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We were just kicking around Josh Hater before we got on the air,
just kicking the name around, right. I told you there's no way that
Rogers are going to spend one hundred million dollars on that guy. Well,
there's two things. First, apparently no one is spending one hundred million dollars,
but the Houston Astros are spending ninety five nine five ninety five million.
Looks like he got what he wanted. He got what he wanted. He's
the highest paid reliever in Major League Baseball history. Wow. I guess they
didn't care very much that there were games he didn't want to play. I
guess that works for them. I guess so, hey, big fellow,
we're gonna need you tomorrow. No, I don't think so, not tomorrow.
You think you're gonna pull that? I don't think I can go tomorrow.
Wait, apparently he did it in San Diego. Why wouldn't he do
it there? Yeah? I guess so. Well, I guess he might
be able to do it since Dusty's out, Chris, Dusty would not put
up with that. Dusty would not put up with that. Sure. But
man, yeah, you know he said, we just talked about in the
teas, and I was absolutely sure, not only with you know, paying
that much for a reliever, but just the baggage that that he comes with
as well. And we just mentioned one about you know, pitching on his
terms, but the baggage he comes with as well, that would somebody roll
the dice and go choose him and sign him. And apparently Houston Astros certainly
didn't care about all that. What would you you know what, when you're
really look at the big picture, who do you think would sign him?
The Mets or the Astros? Right? And he ended up with the Astros.
Dodger fansn't was any sleep. Would it have been a nice addition?
Sure? Were they gonna pay him what he wanted? No? Were they
going to give him the number of years he wanted? No? So good
luck and enjoy Houston. Okay, So a story came down today and it
really speaks to a number of things that are happening right now in the media
industry. And why does this matter to you? Because that's how you consume
your information. You get it from the media. Now it could be traditional
media, legacy media, social media. In any event, you get information.
As a matter of fact, more people than ever before check the news.
More people than ever ever before check the news. They just check it
in different ways. And because they check it in different ways, legacy media
companies, mainstream media companies are having a lot of problems. We'll start with
Sports Illustrated basically SI, which was the gold standard in sports reporting for many
years, Rodney, when you and I were growing up, that was the
magazine to have. That was it. That was it. That was the
magazine everybody. It was basically the sports bible, Fred and you couldn't wait
for that new Sports Illustrated to come out for a variety of different reasons because
you wanted to see who was on the cover, and then certain articles that
were in there where they were all, you know, well written and informative
and really had great writers at Sports Illustrated. So it was the magazine.
Do you remember inside Sports Illustrated. I remember this as a kid growing up.
They used to have this little section in the back of Sports Illustrated called
Faces in the Crowd. Faces in the Crowd. They would pick random people
from all around the country, and you know, you'd submit a story and
you would hope and wish and pray that they would pick your story to be
in Faces in the Crowd. And I used to go to I actually used
to go to that first when I was a little kid and just go,
look, Oh, who's the Faces in the Crowd? Some kid from Texas
who scored forty eight points and a half in basketball, or a pitcher,
threw a no hitter in high school and all that kind of stuff. And
one of the biggest memories I had is I was in the faces of the
crowd high school. Yeah, how cool is that? Was a kid and
faces in the crowd. In high school, I had a big game where
I set at that point, set a state record in passing for four hundred
and forty yards or something like that. I threw forth and and my coach
sent it into Sports Illustrated and they ended up printing it and put me in
the faces in the crowd. Man, that was cool. Well, yeah,
Rodney, you know, being in faces in the crowd was pretty cool.
Yeah, weren't you on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Rodney? You
were? Usc That was my next thing. So high school that was it,
you know, and faces in the crowd, And then and then my
senior year, after we beat UCLA, was lucky enough to be on the
cover of Sports Illustrated. So that was that is the big thing for me,
and I still still to this day cherish it. I've got, you
know, the big blow up poster of it in my office at home,
and then of course my parents got I think they've got I think they had
like four or five of them around their houses, around their house in Arizona.
So, yeah, that is a big deal. And like I said,
I still cherish that today be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. That's
a big deal. Yeah, so it really meant something. Yeah, absolutely,
And that's where you went for your sports information and people lived for it
every week as you put it out. The writers were great. Well here's
the problem. No one's really reading printed material any longer. So what happened.
Sports Illustrated switched hands numerous times, different people owned Sports Illustrated, and
then it became basically a digital property. And just so you understand listening,
a digital property does not generate the kind of revenue the traditional print model did.
