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Speaker 3: How are you feeling this more?
Speaker 4: Fuddy feeling pretty good?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: You said you got a lot of energy.
Speaker 6: I didn't stay out that light.
Speaker 4: You gotta have a lot of energy to explain why
Speaker 4: everything that you said last week was incorrect.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, just.
Speaker 4: Looking at the rundown, I was just like, this is
Speaker 4: what we said was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Man, all right, you know what, let's just start the show.
Speaker 5: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Welcome in What's Right?
Speaker 6: Nick Wright Podcast, YouTube Show, episode number seventy two. By
Speaker 6: the way, a quick note for the folks also watched
Speaker 6: the TV show. Thanks to the time chains of the
Speaker 6: show to the afternoons and some soccer that's coming up
Speaker 6: as the World Cup is right around the corner, we
Speaker 6: actually won't be back on television until Tuesday, which means
Speaker 6: now is a great time to be checking out the
Speaker 6: podcast and the YouTube show because it's gonna be the
Speaker 6: first place you can hear my thoughts on this weekend's football.
Speaker 6: And we of course have the gambling show coming out tomorrow.
Speaker 6: But demanse, I'm fired up for today's show. There's a
Speaker 6: lot we got to get into. But as we always do,
Speaker 6: before we get into our lead story, here are the
Speaker 6: stories that did not make the cut for today's show.
Speaker 6: First thing that's we're not discussing is Mayweather McGregor too teased.
Speaker 6: I might have been interested in that five years ago
Speaker 6: Mike evans suspension upheld.
Speaker 3: I am gonna say something on that. Briefly.
Speaker 6: It's just ridiculous. First of all, the NFL should have
Speaker 6: incorporated fact he's protecting Tom Brady, which is what they
Speaker 6: want him to do. Second of all, he didn't throw
Speaker 6: a punch a Lotimore, didn't get hurt, he didn't swing
Speaker 6: at helmet, he didn't have to spend him. Third of all,
Speaker 6: to America's game of the Week Bucks Packers, who was
Speaker 6: clamoring for Mike Evans to be suspended stupid And on
Speaker 6: a serious note, looks like Ima Udoka, the coach year
Speaker 6: basketball team Demansea, is going to be suspended. I read
Speaker 6: Woj's story. They talk about an inappropriate consent ual relationship
Speaker 6: with a female team employee. I the reason we're not
Speaker 6: talking about that today is I feel like we have
Speaker 6: about three percent of the information on what is a
Speaker 6: serious topic. So we're aware of it, and I don't
Speaker 6: feel comfortable until we get the real information. Discussing the
Speaker 6: basketball side of it, like what does this mean for
Speaker 6: the Celtics and all that. So we're aware of it,
Speaker 6: but we're not going to get into it until there's
Speaker 6: real deep reporting on it. What we can get into
Speaker 6: is Demonsee experiencing the third stage of gambling grief. He've
Speaker 6: experienced Stage one in the Ravens game, betting the right side,
Speaker 6: already spending the winnings in your head, and then having
Speaker 6: it stolen from you. Stage two was in the Bengals game,
Speaker 6: where he bet the wrong side. It was dead from
Speaker 6: the very beginning, and I warned you Stage three was
Speaker 6: going to be one of the most painful. Where you
Speaker 6: nail a pick, you have it exactly right, you're talked
Speaker 6: out of betting it, and then you realize how much
Speaker 6: money you could have made. So we're starting with the
Speaker 6: Bills go ahead. I should have heeded your warning, but
Speaker 6: the Bills shouldn't have heated my warning. I should heed
Speaker 6: my warning of not betting it.
Speaker 7: And therefore, yeah, I feel like I feel like if
Speaker 7: I heated your warning, you were warning me that I
Speaker 7: was gonna call it and get it directly.
Speaker 3: Correct, right, Okay, Yeah, that's correct. I did tell you that.
Speaker 6: You're right on a little bit differently after no, no, no,
Speaker 6: you're right. But I also warned you not to bet
Speaker 6: anymore because you lost all that money in week one, which,
Speaker 6: by the way, or week two, which by the way,
Speaker 6: they got something. You owe me a little bit still
Speaker 6: is still a little bit. And the juice the Jews
Speaker 6: starts running after a week, so you got two days
Speaker 6: to free. All right, go ahead, what the Bills?
Speaker 7: The Bills blow out the Titans forty one to seven.
Speaker 7: Remember I predicted this on the last pod. They win
Speaker 7: by seventeen. They obviously way overachieved on first things. First,
Speaker 7: you said that you're still not completely in on the
Speaker 7: Bills yet am I already a better better than you?
Speaker 4: By the way, that's what it kind of seems like.
Speaker 6: Oh this is beginners, first of all, because you get
Speaker 6: the Bills game, right. I didn't even tell you that
Speaker 6: that I wouldn't get that.
Speaker 4: Wasn't just the Bills game.
Speaker 3: But let's let's go ahead.
Speaker 4: Are you just are you a Bills hater because you're
Speaker 4: a Chiefs fan? All right?
Speaker 6: So first of all, this is where I'm gonna get
Speaker 6: a little frustrated, Okay, because my colleagues on the TV
Speaker 6: show misrepresent me, and now you, my son, and the
Speaker 6: producers of the podcast are misrepresenting me. I have not
Speaker 6: said I am not completely in on the Bills, yet,
Speaker 6: I have simply said I do not think they should
Speaker 6: be anointed the favorites. We have seen this in the
Speaker 6: NFL before, where there are two great teams in a conference.
Speaker 3: Two examples stick out to me.
Speaker 6: And in order for the little brother team to be
Speaker 6: considered the favorite, they've got to go beat the big brother.
Speaker 6: So Cowboys Niners in the nineties, they were the two
Speaker 6: best teams by far. The Cowboys repeatedly beat him in
Speaker 6: the playoffs in the early nineties. Now nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 6: the Niners got them, but a couple things happened. One
Speaker 6: is the.
