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The problem is, 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 3: according to some, he is also very vocal about his 15 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 3: distaste for President Donald Trump, specifically as it relates to 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 3: the ice rays that have happened throughout the country. So 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: President Trump has come out and said some stuff about it. 18 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: News pundent, social media pund it have all come out 19 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 3: and said, hey, you need to change this. This is 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 3: not a good look, this is not representative of America, 21 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 3: this is not good for the NFL. Well, Roger Goodell 22 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: came out today and forcefully backed Jay Z and Bad 23 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 3: Bunny for the choice of the Jupowl halftime shows, thinking quote, 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 3: it's carefully thought through. I'm not sure we've ever selected 25 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: an artists where we didn't have some blowback of criticism. 26 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 3: It's pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 3: of millions of people that are watching. He Bad Bunny 28 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 3: is one of the leading and most popular entertainers in 29 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 3: the world. That's what we try to achieve. It's an 30 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 3: important stage for us. It's an important element to the 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 3: entertainment value. 32 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 4: There you go and Bravo to the NFL, Bravo to 33 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 4: Roger Goodell. Okay because and this doesn't matter what political 34 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 4: side you're on. 35 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 5: Okay, cause who are you gonna pick? 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 3: Uh? 37 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 4: You know, if you start doing this, then you're gonna 38 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 4: have real issues. Once you buckle in on this, you 39 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 4: won't be able to pick anybody, okay, because they'll feel 40 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 4: like anytime there's somebody that they don't like or there's 41 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 4: an issue. And here's my problem with NFL America and 42 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 4: a lot of the fans who you notice Kelvin cried 43 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 4: from the mountaintops. I don't want to achieve black lives 44 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 4: matter at NFL games. 45 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 5: I'm just here for football. 46 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 4: I mentioned escape for me. 47 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 5: I don't want to see that, miss escapism. 48 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 4: I didn't hear those same people when they gave tributes 49 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 4: to Charlie Kirk. 50 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 5: There was none of that. Where was the outcry? Why 51 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 5: are we doing this out a football game? I'm not interested. 52 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 4: People went to the mountaintops and said he deserves to 53 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 4: have a right to voice his opinion. I agree, everybody does, 54 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 4: and so does Bad Bunny. He's not down with Donald Trump. 55 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 5: It's fine. 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 4: That doesn't mean he can't perform at the super Bowl. 57 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 4: If you don't want to hear Bad Bunny, guess what. 58 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 4: Turn your damn station, change the channel, turn it down 59 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 4: if you don't like Bad Bunny's music or you don't 60 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 4: like him. That's what we've all done. You know many 61 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 4: acts at the Super Bowl that a lot of black 62 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 4: people weren't interested in, And guess that what their choice was. 63 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 4: Their choice was to either watch it or turn it 64 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 4: off and turn it back on when the game came on. 65 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 4: How dare people now they want to remove Bad Bunny 66 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 4: because he doesn't fall in line with what they want 67 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 4: to do the same thing. Oh, just dribble and play basketball, unless, 68 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 4: of course you're out kick, or you're some other organization 69 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 4: that has a different agenda and feels a different way, 70 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 4: then it's okay for them to talk about sports and politics, 71 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 4: but not for other people. Come on, dude, just be consistent. 72 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 4: And I applaud the NFL for just saying we're not 73 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 4: gonna open this can of worms. He was selected. We 74 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 4: went through the process and just like Roger Goodell said, 75 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 4: whenever you have somebody like this, they're gonna be people 76 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 4: who like them who don't like them. 77 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 5: And we just we made a selection. 78 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 4: And I'm glad that Bad Bunny is going to perform 79 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 4: at the super Bowl. 80 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: I'm not even a fan of Bad Bunny. I just 81 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: think that it's true. You know what you're a fan of. 82 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: It's standing almost right standing on principle. And I gotta say, 83 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: teasing you a minute ago, I think your Tani takes crazy. 