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Speaker 3: at the end of this segment. Not a ton went
Speaker 3: down this weekend in the sports world, so we will
Speaker 3: expand the conversation slightly beyond that because there's a lot
Speaker 3: going on right now and and a lot that pertains
Speaker 3: to things that have been said in the past. So
Speaker 3: I will start, because I'm a positive guy, I will
Speaker 3: start with the best that is out there. I can
Speaker 3: go all the way back to when Jalen Ramsey was
Speaker 3: acquired by the Miami Dolphins and be reminded of my
Speaker 3: original stance on him joint the team that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a needle mover.
Speaker 3: That he is, yes, still considered top fifteen at the position,
Speaker 3: but Ramsey used to be top three. He used to
Speaker 3: be one of the best DB's in the NFL, and
Speaker 3: when he showed up in Miami, people had a reaction
Speaker 3: like he was still that guy, and he hasn't been
Speaker 3: that in years. So for him to get traded to
Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers, by the way, or for him to
Speaker 3: get traded, you know, when you go back to the
Speaker 3: original deal, for him to get traded to my Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins doesn't change my opinion of that. And for him
Speaker 3: to get dealt now, of course, is not surprising. He's
Speaker 3: been on the block for the last couple of months.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Ramsey will be a cap pick for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 3: of about six million dollars for the next couple of seasons.
Speaker 3: The move also saves them nearly ten million in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, cap space, eighteen in twenty twenty six, twenty
Speaker 3: in the following year, and then thirty million in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight and another twelve million in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 3: This guy had, like I wanted, like a ten year
Speaker 3: contract that he was working with. This is smart for
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins to move off of him, and I
Speaker 3: absolutely love the player they get back It's been far
Speaker 3: too long since I've seen a Fitzpatrick on the back
Speaker 3: of a Miami Dolphins jersey. So the only gripe I
Speaker 3: have with this trade, Tyler, is that John new Smith
Speaker 3: was sent as part of the package to the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 3: a team that now has three startable tight ends on
Speaker 3: their roster. Smith, Darnell Washington, who is a beast physically
Speaker 3: hasn't put it all together, but he's a really good running,
Speaker 3: run blocking tight end, like he's not useless, and Pat Fryarmouth,
Speaker 3: who's kind of good at everything. You cann't get one
Speaker 3: of those guys back in the trade. I couldn't tell
Speaker 3: you who the Dolphins starting tight end is, so they
Speaker 3: still need that, especially for a Mike McDaniel offense, and really,
Speaker 3: I think more than anything a Tua led offense having
Speaker 3: that safety blanket in the middle of the fields feels
Speaker 3: like it would be pretty important. John new Smith had
Speaker 3: a career year last year, but all in all, I
Speaker 3: loved the trade, and I always thought Ramsey by the
Speaker 3: time he got to Miami was a little overrated.
Speaker 2: I think it makes a lot of sense for everybody
Speaker 2: to depending on which way you want to look at
Speaker 2: it to talk about the Pittsburgh guys. Ye, Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 2: isn't the Jalen Ramsey that he was in Jacksonville. But
Speaker 2: you're still talking about a guy that before last season
Speaker 2: was a pro bowler for four straight seasons.
Speaker 1: But he was still far.
Speaker 2: From the All Pro player that he was with his
Speaker 2: time in Jacksonville as well as his years in LA
Speaker 2: the John new Smith Angle, these were two guys that
Speaker 2: Miami was pretty clear that they were looking to move
Speaker 2: off of that when Week one rolled around rolled along,
Speaker 2: they would not be a member of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: You look at Pittsburgh moving off of MINCA. I don't
Speaker 2: I think you're getting a good return for Minca. However,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was necessary to move off
Speaker 2: of Minca in this spot.
Speaker 1: He still was years old.
Speaker 2: He's the youngest of any of the three, not by much,
Speaker 2: but he still is younger multi time pro bowler, he
Speaker 2: has been All Pro, so I think it was interesting.
Speaker 2: And then the John HW Smith in particular, he reunites
Speaker 2: with Arthur Smith, who is offensive coordinator of the Steelers,
Speaker 2: has ties to John HU Smith going back to their
Speaker 2: days at Tennessee when Arthur was the offensive coordinator and
Speaker 2: John who was beginning his career there, as well as
Speaker 2: Arthur Smith's time as head coach in Atlanta for a year.
Speaker 2: I don't think you get the John hu Smith of
Speaker 2: the final It wasn't even a season.
Speaker 1: That was great for him.
