March 23, 2023 • 36 mins
On Thursday’s edition of The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker, the guys discuss if the lack of blue bloods in the later stages of March Madness is a good or bad thing for the sport. Chris and Rob also dive deeper into the Lamar Jackson situation, and wonder why no team has just picked up the phone and made a deal to bring him to their team. Plus, Shekel City and a new update on the value of the New York Yankees.
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What's up at what's happening to mister Chris brussold on
a TV theme song Thursday. Yes, yes, I always a
fun day. I know you used to do this in Detroit,
but would you stop? You know we're going for years.
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I know you did it for five years in Detroit before.
I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, how was your da man?
Things are great, things are great. Good. I'll have some
mom some television news for you soon making up. We're
doing some television stuff coming up. So I'm very very
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excited and we'll share that with everybody down the road. Hey, good, good, good, Well,
let's welcome in the Couple crew. We got Superproducer DJ
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it's not the superproducer but the super DJ of course,
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You don't want to miss that. But in for super
Producer Rob Ge is our man Brandon Truffer, otherwise known
as the Truth. The Truth here handling things and on
the update our man Steve Disaga Rob Tonight, the NCUBAA
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tournament resumes, obviously, the Sweet sixteen is now underway in
Michigan State right now, up four points on Kansas State
in the first game of the night Michigan State Robber
seventh seed. Now they're obviously a strong program now year
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and year out, but they're just a seventh seed this
year and Kansas States to three seeds, so right now
they're leading the charge for an upset. We also got
Arkansas and Yukon and night Arkansas eight, Ukon number four seed,
Florida Atlantica nine seed versus Tennessee a four seed. And
then we talked to Tracy Murray, the UCLA grad last
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night and Ucla the second number two seed. They played
third seed at Gonzaga in the night cap and Rob,
if you notice as I read off those seeds, I
did it for a reason. A lot of them were low,
like nine seeds and four seeds for it still yeah,
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seventh seeds. And this has been a year of some upsets.
Um the first time ROB since nineteen eighty that at
least one of these teams is not in the sweet sixteen,
and that would be Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina.
That's the most successful programs of the last forty years.
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Right when you say I used to be but now
it's though those are the top four, right, and for
you to say that that this hasn't happened since nineteen eighty.
That's a long time ago, more than a generation. It
tells you about the changing of the guard and h.
Tracy Murray talked about it with the Trench Reportal Chris
and the I and the and ail the name likeness
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and image and likeness U. You know that has balanced
out some people and people can move on and I
can't playing time. They were big recruit. They were at
a big school, but they're not playing. They take a
step down right mid major and now they're a man there.
So those things have happened, and um, you know, it's
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always Chris. I think it's always good to have new blood,
not the same old, same old, But it is kind
of like to not have any of those in the
schools in It is weird. And I do want to
see the ratings. I know they have been very good
and that's good for the NCAA that these upsets have.
They've been the best ever, which love. The Sports Business
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Journal said the NCULA tournaments first round was the most
watched first round ever. That's mind boggling, Chris, because when
when we were growing up, you didn't have many choices. Now,
but not you know, and and so you and you
didn't have that many channels. When you talk about you know,
the magic uh Bird game, that's still one of the
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highest rated sporting events ever. That game is the most
watched college game, every basketball game. And it'll always be
out it will, right, it will, It'll always be because
it was like, say, you don't have any options. It's
like exactly, Yeah, it was huge. It was a huge number.
Even for remember our population as a nation wasn't as
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big as it is now, right, But you had three channels,
You had three major channels. Cable was probably just out. Yeah, no,
most people you were, you have cable growing up until
I was I want to say, seventh grade. Wow, you
know when I got cable Chris, No, lie, when I
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went to college, when I moved to Connecticut. That's pretty clol.
I mean not even that's about when I You're about
five years older than me. When I was in seventh
grade round the same time, that was the first time
we had I had cable TV. There was a big
scandal in Queens growing up, like the borough president had
some sort of Chris he was holding the cable companies
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hostage because you know, Queens has a lot of homes
like house right and middle class people, and so they
wanted to pay off from the cable company. As soon
as Donald Mannus committed suicide, we got cable like it
felt like the next way the guy it was holding
him hostage committed suicide. Yeah, they found out, they found
out about the scandal on everything, and he wound up
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committed suicide. Donald Mannus, he was the borough president for Queens.
But anyway, my point was I didn't see cable too.
Was in college, so I just had the four or
five channels we all had yep, yep. And so you're right,
and some people say, well it's on four stations yeah, CBS, true, TV, TBS, TNT.
But still, Rob, I still think back then they had
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the advantage because it was who were three channels. So
amazing that they've done this, and I think that what
we want to throw out eventually in a few you know,
a few minutes to our listeners is do you do
you like the parody? Because Rob, there's always been that debate,
right it is a is a dominant team or two
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or three better for a league than just having parody
right where you where anybody's got a shot and um,
you know, I always point to with the NBA in
the seventies, that was the most parody the NBA ever had.
Eight teams won, it won championships in that decade eight
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out of ten years. You know, it was a different champion. Uh.
And then in the eighties, right, the seventies was the
worst era for the NBA, the worst decade for the NBA.
Reasons it was. There was drugs. It was on tape
delay for the championship. I remember, and this is no law.
Howard CoA Sell. You remember, Chris had a segment on
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the radio called Howard Coachell speaking of sports, Howard Coachell,
and he came on and he talked about like the
blue bloods of the NBA. Chris were talking about breaking
off from the NBA. That's how bad it was. Like
they wanted to step, Yeah, they want to start. Where
was this why the ABA was in existence or was yes,
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but they were talking about this is before the merger. Uh.
And it was like the Knicks, the Celtics, you know,
like I'm trying to think who else, Lakers, you know,
like those kind of franchises were talking about having their
own league. I'm gonna google it, uh later, I've never
even heard about that, but obviously, I mean, yeah, you
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had the ABA up until they merged in seventy six,
and half of the best players in the world we're
playing in ABA and so, like you said, the NBA,
there games were on tape delay and so and that
was parody. And then in the eighties was the Golden
Era that brought the league back and began its resurgence
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and its renaissance, and rob Not only did there were
I believe, let's see, you had the the Lakers, the Sixers,
the Celtics, and the Pistons. Only four teams won championships
in the eighties and only five reached the finals. Houston
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was the other team like so, so in a whole decade,
only five teams reached the finals. And yet that was
the Golden Era. But the NBA and recently Golden State's
been dominant. You had Cleveland meeting them in the playoffs.
