June 6, 2023 • 37 mins
Chris and Rob take the PGA Tour to task for joining forces with LIV Golf after years of publicly proclaiming that LIV was an anti-American establishment, discuss Jimmy Butler’s assertion that ‘Playoff Jimmy’ isn’t real and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam swings by to share his thoughts on the PGA-LIV merger, the Miami Heat being 1-1 against the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals, why Jerry Jones might be the worst negotiator in the NFL and much more!
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But let me welcome in my partner Rob Parker. What's up, Bruh?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What's happening to mister Chris Brashawan? How are you on
this trash talking Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I am great?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And you you are so excited about today's show that
you got dressed up for it?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yes, I wish that was the case.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'm my on campus at usc Annenburg Media. So we're
doing cush'all annual NBA Broadcast Bootcall NBA broadcast year so
so uh definitely uh teaching the guys on how to
debate and different topics. It's pretty been pretty good so far.
(02:13):
So we got one day in another day tomorrow, so
you know, I had to dress up, uh to get
on and you ready for Toronto Raptors player Will Barton.
Chrissy wanted to debate me one on one. After we did,
there was players debating each other and I was the moderator.
But then me and Will got at it to in
(02:33):
the program.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I demolished him to be out of the go. I'm
the pro. It was about ready for this.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The topic was the better player Kobe Bryant or Lebron James,
and I had to take Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Wow, that wows. That's take I want to burn. I
don't want anybody to see that me making a case
for I'd love to check that out.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
All right, let's get this thing popping, because we got
a lot to get into.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We got the Eyeable crew in full effect.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
D J Alex Tyscher making a rare guest appearance here
on the Aykable guest. I should say he's the usual guy,
but he's off so much I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
There it is. The super producer Rob g is in
full effect.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And on the updates you know earlier Moncey Belanos. All right, Rob,
huge news today in the world of golf when we
open up with golf, you know, it's huge news. The
PGA Tour which was so so outspoken and self righteous
(03:43):
about the Live Golf Tour and oh those Saudis are
nine to eleven and know how in the world could
any players go to play for them, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That PGA Tour has now so unified with Live Golf
as well as the dp World Tour, all under one umbrella.
And Rob the PGA Commissioner J moynihan, who even himself Rob,
he said, I know a lot of people are going
(04:19):
to say I'm a hypocrite.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah we are. But anyway, here's Jay talking about the merger.
I talked to players.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I've talked at a player meeting, and I've talked to
a number of players individually for a long period of time.
And I think you'd have to be living under a
rock to not know that there are significant implications. And
as it relates to the families of nine to eleven,
I have two families that are close to me that
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lost loved ones and so my heart goes out to them.
And I would ask you, any player that has left,
or any player whatever consider leaving, have you ever had
to apologize for being a member of the PGA tour?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, that was a year ago. That was what he
said a year ago. I we said a year ago.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Do we have him today, Rob g We don't have
him today, but he did. I've seen some of the clips.
Here's a quick quote, Rob, I'll just read it. There's
been a lot of tension. This is from that same J. Moynihan,
who you just heard. There's been a lot of tension
in our sport over the last couple of years. What
we're talking about today is coming together to unify the
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game of golf, and to do so under one umbrella.
We've recognized that together we can have a far greater
impact on this game than we can work in the part.
The game of golf is better for what we've done
here today, Rob.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Chris, he's a hypocrite, the worst kind of hypocrite, Chris.
And you just heard the SoundBite putting out the nine
eleven How dare you go to live golf and disgrace
the country? And now the Saudis had something to do
with all the people killed in nine to eleven. You
(06:13):
could couch it now, Chris, and act like you didn't
say it. You're taking blood money, you're washing their reputation.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's exactly what he was saying.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
People said it was sports washing. Was where you at
this fountain?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go ahead? Yeah, when you when you take money.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And they're gonna make themselves in a better light, right
because they're they're affiliated with something that.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
You love, Chris, like golf.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And how did Mornihan Do you have a check for
eight hundred million for Tiger Woods? Because that's what he
turned down, Chris, not to go to live golf because
they made it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It was us against them in one.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Fell swoop you almost become a billionaire exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That ain't even any good anymore? What were they off
eight hundred million?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And it was like, are you gonna be with us,
the good old us of A or are you gonna
be with the Saudis who killed our people in nine
to eleven? That was what the implication was. And now
you mean to tell me not only did you get
into bed with the Saudis and their money, you're having
a baby with them.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Is that what it is, Chris? That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And the new baby, guess who's gonna run the PGA
Live Golf together with a new name. The Saudis are
gonna run it, Chris, because they got the most money.
What really, all that patriotism and all that flag waving
all went for not It didn't mean a damn thing.
You know what met Bob meant the most who had
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the most money. And that's what it came down to.
If this deal wasn't good enough, Chris, for players to
take the most money a year ago or whatever was,
why is it good now?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
He talked a lot about Oh, I worked off the
information we had. Now we got new information. Now you
know what you got. You got a huge check from
the public Investment Fund run that's Saudi Arabia's fund PIFF.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They're putting money all over America. And here was the thing, Rob.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
This is why I'm not when I look at Tiger
Woods and Rory McElroy and all these guys that didn't
get in, you know, and live even though they offered them.
You said it, eight hundred million dollars for Tiger Woods.
I don't look at them as hypocrites. I look at
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them they got duped. They got duped. They I believe
I might be wrong, but I believe they meant well.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
All these not all.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
But many of these Americans, particularly the players who were
against it. I think they meant well, but they were misinformed.
Because here's the deal. Folks, listen and listen closely. These
are just some of the United States companies that are
doing business in Saudi Arabia. Pfizer, Phillip Morris, Price, Waterhouse
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Ford Motor Company, Amicco, Exxon Bank of America, A Red
Wing shoe company, Samson, Ight Shell Texico. I could JP Morgan,
I Bank, a JP Morgan Chase Chase, Manhattan Bank. I
mean I could go on and on, Coca Cola, Pepsi.
