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Speaker 1: staying with the holiday theme. Jason and Rob in for
Speaker 1: Dan and the Dan Nets today as well. As I
Speaker 1: was waiting, I thought we'd have a Hamilton's open, Rob,
Speaker 1: because finally Hamilton's here. You know, we counted down this
Speaker 1: week to Bobby Bennie a day. We celebrated that, and
Speaker 1: now Hamilton's here today, and you know, maybe you could
Speaker 1: do the show by yourself, because my daughter is gonna
Speaker 1: want to fire up Hamilton as soon as she wakes up.
Speaker 1: Everybody has so worked up about in an excited uh,
Speaker 1: the hottest Broadway show for a long time, trying to
Speaker 1: even get tickets. I never got to see it. I'm
Speaker 1: a Broadway show guy. I've been to a lot. Probably
Speaker 1: one of my greatest things I saw, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I just forgot. It was so good. Phantom of the
Speaker 1: ot No, Phantom of the Opera in Sydney, Australia from
Speaker 1: center fourth row. I'm I mean, you want to talk
Speaker 1: about an unbelievable seat and moment I saw the Lion
Speaker 1: King on Broadway Fourth Row Center. Unbelievable. I had goose
Speaker 1: bumps with that. So many different shows, but Hamilton, it's
Speaker 1: the rage. I know, everybody's crazy. Oh it's I mean,
Speaker 1: there's really I look at like, there's my life before
Speaker 1: I saw Hamilton and then the life after you see Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Because all you do is listen to the music over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. It's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I I wasn't ready for the type of phenomenon that
Speaker 1: it was, and then I saw it and I said,
Speaker 1: we got to see it again. And then I took
Speaker 1: my daughter to go see it, and all would listen
Speaker 1: to that's when we go in, what do you want
Speaker 1: to listen to? Put in Hamilton's and we listen to
Speaker 1: Hamilton's songs all the time. It's like three years now,
Speaker 1: it's like there's been no new music, Like the world
Speaker 1: has stopped because we listen to Hamilton's three years ago.
Speaker 1: We're still listening to Hamilton today and today now that
Speaker 1: movie is gonna come out and people who never got
Speaker 1: a chance to see it are gonna can see it
Speaker 1: over and over again because and it makes sense. It
Speaker 1: makes sense. You got a captive audience. You know, now,
Speaker 1: if you ever gonna do it, I think this is
Speaker 1: the time. It's perfect. That's happened. Well, look, this is
Speaker 1: a big week overall in sports because we talk about
Speaker 1: counting down and obviously, yes, Hamilton's a very big deal.
Speaker 1: And and and uh, you know Rob will do some
Speaker 1: of the songs later on, He'll learn something. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: be singing. Uh uh if I were a rich man.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm still on Fiddler on the Roof. I
Speaker 1: know about those songs. That's how dated I am. Fiddler
Speaker 1: on the Roof? Is that a play like in the
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties? Seriously? And h Taffka, I be long in
Speaker 1: Ana Taffka. Oh yeah, no, no, no, you were right
Speaker 1: to become a writer. I mean that's and I was
Speaker 1: barely a writer. So you know your parents would say
Speaker 1: to you, no, no, follow that dream. That's the dream.
Speaker 1: You follow, follow that dream. But like, today is a
Speaker 1: huge day because Major League Baseball. It's like today, the
Speaker 1: last couple of days have been the pre celebration days
Speaker 1: because today, finally we're going to get to hear from players.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of interviews, there's wall
Speaker 1: to wall coverage planned on many different networks. As baseball
Speaker 1: players started to report on Wednesday took their coronavirus test,
Speaker 1: and now as they get cleared, we're gonna see workouts.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be We're gonna actually see video of baseball
Speaker 1: players throwing balls to each other and hitting and everything else.
Speaker 1: That's going to feel as close to normal a time
Speaker 1: as it is in sports, because now, okay, baseball is
Speaker 1: going to start. Now it is early July instead of
Speaker 1: the early part of April. But I feel like this
Speaker 1: last couple of days are especially today now is like
Speaker 1: phase two of sports is now happening. Like for so
Speaker 1: long we had these conversations about how sports is going
Speaker 1: to come back and when it comes back, and how
Speaker 1: it's going to be and how are we going to
Speaker 1: do it, And let's face it, I was not ready
Speaker 1: that the overwhelming, compelling storyline every day of when sports
Speaker 1: is going to come back? How much that was going
Speaker 1: to feel us the past three months. I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: after a while, when in sports coming back is going
Speaker 1: to fade and we're going to do different things. But
Speaker 1: every day there was something different with sports, whether it
Speaker 1: was football or baseball or basketball, that hey, oh here's
Speaker 1: all right, here's a new thing to come back. Here's
Speaker 1: another wrinkle, here, here's a big thing that could stop it,
Speaker 1: here's a great thing that could advance it. And this
Speaker 1: was every single day, but at some point we got
Speaker 1: to get to the next phase. And since we're in
Speaker 1: phases in the country of reopening or stopping or reopening,
Speaker 1: this is like the next phase of sports because now
Speaker 1: we've gotten team sports to the point where here our players,
Speaker 1: they are gonna be here and they're actually on the field.
Speaker 1: And while we are going through still how do you
Speaker 1: navigate COVID nineteen, we're actually here and doing it rather
Speaker 1: than talking about it. And that's why today's should be
Speaker 1: a great big these last couple days, but especially today
Speaker 1: should be a great big day of Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: try it. We're gonna try sports. Baseball's gonna try it.