Speaker 3: Cowboys lost their coach.
Speaker 6: The other is Dion Sanders went to the San Francisco
Speaker 6: forty nine ers. So you can say I have von
Speaker 6: Miller went to the Bills. I don't look at that
Speaker 6: as quite the same jump. Dion was still the single
Speaker 6: best corner in football. But even when that happened and
Speaker 6: the Niners did get them that year, they were not
Speaker 6: throughout the seasons like oh, Cowboys done.
Speaker 3: It's the Niners time.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give you another example, Patriots Colts in the
Speaker 6: early two thousands, the Patriots would kick their teeth in
Speaker 6: in the playoffs, and the Colts eventually got theirs, and
Speaker 6: so more on that. In a moment, Colts eventually got
Speaker 6: over the hump and beat them, great second half comeback.
Speaker 6: I think it was twenty one to three or twenty
Speaker 6: three at half time. The Patriots are gonna beat him
Speaker 6: for the third straight playoffs. And then Peyton came all
Speaker 6: the way back the year Peyton won his first Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: But throughout the year, no one was anointing the Colts
Speaker 6: because they hadn't beat the Patriots.
Speaker 5: Yet.
Speaker 6: I am not sitting here saying the Bills are not good.
Speaker 6: I am not sitting here doubting Josh Allen as I
Speaker 6: did last year when I called him roller coaster Josh Allen.
Speaker 6: What I am saying is that the Chiefs, in my opinion,
Speaker 6: have earned the right to be AFC favorites until proven otherwise.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I understand the Bengals beat them but in last year's playoffs,
Speaker 6: but nobody's picking the Bengals over the Chiefs right now.
Speaker 6: They're picking the Bills. Two years ago when the Chiefs
Speaker 6: were defending Super Bowl champions I had to listen, Oh,
Speaker 6: you gotta watch out for the Bills, and the Chiefs
Speaker 6: kicked their teeth in in the AFC Championship game last year.
Speaker 6: When the Chiefs have been back to back Super Bowls,
Speaker 6: won the conference two years in a row, I had
Speaker 6: to hear, oh, better watch out for the Bills. And
Speaker 6: they couldn't hold a three point lead for thirteen seconds,
Speaker 6: and then in overtime they couldn't get a stop. And
Speaker 6: now when the Chiefs are two and zero, Mahomes has
Speaker 6: played perfect football, at least statistically. I understand he had
Speaker 6: a few could have been interceptions. More on that in
Speaker 6: a moment. I gotta listen to the Bills are head
Speaker 6: and shoulders better than everybody.
Speaker 4: Why tell you you're just saying they have to beat
Speaker 4: the Chiefs first.
Speaker 6: You gotta beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: You got it, And.
Speaker 4: You're acknowledging that they're a great football team.
Speaker 6: I think there's they're the second or third best team
Speaker 6: in football that we mentioned Mayweather McGregor in boxing, if
Speaker 6: there were two awesome heavyweights and they fought the first
Speaker 6: time and the champ knocked him out in six rounds.
Speaker 6: They fought a second time and was real close. We
Speaker 6: went to the cards, but the Champ won a unanimous decision.
Speaker 6: There would be nothing the content the number one contender
Speaker 6: should be able to do before the third fight to
Speaker 6: be considered better until he beats the champ. Beat the
Speaker 6: champ Buffalo, that's all I'm saying. Well, play in Week six,
Speaker 6: I think, but they beat him in the regular season
Speaker 6: last year. I don't care about that.
Speaker 3: You got to beat the Chiefs in the playoffs. You
Speaker 3: just have to.
Speaker 6: Second of all, I got a couple other things on
Speaker 6: this one is everyone's like, oh my god, Buffalo has
Speaker 6: been so impressive, and they have.
Speaker 3: They've blown out two teams.
Speaker 6: I would argue, while the Chiefs have not been as
Speaker 6: dominant from a margin perspective, the Chiefs have played the
Speaker 6: tough competition. And what everyone is saying is all Buffalo
Speaker 6: blew out the defending Super Bowl champion Rams and the
Speaker 6: number one seed from last year of Titans. All right,
Speaker 6: let's talk about that for a The Titans are not
Speaker 6: they are trash. Don't give me that. They were the
Speaker 6: number one seed last year, and I believe the Chargers
Speaker 6: are better than the Rams. But at the very least.
Speaker 6: That's close. Everyone knows the Cardinals are betting the Titans,
Speaker 6: who are terrible. So there's that.
Speaker 3: And then the other thing that frustrates me is this.
Speaker 6: Josh Allen Week one. And by the way, the Bills
Speaker 6: every they've been dominant. They were dominating its the Titans,
Speaker 6: and they were dominant in the second half against the Rams.
Speaker 6: That that game was ten ten at halftime against the Rams.
Speaker 6: But neither here nor there. Josh Allen Week one throws
Speaker 6: a two picks. The first one it bounced off the
Speaker 6: receiver's chest, and I got Chris Collinsworth saying, oh that's
Speaker 6: aud we need to call it and make a new
Speaker 6: category in AHF's not his fault interceptions.
Speaker 3: Week two, Mahomes almost.
Speaker 6: Throws a pick or a couple actually, and I'm hearing people, oh,
Speaker 6: you know those really shit. So Mahomes non picks, Folks
Speaker 6: want to call picks Joshama's actual picks, Folks like take
Speaker 6: them off the board. It just I ate the Week one.
Speaker 6: I heard collins Worth say, try to create a new
Speaker 6: stack category for him, and I like collins with lot
Speaker 6: Week two Orlowski right before Josh Allen threw the strike
Speaker 6: I think it was just Stefan Dick for like fifty
Speaker 6: yards down the middle. He overthrew the full back on
Speaker 6: a wheel route down the sideline, and Arlofsky said, and
Speaker 6: I quote, that might be the greatest incomplete pass I've
Speaker 6: ever seen.