84 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: We disagree on so much. We have fun on this show. 85 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: But I got when you ain't wrong and you're right, 86 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: I gotta acknowledge that. And this is one of those things, 87 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: because this is where sometimes the hypocrisy screams loud. Give 88 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: you an example. Blue lives matter, Blue lives matter. Get 89 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: that absolutely Okay, but then when you store them that 90 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: the capital and blues lives are harmed, Oh well that no, 91 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: it don't matter because you're trying to get your point 92 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: across that you believe the election was stolen, and so 93 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: on and so forth. 94 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 5: And now we're gonna kill cops. 95 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: Now cops can get beat up, get hit, and some 96 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: of them in the hurt took their own lives afterwards 97 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: because all the trauma, all of that. But I thought 98 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: it was blue lives matter. And so it's the same 99 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: thing here. Free speech, free speech, well except for bad 100 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: Bunny who has an opinion about ice. And by the way, 101 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: there are several lawsuits, this is the news me. Several lawsuits, 102 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: several controversies, several things that there are misconduct issues when 103 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: it comes to ice. You have whether it be states 104 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: like Governor Gaven Newsom in California who are saying, well, 105 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: why if they're ice, which is fine, why can't they 106 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: show their face? What is so police officers have to 107 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: show their face? Other offers FBI right shows us what 108 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: is this about ICE agents? They don't have to show 109 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: their face. So there's practices that people are calling in 110 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: the controversy when it comes ice, meaning you can have 111 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: an opinion on ice it's okay, and the idea that bad. 112 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: Bunny Well, I don't want them to perform. He does 113 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: speak American, first of all, speak English, doesn't speak American. 114 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: First of all, Puerto Rican is a Puerto Rico is 115 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: a territory of America, so that's connected to America. Let's 116 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: also start there, people, He's not even American. And then 117 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: to your point of this, no matter who I pick, 118 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: if I'm jay Z, who's running in Rock Nation to 119 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, it's gonna be controversy someone And if I 120 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: picked the who who had it some twenty some years ago, 121 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people black, white, Latino, I don't know who? 122 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 5: Who is the who? 123 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: And it's not about anything, it's just I don't know. 124 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: But a lot of people absolutely who is an iconic band, 125 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: but a lot of people I don't know them. It 126 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: was a different time, it was a different era, and 127 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: that's part of why they brought in jay Z in 128 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: the Rock Nation was to bring it hipper. They were 129 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: starting to lose people. They had performers who wouldn't perform, 130 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: who are huge, who are like, nah, this is too 131 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: still and old. So now here we are. Last year 132 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: they chose Kendrick Lamar. Controversy surrounds that. People say, well, 133 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: I'm not watching it. It's gonna be this, it's gonna 134 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: be that. Guess what broke a record the Kendrick Lamar performance. 135 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: And and I think people forget this sometimes while you 136 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: love the NFL and you have your team's logo tattooed 137 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: on you, it's still a business. And Bad Bunny is 138 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: the most streamed artist in the entire world period. And 139 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: what do we talk about every every rob g gives 140 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: us the uh, here's the news schedule of the season 141 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: coming season? 142 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 5: What are there? 143 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: A bunch of universal games games, global games, the NFL, the. 144 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 5: NBA, nfbe trying to grow. 145 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 4: Who are stopping saying I'm not gonna watch the game 146 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 4: because it's in Europe. 147 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: You're watching the game, people, some of you are buying 148 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: tickets in the NBA and NFL is trying to be 149 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: continued to grow it's audience and grow globally. And he 150 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: is a massive, massive, if not the most, the biggest 151 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: artists in the world globally. They're going to spread the 152 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: game spreading nowt So the idea again, if you don't 153 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: want to watch. You don't have to watch, but the 154 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: NFL knows it's gonna be controversy no matter who who 155 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: they pick, and why not pick the most global, globally 156 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: streamed artist who has a massive fan base. By the way, 157 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: a large portion of our country speaks Spanish as well. Hello, 158 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: and let it be entertained, and for twelve minutes of 159 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: your life you'll be okay. 