And here's more, the Saudis Sovereign Wealth Fund Saudi Arabia
(09:41):
is invested. They now hold shares Rob in these companies Amazon, Google, Visa, Microsoft, Disney.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We work for Disney, right, Espn.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Nintendo, Uber, PayPal, Zoom, black Rock, which is the world's
largest asset manager.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And here's my thing.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
If all of these United States companies can work with
Saudi Arabia, you mean to tell me one individual golfer
he's supposed to be the one to take the high
road and say no, no, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Please. You're supporting them and you don't even know it, Chris.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
When you buy something from Starbucks, you're supporting the Saudi investments.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
They are all over America.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And that was my issue, the hypocrisy of these wealthy
private companies and corporations who run our country to have
the audacity to act like Tiger or Rory or some
other Golfer would have been just the most demoral person
in the world. It's because they were doing it too.
(10:54):
And that goes all these media members again who got
on their high horse.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Rob.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They were You didn't do your homework, You didn't know
who else was in bed with the Saudi Arabians.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
One Chris spot On, and there were people, Oh, I
would never do that. Remember, people were pushing back on
Charles Barkley when it went on the interview Chris would
to live golf tour. Oh Charles, how could you do that?
I would never take money from them?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Really?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh right, really, now it's okay, Chris and all along,
we're in bed with the Saudi Stop it all. Chris
just named a million companies stun out wasn't even the
half of it. No, and they got a ton of money.
And you could say whatever you want as there's no
reason that they should have put this phony patriotism Chris
(11:46):
in the way of these other golfers telling them that
they should feel bad for taking that money, and how
dare they take that money and leave the PGA, because
look what happened out nine to eleven. That was what
the over and they were supposed that the golfers were
going to look like, oh, look at them. They stood
up to the Saudis and they they didn't want to
(12:06):
take their blood money and look and then before you
know it, the PGA decided that they would cash out
and screw the golfers. Then I'm gonna get that the
deal doesn't include those guys getting money, Chris, that they
lost out with the Saudist.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Rob, and here's the deal. Let me throw this out
there quickly too. I don't want to forget this. Guess
who's the largest customer for US made military equipment, Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Hello, So, so.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The government and all these private corporations are in bed
with them and they expect an individual not to do
the same.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Please, Rob, here's what it is. And you you alluded
to it when.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Tiger and Rory and Phil Mick Michlson shout out to
Phil Micklson he was staying through the through through the foolishness.
And some of these other guys too when they were
being offered this money. Guess who wasn't being offered the PGA, right,
the PGA Tour. Maybe they were offered it and the
PGA Tour said, nah, we don't need you. But now Rob,
(13:13):
like you said, those individual golfers aren't getting it, the
ones who turned it down, But the PGA is now
morning he and gets his cut, right, You call him
a hypocrite because he's gonna be a wealthy hypocrite.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It is one of It is one of the biggest reversals.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Chris and we we said it from this is a
second guest we did. We said in the beginning, same thing,
you just want a Phil Mickelson. They all chastised him
and and criticized him and made him out like he
was an American that he would take part in the
Live Golf Tour. We're like, what, wait a minute, You're
gonna work here in the PGA and make a dollar,
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but they're offering you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Really that I'm gonna work for the dollar? Right? Shame
or all the people. That's shame.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Phil Mickelson and any of the other Greg Norman who
was you know, any of the other golfers who went
to live Shame. Now again they may have met, well,
but before you go off on somebody like that, you
need to be a little more informed. All right, We're
gonna throw it out to you, guys eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six
(14:24):
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the PGA Tour and Live Golf.
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Speaker 3 (15:49):
What up Jim?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
How you doing? Guys?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I just want to thank you first for all the contents.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
It gets me through my WEEKND. I really appreciate it
that come to the golf. I think this is all
about the money, you know. I mean PGA figured out they.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Couldn't survive once lived open.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
They needed those golfers back and for them to combine
it together. Unfortunately, some guys are going to get egg
on their face, but that shit happens.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Have a great evil Thank.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You, good car.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It's definitely about the money and Rob look Saudi Arabia.
They got money from all that well, and that's what
they're doing. They it wasn't reported right how much PJ.
I mean, the money's got to be astronomical. You offer
t one golfer eight hundred million.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Right, That was a deal for Tiger to come to
join Live eight hundred million, So you know they got
boot cool money, no doubt about it. That's till Kevin
in Culver City. You're on the EYD couple of Fox Sportuato.
What up, keV?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
What fellas you up, good, good.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
The biggest losion this I think is Tiger would I
mean he turned out a billion dollars and then they
ended up merging anyway, so I mean he could have
took all that money home. He's at the end of
his career. I mean, a payday is a payday. It's
like lebar getting off of the Max contract at the
end of his career, a full Max. I mean, you
gotta take that money. They merged anyway, So I mean
Tiger's a big loser. I think Warrior's a big loser.
(17:16):
He could have got a really big bag. And I
think the smart guys are the books kept us of
the world paid and the Dustin Johnsons who took the
money and your boy, shout to your boy. I think
Fred Barner he came out, he said, hey, it's all
about the money. It's all about the money anyway, those
sugarcoated He was right.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And just to put in perspective, hang on there cav
ee hundred million from Tiger. Lebron's made about four hundred
million in his entire NBA and.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
He could look at that, Chris and he could have
made eight hundred keV.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What what do you make of real quick from you
just the way that they wrapped around the whole anti
live was about patriotism and you know what I mean,
they used that as reasons why the golfers shouldn't embrace
the live golf and then and they do it themselves.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Oh? I think it was the PGA suits trying to
get behind that, and he's as an excuse to keep
other guys on their tour, and they have a guilty
trip about guys going over and it just shows they
weren't thinking about their players. At the end of the day,
some of those guys at the ind of the tour
who could have got big pay day's who they guilt
tripped into staying over there and as shouts the Cameron
Smith for taking his money too, guys who kind of
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you know, wives up and say no, we're not we're
not find that and they ended up being hypocrites anyway.