Speaker 3: Like, can we all just take a breath. That's all.
Speaker 6: So it's not that I'm a It's not that I'm
Speaker 6: a Bills hater. It's that the entirety of my media
Speaker 6: colleagues are crowning the Bills at twenty and ozero already,
Speaker 6: and I'm not ready to do it next We'll.
Speaker 4: See in week six.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Eagles astorre the Vikings sadly for you, Jalen
Speaker 7: Hurds played amazingly though he's ten and one to win
Speaker 7: the MVP. You say them just so you know one ye, yes, sorry,
Speaker 7: you say the Eagles are gonna win the division by
Speaker 7: three games.
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 7: Is there a scenario where your twenty fifth best quarterback
Speaker 7: is winning MVP?
Speaker 6: Okay, so a few things six weeks ago on the spot,
Speaker 6: you guys asked me about the Eagles. I'm like, calm down,
Speaker 6: They're not gonna win the division with that quarterback, right then?
Speaker 3: Dallas dealt with the injuries.
Speaker 6: I dug into a little bit more, and in my
Speaker 6: official preseason predictions, I had the Eagles winning the division
Speaker 6: by a game. Right then Dallas looked as horrible as
Speaker 6: they did in Week one and now and again you're listen.
Speaker 6: I didn't have a great gambling weekend. I understand that,
Speaker 6: and Philly has looked awesome, right and so I do
Speaker 6: believe Dallas is gonna win the Philly's gonna win the division.
Speaker 6: And I said by three games. I think Philly looks
Speaker 6: like an eleven win team. And I don't think Dallas
Speaker 6: or the Giants who played each other this weekend. And
Speaker 6: by the way, the Giants, after this weekend they get
Speaker 6: the Bears, Giants could be four and oh. Even though
Speaker 6: they get to four and oh, they're not good. They
Speaker 6: are not a good team. They still employed Daniel Jones.
Speaker 6: So I don't believe either those team's gonna be above
Speaker 6: five hundred. What is interesting for Philly is did I
Speaker 6: underrate Jalen Hurts. I'm open to that possibility. Thus, Fart
Speaker 6: looks like I did. I need to see a little
Speaker 6: bit more. What they did on Monday night was super impressive.
Speaker 6: He played a really good game against a team that
Speaker 6: I believe is a good team. And right now there
Speaker 6: is a spot where to my eyes, the Eagles are
Speaker 6: head and shoulders better than every other team in the AFS,
Speaker 6: in the NFCS. And so can he win MVP? I
Speaker 6: can't say it's impossible. It would be shocking to me.
Speaker 6: If he keeps up this level of play, keeps off
Speaker 6: this level of play, you can win MVP. Can they
Speaker 6: make the Super Bowl? I'm not gonna dismiss it as
Speaker 6: possibility because the Niners now have a ceiling because Jimmy's
Speaker 6: their quarterback. The Rams have been shaky the whole time,
Speaker 6: the Packers have been shaky. The Bucks offense isn't on track.
Speaker 6: It's hard to find that. Any jug ask question.
Speaker 7: Bit so you say the Niners have a ceiling because
Speaker 7: they have Jimmy G's quarterback. Getting off topic, but so,
Speaker 7: but when they had Trey Lance, they didn't have a ceiling.
Speaker 7: They were because I feel Super Bowl yes, correct, Yeah,
Speaker 7: Now with Jimmy G.
Speaker 6: With Jimmy G, they are more likely to be good
Speaker 6: right now. But you Jimmy G's played six career playoff games,
Speaker 6: has played poorly in all six, has never outplayed the
Speaker 6: opposing team's quarterback in a single playoff game. When they
Speaker 6: made the Super Bowl, they had a dominant defense. Now
Speaker 6: they have a very good defense. They lost some player
Speaker 6: personnel for defensive year. So Jimmy G. Trey Lance way
Speaker 6: way lower floor.
Speaker 3: Than Jimmy G. By the end of the season, I
Speaker 3: felt a higher ceiling. Jimmy G. We know what we're getting, right,
Speaker 3: I see and so right.
Speaker 6: And so it's not that I'm guaranteeing Trey Lance is
Speaker 6: going to be better than Jimmy Garoppolo, but the unknown
Speaker 6: when the known is I've tried to use this example.
Speaker 6: The example I use with Colin was this, if you
Speaker 6: were in a race New York to LA and you've
Speaker 6: been in that race every year for the last five years,
Speaker 6: and you've driven the same car, and every single time
Speaker 6: that car, whether you're winning the race, middle of the pack,
Speaker 6: wherever it is right around Phoenix, craps out, can't get there,
Speaker 6: and I say, year six, take that same car, or
Speaker 6: there's this sports car I built. I think it's can
Speaker 6: win the race. It also might crap out before you
Speaker 6: get to Kansas City. Which would you choose the one
Speaker 6: that you know is reliable, but you have half decade
Speaker 6: of evidence can't get you to the finish line or
Speaker 6: the unknown nice where you might it might blow up
Speaker 6: before you even get to Philadelphia, or you could win
Speaker 6: the race. I would argue option to be take the unknown.
Speaker 6: And so that's so do I think? I think the Niners,
Speaker 6: because the NFC is actually even a little worse than
Speaker 6: I had thought it was going to.
Speaker 3: Be, could still make the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: We'll see, but I have I think their ultimate ceiling
Speaker 6: went down with Jimmy Garoppolo being their quarterback.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 7: Next, Robert Sarvara is looking to sell the Suns and Mercury.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Sarva is known as one of the worst owners in
Speaker 7: professional sports history, but Phoenix always attracts free agent interests
Speaker 7: for some reason.
