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Stephen A., Orlovsky & Rob Parker: When Hot Takes Go Off the Rails · Fanatically Speaking with Kent

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I don't want people to think that I get on the
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internet and start hating people on social media.
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That's not what I do. The first half was absolutely
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horrible. You know, just inept offense, inept
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defense, special teams, you name it. I'm going
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to turn into Oprah. Why were you so angry? He
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sucks this season. This game, whatever, whatever's
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going on, right? And then in the very next pitch,
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guess what they did? They double Homer. And he's
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like, told you that. Why are you always knocking
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lows. Yeah, so I knew that. You need the highs
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and the lows. So I do that, yeah. I'm trying
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to be the voice of reason here. I am what I am.
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episode of Fanatically Speaking. I'm Kent, the
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co -host and promoter. I am Log Off, the Log
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Off legend, hater of social media. I am the co
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-host and producer of the show. And this episode
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is going to be a little different than something
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we've ever done. We've kind of keyed in on three
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major sports personalities who've had some positions
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and some things that they've said publicly that
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we just want to take an issue with. Um, so the
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first one we're going to, we're going to come
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in hot right out of the gate. We've got a key
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in on one, Mr. Stephen A Smith. Now, uh, Stephen
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A Smith was on an episode of First Take, um,
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this past week and he was speaking specifically
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on the NBA gambling probe that we actually covered
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in our bonus episode that we released. But the
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Stephen A comments, um, kind of stood out to
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both myself and Kent and just to lay the groundwork
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on this. We're not political people. We don't
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really, I don't look at things through a political
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spectrum. And honestly, I try to avoid a lot
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of the political news and I have for the last
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decade. So if you're new to avoid the political
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news, just understand you're hopping on my train.
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I've been doing that. But, but the Stephen A
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thing, and I wanted to, to kind of key in on
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this specifically, he was speaking about the
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gambling probe. And the one thing that he said
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was he mentioned that the president He alluded
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that the president was involved in the probe
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itself because of some of the NBA protests that
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had taken place in years and just kind of some
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of the way that the league has kind of shifted
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themselves away from him and his presidency.
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And then he also alluded to that because of the
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same thing took place in the WNBA that he's quote,
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coming for them as well. I just threw all that
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out there. I just kind of wanted to set the table
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for us, Kent, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts
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on it. Yeah, so it was surprising to hear him
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say that one. There's a few reasons. One, it's
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it's a it was on first take. And if you don't
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know, Stephen A. Smith has his own political
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show, straight shooter, Stephen A. Smith, where
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he talked politics because because he really
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said it with no. I don't know proof is the right
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word, right? So, you know, for him to just flat
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out say Trump was kind of weird to allude to
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that. And then also, as you said, then to just
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blatantly allude that he's going to go after
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the WNBA. I mean, he literally told Monica McNutt,
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watch out, the WNBA might be next. And based
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off of absolutely nothing except. I think so.
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I think this is going to happen. Therefore, I'm
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going to say it on one of the more prominent
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sports shows in history. I'm just going to say
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these types of things. I'm going to let you finish.
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We spoke about this briefly before we started
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recording. I feel like he took something, like
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he married the two worlds together. We know that
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there's been rumblers that Stephen A. Smith has
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some political aspirations. How seriously you
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want to take those things, that's up for you
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to decide personally. But for you to marry this
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to, I mean, if we think about it, you know, probably
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one of the bigger sports stories of the year
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when it comes to the NBA gambling probe. And
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then you introduce the president's name into
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the discussion when no one was mentioning it.
