1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire. 2 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: What is up, straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Wednesday, July sixteenth. We had a pretty 4 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: good night in sports, right. The MLB All Star Game 5 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: was fun. I mean, this guy miss who I'm not 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: that familiar with. This pitcher came in and threw like 7 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: seven or eight pitches over one hundred miles an hour, 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 2: just wild. So I thought it was a fun game. 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: You had the WNBA Catlin Clark got hurt again. Talk 10 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 2: about that in a little bit. My guy Richard Jefferson 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 2: with a spicy NBA take. I'm gonna have to try 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 2: to get him on the podcast. I don't know, we'll see. 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: And I do want to start though, little off the radar. 14 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 2: I want to start college football because SEC had media 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: Days this week and arch Manning on Tuesday shows up, 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: and of course there were twelve hundred credentialed media twelve 17 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: hundred for the SEC. What is that like like ninety 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 2: media members per team essentially if you cover like Tennessee. 19 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: I mean, it's just crazy. 20 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: Twelve hundred credential media for SEC media Days and arch 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 2: Manning and I'm just telling you it helps when your 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 2: grandfather play in the NFL and your uncle's play in 23 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: the NFL, Right, you're not like saying the wrong things 24 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: at the podium. This is a guy who has two 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: starts under his belt, and Arch Manning steps up and says, 26 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 2: I really haven't deserved any of this, So I'm just 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 2: trying to play along and play ball like way to 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: diffuse the situation. 29 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 3: Arch Manning, Listen, I'm rooting for him. 30 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: I know that everybody's acclaiming he's gonna proclaiming he's gonna 31 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: be the next big thing in the NFL, and that 32 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: might be the case, but he has zero college football starts. Okay, 33 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: he could not beat out quinn Ewers, who ended up 34 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: geting drafted in the seventh round. Although yours was a 35 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: really talented college football quarterback, put up big numbers, was 36 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: a fringe Heisman contender both seasons, but Arch could not 37 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 2: beat him out. 38 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 3: And he has two hundred and fifty STAPs in his career. 39 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: He's being treated like a legend and rob g his 40 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: first career start for Texas first game of the season 41 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: is August thirtieth. 42 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 3: I just put it on the calendar today. 43 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: At defending champion Ohio State and Oh, by the way, 44 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 2: the Buckeyes have, you know, some of the best defensive 45 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: players in the country. I think Caleb Downs is arguably 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: the best defensive player in the country in the secondary. 47 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: That's an unbelievable matchup. 48 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: It is on Fox, it is at oh It's a 49 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 3: now no spicy, I don't know. I just I read 50 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 3: the articles on Arch. I looked at him. The body language. 51 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 2: He doesn't seem in awe or rattled or tense or nervous. 52 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 3: I don't know, Rob. 53 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 2: I was kind of blown away, and honestly, like last 54 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 2: college football season was good. Obviously the playoff we love. 55 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: But what to me is completely fascinating is Arch Banning 56 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 2: has zero starts and the hype machine is out of control. 57 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 4: Out Yeah, and I'm actually one of the guys riding 58 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 4: the hype train because I'm gonna go on record right 59 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 4: now Tuesday into Wednesday, July sixteenth, on the East Coast. 60 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 4: I'm gonna take Texas week one against Ohio State. Oh, 61 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 4: get out, if only because if only because you mentioned 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 4: Cale de Kingdown's Austin. By the way, do you know 63 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 4: who the new defensive coordinator is at Ohio State? I 64 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: know none other than the pencil himself, Matt Patricia. 65 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: No, and that NFL. 66 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 4: That is the reason I think Sark is gonna have 67 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 4: some stuff dialed up for him. Arch Manning is gonna 68 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 4: have I call it a coming out party because he's 69 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 4: got to kind of came out at this point. But 70 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 4: he's gonna have a solid game, a solid debut. The 71 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 4: Heisman train is gonna come out out, you know. Can 72 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 4: he win the Heisman after Week one? Kind of a 73 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 4: situation for arch man cause I think they're gonna go 74 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 4: and win that game. I maybe I'm the wrong person 75 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 4: to ask about this, but because when I saw the 76 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 4: clips of arch Manning at SEC Media Day, my first 77 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,559 Speaker 4: thought was, MAV, this kid's boring. And that's probably because 78 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 4: I do, you know, media creation for a living, and 79 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 4: I want my guys to be a little bit spicy, 80 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 4: even if I disagree with it, like I famously had 81 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 4: a lot of issues with Shador Sanders some of the 82 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 4: things that he would do and say when he was 83 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 4: in college at Colorado. But from a sports media perspective, 84 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 4: from a producer's perspective, give me all Shadoor Sanders, because 85 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 4: he's given me content, content, content, and arch manning. The 86 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 4: first thing he tries to do is shut down the content. 