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Speaker 1: the astros have spoken to the media. I got more
Speaker 1: questions because only the owner was taking questions. Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: and jose L Tube join the media favor. They said, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep it brief. If you're a writer showing
Speaker 1: up after all of this controversy, they don't take any questions,
Speaker 1: but they want to do you a favor. I blocked
Speaker 1: up my Calci Tior day you keep talking. I got
Speaker 1: columns to write, I got quote raft again. What do
Speaker 1: you keep it a brief for? They make it seem
Speaker 1: like they got a game later today. It's maybe the
Speaker 1: only time in your life where you had to talk
Speaker 1: a lot and you're uh, Jim Crane is the owner
Speaker 1: of the Astros. He didn't keep it brief. He at
Speaker 1: least had the guts to take some questions here and
Speaker 1: here is the owner on a response that made me go,
Speaker 1: Mr Crane, where do you have to say to the
Speaker 1: Yankees and teams that you beat in seventeen listen to
Speaker 1: and the Yankees have had a few comments out there, Um,
Speaker 1: you know our opinion is, and um, you know that
Speaker 1: this didn't impact the game. Um we had a good team.
Speaker 1: Um we won the World Series and we'll leave it
Speaker 1: at die. So knowing what pitch is going to be
Speaker 1: had no impact on the game. So, Jim, why did
Speaker 1: your players risk everything and a manager got fired and
Speaker 1: a GM got fired. If there's no real benefit, no
Speaker 1: real impact on the game, don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: Jim understands this. I don't know if he understands baseball.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he understands the severity of this.
Speaker 1: So I got inside information. Imagine if it's inside information
Speaker 1: in your business and insider trading, does that help people? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Those those people when they get caught, they go to
Speaker 1: prison like it doesn't have an impact and are you
Speaker 1: see wealthy when they go to prison? Here play that
Speaker 1: one more time. Here's Jim Crane in the astroidszone. Mister Krane,
Speaker 1: where do you have to say that the Yankees and
Speaker 1: teams that you beat in seventeen? Listen, the Yankees have
Speaker 1: had a few comments out there. Um, you know our
Speaker 1: opinion is, you know that this didn't impact the game.
Speaker 1: We had a good team, we won the World Series,
Speaker 1: and we'll leave with the good I think Jim Crane
Speaker 1: should have just read a statement as well. Give him
Speaker 1: credit that he tried to answer some questions. He made
Speaker 1: it worse. If you're going to say that this didn't
Speaker 1: have an impact on the game, then why were they
Speaker 1: doing it? Or maybe he doesn't know, but why did
Speaker 1: you fire your manager in your GM If this didn't
Speaker 1: have an impact on the game, And then you're not
Speaker 1: going to punish the players because you can hide behind
Speaker 1: the fact that the commissioner was not going to punish
Speaker 1: the players, they're your players, Jim. Yeah. See how long
Speaker 1: did they have to figure this out? The answers I've
Speaker 1: had to respond to this. They've been kicking this can
Speaker 1: down the road for months now and then get up
Speaker 1: there and it's not like the dumbest thing possible. Sound
Speaker 1: like you can go, oh my god, we didn't. We
Speaker 1: didn't rehearse that question. Hey, isn't that one of the
Speaker 1: first questions you think they're gonna ask? Hey, what would
Speaker 1: you say to the Dodgers or Yankees did this? How
Speaker 1: much of an impact did this have on you winning
Speaker 1: the World Series? None? What? Yeah, mclov I mean this
Speaker 1: is making the Astros look back with envy at the
Speaker 1: days they played in Enron Field from damn scoreboard. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman read a statement he said, we've learned from that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you've learned. Did you need to
Speaker 1: go through this to learn that that cheating you know,
Speaker 1: is it's on it's illegal. Yeah. I wonder if the
Speaker 1: media knew they were just going to make these short,
Speaker 1: brief statements or were they surprised by that. If so,
Speaker 1: they should have all boycott. I know they have a
Speaker 1: job to do and they feel like they have to
Speaker 1: be there, but like, no one should have showed up
Speaker 1: to this. Basically we got no answers. Jim Crane said
Speaker 1: something ridiculous about it not effect they have and they
Speaker 1: didn't take questions their players. They just say some vague
Speaker 1: statement then that they learned their lessons. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: owner did talk. The owner at least took questions. They
Speaker 1: could have done that on a conference call. I wish
Speaker 1: no one would have showed up. They should have stood
Speaker 1: there with a bunch of empty seats. No, because it
Speaker 1: does matter and these these three, this doesn't end here.
Speaker 1: For if the Astros think, oh hey, we already had
Speaker 1: our press conference, that's not going to stop. You know,
Speaker 1: people in New York when the Astros go to New York.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine when the Astros go to New York
Speaker 1: the first time? Do you have the schedule mclovin, it's
Speaker 1: drum night, Free drum night. And of course it was
Speaker 1: a based off a Yankee player with de Niro, Bang
Speaker 1: the Drums Slowly was about the Yankees. Yes, but Dan,
Speaker 1: I just heard Alex Bregman say they're on the twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: He told me they're moving on to twenty twenty. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with him. We're moving on, or he told
Speaker 1: us four times on the twenty twenty I can't quite
Speaker 1: move on to twenty twenty, at least the baseball season
Speaker 1: the year I can. Yeah, see, that's not gonna drive
Speaker 1: me nuts. Now, guys who already had dressed that at
Speaker 1: the press we already addressed it. We're just gonna move on.
