Arnie Spanier & Chris Plank GO Back & Forth on Top Headlines

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, let's go stinking genius.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Let's go morning man, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Wow. Surely this is early for us.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is why I can't fill in for Ben Maller overnights.
I'm just coming in from last night. Man, I'm just
just right for my breath.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm gonna go out on a limb.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm gonna bet you were in bed probably before my kid.
So my kid was in bed last night at nine
o'clock Central time, which would be ten o'clock Eastern.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
No way, you were still out. No, I was in
bed about nine thirty, hanging out. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey, I gotta get like you.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I know, but it's awesome and probably like if you
were to peel back to curtain.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Actually, we haven't had this conversation.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
This is an off off the air marketing meeting that
Arnie and I are taking to the air for the
future of our partnership. But I think we both agree
we're probably more mourning people than we are like early
slash late evening overnight people.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Right, Yeah, but you know I was up all night
after I got that zion tattoo on my face.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
It happens now, Was that real? Was that real? Was
that real?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Could listen. Don't get me back in they kicked her
off Twitter. And since they kicked her off Twitter, I
haven't been able to keep up on my Zion Williams
sin drama with his only Fans girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
It looks real. I mean they have the video of
her getting it. Now, if it's a fake tattoo, they
are well done.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
You know, they went through the.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Whole motion of the you know, peeling back the paper
and and the thing. It looks real to me. I
don't know why she's getting it, but it does look
real to me.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, I why not, Arnie. Isn't that what we've all
wanted in life? Is Ion Williamson tad on her face?
If you're wonder what we're talking about. More Mills, who's
an Only Fans model very popular on the social media too,
had the big tip when Zion Williamson announced that his
I don't know if he announced it or his girlfriend
or his wife I'm sorry girlfriend announced it that they

(01:55):
were pregnant and they were expecting this. More Mills went
on a crazy social media binge basically blaming Zion for
promising the world and let's just say not delivering now
that it's like, oh, wait, you've got a baby, mama.
What's going on here? And I guess yesterday she decided yesterday, right,
think it was yesterday to take the next step and
get Zion tattooed across his face or her face, excuse me, right, exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
So that's the context of the story right now.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I thought that everybody was doing it, so I went
ahead and did it also, so I thought you were
going to have one, and we're going to be matching.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Okay, in honor of more Mills this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, you calm down, everyone, that's not going where you
think it is you could have because you're not.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Tatted, right, you don't have any ink, No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
This might be the only show on Fox Sports Radio
two hosts that don't have any ink. Actually, I don't
know if Jason Smith does. Anyway, if you were to
get one sports figure ish tattoo, like if it was
a I don't know, a moment, a name, a play, whatever,
what is it?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
In honor of more Mills this morning?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And because you brought it up, she's got Zion tattooed
on her face. What would already have tattooed somewhere on
his body?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I would probably have to go old school. We'll go
back to like if I was going to get anything,
I get, you know, the Arizona the letter A era
very good. Yeah, I mean, because you know, I'm a
bigger college fan than you, right right, No, I understand
much bigger fan than all our listeners. So I'd think
i'd have to get the block A on on my
ankle or something like that, you.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Know what i mean.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
By the way, this has become a new thing with you,
and I'm always curious about us. Has someone questioned your fandom,
because that's become one of my new favorite things. Is
anytime there's a disagreement for you, it because well, I'm
a bigger fan than you, so it just doesn't matter.
I mean, is there a Twitter fight somewhere that we
need to step in on or you?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
But did you get over your losses, whether it's Oklahoma
or Tulsa, like in about three minutes.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
My coffee on that one? Yeah, to me, it takes
me years.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'm still mad when Arizona lost Illinois and COSTSES a
trip to the Final four like twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
So I'm still in the well. Once you get over that.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I got a lot of football heartbreaks for you that
can jump you right back into I've decided, Arnie, that
the tattoo I would get would be something involving either
my lifelong fandom of the Cincinnati Reds or our Ellie
de la Cruz, whom, as I've told you from the
moment that he became a part of the Reds farm
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(04:26):
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Speaker 3 (04:30):
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Speaker 1 (04:31):
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How freaking fun are the Cincinnati Reds right now?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's incredible? What a great story too. I thought, you know,
Verdie was gonna tell me they haven't won this many
in a row since the Big Red Machine.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yet not even the Big Red Machine did it.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's it's just great. It's a great He's exciting, is
what you know. Six to one he was when he
first came up. I think he was like thirteen, fourteen
to one, or maybe fifteen to one. So even at
six to one, you're gonna get some good odds out there.
But the Reds at all overall, they're just exciting to watch.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
They're only went well like six games over five hundred,
so it's quite the turnaround. But man, it's just great
to see them do this, you know, so baseball needed this.
By the way, I'm not still I'm still not sure. Yeah,
I'm still not sure that people are tuning in just
to see the Cincinnati Reds because what we're in the
second week of baseball I think is that what we
It's crazy. We still only have like another eight more

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months to go. But I'm not sure that, you know,
it's still enough. I mean, where they Ray's enough at
the beginning of the year for people to tune on in. No,
but we'll see if people with the Reds I think
have obviously have a bigger fan base than the Rais.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Here's the two two and there's a drive toward the
right center field gap that's down.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
This will send India around third day La Cruz going
for third. Here's the relay not in time. An RBI
triple for Ellie Dayala Cruz and he has just hit
for the cycle.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
So I don't know if we've talked about this, Arnie,
because you obviously just said congratulations to baseball for making
the second week of the season.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I've tried to be more all in on baseball this year.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I somehow, and I don't know if this is going
to be one of those things that pops on my bill.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
And I didn't realize it.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
I hadn't gotten the baseball package the last couple of years,
just because Dodgers games were on so late and I'm
in the Central time zone. I'm up until one am
watching games, and I realized it doesn't really matter. This
team is going to win the West this year. Somehow
I got back in the game. So I've been watching
a little bit more. I've been trying to be more invested,
and I think I would push back against your it

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doesn't matter because of what the race did at the
beginning of the year. I think this run for the
Reds is attached to a personality. I think this run
for the Reds is attached to a dude that Okay,
I'm I'm trying to stay calm on this and this
probably doesn't help that one of my best friends is
a Reds fan. But can Ellie de la Cruz truly

(07:09):
be kind of a transcendent star for baseball? And it
helps that his team looks like it's going to be
pretty good at least for now with him, Or am
I getting way over my skis on an early run
only what twelve games into a into a guy's career,
and I mentioned that I had the ticket or not
to take an excuse me? The baseball version, I think
it's called strike zone.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
But I.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Was watching the Dodgers game when he debuted, when he
made his debut, because I've been watching more Dodgers games,
and as soon as he steps to the play, You're like,
all right, this dude, this dude looks this dude is
different athletically, physically in his attack.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I may get fired for this, so have your eye
on the dumb button on this, But I would bet
that Ellie de la Cruz will have a better career
than when ba Yamba, how about that?

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, I noticed, I noticed you weren't very high on
Victor Winbinnana he gets off to the party.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, yeah, there's a few things kind of bothering me
about him.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
But Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
As for de la Cruz though, I just love him,
I really do. And we'll see if he does bring
back interest. You know what is missing though right now,
Chris right, I've argued with this with you for like
eleven years in.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
The Reds winning streak. We've argued over it for eleven years.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Just baseball, and you know what, you know where I
I know right now we need so I mean, we're
what seventy seven, seventy five games in, we'd be wrapping
up the season. There'd be a Pennant race right now.
If we had the split season and then started fresh again.
I mean, my Mets are out of it. I am
I supposed to go through the next ninety games. My

(08:41):
Mets have no chance out there. You know, the Yankees
would get a fresh start instead of being ten and
a half games out.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
The Dodgers, you.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Know, would get a fresh star, you know, I mean,
the Padres. There's so many teams that could benefit from
a split season, especially in major markets. I think that's
where baseball is headed, at least I hope that's where
they're headed.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
But another ninety games and my Mets are out of it.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
The Red Sox fans aren't feeling too good, you know,
at ninety games left, so I wish they were doing it,
But that doesn't look like it's happening now.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Is this being talked about by anyone? Because I don't know, okay,
I didn't know if well, it's all over the other leagues,
though I don't know exact Double A, Triple A, you
name it. I think Triple A has two halves to
the season, but at least I know Double A does
for sure. I haven't heard it talked about. And I'm
going to shock you right now. I think I'm one

(09:32):
eighty to your side on this. And again, maybe it's
just being drunk kind of with the Reds being good
right now and how fun that's been to follow and
see from Afar, and maybe you're right with something. Maybe
it's because the Dodgers aren't as good as they typically are, Like, no,
we control all delete. I'm okay right now with trying
to restart this thing and getting these young guys going.

(09:55):
But how do we start that conversation?

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Does anyone want that conversation? I think I do.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
How did we start the conversation with a pitch clock?

Speaker 3 (10:04):
For right now?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
If we're going to add that, and you added runners
on second base and extra innings, and I mean there's
so many things we've done different to the game. This
is really not that dramatic. We have you know, the
dh you know, in both leagues. I mean, think about this,
It's really not that dramatic if you go ahead and
have the split season, since we do it in the
minor leagues anyway. And another thing, if you really want

(10:28):
to go ahead and get interest in baseball, you can't
have teams, you know, twenty games out of first, fifteen
games out of first and expect fans to you know,
flock to the ballpark, you know, with ninety games left,
unless you know, like you're a Cup fan or something
like that. This gives a renewed hope, renewed interest. You know,

(10:48):
I'd like to see what the A's would do in
the second half.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I have to have that small winning streak.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't know you could build teams around eighty one games.
I really think this is the way that baseball has
to go. Otherwise you're just going to have the long
dog days of summer when teams just get blown up.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
You know, in my end upth this shows you did
you have this on your sheet.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
No, I did not.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
This is a great topic. I'm very happy right now.
You've got to realize one thing. And I think those
that regularly listen here on Fox Sports Radio when I
get to sit in for Aunt and the Fellas and
k figures out this morning too, So we'll have an
update coming up at the bottom of the hour with
Kevin Wired.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
But Alreadie when I'm up early, is that.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
First couple of cups of coffee, so the mind's always
grinding right by ten pm, we're already bitter and done
with the day in central time when we're on Sunday nights.
But you've got me and I'm just I'm working like
crazy to see if there's any story on the internet
about this, because I love love this idea. I think,
can I say, I'm halfway up this hill with you
and I'm intrigued by it. I just feel like there's

(11:48):
a lot more work that needs to go into just
kind of the thought process around it. How would averages
carry over? Would records? I mean they would obviously have
to at least from an individual perspective.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Right, yeah, okay, Yeah, By the way, I did add
a topic. I didn't put it on the sheet for you. Oh,
go ahead, because I well, I just know that if
I put it on the sheet, you would disregard it
because you were one hundred percent wrong.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
So I added it after I sent you the rundown.
Don't don't, don't lead us down a conference reelne of conversation.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And no, right, well, no, I'm talking about you know
when you used to yell at me, going, what.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Are you crazy? Everybody would want trey Lance. The forty
nine ers don't even want to trade it, but everybody
would like I don't think that was the reason why
I said they weren't shopping trey Lance, But go ahead.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
But it doesn't seem like anybody wants them. There's nobody
even the forty nine ers don't want them, but they
can't get rid of them.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
So it looks like it was one hundred percent right
on that one too.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Let me back me back up just real quick to
get good morning everybody, like, show context.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
On that little brawl and that little Donni broke.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Okay, because I am I was at adamant Arnie Spaniard,
adamant that trey Lance wouldn't be shopped because because trey
Lance and there was so much value you attached to
him in what San Francisco did to go up and
get him and everyone else. I'm reading the floorios of
the world and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Knocking, just saying they not away.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Well, if Trey Lance is being shopped trade, he'll have
this kind of value and he's beating The Niners don't
want or they're worried about this. They don't want the
drama for quarterback battles, whatever it was. And the whole time,
I'm like, dude, they gave up like an entire draft
to go up and get this guy. I don't think
they're gonna punt on him after three years. And it's
part of the reason why he can't put on him
is because no one else wants him right now. But

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I do think he deserves a fair opportunity. There's not
even something in there. They're not even waiting the fourth down.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
They're quick punting on third down there, all right, I
just got it's third and thirty two.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
But the ball, But the ball, I mean, come on down.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I have an unpopular opinion for you, all right, you ready,
because there's a story this morning. I think it's the
first thing up on Pro Football Talk and it involves
whether or not the Cardinals would trade Kyler Murray if
they had it for the first round pick, because now
all this, of course they would, right, it would be
very costly for a team to take him on, which
I think would be interesting to see where they could

(14:05):
get in return. But I mean, I digress, I guess
just a little bit. But you know, I'm thinking about
that on the quarterback side of things, and people I
think would want to give Trey Lance an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
I really do.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
So this whole idea that the Niners were gonna trade
him and get something in return for him, are give
up In that short amount of time. I've just been
dramatically and constantly pushing him back, pushing back against that armie.
I just never ever thought that it was going to
be a thing for San Francisco, and I didn't think
you could have value yet.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
But we I mean, this was the League of patients.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
With quarterbacks r right, This was anymore Aaron Rodgers look
at him?

Speaker 3 (14:44):
In three years? Was it?

Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think it was four for Aaron, three for Philip Rivers.
River set for a while, Steve McNair set for a
couple of years. Whenever he was drafted by the Houston
Oilers and then obviously the Tennessee Titans. They became so
I don't know, man, at some point we stopped having
that patient with first round picks, or maybe even having
quarterbacks in positions that were able to be cool with it,

(15:07):
right that didn't freak out a panic when you brought
in a first round picking quarterback.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I will tell you this, if you want to do
a topic, what young quarterback has one year to prove
that he should be the starter in the NFL or
he's going to be benched? And the first thame on
that list is going to be two way. You know
you understand that because if he if he doesn't have
a good year this year, there's no guarantee he going
to be the starter.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
He only has what one year left on it?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Sure he's left on the contract or one year left?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
No one year right now, one fifth year option.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
He's number one on the left. You talk about any
young quarterback that better have a good year or he's
going to be benched to is number one, and you
know whose number two is going to be brock Purty.
They're not going to wait a round it if they
could say, okay, we made a mistake. He had a
good seven game run last year or eight game whatever
it was. But get this guy back on the bench.
So let's figure this out.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Okay, okay, hold on in that battle right there, just
in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, who are you or apt to want to keep
around him?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Or Lance brock Party, because I think we answer to
demand more money. And brock Party was drafted in the
one hundredth rounds. Sorry, you don't have to really pay
him anything.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
So that, by the way, another time honored tradition, a
guy's round in which he was drafted whenever he was
a late round pick. Arnie, that guy's draft round drops
for every single year that he's in the league. So
he's right, one hundredth round for a brock Party. I
think it was like the eighth day of the draft
for Tom Brady whenever he was picked.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
By the way, we do have to read because we
do like to take a lot of tweets here. So
Johnny wrote, I got up to get water. I heard
you too talking. I was like, oh crap, I slept
through the damn weekend.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
No, Johnny, no, no, no, no, And again morning, guys, I've
got to be honest with you my tyrack dot com
studios here in Beautiful Goldsby, Oklahoma, Arnie, they're.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Not quite as fancy as those in Sherman Oaks nor Burlington, Vermont.
But this morning, I just I wanted to openly apologize
because my air conditioner that was something from the nineteen thirties.
It's on and it's not turning off right now, and
if I unplug it, it might turn the power off
in the whole studio.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
So I apologize for the low hum.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's always like ninety degrees outside here at five in
the morning or fow morning.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Fancy with an air conditioner. When I was in college,
we just had a swamp.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'm not in college, you know, I'm forty eight.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Do you know what a swamp cooler is?

Speaker 3 (17:25):
I don't, Yes, I do, do I not a swamp cooler.
It's like, oh, I don't even want to tell you
what it's like. We got a break. Oh my gosh. Okay,
I'm used to like that.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
You're not doing commercial free hour number right.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
No, no, no, I'm not used to these early morning marks.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I like to get ahead of the chains a little bit,
all right, So we owe you a time out when
we come back. Arnie actually kind of led into a
storyline I wanted to get into. And instead of waiting
till later, let's dive all in quarterbacks that are in
the prove it or Lose it year.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
We'll talk about a next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
All right, it's Arnie in Plunk on a Saturday morning.
Don't be thrown off. What cup coffee number are you on?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
I finished two?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
And then my office is far from the cafeteria, so okay,
I have to That's why I woke my wife up
to make me breakfast and bring me down some coffee.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
We my wife and I have actually, to be honest,
are having probably the most fun we've ever had on
a summer vacation. Are so much information, Well, let me
tell you, first of all, no fun like that, but
just you know, and I hadn't and maybe some dad's
experience this. My son went off to college last year,

(18:34):
so it was like the first summer to where he's
not coming over, he's not coming around.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
You're like, dang, you know this is And we've got
two daughters, right.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
And we're sitting last night and it's just one of
those things where it's, hey, you know, this has been
a it's been a pretty fun summer so far, right,
It's been.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's been kind of nice. It's been kind of enjoyable
so far.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
And then I try to engage her, Arnie, in a
conversation about, Hey, what would you do if I said,
let's let's get up with me tomorrow morning and let's
let's have breakfast before the show? Or what would it
be like if I walked over and just kind of
maybe gave you a little kiss on the cheek in
the morning. And a response was I'd murder you and
you'd be sleeping on the couch and be out in
the grouage. So good on you, Arnie, you control your household. Obviously,