It was all a ploy to trying to keep the
power play all the other players on the tour, like
the John Rams of the world.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
So you know, John Roum, he could.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Have made a huge bat, no doubt, Kevin, Thank you
for your insight. Jerome in Charleston, South Carolina. You're on
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
What up? Rome?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
You not believe how chicks off? While I'm about this
leave let me tell you, Truby, you remember that blow
back to Hendry about dealing with China. Well, where are
those people going right now?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What they go straight?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Now? Oh, Chordy Rivy? Human rights and better than Choying,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
In Jerome. It's the same thing. US companies work with
China too.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That's why with Lebron it was like, I mean, he
didn't answer that, you know, he didn't talk necessarily that
well about the situation over there.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But he's one individual.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
If we got all these companies working with China, don't
jump on Lebron James, because you know he he was,
you know, with Nike and all that over there.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And the same thing.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
With these golfers to put a guilt trip on them
and to use nine to eleven Chris as as your
guilt trip Jerome. You know, that's the bad part is
that they used nine to eleven to make the golfers
feel bad about it.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
And as a as a veteran, that really hit hard
with me.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Okay, I want to give him the benefit of the
doubt that they were sincere but sincerely misinformed.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
But maybe they did just use it, Rob, you know,
that's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And thank for the call, Jerome and the Saudi grew
Chris that you talked about PFI piff piff manages six
hundred and fifty billion dollars in essence, a six hundred
and fifty billion with a B.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's so yeah, that's the that's the legal money, Chris,
on the books that we know about.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
All right, We'll bring in our man from Solam to
talk about this and more with him, But first.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 4 (20:37):
Former NFL offensive lineman now a Fox Sports Weekend Radio superstar, we.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Welcome in our man E from Salim. What's up, brother.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
By the way, my wife and I enjoyed your episode
of bel air. We're enjoying the whole thing. But you
did four right episode. Excellent job, great job.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
I thank you, brother, I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Man.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I'm trying. You know, I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, that's a good show, man, I really like it.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Ephraim, Are you a hypocrite too? I just want to know,
just help us out. We're doing enough.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
You be talking about you must be talking about PGA me.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But now you from you heard that they shamed all
the players not to go, they tied it to nine
to eleven, and now they're in bed.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
With the Lift Golf. What'd you make of this when.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You heard this?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Well, when they were doing the whole nine eleven to
these people, I was like, well, first of all, you
just can't come out and make up things right, Like,
you can't just assume without the burden of proof, that
that's what was going on. So that was the biggest
problem I had with that. I mean, that was ridiculous.
And then turn around, what less than a year or
(21:52):
so later, and you've combined with them. Because the fact
of the matter is to lift golf model work, right,
the PGA doesn't. It doesn't work. It's not enough revenue
in it for all of the golfers involved. We talk
about it all the time on our show. You can
come in dead last in every single live event, every
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single dead last and still make a close to a
million dollars. Yep, dead last. It's less, it's less holes,
it's less tournaments and bigger persons, And so I I
it was. It was a recipe for success. And the
fact that the PGA fought so hard against it further
(22:37):
lets you know just how you know profitable it could
be and how guys could be wooed away from the PGA.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
How would you feel from a viewer Tiger who turned
down eight hundred million dollars, you know, not to go there,
and then he wakes up today and here's the news,
just like us. The players weren't even giving a heads up.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
No, no, they weren't giving their heads up. I would
I would have a serious problem with the PGA if
I was Tiger. Yeah, because he could have easily just
gone out and and and taken the billion dollars and
and become the faith of the and that it never
had to have win a tournament, never had to win
(23:22):
a tournament. He could have just played himself, Uh, as
long as as he wanted to, just showing up and
join the game, without the pressures of having to win
a major or anything like that, just playing the game
of love. At a very high rate, probably higher than
he had he had made. Uh and he turned it
down with his for the allegiance for the PGA, and they
(23:46):
were just like, now we're good, We're we're gonna take
some money.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
We're gonna we're gonna That eight hundred million turned down
is included in the pot that the PJA is gonna get.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Right, I mean, it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
And if and if he.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Would have been with the Live Chris and ephrom he
would have played less. They don't have a going schedule
like that, would have made money, right and would have benefited.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No doubt.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
All right, let's go to the NBA Finals from what
was your pick when the series started and where are
you at right now?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I picked Dinner. I thought Denver with Jokic had the
better teams. But I also had a caveat of I
wouldn't put anything past Miami, Jimmy Butler in Miami, the
culture that they have, their their ability to to to
coach Eric Spolsher is, you know, it's just a tremendous coach.
(24:43):
So I didn't put it past them, but I thought
Denver had the better team. Uh, the better player in
the series. Uh, the altitude, the home court advantage. Uh.
And now watching you know, if Miami shoots like this,
I mean, anybody who shoots, I just gonna be hard.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
To well, good luck if they're shooting like that, because
that that.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Was If they're shooting like that, then they yet they
deserve it. You tipp the cap and you move on.
But the thing I like what they did is they
made adjustments. Right. They're gonna make it difficult. They're gonna
sacrifice some things and then they're gonna take some things away.
They're going to really put the on this on Michael
uh uh Porter Jr. They're gonna put the on this
(25:26):
on the the smaller players outside of the Joker, and
they are like Jamal Murray, You're gonna have to be
special every night. Yep, you're gonna have to be special
every KTP. You're gonna have to be special every night.
And it's the reason those players are role players and
not super specially KTP and not superstars because that burden
(25:47):
of being special every night isn't there on a role player.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, that's the truth. That's the truth.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Quickly to the NFL, Ezekiel Elliott still not with a team,
do you think. I mean, Dallas may throw him a bone,
and I think that would be good, if you know,
bringing back in the locker room as a leader.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
He obviously wouldn't play the same role.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
But outside of that, do you see like a team,
you know, bringing him on. I mean it's amazing to say,
but is his career as a productive player pretty much over?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Well, his career is whether a team brings him on
or not is separate than him being a productive player.
I think his career as a productive player is over
because every single year his returns have been diminished, his
abilities have gone down, his yards, what he brings to
a team has has diminished. So yeah, he no longer
(26:44):
is that Bill Coal, that the person who can get
you four or five yards to carry. He's right around
three point sixty carry. So I mean, if he ever does,
do I think he'll rush for a thousand yards again
in the NFL? No, because I don't think he'll get
that number of carries. He's gonna need to rush for
(27:05):
a thousand yards in an NFL season. So I think
if they do bring him back, and they've got a
pretty crowded young uh running back room. Now I don't know.