Speaker 1: We're here, and you know, hopefully we can we can
Speaker 1: gather some of this, you know, positivity and happiness and okay,
Speaker 1: baseball's here. Now let's see how it goes. Especially Jason,
Speaker 1: when you consider, you know, what's going on in the
Speaker 1: country and some of the states that rush to reopen
Speaker 1: and you know, let their hair down now they got
Speaker 1: the pushback from the virus, and you know, people are like,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, what's going on. And you know some
Speaker 1: people are like us, it's sport's really gonna come back
Speaker 1: now with the second wave. But I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: think that once you start to see the players in
Speaker 1: their uniforms and they're on the field and they're trying
Speaker 1: to make it happen, these leagues are going to try
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I mean, we don't know what's
Speaker 1: going to be the outcome and how many players test positive.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing with the NBA and the bubble.
Speaker 1: You know both sports. Baseball will be a week before
Speaker 1: and get it going, hopefully what July twenty third or fourth, Jason,
Speaker 1: and then the NBA the following week. So we're on
Speaker 1: the cusp. I don't know. Football is still there. They've
Speaker 1: already gotten rid of two of the preseason games. They're
Speaker 1: not going to the Hall of Fame, so they're making
Speaker 1: steps so that you can kind of like get straight
Speaker 1: to trying to play the regular season. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I'm excited. I did write a column for
Speaker 1: deadspin dot com. I've weekly column there, and it was
Speaker 1: an open letter to MLB America Jason, which was basically
Speaker 1: that don't listen to the naysayers and all the people
Speaker 1: who are trying to delegitimize um major League Baseball for
Speaker 1: its sixty game season. Hello, is this a microphone on?
Speaker 1: It's a pandemic. I'll take sixty games, Jason, given where
Speaker 1: we are, do you know what I mean? Like, like,
Speaker 1: what are we expecting? I'm serious. If we can get
Speaker 1: sixty games in and a full postseason, I'm good. The
Speaker 1: late great Sparky Anderson, who I got to cover when
Speaker 1: I was a columnist in Detroit, I thought you yeah,
Speaker 1: And now now you're made to call a writer. No, okay, wait,
Speaker 1: I was barely a writer. And then in the last minute,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name drop my column on dead Spin that
Speaker 1: I'm writing. Name dropped Sparky Anderson, who I cut. So
Speaker 1: you're a writer or barely a writer? Okay. I was
Speaker 1: a writer for a long time. And Sparky used to
Speaker 1: always talk about, Jason, how baseball is really decided by
Speaker 1: forty two games When you really think about He used
Speaker 1: to say, most teams win at least sixty and most teams,
Speaker 1: even the good ones, lose at least sixty. Right, So
Speaker 1: there's your one twenty and the difference between most teams
Speaker 1: is what happens with those forty two games. And he's
Speaker 1: right on the money on that. And that's where sixty
Speaker 1: games deciding what's going to happen and who's gonna be.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that in a pandemic. There's some other
Speaker 1: things I'm not that crazy about. I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: a DH guy, and and I guess you know it'll
Speaker 1: be okay, I guess, but once they added to me,
Speaker 1: I believe they're gonna keep it. The other thing is
Speaker 1: putting a man on second base to start extra innings.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not cool with that. I want to see
Speaker 1: how that looks. We don't have that many extra inning games.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the need is for that. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna embrace baseball, Jason, no matter what it comes in,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy about it. I'm excited and I'm and
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch the fast and Furious season. You
Speaker 1: know why, because there's only gonna be sixty. It'll be
Speaker 1: over like that. Jason Smith Rob Parker in for Dan
Speaker 1: and the Danists today here on Fox. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: the you know, just real quick on the on the
Speaker 1: runner leading off a second base. I'm I'm happy with
Speaker 1: that because the Mets can lose games faster that way.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're bullpen stinks. Anyway you put a guy
Speaker 1: on second base, they'll lose really fast. I won't have
Speaker 1: to worry about long and drawn out losses. I can
Speaker 1: just get it over with, right, wing over with as
Speaker 1: quickly as possible. Like when you go to the dentist,
Speaker 1: they got just pull the tooth right away. Just just
Speaker 1: pull it right away. Let's not get into anything. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about a cleaning it. Just pull the tooth and
Speaker 1: I can do it. But you know the thing about sports,
Speaker 1: and and you brought in everything as we're trying to
Speaker 1: get back and fans, I get it, they're still a
Speaker 1: little upset. All of us are upset because of what's
Speaker 1: happened in our lives the past few months. It's been
Speaker 1: upheaval and we you know, we thought we were opening
Speaker 1: getting past it, and it turns out because you know,
Speaker 1: we wound up not opening smartly enough. You know that's
Speaker 1: had to hit a pause. And now who knows the
Speaker 1: land we're in right now, we're you know living it
Speaker 1: day to day. But right now I get it. Fans
Speaker 1: are upset. Okay, here's this, what's what's the season going
Speaker 1: to be like? But to have a little bit more
Speaker 1: vision on it and just think about, all right, people
Speaker 1: are not going to come back to baseball when the
Speaker 1: games start. I'm not gonna watch. I'm not gonna come back.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a sixty game sprint, unlike anything we've
Speaker 1: seen before. It cuts through the clutter. You know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna remember this pandemic season more than we remember most
Speaker 1: any other season. Can you get if you you know,
Speaker 1: years from now, some is gonna say, you remember what
Speaker 1: happened in baseball in twenty seventeen, Oh, twenty seventeen, what
Speaker 1: was that? Ask people right now what happened in two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine in Major League base What happened in
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, in the World Series in two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine? Yeah, you can, you can guess that
Speaker 1: a lot and be right. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know about the season I remember was this but
Speaker 1: twenty twenty ah, the pandemic season. That's when AB and
Speaker 1: C happened. And we're still gonna have by the time
Speaker 1: the season ends up normal playoff in the cold weather,
Speaker 1: just like we normally get, and it's gonna seem like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the pandemic as long as we get to play, the
Speaker 1: pandemic is behind us. We're gonna get no matter what
Speaker 1: it is, even for the NBA, for Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: By the time it gets to it in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and the deeper rounds, everybody's going to be into it
Speaker 1: as much as they were before. I get the skepticism
Speaker 1: and getting some of the anger out now before the
Speaker 1: game started, but once they start, everybody's coming back to it.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting for this for so long that once that,
Speaker 1: once all that does begin, we're ready. And you'll see
Speaker 1: baseball be embraced even when it's just workout video and
Speaker 1: what I think I can see for us in radio
Speaker 1: and in TV and you know, while all the different
Speaker 1: shows that are on is we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: baseball and basketball every day. Like we talked about the
Speaker 1: NFL leading up to the draft in you know, in
Speaker 1: the pandemic, what were we talking about in a pandemic?