(19:16):
with all that great stuff from my summer so far,
my wife still wouldn't get up and make me breadfast.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know what's so funny is it was four am
more I'm on the air five am Eastern, right, and
the dog wanted to go out, and I woke up
my wife.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I don't have time for this. I only have an hour.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I gotta make coffee. She already made the coffee. All
I had to do was press the button. But I'm like,
you have to get up and get the dogs out
and let's go, let's go, got to work today, Let's
do this.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'm very guilty of one thing that did happen a
lot last night, and I don't know again, and we're
gonna get to this list that I put together, plus
the Reds one. Kevin Wire's got a full update coming
up at the bottom of the hour, Dodgers one last night.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
If he went to bed earlier, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
I guess technically in LA you could probably still be
getting home from.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
The game, but yeah, exactly, maybe so, but I want
to give this quarterback list.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
The problem is already whenever I got to get up early,
I constantly am worried that I'm going to sleep through
my larm. So I'll go to bed, let's just say,
hypothetically at eleventh Central Time for that three thirty am
wake up call, I'm going to wake up at midnight.
I'm gonna wake up at one AM, and I'm gonna
wake up at two. But see, the difference was, and
I was talking with or with Mark about this during
the break.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I can't get away from.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
The news channels right now, so I'm trying to do
my best to stay focused on the sports world.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
But there's some interesting newsy stuff. That's it.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Sure, And I'll tell you something. It's been wild to
follow it on Twitter, but it for us we usually
say is your sports distraction. But I'm just telling you
we got our eyes on it. So if anything happens
with the Russian story this morning, Arnie and Plank will.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Be all over it with our news guru, Lady span.
Let me tell you how much of a news guru
I am.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I had to ask Mark his opinion of how I
could get one of the news apps or do any of.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
The news apps happ in the stream, because all I.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Have on my on my TV's out here is a
fire stick and everything on it is either ESPN or Fox.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Top five quarterbacks who have something to prove heading a
make it or breaking this year? Now everyone, I think
it's fair to say, right, Arnie has something to prove,
but move it or lose it.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
And you hit on one that I didn't even have
on my list.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well you said that you're gonna go brock Purty on
that list, and I was a little bit surprised because
I thought you would always viewed him as like that dude.
And the guy that was going to be the forty
nine ers quarterback for years to come. But now you're like,
I'm not so fast.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
My friend.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, seven games isn't enough to go ahead and keep
your job if you start off the next season and
they don't go you know, they're one and four, one
and five or or whatever they are, especially when you've
got a whole bunch of other quarterbacks waiting to get
on the field. So if I was doing my young quarterbacks,
that must go ahead.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
And this is just young. So you're you're just saying young,
you're not. You're not putting guys that like Kirk Cousins are. Okay, yo, No, and.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I have four of them, really, I mean okay, all
four you'll probably agree with.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
To is number one. I mean it's they pick over party. Okay,
well it doesn't mean really do you can put him
in any order? But too is one of him. I mean, obviously,
if he has a bad year, what team's gonna pick
him up? Side him? Especially with the fifth year option
here and say you're our starting quarterback. Two's got to
be mac Jones, right, I mean how many how much
more time will the Patriots give him and form what

(22:21):
we understand then the Patriots won Aaron Rodgers, so maybe
they're not even ready. They're ready to get make the
move in the summer. But I guess Mac Jones will
get that number.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Three.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I have Kenny Pickett also, I don't know how long
Pittsburgh and I know some people do like him. I'm
not sold on him. I'm curious to see what you
think about him, but I don't think he's got a
whole year if it's not gonna be a good year
for Pittsburgh. And brock perty would be the fourth. I mean,
maybe he's actually got more time than the other three,
but if he doesn't have a good year, he's not
gonna get back to starting either. So there's my four.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
So, by the way, I'm sitting here, I'm trying to
follow a long Arnie with your list, and I don't
even know how to activate a stupid code on my
TV right now, So I might have wrote down a
number incorrectly, But you had two to one, Mac two,
Picket three, and brock Pirty four.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, that's that's theoder I had it in.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I feel Steeler fan, where are we on Kinny Pickett
right now? It's a good old fashioned summer conversation. Hit
us up on Twitter at Stinking Genius one at Plank Show,
and it's Eastern time, right, so maybe at you know,
five thirty in the morning, you're up and at him
or even on the podcasting and catch us later.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
I kind of like Pickett Arnie.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
He reminds me a lot of the Steeler and it's
been big Ben right, and even if you go back
to Terry Bradshaw, they're not always the most and Ben
was a physical freak right size wise, but it wasn't
as if he was some incredible athlete, you know, spinning
out of things.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I mean, he was great in the pocket. But my
point is it's not.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
These overly you know, rocket arm, supremely athletic, crazy in
the pocket.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
They're great quarterbacks have always been, you know that.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
You go back to Terry Bradshaw, he just won, right,
had a great arm, But there wasn't anything spectacular, nothing
overly spectacular about Ben.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
No.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
My point on Pickett is there's nothing like overly spectacular
about him. But I think he's gonna be a guy
that just wins for him.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I wish you would have asked that question were you
on Picket when they were five and eight last year
right the season and they won their last short games,
and then then you know how they with all the
great quarterbacks coming in from college this after this year,
and the ones that could be possibly up there for
the taking. Does Kenny Pickett really are you saying to
yourself if you're a Steward fan, No, No, we're good here.

(24:33):
Don't don't even call us. We've got our starting quarterback
for the next five to eight to ten years. I
don't think so at all. They'll be taking phone calls
promto if they have to.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
I think I might disagree, but not like strongly, Yeah,
not strongly. I don't think you're gonna be throwing me
off this seal. But we'll die more in depth on
that list next. And I've got mine. I've got one
more addition, one more addition I want to make to
the list. We'll do it next first. Kevin wyre my
Man has been following the news all night long and
he's got the latest two on five.

Speaker 8 (25:02):
Yet it has been a bit of a distraction watching
what's going on in Russia. It's been fascinating, fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
But we did have a lot of baseball action on
Friday in the Cincinnati Reds the talk of the town.
They've now won twelve straight games and rookie Elie de
la Cruz has just continued his sensational season.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Here's the two to two and there's a drive toward
the right center field gap that's down thisfull Send, India.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Around third day, la Cruz going for third. Here's the
relay not in time. An RBI triple for Elie Dela
Cruz and he.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Has just hit for the cycle.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
It was an eleven to ten shootout win for the
Reds against the Braves. Again, they've won at twelve straight games.
Another team that's really surging is the Giants. They take
down the first place Diamondbacks eight to five. San Francisco
now just two and a half games back of Arizona,
a top of the NL West. The Dodgers beat the
Ascos three to two, Emmitt Shean getting his first career

(26:05):
victory for Los Angeles. He allowed just two runs across
six innings of work. The Angels fall to the Rockies
seven to four, and that's despite the fact that both
Mike Trout and Choeotani hit back to back home runs.
Phillies beat their heated rival the Mets five to one,
and there was a trade in baseball today, the Angels
acquiring Eduardo Escobar from the Mets in exchange for two

(26:29):
minor league pitchers.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Back over you, guys, Thanks Kevin.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's Arni and Plank coming to you live from the
tairaq dot com studios. Anthony Gargano is out, Kfig is out.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
So where's Gargano in Italy or something like that?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Is that staking genius? And don't I don't know, do
you guys know Ethan? We're ant is because he's I
think he's in Italy, That's what I heard. Yeah, look
at that. I kind of dig that. You. Oh geez,
have you ever been overseas? It's been a long time.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
For me. It was mostly when I was younger, So no,
I would say, mostly no, I have not.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
I've never been.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm excited, excited someday to think about going, but I
don't know if it's something that I feel like I
need in my life.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, maybe we'll have the network send this out there.
We'll do a show live out there about that.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fox Sports Radio, can you please send us out for
when the Dolphins over there this year? We need to
go cover the Chiefs whatever they play overseas. Hey, as
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and save at Progressive dot Com. Can I I want
to add a maybe two more guys to your list now.
We were motivated by the Pro Football Talk story that
basically said, Hey, the Cardinals, if it doesn't go well,
could start shopping Kyler Murray in advance of potentially landing
Caleb Williams. Why wouldn't you put Kyler Murray on that list?

(28:01):
Do you not consider him a younger guy in the
league anymore?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I actually I would. You're right.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I thought just kind of admitted him, But you're right,
he'd be he'd be right up there on the list also,
But he's got an injury, so he's not going to
be able to prove himself intill what after what let's
say the first eight games or something like that.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Plus he's got a contract guaranteed. Well, that doesn't mean
anything really, to be honest with.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
You, well, it would hurt probably your potential trade value
for him, right right, That's about it. In other words,
someone might say I want Kyler a team like the
Raiders might because they're I'm so down on the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Right, I know your voice.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's just every time I And by the way, I
don't think Ethan was in last Saturday night. I filled
in for Bernie on the four Hours, swore a Saturday
into Sunday. So Mark's definitely tired of hearing this. Kevin's
tired of hearing this. And I realized to myself, at
my core, I still love this freaking team.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
I want to see the Raiders do well, that's that's
my Sundays. I'm miffed with some of the decisions that
have been made, but at the core, that's still my team.
So when I say this, I've got to start accepting
that my negativity has to be placed somewhere else. The
ultimate plan would be to go oh and seventeen, but
we're just dumb enough to back into three or four

(29:18):
wins and so then that way your options are not
going to be Drake may or Caleb Williams. You're either
going to be thinking about the mullet kid out of
Texas who is incredibly overrated, or you're gonna start looking
around the league and saying, all right, well, who's a
guy that can give us something that can compete with
Patrick Mahomes. It ain't Jimmy Garoppolo, it's not Brian Hoyer.

(29:39):
I don't think it's gonna be Aid and O'Connell.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Watch the Raiders get Tour or something like that. After
the time I listen.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
I'm just telling you the one thing everyone hates Derek.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh there's the facts that hates Derek Carr in Raider Nations.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
And that's fine because he never had a good roster
around him. Now certain guys elevate rosters. Derek needs help
around him.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean, not everyone is Patrick Mahomes, but guess what,
you're in a division where you're competing with Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
And so it was all Derek Carr's fault.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
But at the very least, Arnie, you knew, all right,
we got some stability here at quarterback. It's been nine
years and I don't know if the Raiders had stability
prior to Derek Carr until like you're two of the
Gannon Air so it had been a long time. So
this instability at the quarterback position has got me thinking
quite a bit about you know, if you don't get
that top pick, and if the answer is in Caleb Williams,

(30:30):
then maybe you start to think about the Kyler Murray's
or the twos. And honestly, with that number on his contract, Arnie,
I just I don't think that return is going to
be as easily grabbed for Arizona as you might think,
especially if Kyler doesn't have a great season this year.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
So I would put Kyler on that list.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
You'll have to go in a different direction because I
don't think Murray's the answer there.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't really know where you're going to look. Is
Jimmy Garoppolo the answer?

Speaker 2 (30:55):
No, it's certainly not the answer anymore. I used to
love Jimmy g but obviously after what he's been through
in all the injuries, that doesn't mean he can't put
together one good year.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
But no, he's not the long term answer there. There's
no doubt about that. No, no, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
So I would also I added two other names and
I think they're both incredibly unfair.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
But one of those names was Sam Howe, and just.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Because I like Sam Howe and I like the pairing
of him and Eric p Enemy in Washington, and he
had that year. He didn't quite do in his final
game what Patrick Mahomes did in that Chiefs Broncos game,
but he looked pretty good.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
He looked serviceable, look capable.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
But I just wonder in Washington with new ownership, right,
with kind of a new mindset, right, this isn't going
to be a team that I think is going to
shy away from, you know, spending money. Sam Howe might
have a really short amount of time to prove himself
in Washington, and also for that that entire coaching staff
might too if it doesn't go well.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
So is it unfair to put like a Sam Howe
on that list?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
No, I mean because, like you said, maybe it is
a little unfair, but that really he doesn't make a
difference because you know as well as I do that
if he doesn't come through, though, yeah, I come faster,
you know, and then the fourth game of the season
or something like that. It's amazing how many great quarterbacks
are in the league, and that are coming into the league,
yet there's so many teams that could really use a
franchise quarterback. I don't know where they're swinging and missing

(32:18):
on this, but they're not doing a very good job,
to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, And then the second one that I was going
to throw in there, and again, like I said, this
is one of those debates if you want to say that,
you know, he's truly an older guy. But I kind
of think that the Jaguars have to build off their momentum.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Trevor Lawrence is not getting traded, he's not getting caught,
he's not being moved. But I was kind of debating
back and forth between like he or c J. Stroud, Arny,
because you know, Bryce Young's the number one overall pick.
Carolina has a lot of work to do on its roster.
Houston has a lot of work to do on its roster.
But Arnie, CJ. Stroud, now you moved up to get him,

(32:58):
and if you suck, you might have kind of missed
on an opportunity to get a transcendent guy like Caleb
Williams or Drake May for that matter. And I don't know,
I was thinking Trevor Lawrence, and I was going back
and forth between he and C. J. Stroud, But I
think if you have those two or three guys in
the list, we basically just named off every single young
starting quarterback in the league right now outside of maybe

(33:19):
a mahomes whore Herbert or or Borough who we feel
like I have something to prove.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Look, I love Trevor Lawrence, you know that. Yeah, And
to even ask that question, people like, what are you crazy?
But then if you go back and you really look
at it, first of all, it's a lousy division, so
he was the king of a lousy division out there too.
How many people said, yeah, we love Trevor Lawrence when
they were what four and eight during the season in
that crappy division. When you're fort and eight that crappy division,

(33:46):
you're not doing something right. I mean, Tennessee, you had
to lose seven games in a row along with the
Colt for you to go ahead and win that division. So,
you know, is he that improved? Did he get that
much better? Or is it the benefit of playing in
that crappy division and Tennessee and the Colts just rolling over?
And of course you always love having the Texans in
your Division. Also, I would have loved to see what

(34:06):
happened if Trevor Lawrence was like the starting quarterback for
the Patriots or something like that.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
You know, we'll dive in a little deeper.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
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(35:00):
Eastern time on the East Coast, Arnie, that means you
get your first live sports center right. They usually repurpose
the overnight show throughout the evening, and I'm not talking
about a competitor when I asked this question, because I mean,
come on, this is some live updates we're getting. Is
it a story that it was Neil Everetts last Sports
Center for you or no?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I you know, I saw that when I woke up
and I saw they were doing like a special for him.
I didn't know it was going to be his last
thing either. I like him, you know, I like him too.
Seems like a regular, down to earth type guy in
a place where there's a lot of egos out there.
So I like him. I wish him the best, nothing
but the best, and he just seems like a pretty

(35:42):
good guy to me.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
You know. I never met him though.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
In a world I mean, either in a world that
is so filled of people that just seem so miserable
covering sports Arnie Spaniel now, but in all seriousness, in
a world where there's so many people that just act
like it's so miserable what we're having to watch and
how terrible this is and everything is awful. It just
seemed like he was a fan and I dig that
because that's all I am. I mean, geez, come on, man,

(36:06):
I keep waiting for that day when they're like, okay, sir,
you're up from this incredible dream where you get to
talk sports with Arnie Spaniard. Maybe it's a nightmare, but
I love dudes that are in the business that are
fans right, and they don't take themselves too seriously. And
I never knew or met Neil, but really cool to
see him putting a rap on his.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Sports Center career. That's a pretty good run in TV.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know, TV's kind of like radio, so everything is
in dog years, So you add seven to that. So
he's been around for a minute.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Twenty three years or something like that, right.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
So seven, so that's like two hundred and twelve years. Wow,
Well that's something that's not even close to the right number.
But congratulations Saniel Everett. Now, Arnie, we were talking about
quarterbacks that we feel like that are younger, that are
in a proven or lose a year. And it was
funny because the Pro Football Talk story this morning on
Kyler's contract. I forgot about Kyler's contract. Arnie Holy smokes

(37:02):
the man. And by the way, I'm pretty sure it
wasn't this. Wasn't this the previous regime and Michael Bidwell
obviously signed off on it.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
But he is a dead cap hit.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
He's not getting cut this season, but just to kind
of give you an idea, he is a dead cap
hit this year for the Arizona Cardinals of ninety seven
point five million dollars. Now again, dead cap hit means
if you cut him, that's what you're out. He's a
cap hit of thirty four point five million dollars.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
You know, you could do a list of quarterbacks that
would not be the starter anymore. But if it wasn't
for their contract saving them, they would be benched and
there the team would go in a different direction.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
You know, Kyler Murray, I got that number wrong.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Kyler Murray's cap hit cap hit this year is only
sixteen mil, but next year his cap hit. These are
the next four years with Kyler Murray Arnie fifty one
point eight mil, forty five points six mil, fifty five
point four mil, and forty three point five Wow.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
If you could have a list of quarterbacks, if teams
could say, you know what, we made a mistake, can
we get a mulligan on this? He's going to be
in that top five. Him and Russell Wilson are probably
going to be one and two right up there, you know.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Oh yeah, and you notice it's funny we got our
Russell Wilson hype video, but we didn't get anything from
the like the Broncos media.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
It was just like, yeah, there's a hype video.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Usually someone like a Ben Albright or someone out of
Denver Brandon that goes on with Jason and Michael lot
or actually, I'm sorry, comes on the middays a lot
with Dan and Doug. There's been nothing like, oh yeah,
we're hearing that it's been a great offseason for Russell too.
Usually that kind of hype is backed up by people covering.
I haven't seen any of that now, But you brought

(38:50):
up guys on contracts.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Right Rustcott's right up there also, Dak Prescott is.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Up Well, you consider the mistake for I'm trying not
to give up on Dak. I'm trying to get a chance.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Look, I'm not so sure it's quite the mistake yet.
But if the Cowboys got up to a bad start
and the contract saving himause if he was in the
final year, I could see them going to a different
direction instead of paying him all that type of money.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
You know, you know it's gonna be interesting because I
think Kirk Cousins is hitting the market this offseason, or
at the very least the Vikings might be ready to
head in another direction. I wonder what kind of option
he's going to be for teams because everyone kind of
only always talks about the fit Cousins and Kyle Shanahan
and maybe do any getting I think that would be
a fascinating story if Cousins hits the market this offseason.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
But that's like forty minutes on quarterbacks. I know what's
sorry that you no? You started this. You started this
because you brought up the word football, all right.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
I know.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
When we come back, we'll talk Ellie d la Cruz.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
After his cycle last night, Nick Saban made some waves
and Arnie isn't necessarily all in on old Wim Bantonio
talk about it coming up next A Fox Sports Radio
got an Andy Furman quite a type of tease to
kick off.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
This hour for you. You ready, Arnie, I'm ready you
right here we go.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
It's a back and forth in the media that is
setting the tone for the next decade in the NFL.
We'll tell you about it coming up in just a bit.
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Speaker 3 (40:59):
Let's take place.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
I was gonna say later on, and I don't know
if I did this topic with you. You know, we're
about what's seventy five, almost halfway through the season in
Major League Baseball, and I heard MONSI talking about the
different pronunciations of Arius, who's batting four to two.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Is that what it is? I believe?