Yeah he won, He's not gonna play special teams. So
the value that he would bring your teams isn't there
(27:27):
because most backup running all backup running back player be
be of special teams. And you're not gonna see you're
not gonna see Dak out there on the punt return.
You're not gonna see him ona kickoff. You know.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
So you what one thing I said, and the question
I asked you was you know, I said he I
think he could be a good leader.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
There is that true though?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I mean, once you're if you're not playing and you
know obviously you're not what you used to be, Like,
can he still be a leader or is that even
just an overstatement?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
The problem is it's not like the NBA where you
can have the Eudonna's has on who don't who they're
locker room guys, right. The problem, especially with forty seven
men roster on the road and fifty three the players
address out, there's not enough spot just to have a
guy to just be there, right. You need guys who
(28:21):
are going to play and contribute. If that, I mean
d came in, it was like, hey, I'll play all
the special teams just put that that's an added value.
You get a young running back like they have, and
you can populate your special teams units with those running backs,
those linebackers, those tight ends, and those receivers for a
(28:41):
third and fourth on the depth chart. That's how you
build out a team. But you get's hard to build
out a team now in the NFL with older guys
who don't play much. That's their physician.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Let me let me ask you one last thing on
Ezekiel and you know beat I say he beat Jerry
Jones out of money, but Jerry Jones as an owner
and GM or whatever you want to call, he's been
fleeced by a number of guys.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, I wonder, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Like when you look at Jerry Jones, you know he
caved in with Emmitt Smith.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
He caves all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
If I'm another owner, I wonder how they look at
Jerry because he hasn't done a good job with that.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
He's fleasable, but he still has the largest brand in
American sports. Uh So he's fleasable, but he's still the
driving force behind the league and it's revenue and the
things that they're trying to do collectively as a company.
So as a as another owner, you understand those things.
(29:47):
You understand the value that Jerry brings. And Jerry, Jerry
has a lot of hearts. He brings a lot of
heart to decisions. He may if he drafts a guy,
he wants to keep a guy. If a guy has
been great and been an All Star and helped him win,
he has, you know, an affinity for him. And he overpays.
He overpays. You know, he loved Tony Romo. He just
(30:07):
knew Tony Romo is gonna take him to a super
Bowl and the rest of the world knew that wasn't
the case. But yet and still he still made sure
that he was paid and and and paid well Hamston
Lee for a long time. Uh. And it just that's
just Jerry, That's just that's how he runs his business.
That he's a billionaire for a reason.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
And he's open to be in as you say, please.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
All right, that is our man e from Salime. Great stuff.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Brother, We appreciate you absolutely many right.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yep, all right, more I couple coming your way. An
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daily dicks against the spread.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All Right, here we go, Chrisalo, Shekel City. I'm gonna
take as the best bet. I got the Padres hosting
Seattle minus one and a half runs. San Diego starting
to put a little something together here. They gotta good team.
I got San Diego minus one and a half runs.
(32:03):
Then Chris, A couple of games were high run totals,
the Giants and the Rockies. The over under in the
run total is eleven runs. I'm gonna take the under
and that eleven runs total. San Francisco at Colorado. I'm
also gonna take the under. In the Cubs Angels game, Chris,
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the run total is ten runs.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'm gonna take the under.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
So again, San Diego minus one and a half runs
hosting Seattle the Anaheim I mean Angels and the Cubs.
The run total is ten I'm gonna take the under.
And the Giants against Colorado in Denver, I'm gonna take
the under at eleven runs under eleven. Remember, I'm not
(32:56):
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you who
I bet on.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
All Right, there you have it. Rob, we were talking
about Jimmy Butler and the Miami. He's been getting a
lot of love and playoff Jimmy is a real thing,
and he talked today and said that that playoff Jimmy stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Stop it here is I'm not a scorer.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
Like just because I score a lot of points one game,
that doesn't make you're a scorer. I'm not a volume shooter.
I don't do any of that. I don't press to score.
I only press to win. So if I pass the
ball every possession, if we win, I don't care if
I shoot the ball every possession and we win, I
don't care. Just playoff Jimmy narrative. It's not a thing.
(33:41):
I just want to win alone with everybody else, so
I don't worry about too much other thing extef and winning.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I actually agree with Himore some of that, Rob. What
I disagree with is the playoff Jimmy. That's a real thing.
And I get it that he's the last seven games
the only average twenty points on time.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
So what a minute you tease the player saying it
was him?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Okay, I was trying to figure out who was ripping
him during the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Wal I was like, he's pretty much unrippable at this point. Yes,
And that is some of that, Rob.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Some of that is the benefit of not being that guy,
you know, like her.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
We don't have the same expectations of him that we
have of Lebron and Saunds. He's doing this, you'd be
killing him.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah, So twenty points thirty nine percent shooting his last
seven games. But here's why I playoffs Jimmy still is
real because Rob, since he joined the Miami Heat four
years ago, he has forty I'm sorry, he has eight
forty point games in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Forty point scoring games.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
That leads the entire NBA during that time period. Butler,
and guess how many forty point scoring games he has
in the regular season? Zero since he joined the Heat.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Zero. I know what, I'll say it zero. Yeah, so
that's a jump we've talked about.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Rob. I can't think of a player, Rob that makes
this type of leap in the postseason. And so, yeah,
I think the playoff Jimmy thing is real.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
It's hard to argue.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I mean, he does play better. He has played better.
That that's that right there. Zero forty point games in
the regular season but eight in the postseason. That means
that when the chips are down and you're and and
they need you to come through, he's been able to
come through for them. That that's that's really what it's about.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I want is the record eight? Is there a seven?
And one? Of what it is? I would love to
know their records, right and that, Yeah, Rob, g you
see that around. I bet it's good though, I bet
it's good.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
But yeah, and also Rob, I agree, he's not really
a score now. He can score obviously, he gets gonna
give you twenty points a night. But when you think
of the best scorers in the league, the Durrants, the Kyriees,
the Lucas, steph you know, Damian Lillard, like they got
a lot in their bag. The handles are crazy, even
(36:06):
James Harden when he was doing this thing in Houston,
handles are crazy, step backs, a lot of moves Jimmy
doesn't have. He's almost like somewhat of a throwback in that,
Like he doesn't waste dribbles. He's not gonna sit there
and pat it in front of your face all night long.