Those were good. You know, it's been popular with Golden States.
So you know, I've always felt like it. The history
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seems to show that while we like parody, we also
I maybe prefer a dominant team a giant, but everybody
they have to really be like people do want like
that that Juggernaut, that team, even if it's to hate Chris,
you know, like like even if it's to hate to
see them lose or try to you know, like there's
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a part of Golden State when Durant went there that
was a little too much, you know. I mean that
that was a little too much because it maybe it
was the way it happened, Rob, you know what I mean.
May I mean if they had just organically I'm not
even speaking against player empowerment, but obviously they recruited him.
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He wanted to go there, and it just seemed unfair. Um.
But that that, I don't know how great that was
for the league, um, because I like seeing, you know,
some of these great players spread out and then made
the best man you know win. Uh. In the nineties, Rob,
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you had, that was an era because like I said,
the eighties we talked about magic and bird and all that,
but very few other teams had a chance because those
were super teams. They were organically built, but they were
super teams, right. And then with in the nineties, it
was like everybody had their team. Rob Jordan had his team,
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Barkley had his team, Elijah one, you, Reggie Miller, Karl
Malone and Stockton, you know, like Clyde Drexler with Portland.
Everybody had their squad and then it was like, okay,
who's really the boss? David Robinson with the Spurs and
Jordan was the boss, and you know, so it was
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like you kind of had parody and that it was like, okay,
we got a superstar, and all these different teams have
a superstar, but Jordan dominated, so it became you know,
a dominant you know. But during that time though, you
you you know, even though they won all the time, Chris,
you know, like you and the mayor run the city
like like, there were teams that were good, the Pacers
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that you could challenge, that could challenge him. It wasn't like,
oh the Knicks got no shot. Like it wasn't like that,
Oh no, you think, Yeah, the Knicks were I mean
that was they were a rival, even though they never
really could. Indiana was a rival. Yep um, And he
was just you know, he was just that good. And
that's why he's pretty much universally recognizes the goat. So um.
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It's interesting, rob though, Let's throw it out to the listeners.
Eight seven seven ninety nine or Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. Looks like we
have some parody in this year's nc Double A Tournament
and the ratings are skyrocketing. So do you prefer parody
or do you prefer having a giant or two run
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on Fox. All the blue bloods, except if you're considered
them one. UCLA are gone and the NCAA tournament's numbers
ratings are skyrocketing. Is this better? Parody or do you
like having the Kings of the Mountain, the blue Bloods,
not just n CLA, but in general your thoughts to wait?
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All right, christ let's kick it off first with Mark
and Sacramento. That's right, you're on the odd couple. Fox
Sports Radio. What up? Mark? What's going on? Gymer side? Man? Um?
Real quick? Um? I always thought that, uh Uni, I
don't like parody and college basketball, they either have to
be a great team because you wanted to get knocked off,
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or villain, you know, the the UNLV's that they hated
or love the Dukes you either hated the love. You
know you had that the George Sallends, you hated their love.
So you always had that in college basketball. Because you
talked about the history of it. I think we I'm
old enough to remember where this actually started. The birthplace
was in the Astrodome with with UCLA and Houston, which
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is where all these these bigger arenas started. That was
the first place where they put those those those games
in a big arena. I think they had fifty two
thousand in to watch Elpen Hayes and lou Al Sender. Yeah,
that's where this all came from and then now you
see the explosion the bat. But they put these things
in these domes, in these big arenas. That's where not
that's that was the birthplace as far as I'm concerned,
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and as far as the history of it. And then
from that you talked about the NBA um in seventy nine,
of course magic and birth, but also in seventy nine
was the birth of ESPN. In three years before that
was ESPN didn't have basketball, and I mean it was
showing no, no, no, but you were able to see them.
But you were able to see the highlights twenty four
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hours a day. It's what I meant. Oh yeah, when
when that once it got started? Yeah, but it was
even then, Yeah, it was, it was even then. It
wasn't it was. It would be unrecognizable two kids watching
ESPN a day, you know, yeah, right, because they didn't
have the money to get the national contract. I agree,
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stuff on there. It was, Yeah, but I was able
to see. I was able to see a highlight one
hundred times a day, so I thought it was magnified. Yeah,
it was magnified. Yeah, I don't remember that though, I
don't remember. Well, they had nothing, they had they had
that sports Center. But it wasn't like today where you
know what I mean, No, no, no, they were running
the same thing over and then yeah, no doubt Mark,
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Thank you buddy. Yeah, let's go to Tony in DC.
You're on the a couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up, Tony?
What's going on? Gentlemen? Whatever? Hey on, long time a
long time listener. Hope both of you guys are doing good. Um.
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I think this is the College of Basketball from here
on out because you know what basketball is in the
unique position with these kids that can go over sieves
or doing one and done, and with the transfer portal,
I just don't think we're gonna ever have those those
monster matchups that we can look forward to. We see
two teams on a collision course. So no, I mean
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we we've talked about it, like you said, the transfer
portal and also robbed the one and done. You know,
so the most talented players going to the NBA or
some of the guys not even going to college, even
if they can't go to the NBA yet, they'll go
to the G League or Overtime Elite or something like that.
And so now you get you know, pretty good players
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that stay three or four years. Uh. They you know,
I've been together with their teammates. They got chemistry, they
know the offense better, they're more mature, they might be
smarter players just because of the experience. So they can
play for your talented team. Yeah. Yeah, quick question for
you and Rob. Are you guys will do an MLB
preview next week? Yes, we've done it the last couple
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of years. Usually do one. Yeah, yeah, we'll do it.
The season starts on Thursday, yep, so maybe Wednesday. Chris
will do Ah. We usually pick the what do we do?
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f SR to listen Rob. This Lamar Jackson thing getting
very interesting, as you know. A few days ago, it
was reported that someone is contacting teams on behalf of
Lamar wanting to negotiate with them. It was said that,
you know, he may be done with the or it's ready,
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you know, seems like he's ready to be done with
the Ravens, and the league sent out a memo today
Rob notifying to all their teams all thirty two saying
that no one who is not certified by the NFL
Players Association can negotiate or talk to teams, even on
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Lamar Jackson, Behalf and Rob. They say teams can only
speak with Lamar because he doesn't have an agent. In
the story, I don't even see where it says like
someone from the nfl PA can speak for him and
so can only consult him Chris, like, like they can't.
