WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.919 Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio. Yes it is June 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:06.639 the thirtieth, twenty twenty five. 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:07.879 It's Monday. 4 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:09.960 If you did not know, it's time to get up 5 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:10.839 and get to work. 6 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:11.919 Welcome back. 7 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.560 First and foremost, I've got two co hosts, which I 8 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.719 will get to. Before I do that, you guys need 9 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:22.679 to know that we got the balls in studio with us. 10 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.600 Gus Allen is running the production for us today. 11 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.239 So Gus, I appreciate you getting up sitting in with us, 12 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.239 and not very often do we have the bass sitting 13 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:31.679 in with us. 14 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.719 Well, you know, everyone's well like the gracier presence, So 15 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:36.439 I like. 16 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:36.960 That, Gus. 17 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:38.840 But I appreciate you sitt didn't good to be here, 18 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.359 no question. Gus is the most workman in radio business. 19 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:44.520 That's all I can tell people. 20 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.960 So Gus, let's bring on first my younger son. But 21 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.359 first let me get the business out of the way. 22 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.759 My phone number is five zero two five seven one 23 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.079 seventy nine hundred. This is Sports Talk seven ninety kr D, 24 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:01.320 and of course I'm the brand, so I've already introduced 25 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:03.960 you out to Gus the boss sitting in for Shannon. 26 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.079 Shannon's on vacation, which I understand. I took two days 27 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:11.159 yesterday traveling last week, and of course we know we've 28 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.400 got fourth of July this week, so it'll be another 29 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:17.000 short week for EVE Sports Radio. Now, let's get to 30 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.159 my younger son first. Let's bring him. Gus Anthony, how 31 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:20.480 are you. 32 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:23.439 I'm doing great this morning. 33 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:25.680 How about yourself? Hey? 34 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.040 And all I can tell people is this, and I'm 35 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:30.120 gonna bring that other guy in a second. It is 36 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.480 June thirtieth, and you know I've been playing around since 37 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.040 the end of December, end of January. 38 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.920 Soon we'll be saying it's Christmas time. Well, it's upon us. 39 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.319 Half the year is gone. It's the seventh month tomorrow. 40 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:45.840 It's all I want people to know. If you didn't know, 41 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.000 there's only twelve months in the year. We're at the 42 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.040 seventh month. It's gone quickly, that's all. 43 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.760 So let's bring the other old guy, because he understands 44 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.079 when I say, when you get old, the end of 45 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.879 that toilet tissue world goes fast. 46 00:01:58.599 --> 00:01:59.519 Georgia, we're old. 47 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.159 Our toilet tissue row is going really fast. Yours faster 48 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.920 than mine, though, George, yours faster than mine. Welcome to 49 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.639 the show, George, how are you I just started bringing right. 50 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:13.960 Uh, why why you not? All you should be always 51 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.680 thankful you making another day and worried about how old 52 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:17.439 you are? 53 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.759 Making another day of every show, George. I do it 54 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:22.879 at the end of every show, George, I tell you. 55 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:26.360 But my whole thing, huh. 56 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:28.639 I do it at the every end of every show. 57 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.159 You know that, George, You know I do. I thank 58 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:32.719 them for today, thank. 59 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.000 You for yeah. Yeah, but no, no want back, you know, Jared. 60 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.520 Just enjoy a get though, okay, follow you you father, 61 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:43.319 whoever you want to it, whoever you want. 62 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.000 You make another day. You don't make another day that 63 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:46.680 went fast. 64 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:49.240 Don't have to worry about it, George. 65 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.000 No, that's out buff. But it's good to make another one. 66 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.840 It's always good to hear you guys back. I hope 67 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.000 you had a great vacation and great travels. I mean, 68 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:59.199 I know they left many. 69 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:02.439 On the way over. But why'd you say no, we did, George? 70 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:03.639 What'd you say great travels? 71 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:07.919 Well, you have such adventure when you come back from traveling. 72 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.960 I always like to start the show on a new adventure. 73 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:17.439 Maybe, George, George, I have witnesses George, Martin Dunbar and 74 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:23.439 his wife are traveling with us. Okay, we're leaving Panama City. 75 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.800 Our flights to thirty leaves on time, arrives in Atlanta 76 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:27.360 on time. 77 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:29.439 That's wonderful. 78 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.479 That's for our flight, George. We're one hour behind. 79 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.759 My daughter, Ashley is on the nine to thirty five flights, 80 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.680 gets home at ten thirty. 81 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.120 Martin Numbard, Janice Dunbar, myself and my wife. 82 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:48.479 We're on the eleven ten flight. Gets in at twelve ten. Okay, George, 83 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.120 so no problem. Ashley scouraged to her gate after customs. 