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But yeah, other than that, man, looking forward, it's a lot of a lot of a lot of topics, a lot of good stuff out there. As we know, we got you know, baseball, as we mentioned in up and Rolling, we have Women's Final four starting today, we got the Men's coming up tomorrow, some NBA action, some some trouble in the NBA. So it's a lot to get to today. Look forward to it, no doubt.
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Elijah, it's all social media. I know, I'm like, maybe Alex was sleeping, can't do it, okay, Elijah, who does a great job for us on Oh yeah, social media. So a lot to do and let's start with we talked about this yesterday. John Moran, NBA got it right. They just said, hey, we rather not. Can you just knock it off? Just no, you know, we're giving you just a warning. And what does your guy j'all do? And this is what I was talking about about being off the map, like he does it again he does it and explain.
So John Morant, you got to go back a couple of days ago to Rob's point.
You and I talked about it, as did most people. You know.
He did the got into it with the Warriors a couple of nights back, and he and Buddy Hill did they Buddy Hill does a whole gun thing to him. John does it to them he's going to the sideline, looks like he's got a gun or like, you know, a little I hate to sound like all the kids are doing it, but all the kids are doing it, and they just like a little an NBA universe, right, No, I'm talking about even in the NBA. So John does it back. You and I talked about it. Not the smartest thing, knowing your history. But we'll see what the league does. Boom yesterday we come in, we talked about it. The league got it right. They say, hey, man, as you mentioned, don't do that. Looking it can be quote perceived in a negative light, and that was that we thought, are good man, job, you know what they understood. He wasn't trying to be demonstrative with it like that. They got over We both actually, yeah, let me have to give you credit for getting it right. What does he do last night?
Rob?
He went ahead and did it again, oh, and then again and then allegedly thrice. But the allegedies because it didn't air on the broadcast. But if you're in the arena, people saw it. So the league goes ahead and they fined him seventy five thousand dollars for it.
And rightfully, so we talked about it before. You can do anything you want when you're not wearing a team's uniform and they're paying you millions of dollars. There's standards, there's rules, there's a CBA, there's a Malls.
Clause, do you know what I mean? Like like it goes with it.
You notice, being in a televisional rating, you know certain things you can't do. It doesn't even on even on your social page and even on your off time, your own thoughts or whatever. You represent a company, an organization, and I just I don't I think John's are lost, cause I'm starting to believe that why would you do that considering all he's been through and they didn't do anything they want, you know, gave him a warning and it was there a quote that he I don't care.
Did you see that bo.
He said that, Yeah, I just I just saw like a flash.
I didn't see. Yeah I didn't. I didn't see that.
But I'm just saying, like, like, if I'm the NBA, I throw my hands up and just say, do we really want to promote this guy? Put him out front, want this guy to be one of the faces of the league, or just somebody that gets it.
He I don't think he gets it.
It is a complex story with him because us again, you go back to the stuff that's happened two years ago and then we go to this season, and I think what we're dealing with here is is Jah not understanding the difference between self inflicted trouble versus out to get you trouble, meaning like people are just out against them.
How somebody gives you a warning inside, That's what I'm saying.
So self inflicted is you put yourself in this situation multiple times, having real live guns in clubs, drunk, intoxicated, flashing the gun online, get in trouble for that, but okay, fine, we kind of move on. Got the gun on your Instagram live. These are real, live issues that you put yourself in. Those are self inflicted trouble issues right there, self inflicted inflicted problems. And what it seems like because after the on the other day, when we go okay, you know the league got it right. Ja Morant actually put up a story on his Instagram and he said, quote, some people will only love you if you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint. And again I get the feeling John Morant feels like the league is out to get him. People are out to get him, you know, media is out to get him, when in fact, I don't think that's the case at all.
I think the media would love.
For you to be one of those guys because you were personable, you dance, you smiled, your electric style of play. I think the NBA wanted you to be one of the faces because you got a great smile, you're electric, your electric style of play, your fun and I think they looked at you as yes, we got a new crop of young guys we can promote. I don't think the league was out to get you. I don't think the media is out to get you. I don't think people are trying to portray you as a villain. Now that people probably go too far questioning your character. Yes, that people probably go too far trying to, you know, break down and have thesis on who you are and trying to be gangst the Maybe so, and I can see how that would be offensive. But the league gave you another chance, a little slap on the wrist, and you did it not once, but twice, and allegedly thrice in the game the very next day, you just did it in their face. And it's just it's just not smart. And I know he was doing it to his own sideline. It doesn't matter they told him not to do it. It doesn't matter who he's doing it to. They already warned you, did they gave you a.
