1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Doug Gotlieb Show podcast. Be 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: sure to catch us live every weekday three to five, 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: twelve two Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: station for The Doug Gottlieb Show at Foxsports Radio dot com, 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: by searching. 7 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 2: App as car Eh, what. 8 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: Up with your Doug Gottlieb shout Fox Sports Radio. Jay 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: Stu's the producer. I was Sam's on the Ones and 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: twos in the Great Monsey Belognos. Give it us updates. 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: We have a jam packed second hour. Of course, we'll 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: got the podcast hour up. Come and download that podcast 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: or download podcast. Just type in Doug Gottlieb. So I was, uh, 14 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: I'm watching last night with the NBA draft. I flip 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: over them like ah, I just I love the fact 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: that there's lots of mid major guys or guys that 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 1: were formerly mid major guys coaching in a mid major 18 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: program that are getting drafted. And you know, when you 19 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: watch foreign players get drafted recruiting form players, that's intriguing too. 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: And I love basketball, but I'm slipping around and watching 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: baseball and I thought of this cal Raleigh story and 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: it's one of the weird things about baseball. But we 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: do a segment and I think usually we kind of 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: trend into it right about July we say it's it's baseball, 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: and it's the expression I use is because in baseball 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: there are weird things that happen that you can't explain. 27 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,759 Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, people are like, oh, it's just baseball, 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: you know, and that you can you can have years 29 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: with the exact same hit or exact same approach. The 30 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: numbers can be a variance because you know, you get 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: lucky groundball with that groundball that I don't know if 32 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: this is a weird one. It's an amazing, amazing start 33 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: to the season for cal rallygh that's baseball, an amazing, 34 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: amazing start to this story. That's baseball for people who 35 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: don't know cal Raley and we're in the first half 36 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: of the year. Has hit thirty two home runs. The 37 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: ops is one point zero sixty three. Just you don't 38 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: have to be a numbers nerd to go like that 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: sounds really good. It's not good, it's great, it's great. 40 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: Aaron Judge for Perspective has twenty eight home runs. Show 41 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: Heyo Tani has twenty eight home runs the same show, Hey, 42 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: Tony with fifteen to fifty last year. So Raleigh has 43 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: been incredible. Now, I mean in comparison to Aaron Judge, 44 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: who has more hits, higher on base percentage. Aaron Judge 45 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: is on base, by the way, forty six percent of 46 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: the time. That's nuts in non steroid era to be 47 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: on base that much as his nuts. But there's this 48 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: other part to the cow rally thing, and I think 49 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: in all honesty, Jay Stu, you speak to it best, right, 50 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: which is the assumption that get it. Well, it's good 51 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: because there's just zero chance this guy does it for 52 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: the entirety of the year, right, that's the honest belief. 53 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: You know, he's in his fifth major league season, you know, 54 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: fourth full major league season. Last year with one hundred 55 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: and fifty three games played, so essentially a whole year, 56 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: he had thirty four home runs. This year, through seventy 57 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: nine games, he has thirty two home runs. So you know, look, 58 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: the only way you can say I think he's gonna 59 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: fall off a cliff is well, you can say low 60 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: of averages. Here's a guy who's hit thirty home runs 61 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: past couple of years now, he's got thirty two in 62 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: the first half of the season. He's gonna fall off 63 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: a cliff because that's baseball. You could also go, hey, guys, 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: get a better book on him. Guys, pay more attention, 65 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: Guys walk him. There's gonna be a slump at some point, 66 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: Jase Dy, what leads you to believe there will be 67 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: that inevitable fall off in the second half of the year. 68 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 3: Let's see these combined factors. He's a catcher. Catchers always 69 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 3: have a worse second half of the year than they 70 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 3: do first because of the hot months and the job 71 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 3: they do. 72 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 4: That's baseball. 73 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 3: I'll give you two examples, two of them glaring examples. 74 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 3: So kl just signed up for the home run Derby. 75 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 3: Here are the cautionary tales. Bobby I bray you in 76 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 3: two thousand and five had eighteen home runs going into 77 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 3: the All Star break, and he had six after In 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, Jock Peterson had twenty whopping home runs going 79 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 3: into the All Star break. He had six afterwards. I 80 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: could be wrong on this. In September, you guys can 81 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 3: put me on there and tell me how foolish I was. 82 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 3: I'm guessing he's trending to be in the bray you 83 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 3: Peterson camp. It's been an amazing start. I just I 84 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 3: can't for the life of me seeing it continue. He's 85 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 3: hitting two seventy five, which is way above his career average, 86 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 3: so all the indications are that he's just been hitting 87 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 3: out of his ass for four months. 88 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. By the way, his nickname big Dumper, all time, 89 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: great nickname right all time. Now he's a big old 90 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: boy six three, two thirty five. Big dumper, I believe 91 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: is about his prodigious backsad big dumper. That's an amazing 92 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: that's a go ahead play the big Dumper. Sound. This 93 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: is so good, right, I know it's under Dan Patrick. 