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Speaker 1: up this weekend. Rob very excited about that. We got
Speaker 1: friends coming over. Got Black Widow right after the show
Speaker 1: is over today with my daughter, she is so excited.
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you. I can't. It's like the count.
Speaker 1: It's like she's counting down to Christmas with Black Widow.
Speaker 1: We're going like we're getting done with the show at
Speaker 1: like nine, you know, at like nine o'clock here, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna go at like nine thirty because you
Speaker 1: know they're starting, you know, they show like every five minutes.
Speaker 1: Now that we're back in the movies, and here's this
Speaker 1: big Marvel movie. So so you're gonna go see it
Speaker 1: this morning at nine thirty early like that. Well it's
Speaker 1: actually ten o'clock, right, well know the show Like it's
Speaker 1: a ten We gotta get popcorn and stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: for ten o'clock in the morning. Got nothing like it,
Speaker 1: Nothing like a fifteen dollar tub of popcorn. I mean,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? You know? It kills me. Man,
Speaker 1: I can't do it, you know it. I know, but
Speaker 1: the popcorn in the butter at the movie theater just
Speaker 1: taste different. But why has it got to be a
Speaker 1: fifteen dollar tub? Is there? Could there be a happy medium? Well, well, listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta want it, man. You know, you can't just
Speaker 1: walk in anywhere and get some kind of you know,
Speaker 1: crazy slapdash popcorn. You gotta want it if you want
Speaker 1: to get good popcorn. I know, but I just I always,
Speaker 1: you know, don't tell anybody, but I usually go to
Speaker 1: the dollar store and buy some candy and raising nets
Speaker 1: and stuff and put them in my pocket and walk in.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, how many times did
Speaker 1: I do that when I was a kid. You're waddling
Speaker 1: into the movie. I got it with stuff. You gotta
Speaker 1: soda pop in your back pocket everything. You know. What
Speaker 1: I like is that is there's people that because you
Speaker 1: can get black when you can go see The Black
Speaker 1: Widow in the theater, which you know, listen, that's why
Speaker 1: movies are always gonna live, because there's nothing that's gonna
Speaker 1: replace going. I agree to screen is bigger to sound.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you could watch movies at home.
Speaker 1: It's not the same. It's just this. But I like
Speaker 1: when people who say, because you can get it for
Speaker 1: like thirty bucks on Disney Plus right, like, you could
Speaker 1: get it right now if you want to spend thirty
Speaker 1: dollars on it. And I know people who said, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's too much money to get it. I go, So
Speaker 1: it's too for thirty dollars for a movie is too much,
Speaker 1: But to go to a movie, to pay for parking,
Speaker 1: to buy two tickets, which are at least twelve bucks apiece,
Speaker 1: then you get food. You're spending fifty dollars to go
Speaker 1: to the movies when you can spend thirty dollars to
Speaker 1: just sit on your couch and watch it. You can
Speaker 1: pause it, you can watch every many times you want to,
Speaker 1: and I'm going, But thirty dollars is too much. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, that that that that that price tag
Speaker 1: for the movies is way too much. You're gonna spend
Speaker 1: more actually going to the movies. That's what my dad
Speaker 1: is like, that that's too much for a movie. Dad,
Speaker 1: You realize you're gonna spend more going to the movie, right, Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spend that much. I mean, I really
Speaker 1: look at that and I go that just doesn't make sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. It's expensive to eat out.
Speaker 1: That's the way you gotta look at it, you know what,
Speaker 1: I mean, to have a have a night out. You
Speaker 1: just can't stay in your house or apartment and never
Speaker 1: venture out. And what are you saving the money for,
Speaker 1: Jason so that others people can spend it when you're
Speaker 1: not around? Is that what it is? Is that why
Speaker 1: you're not married and don't have any kids? I know
Speaker 1: what I'm taking it with me? You gotta spend it.
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to save money. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to send you a little video of me trying
Speaker 1: to save money. Yes, any chance I get to save,
Speaker 1: But I do like to live a little bit. All right, now, hey,
Speaker 1: speaking to live it a little bit. You're going to
Speaker 1: the All Star Game next week, You're being you'll be
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Don't you have sit downs with Jose Altuv
Speaker 1: and Carlos corea scheduled get canceled. Yeah, those things you
Speaker 1: got canceled and they're not going. And and Jason just
Speaker 1: let me you know, you know I love baseball. I
Speaker 1: know you do too. I think this is a total
Speaker 1: disservice to the fans and it's wrong and not Korea.