Speaker 4: If he sells the team in somebody competent, could this
Speaker 4: change the trajectory of their UH.
Speaker 6: Landscape, the NBA landscape. It's not just that he's a
Speaker 6: terrible guy, and we've talked sarver before.
Speaker 3: It's I Lebron.
Speaker 6: The NBA, PA, Chris Paul and others put pressure on
Speaker 6: him to sell because the NBA said one year suspension,
Speaker 6: ten million bucks, right.
Speaker 3: Lebron came out and said the league got it wrong.
Speaker 6: Other guys in Starver got shamed enough, and he's gonna
Speaker 6: walk away with a few billion dollars. Folks going be like, ah,
Speaker 6: he's getting canceled. Bought the team for less than half
Speaker 6: a billion, ran it terribly incredibly cheaply, sexually harassed men
Speaker 6: and women, allegedly used the N word repeatedly, allegedly, was
Speaker 6: just a misogynistic racist creep allegedly, And now he's gonna
Speaker 6: walk away, you know, with like three billion dollars. I
Speaker 6: think he'll be okay.
Speaker 4: Uh, But.
Speaker 3: Having if bait.
Speaker 6: They're talking about bezos might want to buy it, or
Speaker 6: Larry Ellison, the Oracle guy, having even by rich guy standards,
Speaker 6: one of the richest guys. Buy a team absolutely can
Speaker 6: change landscape. It's not just you change the organizational culture.
Speaker 6: It's that you also everything will be nicer, facilities, nic
Speaker 6: You're not gonna worry about the luxury tax. In the
Speaker 6: early two thousands, mid two thousands, when the Suns were
Speaker 6: right on the cusp kept making the Watcher Conference finals
Speaker 6: with Steve Nash, Steve Nash and Mary Stottemeyer, Joe Johnson,
Speaker 6: was there briefly Seawn Marion. They were this close to
Speaker 6: being making the finals. Starvers sold a first round pick,
Speaker 6: didn't trade it, sold it like a team was like,
Speaker 6: I'll give you a few million bucks for your first
Speaker 6: round picks. Like done?
Speaker 3: Hey, so wow yeah, so absolutely.
Speaker 6: This could change landscape of the league having this type
Speaker 6: of money come into a team that's notoriously cheap, won't
Speaker 6: pay the luxury tax they got in that pissing match
Speaker 6: with DeAndre eight last summer because of this one hundred
Speaker 6: percent uh and so I find it really interesting. It
Speaker 6: also sidebar is going so the Clippers sold, but they're
Speaker 6: in La bamber.
Speaker 3: Over pay, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: That was after Sterling got first out forced out right.
Speaker 6: It also is going to be an interesting litmus test
Speaker 6: for how much money bron and his group are gonna
Speaker 6: need when they want to buy a team.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 3: And are they gonna have to buy.
Speaker 6: A team or is the NBA going to expand to
Speaker 6: Vegas and Seattle and you just have to pay like
Speaker 6: a franchise fee. Because as rich as Broun is, he
Speaker 6: doesn't have multiples of billions. So I know you could
Speaker 6: have a group around it, you know, what I mean
Speaker 6: other people. But I think it's gonna be very interesting
Speaker 6: to see what this team sells for. Very interesting.
Speaker 3: All right, I want to talk about the far Thing.
Speaker 6: Demandy's gonna set it up in a moment. My guess
Speaker 6: is we're gonna spend about five minutes on it. I
Speaker 6: don't think what I'm gonna say on the far Thing
Speaker 6: is political at all. But if you're here just for
Speaker 6: the sports, come back to the top of the B
Speaker 6: block and we're gonna talk Aaron Judge. Now, Demons, go ahead,
Speaker 6: but it's gonna be about five minutes. With my guess.
Speaker 6: We're gonna go overtime again. My apologies, go ahead and
Speaker 6: set me up.
Speaker 7: You cut some things out of the rundown and the
Speaker 7: top of the a's or the bottom of the age,
Speaker 7: should I say, talk about farv So what is it
Speaker 7: that you got to say about him?
Speaker 4: Are you talking about how it's not getting any coverage?
Speaker 6: Well, so here's the thing. There's two points I want
Speaker 6: to make here. One is about the media and the
Speaker 6: other is about far and what these folks did. There's
Speaker 6: been a lot of Twitter chatter that, you know, Mike
Speaker 6: Vick and the dog fighting thing was a one news
Speaker 6: on all the shows on all the networks for months,
Speaker 6: and it seems like Shannon Sharp and I are the
Speaker 6: only people in sports media that give you about this
Speaker 6: Farv story. Does that feel hypocritical? The answer to that
Speaker 6: is yes and no. The yes is listen. Farv is
Speaker 6: one of the greatest football players ever. He is alleged
Speaker 6: and it's very compelling. Shout out to Mississippi Free Press,
Speaker 6: which is done a wonderful job covering this story. Two
Speaker 6: have helped misallocate funds and everyone's calling it, you know,
Speaker 6: welfare money. It's really THA NF money, which if you
Speaker 6: know what that stands for, it really zeros in on
Speaker 6: how awful an a moral. This is TA and F
Speaker 6: stands for Tax Assistance for needy families. We short the
Speaker 6: shorthand for that is welfare. That money being redirected upwards
Speaker 6: of six million bucks summoned farvest pocket and a lot
Speaker 6: of it to sow his daughter at the Southern miss
Speaker 6: can get a fancy volleyball stadium and he can get
Speaker 6: credit for it. That six million is just part of
Speaker 6: a seventy seven million dollar overall TA and F money
Speaker 6: misallocated in Mississippi, the poor state in the country. Okay,
Speaker 6: that's the general strokes of it. The reason I'm not
Speaker 6: going to crush the media as much as others is
Speaker 6: the more salacious stories will always get more headlines.
Speaker 3: And dog fighting.
Speaker 4: And the way and the it's almos boring.