94 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: Go ahead cow. What's different this year as opposed to 95 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: the last couple of years. 96 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 4: I think really just me trying to be consistent at 97 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 4: the plate and not you know, going up and changing 98 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 4: a bunch of things mid season, trying to you know, 99 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 4: go down rabbit holes, so you know, even if I 100 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 4: do have a bad game or two, just really trying 101 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 4: to stay within myself and my approach and folks on 102 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 4: what I can do rather than what the pictures shying 103 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 4: to to me. 104 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: How often do you go up to the plate trying 105 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: to hit a home run. 106 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 4: Well, usually when I do, it doesn't work out very well. 107 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 4: So it's you know, the I guess the old saying, 108 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 4: you know, kind of happens by accident, so you know, pictures, 109 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 4: you know, you take advantage of the mistakes when they do. 110 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 4: And I'm just trying to square it up and hit 111 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 4: it through the middle of the field. 112 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: I think the most interesting. It's one of the interesting parts. 113 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: But how about the Mariners. You know, they sign him 114 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: in March to a six year, one hundred five million 115 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: dollar deal. It's got an extension for a twenty year 116 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: vested option whatever. But I mean there's a guy that 117 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: they drafted, that they developed, and that they bought into. 118 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: And look, I mean, one hundred five million dollars over 119 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: six years is a lot of money for you and me. 120 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: But in comparison to anybody else who's gonna hit forty 121 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: fifty home runs and I don't know if he can 122 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: do it every year, that's that's a ton monsie. Are 123 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: you predicting the falloff? Are you predicting the continued the 124 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: continued climb? 125 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 5: I am not predicting the falloff, and maybe I am 126 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 5: being just optimistic here. Because I understand everything Jason was saying, 127 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 5: and typically another part that he did mention is, you know, 128 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 5: when you participate in a home run derby, you sometimes 129 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 5: lose it after that because, like you said, Doug Coach, 130 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 5: you don't really like it because it's not the same 131 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 5: type of pitch. So you obviously do something different in 132 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 5: the home run derby, which some people have you know, 133 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 5: said it changes them for the second half. But I'm 134 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 5: going to stay optimistic and I'm gonna say he continues 135 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 5: this and that he gives Aaron Judge a challenge for 136 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 5: the al MVP. 137 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: Sammy, where are you? 138 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 2: What Jason shared a few minutes ago about these you 139 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 2: know a bray Who's drop off and Jack Peterson's drop off. 140 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 2: That was fascinating. I really didn't know about that, and 141 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: you know, all the factors he described is perhaps being 142 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: why these guys the numbers drop off in the second 143 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 2: half the year. I'm gonna say that maybe it's not 144 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 2: as severe as a drop off as that, but yeah, 145 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 2: he's not gonna hit in the second half of the 146 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 2: year another thirty plus home runs, you know, to be 147 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 2: up there with like you know, Aaron Judge, Barry Bonds 148 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 2: and Mark McGuire by the end of the year that 149 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna happen. So hot start for him, 150 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 2: awesome to see it. Maybe he ends up with forty five, 151 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 2: forty seven, maybe like another fifteen home runs. I really 152 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 2: don't know. I'm just you know, we'll see. He's got 153 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 2: Jason to it. 154 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: Yeah again. And I was under the impression that Safeco 155 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: was not a home run hitters park, right they They 156 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: haven't changed the fences there, have they? 157 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 5: Is that interest, isn't it that? 158 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 1: It's interest now? 159 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's an interest. Sorry, yeah, in Atlanta, which is 160 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 5: why no, no, no, no, he plays some sell Oh 161 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 5: I thought you were talking about the home run derby 162 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 5: and it threw me off. Sorry, sorry, gotcha T mobile park. 163 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: Mobile. Yes, there was not a Safeco field from nineteen 164 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: ninety nine to twenty eighteen. Yeah, but I actually I thought. 165 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 1: Man, I mean, that's how I that's how much I 166 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 1: pay attention to see. 167 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: Generally considered it a picture of friendly park. And they 168 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 3: go to the all popular marine layer, the marine layer. 169 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 5: Which tends to stop balls from flying. 170 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: Slow them down. The air's a little thicker, more humid. 171 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: It's the worst park in baseball. Uh, per what I'm 172 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: I'm looking at that This is per stat cast that 173 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: for for hitting, it's considered the hardest park in baseball 174 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: to hit home runs in. 175 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: Wow, that just makes it more impressive. 