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The 176 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 3: early game was great, yeah, Houston and okse to Houston's disaster. 177 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: All did you say, Houston, we got a problem? 178 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 3: And the nightcap, Luca and the shorthanded Lakers got smacked 179 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 3: by Stephan the Warriors, despite Luca dropping forty three, twelve 180 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 3: and nine didn't was enough. Interestingly enough, though, coming out 181 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 3: of that game, one of the storylines that we're seeing 182 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: develop here trickle out over the last you know, eight 183 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 3: hours or so, is what was going on with Lebron James. 184 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,719 Speaker 3: Obviously he didn't play. He's not gonna play until mid 185 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 3: November at the earliest. And several people, mostly on social media, 186 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 3: pointed out, you know what Lebron seems off. You know, 187 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like himself right there on the side. 188 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 3: Jovan Buja, longtime Lakers insider friend of the show, Friend 189 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 3: of the Show, sometimes is on a podcast today a 190 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 3: less associated the show. He was in the building and 191 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 3: they asked him about it, and first he's like, you know, 192 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 3: I don't want to get into it. 193 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 5: It's kind of a weird topic. But then he said 194 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 5: this quote. 195 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 3: The vibes with that situation talking about Lebron have not 196 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 3: been the best. I'll say so again, I don't really 197 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 3: want to go too much down that. 198 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 5: Road, but he did. I thought there were. 199 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 3: Times, just looking in the huddle or looking at the bench, 200 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: that he wasn't as engaged as he typically is when 201 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 3: he out. You don't want to project on the people 202 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 3: what you think they're feeling or acting like. But just 203 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 3: in the observations I made of his body language was 204 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 3: not great, and I do think it was a bit 205 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 3: different than what has been in the past and the 206 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 3: same situation where he's sitting. 207 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 1: Out Lebron the last part of what he said I 208 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: one of the parts towards me, and I agree within 209 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: that look, the camera wasn't on him quite as normally 210 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: as much as they are, And you don't want to 211 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: read too far into it, but Lebron is very very intentional, 212 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: very calculated, very aware. Knows this is a national game, 213 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: knows this is the NBA is back, it's a big deal. 214 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: So on NBC, everybody's watching. It's you know what I mean, Like, 215 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: Lebron is fully aware of what's going on. This is 216 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 1: Lucas now first year as a full season with the team. 217 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: Everybody's watching. Luca's in the best shape of his life. 218 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: You got DeAndre A and you got Marcus Smarts, some 219 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: new players. People are watching It's versus Stephan the Warriors, 220 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: and for Lebron to look a bit disengaged, to look 221 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: distracted at times, to not be in there, that is 222 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: intentional from Lebron to me. Now, I don't know what 223 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: he's trying to imply. I don't know what he's trying 224 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: to say, but Lebron was saying something with his attitude. 225 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: Because if you can say a lot of things about Lebron, 226 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: but one thing you can't say is historically Lebron's up 227 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: dapping up teammates got personal handshakes with every last one 228 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: of them, talking in their ear, cracking jokes, having fun 229 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: with them. That's one of the great things about Lebron 230 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: is he's very ingratiating to teammates, whether you're a street 231 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: clothes on the bench or whether you're know to start 232 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: with me. And for him to not do that screams 233 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: louder than most people because he is usually that with 234 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: his teammates. So Rob I feel like there's something there. 235 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: Is it the idea that you know didn't work out 236 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: the deal with the contract? Is it the idea that 237 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: you know maybe they've been kind of moving forward. It 238 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: feels like the franchise are starting to move forward without him, 239 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: saying you're here now, but we have to start thinking 240 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 1: of life without Lebron. I don't know, but something did 241 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: seem a little off for a big game, first game 242 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: of the season. Lebron totally knows those moments, totally owns 243 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: those moments totally, even tho if he wasn't playing, I'm 244 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: gonna be a part of it. I'm dapping up, I'm 245 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 1: doing this, and he wasn't that. And for Lebron to 246 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 1: do something, it's intentional. We've seen him doing podcasts more 247 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: than ever lately. We've seen him golfing more than ever lately. 