87 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 4: He's like, well, I haven't really done anything. I've I've 88 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 4: only paid two hundred and fifty snaps, so I don't 89 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 4: really know what I can what I can say if 90 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 4: I deserve this hype. But no, I think he's gonna 91 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 4: be really good. I think that he is going to 92 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 4: There's no realistic where he can live up to the 93 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 4: hype because I think the hype has really gone ahead 94 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 4: of him. But I think he's gonna be really good 95 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 4: next season. 96 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 2: So Ohio State opened as a four and a half 97 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 2: point favorite in the Desert. It's down to almost everywhere 98 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: Ohio State minus three. So you're taking the field goal 99 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: with Arch and Sark. 100 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: Interesting. 101 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: I mean, Texas lost a lot to the draft. Buckeyes 102 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: did too. Oh gosh, that's gonna be so good. I'm 103 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: really into the story, Arch. I mean, listen, there's some 104 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: good college football stories happening. I don't know if you 105 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 2: saw the quotes. I don't know if we really touched 106 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: on it, but Dion last week said something to the 107 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 2: effect of we need a salary cap, and I'm like, 108 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 2: what is this about? So you start digging around. You 109 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 2: go on a couple of message boards and you're like, oh, 110 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: Colorado is pissed that Texas Tech has found some booster 111 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 2: who's like a billionaire and he's just writing blank checks. 112 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: And they stole like the best left tackle in the 113 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 2: country from Texas and they hit the transfer portal hard 114 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 2: as hell, and all of a sudden, Colorado, which had 115 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 2: shador An NFL player, Travis Hunter, NFL player, both of 116 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: them are gone and you have Texas Tech bringing in. 117 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 2: I think they were number two or number three in 118 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: the transfer portal signings. That's how quickly things could change. 119 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 2: And I think Dion and others are looking around being like, 120 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 2: we need a salary cap. This is out of control, 121 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 2: because pretty soon, I would say if I don't know 122 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: if you could do a cap, but rob within the 123 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: next like I think probably two or three years, you're 124 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 2: gonna see some of these lower Division one teams who 125 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 2: just don't have a ton of money. They're basically gonna 126 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 2: be like the Miami Marlins, who really have to find 127 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 2: diamonds in the rough and then they showcase them in 128 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 2: after a season, they're gone. You know that that's pretty 129 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: much where we're headed. If we're not already there to 130 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: an extent. 131 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up because I 132 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 4: remember talking to you. I think we talked about it 133 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 4: off the air more than on the air about the 134 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 4: Deon Sanders quote. But yeah, yeah. One of the big 135 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 4: stories that came out of SEC media, aside from Marge Manning, 136 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,559 Speaker 4: was this rumor mill that Nick Saban could be making 137 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 4: return to the sidelines. Maybe not next year or the 138 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 4: year after, but at some point. Right even Lane Kiffin said, 139 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 4: I don't am he's done where there's the NFL or college. 140 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 4: He's going to be back at some point. And what's 141 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 4: interesting about that is Nick Saban went on record and 142 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 4: said the biggest reason why I'm going to retire from 143 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 4: coaching football is that I don't recognize this sport anymore. 