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They can't represent him, absolutely not. And it is definitely
like he can go there to get questions asked talking
to teams. It's only him, which is I mean, come on,
that's just a That's a lot for a player to do.
I mean, you know what I mean, like contacting teams,
talking to gms. I mean, it's not impossible, but it's
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a lot to put on your own plate, you know
what I mean. You're gonna be calling these guys and
talking to him and Rob. They identified the person that
they said was calling teams. His name is Ken Francis
Uh and he is a friend of Lamar's. He's describing
himself as a business partner with Lamar on a portable
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Jim equipment UM now Lamar Francis himself said he has
not contacted teams, and Jackson put out a tweet saying,
stop lying. That man never tried to negotiate for me.
So the Rob I've said it, I'm not. I'm not
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the one to be like every player has to have
an agent. And the NBA ROB when they went to
you know, they went to like a max salary, they
went to a rookie scale, you know what I mean.
So if you're a great player, you know you're getting
that max salary. A lot of players, Grant there's no
there's no there's no wiggle room, there's nothing to negotiate.
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It's like a slotted and what they what what guys
like Rayalen and Grant Hill did that was smart. They
hired a lawyer because you still, you know, you know,
you can't little friends and out and there's little minor
things you still can negotiate even though it's not the
ultimate salary, and you get a lawyer for that and
you pay them hourly, right, but you need I think
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Lamar could get somebody to do that. And like I
said yesterday, Rob, it seems like Lamar the only reason
I guess you wouldn't do this is because you just
you may not trust somebody that you don't know. But
I think he's old enough now, he's been in the
league long enough. He's got enough connections within the league
as far as other players, friends he knows in the league,
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probably even front office people that he might be close with,
or coaches or something, and he can talk to him
about various agents. Agents, you know, like, can I trust
this guy? You like him as he done good by you.
I just think now, I mean, he's in a situation
he needs to get something now. I don't want to
say done in that he's up against it as far
as signing a contract, but he does need to decide
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what he's gonna do because Rob, he doesn't have an
offer right now. If he doesn't get an offer we've
talked about, well maybe he should sit out. But if
he didn't get it offer this summer, what's to make
him think that sitting out a few months or a
whole season or whatever, it's gonna make him get another offer.
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So I just think he needs in my opinion, he
needs to bring somebody in this. I have had experience
with this. Chris Um, Sam Bowie, do you remember the
center from Kentucky who was drafted, drafted over draft exactly.
It was Sam Bowie right right a Lajahwan and then
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Jordan wasn't it yeah right? But anyway, Sam Bowie his
contract came up with New Jersey and I was covering him.
He didn't have it, he didn't have an agent. That
was you know, back then we're talking about the eighties, Chris,
this was unusual and ages made more money to back
than a oh yeah, we're getting a higher percentage of
eight or ten percent. I mean it was high at least.
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Uh and uh, Sam, I remember talking to him about it,
and he just said, I know I have the list,
I know where I fit in, and I know what
guys are making. You know that the union gives you
a list of what guys at that time centers. He said,
I'm not as good as this guy, right, and I'm
better than this guy, okay. And that was up his
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deal and he did his deal and and did everything
and and uh, I was, you know out him. It
did work out. He got a he got a good deal.
And the funny kicker story to this was, I was,
you know, covering it. I had, you know, writing about
it or whatever, and so I didn't go to the
press conference when they announced his deal. I don't know
what happened at something. I just didn't cover it. So
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the next day I see Bill Fitch at the game.
He goes, I can't believe you didn't come to the
Sam boy press conference. I said, well, yeah, something came
up or I couldn't make it. He says, I thought
you would be here to get your cut, you know,
because I was writing stuff. You know, hey, Sam is
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talking about going to Europe, you know, like he was
telling me stories and I was writing. But the way
he did, I thought you would get here to get
your cut, you know, right right right right now. I
I what do you think Lamar should do? I think
he should just um, if he helped bet, he's gonna
start calling team. That's the only thing he can do.
But I don't I think at this point, I just
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don't see him trying to get an agent. I think
he will just continue at this pace, Chris, and then
at some point push comes to shove, metal comes to
the rubber meets the road, and then you got to
figure out, am I not signing this fifty mill? How
much is it? Thirty two million, Am I not sign Remember,
he hasn't my way out. Last year he got twenty
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I think twenty three million, and that was his only,
relatively speaking, his only big right payday. But I'm just saying,
at some point, and he could just say I don't
want to be here, You'll force a trade something else.
I don't know. It doesn't sound good with Baltimore. It
doesn't sound like he feels good about the organization and
where they are and whether or not he could play there. Chris,
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my gut, my gut is that he won't play there anymore.
That's my that's my gut. Yeah, I think you know
I'm I'm a practical pragmatic guy. And if he may
not like right, I mean, he may not like the organization.
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I mean, if other teams aren't going for you, what
are you gonna do? Now? It's possible that other teams
aren't making offers. I think some teams aren't interested because
they know they feel like Baltimore is gonna match. Because
I give you a scenario, Chris, I know this, this
is out of left field. The Green Bay Packers are
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trying to pull off a heist on the Jets, and
they said you know what we wanted them, but we're
not paying that you were talking about, right, Yeah, they
could ump in not is that I don't know why
they haven't. I mean, honestly, Chris, that's not I told you.
But I can name five teams that should Heck, everybody
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that doesn't have a quarterback that's either better than Lamar
Jackson or on par with him. But I'm close should
be interested in him. But but if you're the Jets,
why wouldn't you do that? That's my leverage to you
Green Bay Packers, Like we're gonna start negotiations with Lamar Jackson, Well,
what are you gonna do? Right? We talked about this
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on first things first yesterday, Right, even if they're not interested,
they should call him. I agree, Chris, and didn't leak
it right, leak it out there. This is what's going on.
