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I on the Ball, Chris, where you've been? Oh? I
saw seven seconds? Then Hey, we're back. We're here. Welcome to
the second hour. If I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty,
I'm Steve Rivera. I'm with the Frazzled Chris O'Gorman and my guy George
Modest from Showtime Cards. Yeah, and that's Chris christ Don was right,
I mean, Don done made some points at the end, right. Uh,
you are who you are. You are who you are pretty much what
he said. You guys haven't been I think when you have a passionate fan
base like you have, like like I, Yeah, I come out hot
because I'm just frustrated and get me going on the bank. All your life
you've been miserable. Yeah, I'm sick of it. Well, I had
done. You can't change allegiance. No I'm not. I'm not gonna do.
Well. You don't you can? Yeah? Can you? I don't
know. College is different. I believe purple. I like the abuse.
I like the abuse. That's it right there, and then you have to
have this. You came in and saying these expectations, high high expectations from
whom from the media. Six or seven wins is not him? Absolutely no.
You said you we're gonna win six. You yourself sins yes. I
said yes, yes, and I have my expectations. So where we're in
an end game expectations is eight nine week. Just know for this team,
six or seven wins could get us to a bowl game with the victory over
a su it's building momentum. Here's the thing he said it in the break
that you're not understanding. He just said, when you're in the game,
we what how did you word it? We take it on the chin?
We do? We take it on the chin. And you're the fan.
You're the guy that makes excuses masses. I don't, Chris, you're coming,
that's the problem. But the guy on the internet told me, I
don't give a crap. I'm neutral. I don't. I don't go to
school years. But then I covered the team neutraly, I don't. I
just get I get amused and amazed by you guys who are way on one
side, unrealistic about the expectations. What the caller said is we had no
business to be in this game. We're actually in the game. So he's
satisfied with that performance. I don't like what we're done. Like we said,
we're done being the bridesmaid. Right. Wait, we want to get
married. We want to be like the passion, that's extration, that's the
heart takes do we are freaking you out? We have leaders here for you
because you don't understand that passion are giving you Typically is like we were sick
of taking it on the Why can't we be the bullet? Who's your who?
You are? You are for basketball? I love the basketball team,
but everybody is for football. No, I grew up in Well, I
went to high school in Pasadena. We got to see that. You said,
like Bruins play every other weekend. So that was my basketball football.
But that was that was Troy eight kind of football was there? Kind of
mean? I mean we're still top twenty or they were still top twenty.
Yeah, oh yeah, I forget about that. But I'm saying they're they're
okay, they're okay, they're not the old they're not stories. Yeah,
you're not yours on a football fan No, you're smarter than that. Yeah,
exactly, I'm not. I'm not saying in the bay you just want
to kind of live your life and not be packed. Exactly. I'm not
gonna just stop my life watching the thing because I know kind of the outcome,
right, And like you said, a sakes game like that doesn't sound
like a lot of wins, but apparently for this type of program it would
be huge. That's that's the definition. Point. Well, what's the point.
I don't get it. You have higher expectations in the real reality.
If the number was Vegas set the number of five and a half six wins,
Okay, that's not I mean, that's that's not that's not that's not
not realistic. Now it might it might be. Now you're saying eight,
seven, eight wins. No, I'm saying anything over seven or eight would
be huge. That's high expectations. I'm saying I can found the sick change
like the seven, But how epic would have been had we one night that
then then then we're talking six seven wins seven probably okay, and that's over
the hump. Yeah, And that's the frustration of being a football I don't
think you do. I really don't. That's okay. Now he's telling me
what I think. Yeah, but you're like that cuts button just in case.
But it's just it's you just said it. We're just I'm sick of
taking it. I get that. I don't know the guys should be that
we are. But you put us in there. You put us in a
situation on the road against the Mississippi Sate team that came in here and beat
us last year twenty four seventeen or whatever. I actually not a man handle
this last year person. The man handle that score was not because close as
the game was. You're in the game there and you have a chance to
win. I mean, it's the same thing with any of you. Two
weeks ago it was the most lethargic. It was like, here we go
again. I think we're gonna lose that game. I didn't think that because
you lose twice in you get fired, didn't you? You get more out
of this last game than you did after first week. There's nowhere to go
but up after any you, Steve, Steve, see Julie, just to
tell football works, Amphi has a better chot could be an any of you,
Steve, there's nowhere to go but up against after any of you you're
in, you're in an end game situation. You have a chance to win
a game, and it's just historically we don't win those games. I don't
care. The line was not could you tell tell him? I mean,
George, do you understand what I'm saying? We need like one day?
Can we win that game? Is? Go over there? And that's what?
What news? What headlines? Would it be like? Maybe a whole
different scenario. Now we'd be like like who But that's the frustration game?