Speaker 6: This story is almost boring, even me explaining what Tha
Speaker 6: andF is, the money and the miss Alligan. It's it's
Speaker 6: a little complex and a little boring and not as salacious.
Speaker 6: So I wouldn't have expected it to get quite the
Speaker 6: coverage the dog fighting thing did. But it shouldn't be
Speaker 6: one hundred to one. It shouldn't be this big of
Speaker 6: a discrepancy, especially because far for a period of time
Speaker 6: was the single most famous football player in the world.
Speaker 6: He's still one of the most popular football players ever.
Speaker 6: So does it feel like he's getting protected?
Speaker 3: Does it feel like.
Speaker 6: Some of the media folks are not as apt to
Speaker 6: jump on this story. Does it feel like there's assuredly
Speaker 6: a bit of a racial component to it. Yes, all
Speaker 6: of those things are true. That is not what is
Speaker 6: particularly galling to me, however, and this is the part
Speaker 6: that I want us to put on social because what
Speaker 6: is most galling to me about the farv story is
Speaker 6: not just the media apocrisy or the lack of coverage
Speaker 6: or the lack of interest. It's that.
Speaker 3: The worst case scenario for far is my.
Speaker 6: Guess is he does actual jail time, and it's less
Speaker 6: than eighteen months. This is a multi million dollar fraud.
Speaker 6: And where the media consistently misses the boat is we
Speaker 6: How many stories have I had to read since the
Speaker 6: pandemic or see on the news about the plague of
Speaker 6: shoplifting across this country. I can't go to the CBS
Speaker 6: down the street here. I went there the other day.
Speaker 6: Every single item. Yeah, I got to call someone over
Speaker 6: to unlock, because they have done a really good job
Speaker 6: of getting that out in the media that, oh my goodness, gracious,
Speaker 6: we are. We're dying on the vine here because people
Speaker 6: are stealing razors and soap. By the way, fun fact,
Speaker 6: that company that I just mentioned, I looked it up
Speaker 6: this morning. The entire list of American companies with more
Speaker 6: revenue last year than them Walmart, Amazon, Apple, They're number four,
Speaker 6: three hundred and some billion dollars in revenue, ten around
Speaker 6: ten billion in profit. And consistently the media tries to
Speaker 6: convince us that the people going in our pocket are
Speaker 6: the poorest, most desperate people. Now, I don't have any
Speaker 6: tolerance either for the when you see like almost the
Speaker 6: flash mobs of folks going into the Gucci store, the
Speaker 6: Louis Vuitton store, and you know forty folks come in,
Speaker 6: steal stuff and run out. That just theft. That's just criminals.
Speaker 6: The folk and the folks that out of partict usually
Speaker 6: some level of desperation, are trying to slip a few
Speaker 6: personal hygiene products in their pocket. And we all get
Speaker 6: that media coverage.
Speaker 3: It's waterwall, an epidemic of shoplifting.
Speaker 6: This is over seventy five million dollars of Mississippian's own money.
Speaker 6: Is taxpayer money, money that is taken out of their
Speaker 6: checks to try to help the poorest, most desperate people.
Speaker 6: And allegedly the goddamn governor, a nonprofit, the most famous
Speaker 6: Recippion maybe ever are all so casual about the theft.
Speaker 6: They're texting about it. They're breaking the string or bell rule.
Speaker 6: They're taking notes on a criminal conspiracy because they know.
Speaker 3: That nobody really cares and.
Speaker 6: That even if they are caught red handed, it's not
Speaker 6: going to be that that covered. That's the that's the
Speaker 6: infuriating part. That's the part where we all got to
Speaker 6: get our minds right. We are we have been tricked
Speaker 6: so long that the poor person going in our left
Speaker 6: pocket stealing a couple dollars is the problem. And the
Speaker 6: rich person and the corrupt politicians and the systems in
Speaker 6: place going in our right pocket for one hundred dollars. Eh,
Speaker 6: you know, that's just America, just the cost of doing business.
Speaker 6: It's maddening, and so yeah, I do think it should
Speaker 6: get more coverage, of course, But what I would rather
Speaker 6: happen is us be less hyperventilate, a little bit less
Speaker 6: about the things the most desperate people in our society
Speaker 6: do to get by, some of whom might not be
Speaker 6: shoplifting if their welfare checks came through when they're struggling,
Speaker 6: instead of going to build a volleyball stadium. So Brett
Speaker 6: Favre can say, oh, look at what a good guy
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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in What's Right? Nick Wright, episode
Speaker 6: number seventy two, Let's get right into it. Demandsay, we
Speaker 6: went overtime once again in the A block.
Speaker 3: Now, I know you.
Speaker 6: Guys are gonna want to blame me, but I settled
Speaker 6: in the previous show. Maybe we need to lengthen the
Speaker 6: clock on the A block. Nobody listened to me on it.
Speaker 6: So we went overtime. Not my fault, but you know
Speaker 6: I'm gonna blame others for my own inaction. All right,
Speaker 6: go ahead, what are we starting with.
Speaker 7: We're breaking tradition and we're talking a little base but
Speaker 7: oh yeah, yep. Aaron Judge tdd Babe Ruth with.
Speaker 4: His sixtieth home run of the season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, with fifteen games left to play, he's bound to
Speaker 7: hit sixty one yep. After Marius, Judge only has Cheetahs
Speaker 7: ahead of him in the all time list.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: Should Judge be considered the all time leader in home
Speaker 7: runs when he passes Marius or do juicters deserve their
Speaker 7: place in the record books?
Speaker 3: All right, He's not listen. Ahead of him will be.
Speaker 6: Four Sami Sosis seasons or three Sami Sosis seasons, couple
Speaker 6: McGuire seasons, and Bonds is seventy three, okay, and I
Speaker 6: think he's you know, maybe four Sosia seasons, one McGuire season,
Speaker 6: one Bond season, whatever it is. Right now, Maris is
Speaker 6: seven and when Judge passes him, Judge will be seven.