Warning, don't do this, and he turned and he did it, and he did it anyway.
And the amount of times matter to me, because we are creatures of habit.
Rob no, no, no, Once somebody brings it to your attention, but I hear he's an adult.
Come on, man, you're the only reason why I say way too.
Le. I said that though, right right now, we're watching baseball, right literally, those guys are guys routine, you know, this maybe more than any other sport. So if a guy comes up, you know, hits his shoes with his bat and then he does like a on some little motion that they say, hey, you can't do.
He's done it hundreds of thousands of times. That's what that's his thing.
So I'm even saying, maybe John hits it and looks at his teammates and does because he thinks, oh, I'm not doing it.
I'm not doing it to the opposing team. I think you're being lenient. So hear me, but he just hear me.
Hear me.
Where I'm going with this, No, because they didn't say to anybody, don't do it, is what they said, right.
But I'm saying, if he's only thinking they mean, don't mean in a taunting, demonstrative way, like I'm just doing it to my teammates. Yeah, our little celebration, then you could say, all right, maybe the first time because you know, he thought, just do it to me. There's no way someone on the team doesn't go hey, man, assistant coach. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey jod, you just got in trouble. Let's chill. No way, coach, no way. Somebody doesn't tell him, hey man, even to us in a fun cool which your teammates way, don't do that either.
And so if I'm if I'm Memphis ownership and management, I got I gotta question myself. Do I really want to go forward with jam you have I'm dead serious.
He's having a great year when he's been healthy. But I'm but I'm dead But it's a it's a real conversation, like maybe.
Like he's just not for Memphis or this organization, or he needs a clean start up somewhere else.
What would you do if you were in the front office on owner?
Is it time to move Jama Ran or is it time to just say we just got to move the guy and get the best we can or do something else because something's not connecting here, Like he went through the suspension, came back you know when he plays he's fine, Yeah, and then to have this winn and then to come back and do the same exact thing when they tell you not to do it, it's disheartening. I don't know what he's been suspended, he's gone through all this stuff. And the more you do it, the more you soil your name and reputation. It's it's who wants who wants uh you to sponsor anything.
Or be there sposed to keep getting it, and it's easier things to eliminate. Right, They're not asking him, Hey, don't you know no dog like the Cutch of dreads. It's like, oh, hold on, like that's a person they're saying, just don't do the gun. Now here's where it is interesting. If I'm gonna play Devil's advocate. The NBA now is gonna have to do something that because he's a star. Multiple guys have done this around the league all season, all last season. It's cool thing to do. But because they don't have star names like him, we don't necessarily see it and it doesn't get put out there, and they don't have the track record as him. Now, the NBA, what they're gonna have to do rob It is gonna suck, But they're gonna have to almost remember how because of Alan Iverson and all the perceived hip hop style of dressing and had gone too far with the jewelry and the jerseys and the oversized clothes and all do rags at the press conferences. I think they're gonna have to come back and make a stark, hard stance on this, because then it starts to become if you're the NBA, pah, if you're you know, maybe just even an agent for job or somebody else, you say, well, he did it, he did it, he did it.
No, what's four minute video of this guy? This guy, this guy, this guy, this guy? What guy doence is?
And the NBA does look at your track record, your history with guns and the whole nine yards. And they already gave him a warning. They didn't do anything. I mean like, if they would have did something find him and not Buddy Heal, then you got an argument, you got a case.
But they told both of them, just don't do it.
But what I'm from doing it? And he still did it. Buddy Heal didn't go out and do it. I don't know, but I'm just saying. My point is, if you're in the NBA, I would throw my hands up and say, Okay, we can't get through to this kid.
So I agree with that, I'm saying, So he's fine, I'm okay, I'm fine, I f I I and he with the fine, right, I'm fine with that. I'm saying, what do you do now, let's say he's they've already told you they don't want you to do it.
So now what they'll do is they'll find every time they have video of somebody doing it and they catch them, they are going to fine.
And that's what they've addressed severely enough, meaning Buddy Hill and Job were warned, but we didn't make a public thing. And I'm thinking they're gonna have to do that because I watch.
Even last night.
I'm sure they sent an email, uh to to the teams.