Real talk. He's coming with Lamar Jackson, you know, and
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we're talking we're interested. Put it out there. I didn't
see you would get Green Bay move that deal would
get done quick. I mean, look, we said it. I
think they should be more interested in Lamar anyway, I agree,
But at the very least they should call him and
Rob I don't even want to say, you know, look,
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we know this happens in business, but I don't want
to say use him, because maybe you can't get something
done with Aaron. And then if I think they like
Aaron better, fine, But Lamar would gosh to say the least.
He'd be a great backup plan, a great plan b right,
if you can't work it out, I'm with you. One
like that. You cannot go wrong there. He's younger, he's
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got a better upside. Aaron might play well for a
year or so. I don't see him playing past this year.
Get his sixty million dollars play in New York, played
one year, Chris, I really don't. I just don't see
him playing past this. And I don't see the Jets.
If they get to the Super Bowl, then I'll be
the first to stand up and say, I don't know,
I missed it. I was wrong. I don't believe that's
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gonna happen. No. Look, if you're a Jet or Jets fan,
your hope is that Aaron Rodgers is so ticked off
by the way Green Bay is essentially you know, jettison
in him, that he is like Dad's air Rob. We've
(29:19):
talked about the Brett fire factor, and he's like, I
want to go there and do what Brett didn't. Brett
didn't get them to the playoffs. I want to go
there and do that and then some And you hope
that that would spark him to be at the workouts
in the summer with his new receivers and to really
just be all in, no nonsense on the Jets. And
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if that happened, Rob, I don't know, maybe he could
have a turn back the clock type of season. I
tend to think his age as a factor, but who knows.
I mean, he's obviously a great quarterback, So that's what
you hope, But I don't know that we've seen, I Rob,
I wouldn't say we've seen any indication of that at
this point. No, no, no, he clearly wanted to play
with Green Bay, right, and and he's older, and I mean,
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if you're but if you're the Jets, and this is
what we talked about, and I think I trashed them
on Tuesday. They didn't handle it right, Chris. You can't
be giddy over somebody when you have to make a
move for them, do you know what I mean? Like that,
it wasn't like he was a free agent and he
and you you were, you went and you remember them, right. No,
But I'm just saying like, that's different if if it's
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a free agent, just you paying them, but you have
to give up something. And they got all giddy and
they let everybody else get signed. They put themselves in
a tough spot. And that's why Green Bay's gonna hold
out absolutely. All right, We'll move on to baseball. The
New York Yankees worth seven billion dollars. That's right, seven billion.
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Dicks against the Sprack. Oh yeah, I took it on
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all that money if you had saving money for college
or paying for your kids, that would not have been
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been in trouble big time. All right. The two late games, Chris,
we got for Sheckyo City. I got the Clippers minus
four and a half hosting the Thunder in Los Angeles,
that game starting ten thirty Eastern, Clippers thirty eight thirty five, No,
Paul George, We'll see how that goes. And the Pelicans
minus nine at home against the Hornets, Chris, That game
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I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who I bet on. It last night was not good.
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All right. There you have it. What Rob said, go
the opposite. You would have had a hat trick last
night if you went opposite, all right. Rob Story in
Forbes magazine today saying that the New York Yankees were
worth there to Obviously, I don't think surprising to anybody
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the most valuable franchise in Major League Baseball. They are
worth seven point one billion dollars, followed by the Dodgers
at four point eight, the Red Sox at four point five,
Chicago Cubs at four point one, and the San Francisco
Giants rounding out the top five at three point seven billion.
(33:05):
What's crazy, Chris, is the increase from one year. The
Yankees increased by eighteen percent since twenty twenty two. That's
the big the big jump. But again, the thing about television,
about baseball is about the local television. Like we talk
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about it all the time, Chris. The only two things
that matter in television today live sporting events and national news.
Other than that, people are watching. People watch when they watch, right,
people watch? Or you know what I mean? You say
you do it with your wife all the time. You
binge and you watch the whole season in a weekend. Right,
(33:50):
You don't sit around. I used to when I was married.
That was the last time, Chris, I had appointment television.
We used to watch Seinfeld Thursday night at nine o'clock. Right,
That was the last television show that I watched on
a regular basis. Alex, I know we've done this before.
Did Side Felt go off at ninety nine or two thousand?
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Wanted to go? I believe it was right before two thousand,
So it went off at ninety nine Chris, So that
was twenty four years ago. Is the last time I
watched a regularly scheduled you know, network television every Thursday,
right right right where I wouldn't miss it, didn't tape it.
I wanted to see every Thursday when it came on, right.
But but that's that's the strength of a baseball And
(34:33):
that's what I was saying about it. Um well, and
and it's it's sports, as you mentioned, sports in general,
live sports. I mean, the Phoenix Suns, right, just sold
for four billion dollars in the NBA. Yep, So I
mean remember when the Clippers, for goodness sakes sold for
two Steve Bomber bottom for two point one million, which
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it was a bargain. Now, and that's when you think
about I mean that se like, what is he doing?
He did overpay? Right? But Yle, the Phoenix Huns just
sold for four billion, and they're not I don't know
where they would rank, but they're obviously not the most
valuable franchise. That's the Knicks. Even as bad as the
Knicks are, I think the Knicks are the most valuable. Yeah,
(35:19):
Lakers obviously would be up there and here, but yeah,
it's to your point. Live television, whether it's baseball, football,
or basketball, is huge, um, because that's the only thing
we have to watch live Christian like, like, nobody goes
home and watches a game after after it's been I
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just we used to do that, Chris, Not anymore. Yeah,
I mean there's there might be a handful of people
that do it. I don't like doing it now. If
I want to break once, I might, but yeah, once
I know what happened, But you don't. You don't watch
the whole game. You might want to go back to
lay or circumstance because you gonna talk. Like if I
got to talk about something and I just missed it, right,
(36:00):
then I may watch it, like you said, because I
know I have to talk about it. But right, in general,
I missed the game, I know the score, I know
who won. Am I gonna watch it again? That that's
gonna be tough. Here's the other thing, real quick, The
Yankees made one hundred and forty three million dollars Chris
in cable money in twenty twenty two from the Yes Network,
(36:21):
the most profitable and most watch regional sports network in
the country. In total, MLB's thirty teams made two point
three billion dollars in local TV money in twenty twenty two,
so local TV for baseball is huge. You know that
if you want to do it cheer, you want to
get your pound pounds out. No no, no no, I'm just
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tournament resumes, obviously, the Sweet sixteen is now underway in
Michigan State right now, up four points on Kansas State
in the first game of the night Michigan State Robber
seventh seed. Now they're obviously a strong program now year
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and year out, but they're just a seventh seed this
year and Kansas States to three seeds, so right now
they're leading the charge for an upset. We also got
Arkansas and Yukon and night Arkansas eight, Ukon number four seed,
Florida Atlantica nine seed versus Tennessee a four seed. And
then we talked to Tracy Murray, the UCLA grad last
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night and Ucla the second number two seed. They played
third seed at Gonzaga in the night cap and Rob,
if you notice as I read off those seeds, I
did it for a reason. A lot of them were low,
like nine seeds and four seeds for it still yeah,
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seventh seeds. And this has been a year of some upsets.
