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I don't think the 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: person's arrived yet, but there's supposed to be somebody here 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: in twenty five minutes or so. We'll see if they 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: show up on time or not. I don't know. In 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 1: the rare in studio appearance, A rare in studio appearance. 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: More on that coming up play and they might not 18 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: show up, they might flake, who knows. But our lead 19 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: this hour is from La via the NF Owners meetings. 20 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: A lot of good content coming out of the Valley 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: of the Sun adjacent at a luxury resort. So Sean McVay, 22 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: the top coach in the NFL today, no one will 23 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: disagree with that. So Sean McVay spoke about the party 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: hardy pass catcher who's been making headlines in the tabloids 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: for the last couple of months. That would be Pookah 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: no Cooah. McVeigh had a lot to say Among the 27 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: comments from Sean McVay, he said that he did have 28 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: a talk. He had a talk with Pooka nicour this 29 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: year about the activity being responsible and essentially the stan 30 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: Lee quote with the great responsibility comes blah blah blah 31 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: blah blah, gave him that whole thing. As he's representing 32 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: the RAMS organization, Sean, and he said, McVeigh, he trusts 33 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: Pooka Noicoah is a good human being and he's not 34 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: going to rush to judgment, he said. And he says 35 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: McVeigh said, he t us the kid's heart, he said, 36 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: among other things, and he's going to continue to help 37 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: him grow. McVeigh also mentioned the quote expectations for his receiver. 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: Pooka said that this is a opportunity for him to 39 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: learn and grow. All right, there you go. Okay says 40 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: that he thinks Pooka will be a RAM for a 41 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: really long time. What does that mean really long time? 42 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: Your definition of really long time and my definition of 43 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: really long time two different things. So that's a good 44 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question what's the meaning, 45 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: if any, that you're pulling out of rams coach Sean 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: McVay as we parse the words of his comments about 47 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: Pooka and Akoua on the future and what's been going 48 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: on here in Ramland. In Ramland, so I've got algebra, 49 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: evil twin and velvet curtain, and we will combine all 50 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make some chicken 51 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: palm parmesan. That's what We're gonna make, a little fetacini 52 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: on the side. So A the takeaway on this one, 53 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: it's rather obvious. The takeaway from Sean mvay's comments is 54 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: the classic. It's a el classico exercise in what's known 55 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: as situational ethics, is what it is. We know what's 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: going on here. This We learned this from a former 57 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio contributor. I don't know if the guys 58 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: worked here or not. I know he did a couple 59 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: of years ago. Steve Kaim the general manager of the 60 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: Cardinals for a while, and they brought him in to 61 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: speak cliches during the draft. It's very good at that. However, 62 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: Steve Khim gave one of the all time great quotes 63 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: when he was with the Arizona Cardinals years ago, and 64 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: he famously said, if Hannibal Lecter ran a four to four, 65 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: the teams would call it just an eating disorder as 66 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: they prepared to draft him. And that's it. And so 67 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: the Rams, I know what they're doing. Here's obvious what 68 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: they're doing. Putt in the quotes. Good. So they're doing 69 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: the back of the napkin what we call malor algebra, 70 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: which is p kt equals s M two squared. It's 71 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: a spin off of Einstein's theory. And what is this, well, 72 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: production productivity. Productivity keeps talent as long as Sean Vivey's 73 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: ego can square the talent. As long as that happens, 74 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: we're good now in the NFL. When you hear character 75 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: concerns and quotes, I think we know this by now, 76 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: but it's a refresher course. So if you hear character concerns, 77 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: that is often just a synonym for not talented enough yet. Right, 78 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: if you're talented enough, then it's all different. It's the 79 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: production buffer. As long as Pukainakua continues to put up 80 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: top five numbers for a wide receiver, historical numbers for 81 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: a player drafted in the middle rounds like he was, 82 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: his off the field fret boy antics are going to 83 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: be categorized as growing pains. It's just growing pains the 84 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: moment though, one hundred yard games with one or two 85 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: touchdowns turned into forty yard games with no touchdowns. When 86 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: that happens, abra cadabra, suddenly the same teachable moments will 87 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: be cited as the reason that he has to be 88 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: shipped out of town. We cannot have him anymore. You 89 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: know that. I know that every man, woman and child knows. 90 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: That's how it works. It's so different in any business. 