That's also because because.
They gave a warning to two players, then they would send one league wide.
This is the NBA.
They don't want you to do this, blah blah blah blah. I don't doubt that for one second. If you're gonna make a stake and warn people that you wouldn't.
Want all the play and that's what they're gonna have to do, is my point, because it's such commonplace. It's just he has this track record and the greatest example again is a Draymond Green hard file. Draymond's gonna get suspended way over. You know, Austin's because he has a history in the track record, and that.
Me, track record is always in play even when you're a good guy.
If you're a good guy, your track record record in favor exactly. So's it works both ways.
It does if you're a good guy, benefit of like that, Oh yeah, we don't this guy does never do anything dirty. We're gonna assume that it was a mistake and it wasn't dirty because he's never done anything dirty.
Draymond kicking people, stepping on what's new. This is what he does.
What he have video evidence for years and ex years exactly. I just think it's disappointing.
Man.
John had an opportunity to put it behind him because they were like, what he's been doing, Well, one little thing, we're gonna forgive you. Don't do the game, move on to do it three times in their face the very next day. Rob, not a month later, a week later, next start of next season, a week later. That's just what you know, what we call it, that's playing in people's faces. It is you know eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. If you were ownership management of the Memphis Grizzlies.
What are you doing with John Moran? Just riding it out? He's too talented. You gotta live with it? Or are you ready to? Are you or are you ready to move on? And maybe it's time that he needs a new place and a fresh start somewhere else. What are you doing with Jah Moran? Eight seven, seven ninety nine On Fox? It is the Odd Couple on a Funky Flashback Friday, Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington Right here on Fox Worts Radio.
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John Morant went full job Wick again and here we are Rob and ire twenty four hours have to say, hey, you know what the NBA got to ride And you know John and wasn't trying to be demonstrative with bab did it again and now we gotta talk about a game. Rob eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. What do you do if you're the Grizzlies? What do you do if you're you know, someone who's in Jos's life? How do you what do you say?
What do you do?
Who?
We got Casey in Oregon? You're in the eye couple, Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Casey?
Shot? Rob's up, Calvin, thanks for taking my call, Yes, sir, Yeah, Memphis is in a tough spot here because you gotta think too the one person you think that could get to Joe but maybe his dad. But we see him at in a full right on the sidelines, right.
But then I think you gotta stick with him because you gotta think how you're gonna get free agents to come to Memphis in the first place. So they're in a very tough spot moving forward here.
No, I get that, but at some point you gotta cut bait because he's not like Da Mooy does is to the harder it is to sell him.
Do you get me?
It's just hard, Rob. I mean, he's averaged thirty over his last nine games. Like, where are you gonna get replace a top ten talent? I'm not you know, maybe he's anywhere between eight and thirteen forty minute talent.
Asked Luca's got traded?
Will?
Okay?
I know, but I'm just trying to say that it can be done. If they could trade Luca. They can trade John Moran, let's talk. He could get traded.
But man, that's I need to return on the dollar is I'm not trying to get sixty cents on.
That dollar in Phoenix. You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Cute?
Hey, what's happening to Fellers?
What's up? What's up?
I just moved.
I just moved a needle for y'all. Man, for me being on the show, I appreciate it.
Anyway, he flexed.
It's a flexing Friday, ax flexing on this Friday. He got hey rob his lady Ryan when he's watched his boots, She's like, what you're gonna do? He's like me flex, watch me flex on a Friday.
No.
But I disagree with the previous caller about his father.
His father is not acting a fool. His father is having some fun with his son. But I do wish that he would talk to his son say hey, man, enough is enough.
If I was the mespshis visit the owner, I wouldn't trade him because.
I really do believe that he's gonna grow out of this.
I don't know.
I don't know how he was suspended, lost money, he did, you know, keeps doing the same thing. Q.
We lost him the thing he did it the night before. And that's the one problem. Let's say you and I talked about two days ago. Let's say we didn't out of my man, he's gonna grond it. Look, man, Rob, when you were twenty two to twenty three, you're acting fool. I was acting for you know how ye? Okay, the very next night is where it's like que even Q, come on c you that next night.
Na, that's when you're doing it deliberately. The next night it is crazy. Andre. In Massachusetts, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up?
Dright, Hey, thanks taking a call, Happy Friday, great great topics.
Listen.