It would it could have should have. We've we've hit this wildcat to death
already, well bear down still in defeat. I'm I'm hoping for good things
and can we get to six? Now? I don't know that Colorado game
makes me nervous. I mean that is you would ask me four weeks ago,
I said five all along? So let me ask you guys a question.
We go to the Big twelve next year, If you win the Big
Twelve, that gets you into football. No, And I'm just say no,
no, I'm just trying to figure out because you used to win the
Pact Panto, you get to the rose Bow? Is is it winning that
conference I'm not saying we're going does that get you into the play is?
Like, No, I'm not talking about us. I'm saying, what is
the winner of that conference? Is that get you into the playoff? Birth
there's still bowl game allotments for that. It depends how capable or did you
have they ever make a rosebow? Still with my question, sure, okay,
sure if they're aligned with the tournament. Kansas has a beast of a
quarterback, so that's probably not that kid. Have you seen the kid from
Kansas heeas you're talking, you're talking, I'm talking about the winner of the
Big Twelve'm not talking about US as we go into the Big twelve because I've
heard Jay on this show say a Big twelve favors us more than the Pac
twelve. He a chance in the Big twelve? Really? No, no,
no, no, that that kid from Kansas is coming in. There's
another hisman, There's there's Baylor. I mean, I don't I don't know
that that's There's no USC or Washington, there's no there's no Warran. Yeah.
This the conference is heavy, Like Oon State's got one of the best
defenses in the Oregon State as one of the best defenses in the country.
You have all this information, Why are you so so bizarre with it?
No, I'm just saying I'm I just want to see us do well,
and it's frustrating. I think every fan does. And it always, it
always starts at the quarterback. This quarterback here is not good. He's okay,
he's okay, He's had his Flavor of the month, he was a
Heisman Trophy candate for two weeks. It's just constant, like it's the one
position I want to see us really excel at. And I think, what
do you do country music? It's like everything's depressing for you. I'm a
uf A fan. It is depressing to be a uf A football fan.
It's very depressing. It's depressing to be a Viking fan. Lose your team.
I don't see that's protein approach, approtein pro I don't have a team.
I don't want to yell and scream like you. I'm not young.
I'm making fat, I'm making giving you pot. I live a nice Sunday.
I watched the games. Saturdays, I watched games. Go home and
have a dinner. Don't worry. You have no investment in it. I
want to go I want to win. I have a comfortable life, George,
I'm sure. Shoot, shoot you do too. I am very passionate
about football, especially pro football. I'm a Raiders fan. And congratulation.
Thank you, So I was tremendous. So basketball has been very good to
you? Oh yeah, until it hasn't? Until it has? How did
you until you go out the first three? How did that feel? Haven't
that feel? Oh? Heartbreaking? Yeah you're emotionally what are we talking basketball?
Oh? Okay for you? You are so you got a football.
I get to know these guys. I see you go to the practice,
gets in personally, they come over for barbecues sometimes. You know, it's
just I played in the band years ago and Ryan Williams, God Rest his
soul used to come see my band. Outside of General Ben's six foot eleven,
arty guy. He's artsy guy. His dad was in the platters and
he'd be out just on his bike. But he style just gentle to this
conversation. But he was those guys you get, did you get? You're
invested? You're invested? Absolutely you you you know? Do you feel their
pain and your pain? I don't know how the coaches can do it because
it destroys me for a couple of days, and I was sometimes Lloyd and
I'm like, how how do you manage that? That's die hard? I
appreciate it. Yeah, it's very different. And that's my point. With
the football team, I'm very invested in it. I'm I'm going against's eye
as a kid, my dad used to it's just like and that's why from
a football perspective, I'm so passionate about it. Yeah. Is it over
the top? Yeah, but I think that the UFA football fan is frustrated
and to not be over the top now and it doesn't change, doesn't change,
And that's just the thing, you know. So I mean, well,
well, we'll see where this program goes. I like Jed Fish Having
said all that, yeah, I mean I like, so, okay,
at the end of the day, and you've already said how many games are
you gonna win? I'd have to relok the schedule now. I mean,
you had them at six inside, but now I have them. But now
I know Colorado's going to be the talk of the country and the rest of
the conference is pretty darn good. You didn't think that was gonna happen,
now, and what did you have them at five. Yeah, I had
five or six, there was one a couple of games Oregon State, I
didn't. I may have had them over Oregon stated in my initial pick.