144 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 4: The NIL, the transfer portal, I'm not on board with it. 145 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 4: It's not, you know, the football I fell in love with. Right, So, 146 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 4: now flash forward about a year or two you got 147 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 4: Deon Sanders saying I want a salary cap. Nick Saban 148 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 4: is on a Trump administration commission to figure out what 149 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 4: they can do to curb NIL and some they call 150 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 4: it NIL reform is the slogan they're using but Nick 151 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 4: Saban has said, let's flatten ot nil. Nick Saban is 152 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 4: supportive of Deon Sanders and the idea of a salary cap. 153 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 4: So it would make sense that guys like Dion, guys 154 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 4: like Nick Saban are understanding that in today's college football world, 155 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 4: my way of doing things, where I'm an expert salesman 156 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 4: like Dion, or I'm just a fantastic football coach like 157 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 4: Nick Saban, that's not enough anymore. It's just who's got 158 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 4: the deepest pockets. And it's gonna go back to, quite honestly, 159 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 4: the way it had been for fifty years before that, 160 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 4: where guys were being paid under the table, but they 161 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 4: were being paid and whoever had the deepest pockets can 162 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 4: get the best players. And now that you're seeing that 163 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 4: happen again, these guys are like, well, I kind of 164 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 4: wanted to go back the way it was, where it 165 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 4: was a level, playful, even though we all know it 166 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 4: wasn't really level. 167 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 168 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 2: I think the Cam Newton story was the tipping point. 169 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 2: Remember there was the whole bag man thing where somebody 170 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 2: delivered like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to his 171 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: family at a church, and the it's a wacky story, 172 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 2: but it's like, you know that stuff's out in the 173 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 2: open now, But you're right, it is a little uh, 174 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 2: Nick Saban, I don't recognize this, you know. 175 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 3: It's like when I go out to a bar. 176 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 4: What are these. 177 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 3: Songs that what is the music that's been? What's going 178 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 3: on here? That's how I feel sometimes. 179 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 180 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 181 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to 182 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: listen live. 183 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: By the way, you know what else I don't recognize 184 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 2: right now, Rob, And that's Kitlin Clark. I don't know 185 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 2: how much you watched with the Fever and the Connecticut Sun. 186 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 2: Not a great game at all, but Kitlyn Clark is 187 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 2: really on the struggle bus. 188 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 3: And she got injured again. 189 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: She made like the game winning assist and then instantly 190 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 2: winced and started grabbing her groin, put a towel over 191 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 2: her head and started crying. 192 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 3: Four fourteen, one of seven on threes. 193 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 2: This stat might be the craziest at Rob, Kitlin Clark 194 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 2: is two for thirty five on three pointers on the 195 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 2: road this season, two for thirty five, So that's why 196 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 2: you're calling her Kitlin klank and you're seeing all these people, Wow, 197 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 2: she's not that good. You know, she's not having a 198 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 2: great season. Obviously she's weathering the injuries. But Rob, this 199 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 2: is how you know that Kitlin Clark is still a 200 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: baller and is respected. Despite going four or fourteen from 201 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 2: the field, she was plus twenty one high in the 202 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: game by the next highest was plus eleven. Basically, Kaitlyn 203 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: Clark can still win you games injured and not shooting well. 204 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 2: Why because defenses absolutely have to respect her all over 205 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 2: the place. Connecticut was just straight up double teaming her 206 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 2: any ball screen and she was just making the right 207 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 2: pass instantly and ended up with seven assists and listen, 208 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be over here ball wash. 209 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 3: Kitlynd Clark could say she was awesome. She has not 210 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 3: shot the ball. Well, that's fine. I'm okay to say that. 211 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 2: When Angel Rees throws up a million bricks, you could 212 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: say that, you know, when these other people struggle, you 213 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 2: could say that, you know, we can't like just treat 214 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 2: these women with kid gloves because they're women. You know, 215 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 2: they they're I mean, this league is blowing up. They 216 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 2: deserve praise and they also deserve criticism. Hey, when my 217 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 2: guy Lebron has a crap game, I don't know what 218 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 2: the hell happened. 