Speaker 2 (41:18):
So yeah, for Miami, do you want him to bet
four hundred for the entire year? You hope that record
doesn't get broken. I was just wondering of record you'd
like to see broken and not broken. I don't know
if I want him to break that four hundred.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Run do you know what's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I don't know if you feel the same way too,
But I felt like whenever we were young, and maybe
this just shows kind of the dwindling popularity in sports,
you mentioning that is outside of I didn't hear Monsey
talking about it, right, It's the first time I've heard
that topic brought up on this network where it wasn't

(41:56):
like just the most diehard of diehard.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Baseball person, no offense, aren't he.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Literally I have not heard this talked about to the
degree that whenever we were younger, both of us, when
we were younger, Pete Rose chased four hundred a couple of.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Weeks, Brett yeah, George Pratt yeah, and like three ninety
three one yeah, no, yeah, yeah. I mean these stories
were massive at the time. Man, the home run record
and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
I mean, we were, we were doing breakings for stuff
like that, you know.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, So I am. I guess I'm really excited that
you brought it up. Now, what are you going with?
Are you're going are you going with Arias? What are
you going with? What did Monsey go with?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Well, she had a different She's, you know, the Queen
of pronunciation rights exactly. I can't roll my rs or
anything like that. I'll just go with whatever she says.
I'll say Arias or whatever. But four oh two nothing
to be excited about just yet. We got a obviously
a long long way.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
But it's a pretty good star. It's good history.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Since I'm a since I'm in Oklahoma, Arnie, that's ari
Is Ara.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Is that, you know? The player for the Marlins aage,
you know.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Fifth highest by qualified hitter in his team's first seventy
seven games since nineteen forty one Miami or overall.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Luis
ariez four h two average is the fifth highest by
a qualified hitter in his team's first seventy seven games
since nineteen forty one. I'm gonna give you the list.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
So, in other words, through Miami's first seventy seven games,
the team's first seventy seven games, he has the fifth fifth,
He has the fifth highest batting average through those games
in the history of ever. The list ahead of him,
Larry Walker had a four h nine average in nineteen
ninety seven. Rod Crue was hitting four oh seven at

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this point in nineteen seventy seven. John Olerud was hit
in four oh six Toronto in nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
I think that would have been the Mets, right ninety
three with the Olarud.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
He used to wear that batting you home but out
on the first base, I know, right.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
And then Andres Galaraga in nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Boy, those are bringing back memory. Wow.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
And then there's Luis Aurez from the Miami Marlins at
four oh two.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
So you're right, it's still very early. Sort even read where.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Was through the first seventy seven games. Maybe you know,
maybe he wasn't in that range. Maybe it was like
instead of being over five hundred, he was like three
ninety eight or three ninety seven or something.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
I mean, we're talking.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
He's he's at four to oh two right now? Aren't
he the highest batting average in the history well since
nineteen forty one when they had the new qualification rules.
I mean, Larry Walker was only four oh nine in
nineteen ninety and I.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Say only Colorado, right right?

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
In ninety goshty having a lot of stuff seemed to
happen in baseball in nineteen ninety seven. But I just
maybe you're right, maybe we need to be talking about
it a little bit more. Maybe it's a topic that
needs to be brought up. It's early, though, I think
that's how everyone counches everything in this cut.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
So it's also one of the most iconic records of sports,
is it not. I mean, you're thinking about batting four
hundred the home run record home runs in a year,
most of them come in baseball anyway, but that's you know,
maybe a rushing record, but most of them come in baseball.
It's growing up. Like you said, it was the most
iconic record right up there, and people wanted to see

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it be broken every year.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Iconic.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Oh hold on, I got a show for us on
Sunday night, or a segment on Sunday Night.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Write this down because we need to work shop this out.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Okay, records that we thought weren't going to be broken
that were, And now when anyone starts to kind of
infringe on it, we don't care. It's like, oh great,
So I wouldn't say that Aaron Jacks say like fifth
or whatever. But no, in all seriousness, I wonder if
maybe the better way to put it is marks that
used to seem like a big deal that just aren't

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anymore to some people. Thousand yard rushing seasons, right, thousand
yard rushing seasons. I wonder if people are truly embracing
just how incredibly amazing it is to be approaching four
hundred as a batting average.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
I don't wonder it's still respected like it was.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know what also was not nearly as big, but
kind of big is when a pitcher was going for
his twentieth winning a season with record or anything like that,
but were like, he's nineteen and six and he's gonna
go for win twenty. Nowadays, you're just you don't get
those anymore. That's far and few between, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
All Right, Arnie, I'm gonna pay off my teas. Are
you ready? I'm ready? All right?

Speaker 1 (46:40):
So, Arnie and Plank, we're in for Anthony Garganto here
on a Saturday. It is Saturday, right, a Saturday morning,
fun Fox Sports Radio, and Arnie. As much as it
pains me to say, I don't think the Chiefs and
Bengals are going anywhere as long as they have a
quarterback named Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City and Joe Burrow
in Cincinnati, and that both are healthy. You feel like

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this might be a pretty good little rivalry for the
better part of the next ten years in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
I'm not ready to just go ahead and give up.
If I'm all the other teams out there for crying out.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Well, you have great rivalries in sports, and not every
other team just taps out. My point is this isn't
a created rivalry because of some smack talk. These are
two teams that have met in the playoffs. What two
of the last three years. You had the surprising upset
a couple of years ago by the Cincinnati Bengals. They've
played some wild games in the regular season. I'm not

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saying that they're just gonna dominate the conference. I think
the Bills are gonna have something to say. Maybe your
Dolphins this year, maybe maybe Cleveland, maybe Pittsburgh, who knows.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
What about Baltimore. Didn't they sign their big time quarterback guys? Yeah,
Baltimore maybe right up there with Jackson. I mean, I'm
sure he's gonna miss three four games and throw a
bunch of interceptions.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
That's beside the point.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Why don't you just go ahead and say he should
be a running back, Arendy, Why don't you go ahead
and go full on Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
I'll just wait until he starts fumbling and missing games.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Boy, whenever they beat the Dolphins or keep them out
of the playoffs, I can't wait for that show. We
might open up the phone lines for Baltimore fans on
that one. But no, my point I'm bringing up bottom line,
this is fun between Kansas City and Cincinnati. And it's
not some created thing with a trash talk in the media.
It's really true on the field. It's backed it up.

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I'm not saying everyone taps out Arnie, but you have
to agree. In the AFC we're gonna be seeing some
playoff games, some massive moments for playoff positioning between these
two teams over the next five to ten years.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Oh well see, I mean, I don't know. Sometimes you
look at Cincinnati and you're saying yourself, are they gonna
sustain this?

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Is this? You know?

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Are they gonna be around as long as Mahomes in
Kansas City? If I was gonna take a bet, I'd
swear Mahomes and Kansas City gonna be around on much longer,
but right now, you know when they were four and four,
Let's ask Cincinnati fans how they felt after the fun You.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Can you just go along for the freaking bit. Already
it's cloudy outside. I don't know if i'd call it cloudy.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
It's more.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
I mean, you're telling me that you would say, Nan
and I don't think Joe Burrow is gonna be able
to lead a team that's gonna around. That's exactly what
you're saying. It's like, Oh, I believe in the Holmes,
I don't believe in Burrow.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
You know, I'll be honest with you. If Kansas City
and Cincinnati are playing on let's say Week three, Yeah,
I'm excited about the game, but I'm not that much
more excited than any of the other matchups out there. Also,
you know there's gonna be other book games, don't.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
You're not more excited about two teams that have played
in the playoffs, including a championship game, and still have
the two most electric quarterbacks. You're telling me you're not
any more excited about Burrow versus Mahomes than anything else
in this league.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
You know, it's funny you put it that way, because
even with the with with the great quarterbacks. If you
asked me, you can only watch one game, and it's
like Cincinnati Kansas City. Pick the Dolphins, I was gonna say,
or Philadelphia, and let's say Dallas. I don't know, man,
you know, I just love that type of robbery, even
you know, more than a Cincinnati Kansas City. So maybe

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it's just because it's more newer that I'm not into
it as much as as you know, seeing a cowboy
robbery or something like that.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Fair enough, fair enough, that's fine if you want to say,
I'd rather watch the Daniel Jones led Giants against Dak
and the Cowboys because of the freaking tradition of Phil
Simms versus Troy Aikman. And I'm all in stop, okay,
But my point is there's been a little chirping in
the media over the last few weeks, and it all
started with Jamar Chase, who stood up for his quarterback

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and whenever he was asked about Joe Burrow saying it's
Patrick Pat Mahomes, Jamar Chase said, Pat who.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Then you had the you had.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
The the little chirping tweet from Patrick Mahomes that he
threw out with his championship rings. Yeah, and then there,
then there was there was this this week on Jason
Kelcey and Travis Kelcey's podcast New Heights, which, by the way,
sounds exactly like you would expect a Jason Kelcey and
Travis Kelcey podcast to sound like. And I don't mean

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that in a bad way, but I thought this was
quite interesting from Jason Kelcey this week because I think
bottom line, more than anything else, he kind of gets
how fun this is gonna be over the next few years.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Too. I thought it was a little bold, you know.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
So the guy's a two time League MVP, two time
Super Bowl MVP.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Yeah to say Pat, who is like.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
A little disrespectful who doesn't love some good locker room
banter man shout out to Jamar Chase for you know,
holding it down for his QB. But don't you ever
dispect Pat Mahmes. Now, if you want a Tokyo Tokyo pimp,
just better back it up.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
So, wow, we needed a little bit more juice to
this thing.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
And so there you go. Get you get a little
bit more.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Juice to Cincinnati and Kansas City over the next couple
of weeks, mate.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
By the way, since we're doing lists kind of today,
Travis Kelsey is number one on my list of people
that I would want to throw on a helmet and
knock on their backside so badly that I would just
come out of retirement and say, suit me up, I'm
gonna take his head off. He'd be number one on
that was Travis Kelcey. I'd like to hit him.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Really, Travis Kelcey, Huh, I didn't expect Kelsey to have
number really.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, I mean there's not too many that I want
to go ahead and knock on their backside, but he'd
be number one, you know, coming off the line and
the pushing and the shoving and all the antics. Yeah,
do that against me. I'd like to knock him on
his backside against me.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
On we've seen you play Rectlee, I think Travis Kelcey
might put you in the grave.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I was forty years younger and a little bit heavier
and faster and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
But isn't that what we need? Don't we need someone
that elicits that kind of response.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Because yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
I mean at his I'm gonna say this hurts. In fact,
I'm kind of getting heartburn. Trying to get it out.
Mahomes is kind of likable. I like Mahomes a lot,
and he's one of those guys that you know, I
can't like and on game day I despise, But I
also I know what's coming. I know they're gonna do
ring around the Rosie and clown us. I know that

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it's gonna be just throwing darts. And even whenever they're beat,
they find moments, like during the regular season in Arrowhead
this year, they find moments to get it done.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
So I like Mahomes thankfully his.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
And again I don't know his why, but man, her
social media persona sucks. He's got his brother, which detracts
a little bit of likeness, and then some of the
attitude of Kelsey. I think you're like, Okay, yeah, that Mahomes.
He's buddies with Kelsey. Forget those two guys. So Kelsey
thankfully takes some of my like away from Mahomes, and
I need that balance there in the You know, that's
dame for Casey.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
If you had to come up with a list of
like the most five hitted guys in the NFL, you
have a tough time doing it. I mean, I again,
I would have Kelsey in that list, but maybe the
Hurts is kind of a likable guy. Likable man, I
everybody's likable. Who like, who are the big enemies that
you just hate? And I'm sure Pep were gonna say Mahomes,
But you're right, he is a likable guy. Who do
people just overall go yeah, I just hate that guy

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in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
And usually we used to remember a whole bunch.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
You could pick like four or five guys from the
Cowboys or you know, the Giants or any team like that.
Now you just there's nobody. There's no Maybe Tyreek Hill
might make that list, I don't know, but there's there's
just nobody that's really hateable in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Now, by the way, I think the Chiefs still are
becoming it. I think as likable as Mahomes is, I
think they're becoming it. And I forgot, boy the timing
right here. I've got NFL Live on one of my TVs.
I forgot how good that game was in the playoffs
last year between those two teams. He had the contra
well he wasn't really controversial. It was a dumb play,

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but you had the late hit call on Mahomes whenever
he was running out of bounds. It kind of changed
the whole field position of that final drive. You had
everything about just celebrating right in front of you. The
Bengals have had to deal with. But I think I
think overall, as a whole arning, I wouldn't maybe put

(55:05):
the Chiefs period in that list. Right they've reached the point.
And this is me as someone who incredible respect for
what they're doing right now.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
It's not easy.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
I mean, since Mahomes became the starting quarterback guarding they've
played in the AFC Championship Game every single year.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
I mean, think about that for a moment.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
A team in an era when the NFL is created
for eight or nine and eight, eight nine, you know,
seven and ten, ten and seven maybe at the best,
you have a quarterback who, since he took over as
the starter right in the middle of that era, twenty seventeen.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Well at twenty eighteen was his first year as a starter.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Where they've gone AFC Championship Game at home in eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one, and twenty two. They've gone to the
Super Bowl three of those five years. It probably should
have gone four, maybe should have gone five. I mean
the d Ford off sides call against New England in
the just incredible implosion, the unaccepted, explainable, unacceptable explode implosion

(56:06):
in the second half offensively in twenty one against Cincinnati.
But Arnie, I mean, you're you're looking at a team
that is just doing things that you're not supposed to
be able to do right now in the NFL, and
I think you're starting to see, if you haven't already,
the I'm tired of the Chiefs, right. We reach a
fatigue point with every single team. So for guys, I
would go team I think Kansas City's kind of flipped

(56:28):
on being that story where ah, look the likable, this
de likable that to where it's like, Okay, we're tired.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Of seeing this team. Let's go. Let's move on.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
By the way, let that be a lesson to everybody
drafting out there.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
That's your draft on talent. None of this Bologney were like,
the guys a winner. Well, sure, Mack Jones is a winner.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
He played for Alabama, you know, playing against high school teams.
I'm throwing it to you know, all pros and NFL
futures in waddling people like that and they dominate, you know,
Bologne schools like that. But when it comes to the
next level, all of a sudden, it's all that easy.
That's why you gotta look at I mean, Mahomes was
sub five hundred in.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
When he played at college, so you go get talent.
What would you say about Jalen Hurts then, h that's
a little difference though.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
All right, when we come back, when we come we
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Speaker 3 (58:22):
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Speaker 1 (58:24):
You get Arnie and Plank on a Fox Sports Surturday,
Fox Sports Saturday. We'll come back tomorrow night and do
this again to recap the weekend. We're like book, what
would that be?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Book? We're bookending the weekend for you?

Speaker 1 (58:38):
Yea, they say that right, book ends, So all morning Saturday,
all night for the most part on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
So can I do a little baseball recap here? Real quick?
You know you're not allowed to do baseball, but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
I just there is some excitement that's growing in this game,
and a lot of it has been predicated on this
incredible run by the Cincinnati Reds and they're very contagious.
Superstar Ellie de la Cruz. Now he was a one
man wrecking crew hit for the cycle. Though I had
to laugh whenever I saw the list of players. It's
like he becomes the fastest to hit for the cycle

(59:14):
since Billy Clyde Anderson back in nineteen oh eight.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
You're like, what, who?

Speaker 1 (59:18):
So the list there isn't all that impressive of guys
who did it before, but it doesn't minimize the accomplishment.
And I mentioned last night he did a little bit
of everything, including including with the bases, like two.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Hits tonight, drives hit the center.

Speaker 6 (59:34):
Field, doesn't heave enough dumn.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
The drug he is.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Done, by the way, I just want to make this
very clear time that man is very loud.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
That is not my fault. Little overmodulation, Arnie.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
But the grand Slam home run that come from behind
and then finishing off the cycle last night for Ellie
La Cruz with the triple in the gap, pretty amazing.
Reds come back, Arnie. Are you all in on the
Reds and their record set, well, not quiet record setting yet,
but they're winning streak currently thirteen games for the Reds.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
I don't know if I'm all in. I mean, there's
still only what five games above five hundred. They're in
the minus and the plus minus runs category.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
But I do love Elie de la Cruz. Can they
trade him to the Mets? Please?

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
I I just think he's so exciting, he's fun to watch,
and it's only been with like thirty games, and look
how excited I am about him. So my question to you, though, Chris,
is that what is more more likely to get you
if you're you're a big baseball fan, I love it, right,
But if you're just the average or below average baseball fan,
what was more likely to get you excited about baseball?

(01:00:47):
Is it somebody like de la Cruz? Is it somebody
like the Reds, you know, making that run? Or was
it supposed to be this pitch clock that you know?
The games have been cut out. I saw a stat
that it used to be fifty nine or sixty percent
of the games went over three hours. Now we're down
the sixteen percent of the games over three hours? Are
people like okay, now two hours, two and a half hours,

(01:01:10):
I'm back in the baseball I don't see that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
I don't either, But can this work hand in hand?
Can this work hand in hand?

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
I don't mean to catch off on no.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I don't know what you mean hand, I'm not okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
So in other words, I think you're wanting to separate.
It's like, well, they would you just come back because
of faster games, But can you look at it and say,
pace of play is stepped up right?

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
And the Reds are pretty damn exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
And Ellie de la Cruz is the kind of person
with the way he plays, his style, his personality that
can bring people in from other sports and non sports
and old baseball fans.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Can it not work hand in hand to say, hey, we.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Know you left because these games were too damn long,
and maybe for some of you it wasn't boring. But
not only do we have quicker games, but we got
Ellie freaking de la Cruz right now in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Went they can work hand in hand.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
No, I actually you can't. And I'm gonna tell you well,
here's the difference. Ellie de la Cruz. People are like,
who the hell are you even talking about? If he
was on the Yankees, we'd be leading the show off
as well as everybody else about this guy, saying he's
the best thing to come around since I don't know,
Babe Ruth or something like that. He'd be getting all
kinds of talk. I mean, it kind of goes back

(01:02:17):
to like shoe a Otane is on the Angels. Look
what that guy is doing stuff that we've never seen
in like sports. He's number one in just every pitching
and batting category, and yet we're just like, Okay, look.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
At this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
We don't even say that. We I mean, we can
go weeks, we could go months without talking Otani. Matter
of fact, in about three or four weeks, he'll be
an afterthought to NFL football when camp's open up in July.
So it's amazing what he's doing. And we're just like, Okay,
you know, nothing to look here. Just keep on moving,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
And if we're gonna look at somebody'd be him over Delicus.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Okay, So I'm not disagreeing with you, right right, But
I don't think you're disagreeing with me either. Your point
is if he was in New York or specifically maybe
the Yankees, right well, I can't even say specifically. I
saw crazy people got when the Mets went like two
games in a row early in the year, it's like,
oh my gosh, now they're terrible. But I don't know, man,

(01:03:16):
that's a fascinating question, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
If he was on the Dodgers, Oh my goodness, man,
we'd be Fernando Mania. This would be crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Fernando Mania was the biggest thing I think I've ever
seen in sports period. I don't remember one guy. I mean,
I remember when I was a kid, we would we
would try to figure out when is Fernando going to
pitch his next game, just to get tickets and go
to see that. I saw him pitch so many times.
It was it was just a joy. I mean, it
was just absolutely amazing how many people wanted to see

(01:03:46):
Fernando and Fernando Mania was crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
Hey, so I know we're doing update Ethan Miller, a
producer doing a great way way Kevin Wirrett, But I
did I did want to add something because, you know,
just in thinking about it, can this be that? Dude,
I not disagree with you about, Oh, you know, the
market size of it, and people would care more if,

(01:04:09):
you know, something like Fernando Mania if he was in
LA or New York right now. But I kind of
think we're seeing it in a situation that was about
as dire in baseball as we've seen in a while.
Involving fan appreciation and franchise disrespect. I mean, the owner
of the Reds basically said a year ago, Arnie, where

(01:04:29):
are you gonna go? And now a year later, it's
arguably one of the biggest and most exciting stories in sports.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
We have a guy betting four h two going after
ten Williams four hundred record, something we haven't seen in
fifty years.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
There's no man again.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
We're still ninety eighty five, ninety games away from the
end of the season, but there's not even a buzz
about it. Not even like, hey, truging me, I'm betting
four hundred, looking to be looking at me, None of that,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
I just want to make it very clear to all
the baseball fans out there. I tried, Okay, I started
on the Reds. I have highlights here from the Giants
win last night to die if.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
I tried, if you give me, if you would have
given me split season, I'd be all right. Chris, we're
gonna have opening Day. Opening Day is gonna be in
like two weeks from now. Everybody's gonna start zero and zero.
Who do you think is gonna have a good second half?