176 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: Oh well, there you go, so things you did not know. 177 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: It does make it more impressive. Now, I haven't seen 178 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: his splits in terms of home and road, but it's 179 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: there's always there. Does seem to always be a guy 180 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: like this, right, There always is a guy who's like, wait, 181 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: who has got how many? I don't know, I thought, 182 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: Jay Stu, as much as you've talked about it, there's 183 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: always usually as a like a rookie or a young guy. 184 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: I mean the Yankees. I remember Kevin Moss back in 185 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: the day. We've discussed this previously. What was the name 186 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: of the catcher with the Yankees, probably in that two 187 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen sort of still in the league, but 188 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: he was supposed to be the next and he came 189 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: up and had an unbelievable. 190 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 3: Start to his career Gary Sanchez. 191 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez, that's right, Gary Sanchez. He had like twenty 192 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: six home runs in like fifty three games to start 193 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: his career. 194 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 3: Crazy perfect, Yes, example, catcher. 195 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: And they and he wears down. Now you do have 196 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: the DH, and as you pointed out with the Dodgers, 197 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: you can't be a DH when you're the catch of 198 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: the Dodgers because Shoheyo Tani is a DH with the Dodgers. 199 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 3: Correct. And the most home runs ever hit by a 200 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 3: catcher in a single season, well, sal Perez, I mean, 201 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: I'm trying to impress. I would have just said Forrez, 202 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 3: but I'm trying to impress Monsi sales he had forty eight, 203 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 3: but that's very misleading because Paris he played a lot 204 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 3: of first base and DH, so it's like, technically he's 205 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 3: the catcher that has that record, but he he split 206 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 3: time playing other things and that, and Rawley's been doing 207 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: the same thing. Rawley's got at least twenty games at DH. 208 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 3: That'll help him. Will Smith has to catch or he 209 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 3: doesn't play. 210 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: Something cool about being a catcher, right, I was a 211 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: catcher when I was when I was a kid, and 212 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: then as I when I got to high school, they 213 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: wanted me to play like second base and third base 214 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, like, oh, you get good hands 215 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: as a catcher, but you're too little. I was really 216 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: little growing up and not that I'm some gigantic dude now, 217 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: but back then, catchers were always like six two six 218 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: three sixty four, and I was no. I was nowhere 219 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: near that when I entered high school. But there is 220 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: something really cool to have in that gear and kind 221 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: of walking out doing your John Wayne walk out. You know, 222 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: somebody else catches the first couple, catches the warm ups 223 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: and you get out. You got the mic and then 224 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: you throw it coming down. 225 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 2: You're like the you're you're, you're living, You're you have 226 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 2: a relationship with the picture. You know, you talk, you cool, 227 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: cool down, you know you. Yes, you have to give 228 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 2: them a little some words of wisdom, like, hey, maybe 229 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 2: this change us up. So yeah, definitely. 230 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: He Hey, we're good, we're good. We're good. We're good. Here, 231 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: we're good here right breathe, breathe, mass. But you have 232 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: you have relationships with everybody there. Right. It's a it 233 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: fit me because it's a talker's position. You talk to them, 234 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: you talk to posy hitters, you talk to your you 235 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: talk to your picture. 236 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 2: You know, just track them. 237 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 1: Hey you got two tudo tudo coming down. Two. 238 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 3: But that's why there are many catchers in the Hall 239 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 3: of fame. There aren't many productive hitting catchers in the 240 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 3: history of the game because not only is the weather 241 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 3: wearing you down at a tough position every day where 242 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 3: you're squatting thousands of times a day, and then you 243 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 3: have to have all this stuff in your head. Most 244 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 3: of your focus has to be on handling the rotation, 245 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 3: knowing each pitcher's strength, and knowing every hitter strength. Like, 246 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 3: there's so much going through the mind of a catcher. 247 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 3: It's shocking that there's ever a catcher that has a 248 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 3: productive offense. But that's what kind of makes this guy's 249 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 3: season amazing. Will Smith is having a great season. 250 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 5: Y and Cal Rawly has fourteen homers at home eighteen 251 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 5: on the very good nice stat Yeah, nice good stat. 252 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: How many games he played at home? How many games 253 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: he playing the road? 254 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,319 Speaker 3: I would say equal just a guess, just throwing that 255 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 3: out there, guessing. 256 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 5: Well, away he's at home, he's a one hundred and 257 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 5: forty at bats. Away he's had one hundred and fifty five. 258 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: Okay, so you said fourteen more opportunities, But that's phenomenal. 259 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: It's basically even although at those numbers, he's probably hitting 260 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: the home run every fourteen or so at bats right, 261 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: so that should be one more and it's at four more. 262 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: But yeah, the the the thick Seattle air. 263 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 3: Doesn't he also have the name that you would expect 264 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 3: to be like one of the lower level acts at stagecoach. 265 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: Cal Raley totally cal Raley. Cal Raley sings My nightmare 266 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: was her Honeymoon. I don't know that. 267 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: You guys's name Morgan what Morgan Wallen, Margan Wallens. 