But now that I know the Organ State is one of the best defensis in
the country, I may I mean, I didn't know this, but you're
gonna come. We gotta call. Thank God, thank God, We're gonna
call. Hello, you're on the air and night in the ball, please
help me. I wanted to chime in about the UFA football was kind of
a solution. Yes, go so yeah, So you know, I've been
my own year of whole life, and I've seen lots of things all apart
and just you know, one's not gonna happen. So and I recommended to
see you guys before about your betting and stuff and explain, like you listen
to the radio and you look at odds, it's not as responsive as TV.
So the middle of the game, you know, we're driving to try
to you know, to tie at the game. And then then as soon
as the pick got thrown, and it was like four minutes left and they
got the ball back, Uh, I was like, looked at the ads,
real quicken. It was minus two twenty for Mississippi State to win.
So I was like, well, there's no way now you're gonna gonna win.
Then the other teams cut the balls, they're gonna drive down and kick
ape over something that gets over. So I put a hundred bucks on Mississippi
State knowing I wasn't going to jink anything. We're already kind of justin,
and I was like, cool, watch the rest of the game, and
I was sweating my cat when over time and I was even like, well,
you know, if if I lost one hundred bucks because of it,
I lost one hundred bucks because of are awesome comeback and stuff? But is
that we launched and I end up making forty seven bucks on the side.
So what's your name? What's your name? Oh, he's gonna think I
think I want to ask if I want to ask you a question, what's
your name? Uh, he's just I mean, but watching that game,
is that a game you've been offending your whole life? Did you kind of
innately think that there's no way we're gonna win this because we never win that
game? Or did you think we had a shot from the beginning? Yeah?
Yeah, But watching live betting, like realizing that k and I've done
it before with especially with them knowing like there's somewhere they're going to choke it
out. You know. That's that that's a little taking it, just like
George said, just taking it. Yep. Yeah, well he's you,
he's you in a different way. He's he's Yeah, but I get a
phone gets the Arizona football fan. Yeah. Yeah, there's two sides of
it. I mean, you're either you're sick of it, fed up your
passion, or you're realistic. No, there's no way we're gonna win the
game legally in the States and at least leave but with some some happy cash
in your in your PODECTID you made fifty bucks. You thanks a bunch for
calling, appreciate it, thanks listening. But you know, on top of
that, though, you gotta understand, coming from my point of view,
I've got Arizona frustration and I've got Viking frustration. So when you combine those
two, if he comes, it just becomes a little over there, a
little, a little I'm sick of it. I wonder you let your hair
grow out, because if you didn't, they wouldn't go back. Yeah,
I mean, it's not my fault. I'm a Viking fan. Whose fault
is it? My dad? I could I grow up just rooting for Chuck
Foreman. It's just never it's never gotten, you know, being a Viking
fan. It's like you got red fire thrown across the middle. You got
Blair Walsh missing the field going Seattle. You've got Gary Anderson wide right.
It's like it's like we all have that living. It is the worst.
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break. We're gonna get a hold of mister Mike Great, Yeah, Mike
Fruman, Miake Fruman. Talk about what's going on in Denver with you guys
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Colorado University. Yeah, yeah, Okay, let's take the break, come
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We'll put the work in for you. Steve and Jacob Solis they have
their eye on the ball on TWOSMS sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Hey, welcome back too. On Fox Sports turteen fifty. I'm Steve James
out today. Check is gonna kill me? Crystal Gorman ninety two point nine.
I'm a guy, George. George is not killing him. We have
Mike Fruitman from Mike's Stadio Sports in Denver. What's going on in Denver?
Mike? Things are good and bad. Great on Saturday with the Buffs.
Not so good yesterday. Wow. I know, but let's let's talk about
the bad first people in Denver's that town going to burn up because of the
Broncos. No? I mean, you know, we we we've gotten unfortunately
used to it. We're still selling out the stadium. I don't think everybody's
broken out the bags quite yet. We had we had some hope going in
this year. Obviously with Shawan Payton. It's really good move that he traded
a seventh round pick for a kicker who can't kick. Other than that,
we treated Albert oh one of our one of our tight ends, for a
linement. He didn't play yesterday. So the Sean paytoner, Hey, look,
at least he has good clock management. We didn't have that last year.