He's just gonna straight line drives. He's gonna get to
his spot, you know, two three dribbles, pull up mid range.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Now, he's got the pump fakes. But he doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
A ton of moves, and he's not a great three
point shooter, get stuff in transition, things like that.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
But he does.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Score, and he's just an all around great, hard working
basketball player. And people aren't gonna rave about his bag
and all that stuff. But obviously what we're seeing now
is when it's time to deliver and bring it, he
brings it like few others this season.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
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I am great?
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Yes, I wish that was the case.
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All right, let's get this thing popping, because we got
a lot to get into.
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We got the Eyeable crew in full effect.
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D J Alex Tyscher making a rare guest appearance here
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There it is. The super producer Rob g is in
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Speaker 4 (03:22):
And on the updates you know earlier Moncey Belanos. All right, Rob,
huge news today in the world of golf when we
open up with golf, you know, it's huge news. The
PGA Tour which was so so outspoken and self righteous
(03:43):
about the Live Golf Tour and oh those Saudis are
nine to eleven and know how in the world could
any players go to play for them, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That PGA Tour has now so unified with Live Golf
as well as the dp World Tour, all under one umbrella.
And Rob the PGA Commissioner J moynihan, who even himself Rob,
he said, I know a lot of people are going
(04:19):
to say I'm a hypocrite.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah we are. But anyway, here's Jay talking about the merger.
I talked to players.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I've talked at a player meeting, and I've talked to
a number of players individually for a long period of time.
And I think you'd have to be living under a
rock to not know that there are significant implications. And
as it relates to the families of nine to eleven,
I have two families that are close to me that
(04:50):
lost loved ones and so my heart goes out to them.
And I would ask you, any player that has left,
or any player whatever consider leaving, have you ever had
to apologize for being a member of the PGA tour?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, that was a year ago. That was what he
said a year ago. I we said a year ago.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Do we have him today, Rob g We don't have
him today, but he did. I've seen some of the clips.
Here's a quick quote, Rob, I'll just read it. There's
been a lot of tension. This is from that same J. Moynihan,
who you just heard. There's been a lot of tension
in our sport over the last couple of years. What
we're talking about today is coming together to unify the
(05:34):
game of golf, and to do so under one umbrella.
We've recognized that together we can have a far greater
impact on this game than we can work in the part.
The game of golf is better for what we've done
here today, Rob.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Chris, he's a hypocrite, the worst kind of hypocrite, Chris.
And you just heard the SoundBite putting out the nine
eleven How dare you go to live golf and disgrace
the country? And now the Saudis had something to do
with all the people killed in nine to eleven. You
(06:13):
could couch it now, Chris, and act like you didn't
say it. You're taking blood money, you're washing their reputation.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's exactly what he was saying.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
People said it was sports washing. Was where you at
this fountain?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go ahead? Yeah, when you when you take money.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And they're gonna make themselves in a better light, right
because they're they're affiliated with something that.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
You love, Chris, like golf.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And how did Mornihan Do you have a check for
eight hundred million for Tiger Woods? Because that's what he
turned down, Chris, not to go to live golf because
they made it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It was us against them in one.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Fell swoop you almost become a billionaire exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That ain't even any good anymore? What were they off
eight hundred million?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And it was like, are you gonna be with us,
the good old us of A or are you gonna
be with the Saudis who killed our people in nine
to eleven? That was what the implication was. And now
you mean to tell me not only did you get
into bed with the Saudis and their money, you're having
a baby with them.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Is that what it is, Chris? That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And the new baby, guess who's gonna run the PGA
Live Golf together with a new name. The Saudis are
gonna run it, Chris, because they got the most money.
What really, all that patriotism and all that flag waving
all went for not It didn't mean a damn thing.
You know what met Bob meant the most who had
(07:49):
the most money. And that's what it came down to.
If this deal wasn't good enough, Chris, for players to
take the most money a year ago or whatever was,
why is it good now?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
He talked a lot about Oh, I worked off the
information we had. Now we got new information. Now you
know what you got. You got a huge check from
the public Investment Fund run that's Saudi Arabia's fund PIFF.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They're putting money all over America. And here was the thing, Rob.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
This is why I'm not when I look at Tiger
Woods and Rory McElroy and all these guys that didn't
get in, you know, and live even though they offered them.
You said it, eight hundred million dollars for Tiger Woods.
I don't look at them as hypocrites. I look at
(08:41):
them they got duped. They got duped. They I believe
I might be wrong, but I believe they meant well.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
All these not all.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
But many of these Americans, particularly the players who were
against it. I think they meant well, but they were misinformed.
Because here's the deal. Folks, listen and listen closely. These
are just some of the United States companies that are
doing business in Saudi Arabia. Pfizer, Phillip Morris, Price, Waterhouse
(09:16):
Ford Motor Company, Amicco, Exxon Bank of America, A Red
Wing shoe company, Samson, Ight Shell Texico. I could JP Morgan,
I Bank, a JP Morgan Chase Chase, Manhattan Bank. I
mean I could go on and on, Coca Cola, Pepsi.
And here's more, the Saudis Sovereign Wealth Fund Saudi Arabia
(09:41):
is invested. They now hold shares Rob in these companies Amazon, Google, Visa, Microsoft, Disney.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We work for Disney, right, Espn.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Nintendo, Uber, PayPal, Zoom, black Rock, which is the world's
largest asset manager.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And here's my thing.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
If all of these United States companies can work with
Saudi Arabia, you mean to tell me one individual golfer
he's supposed to be the one to take the high
road and say no, no, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Please. You're supporting them and you don't even know it, Chris.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
When you buy something from Starbucks, you're supporting the Saudi investments.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
They are all over America.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And that was my issue, the hypocrisy of these wealthy
private companies and corporations who run our country to have
the audacity to act like Tiger or Rory or some
other Golfer would have been just the most demoral person
in the world. It's because they were doing it too.