Speaker 1: We already addressed that. Yeah, we alread addressed you know. Yea.
Speaker 1: If you're baseball though, how do you feel today? If
Speaker 1: you're the commissioner, how do you feel today people have
Speaker 1: ridiculed you with the pace of play. If you're a
Speaker 1: pitcher and you come in, you got to face at
Speaker 1: least three batters. Now you're going to have a different
Speaker 1: format for the postseason. Hey, the Astros are holding your
Speaker 1: press conference today. It didn't go well. Hey, but you're
Speaker 1: talking about baseball. Yeah. See, don't you feel like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people in baseball right now at a
Speaker 1: lot of teams who are just sort of holding their
Speaker 1: breath wait to see when they come out. Well, that's
Speaker 1: why if I'm the Yankees and I've said this, you've
Speaker 1: had a lot of cheaters on your roster in the
Speaker 1: last twenty five years, all right, a few of them,
Speaker 1: and you also had Carlos Beltron and Brian McKinnon on
Speaker 1: your roster, and they of course part of the Astros
Speaker 1: championship team. Just saying, and that's why i'd say slow,
Speaker 1: slow your comments here, especially if you're CC Sabathia, where
Speaker 1: you're gonna point fingers at anybody, not that he did
Speaker 1: anything illegal, he might know somebody. We're not look back.
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston hopes to be onto twenty twenty with his vision.
Speaker 1: That's that's the only person who can say I'm onto
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, because I don't want to be thirty thirty. Yes,
Speaker 1: mclovin May, I might be missing one, but I have
Speaker 1: them playing the Yankees in Houston May No, No, I
Speaker 1: Neber twenty first. They go to the Mets in Italyague
Speaker 1: in June June second. But I don't have him going
Speaker 1: wrong by a way. What order Someone smart did that
Speaker 1: scheduling to avoid that, I'm double technic to make sure.
Speaker 1: Were they trying to make sure the Astros didn't play
Speaker 1: the Yankees at all in New York? Were they trying
Speaker 1: to sneak that by here's a tweet. So grown man
Speaker 1: who are professionals do not know what's right and wrong.
Speaker 1: They need guidance, and that's what the owner said. He
Speaker 1: blamed it on the lack of guidance with the manager
Speaker 1: and the GM. I would hate to see Jim Crane
Speaker 1: get in front of the media if any of his
Speaker 1: players were guilty of steroids, because he'd probably blame the
Speaker 1: people who sold them the steroids or administered you know,
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical coin. Hey, blame those people, not the players. I
Speaker 1: blame the needles. The Needle Organization of America has something
Speaker 1: to answer to. They're delivered the product. If we didn't
Speaker 1: have needles, then they wouldn't have taken steroids. To blame somebody, Wow, Yes,
Speaker 1: if they're an astro Yankee spring training game where a
Speaker 1: little buzz the tower a little bit just to get
Speaker 1: something hot going, send a little message about how they
Speaker 1: sold the World Series? Do you just get it over
Speaker 1: with where you go? You know, I bring in somebody
Speaker 1: and they're gonna throw hard. You just say, look, hey,
Speaker 1: l twobe, it's gonna hurt, but you know, sorry, gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta drill you. Bregman, I gotta hit you The
Speaker 1: only people really talking are the former Astros guys who
Speaker 1: are on different rosters now. And you had a meeting
Speaker 1: last night to prepare yourself for today. Was the owner
Speaker 1: in the meeting? Because the players probably said, Hey, could
Speaker 1: somebody draw up something that I can sound remorseful here?
Speaker 1: What what will the media buy? Because if that was
Speaker 1: the case, they didn't do a very good job. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry. You know we we we learned from this. Yes,
Speaker 1: I got at a clip that you're gonna love you
Speaker 1: more than it. About fifteen minutes ago, Jim Crane of
Speaker 1: the Astros had this response, Okay, mister Krane, where do
Speaker 1: you have to say that the Yankees and teams as
Speaker 1: you beat in seventeen Yankees have had a few comments
Speaker 1: out there? Um, you know our opinion is U you
Speaker 1: know that this didn't impact the game. Um, we had
Speaker 1: a good team. Um we won the World Series and
Speaker 1: we'll leave it at that. Two minutes later, Jim Crane
Speaker 1: was asked this, Jim, when talking about the Yankees there,
Speaker 1: did you say you feel like this didn't impact the game?
Speaker 1: And what do you mean by back? I didn't say
Speaker 1: it didn't impact the game. Oh boy, No, I did
Speaker 1: not say that you have the accent if we didn't impact.
Speaker 1: You said impact. I said impact, impat v, it didn't
Speaker 1: impact the game? Play him back to back again, Mr Krame,
Speaker 1: What do you have to say that the Yankees and
Speaker 1: teams that you beat in seventeen? Listen, the Yankees have
Speaker 1: had a few comments out there. Um, you know our
Speaker 1: opinion is and UM, you know that this didn't impact
Speaker 1: the game. Um, we had a good team. Um, we
Speaker 1: won the World Series and we're lable to God. Jim,
Speaker 1: when talking about the Yankees there, did you say you
Speaker 1: feel like this didn't impact the game. What do you
Speaker 1: mean by that? I didn't say it didn't impact the game.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't say, hey, we won the World
Speaker 1: Series unfair and square. Okay, I didn't say that, Yes
Speaker 1: you did. You said you won the World Series unfair
Speaker 1: and square. Hey, Jim, Mike Smiths with sports else, what
Speaker 1: the hell are you talking about? What are you talking about? Jim?