91 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: People get all worked up about football. Work in radio. 92 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: There were some people that worked at places I've been 93 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 1: that were complete losers, but they got ratings and they 94 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: made the company money. So they put up with it. 95 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: When the ratings weren't there and they stopped making money 96 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: for the company, they're doing podcasts. That's how that works. 97 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: That's the game right there. That's the game. And so 98 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: Sean McVay, it's pretty simple here McVeigh isn't managing the player, 99 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: Pooka Akua. He's not. He's managing the asset, pookin a coua, 100 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: as are the rams in this case. He will tolerate 101 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: the distraction as long as the ROI the return on 102 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: investment is high. And it's not about being a mentor 103 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: or anything like that. It's like just wins and losses, 104 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: wins and blankety blank losses, and who gets you closer 105 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: to that that point And we're gonna have to pay 106 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: Pukakua a ton a ton of money. He'll be the 107 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: highest paid receiver in the NFL shortly now. Meanwhile, to 108 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: the Niners NFC West, we stay in the NFC West 109 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: where we have a he said, he said situation not 110 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: exactly on the same page. Now, this involves Kyle Shanahan, 111 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: who regurgitated essentially the same talking points that John Lynch, 112 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,239 Speaker 1: the general manager, had said regarding Brandon Auk, the wide 113 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: receiver who walked away from the forty nine ers and 114 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: I just didn't want to play. And the consensus between 115 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: Shanahan and Lynch is that Brandon Ayuk has played his 116 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: last snap with the forty nine ers. At the same time, 117 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: they're not in any kind of hurry. They're not looking 118 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: to get rid of anyone anytime soon. Meaning there's this 119 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: holding pattern which is going on. There's like a holding 120 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: pattern going on right now. And Shanahan gave a long 121 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: winded response. He said, I don't have a date on this. 122 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: He said. However, he said, but I know eventually it'll 123 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: be resolved. It will resolve itself. He said, well, I 124 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: bring this up. I said, it's a he said, he 125 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: said situation. So a couple hours later, walking in just 126 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: dropping money because you know, he's a rich guy that 127 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: inherited the money. Forty nine Ers owner Jed York, who 128 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: was born on not just third base, he was born 129 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: halfway to home plate, so Jed York singing a much 130 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: different tune. The aristocrat owner of the forty nine Ers, 131 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: even going as far as to imply that there is 132 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: a possibility that Brandon Ayuk will remain in the Bay 133 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: Area for another NFL season. York said, quote, I think anything, 134 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: anything's possible, right, he said. We want to make sure 135 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: that we have as talented today roster as possible. First 136 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: and foremost, York said, he meaning iug needs to get 137 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: healthy and be able to reform. Blah blah blah blah 138 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. He's a really good football player. All right, 139 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: question here it is, how do you decode that? He said? 140 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: He said situation mixed messages between Kyle Shanahan and the 141 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: owner and regarding wide receiver Brandon IOK in his future 142 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: there in the northern California region. So on this one, 143 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 1: this is a classic case of right hand versus invisible 144 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: hand and the owner talking out of his tookis you 145 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: got Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch who are in lockstep, right, 146 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: they're just regurgitating the same talking points, which means they're 147 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: in agreement on this. And then you've got the owner 148 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: coming in here and he's like, oh, no, no, no, I 149 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I'm gonna go with Shanahan and 150 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: Lynch because they're the ones that are in the foxhole, 151 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: if you will. And they've pretty much acted throughout this 152 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: offseason like morticians who are already measuring the pine box 153 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: for IUK with the forty nine ers. That that's how 154 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: that's going. And we've seen enough. We can't handle anymore. 155 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: All that stuff. He played his last snap. All that rigamarole, 156 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: and they're just waiting for the NFL Draft, which is 157 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: still about a month away. And then at that point, 158 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: unload cargo. Unload cargo at that point. And so you've 159 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: got that. And I just love the fact that Jed 160 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: York is acting like a total jackwagon in this, tossing 161 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: out a word salad and clearly not either not paying 162 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: attention to what Shanahan and the Chief said or just 163 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: completely oblivious. Either way, it's the same thing. And so 164 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: so there you go, and give me a break. This 165 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: is the tail. It's the tail of the twins. You've 166 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: got Brandon Ayuck, who's become Casper's evil twin Crisper, you know, 167 