It's a definite step in the right direction. We didn't have We didn't
go to zero that I'm aware of yesterday and bleep up too badly. And
are we happy? No? I mean it's the Raiders. You never want
to start off the season with a loss. But against the Raiders, we're
on the on the list of most consecutive losses active to another team. Twice
we have fosses on a road in Kansas City. That's the NFL running record
now and I think we would the fifth longest record. He's losing to the
Raiders, which eventually people get angry about. Hey, Mike, real quick,
what do you think the relationship with Sean Payton Russell Wilson. Do you
think that's gonna work? I don't think so. It's my hope. I
mean, hey, look, we ensures everything after the last year he had
here. I'm sure he's glad to have an established coach. I don't know
the nuances and intricacies between the relationship. If Russell wants to play well and
have a super Bowl winning coach, he certainly has that. Now, Yeah,
go ahead and ask your little Hall of Fame questions. Oh no,
we were talking about it. Yeah, I'm just curious in the break we're
talking. I mean, have you ever heard of a player that could possibly
play himself out of the Hall of Fame. I'm sitting here thinking this is
three or four years in decline for Russell Wilson, and now I'm not so
certain that he's gonna put on that gold jacket. Well, you know,
he didn't leave Seattle as like the I don't think it was really sad to
see him go. When you're taking Drew Lockett and you're actually happy with the
equation, that's a really bad sign. Yeah. Obviously you've got that large
contract there. It affected their ability to sign other players. You knew that
they weren't going to be able to keep it going that much longer. What
you're saying maybe spot on. Now again, you're talking to somebody who lost
to Russell Wilson in the Super Bowl. So when he got here, it
was kind of like this guy so from from a Denver scene, I don't
obviously yes, eventually hall of Fame, but we were not we we did
not see him from first Vallid guy, especially because he defeated US. So
is this and to be fred, you don't have Jerry Judy in your lineup?
Correct? Yeah? Judy is Camstring. There's other guys who are missing
us. Well, yeah, going to be down if your players that's a
valid point. That's why you throw for one hundred and seventy seven yards.
Yeah, well we'll see what I'm Peyton is Peyton the guy and he talked
a lot of crap earlier well about it, a lot of things. Yeah,
well, we certainly hope. So we've we've had a bit of a
struggle here the last few years. I think we've jumped on the lifeboat thinking
okay, this is something that would help. After last year the coaching was
just so atrocious that, you know, giving up picks to get I've actually
made sense something to do. It's like, geez, isn't there anybody out
there you could just sign? But but going with picks even to make the
sense. And we are optimistic, as every team is. You know,
we all started off zero and zero yesterday, right, what's next for them?
Who's the next one? Washington at believes there's somewhat optimistice. Where is
that game in on the road or where's that game at? Is that?
I believe it is on the road. After Thursday night, we all had
hope that Liters maybe Kansas City is human and and maybe this would be the
year that we don't get you know, torn up too badly by them,
or maybe we could get at least after week one, have a one oh
on him. But yeah, George, George has got his black and silver
T shirt on right now. He's kind of feeling himself right now. We're
in first place and first Jimmy Jimmy the seventh highest winning quarterback in the NFL
history based on his amount of starts, So that's a great fact. And
he's unbelievable in the playoffs. He's clutch. I wanted him over Kirk Cousins.
Let's go south to Colorado. Springs are not springs to to molder one
in the world is going on up there, like we Wow, the portal
is is I think that's the key word everybody out here. Whenever you say
portal, we'll have to take a shot. It was crazy when he walked
in the room last year and basically told everybody packed bags. Yeah, it
was like, wait a thing, and wow, that's that's just harsh and
brutal. But it seems to be the best thing. I mean, I'm
going into the game. I just wanted a good showing. I didn't think
that we're going to win that one. As they see you alumni beating Nebraska.
If we go one on eleven, well two, two and ten,
because we gotta play Colorado State this week, son goes there. I went
to see you. It's a big one for me now. But if you
can go two and ten almost you're like, wait to say that sounds so
bad. As long as you beat Nebraska in one of them, we're we're
dancing out here. It's it's definitely exciting. I was talking to a buddy
who who goes to games normally, and you can't go anymore. They're like
five hundred dollars tickets worth. Last year, you can probably walk up for
a buck. Yeah, so let me ask you a question, Mike,
real fast, if it big Colorado State at Mile High Stadium, and then
they're three and oh and then they they have to play Oregon. They believe,
Yeah in Oregon. What do you do? You do you pump the
brakes after Oregon? If it's if it's a route or what if it's close?
What do you think the perception will being bolder than if it's if it's
thirty eight, ten or what if it's you know twenty what? Well,
global happens there. Hopefully Oregon doesn't put eighty on us. I mean in
the first game, yeah, we won, but but TCUST will put up
forty two. I think that going into week we'll see the over under this
year is three and a half on the team. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
if we went in the first three, I think there's gonna be joy.
Yes, we haven't beaten Oregon in a while, and I think that's
kind of a set up game, especially being on the road. As long
as we don't get obliterated, I think we can handle it. I guess
if Dean wanted to run for governor, he'd be able to pull it off
pretty easy. You know, I got to ask him where he is on
not I don't care. Is the portal. With the portal you were saying,
Mike, is it eighty seven new players this year? It was remarkable.