Speaker 1: Do you know that these microphones are on? Oh god,
Speaker 1: that's good scrubs soup. I'm glad that that. You know,
Speaker 1: some of these reporters followed up with that because that
Speaker 1: one where it didn't impact the game. I probably would that.
Speaker 1: That's one of those where you know you see people
Speaker 1: writing down things, like the members of the media. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll be listening to you, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you'll say something to go, flash cubes go, flash
Speaker 1: balls go off there. Yes, don it's like that SNL
Speaker 1: Martin short tacter. We liked Tom, you said, I, of
Speaker 1: course I cheated chet. What would you say that? We
Speaker 1: wouldn't do we want an unfair and square? But you
Speaker 1: said unfair? No? I didn't you said that. No, you
Speaker 1: said that. I didn't say that. Oh boy, I know that.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you think I knew that? No, we want
Speaker 1: fair and square. Though jose L Twove is at his
Speaker 1: locker taking questions, MLB Network is showing that we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that, keep an eye on that many
Speaker 1: trash can giveaway for the first five hundred fans. That's uh,
Speaker 1: the astor the Yankees single a team that'll be Thursday,
Speaker 1: September third. All right, kind of a long way away there,
Speaker 1: but okay, I guess getting used to that. People are
Speaker 1: going to have we come up with a T shirt? Yet,
Speaker 1: do we do we want an unfair and square? Do
Speaker 1: you want to do that T shirt here Astro's logo
Speaker 1: A big square still felt really well in hues. Yes
Speaker 1: they will. Yeah, well, I hope those fans have a
Speaker 1: sense humor down here. Hey, you got a world series
Speaker 1: out of it. Congratulate. One hundred nations around the world
Speaker 1: have now declared the International Consentatives Finding a US that
Speaker 1: we are causing it and that the impacts are going
Speaker 1: to be catastrophic. Yeah, that's what are you saying. Did
Speaker 1: you know that since nineteen eighty eight we've had the
Speaker 1: nine hottest years on record. I know that. I know that.
Speaker 1: I representing our companies, I would be very aware of that.
Speaker 1: Did you know that your oil industry clients received sixty
Speaker 1: five billion dollars a year in taxpayer funded subsidies from
Speaker 1: our federal government. Of course I know that, but we
Speaker 1: give a lot of that money back to Congressman into
Speaker 1: the White House. The long even stoke in this cigarette.
Speaker 1: It has got this crazy long hatching wedding. It may
Speaker 1: look at the cha What poll question do you have, mclovin,
Speaker 1: I did if you were Eric the Enemy, which job
Speaker 1: would do all Kansas City keeps Offensive Coordinator, which he
Speaker 1: currently has, or the Colorado Buffalo's job sixty four percentage,
Speaker 1: Stay with Casey. There's a report that the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: gonna offer Dak Prescott a five year deal. Do you
Speaker 1: see this, mclovin and out? Yeah? That that apparently they're
Speaker 1: offering or have offered, or will offer him a five
Speaker 1: year deal which guaranteed. Why don't know, right? I mean,
Speaker 1: if I'm the Cowboys at this point, you know I
Speaker 1: would guarantee it, you know. But can I get him
Speaker 1: for a little less? Is what I would want? Although
Speaker 1: if I'm Dak Prescott he probably goes. We already got
Speaker 1: a great team here, Like, you don't need me to
Speaker 1: take less to have a great team. We have all
Speaker 1: the pieces here and a new head coach. Come again, Yeah, mclub,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this for content, but are you hearing
Speaker 1: anything about Tom Brady and the Patriots or the charges
Speaker 1: or anything? Or it's everything in limbo? Because what if
Speaker 1: everybody just goes back to their teams and there's no
Speaker 1: free agency period here to talk about somebody's leaving something
Speaker 1: something dramatic will happen in the draft up top. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, somebody's going in to get to a talk
Speaker 1: to somebody last night and said, you're dead on the
Speaker 1: person who told me about Baker Mayfield moving up and
Speaker 1: the Browns we're going to take in number one overall
Speaker 1: said to me last night, someone will go up and
Speaker 1: get to a somebody is going to go get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's most likely that the Giants trade,
Speaker 1: then well, the Lions may take him. I know there's
Speaker 1: a report out and the Lions deny that of shopping
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. If I'm the Lions, I would be shopping Matthew.
Speaker 1: If you said I can trade Matthew Stafford, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you get from Matthew Stafford. Let's say you
Speaker 1: get a number one in a two. Maybe you get
Speaker 1: more than that. I don't know his value now, and
Speaker 1: I can get Tah now I have my five year
Speaker 1: window where the salary is not killing me, and I
Speaker 1: don't have to trade anything. I don't have to trade
Speaker 1: up to get to him unless somebody goes into number two.
Speaker 1: And that's where I think the drama is going to be.
Speaker 1: That's where I think it's going to be. I just
Speaker 1: had a good tweak. The Astro's logic is I can
Speaker 1: no longer blame Fritzie for rambling on the show. It's
Speaker 1: Dan's fault for allowing him to do it. Fritzie needed guidance.