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It just kind of felt like he just kind of wanted
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to seize on that moment and use it as an opportunity
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to kind of marry the two things together. When,
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like you said, there was no real connection to
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the two. He introduced it. And of course, you
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can make your cases for it in one way or the
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other. But it just kind of seemed like a waste
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of energy, like a waste of effort in a lot of
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ways. Yeah, it was not only a bad, I think a
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bad take. It was just irresponsible of him. We
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talk about journalism and things like that. And
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I'm not saying he's not a good journalist. I'm
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just saying that sometimes the media had talking
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heads on TV sometimes like to say stuff like
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we talk. They'd like to say stuff to get. the
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clicks, the likes. To get the buzz going. To
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get the buzz going. It's again, you gotta be
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responsible. You can't just say stuff. Again,
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you wanna say that on your private show or your
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political show, cool. But again, on the network,
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that's where we get a little gray area. Like
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we talk about Ryan Clark. You gotta remember,
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you're on ESPN. You're not on the Pivot podcast.
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So have your podcast, do what you do. You might
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get flack for that, but at least that's your
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podcast. ESPN, national television. When you
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say things like this, you're triggering things,
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right? And again, this story, before Stephen
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A said this, I don't think that anyone was linking
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Trump to this scandal. It was just mafia, NBA.
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Now the feds are involved. Well, yes. And again,
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and then like you said, it just made it even
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worse to say that he's that Trump himself, he's
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coming after the WNBA next. Well, and not only
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that, it's also he he introduced it. And the
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question is, why would you introduce why would
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you go out of your way to mention the WNBA? And
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it's like, oh, well, I'm just warning you guys.
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Well, first off, if you did. OK. I'm gonna backtrack
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a little bit. I'm gonna take a step back. I'm
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gonna calm down just a little bit, lower my blood
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pressure. If you did something wrong, if you
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did something illegal and you get charged for
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it, that's on you. So if there's a WNBA coach,
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if there's a WNBA player, if there's some front
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office official, if there's some referee, if
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there's a gambling scandal that's taking place
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there and these people actually get caught, They
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got exactly what they deserves. I don't give
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a shit what happens in that regard. But it's
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almost as if he's insinuating that he's aware
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of these types of things happening, but we've
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never heard of them. Have you ever heard of a
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WNBA scandal? That is 10 % of what the magnitude
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of what the NBA, you know, just the scandal that
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just came out about them. Is there a connection
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that I'm missing? Is there something that I've
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just haven't heard? I don't know of a scandal
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in the WNBA outside of the, they've just, they've
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just been trying to grow their league. So they're,
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you know, the only thing going on with them is,
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you know, they're underpaid. Underpaid, the Navisa
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Collier, you know, with the WNBA commissioner.
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I'll give you that. But that's within, that's
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normal sporting, you know, business. Yes, contractual
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collective bargaining. That's normal stuff. There's
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been no cheating scandals in their 25 year history
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-ish history. None that I'm aware of. But like
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you said, Stephen A put it out there. He put
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it out there as if there's something that we
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don't know that's coming. And it's like, if you
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know it, speak to it. Like you have a, you have
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that journalistic responsibility. You can't just
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throw these fish, you know, these, these fish
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on the, on the table and just say, all right,
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guys, now you clean this up, you gut it and scale
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it and cook it. It's like, you didn't, you just
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threw the fish in front of us. What else do you
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want us to do with it? So now if it happens,
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if there is a scandal, then they're going to,
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everybody's going to look and say, oh, well,
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Trump must have went after them, right? No, no
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matter what. And again, we don't carry the weight.
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We're just saying You know, Trump is the president
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right now. So, you know, it's Stephen, they mentioned
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it. So this is why we're saying this. It's it
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was just to me like it was making something out
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of nothing and adding a piece that wasn't added.
