Speaker 1: Ying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is Thursday, May twenty second, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: This is Sparta.
Speaker 2: I mean host Jason Straighthorn along my co oh Cedric
Speaker 2: Swerve and Irvin.
Speaker 4: Hit him with the swerve, Hit him with the swerve,
Speaker 4: hit him with the swerve, hit them with the swerve. Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: how you being, brother, oh Straat Just one day at
Speaker 4: a time, Brother, one day at a time.
Speaker 3: How you doing. I know it's a big day to
Speaker 3: day for you, brother, big day. We getting that, you know, img.
Speaker 2: You know we're down here in Bradington, Florida for graduation celebration.
Speaker 2: You know, were Cayden who did sign with the University
Speaker 2: of Michigan, but he is back in Florida to graduate.
Speaker 3: He's practicing tonight.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's the official day that all hearts are warm and
Speaker 2: heavy and thanks. We're gonna have a chorus life because
Speaker 2: they are the official sponsor of This is Sparta. You know,
Speaker 2: brother Cody's in town. Everybody Mom, Lisia Gadriella as well.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a big event.
Speaker 2: And you know a Mairi's coming up soon my right
Speaker 2: Irvine year.
Speaker 4: But I'm a salute. I'm gonna drink this course life
Speaker 4: for my nephew.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, we're gonna do it, man. So listen, you
Speaker 2: know we weren't here on Tuesday this time of year.
Speaker 2: We are going to a one show per week time
Speaker 2: because of the lot of stuff, a lot of moving
Speaker 2: parts going on. We're bringing you a new content and
Speaker 2: maybe a little rebranded happened a little bit too, as
Speaker 2: we continue to build on this great network that we
Speaker 2: have here establishing this is spider Mshu.
Speaker 3: You know, all things that can stay and beyond.
Speaker 2: You know, there's gonna be a lot of beyond now
Speaker 2: as we continue to go into the summer months before
Speaker 2: we get into that Spartan football and all what's going
Speaker 2: on in the Big ten and beyond.
Speaker 3: There's so much happening in college athletics that we felt like.
Speaker 2: We'd be doing your injustice just to talk about one
Speaker 2: school all the time, because there's a lot of other
Speaker 2: things going on that really are pertinent too.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: That's a big word, I know, important for all of
Speaker 2: our fans. Were If you think about that.
Speaker 4: You sound like you graduating the day too, straight like
Speaker 4: like you you you're gonna be cool, my live, cool,
Speaker 4: my lite what like yeah, yeah, yeah, you sound like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. You you you you had
Speaker 4: that on your robe. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you gotta have all that. Man,
Speaker 2: you gotta graduate with honors and all that.
Speaker 4: Three point No, not me, not me. I just I
Speaker 4: just had I made across the stage straight. I just
Speaker 4: made that, just ma. I ain't need no decoration, I
Speaker 4: ain't need no extra none of that. I just want
Speaker 4: to give me, shake your hand. I ain't doing no
Speaker 4: dance straight.
Speaker 3: Did you see?
Speaker 4: I know it's off, but did you see? First of all,
Speaker 4: we're going to five our people. You know, you had
Speaker 4: the one guy president. He get up, he's speaking all grade.
Speaker 4: He's saying, when you come cross the strade, you would
Speaker 4: come cross the stage. It ain't gonna be none of
Speaker 4: that nonsense, none of that dance this and this. But
Speaker 4: then he says, we are gonna do the boots with
Speaker 4: the fan.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: I said, come on though. And then I'm just into
Speaker 4: the graduation. Come a nephew graduating in a few hours.
Speaker 4: And then I saw another one. They would dancing. Everybody
Speaker 4: came cross, if they was in the fraternity, they did
Speaker 4: they you know, they did their thing and they were who.
Speaker 3: Come on though, so.
Speaker 2: Graduating in work. But if you score a touchdown, though,
Speaker 2: you better do a little something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta get to hit him with this word.
Speaker 3: Hit him with this word what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But the President came on, he said, don't come across
Speaker 4: the stage with all that dance and ship boom boom.
Speaker 4: But then he said, you know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do the fans in the boot, you know.
Speaker 4: And I can see rat now of Mama Hall with
Speaker 4: the fans go, Mama Hall, Go, Mama Hall.
Speaker 2: Mama Hall got a big season coming up. Her babies
Speaker 2: ready to get a get after somebody's ass. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Gordon Hall, linebacker extored there from
Speaker 2: Michigan Stateium. Man, we can't get ahead of ourselves, swear.
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Speaker 2: College athletics been changing. We know what's going on nil
Speaker 2: Transfer portal and there's a lot of people trying to
Speaker 2: put guardrails. Guardrail. They gotta put caps, guardrail, cap and
Speaker 2: guard real. They don't up the players to get make
Speaker 2: too much money and get out of control because it's
Speaker 2: not good for the game. Whatever that means. So our
Speaker 2: old coach hey sous you call him, I called him
Speaker 2: coach Savan. Nick Saban a few weeks ago went to Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. When he went out there, apparently you know,
Speaker 2: he was you know, just just a lot talking with
Speaker 2: the President Trump and there was all this talk, you know,
Speaker 2: news reports out of that saying that there may be
Speaker 2: an executive order signed by the President staying that he
Speaker 2: would do something about college athletics.
Speaker 3: President didn't say no, but what he did say was.
Speaker 2: We can start a commission, and he named Nick Saban
Speaker 2: and a billionaire out of Texas Tech, to be the
Speaker 2: co chair of this commission. And today looks like the
Speaker 2: President has put pause on it. But we got a
Speaker 2: clip about the coach with Hey souss.