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: the unfriendly ghost haunting the franchise and all that. And 168 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: the guy was a QQ, not q Bert QQ. He 169 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: quiet quit on the forty nine ers, ghosting almost everyone, 170 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: which what do I know, I just see the Overnight show. 171 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: I'm generally speaking, that's not something that goes over very well. 172 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: Am I wrong on that? I mean, okay, I don't 173 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: think I am. I don't think. I mean failed to 174 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: meet the even the minimum standards of professional lism. That's it. 175 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: And the main reason that Brandon will not be back. 176 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: He's not going to renegotiate his contract. So lost millions 177 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: of dollars for this power play Brandon Auk, and you 178 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: look about it. You look, you look around, and you're like, well, okay, 179 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: So he's got a twenty five million dollar or something 180 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: like that roster bonus through September first. So there's a 181 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: better chance that I get twenty five million dollars from 182 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers and that Ornesto is there to 183 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: take a picture of me while I get the check, 184 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: the oversized check for twenty five million dollars from the 185 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: Niners while wearing a Rams hat. There is a better 186 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: chance of all that happening than Brandon Ayuk getting that 187 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: roster bonus from the forty nine ers. So forget about it. 188 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: Forget about it. Not gonna happen now, Brandon, who is 189 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: on the natty list, so we expect him to finally 190 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: be set free now the shot that he gets traded 191 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: for a conditional late round Kino card. It is more 192 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 1: likely than not, though, that he will be just let 193 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: go and then sign one of those proven one year 194 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: contracts with some horny, desperate wide receiver team like the 195 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: Chargers of the commanders or somebody like that, or a 196 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: mystery team, the mystery team, because he ain't going back 197 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: to the Niners, all right. Now, the last word here, 198 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: the last word on this is we go to the 199 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 1: bending of the rules. The bending of the rules is 200 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: where we go here. So we are told that the NFL, 201 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: which has been steadfast and we have all these guardrails 202 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: up to protect players and all this stuff, while the 203 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: NFL now is considering a special exemption to let certain teams, 204 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: certain teams play more than two short weekends. You know 205 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 1: those games where you play on a Sunday and then 206 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 1: boom right back at it on a Thursday, back at it, 207 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: all right, So they're gonna suppose he expand that and 208 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: allow more teams to play. Now, the question is why 209 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: why would Roger Goodell and the big bosses there at 210 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: the NFL. He's the biggest boss, but he's just a conduit, 211 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: a messenger pigeon, a useful idiot for the owners. So 212 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: why would Roger Goodell's NFL bend the short week schedule 213 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: rules give exemptions to certain team So this is the 214 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: old abra cadabra magic set is what this is. It's 215 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: street magic, right, there on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan, 216 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: where all of the major heads of the industrial sports 217 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: complex have offices within a couple of blocks. I did 218 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: that walk. I walked past the baseball headquarters. Then I 219 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: went over to the NBA and the NFL. They're all 220 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: within a couple of blocks of each other on either 221 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue or Park Avenue there in the concrete jungle 222 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: of Manhattan. So anyway, the point is publicly, the NFL 223 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: puts on the white lab coat, and they do that 224 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: very well. They talk about concussion protocol and player longevity 225 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: and independent medical professionals and all that safety. First blah 226 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: blah blah, blah blah. They're running some kind of monastery, right, 227 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: they're really into it. And then it's a masterclass on 228 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: what we call corporate flim flam is what it is. 229 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: They'll look you right in the eye and right straight there, 230 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: right in the lot of your face, is what they 231 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: will do. And they'll say the shield is a suit 232 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: of armor for the players and all this, and of 233 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: course not the crash test dummies. You know it, I 234 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: know it, we all know it. That's the way it is. 235 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: And privately, behind the velvet curtain, if you will. The 236 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: story is the player. The players like the disposable paper 237 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: plate at the billionaires Barbecue in the Hamptons and at 238 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: the billionaire buffet. They're at the barbecue buffet in the 239 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: Hamptons and all that. You got Jeff Bezos over there, 240 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: like he's looking at that flea bitten Week fourteen schedule matchup, 241 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: and he's like, well, why are we broadcasting a garage sale. 242 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: We're like the largest company in the world. Why are 243 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: we broadcasting this trek? What is that? He wants theater 244 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: like they Amazons spent a lot of money. They want 245 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, They would like the Canon arm, Josh Allen, 246 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: they would like to see Magic Man, Patrick Mahoney and 247 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: all that, and they want to see it. And then 248 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: they're limited on how many games they can play, So 249 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: why don't we get more of them? And what sugar 250 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: Daddy wants, Sugar Daddy gets. The NFL is treating the 251 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: player longevity like stale brand. And of course they have 252 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: to just keep Amazon happy because they want more of 253 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: Amazon's money, so Amazon can raise prices. I got an 254 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: email from a guy complaining. He said, Netflix is raising prices. 