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And he should have been more focused on the scandal
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at hand and how it affects the league and things
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like that. I think there's a bigger issue than
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thinking that the president of the United States
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who. you know, if you do follow the news, I mean,
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he's got bigger issues and the feds combined
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with other things than probably going after the
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Portland Trailblazers head coach, Chauncey Billups,
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a random assistant coach in Damon Jones, former
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player, role player, and Terry Rozier. Those
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are not names. As I mentioned to you, if Trump
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was going after people, he would go after the
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people that actually spoke out against him. And
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it's not any of these guys so that's that's the
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part that also is the disconnect is I don't think
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yeah, this is not the the scandal or the players
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Involved that if if Trump was going to go after
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enemies or those who spoke out against them These
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were not the names on the list. Yeah He lost
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me there he lost me there. Well, yeah, and also
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it's um, and I and I love this I uh, you know,
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you have some people who may you know, call you
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names or insult you. And, and typically people
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lead with their strongest. And it's like, it
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is like, if this was the best you got, you know,
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and it was in a gambling ring that involved,
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you know, 30 other people allegedly, like, and
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some of those names, like, I mean, none of them
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ever even, you know, you know, ring a bell for
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me. So it's like, okay, so these are the strongest
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names you got. Okay, that just means that if
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there is something that takes place with another
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league that he wants to allege, chances are those
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names aren't going to be bigger either. No, you
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know, they're not going to be huge massive names.
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But no, I agree with your sentiment. He should
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be more responsible. I think he just wanted to
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be the first person to the party with the take.
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He just wanted to throw it out there. But it
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just seemed like he threw he threw an unnecessary
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log on the fire that did need to go there. And
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he say, oh, brace yourselves, it's coming. It's
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like, okay, well, what can anyone do? If a crime
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had been committed, it's already been committed.
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The only thing is that we don't know about it.
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But I guess we'll have to see. Time will tell.
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But no, I'm super disappointed from Stephen A.
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And it went viral as it should have. And I guess
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we'll see what comes of it from that. the ESPN
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front and media head saying things. We got to
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get into also Dan Orlovsky. Nice, super nice.
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You know, I like Dan Orlovsky. He breaks down
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film, all these things. But then again, he says
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stuff. He said stuff this past week that recently,
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you know, that and I know you give opinions on,
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you know, sometimes you give an opinion, which
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is not necessarily a lead or a story that you
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know of. And the thing I'm speaking of, at least
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with Orlovsky, and you may have something different,
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was him saying that A .J. Brown, wide receiver
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of the Philadelphia Eagles, prefers to be traded.
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And he's basing this off of just the news that's
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come out recently, the social media posts by
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A .J. Brown. I guess he's just watching them
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saying, oh, I can just tell. Yeah, so I'm gonna,
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so I'm actually gonna read it. Which is not,
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yeah, go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. So I've got his quote.
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So this is quote from, from Dan Arloski on where
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he speculated about the trade desires. His quote
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is this quote, I would disagree that he's trying
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to send a message of, I want the ball through
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to me more. I think the more time has gone on
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by the day, I think that there is a reality there
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that AJ Brown prefers to be traded. End quote.
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So it's, that's pretty strong for someone to
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just say, especially someone of Dan Arlovsky's
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magnitude. And listen, you know, he's spoken
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into a microphone forever. He'd done it far more
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recently than I have. So maybe this is something
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where it was maybe a slip of the tongue. I guess
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you're kind of saying to allude to the same thing
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that we said about Steve and Abe in the prior
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segment, that these are where people need to
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be more mindful of the verbiage that they're
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using. Yeah, you know, I get it. Like they're
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on TV. Again, they're trying to get these hot
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takes off But you can't just say stuff with I
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just say you have me can apparently but you know,
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it's just again it's irresponsible to just say
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things that you just think in your head or you're
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you're gathering yourself by what you're watching
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what you're seeing and again, it probably probably
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hits a little close to home because it's the
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Eagles and AJ Brown, but you know that they've
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spent a lot of time on it and Hopefully right.
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I mean there's been some obviously the passing
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game we talked about before and AJ Brown getting
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the ball and and things like He's a receiver.
