's like, in this day and age with social media,
you just kind of have to eat it. Bad optics
should just have to eat and then maybe just correct
things moving forward, as opposed to going on and making
(16:08):
it worse and lying and trying to defend yourself. You're distracted.
Stephen is distracted. Anyone who watches his platforms. He's doing
a political conversation with a political influencer every single night.
He's doing a lot of political content. He last week
I was announced it. He's he's taken on two more
(16:29):
shows at Sirius XM, at the UH, at the what
do you call it? Scourge of uh? Michelle Beatle? Is
that the word scorge? But anyways, he's distracted. And here's
here's the important thing. The eye test his on our
content is suffering. He's he's not as good on NBA
(16:50):
as he once was, and that's the only thing that
should matter to him. The optics of that and Solitaire
should be like awake call as opposed to I'm just
gonna defend this with a tweet and put a lie
in it.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But I I completely agree with you. It's I it's
bad optically, and then it becomes even worse when you
put it in a tweet.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What else? Hold on?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I'm annoyed just by the fact that there's this perceived
demand for Steven A.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Smith.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Why do we Why is he getting all these shows?
Why is he everywhere? I don't think I've not heard
one person say, you know what I need more Steven A.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Smith content. I just don't get it, Like I go away.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
The surface answer.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Is this, Yeah, I can give you an answer, Go ahead,
give me yours.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
He does a lot of conservative podcasts. They seem there
seems to be a thirst from the conservative postcast podcast
group for him, and it's like surface level. He's a
man of color who's got a lot of opinions that
disagree with Democrats. He calls himself a but he tends
(18:02):
to contradict that and a lot of what he says
on these podcasts, and I think that's probably the surface
reason why there's thirst first even.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Eh correct, I mean, look, you nailed it, Jason. I
also think the irony to it is this is this
is my least favorite part of politics is where here's
a guy who identifies himself as I've won. I don't
I just the reason I don't do political commentary, like
any sort of deep political commentaries. I just don't know
(18:33):
enough about it. I have opinions occasionally I'll share them.
I know a lot more about, for example, Israel than
ninety five percent of the people who speak about it
on radio and TV, having lived there, having been a
dual citizen, having spent time there. Okay, but I don't
know everything about Israeli politics. I know that their politics
are just as messy as ours, but I know a
(18:55):
lot more about the situation than, like I said, ninety
five percent of the people. I think putting himself into
the political field is a lot like when he puts
himself into talking about the NFL, where knowing a little
is not enough because you make yourself look like a
You can't fake it till you make it at that
(19:17):
level when you're offering opinion, because there has to be
some substance behind it to answer your question as to
why there's a thirst for Steven A.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Smith.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Jason's right, and then again like he's the biggest known
black commentator, most known black commentator in the US. That's
really what it comes down to, and everybody wants their
show to include you know, Republicans can say like they
don't like DEI, which is sad and kind of comical,
(19:51):
but a lot of it is because of what DEI became,
not the original ideals of DEI.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I'm not scared of.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Like the world needed to be needs to be more diverse,
right as opposed to just have it. On the other hand,
people need to be qualified, so we can't go all
the way on the other side of hey, people aren't qualified,
but there are plenty of qualified black people of color, women,
and in a variety of of workplaces. But DEDI tried
(20:22):
to kind of shortcut, if you will, and that's why
there's such a pushback against it, which I understand. Again,
all of these things, if you take they'll be like, oh,
you kind of sound like a moderate. Yeah, I call
myself a radical centrist. One of my issues with politics
(20:42):
is that there's the assumption that even Jason made, but
the right especially makes, where hey, if you're a if
you're a Democrat, you you can't then you have to
agree with all these democratic, super progressive, super left ideals.
Like that's bullshit in and of itself. Not every Democrat
(21:03):
believes in d I never democrat believes that there shouldn't
be a death pen on it.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Ever, democrat believes in all of these different things that
people say Democrats believe in. That's part of the agenda
that's pushed by the right to make the extreme left
seem like the moderate left.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's not just like the.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Left tries to tell you that the extreme right, you know,
that that's all Republicans. That's not true. But the answer, really,
Sam is as easy as it seems, is that we
just continue to not have enough people of color that
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have the credibility to be on radio shows or TV shows.
And I don't know who deems them to be credible.
But he's been in the media space long enough to
where people know him, so maybe he's more knowledgeable, or
his name is he has name credibility or name recognition
more so than credibility. But we're, you know, especially Republicans,
(22:08):
are find me a black guy who can sort of
agree with us and put him on air.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
That's what it feels like to me.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Isn't that Jason Whitlock's job?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Uh? Yeah, now, Jason Witlock is.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But Jason Witlock is so disliked by many, and I
think Steven as working his way there. The crazy part
about it is Jason.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Wentlock was a college twelve player, and I think a
pretty good one. Steven A.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Smith basically never played shit, and yet somehow steven A.