(10:54):
And that goes all these media members again who got
on their high horse.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Rob.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They were You didn't do your homework, You didn't know
who else was in bed with the Saudi Arabians.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
One Chris spot On, and there were people, Oh, I
would never do that. Remember, people were pushing back on
Charles Barkley when it went on the interview Chris would
to live golf tour. Oh Charles, how could you do that?
I would never take money from them?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Really?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh right, really, now it's okay, Chris and all along,
we're in bed with the Saudi Stop it all. Chris
just named a million companies stun out wasn't even the
half of it. No, and they got a ton of money.
And you could say whatever you want as there's no
reason that they should have put this phony patriotism Chris
(11:46):
in the way of these other golfers telling them that
they should feel bad for taking that money, and how
dare they take that money and leave the PGA, because
look what happened out nine to eleven. That was what
the over and they were supposed that the golfers were
going to look like, oh, look at them. They stood
up to the Saudis and they they didn't want to
(12:06):
take their blood money and look and then before you
know it, the PGA decided that they would cash out
and screw the golfers. Then I'm gonna get that the
deal doesn't include those guys getting money, Chris, that they
lost out with the Saudist.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Rob, and here's the deal. Let me throw this out
there quickly too. I don't want to forget this. Guess
who's the largest customer for US made military equipment, Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Hello, So, so.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The government and all these private corporations are in bed
with them and they expect an individual not to do
the same.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Please, Rob, here's what it is. And you you alluded
to it when.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Tiger and Rory and Phil Mick Michlson shout out to
Phil Micklson he was staying through the through through the foolishness.
And some of these other guys too when they were
being offered this money. Guess who wasn't being offered the PGA, right,
the PGA Tour. Maybe they were offered it and the
PGA Tour said, nah, we don't need you. But now Rob,
(13:13):
like you said, those individual golfers aren't getting it, the
ones who turned it down, But the PGA is now
morning he and gets his cut, right, You call him
a hypocrite because he's gonna be a wealthy hypocrite.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It is one of It is one of the biggest reversals.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Chris and we we said it from this is a
second guest we did. We said in the beginning, same thing,
you just want a Phil Mickelson. They all chastised him
and and criticized him and made him out like he
was an American that he would take part in the
Live Golf Tour. We're like, what, wait a minute, You're
gonna work here in the PGA and make a dollar,
(13:53):
but they're offering you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Really that I'm gonna work for the dollar? Right? Shame
or all the people. That's shame.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Phil Mickelson and any of the other Greg Norman who
was you know, any of the other golfers who went
to live Shame. Now again they may have met, well,
but before you go off on somebody like that, you
need to be a little more informed. All right, We're
gonna throw it out to you, guys eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six
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Speaker 3 (15:49):
What up Jim?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
How you doing? Guys?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I just want to thank you first for all the contents.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
It gets me through my WEEKND. I really appreciate it
that come to the golf. I think this is all
about the money, you know. I mean PGA figured out they.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Couldn't survive once lived open.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
They needed those golfers back and for them to combine
it together. Unfortunately, some guys are going to get egg
on their face, but that shit happens.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Have a great evil Thank.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You, good car.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It's definitely about the money and Rob look Saudi Arabia.
They got money from all that well, and that's what
they're doing. They it wasn't reported right how much PJ.
I mean, the money's got to be astronomical. You offer
t one golfer eight hundred million.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Right, That was a deal for Tiger to come to
join Live eight hundred million, So you know they got
boot cool money, no doubt about it. That's till Kevin
in Culver City. You're on the EYD couple of Fox Sportuato.
What up, keV?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
What fellas you up, good, good.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
The biggest losion this I think is Tiger would I
mean he turned out a billion dollars and then they
ended up merging anyway, so I mean he could have
took all that money home. He's at the end of
his career. I mean, a payday is a payday. It's
like lebar getting off of the Max contract at the
end of his career, a full Max. I mean, you
gotta take that money. They merged anyway, So I mean
Tiger's a big loser. I think Warrior's a big loser.
(17:16):
He could have got a really big bag. And I
think the smart guys are the books kept us of
the world paid and the Dustin Johnsons who took the
money and your boy, shout to your boy. I think
Fred Barner he came out, he said, hey, it's all
about the money. It's all about the money anyway, those
sugarcoated He was right.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And just to put in perspective, hang on there cav
ee hundred million from Tiger. Lebron's made about four hundred
million in his entire NBA and.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
He could look at that, Chris and he could have
made eight hundred keV.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What what do you make of real quick from you
just the way that they wrapped around the whole anti
live was about patriotism and you know what I mean,
they used that as reasons why the golfers shouldn't embrace
the live golf and then and they do it themselves.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Oh? I think it was the PGA suits trying to
get behind that, and he's as an excuse to keep
other guys on their tour, and they have a guilty
trip about guys going over and it just shows they
weren't thinking about their players. At the end of the day,
some of those guys at the ind of the tour
who could have got big pay day's who they guilt
tripped into staying over there and as shouts the Cameron
Smith for taking his money too, guys who kind of
(18:24):
you know, wives up and say no, we're not we're
not find that and they ended up being hypocrites anyway.