84 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.080 We walked to our gate. We've got plenty of times. 85 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.919 She calls on the phone and says, there are a 86 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:58.439 thousand empty seats on this plane. 87 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:00.159 Y'all can make it. 88 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.840 It's one terminal over. We look at each other, y'all 89 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.120 want to try this. Everybody's like yes, get us home 90 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.360 two hours early, George. We scurried to the gate. We 91 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.599 get on the flight. That is the nine thirty flight, George. 92 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:17.199 He taxes out to the pilot. Does we're about the 93 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:19.120 tenth plane. No problem, we're moving. 94 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:19.680 We're moving. 95 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:20.480 We're moving, George. 96 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.439 About twenty minutes into it, guys, this is not let 97 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.199 me let me back up. This is God's Let me 98 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:27.160 back up, George. 99 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:29.879 When I get on the plane, Martin dumbars directly behind me. 100 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.920 The lady said, the exit windows are open, not the aisles, 101 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.240 but the exit windows. 102 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.319 Great, no problem, I got extra leg room. 103 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.920 I scurry to the window. Martin Dunbar scurries to the middle. 104 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:43.839 I truly took Martin's seat, but he took it back 105 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.639 from me. George, I moved over as soon as we 106 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.279 the gentleman lets us in first words. 107 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:51.800 He says, this, I love your show. I listen every day, 108 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:57.079 So gentlemen, I forgot your name. Sorry, but this is fact. George. 109 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:58.040 I sit next to him. 110 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.959 We talk about the show, We talk about sports, all 111 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:01.680 kinds of things. 112 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.439 Martin's in the middle. I'm on the window, he's on 113 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:03.759 the aisle. 114 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.680 As soon as they close the doors, George, I take 115 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.199 the opposite window. 116 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.160 I'll seat a window seat. 117 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:14.959 Emergency exitile, not out emergency exit window seat. But we're 118 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.160 still talking. The draft is going on, so I'm gonna 119 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.439 throw it to Anthony. The draft is going on, George. 120 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.720 He cuts off the plane because it's a long wait. 121 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:25.560 He comes back going and says, I hate to tell 122 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:27.759 you all the left engine. 123 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.439 Won't cut back on. We've got to go back to 124 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:31.480 the gate, George. 125 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.639 The gentleman looked at me and said, he said, any 126 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.639 time I see you getting on a plane, I'm getting off. 127 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.480 George. This is the truth. 128 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.279 We missed the plane adventure here in the city of Louisville. 129 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:44.800 George. 130 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.759 We taxi pack it Atlanta when I die went to Atlanta. 131 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.839 And it will be delayed. I'm telling you, George, we. 132 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:52.279 Gla were you lucky? 133 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:56.319 Then they fix it, George, twenty minutes, so we're still 134 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.439 a little ahead of our original flight, which is at eleven. 135 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:00.079 It's about. 136 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.800 Ten, George. We taxi out where the seventh plane. No problem. 137 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:08.639 He comes but comes back on again. I had to 138 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:12.040 tell you we've got thunder de lay, there's lightning in 139 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.759 the area. Gentlman threw his hands up and said, he's 140 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.000 your jeans. I'm telling George, and I am a Jens 141 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:25.199 Martin dumbar. Is there, George, our flight we leave? I 142 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:30.720 mean not kidding you. We take off, George. At one one. 143 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:32.959 We get into Louisville. 144 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:35.639 Other plane, George, is it? 145 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:36.079 George? 146 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:38.560 Our bags that were on the eleven tenth flight are 147 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:40.480 waiting for us in the airport when we got there. 148 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:42.120 You can't make this stuff up. 149 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.720 You can't make it up. People think I'm playing I 150 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:45.560 got witnesses. 151 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:47.879 You can't. Oh, no, Jae. You do this every year. 152 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.279 You do this every year. You'll make every flight, Sir George, 153 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:52.279 that's every flight. 154 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:54.279 I'm going to Vegas. 155 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.120 I'm going to Vegas July the tenth in the Summer League. 156 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.399 I'm taking Southwest Direct. All I can say is, please, 157 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.160 no connections to Atlanta, George, Atlanta and I don't get along. 158 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:06.439 That's all there is to it. 159 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.160 I will go to Atlanta and be waiting, waiting to 160 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:11.040 go wherever I gotta go. 161 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:12.160 George, I'm hoping. 