248 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: We see him do a lot of high or that's 249 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: what he's doing, and maybe he's acting like it. So 250 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: in last point two with the sciatica, just a strange 251 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: like to be out weeks. That's kind of strange too, 252 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: in that normally ay day by day or they'll take 253 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 1: it a week at the time, but to just know, oh, 254 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: he's going to be out for weeks is a bit strange. 255 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: So I don't know what's going on there. 256 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 5: Can't that be corrected if you wash your hair. Oh 257 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 5: that's Sebarrie. 258 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm sorry when we need some head and shoulders or 259 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: something up in here. So yeah, that was someone else, 260 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: reals Russell Westbrook or something. He'd be like, all right whatever, 261 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: even Steph kind of all right, just in his own 262 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: Lebron is intentionally stand up during time. I was wapping 263 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: up everybody. Ah stand you know, got a certain personal 264 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: handshake for me that feel like, hmmm, something off. 265 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 4: There's nothing off. This is Lebron who understands that his 266 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 4: time is coming gone in Los Angeles, that he's not 267 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 4: a main focal point. That they didn't even offer him 268 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 4: even offer him, hey, an extension and then let you 269 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 4: turn it down or what that know, that was no 270 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 4: contract offered on the table. 271 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 5: This is it. 272 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 4: You're playing it out, you're picking up your option and 273 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 4: then that's it. We're done. After that, players are coming in. Yeah, 274 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 4: Eighton came in and Lebron's haven't even talked to him. 275 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 4: You know why they didn't call him and said, Lebron, 276 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 4: what do you think about? But no, that was a 277 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: Luca pit right, That was a Luca My Luca wanted 278 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 4: him or whatever. So Lebron's not dumb. He understands what's happening, 279 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 4: and slowly but surely, the Lakers are moving forward without him. 280 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 4: This is what happens when you stick around too long 281 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 4: and you think you're gonna have the same cloud. You 282 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 4: never have the same cloud the whole time. Nobody, unless 283 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 4: you play a shorter period of time, gets to run 284 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 4: the roots, you know, the whole time, especially if you overstay. 285 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 4: Most guys Lebron came through the league with they're long gone. 286 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 4: They're all long gone. Lebron's still playing five, seven, seven 287 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 4: years after other people, you know what I mean, Like, 288 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 4: that's a long time after the fact. So he knows 289 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 4: what's going on. That's why he's disengaged. Stop happenstance. 290 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: No, that's why I said everything he does is intentional. 291 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: But I will say this is this is to me. 292 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: If this ends up being the last year, and if 293 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: there's gonna be this up and down roller coaster stuff 294 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: like this, this isn't how you want it to end. 295 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: Like you, Lebron has been a lot of things. He 296 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: could be that and and and you can love him 297 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: hate and whatever, but like he hasn't had a lot 298 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: of blemishes in that type of attitudes. You might not 299 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: I should have took the last shot. He should have 300 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: passed the ball. I don't like that he changed teams, 301 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: and you know, but the idea of like how he's 302 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: conducted like you don't want to You wouldn't want it 303 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: to go out like that, especially with the career he's had, 304 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: like what he means to basketball, where he is in 305 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: the pantheons of basketball. But but you wouldn't want it 306 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: to go out like that. 307 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 5: That is way for a long time. 308 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: I don't disagree. 309 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 5: And now when you all of. 310 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 4: A sudden pull back and be like, it's not going 311 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 4: to be your way. We're moving forward. We have our 312 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 4: star of the future. We gave him the big contract. 313 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 4: He's bringing in people who he thinks compliment his game. 314 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 4: When that happens, people pout. 315 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 5: He's used to. 316 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 4: Getting his way and and and he doesn't want it 317 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 4: to be that way. He still want thinking as long 318 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 4: as I'm on a team, no matter who you bring in, 319 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 4: you should still come to me and I should be 320 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 4: signing off on stuff. 