Speaker 1: It's not necessary. I think that's fair, and I'll take
Speaker 1: the blame for you rambling on top. You've said cutting
Speaker 1: him half and half again, and it's still When did
Speaker 1: I tell you that fifteen years ago? Maybe fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: almost eighteen years and probably within the first couple of
Speaker 1: years as shore. Yeah, but you haven't been on the
Speaker 1: air that so it's been twelve years that you've been
Speaker 1: on the air. I'm just not getting it. You got
Speaker 1: to give him a learning curve. I know, twelve years.
Speaker 1: I know. Hey, I take the blame here. I take
Speaker 1: the blame for your fault. But I'd always say to
Speaker 1: Todd cut it in half and then cut it in
Speaker 1: half again. I'd make the sign of the cross, half
Speaker 1: and then half half. Still I still concerned about that
Speaker 1: because I know, I know, and I apologize to your rabbi. Yeah, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be drama here. You have an
Speaker 1: X teammate of Tom Brady's. You know, let me take
Speaker 1: a break here. We'll come back with this. Who knows,
Speaker 1: we may get more stupid answers from the astros, and
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Speaker 1: Lebron James with a triple double last night, the first
Speaker 1: player in NBA history to record multiple thirty point triple
Speaker 1: doubles after turning thirty five. In fact, only two other
Speaker 1: players have done so even once, Kobe Bryant and Larry Bird.
Speaker 1: I you know, I remember at the start of the
Speaker 1: season that it was Kawhi Leonard was going to be
Speaker 1: the MVP. Kawhide's now the best player in the NBA,
Speaker 1: And I said, you guys are crazy. You know, there's
Speaker 1: this anti Lebron bias. And I said, he's still to me,
Speaker 1: best player in the game, and he's motivated. After last
Speaker 1: season we got embarrassed last season. You get Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and it feels like they're you know, they're still the
Speaker 1: team to beat here. Now. I don't know how they're
Speaker 1: gonna match up with Milwaukee because Milwaukee keeps rolling along here.
Speaker 1: But watching Lebron last night, you just we take him
Speaker 1: for granted because this is an incredibly unique player in
Speaker 1: the history of the sport when you combine and I
Speaker 1: know it's blasphemous to say magic and Michael, but that's
Speaker 1: the combo platter you Yet with him, he's a spectacular player.
Speaker 1: And when we look at players and we say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of the great scores of all time. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you say the top five highlights that Lebron will
Speaker 1: have on his resume, one is a defensive play. A
Speaker 1: block shot on Andrea ugudwas so one of the greatest
Speaker 1: plays in the history of Lebron James's career was a
Speaker 1: defensive play. How many great players can you say that about.
Speaker 1: He's got all the offensive plays, He's got all those highlights.
Speaker 1: I mean, Michael Jordan. One of the top five plays
Speaker 1: is he stripped Karl Malone of the ball and then
Speaker 1: set up that game winning shot to win the title
Speaker 1: in Utah. But the strip we forget about because he
Speaker 1: needed to do that to then hit the game winning shot.
Speaker 1: But how many great players, when you think about, do
Speaker 1: they have something other what's their signature highlight reel? And
Speaker 1: for Lebron James, I still need he's underrated. I do
Speaker 1: now do I have problems with him? Sometimes lack of
Speaker 1: leadership makes you know, the social media he can have cryptic, yes,
Speaker 1: all of those things. If you look at the totality
Speaker 1: of his career, with who he is, his family, what
Speaker 1: he does charity, you know he's taken on some big
Speaker 1: opportunities here. Certainly going to Los Angeles left him open
Speaker 1: to criticism here, going back to Cleveland left him up.
Speaker 1: And when he left Cleveland still has handled this pretty well,
Speaker 1: single family household. He's done pretty well, made himself a billionaire,
Speaker 1: pretty special. And to watch him play, I feel honored
Speaker 1: I get to watch him play, continue to watch him play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the club. I love that question the signature play
Speaker 1: because I think of the block immediately. What is Jordan's
Speaker 1: one play switching hands? No, because that wasn't even necessary.
Speaker 1: I give you look at that play, You're like, you
Speaker 1: could have just shot a simple layout. Oh Brian Russell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he pushed off on Russell and made the shot,
Speaker 1: I'd say, you'd have to put a dunk in there.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if there's a signature dunk unless
Speaker 1: it's the jump man dunk that got him his logo there.
Speaker 1: But how many great players can you say they also
Speaker 1: have a signature defensive play. Now you might say, I
Speaker 1: don't even value that, But there was a while where
Speaker 1: Lebron got criticized because he wasn't playing defense whenever that
Speaker 1: last year. So he can't say, well, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: because it didn't matter because people were criticizing Lebron James. Yes, pot.
Speaker 1: The one thing about Jordan's Bulls they never went to
Speaker 1: a game seven in the finals. They didn't have They
Speaker 1: only had the one against you know again of a game.
