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Bill credits end if you pay off devices early. CTmobile.com. - Here we go. It's our one G back nation on 1053, the fan. As the Tigers now lead the Astros three zip in the bottom of the second inning and Iran launching about 180 missiles at Israel. It's a major global story as we begin the show of the South to noon with you. General at your service. There's Brodus, Lucius Alexander was in the Pimp Cup at Master Control. You do have Zach Wollchuck in the house although his nose bleed brother Eric Chiafalo is, he's under the weather. He is a, he has succumbed to the virus. - Yeah. - It is a ravaging workplaces around North Texas and he woke up with a quite a fever and two of his little ones are sick too. So ascend into some well wishes on social. Let him know that he's missed. How the heck you guys doing? - Good well sir, do it well. - It's a TD Tuesday, it's a toxic Tuesday. Boy, there's a lot of toxic stuff going on in the National Football League right now. - Yes, there is man. We look forward to covering that. NFL news today coming up at three o'clock. You'll have an addition to football's finest at five even with the chief out Brian. - Looks like the school ball just got hit in the hand. He might be in some discomfort here. I think he took a liner off his, off his hand. Let's see if he can continue into this game. - Talk about a potential turning point. - Yeah, this could be big. - Inches out there, it appears that the medical staff is looking at him. - Because at the thumb area maybe, like he's trying to grip. - And that's his pitching hand? - He's left hand at pitching hand. - Is it, I thought he's left hand? - Oh, he just said I'm fine. I'm reading lips. He said I'm fine. - He's got, he doesn't want to come out of this thing. - Right, AJ Hinch. - Yeah, he's just glove hand, he got hit in the glove. - Mostly glove, yeah. - Yeah, he got hit in the glove. - Yeah, he'll be fine. - He'll play offs now. - You play through a broken hand. - Ooh! - Oh, I see. - Right at his wrist area. - It was at his torso. It was right back up the middle with his torso and he tried to do that move where you kind of put your glove on your belly and put your chicken wing in a little bit but he couldn't get it inside fast enough and it looked like the meat of the thumb there on the right hand. But non-pitching hand, this guy's incredible. Scuba. - Yeah, probably Cy Young winner this year. - Yeah, ERA had just barely scorned on this guy. If he doesn't give up a home run, the chances are, you're looking at two runs or less, they're over six innings and he is dialed here this afternoon as the Tigers are in Houston. I don't remember the last time the Astros won a home game in the playoffs. - That's true. - So they're screwing at this point. - Yeah, it's probably the DS series. I mean, the Rangers won every single game last year in the ALCS and now they're down three nothing in the top of the second. So not looking good for Houston right now. - The Cowboys are signing pass rusher KJ Henry on a two year deal off the bingles practice squad per sources. He had a one and a half sacks last year for Washington and seeing some highlights of him on Twitter. It doesn't look like it's much special, Brian, but a serviceable body there to have as an edge option. - Yeah, the, I went through, he was with the, the summer he was with the, with the commanders. And so you've got to know he was a fifth round pick last year. And so Jeff Sugina, the defensive line coach, you know, would have coached him. So he kind of has a little bit of a working knowledge of the player. As I mentioned yesterday, my gang of seven, they gave me three names and to a group, they were, they had him as the number one guy that if you were to go and try and sign somebody off another team's practice squad that he would be the guy to go get. So you have some familiarity with the player, with the coaching staff, but you know, that's something. And I watched him in the preseason, you know, play in these games and stuff. You're just, what you're trying to do right now is you're trying to get better than what you have with guys like Wheat and, you know, and see if you can add a little bit more depth to your, to your group. They're down in numbers. Now maybe we thought that they would bring back Muhammad, you know, who they had during the, during training camp, but you know, that's good for them. You know, they said, hey, listen, let's take an opportunity to go grab a guy from another team. What I liked about the guys, he's got really good length. He plays the run from all the plays. It's over a hundred plays where he was playing this preseason. And, you know, the length is really good. The ability to play the run, I thought was good. He can get off blocks. He's got some lateral agility. He's a tall guy, about six, five, 270 pounds. And you see a little bit of that ability to chase on the backside when he's not blocked. Can he capture the edge? Yeah, he could get there, but you need a little bit better burst to close around the end. But, you know, right now you're just trying to find depth pieces. You're trying to find some guy you have some familiarity with. You find a guy that's been playing the whole time too. You know, he's been on a practice squad since the nanny the whole time. So that means he's been working out. That's the most important thing. You don't have time for a ramp up period. You know, this guy was at the star this morning. He was already in getting ready to practice. You know, getting ready to practice for