268 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 3: And cal Rawley opened for him. 269 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, monster, you do you enjoy country music? I do, 270 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: but it's not that's a no. 271 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 2: I mean I I do, but I you know, it's 272 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 2: not my it's not what I'm cunning to. 273 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: That's a no. It's okay to say it's not my jam, 274 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: but but I don't. For example, for example, Riley Green 275 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: is tomorrow night in Milwaukee at Summerfest. If anybody knows 276 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: anything about Wisconsin, Summerfest is everything. Okay. When I say 277 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: Riley Green, are you like, do you know who that is? 278 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 6: No? 279 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 5: I I assume it's a baseball player. Initially, okay, I 280 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 5: thought you were Oh, okay, I thought was a musical artist. 281 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Cal Raley actually 282 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: plays tomorrow night in Milwaukee. Honestly, Riley Green could be 283 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: an SEC football player. You know, probably what probably quarterback, 284 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: right man. Do you see Riley Green play for the Gators. 285 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: I like that. I like that kid. He can really throw. Now, 286 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: Riley Green is a super hot country musician. When I 287 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: say he is, he's a good looking man as well. 288 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: But I said hot, it's more a very poppy yes. 289 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: And he's got like he's he's got he's known for. 290 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: I think he may have shaved it, but he had 291 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: like a he had a magnum p. I must ask. 292 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 5: I will listen to. 293 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, mister Green. You know cal Rawley's opening up for. 294 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 295 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 296 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 297 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 6: listen live. 298 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: Doug Ottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio with Montsey Blanius's new crush, 299 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: Riley Green play in the background. We'll get to Mark 300 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: Stein in a second. Of course. Mark Mark's a long 301 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: time NBA writer. He writes a substack called the Steinline. 302 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: I would just if you want to know what's going 303 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: on the NBA. He's the guy but this Ace Bailey 304 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: story is fascinating, right because he didn't work out for teams, 305 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: gets drafted by Utah, agent says he doesn't want play 306 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: for Utah, and Danny Ainge is like, drafted you, we 307 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: got your rights, not not going anywhere, and it's really interesting. 308 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,360 Speaker 1: Let's let's bring to Mark Stein who joins us and 309 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: Mark obviously there's a bunch of other things to get 310 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: through with the draft, and some of the trades have 311 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: been made, and some of the trades are rumored to 312 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: be made, but let's start with Ace Bailey, Like, what's 313 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: the logic behind saying like I don't want to go 314 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: to Utah Jazz. 315 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 7: Look, Keith Carden the first player we've ever seen who 316 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 7: wants to try to control his destination. I mean, that's 317 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 7: that's really not new. And look, I think ultimately he 318 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 7: will be in Utah. I think someone in his camp 319 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 7: today didn't interview where they basically said he will be 320 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 7: going there. And look, it's funny. Austin Ainge was adamant 321 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 7: before the draft, and of course he's the new shot 322 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 7: caller in Utah. He was adamant that if East Bailey 323 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 7: is the player they like and they want they'll take him, 324 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 7: and they did it, and so you know, it's a 325 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 7: fun story. I guess it's a noisy story. But just 326 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 7: at the end of the day, look, Utah has to 327 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 7: do They have to go the best available player route. 328 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 7: If they think that Ace Bailey has the most upside 329 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 7: when he reaches them at number five, they've got to 330 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 7: do it. Because remember Utah had the worst record in 331 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 7: the league this year. They were seventeen and sixty five. 332 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 7: Second year in a row, or second time in three years. Actually, 333 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 7: I remember the Wemby Draft. You know, Detroit had the 334 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 7: worst record in the league and fell all the way 335 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 7: to number five, and the same thing happened to the Jazz. 336 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 7: They had the worst record in the league. They fell 337 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 7: as far in the lottery as they could, they end 338 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 7: up at number five. So their position is, we're going 339 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 7: to take Ace Bailey where he likes it or not, 340 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 7: and you know, hope he can be the high lottery 341 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 7: selection who hits, because I mean, this is a Jazz 342 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 7: team that desperately needs it. Again, they were seventeen and 343 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 7: sixty five. They're in the West, which only gets deeper 344 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 7: and more nightmarish. They really need this pick to hit. 345 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: Okay, but let me go back. Why don't they put 346 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: why Utah? Specifically? Do you not want to why do 347 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: y'all want to play Utah? 348 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 7: Okay, Well that's the trickier one for me to answer, because, 349 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 7: you know, trying to get a read on exactly what 350 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 7: his camp wants. I don't. I mean, the whole league's 351 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 7: been trying to do that. You know, he had a 352 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 7: work scheduled, so she's scheduled with the Sixers and canceled 353 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 7: it at the eleventh hour. And the unusual part, what 354 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 7: is unusual? I mean we didn't see a S. Bailey 355 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 7: do a private workout with anyone before the draft. So 356 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 7: all the intel before the draft was he has the 357 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 7: destination in mind, whether that's Washington at number six, some 358 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 7: thought it might be Brooklyn at number eight. You know, 359 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 7: he had the team in mind he wanted to go to. 360 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 7: Will that team ever be revealed possibly exactly where he 361 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 7: wanted to go at this point, But I'm just speaking. 