Speaker 6: Here about the commission. First of all, Secondly, I'm not
Speaker 6: sure we really need a commission. I think that, you know,
Speaker 6: a lot of people know exactly what the issues are
Speaker 6: in college football and exactly what we need to do
Speaker 6: to fix them. I think the key to the drill
Speaker 6: is getting people together so that we can.
Speaker 3: Move it forward.
Speaker 6: So you know, I'm not opposed to players making money.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't want anybody to think that. I just think
Speaker 6: the system that we're you know, the way it's going
Speaker 6: right now, it's not sustainable and probably not in the
Speaker 6: best interest of the student athletes across the board or
Speaker 6: the game itself. So I think we need to protect
Speaker 6: the brand and the competitive advantages and disadvantage that are
Speaker 6: being created right now, and I think we can we
Speaker 6: can fix all that. But I think we know how
Speaker 6: to do it, and I think not just me, but
Speaker 6: a lot of people. We just got to get everybody
Speaker 6: together to do it.
Speaker 3: Whether you really.
Speaker 2: So words there by coach hat Sus there in Pine
Speaker 2: Paul Fine Bomb show at a golf tournament.
Speaker 3: There So Swert, what do you think about the state Jesus,
Speaker 3: you know the.
Speaker 4: Thing that pisss me off is when guys want to
Speaker 4: have control. If that makes sense, I don't know, if
Speaker 4: you know, like Saban had in his contract from my understanding,
Speaker 4: that he had to make one dollar more if he
Speaker 4: wanted national championship.
Speaker 3: You understand I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And what I mean by control, like Sam, you retire,
Speaker 4: you finish, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: He's pissed off.
Speaker 4: About a quarterback getting twelve million dollars and this, and
Speaker 4: he would love for it to be like everybody get
Speaker 4: the same shit, But that's not reality. That's just like
Speaker 4: every coach didn't get the same amount of money. You
Speaker 4: wanted one dollar more than the highest.
Speaker 3: Paid when you won exactly. Yeah, Like come on, not
Speaker 3: just that.
Speaker 4: You know, if you, if you, if you ranked that
Speaker 4: you're the number one recruiting class, if you, if you're graduating.
Speaker 4: Everybody got these raisers and these bonuses. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. Yep, Like a lot of these kids getting
Speaker 4: paid now, and a lot of guys who when we played,
Speaker 4: we didn't get paid, like a lot of us like, okay, shit,
Speaker 4: go get that money. You know you probably got something
Speaker 4: that nb the situation, but you know you got Trump
Speaker 4: calling savings and putting something together and then.
Speaker 3: The bigger there in Texas. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 4: We don't get a former player. You don't get a
Speaker 4: guy that from the slums that made it out like
Speaker 4: y'all a voice.
Speaker 3: That's the shit that pisses me off. Why them too? Right?
Speaker 4: You understand what I'm saying. And then so you know,
Speaker 4: and I understand it saving. I mean, I know you
Speaker 4: you know I'm not gonna say anything, but come on,
Speaker 4: let these kids get paid. Y'all get paid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh, we get the right tea people. We
Speaker 3: know how to fix them. Well, shit, it has been
Speaker 3: going on three four years now. Mm hmmm hmm yeah,
Speaker 3: great point.
Speaker 2: Listen, you know when you bring up the guys that
Speaker 2: are going to fix it, and why didn't they have
Speaker 2: a former player or somebody that's out there actually doing it,
Speaker 2: I mean that you're talking about something called collective bargaining.
Speaker 2: That's why the NFL, NBA, NHL, major League Baseball, and
Speaker 2: beyond most pro sports have collective bargaining. That's why they
Speaker 2: have salary caps and you know contracts. You know, they
Speaker 2: have a lot of language within that process of collectively
Speaker 2: bargaining that prevents last, so people have to honor contracts.
Speaker 2: Right now, what we're seeing the college athletics and lawyer
Speaker 2: in America is challenging what the NCAA is doing, the
Speaker 2: administration is doing, because it doesn't stand up to the
Speaker 2: to the laws of the land in the United States.
Speaker 2: You take this to a federal court, and the federal
Speaker 2: judges are siding with who the athlete.
Speaker 3: That's who they're citing work. That's that's the law.
Speaker 2: What they're trying to do is get anti trust exemptions,
Speaker 2: which you know, anti trust is usually that means you're
Speaker 2: breaking the law, that's against the law to have a monopoly.
Speaker 2: And they're saying, let's have an exemption for an industry
Speaker 2: because they say it's not sustainable. You know, we're talking
Speaker 2: billions upon billions of dollars. It's not sustainable. So, you know,
Speaker 2: I would like to have someone give us a you know,
Speaker 2: explain it to us like we're kindergarteners, not kindergartener, Kenny, kindergartner.
Speaker 2: Explain it to me like that, how we are insolvent
Speaker 2: as an entire collegiate athletics department. You know, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: maybe some of them may need to be privatized. That
Speaker 2: that's something that's gonna probably come at a stadium near
Speaker 2: you in certain sports. And I don't think it's a
Speaker 2: bad thing privatization like bring bab Man, sell the sizzle,
Speaker 2: bring more excitement, Maybe move some schedules into different parts
Speaker 2: of the year so that the TV viewership, because right
Speaker 2: now we're entering into that after these crazy playoffs we're
Speaker 2: gonna get to in the NBA in a moment as well.
Speaker 2: What else we have to look forward to. It's a
Speaker 2: dearth of actings, nothing going on. It's a desert of
Speaker 2: what we can look at until football comes. That's why
Speaker 2: we're so starved come late July. But man, listen, so
Speaker 2: I think you hit the nail on the head. There
Speaker 2: is one today, just today, just a few hours ago,
Speaker 2: that came out at the University of Tennessee. The chancellor
Speaker 2: and the athletic director did come out and make a statement. Here.
Speaker 3: I think we have the clip. Is that a right, producer? Shallow?