Speaker 6: The single season home run record is Barry Bonds. It's
Speaker 6: seventy three. Steroids are no steroids, That's the record. However,
Speaker 6: one could make the argument this season is more impressive.
Speaker 6: And I'm not even talking steroids. What I'm talking about
Speaker 6: is the second place on home runs is at forty,
Speaker 6: Judges at sixty. Nobody has had that type of gap
Speaker 6: between first and second place in home runs since base
Speaker 6: Baybrew that back to back seasons where he had thirty
Speaker 6: five more home runs than second place nineteen twenty nineteen
Speaker 6: twenty one. He had four seasons where he was at
Speaker 6: least twenty plus ahead of the next best guy, the
Speaker 6: fact that when Bonds hit seventy three, Sosa hit in
Speaker 6: the mid sixties, when Maguire hit seventies, Sosa hit sixty six.
Speaker 6: We've never had anything like this in modern baseball history,
Speaker 6: where one guy is so head and shoulders.
Speaker 3: Above everybody else.
Speaker 6: You add to it that as of recording, he's on
Speaker 6: track to win the triple Crown, meaning lead the league
Speaker 6: in home runs, RBIs, and batting average. You add to
Speaker 6: that that his team is staying afloat, not only saying float,
Speaker 6: we're gonna win the division thanks to him, because the
Speaker 6: rest of the team hasn't played well in months. This
Speaker 6: is one of the most impressive seasons in baseball history.
Speaker 3: You add to that the fact that.
Speaker 6: He turned down two dred and thirty million dollars this
Speaker 6: offseason because he bet on himself that he was gonna
Speaker 6: have a monster year, and he's having one of the
Speaker 6: greatest seasons ever, and at thirty years old, he's probably
Speaker 6: gonna get north of four hundred million dollars. All those
Speaker 6: things put together, it's just one of the greatest years
Speaker 6: in modern baseball history. But that doesn't mean that he's
Speaker 6: the record holder. And I understand there's cheating and not cheating,
Speaker 6: so it's it's kind of apples to oranges. But all
Speaker 6: things considered, I think Kobe's eighty one was more impressive
Speaker 6: than Wilt's hundred. But Wilt's hundred is the record and
Speaker 6: will remain the record. And so no, I'm not taking
Speaker 6: Bonds out of the record books. But what I will say,
Speaker 6: what is cool is so sub bonds and.
Speaker 7: A different what he said, Wilt Chamberlain's one hundred will
Speaker 7: always be like the record.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Barry Bonds will always I think they're kind of different.
Speaker 6: Well, of course they're different because people look at Bonds
Speaker 6: as he got there by cheating. My point is it
Speaker 6: Kobe's eighty one, the degree of difficulty was higher than
Speaker 6: Wilt's hundred, The context was different. It seems more impossible
Speaker 6: than Wilt's hundred because of who he was playing, the
Speaker 6: way that game was played, the fact that they were
Speaker 6: then scheming at the ends to get him one hundred points,
Speaker 6: all of this stuff. I just think Kobe's eighty one
Speaker 6: is a more impressive feat, but the record is will
Speaker 6: I think judges in today's baseball sixty whatever he ends
Speaker 6: with four is more impressive than Bond seventy three at
Speaker 6: the height of the steroid era when a lot of
Speaker 6: guys were hitting sixty plus. But it's still not the record.
Speaker 6: But with that said, what I was trying to say
Speaker 6: there is it is arguably more impressive, and the context
Speaker 6: of it make it makes it unforgettable. And where he's
Speaker 6: fortunate is Bond, Sosen Maguire all played in the nash League.
Speaker 6: So he will have by himself, maybe for decades, the
Speaker 6: American League record. The American League record has been Marris
Speaker 6: at sixty one Root at sixty and so have the
Speaker 6: Yankee record in the American League record, maybe for the
Speaker 6: rest of my life, certainly for the next ten to
Speaker 6: twenty thirty years. So he has his own record. It's
Speaker 6: not the single season record. It might be more impressed
Speaker 6: than the single season home run total. Also, pool To
Speaker 6: might get seven hundred, which is a whole other thing.
Speaker 6: That is just what's unbelievable prior to the year. And
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna get it all right? Next what
Speaker 6: game will we play?
Speaker 4: Baseball? All right? It's time to play all in our four.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's asking for to play the game. Do
Speaker 3: you prefer the baseball talk or the tennis point.
Speaker 4: I definitely prefer the baseball talk.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's an upset.
Speaker 7: Okay, Next, the Ravens had an epic collapse on Sunday.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, tell us about it.
Speaker 7: Lamar was still looking good. You've been back in Baltimore
Speaker 7: very heavily in the preseason. All interfold the Ravens will
Speaker 7: be the number one the number one seed in the AFC.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna fold that folding already so banged up. I
Speaker 6: still think they'll win the division. I still think they're
Speaker 6: a super dangerous team, and they absolutely could be the
Speaker 6: AFC representative in the Super Bowl. But they got to
Speaker 6: get healthy. Last year. The injuries killed them this year.
Speaker 6: What happened in that Miami game is two of their
Speaker 6: top corners we're out. They're playing two rookie fourth rounders
Speaker 6: at corner. They're also playing a rookie safety, and Tyreek
Speaker 6: Hill's running wide open. So and to get the one seed,
Speaker 6: you can't give away a thirty five to twenty one league.
Speaker 6: So I'm still very high on the Ravens. The injuries
Speaker 6: concern thirty five to fourteen lead. I should say the
Speaker 6: injuries concerned me, but now I don't think that they're
Speaker 6: going to be able to have go thirteen and four
Speaker 6: the way, and at thirteen and four at a minimum
Speaker 6: is what it's going to take to be the one seed.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to fold that.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, So the Packers beat up on the Bears.