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He's acting better than most receivers in the
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past have right? He's he's not doing sit -ups
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in his driveway yet So, you know, but but back
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to our Lofsky. It's it's again just throwing
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stuff out there Fire that is already kind of
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there in the media sense that the Eagles have
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to shut down all the time this this thing that
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they are going to trade AJ Brown that he's just
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so unhappy but for him to say that on top of
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it now it adds to people to say oh well oh he
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well Orlovsky said he prefers to be traded well
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did he say that though did Schefter tell Orlovsky
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well and and i think it's not i've always said
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it's not what you say it's how you say it I think
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there was a way for him to introduce this if
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he was to present it as a question or You know
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and and this is other thing like he like he's
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Dan Arlovsky like he's got connections He could
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have made some calls like you could have gotten
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an answer to this question as opposed to just
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throwing this out as As a reckless speculation
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that it is you just you're just saying this And
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listen man, it's there's so much going on in
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sports There's so much going on in the news cycles
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as a whole. You don't have to make shit up like
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this So it was just I think that's probably the
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thing that annoys me the most Not only that he
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said it and not only that it was reckless. It
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was unnecessary Like you introduced this into
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the conversation Now shows get to talk about
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that ongoing when you pull that out of your ass.
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It came out of nowhere And I think that's the
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part that that annoys me more than anything.
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Yes. Just it's like, come on, man. Like, you're
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better than that. And I like Arlovski, too. You
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know, and this has got nothing to do with them
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being an eagle like AJ Brown paying for the Eagles.
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It's just like, like, why would you bring this
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up and introduce it? Much like the subject of
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the previous segment. It's like, what the hell
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are you all doing? Be better than that. And then
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ESPN, you know, again, I'm seeing it. because
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I didn't watch the show that day but I'm either
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did I because it's clips because it's clips is
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circulated and ESPN is posting it and then you're
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seeing it on other uh outlets so it's like it
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went viral and so that part worked it's just
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but how much truth is to it you know correct
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and again and again we're not going to get into
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Ryan Clark but again he's on that set a lot with
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first take and with Arlovski and with the get
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up and You know, he's he's been known lately
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to make comments and then have to go apologize.
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So I don't know something in the water there
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at the network. Yeah, something going on up there
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in New York, man. You know, we'll have to see.
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But I I'm pretty I'm pretty sure there'll be
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some sort of retraction or clarification on this
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because it is something that kind of spread like
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wildfire with Dan Arlovski. And I think the other
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thing is this is something that's out of character
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for him. This isn't the type of person that he
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is. You know, I'm so I don't want to think he
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had ill intentions. I just think it was just
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a position. Yeah, I think it was just a position
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that he had. And, you know, hopefully he clears
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it up. Maybe he does know something. But to just
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say, you know, to allude that someone wants to
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be traded, you know, and to keep in mind, this
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is after A .J. Brown's coming off his best game
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of the year. Best game of the year, yeah. But
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it's another social media post by A .J. Brown.
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But but but but he's always done that he's done
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that for the last two and a half years This is
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what he does. So it just seems I don't know and
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that's another thing that kind of bothers me
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And I look I'm log off guys. I hate social media.
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Huh? I hate social media. It's like for to watch
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professional broadcasters To watch Mike Greenberg
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to watch Dan Arlovski to watch these polished
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professionals Go on TV and talk about things
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that guys posted on Instagram I got nothing else
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better to do. That's that's the world we live
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in though. Oh my God. That's the world that you
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guys live in. I'm outside smelling fresh air
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and watching leaves blow. That's what I do. Damn
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it. All right. So we're going to shift gears
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to another sport. Not even the network. Right.
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This was off of Fox Sports Radio. Me being the
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baseball guy, I took a little exception to this
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comment from last week. So the World Series is
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going on. Shohei Otani, one of the biggest names,
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if not the biggest names in baseball right now,
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he is him and Aaron Judge, top two players. So
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Rob Parker, on his Fox Sports radio show, this
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was after the... before the World Series. The
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Dodgers win. They sweep the Brewers. In game
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four, this is what Shohei Otani did. Again, nobody's
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done this since Babe Ruth. Yeah, go ahead and
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read off the stats. Yeah, there's been nothing
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like them. So, in this game, a closeout game,
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he pitched, he started, he was the starting pitcher.