Speaker 3: Let's see if we have it.
Speaker 7: Twitter is as a leader outside of ut trying to
Speaker 7: do something about all this change is happening so fast, well,
Speaker 7: actually not fast enough.
Speaker 3: You might say, not fast enough.
Speaker 2: No, I know.
Speaker 7: So, I mean, how on a daily basis, how do
Speaker 7: you do both? You lead here and I see you
Speaker 7: you can't stop yourself from trying to lead there.
Speaker 3: So talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 7: That your dad didn't.
Speaker 3: Have to do that.
Speaker 8: No, it's challenging, and I see you struggling with the
Speaker 8: same thing. You know, our job is to lead the
Speaker 8: University of Tennessee, but we also have a national issue
Speaker 8: in college sports. That's it's a real problem. I talk
Speaker 8: about like the Tennessee hat versus the college sports hat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8: I've been probably wearing the Tennessee hat a lot more
Speaker 8: recently thinking about just what's our what's our opportunity to
Speaker 8: be competitively excellent in this new world. But uh, it's
Speaker 8: a it's a real issue.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: We could go on and on about what we need,
Speaker 8: but uh, I'll say it. We got a camera on us.
Speaker 8: I don't really care.
Speaker 3: At this point.
Speaker 8: Collective bargaining is the only issue.
Speaker 3: It's the only solution to get there. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: agree with you. Wow, that is university.
Speaker 2: You're going to see athletic Director Danny White and Chancellor
Speaker 2: Don't Holban.
Speaker 4: So straight break it, break it down for some of
Speaker 4: the people like if I was in the chat, right
Speaker 4: and I know it's gonna be some people in the
Speaker 4: chat saying, what's the collective bargaining.
Speaker 8: All?
Speaker 2: So collective bargaining is where you have both sides. You know,
Speaker 2: you have all sides come to the table. That means administration.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the athletic directors in the in the
Speaker 2: administrators the n c a A, because you know the
Speaker 2: ncaa A, it's kind of made.
Speaker 3: Up of all the chancellors and presidents.
Speaker 2: That's who represents the universities, not the athletic directors. Like
Speaker 2: you think athletic directors are more in the conferences, Like
Speaker 2: we're in the Big ten at Michigan State, so the
Speaker 2: athletic director is basically it handles that Big ten business.
Speaker 2: But on a national stage it's the chancellors and presidents
Speaker 2: and Michigan State we hold on the president. At Tennessee,
Speaker 2: it's a chancellor. So you have those people at the table.
Speaker 2: In pro sports, it's the owners that's kind of that's
Speaker 2: the ownership side, and then the players. You gotta have
Speaker 2: the actual athletes coming to the table with their attorneys.
Speaker 2: Ownerships attorneys, players attorneys and they sit down and they
Speaker 2: hammer out agreements and it's not an easy process, but
Speaker 2: it's fair ultimately, you know, pound the flesh for each side,
Speaker 2: you know, both people feeling like they may have lost
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's usually where.
Speaker 2: You come to an agreement on something because nobody's going
Speaker 2: to be completely happy about it right now. Listen, the
Speaker 2: NCAA and the administration is feeling and I you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think the day goes by where I'm not
Speaker 2: next to somebody who's saying, you know, this NIL is
Speaker 2: bad for sports. You know, I hear it all the time.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you hear this R. I'm sure you hear
Speaker 2: that from somebody, and I always have to ask a
Speaker 2: questions why. But you know when we talk about it
Speaker 2: and they start to say, well, maybe it's the transfer portal,
Speaker 2: which that I get it. It's the transfer portal, but
Speaker 2: it's kind of been grouped together with you know, athletes
Speaker 2: are getting paid, which makes the game bad.
Speaker 3: And we had to get out of that mindset.
Speaker 2: Because we got out of that mindset hundreds couple hundred
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 3: I thought we did.
Speaker 2: You know, putting dollar amounts on players and athletes heads
Speaker 2: is something that went on here in this country, you know,
Speaker 2: which we try to forget about, right, we try to
Speaker 2: get past.
Speaker 3: So what we're doing now is kind of go back
Speaker 3: to that. We can't. We can't do that. It's not
Speaker 3: going to work in any capacity.
Speaker 2: And I applaud the Chancellor of the universit Tennessee and
Speaker 2: athletic director at Tennessee as well for coming out publicly
Speaker 2: in stating this. So the only way you can get
Speaker 2: to that collective bargaining and get you know, the athletes
Speaker 2: and the administration to get together, you gotta be employment employees.
Speaker 2: We have to get off of this idea that it's
Speaker 2: just amateurism and it's college athletics is just amateurism. And
Speaker 2: they you know, they're gonna I don't know, they get
Speaker 2: the free rooming board, and that's that they're getting paid. Now,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna put that horse back in the barn,
Speaker 2: the toothpaste up to the genies out the bottle. All
Speaker 2: that shit's true. So we how to find a way
Speaker 2: a path forward, which is more if it's fair for
Speaker 2: all sides. I think that's that's what the struggle is.
Speaker 2: But until you get to employment, you can't get to
Speaker 2: collective bargaining and If you don't get to either one
Speaker 2: of those, it's going to be the wild wild West
Speaker 2: as it is right now. You ain't seen all of
Speaker 2: it yet. It's getting ready to get crazy over the
Speaker 2: next in my opinion, twenty four to thirty six months.
Speaker 3: I know because the reason.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump didn't sign an executive orders because he don't
Speaker 2: want to stick his hand in that shit.
Speaker 3: Let's keep it real. This is different now.
Speaker 2: He'd rather fight China than to fight all the athletes
Speaker 2: here in the United States and all those families.
Speaker 3: And that's a real statement. So does that make sense?