Smith has become more reputable than Jason Winlock, even though
Jason Winlock has a better working knowledge of at least
football alone, you know, and I think if you have
a good working knowledge of football, you can assimilate to
understanding basketball more so than somebody who didn't never really
(22:57):
played even mind steven A went to Fashion school. He
went to Fashion school, So yeah, I mean, I think
there's lots of.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Didn't stephen A play have a cup of coffee with
college basketball at some point?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well, again, there's a The story is that he played
at one of the HBCUs Winston Salem State University, which
was coached by Big House Games Clarence big House Gaines,
who is a legendary iconic figure. But again, the story
doesn't really match up with anything you've been able to find,
(23:38):
because he averaged what was it a point? Is it
a point and a half a game or a minute
and a half a game or something like that. It
was like something some bizarre stat that doesn't make He
played in one game and he averaged a minute and
a half a game that that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He was pulling the old Rudy just get in there,
get in there for a stat to be recorded.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But then he went on and became a reporter and
a beat reporter, and then turned that in and beat
opinioness like in many ways, it's a great American story,
right of a guy who finds an industry, gets in
passionate about the industry, tremendous or raider. I never read
his column, so I don't know if he's a good writer,
but I assume because he's he's good with the word
that he's probably good as a writer as well. And
use that and got on TV. That's great how it
(24:24):
bridged into hey, you should run for president and commenting
on anything like, I don't know. I don't know no
idea other than people we need more black people on TV.
And he's the most known woman guy.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
I wanted to play this before we go. Raphael Devers
was traded from the Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, we talked about this yesterday in the show.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
And there's that whole story. So now they got to
the players, right, And what do they say? Players know players? Yes,
In other words, you get inside those clubhouses, they know
the real story. So this is their all star. Jaron
Duran having an exchange with the reporter about Raphael Devers,
(25:14):
who is now a San Francisco Giant.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
What was Alex's overall message to.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
You guys that he trusts everybody that we got right now?
I mean, I trust everybody we have now, and we
can't let one little thing deter what we got in common.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
So far, it.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Seems like more than one little thing.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
It seems like it's one thing for sure, but it
seems kind of like a big thing to be honest.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Right, Who's making it a big thing? Though? I mean
losing a great hitter, I mean yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
I mean yeah, he's a great player. But at the
end of the day, it's how many guys twenty six,
all right, and it's just one guy. So we got
twenty five other guys that were playing on the same
line to win those series, not just one. So I
think we got to think about it like that as a.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Team that was code for this. For everything RAPHAELO Devers
offered as a player on the field, he was a
giant pain in the ass and very toxic in our clubhouse.
And we could not be happier to see him gone.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yep, yep, or hey, you know, we want volunteers, not hostages.
You know, I don't care about how talented you are.
If you don't if you're not in on the team,
if you're not in on working together, if you're not
in on you know, playing first base when you need
a first baseman, then we can't really use you.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
So we got the people that don't know what the
freedom of speech is, and then we got Steven A's
political aspirations. Yes, and I just think Devers is annoying
in general.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh, I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Go with people who don't know what the First Amendment is. Yeah,
that's that's annoyed.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Why are we doing this because we can?
Speaker 9 (27:08):
I think I think Michael Beasley may have challenged Carmelo
Anthony to one on one. There's this weird thing going
on with one on one and former players. I don't
think there's anything less interesting than watching or playing in
a one on one game. But I guess Michael Beasley
beat somebody recently in it was a big deal. I
don't know Anyways, he challenged Carmelo Anthony and this was
(27:29):
Carmelo's response.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
But I'm saying, I want this guy, let me get
let me clear this up. Clear, but let me clear
this up. Please, you need this. Let me clear this up.
I'm not losing a one on one game, bro, I'm
not stay at that ship. I've never I've never lost
(27:53):
a one on one game. I'm not saying that I'm
going out there playing. What I'm saying is I done.
Did this one of the ship? I got for doing
this shit at the highest level, for being a one
on one.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So good? Yeah. I mean.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Michael Beasley. I there's this weird thing where people act
like Michael Beasley is the perfect example we were just
talking about with Rafael Devers, right, is that a game
of one on one? He was great, He's probably as
good as anybody in the NBA, But in a basketball game,
he couldn't couldn't play, can't guard, won't do it. You know,
(28:34):
you have to be defensive rotations, struggles to move the ball,
struggles to be a good teamate, struggles to get along
with coaching, and when you give him all that money,
struggles in terms of making sure his life is in order, right,
uh And and I'm not sitting there saying like he's
a bad person. I'm saying that despite all of his
(28:58):
immense talents, tell me one thing he did to help
a team win in the NBA. You can't find it.
You can't fucking waste of space. He's one of those
guys that could score a ton of points. You wouldn't
win because of it. He wouldn't win because of it.
So anyway, now kind of post NBA career, post professional career,
(29:21):
like ah Michael Beazy was a bucket. He was a bucket,
but he gave up more than he got. So it's
so now he's gonna challenge Kamel Anthony and Kamme Anthony
was a better version of that, right, Kammell Anthony scored
a lot, didn't help you win a lot. Was the
best scorer in the league for a good five years,
three level score.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But then late in his career he fell out of
the league.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And it wasn't until he kind of remade his image,
remade his game and just spaced and played off the
ball and played as a three point shooter that he
was able to get back into the league. So I
don't know the one on one thing is just sounds
like the big brother who knows that little brother's better
than him, but the only thing he can do is
play one on one and back you down and just
(30:04):
be bigger and stronger and debo you.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
And that has no appeal to me.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Why do we play for you because we can't. That's
it for the end the Bonus Podcast. Check out the
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