Speaker 1: It was really just football because are the other sports
Speaker 1: were done, They weren't coming back for a while, and
Speaker 1: we pushed forward with football like we normally would. There
Speaker 1: was free agency going on. Then it was a lead
Speaker 1: up to the draft, and every day we would talk
Speaker 1: football and the draft, and that took up a lot
Speaker 1: of programming. And I think that's you're going to see
Speaker 1: for the majority of July is every day it's going
Speaker 1: to be Okay, who are your new favorites here, who
Speaker 1: can do well? Let's rank who are the top five
Speaker 1: teams coming back? Who are going to be the top
Speaker 1: five teams that could surprise in Major League Baseball and
Speaker 1: the NBA. And that's kind of what the next month
Speaker 1: is going to be on the radios. Okay, these sports
Speaker 1: are coming back now, and now we're going to get
Speaker 1: into more on the field preview stuff, which I think
Speaker 1: is going to be welcome for everybody involved, No doubt
Speaker 1: it will be, and I think people as soon as
Speaker 1: because because it's it'll be a sense of normalcy, even
Speaker 1: though the stands will be empty, and I get that
Speaker 1: as it'll be a different look. But I'll be able
Speaker 1: to put on a ball game at night, you know,
Speaker 1: in the house, and have my dinner and watch and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and there'll be some fantastic finishes
Speaker 1: and big home runs and you'll go, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what this is what we're used to. You know, life
Speaker 1: is kind of coming back a little bit. I got
Speaker 1: a ball game to watch at night. I mean, this
Speaker 1: has been unbelievable when you really think about how intertwined
Speaker 1: sports is into the American culture and what we've had
Speaker 1: to deal with the last four months or so. So
Speaker 1: I'm welcome in baseball. I'm thrilled, I'm excited. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big day. It's a celebratory day,
Speaker 1: and even for the NBA too, because they're figuring things
Speaker 1: out and now it looks like the bubble looks it
Speaker 1: looks like it's going to be the best idea for them.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're gonna get to see both of
Speaker 1: these ideas unfold. And you know that's the other fascinating
Speaker 1: part of the return of baseball today is that, all right,
Speaker 1: we have two sports coming back, and there's two philosophies
Speaker 1: of how we're going to play. There's putting everybody in
Speaker 1: a bubble and there's letting everybody do their normal thing,
Speaker 1: train with their team open air and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna see help both these things, but which
Speaker 1: is the better idea? Because if the bubble works, I
Speaker 1: guarantee you sports in the fall are going to come
Speaker 1: back and says okay, we need a bubble, and if
Speaker 1: baseball works better, it's going to be okay, Nope, we
Speaker 1: don't need a bubble. We can do it. We can
Speaker 1: do it that way. So this is also going to
Speaker 1: be a fascinating thing to watch, is as every day
Speaker 1: goes on, Here's how baseball is doing it, what's going
Speaker 1: on with positive COVID nineteen tests. Here's how the NBA
Speaker 1: is doing it. You know who's on the snitch line
Speaker 1: telling everybody that, oh, I saw a car come in
Speaker 1: to uh, you know Lebron's where where he's staying, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that that was an approved car. And
Speaker 1: you know that that daily drama is going to be
Speaker 1: so much fun too to follow us as which one's better,
Speaker 1: because like, whichever one works out better, other sports are
Speaker 1: gonna say, I write me down for it. They're gonna
Speaker 1: copycat it, and they probably should because if that's the
Speaker 1: way forward, that's the way forward. Yeah, the old snitch line,
Speaker 1: you got that in there. They pick up the phone
Speaker 1: and dime out. Uh, you know one of your fellow players. Hey,
Speaker 1: you just brought in two I just saw him come
Speaker 1: in with two chicks. Hey, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: he's going to blow the bubble. You know that we
Speaker 1: got the whole idea of this really yeah, chicks, A
Speaker 1: couple of chicks. Unbelievable. I told you, I'm still living
Speaker 1: in the sixties. I know, Ken, who are you are?