Speaker 7: Minnesota looked terrible Monday night, but the Lions are the
Speaker 7: second high scoring team in the NFL. Yeah, all interfold,
Speaker 7: the Packers will win the NFC North title.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go all in on that. I picked it
Speaker 3: before the year.
Speaker 6: I don't think the Packers will looked very good, but
Speaker 6: I think they will improve.
Speaker 3: I also think they're gonna add a receiver.
Speaker 6: Keep your eyes out if they If Kenny Galladay and
Speaker 6: the Giants that relationship continues to pray, keep your eyes
Speaker 6: out for Odell. I think they need to add a receiver.
Speaker 6: The Vikings have this Kirk Cousins ceiling, and they were
Speaker 6: so underwhelming on Monday Night. It's just really hard to
Speaker 6: believe that they are going to win twelve games, like
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna take.
Speaker 3: I think they're a playoff team.
Speaker 6: But I absolutely still like the Packers in the North.
Speaker 7: Next, all right, the Raiders are one of four zero
Speaker 7: to two teams. Yeah, they collapsed last week as well.
Speaker 7: Josh McDaniels wasn't successful in Denver and it doesn't look
Speaker 7: great so far. Yep, all interfold. Josh McDaniels will be
Speaker 7: the Raiders coach next year.
Speaker 6: Jeah, I'm all in on that. Josh McDaniels will be
Speaker 6: the Raiders coach next year. There's no chance they're firing
Speaker 6: him after one year. First of all, Mark Davis, the
Speaker 6: Raiders owner, he is by NFL ownership standards poor. He
Speaker 6: is the I think probably as the least money of
Speaker 6: any owner. These coach contracts are guaranteed, so you don't
Speaker 6: want to pay out. They're already like they're fighting Gruden
Speaker 6: in court to not pay him out. That's fine. I
Speaker 6: also don't know. McDaniels might end up doing a good job.
Speaker 6: Week one, they lost to the Chargers, but it was
Speaker 6: a one possession game. They had the ball, Derek Carr
Speaker 6: had already had finished the game of four turnovers. Week two,
Speaker 6: that was an unforgivable collapse. I don't think they're a
Speaker 6: playoff team. I never thought they were a playoff team,
Speaker 6: but I do think that we are in a spot
Speaker 6: where that they're not gonna move on from him after
Speaker 6: one year. It's just not gonna happen. So I'm all in.
Speaker 6: He'll be their coach next season next all right.
Speaker 7: Believe it or not, the Dolphins are one of only
Speaker 7: six teams still be undefeated all interfoald. The Dolphins will
Speaker 7: win a playoff game.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's interesting. So let's think about this.
Speaker 4: Let's think about their quarterback.
Speaker 3: Man, No, I know, but it was that could they
Speaker 3: make the playoffs?
Speaker 6: Yes? Could they win the division though? No? So that
Speaker 6: means no matter what their record is, they're on the
Speaker 6: road in Week one. Okay, so let's just a week
Speaker 6: one of the playoffs. So let's just say best case
Speaker 6: scenario for the Dolphins, right, The best case scenario for
Speaker 6: the Dolphins is that they get the number one wild cards,
Speaker 6: so they're the five seed. So it would be going
Speaker 6: on the road to the worst division winner that's probably
Speaker 6: gonna come out of the AFC South AFC South winner.
Speaker 6: I at this point, you know, you guys know I
Speaker 6: was high on Indian Jacksonville. I think it's probably Jackson Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: There you go, let me read.
Speaker 6: The question again. The Dolphins will win a playoff game.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna fold that if it was could win a
Speaker 6: playoff game, I'm open to that. I don't trust to
Speaker 6: A but I like their coach, I like their overall
Speaker 6: roster and the path of being the five seed. I
Speaker 6: do I really believe in TUA to win a road
Speaker 6: playoff game. I don't, And I'm not even certain they're
Speaker 6: making the playoffs. But we can't dismiss what they've done
Speaker 6: as meaningless.
Speaker 3: We can't.
Speaker 6: As limited as to is, he has crazy weapons around him,
Speaker 6: we can't dismiss his meaningless. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 6: fold that they. I wouldn't bet them right now to
Speaker 6: make a win a playoff game. Let me check real
Speaker 6: quick what their odds are right now to make the
Speaker 6: playoffs right now via our friends at Fox Bet. I'm
Speaker 6: clicking on it. One second, Uh make playoffs. Miami is
Speaker 6: but bah bah minus one ninety to make the playoffs.
Speaker 6: So they're saying they've got about a sixty percent chance
Speaker 6: to make the playoffs. That feels a little strong, Like,
Speaker 6: let's think about this for a second. Chiefs and Chargers
Speaker 6: are gonna make it. Let's call it one team out
Speaker 6: of the AFC South. Okay, the Ravens out of the North.
Speaker 6: Even if you put the Bengals into which I would,
Speaker 6: that's still Lee and the Bills. There's still one open spot.
Speaker 6: So do you believe Denver the Raiders are turning it around? No?
Speaker 3: Do you believe we're gonna have two AFC South teams?
Speaker 6: Probably not? Do we believe there's gonna be three AFC
Speaker 6: North teams? That loss for Cleveland really hurt them? So yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess I see why their favorites to
Speaker 6: make the playoffs, so they could win a playoff game. Out,
Speaker 6: I'm picking them on a playoff game, all right? Last?
Speaker 7: All right, Well, the Giants are two and oh and
Speaker 7: their next two games are at home against Cooper Rush's
Speaker 7: Cowboys and the Bears. They could easily be four and
Speaker 7: oh all interfold. The Giants are making the playoffs fold, yeah.
Speaker 6: Fall, I think they might get to four and oh.