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
You may have sold me on your side on this.
I'm not even you have to Yeah, I'm not even lying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Yeah, no, you have to because you can't have one
hundred and sixty two game season and leave me hanging
for nineties something games. I have no interest in watching
my Mets. I get sick just even see videos. I
didn't want to check the score from the from the
Phillies the five one game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
I didn't want to see it anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Hey, guess what, Well, I got a score update from
you live Fromthetirack dot com studios. You know, Kevin Wired
is in the house. What's going on, Kevin?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
Well, there we go. My bad, that's on me. That's
on me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
My bad.

Speaker 8 (01:05:52):
I threw off speed he was sitting. Yeah, my bad,
Kevin swinging a miss there by me right? Well, one
guy who did not swing and miss was that sensational
rookie in Cincinnati Ellie Dela Cruz had himself yet another
outstanding performance as the Reds have made it twelve straight wins.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
Here's the two to two.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
And there's a drive toward the right center field gap
that's down this wall send India around third day, la
Cruz going for third.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
Here's the relay not in time an RBI triple for
Ellie Dela Cruz and he has just hit for the cycle.

Speaker 8 (01:06:31):
So Cincinnati beats the Braves eleven to ten against twelve
straight wins. The San Francisco Giants another team that's on
a roll. They were really off to a slow start,
but they're surging now. They beat the first place Diamondbacks
eight to five. They get to within two and a
half games of Arizona, top of the NL West. Dodgers
beat the Astros three to two. Emmetschian getting his first

(01:06:53):
career Major League win. He allowed just two runs across
six innings of work for the Dodgers. Angels fall to
the Rocky seven to four. That's despite the fact that
Mike Trouten Schoeo Tani hit back to back home run
So same same stuff, different day for the Angels. There
Ray's roll over the Royals eleven to three as they

(01:07:14):
improved to an MLB best fifty three and twenty six.
Boston beat Chicago three to one in the SoC battle
MARINLDS Mariners dismantled the Orioles thirteen to one. Phillies beat
their heated rival the Mets five to one, and we
did have a trade in Major League Baseball, the Angels
acquired Eduardo Escobar from the Mets in exchange for two
minor league players. Back to you, thank you very much, Kevin,

(01:07:37):
as we come to you from the ti raq dot
com studios. By the way, before we get back to
this sports thing, any big playing today, Arnie, what's his
Saturday like in Vermont for you in the non football season.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
No, I may play you a little basketball, just kind
of hang out, go get a little lunch. I canceled
my workout today. I'm like, God, I can't work and
do all work too early.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Heck, come man, I don't blame you. I'll take a
nap after the show. And you know it just kind
of relaxed to that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
You know, I'm I'm covering some college baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
Oh sorry, My question is I won't. I won't bring
it to the air. I know that. I listen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
I know there's only like eight of you that are
up right now, and I see one of them as
Shady Sean, and I don't want him to get mad
at me. I think I think Sir scratch Off and
the rest of the crew would be on board with
maybe a little bit of college baseball. Chat, but at
all were you wit at all in that incredible pitching
performance between Lex and that was great?

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
God blast, I mean there's been Look, the baseball never
really does disappoint. It's always fun, especially when you get
this far into it. But it's exciting, especially when you
just get to the field of sixty four.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
So I love the story about Oral Roberts. I thought
that was a good one. I even talked about that
kid at Oregon who uses a wooden bat. I'm like,
why is this guy using a wooden bat? And all
that stuff. So I've enjoyed the whole thing. It's been
a lot of fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
It's one of those people that pay more than like
two dollars a can for PBR.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
It's like, oh, you're using a wooden bat.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Congratulations in the middle of the greatest bat technology ever.
I'll show you, guys, I'll use a wooden bat. But
I brought it up because I don't know if I've
ever seen a more well played game. I'm just I'm
not trying to be over dramatic, but maybe I am
a little bit. But between two guys that are going
to be pitching in the bigs, sooner rather than later.

(01:09:28):
LSU's Paul Skins and wakes Ret Louder Alreadie on true
MLB rest right. Pitching on the fifth day four days
base college is usually, you know, you get a week,
you start on Friday and then you don't pitch itg
until Friday. But Skeens when eight innings allowed two hits,
struck out nine Louder seven innings, three hits. They were
incredible and the only hit that came with a runner

(01:09:50):
on base, Like neither team had to hit with a
runner in scoring position. Neither team had to hit with
a runner on base until the walk off home run
at the end of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
How crazy is that the other night?

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Now today you get LSU and Florida for a championship,
and there's my college, and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Of course I have a rooting interest obviously, so let's
go Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Let's go. Let's wait, but you've got a fruiting interest
in Florida. Of course?

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Where did that come from? At least three for LSU,
I mean they got a UCLA transfer, their coach j Johnson, Right, Oh,
he's your boy. You left that's right at Arizona.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
You're gonna leave us you're gonna go and ditch me.
I'm not rooting for you to get out of here.
I wish you'd go.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Oh in one hundred, So you want to you want
to go to LSU for a worse school.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Go knock yourself out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Go ahead, Well, he were you in in sixteen when
you guys made it to the champ Series?

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Or no?

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Or no? Were you already out? You were in? Okay? No,
I I followed us for a while. I love our
baseball team. It was great for a while there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
I should point out, and I'm now I play into
this too much because I just like to interact with Arnie.
Anytime we go to college conversations, I immediately have to
find an Arizona tie.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
He's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
And then he wants to fight about the PAC twelve
dissolving and are the PAC twelve surviving?

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
I mean we're on about four weeks we sent you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
I sent you an article about that that Paul Finbab
was on my side saying the Pack twelve is is
pretty much going to be gone in a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
I think suited well.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
I mean, okay, now look you'll hold on a second. Yes, yes, yes,
now you're moving the goalpost.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Oh my bad.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
I mean, now you're suddenly it's like hearing a couple
of years. No, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
I still think that within I'm sorry, I still think
that within I'll just say January, since the start of
the new year, that you'll hear that probably before that,
Colorado and Arizona will be going to the Big twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
That's what you'll be hearing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
And I don't think that's gonna happen. And then number two,
I also think the next thing you're gonna hear is
that San Diego State is officially on its way to
the PAC twelve with SMU and what happened to UNLV.
I don't think UNLV was ever in on this. I
think you and I have wondered why they aren't. But
I don't know if they've ever been in on this
conversation with the PAC twelve. Right now, do you know

(01:12:05):
what else I think might happen?

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
The Gonzaga conversation got very quiet after that connotation with
the Big twelve, right, I.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Thought that was ridiculous to begin with, and then that
just died off.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
But I wonder if there's not a play to get
Gonzaga basketball in the PAC twelve. The Yukon stuff is
fascinating to me because it wasn't just basketball in the
Big twelve. They're like, no, no, no, we're looking at
a full membership.

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
So we're here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
We're in this like they say in Nascar, We're we're
in this conference realignment conversation, I give me two minutes
on college sports. But Arnie, I truly believe that if
something happens where the PAC twelve doesn't just to completely
and totally disappear, which is a possibility, I could be wrong.
I just feel very confident in too many people feeling

(01:12:51):
confident that the PAC twelve is imploding, that it won't survive.
But if you get into a situation where the Big
twelve adds you and gosh it would be the other
Memphis has been mentioned, right yeah, and Gonzaga, then that
to me means that the PAC twelve surviving, because that
to me means they're not getting those four corner schools.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
I mean, how big do you want to get as
a conference? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Well, that doesn't mean that Arizona's going to be part
of the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
I still absolutely that they will.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Yeah, I think they're gone and I'm surprised because I
didn't think Arizona would ever go without Arizona State, and
it looks that way right now. I'm kind of surprised
about that. It seems like there's more interest in Arizona
than Arizona State when Arizona State's got a much bigger
market in Phoenix.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Arizona necessarily true either, you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Know, you say that, but yet again, I look at
the numbers that the PAC twelve was going to get
and how much they get, like three million less per
team if Colorado and Arizona weren't in there. So obviously
it does mean something when you're taking away money like
that's based on market size.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
But I'm here to tell you you're splitting up the
pie more ways in the Big twelve. Now you go
into it, and then all of a sudden, you're like,
all right, now we're ten in the PAC ten.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
This might be a lower number, but we're only splitting
it ten ways. Now you're going to a place where
what they already have, but you're adding more money. You
never seen this bring that how with the two new teams.
I mean, I'm sorry, but Arizona doesn't make the Big
twelve any sexier to me than what they would make
the current PAC twelve. Oh, I'm pretty fired up for
that big matchup tomorrow night between Arizona and checks notes

(01:14:27):
UCF boy, let's get all fired up about Arizona and Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
I mean, come on, Arnie, I think your matchups are
still but you're right about that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
But what you know, what did you bring up a
good point about market size like that? What's the market
size for Tusco LUSA?

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
Market size? Yeah, market size doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
That was big ten whenever they were trying to get
more TV networks, that's not what they look at.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Now that's that's your.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Reales, especially you having Tusco LUSA. What what TV market format?
But look where we are right exactly. But you know
people want to watch you know, schools like that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
When that's the ultimate uh, that's the ultimate ultimate goal.
When that's the ultimate improver of the market and the
bus for your program quick break when we come back
here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
There was more than just baseball happening last night.

Speaker 6 (01:15:07):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
We had introductory press conferences all over from the NBA
and we got to highlights and next on Fox Sports Radio,
sorrny In Plank hanging out from the Tiraq dot Com
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Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Are you? Are you sitting in at all for Ben
mallor this week? Arnie? You take advantage of that opportunity.
I know I don't do that, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
I don't do the mal militia. We it'd be nothing
but fighting for four hours and we'd be going at
each other's throat.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
So now I don't do that, okay, all right, just
just checking. But I did, Sir scratch Off.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
It always cracks me up because I feel like he
gets angry about something we're not even talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
So, Sir scratch Off, love you man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Can't wait to hang coming up on I'm in Thursday
night into Friday morning, so they set your alarms now,
justin and Cincinnati rights, Arnie, you should look up the
Reds payroll this year compared to the Mets, you'll feel
much better, I swear.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think so. I mean with
the Mets.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Oh, I see what the Mets are are just it's
disgusting what they're paying other pictures. It's they have to
blow up the whole team, and it's just my goodness, man,
it's just disgusting how much money they're wasting right now.
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
So let's see here, according to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Cott's baseball contracts, Okay, I'll take that three hundred and
sixty four million dollars for the for the Mets. Oh
my gosh, the Reds is eighty two point six million.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Unbelieved. Somebody should be fired for that. You know, you
got to get fired for that. Oh my gosh. That
is wild.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Well, and listen, eventually, if you continue to roll, you
got to pay the piper at some point. And your
Mets finally went out and we're big spenders, but it's
just unfortunately they've spent in all the wrong areas. But
at the time, no one was really questioning.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
I want to change my kid's name from Shade of Madison,
you know what I mean. But it doesn't feel right, you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Know, Mike rights.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Did you just say market size doesn't matter as it
pertains to where college programs I think are are looking
to expand. Now, PAC twelve might be unique in thinking
SMU in that Dallas area because of the need for
more distribution for the PAC twelve network, But for the
most part, since the Big Tens edition of Rutgers and Maryland,

(01:17:48):
it's kind of been viewed right as all right, listen,
enough about TV market size. Let's get passionate, loyal guys
that are going to click on our content and buy
our app kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Kind of fan bases, which is why I think.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
You've seen Oklahoma and Texas off to the SEC and
then trying to pluck USC and UCLA and successfully doing
it to Big ten country.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
So yeah, don't. I don't think market size matters as
much as it wance.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
It doesn't. It's all about advertisers, and where would you
rather advertise Tuscaloosa if you're looking for that advertising in
college football or Rutgers, even though it's a much bigger
market up in the New York, New Jersey area.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Arnie mentioned his list of players he'd like to punch.
I think is the best way to put it, or
maybe I should rephrase that. You had Travis Kelcey as
the number one, number one on the depth chart, right right,
right right, Jarahawk rights.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
Top of my unlikable list. Stefan Diggs, ooh, he must
be a Bills fan. Then maybe he is great and
he's a jerk.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
How about Micah Parsons guys consistently posting on social media,
but when he's called out for saying something ridiculous, he hides.
I'd add at Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelcey, and Russell Wilson
to that list.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
So too. On your list.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
On your LIS you had Travis kelce You didn't really
reveal the rest of it. On Jarahawks list, it got
Digs one, Parsons two, and then Tyreek, Travis and Russell Wilson.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
There's the top five for you. I get.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
I put Tyreek kill in it, even though he's on
my Dolphins. I could see why people don't like him.
And one that you know, knock his block offs, so
I could certainly see that. I could see that as
a possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
And we had also talked quarterbacks who are I don't
want to stay on the hot seat, but young quarterbacks
kind of at a four growth something to prove. Ig
checked in on that, writing Desmond Ridder and Sam Howe
should be at the top of the list. That's a
I didn't mention Desmond Ridder. I keep forgetting he's the
guy now in Atlanta. How was two and number one.

(01:19:43):
They just picked up his fifth year option. His only
problem is concussions. Well, I agree with Arnie on this one.
If he doesn't stay healthy this year, you're gonna have
no other option, no no, in Miami than to potentially
move on. And then secondly, if he doesn't play well, well,
Miami's got so much invested in the group around him,
look out, they're going to be in the quarterback mark.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
You have to and you know what the he if
he didn't have a concussion for an excuse, he better
put up some good numbers this year, otherwise he will
be benched before the season ends.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
I just want to make this very clear from what
seemed like some very uncaring comments there from Arnie Spaniard.
He's not saying that he doesn't care if he gets
a concussion or not. That's not his point. It's just
if he gets hurt, then you know there's that excuse.
Not in a negative way. But just hey, you can't
stay healthy. And if you can't stay healthy, best ability
availability and so far too hasn't been that down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
We'll keep it rolling.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Good stuff off the tweets at Stinking Genius One.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
I'm at Plank Show. This is Fox Sports Radio. Let's roll.
What do you call this? The Power Hour?

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Says the Power Hour. Next hour is the bonus?

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Yes, Yes, get a fourth hour of Arnie and Plank
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Tyrack dot com the way tire buying should be. I'm
all in on the College World Series and check it
out tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
Could I just say something real quick, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
In LSU at seven o'clock. I'm sure go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Well, no I saw this, you know, because I live
out here in Burlington, Vermont, so not a lot of stuff,
you know, to get excited about here.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
I think they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Tryouts for contestants to be on the prices right out
here this summer.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
So I think I'm gonna go in and try out
for that. What do you think price is right? Yeah?
Price is right. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Some old boy threw his shoulder out celebrating here. Yes,
you might want to be careful if you do.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
Know that that good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
But they can so I went to the taping of
the show once, uh huh, when I lived out in
Los Angeles, and the rumor is that if they ask
you more than one question, there's a chance that you
could be on the show. And the guy asked me
three questions. So I kept waiting for my name to
be called, and it just never got called.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
I think that as far as the top three game
shows I would want to be on, that have to
be like at least number one, if not one A.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
Everyone will still on the prices right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
Well, if Bob was still doing it, and I like Drew.
But if Bob was there, I.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Mean, looks too good now, man, I need my Cleveland
Rocks Trewe carry back.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
He looks too smooth and suave. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
I need my guy with his Cleveland roots, a little
bit of a beer belly. You know, I don't read
very often, ye but for some reason, I read Drew
Carrey's autobiography. Oh really, it's hilarious, just on a little side,
and I don't know why. Like a friend had it,
I guess on a trip and he got like halfway
through and he's like, well, my life isn't really that entertaining.

(01:22:54):
So here's some stories that my friends and I dreamed
about doing. And one of them was tackling Jim Brown
on the day that they were retiring his number. They
were celebrating him. Yeah, I mean just it's literally halfway three.
He's like, no, I here's some made up stories. It's fantastic,
but no price is right. So when would you know
if you're gonna get chosen? Well, you know, I've been
on a game show before. I know with you and

(01:23:16):
your wife and the trip to where they send you
Persia Micronesia, Micronesia. Yeah, we never took the trip. We
never went on the trip. My wife was pregnant, so
I didn't only had to.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
Be us two to go, Like I couldn't take my
dad or my mom or or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
We didn't even get We didn't even.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
Get the rice Aroni and the turtle wax, which I
love Rice Aroni's very good San Francisco treat. I mean,
I love that stuff right up there with the Hamburger helper.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
But no, I didn't even get that very disappointed you
got it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Okay, your choice here, Arnie is we kick off our three.
You know me, I'm a stick to sports kind of
a guy, so I'd love to give you a little
bit more of a sports update from last night. We
have more submissions for your most hatable players currently on
Twitter at Stinking Genius one. I'm at Plank Show, or
we can dive into your Caleb Williams, Victor Wimbinana.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
Yeah, I kind of like that that third angle. Why
are you?