255 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: I said, and I guess YouTube would raise prices. I'm like, yeah, 256 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: this is what happens. Professional sports gets involved and the 257 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: price of everything goes up. One of the main reasons 258 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: I was told years ago, one of the reasons, like 259 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: I was just in Vegas this week, and one of 260 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: the reasons they started charging for parking is because of 261 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: the hockey team, the arena they put behind New York, 262 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: New York. They got to make some money from parking, 263 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: and so hey, let's just charge everyone thirty five dollars 264 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: to part. We'll screw everybody. Wait till the a star plane. 265 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: They'll raise the price of parking right there in the 266 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: strip in Las Vegas, and everything gets more expensive, and 267 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: it just gets trickled down to the to the owners 268 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: in sports and the teams, and that's how that works. 269 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor 270 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 271 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 272 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jay. 273 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 3: I'm the producer of the Paula and Tony Fusco Show. 274 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 3: Usually in these promos they ask you to listen to 275 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 3: the show. I'm here to ask you please don't listen 276 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: to the show. The hosts are two absolute morons who 277 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 3: have the dumbest takes on sports. Magicable don't listen to 278 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 3: the show so it can get camped. 279 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 4: What what the hell are you doing out studio? 280 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: Get him, Paully, Ignore that fool. 281 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 4: Listen to the Pauline Tony Fusco Show on the iHeart 282 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 4: Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 283 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: He's still moving, So our lead this hour is from baseball, 284 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: the feeling out process or process here early in the 285 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: baseball season, and one of these storylines which was very 286 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: very easy to read, you know this reading the future 287 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: and the tarot cards and all that stuff. It's it's 288 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: a bit of a hustle, right, it's a bit of 289 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: a hustle. You play the odds. You play the odds, Like, 290 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: do you have someone in your family that has her 291 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: name starts with the letter A, Well, most people do, 292 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: most people do. I bring this up because the New 293 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: York Mets went out and hornswoggled the Phillies to get 294 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: Bob Baschett. So they got Bashett. He was supposed to 295 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia, end up going to the Mets instead, 296 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: and he had a terrible opening weekend in New York. 297 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: Now the Mets played again on Monday night, but heading 298 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: into Monday, Bobaschett the season opening series had fourteen at bats, 299 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: only one hit, and the fans decided to boom booo. 300 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: They booed him. They showed their displeasure for the former 301 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: Blue Jay, who was asked about the experience of getting 302 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: that New York welcome and getting booed by the hometown 303 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: fans there just a couple of games into his Mets career, 304 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: and his response he said, quote if anything is a 305 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: quote from Boba Schet. He said, if anything, I thought 306 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: it took too long. I get it. I thought myad 307 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 1: bats were terrible, too close. Quote all right, So that 308 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, 309 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: how did your scorecard read on Bobashet's handling of the 310 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: Mets boom birds. So I've got my observation list, I 311 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: got h bomb, We've got uber eats and Toddler, and 312 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: we'll combine all of these things together and put on 313 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 1: a happy face. All right, So number wa number yes, 314 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: I'll let me let me get something straight right now. 315 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: All right, Bobaschett did not just handle the opening weekend 316 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: boo birds. He gave them a masterclass on psychological warfare 317 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: in the industrial complex of professional sports. I'm not sitting 318 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: here saying Boberchet's gonna be amazing. I thought he was 319 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: a good player in Toronto. I liked him, and I'm 320 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: you know, I'm happy that he's on the Mets because 321 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: the Mets will find a way to screw this up. 322 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: They don't have good enough pitching to be a real threat. 