Speaker 2: You get it on?
Speaker 3: You got the iron crossed the teeth from me.
Speaker 2: Brother man, Hey, this is huge when you talk about
Speaker 2: the gravity of what's going on right now, and you
Speaker 2: don't hear a lot about it, the details.
Speaker 3: But this is what you come here for to get
Speaker 3: the details of.
Speaker 2: What's going on behind the scenes, and you know the undercurrents.
Speaker 2: I believe there's supposed to be a I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's the July first date is a huge date that
Speaker 2: all coaching staffs are afraid of, some are excited about,
Speaker 2: because that's when this you know, this, this house settlement
Speaker 2: is supposed to be kicked in the gear with the
Speaker 2: revenue share, that twenty point five million dollars that goes
Speaker 2: to all the big schools and they're going to divide
Speaker 2: it up and the schools will be paying that. And
Speaker 2: we just lost an athletic director because you know, in hindsight,
Speaker 2: this is something that we talked about on this show
Speaker 2: add nauseam to we are blue in the face over
Speaker 2: and over and over again about how other schools are
Speaker 2: not only doing that, they're also raising money outside. And
Speaker 2: now now I think we in each lands and and
Speaker 2: Spartan country are starting to understand that to be true.
Speaker 2: But either hey, listen, I don't think there's ever going
Speaker 2: to be complete parody. I mean, there's not parody in
Speaker 2: all the pro sports.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 2: It's it's competitive at the pro level because the talent
Speaker 2: is what it is, knowing so many spots, when you
Speaker 2: have so many colleges and so many until they kind
Speaker 2: of liquidate, are consolidating to smaller lead man, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a disparity. You can't have one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: great teams. There's not that many great players. So it's
Speaker 2: the open market, right, it's worth the great players gonna
Speaker 2: go where where they're gonna go SEC?
Speaker 3: What where? Why? Why are they go there? Where the
Speaker 3: money at? That's that's that's my point, Big ten.
Speaker 2: Listen, in my opinion that Big ten might stop shining
Speaker 2: to SEC because the SEC led the way when it
Speaker 2: was under table money. And you know, just like I do,
Speaker 2: under the table money was five thousand here, fifty thousand there,
Speaker 2: brown paper bag.
Speaker 3: You know we will right. This is how it was.
Speaker 3: Now he's talking about twelve million dollar quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Man, you know it's not unheard of to see a
Speaker 2: tackle in high school getting two two and a half
Speaker 2: million dollars per year and getting paid while he's in
Speaker 2: high school.
Speaker 3: We know that to be true. That's happening right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, So hey, swir and and and and they're not
Speaker 2: going to SEC schools. The guys the two tackles were
Speaker 2: talking about was a Big ten and one was sc
Speaker 2: acc acc.
Speaker 3: Think about it. It's a crazy world. Brother.
Speaker 2: Hey, as we digress, man, hey, we got more to
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Speaker 3: Man. Listen, let's talk about the hard files and the WNBA.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go that way for a moment, you know,
Speaker 2: before we seguay to the NBA.
Speaker 3: But the w NBA this past week.
Speaker 2: Full of controversy when you talk about what happened with
Speaker 2: Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese.
Speaker 3: Do we have the clip of the file here? Swear?
Speaker 3: I need you to break this down for me, all right, Stray,
Speaker 3: Let's check this out, all right?
Speaker 4: Reese goes up, No, no, no, if you go back, if
Speaker 4: you go back before Reese goes up, before that shot,
Speaker 4: this is why. I got a lot of respect for Kateman.
Speaker 4: And you're gonna see her point at the file. Her
Speaker 4: teammate was pushed in the back. It was no foul call, right,
Speaker 4: So now if you push my sister and y'all not
Speaker 4: gonna recognize it, guess what I'm fin the file? This
Speaker 4: bitch hard. That's what she did, right. Boom, she pointed,
Speaker 4: y'all ain't say nothing. Okay, boom five right and walk away,
Speaker 4: and then look at her sister. Huh, don't touch it.
Speaker 4: You go over there, Caitlyn, I got this. Get your
Speaker 4: ass over there. This ain't that I'm about this. I
Speaker 4: got this. Don't worry about it. We need a triple double.
Speaker 4: You go on over there. Well, i'ndle this part over here, right,
Speaker 4: So everybody blowing it up because okay, reason Kaitlyn. You
Speaker 4: know in this wn BN you need some kind of sitement.
Speaker 4: But Caitlyn was not wrong.
Speaker 3: She would take it up. Go back some more if
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 4: If you go back, if you go back, Reese pushed,
Speaker 4: watch she pushed the boom. She pointed, no foure Okay,
Speaker 4: guess what y'all don't want to call it? Boom, take
Speaker 4: it upon myself.
Speaker 3: Good point, that point right.
Speaker 4: Nobody recognizing that part. Everybody just focusing on Caitlin Foul
Speaker 4: and Reese. Yeah, but Reese pushed my teammate in the
Speaker 4: back and the rep in colon. So guess what I
Speaker 4: took matters in my own hand and got I'm I'm
Speaker 4: I'm a riding down for mine.
Speaker 3: Hey, great, am I am? I my sister keeper. That's
Speaker 3: what Kitlyn said, Yes, I am. Now see great analysis.
Speaker 2: You see that the breakdown right there by the great
Speaker 2: spur and irving man. I'm trying to tell you, man,
Speaker 2: tune in, You're gonna learn something. And he say, if
Speaker 2: you want to win, tap in as my team cleave
Speaker 2: say so, Look, this is more controversy with a lot
Speaker 2: of talking heads like me and you are right now
Speaker 2: start going.
Speaker 3: At it, you know, and taking sides. You know what
Speaker 3: I mean. This is what's been crazy to me.