362 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 7: I'm just looking at it from the approach of I 363 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 7: like what Utah did saying we've got to do what 364 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 7: we think is best for us, and we will. I 365 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 7: think we're kind of passed to be you and I 366 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 7: were kids. We saw we saw players kind of force 367 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 7: their way out of destinations all the time, but it 368 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 7: doesn't really happen in the modern day. I mean, Steve 369 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 7: Francis didn't want to play in Vancouver and ended up 370 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 7: in Houston, but even that was a quarter century ago. 371 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 7: I mean, it just it doesn't really happen in the 372 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 7: modern day. 373 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't, And it's interesting. So many of these stars 374 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: are stars in smaller markets, So I don't really understand 375 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: the logic behind it, but maybe that's one that that 376 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: they ultimately have to answer. Stug Gottlieb Show here on 377 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Otherwise, draft relatively as news, with the 378 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: exception of Cooper Flag, I don't. 379 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 7: Know about that. I don't know about that. I think actually, 380 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 7: like yeah, gorg Deman going adn't see that happening. Jan 381 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 7: Hanson going sixteen definitely did not see that happening. And 382 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 7: I think there, look, we didn't yet. The only trade 383 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 7: we saw that involved a veteran player was Mark Williams 384 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 7: going to Phoenix. But I think that even that has 385 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 7: become somewhat standard on Draft night, that on Draft night, 386 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 7: the focus is going to be the picks getting exchanged. 387 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 7: And the players getting exchanged. I mean before we did 388 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 7: see five really significant trades, you know, before the draft, 389 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 7: and four of them from Sunday to Wednesday. So I 390 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 7: would say it's been a pretty wild week. But I'm 391 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 7: guessing I'm inferring from this tone now, I'm kind of 392 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 7: I'm kind of tricking you into a battle here. I 393 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 7: love the two Night Draft. I'm going to predict that 394 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 7: The Gottlieb Show does not love the two Night Draft. 395 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: No, I don't. I mean, look, I know I did 396 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: the draft for years when we were together at ESPN, 397 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: and the second round was was too fast, and there's 398 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: so many trades, and you know, like who goes where? 399 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: So I do get it. And they're trying to meet. 400 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 7: And that's that's exactly it. 401 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: And they're trying to also make it like the NFL, 402 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they can probably make more money off it. 403 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: But I mean, the NBA Draft is a shell of 404 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 1: its former self. It had a duke player who was 405 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: the number one pick, the number one kid in high school, 406 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: and everybody loves and yet the draft was It's like, 407 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: am I interested by that stuff? Yeah? Are you? Yeah? 408 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: Is most of America not even close? 409 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 8: Right? 410 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: I mean again, like, don't believe me, we're two basketball guys. 411 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: We're too basketball guys. Wait, Jason Stewart any any interest at. 412 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 7: All in last night's draft, I mean, I guess, but like, 413 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 7: I don't think the second night of the draft is 414 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 7: designed to be some money making bonanza because like I 415 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 7: do think basketball devotay's they care about second round picks 416 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 7: as much as they care about first round picks. And 417 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 7: I would also say, like not just doing it all 418 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 7: on one night is impossible because the second round is 419 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 7: a circus, as you rightly said, and then on that 420 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 7: you have all the guys who don't get drafted, like 421 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 7: ryan Nebhart ending up to Dallas with a two way 422 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 7: Like even that is something that I think basketball fans 423 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 7: really care about. So to me, breaking it up in 424 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,959 Speaker 7: two days, I much prefer it. I mean, the second 425 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 7: night is not some amazing television spectacle, but I don't 426 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 7: think it needs to be. I think, for you know, 427 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 7: it's it's it is way doing sixty players and then 428 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 7: two way deals and summer league deals and all that, 429 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 7: like that is way too much to do in one night. 430 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 7: I mean, those nights were going well past midnight and 431 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 7: it's just, it's just it's just it's just like why 432 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 7: free agency got moved from midnight to six pm on 433 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 7: June thirtieth, because why are you doing something that does 434 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 7: interest fans so much after midnight? It does doesn't make 435 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 7: any sense. 436 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair. Okay, Let let's talk about some 437 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: of these teams. Austin Reeves turns down ninety million dollars, 438 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,959 Speaker 1: meaning he wants to get paid paid next next year. 439 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: So what do the Lakers do. 440 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 7: Well, look, they want to keep him. I don't think 441 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 7: they want to lose him, and I don't really think 442 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 7: it was a surprise that he turned that deal down 443 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 7: because he knows if he goes to the open market. 