162 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.800 No, I don't know, George. No, Jerry what no flight 163 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.120 you get on that, you get along with it. Don't 164 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.480 don't blame it on Atlanta. Don't blame it on the 165 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:25.759 lane in the country. Don't blame it on Atlanta. Anywhere 166 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.000 you go, my pa country, you come back in the country. Yes, 167 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.879 it doesn't matter. Your family's affected. You're affected. Your family 168 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:32.639 now now they're leaving. 169 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.000 Any market got marked and it was lucky he was 170 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:37.639 on at ten o'clock flight through Newark. 171 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.600 He did not have our flight George, you can't make 172 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.759 it up. I'm walking off the flight in Louisville at 173 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.120 two thirty. People don't understand. I've been doing this all 174 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:46.680 my life. 175 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:48.920 I looked at the pilot, who was always greeting as 176 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.600 you walk off, I said, how close were you to 177 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:52.399 tieing out? 178 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:53.439 George? 179 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.279 Timing out is when the pilot has to if he's 180 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:58.120 not in the air, he has to take the plane 181 00:07:58.120 --> 00:07:59.199 back to the gate and go home. 182 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.480 He has to. He said, sir, you've been flying. 183 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:03.519 I see. 184 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.680 We were one minute from me timing out in it 185 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:08.439 left one minute. 186 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.399 If he did not take off, George, it was not 187 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:12.279 in the air within that one minute, if you would 188 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.879 have had to gone back to the gate, I said, boy. 189 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.800 But then there was a God, George, I said, thank you. 190 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:18.199 Lower that's the truth, George. 191 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.680 That's a fact, I said, flying and I just I 192 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.639 get everything. So anyway, George, that's what the. 193 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:29.160 Palace said too. While you get on my plane. 194 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:31.879 That's a fact, George. 195 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:32.919 It's George. It's a fight. 196 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:36.240 Now. I get on planes and people start bullying me. George. 197 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:37.759 They started boring. God. 198 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.440 It's one thing we can say, Sureley about you don't 199 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.879 get on an airplane that you get on and don't 200 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.120 support a team that you're going to back. Those are 201 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:48.799 two things that I know since I've been on this 202 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.480 shoulders Dude, h it's too and you can be. You 203 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.360 pick a team, they go down, you get on the plane, 204 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:56.679 it stays down. 205 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.919 I forget you, George William, Anthony heaves to get George. 206 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.320 Here's what we're gonna do TEPN fourteen. We're gonna use 207 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.279 this show as the best of Gus. 208 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:08.000 Let's go to break. 209 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:09.440 When we come back, We're going to throw it to 210 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:12.679 Anthony for all the national news, George, and then you 211 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:14.320 and I are gonna chop it up after that because 212 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.519 Anthony's gonna have to run it seven thirty today, So 213 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:17.720 they's gonna just be you and I. 214 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:21.480 George. Hey, George, all that the team died back, I 215 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.960 don't believe that. I'm not I didn't say that was correct. 216 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:26.039 I just want you to know. 217 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:32.159 Yeah, we talked about Dallas Cleveland, the match Chicago Cincinnati, 218 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:34.360 and the beat goes on. 219 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.720 Just don't give me, do not give me. Rick Bostich 220 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:38.399 is white SOX. 221 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:41.480 I was talking to Rick yesterday and everyone knows he's 222 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:42.639 retiring tomorrow. 223 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.320 Is his last day at w DRB. I don't know 224 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.440 if you know that, George, but it's Ricky fifty years 225 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.320 fifty years. He was talking about I can go watch 226 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:57.080 for a white Sox. I said why yesterday jured I 227 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:01.559 said why why? He likes the torture himself. So anyway, 228 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.600 seven to fifteen, George, we're going to break. 229 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.879 We will be back. Anthony, you're up. The sports radio 230 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:10.080 will talk to you in a minute. Sports Radio seven nineteen, 231 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:15.080 phone numbers five zero two, five seventy nine hundred. 232 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.879 The gentleman that was sitting in the aisle seat, I 233 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:19.840 would love for you to call in just to let 234 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.840 everyone know that what I said is one accurate. 235 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:27.039 Anyway, let's throw it back to the young one, the 236 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:30.879 young gun, Anthony. Anthony that's with the National News, and 237 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.879 then we'll let George from there. 238 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:34.639 What do you have for is Anthony? 239 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:38.399 Yeah, we got tons of stuff coming up, obviously. One 240 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.000 of the big things we do have obviously we have 241 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.679 Wimbledon coming up this week, which is huge. A lot 242 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:44.879 of a lot of matters are going on this morning 243 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:47.960 and later on in the afternoon as well, so I 244 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.159 know that's what's huge, tender event that we love to 245 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.120 watch and get a hold of. The biggest thing I 246 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.799 want to hit on is the teams I think one 247 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:58.000 in the NBA drafts and scenes I think made mistakes. 