Speaker 2: We saw Ryan Clark and r G three, Robert griff
Speaker 2: the third start.
Speaker 3: A few Do we have clips of this? I mean, man,
Speaker 3: swear what is going on for me? A little bit
Speaker 3: of the Ryan Clark there.
Speaker 10: But he does understand hate because I think he also
Speaker 10: understands the hate of self. When you look at the play,
Speaker 10: which is all we can speak to as professionals, all
Speaker 10: we can speak to as analysts. Ajuries pushed one of
Speaker 10: her teammates, Kitlyn Clark, had a hard file, which is
Speaker 10: part of basketball. I feel like it was the test
Speaker 10: correctly and anger Reese's reaction is the sort of reaction
Speaker 10: you get in a situation when you feel like you
Speaker 10: took an intentionally hard file. That's competitiveness, that's rivalry, that's
Speaker 10: not hate. And so now though, when RG three jumps
Speaker 10: on to the hate train or to the angry train,
Speaker 10: and now follows along with what we saw from Keith Oberman,
Speaker 10: what we saw from dy portinoy as they poured on
Speaker 10: to ajuries to make her the villain and Caitlyn arts
Speaker 10: heroic or hero story. One thing we know about RG
Speaker 10: three is he's not having conversations at his home about
Speaker 10: what black women have to endure in this country, about
Speaker 10: what young black women and athletes like Angel Reese have
Speaker 10: had to deal with being on the opposite side of
Speaker 10: Caitlyn Clark's rise and ascension and to start them. Now,
Speaker 10: when you look at it, I think Asia Wilson is
Speaker 10: the face of the league. Asia Wilson is the best
Speaker 10: player in the league. Caitlyn Clark is the most important
Speaker 10: player in the WNBA, and a ton of her fandom
Speaker 10: has come along with some racial bias or some racial
Speaker 10: pieces to why people.
Speaker 3: Love her so much.
Speaker 10: And so, now, if you're RG three, when is the
Speaker 10: last time within your household you've had a conversation about
Speaker 10: what she's dealing with.
Speaker 3: You haven't been able to wow, wow, yo, yo yo.
Speaker 3: What's up? Everybody? It's your boy RG three. Here's RG yo.
Speaker 3: What's up everybody, it's your boy RG three.
Speaker 11: And I just wanted to get on here and talk
Speaker 11: to you guys, because there's been a lot of buzz,
Speaker 11: a lot of conversations about my sports take that Andrew
Speaker 11: res hates Skaalen Clark, which was purely based in basketball.
Speaker 11: But no, there's a line in life that you just
Speaker 11: simply don't cross. Wives and children are always off limits.
Speaker 11: And Ryan Clark has sprinted past that line. Ryan Clark
Speaker 11: didn't like my sports take that Andrew res hates skating Clark,
Speaker 11: And that's fine, It's okay. It's part of the game
Speaker 11: sports media. I'm gonna have an opinion. This person might
Speaker 11: not agree with it. That person might not.
Speaker 3: Agree with it.
Speaker 11: But what you don't do is turn around and personally
Speaker 11: attack me and my family just because you don't agree
Speaker 11: with a sports opinion that is purely based off the sport.
Speaker 11: I didn't make it personal, but what that really shows
Speaker 11: is just how low of.
Speaker 3: A person Ryan Clark gets.
Speaker 11: But Ryan, across the line, Now.
Speaker 3: You made it personal, and.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think we get we get we get the
Speaker 2: gist there.
Speaker 3: What's your take on this?
Speaker 4: First of all, Ryan, you don't know what's been said
Speaker 4: in that manhousehold. You understand what I'm saying, right, That's
Speaker 4: the thing about these guys, man, and I understand. I
Speaker 4: mean and I and I blame I blame the the
Speaker 4: television world. You're getting these guys. You're giving them jobs
Speaker 4: because of names or whatever. You're not taking them through
Speaker 4: no communications like I took Come to twenty five straight,
Speaker 4: you know, come to twenty five, Come three ten like
Speaker 4: I took those classes. Mike, I ain't take no fucking
Speaker 4: come come communications classes a broadcast. But you're giving them
Speaker 4: a microphone and they do, and and we doing that
Speaker 4: they want us to do.
Speaker 3: Talk about it. You don't understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That's some silly ship to say what goes I can't
Speaker 4: tell you what goes on in your house, straight, so
Speaker 4: like you can't tell me what goes on in mind.
Speaker 4: So Rode clock you wrong with that? Why because his
Speaker 4: wife is white? How you don't know that they may
Speaker 4: they may talk about that. The kids mixed. I hope
Speaker 4: that one of the time you can share some kind
Speaker 4: of history with them. You don't know that, Ryan, that's
Speaker 4: pull ship right, you know what I'm saying. I'm saying,
Speaker 4: but why not, Like my argie said, keep it at
Speaker 4: the sport, Just keep it at your opinion, ou p.
Speaker 4: He is well, not right or wrong. We just we
Speaker 4: see what we saw and we'll make him to leave
Speaker 4: it at that. You don't know what this man talking
Speaker 4: about when they taking a shower, or when they have
Speaker 4: a bill of talk, or when they eat uh uh
Speaker 4: uh the potato side of the don't even know if
Speaker 4: they got raised.
Speaker 3: I ain't even gonna say that, but I'll be wrong
Speaker 3: on them.
Speaker 2: You knows, Gord come ball right, but.
Speaker 3: He was the sad part about that. Straight.
Speaker 4: Let's take let's take those guys uh uh uh? Game
Speaker 4: day yeah, Ohio State. No, let's take the white guys.
Speaker 4: Do you see them. Do you see them clagging hands
Speaker 4: with each other? No, you know what I'm saying. Do
Speaker 4: you see another person going off with the punter? Nobody
Speaker 4: is a fucking punter. He one of the biggest.