Um the first time ROB since nineteen eighty that at
least one of these teams is not in the sweet sixteen,
and that would be Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina.
That's the most successful programs of the last forty years.
(04:32):
Right when you say I used to be but now
it's though those are the top four, right, and for
you to say that that this hasn't happened since nineteen eighty.
That's a long time ago, more than a generation. It
tells you about the changing of the guard and h.
Tracy Murray talked about it with the Trench Reportal Chris
and the I and the and ail the name likeness
(04:57):
and image and likeness U. You know that has balanced
out some people and people can move on and I
can't playing time. They were big recruit. They were at
a big school, but they're not playing. They take a
step down right mid major and now they're a man there.
So those things have happened, and um, you know, it's
(05:18):
always Chris. I think it's always good to have new blood,
not the same old, same old, But it is kind
of like to not have any of those in the
schools in It is weird. And I do want to
see the ratings. I know they have been very good
and that's good for the NCAA that these upsets have.
They've been the best ever, which love. The Sports Business
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Journal said the NCULA tournaments first round was the most
watched first round ever. That's mind boggling, Chris, because when
when we were growing up, you didn't have many choices. Now,
but not you know, and and so you and you
didn't have that many channels. When you talk about you know,
the magic uh Bird game, that's still one of the
(06:06):
highest rated sporting events ever. That game is the most
watched college game, every basketball game. And it'll always be
out it will, right, it will, It'll always be because
it was like, say, you don't have any options. It's
like exactly, Yeah, it was huge. It was a huge number.
Even for remember our population as a nation wasn't as
(06:27):
big as it is now, right, But you had three channels,
You had three major channels. Cable was probably just out. Yeah, no,
most people you were, you have cable growing up until
I was I want to say, seventh grade. Wow, you
know when I got cable Chris, No, lie, when I
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went to college, when I moved to Connecticut. That's pretty clol.
I mean not even that's about when I You're about
five years older than me. When I was in seventh
grade round the same time, that was the first time
we had I had cable TV. There was a big
scandal in Queens growing up, like the borough president had
some sort of Chris he was holding the cable companies
(07:10):
hostage because you know, Queens has a lot of homes
like house right and middle class people, and so they
wanted to pay off from the cable company. As soon
as Donald Mannus committed suicide, we got cable like it
felt like the next way the guy it was holding
him hostage committed suicide. Yeah, they found out, they found
out about the scandal on everything, and he wound up
(07:32):
committed suicide. Donald Mannus, he was the borough president for Queens.
But anyway, my point was I didn't see cable too.
Was in college, so I just had the four or
five channels we all had yep, yep. And so you're right,
and some people say, well it's on four stations yeah, CBS, true, TV, TBS, TNT.
But still, Rob, I still think back then they had
(07:56):
the advantage because it was who were three channels. So
amazing that they've done this, and I think that what
we want to throw out eventually in a few you know,
a few minutes to our listeners is do you do
you like the parody? Because Rob, there's always been that debate,
right it is a is a dominant team or two
(08:18):
or three better for a league than just having parody
right where you where anybody's got a shot and um,
you know, I always point to with the NBA in
the seventies, that was the most parody the NBA ever had.
Eight teams won, it won championships in that decade eight
(08:41):
out of ten years. You know, it was a different champion. Uh.
And then in the eighties, right, the seventies was the
worst era for the NBA, the worst decade for the NBA.
Reasons it was. There was drugs. It was on tape
delay for the championship. I remember, and this is no law.
Howard CoA Sell. You remember, Chris had a segment on
(09:03):
the radio called Howard Coachell speaking of sports, Howard Coachell,
and he came on and he talked about like the
blue bloods of the NBA. Chris were talking about breaking
off from the NBA. That's how bad it was. Like
they wanted to step, Yeah, they want to start. Where
was this why the ABA was in existence or was yes,
(09:24):
but they were talking about this is before the merger. Uh.
And it was like the Knicks, the Celtics, you know,
like I'm trying to think who else, Lakers, you know,
like those kind of franchises were talking about having their
own league. I'm gonna google it, uh later, I've never
even heard about that, but obviously, I mean, yeah, you
(09:45):
had the ABA up until they merged in seventy six,
and half of the best players in the world we're
playing in ABA and so, like you said, the NBA,
there games were on tape delay and so and that
was parody. And then in the eighties was the Golden
Era that brought the league back and began its resurgence
(10:08):
and its renaissance, and rob Not only did there were
I believe, let's see, you had the the Lakers, the Sixers,
the Celtics, and the Pistons. Only four teams won championships
in the eighties and only five reached the finals. Houston
(10:28):
was the other team like so, so in a whole decade,
only five teams reached the finals. And yet that was
the Golden Era. But the NBA and recently Golden State's
been dominant. You had Cleveland meeting them in the playoffs.
Those were good. You know, it's been popular with Golden States.
So you know, I've always felt like it. The history
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seems to show that while we like parody, we also
I maybe prefer a dominant team a giant, but everybody
they have to really be like people do want like
that that Juggernaut, that team, even if it's to hate Chris,
you know, like like even if it's to hate to
see them lose or try to you know, like there's
(11:12):
a part of Golden State when Durant went there that
was a little too much, you know. I mean that
that was a little too much because it maybe it
was the way it happened, Rob, you know what I mean.
May I mean if they had just organically I'm not
even speaking against player empowerment, but obviously they recruited him.
(11:34):
He wanted to go there, and it just seemed unfair. Um.