Different less to advertise on digital, so you don't make as much money.
So then they went into the digital model. And when you do something
like that, you got to cut your costs because you're not make it as
much. So suddenly some of these really talented writers you have no longer work
there because they can't afford to pay him. And you get to a point
in this world in which we live where the feeling is it doesn't really matter
who's doing what people just consume when they consume. Here's the bottom line.
As all of this is transpired and things have gone down and the property has
changed, the property has changed ownership. Today there is word that they're going
to lay off a significant portion, possibly all, all of the outlet staff.
All of the outlet staff. How it got there irrelevant, it's all
this business and stuff. You don't care, but you do care about all
of the staff. Can you imagine? Wow, the talent, all of
the staff because they believe it doesn't matter any longer. And what has happened
over the years, is it that they don't matter or they just can't compete.
Well, they can't make money. They can't make money money when you
got you know, the athletic out there and all these digital sports outlets that
are popping up or have popped up over the over the last few years,
that the competition, the market is so saturated that you said, like you
said, they can't they can't generate the income like they used to and just
can't compete. Can't compete, right, And they didn't adapt, they weren't
innovative, they didn't try things. Now they find themselves are like Blockbuster.
Pardon me, They're like block They were like Blockbuster couldn't adapt. Hey,
here's an idea. Why don't we take that stuff and stream it online?
All that will never work? No, Netflix is crazy. What are they
doing that don'll never work? Goodbye to Blockbuster. We see the same thing
out by the way on this very day happening. Get the La Times.
Yeah, a number of the writers there are are walking on strike. They're
protesting today. Why because The Times is losing between forty and fifty million dollars
a year, and the owner of The Times is saying, look, you
know this is not a charity. I can't continue to lose money. We're
going to have to cut costs. And when we cut costs, it means
we're going to have to lay people off or we're going to have to adjust
their salaries because we're not profitable. In all of this is because you listening
consume your information differently. Now. Back in the day, the La Times
is the gold standard. I think Bill Plashki is the best columnist in the
country. All the Dawn and all the people that come on the show,
they are the best at what they do. But if the company isn't making
enough money to support the business Suddenly they look at things differently, and what
it does is it lessens the credited, accredited media. That's what happens because
look, you probably get your information on x or you can get your information
on Instagram, or you can get your information on TikTok. You're informed.
You are informed, and up to the second, up to the second.
That's why when we do radio now, we are constantly looking for things that
happen because the minute they happen, we have to react to them because that's
how your mind works. It's very much like the strike zone. If the
ball's in the box, you expect it to be called a strike. If
it's not, there's something wrong. If you see an alert on something that
just happened, and we think it's important enough, if you come to us,
we should be discussing that because that's how our minds work now. It's
not the way it used to be. In TV. For example, this
project I'm doing in Palm Springs, we are trying to recreate the model for
presenting local television news information. That's what I'm doing out here. I'm not
doing sports. There was a whole model that we have laid out to try
to reinvent the way information is presented, and you say, well, why
would you do that, because the model in which I grew up working in
is fractured. It's no longer efficient, and it's barely effective because you know
things immediately, so you don't have to sit there and wait till five o'clock
for somebody to tell you. When I'm doing the local sports as I was
for many years, and I tried, I did all I could there to
say, we got to look at this differently. Is I was doing the
local sports, I would say, it's eleven o'clock at night, I'm going
to show Dodger highlights, the game's if it's on the East Coast, the
game's been over four and a half hours. And on the other side of
it, I'm going to make it seem like, well, you don't know
what happened in the Dodger game tonight. Well, of course you do.
If you didn't hear it, you watched it. If you didn't watch it,
you read about it. If you didn't read about it, you saw
clips online. So what we were doing was becoming obsolete. It's fractured.
When you tune into the news at five o'clock in the afternoon or six o'clock
at night, and unless it's live and happening right now, you already know
it because you know it, because you have the information in the palm of
your hand. So what we're trying to do out here is reinvent the model
in a small place that could translate to larger markets. It's different for some
people, it's terrifying. Our reaction has been pretty good, but also some
of the reaction has been, what the hell are you doing? I could
never watch anything like this. This doesn't matter. The cost of failure has
never been less. Yeah, So what you find with Sports Illustrated and all
of these talented writers going out of business, that model doesn't work. People
consume their information differently. They didn't adapt the La Times. The writers walking
out, God, I feel for all of them. They're so talented and
so hard working. But people aren't consuming their information like that any longer.