Speaker 3: Come on dog, I didn't even know he played in
Speaker 3: the NFL. Oh oh oh, you're talking about Pat McAfee.
Speaker 2: Come he got got podcast over his executive's throats.
Speaker 3: He don't give a damn.
Speaker 4: Do you see another white dude going at him and
Speaker 4: saying what he's doing in his house like he he
Speaker 4: says some.
Speaker 3: Off the wall ship. No doubt about it.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, I think Ryan was
Speaker 4: wrong with that comment. You understand saying keep you with
Speaker 4: this boy, fella, think you're gonna do an tell another
Speaker 4: brother down to talk about his household. Now they're going
Speaker 4: back and seeing Ryan got an inerracial baby too. I'm
Speaker 4: doing it, man, I don't get it right.
Speaker 3: Who wins what all it is? Man? Well, who wins it?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 8: That?
Speaker 2: Just the networks in the ratings, and you know it
Speaker 2: does end up making everybody look a little bad there
Speaker 2: in my Opinion're right, there's no doubt about it, man.
Speaker 2: This is a for whatever reason, this Angel Reese and
Speaker 2: cable and clock thing has polarized that whole the w NBA,
Speaker 2: and it's it's split down. It's a racial thing, almost
Speaker 2: like Magic and Bird going all the way back to that,
Speaker 2: you know. But Magic was more beloved, you know, as
Speaker 2: a as a player and his image than what angel
Speaker 2: Reee angel Reese is coming into place. It's a little
Speaker 2: bit more, a little edgy for people, and they want
Speaker 2: to like, she want to fight Caitlyn because what Caitlyn believes.
Speaker 2: I don't know the image. I mean, just play the game,
Speaker 2: you know. I like the rivalry though I liked the
Speaker 2: little chippiness every now and then. But come on, let's
Speaker 2: not make this a race issue.
Speaker 4: I never watched w NBA, like I don't know if
Speaker 4: I ever will, but I did watch a Klayton cart game, right,
Speaker 4: you know why because I had to see.
Speaker 3: I had to see and and you want to say racist,
Speaker 3: whatever I mean.
Speaker 4: It was five white girls on the court playing five
Speaker 4: black girls on the court. And when I say Caitlyn
Speaker 4: had forty points and then the other points she was
Speaker 4: a part of another eighteen points would assist. Oh, I
Speaker 4: was a fan because I witnessed, you know, And so
Speaker 4: I don't think it's when he's when Ryan Cass said, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of racist with you know, her
Speaker 4: fame and her her not No, no, no, people like
Speaker 4: who they like. And guess what, I'm blacker than all blacks,
Speaker 4: and I'm a clock from that game, from that college game.
Speaker 4: I ain't never gonna watch a whole w NBA game
Speaker 4: unless it's twelve cigars and a whole lot of you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's the only way I can ever do it.
Speaker 4: But I did watch her in college and watch the
Speaker 4: whole game, not just one thing. I ain't up watching
Speaker 4: three games because I witnessed and I was a fan,
Speaker 4: and I'm blacker than all black.
Speaker 3: You don't get no blacker than me?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 2: Because Angel Reese won a national title and Caitlyn never did?
Speaker 3: No, I watched Caitlyn. Yeah, I'm just the controversy. I know.
Speaker 3: I don't think that. I don't think that.
Speaker 4: I just think, you know, respilled some type of way,
Speaker 4: you know, and Reese is popular, but you Caitland popular,
Speaker 4: you know, but you got to you got to McDonald
Speaker 4: saw she got something in the cereal lane, you know, and.
Speaker 3: She got something down there too, you know.
Speaker 4: She had a meal at McDonald's, Wendy's or whatever she
Speaker 4: know she did hurt he ain't Caitlyn.
Speaker 3: Caitlyn is telling I Arenas, I'm glad.
Speaker 4: She had put her hands on Kitlan because you you
Speaker 4: probably would have went to jail.
Speaker 3: I smoke. You saw that when she went after she no.
Speaker 4: Fight, don't want to you see who? You know what
Speaker 4: Kaitlyn said, and ain't. I'm paying the fine? Wow, come on,
Speaker 4: you can't come on. I love Caitlan. I don't even
Speaker 4: know y'all stuck up for me. Y'all pushed me away,
Speaker 4: y'all handled the ben and you get a fine.
Speaker 3: I'm paying for it. It just come out. One of
Speaker 3: my Kaitlyn only one got a beeper deal. She bring
Speaker 3: it back. She bringing back to the old beepers.
Speaker 2: You bullshit. I read it on AI the beeper deal.
Speaker 2: A lot people want beepers. Man, you got smart phones
Speaker 2: that that ship sails. Brother man, Hey, talking about the
Speaker 2: move before before we get to the NBA.
Speaker 3: Man, held on, let's talk about our guy over in
Speaker 3: in East Lancey man, because you know.
Speaker 2: Certain certain times that we've been talking, you know, we
Speaker 2: bring up certain kids. But this one right here Joseph
Speaker 2: zero six handed picture. I called it, yes, Big Ten
Speaker 2: Picture of the Year, hundred strikeouts. First time Missigs State's
Speaker 2: had a hundred strikeout picture since two thousand and two.
Speaker 3: I mean this guy, hey.
Speaker 2: If he don't go first round, I got a call commissioner,
Speaker 2: talk to this work.
Speaker 4: It's strange. It's nothing to be talked about. It is
Speaker 4: what it is. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You talk about a guy that's the next Randy Johnson.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? And you gotta you got it.
Speaker 4: Ain't no I don't know how many teams in the
Speaker 4: MLBH thirty all right, it ain't twenty nine better than
Speaker 4: him that he can't go in the first run.