321 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 5: And I think that's a roote. 322 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: Awake that you took through for I was just getting 323 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: ready to say it's a rude awakening, when since probably. 324 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 5: Fourteen, IS's this whole life? 325 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: No you you thirteen Probably you've been like, this is 326 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: your world and he's become this son, right that everything 327 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: else orbits around him. And this is the first time 328 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: somebody was like, nah, bro, you might have to just 329 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: be Mercury Mars or you know, you're a part of this. 330 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: But there's new orbit, there's new son. This thing that 331 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: everybody's orbiting is Luca, and I think that's that could 332 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: be a very foreign place to be for. 333 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 4: Hey, hey, Lebron, are you picking up your player option? 334 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: Yes? 335 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 5: Or no? What? You ain't got no other table in. 336 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 4: One in one you had another seventy five million on 337 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 4: there for me to pick up if I want. 338 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: But you have to if you're at some point like 339 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: the Lakers loved Kobe Bryant and it got bad at 340 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: the end. He was their injured all the time. He 341 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: was their own at the end, right, and he was 342 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: their own and it got bad and it burned him 343 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: on the on the back end, and you got new ownership. 344 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: They're trying to progress and get back to you know, championships. 345 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 346 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 347 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to 348 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 2: listen live. 349 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 3: The San Francisco Giants have a new manager. It is 350 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 3: a groundbreaking higher that apparently one person at least is 351 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 3: not happy about. The Giants have hired Tennessee baseball coach 352 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 3: Tony Mattello as their next manager. Okay, he has never 353 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 3: coached in the majors. He has never coached in the miners, 354 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 3: and as a result, he is the first manager in 355 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 3: MLB history to have ever managed at any level in 356 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 3: the pros. 357 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 4: Buster Posey, the former catcher who's an icon with the 358 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 4: San Francisco Giants, and I understand they won the three 359 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,719 Speaker 4: World Series when he was there. He's beloved and for 360 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 4: a little bit last year, remember the Giants got off 361 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 4: to a good start and everybody's like, oh, Buster, he 362 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 4: made the trade to bolster their team. All that, But 363 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 4: this move by Buster Posey and the San Francisco Giants. 364 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 5: Is total bush league. Would a capital b. 365 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 4: Ain't no way you're setting like trying to re establish 366 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 4: the market, changed the criteria to get somebody to be 367 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 4: a major league manager. 368 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 5: This is a pipe dream. 369 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 4: And this is like like throwing a stone in the ocean, 370 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 4: hoping that it hits a whale out there somehow and 371 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 4: it's gonna work out. 372 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 5: What are you thinking? 373 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 4: People, in order to become a major league managers put 374 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 4: in time and effort. Guys have set on the bench 375 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 4: for twenty years for an opportunity to be a major 376 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 4: league manager. Seriously, there are all kinds of people who 377 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 4: are looking for opportunities, who have worked in the minor leagues, 378 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 4: who have put in the work and all that. It 379 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 4: ain't fair. I don't care what he did in college. 380 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 4: I don't care two of the players on the roster 381 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 4: now played for him in college or whatever. 382 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 5: I don't care. This is bad, bad for baseball. Had 383 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 5: nothing to do with what. 384 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 4: He's done at Where was he Tennessee, Tennessee right, rob 385 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 4: g Tennessee. 386 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 5: Nothing. 387 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 4: It's just like an opportunity that is way over his 388 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 4: skis that only looks like this is going to be 389 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 4: wind up being a disaster winning respect in the clubhouse 390 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 4: from players and all that. 391 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 5: This is a tall order. 392 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 4: We saw this years ago, didn't They didn't know to 393 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 4: Dame hire a high school coach. Once Notre Dame hired 394 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 4: a high school coach from Cincinnati, didn't work out. All 395 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 4: I'm saying, Kelvin is that this is breaking all the 396 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 4: coach in Major League Baseball, that this is the first 397 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: guy ever, ever, ever, ever to get a job without 398 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 4: at least being a coach somewhere I'm paying some other 399 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 4: dudes in a minor league. 