Speaker 2: It was like a six week stretch to close the
Speaker 2: year that this guy was untouchable. So, you know, I
Speaker 2: think overall win for the Dolphins to get off of
Speaker 2: those guys. You save some money in the process for
Speaker 2: next season, as you mentioned, and you still get a
Speaker 2: really good defensive player in Minka Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 3: It's hard to believe for me that he hasn't been
Speaker 3: on the Miami Dolphins since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: The last been a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't feel like it's been that long. I
Speaker 3: still remember being is staff that they traded him in
Speaker 3: the first place. He then goes to the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 3: first couple of seasons five interceptions, five interceptions. The uh no,
Speaker 3: that was the same season twenty nineteen five interceptions, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four interceptions, and then two and twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: and then six in twenty twenty two. Since then, so
Speaker 3: the twenty three and twenty four season. The last two
Speaker 3: years he has one total I int so the production
Speaker 3: slipping a little bit. That is not the only way
Speaker 3: to judge a defensive back. Sometimes interceptions can be kind
Speaker 3: of fluky and situational. It's really about how you are
Speaker 3: in coverage and all of those things. Minka Fitzpatrick to
Speaker 3: say that he's not the same player he was when
Speaker 3: he was twenty five, Okay, you could probably say that
Speaker 3: about every defensive back in the NFL. Both sides of
Speaker 3: the deal right now, if you're a Steelers fan, you're
Speaker 3: selling yourself on, Hey, Ramsey's Ramsey's just as good as
Speaker 3: he's always been. And if you're on the Dolphins side,
Speaker 3: you go, hey, MIKEA. Fitzpatrick, you know, this guy hasn't
Speaker 3: really fallen off the way that some are suggesting.
Speaker 1: So I love the deal.
Speaker 3: But I didn't expect to get any player back for
Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey, so I'm pretty happy with that. One of
Speaker 3: the worst of the weekend was that I was convinced
Speaker 3: that Ace Bailey was never going to show up for
Speaker 3: the Utah Jazz. I had convinced myself so much so
Speaker 3: that I was convinced they were going to strike a
Speaker 3: deal with the Boston Celtics, sending Bailey to Boston and
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown to the Utah Jazz. It still could happen,
Speaker 3: but Ace Bailey did make his way to Utah and
Speaker 3: even spoke to reporters.
Speaker 2: Was there any point that you considered not coming to Utah?
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, just blessed to be in his position. I
Speaker 1: am not a lot of people can sit in these
Speaker 1: chairs and have great teammates. As I got on, they
Speaker 1: came on with me. So I'm just bless to be here.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, he's happened to be in Utah. It's
Speaker 1: all I needed to hear.
Speaker 3: You know how I felt bad for as I'm watching,
Speaker 3: I probably watched about five minutes of this is Walter
Speaker 3: Clayton Junior. Your moment just completely overshadowed because all anybody
Speaker 3: wanted to ask was a question to Ace Bailey and
Speaker 3: what's going on and how much are you committed to
Speaker 3: this team and all of that. Somebody that was in
Speaker 3: the room second question went to Walter Clayton Junior, and
Speaker 3: I think it was just like, please, somebody ask this
Speaker 3: guy a question. It does feel like his moment was
Speaker 3: overshadowed because the biggest story coming out of the draft
Speaker 3: is this Ace Bailey stuff.
Speaker 2: But uh, he's in Utah, So I got that one wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that Ace Utah drafting. We went through this
Speaker 2: last week, Utah drafting Ace Bailey. I do believe that
Speaker 2: it's taken a chance on him. It's taken a chance
Speaker 2: that even though there were reports from his agent that
Speaker 2: that's not where he wanted to go. Listen, at the
Speaker 2: fifth pick, you are too good a prospect to slip.
Speaker 2: I couldn't live with myself any further any longer if
Speaker 2: I let you slide by five in that front office mind,
Speaker 2: So you take the swing on him.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I think it's fun to try to connect Ace to
Speaker 2: Boston or Ace elsewhere and say, hey, this is all
Speaker 2: a plan to bring in Jalen Brown and the deal
Speaker 2: just they're working on the small details. If that were
Speaker 2: the case and that deal falls through and that information
Speaker 2: goes public.
Speaker 1: That's a fireable offense.
Speaker 2: Drafting a player with the intent to trade him without
Speaker 2: having that deal done.
Speaker 1: It's just a little too messy form.