444 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 7: I mean, the Lakers got him. The last deal they 445 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 7: signed him to was an absolute steal, and Reeves outpourm 446 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,959 Speaker 7: perform that contract by a mile. So like it just 447 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 7: it it makes sense for him to turn this down, 448 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 7: play it out. Either they do an you know, if 449 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 7: they can't do an extension now, which you know, again 450 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 7: they're limited by the math that they can do, go 451 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 7: to free agency. I mean, the reality is that the 452 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 7: Lakers have very limited flexibility, and they knew that would 453 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 7: be the case. This offseason, they're going to try, they're 454 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 7: going to try to make something happen, and they're going 455 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 7: to try to upgrade the roster through trades. But it's 456 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 7: just it's just not that easy because of the finances 457 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 7: that they had. And look, you know, they they made 458 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 7: the trade for Mark Williams, they rescinded that trade and 459 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 7: now we've seen Phoenix go ahead and trade for him. 460 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 7: So I'll be very interesting to see how Mark Williams 461 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 7: looks once he gets the Phoenix, and you know if 462 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 7: the Lakers were correct to recind the deal or if 463 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 7: they will come to regret it, because a rim running 464 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 7: center is what Luka Doncic needs next to him, and 465 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 7: the Lakers at president don't have one. 466 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: No, no, they don't. And you know they need help 467 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: for defense because they have some they have some immobile defenders, 468 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: and that'll be interesting to see what that looks like. 469 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: Let's go back to Dallas and to Cooper Flag. We've 470 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: talked you and I on the show talked a lot 471 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 1: about Nico and and how everybody jumps ship when they 472 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: trade away Luca. Obviously, it's pure luck to be able 473 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: to get Cooper Flag. What's the status of Nico now 474 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: in the Metroplex. 475 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 7: I mean, I wouldn't say the reading on him or 476 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 7: for him has changed much, if at all. I mean, obviously, 477 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 7: Mavericks fans are super super excited to have Cooper Flag 478 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,959 Speaker 7: and super super excited to have something to celebrate. I mean, 479 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 7: they've been miserable for months. As I think we've covered 480 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 7: many times already. I've never seen a fan base react 481 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 7: to a trade like I've seen the fan base here 482 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 7: in Dallas. And it is still a wounded fan base. 483 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 7: But after forty years of horrendous lottery, look, they finally 484 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 7: moved up in the lottery. And they didn't just move up, 485 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 7: they moved up from eleven to one. A player who 486 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 7: just has incredible ability to he can be a two 487 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 7: way monster. That's what everyone says, and you hear Jason 488 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 7: Kidd today is press conference talking about Cooper Flags being 489 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 7: introduced to the local media, and Jason Kidd is basically saying, 490 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 7: I cannot wait for Summer League to start because I'm 491 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 7: going to play him at the point and put the 492 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 7: ball in his hands and follow the script that he 493 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 7: used in Milwaukee to hasten anasat the Kompo's development. I 494 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 7: don't think we're going to see Cooper playing an outright 495 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 7: point guard playing is an outright point guard when the 496 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 7: season starts, But he's going to have the ball in 497 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 7: his hands. He is going to have point forward opportunities 498 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 7: because the reality is the MAVs are not going to 499 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 7: see till January or February at the earliest. And look, 500 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 7: the deal Kyrie Irving did this week does give them 501 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 7: a little bit of financial flexibility Fountain free agency and 502 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 7: sign someone like the Angelo Russell to step in as 503 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 7: a stop gap starter for the first half of the season. 504 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 7: But I think we're going to see Cooper flat. You know, 505 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 7: Jason Kidd is going to give him every opportunity to 506 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 7: have the ball in his hands, and that's going to 507 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 7: be very interesting viewing. 508 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,719 Speaker 1: Stug gotleep show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, what's 509 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: going on with the next coaching service? Like James Brago, 510 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: You went from guys that you know had gone further 511 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 1: than the Conference finals when you're interviewing him, to now 512 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: guys that have not Where do they land in your opinion? 513 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 7: Well, they're taking their suite and they have the only 514 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 7: vacancy in the league. They have no reason to rush 515 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 7: and the reality, Look, this is the corner they've painted 516 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 7: themselves into, and they've talked to some good coaches, Mike Brown, 517 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 7: Taylor Jenkins, James Brego, Mike and Norri in Minnesota. They're 518 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 7: good coaches, but there's no one they can hire who 519 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 7: is going to appease the fans. Who you know Tom Thibodeau, 520 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 7: No matter where you sit on Tom Thibodeau, he is 521 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 7: the most successful coach they've had in the twenty first century. 