I mean all those guys. He basically told me to go to the
rooms, get their bags, and you're out, which is really I mean,
it's they's thinking about football has changed. You know, you recruit and
I understand none of those guys are his team, but you go one to
eleven, it's like, look, you know, who do you want to
keep? What do you how do you keep guys that went one to eleven?
You know? The hope is, you know, all these guys are
sitting in the room and just imagine like, oh my gosh, we got
de one. We're going to get all these influence and new players. It's
getting me incredible, and instead of being part of the team, they're all
junked right. Well, let me say, Mike, I when this happened,
and he was coming into the room and saying, pack your bags,
get your louise or whatever he's coming with this Louise. The funny thing about
it is others coaches do this, they just don't do it right right.
That's the thing. They chased players the way. There's no new guys come
in. They want their own yetta. Yet they don't go eighty five deep
and the learner and his assistant with eighty five new players. Right. So
the way he did it was I killed the one that was primetime, So
yeah, very fun. How many people can do that? I mean it's
Dion. He's got the credibility. He took an incredibly small team and a
school and put him on the map and did it incredibly well. And did
it, you know, to the best of my knowledge or no issues at
the school. It seems like he ran a clean program. And the hope
is as a lumm, I'm mentioning my my wagon to him. How fast
is this team in person? Mike? How how fast are they on the
field in person? Must be the first week you had four guys, four
receivers, you go through over one hundred yards of piece. Yeah, their
question quick? They're fast, So let me the first yesterday was really slow.
I mean it was thirteen nothing now, but I mean I mean team
speed. I mean in the last few minutes, I mean team speed.
How how quick is el cool is it to watch them in person? They're
very super fastest team, right? Their team speed is amazing. It definitely
looks like that. You're watching the quarterback and he's just all over the place.
He's one of those can't bring down guys. I don't like to make
analogies that people play like Michael Vick. I don't like talking about Vick anymore,
but he's that type of exciting. Let me ask you to both you
and George. So you're in the card business, des card I'm sure's out
there. Is it worth more now than it was before? Yeah? It
literally is right just pricing on nine score and it used to be like a
five six dollars card and it's not through the roof, it's not going to
buy you a stake in Vegas. But now it's about a twenty dollars card.
And he hasn't hasn't caught a ball, he hasn't kicked anything off,
he hasn't run a punt back. But and that's on the National about this
on the Race Show. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's they change it
like little growth pro players like week to week. It fluctuates like every Sunday,
we're pricing at cards differently, absolutely based on so we could go higher
than twenty bucks now of course, Oh oh absolutely, yeah. Well that
okay. So we're talking about out, we're talking about Seattle earlier or brought
with Russell Wilson. So what about his rookie card? Is it like a
stock now? Is it is? You, guys, Mike and George?
Is that would a rookie Russell Wilson be descending right now? Pretty bad?
Yes, that's exactly how you buying. Let's tad, I'll work, good
deal, I'll work. We can work a good deal. But so a
card like that is is a declining stock, totally declining it is now when
he when we signed him, we had to sell out whatever we had,
the affordable rookiees, the expensive rookies, we had autographs, they all went
out the door. However, a lot of than this, a lot of
people have attempted to bring them back, or probably would if they had the
opportunity. And that's how it works, even down here with Kyler Murray when
number one evil Kyler Murray, Oh my god, what do you have,
George? And then now it's like you can give those things away? Wow,
it changed. So would you buy him back some some Yes, in
the off season, we were buying some back. Yes, exactly. You
want you, guys, want those you got you guys want those Caleb Williams
cards real soon now, ye, So how long have you been in the
business, Mike. I had the shop for thirty years and three months.
I actually sold it in April. So now I'm as people have to refer
to me. I'm just the manager. So you setpill doing what I love.
It's it's awesome. I've had a bunch of cards role in this morning
and we're able to take care of people. Last two hours have been pricing
cards for somebody else's fun. Let me ask you a question with the baseball
cards like l Dela Cruz or something from cincinnat Like, what is the hot
card right now? I know we got the Martian on the Yankees? What's
his name is? What are the cards that what are the biggest the spikes
that we're seeing right now? With all the young players coming up on some
of the teams, Actually, you guys have one of them. Jordan Lawler
just came up. He hasn't shown shown incredibly well, but the fact that
he got brought up this year is very encouraging. We have a lot of
people are looking at Holiday, Matt Holiday's son who literally got drafted this year
and is up to Triple A. There's talked to the Tigers may actually bring
him up. So even though he hasn't played a game in the majors yet,
there are people who keep his cards. Elie de la Cruz, as
you mentioned a couples to everybody this whole season. Well, let me ask
you, guys. Let me ask you, guys the magical question for you
and Mike, what am I doing with my wander Franco car here get cold
in the winner, the ones that were made out of cardboard. You can
get at least like thirty to forty seconds of flame after him or them and
whatever whatever you do. It's it's sad that I know what we've been told,
but obviously I hope it's not the case. But I hold not either.