But that that, I don't know how great that was
for the league, um, because I like seeing, you know,
some of these great players spread out and then made
the best man you know win. Uh. In the nineties, Rob,
(11:55):
you had, that was an era because like I said,
the eighties we talked about magic and bird and all that,
but very few other teams had a chance because those
were super teams. They were organically built, but they were
super teams, right. And then with in the nineties, it
was like everybody had their team. Rob Jordan had his team,
(12:16):
Barkley had his team, Elijah one, you, Reggie Miller, Karl
Malone and Stockton, you know, like Clyde Drexler with Portland.
Everybody had their squad and then it was like, okay,
who's really the boss? David Robinson with the Spurs and
Jordan was the boss, and you know, so it was
(12:37):
like you kind of had parody and that it was like, okay,
we got a superstar, and all these different teams have
a superstar, but Jordan dominated, so it became you know,
a dominant you know. But during that time though, you
you you know, even though they won all the time, Chris,
you know, like you and the mayor run the city
like like, there were teams that were good, the Pacers
(12:59):
that you could challenge, that could challenge him. It wasn't like,
oh the Knicks got no shot. Like it wasn't like that,
Oh no, you think, Yeah, the Knicks were I mean
that was they were a rival, even though they never
really could. Indiana was a rival. Yep um, And he
was just you know, he was just that good. And
that's why he's pretty much universally recognizes the goat. So um.
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It's interesting, rob though, Let's throw it out to the listeners.
Eight seven seven ninety nine or Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. Looks like we
have some parody in this year's nc Double A Tournament
and the ratings are skyrocketing. So do you prefer parody
or do you prefer having a giant or two run
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on Fox. All the blue bloods, except if you're considered
them one. UCLA are gone and the NCAA tournament's numbers
ratings are skyrocketing. Is this better? Parody or do you
like having the Kings of the Mountain, the blue Bloods,
not just n CLA, but in general your thoughts to wait?
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All right, christ let's kick it off first with Mark
and Sacramento. That's right, you're on the odd couple. Fox
Sports Radio. What up? Mark? What's going on? Gymer side? Man? Um?
Real quick? Um? I always thought that, uh Uni, I
don't like parody and college basketball, they either have to
be a great team because you wanted to get knocked off,
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or villain, you know, the the UNLV's that they hated
or love the Dukes you either hated the love. You
know you had that the George Sallends, you hated their love.
So you always had that in college basketball. Because you
talked about the history of it. I think we I'm
old enough to remember where this actually started. The birthplace
was in the Astrodome with with UCLA and Houston, which
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is where all these these bigger arenas started. That was
the first place where they put those those those games
in a big arena. I think they had fifty two
thousand in to watch Elpen Hayes and lou Al Sender. Yeah,
that's where this all came from and then now you
see the explosion the bat. But they put these things
in these domes, in these big arenas. That's where not
that's that was the birthplace as far as I'm concerned,
(15:59):
and as far as the history of it. And then
from that you talked about the NBA um in seventy nine,
of course magic and birth, but also in seventy nine
was the birth of ESPN. In three years before that
was ESPN didn't have basketball, and I mean it was
showing no, no, no, but you were able to see them.
But you were able to see the highlights twenty four
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hours a day. It's what I meant. Oh yeah, when
when that once it got started? Yeah, but it was
even then, Yeah, it was, it was even then. It
wasn't it was. It would be unrecognizable two kids watching
ESPN a day, you know, yeah, right, because they didn't
have the money to get the national contract. I agree,
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stuff on there. It was, Yeah, but I was able
to see. I was able to see a highlight one
hundred times a day, so I thought it was magnified. Yeah,
it was magnified. Yeah, I don't remember that though, I
don't remember. Well, they had nothing, they had they had
that sports Center. But it wasn't like today where you
know what I mean, No, no, no, they were running
the same thing over and then yeah, no doubt Mark,
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Thank you buddy. Yeah, let's go to Tony in DC.
You're on the a couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up, Tony?
What's going on? Gentlemen? Whatever? Hey on, long time a
long time listener. Hope both of you guys are doing good. Um.
(17:26):
I think this is the College of Basketball from here
on out because you know what basketball is in the
unique position with these kids that can go over sieves
or doing one and done, and with the transfer portal,
I just don't think we're gonna ever have those those
monster matchups that we can look forward to. We see
two teams on a collision course. So no, I mean
(17:49):
we we've talked about it, like you said, the transfer
portal and also robbed the one and done. You know,
so the most talented players going to the NBA or
some of the guys not even going to college, even
if they can't go to the NBA yet, they'll go
to the G League or Overtime Elite or something like that.
And so now you get you know, pretty good players
(18:12):
that stay three or four years. Uh. They you know,
I've been together with their teammates. They got chemistry, they
know the offense better, they're more mature, they might be
smarter players just because of the experience. So they can
play for your talented team. Yeah. Yeah, quick question for
you and Rob. Are you guys will do an MLB
preview next week? Yes, we've done it the last couple
(18:35):
of years. Usually do one. Yeah, yeah, we'll do it.
The season starts on Thursday, yep, so maybe Wednesday. Chris
will do Ah. We usually pick the what do we do?
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f SR to listen Rob. This Lamar Jackson thing getting
very interesting, as you know. A few days ago, it
was reported that someone is contacting teams on behalf of
Lamar wanting to negotiate with them. It was said that,
you know, he may be done with the or it's ready,
(19:20):
you know, seems like he's ready to be done with
the Ravens, and the league sent out a memo today
Rob notifying to all their teams all thirty two saying
that no one who is not certified by the NFL
Players Association can negotiate or talk to teams, even on
(19:42):
Lamar Jackson, Behalf and Rob. They say teams can only
speak with Lamar because he doesn't have an agent. In
the story, I don't even see where it says like
someone from the nfl PA can speak for him and
so can only consult him Chris, like, like they can't.
(20:02):
They can't represent him, absolutely not. And it is definitely
like he can go there to get questions asked talking
to teams. It's only him, which is I mean, come on,
that's just a That's a lot for a player to do.
I mean, you know what I mean, like contacting teams,
talking to gms. I mean, it's not impossible, but it's
(20:25):
a lot to put on your own plate, you know
what I mean. You're gonna be calling these guys and
talking to him and Rob. They identified the person that
they said was calling teams. His name is Ken Francis
Uh and he is a friend of Lamar's. He's describing
himself as a business partner with Lamar on a portable
(20:47):
Jim equipment UM now Lamar Francis himself said he has
not contacted teams, and Jackson put out a tweet saying,
stop lying. That man never tried to negotiate for me.