In television. The people I worked with for all those years I have so
much respect for. It's like you're not heading toward the iceberg on the Titanic.
You're not. You've already hit it, and now the question is are
you going to get off before it goes down. That's the challenge all media
companies face. That's the challenge we face Rodney on a daily basis. I
mean, if something happens, we have to react immediately, immediately. If
we don't react immediately, we're behind. Because that's the way the world works.
Yeah. Right, when you see a replay in basketball and we're sitting
at home, we go, my god, that was a foul, but
the officials say it wasn't. That doesn't work. Our minds don't work that
way. We have an expectation. Now you show us a play, if
we claim it's ball, strike out, say foul out about that. That's
what it is. Don't tell us anything differently. It's like what we just
talked about with Josh Hater, right, we talked about that. We actually
teased it that where is he going to go? What is he going to
do? Who's going to pay that money? And between the teas and us
starting the show two and a half minutes, two and a half minutes,
the word came down that he had signed with the Houston Astros. Are they
in agreement? I mean that's how quickly it things happen, and that you
can get the news out. So for petrols and money after us. It's
old news, right, We've already dealt with it three hours before they go
on the air, even though it's still fresh because it just happened. But
they're going to be late to it when they do their show. I mean,
it's just the crazy. Like you mentioned, that's the way the world
is now. Everybody wants immediate gratification or immediate effect or information from their phone,
from the computer, from wherever they get it. I feel badly for
the people in Sports Illustrated, and I really feel badly for the people at
the Times. And I feel badly for The Times, one of the crown
jewels in American journalism. Why do you think that they why do you think
that? Is it because Sports Illustrated or even LA Times are late to the
digital party or they just can't compete from a cost situation with you know,
X or the Athletic or Barstool Sports or whoever else is out there that are
giving out sports information on a regular basis. They can't compete that quickly from
a cost perspective. People at the LA Times are writers, and they're good
writers. They're trained, they have access, they have credibility, they're really
good writers, and they should be compensated as such. I'm not saying the
writers at barstool are not talented nor anywhere else, but you are looking at
a crown jewel. Those people know what they're doing and they can provide because
they've been there, and there's value in equity, and they should be compensated.
But the problem becomes unless you do something so incredibly different or unique,
you can't stand out because the world is full of information and all people want
to do is consume it. So just because you're a great writer, you
can write twelve paragraphs about something brilliantly, and somebody else can type up two
lines, and you've ever reading it said I got that. I'm good.
I don't need anything else. I'm good. You know when you go on
when you go on social media now, and I don't know if you guys
do this, but when you go on social media, here's the story,
what do most people do immediately? Immediately they go to the comments, They
go to the comments. It's not even about the story anymore. How people
reacting to this? How do people react to this? What are people saying?
It's not even about the story, It's about the reaction But if you're
in the business of telling stories when the reality is all people care about is
the reaction, you're in a tough business. That's tough. That's why we
saw what happened to Sports Illustrated and that's why those people are walking outside the
Times today. Yeah, but what I mean, Yeah, you got the
people walking outside the Times and people that Sports Illustrated again laid out what can
you do? What's the alternative? What's the solution? There isn't one,
right, there isn't one. No, there isn't one. And that's why
when you watch local news in Los Angeles, a market of fifteen million people,
if you take everybody watching every newscast at five pm, every single viewer,
that rates and that's the only measuring system we have, the ratings,
total them up. You can't fill the Rose Bowl. There's fifteen million people.
You can't fill the Rose Bowl. Fifteen million people across every station.
There's not one hundred thousand watching total total. Yeah, but they're all informed,
they all have their information. They don't need to watch, they don't
have to sit down and watch because they have the information. The model is
broken, it is, and really the funniest thing about it broken or is
it just it's become obsolete? Because both it's broken. No, you know
why it's broken. Why is it broken? Okay, it's broken because adjustments
were not made early on to foresee this and correct it and do it differently.