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He ended up pitching six shutout innings with
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10 strikeouts. If you also know about baseball,
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the Dodgers, Shohei Otani, he also bats lead
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off. He also hit three home runs in that game.
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And he got the MVP for the NLCS. Nobody else
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is doing that in baseball. No one's done that
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in baseball. For decades. Ever. Maybe Babe Ruth,
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but that's, you know, I don't count Babe Ruth.
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That's my hot take -home favorite. You got to
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play against everybody, not just certain people.
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But Rob Parker decided to say this quote, Shohei
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didn't do anything special. People are making
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it out like he pitched a no -hitter and hit four
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home runs on every at bat. So one, I don't know
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if Rob Parker is knows anything about baseball
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because once again if you know the history if
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you know this normally the history of baseball
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again we know babe ruth again i'm gonna mention
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him only because he was a pitcher and a hitter
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then he became you know obviously just a hitter
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and with the yankees over 700 home you know 714
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home runs but there has been no one like shohei
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otani we've had pitchers that come in the league
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and they can hit Madison Bumgarner, Mike Hampton,
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they were pretty good hitters as pitchers. Now,
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of course, we have Universal DH, so pitchers
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don't hit. And then comes Shohei Otani. He pitches,
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and he hits. And he don't just hit, right? It's
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50 home runs a season, over 100 RBIs, around
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300 batting average. He's about to be, get another
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MVP. Again, he is one of a kind and he's a pitcher.
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Now, I wanna give just a little more backstory
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on this because of why it was such a big deal.
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One, he pitched, right? He gave up no runs, he
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threw six innings and he had 10 strikeouts. Double
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digit strikeouts is an accomplishment in any
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game. He did it in six innings. He didn't even
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pitch a complete game, still had 10 strikeouts.
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Again, and also three home runs. The pitching
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part's the big part because Shohei missed all
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of last season, pitching -wise, he hit. But he
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didn't pitch because he had arm surgery, you
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know, surgery. He had an arm injury surgery.
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So he only started pitching about what halfway
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through this season, right after the right, you
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know, roughly half the season. So he was still
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getting in his groove. So for him in the playoffs,
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a closeout game to pitch like that and then also
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three home runs in a game, which is not a small
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feat in itself. That's a big deal any time anyone
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hits three home runs in a game. One home runs
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great. Two home runs is even better. Three, like
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I said, only so many have hit four, but three
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in a game and you're talking about the playoffs
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to go to the World Series. I don't care that
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it was a sweep and it was game four. It was still
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the closeout game. You want to close out that
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game and he did it on the mound at the bat. And
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Rob Parker is sitting here just saying he didn't
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do anything special. So you, he said, you sent
22:52
this to me. Again, guys, I'm not on social media.
22:56
So people literally have to send me things in
22:58
order for me to kind of brush up on it and hear
23:01
about what's going on. So when you sent that
23:03
to me, my first reaction, I actually sent this
23:06
to you, was that Rob Parker, historically, zags
23:11
when everyone else zigs. He's going to be the
23:15
contrarian. But where I think he's missed the
23:18
mark with this, and it's obvious, is point blank.
23:21
You know, you talked about Ohtani as a player.
23:24
Otani is at the top in terms of best pitchers,
23:28
and he's at the top when it comes to, you can
23:31
talk about home runs and hitting, but let's just
23:34
say hitting as a whole, because that encompasses
23:36
home runs as well. The historical precedence
23:39
that this sets is massive. I don't know, again,
23:44
what Rob Parker was trying to benefit from saying
23:48
this from. I think it was just, I'm gonna say
23:52
the most salacious, ridiculous thing that's taking
23:55
place right now. I'm gonna go the other way,
23:59
just so that way I could grab the headlines.