219 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 3: Lebron played like ass. You know, we're not gonna make excuses, 220 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 3: but I don't know. 221 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 2: The Clark thing. It makes me wonder. With the All 222 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 2: Star Weekend here, listen, I know they're gonna want her 223 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 2: to play against the Liberty here on Thursday, I don't 224 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 2: see that happening. The way she appeared injured with the 225 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 2: All Star Weekend, I think they just my guess is 226 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 2: they shut her down and she's gonna take another week 227 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 2: off and try to because you need her healthy in 228 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: the league, right, you just have to have. 229 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 4: It absolutely And to your point, of course, if she 230 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 4: cannot participate in All Star Weekend, that would be such 231 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 4: a body blow to the league because she is, even 232 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 4: now as she's struggling, the face of the league, the 233 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 4: most popular player, the one everybody tunes in to see, 234 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 4: and if she's unavailable, that's really gonna hurt them, you know, 235 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 4: at their bottom line. But you mentioned something that she's 236 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 4: not playing well and coming into Tuesday's Nights game, obviously 237 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 4: he's never gonna change. But that has been updated a 238 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 4: yet on the season. Entering Tuesday, Clark was averaging sixty 239 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 4: and a half points a game nine at six per game, 240 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 4: about five rebounds, five turnovers on thirty seven, twenty nine 241 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 4: eighty two splits, so not good. Since returning from her 242 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 4: groin injury, though which she then aggravated again on Tuesday, 243 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 4: those numbers were down to twelve points a game, the 244 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 4: assists about the same at nine, rebounds down to four. 245 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 4: The turnovers actually were cutting half because she's not handling 246 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 4: the ball as much. But here's the most ALARMI part, 247 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 4: the shooting splits since coming back by Corningbet thirty two, 248 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 4: twenty six eighty three. Right, she has not been playing 249 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 4: well by any standard, not just her standard, by any standard. 250 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 4: And what's interesting is about a week and a half ago, 251 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 4: Paige Beckers told reporters that it was quote inhumane really 252 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 4: to expect people to be perfect and to have off nights, 253 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 4: or to have off games or off nights. If Caitlyn 254 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 4: doesn't go eight for ten from three, people are questioning things. 255 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 4: And I could not disagree with that more because up 256 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 4: until last night, when it finally kind of got a 257 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 4: little bit of a social media grounds, well, how poorly 258 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 4: she's been shooting, has she's famously I think she's what 259 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 4: two for thirty five from three on the road this year, Right, 260 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 4: she's been flat out bad, right, not just by her term, 261 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 4: by any standards, And yet unless you are a die 262 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 4: hard WNBA fan, nobody's talking about it. Caitlin Clark has 263 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 4: in that rarefied air alongside athletes like Kawhi Leonard, athletes 264 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 4: like Steph Curry, most notably where Steph has built up 265 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 4: so much goodwill with the way he makes people feel 266 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 4: and the excitement that he generates, that he can have 267 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 4: stretches for a week, two weeks where he's shooting sub 268 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 4: forty percent from the field, where he's shooting you know, 269 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 4: seven for twenty nine from three point because he has 270 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 4: a cold stretch or whatever, he's turning the ball over. 271 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 4: The team is two and six and the last eight, 272 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 4: whatever it is. And he will never get criticized the 273 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 4: way Lebron James gets criticized, the way Kevin Durant gets criticized, 274 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 4: so on and so forth. Caitlyn Clark has, already, in 275 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 4: this short amount of time, has built such a good 276 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 4: will with sports fans, not just that with sports fans 277 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 4: period that she can have games and seasons like she's 278 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 4: having right now. And it's taken what two months before 279 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 4: anybody says anything remotely critical about her, And even now 280 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 4: as she's dealing with this groin injury, I can promise 281 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 4: you that come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of this week, people 282 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 4: aren't gonna be talking about the fact that she's struggling 283 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 4: to shoot the ball. Well, they're gonna be she's hurt. 284 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 4: They're gonna be talking about that she's hurt. Number one 285 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 4: and number two, the viral moment she had with the 286 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 4: referee where they told she told got her grow up. Yeah, 287 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 4: Like that's where it is, like we're very quick to 288 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 4: defend her and she's not necessarily treated the way you 289 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 4: would expect most athletes to be treated when they're all 290 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 4: the struggle us like this. 291 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw the encounter with the ref and those 292 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 2: refs were bad. I mean one of the girls got 293 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 2: elbowed in the head. You know, the replays very clear, 294 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 2: and they just they said that she flopped. So I 295 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 2: don't I don't think that the refs are turning against 296 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 2: the fever, but it definitely feels like they're getting a 297 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 2: strange whistle, and you know, I think Clark just wanted 298 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 2: like an explanation, and the ref just walked away and 299 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 2: she's like, grow up, which I thought, which I found 300 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 2: kind of funny, but a little disrespectful. I don't know 301 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: if they'll find her for that. 302 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 4: She could have that dude fire meet like tomorrow if 303 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 4: she wanted to go. 304 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, just all of a sudden, that guy disappears. 