323 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: Uh so, there's that. But here's the thing, all right, 324 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: this was textbook with a capital T, A plus plus 325 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: plus on the Mallards scorecard, extra credit. You hear the 326 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: noise at City Field, all right, the fans throwing the 327 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: verbal raspberries at you. Right, that was not the Bronx cheer, 328 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: because it wasn't the Bronx. This was the Queen's sneer, 329 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: is what it was. The queens sneer and the whole 330 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: peanut gallery giving him the business and all that stuff, 331 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: and Bashett, he didn't bark back. There was no bark back. 332 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: He didn't chirp. He just he didn't go full tough guy. 333 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 1: He's not a douche Canoe like Anthony rin Donald or 334 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: something like that. You know, he's making that kind of money. 335 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: Not that. What he did was he deflated the balloon 336 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: and he used an H bomb humor. He used humor, 337 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: he admitted he sucked. Right, that's the way to do it. 338 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: You admit it, and then you have de escalated the situation. 339 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: That is how you handle the boo birds. And he 340 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: did it there. It's this cat and mouse game, and 341 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: it's more fun when the players do not know how 342 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: to handle it, then we can goof on them. Bashett, 343 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: based on what I saw, he handled this pretty well. 344 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: And it's not that difficult the cat and mouse game. 345 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: If you play well, you were living up to the 346 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: contract and that's it. You don't get extra credit until 347 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: the playoffs. And then when you start getting big hits 348 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you become immortalized and all that h 349 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: and if you don't hit, you are then public enemy 350 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: number one. That's the game. That's the game. It's the 351 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: fine print. What was it, one hundred and twenty six 352 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: million dollar contract aav average annual value forty two million? 353 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: You think that doesn't paint a bullseye on your back? 354 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: You think you think that? Please come on, now, that 355 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: is New York professional Baseball, which is the way it's 356 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: supposed to be. Although even the New York I got 357 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: an email from a guy who's out in the Long Island. 358 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: He's like, well, it's not the same. It's trying to 359 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: make it seem like it's the same. It's not the same. Well, 360 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: nothing stays the same. And I'd say there's less of 361 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: a safe space than in some other places. And hopefully 362 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: the Met fans don't go soft like in Philadelphia and 363 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: buy a billboard. It's like, we support you, way to go. 364 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: You know, all that dopey hockey stuff and all that, 365 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: and so far, bashit. There's only been a few games. 366 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: He's been cool, calm and calculated and all that. And 367 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: so that he won the weekend even though he didn't play. 368 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: We had one hit. He followed that up, had a 369 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: couple of ribbies. The Mets beat the Cardinals the Red 370 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: Birds on a Monday night to kick off a road series, 371 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: and so one base hit. Not great for the money 372 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: they're paying better than the weekend, better than the weekend. 373 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 1: All right? Now, two Milwaukee, we go the crew? How 374 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,719 Speaker 1: about the crew? So the Milwaukee Brewers. We're gonna talk 375 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: about something that has been yapped about by all the 376 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: baseball gurus who think this is like the smartest thing 377 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: in the world, the greatest thing since Slice brand, since 378 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 1: Slice Brand. So the Brewers have a shortstop prospect named 379 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt. Who the hell is that Cooper Pratt? Well, 380 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: I bring this up because he agreed to a contract 381 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: for eight years and fifty point seven million, a guy 382 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: no one's ever heard of, fifty point seven million. Pratt 383 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: is twenty one. He is said to be a promising 384 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: young player in the Brewers organization, so the report says, 385 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: and the Brewers being celebrated for locking this guy up 386 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: a lah. The Atlanta Braves a couple of years back 387 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: with Ronald Lacuna Junior locked him up, although not this, 388 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: not nearly as much as that. And Jackson Curio also 389 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: got one of these type contracts in the Brewers and 390 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: so essentially it's been nothing but compliments for Milwaukee and 391 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: all that. He's not very good as a hitter. He's 392 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: a defensive player at age twenty one, not much of 393 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: a hitter. So the question, give me the word, give 394 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: me the word for Milwaukee signing prospect Cooper Pratt to 395 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: an eight year contract extension eight years. So I'm gonna 396 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: give you two words. My words are fuzzy dice. Those 397 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: are my words, fuzzy dice. And you can hang it 398 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 1: from the rear view mirror and pray that the engine 399 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: does not fall out somewhere out on the highway in Barstow. 