Speaker 1: I think I think for dead Spin you should do
Speaker 1: a story. You should be on the snitch line one
Speaker 1: night and that's that's your story. You're the guy running
Speaker 1: the snitch line and then and you write about it.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's a story that wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a fun story. Twitter At how about a Frescott rob
Speaker 1: At Rob Parker FS one. We're in for Dan and
Speaker 1: the Dan. That's today. We got more on baseball coming
Speaker 1: up throughout the show. But maybe you either woke up
Speaker 1: this morning or went to bed last night going a
Speaker 1: b to the Texans? Is Antonio Brown gonna be on
Speaker 1: the Texans? What does this mean for Deshaun Watson everybody else?
Speaker 1: Is this a real thing? We get into that big
Speaker 1: story coming up next. Keep it right here. This is
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Speaker 1: Dan the Dan Nets with the day off Jason Smith,
Speaker 1: Rob Parker in for them today And maybe last night
Speaker 1: you were going to bad check Twitter real fast or
Speaker 1: woke up this morning and you see why is a
Speaker 1: B to the Texans trending at the top of Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, what really did the
Speaker 1: Texans sign Antonio Brown? And I'm thinking, did Bill O'Brien
Speaker 1: really do this? I mean, that's the first thing Rob
Speaker 1: Parker that came to me was, Okay, Bill O'Brien has
Speaker 1: made so many horrendous traits, did he really sign off
Speaker 1: on getting Antonio Brown? And it turns out Chad Johnson
Speaker 1: put out a tweet saying a B to the Texans
Speaker 1: with praying hands, and it kind of went from there.
Speaker 1: As Brown has been sending out videos, making sure to
Speaker 1: post videos every five minutes. Look, I'm working out. I'm
Speaker 1: at Russell Wilson's field. I'm here, I'm working out with
Speaker 1: this quarterback all trying to get his way back into
Speaker 1: the National Football League, as if by putting stuff on
Speaker 1: social media it's going to force people to sign him.
Speaker 1: It was really crazy last night. Yeah, those things are out.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, as Chad Johnson as he is,
Speaker 1: he a reporter. Now, you know how athletes love to
Speaker 1: like throw stuff out. They got a little information, you know,
Speaker 1: sometime where the smoked this fire. They know something, they've
Speaker 1: had a conversation with somebody, and with social media, they
Speaker 1: throw those things out. So my only thing is when
Speaker 1: it comes to a b like like how long is
Speaker 1: this investigation by the NFL? This should be some sort
Speaker 1: of a you know, training camp is not that far away.
Speaker 1: Is he disqualified as he on the exemple list where
Speaker 1: he can't play? What is it enough already? You know
Speaker 1: there were allegations. Did they investigate it at some point?
Speaker 1: This guy's still young enough and can still play. We
Speaker 1: saw he had a cup of coffee in the sweet
Speaker 1: role with the Patriots and that was a good look
Speaker 1: for a couple of games. We saw him, right, We
Speaker 1: know he can play, we know he's a playmaker. So
Speaker 1: I'm ready to have a ruling from the commissioner and
Speaker 1: let's let's do that. We're still waiting for Robert Kraft
Speaker 1: investigation wrapping up, right, I don't remember that story going away.
Speaker 1: Has that been has that been concluded? I'm just asking Jason, now,
Speaker 1: that's one of those things that kind of was there,
Speaker 1: and then hey, if it goes away, we can we can,
Speaker 1: we can just forget about it. I didn't forget about it,
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, and I'm gonna keep talking about it until
Speaker 1: you address it. Okay, you always talking about protecting the shield.
Speaker 1: I want to know what happened down in Florida. I
Speaker 1: want details, but I do want to know if AB
Speaker 1: is going to be available. If he's available, and I'm
Speaker 1: a team that needs a wide receiver, we come on, Jason,
Speaker 1: this guy patch six of the greatest seasons ever by
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. Would you admit that? Of course he did.
Speaker 1: He's also been out of the game for a while
Speaker 1: and can't last more than five minutes without finding his
Speaker 1: way out of town. You know that's the other side
Speaker 1: of the coin with AB two. So let's figure things out.
Speaker 1: Let's head to the hot line. Bring in Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Serious X and NFL insider Adam Kaplan. Adam, what's happening.
Speaker 1: Good morning, my friend, Good morning. I'm good to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, I've known you guys for a long time,
Speaker 1: so it's great to three of us could be on
Speaker 1: the air. So yeah, I've been listening in Look with
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. Someday he'll play in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: And I felt that way, you know, in my hits
Speaker 1: on the network for the last year, said it's simply
Speaker 1: it's an off the field issue. Is the comfortability of
Speaker 1: it with NFL teams and whether he'll get cleared or not. Now,
Speaker 1: my understanding is the expectation would be, you know, if
Speaker 1: the team wants to sign him, he'll wind up being
Speaker 1: suspended first and then they'll we have no idea how
Speaker 1: long it will be. And then the other thing is,
Speaker 1: you guys were talking about this because of COVID. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get these investigations done because he really it's
Speaker 1: hard for you to get people to get cleared to
Speaker 1: be interviewed with Antonio Brown. There's so many off the
Speaker 1: field issues over the last three years. You gotta get
Speaker 1: through it. You gotta get you have to interview people
Speaker 1: and see what's real and what's not. It's very, very difficult,
Speaker 1: but one thing I've learned and cover the NFL for
Speaker 1: twenty one years, guys teams when they want to win.