So the Rob I've said it, I'm not. I'm not
(21:10):
the one to be like every player has to have
an agent. And the NBA ROB when they went to
you know, they went to like a max salary, they
went to a rookie scale, you know what I mean.
So if you're a great player, you know you're getting
that max salary. A lot of players, Grant there's no
there's no there's no wiggle room, there's nothing to negotiate.
(21:32):
It's like a slotted and what they what what guys
like Rayalen and Grant Hill did that was smart. They
hired a lawyer because you still, you know, you know,
you can't little friends and out and there's little minor
things you still can negotiate even though it's not the
ultimate salary, and you get a lawyer for that and
you pay them hourly, right, but you need I think
(21:57):
Lamar could get somebody to do that. And like I
said yesterday, Rob, it seems like Lamar the only reason
I guess you wouldn't do this is because you just
you may not trust somebody that you don't know. But
I think he's old enough now, he's been in the
league long enough. He's got enough connections within the league
as far as other players, friends he knows in the league,
(22:18):
probably even front office people that he might be close with,
or coaches or something, and he can talk to him
about various agents. Agents, you know, like, can I trust
this guy? You like him as he done good by you.
I just think now, I mean, he's in a situation
he needs to get something now. I don't want to
say done in that he's up against it as far
as signing a contract, but he does need to decide
(22:41):
what he's gonna do because Rob, he doesn't have an
offer right now. If he doesn't get an offer we've
talked about, well maybe he should sit out. But if
he didn't get it offer this summer, what's to make
him think that sitting out a few months or a
whole season or whatever, it's gonna make him get another offer.
(23:02):
So I just think he needs in my opinion, he
needs to bring somebody in this. I have had experience
with this. Chris Um, Sam Bowie, do you remember the
center from Kentucky who was drafted, drafted over draft exactly.
It was Sam Bowie right right a Lajahwan and then
(23:23):
Jordan wasn't it yeah right? But anyway, Sam Bowie his
contract came up with New Jersey and I was covering him.
He didn't have it, he didn't have an agent. That
was you know, back then we're talking about the eighties, Chris,
this was unusual and ages made more money to back
than a oh yeah, we're getting a higher percentage of
eight or ten percent. I mean it was high at least.
(23:46):
Uh and uh, Sam, I remember talking to him about it,
and he just said, I know I have the list,
I know where I fit in, and I know what
guys are making. You know that the union gives you
a list of what guys at that time centers. He said,
I'm not as good as this guy, right, and I'm
better than this guy, okay. And that was up his
(24:10):
deal and he did his deal and and did everything
and and uh, I was, you know out him. It
did work out. He got a he got a good deal.
And the funny kicker story to this was, I was,
you know, covering it. I had, you know, writing about
it or whatever, and so I didn't go to the
press conference when they announced his deal. I don't know
what happened at something. I just didn't cover it. So
(24:31):
the next day I see Bill Fitch at the game.
He goes, I can't believe you didn't come to the
Sam boy press conference. I said, well, yeah, something came
up or I couldn't make it. He says, I thought
you would be here to get your cut, you know,
because I was writing stuff. You know, hey, Sam is
(24:52):
talking about going to Europe, you know, like he was
telling me stories and I was writing. But the way
he did, I thought you would get here to get
your cut, you know, right right right right now. I
I what do you think Lamar should do? I think
he should just um, if he helped bet, he's gonna
start calling team. That's the only thing he can do.
But I don't I think at this point, I just
(25:13):
don't see him trying to get an agent. I think
he will just continue at this pace, Chris, and then
at some point push comes to shove, metal comes to
the rubber meets the road, and then you got to
figure out, am I not signing this fifty mill? How
much is it? Thirty two million, Am I not sign Remember,
he hasn't my way out. Last year he got twenty
(25:37):
I think twenty three million, and that was his only,
relatively speaking, his only big right payday. But I'm just saying,
at some point, and he could just say I don't
want to be here, You'll force a trade something else.
I don't know. It doesn't sound good with Baltimore. It
doesn't sound like he feels good about the organization and
where they are and whether or not he could play there. Chris,
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my gut, my gut is that he won't play there anymore.
That's my that's my gut. Yeah, I think you know
I'm I'm a practical pragmatic guy. And if he may
not like right, I mean, he may not like the organization.
(26:22):
I mean, if other teams aren't going for you, what
are you gonna do? Now? It's possible that other teams
aren't making offers. I think some teams aren't interested because
they know they feel like Baltimore is gonna match. Because
I give you a scenario, Chris, I know this, this
is out of left field. The Green Bay Packers are
(26:48):
trying to pull off a heist on the Jets, and
they said you know what we wanted them, but we're
not paying that you were talking about, right, Yeah, they
could ump in not is that I don't know why
they haven't. I mean, honestly, Chris, that's not I told you.
But I can name five teams that should Heck, everybody
(27:11):
that doesn't have a quarterback that's either better than Lamar
Jackson or on par with him. But I'm close should
be interested in him. But but if you're the Jets,
why wouldn't you do that? That's my leverage to you
Green Bay Packers, Like we're gonna start negotiations with Lamar Jackson, Well,
what are you gonna do? Right? We talked about this
(27:32):
on first things first yesterday, Right, even if they're not interested,
they should call him. I agree, Chris, and didn't leak
it right, leak it out there. This is what's going on.
Real talk. He's coming with Lamar Jackson, you know, and
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we're talking we're interested. Put it out there. I didn't
see you would get Green Bay move that deal would
get done quick. I mean, look, we said it. I
think they should be more interested in Lamar anyway, I agree,
But at the very least they should call him and
Rob I don't even want to say, you know, look,
(28:14):
we know this happens in business, but I don't want
to say use him, because maybe you can't get something
done with Aaron. And then if I think they like
Aaron better, fine, But Lamar would gosh to say the least.
He'd be a great backup plan, a great plan b right,
if you can't work it out, I'm with you. One
like that. You cannot go wrong there. He's younger, he's
(28:37):
got a better upside. Aaron might play well for a
year or so. I don't see him playing past this year.