Speaker 1: I get his wife is having a baby, and he
Speaker 1: really explained, like what's going on, and I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a pass. Altuve, no pass the whole notion he
Speaker 1: wants some time off. You know, I don't. I think
Speaker 1: it's wrong. I think the game, uh, and the All
Speaker 1: Star Game is big and from the standpoint, that's where
Speaker 1: the league is selling the game and all the stars,
Speaker 1: and it should be an honor to be on the
Speaker 1: All Star team and you shouldn't cheat the fans of
Speaker 1: that moment to be able to watch. I remember as
Speaker 1: a kid growing up in New York and being a
Speaker 1: Mets fan, and they were terrible and back then, Jason,
Speaker 1: everybody didn't have an All Star representative. Do you remember
Speaker 1: that everybody didn't automatically get if you didn't have a
Speaker 1: player good enough, there was no representation from your team
Speaker 1: on the All Star team. And I would sit there
Speaker 1: all and be like, Wow, wouldn't it be great if
Speaker 1: a met was at the All Star Game? But I'd
Speaker 1: have to watch all these other great players. And I
Speaker 1: think when people uh, whether they're voted in by fans
Speaker 1: and it's the fans game, or you're selected by the
Speaker 1: managers and are a reserve player or a pitcher or whatever,
Speaker 1: I think it's your responsibility. It's a part of your
Speaker 1: job description to be a part to sell the game
Speaker 1: and not take it for granted that you've been elected
Speaker 1: to the All Star Team and you should take part
Speaker 1: in it. And this whole notion that he's tired and
Speaker 1: he needs some rest of what everybody's tired. Everybody needs
Speaker 1: a break. Wouldn't everybody love four days off in a
Speaker 1: grinding baseball season. But you go out there, you respect
Speaker 1: the honor being an All Star. You go out with
Speaker 1: the other great players, and you push the game and
Speaker 1: you and you smile and take pictures and people look
Speaker 1: at some of the greatest. I always go back to
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety nine All Star Game Jason I went
Speaker 1: to in Boston when Pedro Martinez struck out five of
Speaker 1: the six batters his first four and five of the
Speaker 1: six batters he faced in the two innings he pitched,
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, what a moment. He's up
Speaker 1: there against some of the best in the game and
Speaker 1: he mowed them down like they were nothing. It told
Speaker 1: me about his greatness. And you know, the Baseball All
Speaker 1: Star Game, more than any of the other ones, is
Speaker 1: still played at a high level. They're not lobbing the
Speaker 1: ball in and saying, hey, there you go. There's not
Speaker 1: a hockey game that scored where the scores fifteen to eleven,
Speaker 1: you know, which you never see in the NHL, but
Speaker 1: you see in the All Star Game or the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl where they're not tackling anybody and people are just
Speaker 1: running and they're scoring sixty points, or the NBA All
Speaker 1: Star Game where we've almost had two hundred scores in
Speaker 1: the All Star Game because nobody's playing defense. The All
Speaker 1: Star Game in baseball, it's still true to form, and
Speaker 1: I love it. I think it's a disservice to the
Speaker 1: fans in the game, and shame on Altuve or any
Speaker 1: player who doesn't think that they belong there and should
Speaker 1: show up out of respect to the game and out
Speaker 1: of respect to the fans. Well, look, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give Karea a pass either. Okay, Yes, he's having a
Speaker 1: baby in November. Okay, I mean it's it's not like
Speaker 1: a baby's coming any day and he and listen, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play his SoundBite in a couple of minutes and
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear him give his his reasoning. Listen, none
Speaker 1: of this is happening because I would just like them
Speaker 1: to own it. Okay, Altuve and Korea are not going,
Speaker 1: and it's very simple. They don't want to spend three
Speaker 1: days getting questions about the cheating scandal, which is all
Speaker 1: they're gonna get. They don't want to spend their introduction
Speaker 1: at the All Star Game getting booed profusely because it's
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. They just don't want that. They
Speaker 1: don't want a craptastic experience. So I wish they would
Speaker 1: just own it and say, listen, that's all that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You and I. So I'm not I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: for it. It's like if you have a vacation scheduled
Speaker 1: and it sounds great. If I've planning to go back
Speaker 1: and see my family and oh I had a vakate,
Speaker 1: that's great, and then over the course of a year,
Speaker 1: you know, I wind up not just getting in disagreements
Speaker 1: with my uncles and my aunts and they're fighting with
Speaker 1: each other, going, I don't want I want a different vacation.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to this thing. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be awful. I'm gonna walk into my aunt's house and
Speaker 1: she's gonna get mad at me and we're gonna fight.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. I would rather them just
Speaker 1: own it and say we don't want to have a
Speaker 1: craptastic time because we know what the All Star Game
Speaker 1: is going to be about. It's the first time all
Speaker 1: of us are on the same stage since the pandemic.
Speaker 1: People are going to ask their questions because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be media from all over the place and we have
Speaker 1: to be available and lurking around every corner is going
Speaker 1: to be a guy with a trash can banging it going.
Speaker 1: Can you understand my question, Jose can you understand my question.
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be Hey, will the acoustics in Colorado
Speaker 1: allow you to know what pitch is coming? I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what the experience is going to be for them,
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'd rather you don't have to go,
Speaker 1: But I'd rather you own it and just said listen
Speaker 1: instead of giving the reasons of ah, you know, I'm tired,
Speaker 1: I'm this. Look, here's first jose L Twove and then
Speaker 1: Carlos Korea talking about why they're skipping the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: I really need this for days. I'm putting my team
Speaker 1: first because I really think we have a chance to
Speaker 1: win this year. I want to stay home, As you
Speaker 1: guys know, baseball it's really important to me, but family
Speaker 1: will always come first. So we decided that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay here with her spend this time. Obviously, we don't
Speaker 1: get a lot of time together with baseball season, so
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about that. Obviously, I'm grateful for everybody
Speaker 1: I voted for me to win the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Baseball means, you know, the world to me. But I
Speaker 1: want to be with my family this time, especially when
Speaker 1: when with my wife. Spending this time with her, it's
Speaker 1: her first child, So I need I need that timesion.
Speaker 1: It's a tough decision, man, Like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: people voted for me to me and it. People want
Speaker 1: to see me play in it. Um. But you know
Speaker 1: we've been trying now for a lot of time to
Speaker 1: have our first show, and that's finally there. Ain't her beatty.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to video spend still stay
Speaker 1: with her and uh, you know, get too old to
Speaker 1: the whole experience, go to the doctor's appointment and see
Speaker 1: the baby and a sonograms and everything. So you know,
Speaker 1: I really want to enjoy that part. You know, when
Speaker 1: you people say family rob it always it gets me
Speaker 1: a bit because when sometimes people know that if I
Speaker 1: use this as an excuse, it's hard to be criticized, right,
Speaker 1: like and and and sometimes a family is a big thing, right.