24:01
I think that this entire show, this entire recording
24:05
is circling around people just trying to generate
24:08
buzz for themselves, personally, independently,
24:13
separated from... You know whatever show that
24:16
they're on like like the like the name of the
24:19
show that rob parker is on we don't even know
24:21
The show where alovsky and steven a said the
24:25
things that they said obviously that's first
24:27
take but like that's not our alovsky show It
24:31
just it just seems as if people are just we're
24:33
in the the age where guys are going to say things
24:36
Where people are going to say things that grabs
24:38
the attention? And the worst part about this
24:42
is is we're going to put this episode out And
24:44
within a matter of days, it's not gonna matter.
24:47
We're all just gonna move on. And I just wanted
24:51
to speak on that because I like holding people
24:53
accountable for the things that they say. I talk
24:55
a lot of shit, man. But if I'm wrong on something
24:58
or if I'm off, call me out on it. We can have
25:01
the discussion, then we can move on. But I would
25:05
like to see whatever Rob Barker's, he may double
25:08
down. and say, guys, I said what I said, and
25:10
I'm going to own it. But I would like for someone
25:12
to give him, hey, man, this is something that
25:15
has never happened before. And you brush it off
25:21
as if it's not a big deal. Maybe he's not a big
25:23
baseball guy. So maybe it was a shot at baseball
25:26
as a whole. But for you to discredit a player
25:29
as great as Ohtani, as great for the game of
25:32
baseball. that Ohtani is. And for you to crap
25:35
on that type of performance like that, it's just
25:38
I think it just kind of speaks to him, you know,
25:40
maybe being a little too loose lipped and just
25:42
wanting to get his, you know, be a little too
25:44
hot takey. Yeah, like you said, this episode
25:49
is about these talking heads saying things, you
25:53
know, and we've talked about this before. This
25:56
was just to me like Rob Parker and even Stephen
25:58
A. I just think they were bad takes. Rob Parkers
26:01
to me was just outrageous and not even like,
26:04
you can have a view on the other side of something,
26:06
right? Just have some information to back it
26:08
up. You know, he has nothing to back this up
26:12
with. this is this is yeah he has nothing to
26:14
back this up so i'm gonna follow but here's the
26:17
thing i'm gonna follow i'm gonna follow your
26:19
lead on that though because i i think if that
26:21
is if that's our bar like if that's the standard
26:25
then this entire podcast is about people saying
26:28
things outrageous because of all three people
26:30
that we covered in it none of them have proof
26:32
of anything they just went on live broadcast
26:36
airways and said some shit all of them true Just
26:41
like you said if you get it is that and that's
26:43
what we're saying. Like it's just they're just
26:45
saying stuff and It's just there's no bait. There's
26:49
no it's just so outrageous and it made no whatsoever
26:54
You know and the take is just so bad again for
26:57
me, especially Parker I think it's just because
27:00
it doesn't compute with the in the game of the
27:04
of baseball Statistically historically it's like
27:08
dude what? You know, again, what the hell, man?
27:11
It's bad. And I try to think about guys like
27:14
Skip Bayless and Colin Calhurd. They like to
27:16
say a lot of stuff. And again, like we said,
27:19
all these guys do, especially on TV radio, they
27:21
have a platform. And you want those hot takes
27:23
and you want those different views and opinions.
27:25
And I think about Colin Calhurd way back when
27:28
he said, LeBron, you can go sit down. Ben Simmons
27:31
has got this. And it's such a bad take that did
27:37
not age well. Yeah, he was completely wrong.