That's why it's broken. And because there's a refusal to change, that's
why it's broken. And the sad thing, it's not coming back. That's
not coming back. If you don't do things differently, you're done. So
if they would have got out ahead of the whole digital world, say Sports
Illustrated, Ay, we're moving things digitally at a time when it was people
were still on the fence of whether this was gonna work or not, they
would have been they would have been Netflix, Netflix, because Netflix, remember
they used to have hard disc hard you know DBDs that they would even go
and drop them off in the box and they would send them to you in
the mail. You would get them and all that kind of stuff. And
then they evolved quickly to streaming and we'll do everything online, and that's where
they took off and killed everybody. So you're saying that the times in Sports
Illustrated did not adapt to that model soon enough, and look at it like
this. What if Sports Illustrated said, you know, we've got a great
brand here, but what we're gonna do is kind of branch off a little
bit and become Barstool Sports or you know what I mean. Yeah, yes,
something like that. We're just gonna branch off a little bit. Okay,
it's gonna be a white label for us. We own it, but
we're gonna do this too. Suddenly you could have seen a difference, and
Bistool Sports is in trouble. Now we would have become Bleacher Report. You
know, we could have become anything. And everybody tries, and to be
honest with you, a lot of people have tried, and the majority of
them have failed, not succeeded, but at least they tried. At least
they tried. And the damnedest thing about all of this, and obviously I'm
more a student of the media than the sports guy, and I've always told
people that I love our business. The damnedest thing. The prediction was audio
or as you listen now, radio would be the first to die. Yeah,
that was the prediction. No one's gonna listen anymore. That's it.
I'm telling you, people that really know what they're doing it now. Papers
are bad, but radio is in huge trouble. Radio has never been more
vibrant. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, yeah, you're right. With podcasting
now, audio as we call it, audio has never been more vibrant.
You never You've never had a chance to connect with so many people. And
you know the other part of it that is even funnier. If podcasting works,
what else works? The spoken word? Talk radio? Talk radio works.
It's a connection on a daily basis and an engagement and an interaction,
something they can't do on TV. But the only other place you can find
at is online and social media. With the comments, you're interacting, you're
exchanging ideas, You're engaged. The same goes for audio. You're engaged,
you're listening to us. You might think I'm full of crap, you might
think I'm the smartest guy in the world, but you are engaged because we
are talking to you and exchanging ideas. Legacy media companies, Sports Illustrated are
good friends. At the times KNB see they're not engaging people. They're not
engaged. They read passively. They want great writers, but the engagement is
not there, and that's what matters now. It's the engagement in this new
world of technology. That's why we're where we're at. That's why we see
this with Sports Illustrated and your heart goes out to them, That's why we
see this with the Times. My heart goes out to them. We love
them, love them. That's why my heart goes out to everybody doing local
news because you can sit there and think, my god, I'm still doing
a service to the community, and the matter. The truth of the matter
is you're just surviving and thank god, you're working and getting a paycheck.
It's crazy even with you know, with with sports and you know a lot
of things, but particularly sports the post game, right, it's not it
doesn't have the lust that it used to have. I mean, you still
get some sound bites heering there, but people, a lot of people are
just I'm just going to go to his Instagram page and get the full scrit
a full scoop on what happened, right, And that's why I always said
to you, Rodney, and with respect to all that, do it.
Oh, I'm gonna be in the locker room ask that first question. Why
why if you care about something, you get the whole thing streamed somewhere on
YouTube. You can read every word that somebody said. It's all written out
for you somewhere. You can find it. No, I'm gonna wait for
that twenty five second SoundBite. I'm gonna wait because I know tonight, even
though I've read everything that said and I've watched the whole thing tonight, I
just got to relive that fifteen seconds. No. No, the model doesn't
work anymore. And that's the challenge for all media companies. That's a challenge,
and that's a challenge for us here. We are looking at ways to
innovate. At iHeart, we understand everybody understands. It's just who's gonna do
it. Who's gonna step up, who's gonna have the courage, who's gonna
buck conventional thinking? Who? Here? In Palm Springs. I'm telling you
this newscast we're doing, and it was a model I pitched in LA.
It looks nothing like news nothing, but it's information and it's engaging. It's
a new way to do it. Is it gonna work? I don't know.
I mean, could it fail in Palm Springs? Maybe? But nothing
else works, so how can it fail? Yeah? I'm serious? Why
not? Right? That's right. Not what's the risk and trying this?
There's no risk. What we do doesn't work, So let's try it this.
Let's see if we can get people that consume information differently in the tent.
Let's try. I'm sorry, I just went off. Oh no,
it's good, good stuff on a Friday. I love it. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. All right, we got to get to Dan Waki.
No, Rodney, I apologize. That was ridiculous. Oh no, no,
it was good stuff, good stuff, all right. So our NBA
insider Dan Wiki joins us. Now let's get into Laker possible trade deals.