Speaker 1: It's it's like it's like it's like when a coach says,
Speaker 1: like a coach says, I need some time off. I'm
Speaker 1: stepping away from my job as a head coach. I
Speaker 1: want to spend more time with my family, and four
Speaker 1: months later they have a new head coaching job, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, so whatever, Michael Jordan said the same thing
Speaker 1: when we retire from basketball, and then he's gonna go
Speaker 1: on a bus and do minor league baseball. Do you
Speaker 1: remember that, right? Yeah? I just spent right, I'll spend
Speaker 1: time with my family, you know, I need time off
Speaker 1: and what And then you're on a bus in Birmingham, Alabama,
Speaker 1: a bus uh in the minor league. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: what the Astros are. Well, if I say family, I
Speaker 1: can't get credit. Says no. We all know it's the
Speaker 1: cheating scandal, right, we all know. Look, Michael Brantley is going.
Speaker 1: He is not nearly as identifiable because he didn't win
Speaker 1: the World Series. You know, he was there for twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen when they lost. But he's not nearly as identifiable
Speaker 1: with the cheating scandal as Korea and Altuve as al
Speaker 1: Tuve especially, and then you have Korea with all these
Speaker 1: different I'd rather you just own it, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: rather just say, listen, this is why we're not going.
Speaker 1: They're the only position players that have said we're not going. Right,
Speaker 1: de Gram's not going, and I look, I get it.
Speaker 1: As a met fan, I'm saying, oh, the actuals, I
Speaker 1: can't believe de Gram's not going because it's Colorado and
Speaker 1: he got injured in Colorado the last time he was there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't want any part of the thin air and have
Speaker 1: stuff stuff happened to him. Okay, I think he can
Speaker 1: go and not play. You know, hey, I can go up.
Speaker 1: But all right, I get that part of it. But
Speaker 1: here's your position players, and you're the only two that
Speaker 1: aren't going. Are part of the guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: the bull's eye on them the entire time. You would
Speaker 1: you would be you would be on the wall like
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible, like like flying down to
Speaker 1: get that exclusive with Altuve and Cray and ask them questions.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what their experience is gonna be like.
Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, we're just not up for it.
Speaker 1: The best part is that al Tuove already has a
Speaker 1: transmitted recorder attached to him, so it's easy to get
Speaker 1: an interview. Oh did I say that. I'm sorry? No,
Speaker 1: this rubs me the wrong way. And and as you said,
Speaker 1: if I'm a fan, I would never vote for those
Speaker 1: guys again, I wouldn't. I think it's disrespectful to the fans.
Speaker 1: It just is. It's it's their game, you know, Unlike
Speaker 1: some of the other sports I've taken it away from
Speaker 1: the fans. The Baseball All Star Game is something I've
Speaker 1: been going to since nineteen ninety two. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: in Toronto, I've been going. This is almost thirty years
Speaker 1: of going to All Star Games. It never gets old
Speaker 1: for me. And it's it's moments, it's it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: the excitement. And you're right, those guys don't want to
Speaker 1: stand up there and get booed to hell by all
Speaker 1: these fans from all over Baseball America. They were lucky
Speaker 1: because of COVID and they got off almost scott free. Yes,
Speaker 1: they got some boots in some places, but not that
Speaker 1: what they would have gotten had we had a regular
Speaker 1: season with you know, fans all over the country. It
Speaker 1: would have been a boot concert from coast to coast.
Speaker 1: And yet they still don't want to deal with it.
Speaker 1: And I think it's wrong. I really do. And if
Speaker 1: I'm the commissioner, I condemn it or I find it.
Speaker 1: Find those guys, because it's it's something that is a
Speaker 1: selling point for the sport, and you take away from
Speaker 1: all the other guys. And if I'm a teammate or them,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel the same way because I
Speaker 1: think it's an obligation. Everybody wants to go to Hawaii
Speaker 1: for four days or get away from from it all,
Speaker 1: but everybody else shows up. You know. I know way
Speaker 1: and Rob Manford could solve this really easy, right, is
Speaker 1: you're not an All Star if you don't go to
Speaker 1: the game. Right because these guys, they get the denotation
Speaker 1: of being an All Star, they get it on their
Speaker 1: on their on their buy and hey, you're you're a
Speaker 1: seven time All Star, eight time All Star. Maybe some
Speaker 1: guys get bonuses in their contracts or going to the
Speaker 1: All Star Game, but I think that's what you do
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, if you're selected and you say you
Speaker 1: don't want to go to the game, then you're not
Speaker 1: an All Star. It doesn't it doesn't go on your bio,
Speaker 1: doesn't go on your record. You're not an All Star,
Speaker 1: so you don't get paid. But whatever bonus you have
Speaker 1: in your contract. I think that would solve a lot
Speaker 1: of it because all these guys want to be Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw away an All Star appearance.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a big thing for me. And you'd
Speaker 1: be able to go on Baseball Reference dot Com or
Speaker 1: be referred to and see say hey you're a seven
Speaker 1: time No, you're only a four time All Star. You
Speaker 1: skip three games. I think that would solve a lot
Speaker 1: of it. Listen, if you don't want to go, great,
Speaker 1: because what really what the players want is I just
Speaker 1: want to be selected. You know I'm good now. I
Speaker 1: don't want to actually go. Oh, I don't want to
Speaker 1: actually have to go and live up to the responsibilities
Speaker 1: of being selected for the All Star Game. Or if
Speaker 1: you don't want to, then then then you say I
Speaker 1: don't want to be considered for the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: If you're going, every player who wants to be considered
Speaker 1: should have to sign something saying yes, if I'm selected
Speaker 1: for the All Star Game, I am going to go now, sir,
Speaker 1: times there's going to be some kind of of extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 1: And if you have a picture that pitches on Sunday,
Speaker 1: he's not going to pitch on Tuesday. You could potentially
Speaker 1: waive something like that. But just to say you sign
Speaker 1: and say if you select me, I'm going to go.