27:40
And like you said, you know, we say things, but
27:42
like I said, we're going to say things we believe
27:44
in. And you may, you know, some people may say,
27:47
man, they're crazy. But at the end of the day,
27:49
you know, if we're wrong, we'll come back on
27:51
here and say, hey, we're wrong. But I'm not going
27:52
to say, I'm not going to say shit I don't believe
27:54
in. And I'm not going to say, you know, stuff
27:56
that is just so outrageous. You know, you may
28:00
be like, I don't know, Kent, like that's kind
28:02
of out there, but I believe it. Well, no Say
28:06
things that say things. It's it's again. Just
28:09
have some facts Just have some proof just have
28:10
something to back up the the craziness that you
28:13
say That's what I want the talking heads to do
28:15
and I know they got to fill up You know our two
28:18
hour three hours a day on our shows, you know,
28:20
Stephen A's got the the ESPN He's got the radio
28:23
then he's got the podcast and he's got you know,
28:26
then he's going on CNN and all these other shows
28:27
I mean, he's a busy man. He's he's talking a
28:29
lot. You got to cover you got to have content
28:32
But just just don't be saying stuff, man. Well,
28:34
and I'll and I'll end it on this because because
28:37
you I understand what it is that you're saying.
28:40
But the these are three key stories that took
28:44
place all within a matter of hours. It was all
28:47
in the same week. Yeah. All of it. A matter of
28:50
days. And I think what was most important is
28:53
framing this around what actually took place.
28:57
There were things that were said and I'll give
29:00
these guys cover. If you want to introduce these
29:04
types of topics, just ask the question. If Stephen
29:10
A just would have asked the question to the panel
29:12
that was up there with him, then you can engage
29:15
in the conversation and allow people to do the
29:17
speculation and everything for you. Same thing
29:19
with Arlovski. Just ask, just say, Hey guys,
29:22
do you guys think he still wants to be there?
29:24
Like none, all of this goes away. But when in
29:28
the same thing with Rob Parker, Rob Parker could
29:30
have turned that into multiple hours of fantastic
29:34
talk radio by asking the question and have whoever
29:39
else is on the show with them interact with them,
29:41
or have people call in and tell them to his face
29:44
that he's nuts. Like you have an opportunity
29:47
to build on it. You can cover these same things
29:49
and say the things that you want to say, but
29:51
how you say them matters. And simply just asking
29:54
the question, meaning if it was me. And I really
29:57
wanted to know, let's just say, for example,
30:00
I felt the same way Rob Parker did. I'd get on
30:03
here, I'd set up with you, and I'd say, hey,
30:05
Kent, was it really that big of a deal? And then
30:09
you, it allows you to take a blowtorch to me,
30:13
take me out, and you know what? There's your
30:16
content. It's right there for you. And these
30:19
guys are seasoned. Just be better at it. You
30:22
know, because now I think all three of them,
30:25
everyone who we covered on this podcast today,
30:26
they all look a little ridiculous. And that's
30:29
me saying that. I put my name on that shit. Yeah,
30:34
that's it. I mean, I think you covered that very
30:37
well there. I would definitely let you know.
30:39
I don't think I would take a blowtorch, but I
30:42
think we would. No, no, no. You would say you
30:45
would say log off. You'd say log off. You sound
30:49
ridiculous. I would say, nah, that's not the
30:52
case. Here's what it is. And the same on you.
30:54
You're going to know stuff that I may not be
30:57
as versed in. Listen, if I say something that
30:59
ridiculous. Well, yeah, Rob Parker, that's just
31:03
stupid. Yeah. Listen, if you throw the grenade
31:05
my way, man, I'll take it. I'll take it. Yeah.
31:20
fun, random topic. We're going to end on this
31:22
really quick. If there was an athlete player
31:26
that you could fight and know you're going to
31:29
win, you brought this topic up a while back.
31:32
We never did it. So here we go. Is there somebody
31:36
that if you knew you were going to win, you would
31:38
fight them? Yeah. And okay. So I like this question
31:45
because it removes all doubt. Like, you know
31:48
you get to put hands on someone, you get an opportunity
31:51
to embarrass them, and you know you're gonna
31:56
walk out the victor. I don't have a lot of disdain
32:00
for sports athletes. My disdain for sports athletes
32:06
comes from, you know, how I view them as a fan.