400 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 1: Well, I disagree. And here's why someone always has to 401 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: be the first. Someone always has to break the mold, 402 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: something always has to be new. And also we see 403 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: this happen in the NBA, NFL all the time. You 404 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: can be Bobby Knight. We won Bobby Knight. They were 405 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: trying to get him for years, trying to get Tom 406 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: Mizzle as you know, you know, being in Michigan trying 407 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: to get. 408 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 5: Coach again, trying to get coach k w a championship. 409 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: And then you get the Rick Patinos, you get the 410 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: Billy Donovan's, you get guys who come into from college 411 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: into the pros. You get the Larry Browns. So my 412 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: point is we see this happen in NFL all the time. 413 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 4: You say, guys, come NFL, what you would never coach anywhere? 414 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 5: That this guy, this guy, he is at coach. 415 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 1: He's a coach with college No, no, no, no, So I 416 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: understand to say, isn't in the pros. 417 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 5: But my point is we get people who are pulled. 418 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 1: From the college ranks to be a coach in the 419 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: pros and then they whether they fail or to succeed, 420 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: there's the opportunity. But it happens all the time. Why 421 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: can't it happen to MLB? What happens to another major? 422 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 1: You know what division you're in? Do the San Francisco 423 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: Giants know what division they're in? What they're familiar with? Okay, 424 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: what they're up again? But no, no, no, I'm just 425 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: leads me to my second point though. Okay, so are. 426 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 5: You throwing the towel in? Is that's what I'm asking? 427 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: What I'm glad you brought that up. And what this 428 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: move shows me is we talk about it all the 429 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: time here and I bring it up. The gone of 430 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: the days of having that manager who is the guy 431 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: he has the absolute pulse of the team. He is 432 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 1: the face. You know, he might not be the face 433 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: as far as the star of the team, but he 434 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: has the entire ethos of this team. We know now 435 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: this has run very corporately. Now you have all the 436 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: analytics guys with the GM. That's connected with all the analytics, 437 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: and they're pioneering and they're making the things for the manager. 438 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: Here's what we're going to do. Here's our system of 439 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: how we want to run this thing. Can you be 440 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: okay with doing that? This isn't the days you're the manager. 441 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: Hands off, we're over here. Those days are gone. And 442 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: this shows me to me, he must have the same 443 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: type of mindset, same type of approach to things. And 444 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: they're like, here's our guy who will run our system. 445 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: Not saying, hey, Rob Parker, we think you're a great skipper. 446 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: You've done your thing. Here are the keys. Do what 447 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 1: you want. Those days are gone. Give you the history of. 448 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 4: The San Francisco Giants, who has some of the greatest 449 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 4: players who have ever played there. Without of doubt, Okay, 450 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 4: they have a storied history. Willie Mays played there, Willie McCovey, 451 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 4: Barry Bonds. This team won three championships in a six 452 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 4: year span. The greatest manager of Major League Baseball history, 453 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 4: Bruce Boche went to five World Series one four, went 454 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 4: to five in his career, was a manager there. And 455 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 4: you're telling the people of Sam Francisco seriously that your 456 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 4: next skipper has no experience in the major leagues at all. 457 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 4: This ain't Charlotte or some offshot franchise. And I say 458 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 4: Charlotte NBA, but you know what I mean, like like 459 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 4: some franchise like that where they're willing to get to 460 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 4: give it a shot because they've never won anything, They've 461 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,880 Speaker 4: never had the greatest players who ever played the game 462 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 4: in those places. 463 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 5: I get it, I do. Can you imagine if the 464 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 5: Yankees said, Okay, we're gonna give it. 465 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 4: An Aaron Boone and hire a guy who's the baseball 466 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 4: coach at Fordham Are you are you kidding me? I'm serious. 467 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 4: It would not be taking. People would be like, what 468 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 4: to manage the New York Yanmes is the Giant. 