Speaker 1: Either of those things, which would solve this situation and
Speaker 1: you would have the right guys going to the All
Speaker 1: Star Game all the time. No, I hear you. They
Speaker 1: got to figure something out. But also, you owe it
Speaker 1: to your organization. Don't you owe it to the Astros?
Speaker 1: You owe them something, you owe your fans that that's
Speaker 1: the other part to just totally act as if none
Speaker 1: of that matters and it's only about you. It's not.
Speaker 1: You know what it says across the front of day uniform.
Speaker 1: It says Houston, it says the Astros. It doesn't say
Speaker 1: Carrea or Altuve across the front. And that's the other
Speaker 1: part that they that they lose sight of that they
Speaker 1: represent a city and an organization and it ain't fair
Speaker 1: to those people who pay their salaries, who support them.
Speaker 1: But they want if they have some sort of card
Speaker 1: signing or something where you know, they want people to
Speaker 1: show up for that. I just think it's selfish and
Speaker 1: it's wrong, and those guys should be ridiculed and reprimanded
Speaker 1: for not taking part in something that's special. And years later,
Speaker 1: go look at some of the greats. I think Hank
Speaker 1: Aaron went to twenty four All Star Games. Do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? You don't think he wanted a
Speaker 1: four day week, four days off. Willie Mays and those guys,
Speaker 1: go look at them to like twenty four All Star Games.
Speaker 1: Really and at one time, Jason, remember they played two
Speaker 1: All Star Games in baseball they have one time there
Speaker 1: were two of them. That would have been a lot.
Speaker 1: He would have had like two eight day vacations. You
Speaker 1: had to take all the time off from work to
Speaker 1: go cover them. And god knows, I would have Twitter
Speaker 1: And how about a Fresca Rob at Rob Parker FS one.
Speaker 1: I've lost Rob for the next five minutes. He's just thinking, now, oh,
Speaker 1: two All Star Games. I could have gone to both.
Speaker 1: It would have been great. I would have been unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I was born at the wrong time. I could have
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Speaker 1: Parker in for Dan and the Danets today as we
Speaker 1: look back at the Big Sun's win in Game two
Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals. They beat the Bucks by ten?
Speaker 1: Is there a path forward for the Bucks? Is there
Speaker 1: a big superstar? Our next guest is really concerned about
Speaker 1: joining us now on the hot line ten years in
Speaker 1: the NBA. A guy who has become Johnny Juzang's personal
Speaker 1: hype man. A guy who I've been joined at the
Speaker 1: hip with for the past thirty six hours. We started yesterday,
Speaker 1: win the show together, Rob. He was on my show
Speaker 1: last night. He's on with you and I this morning.
Speaker 1: It's Ryan Hollins. What's happening, big dog? What's up? A Jason?
Speaker 1: Did you sleep in the studio last night? Now? Dude,
Speaker 1: if I get five hours in between shifts, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I need I mean, I'll need a nap right after.
Speaker 1: But you know, if I get five hours, I'm okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: We just check it, brother, just check it. Hey, what
Speaker 1: about you? You had the same kind of day I did. Man,
Speaker 1: you're up early, you're up late, you're up early again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when you get up early, an hour earlier than
Speaker 1: you're used to waken up, that's a big That's like
Speaker 1: a thing. It's a thing. You know. I'm usually up
Speaker 1: around six thirty every day. But when you're getting up
Speaker 1: at five thirty, it becomes a thing. I can't sleep.
Speaker 1: I'm officially an old person like I can't sleep. I
Speaker 1: just I don't know what's happened to me. I was
Speaker 1: never a big sleeper, but I could sleep. Didn't know
Speaker 1: him wake up at seven or whatever. But now I'm
Speaker 1: a five five teen, five thirty. No matter what time
Speaker 1: I go to bed, his hand in hand would being
Speaker 1: grumpy robbing his hand in hand, man joined at the head. Well, Hey,
Speaker 1: as grumpy as I normally am. I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: bury the Milwaukee Bucks. I don't positivity on this on
Speaker 1: this radio program, The Dan Patrick Show. Only from this standpoint, Bryan,
Speaker 1: is that Jannis is okay. He's healthy, played great last
Speaker 1: night twenty in the third forty two points. He just
Speaker 1: needs the other guys, Holiday and Middleton have to play better,
Speaker 1: and they're going back home. They were down two owen
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and they looked horrible. They got run out of
Speaker 1: the gym in Brooklyn and somehow won that series. Now
Speaker 1: I picked the Sons in six, But I don't think
Speaker 1: this is over, not yet. Am I wrong? Man? You're
Speaker 1: absolutely wrong? Man? For one, when Kyrie Irving went down.
Speaker 1: That was a game changer, man. But here here's the reality,
Speaker 1: Rob that you'ren't looking at you. I'm glad you're missed.
Speaker 1: A happy he woke up on the right side of
Speaker 1: the pillow today. But what we're starting to see is
Speaker 1: a at a really high level, Yannis is hard to
Speaker 1: play with. He's a ball stopper. The ball don't move.
Speaker 1: When he gets the ball's it's a black hole. It's done.
Speaker 1: He does not move the basketball. And what you do
Speaker 1: is you take the ball out of you Holiday's hands.
Speaker 1: It's like you Holiday has to step up. A point
Speaker 1: guard needs the ball in his hands. There's certain people
Speaker 1: on the ball. The team plays better when Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: is closing out the fourth quarters. So right now, Yannis
Speaker 1: after Coupo, you know, bless his heart, he plays hard.
Speaker 1: He'll dive on the floor. He's sacrificing his body. He's
Speaker 1: a true warrior, a man's man. I'm with him. But
Speaker 1: when he's bringing the ball up court, you know you're
Speaker 1: giving him the ball half of the game. He ain't
Speaker 1: Lebron James. You do that with Lebron and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have You're gonna have ten or fifteen assists out of
Speaker 1: that equation. You do it with Chris Paul when he's rolling,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some assists out the equation. So right now,
Speaker 1: Monty Williams is like, well, Yannis played one on one
Speaker 1: half forty, We're gonna win the game because it's five
Speaker 1: on one right now. Because what you do is you
Speaker 1: throw the rest of the team completely out of the rhythm.