Get his sixty million dollars play in New York, played
one year, Chris, I really don't. I just don't see
him playing past this. And I don't see the Jets.
If they get to the Super Bowl, then I'll be
the first to stand up and say, I don't know,
I missed it. I was wrong. I don't believe that's
(28:58):
gonna happen. No. Look, if you're a Jet or Jets fan,
your hope is that Aaron Rodgers is so ticked off
by the way Green Bay is essentially you know, jettison
in him, that he is like Dad's air Rob. We've
(29:19):
talked about the Brett fire factor, and he's like, I
want to go there and do what Brett didn't. Brett
didn't get them to the playoffs. I want to go
there and do that and then some And you hope
that that would spark him to be at the workouts
in the summer with his new receivers and to really
just be all in, no nonsense on the Jets. And
(29:43):
if that happened, Rob, I don't know, maybe he could
have a turn back the clock type of season. I
tend to think his age as a factor, but who knows.
I mean, he's obviously a great quarterback, So that's what
you hope, But I don't know that we've seen, I Rob,
I wouldn't say we've seen any indication of that at
this point. No, no, no, he clearly wanted to play
with Green Bay, right, and and he's older, and I mean,
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if you're but if you're the Jets, and this is
what we talked about, and I think I trashed them
on Tuesday. They didn't handle it right, Chris. You can't
be giddy over somebody when you have to make a
move for them, do you know what I mean? Like that,
it wasn't like he was a free agent and he
and you you were, you went and you remember them, right. No,
But I'm just saying like, that's different if if it's
(30:27):
a free agent, just you paying them, but you have
to give up something. And they got all giddy and
they let everybody else get signed. They put themselves in
a tough spot. And that's why Green Bay's gonna hold
out absolutely. All right, We'll move on to baseball. The
New York Yankees worth seven billion dollars. That's right, seven billion.
(30:48):
We're gonna talk about that. Next, it's The Odd Couple
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All right, it's thee I Couple live from the tirag
dot Com studios in this time for Sheckle City. Welcome
(31:14):
to Sheckle City, the whole base for Rob Parker's day
Dicks against the Sprack. Oh yeah, I took it on
the chin last night, Chris, I told you to bet
all that money if you had saving money for college
or paying for your kids, that would not have been
(31:35):
been in trouble big time. All right. The two late games, Chris,
we got for Sheckyo City. I got the Clippers minus
four and a half hosting the Thunder in Los Angeles,
that game starting ten thirty Eastern, Clippers thirty eight thirty five, No,
Paul George, We'll see how that goes. And the Pelicans
minus nine at home against the Hornets, Chris, That game
(32:00):
starts at eight pm Eastern in New Orleans. So there
you go. Best bet Clippers minus four and a half
over the Thunder, Pelicans minus nine hosting the Hornets. And remember,
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who I bet on. It last night was not good.
(32:22):
All right. There you have it. What Rob said, go
the opposite. You would have had a hat trick last
night if you went opposite, all right. Rob Story in
Forbes magazine today saying that the New York Yankees were
worth there to Obviously, I don't think surprising to anybody
(32:43):
the most valuable franchise in Major League Baseball. They are
worth seven point one billion dollars, followed by the Dodgers
at four point eight, the Red Sox at four point five,
Chicago Cubs at four point one, and the San Francisco
Giants rounding out the top five at three point seven billion.
(33:05):
What's crazy, Chris, is the increase from one year. The
Yankees increased by eighteen percent since twenty twenty two. That's
the big the big jump. But again, the thing about television,
about baseball is about the local television. Like we talk
(33:25):
about it all the time, Chris. The only two things
that matter in television today live sporting events and national news.
Other than that, people are watching. People watch when they watch, right,
people watch? Or you know what I mean? You say
you do it with your wife all the time. You
binge and you watch the whole season in a weekend. Right,
(33:50):
You don't sit around. I used to when I was married.
That was the last time, Chris, I had appointment television.
We used to watch Seinfeld Thursday night at nine o'clock. Right,
That was the last television show that I watched on
a regular basis. Alex, I know we've done this before.
Did Side Felt go off at ninety nine or two thousand?
(34:11):
Wanted to go? I believe it was right before two thousand,
So it went off at ninety nine Chris, So that
was twenty four years ago. Is the last time I
watched a regularly scheduled you know, network television every Thursday,
right right right where I wouldn't miss it, didn't tape it.
I wanted to see every Thursday when it came on, right.
But but that's that's the strength of a baseball And
(34:33):
that's what I was saying about it. Um well, and
and it's it's sports, as you mentioned, sports in general,
live sports. I mean, the Phoenix Suns, right, just sold
for four billion dollars in the NBA. Yep, So I
mean remember when the Clippers, for goodness sakes sold for
two Steve Bomber bottom for two point one million, which
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it was a bargain. Now, and that's when you think
about I mean that se like, what is he doing?
He did overpay? Right? But Yle, the Phoenix Huns just
sold for four billion, and they're not I don't know
where they would rank, but they're obviously not the most
valuable franchise. That's the Knicks. Even as bad as the
Knicks are, I think the Knicks are the most valuable. Yeah,
(35:19):
Lakers obviously would be up there and here, but yeah,
it's to your point. Live television, whether it's baseball, football,
or basketball, is huge, um, because that's the only thing
we have to watch live Christian like, like, nobody goes
home and watches a game after after it's been I
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just we used to do that, Chris, Not anymore. Yeah,
I mean there's there might be a handful of people
that do it. I don't like doing it now. If
I want to break once, I might, but yeah, once
I know what happened, But you don't. You don't watch
the whole game. You might want to go back to
lay or circumstance because you gonna talk. Like if I
got to talk about something and I just missed it, right,
(36:00):
then I may watch it, like you said, because I
know I have to talk about it. But right, in general,
I missed the game, I know the score, I know
who won. Am I gonna watch it again? That that's
gonna be tough. Here's the other thing, real quick, The
Yankees made one hundred and forty three million dollars Chris
in cable money in twenty twenty two from the Yes Network,
(36:21):
the most profitable and most watch regional sports network in
the country. In total, MLB's thirty teams made two point
three billion dollars in local TV money in twenty twenty two,
so local TV for baseball is huge. You know that
if you want to do it cheer, you want to
get your pound pounds out. No no, no no, I'm just
(36:42):
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