Speaker 3: You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I say he would be playing of the year in
Speaker 4: the Big Ten, maybe all met with however they do it,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean the guy and it's important. I
Speaker 4: wish I could see it in person, but I saw
Speaker 4: a couple of games on TV.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about boom ninety eight, boom ninety seven, boom
Speaker 4: all the way into the fourth and the fifth indus, Right,
Speaker 4: that's that's longevity.
Speaker 3: That's endurance. Yeah, you know I mean the boy was
Speaker 3: throwing nineties night, late high nineties in the fifth and
Speaker 3: sixth inning. Yeah oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting next to a guy watching it the highlights
Speaker 4: and the guy say, hey, the guy sixth inning throwing
Speaker 4: ninety seven. Oh you know what this is? This type
Speaker 4: of prob say you know something, you wanted this something, brother,
Speaker 4: you know, but phenomenal man. And and like you said,
Speaker 4: we always give him a shout out with his with
Speaker 4: with the foundation that he's doing and the money that
Speaker 4: he's giving away. Thank thank goodness to a guy that's
Speaker 4: in the running, mister Tom. But that's that's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 4: And I'm just happy for the kid.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 3: I just wish you really got a chance to go
Speaker 3: up to a game.
Speaker 2: But hey, you still got You told him he was
Speaker 2: gonna take him yard, so you gotta go up there
Speaker 2: soon and stand in that box against the six.
Speaker 3: Ain't lefty.
Speaker 4: On that note, I wanted to give a shout out
Speaker 4: to everybody that played pickleball right just off the subject.
Speaker 4: I went out for the first time and I thought
Speaker 4: it was a bullshit game.
Speaker 3: Straight.
Speaker 4: I saw guys walking out, their old white guys, and
Speaker 4: I love white people. I love them. They're the best
Speaker 4: people to me. My kid mixed, so let's not go there.
Speaker 4: A guy seventy six years old straight, I can't make
Speaker 4: this up. This is why I'm about to get in
Speaker 4: shape and I'm about to become a pickleball player. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm getted out seventy six years old and kicked my
Speaker 4: ass and said this age that was still in my head.
Speaker 4: I went to the gym yesterday and I was living.
Speaker 4: I could hear him say, yeah, not bad for a
Speaker 4: seventy six. Seventy six year old man.
Speaker 3: I was so pissed. Damn.
Speaker 4: But when I say they mastered the game, I mean
Speaker 4: it's ladies out there straight talking played.
Speaker 3: I didn't know the game my first time playing. No
Speaker 3: excuse me.
Speaker 4: But when I said I got my ass whooped straight,
Speaker 4: I'm so pissed off that I'm finna get pickleball conditioned
Speaker 4: training and I'm finna get I told him I'll be
Speaker 4: back by August.
Speaker 3: I want the same.
Speaker 4: Seventy six year old man who I'm whooping ass straight.
Speaker 4: But I salute everybody that played pickaball. I thought it
Speaker 4: was bullshit. I thought somebody made it up, and they
Speaker 4: in the suburb house whatever, But man, it's a real
Speaker 4: oh oh yeah.
Speaker 2: It's sweeping the nation. It's big, fastest growing spoil out
Speaker 2: here right now. Pick a ball.
Speaker 3: Seven yo.
Speaker 4: Man kicked my ass. I gotta salute him, boy, But
Speaker 4: I'm coming back. I bet you that the next time
Speaker 4: I come back, we're gonna record and put it on
Speaker 4: the show in August.
Speaker 3: All right. I don't want I don't want to forget this.
Speaker 2: Zero was also named First Team All Big Ten, was
Speaker 2: the only unanimous selection the first team, and as Ryan
Speaker 2: mckaye was named the Second Team Big Ten, while senior
Speaker 2: Sam Bush was MSU Big Ten Sportsmanship Award recipient. So
Speaker 2: hats off to the as you say baseball team. They're
Speaker 2: still playing right now. They're in the Big Ten Tournament.
Speaker 2: I think they're facing Oregon today once again. So it's
Speaker 2: they are twelve seed. Only twelve make it to the
Speaker 2: Big Ten Tournament. They're the twelfth seed, so a long shot,
Speaker 2: but you got to cheer those guys on today.
Speaker 3: So, speaking of this, it's time to make you talked
Speaker 3: about Tom Didas.
Speaker 2: It's time to make your niltis charitable with Charitable Gift America.
Speaker 2: MSU Baseball's dominant left handed pitcher Joseph Zero was giving
Speaker 2: back to the community once again through his partnership with
Speaker 2: Charitable Gift America. MSU was originally most Trusted Nil Fund.
Speaker 2: Joseph and his family and the team did adopt six
Speaker 2: year old Luca Wright to join the team as their
Speaker 2: top recruit this season. Luca is currently taking on Luken
Speaker 2: and needs support of our Spartan community. For every strikeout
Speaker 2: and that's one hundred that Zero collected this season, he'll
Speaker 2: be making a donation to the cop Looking for Looka
Speaker 2: Foundation and directly support Luca and his family. Additionally, the
Speaker 2: fund is accepting public contributions to increase the impact for
Speaker 2: this wonderful kid and family. Step up to the play
Speaker 2: today swear at CGA Athletics dot org. So man, look
Speaker 2: can't be the kid that's got a big arm and
Speaker 2: a big.
Speaker 4: Heart a hell of a combination, yeah man, and so
Speaker 4: close this out today.
Speaker 2: We got to talk a little bit about the NBA.
Speaker 2: We talked WNBA. But did you see the ending of
Speaker 2: that game last night? Pacers on the road in the
Speaker 2: garden in Madison Square and had a sixteen point leaves
Speaker 2: that what they telling me in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 2: lost that sulf.
Speaker 3: I mean that shot by Halla Burton.