Speaker 1: So we can talk about how the rest of the
Speaker 1: you know, Yannis doesn't have help, this and that, and
Speaker 1: the Saint Lebron James in Cleveland the first go around
Speaker 1: saying that he didn't have help. He's just not a
Speaker 1: player that makes other guys better. So in a perfect world,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff would come together and say, well, Yannis,
Speaker 1: letting you holiday set you at let's Chris Middleton set
Speaker 1: you up. You know, get those guys open shots. Sometimes
Speaker 1: that's what great players do. They adjust the game because
Speaker 1: it makes the players around them better. And you're just
Speaker 1: not seeing that from Yannis, or it is the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: I don't know where to shape the blame, but I
Speaker 1: ain't know for one thing, just putting the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands and saying go go, go, sure his head
Speaker 1: can't get get you no championship, and it was very
Speaker 1: fortunate even to get you to this point. And listen,
Speaker 1: man Yannis was excellent and he's doing his job. I
Speaker 1: don't fault him for that, but he is. He is.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say cancer is. But you're not
Speaker 1: gonna win. That's pretty strong. My goodness really ruined rock positivity.
Speaker 1: You you got it wrong, You got it wrong. Ryan.
Speaker 1: I think he's a Capricorn. He was born in January.
Speaker 1: Rob Parker with no kids, has the bad jokes, he's
Speaker 1: got all the oh you know, right, I look, you know,
Speaker 1: looking at it this way, is that you still see
Speaker 1: the Suns getting easy baskets, right, you have to be
Speaker 1: able to get easy baskets on your offense, and they
Speaker 1: still get out in transition. They don't get the number
Speaker 1: they're getting during the regular season because look, the Bucks
Speaker 1: are a pretty good defensive team. But there still there's
Speaker 1: no easy baskets for the Bucks that you know, as
Speaker 1: you said, they don't move the ball, they don't do this.
Speaker 1: So how do they fix this? Because how are you
Speaker 1: two games into the NBA Finals and you still don't
Speaker 1: have your identity as to how you want to tack
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. You got. I said it earlier. You
Speaker 1: got to put the ball in jow Holiday's hands in Middleton,
Speaker 1: and then you got. You let Yannis be the screen center.
Speaker 1: If I'm guarding Yannis onto the Cooper Mark Mr Worser
Speaker 1: and I played the center. I played the four spot
Speaker 1: the league, and he sets the screen. I don't want
Speaker 1: to leave him. I don't want to leave Yannis because
Speaker 1: I know he's gonna be dunking on my head or
Speaker 1: my teammate's head, So I'm gonna try to stay connected
Speaker 1: to him. So knowing that you have that has to
Speaker 1: be a weapon, because now you get other guys open.
Speaker 1: But it's Middleton and Holiday don't play well or for
Speaker 1: sharing Chris Middleton, it's a wash. It's it's no surprise
Speaker 1: that when Yannis went out that second game, Milwaukee got
Speaker 1: rolling and actually looked like good offense. Like Dann, you
Speaker 1: guys can move the basketball, cut, run, pick and roll.
Speaker 1: You know, Lopez look excellent. Wow, look at the movement.
Speaker 1: This is a really good team. If you look at Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: you don't say a team. You look at the Suns,
Speaker 1: you say, darn good team. There's a possession Jason, we
Speaker 1: talked about it last last night where the Suns moved
Speaker 1: the ball around the whole horn and it was it
Speaker 1: was just popping, popping around the horn and it wasn't
Speaker 1: a perfect possession, and Milwaukee put their utmost into stopping them,
Speaker 1: and then DeAndre Aiden ends up getting the lap. You
Speaker 1: remember that, Jason, and it was That's one of the
Speaker 1: most deflating plays that you can have in basketball. During
Speaker 1: there eight or nine passes near turnover that a guy
Speaker 1: gets to lap at the end. That's why Phoenix is
Speaker 1: gonna win. I have yeah. If you go in and
Speaker 1: we used to one thing we did in our in
Speaker 1: our championship runs and playoff runs, we would chart the passes,
Speaker 1: how many passes before a shot? Guys, how many passes
Speaker 1: bore before a shot? And I'm not saying don't be
Speaker 1: aggressive with about how many passable for a shot. I'll
Speaker 1: be surprised if Milwaukee was getting over three passes before
Speaker 1: they shoot the basketball. If that on average, and you
Speaker 1: look at the Suns, I'm not sure to stats. I'm
Speaker 1: sure this fatman somewhere to pull this up. The Suns
Speaker 1: are probably going for five plus per possession. So the
Speaker 1: way you're talking is a four game? Sweet? Milwaukee shouldn't
Speaker 1: even go back home? Right, they got no? I would
Speaker 1: think the I think they get the emotional win. I think,
Speaker 1: if anything, this next game is the one they could win,
Speaker 1: the emotional win, and then they lose the next one
Speaker 1: to the Sons and the sons of partying at home.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't think. I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: it's not Sons and four. You know, my man, don't
Speaker 1: go go wild. He'll go viral again if its Sons
Speaker 1: it before. But I think that Milwaukee should get the
Speaker 1: emotional play hard, you know, elbow them up, you know,
Speaker 1: dive on the floor, just a nasty game in the eighties,
Speaker 1: eighty five, eighty five to eighty type of win. You know,
Speaker 1: if they wind up winning. Does does winning a title
Speaker 1: keep Chris Paul in Phoenix? I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think Chris Paul and Rob you can speak to this.
Speaker 1: He may be the most politically correct superstar that we've
Speaker 1: ever seen in the game. I mean, every team that
Speaker 1: he's got up and left, there's never been bad. Bloody.