So you and you and George must be living the life given. You
guys have a boyhood job. I mean you guys a boyhood job. Oh
well you we do we do you guys get to go to baseball card conventions?
Or do you do you do that? Like? Do you go to
Vegas? Well? I give them, I give them where you were just
working? Go hold on, I go to his show, And I said
bunch of geeks, right, show up. Yeah, but they're smart geeks.
Sports. Yeah, yeah, we have analyzing. But now it's big
money in this industry. So let me it's actually kind of cool to gly
cards. Oh yeah, is that right? Like like is it? What?
No? No, what I'm saying is so now, So there's a
lot of breaker is it's it's all over social media. People are glaving cards,
They're doing on podcast, YouTube channels. It's actually changed from the old
card geeks. Now it's actually cool to glide cards. So the values of
cards gone up. People were making serious money millions out there, So it's
really definitely changed over there. We've both been in this, you know,
couple of decades, and so let me my son's perspective. My son will
actually now tell people what I do for a living. Right, So let
me ask you guys this question to the average person that wants to collect cards
that's not really into the breaking pin and not that savvy. You walk into
a Walmart or you walk into it wherever, are you what kind of packs?
Because I see packs going for tops, chrome or Bowman, I see
them going for thirty dollars. Long gone? Are the three ninety nine packs
with the bubblegum. But for the average collector, are you gonna pull something
big at a from a from a baseball pack at a at a Walmart?
And if you are, what collection is what? What should we be looking
for you? In baseball? Is it still tops chrome? Is it?
What is it? Well, for most people, it's gonna be top chrome.
It's gonna be Bowman chrome. That's for baseball. For football, it's
probably gonna be football and basketball's crowd, you're gonna be prism optic, mosaic.
I'm gonna I'm gonna go a little bit different if I may. When
when somebody comes to my shop and then let me know that their first time
collector. I start off from the fun perspective. You could open a box
and you can pull the biggest card and yes, maybe put one of ones
into the packs and the target Walmart, three jail locations, those are possible.
They do put incredible autographs inside of them. But I want to know
why somebody wants to collect, and I work with people to make sure that
they leave my shop satisfied with their purchase. And that could be maybe they've
always liked Don Mattingly and I want to make sure that they leave here with
a box if they want to, but I want to make sure that the
leading here that's Don Mattingly cards, something that connects them to their youth,
something that the coolest thing is. We get fathers. You're coming with their
sons and daughters. We have mom who coming with their sons as well,
and I want to make sure that they're leaving here not with an expensive box.
Was something that they're going to be in, that they're going to enjoy.
I want their first visit. I want every visit to lead into them
wanting to come back and collect. And even if they don't collect in my
shop, I still want to create a collector somebody who has a great first
experience. Yeah, I want to collect. It won't Beiaba, I don't
care. I want to pull the Victor won Biaba. That's all I want.
Well, Mike, appreciate your time up there and enjoy, enjoy the
buffs and survive the buck Broncos. Hopefully we're enjoying bu Yes, absolutely,
thanks Mike, appreciate it was going to see you this weekend. Guys.
Thank you all. George always a pleasure. Thanks well to take a break
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Yeah, I means Vegas made it killing. Yeah. Oh yeah.
There's a lot of upsets the book. All the casinos were recovering from Colorado
TCU and even if they want anything cover teams. It's just crazy. What's
the line tonight, Steve too two with the most two to a half I've
seen two and a half earlier. It could have changed. It's the weather
out there. We have nice New York Weather there too. I would assume
hopefull got a call. Okay, hello, you're on the air, eye
the ball. Yeah, this is nicke man. N what's up, Nico?
Help me from this. I never thought i'd say this, Nico,
save me. Hey man, First of all, you have a should have
won that game. Tell me Nico, thank you a man of reason on
the phone. Tell me man, First of all, those rests were paid
off. Man. It's always the rest. I love that, right,
famous Arizona when we win though the refs never called again. It's the guys
well, like, okay, go ahead, young man. They just wanted
to make it to the plane without getting murdered. Got that first down that
wasn't here. That was a weird spot. It was like a three inches
maybe for from the thing man spot. Yeah, it was tough. Do
you Nico? We talked last week? Did you get more from this game
than the previous week? I got my heart broken? We go like you
you actually you could be Nico's well, we because we speak recently, because
Nico, Nico understands the frustration of being a u of a football fan where
we just take it and take it and take it. It was a roller
coaster. It's first half. I'm like, they're done, exact half.