Speaker 1: They went to game six a couple of times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: game six, But I don't think they went to a
Speaker 1: game No, they did not Seattle. They went game six, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: they went game six, I believe. Yes, I got another
Speaker 1: defense about bird birds stole the ball or did habite
Speaker 1: sad the ball? But bird Birds Birds Steel is one
Speaker 1: of the top five because that's the Isaiah inbounds pass
Speaker 1: at the garden when Bird slipped in there stole it
Speaker 1: and then Pattis passed it to Dennis Johnson. So bird
Speaker 1: Bird has a great a guy who wasn't considered a
Speaker 1: great even a good defensive player. Yeah, was he? I
Speaker 1: was about that? Was he played the lanes a little bit.
Speaker 1: He did yes, Larry would have a lot of steels,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't a great If Larry was guarding you,
Speaker 1: you probably felt pretty good about that. You didn't want
Speaker 1: to guard him. But yeah, I just watching Lebron and
Speaker 1: he's going to end up in that statistical category. You know,
Speaker 1: if there was no Michael Jordan, would Lebron James be
Speaker 1: the greatest player of all time? That is white hot? Right,
Speaker 1: Lebron would go down in history. Is the greatest player
Speaker 1: of all time? Or Kareem Lebron over Kareem. I don't
Speaker 1: think Kareem goes a second most. No, he's not. But
Speaker 1: he's another guy. It's hard to say somebody's overrated or underrated.
Speaker 1: It's a big guy, Kareem. Yes, it's the big guy
Speaker 1: thing that he's Kareem. Kareem made it look so easy. Yeah, pull,
Speaker 1: I've always thought guys like Kareem and others suffered because
Speaker 1: of the TV era, and they had their peak years
Speaker 1: weren't in the TV era. If you look at if
Speaker 1: you say that the NBA really started to get hot
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty, he was thirty three years old. Kareem
Speaker 1: was thirty three when you started seeing him on National
Speaker 1: TV you basically, I mean you guys like you did.
Speaker 1: But his twenties were not on national TV. You didn't
Speaker 1: see his days with the Bucks. I mean he was
Speaker 1: everything thirty four and sixteen, Yeah, at twenty three years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he came in with Milwaukee. I remember the first
Speaker 1: time he went against Wilt Chamberlain and Wilt was a
Speaker 1: defensive minded guy. That it and then I went, oh,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna go well for Wilton. You know, Kareem
Speaker 1: was so good, so fluid he was. He was wonderful
Speaker 1: to watch. I mean even Doctor Ja. You didn't get
Speaker 1: to see Doc. I saw him in the ABA at
Speaker 1: one time in person, and I believe with the Virginia
Speaker 1: Squires might have been the Nets, but they were playing
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Colonels. But watching Doctor Jay and I just thought,
Speaker 1: and he's and I loved the ABA, but he I
Speaker 1: just said, man, he's going to display, but nobody's seeing him.
Speaker 1: And then he got to Philadelphia and then we saw
Speaker 1: I mean he was really good. And that in that
Speaker 1: NBA Finals when they lost to Portland, Doc was the
Speaker 1: best player on the floor. I mean, I love Bill Walton.
Speaker 1: Doc was a bad, bad man that that series. The
Speaker 1: problem is he didn't have anybody else who stepped up
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, and age thirty, Doctor Jay and Philly
Speaker 1: when again NBA started getting on TV. Here was twenty
Speaker 1: five points, eight rebounds, five assists, two steals and two blocks.
Speaker 1: That's a full player and he was. He was exclusive. Now,
Speaker 1: he wasn't as as Paula stall Around as some of
Speaker 1: these other great players of all time. But Doc on
Speaker 1: the break, uh, he was. He was going to dunk
Speaker 1: on you. He was. He was wonderful to watch and
Speaker 1: a great man. Too wonderful man to be around the
Speaker 1: fact that he allowed me in Utah, that same series
Speaker 1: where Jordan wonted, you know with the jump over Russell.
Speaker 1: We played golf and we were backed up on a
Speaker 1: tee and there was a basketball court right by the
Speaker 1: tea box, I think on the fifteenth hole, and I said,
Speaker 1: do you want to go shoot around? And they had
Speaker 1: lowered the you could lower the hoop, and I lowered
Speaker 1: the hoop to probably like eight feet or something, and
Speaker 1: then I said the doc, hey, would you stand underneath
Speaker 1: the hoop? And he goes, yeah, why, I said, I
Speaker 1: want to dunk on you? And he thought it was
Speaker 1: so he thought it was so funny, and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say I dunked over Doctor J. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: I was a little young for Doctor J. But I
Speaker 1: remember watching back then and he was sort of on
Speaker 1: his way out of the league, but I remember they're
Speaker 1: sort of like making this connection between Doctor J and
Speaker 1: dunking and him sort of handing off the baton to
Speaker 1: Dominique Wilkins, and like that was like this new era
Speaker 1: that was taking it to a whole other level, you know,
Speaker 1: with the tomahawk and just connecting those two. They've always
Speaker 1: been sort of linked in my mind. And also he
Speaker 1: did the takeoff from the dotted line. Doc had I
Speaker 1: think one of the greatest players in NBA history against
Speaker 1: the seventy six or against the Lakers, where he went
Speaker 1: from one side of the hoop to the other, and
Speaker 1: it was just even when you watch it in slow motion.
Speaker 1: So you had that one and then the dunk on
Speaker 1: Michael Cooper when Coop goes up and he goes, oh no,
Speaker 1: I he was going up. Doc was still going up
Speaker 1: and Cooper was like, oh no, and then he cupped it.