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
I want to remind everyone, and I don't do this
very often, but Arnie and I have done a show
together for a decade now, right, We've been your Sunday
recap here on Fox Sports Radio. You're like people with
Tom Brady's Draft Round. You keep adding years to the show.
Our Tom Brady got taken in the eighty sixth round,
and now you've got us doing radio together for thirty years.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
But you were not high on show heyo tany.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
In fact, you thought he was a bust or you
wouldn't spend any money to go get him.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
So I want to make sure that we couch this
hot take. You have to bring that up with the show. Hayo,
time I listen.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
I think accountability matters you. Also, by the way, we
should add if I'm going to give you Arnie's misses
back in nineteen eighty two, he told you that Arizona
State was going to beat Nebraska. Yes, I got that
one and he got that one, right, so they even
each other. Now you're already done with Wma.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
No, I'm not a stop and I'm not done with
win Beyama. Look, I think he's going to be a
good player, but all this he's the most sought after
guy since the history of team sports and and all that.
Now I'm gonna give you an example why a lot
of people really don't believe it, and really why you
don't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
You just haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Realized it yet. Chris, if I asked you Caleb Williams,
how many quarterbacks are a matter of fact, how many
players in the NFL would you rather have over Caleb Williams,
you could probably come up, maybe two, with Patrick Mahomes
and maybe Joe Burrow, right and I'm saying, you can
take anybody in the NFL right now, Travis Kelsey, whoever

(01:25:40):
you want. Is there anybody else you would want over
Caleb Williams Beside those two, and you might not even
pick Burrow?

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Is there anybody else I'd.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Love to take my chances with Caleb Williams basically what
I've seen Sisons.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
So if we think he's a transitional type player in
the NFL quarterback, do we feel the same thing for
Wemba Yama? I mean I could come up with maybe
ten to twenty people you'd rather Would you rather have
Luka Doncic or or when Bayama?

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
When by Yana? Would you rather have?

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
You know, somebody like Yannis or Jason Tatum would be one.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Joe ellenbiid Uh, I take my chances with Win Binyanna.
But Arnie, I'm not disagreeing with you. I think those
questions are there. We've never Jalen Brown. I mean, if j.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
If John Moran didn't have legal troubles, you know, would
just say that he's gonna be a better talent than
John Morant. There's a lot of players that are just
doing phenomenal that Darren Fox would I probably want Fox
over when by Yama, I love that guy. Why is
there not a lot of guys in the NBA right now?
What about Jokic? Who would you rather have Jokic? Or

(01:26:50):
when Ba Yama? Well, Jokic is what.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
You hope when Binnyana becomes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Well, but I'm asking you right now, who would you
rather have?

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
I mean, no, you're you're gonna have no, no, no, no,
no no. When you put the he's the best guy
that people want in the history of like team sports,
you got to be better than your kitchen. You gotta
be you gotta be like a.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Transitional and you've got to change your perspective on you. Wow,
you've got to change your Absolutely, I can't believe you're
saying this right now. You're telling me a guy that
probably should win three straight MVPs and that led the
freaking Denver Nuggets who traded Donovan Mitchell on Draft I.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Won a couple m vps. We hope he has a
better career than Nash, don't we. I'm assuming well, I.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
Mean, you're we don't know what Gil kids is going
to become. The three or four more championships, they understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
But when when you talk about win by Yama and
what he can do. You better be hoping he has
a career like a Magic Johnson, Lebron, James, Kobe Bryant,
Michael Jordan's.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
Just doing things those guys didn't do. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
But but but well he's as one championship. But that
that's the type of hype you're giving me when you're
talking about win by Yavi.

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
No, why you're not people.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Are No, I'm not disagreeing with you on win Bana
And I say, hey, san Antonio looks at this and
they hope that he can become jokicch right, you hope
that he hasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
And if you're just like, no, it's got to be
better than that.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
I'm like, dude, we're still writing a book on Yoki
right right, and I do.

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
But you have to be like, when you're coming up
with this much hype, don't drift to you len No, no,
do you have to be one of the top five
players in the history.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
Of the game. Lebron is one of the top five
players in the history of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
You got to be Lebron, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant in
the history top ten givers.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
Top five tweeter in the history. So is your concern?

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
I you see, but do you see my point? To
compare to Camleb Williams, Caleb Williams, you only would take
and Mahomes, that'd be the only quarterback or only player
you would take in the NFL over Caleb Williams, and
a lot of people would actually agree with you, when
by Yama, I don't think a lot of people would
agree with you. I think they could come up with
a at least five to ten that they would take over.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
What is it about him?

Speaker 4 (01:29:03):
Then?

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
Is it that you're not buying the skill? Are you
worried about the body breaking down?

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Let me ask you if I said that I have
a kid, well, your your son goes to West Point
because people don't know, right, very smart, brilliant kid. Obviously,
well we don't want to get into that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
But he definitely did not get that from him. He
did to get that from you. But if I said,
you know, I got a kid here in for a month,
I graduated high school. That's smarter than your kid, You'd.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Say really, I go, yeah, you had a three point
oh GPA.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
And you'd say, well, my kid had a four point
old GPA.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
I said, yeah, but but this kid had like a
twelve hundred on the SAT. You go, my kid had
a near perfect score on the SAT. Well, obviously we're
going by numbers, then right, Well, for going by numbers,
what is one Bay Yamas shooting from three point range?
What less than thirty percent that I think I can
out If I could out shoot you from three point
range and I'm sixty, there's a problem. There's got to

(01:29:52):
be a I can't put you out as like one
of the best of the history of the game if
I get out shoot you from three point range. And look,
I know, twenty one point six points a game is
the top score over in France. But I mean, heck,
wouldn't I be the sixth Man of the Year in
France if I went over there? I mean, twenty one
point six? What are you gonna do in the NBA

(01:30:13):
with the big boys. You're seven to four, you've got
a skinny frame. Yeah, you're gonna get a lot of
garbage time points. But do you consider San Antonio an
NBA championship caliber team? You'd say that with your Raiders,
that they're a super Bowl caliber team if they had
Caleb Williams you're not saying that about when by Yama
san Antonio. We don't even know if they're gonna be

(01:30:34):
a playoff team, and they got the best guy in
the history of sports team sports. Something not right here,
not adding up two plus two?

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Ay that nop. Did you feel the same way about
Zion when he came out? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
You know I love Zie, Yeah exactly, but you know
what not fair. He's been hurt and you know, stuff
like that, and he has been semi domin I would
love to have him on the New York Knicks right now.
To be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
Oh, I don't, don't get me wrong. His flashes are incredible.
I mean, not doing things with his size. We're like,
that's but I just I don't know how sustainable it is.
I'll be honest with you. I was thinking about this
on Draft night. Just on Zion real quick. Then I'll
get back to when bihonna because I don't necessarily disagree
with you. But I also don't think just because Caleb

(01:31:22):
Williams goes to a team next year they're going to
be a Super Bowl contender. I don't buy that either.
Boat in less this year. I mean, I'm a dumb fan.
I mean, I thought they were going to the super
Bowl last year with Derek Carr, so yes, but no,
I don't think he makes them automatically unless you have
a situation where San Francisco has a couple injuries and

(01:31:43):
goes one and sixteen and gets to well, I don't
even know if they have their first round pick next
year or Miami whatever. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna
project wherever he goes to go to a super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
That's just me.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
But I also, I mean, are you telling me right
now that you wouldn't take the opportunity to have Victor
Winmbinanna and that potential on your team. Are you saying, no,
I'd rather have Scot Henderson or I'd rather have.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
That's not much of a choice though, come on, let's
be honest, uh, I mean you destroying.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
This guy as if if he's not the greatest thing
since great analogy coming up slice bread.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
Well, that's what you're telling, But that's what you find
Who said that way?

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Who said he's the best prospect for the history of
team sports?

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
Like we're not even talking basketball, you said the history
of team sports.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Like every sport out there, this guy is is supposed
to be dominant, like and the best things since sliced bread.
So that comes with a little extra uh, and that
comes with your team better make the playoffs. They better
be a championship caliber team because you're so damn good.
Like I said, if Kleb Williams, his most King Williams
was on my Dolphins this year.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
Against Tua, you'd be picking them to go to the
Super Bowl. For crying out loud, Chris, you know that
as well as I do. Yeah, But I mean if
Victor win Binnana went.

Speaker 1 (01:33:02):
To the Lakers, Okay, be talking about him going to
the U to the finals this year.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
The thought about if.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
You took off Anthony Davis and you put win by
Yama with Lebron, I would have no different thought about
the way the Lakers were gonna be than if they
had Anthony Davis, except by health wise, and who knows
if when by Yama is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:20):
Going to be able to put up eighty two games.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
I I know, I know that I'm buying into this hype,
but I got so excited when I thought of the
pairing of Lebron James and Victor win Bignana. You have
no idea what you just did to me in that moment.
And then you're like, I'll take Anthony like this sober,
and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
Like, what I told you should go after Zion. You
Laker fans out there, you know I love Zion. So
we'll see what happens with that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Okay, I didn't realize you were this down already.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
On Well, it's not you have to be down.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
Am I gonna everyone else? Stop?

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Am I going to be higher than being the best
guy in the recruiting since the history of team sports?
I don't think think you could be much higher than that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
To be honest, you know, I gotta find that quote.
I got to find that. I don't remember who said that.
The genesis of that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
It might have been like Big Game Boomer on Twitter,
who already lot tweets from Big Game a lot on Twitter. Yeah,
well we'll get to it coming up next. Yeah, people
are not happy with you in San Antonio. But the
one commonality with the Big Frames outside of I don't know,
maybe maybe a few, is injury man. Look at all

(01:34:30):
the the Joe Berry I don't know, Joe Barry Carroll
necessarily fits, but the the greg Odens of the world, right,
these beasts that we thought, oh, the sam Bouis of
the world, every single one of them eventually and broke down.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
And you know what's interesting, They broke down in the
years of back in the NBA when you had centers.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Right now, you were going up against other big guys.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Now you're going up against uh six eight, the six
ten guys that are all muscle and knocking you on
your backside.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
So I don't know if he's going to be able
to handle all that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
You know, And it's also interesting, there's really no way
to go but down with the way that this has
been talked. Yes, but if this doesn't work, I mean it,
it could go down as one of the all time
greatest busts ever with a hype around it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
I didn't hear you bring up anything about what I
brought up, the twenty nine percent three point shooting.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
That doesn't seem to bother you, he does it? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
Do you want to bust me out on this? Do
I have to confess? I listened to Bill Simmons podcast, yes,
when he had Brian Windhorst on.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
Okay, it's really good.

Speaker 9 (01:35:30):
I know that you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
I know reading and listening is not something you enjoyed
it's not a skill of mine, but go ahead. But
it's I just like reading the headlines.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
It's not It's not like Simmons needs my help in
talking about his podcast. But when wind Horst was talking
about I'll chop some of it up for a show
on Sunday Night, all right, I'll prepare a defense for
Sunday Night for you. But if I could just cliff
note version for you, everything that Victor winb Binnana has
done in his career has been to prepare for the NBA.

(01:36:00):
There's not anything lead a French team in scoring or
a French league in scoring. I mean he went to
a team last year, Arnie where not only was he
on his team the only NBA prospect, he was probably
like the only college prospect and they played against the
best to the best. So it was like a high
school team with Lebron James playing against a bunch of

(01:36:21):
college teams.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
And that's why you're prepared. Could I make the team
in my sixth Man of the Year.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
And though I don't think, I don't think you're that level,
but I get what you're saying. Is he playing against
ball play there when he was thirteen, you know, like
when they did, or when I was I don't think that. Okay,
I'm pretty funny, i'll give you. I guess My point
is there has been a lot of research done by

(01:36:45):
everyone involved, and not just saying, oh my gosh, he's
seven foot five, he can hit threes, and there's been
a lot of preparation on his part. Once they realized
all right, dude, you got a chance to be special,
they started doing different things in his training and his
stretching and to do everything to prepare him to have
a body that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
Can sustain an NBA season.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
So I understand the numbers and the shooting's not gonna
wow you, But they weren't really about that. It was about,
all right, how is he developing to be the best
he can be when he gets to the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
I love the people that are like, don't play him
in the summer week. No, I don't play him in
this in the summer week. He's gonna get hurt some
of them. He's gonna go up against the FedEx driver
who will be gone in about a week, and they
want to prove their point. I go, oh, come on, man,
I go. If you're worried about some summer week guy
gonna hurt you. You've got some problems when you get
to the next level, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
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Speaker 1 (01:37:54):
All right, it's Arnie and Plank sitting in for Anthony
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he'll be back next week. So Kevin Wyret's got updates
coming up at the bottom of the hour, including another
win for the Reds, Victor Win, Binyana arriving in San Antonio,
and Arnie already declaring him a bust.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Pretty much pretty much.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
Mark Ramsey's running the show, Ethan Miller producing for us
here this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:38:20):
I want to hit some of these tweets real quick. Yeah, absolutely,
getting a lot on one by Yama.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
Jason writes, I grew up a Kobe fan, would have
also followed his black Mamba mentality. Maybe you're born with
that burning desire slash killer instinct or maybe you can
have it coached India. Haven't seen it in Boston with Tatum.
What happens with Win Bignyana? Now going forward?

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
What was he saying?

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
One by Yama doesn't have that Kobe mentality? But not
too many people do have that Kobe MJ mentality. Maybe
Magic Johnson in there, but it's really Kobe and MJ mentality.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
I don't know if he has that, but not too
many people have it anyway, So.

Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
That again, maybe I'm fallen for all the reports right,
I'll just there hasn't been a lot of negativity coming
out of anything we've seen from anyone who has made
that trip to cover him, and it's more than just
Brian Windhors.

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
But what does that mean? What do you mean by that? Well?

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
I mean do we do we get a ton of
first hand accounts of what Victor Winbignana is doing?

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
Like in other words, you're just reading some update on Twitter?

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
But is that even coming from someone who's at the
gym or have you had your your eyes on him
in person to watch him play at all?

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
No, I mean we don't have many first hand accounts
of that, and you're.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
Right, there isn't a lot of negativity, But how do
you not how could you not have any negativity when
right off the bat, you know, he's shooting less than
thirty percent from three point range right off the bat.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
You've got this also seven foot five? I mean so
much so what that name?

Speaker 6 (01:39:52):
Name?

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
Find me the seven foot five guy that's shot thirty
percent from three in his career? Here comes from a
new Bowl stats by no, No, And how many seven
footers stay healthy in average you know, double digits? You know,
I mean, when was the last time you ever heard
someone say seven five guy, he's only shooting thirty from three?

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
I mean, that's problematic.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
And the other negativity is his body frame and if
he's that's always healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:40:18):
But again that's what I'm saying, man, if you buy
into some of those first hand accounts of being there
and seeing it, they believe that he loves hoops, that
he's got that it to him, and that they've been
preparing his body from day one.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Okay, So look, you can't have it both ways then Okay,
if I'm gonna tell you right now, if you're going
to tell me that when Bay Yama is going to
be that great, and I'm just saying overall that he's
the next abroad. He's gonna put up that type of numbers.
And if he does, let's say he does, let's say
averages thirty points a gay fifteen rebounds, and he's the
best thing since sliced bread. I don't want to hear

(01:40:55):
one damn person, especially Popovich, tell me that it's all
Popovich his coaching. But he did it with David Robinson
and Tim Duncan. I'm getting tired of Papovich being this
I'm the best coach, look at me. I'm go ahead
and teach him how to play. He's already the best.
That's like me saying I'm gonna teach Michael Jordan how
to play. I'm gonna take him outher my wig. I'm

(01:41:17):
gonna teach Kobe how to be fierce. I don't want
Papovitch taking any damn credit for when by yamaf he
turns out to be so great. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:41:25):
By the way, I.

Speaker 1 (01:41:27):
Didn't get the full context of Jason's tweet, which was
a really good one. He said, I am questioning if
he has that killer instinct and desire and passion. He's
been quoted saying something about not having a bad day
on the court because quote unquote is just basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
I hope he can develop what you want to be great. Yeah,
I can't have that Mentana, that's not the the Mamba mentality.
Can't have that. He just triggered Arnie so badly. You
have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:41:57):
Justin in Cincinnati writes, I bet the Frenchman will break
his foot this year over him winning the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
Rookie of the Year. Wow, that seems like a very
specific kind of an injury.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
But if you are going to bed Rookie of the Year,
you would take all the other guys and get some
good odds over one by Yama, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Jason Wright, So we know what Wimbley Wimbley listened to
me what Wimby won't be and that's a bust and
undeliverer like these two posers that are.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
On the air. Jason.

Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
He finally finally read one of your eight thousand eight
tweets to us over but yeah, I could not agree
even more than I.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
So you're telling this one by Yama guy is going
to have a career twice as good as Tim duncan
and four times as good as as David Robinson.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
When you keep adding to the expectations, then that's what
you're talent.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Me, man, that's why, that's exactly what you're talent. Mean,
it can be better than Kareem abdul Jabbar. I can't
wait much. I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
He's gonna be really good.

Speaker 1 (01:42:55):
But the height behind him has made it where my gosh,
this guy's comp and I'm trying to be just a
little bit careful here, but like a Gandhi of basketball, Okay,
that's just what we're seeing.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
If I hear he fakes left and he shoots the
right handed skyhook and it's good, then I'll change my buyer.
But until he could be Kareem out there, I'll I'll
let's stand judgment.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
All right. When we come back, this is good tonight
or good this morning, I'm gone with you. But if
you're in Vegas, it could be late, you know, early morning.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
Oh no, it's even early morning now in Vegas. Quid
I could just hear that guy whenever I was like, hey, man,
let's let's go get a little sleep, and all of
a sudden he hears Arnie Spaniers say, that's still early
in Vegas. Some breakfast that boys like, let's go. You
heard Arnie Spanry said, it's still early. We got to
get after it. So we'll continue to update this debate
about Wim Binyon and if you're in or not. And

(01:43:46):
you know what, we haven't talked about yet, Arnie. Maybe
it's coming up in the bonus hour. Yeah, we haven't
talked about one of our favorite topics, and that's the
coverage of a major event. Get into the score cards
slash grade cards from Thursday night's coverage of the NBA Draft. Next,
but first, Kevin Wyert's in the house with everything going
on in the world of sports.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
What's up, Kevin?

Speaker 8 (01:44:04):
Well, It's a big day for baseball Friday night. Lots
of major league action. The Cincinnati Reds on fire. They
won twelve straight games after they beat the Braves in
a shoot at eleven to ten. Ellie de la Cruz
hit for the cycle. His absolutely sensational rookie campaign continues
to shine. Another rookie that did well on Friday, em

(01:44:26):
Mitchian for the Los Angeles Dodgers gets his first major
league win, allowing two runs in six innings of work
against the Astros. As the Dodgers beat Houston three to two.
Rays continue to be the MLB best team as they're
now fifty three and twenty six. They roll over the
Royals eleven to three. The Giants, after a slow start,
they've really gotten themselves back on the thick of things.