248 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.960 Obviously, know it's hard to predict what we think of 249 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.320 these draft picks before they even play, but everybody has 250 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:08.600 their opinions and so do I. Obviously, the big thing 251 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.679 that when we're talking about was about as Bailey, his 252 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:12.919 decision to not work out for a lot of teams 253 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:14.320 because he didn't want to go to the six Ers 254 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.960 and end up sliding into that fifth spot to the 255 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.879 Utah Jazz. And it's funny though he didn't even check 256 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:24.559 into the jazz organization until yesterday. He had no communication 257 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:28.159 with the Jazz's front office until I think Sunday afternoon 258 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.080 when they told him or Saturday that they told him 259 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.240 that he had to report to Utah before Monday or 260 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.039 there would be contract issues. When he showed up, he 261 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:37.720 worked out and he said that he's ready to go 262 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.600 to be a Utah Jazz. But I think that just 263 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.480 throws a lot of doubt in people's mind when you 264 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:44.879 got a lot of people in the draft that are 265 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.519 already complaining about where they're going and That's something I've 266 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:49.679 seen over social media over the last couple of days. 267 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.360 A crazy amount is kind of the players are being 268 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.559 a little bit prima donna than how they used to 269 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.080 be when they used to get drafted, you know, even 270 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.639 ten to fifteen years ago, and guys are complaining about 271 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.720 getting after to certain teams when you know, it was 272 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:04.480 funny they said that. You know, for a lot of guys, 273 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.080 it didn't matter what team they went to, getting drafted 274 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.039 was life changing. What doesn't necessarily seem that way anymore. 275 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.279 Most of these guys want money handed to them, or 276 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.240 a lot of these guys have already been wealthy from 277 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.039 their NIL deals or even since high school. I think 278 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.960 it's kind of taken away that it factored from the NBA, 279 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:23.840 and another reason why the ratings are so low over 280 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.399 the last couple of years, because there's not the same 281 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.240 drive that there used to be in the NBA, where 282 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.759 guys are going in there to try to really make it, 283 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.399 support their families and you know, live out a childhood dream. 284 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.600 Now it is more so what can you do for 285 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:37.200 me and what can you give me when I come 286 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.039 into the NBA, And I think something's got to change 287 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.000 with that over the next couple of years, because it's 288 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.679 it's watering down the NBA to where it's very boring 289 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.440 to watch until the playoffs, and even the playoff ratings 290 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.559 were still low. So I just it's just it's trending 291 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:54.519 in the wrong direction. And I just kind of want 292 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.039 to get you all's opinion on that and what she 293 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.639 thought about that, because I thought that was interesting. I 294 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:00.919 thought it was a true fact that it's kind of, 295 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:02.559 you know, NBA has been kind of been taking a 296 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.240 little a slippery slope over the last i'd say ten 297 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:06.360 to fifteen years. 298 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:12.039 Probably, George, what do you think. Let's just clarify the ratings. 299 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:18.279 Watch Okay, go ahead, that's right. 300 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.039 But in the United States the ratings are way down, 301 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:26.360 but the ratings you count international. 302 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:26.559 Eyes are up. 303 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.720 But in America, you're right, Anthony, they're seventy percent of 304 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.919 what they were at their height. Go ahead, George, Well, I. 305 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.000 Was gonna say that, Jerry, the NBA really plays about 306 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.960 the international ratings. I think that the world wide, the 307 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.679 NBA was up all around the world, and I think 308 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.600 that because the world is getting involved, that we got 309 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.159 the quick thing that that's just our game now, it's 310 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:49.120 not just our game. Now it's the rest of the 311 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.919 world's game also, and they're picking up on it, and 312 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.240 they're taking the ratings up, and the ball players are 313 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.240 going to get played more extravagant because mister Bridgman came 314 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.679 on and told us about that little before he passed. 315 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.320 And uh, I think that I love. I don't know 316 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.039 what people watch for the NBA Finals, Jerry, but I 317 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.000 thought this is one of the best finals we've had 318 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.440 in almost five or ten years. I thought the passion 319 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:16.120 of all play. I thought the games were so kinderalizing, 320 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:21.320 and you had to bring your a game every game, comebacks, 321 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:23.519 you know. I thought the game had everything that you 322 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:25.799 would wanting the basketball. You had your threes, you had 323 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.600 your layups, you had your mid range, you had great coaching, 324 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.480 you had strategy. I don't know what people could be 325 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.679 looking for. To say it, I think one of the 326 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.799 problems is that we have in America is if two 327 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:39.279 people do it, we judge the rest of the country 328 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.480 is doing it. I mean, you look at like maybe 329 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.120 one or two guys act of food, and we judged 330 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:47.279 the whole league of one hundred or three hundred some players. 