32:13
I have, I have one athlete that if I had an opportunity
32:16
to fight them, I think I want to do it just for
32:20
the clout. And it would be someone that I would
32:24
never, you know, take a swing at ever. But me
32:29
winning this fight, I think does so much more
32:31
for like the legend that follows log off that
32:36
I think I'd have to do it. I think I'd fight
32:39
Ron Artest slash metal world. Wow. I'm gonna
32:44
go for the biggest dog out in the yard. And it's
32:48
nothing personal against him. And I know he's
32:51
got, you know, some issues and things that he's
32:52
faced throughout his career, but he's the biggest,
32:56
baddest man in my eyes, where it's like, that's
32:59
someone that you don't want to mess with. So
33:02
it's like, so if I'm going to do it, like, when
33:04
I thought about that, it's like, I thought about
33:06
like Shaq, but like Shaq's a big, he's big and
33:09
funny. Like he's, you know, he's jovial in a
33:11
lot of ways. Meta World Peace slash Ron Artest
33:15
is a serious human being. And even to this day,
33:20
I think his voice and his name still reigns fear
33:22
in a lot of NBA players' heads. So that's who
33:26
I'm going to go with. Ron Artest, Meta World
33:30
Peace, you have the clout. I'm just going to
33:33
go a different way, just so I can throw in my
33:38
cultural references. Pop culture reference. So
33:42
so for the athlete, I'm going to fight. I'm going
33:44
to go straight to boxing. I'm going to go to
33:46
the late 80s. I'm going to go straight to Mike
33:48
Tyson, baddest man on the planet. I'm going to
33:51
knock him out in the background. We'll be playing
33:53
DJ Jazzy Jeff, Fresh Prince. I think I can beat
33:56
Mike Tyson. I'm going to knock Mike Tyson's head
33:58
into the 18th row. And if you don't know, go
34:03
look it up. Go listen. You'll get that reference.
34:08
Wow. So it's funny. When we when we introduced
34:13
this topic, I never thought about fighting a
34:15
fighter. Oh It didn't cross my mind at all. And
34:19
it's like and it just think about all the great
34:21
fighters that I could have picked But I went
34:24
with a guy who's known I went with the guy that's
34:27
opposite That's not a fighter, but nobody would
34:31
want to fight him You know, so no, no any known
34:35
for one of the biggest I mean, our test is known
34:38
for one of the biggest fights ever, the Malice
34:40
at the Palace. That's true, too. And I did see
34:42
him throw hands. And wow, it was scary. That's
34:46
for sure. So that's a good one. You could have
34:49
went with anybody that was involved in that,
34:50
by the way. Yeah, I went with Mike Tyson just
34:53
for this topic. It was fun to do that. And then
34:56
I can also make the Fresh Prince Will Smith reference.
34:59
There you go. It always makes me happy. No, yeah,
35:01
no, that works, man. And no, and yeah, good.
35:04
Shout out to Metal World Peace, man. He's he's
35:06
trying to take a turn to be a better person.
35:08
He's doing a lot of things. But but it but if
35:11
I had to. Tony Braxton. I remember those times.
35:17
But no, man, it's a that's a damn that's a damn
35:19
good one. I like that. Yeah, I got you. So that's
35:21
another episode of Fanatically Speaking. I am
35:23
Kent, the co -host and promoter. I am Log Off,
35:26
the Log Off legend, hater of social media. I'm
35:28
the co -host and producer of the show. Thank
35:30
you all for listening to this episode. Again,
35:32
I know it's a little different playing with the
35:35
format a little bit, trying to have some fun.
35:37
But, you know, those things that came out this
35:39
week, man, it was just it was something that
35:40
we just couldn't set. Let's sit there and not,
35:43
you know, use it as an opportunity to drop an
35:46
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36:21
that is all I got that is it I got nothing else
36:24
man. I'm out all right now. Let's shut it down