522 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 7: And if you're going to oust him as swiftly as 523 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 7: they did after the season ended, you have to hire 524 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 7: someone that the public perceives as a clear upgrade. And 525 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 7: it's really hard to see how the Knicks are going 526 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 7: to do that right now, and it's going to be 527 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 7: it's very hard to see the Knicks are going to 528 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 7: be able to make a case to their fans that 529 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 7: whoever it is that they hire is not their sixth 530 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 7: choice at best, because they requested permission to talk to 531 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 7: five coaches and they were turned down. So this is 532 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 7: what I think is the most frustrating aspect of this search, 533 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 7: if you're watching it from afar, is that the Knicks 534 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 7: just continue to give off the vibe that they really 535 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 7: didn't have a succession plan set up, and so that's 536 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 7: the part that makes so. 537 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: What were they so? Again, you you only do that 538 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: when you're when you're ticked off, right, and that it 539 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: feels like Dolan who had who had given away you know, 540 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: power of running it, you know, to the to the 541 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: power structure to Leon Rose. But what what because you 542 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: only fire a guy and don't have a succession plan 543 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: when something ticks you off? What was it tip? To 544 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: tick them off? So much about tips? 545 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 7: I mean, look from the Dolan perspective, I don't know 546 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 7: that he ever wanted Tom Thibodeau as his coach. I 547 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 7: think that was Leon Rose's decision decision. Leon Rose is 548 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 7: higher and like I said, Tom Thibodeau is the most 549 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 7: successful coach they've had in the twenty first century, hands down, 550 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 7: and I but there was certainly frustration with how he 551 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 7: used his bench, did he use enough of his bench, 552 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 7: his willingness to collaborate with other powerbrokers in the organization. 553 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 7: But again, they can list all the reasons they want. 554 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 7: If you can't hire a coach who's more accomplished than 555 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 7: Tom Thibodeo, you're going to have some questions to answer 556 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 7: and the fans, you know, like I'm sure, you know, 557 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 7: maybe it hasn't quite reached the state of full on 558 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 7: impatience because again they're not competing with anybody else. But 559 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 7: you know, unless someone they went for before becomes available, 560 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 7: Like I just don't know how they sell whoever it 561 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 7: is they ultimately choose, And it's like to me, they're 562 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 7: dragging it out and taking it extra slow, kind of 563 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 7: hoping for some sort of miracle. 564 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: Last thing, Johannis, give me the percentage chance that he's 565 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: with the Bucks started next season. 566 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 7: I mean, look, there's no way I can ballpark it, 567 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 7: because only he knows what his plans are. If if 568 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 7: if underline, if if he reaches that he wants to 569 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 7: seek pastors new By all accounts, it's not going to 570 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 7: happen until after free agency at some later point this summer. 571 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 7: All I can tell you is the Bucks are operating 572 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 7: under the premise that he will be there, that he 573 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 7: is not asked out, and that he will not ask out, 574 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,959 Speaker 7: and they are trying to improve their team to the 575 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 7: best ability they can now on July fifteenth, on July 576 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 7: thirty first, is he going to look at the roster 577 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 7: and say, you know what, I gave him a chance. 578 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 7: I don't like the looks, only only he can. And 579 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 7: the rest of it, realistically is guesswork at this point, 580 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 7: and we're just gonna have to wait and see how 581 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 7: it plays out. 582 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: He's Mark Stein. Check out the Stein line. It's a substack. 583 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: I could not encourage you more to read it. In 584 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: the meantime, Mark, thanks so much for joining us. Let's 585 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: talk again very very soon. Appreciate you being a guest. 586 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: Sounds good. 587 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 6: We will be sure to catch the live edition of 588 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 6: The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific. 589 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: It's the Doug Gottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio. Your listeners, noawba, 590 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: you can see us. 591 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 8: Hello, Hello. 592 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: Check out our Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. You can 593 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: get highlights all of our shows. Subscribes, you always have 594 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: instant access to Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. Let's get 595 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: to Monts to Beolagno's for the press, the press, what 596 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: are you got there? Months? 597 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 7: All right? 598 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 5: Coach, Well, we saw video already of Cooper flag landing 599 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 5: in Dallas, and he spoke to the media today and 600 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 5: so did his head coach New One, Jason Kid. 601 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 2: This is what kids say. 602 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 5: About how he plans to you know, coach, Cooper Flag, 603 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 5: I want to put. 604 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 8: Him in the at the point guard. I want to 605 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 8: make him uncomfortable and see how he reacts being able 606 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 8: to run the show, being able to play the two, 607 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 8: play the three. He's he's comfortable playing that, but we 608 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 8: want to push and I think he's going to respond 609 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 8: in a positive way. It's all right to fail. It's 610 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 8: all right to turn the ball over. We've talked about that, 611 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 8: you know, just understanding the guys that I've been around 612 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 8: that are being young from Giannis giving him the ball 613 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 8: and he failed, but he wanted to come back and 614 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 8: have the ball. So I'm excited about giving him the 615 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 8: ball against the Lakers and see what happens. 616 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 2: Coach, what do you make of that? Coach? 617 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's and you're going to develop young guys, 618 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: you got to allow them the ability to make mistakes. 