Now I'm gonna go with what Bill Parcells said. Okay, NFL championship winning you are, what's your record sends you are. That's who you are, whether win on the on the court, field or in life. You know what we see consistently that's who you are. And what we know as well is money only makes you more of who you've been all along.
No doubt, Andre, no doubt.
And we talk about all the time from the Sacramento Kings who am I talking about? Kings who didn't get the big two hundred and six million dollars the air Fox No, the big guy, Oh DeMarcus cousin DeMarcus. You remember they were like, dude, we can't control things. Now, wait till we give them two hundred and six million dollars. And what happened.
They decided against it and the talent was so dre You're right.
And that's what happens when you give people a lot of money who can't follow rules or just can't comprehend what you're trying to do.
Shows more who you really are. That's what people say. We'll get on more we want to do.
Yeah, we squeezed one more in Alex in Indiana. You're in the couple of fox Sporituato. What's up, Alex?
How you doing? Fellas doing well? Listen, second time caller.
Appreciate you, sir, know that.
Okay. I want to say, Kelvin, you're doing a good job. I love Christmas. You're also doing a good job. But I have to say on this you being a little lenient because Jos know what it is. And when the league says don't do it, don't do it. The league should suspend him for the rest of the year and management should move on. And also, job, you're not a gangster. Stop playing right, You're a billionaire.
You're a millionaire basketball. This one ain't a gangster. Move the guns, the rim life guns.
I'll give you that.
This is just being done like being dumb, ignoring what the league has asked you not to do. I agree with that. I don't think this one is a gangster. I think is more of a I'm gonna do like That's like he said in his own posts on Instagram and stories. You don't have to you know, don't fit in the box and all that.
I think he's doing way. I just don't.
When you when they talk about fitting in a way too much, come home, they like ask you not to do something, just like corporate America whatever not. This is you don't have to do this.
You don't. You don't, all right.
So if you're working the post office, they say you have to wear a uniform, I'm gonna wear when I ain't fitting in your box.
No you can't. Well, you're able to deliver mail to these mailboxes exactly without the uniform one. That is the part of the job. You don't want to win a uniform. You can't be a mailman. Steven, read this real quick before you go to you.
He said, some people will only love you if you if you fit into their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint. He point posted that the night of the first one a couple you know, two nights ago.
What So he's fulfilling it because clearly he's not afraid to disappoint.
Why this is all very dissapaiing to go, Steve the Sager? What's turning? Brother? Hey?
We do have another Aaron Judge home run today?
Is that's six and eight games? How many games?
Is?
It?
Is?
Six?
And there are teams that don't have six this early season. And this is game one thousand of his career. So a longtime baseball writer, Bob Nightingale points out Babe Ruth in his first thousand games, three hundred and twenty one homers.
Aaron Judge three hundred and twenty one homers.
Oh wow?
The other day as a Yankee first thousand, right.
The first thousand, that bet that's incredible when you think of like where Babe Booth is. And I'm gonna say this theve I'm gonna get the video at FS one. I made a video about five or six years ago. Five years ago when and I put him in my top five sluggers of all time, and people just went off, Oh my god, supermature that video.
He was a prophecty know what he said, You didn't know that video feels a lot better today.
Slugging is incredible. I will add Babe bruce career batting average was three forty two, so that he wasn't like Pete Alonzo hitting two forty two at a bunch of home runs. But also Judge Nightingale points out got his home run total in one hundred fewer plate appearances than Babe. Ruth irete about game as a Yanks.
No, he's incredible, and me and Robert talking about a few days back. At the end of the day, it's probably just gonna be chalk right. Just put Judge and MVP's game here, you go, here, you go, guys.
Just keep them against now, just keep them. But it's incredible what he's done.
It is and third out has just been recorded by the Yankees. It's a final at Pittsburgh. Yankees win nine for Judge. Now with the six home runs and seventeen. RBIs already, in fact, how many players in Major League history, they are team's first seven games of a season have at least six homers and seventeen.
I don't think.
I don't think that's just crazy. That's a ridiculous are ridiculous numbers.
Meanwhile, at Philadelphia, the Phills are wearing blue against the Dodger blue. Apparently every Friday home game last year they wore the City Connect uniforms, and it's supposed to blue. The city flag has blue, and so the Phillies are wearing Okay, you're not the Phillies to me, but sure, go ahead.
It was like when the Boston Red Sox were yellow City Connect the Red Sox that yellow.