Oh, yes, it is a Friday, a beautiful Friday. I might
add Road and Rodney. We absolutely usually don't care on Friday. Oh we
don't. We don't. We don't care on Friday. And uh, but
we do care about our next guests coming on. Fredd. Don't care about
him a lot. Yeah, we do. And uh just want to break
this to you because it happened. Now. I's working on a deal of
finalized Antonio Pierce's head coach. Yes, we're gonna get into that with Vinnie
bonnceignor here soon. Yeah, local guy looks like he won good for him.
Benny bon Signioro Beiandre. In the one o'clock hour, we'll get into
it. Let's bring on our NBA insider Dan Woiki Dan, how are you
hello, guys? I'm very good. How are you? Guys? Just
find Dan? All right, Lakers, just cut to the chase, stay
the course or shake things up. O. It is a It's a fascinating
question, right, and uh, it is one that I've had a lot
of discussions about lately. It is one that I've had a lot of disagreements
about the people. I've heard a lot of varying opinions. I mean,
I think I think guys the right way to look at this, right and
we can talk about what we think or what I think they should do or
whatnot. I think it's more important, like what they're gonna do. I
think I think here's what we know. Rob Plink has been always been very
aggressive at the trade deadline. I would expect them to again be very aggressive,
right, Like we know they've talked to Atlanta about Dejantay Murray. We
know they've had conversations with other teams, but like, look that's not breaking
news. That's what that's it'd be negligence if they didn't. But I think
they're looking, and I think the reason they're looking is because they have Lebron
James, they have Anthony Davis, and those guys are playing at a level
in which you can it's not hard to squint to see how if those two
guys are playing like the way they've played, particularly in this past week against
Oklahoma City in Dallas, and if they can string those together in a playoff
series or a playoff run, like, it's not hard to imagine this team
winning a series or two series or maybe even more. Where it's tricky is
when you start thinking about, Okay, well, like what about the month
friar when they were sort of listless and you know, what about you know,
age and injury concerns and how much are you putting into a team now
that you know, if we're talking about you know, I don't think it's
like scratcher odds, like lottery tickets, scratch your odds, but long odds,
you know, like how much do you want to put into improving those
odds? And it is, Uh, there's a lot of different sort of
permutations. I think the roster needs to get better. I said this you
know recently on a on a YouTube show. But I think, to me,
it's if I had to say what I would do or what I think
they need. I think, whether it's an all star caliber player, whether
it's not, they need to find someone who they can trust on both sides
of the ball, Like simply like a guy who is competent offense, you
can play on defense. It's convenant on defense. So you have like another
true two way player. I think that should be the most important sort of
search, right. No, I hear you, I hear you, Dan.
But here's here's the thing. When we talk about trades, and there's
names obviously that have been floating around, but also from a Lakers standpoint,
from their current roster, you hear names like, Okay, they're gonna have
to give up Austin Reeves, or they're gonna have to give up Rui Hachi
Mura, D'Angel Russell's name has been popping up when you look at it,
Uh who if you're Rob Linka and you're running the show, who are you
most comfortable And it may be a bad way to put it, most comfortable
giving up in a trade of those three guys that I just mentioned, I
mean, I mean, look, I don't think it's a secret that D'angela
Russell is sort of the most likely to be moved. The contract is what
it is. It's about about, you know, eighteen million dollars. He's
got a option for next season. That player option has spooked some people a
little bit. You know, it's not really an expiring deal. I think
Delo's reputation as like a quote unquote winning player on the league is very high.
I think he dispelled some of that last year in the playoffs. But
then you know, it doesn't help when the Lakers have a musten game right
in Darbennham chooses to go Downis Schroger instead like he did in Game four.
So you know, I think where Delo barely played, I think that's one
of those things, like you know, those guys. But the exception of
Austin Reeves and maybe a little bit Max Christy, most of the Lakers' trade
assets, and I would include ruining this are just mostly contract numbers, right,
Like the real start of the show here, Rodney is the twenty nine
first round pick, right because God, God knows what we're all going to
look like in twenty twenty nine. But like you know, I mean that's
that's five more years of AD, that's Lebron five more years from now.
Like I mean, the Lakers conceivably would be in some sort of rebuild and
getting your hands on that draftic is like that's the real asset. Everything else.