Speaker 1: They they frame his jerseys instead of firing it, shutting
Speaker 1: fire to it. So you know, I think and Jay
Speaker 1: we talked about this yesterday. I think Chris Poulter is
Speaker 1: a strong chance he can be a Laker. I think
Speaker 1: the Lakers need him. I think it's a perfect fit.
Speaker 1: It's nothing like playing don't have any money for they
Speaker 1: don't have money from He's gonna take a reduced rate.
Speaker 1: They don't have anybody in the books. They don't They
Speaker 1: don't have anybody on the books. It's Anthony Davis's Cacyp.
Speaker 1: And they don't have much else in the books. So
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's very doable, Rob, I
Speaker 1: do it's it's really Cacyp, Kulzma, and and Harold on
Speaker 1: the books. It's not a full full roster. No. I
Speaker 1: thought that all the people I talked to said that
Speaker 1: they didn't really have any maneuvering and that they couldn't
Speaker 1: bring in a big a third star that they had
Speaker 1: that they would they would have to make, they would
Speaker 1: have to make some moves. Like I said, I think
Speaker 1: Kuzma's getting about ten per Cacyps and in that nineteen range,
Speaker 1: and mine trans got seventeen meal for two, So you
Speaker 1: just have to play around with those two contracts. But
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think you see, the thing is
Speaker 1: Chris Paul's a situation where he could probably take like
Speaker 1: a two year max somewhere, or let's say he takes
Speaker 1: you know, seventy or eighty million over four or five years,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and at his age, playing
Speaker 1: until you're forty with your buddy on the other side,
Speaker 1: until Brownie gets in the league. That's a heck of
Speaker 1: a move, you know, said No, Rob, I do agree,
Speaker 1: it's a movement that will have to be made. But
Speaker 1: I think this is like an ideal of time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not returning to Phoenix. I don't know if New
Speaker 1: York just makes sense to go kind of do I
Speaker 1: want to start over and do it again? You know,
Speaker 1: I'd probably rather stay in Phoenix than that. But I
Speaker 1: just think the Lakers really make sense. Man. But like
Speaker 1: I said, like you said, moves would have to be made,
Speaker 1: and there's already rumblings about a couple of those guys
Speaker 1: getting out of there, you know, Kul's munn Hey, all
Speaker 1: those guys talking about and drumming, you know, already off
Speaker 1: the book saying well, if I got more opportunity, you
Speaker 1: would happen if I got more opportunity. You know, you
Speaker 1: start singing that soon that to him publicly? You know,
Speaker 1: there's definitely something that works behind the scene with those
Speaker 1: guys probably getting out of there, and Lebron could just
Speaker 1: paying out of his own pocket, right. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: best friends, listen, I'll supplement, I'll supplement. Don't worry about
Speaker 1: the Lakers are gonna give you this, and I'll give
Speaker 1: you this. That's how it's gonna work. This is not
Speaker 1: just is that college where you could just take the
Speaker 1: you know, you take the money on the side or
Speaker 1: what college? Man, it's tampering, man, you can't see that. Man. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know a conversation we had last hour, Rob and
Speaker 1: I we talked to Mike Keller about this and said, okay,
Speaker 1: looking where the Bucks are right now and how close
Speaker 1: they are, but they could be really far away. Is
Speaker 1: this for the Bucks? If you're looking at the future
Speaker 1: for the Bucks now, is that hey, they can run
Speaker 1: it back with this or is it something like, hey,
Speaker 1: if we dangle Middleton and Drew Holliday and maybe we
Speaker 1: get Damian Lillard, is that something like that have to
Speaker 1: happen for them? Do we lose Ryan? I think he
Speaker 1: must not like the question. He must not like that.
Speaker 1: I think we lost him for a second. But no,
Speaker 1: But you know the thing about the Lakers is, you
Speaker 1: know his last point is that how happy are the
Speaker 1: Lakers at Dennis Shrewder turned down that big contract right now?
Speaker 1: Now they got money to stay a little bit more
Speaker 1: money to spend. Uh So, Ryan, And what I was
Speaker 1: saying is if if the if the Bucks wind up
Speaker 1: falling short. Here we're already looking at the team as
Speaker 1: being an incomplete type team. Obviously Yannis is there, He's
Speaker 1: the guy. Uh Is this where they go out and
Speaker 1: they try to dangle Middleton and Holiday and say, okay,
Speaker 1: we try to go after a Damian Lillard to try
Speaker 1: to get, you know, a bigger star to come in
Speaker 1: and play alongside Yannis. Hey, yeah, you give away everything,
Speaker 1: but but Yannis to get Damian Lillard. And and Milwaukee's
Speaker 1: a market when no one wants to go play Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: So you know you gotta get in. You gotta get
Speaker 1: in play with any this grunt old superstar any you know,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buckets type of situation. Every Butler's out there, any
Speaker 1: Davis is you know, you you go get in play
Speaker 1: and try to make the movie any Kawhi Leonards, you know,
Speaker 1: getting out of saying you know you gotta get in
Speaker 1: play for those sUAS. Uh if you're Milwaukee. But you know,
Speaker 1: hat talk like here's the reality, guys, everybody, So Chris Colia,
Speaker 1: not the movement, the moment, like, well, you're in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: you have to do that, you know, lebron A walking
Speaker 1: through that door in free agency. Okay, Kevin Durant, it's
Speaker 1: not choosing Milwaukee over Brooklyn, all right, reality guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think Milwaukee stock has gone up now. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see, you can get to the finals, and if
Speaker 1: you're a player, maybe you are the missing piece that
Speaker 1: could go and get a championship. Hold on. Maybe you
Speaker 1: like bowling alleys, maybe you like Bronson beer. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you like that stock. Let me ask you this, Rob,
Speaker 1: So you gotta be fortunate. You're gonna sail to your
Speaker 1: fan base. Maybe if we're fortunate and other stars are injured,
Speaker 1: we will make it back to the finals. That's what
Speaker 1: you're selling. Well, but they're in the finals. I mean
Speaker 1: after as New York Nick the New York Big fans
Speaker 1: d having one since nineteen seventy three, I mean all
Speaker 1: I'm saying is you can go to some of the
Speaker 1: bigger one of the bulls in Chicago done since Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan left nothing. I could go Big City after Big City.