Us the Boston Marathon colors. Okay, okay, you're called the Red Sox. Let's get our money. You look like la But okay, it's end of three at Philadelphia. Phil's lead the Dodgers one nothing on an air in the first inning by pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. And by the way, the Dodgers haven't an eight and o record, but the Phillies are five and one, and earlier we had a Cubs went over the Padres three to one, Padres with their first loss this year.
Back to you, all right, all right, Steve, thank you so much.
Appreciate you for coming to you live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. As always, it is Rob Parker Kevinwashington. We are the couple on a Fucky Flashback Friday, joined now by Jared Lee Smith. Fox Sports Radios Countdown on Saturday. Make sure you check it out nine am to noon Eastern Standard Time. Jared, what's up, mat what's happening?
Hey, it's good to talk to you guys. Absolutely, so help me here.
The money gambled on women's basketball? Where does it compare to men's do women? Do people really follow women enough to bet money on women's by yes.
I think the Caitlin Clark sensational ride last year kind of opened the floodgates for women's basketball to be part of the betting society. I mean, let's be honest, job, if you bet on any sport, you're going to be more inclined to watch it and be engaged. And they're offering more lines on an now like you can bet props, and I think that really changed the game. The prop culture has really changed gambling because it's just natural. It's very you know, aligned with fantasy culture. Like, oh, I I really like Page Beckers. I'm going to bet on her to go over her points paid exactly. You don't have to bet on Yukon and you can still get a piece of the game.
What was that money like when when Juju was rolling obviously before the injury and even post injuries. Yeah, I was gonna say post injury, did it how Matt, you know, did it change things?
It definitely lowered the I would say opportunities for you know, in a really exciting tournament. I think if if USC especially uc len now being in the final four, if you would have had a La connection there and they still had a chance to get to the final four, kind had to put everything they had uh to get past them in that game, and I think that would have been really exciting. If it would have been Juju in the final four against UCLA, that would have brought you know, you don't have a lot of West Coast teams that win college basketball championships. In fact, on the men's side, it's a thing how how long it's been since the teams particular, it really.
Is right now Jared, Yeah, it is pretty amazing. All right, let's go to the men's side. I mean, I'm just figuring Duke is one of those teams. I know a lot of people hate Duke, but they're a blue blood and I'm sure the money has to pile up more because people know the school and uh, they got Cooper flag, which helps.
Uh.
Is that the fact most of the money's bet on Duke? Yeah, the Duke is he. In fact, we got the results.
You know, we usually get updates every day, you know, once or twice a week, you know, when when there's.
Like a big, big event happening.
We got some bet MGM splits today and I'll just read it to you verbatim.
Duke is the most bet team to cover in the Final four.
And yeah, and I think based on what we've seen, right, Like if this game was played earlier in the year, Rob, I don't think Duke's a five point favorite over Houston.
Like remember last year this was flipped.
Houston was the ones he Houston was the was the Chalky team, and they you know, they got banged up in the Sweet sixteen. Jamal Shehed went down and Duke won the game, and it was a big uh. You know, I would say reversal because Houston has been the dominant team over the last few years. But this is I'll be honest, I think it's a tough matchup for Duke. I think Cooper Flagg. I mean, you got Tuggler and Roberts in the middle, Like, this is gonna be a tough I don't think Duke's seen a defense quite like Houston all year. Kelvin Samson extra time to prepare. I do think Duke's a little bit overvalued in this spot. Now the public's all, you know, hot and bothered over the Dukies. It feels a little tricky of a spot just to blindly bet Doude.
I picked Houston to win the championship. I really like it. Yeah, that was my original.
I mean the defense and also too, you mentioned Kelvin Sampson. Jared Lee Smith Fox Sports Radio Countdown on Saturday, nine am the noon Eastern Stentard time, our guests here on the I couple.
By the way, Jared Smith bets on Twitter aka X.
You know, going back to what you're just saying that Kelvin Simpson the last decade has the most wins in the tournament you know, you don't necessarily think of him that way, Jared, because he doesn't have the you know, the big championships to kind of to boat. But he listen, Yeah, he's been great tournament wise. Let me ask you, Rob, and I said here and we talked about the last couple of weeks Cinderella and her glass slipper being shot. Any when it comes to bets, what are the people are they are they trying to win more on betting on an underdog?
Do people really believe in the Cinderellas?
Or how's it come when people want to put money on the underdog throughout the tournament?