Speaker 1: We saw the Patriots do it last year and then
Speaker 1: obviously they cut him after that one game. They will
Speaker 1: do whatever they have to do to win, and that's
Speaker 1: why he will get a job again. I totally agree
Speaker 1: as long as he can play. Once he can't play,
Speaker 1: then it's not worth the headache. But I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think a guy of that talent, he's not forty
Speaker 1: years old trying to play a wide receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's still a young guy. And that little gl we
Speaker 1: saw in New England, that that peaked people's interests. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he looked great. Yeah. It was against Miami on the
Speaker 1: road and it was just crazy how he was. He
Speaker 1: had not been there very long and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he lights it up. He turns thirty two, by
Speaker 1: the way, next week. He's a guy. It's really really
Speaker 1: a durable The thing is, it's really the amazing thing
Speaker 1: about Antonio Brown has talking to guys who worked with him,
Speaker 1: he never had to worry about him on the field
Speaker 1: in terms of production and the one two it's what
Speaker 1: would happen, whether it's in a locker room, going Facebook live,
Speaker 1: which you never do. In everything else that he's done
Speaker 1: off the field, that's where you get concerned, and that which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you can't control as a club. It's
Speaker 1: really up to the player. But no one doubts that
Speaker 1: the talent level, he's absolutely lost nothing and he's if
Speaker 1: he retires today, just based on statistics, he's an NFL
Speaker 1: hall he's a Pro Football Hall of Famer. There's no
Speaker 1: question in my mind, Adam is is there any truth
Speaker 1: to the story about a B to the Texans? Is
Speaker 1: this something? Are they one of the teams that's interested
Speaker 1: in signing and potentially Look, the Texans, by the way,
Speaker 1: are still loaded wide receiver Jason even after the trade
Speaker 1: of Hopkins that they have not for one to understand,
Speaker 1: they have not done anything on this yet. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: have been rumored that what that is. Russell Wilson went
Speaker 1: on record apparently saying that he'd liked to have him,
Speaker 1: He's interested in him because he worked out with him.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that the GM or the head coach
Speaker 1: wants the player. That That's the thing with all these rumors,
Speaker 1: it's generally player driven, players that have a relationship with
Speaker 1: the player, it's not club driven. I think that sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to you have to be careful when one
Speaker 1: of the star quarterback it hands in social media or
Speaker 1: works out with a player, that doesn't mean okay, that
Speaker 1: does not mean that the club wants him. Adam. We
Speaker 1: obviously have to talk about I don't say the team
Speaker 1: name Washington's NFL franchise, but you know it's been talked
Speaker 1: about forever about changing that name. And now once you
Speaker 1: get sponsors involved, and we saw go to Nike dot
Speaker 1: com and try to order a Washington NFL team jersey
Speaker 1: or had or anything and it's gone vanished. How serious
Speaker 1: is this and and do you expect this name to
Speaker 1: be changed? All right? So, Daniel Stryder, when I was
Speaker 1: at ESPN many years ago, I remember working on the
Speaker 1: story to talk to Washington. We won't say their team
Speaker 1: name for the sake of this conversation. Yes, talking to
Speaker 1: Washington's football team and their people in their business area.
Speaker 1: Owner Daniel Snyder was defiant. He said he would never
Speaker 1: change it. Rob, you just talked about it. This is
Speaker 1: what matters more to football teams when sponsors pull out.
Speaker 1: That changes the way that owners thick. Then they go, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm losing money. I'm losing a lot of money. And
Speaker 1: if they pull out and they get lawyers involved, then
Speaker 1: the owners could face with the decision. Daniel Snyder could
Speaker 1: be defining all he wants and based on the social
Speaker 1: climate right now, this is one battle despite them mowning
Speaker 1: with football team, he's probably gonna lose. Now. I could
Speaker 1: tell you as of this morning, there's been nothing from
Speaker 1: Washington's football team that would suggest that he's willing to
Speaker 1: change it right now. A couple more weeks, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to start thinking about changing that narrative. I
Speaker 1: think in the end he's going to have to come
Speaker 1: up with something. And by the way, I could tell
Speaker 1: you fans over the years love to be involved with
Speaker 1: name changes and coming when you have expansion teams, they
Speaker 1: love to be involved with voting online. They could actually
Speaker 1: make this really, really fun for their fans instead of
Speaker 1: making a negative situation, which the owner has done really
Speaker 1: for the last seven years. And if you really do
Speaker 1: research on this situation, the length that the Redskins sorry
Speaker 1: for mentioning that, but it happens, I get it. I
Speaker 1: mean the length that they did to shut this down
Speaker 1: to get people to stop talking about it. It was
Speaker 1: just it's pretty bad that the way that they did
Speaker 1: it many years ago and doing research on it. But
Speaker 1: I don't think this in this situation. You did, Rob,
Speaker 1: You just said it, and you're right when sponsors pull
Speaker 1: out completely and mentioned Nike and by the way, Fred
Speaker 1: Smith from from fed Ex and who right by the way,
Speaker 1: FedExField is what the Redskins own. If they pull out,
Speaker 1: they got Daniel Snyder's not gonna have a choice here.