Speaker 1: Phoenix is a great place. They haven't won a championship
Speaker 1: in fifty two years. Was like a mid major, man,
Speaker 1: Chicago is a mid major. LA. It's LA New York
Speaker 1: and everybody else. And then we'll say Miami. Miami's a
Speaker 1: sexy pick. That's Rob Parker's they case the choice. Man, Yes,
Speaker 1: I have going there in August. That's what I'm saying, right,
Speaker 1: I know it's LA New York and in Miami, didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, players want that, don't want to move
Speaker 1: in the off season. Do you know how lovely it
Speaker 1: was my first off season. I got to stay in
Speaker 1: LA and didn't have to move on my stuff around.
Speaker 1: Players want to stay when they trained LA in New York.
Speaker 1: In Miami, you can follow at the Ryan Hollands. That's
Speaker 1: at the Ryan Hollands ten years in the league. You
Speaker 1: hear him right here on Fox Sports Radio on FS one, ESPN.
Speaker 1: He is everywhere as always. Man, appreciate it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: spending the last thirty six hours with you man, I
Speaker 1: got up. Hey, hey, Rob, you know you got I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hit the punching back man, Rob Man, as always,
Speaker 1: go work out for your Big three league or whatever
Speaker 1: you're playing there. All right, guys, see you right? Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you hit it with a good one yesterday on the
Speaker 1: show where you said, hey, you get the pay as
Speaker 1: you exit? Is that exactly? That's the new Intendance policy?
Speaker 1: Take that data. Yeah, I think you're I think your
Speaker 1: positivity for the Bucks really threw him off right away.
Speaker 1: I think he was off a bit from everybody because
Speaker 1: everybody can't believe it. I mean, I picked the Suns.
Speaker 1: I don't want to make make people think I'm saying
Speaker 1: the Bucks are gonna come back and win the series.
Speaker 1: But I don't believe it's over. I think that they
Speaker 1: can play better and make it a real series. That's
Speaker 1: my biggest point. It's it's not that I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the series. I just think that losing two games,
Speaker 1: you know, on the road to a to a good team,
Speaker 1: when you know your star player was questionable and then
Speaker 1: your number two and three players have played stinky the
Speaker 1: first two games is acceptable, understandable. Let there down O two.
Speaker 1: But It doesn't mean that they're gonna get steam rolled
Speaker 1: and the series is over. That's all I'm saying. Eventually,
Speaker 1: you're gonna come up against the team and the bottom
Speaker 1: of that miracle sock drawer is gonna come up empty. Right,
Speaker 1: And all the teams in the playoffs this year, even
Speaker 1: the Sun's getting to the finals. Look, everybody's had a
Speaker 1: fortunate draw because these are the teams that are just
Speaker 1: outlasting everybody else. Did suddenly the Bucks get great? No,
Speaker 1: the Bucks say, hey, they were lucky that the Nets
Speaker 1: couldn't put all three of their stars on the floor
Speaker 1: at the same time. Right, they beat a Hawks team
Speaker 1: that was lucky to get to the conference finals, because
Speaker 1: usually teams with one superstar go out in the first round.
Speaker 1: Just asked Luka Donsich how it goes, So that that's
Speaker 1: kind of how things go, and it's just that kind
Speaker 1: of playoff. But it's not like the Bucks are playing
Speaker 1: a team that you can say, boy, they got a
Speaker 1: lot of flaws. They're playing a team that doesn't have
Speaker 1: any flaws. All the other team, Hey, why why did
Speaker 1: they win this series? Because they were flawed? They were flawed,
Speaker 1: They were flawed. Sons have no flaws. I mean they're
Speaker 1: playing They lost Ario Sarch to a torn acl Game
Speaker 1: one didn't matter, did not phase them. They win game
Speaker 1: two just as dominant as they won Game one. They
Speaker 1: have no This is a different animal than anybody they've
Speaker 1: played so far. Chris Paul is playing an extremely high level.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker has figured it out. Which is the big
Speaker 1: throw your hands up moment, because he'd been terrible up
Speaker 1: until last night. I mean, he had the big first
Speaker 1: game against the Clippers when he went for forty and
Speaker 1: then he couldn't hit anything. He's shooting thirty five percent
Speaker 1: from the field. He was still getting to the free
Speaker 1: throw line, which help. But he's been terrible. Now suddenly
Speaker 1: he takes over in the second half, hits a bunch
Speaker 1: of threes and and Micl Bridges scores twenty seven and
Speaker 1: you're the Bucks and you're like, what the hell do
Speaker 1: we have to do? I mean, this is a much
Speaker 1: different thing than they've they've had to face the entire playoff.
Speaker 1: The Sons have no weakness. They've been the best team
Speaker 1: in the playoffs so far. See it's hard, right, your
Speaker 1: even your positivity, man, your positivity is it's absolutely there.
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Speaker 1: Hey Otani and with the first half he is having
Speaker 1: But when it comes to baseball players, it look Otani's
Speaker 1: been the guy. And you ask any baseball fan who's
Speaker 1: the guy you want to watch the most? You know
Speaker 1: Otani's gonna be the top of a lot of lists.
Speaker 1: He is not at the top of your list. He's not.