619 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: And again, that's part of the part of the great 620 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: thing about when you're drafting a bad team is you're 621 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: allowed to play through mistakes. A good team, your role 622 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: is a little bit different. And what Jason kidds trying 623 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: to say is like, Hey, I'm gonna try to do 624 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 1: the best of both worlds. I'm gonna let you play 625 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: through some mistakes. We're still gonna be playing to win. 626 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: And then, of course, the great thing about the NBA 627 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: is you don't have to be the best team in 628 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: the regular season to be the best team in the postseason, 629 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: right right. 630 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 5: Funny how he says that he wants to make Cooper 631 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 5: fly play point guard. 632 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 2: This is what Cooper Flygg had to say about their roster, 633 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 2: this a. 634 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 9: Versus opposition, you know, doing a lot of different things. 635 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,760 Speaker 9: I think, you know, with the team looking at the roster, 636 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,800 Speaker 9: we can play a really good brand of positionless basketball 637 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 9: with a lot of guys, I can do a lot 638 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 9: of different things. So I think that would be one of, 639 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 9: you know, the biggest strengths. And I think just trying 640 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 9: to play to that and just doing whatever I can 641 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 9: to help the team win. 642 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: Position Yeah, positionless basketball, we try and do that. I mean, 643 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: that's most teams in the NBA. I will say though 644 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: that while there there is a positionless there's a difference 645 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: at point guard. And look, Jason KiB would know he's 646 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 1: one of the great point guards in its thor of 647 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: the game. But yeah, I don't want to have Cooper 648 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: flag coming off of ball screens. That's I don't think 649 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,839 Speaker 1: where he's at his best. Yeah, yeah, so is it 650 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: ever seen bringing the ball up the court and being 651 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: a point guard? And I think more of the former 652 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 1: than the latter. 653 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 5: All right, coach, moving on here, what did you make 654 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 5: of the Toronto Raptors partying ways with massaia u Juri 655 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,400 Speaker 5: Thirteen seasons later? You know, the Raptors went thirty and 656 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 5: fifty two this past season, missed the postseason for the 657 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 5: third straight year. 658 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 2: I feel like there were mixed reviews. 659 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 5: Some people thought it was shocking and others are like, well, 660 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,560 Speaker 5: he's riding on one championship from several five years ago. 661 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were there. They were there several times, 662 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: closed several times, and they got Kawhi Leonard went over 663 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: the top. I mean, obviously the guy you know built 664 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: it into a monster, but trying to rebuild it when 665 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: you lose guys is hard. I mean, That's that's really 666 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 1: where Sam Presty has separated himself in that they've had 667 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: a couple of different waves of quality teams. Remember the 668 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: Oklahoma City only won I think twenty four games three 669 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,320 Speaker 1: years ago and now they're a champion. I think it 670 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 1: was the frustrat over the time it took to rebuild. 671 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: And I think the other part about it was, you know, 672 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: MASSI let's just say he grew very confident after their 673 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: championship season, and I don't know if it rubbed everybody. 674 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:13,879 Speaker 2: The right way right right? 675 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 5: Moving on here to college basketball. Women's college basketball, Aeron 676 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 5: Tory is our coworker with the story. So, for the 677 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 5: first time since twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen season, Yukon women's 678 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 5: basketball and South Carolina will not be meeting in the 679 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 5: regular season. So this long standing non conference regular season 680 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,879 Speaker 5: series comes to an end. And I don't know why 681 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 5: I try to dive into it. If it was Yukon 682 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 5: who said no, if it was South Carolina who said no, 683 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:42,879 Speaker 5: is this a big deal? 684 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,279 Speaker 2: Little deal, no deal, I would just tell you this 685 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,359 Speaker 2: that Yukon came in and whooped South Carolina. They did 686 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 2: what last year? So that plays into it? 687 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 5: Yeah? 688 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 2: No, I I yeah, I don't know. 689 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,800 Speaker 1: He goes get involved with scheduling. I'm worried about our schedule, 690 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: not about South Carolina. And if they don't want to play, 691 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: they don't want to play, don't. 692 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 3: Care will you Will you guys play one of those 693 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 3: two teams. 694 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: No, we're playing Kansas first game of the year. That's enough. 695 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:17,920 Speaker 2: I mean you can if you want to. It's pretty stupid, 696 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 2: all right. That's the press. They get out there and pressed. 697 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,800 Speaker 6: That was the press. 698 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 1: You know, we do play in the US Virgin Islands. 699 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,279 Speaker 1: What do you guys think about a remote from the 700 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands? 701 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 2: Which island St? Thomas, Saint John's. 702 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: I think St. Thomas is the US Virgin Islands. Saint 703 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 1: John's is the. 704 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 2: No, they're both, they're both American. I think patmos on St. 705 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 2: John's isn't. 706 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:43,719 Speaker 1: Very good. 707 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 8: Nicely done. 708 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: You have a great weekend. Fox Sports Radio