Speaker 1: He did a cup of soup and then you know,
Speaker 1: slammed it on a n Coop was that one was
Speaker 1: not fair. I love when a guy challenges a dunk.
Speaker 1: I always respected that, and Coop went he was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I got no shot here. But when Doc
Speaker 1: did that, those were two of the great moves when
Speaker 1: you think about it, certainly with Doctor Jay all right,
Speaker 1: got off on a tangent there. But just watching Lebron
Speaker 1: last night and the Lakers are on a roll here
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis and I love watching Anthony Davis shoot threes
Speaker 1: because that is a big man who worked on shooting threes.
Speaker 1: He has a beautiful stroke. Anthony Davis has a wonderful stroke.
Speaker 1: And I go back to when I ran into the
Speaker 1: general manager of the Pelicans demps when he was in
Speaker 1: New York at a working out at a club, and
Speaker 1: I saw him as he came out, and we just
Speaker 1: started talking and he introduced himself and he said wait,
Speaker 1: because he said, I know you love Anthony Davis. He said,
Speaker 1: wait till next year. He's working on a three point shot,
Speaker 1: and he was. He became a very good three point shooter.
Speaker 1: Beautiful form, really wonderful form, all right, and he had
Speaker 1: a double double. I think last night he had thirty
Speaker 1: points there as well. Yeah, Pa, speaking a big man
Speaker 1: with a shot. I was watching Carl Anthony Towns the
Speaker 1: other day. His first year in the league, he barely
Speaker 1: took any three. He's eight nineteenth in the league and
Speaker 1: three point shooting percentage, yeah, forty one percent from three.
Speaker 1: He's seven feet tall. He ever just eight threes attempted
Speaker 1: per game. He's in the upper echelon of three point shooters. Now,
Speaker 1: did you guys? You guys probably didn't. But I want Bruce. Why.
Speaker 1: I text out to mclove and I said, Hey, who's
Speaker 1: got it better than me? I'm watching the Hornets and
Speaker 1: the Pistons tonight in the Magic Pistons Magic, the same thing,
Speaker 1: Pistons in the Magic Who's got it better than me?
Speaker 1: And then I flipped over to watch Alabama against Auburn
Speaker 1: because I thought, all right, let me find out. I
Speaker 1: like Bruce Pearl and Auburn was great last year. Let
Speaker 1: me see if Alabama's interesting. Alabama attempted fifty nine to
Speaker 1: three pointers, most attempts by a major conference team all time,
Speaker 1: fifty nine. They mean, thirty seven percent of their fifty nine,
Speaker 1: and they lost fifty nine of their eighty more field
Speaker 1: goal attempts. Man so the threes accounted for fifty nine
Speaker 1: of their eighty four field goal attempts. God, I was
Speaker 1: born too late. I was, Oh my god, that's all
Speaker 1: I could do, folks, It's all I could know. Hey,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean I would have done it, but I
Speaker 1: could shoot you. And Pete Merrivitch born too early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Marrivitch still did a little better than I did. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's look at the totality of our lives here.
Speaker 1: I think I've done a little better. But Pete died
Speaker 1: tragically at the age of forty. I've died a few
Speaker 1: times with my career. Thank you, Todd. I hate when
Speaker 1: you talk about dead, I know, like, but I have to.
Speaker 1: It's inevitable, Todd. I don't know what to talk about it,
Speaker 1: Like what we're gonna who's gonna be your pall bearers,
Speaker 1: and what years it's gonna play, and with the speech
Speaker 1: is gonna be like all that stuff? Am I gonna
Speaker 1: be in the memorium with the oscars a lot of
Speaker 1: morbid stuff. But I'm gonna call them paul bearers. And
Speaker 1: you have to be named Paul to carry me, carry
Speaker 1: me to that final resting spot. So I got an
Speaker 1: automatic bid. Yeah, you do how any other pause? Do
Speaker 1: you know? Oh, there'll be people to be more than
Speaker 1: willing to volunteer. Know how strong he is though tall,
Speaker 1: he's tall. Just put him in the middle of the okay,
Speaker 1: the sixth and then it's not much weight. Yeah. Becaues
Speaker 1: have to be sports figures like Warfield or Westfall Blair.
Speaker 1: Do you need like Paul, Paul, you can probably do it.
Speaker 1: Paul Mlkovski, the former Milwaukee Bucks Center. He's free, big mo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got toime. Yeah, Paul. Yes, he's not doing anything,
Speaker 1: and he's the seven footer. He'll be able to carry
Speaker 1: a little bit of the weight there. So Paul bearers molitor,
Speaker 1: Oh Molly, I be nice. Hall of Famer good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Paul gets to speak, right, I mean, because he will
Speaker 1: be very upset if he doesn't. He loves writing. He
Speaker 1: got to give him for to six. But then he's
Speaker 1: gonna save from six feet way downtown. Bangs. When they
Speaker 1: put me into the ground, they'll do the sports center. No, die,
Speaker 1: die die goodbye. No. No, we did that, we did that.