It was all a ploy to trying to keep the
power play all the other players on the tour, like
the John Rams of the world.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
So you know, John Roum, he could.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Have made a huge bat, no doubt, Kevin, Thank you
for your insight. Jerome in Charleston, South Carolina. You're on
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
What up? Rome?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
You not believe how chicks off? While I'm about this
leave let me tell you, Truby, you remember that blow
back to Hendry about dealing with China. Well, where are
those people going right now?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What they go straight?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Now? Oh, Chordy Rivy? Human rights and better than Choying,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
In Jerome. It's the same thing. US companies work with
China too.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That's why with Lebron it was like, I mean, he
didn't answer that, you know, he didn't talk necessarily that
well about the situation over there.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But he's one individual.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
If we got all these companies working with China, don't
jump on Lebron James, because you know he he was,
you know, with Nike and all that over there.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And the same thing.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
With these golfers to put a guilt trip on them
and to use nine to eleven Chris as as your
guilt trip Jerome. You know, that's the bad part is
that they used nine to eleven to make the golfers
feel bad about it.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
And as a as a veteran, that really hit hard
with me.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Okay, I want to give him the benefit of the
doubt that they were sincere but sincerely misinformed.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
But maybe they did just use it, Rob, you know,
that's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And thank for the call, Jerome and the Saudi grew
Chris that you talked about PFI piff piff manages six
hundred and fifty billion dollars in essence, a six hundred
and fifty billion with a B.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's so yeah, that's the that's the legal money, Chris,
on the books that we know about.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
All right, We'll bring in our man from Solam to
talk about this and more with him, But first.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Former NFL offensive lineman now a Fox Sports Weekend Radio superstar, we.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Welcome in our man E from Salim. What's up, brother.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
By the way, my wife and I enjoyed your episode
of bel air. We're enjoying the whole thing. But you
did four right episode. Excellent job, great job.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
I thank you, brother, I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Man.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I'm trying. You know, I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, that's a good show, man, I really like it.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Ephraim, Are you a hypocrite too? I just want to know,
just help us out. We're doing enough.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
You be talking about you must be talking about PGA me.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But now you from you heard that they shamed all
the players not to go, they tied it to nine
to eleven, and now they're in bed.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
With the Lift Golf. What'd you make of this when.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You heard this?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Well, when they were doing the whole nine eleven to
these people, I was like, well, first of all, you
just can't come out and make up things right, Like,
you can't just assume without the burden of proof, that
that's what was going on. So that was the biggest
problem I had with that. I mean, that was ridiculous.
And then turn around, what less than a year or
(21:52):
so later, and you've combined with them. Because the fact
of the matter is to lift golf model work, right,
the PGA doesn't. It doesn't work. It's not enough revenue
in it for all of the golfers involved. We talk
about it all the time on our show. You can
come in dead last in every single live event, every
(22:14):
single dead last and still make a close to a
million dollars. Yep, dead last. It's less, it's less holes,
it's less tournaments and bigger persons, And so I I
it was. It was a recipe for success. And the
fact that the PGA fought so hard against it further
(22:37):
lets you know just how you know profitable it could
be and how guys could be wooed away from the PGA.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
How would you feel from a viewer Tiger who turned
down eight hundred million dollars, you know, not to go there,
and then he wakes up today and here's the news,
just like us. The players weren't even giving a heads up.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
No, no, they weren't giving their heads up. I would
I would have a serious problem with the PGA if
I was Tiger. Yeah, because he could have easily just
gone out and and and taken the billion dollars and
and become the faith of the and that it never
had to have win a tournament, never had to win
(23:22):
a tournament. He could have just played himself, Uh, as
long as as he wanted to, just showing up and
join the game, without the pressures of having to win
a major or anything like that, just playing the game
of love. At a very high rate, probably higher than
he had he had made. Uh and he turned it
down with his for the allegiance for the PGA, and they
(23:46):
were just like, now we're good, We're we're gonna take
some money.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
We're gonna we're gonna That eight hundred million turned down
is included in the pot that the PJA is gonna get.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Right, I mean, it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
And if and if he.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Would have been with the Live Chris and ephrom he
would have played less. They don't have a going schedule
like that, would have made money, right and would have benefited.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No doubt.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
All right, let's go to the NBA Finals from what
was your pick when the series started and where are
you at right now?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I picked Dinner. I thought Denver with Jokic had the
better teams. But I also had a caveat of I
wouldn't put anything past Miami, Jimmy Butler in Miami, the
culture that they have, their their ability to to to
coach Eric Spolsher is, you know, it's just a tremendous coach.
(24:43):
So I didn't put it past them, but I thought
Denver had the better team. Uh, the better player in
the series. Uh, the altitude, the home court advantage. Uh.
And now watching you know, if Miami shoots like this,
I mean, anybody who shoots, I just gonna be hard.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
To well, good luck if they're shooting like that, because
that that.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Was If they're shooting like that, then they yet they
deserve it. You tipp the cap and you move on.
But the thing I like what they did is they
made adjustments. Right. They're gonna make it difficult. They're gonna
sacrifice some things and then they're gonna take some things away.
They're going to really put the on this on Michael
uh uh Porter Jr. They're gonna put the on this
(25:26):
on the the smaller players outside of the Joker, and
they are like Jamal Murray, You're gonna have to be
special every night. Yep, you're gonna have to be special
every KTP. You're gonna have to be special every night.
And it's the reason those players are role players and
not super specially KTP and not superstars because that burden
(25:47):
of being special every night isn't there on a role player.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, that's the truth. That's the truth.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Quickly to the NFL, Ezekiel Elliott still not with a team,
do you think. I mean, Dallas may throw him a bone,
and I think that would be good, if you know,
bringing back in the locker room as a leader.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
He obviously wouldn't play the same role.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
But outside of that, do you see like a team,
you know, bringing him on. I mean it's amazing to say,
but is his career as a productive player pretty much over?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Well, his career is whether a team brings him on
or not is separate than him being a productive player.
I think his career as a productive player is over
because every single year his returns have been diminished, his
abilities have gone down, his yards, what he brings to
a team has has diminished. So yeah, he no longer
(26:44):
is that Bill Coal, that the person who can get
you four or five yards to carry. He's right around
three point sixty carry. So I mean, if he ever does,
do I think he'll rush for a thousand yards again
in the NFL? No, because I don't think he'll get
that number of carries. He's gonna need to rush for
(27:05):
a thousand yards in an NFL season. So I think
if they do bring him back, and they've got a
pretty crowded young uh running back room. Now I don't know.
Yeah he won, He's not gonna play special teams. So
the value that he would bring your teams isn't there
(27:27):
because most backup running all backup running back player be
be of special teams. And you're not gonna see you're
not gonna see Dak out there on the punt return.
You're not gonna see him ona kickoff. You know.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
So you what one thing I said, and the question
I asked you was you know, I said he I
think he could be a good leader.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
There is that true though?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I mean, once you're if you're not playing and you
know obviously you're not what you used to be, Like,
can he still be a leader or is that even
just an overstatement?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
The problem is it's not like the NBA where you
can have the Eudonna's has on who don't who they're
locker room guys, right. The problem, especially with forty seven
men roster on the road and fifty three the players
address out, there's not enough spot just to have a
guy to just be there, right. You need guys who
(28:21):
are going to play and contribute. If that, I mean
d came in, it was like, hey, I'll play all
the special teams just put that that's an added value.