Speaker 1: And let me just follow up here, And the NFL
Speaker 1: at some point will have to get involved too, because
Speaker 1: these sponsors, if the NFL is supposedly woke now and
Speaker 1: they're gonna do the the black national anthem before every game,
Speaker 1: a game one in week one and they've spotted, they're
Speaker 1: gonna put up two hundred and fifty million dollars over
Speaker 1: ten years, but they still have a team in their
Speaker 1: ranks that has a racist, uh nickname, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? So at some point they might have
Speaker 1: to prod h Daniel Schneider to do the right thing
Speaker 1: because in this climate with the change in and statues
Speaker 1: coming down in a Confederate flag going away and at
Speaker 1: the State of Mississippi has removed is gonna remove the
Speaker 1: Confederate flag from midst flag. I mean, how in the
Speaker 1: world can he survive this? Yeah, but there are by
Speaker 1: laws in the National Football League where there's only so
Speaker 1: much from a league level that they can get involved with.
Speaker 1: They can't tell the owner how to handle this football team.
Speaker 1: And let now, now we saw the NBA with Donald Sterling,
Speaker 1: when you could prove that something's racist and or someone
Speaker 1: is racist who wants a basketball team. We know that
Speaker 1: Adam Silver, the commissioner did the right thing. They're gonna have.
Speaker 1: They would have the NFL from a commission's level would
Speaker 1: have to get involved and feel like the name Redskins
Speaker 1: is racist and they would have to back that belief.
Speaker 1: If they did, that'll change the narrative. Right now, they're
Speaker 1: not involved with it. They were not involved with it,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm told the last time it came up.
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind, Adam kaplan, whether it's
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, NFL insider. All right. Lastly, for me, Adam,
Speaker 1: as we get you know, past everything going on, we're
Speaker 1: looking at the field. We're seeing all plans being made.
Speaker 1: Other sports returning. The NFL has started the last few
Speaker 1: day days to bend a little bit in in their plans.
Speaker 1: They canceled two preseason games. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: wind up canceling two more. Is everything still going to
Speaker 1: be on pace? We're going to start week one beginning
Speaker 1: of September, because already there's some players who were saying
Speaker 1: maybe the report date is going to be in doubt
Speaker 1: for the end of July. Well, Jason. First of all,
Speaker 1: training camps, which are the first thing you had that
Speaker 1: They are going full steam ahead with that, and the
Speaker 1: issue is now how many players are you going to
Speaker 1: allow on your rosters? Are going to be ninety men
Speaker 1: rosters for training camps there gonna be seventy five. The
Speaker 1: NFLPA and NFL working through that. As far as the
Speaker 1: regular season, they're still going full steam ahead. You know.
Speaker 1: The NFL, to their credit, when everyone was up in
Speaker 1: arms about having a free agency, they had it. They
Speaker 1: didn't move it back. They had it as it was
Speaker 1: scheduled for the draft. When people said they shouldn't have
Speaker 1: the draft. The GM's drafted from the homes. They're they're
Speaker 1: they're very they're very much reactive on situations for the
Speaker 1: right for the right reasons. They've been incredibly proactive COVID
Speaker 1: prevention the best that they could. I'll give him credit
Speaker 1: for that. Right now, talking to people involved, they're going
Speaker 1: to be Their belief is that they'll open up on time,
Speaker 1: but with the flexibility Jason if they have to move
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season back. The other thing is,
Speaker 1: which you didn't mention, which we should mention. It's very important.
Speaker 1: We all know this is probably going to happen. It's
Speaker 1: it's there's no way to put a percentage on it.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you this. I just I don't
Speaker 1: think it's likely we'll have fans this season. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you could you could prevent. First of all,
Speaker 1: you know the league. It's been reported out there by
Speaker 1: the athletic that at the very least they're going to
Speaker 1: ask fans potentially sign waivers. I just don't know how
Speaker 1: you could you could avoid get getting people sick. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you have tested coming in. Don't forget folks.
Speaker 1: A lot of the infections are with people who are
Speaker 1: asymptomatic and then eventually have it. So I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's preventable. But I applaud the league for doing
Speaker 1: all that they have done. He's on Twitter at Kaplan NFL.
Speaker 1: That is at Kaplan NFL. Good to talk to you
Speaker 1: during that a great weekend. Stay well, thank you you too,
Speaker 1: take it easy, great stuff. They're always fun. Visit from
Speaker 1: Adam Kaplan And you know, Rob, this is the typical
Speaker 1: story of you know, the FedEx controversy. You know they
Speaker 1: want the Washington Redskins to change their nickname. Is that
Speaker 1: for the longest time, maybe this was being fought through
Speaker 1: the aughts and the early parts of the teens in
Speaker 1: this country with with Daniel Snyder, who was very adamant
Speaker 1: that we're not changing the name, and he showed all
Speaker 1: research saying that you know, the majority of Native Americans
Speaker 1: don't think this term is offensive, and all, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep it. We're gonna keep it. But the minute it
Speaker 1: was money, the minute that FedEx, who sponsors the field,
Speaker 1: says we'd like you to change your name, the minute
Speaker 1: Nike is saying we're not going to sell merchandise. Now,
Speaker 1: the minute that suddenly money is affecting it, this is
Speaker 1: when you're going to see a change because because they're
Speaker 1: not going to sit here and say, okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: lose all kinds of money because of our name. Now
Speaker 1: people are not going to buy our gear. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have different sporting good apparel companies not sell it. This
Speaker 1: is what's gonna wind up doing it. And it's also sad,
Speaker 1: but it's also kind of ends justifying the means, and
Speaker 1: that okay, fine, If that's what it takes for the
Speaker 1: nickname to change finally once and for all, that's kind
Speaker 1: of what it takes. And here it is money, and
Speaker 1: this is what's doing it. It's always money. Cindy Lawper
Speaker 1: sang the song money changes everything. That is exactly like
Speaker 1: money changes every now, all right, right, so at least
Speaker 1: you went from the beginning of the show, you went
Speaker 1: from a nineteen sixties brought Away reference. You're into eighties music.