Speaker 2: So that's why I believe that Utah drafted Ace with
Speaker 2: the goal to make him the franchise player. Down the line,
Speaker 2: there was the release that he's going to be wearing
Speaker 2: number nineteen at least at first for Utah. We fully
Speaker 2: expect that changed to two once the Conseexton trade is official,
Speaker 2: and Ace will be rocking too. So if you know what,
Speaker 2: I would be convinced if they were keeping him at
Speaker 2: number nineteen, then that would be out of spite. That'd
Speaker 2: be you don't want to play for us, here's number nineteen.
Speaker 2: Go have fun, buddy. No, they're going to try to
Speaker 2: market this guy in the right way and just try
Speaker 2: to build that relationship to make him happy to be
Speaker 2: a member of the Jazz at least for his rookie contract.
Speaker 3: And beyond two is a really strong number for a
Speaker 3: star in the NBA. I can't think of who my
Speaker 3: favorite nineteen would be at NBA history.
Speaker 2: Yaka Pertl is like the one and only player to
Speaker 2: come to mind, and I think he's rock nineteen in
Speaker 2: a couple different places, so he's he's consistent.
Speaker 3: I got another worst for beyond the Weekend, and that
Speaker 3: is that I know at some point I have said
Speaker 3: that gambling controversies in sports would never reach the levels
Speaker 3: of a significant player on any team Johntay Porters of
Speaker 3: the world. Those are gonna be the guys, the guys
Speaker 3: that are barely hanging on. Those are gonna be the
Speaker 3: ones that succumb to the temptation of making a couple
Speaker 3: of extra bucks on prop bets for which they are
Speaker 3: affiliated with. These guys can tinker with their performance and production,
Speaker 3: tip off a couple of people, maybe even play some
Speaker 3: bets themselves, and points can be shaven, rebounds can be shaved.
Speaker 3: That can happen. Malik Beasley's deal this past year is
Speaker 3: worth six million dollars. His next contract would have been
Speaker 3: north of forty million dollars. Even if you're the the
Speaker 3: best sports better on the planet, it's tough to make
Speaker 3: forty two million dollars doing this. I still don't believe
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a widespread issue in pro sports.
Speaker 3: We will have all these instances among select players where
Speaker 3: this becomes an issue. But damn, this is as close
Speaker 3: too wrong as I could possibly be in this whole
Speaker 3: betting situation. Because Malik Beasley is a well known NBA
Speaker 3: player who isn't making nothing comparatively to everybody else that's
Speaker 3: in the league, and he's still caught up in this.
Speaker 2: Some guys won't learn and won't realize the situation that
Speaker 2: they're in and the blessing that it is to be
Speaker 2: in that situation.
Speaker 1: It's it's a tempting thing. And I think I.
Speaker 2: Think you will put a tweet out afterwards, like you
Speaker 2: understand the temptation from players, but you can't comprehend the
Speaker 2: execution of it from the players.
Speaker 1: It's it's totally it's unbelievable. You know, it's betting.
Speaker 2: It's fun in nature, it's it's a social thing. And
Speaker 2: who knows to what capacity that Malik Beasley was betting,
Speaker 2: and if it's betting on himself, regardless of what it is,
Speaker 2: it doesn't How he was betting doesn't make it right.
Speaker 2: Whether he was physically betting on himself, betting on games
Speaker 2: that he was involved in, betting on them to cover spreads,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, it doesn't make it right. And now
Speaker 2: there's that play from three years ago when he went
Speaker 2: coast to coast to cover the spread on a layup
Speaker 2: and lose by seven instead of nine and eight and
Speaker 2: a half points spread. I mean, you know, well, we'll
Speaker 2: get more information about it. We'll see if we can
Speaker 2: lock down how he was betting. But it's just a
Speaker 2: reminder that doesn't make it right. These athletes know what
Speaker 2: they are facing if they get caught, and some will,
Speaker 2: whether you're a big star or not, some will be
Speaker 2: irresponsible enough to go through with it.