Well, it's funny because the narrative completely flips from the NFL. Right.
In the NFL, the favorites typically win, and the public loves to bet the favorites, and when the favorites do win, the sportsbooks do bad. Usually Well here in March madness, right, I think the public kind of buys into the Cinderella and they bet a lot more underdogs.
So when we.
Get a year like this where literally no underdogs, right, I mean it was it was. It was a record breaking year for the favorites to chalk as we like to say.
Yeah, what was the one team that did? There was one.
It was Nonique, Yeah, Mcneique Thompson was the only underdog of more than six points to win out right and.
Colorado's did they bank did they lose it to a bank shot or something?
Yeah?
Colorado, Right, they close on Maryland ended up getting exactly was that like our only buzzer beater? Yeah, that was the It was really it really was adult tournament.
I think overall, it's like college sports has changed so much in the last three years, it's naive of us to think the tournament's not going to change in some capacity based off of that. Were obviously very nostalgic, especially people like I'm thirty nine years old, Like I've been watching the tournament since I was twelve. Like I have these memories of you know, Davidson was Steph Curry, you know over Oparaiso.
I think those days are kind of over.
Yeahed All I do is tell you I watched Magic and Tournament and I wanted and you know, that was like the the biggest weighted.
We only had three channels back then, you know what I mean. Yeah, And I remember how big that was, you know what I mean?
That was the thing for multiple reasons to culturally, uh just actual gameplay. The two best players players one ones. You're never gonna see the best.
Player play for Indiana State anymore. It's just not going to happen.
The only reason why I will maybe pump the brakes on that is because because I look at it and I don't think Shade or Sanders was the best recruit or but Travis Hunter was and he goes to.
Jackson No no, no, no no, but because Dion was there.
But that that's what I'm saying. So if you get.
Also different, there's fewer players and there's not as many transcendent players in basketball at Cooper Flag, we might not see like it was the last one I would say would be Zion maybe, like you know, we haven't seen someone like him very in a long time to be able to do all of the things well like this and kind of take the world by storm.
It's it's interesting.
In the next hour, no hour three, we're gonna talk about college top three best college basketball players when we bring that up, because you know, everybody's going crazy about Poper Flag.
But where would you put him? I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say that.
I'm just gonna give you one of my guys, okay, h And I don't think you can leave Christian lead North from.
This, I really, I mean, and they're great college players. The one about Mellow, where would you put Mellow on the list? That run that he had was brandous. I think I think it kind of resembles what Duke is doing right now.
I mean it was unbelievable. Only Yeah, and we've said this before. Jim Beahon should be on his hands and knees thanking me otherwise. Jared fifty two years without a championship.
Yeah, that's a final four? Is that own stuff?
I know, But I'm just saying one fifty two years you didn't know he had a grandson named Mellow, you know, I mean he better his grandchildren Mellow. Different versions of it, Low, Mellow, Carmelow, Thank you man. Yeah, it's uh, we gotta down some fun with that. In bit you want to give us yours real quick? You have like a little top three year Mount Rushmore.
Commun I think got to be in there really already. Really, I I think I do think.
You know, based off of his ability to do everything, you do not see a lot of guys, I do give him that ability to do everything him and Zach Edie.
Yeah, I think there here's a problem. Here's the problem. We'll talk about more. We'll talk about all right, man. Jared, thank you so much. Appreciate you. Hey, good luck this weekend. Appreciate all right, Jeredlee Smith, give him and follow Jared Smith bets and the Game makes you check out fsr's countdown on Saturday nine am to noon.
Appreciate him joining the show. We got shekl City.
Coming up, and then the really good game Lakers Warriors. Is it time to press the panic button for the purple and goal? We'll talk about it. Robin Kelvin I a couple of Fox Sports Radio.
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Roight, who the Dodgers playing or not? Whatever? You about to say? No, they're not. They're playing the U. It's a softball team. In Philly. It looks because it don't look like the film? Is that the manager with the with the regular Phillies on. No, that's gotta be old. That's that's from spring training on something.
No, they keep showing the game. Oh that's his parents. I was about to say, what is going on? What am I seeing here?
Yeah?
But the dad has on a he has on a I mean he looks like a hitting coach or something out there.
Uh yeah, but you don't like the jersey. No, it looks like a softball uniform. Does right bow your baseball guy? Does that not look like.
Because they're red? We're so used to because of the pants too.
Honestly, this is one of the city connects that I don't hate.