305 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 2: You know, as exciting as Kitlin Clark is the MLB 306 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 2: All Star Game, I do you know, Rob, and I 307 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 2: love NBA, so I got to talk about this. 308 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 309 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 310 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 311 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: listen live. 312 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: My guy, Richard Jefferson, who's like, you know, a lead 313 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 2: announcer NBA Finals and all that. He came out on 314 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: his podcast with Channing Fry called road tripping' and he said, 315 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 2: and he's making a bold prediction. Now there's a little 316 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 2: bit down the road, but he's saying the US will 317 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 2: not win gold in basketball in twenty twenty eight. And 318 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 2: that just sounds like a little hot bit of a 319 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: hot take. But if you sit there and let it 320 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 2: marinate for a moment, it actually you know he's probably 321 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 2: onto something. 322 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 4: Now. 323 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: A lot can happen in two and a half years, 324 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 2: but this much we can be sure of Lebron. He's 325 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 2: not gonna be playing, right Rob, I mean, he's not 326 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: gonna be playing. 327 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 3: He's Steph Curry. I doubt he's gonna be playing now. 328 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 2: He could, but he maybe comes off the bench or 329 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna be a starter in two 330 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 2: and a half years. I mean that's like, what's like 331 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty plus games away from now. I 332 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 2: think it's safe to say Kevin Durant will probably not 333 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 2: be playing. I cannot imagine a scenario where Joel Embiid's playing. 334 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 2: And those were essentially four starters, and Steph Curry obviously 335 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 2: was the hero. And now you've got to like go 336 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: to the next generation of guys. And I loved Tatum, 337 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 2: but Achilles. I love Halliburton Achilles. So now you're like, oh, well, 338 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 2: what are we looking at here? Jalen Brown, Cade Cunningham, 339 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 2: Polo By, Caro, Evan Mobley, Ant, Devin Booker. I think 340 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 2: Cooper Flag will certainly be in there. But you look 341 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 2: at that and it's like, oh, if Curry, Durant, Lebron 342 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 2: in company really struggled against the likes of Serbia and France. 343 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 3: What is this next group gonna do? 344 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 2: And I know it's twenty twenty eight and it's far away, 345 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 2: and some people are probably like, no, come on, that's 346 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 2: there's way more pressing stuff. 347 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 3: I just found it interesting because. 348 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 2: Rob the reality is, when you really think about it, yeah, 349 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 2: they're going to be in trouble. 350 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 3: I mean, there's no way around it. 351 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 2: I don't think like Giannis's Grease team is going to 352 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 2: be an issue, but Canada is definitely going to be stacked, 353 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 2: right Sga will still be in his prime, A lot 354 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 2: of those guys will still be good. Obviously, Serbia is coming, 355 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 2: France ain't going nowhere. 356 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 3: They got it. They got young studs coming up. I 357 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 3: don't I thought this was a spicy take, but I 358 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 3: mean maybe I'm missing somebody. You know, I went through 359 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 3: a bunch of stats. 360 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 2: I mean, maybe Jalen Brunson makes the team. I you know, 361 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 2: did I say Donovan Mitchell. I didn't say Donovan Mitchell. 362 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: He might be on there. You know, it's gonna be 363 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: interesting because They're definitely, definitely not gonna be a Locke 364 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight, and it's gonna be in Los Angeles. 365 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be a tough day to be an American. 