400 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: Just hope that doesn't fa The brewers are acting like 401 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: they just found a bitcoin as the gift in the 402 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: cracker jack box, and I'm pretty sure that this is 403 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: not a bitcoin situation. The industry term for this is hope. 404 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: All right, that's it. You're you're selling hope. You hope 405 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: this guy figures out how to hit Milwaukee is hoping 406 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: the bat shows up like it's like an Uber eats 407 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: and Femi, the Uber Eat driver in Minnesota stop by, 408 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: I said, I made a long distance drive here, and well, 409 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: but the food keeps getting delayed. What's happening? I don't understand. 410 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: Why is the food delayed? Your hitter is on the way, 411 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: Your hitter is on the way and all that. And 412 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: it's like, well, no he's not. He's stuck in double 413 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: A traffic and this that and the other thing. That 414 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: Pratt again the sky report. From what I read, I 415 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 1: haven't seen the guy play. There's some YouTube clips. The 416 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: guy they say has outstanding glove end quote developing bat. 417 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: They say, develop bat. That's the claim. The two most 418 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: dangerous words in baseball lexicon translation. We have no efing idea. 419 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: We have no efing idea. Major League Baseball's pipeline, which 420 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: is propaganda from Big Baseball, says that he's the sixty 421 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: second ranked minor league player, which means he's not in 422 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: the top ten, top twenty, top thirty, top forty, top fifty, 423 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: not even top sixty. That is not elite, at least 424 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: not where I come from. So if he hits, and 425 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 1: he's a good defensive player, and I said, okay, this 426 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: is a steal for the Brewers and all that stuff, 427 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: lock in the price. If he doesn't hit, this turns 428 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: out to be a boone doggle, a boone dog, a 429 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: Brewers boone doggle. And so it's not so much confidence. 430 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: It's essentially crossing your fingers and calling that a strategy. 431 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: We don't think that's a strategy. We don't. We don't 432 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: think that's a strategy. The page on that the final 433 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: point from listener Steve, who listens on a nightly basis. 434 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: In he says he's not in Toronto, but he's close enough. 435 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,120 Speaker 1: He goes to Blue Jay's game, so he's somewhere in 436 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: Ontario there. I think he's in Hamilton, which is not 437 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: I don't think that's far away to get out my 438 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: map on my phone, but I don't think it's that 439 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: far away anyway. He pointed out that the Blue Jays 440 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: over the weekend set a franchise record a fifty in 441 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: their fiftieth season. Starting their fiftieth season, the Blue Jays 442 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: struck out fifty batters in their opening series against the Athletics, 443 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: and that set the record for strikeouts in the first 444 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: three games of the season. Kevin Gossman, who's seeming to 445 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: have been around forever, he said, he blew Jay opening 446 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: day record, had eleven strikeouts, and then Dylan Cease, who 447 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: just came over from the Padres, he had twelve. And 448 00:26:53,920 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 1: then Eric Lauer struck out nine on Sunday's Toronto. So 449 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: the question, are you impressed to our friend in again, 450 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: I think it's in Hambleton. Are you impressed with the 451 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: Blue Jays overpowering pitching staff after coming this close to 452 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: winning the World Series? Setting the tone early? All right, 453 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: So you have to understand. I look at this thing 454 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: through the eyes of a cynical talk show host. So 455 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: I look at this, and I know the stat geeks 456 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: are all aroused, and they're all, oh, this is great. 457 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm all horned up here, all these strikeouts 458 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. This is not the Great Wall 459 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: of Toronto all of a sudden. We're not recreating the 460 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves of the nineties. We're not doing that here. 461 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: The story is really to me, it's not about the 462 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: Blue Jays. The better story is in the losing locker 463 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: room the Athletics. That's where the story is. They are 464 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: not even a major league team. It's like a traveling 465 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 1: variety act. It's like a freak show. The Athletics and 466 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: the baseball scraps. Oh look at all the young talent 467 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: they have and all that. They're an embarrassment. The Athletics 468 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: are a blight on the baseball landscape. They just are 469 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 1: and they will be until they relocate to Vegas. They 470 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: should be back in Oakland. That's not gonna happen. That 471 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: stadium is rising up from the middle of the strip 472 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: there in Vegas, so that's gonna happen. But they're not 473 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: a major league team. They're like a traveling circus and 474 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: they get to refuel in Sacramento and then they move 475 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: on and go go elsewhere. But either like the Blue Jays, 476 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: like if you're old, you know, back in the day, 477 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: they had amazing pitching with Jack Morris who had one 478 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: really good year than one terrible year in Toronto, and 479 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: they were winning worlds as Jimmy Key, pat Henkin, guys 480 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: like that, Juan Guzman, those were some of the great 481 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: pitchers in that era for the Blue Jays. Like those 482 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: guys were assassins, absolute assassins. These guys, they're not bad. 483 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: Just again, I think it was more about the athletics, 484 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: and it was anything that these these guys did. These 485 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: sat and they're really not athletics. So the Sacramento orphans 486 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: they're there, are traveling orphans and and just kind of 487 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: hanging out there and Brent Rooker and Nick Kurtz and 488 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: those guys were swinging away, swing about a swing about 489 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: I saw wing uh, and like they were trying to 490 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: hit the moon while blindfolded with a pool need a noodle. 491 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: Not not a good strategy there, And so I wouldn't 492 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: brag about that. It's kind of like a bragging about 493 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: beating a toddler in a foot race. I wouldn't brag 494 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: about that either. I wouldn't really brag about that. And 495 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: so these teams, it's not just the athletics across baseball. 496 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: They refuse to choke up the bat and they refuse 497 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: to adjust. That's you're you're a boomer if you want 498 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: to do that, and so I think that's pathetic. You 499 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: get two strikes, put the ball in play, make somebody 500 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: make a play. They don't do that anymore. So this 501 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: was a gift from the baseball gods to make Toronto 502 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: start so really special for five minutes to start the year. 503 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: And then that's it. And they did go back to 504 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: reality as the Colorado Rockies, who will lose one hundred 505 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: games yet again, beat up Toronto fourteen to five in 506 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: a game that was not even that close on a random, 507 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: random Monday, Rockies put up by seventh spot. When you 508 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: give up seven runs in one inning, that is embarrassing. Anyway. 509 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: It is the Ben Mahlord Show. If you're listening last hour, 510 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: old buddy Eddie Garcia is hanging out with us. Here 511 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: the rare and provate Siria Sean is in here as well, 512 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: not paying any attention. I could literally say the worst 513 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: things in the world about Siria Sean. He is not 514 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: paying any attention. He's having a private conversation right now 515 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: with Cooper Loop. He is not He's locked in. He 516 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: has no care in the world anything I say right now. 517 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: I could give the winning numbers to the lottery, which 518 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: would make Serious Sean a very rich man, and he 519 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: would not hear them. And if I gave them out 520 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: and I talked slowly, he would still not hear them. 521 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: He would not make any money on that. He's so 522 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: fun focused on what he's doing. It's fascinating this serious Sean. 523 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: He also gave me a guilt trip. Yeah, he gave 524 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: me a give me a guilt trip. 525 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller 526 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 527 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: It's smallard, how about that? To the third degree rapid fire? 528 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: Rapid fire coolo. 529 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 5: John Harbaugh was fired from The Ravens, but he said 530 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 5: in an interview over the weekend that he thinks the 531 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 5: Baltimore coaching staff actually did its best job last season. 532 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: Ben, What do you think well the best is you know, 533 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: coop means as good as all the rest. So when 534 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: you say the best, he means as good as all 535 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: the rest. I would say no. I would say no, 536 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: that is a lie by John Harbot. Otherwise he'd still 537 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: be coaching the Ravens next. 538 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 5: Jets coach Aaron Glenn announced on Sunday that Gino Smith 539 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 5: will be the team starter, saying, no doubt about it, 540 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 5: He's our guy, ah Ben, assuming he stays healthy. Do 541 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 5: you think Gino stays the starter all season long? 542 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: No? 543 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 4: Hell no? 544 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: Does Aaron Glenn have a death wish? Does he want 545 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: to go back to be a coordinator work at the 546 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: NFL network? What are you doing? Seriously? Gino Smith is 547 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: the what is the mission statement of the Jets? He's 548 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: not gonna be the starter all your next. 549 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 5: We learned yesterday that Rick Patino signed a new deal 550 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 5: with Saint John's that tax on an additional year to 551 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 5: his contract and gives him a significant pay raise. But 552 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 5: do you think this is the last stop for Patino 553 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 5: in college? 554 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? 555 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: I know he's not gonna get an NBA job. It 556 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: just seems like a good fit. He loves New York, 557 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: that whole thing. He's got good players? Yes, how do 558 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: we do? 559 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 6: Cool? 560 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: You passed this as a went play on the game? 561 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: Win and win and win a chicken dinner. 