Speaker 1: We did Uh. Did you see where Tom Brady's teammatete. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I know there is no smooth you know what, how
Speaker 1: about I take a break here? Understand the death thing
Speaker 1: thing coming to an end? Yeah, Brady? Yeah? Oh is
Speaker 1: it over for Tommy Gony in New England? Okay? Is
Speaker 1: Jak Prescott getting offered a six year deal? Here? I'm
Speaker 1: seeing some outlets that normally don't give credit to people
Speaker 1: with breaking news just saying that they're the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: offering guy Dak Prescott a six year contract. McLean, I'll
Speaker 1: see why I spread reporting on it yet, but I'll
Speaker 1: keep looking here. Yeah, it's like, I'm not surprised that
Speaker 1: I think they want to get this done before March.
Speaker 1: And that's why I didn't buy into the Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Do you think that all of a sudden, Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: Agment's going, Hey, they're the good about Brady. We we
Speaker 1: better go back to the negotiating table. It was the
Speaker 1: only reason why I thought that story came out was
Speaker 1: the Cowboys wanted it to come out. There's some way
Speaker 1: to get leverage on Dak Prescott. But if you're Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: you know you're you're you already were banking on yourself here,
Speaker 1: so why would you be nervous about that? But is
Speaker 1: Brady's numbers are his days in New England numbered. At
Speaker 1: least one of his former teammates says one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: are welcome. By the way, we have some new baseball rules.
Speaker 1: You guys follow on any of this stuff. They want
Speaker 1: to speed up the pace of play. It feels like
Speaker 1: baseball's in a crisis mode. It does. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: I'm overstating this, but man Baseball's reactionary. The minimum three
Speaker 1: batter rule requires a starter or reliever to face a
Speaker 1: minimum of three batters. Commissioner believes this will help the
Speaker 1: pace ap plight. Well, of course, it will. Won't allow
Speaker 1: managers to make those midianning lefty righty matchup pitching changes
Speaker 1: lefty on lefty all right. Rosters expand from twenty five
Speaker 1: to twenty six at on September. First, let me see
Speaker 1: what else. Managers have only twenty seconds after a given
Speaker 1: play to decide whether they want to challenge it or not.
Speaker 1: Last year they had thirty seconds. And the use of
Speaker 1: position players taking them out will be limited to games
Speaker 1: in extra innings or games in which one team is
Speaker 1: winning by six runs or more. Yes, PAULI, So let's
Speaker 1: say a relief pitcher comes in in the seventh inning,
Speaker 1: couple of men on, he walks the first guy he
Speaker 1: walks the second guy on eight straight pitches. Extreme situation.
Speaker 1: He must stay in a game for the third batter, yes,
Speaker 1: Or if he gives up back to back home runs,
Speaker 1: he must stay in the game for the third batter. Yes.
Speaker 1: I won't be boring. No, but you know, you've had
Speaker 1: managers who have kind of abused these situations. And Tony Larusa,
Speaker 1: the genius, was always bringing in Lefty on left I
Speaker 1: mean it took forever, and I think baseball is really
Speaker 1: really concerned. If you love baseball, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: changes they're implemented. I don't think you're leaving the game
Speaker 1: if you love the game. But if you're trying to
Speaker 1: get a whole new audience, which baseball is trying to do, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know I would kick the tires on a couple
Speaker 1: of these, Absolutely, I would do that. I would just go, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is really crazy? What is interesting? What would be
Speaker 1: something that somebody would be interested in? If you look
Speaker 1: at what happens now, most of what is consumed by
Speaker 1: a younger audience is through social media. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many how many kids teams. You know, millennials are
Speaker 1: staying up to watch Jimmy Fallon or James Gordon, but
Speaker 1: they're going to be following something that's released, you know,
Speaker 1: the following day. Those clips they get. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the number is the number of people who consume
Speaker 1: those clips a moment from an interview as opposed to
Speaker 1: watching the live show. I mean, it's got to be
Speaker 1: an incredible ratio there. And that's really what it is.
Speaker 1: Baseball is consumed. It feels like by a younger audience
Speaker 1: just by a clip. And we're watching basketball highlights. Now
Speaker 1: I look, I watch, but I like to be massochistic.
Speaker 1: I got the NBA pass and I'm watching all of
Speaker 1: these games. But I'm in the minority. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: somebody sitting through an entire game, and even college basketball,
Speaker 1: but it feels like, Hey, did you see that play
Speaker 1: that happened? Hey do you see that dunk by Lebron?
Speaker 1: It's not you know, I was wondering about this with
Speaker 1: the Lakers transition defense. You know, I didn't really notice that,
Speaker 1: or you know on the defensive end, Boy, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be really formal. Nobody's watching the game that way because
Speaker 1: everybody wants it. Now, just tell me enough about it
Speaker 1: and then I can form my opinion, Yeah, my club,
Speaker 1: But how do you And I've heard this a lot.
Speaker 1: The NBA rating so matter because everyone's consuming it on
Speaker 1: YouTube and Instagram. But now is that it's easy to monetize?
Speaker 1: Is all the advertising and you plaster throughout a game?
Speaker 1: I don't know that. If I'm a TV executive, I'd
Speaker 1: still be a little nervous that now I'm asking these
Speaker 1: sponsors to pony up money during a game, as opposed
Speaker 1: to why don't I have an advertiser attached to my highlight?
Speaker 1: Am I going to get more eyes on that than
Speaker 1: I would the actual game? Yeah? So, but you see
Speaker 1: stories about this might be a little apples and oranges
Speaker 1: where like they just say Chris John Ronaldo makes more
Speaker 1: money from Instagram than he does actually playing soccer. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean so, like clearly this type of thing is
Speaker 1: you can monetize social media and those types of streams
Speaker 1: and feeds. If everybody's watching those cliffs, you can see
Speaker 1: how many millions of people are watching highlights now, But like,
Speaker 1: isn't the money spread out like Christiano Ronama makes that money?