Speaker 3: It's just not It's not worth it at all. I
Speaker 3: cannot understand going through with something like this. And you
Speaker 3: look at when the investigation takes place now, But what
Speaker 3: they're investigating was it was irregular action by some sports
Speaker 3: book that's out there in the country. In the twenty
Speaker 3: three to twenty four season, he started, didn't play. Started
Speaker 3: in seventy seven games for the Milwaukee Bucks that season,
Speaker 3: averaged eleven points per game. This is not a Johntay
Speaker 3: Porter situation, some random player coming off of the bench
Speaker 3: to give a couple of minutes. And I don't even
Speaker 3: get it when those guys do it. Because you still
Speaker 3: have an NBA jersey on, you have made it to
Speaker 3: a degree, but when you're starting NBA games, no, it
Speaker 3: makes no sense whatsoever. So part of this was I
Speaker 3: was I'm gonna read this directly. A gambling industry source
Speaker 3: pointed to a game between the Bucks and the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3: On January thirty first, twenty twenty four, the odds on
Speaker 3: Beasley recording fewer than two and a half rebounds moved
Speaker 3: significantly at the sports book before the game, shortening from
Speaker 3: plus one twenty to minus two on the under at
Speaker 3: two and a half rebounds. That sort of surge of
Speaker 3: action caught the eye of some sources within the industry,
Speaker 3: and Beasley finished with six rebounds in the game, and
Speaker 3: all of the bets that moved the line unusually lost
Speaker 3: when you figure there was insider information, and perhaps that
Speaker 3: insider information was coming from Malik Beasley, so that is
Speaker 3: a feather in his cap to say, Hey, the game
Speaker 3: that you're talking about, I hit the over, okay, So
Speaker 3: I'm me handing out all of this under information. There's
Speaker 3: got to be more to it than that, though. For
Speaker 3: this is just the story, part of the story from
Speaker 3: ESPN dot com, But that's what we know as of
Speaker 3: right now. Also, worst of the weekend for me. Last
Speaker 3: week we did our first Diamond Report, a trip around
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, and one of the listeners said, how
Speaker 3: could you not mention the Miami Marlins, And I believe
Speaker 3: my response was that there's nothing worth mentioning. Well, here
Speaker 3: come the Fish. The Marlins set a franchise record with
Speaker 3: their ninth straight victory on the road and swept a
Speaker 3: trio of six plus games for the first time. Miami,
Speaker 3: which is off today, finished the month of June fourteen
Speaker 3: and twelve, and it is the first winning record for
Speaker 3: a full month of actions since May of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's your hat tip to the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was wrong on that one too. You asked me
Speaker 2: when premium picks. I believe it was on Friday. There
Speaker 2: were three teams on a winning shriek of three games
Speaker 2: or more, maybe it was four games or more heading
Speaker 2: into the weekend. It was the Astros, it was somebody
Speaker 2: that I don't recall, and it was the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 2: And I said, no, none of them are making it
Speaker 2: out alive. None of them are continuing the Streek. Oh
Speaker 2: was the Dodgers, the Dodgers, the other one Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers loss over the weekend. The Ashros lost the
Speaker 2: game to the Cubes over the weekend. But the Miami
Speaker 2: Marlins where they sweep over the diamondback, so they got
Speaker 2: they got something going on down there in South Florida.
Speaker 3: Do you have anything before we wrap this segment up? Oh,
Speaker 3: if we do anything on the Big Dumper, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think we had any action in on the
Speaker 2: big on the Big Dumpy, I will throw out just
Speaker 2: a life one, a best one not to do with sports.
Speaker 2: It has been a long time since I've had five guys,
Speaker 2: and I felt like five guys yesterday. I did know
Speaker 2: what it was, but it just kind of felt like
Speaker 2: a burger. Didn't want to go anywhere, just want to
Speaker 2: grab it, bring it home. And I got five guys
Speaker 2: in BK. Although it is too expensive, it's a bit
Speaker 2: too salty. That's the best fast food burger in the game. Oh,
Speaker 2: I was, I was. I wasn't satisfied paying the twenty
Speaker 2: bucks that it was for a burger in the fries,
Speaker 2: But that combo is as good as any other in
Speaker 2: the fast food industry.
Speaker 3: The prices everywhere right now are just a little more
Speaker 3: ridiculous than they need to be. It's hard to find
Speaker 3: places where you're really comfortable with the current price of
Speaker 3: whatever it is they're selling, especially in the food and
Speaker 3: beverage industry.
Speaker 1: But five guys always delivers rock solid and just the
Speaker 1: way it like.
Speaker 3: It continues to cook in the bag and the fries
Speaker 3: are always hot.
Speaker 1: I never had cold fries at five. And they give
Speaker 1: you a lot of them too.
Speaker 2: You go through the cup of fries and then you
Speaker 2: still have another small serving in the bag itself. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's a great it was. It was a great
Speaker 2: experience that an out of ten.
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Speaker 3: Get the call from the wife as I'm making my
Speaker 3: way home and she said, our AC isn't working right now.
Speaker 3: I can't seem to fix it, and uh, which is odd.
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