(01:44:48):
They beat the Diamondbacks eighty five. They're now two and
a half games back of Arizona at top of the
National League West. The Angels fall to the Rocky seven
to four, and same stuff, different day in Anaheim. Mike
Troutchoo Tony both hitting home runs, but the Angels slack
a pitch and catch us up to them again as
the Rockies beat them at seven to four. Boston beat

(01:45:08):
Chicago three to one in the Battle of Sox Marin
the Mariners dismantled and the Orioles thirteen to one. Phillies
beat their rival the Mets five to one, and a
trade in Major League Baseball on Friday, the Angels acquiring
Eduardo Escobar from the Mets in exchange for two minor
league pitchers and coming up on Saturday, game one of
the College World Series Final that'll be between LSU and Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
So big day on the Diamond coming up back to you, guys,
Thanks a lot, Kevin.

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all right. Here, here's a couple of others on a
myriad of topics that we've brought up here. You had
your Travis Kelce moving up to number one on your
depth chart of most hatable players currently correct.

Speaker 2 (01:46:12):
Yeah, well, I ahead in the NFL, but overall he's
a top five, all.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
Right, So he's moved up even on the overall depth chart.
Very impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
Ig Wrights Number one Odell Beckham Junior has to be
the most hated. Acts like a clown on the field
and even in on airplanes. Number two Chase Claypool, guys,
a straight idiot celebrating first downs when time is running out.
Hasn't done anything since having five touchdowns a few years back.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Boy, that looks like a pretty smart move now from
the Pittsburgh Steel.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
If I could add a couple of people that are
not go ahead, Well, if I would like to go
ahead and block somebody's shot and make it hit him
in the face, it'd be Draymond Green.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Yeah, I just I'm tired of his antics.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
I would just love to play him one on one
pump fake and then put my elbow up.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
To his neck. You know, let's go, let's play some
one on let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:47:04):
Well, you know what, you're the one eighties coming there, peeps,
the one ady on Draymon is coming because whenever the Knicks,
when the Knicks bring him in, you're gonna be like
this the.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Kind of guy you want on your team. If I was,
you practiced it, But he's practiced it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
He's going to go to Sacramento so that you could
put that in them.

Speaker 1 (01:47:21):
Where did that come from? Is it just what they're
gonna be willing to pay him or right? They have
the most money and they're going to throw it at him,
so he'll take it. Okay, he's really not worth all
that money, but you know it's the NBA, so go
ahead and give it to him. Le's play Draymon. Let's
play Draymond a little Yeah, yeah again. I NBA Draft time.
I listened to all the NBA podcasts, so yeah, I've

(01:47:41):
got tons of Bruce sard takes locked up in my
head that I want to get to, and Bill Simmons
and Ryan Rascillo and who.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
Else, oh, Zach Lowe.

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
I was listening to the guys over the Athlete if
you can, if you, by the way, through out any
NBA content, Arnie, it's like I I embrace it to
the in degree during this stretch around the draft, and
I heard this theory brought up on one of those
eighty six different platforms. What if a place like the
Lakers calls Draymond and says, listen, we we can't pay

(01:48:10):
you what you would make no on the mark. No,
so you're out already.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
Excuse me, we have a bad connection. I'll speak to
you later. I don't want to hear that. That's why
you thought, Okay, take us money, you'd stay where you are.
Hold on why you're not the number one option?

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
No, you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
You're never never the number one, and you're never going
to be the number one, number number two, You're never
going to get the respect you deserve because it's always
going to be Steph Curry Clay Thompson number three. Somebody
leaked that footage of you Jack and Jordan jaw a
Jordan Pool in the face, and we've never ever heard
anything more about who did it, why.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
They did it, and how it got out.

Speaker 1 (01:48:50):
Who do you if I got If I'm Draymond Arnie,
I'm pissed at that leaked. So you've got a lot
of different things you could play on him where you're like, well,
why wouldn't he just go of he's gonna make less money,
why would he go to a place to where he
can keep winning?

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
And maybe that place is Los Angeles? Was with his
buddy Draymond Green. And what did the Lakers need more
than anything right now? Well someone who can shoot a
damn three. But it'd be nice to have a little
bit more of a physical presence, right, take that off,
Anthony Davis.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
How many years does Draymond Green have left? So let's
say you have him ten years. I don't want to
go to the Lakers if I know Lebron's will only
have like, what two, three, four good years left. Sacramento's
got a young team. You can grow with that team.
That might not be a bad option whatsoever. So you've
got Draymond Green playing un till he's forty three years old.
He's thirty three right now? Yeah, yeah, maybe seven good years?

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
How many more? How many more years do you think
Lebron plays? Then? I think Lebron plays and he's what
thirty How does Lebron thirty one? Lebron James thirty six
or thirty seven? Right now? Hold on, we are I
could see you again. I beat you. I beat you
to it. He is thirty eight, thirty eight, So I
could see him playing in another four more years, four
to five more years.

Speaker 1 (01:50:00):
At four more years with Lebron on a franchise in
Los Angeles where maybe you're taking less money, but you
know they're going to be committed to bringing in the
best talent they can.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
By the way, that's Lebron James only playing forty to
fifty games a year.

Speaker 3 (01:50:14):
Two, which is probably the future Number two, Arnie.

Speaker 1 (01:50:17):
As you just said, Lebron's not gonna play every game,
will work as schedule to where you have, if you
want it, a similar setup. So your fresh come the
postseason number three, number three, you become kind of the
face of a team with Lebron in the well, listen
to New York. Let's not fight about but in the
major media market that is LA and what is already

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a skyrocketing post career TV and maybe radio.

Speaker 3 (01:50:43):
And podcast, the only thing that was going to get
me to go to LA.

Speaker 1 (01:50:48):
Right, You're doing this in LA where you believe market
market still matters. So I'm telling you right now, I
think a sales pitch could be there for Draymond Green.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
To the Lakers. Only if I'm in Space Jam three
or whatever it is. Okay, you're in.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
You're Anthony Davis was in that, right, so you're in.
You know what, you gotta put me in there.

Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
Lebron James is gonna do another movie, which by the way,
he was actually pretty good in the movie that he
was in, and you're gonna be a co star Draymond Green.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
Whatever I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:51:15):
I'm being somewhat facetious, but my point is I think
there can be more than money in Draymond's decision. I
really do, And I think the opportunity to play with
Lebron in LA is going to be a conversation that Savior.
It won't work financially. Everything magically finds a way to
work financially. It would be if I'm the Lakers, something

(01:51:35):
I am pitching and selling because as much as you
and I can't stand that dude, if he comes to
our team, it's kind of guy we want.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
If you think about this, you know you heard the
stories about Kevin Durant and the owner of Brooklyn right right,
who's what a tech guy or something like that. From
what I heard, Kevin Durant makes a boatload of money
outside of the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:52:02):
Also with his investments. Oh, he's a big entrepreneur.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
Yes, he's done a phenomenal job. Shouldn't Steve Kerr? And
I've heard the same thing about Steve Kirk because the owner, well,
I mean the owner of Golden State is a very
savvy guy. Also, shouldn't have Draymond Green made a boatload
of money with his investments if he listened to the owner.
And maybe money's not the overwhelming answer to this or

(01:52:26):
am I wrong about that?

Speaker 12 (01:52:27):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:30):
That's a fair question.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
I mean, because he is from what I heard, he's
made Kerrow a boat load of money. I wonder if
he's made Draymond Green the same or probably not, that's
why he opted out.

Speaker 1 (01:52:41):
I bet he's made him so, I bet he's made
all the And of course when you speak of the net,
you're speaking of Joe Sai.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Yeah, their owner. Uh yeah, I would imagine that is
that legal? Like his owner is what Kevin Durant made
a boat load of money?

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
Well, I just means, hey, I'm gonna pay you this much,
but you know I'm really gonna make it as much
away from it in your investments and things.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Yeah, tell me, tell me you know you. I don't
know who you lot, but I see.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
What you're saying, right, is there is there been money
made away from the NBA salary in the NBA contract?

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Yeah, absolutely there has been.

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
But is it to the degree to where he's willing
to take that much less for say Los Angeles or
New York and maybe a chance to win and do
it in a major market. I don't know that'd be
an interesting way.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
Don't gave me.

Speaker 2 (01:53:24):
I ty real quick because I know we're running out
of time here. But the best advice I ever got
was from one of my old bosses in Chicago. He
used to get these really good stock tips, and I
used to wonder, I go, how does he get all
these stock tips out there? Well, of course, when your
father was head coach UH for a while and also
a star player for Notre Dame football, the Notre Dame alumni.

(01:53:45):
I give you a tip here or tip there, seems
to be very good in the stock market, and you
give you all these tips. I'm like, son of a gun,
this guy hit it again until I realized maybe he's
getting from somebody else. Maybe I should be investing in
stuff like this. You know, I'm mean Moron.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Harney's suggesting insider trading. I just want to make sure
the views and art space was that insider trade do
not represent Fox Sports Trade. I know that already.

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
If it's affiliate, it's all right. Quick break tweets are good.
We'll get to him next year on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, it's already in playing sitting in for the fellas.
Anthony Gargano's out, Kevin Figures is out.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
Did you answer the big Internet question this week? Would
you rather work eighty hour work weeks? That's twelve hours
a day, seven days a week and make ten million
dollars a year for ten years, or would you rather
just work like ten hours a week and make a
million dollars a year for ten years?

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
Ooh, it's kind of tough.

Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
I will say this has been a stretch for me
where I've been able to pull back a little bit,
right that my responsibilities at at Oklahoma pause, just a
little bit, right because it's summer you work.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
Oh, I mean listen, come on, man, we're talking sports.

Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
I I might do some ridiculous shows at ridiculous hours,
but I am not in any way, shape or form.
I'm not educated enough to do anything else but talk sports,
nor am I skilled enough to do anything else. So
I'm in big trouble if someone figures this out.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
We all know if I didn't do sports, I was
going to be a doctor, right, you were going to
be doctor Arnie right, the surgeon, Right, the surgeon.

Speaker 3 (01:55:21):
Yeah, but I've kind of enjoyed my time off. But
in the same vein it wouldn't make me mad to
be able to have that security, like for ten what
is it million for ten years, and we're right just
to where I can chill and do this job in
my own leisure, which is what that sounds like ten million?
If you had to work eighty hours, you wouldn't I
feel like, yeah, probably i'd take the extra money.

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
I mean, listen, you can tell whenever there's something going
on in Plank's life where they need something bought, because
suddenly I'm on more shows, I call Scottie a Scott
Shapira or Boss or Don Martin's Like, listen, wife needs
a new washing machine. Can you let me sit in
for Ben mallor Boom? You know, that's when you know
things are crazy. So I guess I'd probably take that
extra money just to be sick.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
You know the fact that I was in the hospital
last week for a couple of hours for my kidney stones,
and I saw the doctor come on buy and push
on my stomach, going okay, it's not appending the sitist.
I mean, the guy saw me for literally maybe ten seconds,
and I'm sure the bill is going to be hundreds
of millions of dollars. I really sometimes wish I would
have become a doctor instead of a talk show host.

Speaker 3 (01:56:24):
Well you know what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
So let meet a couple of tweets to kick off
this this segment here on Fox Sports Radio, next hour,
next hour, We've got to go in on this Nick
Saban stuff for this week because I'm I'm doing a
college show today. I want to be able to have
something to take to it. That Arnie said that will
either make everyone go I agree, or everyone go, who's
that crazy person?

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
I am going to warn you, Arnie. The Nick Saban
topic is a long answer, so we got to pay attention.
But I think it's really good, so we'll bring it
to you coming up right after the top of the hour.
But Roger the Engineer writes, what did Kelsey, Arnie to
make you so mad? Catch all those passes from Pat
who let's remember the Bengals dopes start all they.

Speaker 2 (01:57:08):
Yeah they did, But you know what he does come
off very arrogant. He has that type of persona about him.
I for the life and he can't figure out how
he's always so wide open. I would just put all
eleven guys on Travis Kelcey and just say go ahead,
now be now, beat me and do something else, because
I don't think you could even do that. I I

(01:57:28):
just it's just I would love to start like ten
yards but in front of him, and then when he's
turning around to catch the ball, just laying him out,
just going yea stand over him and see how he
likes that. I know somebody said us a tweet saying
he'd like to says here he'd like to knock the
mouthpiece out of Curry and mahomes. Yeah, you know, I'm

(01:57:51):
not a big Curry fan. I've talked about that for
a while too. I like, I like his game, but
when he starts chewing on that mouthpiece, I swear somebody's
just gonna walk on by, ripping out of his off
and throw it into the stands or throw it on
the ground. I'd start stopping on it or something like that.
I see how he likes that. I'll probably get a
technical for that, though.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
Yeah, I think you might not be able to continue
to play if that were there. Could you imagine the problem?

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
Like how many people would come running over if I
took the mouthpiece out of his mouth, ripped it out,
and stopped on it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
I don't I don't think that would ever happen, by
the way, Just well, I just one thing about that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
Since the Golden State Draymond Green, I would leave a
five of them him because it looks like they're certainly
not going to resign Klay Thompson after next year, and
you know how many more years as Curry I've left,
I would just go ahead and bail and make my ches.

Speaker 1 (01:58:38):
I think if I was a team trying to sell
Traymond on going to play for me for less money,
I would definitely sell the lack of respect to getting
from Golden State. And again, none of it. Financially, they've
seen it, They've been willing to invest in him. But
I just I would play on everything to try to
get him to change his mind. George Right, I enjoy

(01:59:00):
the show, and I feel like I have to pay
more attention because my high school principal was Arnie.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
Wait High School.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
His name was Arnie Plank. Yes, that's why he sent
that in Arnie.

Speaker 1 (01:59:12):
I thought he was like saying his name was Arnie
and then playing wow, I don't even know, playing such
a common name around here. I'm sure we'll relate it
in some way shape or form. Bill Wrights, good morning, Arnie.
You brought up your list of most hated people. Hands down,
Phil effing Mickelson my most hated.

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
I can see that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
I like Phil, but I can see that I can
see why you'd be on your top five most hated.

Speaker 1 (01:59:36):
And then see Jones is kind of on that same
wavelength you are. Actually this is truck Er Dave truck
into San Diego. He said, I'd like to slap the
mouthpieces out of Curry and mahomes every time they start
chewing on their mouthpiece. Oh, you don't understand. You don't
understand how much that trigger is Arnie Space.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
Oh, I hate that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
I absolutely just hate that. I really do want to
rip it out of his mouth and stomp on and
all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
It just drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
You should get a technical if you're just chewing it.
What good is it If you're just gonna chew on it,
Either you wear it or you don't wear. It's supposed
to protect your teeth.

Speaker 1 (02:00:11):
That's one of my favorite early things Arnie was Steph Curry.
I'm like, man, I like Steph guy.

Speaker 3 (02:00:15):
He's got range. I know he's got a few ankle issues,
but he's fun. He's he seems to be digging in
cake chose his mouthpiece. I can't stand it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:25):
Like it's kind You have this little splash brother saying,
I mean this is nothing new. You all this has
been going on for a minute with Arnie's disdain for
Steph Curry. All right, we uh, we gotta break the
bonus a bonus hour.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (02:00:36):
This is all the training, this is all the extra
sprints running up hill. We got enough energy for one
more hour and bring it to you next here on
Fox Sports Radio. Oh, just two lifelong Cincinnati redfans hanging
out talking.

Speaker 3 (02:00:49):
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Speaker 7 (02:01:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
I was just real quick because I just was looking
at Twitter and there was a picture that reminded me
of a story. They have a remember Baywatch star Donna Diericho,
and they have her at fifty five years old, rocking
the same swimsuit that she had on Baywatch and reminding
me of a story. When I was doing local radio
out in Phoenix, she came on my show. We were

(02:01:29):
doing it in Las Vegas on a remote.

Speaker 3 (02:01:30):
It was a big.

Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
There was a big fight that weekend, and she went
down Radio Row and did everybody's show. And then after
she was done doing everybody's shows, she came back to
our area and she goes, you guys were the funny
is you know? You guys are just funny and all that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:45):
She goes, so were we going out tonight? Wow?

Speaker 2 (02:01:48):
Yeah? Oh yeah. She was totally hitting on me, totally
hitting on me.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
But that sink in.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
Remember I was a good looking guy, mustache, ponytail.

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
Right, oh yeah, everything was going for you.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
Yeah back in the day, a lot slimmer, you know,
I mean, who could not and being serious, she was
totally hitting on me.

Speaker 3 (02:02:08):
It just so happened though.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
It was bad timing because I was due to get
married and like uh oh god yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:02:15):
Yeah yeah, no fun Sorry about that, Arnie.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
Yeah, my biggest regret I tell my wife that story
was either you don't tell your wife that story?

Speaker 3 (02:02:23):
Oh all the time, like every other day I bring
it up. Yes, absolutely, Why with that?

Speaker 1 (02:02:27):
Well, I just I want I want your and her happiness.
So if that brings her joy to hear, how wanted
you once were?

Speaker 3 (02:02:34):
Yeah? Game on?

Speaker 9 (02:02:35):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Can you imagine if you dated any of these stars
before they became stars.

Speaker 3 (02:02:39):
You know what I mean, like if you went out
with them.

Speaker 1 (02:02:42):
I mean, I used to date a a Simalana in
my dreams whenever I was thirteen years old. I bet
I could now right, she's a Dodgers fan. Couldn't we
couldn't we maybe connect over our love of Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
You're not a bad looking guy, you know. I mean,
I gotta drop my list. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (02:02:57):
Everyone talks about this summer getting the I'm bod ready, Arnie.
I don't know how to put this. I've been on
an eating binge for two weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
It is. That's hard to believe. I'm like the I'm
like the almost said Ben mallor, what's it?

Speaker 11 (02:03:11):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (02:03:11):
No, no, No, I want the dodge Bawl, the Dodgeball
character at the end, whenever he was he got all
fit and then he ate himself back into shape or
out of shape. That's how I feel, Ben Stiller, Sorry,
Ben Mallard, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
Close, all right? So, Arnie, you're not in on Victor
winbin Yama. Listen.

Speaker 1 (02:03:30):
I cannot say his name right, and eventually I'll get there.
But you're not in right now, are you? I just
I have some questions.

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
I don't think he's going to be like the best
guy in the history of team sports, like there was
quotes out there. I'm worried about the twenty nine percent
from three port range because three point and rangers is
a big thing in the NBA. Obviously, you got to
worry about his size, and also the history shows you.
You know, it's funny we bring up history when it
comes to quarterbacks. If you're under six feet tall or

(02:03:58):
you're not this size, you know, how many quarterbacks have
made it over six feet tall?

Speaker 3 (02:04:03):
We should be doing the same thing.