Really like that. I wouldn't say I like it, but I don't hate it.
And they're usually pretty bad.
I'll tell you the new Red Sox one, it's modeled after the Green Monster.
Atrocious?
Is it really?
Yeah?
It's bad.
Okay, those aren't bad.
If it was like a team who has blue normally, if they have the.
Weird yeah, it's just yeah.
The the new Nationals one is such a huge downgrade from what they had before. I don't like that one of them.
Because they had the like the cherry white in DC.
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Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's daily dicks against the spread.
How'd you do two and one last night? Almost had a hat trick. I'll take that, right, Yeah and one, keep twoing one and you go back.
Eighty six and ninety is where we stand tonight.
Let's go.
I got best bet Denver Nuggets plus one and a half taken on the Golden State Warriors.
In San Francisco, just the back to back for the war I mean the on fire right now, I can't. I gotta give him that, my gosh.
Okay, Cleveland Cavaliers minus twelve and a half playing Washington, the no the Alamo playing the San Antonio Spurn winby ain't walking through that door, no, no, no, And I got the Houston Rockets plus five and a half at the Oklahoma City I mean visiting Oklahoma City's visiting Houston. I just Houston's been playing. Well, that's a game and that should be good. And you know, Oklahoma City can't win every game.
They're gonna lose.
Somebody got tell them that. It's unbelievable.
So again, Houston Rockets plus five and a half, Cleveland Cavaliers minus twelve and a half, and the Denver Nuggets plus one and a half. And remember, I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you.
Speaking of the Warriors.
Man, Warriors beat the Lakers last night in a good game. Mostly you had some great play from Steph Curry, Lebron, Austin Reeves and then a couple of the role players have big nights for the Pojeski being the main one for the Warriors.
But but I lost.
Nonetheless, Man, I tell you what, Just to throw a couple of numbers out for these Warriors, Dude, they're nineteen and two when Steph and Jimmy play. This new lineup that they have, this new starting lineup is thirteen and oh. Now it's impressive. Now to take that with a grain of salt for the Warrior fans. Only five of the games have been against plus five hundred, you know.
Winning team. He's gonna say that, you know what I saw two a stat Yeah, and.
Like a bicker staff And with the Pistons turn around, like I didn't even realize they're ten and twenty against teams over five hundred.
So they won a lot of games.
But you know what I mean, like that, that's not a good record, Listen, it's psychological row.
They just need to win. So now I know.
But you get my point when you start looking a little deeper and you get wow, that's and the same thing with the with the Warriors, Oh they're rolling while they should be rolling because they're not really playing a lot of teams.
Five teams have a winning record that they've beaten.
And the thing I look at here with the Lakers is just some of the same issues that have come up that people talk.
About whenever they lose.
And that was a game they were favored and people thought they should win that game and they didn't. Is defensively and then Luca had a bad night, was oer for six from three point yep and had a bad shooting night those things happen.
Also the Warriors players that you don't expect Pajenski, Moody and yes one Draymond Green, they go thirteen of twenty from.
Three that those nights happened exactly.
Sometimes you can't bank can't bank on Draymond and Moody, who the other two or some good air, you know, most absolutely so, if I if I, that's why it would be obviously a good series if they were to actually meet. And I would still put my money on the Lakers because they gotta win best of seven. But the Lakers ended up they were like, could never really get past eight to ten, and then they did at the last couple of minutes, yep, and they had a chance, you know, right there, but Steph wouldn't miss. And again Pojenski twenty something, twenty two, I think it was first half, like you didn't have that in the game, playing the scout and playing when you were walking into that ooh he blasted that.
So we should do this, uh get ready for our number two? Oh yeah, oh no, that's I keeps thinking of two or three.
Want to get to almost to the point where im all right, let's just make.
That no no, no, no, But Carmelo Anthony is coming up. Were gonna talk about that. He's in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Remember it's not the NBA Hall of Fame, it's the Basketball Hall of Fame, and we'll just talk about you know.
I like the way he fits phrasing.
Yeah, you know, you know what I mean if you're just focusing on his NBA career, because that's the key part. We always talked about basketball. He's in Olympic basketball college.
He's won enough fifteens, won three gold medals or whatever, so he's got no championship.
Yeah, it's a given totality. We'll talk about that. So get ready, you mellow people. Yep, that would be some fun. Get ready to do that and keep you updated on some of these scores to in MLB.
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