469 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: Here's my counter to that. That could not how I 470 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: get what you're saying with the Yankees, but I do 471 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: think Silicon Valley. We see it with the Warriors, we 472 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: see it with the Giants. Now it's a different era, 473 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: different area, different mindset, very innovative guys are always ahead 474 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: of the cur that whole. I completely agree with the 475 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: Yankees because it's the ethos. We don't do this, we 476 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: don't do mustache. They finally changing, but we you know, 477 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 1: a lot to have this. It's like a certain way 478 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: of culture in the Bay Area. It's different. 479 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 5: Being innovative, would not accept it. 480 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: That's why I said the Bay Area. I said specifically 481 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: the Bay Area, and I think they're willing to go 482 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: with this. And again, you brought up a guy who 483 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: was part of those three championships with Bust to Posey. 484 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: This isn't if he feels this is the guy. I'm 485 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: not saying it's gonna work Hack, we all don't know that, 486 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: but I'm saying he clearly feels this guy fits the 487 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: future of what we're doing, fits our system. And I 488 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: think you might start seeing more of that because, like 489 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: I said, I don't right now. On our screen here 490 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: one of our twenty six TVs is the Big Ten Network, 491 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: and we see what iver Meyer College to the pros. 492 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: We see it all the time in NBA, we see 493 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: it all the time in the NFL. Why can't MLB 494 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: do it? Because I'm really asking you, like I'm the 495 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: real question. 496 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 4: Because the difference is just what you said is there 497 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 4: is no league between the two. There is no league 498 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 4: for you to go to if you were a college 499 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 4: basketball coach. There's no in between league to get you 500 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 4: to the next one. So that's the natural progression. The 501 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 4: difference between a high school baseball player going to the 502 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 4: major leagues, right is there's a minor league system. 503 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,959 Speaker 5: And the same thing with the NFL. 504 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 4: There's college football and there's NFL football, not the UFL 505 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 4: or whatever those other bogus leagues are. There's no intermediate league, 506 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 4: and that's the difference. Why, yes, you do go from 507 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 4: college basketball to the NBA. There is no other middle 508 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 4: league to learn from, So that's the natural progression. There 509 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 4: is a minor league, and it's a long standing minor 510 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 4: league where people have put in a lot of energy, 511 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 4: time and stuff. And I'm just saying for a franchise 512 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 4: like the San Francisco Giants, most fans. 513 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 5: I would be surprised. 514 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 4: If they're not saying that this is bush League for 515 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 4: that franchise, you know what I mean, it's not. And 516 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 4: also ran some franchise. Do you know what kind of 517 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 4: attendance they get and what kind of quo. Yeah, I 518 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 4: love the Giants, so out of that, go every year 519 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 4: to a game there. I've never been to that place 520 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 4: where every seat is a film and that's. 521 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: Why I'm won. And Buster Posey knows that better than 522 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: me and you, So I feel like he has to 523 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: have a post where maybe he understands they're okay this 524 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: or the opposite. I don't care if they're not. This 525 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: is something they're gonna learn to love once we you know, 526 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: in his mind obviously, because he made the decision, we 527 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: become successful. But I just really wanted to ask you 528 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: that because you've been covering this, like we see this 529 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: all the time in the NBA. We see our time 530 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: in the NFL. They clamoring NBA with for twenty years, 531 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: was clamoring to get coach k literally pleading throwing them 532 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: aback Kobe Bryant like please come coach Flicker, like there's 533 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: no doubt that people want these college ranked you. The 534 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: Lakers wanted Dan Hurley, Like this happens in the NFL, NBA, 535 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: and I'm like why, I'm just like, why doesn't happen 536 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: in MLB's But and I get what you mean with 537 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: the that minor league. The only thing I would say 538 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: their version of that is top not schools in the NBA, NFL, 539 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: that would be your minor league. If you coach at Florida, 540 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: coach at Alabama, coach at u n C basketball and 541 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: duke basketball.