Speaker 6: They're not making the playoffs. I don't want to talk
Speaker 6: anymore about the Giants. They're uninteresting. They bore me. I'm
Speaker 6: happy for Dable, I like Saquon, but they're.
Speaker 4: When they're four and oh, will you still be able
Speaker 4: to say they're uninteresting they're boring?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I will, Okay, I will I'm predicting they go.
Speaker 4: For their four and oh and the Chiefs are three
Speaker 4: and one.
Speaker 3: Won't matter.
Speaker 4: Won't matter.
Speaker 6: I'm predicting they go four and oh. And I'm predicting
Speaker 6: they missed the playoffs, predicting both of those while recording.
Speaker 6: We actually now do have some breaking news on EM
Speaker 6: so likely suspended for the entire season. All right, we'll
Speaker 6: talk about that to wrap the show. That's next, What's Right?
Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in final segment, What's Right in
Speaker 6: the Great Podcast YouTube Show episode seventy two, Gambling Show
Speaker 6: Episode seventy three coming out Friday. Gonna be off tellers
Speaker 6: in the next few days because we have soccer in
Speaker 6: the afternoon window on FS one and World Cups coming up,
Speaker 6: which I'm so excited about. Oh oh, I just realized, Demanse.
Speaker 6: You think you didn't like the baseball talk. You know
Speaker 6: you didn't like the tennis talk. Wait till you get
Speaker 6: to Nick Wright soccer fans.
Speaker 3: Oh, you don't know this side of me.
Speaker 4: Oh, soccer game. I'm sorry, soccer game before you been
Speaker 4: like one.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry. I just used to go to a
Speaker 6: dozen Sporting KC games. First of all, Second of all, dozens, Yeah, dozens.
Speaker 6: I used to go quite a bit partial season ticket holder,
Speaker 6: my friend. That's first of all season, second of all,
Speaker 6: Second of all. I love international soccer, love it. You
Speaker 6: think I'm playing all those hours of FIFA for for
Speaker 6: just enjoyment, also for educational purposes. So that's coming up
Speaker 6: on the show a few weeks from now. But so
Speaker 6: at the top of the show, I said, there's this,
Speaker 6: you know. Late last night, Woge tweeted that Email Udoka,
Speaker 6: the coach of your team, was facing a possible team suspension,
Speaker 6: and then they said, then he got that it was
Speaker 6: for a consensual relationship with a team of team employee Stafford.
Speaker 6: Woj just tweeted, and I just want to read the
Speaker 6: tweet verbatim, and I said, we didn't want to talk
Speaker 6: about it because we don't have enough information, and I
Speaker 6: didn't want to talk about what it meant for the
Speaker 6: Celtics because it would feel crass if like he was accused.
Speaker 3: Of doing something really awful.
Speaker 6: The tweet from Woj is Boston Celtics coach Email Udoka
Speaker 6: is likely facing a suspension for the entire season for
Speaker 6: his role in a consensual relationship with a female staff member.
Speaker 6: Sources TELEESPN. A formal announcement is expected as soon as today.
Speaker 6: Assistant coach Joe Missoula is likely to become Boston's interim
Speaker 6: coach for the season, sources tele A, ESPN. Remember Danny
Speaker 6: Ainge hired away Will Hardy, his number one assistant be
Speaker 6: coach of the Jazz. That's now obviously something Celtics you're regretting.
Speaker 6: I I don't want to. We don't have enough information
Speaker 6: to really discuss this, and I know it is your team,
Speaker 6: but the I don't want.
Speaker 3: To talk about it from basketball perspective.
Speaker 6: I don't even want to put you in a position
Speaker 6: to say anything about it because and some like this
Speaker 6: I want, we want to be very, very careful of
Speaker 6: what we say. But what I do feel comfortable saying,
Speaker 6: is this a season long suspension for arguably the face
Speaker 6: of your franchise, and knowing it's going to be public
Speaker 6: for what WOJ is describing as a consensual relationship, raises
Speaker 6: a lot of red flags to me about what's the
Speaker 6: real details of this story? And I just listen, I understand.
Speaker 3: Who Doka is.
Speaker 6: You know what has is in a very public relationship
Speaker 6: with the famous actress Nia Long yeah, but something feels
Speaker 6: amiss here and so I don't know what to do
Speaker 6: with it. I don't feel comfortable talking about what it
Speaker 6: means for the Celtics until we have more information on it.
Speaker 6: But there's there's got to be another piece of this,
Speaker 6: and I don't even want to speculate what that piece
Speaker 6: could be because right now these two, this square doesn't circle.
Speaker 6: And so Emo Udoka suspended for the year for what
Speaker 6: is currently being reported as And I'll just read the
Speaker 6: tweet once again verbatim from woj A consentual relationship with
Speaker 6: a female staff member. That is a shocking development. It
Speaker 6: will have real repercussions across the league from an on
Speaker 6: court standpoint. A lot of people think the Celtics are
Speaker 6: the favorites. He obviously did a great job last year,
Speaker 6: and my guess is not by the time we do
Speaker 6: the gambling show, but by the time we're on the air.
Speaker 3: Next week, there will be more information here and maybe.
Speaker 6: This will crystallize a bit. But that listen, we try
Speaker 6: to have fun in the final segment of the show,
Speaker 6: but this is breaking news. We're recording, So there's news.
Speaker 6: Email Udoka suspended for the season. This was episode seventy two.
Speaker 6: We'll be back tomorrow with the Gambling show, and then
Speaker 6: a normal show on Monday or Tuesday. By the way,
Speaker 6: that's one other thing. We might be out on Monday.
Speaker 6: It might be Tuesday because I'm not on television. Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 6: and Monday. Might take a little, you know, little me time.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, a little trip to the spa,
Speaker 6: and by the spy, I mean a casino to be
Speaker 6: named later.
Speaker 3: We'll figure that out. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 6: What's right,