366 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 4: You know when that happens, and when you first sent 367 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 4: the story and I remember, you know, watching our Jay's 368 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 4: commentary about it. The headline seems like a hot take 369 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 4: until you actually listen to what he's saying and you 370 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 4: kind of do a little research and you're like, yeah, 371 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 4: not only may we not win it, Like there's a 372 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 4: chance we're like a bronze medal team at that point 373 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 4: because you have the redeemed team. Yeah, because you mentioned Canada, 374 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 4: but I think the heavy favorite going into that turn 375 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 4: a couple years away would be France. Yeah, you know 376 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 4: with Wemby and and and you just got to look 377 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 4: back at this last Olympic run so against Serbia where 378 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 4: they had that big comeback to come back and win 379 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 4: in the semi final. Steph plays thirty three minutes, le 380 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 4: Bron plays thirty two, and Be twenty seven, Durant and 381 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 4: Booker twenty four each. The next young wave of guys, 382 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 4: Anthony Raa has to play thirteen Bam Adebayo plays ten. 383 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 3: Like, oh I forgot about Bam, Like you know, you 384 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 3: go to the gold. 385 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 4: Medal game and KD Lebron steph All play over thirty minutes, 386 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 4: Jason Tatum plays eleven. I think that they kind of 387 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 4: burn that bridge. So even if he is at the 388 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 4: top of the game at that point, I don't think 389 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 4: he'll be. 390 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 3: Back real well, now that's a hot take. I don't 391 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 3: know if Kerr is going. 392 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 4: To be the coach, maybe it would take a lot 393 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 4: of ego massaging to get him to play, I feel like. 394 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 4: And then at Man and Bam both played under ten, 395 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 4: so you know you can it's gonna be an entirely 396 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 4: new team number one. But the bigger issue I feel 397 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 4: that they're going to run into and this has been 398 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 4: an ongoing thing even before last limit. It goes back 399 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 4: to the one in Tokyo where KDE save their bacon 400 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 4: is as the NBA continues to move forward with this 401 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 4: pac and space, high pick and roll, live by the three, 402 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 4: die by the three offense that basically everybody runs that 403 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 4: doesn't work in FIBA basketball. Yeah, and that was an 404 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 4: issue that we had in Tokyo. Is an issue that 405 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 4: quite frankly, they would have had this last run if 406 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 4: we didn't bring in all of the old Guard veterans 407 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 4: who know how to play in a different style. Lebron, 408 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 4: Steph Kde have been around long enough that they're like, hey, 409 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 4: we know the importance of running a pinch post action. 410 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 4: We know the importance of hey, just get a bucket. 411 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be high pick and roll, spread 412 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 4: the floor kind of a situation. And as we continue 413 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 4: down this path, and I don't see it changing anytime soon, 414 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 4: every team is playing a variation of the same style. 415 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 4: It's who can get the most threes up, who can 416 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 4: defend the three the best, that's usually the team that wins. 417 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 4: And unless we have some kind of fundamental shift here 418 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 4: moving forward, like it could get really ugly really quickly, 419 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 4: asking Jingalen Brunts and Anthony Edwards to stop playing the 420 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 4: way that they play to fit in a Phoeba style game. 421 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, that is gonna be interesting. And you 422 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 2: know you mentioned France. I was just looking at their roster, dude. 423 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 2: They they've got a lot of guys and again they're young, 424 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 2: but again, in two and a half years, it's gonna 425 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 2: be a totally different France group. I don't know where 426 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 2: the US is gonna turn. Man, this is gonna get 427 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 2: real interesting. You say bronze, that would be like just 428 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 2: unbelievably brutal. 429 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 4: That might have to be in the arena, you know, 430 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 4: for these games, because its gonna be an allegy. 431 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 3: I don't know how what's gonna be the deal? We're 432 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 3: gonna be able to pull stuff off like that? 433 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 4: I mean, we better. 434 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 3: I don't know that I'm gonna have the juice. I mean, yeah, 435 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 3: I will. I won't go down that. 436 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 4: I thought playoff games. I've seen you at Dodger games. 437 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 4: You got all the game. 438 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 2: Well it's funny because, uh, you know what was it 439 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 2: the I was just thinking back, like to the World Cup. 440 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 2: Was was it December of twenty one? Because I think 441 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 2: it was postponed because of COVID Maybe. 442 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 3: No, no it was. 443 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 2: It wasn't twenty one. It was like it happened in 444 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 2: December of maybe twenty two. Yeah, because then twenty six 445 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: will be the World Cup the next one. But I 446 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: remember a twenty two Messi wins walks off. 447 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 3: Oh what a way to go out. That's amazing. Messi's 448 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 3: career over. He wins a World Cup. 449 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 2: Finally, here we are in twenty twenty five, and there's 450 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 2: talk now that Messi and Ronaldo are probably going to 451 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 2: play it again in the World Cup next year. And 452 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 2: I mentioned this to a soccer guy recently. They're like, oh, 453 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 2: Ronaldo's in top shape. 