Speaker 2: I don't know we've got the shot or him doing
Speaker 2: the Regi Miller choke, but my goodness, swear, that was
Speaker 2: a hell of a finish in the overtime, even getting
Speaker 2: the overtime little mona finish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I watched that game straight and and and I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, the Knicks would run away with it in
Speaker 4: the fourth kind of light. You know how UH Minnesota
Speaker 4: lost their first game and you know those guys came back.
Speaker 2: They're hugging and all this. Yeah, so mssrs the free throw.
Speaker 2: This is it right here. I mean, compliments of TNT
Speaker 2: right there for a quick little for the for the video.
Speaker 2: Thanks shutting producer, shine back in the back doing your thing.
Speaker 2: But swear like that you said talk finish the statement
Speaker 2: about watching that game last night, Well, if you.
Speaker 4: Go back to the to the Dallas series, I mean
Speaker 4: not Dallas Minnesota series, you know it was.
Speaker 3: Sloppy first half.
Speaker 4: Whatever come out of second half and okay, see just
Speaker 4: run away with it. I mean to a game that
Speaker 4: was closing. Okase ended up going up by twenty some
Speaker 4: points right at a hell of a fourth quarter. But
Speaker 4: first half was terrible. I think the lead MVP. I
Speaker 4: think he was like two for eleven or something like
Speaker 4: that and then come back and have twenty some point
Speaker 4: up with thirty some points. But so I thought the
Speaker 4: same thing would happen with the Knicks, you know, because
Speaker 4: it was a good game and Knicks had to leave.
Speaker 4: I just say, okay, you know what, the Knicks finna
Speaker 4: run away with it. But Nick's top player, Bronson fouled trouble.
Speaker 4: He got to see this ass down. But then they
Speaker 4: still hold the front down.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: When he was down, they that's when they kind of
Speaker 4: took the league, you know. And but Indiana had that
Speaker 4: one guy that hit like five threes within every every
Speaker 4: every series they came out of court, they hit like
Speaker 4: four in a row, and they knew he had the
Speaker 4: hard hand, and they fed and they kept feeding them,
Speaker 4: feeding them, feed them, and he was knocking them down.
Speaker 4: And before you know, they kept chipping away, like he say,
Speaker 4: chopping wood. They kept chopping wood, chopping wood, and at
Speaker 4: the end putting the ball in their best players hands
Speaker 4: and he came through and they beat him in overtime.
Speaker 3: Man, great finish to that game.
Speaker 2: The NBA, there's a lot there's a lot of I mean,
Speaker 2: they got me back, man, I'm telling you, it's been
Speaker 2: a long time. I haven't been watching the NBA because
Speaker 2: it's just been it's a different game. You gotta get
Speaker 2: used to the threes.
Speaker 4: And I hate basketball now because if you watch that game,
Speaker 4: everybody shooting threes. Like, nobody plays with their back against
Speaker 4: the back in the basket. It's no turnaround, boom boom,
Speaker 4: No take a jump step and throw.
Speaker 3: It's none of that.
Speaker 4: Like, I really, only way I love watching basketball is
Speaker 4: thank God for my cigar.
Speaker 3: That's the only reason I like. Besides that, it's just
Speaker 3: everybody shooting three.
Speaker 4: Like, if you're a little kid right now and you
Speaker 4: have dreams of going to the NBA, you just shoot
Speaker 4: three like that.
Speaker 3: You you gotta master that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So with Boston, did they they shot sixty three threes?
Speaker 4: You know, in football, you're on average page you're gonna
Speaker 4: get in the game, probably sixty or sixty five games
Speaker 4: total play. Imagine you going the game. They throwing the
Speaker 4: ball sixty five tight? I mean, as a running back,
Speaker 4: I'm not running the ball, right you shooting? But they
Speaker 4: shot sixty five threes? Like, come sixty three? Everybody shooting.
Speaker 4: It's like you can have a layup, but you gotta
Speaker 4: look and see if anybody street. But I hate that shit, man,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, like, it's just terrible. Mother right up
Speaker 4: at the rim, let's pass up until get the three.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 3: They rather have a three point miss than a two
Speaker 3: point made.
Speaker 2: That's the way it is right now, he man, final
Speaker 2: thoughts before we get out of here.
Speaker 4: I just gonna salute you brother and your son. You know,
Speaker 4: my nephew Kayden Man. Maybe y'all about to graduate in
Speaker 4: a few more hours and three more hours and you
Speaker 4: know you already was on college camp. He just came
Speaker 4: back just to enjoy it, to finish the process. He
Speaker 4: went through the process. He just came back to get
Speaker 4: the prize, you know. And I just know that's one
Speaker 4: of the check the box you check off. You know,
Speaker 4: son graduates, son in college and.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, even if y'all don't know, and y'all
Speaker 3: don't know my nephew, like, he's a stand up guy.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna leave it at that. Dammit. That's right, brother,
Speaker 3: But I appreciate that for seed gerving. Man.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're gonna have a happy you know, graduation. Remember
Speaker 2: next week. Once a week, maybe Tuesday or Thursday. We're
Speaker 2: gonna let you know which day we're gonna be live
Speaker 2: next week. It's gonna be different during the summer months
Speaker 2: because Swerve and Straight are moving around and doing some
Speaker 2: other projects.
Speaker 3: But that's okay. We are not leaving you Swerve.
Speaker 4: But even with your comments, even with your comments and
Speaker 4: your questions, if you leave him direct the shun, produce
Speaker 4: a shun. We'll get those questions and we'll get you.
Speaker 4: We'll get you back when we go live next week.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Brother from Swerving Irving, I'm Jason
Speaker 2: straight Horn. It's a sparta. Everybody. Have a good night.
Speaker 2: God bless you. Go great, Go White.