Speaker 1: So that's okay, my money changes everything. Off the she's
Speaker 1: so a usual LP. It's Cindy Lawper with everything. But
Speaker 1: but but it does. It does come down to that.
Speaker 1: And I really believe he's gonna have two choices, which
Speaker 1: is sell the team to save face because he said
Speaker 1: it would never happen under his watch, or to just
Speaker 1: acquiesce and conform and make the change. Those are to
Speaker 1: me the only two changes because Jason, all the other
Speaker 1: sponsors once they read what happened yesterday with you're talking
Speaker 1: about Pepsi and FedEx and Nike. If you're another sponsor,
Speaker 1: the mayor of Washington has already said, if you're building
Speaker 1: a new stadium, it won't be in the district with
Speaker 1: that name. It will not be in the city limits.
Speaker 1: That that's what's in front. So all the other sponsors
Speaker 1: have to look at themselves and how do they answer
Speaker 1: to their customers and to their shareholders when all these
Speaker 1: big companies are doing what they're doing. It's a financial squeeze,
Speaker 1: and he won't have a choice. You can stand on
Speaker 1: principle when it ain't about money and it's just about
Speaker 1: putting up some bogus poll that Native Americans or they
Speaker 1: want the name to stay stay and it's about pride
Speaker 1: and we're celebrating the Native Americans, which is all bs.
Speaker 1: And he got away with that. But as statues come
Speaker 1: down all over this country and name changes, Uncle Ben's
Speaker 1: out of work and Jemima's out of work. Look at
Speaker 1: what's going on. They're talking about changing uh forts all
Speaker 1: over the country that have um Confederate and and as
Speaker 1: soldiers and and and whatnot. Generals, their names are gonna
Speaker 1: potentially come down. Look at what's going on the The
Speaker 1: Confederate flag is no longer welcome at NASCAR. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's lightning fast. What's happening and the changes. This is
Speaker 1: going to be lightning fast. This is going to happen, Jason,
Speaker 1: I never thought it would. I wasn't sure. And I
Speaker 1: could go back to nineteen ninety two when I was
Speaker 1: covering the World Series and I was in Atlanta. The
Speaker 1: Braids and the Blue Jays and Native Americans were outside
Speaker 1: the stadium and they wanted the tomahawk chopped to stop.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? Oh yeah, I mean this is
Speaker 1: not new, but this is a different America right now,
Speaker 1: in a different climate. And if Daniel Snyder doesn't get
Speaker 1: on it, he's going to be out of it. Watch
Speaker 1: and see. Well I'll tell you exactly how this is
Speaker 1: going to play out. And the first thing is is
Speaker 1: I get that there's blowback on stories like this. We
Speaker 1: have to change everything? Why do we have to change?
Speaker 1: You know? The look Mount Rushmore is now under question
Speaker 1: of should have changed just because something was accepted and
Speaker 1: around for a long time doesn't mean it was a
Speaker 1: good idea, all right, And then that's what you have
Speaker 1: to differentiate yourself. It is a different time now and
Speaker 1: things that were that we're looked at that had racist
Speaker 1: pass are now no longer. You can say, okay, but
Speaker 1: we can blow it off and move on to other
Speaker 1: things or ignore it. No, now we're at the time
Speaker 1: where now we're gonna do something about it. And a
Speaker 1: lot of things were around, and it doesn't mean they
Speaker 1: were a good idea. Certainly, the Confederate flag, whatever glory
Speaker 1: it had, you know, for people in the South, they
Speaker 1: wanted to look at it as a symbol of of
Speaker 1: of of them mothern heritage or arritage. It's also a
Speaker 1: symbol of slavery and discrimination. And so people after that
Speaker 1: they were traders, they tried to overthrow the United States government. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I don't know why people don't understand that. And
Speaker 1: it's like I said, but it was acceptable for a
Speaker 1: long time up but now you have to realize that
Speaker 1: things aren't accept Just because they were around doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it was okay. And you know, you mentioned a lot
Speaker 1: of those brands. Look, the Dixie Chicks are changing their
Speaker 1: name you know, because of the connotation with Dixie, all
Speaker 1: of these things. But for Daniel Snyder, he's going to
Speaker 1: survive this because it's not like he you know, you
Speaker 1: brought the team into the NFL and said Redskins is
Speaker 1: the nickname. He has stood to keep the nickname for
Speaker 1: a long time, and obviously he has had some sort
Speaker 1: of support on it because had he not it would
Speaker 1: have happened. But now he's going to be the guy
Speaker 1: that's finally say okay, we'll change the name. We'll do
Speaker 1: something as Adam Kaplan reference will have something fun. We
Speaker 1: will you know, let the fans re name the team,
Speaker 1: will come up with something else, and everybody will calm
Speaker 1: down and go, Okay, Daniel Snyder finally did the right
Speaker 1: thing and will move forward. He'll wind up keeping the team.
Speaker 1: It's it's if he says we don't change the nickname,
Speaker 1: I either sell the team. We're not changing the nickname.