You know, Austin Reeves I think is probably next time sort of their
asset hierarchy. But they're not going to trade as at least not for any
of the players that we've heard about yet. You know, like that,
you know, they're not interested in trading Austin to Jean Tae Murray. You
know, like that's just the reality of it. Now, I think could
that change, I sure in it could anything change sort of way, but
you know that's been communicated. I think, you know, so then now
we're talking about guys like Max Chris tjalcha Fino, you know, those picks,
second round picks, some swaps, like it's very all of that stuff.
It's not like they don't have you know, RJ. Barrett or Manuel
Quickly, you know, like those kinds of players to to dangle in trades.
That's just not that's just not the way their their roster is built.
So it's gonna be a little bit of a harder road. So that's gonna
be, that's gonna be what's on that point? Could try to figure out.
All right, that being said, let's say nothing happens, do they
have the choice to go all the way all the way? I don't think
so. I think they are closer though, Like I'm a little more optimistic
after last week. I tried it to be like too much like a prisoner
of the moment on these things, but like I kind of feel like in
the last week they've gotten some of their juice back. And I think part
of it is Jared Vanderbilt, a really really important player for their regular season.
Obviously in the playoffs, his offensive limitations become an issue like that just
it happened last year the playoffs. It'll probably happen again this year. But
I think, you know the way that they they're able to kind of just
sort of throw him at guys, right, like you know, Luca and
Kyrie. You know, he could guard you know, Paul George or Kawhi
Leonard. Like he's big enough, right and and he's ranging up and quick
enough. There was a play I want to stay in the fourth quarter against
Dallas, where the Mavericks call timeout, you know, like one of those
momentum timeouts right where they wanted to try to stop the Lakers momentum. And
usually that's when teams come out they run their best play. You know.
It's where it's like you put your foot the garten. There's a chancing back
in the game. Jared Vanderbilt snuck behind, like hustled down the court.
Dallas didn't see him. He intercepted the amounts pass, throw it off Mavericks
player and forced turnover like the Lakers one by twenty. Like that play was
sort of immaterial in the final score, but it like it's snuffed out a
comeback before it even start. It's a huge, huge play, And I
think getting him back and him playing confident in him making those kinds of energy
plays, it helps sort of fill in the gaps where like, you know,
like Lebron just can't do that every night, like not at his age,
Like that's just not Anthony Davis being asked to do so much he can't
add even more so, it's like you know that that to me is where
I think I'm most encouraged about where they're at now. Does it make them
all the way good. I mean they at they got a lot of climbing
left to do. All right, Dan, thanks for jumping on today.
Really appreciate it, guys. I appreciate it. I look forward to talking
to you guys next week and uh, you know, maybe maybe we'll have
new players. Who knows, we'll find out. Move the needle, Dan,
move the needle. You want to do a quick who dis Rodney?
Want to do a quick one? Yeah, let's do it. Let's get
it in not come on eight six six nine, eight seven two seventy first
caller having a pick yep. Put you on the air. You're playing Rodney
and Colin today. Who's ready for? Who is? Oh? Yeah?
Come on. Today's afternoon Delight is Beautiful People by the Black Keys. This
song is the first single off the duel's upcoming album, entitled Ohio Players,
which will be released in early April. The album will feature a variety of
guest appearances too, including collaborations with the likes of Noel Gallagher and Beck Again.
Today's Afternoon Delight is Beautiful People by the Black Keys. All right,
it's pretty cool. It's our buddy listening on the app in Colorado Springs.
His dad also listens to the show, Christian, how are you longtime of
no talk? How's it going today? Happy Friday? Happy Friday to you.
How's everything in Colorado Springs? Everything's good. I'm actually in Los Angeles
right now. Remote next week? Are you're coming out? Nice? Nice?
Is your dad coming to or there? Oh? No? Just me?
All right? Good? You know what? You come out here.
We got some stuff for you, so we'll look forward to seeing you.
Then. Who dis perfect. We'll give you a question and uh just yelled
out when you know no restrictions. You have a challenge. Use it.
It's upheld you at it. Use a challenge. It's denied. Locked out
of the next question. Colin, you're ready. I'm ready, go to
work. Here we go. I made ten All Star teams in my NBA
career. Kevin Gardead no Russell Westbrook, no good one good one, Kobe
Via both they're wrong and good tries, Lebron James, Tim duncan, Neale
Robinson, Damian Lillard No okay next. I was a tenth overall pick of
the No Good. I was a tenth overall pick in the nineteen ninety eight
NBA Drac Charles Barkley No. Ninety eight, ninety eight, No, Tracy
McGrady, No. I won my only NBA title with Boston in two thousand
and eight when I was finals MVP peers. Paul Pierce is correct. That's
Chris first that. Yeah. I don't even think Christian said anything he did,
but Colin definitely got in first. Colin, you got a good job.