You get a young running back like they have, and
you can populate your special teams units with those running backs,
those linebackers, those tight ends, and those receivers for a
(28:41):
third and fourth on the depth chart. That's how you
build out a team. But you get's hard to build
out a team now in the NFL with older guys
who don't play much. That's their physician.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Let me let me ask you one last thing on
Ezekiel and you know beat I say he beat Jerry
Jones out of money, but Jerry Jones as an owner
and GM or whatever you want to call, he's been
fleeced by a number of guys.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, I wonder, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Like when you look at Jerry Jones, you know he
caved in with Emmitt Smith.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
He caves all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
If I'm another owner, I wonder how they look at
Jerry because he hasn't done a good job with that.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
He's fleasable, but he still has the largest brand in
American sports. Uh So he's fleasable, but he's still the
driving force behind the league and it's revenue and the
things that they're trying to do collectively as a company.
So as a as another owner, you understand those things.
(29:47):
You understand the value that Jerry brings. And Jerry, Jerry
has a lot of hearts. He brings a lot of
heart to decisions. He may if he drafts a guy,
he wants to keep a guy. If a guy has
been great and been an All Star and helped him win,
he has, you know, an affinity for him. And he overpays.
He overpays. You know, he loved Tony Romo. He just
(30:07):
knew Tony Romo is gonna take him to a super
Bowl and the rest of the world knew that wasn't
the case. But yet and still he still made sure
that he was paid and and and paid well Hamston
Lee for a long time. Uh. And it just that's
just Jerry, That's just that's how he runs his business.
That he's a billionaire for a reason.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
And he's open to be in as you say, please.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
All right, that is our man e from Salime. Great stuff.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Brother, We appreciate you absolutely many right.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yep, all right, more I couple coming your way. An
NBA All star says, playoff. Jimmy is a fraud. That's
next a Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
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Speaker 3 (31:23):
Slash Match.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
All right, it's time for Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Welcome two Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
daily dicks against the spread.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All Right, here we go, Chrisalo, Shekel City. I'm gonna
take as the best bet. I got the Padres hosting
Seattle minus one and a half runs. San Diego starting
to put a little something together here. They gotta good team.
I got San Diego minus one and a half runs.
(32:03):
Then Chris, A couple of games were high run totals,
the Giants and the Rockies. The over under in the
run total is eleven runs. I'm gonna take the under
and that eleven runs total. San Francisco at Colorado. I'm
also gonna take the under. In the Cubs Angels game, Chris,
(32:28):
the run total is ten runs.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'm gonna take the under.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
So again, San Diego minus one and a half runs
hosting Seattle the Anaheim I mean Angels and the Cubs.
The run total is ten I'm gonna take the under.
And the Giants against Colorado in Denver, I'm gonna take
the under at eleven runs under eleven. Remember, I'm not
(32:56):
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you who
I bet on.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
All Right, there you have it. Rob, we were talking
about Jimmy Butler and the Miami. He's been getting a
lot of love and playoff Jimmy is a real thing,
and he talked today and said that that playoff Jimmy stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Stop it here is I'm not a scorer.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
Like just because I score a lot of points one game,
that doesn't make you're a scorer. I'm not a volume shooter.
I don't do any of that. I don't press to score.
I only press to win. So if I pass the
ball every possession, if we win, I don't care if
I shoot the ball every possession and we win, I
don't care. Just playoff Jimmy narrative. It's not a thing.
(33:41):
I just want to win alone with everybody else, so
I don't worry about too much other thing extef and winning.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I actually agree with Himore some of that, Rob. What
I disagree with is the playoff Jimmy. That's a real thing.
And I get it that he's the last seven games
the only average twenty points on time.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
So what a minute you tease the player saying it
was him?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Okay, I was trying to figure out who was ripping
him during the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Wal I was like, he's pretty much unrippable at this point. Yes,
And that is some of that, Rob.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Some of that is the benefit of not being that guy,
you know, like her.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
We don't have the same expectations of him that we
have of Lebron and Saunds. He's doing this, you'd be
killing him.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah, So twenty points thirty nine percent shooting his last
seven games. But here's why I playoffs Jimmy still is
real because Rob, since he joined the Miami Heat four
years ago, he has forty I'm sorry, he has eight
forty point games in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Forty point scoring games.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
That leads the entire NBA during that time period. Butler,
and guess how many forty point scoring games he has
in the regular season? Zero since he joined the Heat.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Zero. I know what, I'll say it zero. Yeah, so
that's a jump we've talked about.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Rob. I can't think of a player, Rob that makes
this type of leap in the postseason. And so, yeah,
I think the playoff Jimmy thing is real.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
It's hard to argue.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I mean, he does play better. He has played better.
That that's that right there. Zero forty point games in
the regular season but eight in the postseason. That means
that when the chips are down and you're and and
they need you to come through, he's been able to
come through for them. That that's that's really what it's about.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I want is the record eight? Is there a seven?
And one? Of what it is? I would love to
know their records, right and that, Yeah, Rob, g you
see that around. I bet it's good though, I bet
it's good.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
But yeah, and also Rob, I agree, he's not really
a score now. He can score obviously, he gets gonna
give you twenty points a night. But when you think
of the best scorers in the league, the Durrants, the Kyriees,
the Lucas, steph you know, Damian Lillard, like they got
a lot in their bag. The handles are crazy, even
(36:06):
James Harden when he was doing this thing in Houston,
handles are crazy, step backs, a lot of moves Jimmy
doesn't have. He's almost like somewhat of a throwback in that,
Like he doesn't waste dribbles. He's not gonna sit there
and pat it in front of your face all night long.
He's just gonna straight line drives. He's gonna get to
his spot, you know, two three dribbles, pull up mid range.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Now, he's got the pump fakes. But he doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
A ton of moves, and he's not a great three
point shooter, get stuff in transition, things like that.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
But he does.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Score, and he's just an all around great, hard working
basketball player. And people aren't gonna rave about his bag
and all that stuff. But obviously what we're seeing now
is when it's time to deliver and bring it, he
brings it like few others this season.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
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