331 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.480 I think that's something that we've got to get away from. 332 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.519 I think that if you look at if I say 333 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.200 this all the time, it's the percentage of society got 334 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:59.799 in trouble is like the NBA, we'd have almost a 335 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.360 per society because you can count the ball players to 336 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:03.279 get arrested. 337 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:06.480 In much better than our politicians. Hey, George, let me 338 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.519 stop you, Let me stop you. Okay, we be better 339 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.519 than our politicians. No, just piggybacking, George. You're right, we'd 340 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.039 be better than our politicians. I just want people to 341 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:22.519 understand that that's a fact. We talked about this and 342 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:27.799 then about the ball politicians, no questions. No, it's fact, George, 343 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.720 it'd be less than our politicians. But don't tell the truth. 344 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.399 Sometimes people don't like that. 345 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:34.679 It's to it. 346 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.240 I mean, you talking about less than five five percent 347 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.720 of a whole league that gets in trouble, Jerry most 348 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:42.840 of the time, and we talk about like the whole 349 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:44.879 league is in trouble when one ball player goes down. 350 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.600 Ye, No, George, that's a fact less than our politicians. 351 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.039 For all our listeners, just to be honest with you, 352 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.399 when they're always talking about the issues NBA, NFL, if 353 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.200 you rated them against our politicians that we elect. You're 354 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.759 not very smart, fact of the matter. But we'll leave 355 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.080 out the lower George of us. 356 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.080 Sit right, here's the deal, George. 357 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:08.720 I do. 358 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.799 Agree with Anthony. I died to get to the Utah Jazz. 359 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.360 I thought it was Heavan, George. So did Mark Eaton, 360 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.600 who was so did Darryl Griffin. I mean all of 361 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.440 us in career there. Yeah, we did, we did. 362 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.279 I mean you just I just George. It was only 363 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.879 twenty three teams. There were eleven on the Jazz, not 364 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:34.159 even twelve, and it was hard to make and things 365 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.960 have changed a little bit to Anthony's statement. But but 366 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.399 you're one hundred percent correct, And that's that's why it's 367 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.240 good for this show, because there's always two. 368 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.279 Sides of this, and it is say one thing though. 369 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.399 I do, George, Yeah, you can't. I died to be 370 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.840 a jazz So I was upset because I love you talk. 371 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:52.440 I do. 372 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:53.639 I died to be a jazz. 373 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:56.720 It was they gave me an opportunity. Go ahead, George. 374 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:59.360 Yeah. But but what I want to say, Jay, you 375 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.639 look at like all the players. I figured some players drafted. 376 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.160 You had one guy that made a scene and we 377 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:08.039 talked like the whole league exactly, you know what I mean. 378 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.200 One guy and we we talked about he got more 379 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.759 news than all the other guys. And like the fathers 380 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:15.680 that were so upset with his son and showed such 381 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.200 great emotion when his son got drafted. I mean, Jered, 382 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.279 if you watch those scenes when those young men get 383 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.680 up and their families react to what's happening in their life, 384 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:26.240 they know it's life changes. Those young men are acstatic. 385 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.960 There's nothing to change. Since you've been there, since Derek 386 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.160 Ben I know. When I was there, Jered, it was 387 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:33.680 one of the most life changing moments. And I never 388 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.400 saw a person in that room that didn't get emotional. 389 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.279 I was so excited for the young child. But like 390 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:41.960 I say, when one apple asks a fool, then we 391 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:42.880 judged the whole borrow. 392 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:46.319 But we didn't judge Obel George. We called him out 393 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:46.680 by name. 394 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.559 Baby, you know what I'm saying. But he was only 395 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.400 one person. But he was only one person. 396 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:52.920 George, I know. 397 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:57.359 But George, now that that's the Now, that's the truth. 398 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.119 Your news on't fail, and that's a ain't and out society. 399 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:03.559 That's one of the reason we have on our problems 400 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.559 because good don't make make no difference in America. If 401 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.799