562 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 563 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 564 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 565 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 2: listen live. Now Naylor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you 566 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not. 567 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Let's welcome in architests. We've got 568 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: what do we have here? Sam is in Rhode Island, Sam, Hello, 569 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: Welcome Sam? Who do you want to partner up with you? 570 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: Eddie's in here still everybuddy Eddie Garcia visiting a special night. 571 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: You can pick Eddie, Me, Ben or Cool. 572 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 2: I want to play Eddie's Pile of Paso. 573 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the name of it it is. That's 574 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: the name this false advertised. I want to play dollars 575 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: a mount of money with Eddie. All right, that's all right, 576 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: we have one, two or three? Then I'm a feeling 577 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: love Sam. Let's say hello to who do we have here? 578 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 1: Let's go to Jordan, who's in Cannes City. Hello Jordan, 579 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: Welcome okay, Ben, welcome back, Eddie? Thank you all right, Jordan, 580 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with? Jordan's Well, 581 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: I do. 582 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 6: Want to say last time I played the last person 583 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 6: to win with Eddie? 584 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: I hate already picked. 585 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 6: Oh, thank you Ben. 586 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 5: Let's go. 587 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: All right, classic man, Now you can just knock him 588 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: out of the All right, let's play. 589 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 5: The game here we are, right, Gentlemens. The Eric Clapton edition. 590 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 5: He turns eighty one years old today. Categories are Cocaine, 591 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 5: Forever Man, My Father's Eyes, and Sweet Home Chicago. 592 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 4: Sam, which category would you like? 593 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: Cocaine? 594 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 4: All right? Good choice, Jordan, which category would you. 595 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 2: Like my father's note? 596 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: Al right? 597 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 5: What do you think my father's Okay? All right, that's fine, 598 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 5: all right, Sam and Eddie are first year. Category is cocaine? 599 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,720 Speaker 6: All right? All these athletes were known to have cocaine problems. 600 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: All right, put forty five seconds on the clock. You're 601 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: on your way and. 602 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,320 Speaker 6: Go the playmaker number eighty eight wide receiver the Cowboys. 603 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: Sam, that's Bryant's ran. 604 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 6: No farther than that back in the day with EMMITTT. 605 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 6: Smith and Troy Aikman. Wow, all right, one of the 606 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 6: all time great linebackers number fifty six for the New 607 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 6: York Giants. 608 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: Taylor. 609 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 6: Yes, he was a baseball player for the New York 610 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 6: Mets and Yankees. An outfielder, and his last name is 611 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 6: a fruit. Yes, his nickname was Rock. He was a 612 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 6: baseball player for the Montreal Expos Chicago White Sox. Great 613 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 6: bass stealer in the eighties. Okay, how about Michael Oh. 614 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: I did not get that in. 615 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I think he did get He did get Michael 616 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 4: Irvan in there? 617 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:21,879 Speaker 6: Oh did it? Yeah? 618 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: Right in the end he said Michael. He did not 619 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: say Irvan that it's a job. It does not count. 620 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,319 Speaker 1: That's giving you points. 621 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 6: Tim Rain Rains, Tim Rain Rock Raine, And wasn't the 622 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 6: Rock nickname because he had some cocaine. 623 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 4: Supposed slidhead first so he wouldn't crushed the vial. 624 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 6: All right, that's all right, Second round, we'll come back. 625 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 4: Jordan and Ben my father's eyes. 626 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,399 Speaker 1: All right, these athletes all have pro athlete fathers. Are 627 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: you ready? Jordan's all right? Forty five seconds o'clock, run 628 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: away go, a running back star for the forty nine ers. 629 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: His dad played for the Broncos. Christian. Yeah, that's correct, 630 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: star guard for the New York Knickerbockers. He came over 631 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: from the Dallas Mavericks point guard, scoring guy for the 632 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: next scoring all time home run king, steroid cheat for 633 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,480 Speaker 1: the Giants in San Francisco by both that is correct. 634 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 6: Uh. 635 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:34,720 Speaker 1: His father was minute very tall basketball player from Africa. Yes, 636 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: that is good job for you. 637 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 5: I love you for that. 638 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 1: Alright, That's all we needed right there. 639 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 5: All right, Sam, do you want Forever Man or Sweet 640 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 5: Home Chicago? 641 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 1: Sweet Home? All right? Go all right? Uh. 642 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 6: He played. He won championships with the Heat and with 643 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 6: Lebron James. 644 00:36:54,960 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 1: He's a guard. I want the game, and you know 645 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: I want the game.