Speaker 2 (02:04:04):
How many guys have had successful careers over seven foot
two or anything to that matter and not broke. It's
a very short list, probably less than ten on something
like that, So maybe that should be consideration. Also the
numbers he put up in France, I guess twenty one
point six is enough to lead the league in there.
I don't know if they're playing like twenty minute games

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or something like that, you would think you would think
it could be like thirty or thirty five points a game.
I don't know how good the French league is. From
what I hear, I could be six man of the
year out there.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
I don't think you could be well, you never know,
and he only.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
Averaged ten rebounds a game. You would you would think
if you're, you know, ten feet tall, you should have
more than ten rebounds a game. But you know, time
will tell. I would like to see him in the
Summer League. I think he is going to play in
the Summer League. I know people told him not to
because he could get hurt. But if you're worried about
getting hurt in the summer League, was some guy's going

(02:04:57):
to be a FedEx driver in a week from now,
And you've got other stuff to worry about.

Speaker 3 (02:05:02):
So I think you should get out there also. You know, well,
I hope he does.

Speaker 1 (02:05:05):
It would be a great ticket for the Summer League,
Vegas or Orlando, wherever that would would I would hope
it would be Vegas.

Speaker 2 (02:05:11):
I'm a Summer Week guy. I used to go to
them all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:05:14):
I think they're great.

Speaker 1 (02:05:14):
I wish the It seemed like the NBA made a
massive deal about him for a couple of years. That
kind of started to pull back, and now maybe kind
of started to push forward a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (02:05:23):
But I love I love the Summer League.

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
I still One of my favorite Laker moments came from
the summer league real with D'angelobo, I mean, pre Lebron
getting there, but when D'Angelo Russell was was in the
summer league that when they drafted him, I was electric.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:05:38):
Some of those summer league games are good and get
you fired up by the team's future. I used to
do it that.

Speaker 2 (02:05:42):
I used to think, like, he could I sign up
for this league? Is there any way I could play
this league? Did you see everything come back to you
playing basketball? Did you see that guy that signed himself
up for the NBA.

Speaker 3 (02:05:53):
Draft because of a loophole?

Speaker 1 (02:05:56):
I saw that he signed himself up for it. But
I mean you act like he might have accidentally got draft.

Speaker 2 (02:06:01):
There's there's been people like that, like the UCLA team
manager got drafted in the I think eighth or tenth round,
eighth round one year.

Speaker 3 (02:06:10):
So as a as a favor, do we.

Speaker 1 (02:06:14):
Need to get into this story or is it just
fine to say there was a TikToker who found his
way through a loophole to be considered draft eligible.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
So I guess he had it. That's pretty much the
whole story. There you go, there you go, Why do
you have to have a loophole.

Speaker 2 (02:06:27):
Can't I say I'm eligible for the NBA draft, isn't?
Do you have to have some criteria? I don't know
what the criteria is.

Speaker 3 (02:06:32):
To be Well, I've got it again. Do you do
you want me to go down this hole or not
go down the rabble? Just give me the criteria. I
don't know what the what's the damn criteria? Do you do?
You have to be like a baller?

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
I used to be a baller. I'm sixty though, I
can still be eligible for the NBA draft?

Speaker 3 (02:06:50):
Can I Article ten? Article X? I don't know if
that's ten or X ten and Roman numerals.

Speaker 1 (02:06:56):
Well, I don't know, Like like, I don't know if
if on the NBA rule books if they're going by
Roman numerals.

Speaker 3 (02:07:02):
I mean, I have no clue.

Speaker 1 (02:07:04):
Section one, page two hundred and seventy three of the
twenty seven This is all Arnie's fault of the twenty
seventeen NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement. There were this Jordan Haber
realized there weren't many rules to enter the NBA Draft.
That's what the player is or will be at least
nineteen years of age during the calendar year. Yes, number two,

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the player has graduated from a four year college or
university in the United States and has no remaining intercollegiate
basketball eligibility left, which I that rule seems to be broken.

Speaker 3 (02:07:39):
Yeah, both of them are broken.

Speaker 1 (02:07:41):
So the player has expressed his desire to be selected
in the draft in writing in a LETTERY seed by
the NBA at least sixty days prior to such draft.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
Okay, so it's got to be. So next year, let's
have a letter for me, would you, and we'll submit
one next year.

Speaker 3 (02:07:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:07:58):
Aber met the eligibility recquesd vironments because he's twenty one
years old, is a December twenty twenty two graduate of Florida,
and because I guess he just literally reached out to
the NBA sixty days prior to the drafts process and
I guess they approved them. You really have a three
to four month window to do this, Aber said. And

(02:08:19):
it's because of that window not many people are going
to think to do it because they think, oh, it's
a wasted time and there's some paperwork.

Speaker 3 (02:08:26):
To fill out, and it's what it really is. So
there you go, there's your story.

Speaker 12 (02:08:30):
Yard.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
Now I love to be in that yes, but you're
not going to get picked name.

Speaker 3 (02:08:35):
I guess the routes. If it went back to eight rounds,
I'd have a chance it. I still think you'd be out.

Speaker 1 (02:08:41):
But the La Times did report that Haber was not
among the three hundred names included in an April minno.
He is instead, though, one of the eighteen names under
a separate category of quote unquote unknown individuals. So, in
other words, you apply and they say yes, and then
they try to figure out.

Speaker 3 (02:08:58):
Who you are. But I'm a known individual.

Speaker 1 (02:09:01):
Well, I mean in your in your rec league, you
might be a known individual. Your team Brown versus Team
Orange that you played last week.

Speaker 2 (02:09:08):
That's right. My team is three and zero. We're dominating.

Speaker 3 (02:09:13):
Well are you a part of that? Oh yeah, okay,
I'm like making sure you again you're playing time.

Speaker 2 (02:09:18):
I'm the seventh option.

Speaker 1 (02:09:19):
The seventh option that we need a seventh man award
because the sixth man isn't just good enough. Seventh man
Arnie Spaniard all right, well, what with draft talk here
with Arnie and Plank sitting in for Anthony Gargano on
Fox Sports Radio. What'd you think of the coverage? Did
you enjoy it? Was it a little bit too over dramatized.

Speaker 3 (02:09:38):
It didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:09:39):
You know, we're not going back to the Trey Wingo
NFL draft, and it wasn't Trey's fault, but where a
player was drafted and then all of a sudden, the
worst thing that ever happened to them is talked about
for a while, outside of people being Madame Malik Andrews
for bringing up Brendon Miller's involvement with the gun case.

Speaker 3 (02:09:54):
That the murder case in Alabama. I know that was
hot on.

Speaker 1 (02:09:58):
That was a big thing, but anything coverage wise, did
you get into the Woes v.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
Scham's battle or at all?

Speaker 2 (02:10:04):
Or no? You mean whether they were tipping off the
picks and stuff like that. No, said she got the
number two pick right right, right right. I didn't really
get into it much. I know there was some gambling
involved and some people were getting on him. You would
think he would get a right since he was getting
the picks tipped to him. Anyway, I think that's just
old and antiquated. I don't think we really need to

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have to know who the picks are coming seconds before
they come.

Speaker 3 (02:10:29):
It's more than seconds.

Speaker 2 (02:10:31):
Oh, is it really that big of a deal if
you're sitting and watching and enjoying. Then you're doing that.
I don't see there's any value in it. It's not
really to me that big of a deal. As for
the coverage, and I brought this up to you, I
don't know if it was last week or when we
were filling it or whatever. I said, Boy, what a
difference between the NFL Draft and the NBA draft, the
whole spectacle, the way they put it together, the analyst

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and stuff like that. I'm not gonna jump on the
NBA coverage just like everybody else. But it was it
was just blah. I was just you know, uh, it
didn't get me excited. I wasn't into their commentary. I
didn't like, you know, the background. It felt like they
were just kind of doing their homework the last couple
of weeks, you know what I mean. They didn't have
enough NBA experts on. So you know, you watch it,

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you're watching for the picks. I don't think things went
smoothly in that point too. You know, I kept it
kept saying, okay, and the pick is in or something,
and you're waiting for the pick or something. It just
the whole thing seemed a little mishmash if you ask.

Speaker 1 (02:11:31):
Me, well, here here's here's two things, just and not
because you know me. I love having these media conversations.

Speaker 3 (02:11:37):
Two things.

Speaker 1 (02:11:38):
Number One, I watch on an app so I don't
know if I was getting the ABC or the ESPN
feed right, because I was. I was doing college baseball
that night. And my understanding is that Stephen A. Smith
was all over the ABC feed and I never saw
him on my feet. So I assume I have the
ESPN feed. You got to put how well you have
to put Sean Marks or Bobby Marks or whom I have? Uh,

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and those guys all over it?

Speaker 3 (02:12:02):
You cannot you cannot have.

Speaker 1 (02:12:04):
Jj Reddick up there a guy who is good but
also basically complains about the college game NonStop. It's like,
why are you putting a joyless soul on the NBA
draft set? Bring me back Frank for Shila so I
can know something about these.

Speaker 3 (02:12:21):
Yeah, but then everybody's dream's got good, great potential. I
don't even right, But no, no, no, I did. Yeah,
but that's what you got. That's what you got.

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
I don't want hot takes on draft night. I want
well thought out evaluations. And I don't think he gave
us that you want one other thing, one other thing.
I don't need the parents with the kid on the couch.
It's the kid's freaking moment. Let him have the moment,
the young man, whatever term you want to use, bringing

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over the parents in that uncomfortable side interview set they
ad for ESPN and ABC. Guys, I know I'm very
much old man screaming at clouds on my front yard.

Speaker 3 (02:13:02):
That was bad. I let the kid have his damn moment.

Speaker 2 (02:13:05):
Now I didn't see every one of them. Was there
one more uncomfortable than the other. I'm still waiting for what,
you know, for not to do the interview, And then
the dad grabbing the mic, going hey, come by bye
bye restaurant. We've got specials all week log so come
bye bye.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
And then every single question was the same.

Speaker 1 (02:13:22):
And I'm watching a guy that just got picked tenth
in the draft, and a guy that got picked eighth
in the draft, and a dude that got picked fifth,
and it's always.

Speaker 3 (02:13:29):
Well, what about to those who doubted you?

Speaker 1 (02:13:30):
And those you're like finding one person in their past
and they're a top five pick. I mean, Mike, nobody,
you were a McDonald's All American bro, I don't think
you can claim that nobody believed in me.

Speaker 2 (02:13:44):
Yeah, stop with that polony. I'm getting a little tired
of hearing that allso.

Speaker 1 (02:13:47):
So, I very much old man, get off my lawn.
But I thought from a coverage perspective, ESPN was terrible,
and I gave you I think we brought this up
in that hour.

Speaker 2 (02:13:54):
Number one, I know more people, and overall, when you
look at the first round, you're gonna see a lot
of names that you've not seen play.

Speaker 3 (02:14:03):
You've heard the names because of.

Speaker 2 (02:14:04):
The draft coming up, but I've watched more that didn't
get drafted, like a Drew Timmy and uh Oscar Yewey
from m Kentucky and Tabalas who signed the deal with Philadelphia,
the kid from Connecticut, Yeah, uh Adamsonogo so and those

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were big, those four big names out there that I
could come up with a team and come up with
one more and have a pretty damn good all star
team at guys that were not drafted take on the
kids that were drafted those I think. I still think
Drew Timmy's gonna make it in the NBA. I think
all four of those guys are gonna make it in
the En. You said, no, I'm Rew Timmy.

Speaker 3 (02:14:43):
No, no, no, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. Yeah,
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (02:14:46):
I think all four are gonna play imparting.

Speaker 3 (02:14:49):
You don't know why the draft?

Speaker 1 (02:14:50):
Yeah, well, I mean if you go back to last
year's pre draft prospect process and I'm not talking this
year's draft, there were some that had Drew Timmy earmarked
as a lottery pick, right he say top ten, Yeah,
and now all of a sudden he goes undrafted when
he comes back to screen.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
So that's insane.

Speaker 1 (02:15:06):
I don't know if he would have been sniffed out
in the pre draft process anyway, and eventually that number
would have slid, and it was all based on college
numbers whenever he was projected there.

Speaker 3 (02:15:14):
But you didn't mention Marquise Noel.

Speaker 1 (02:15:17):
And I know he's short at point guard, so obviously
he probably wasn't gonna get drafted anyway. But I'm just
I mean, for some of these guys that left early on,
he with nil like a she Bay, is it gonna
end up becoming more financially beneficial for him to come
back to school and play another year than to try
to go to the league and get maybe drafted in
the second or not drafted at all.

Speaker 2 (02:15:37):
Didn't he say he was giving up money by going
to the NBA instead of the owe money in Kentucky.
Though I don't think he goes back. I think he's
committing him. Yeah, so obviously, candidates, it's a shame because
if you don't get drafted, you should have the automatic
ability to go on back, because I thought that's how
they changed the rules. So it's I know about the
whole if you signed with an agent, But it's too

(02:15:59):
bad because you really want to give these kids extra options.
But I still think all four of them make it
in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (02:16:04):
When it said and done. Yeah, I think they got
a great chance to do so as well.

Speaker 1 (02:16:08):
Okay, when we come back to the tire rack dot
Com studios, we had a conversation about quarterbacks earlier. Five
young quarterbacks that are kind of in a make or
break year. We'll take your reaction to that. At Stinking
Genius one. I'm at Plank Show. We've got to dive
into what Rob Manfred had to say this week and
a little bit more into the College World series because

(02:16:29):
I'm going to introduce you to the Jello shot King.

Speaker 3 (02:16:32):
But Arnie. Jeez when we come back.

Speaker 1 (02:16:35):
Yes, Nick Saban had some interesting remarks, can't wait the
future of the playoff and the future of the game.
We'll get your take on it next right here on
Fox Sports Radio. Hey, let's get me some Nick Saban
coming up here in a bit on Fox Sports Radio
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Elie de la Cruz was an MVP candidate, and Arnie
this week, I told you I said that. Oh you
said that first. I'm sorry that first. Come on, I

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got to make sure to give it in its proper context.
Now this week, this week we had some interesting overall
comments from Nick Saban and I want playing for you.
This from the Joel Clatt podcast, which you can find
by simply searching Joel Clatt on your any podcast provider.

Speaker 3 (02:17:41):
I assaulted him one time. Do you want to talk
about that or the nix Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:17:46):
I just insulted as I had him on the show
Maybe with You and I said I'd paid to have
a watch a quarterback contest between you, do that between
you and Colin Coward. And He's like, are you insulting me?
I was a college quarterback.

Speaker 3 (02:17:58):
I know that's I I've so.

Speaker 2 (02:18:01):
Much been funny it don't take it so personal.

Speaker 3 (02:18:04):
Tell the comedian they're not funny. I mean, you can't
do that. You can't do that right too bad. So anyway,
I love Joe Klatt.

Speaker 1 (02:18:11):
I would never ever think anyone had a better arm
than him, especially in the media. But Arnie, he asked
a very good question in Nick Saban, I think it's
one in the college football world that we're all still
trying to figure out and truly understand. What is the
selection process going to look like for six through twelve, right,
because we've got six automatic big bids and six at

(02:18:34):
large teams that'll make the twelve team playoff? And will
it bring more parody to the sport? Listen to what
Nick Saban had to say to that question.

Speaker 12 (02:18:43):
Even in the SEC when you had Texas and Oklahoma.
There's going to be more parody because there's probably going
to be six seven teams ranked in the top twenty
that are going to be playing each other. So, but
the problem with the way the whole system is there's
no account accounting for that, right, So all we do

(02:19:05):
is take the teams that win the most games at
the end of the year and put them at the
in the playoffs. But do you really get the best teams?
When they told me that we would be favored against
three out of the four teams that got in the playoffs,
I'm like, well, why aren't we in the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (02:19:22):
So I don't think Nick Saban is trying to push
in any way, shape or form there Arnie for some
sort of pull that involves Vegas spreads. Hey, if we're
not a favorite, we should be the team going there.
But it will be interesting to see how we get. Basically, say, listen, TC,
you got their butts kicked, Ohio State lost, We didn't
get in this year. Even though we lost two games.

(02:19:43):
We were going to be favored over three of those
four teams. We were the better team. And I don't know, Arnie,
if the history writers will look at this Alabama team
as one of the greatest what could have.

Speaker 3 (02:19:53):
Been if they made the playoffs? But I just I
don't know. Is he onto something there?

Speaker 1 (02:19:58):
Do we need to start reconsidering best versus most deserving
and the process in which we choose these playoff teams
going forward?

Speaker 2 (02:20:05):
Right, it's not the most deserving that I miss something out.
We don't go strictly by games one. What happened to
s O losing? What happened the strength of schedule and
that scene. Well that's the problem with Alabama, you know.
Or when you go ahead and you schedule the Utah
States in the Louisiana Monros of the world. Oh wait,
excuse me, I forgot Austin p I mean, my goodness,

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how could you forget a team and that powerhouse. I'm
sure he probably thought that Austin p was going to
be a top five team. But this year doesn't disappoint
because you got Middle Tennessee and Chattanooga on the schedule.
Maybe if you didn't schedule I think South Burlington High
schools on the schedule too, Maybe if you didn't schedule
cream puffs like that, you could lose more games in

(02:20:50):
the all tough SEC and not have to worry about it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:54):
But you know, we take a look at.

Speaker 2 (02:20:55):
Middle Tennessee and Chattanooga and then you're throwing the likes
of the Vanderbilts of the world and all.

Speaker 1 (02:21:01):
That you're choosing like literally the two worst things from
a schedule that did include a trip to Austin last year. Well,
I end playing in Texas against Texas and not even
close to being the most difficult conference to try to
run through period.

Speaker 2 (02:21:16):
Look, I love the SEC, you know that, and I
think it's it's gonna be real tough for your Oklahoma sooners.

Speaker 3 (02:21:22):
But that's beside the fine. No, you won't be fine.
We'll be fine. You won't be fine. Well, I keep
doing this, the rest of the show will be fine.

Speaker 2 (02:21:29):
Dude, you won't even be five hundred. So maybe if
under blow five hundred five, then you're right, you'll.

Speaker 1 (02:21:35):
No, No, you'll be They're gonna win the conference in
their first five years. Go ahead, I'll bet my job
on Oh, I bet my job on it, too. Well,
you've already lost your job that But.

Speaker 2 (02:21:46):
Nick is right in a way, you have to look
more at strength of schedule, especially when it comes to
the teams outside the SEC. When they don't play as
hard of a conference schedule and they don't play every
team in the conference, and then they go with.

Speaker 3 (02:21:59):
The cream, you gotta do something about the creampuffs.

Speaker 1 (02:22:02):
Well, I mean to his defense, Yes, TCU played the
Colorado's and the SMUs of the world last year in
non conference play. Georgia didn't necessarily like the world on
fire with its non conference schedule in twenty twenty three,
even though I don't think the debate is about Georgia.
Ohio State had Notre Dame to start the season and

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that wasn't all I mean.