Next up, I let the l what your Who's that? I don't
know. That was a close one. I don't know if I want to
challenge that or not. Oh oh, what do we have here? Good
challenge that one. Okay, he's going to challenge it. Said it very
confidently. Fred Let him go, Let him go do it. This is
not a booth review. This is Christian challenging, all right. So Kevin
has cued it up. I like the confidence, Christian. I actually thought
you got it, but you know, but you don't listen very well.
Here we go. I won my only NBA title with Boston in two thousand
and eight. When I will here finder two thousand and eight, when I
will herein Yeah, yeah, Colin got it. Nice on calling through the
heart. Oh thank you. Christian was close, you know, what that
means? Lockedown through my heart? I thought I got that one. But
that was a good one. It was worth the challenge. Yeah, all
right, Yeah, as long as you live with it, that's good.
All right. So you're locked out of this question, Christian. I let
the annelin home runs twice and won the batting title in two thousand and three.
Albert Forls, Oh my God calling your row way? I swear to
God, no way. Well the good news, Christian, you weren't locked
out very long. You're back, lord calling? What did you eat this
morning? Man? When you you know, fed the Omonds today? The
brand food. I don't even stand a chance. Now here we go.
I was a fifth overall pick of the twenty sixteen NFL draft. Oh Todd
Gurley now uh no fifth pick? Yep? Aaron Donald, no fifth pick.
I won my only Super Bowl title with the Rams in twenty twenty one.
Marson Robert Woods, No, uh yes, Jalen Ramsey is correct?
Christian? No way? Yeah, man? What on a Friday? Rodney?
You're not even I'm not even I might as well not even play.
I'm somewhere else. I'm in La La Land. Are you know where I
am? You know where you're not myself today. You're in parts unknown.
Yes, I am parts unknown. So's my mind. Here's your next one.
I made fifteen All Star teams in my Hall of Fame basketball career.
Fifteen Yeah, Magic Johnson, No, dun Yeah, Larry Bird, Christian,
Tim Duncan, Christian. Yeah. Boy, he got locked out of
that question. And that's it. I was on fire. Christian is playing
the game right, He's just firing out answers. Yeah, that's how you
do it, Christian. I made uh thirteen Pro Bowls and was a ten
time All Pro in my Hall of Fame career. Lewis no, Mike Irvin,
no, Joy Aikman, Jerry Rice, Colin, no way, Jerry
Rice, no way. How are you getting these like that? That's tell
no, no, come on, I had my almonds today. That's the
key. The question was what ten time All Star or ten time All Pro?
Thirteen Pro Bowls? Ten All Pro thirteen? Wow? And you got
Jerry Rice in two seconds. Yeah, that's impressive. Come on, Sorry,
it's going on here. Here's what we're going on here. Last question.
Colin's got three, Christian's got two. Rodney got to get on the
board. Here. We go. I was the eighteenth overall pick in the
twenty twelve MLB draft, eighteenth pick eighteen in twenty twelve. Yes, Cory
Seger, My god, Colin, that's it. You win. That ain't
right? Something's going on here, So that is weird. Something's happening here.
That was a good guess that it's gotta be more yelled little. It
feels a little like me when I had the answers that one time. Come
on, come on, you know, he missed a couple of on purpose,
and then you know, to make sure that we weren't onto him,
and then he got some that were just way too quick, well too quick,
all right, Corey seeger out of the blue. Yeah, that was
weird. That was weird. I gotta be honest with you. But congratulations
to you, Colin, well done, Thank you, Christian, great effort.
And we'll look forward to seeing you a week from today out at Spotlight
twenty nine and Coachella. Excellent guys, looking forward to it. Hey,
good game, Colin, us pleasure talking to you guys as always. Good
game, Christian, right on, all right, we gave you the word
as it broke. Antonio Pierce, local guy gets the Raiders head coaching job,
and that's pretty cool. Vinnie bon Signoro beyond it about one twenty and
we'll get into it with him. And when we come back, are the
Giants trolling the Dodgers? Well, what would you do that for? Because
you know how bad that's going to be. But we'll get into it.