Speaker 1: It's Fernando Tatts Junior. And I know people are gonna
Speaker 1: go he makes too many errors, and that'll be You're
Speaker 1: not gonna disqualify this guy. This Guy and Oltani. I'm
Speaker 1: not tearing down Oltani to prop up Tatties. I'm not
Speaker 1: because Oltani is all that he was advertised to be.
Speaker 1: He's been unbelievable. Uh will probably win the American League MVP.
Speaker 1: The pitching those over one hundred miles an hour, the
Speaker 1: obviously he's leading the league a home runs and what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do. But if you look at
Speaker 1: just and I did some research and looked at it,
Speaker 1: tattuses first hundred games better than anybody, first one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two games better than anybody. And they recently
Speaker 1: did on MLB Network a breakdown of ops adjusted. And
Speaker 1: what they did, Jason, was they put up the best
Speaker 1: six seasons of players in the big leagues in the
Speaker 1: history of baseball. And three of them the pictures were
Speaker 1: in black and white because it was Ted Williams twice
Speaker 1: and Ty Cobbs. So those were the three old time
Speaker 1: players that fit in this bracket of the best seasons
Speaker 1: put together. The other guy was Soto from last year
Speaker 1: and this year, Vlad Guerrero Junior and Tattis Junior. Those
Speaker 1: are the six people that were five people because because
Speaker 1: Ted Williams did it twice. But those are the five
Speaker 1: people that they looked at. And that's where Tatis is.
Speaker 1: The first player ever to have in his first sixty
Speaker 1: two games over one hundred forty home runs and over
Speaker 1: a hundred RBIs and also twenty steels. Nobody had ever
Speaker 1: done that. So when I look at what this kid
Speaker 1: has done at twenty three years old, and why he
Speaker 1: has this, you know, unbelievable contract when they were many
Speaker 1: many years away from arbitration that they still could have
Speaker 1: paid him most nothing, you know, and made him wait.
Speaker 1: But but you have a very special talent. And if
Speaker 1: I was starting a team right now and I was
Speaker 1: a general manager, I would take Tattis over Otani. Well, look, Otani,
Speaker 1: this is the first time he's ever really done it
Speaker 1: right because he was injured. He's always had the talent,
Speaker 1: and now he's you know, he's breaking through finally showing
Speaker 1: that hey he's healthy and he's can pitch and he
Speaker 1: can hit. I'll give you that. Tatis is probably if
Speaker 1: I'm saying, who's that bat? Do I want to see
Speaker 1: the most? Do I want to see something? Yeah? Tatis
Speaker 1: just has that it factor about him. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, all right, there's a flair there. Look at
Speaker 1: the and Jason, look at what San Diego has been
Speaker 1: transformed to. And when you when you see the stands
Speaker 1: and the crowd down there in San Diego, tell me
Speaker 1: that's not a hop in place and buzzing. Oh it's great. Oh. Look,
Speaker 1: they've remade their team. They made all the big free
Speaker 1: agent signings. You know, they're they're they're good. And he's
Speaker 1: at the head of that. No, I get he is
Speaker 1: the more exciting guy. Otani, though, is more fun to
Speaker 1: talk about because you talk about you just said, hey,
Speaker 1: here's stuff for guy's never done before. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of great stats in there. Here's for Otani is
Speaker 1: doing literally what none of us have ever seen before.
Speaker 1: I mean, that cuts through the clutter when you if
Speaker 1: he was just a guy that hit bombs, and suddenly
Speaker 1: here he is. You know, he broke Mtsuey's record for
Speaker 1: home runs by a Japanese born player. We're midway through
Speaker 1: the season. That would be one thing, but the fact
Speaker 1: that he pitches that cuts through everything that gets outside
Speaker 1: of baseball saying, here's a guy that can do both
Speaker 1: of these things. I can do at both an extremely
Speaker 1: high level. How can he do this? How can you?
Speaker 1: How can you throw your entire preparation and talent into
Speaker 1: being able to do both of these things. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: to give one up at some point, you got to
Speaker 1: give something, you know, Jacob Degram was a shortstop, had
Speaker 1: to give it up. I want to be a pitcher
Speaker 1: and I can do better. And the fact that this
Speaker 1: is what he's doing, so I'm gonna say, yes, Tatise
Speaker 1: is more fun to watch, but Mantani is more fun
Speaker 1: to talk about because what he's doing. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is stuff that none of us have seen. No, I
Speaker 1: get it since Babe Ruth and we didn't see Babe Ruth.
Speaker 1: But the only thing is didn't you cover Babe Ruth?
Speaker 1: Did you? I did not cover Babe contrary to popular belief,
Speaker 1: I was not there. But how long do you think
Speaker 1: Otani will be able to do this? Babe Ruth did
Speaker 1: it for five years before he finally decided to be
Speaker 1: a hitter. And if you're the Angels, can you really
Speaker 1: uh sacrifice him maybe being hurt, you know what, an
Speaker 1: arm injury and losing his bat or at some point
Speaker 1: do you just say or if you're the Padres, what
Speaker 1: do they need more. I mean, if you're the Angels,
Speaker 1: what do they need more? Jason? They need pitching more?
Speaker 1: Should he? Should he focus on pitching? He's a number
Speaker 1: three starter, he's not a number one starter. I think
Speaker 1: it's tattiques junior. Yeah, you signed him to be this guy,
Speaker 1: so I think you let him be this guy, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, look that that that's guy. Let him do
Speaker 1: it as long as he can't worry about that down
Speaker 1: the road, right he doesn't have to wear and tear
Speaker 1: on him because because of the injuries, so hopefully you
Speaker 1: think he can do it a little bit longer. But
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, to tease is the more exciting. But
Speaker 1: I like to talk about Otanimore because just just that
Speaker 1: big deal. Hey, get in with us on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: Rob Parker in for Dan and the Danets today Otani
Speaker 1: to tease? Who is it coming up next? As I said,
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