Speaker 11 (02:22:25):
And have a.

Speaker 2 (02:22:27):
Game one I forget how many years back, three, Maybe
it was a great opening game.

Speaker 3 (02:22:32):
Was it maybe Flourid to State or so? I can't
remember off the top of my head.

Speaker 1 (02:22:34):
Well, Alabama's had you. Alabama's always played a strong non
conference foe. But it's just whether or not that game
is in Alabama or side because it's always in neutral sites.
Is the brilliance of Nick Saban recent neutral Simon, Well.

Speaker 3 (02:22:51):
It was Austin this year.

Speaker 1 (02:22:52):
I get what you're saying, but I just I wonder
if this and we're getting a new college football Playoff director, right,
getting someone that's gonna be over the college football playoff
with Bill Hancock's pending retirement. So I wonder what's gonna
change and how different it's truly gonna on.

Speaker 2 (02:23:07):
What happened to the We're gonna make our votes be known.
I don't even know who's on the committee anymore. I mean,
remember we made fun of the whole Conna Lisa Rice
and how she was I did, well, yeah, because she's
not watching the games, Like I am, what's wrong with you?
I can't say that about Conna Lisa Rice Boloney. I
would love to have a camera follower on a Saturday
afternoon and she's like, don't bother me now, I got

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the Alabama Georgia game on her or something to that.
In fact, I call bs on that, Poloni. I don't
even know who's on it anymore, who's watching it, how
the vote goes, Nobody releases their final vote. It seems
like it's like secret, hush hush. I think that, you know,
I would love to be involved and see what's going
on here.

Speaker 1 (02:23:49):
You know, they do have mock yes selection processes that
you can sit through, Arnie, So all these things that
you're saying, no We've had many media members who have
sat through it, and it is nothing as if you're
trying to paint it right now for someone that hasn't
been on the playoff committee in a minute.

Speaker 2 (02:24:05):
Now, I should be on that playoff No, you shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (02:24:07):
You don't even know the starting quarterback for your own
team's name.

Speaker 2 (02:24:11):
I do. The kid that they transferred from, the kid
that transferred from State. He's damn good too, you know it?

Speaker 1 (02:24:17):
Gosh, all right when we come back, when we come back,
your tweets, it's been good this morning, plus some final
thoughts and do you have picks on a Saturday morning too?

Speaker 3 (02:24:26):
Uh, there's really nothing to pick. All we have is baseball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:24:29):
Well, I'm gonna give you some must watches on TV
coming up next and must listens here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (02:24:35):
Like our man Kevin Wire always is with what's trending.

Speaker 8 (02:24:38):
What's going on, Kevin Well, Everything trending right now is
in Major League Baseball. The rookies are trending. Ellie de
la Cruz continuing to have an outstanding rookie campaign.

Speaker 5 (02:24:49):
Here's the two two, and there's a drive toward the
right center field gap that's down this wall.

Speaker 6 (02:24:56):
Send India around third day, La Cruz going for third.

Speaker 3 (02:25:00):
Here's the relay, not in time.

Speaker 6 (02:25:02):
An RBI triple for Elie Dyala Cruz and he has.

Speaker 8 (02:25:07):
Just hit for the cycle. Red's radio network with the
call the rookie hitting for the cycle. As the Cincinnati
Reds make it twelve straight wins, they outscore the Braves
eleven to ten. Another rookie with an outstanding game. Friday,
em Mitchihan of the LA Dodgers gets his first career
Major League win, allowing just two runs and six innings

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of work as LA beats the Houston Astros three to two.
The Rays continue to be the best team in baseball.
They're now fifty three and twenty six after rolling over
the Royals eleven to three. The Giants are really playing well.
They started off slow, but now we're just within two
and a half games of Arizona, a top of the
NLS after they take down their first place rivals eight

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to five, the Angels. It's been the same story for
the last couple of years. Soeotani, Mike Trout doing everything,
but they still can't get the win. And that's the
way it was. On Friday. They had back to back
home runs Trout and Otani, but a seven to four loss.
Nonetheless for the Angels. The Red Sox beat the White
Sox three wine, Mariners completely destroy the Orioles thirteen to one.

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Phillies beat their heated rival the Mets five to one,
and then the trade. In Major League Baseball on Friday,
the Angels acquired Eduardo Escobar from the Mets in exchange
for two minor league pitchers. And in the college ranks,
we've got the College Ruld Series, the final championship round
starting on Saturday. It'll be Florida and LSU. Back to

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you guys, Thanks Kevin. By the way, we have our
progressive play of the day.

Speaker 1 (02:26:39):
Oh coming up, I've got the walk off from that game.
I don't know how many times if you guys have
heard it yet from Thursday night. It was fantastic Westwood
one NCAA radio network, John Bishom, Mike Ferrin, one of.

Speaker 3 (02:26:51):
The great calls. I think I've heard of that. It's outstanding. Okay,
you are not in at all on college baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:26:58):
They're talking about the wake Forest game, right, yeah, yeah,
thank you, right to nothing. Well, I'm just gonna I
pick wake Forest to win it all. So I know
someone pointed that out on Facebook. We got we've got demos,
diehard listener. I just want to mention this real quick.
A dude that follows us everywhere that we go. Uh,
and he is so angry about your picks, aren't Oh?

(02:27:19):
He told I had some guy facebook me. He said
if I had any integrity, I'd quit my job because
my pick was wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:27:26):
My man John hit me up. He's like span your
with so on another pick. He had a wake Forest
winning it all. I was going to tell him myself,
but it looks like he's already blocked me on Facebook,
going bet against me that if I'm so bad. Yeah, hey,
Arnie By, I got two really good tweets. I want
to get to Uh. First, we haven't talked about this yet.

(02:27:47):
We haven't talked about the Sham's woach thing really in
depth and kind of the I guess farther reaching arm
with fan duel.

Speaker 2 (02:27:56):
You got bogus info on the number two pick.

Speaker 1 (02:27:59):
Justin in Cincinnati Rights. If we're going to hold the
players to a higher standard with gambling, this insider is
being in bed with Draft Kings and FanDuel, then putting
out rumors and speculation needs to stop just saying guys,
it's shady as bleep.

Speaker 2 (02:28:17):
Yeah, well you could. They cut the betting off. They
don't let you go up to the last second. So
if you're gonna bet on where guys are gonna go
in the draft, I think there's a limit or there's
a time mark on that where they'll stop taking bets overall.
But though Vegas, I heard somebody in Vegas say they're
not worried about what Shams puts out, which I find

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out hard to believe. Also, matter of fact, didn't they
They took off stuff like how long the national anthem
and the Super Bowl is going to be because.

Speaker 3 (02:28:45):
Somebody timed it.

Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
Yeah, wrote Darren Ravel that who time and it's gonna
be way over and you know people were going ballistic
on that.

Speaker 1 (02:28:53):
Well, I'm just here's the conspiracy that's making the rounds
is that I keep want to say Sharana his last name,
Shams improperly threw that out maybe at the behest of
FanDuel to kind of balance the market out, because maybe

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there was a problem, maybe there was a lot of
liability on Brandon Miller going number two, and that fan
Duel thought, hey, get something out there to create a
little bit ad I don't think you. I don't think
you could bet on that. I don't first of all,
all you absolutely can bet on who's second in the drum.

Speaker 3 (02:29:30):
You can bet on it.

Speaker 2 (02:29:31):
But I think they have it cut off right before
the drum.

Speaker 1 (02:29:33):
Vanduel had Hnderson at plus four hundred prior to the
noon tweet that Shams put out in the minutes afterwards,
skewed Henderson to go number two. Overall fell to a
steep price in minus nine hundred when it was plus
four hundred.

Speaker 2 (02:29:46):
You know, you say to bounce things out, but you
could make a boatload of money if you just took
the plus on both players. They were there were big
time in the plus. You could got eight to one,
nine to one or something. You could have made a
lot of money on that.

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
Oh, I mean you're bound. How much are you gonna
because you're gonna lose on one of them and went
on the other.

Speaker 2 (02:30:05):
If you put one hundred dollars on each and both
of them were eight or nine to one when you
got on the plus side, you're making the money no
matter who it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (02:30:12):
Look at you, you and your get rich quick schemes. Finally, no,
I'm a math whiz.

Speaker 3 (02:30:17):
Stop it coming now.

Speaker 1 (02:30:18):
FanDuel, by the way, for their part to the company,
doesn't have an abundance of knowledge of any news that
shams may break.

Speaker 3 (02:30:26):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (02:30:26):
FanDuel is not privy to any news that shams breaks
on its platforms. I felt like the adjustment was something
that you would see in a lot of places, and
maybe it just wasn't as dramatic. But I think this
will be interesting to kind of follow the tea leaves.
I just think he missed it, Arnie. I don't think
there has to be much more to it. It happens
in this game of insider information, especially on drafts.

Speaker 3 (02:30:48):
You get things wrong. It has not a big deal.

Speaker 6 (02:30:52):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
But it's not like us.

Speaker 2 (02:30:53):
We shouldn't be losing our minds over I don't wait,
is there anybody in the history of any NBA NFL
draft get all the first round? Right?

Speaker 1 (02:31:03):
I'm waiting to hear that. I mean, stopping well, Jake
Lazer did one year. So why you got to cut
down our guys Sports Radio? I mean, come on, you're
not getting every pick right. When we come back, we'll
put a rap with Arnie's picks. We've got what is
a scintillating play of the day to get you. Oh
and then one more quick one. As far as our projections,
I mentioned too a head news sit us up on

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Twitter and said new scorching hot MLB take Ellie will
make a sustained run at four hundred deep into the
baseball seaton.

Speaker 2 (02:31:33):
Oh, we're gonna start seeing Dola Cruz jerseys all over
the place. Is he gonna be like a no name
and everybody's gonna be jumping on the bandwagon. I mean,
he is exciting and I'm all into it. I love him. Yeah,
I don't think that's a bad thing though, No, not
at all. I don't know if that's gonna be enough
to get people.

Speaker 1 (02:31:50):
I would add, they'll study, they'll find they'll find some
way to attack him. It happens with every not not.
I mean, hold on, hold on and hold on pause second,
let me think pause. They'll find a way to attack
his swing. They'll find a way too, They'll scout him more,
they'll get more tape on him. I love his swing,
I love everything about him. But you're going to see

(02:32:11):
pictures adjust right, there's not a lot. I don't know
how much studying was done of him coming through the
minor leagues, so I don't think that it's fair to say, Wow,
what you're seeing now is gonna happen NonStop.

Speaker 3 (02:32:21):
But I'm here for it if it does.

Speaker 2 (02:32:22):
I got to tell you, the most impressive thing I've
seen so far out of the kid is not the
home runs or the triples, are hitting for the psychic
or anything like that. It was a ground ball to
first base that the first basemen field, I don't know,
five steps behind the bag, and Dela Cruz beat him
to the bag, beat him to the I'm like, WHOA,
when's the last time your saw something like that? That's incredible.

(02:32:44):
I love the hustle, I love everything about him.

Speaker 3 (02:32:46):
He is legit all right.

Speaker 1 (02:32:48):
Thanks for everyone taking part on Twitter dot com Today
at Stinkingenius one, I'm at Plank Show. We'll read more
of your tweets recapping the weekend coming up on Sunday night.

Speaker 3 (02:32:57):
But when we come back, I think it's what you
came forward today.

Speaker 1 (02:33:01):
Arnie's picks, plus a preview of things you can't miss
today in sports on Fox Sports Radio. Final segment for
US Wow Quick Show. I'm not up this early Who's
coming up next? Is it Jonas?

Speaker 3 (02:33:17):
And is it a three? George Smith? Jared Smith, JAREDE. Smith?

Speaker 1 (02:33:26):
So the bet MGM, guys, I'm never up this early, Arnie.
This is this is new to me, ridiculously early. I'm
gonna need like a ten hour Matt nap.

Speaker 2 (02:33:35):
I'm usually up this early preparing, you know, for shows
and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (02:33:39):
Right, you never sleep, which is why you're always texting
us at this time in the morning. Thanks to Ethan
Miller A great job is always running the show. Mark
Ramsey is always truly putting the the ones and twos together,
Kevin wired on updates again, Brian Know and the crew
coming up next? Anthony Gargano out so gotcha for the
next couple of weeks as Anthony travels the world. But
Arnie is always like to wrap things up, not just

(02:34:01):
with your picks, butt with the play of the day. Yes,
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Speaker 6 (02:34:17):
Here's Tommy White, the RBI leader for the Bengals, and
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Speaker 3 (02:34:22):
Deep left field.

Speaker 2 (02:34:23):
Did he just send them to the Championship Series?

Speaker 13 (02:34:26):
Yes, it's gonna be a mob seen at home plate.
Temmy White homers into the left field stands at LSU.
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Speaker 3 (02:34:46):
On the first pitch.

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Speaker 3 (02:35:08):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:35:09):
That's the play of the week. That's might be the
play of the year in baseball already. I know you're
not impressed. All right, where do you want to go?
Let's go, Arnie Picks. I know there's not a lot
going on today, but let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:35:18):
Give me a little music, put me in the mood.
Let me just give you a few predictions before we
get out of here. Then, by Yama, by the way,
I'll be the first. I'll tell you. After his rookie year,
twelve points a game six rebounds.

Speaker 3 (02:35:28):
Okay, so that's after his rookie year. That's after his
rookie year.

Speaker 2 (02:35:32):
So I don't want to oh the best things and
lies bread. Keep this twelve points a game, six rebounds.
I think Draymond Greens could end up with the Sacramento Kings,
and what a team they'll have if they pick him up.
Not that he's gonna help him that much in scoring,
but he'll help be that Colm presence. I can't believe
I said that.

Speaker 3 (02:35:52):
What a pickup. I don't know if he'll be all
that great for him, but oh, I.

Speaker 2 (02:35:57):
Just said they won't help offfensively, but a comic presence, defense, toughness, rebounding. Okay,
Damian Lillard, you need to get the hell out of Portland.
Enough is enough already, you know what I mean. I
don't care if you want to leave or not. If
you don't want to leave, it shows you know your
desirability to go ahead and really win an NBA championship,

(02:36:17):
because you'll never win one in Portland no way.

Speaker 3 (02:36:20):
Now, he sucks because he's not ring chasing. You just say.

Speaker 2 (02:36:23):
I didn't say he sucks. Didn't say he sucks. I
just said, you know, where's your drive to be the
best that there is? It's wrong with having the drive
to make the Blazers better?

Speaker 3 (02:36:33):
What's wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:36:34):
Stop it?

Speaker 3 (02:36:35):
Stop it?

Speaker 2 (02:36:36):
Gosh. So I think he's gonna end up in Miami anyway.
I do like the Celtics getting Porzingis two bad to
cost him Marcus smart, But I'm okay with that because
I think Porzigis can average twenty points a game for
them and they need that. And tomorrow my team four
and oh the Brown team taking on the Great Team.
Great Team is just horrible.

Speaker 3 (02:36:56):
They're zero and four.

Speaker 2 (02:36:57):
I should see extended duty tomorrow, the court going for
double digits, Chris. I think I'll have ten points as
a game high for me. So there you have my picks.
Do them as you please. No longer strictly for entertainment
purposes only. Yeah, the Great Team is horrible. They have
nobody on their team, nobody.

Speaker 3 (02:37:15):
They suck.

Speaker 1 (02:37:16):
Look, you're gonna end up being on some hype video
for them. No, they're horrible. I write it out to
the chat rooms too. I go, Great Team horrible. I
should get double digits. Not only are you playing in
a rec league where you keep stats and your your
games are live streamed. Yes, but do you then go

(02:37:38):
talk smack on a message But.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
We have we have a message board, we have power rankings, lines,
predicted final scores by the computer, how the games will end,
you know, stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (02:37:49):
So it's very high, tach. Can you gamble on them too? Oh? Sure,
there's a lot on them too. Absolutely, please bet responsibly. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (02:38:00):
I know that sports radio shows at four hours can
be a little bit of a challenge sometimes. Yeah, but
come on, find me another one that's ending with Arnie
breaking down his rec league's basketball double digit later today.
I told you i'd give you some must watch things
on TV today. I'll just be honest with you. There

(02:38:20):
isn't a ton You get the MMA on ABC today
at three point thirty Eastern, Josh Immitt's fighting.

Speaker 3 (02:38:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:38:29):
That's not going to do anything for you. I know
the Infinity Race in Tennessee is not going to do
anything for you. Yes, I'm going to costco.

Speaker 3 (02:38:36):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:38:36):
You've got the you got the USFL playoffs, you got
Pittsburgh versus Michigan tonight in primetime on Hosco and the
Market and best Buy. But did you think that we
would ever have this little interest in spring football. I
mean there is minimal interest, but I mean this little interest,
nobody gives a damn about it.

Speaker 2 (02:38:54):
Just get me to first practice of football, would you
please just do that?

Speaker 1 (02:38:59):
Tour, PGA Tours, got the Travelers Championship anything, I'm running
errands today and then of course tonight in primetime Florida
versus LSU, Game one of the College World and they.

Speaker 3 (02:39:10):
Go hang gliding.

Speaker 1 (02:39:11):
Today you have on Fox baseball wise, you get the
Cardinals and the Cubs, which I don't know if you
caught it or not.

Speaker 3 (02:39:19):
That's uh.

Speaker 1 (02:39:19):
I guess deren Geta is making his debut for Fox today,
or at least is on the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (02:39:25):
Out on the broadcast on the pregame show.

Speaker 1 (02:39:27):
Fox Sports one has your amazing Mets in Philadelphia anything nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:39:33):
I've gone through enough pain already, so and.

Speaker 1 (02:39:36):
I think we're getting. I think we're getting Minnesota Detroit
on primetime as well. Point no, no, No, Dodgers an
Astros primetime tonight too. Nothing, DC United versus Cincinnati on
Apple TV, New York City Grand Prix and Track and Field,
Let's go WNBA Indie versus Vegas, followed by.

Speaker 3 (02:39:55):
I think more people gonna watch me on my recor
league game. Let's just say, here's my advice to you.

Speaker 1 (02:40:02):
Put that airpot in, tune into Brian No coming up next,
and just start on the Honey Dues and you're good
to go and you can have yourself a Saturday where
you're informed in sports and you're definitely not missing too much. Again,
great job for the crew for Ronie Spaniel on Chris Blank.
We'll be back with you on Sunday night, Sunday night
from eleven p to two A Central Eastern Time, ten

(02:40:23):
p to one A Central Time, recapping the weekend that was.
For now, have a great Saturday. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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