Speaker 1: Is the league making all that money? Like the NBA
Speaker 1: gives up a lot of power to Instagram and YouTube.
Speaker 1: They do if money is getting split up ways they
Speaker 1: pie don't love yeah, and I don't know if they
Speaker 1: can get a piece of that back. Now they can
Speaker 1: say you can't use their highlights, but they want you
Speaker 1: to promote the game, So it's sort of a double
Speaker 1: edged sword there, Yeah, poem. Also, baseball highlights are not
Speaker 1: like football and basketball highlights. They're more creative than original baseball.
Speaker 1: A triple' is not that exciting. No matter how much
Speaker 1: fast that guy runs, it's a triple. It's formatted. Baseball
Speaker 1: is such a formatted sport that the highlights are not
Speaker 1: a great strikeout. The guy swings a bat he misses.
Speaker 1: There's nothing especially exciting or original about the highlights they're
Speaker 1: pumping out. I mentioned Tom Brady, an next teammate, says
Speaker 1: that the Patriots are one hundred percent done with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: The former New England tight end and current sports radio
Speaker 1: host Christian Fourier believes the Patriots aren't interest in signing
Speaker 1: Brady when he hits free agency in March. Now once
Speaker 1: again he does. That's what he believes, not what he's reporting,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be reported that way. Fourier thinks
Speaker 1: that Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft won't be putting a
Speaker 1: competitive deal on the table. Quote. I believe the Patriots
Speaker 1: are done. He was on WEEI with Glenn Ordway. I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots are okay and ready to move on.
Speaker 1: Everything that comes out from the NFL reporter Ian Rappaport
Speaker 1: is just bogusness. It's fake, it's narrative changing its camouflage.
Speaker 1: It's not the truth, because there is going to be.
Speaker 1: It's not our fault. Fans they know Brady's not coming back,
Speaker 1: all right. I don't know what exactly that means that
Speaker 1: what Ian Rappaport is putting out is, so who's giving
Speaker 1: him that information? And what is the game plan at quarterback?
Speaker 1: Here one team already waiting in line to offer Brady
Speaker 1: a boatload of money, The Oakland Rays, they want to
Speaker 1: pitch Brady, per ESPN. The Vegas Raiders. Now they didn't
Speaker 1: even get They didn't even get that right. There will
Speaker 1: likely be more suitors to emerge in the coming weeks
Speaker 1: leading up to March eighteenth, when free agency officially begins
Speaker 1: legal tampering as March sixteenth, so is christianher Boria saying
Speaker 1: that Ian Rapperport is getting stuff from the Patriots to
Speaker 1: make a team like the Patriots want him. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: the Patriots behind the scenes you don't really want him.
Speaker 1: Is that what he's saying that? I believe if I'm
Speaker 1: reading between the lines, that the Patriots are putting out
Speaker 1: a narrative that hey, we want Brady back, but in
Speaker 1: reality they're not acting that way. Yeah. Wow, they know
Speaker 1: it's the quarterback. I have no idea because now you
Speaker 1: start to look at is it a short term You're
Speaker 1: gonna bring somebody in it? Is Jared Stidham going to
Speaker 1: be the answer here? The Patriots in line for a
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback Andy Dalton? Would he be a guy that
Speaker 1: would fit in there'd he'd be grateful if he got
Speaker 1: that job. Yeah, I'm the club. Do they want a
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback? Maybe a very mobile quarterback out of New Orleans?
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill? He tried with Tebow? Why not? You love
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill? Right, I do. I'm in the Taysom Hill,
Speaker 1: the ever growing bandwire gonna Taysom Hill? Would you get
Speaker 1: him better since the season end of something? Would you would? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He hadn't played in a while, but he somehow got better.
Speaker 1: Would you turn your team over to Taysom Hill, Like
Speaker 1: if I like, say the Philadeppe Eagles. No, no, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about like Carolina Carolina. Probably not no, maybe, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you have to make a decision. Maybe here's a situation.
Speaker 1: I don't have any good wide receivers, have a good
Speaker 1: running game. I want to do ball control. Yes, I
Speaker 1: would take Tasom Hill in Carolina. And I know I
Speaker 1: mentioned about Matthew Stafford maybe on the trade deadline or
Speaker 1: trading block, but I know that the Lions would take
Speaker 1: a big cap hit. But you're gonna have you get
Speaker 1: the reset button at some point in Detroit, and you
Speaker 1: rarely have, you know, a top five pick where you
Speaker 1: can go get somebody if you think that Tua is
Speaker 1: really really special. You know, the Colts had that opportunity
Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck when Peyton Manning got injured and they
Speaker 1: went all in and said goodbye to Peyton Manning. Do
Speaker 1: you have a Taystom Hill prop beet, Polly, I was
Speaker 1: gonnasked mclove and if I set the over under at
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half touchdown passes for Taysom Hill next year,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, under well, if he's a starting NFL quarterback,
Speaker 1: it should be way over. I think you're gonna say passes. No,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not take a Dutch hound. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a starting quarterback next year. Final Hour Coming Up
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