I'm like, all right, we got this man break my heart. It's
like drink like ten beers after the game. Isn't that normal? It's like
texting the girl all week you got a chance at the date on the weekend
that she bows out on your right at the end, Nico. Nico doesn't
know any of that. He's got to go. So it's like the girl
telling you, I'm saving myself from marriage. And come one. We know,
Nico, how old are you? You know the pain? He knows
the pain if I was born and raised here. Just you're to be good
man, and I can't remember. We asked you how many games you had
him winning at the beginning? Five? Yeah, exactly, exactly. They'll
end up right there, they just will. Yes, And that's what that's
not good? What do we win last year? Five? We should be
over five. There'd be other teams getting better, Chris, so we should
be too. You are are we always trailing? Why are we always behind?
Hey? Man? The back to those two good Man and really good
recruiting is good. It's it's definitely be the under It was under five.
Sorry, man smoke a joint man for medicinal purposes. Chris, you too,
You should follow his leading down a little. Yes, I've mellowed out
the last hour, believe me. But I get Nico's pointing to night.
What are we thinking? As for the game? I just looked at a
couple of things. It's it's minus two and a half on what on whatever,
Buffalo. But when I think you can get it, well, d
two two and a half. If you got the Draft Kings line of two
and a half, that's the line. I think. I like the Jets
because at two and a half they're playing at home. I like him At
two and a half, I could see a last minute field goal, last
possession. I I just the way the NFL, the way the NFL works.
I had the Raiders at three and a half yesterday. You know what
the game Wasn't Chargers Chargers? A game? What a game that went back
and forth? The Chargers had that they should have won. They should I
thought they were gonna win. I had them. Herbert just can't slinger.
Yeah, yeah, he's a gun slinger. So is johnsh Allen. So
is Aaron Rodgers kid. So what's the over under on that game is what
I wanted. We have the over under on the game tonight, which one
it's gonna be. It's gonna be fifty eight. So what can't we read
into the NFL first week? Could you guys read into everything? The tea
leaves Cowboys as good as you think? Yeah, they're better than they are
San Francisco, just go. I think they're good good. Could go to
the George's Raiders. They're going to be better than people give them credit.
What was the over undering the Raiders six? I think the Raiders are Raiders
gonna speak a wild card because this is the most win to get that covered,
right. Yeah, they're still not that good, though I disagree.
Why are they're not gonna play for us? We always saying they're not that
good? They were two years remove from a playoff game. It's like,
why are we so down on the Raiders office? I thought the over under
this shiar six and half was really bad. That was horrible number. Jimmy
Jimmy tight End from notre name looked really shines with the lights on. Jimmy
g is one of the best quarters. Help he is the best? Didn't
he just be the bad? Denver team though, Yes, okay, so
what they tell you what you don't think? You don't think the Raiders could
overtake the charges that you don't know first be first franchise, they're that one
of those franchises that are cursed. They find a way to screw it up.
They don't. They have the worst coach in the world. They'll find
a way to screw it up in big team that guy. That guy's on
after this year, so the Raiders are are in his prime spot. So
what about the Chargers? Because they lost, they still I think they're they
don't have the coach. I agree with you, totally agree with, totally
agree if you guys want to call in New England over under on this game
tonight, it's forty four and a half, so the overlooks good. I
think the overlooks. I'll tell you, I thought New England hung in.
They're pretty tight yesterday. I mean, you did give me a Belichick takeaway.
I thought New England they played well, but they weren't. They weren't
expected to win, but they weren't expected. But I thought they were gonna
get blown out of water. What about Baltimore? What about Baltimore? They
lost their running back JK. Dobbins for the year now, so they're they're
towards Achilly, so they got receivers. They look good. But they're playing
Texas so I can't. But they did lose their run back today, so
I don't know. And then the locals. You're gonna go see the Cardinals.
I am, I'm gonna go. I think they played Giants. Are
they in tank mode? So? And they're not favorite? Of course,
you know the Giants. No, Gants are pissed. Are they in tank
mode? They need to be well last game they're trying to in that game.
Okay, here's what I thought would be in tank one because to me,
okay, Loves is not gonna come to Arizona. So that's just not
gonna happen. And the good call, good col let's take this call.
Thanks for calling you on the air. An Eye of the Ball. Hey
you guys, this is Gabriel Calleen again. Hey, how are you guys?
We're doing well? Gabe? What do you got so? I want
to talk to you guys about the loss against Mississippi State. Okay, give
me two minutes, give you two good, good minutes of a game.
Okay, Well, The loss was very disappointing, and Arizona was very close
to to winny. Unfortunately, Jayden and the Laura made too many mistakes like
bringing the ball over four times, and just Arizona was in the thick of
it and they had a really good chance to be a good quality SEC team.