Speaker 1: Well that's but he's not gonna do that. He wants
Speaker 1: to continue to be an NFL owner. He's going to
Speaker 1: continue to own the team. He'll eventually say all right,
Speaker 1: we'll change it, and then everybody will back off and
Speaker 1: he'll wind up being the Washington team owner like he
Speaker 1: has been. I don't see this ending with him being
Speaker 1: out in the NFL would take him out. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who said it would never happen
Speaker 1: under his watch, and he's been very quiet during everything
Speaker 1: that's happened. I'm just some guys who are rich, guys
Speaker 1: like that, they don't ever want to be wrong and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be told what to do. So, Jason,
Speaker 1: I think what you're saying, I hear you. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to Daniel Snyder, I'm not so sure that
Speaker 1: he's going to conform because guys like that dig in
Speaker 1: and don't want to. It's my toy and you're not
Speaker 1: gonna tell me what to do with it. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a war. Fox Sports Radio The
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Speaker 1: she's in the rotation in the car. Definitely. What I'm
Speaker 1: driving around that is I got my favorite one hundred
Speaker 1: songs and she is in there. A couple of times,
Speaker 1: I thought, for a second, you're gonna say she's in
Speaker 1: the rotation, and instead of saying the car there, you're
Speaker 1: gonna say the cars are in the rotation. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they I like the cars. But it is going to
Speaker 1: be a different weekend as far as for all of us,
Speaker 1: you know, celebrating fourth or July. However, it's going to
Speaker 1: be at cookouts and please everybody be safe, you know,
Speaker 1: do it smartly so the country can continue to reopen.
Speaker 1: But you know, usually everybody, no matter what you do
Speaker 1: on the weekend, you peek in on the fourth of
Speaker 1: July hot dog eating contest, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: much different this year. Gone is going to be the
Speaker 1: big crowd at Coney Island and everybody in the hot sun. Instead,
Speaker 1: the hot dog eating contest is going to be done
Speaker 1: in a private indoor location nearby because you simply can't
Speaker 1: do it and subscribe to the social distancing laws. Joey Chestnut,
Speaker 1: who has won, you know, twelve times, says he's going
Speaker 1: to set a record rob because the eating conditions are
Speaker 1: going to be better. And we first you see that
Speaker 1: and go, oh, my god, really eating conditions. But you know,
Speaker 1: eating hot dogs in a in a cool environment where
Speaker 1: you're not in the hot sun and sweating your ass off,
Speaker 1: that I would rather eat more in that situation than
Speaker 1: than than what they do for Nathan's hot dog eating contest.
Speaker 1: I can't doubt the guy. Yeah, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: little different because I think the crowd adds to it
Speaker 1: and uh, you know when I when I do, I'm
Speaker 1: the biggest hot dog connoisseur going. I love hot dogs.
Speaker 1: I owned a hot dog restaurant in Detroit called All
Speaker 1: Star Dogs. Jason, you know this, uh from New York.
Speaker 1: I sold the Sabrett hot dogs with the red onion
Speaker 1: sauce that you get in the push carts on the
Speaker 1: street in New York, right with the spicy brown mustard.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. I
Speaker 1: think I need a cigarette after they's talking about the
Speaker 1: hot dog, but nobody talks about I don't think Joey
Speaker 1: Chester talks about hot dogs like that. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: and the Nathans. You know, there's so many good ones
Speaker 1: when you go to Yankee Stadium. I think this is
Speaker 1: the thing that's unbelievable and Jason, I know you're a
Speaker 1: Mets guy, but they're not too many places you go
Speaker 1: to a ballpark where they serve more than one hot dog.
Speaker 1: And when you go to Yankee Stadium, they sell Sabretts,
Speaker 1: they sell Nathans, Hebrew National, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: you can get three and they're all have distinct different tastes.
Speaker 1: Taste all right, No, you're right, But I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you, rob Is you know, and all that time
Speaker 1: you're coming out all the ball games I came to.
Speaker 1: I go to Chevez Ravine and I will get two
Speaker 1: hot dogs at a time because Dodger I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. Dodger dogs are phenomenal. And I'll get
Speaker 1: the it's and I'll eat it and it'll be gone
Speaker 1: in like a second, and I go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I just ate that really fast. I'm so glad I
Speaker 1: bought a second one. I'm so glad I got to
Speaker 1: and I'll slow down and eat that one a little
Speaker 1: bit slower. But man, I'll tell you what, Dodger dogs,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's just so it's
Speaker 1: a food that's made that you can I can just
Speaker 1: keep eating it's like eating bacon, Like I just keep
Speaker 1: eating it and eating it and it's not doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You can just eat it forever. You're a certain food
Speaker 1: will fill you up and go oh, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm so full. No, no, no, those hot dogs like bacon,
Speaker 1: I could eat forever. It's just and when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I always go back to it. I was
Speaker 1: about twelve years old a barbecue. It might have been
Speaker 1: the fourth of July or something like that. I can
Speaker 1: remember eating twelve hot dogs with all my buddies as
Speaker 1: a twelve year old. So I was practicing to be
Speaker 1: Joey chest Not. It didn't happen, but I love them.
Speaker 1: You know, your beer parents should have pushed you, and
Speaker 1: you know they should have gotten you into a camp
Speaker 1: or some kind of training schedule with your personal hot
Speaker 1: dog coach. And look where you could be right now.
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