454 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 4: Of course I'll play for Portugal. 455 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 2: Now. I don't know if you'll start or come off 456 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 2: the bench or or what, but he's gonna play, and Messi, 457 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 2: you know, it will be another one of these guys 458 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 2: probably sit out the irrelevant games early on and then 459 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 2: play more in the meaningful games later. So I don't 460 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 2: know Rob like you know, Kevin Durant, can he stay healthy? 461 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:02,719 Speaker 3: Curry? 462 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 2: They'll both be about forty at the time, so maybe 463 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 2: there's a world where those two play. 464 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 3: I cannot see Lebron playing. 465 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 4: I mean, the forty five year old Lebron wouldn't shock me. 466 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 3: Would you be forty five? 467 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, forty three or forty four going into. 468 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 3: Forty twenty one for sure at the end of this year. 469 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 2: So anyways, I had never anyways, we could wrap up with, 470 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 2: I had never seen a home run derby at the 471 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 2: end of an All Star game, because it was like 472 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 2: exciting stuff, but a little gimmicky. 473 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 3: I don't know that. I was into the Golden bat idea. 474 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 2: Remember when they were floating that where it was like, 475 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 2: you know, ninth inning, anybody OpinionWay, Yeah, which I kind 476 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 2: of think is cool. I just thought a home run 477 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 2: derby interesting, But I don't is this elam ending ish? 478 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 3: Remember you loved that the first. 479 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the first time it happened, it was great, 480 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 4: just like last night. The first time it happened with 481 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 4: the derby was kind of cool, like because you've never 482 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 4: seen it before. I do think it's gimmicky. But then again, 483 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 4: the as much as I enjoy the Major League Baseball 484 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 4: All Star Game, because I believe it's the most serious 485 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 4: of all of them, because even if the guy's only 486 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 4: going for one inning, he's throwing his hardest for one inning, 487 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 4: like Aaron Judge is trying to get a hit. Oh 488 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 4: Tani's trying to get a hit. 489 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 2: Right. 490 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 4: But Baseball already kind of started the week in like 491 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 4: a gimmicky mode where they say, hey, Musowski, he's only 492 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 4: pitched five games, We're gonna let him pitch in the 493 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 4: All Star Game, like we're gonna name him for the roster. 494 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 4: And and I know that the Colorado Rockies might be 495 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 4: the worst team ever, but they also have to have 496 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 4: an All Star player on the roster, Like, that's part 497 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 4: of our rules. So the fact that they are so 498 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 4: openly brazen about, yeah, embracing the kind of gimmicky. This 499 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 4: is entertainment, it's not real sports. So it would make 500 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 4: sense that they would pivot to hey, and rather than 501 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 4: going to extra inning, We're just gonna have a home runder. 502 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 4: We get is over with? Yeah, get it? 503 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? 504 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it's it's interesting, it's different. 505 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: I applauded baseball has had some success in recent years 506 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 2: doing different things, and Rob you like to rule different. 507 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 2: I'm a little less different, but this is a good 508 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 2: change of pace. People will be talking about all day today. 509 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 2: I'm sure the ratings will be interest up because it 510 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,959 Speaker 2: was like, what was it six to nothing? Yeah, they 511 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 2: stormed back and then it's oh, a home run derby 512 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 2: like kind of. 513 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 3: Interesting, kind of cool. 514 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm surprised you don't say different, because I think 515 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 4: you are the epitome of hashtag Bill different. Yeah. 516 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 3: Anyways, sorry, so tomorrow we listened. 517 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 2: The NFL previews are starting to come out, a bunch 518 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: of guys that I respect and definitely devour their stuff. 519 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 3: It's starting to emerge here in July, rosters largely set, 520 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 3: and we're gonna have one of those guys on to 521 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 3: start to preview the league. Get you ready for fantasy. Man, 522 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 3: it was a good year in fantasy last year. Let's 523 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 3: try to run that back talk tomorrow.