So I hope Jayden Dolora comes comes, comes out and plays against Washington,
UFC, UCLA, Oregon State, all the teams and that matter,
and just also beat the teams that they are supposed to be so okay because
because you know you guys, and thank you gay for calling, they always
lose one they should, yeah, but they also win one. They shouldn't
come. Yeah, they'll lose to the Cow or they'll stay I mean,
and they'll win that. They'll take a Washington. I mean, I can
see it. I don't know the number anymore. Man, I'm just I'm
perplexed with Colorado and Oregon State and on the schedule. You know, there's
a lot of a lot of you guys really live on the edge of the
edge of the ledge right there, don't you. I mean, that's well,
there's there's five pack twelve teams at the top, twenty five at least
think there's eight. Ye of course this should be the strongest conference in years
because we're leaving. There's no conference next. They're playing against better teams,
not tomorrow all the time. Yeah, I know, but that's the problem.
There's always better teams that we're not one of the better teams. That's
the problem. That'salyzed the problem years old. It's recruiting. Since you've been
two years old. I know, I don't. That's frustrating. It's like,
why can't we be because you can't have all the shiny things, Chris,
you know, I don't I want. This is why we can't have
nice things. May be the song for you that you play over there all
the time, you know, I don't want to cut your song Got Friends.
Yeah, No, that's that's the perils. There's a song like that.
I know, there's a lot of Yeah, you gotta figure that one
out for you. You know. One of the other things that they impressed
me yesterday, I didn't think that the Rams could go on the road,
and because I thought was speaking of Williams, because I don't think ca Wa
Holmes is coming airs are I don't think I'd rather have to mention something like
that. Father's like amazonas not something I don't even think about taking. Yeah,
and it's also Kyler two hundred and forty five, which is a scam
unfortunately. But to me, if if I'm the Ram, if I'm the
Rams, I'm taking it, because that's the match made in heaven is now
they might not. We found we found out Stafford looked tremendous. We found
out they're not going to take and that's Cayley Williams dream fit play right,
Because if if the Cardinals think that they're getting Caleb Williams and they're they're they're
they're like me being a Viking fan, going, We're going to Super Bowl.
The team to watch right now? I thought after yesterday was Miami.
Yeah, you know, calling Cowherd had him to win that division, which
I thought was absurd. You gotta be crazy that divisions loaded what now?
But now they look good. Now I can see like, whoa. But
if the Jets are is the hype and there and wrong, I mean that's
the AFCs is great. That's what it's like. The whole divisions East in
the AFC West, you're probably your best divisions. Yep, that's how I
see it, We'll see it's come on. It's one game into seventeen,
eighteen eighteen, long way to go. But if you're asking for a week
one impressions, though, those are a couple that were I thought Dallas looked
great. But boy are they that good? And if you'd told me they
would giant. So if you would tell me Dallas one's forty nothing, I'm
like, oh my god, Dak Prescott loloaded it up three hundred year he
throws for us. Since talking this way, anyway, you got a minute,
minute and a half, Arizona plays you tip up this weekend? The
spread of seventeen. What do you do? I think you have any needs
to make a statement coming off of the loss. I think they keep your
foot on the gas. Yeah. Then again, I think this is when
I say I think they'll cover the spread. I think they'll cover. I
think I think seventeen is too low. I think it's low. I think
they need to make a statement. Yeah, Clemson's another team i'd be watching
for this weekend. You're coming off of the coming off of a tough loss.
They're gonna take it out on whoever. They're the Alabama as well.
Yeah, boy, yeege football a lot of fun. So what do you
guys got for to night? Did Buffalo straight up? Straight up? Straight
up? Yeah? No, I'm thinking Buffalo they're gonna cover. Yeah you
think right, I'll stop your head. Yeah, yes, but I'm not
that. I'm not that Confilent's were a good team last year on both sides
of the sh I didn't know that. I don't think that. But again
they were. They should have you know, they should have been in the
playoffs last year. But see, you're the reason why I think the Jets
will cover. You guess the fan always goes, oh, they're sure they're
gonna cover. It's just that's the NFL. The NFL goes not so fast,
and the words of lead corso not's so fast? My friend? Does
that mean that's right? I think the Jets I could see them. No,
but I think it's the opposite. Now with Aaron Rodgers, people are
on the Jet point right, and we have that's a great point. Seven
Okay, okay, thirty five seconds. Okay, thanks for coming in.
That was a pleasures ringing the juice. Thank you're getting this. J T.
Jason is always good. Yes, this will be on podcast if Ja
puts it on podcasts good show, they went fast. Thank god, thank
god you had gone. Thank god, this is my new best friend.
Thank you, George An. Apologies to don for you because you called you
Chris. I'm sorry, even Donna, even Donna Green. Thanks for everybody,
See you tomorrow.