tomorrow, today being a day off, but he's here getting ready. And, you know, you're going to need bodies at this point, but this guy's capable because he's a young guy and he was a fifth round pick. KJ Henry, interesting. It's a two year deal. Maybe there's some competition for a service. - Well, what you have to do is to convince these guys to leave, you know, I mean, he could stay. He could have stayed in Cincinnati. And Cincinnati could have been competitive and said, listen, we don't want you to go. We'll put you on the 53. And, you know, maybe, you know, Duke Tobin and those guys at Cincinnati just said, now we can't do that right now. We don't have the ability. And so yeah, to get him to move you got to offer a little bit more and they were able to pull that off. - So the State Department is doing a briefing now as, you know, people are wondering what's the US position on this with, obviously, you know, Iran having allies potentially in China and Russia that could get involved. And there's much bigger implications than just Israel and Iran, which is already massive. And it's always crazy for me to watch the guys on the TV news that are on the scene in the city that is being bombed. You know, they have one of the breaking news stories of the decade, which is already adrenalizing their under attack, you know, and they're standing in there and delivering the broadcast. And I always thought that, you know, that looked insane to do, right? And as a broadcaster, I always thought, I don't know if I could accept that assignment. That would just be insane to try to work through that. - I remember during the Gulf War, 'cause I was working with NFL Europe. And I remember that because that's why I learned about Nick Robinson from CNN. That was the guy that'd be in the sand dunes. - Yeah, that's the guy you've been talking about. - Yeah, Nick Robinson, like, okay, like they had guys that were, they had various CNN guys that were not exact. I mean, they were hiding, I wouldn't say hiding, but they were in shelter. They were down, they were down, you know, kind of not in harm's way. Nick Robinson is on the balcony, like, you know, and like bombs are just going off all around him. And he's reporting as these missiles are flying in and hitting the city and Baghdad and all that. And he's not even flinching. You know, he's just, like, it's just like, it's this second nature that's to stand here and report as stuff is just blowing up around you. But there's some correspondence, some history of war correspondents is pretty intense of the guys that have done it. And ladies, Christine on a pour was another one that would stand there in the middle of, like, massive attacks. - Yeah, bullets are whizzing and stuff. - Like your natural reaction is, like, duck and cub. - Duck and cub. - I'm gonna stand here and we're giving this damn report. People need it now. - Yeah, they would just, they don't even flinch as stuff is just blowing up all around them. It's crazy, but what a tremendous job they do reporting on the news. - Okay, so we'll update you as, you know, things become available on that, just in sort of a news format. I know it's quite a controversial story here. We have an issue when he polarizing opinions on this, but we do want to keep you abreast and the situation is a very significant global news story is happening as we open up today's edition of the GBAC Nation. Okay, Devontae Adams not saying much about his future with the Raiders amid trade rumors. It appears he is gonna be on the move and, you know, he's not wanting to talk about it too much. But, you know, I'd imagine-- - It's not like they're more open to it, right? - Yeah, yeah, I think this is happening. - Yeah, I think the Raiders had Antonio Pierce like an Instagram post about it. Now, Devontae Adams was on with Kay Adams earlier. I'll have the audio for NFL news the day at three o'clock. They apparently have not even spoken about this. So it sounds like there's a lot of issues going on there in Vegas. I mean, we had Antonio Pierce Post game, said some people were making business decisions after the last couple of weeks ago. Maybe Devontae Adams is one of those guys he's thinking, "Hey, if you're not all in, if you're not with us, "I don't need you here." - Yeah, that's an interesting one 'cause it could really tip the balance of power. Like if he would end up in Buffalo or, I mean, if he would go to Kansas City, it's over. You know, so-- - Oh my gosh. - 'Cause they would not do that. They would not trade him to Casey in division. - Well, I kind of feel like you're in a situation where you're looking at it and you're going, what can we get for the guy? What's the max we can get for the guy? But if you're trading him for a first round pick, say in Kansas City, you're looking at pick 29 to 32, right? Pretty much. - Yeah. - So you're basically trading him for a, an early two is what you're doing. So I wonder how involved the Jets will be in this now with you there in Rochester. - Yeah, I have the team to look at for sure. - You know, I mean, if you want to, to me, it would make a lot of sense that the Jets might be the team that might not be, that pick might be a lot better for you in the long run for where it is positioned. - Yeah, yeah, and the Jets obviously could use some offensive help. - Yeah. - A Monday night football last night speaking of offense, it was just amazing to watch the Lions and Seahawks offense. I mean, the design, the execution and the talent. You know, the talent is a massive difference with both those rosters. It's amazing. The Cowboys beat both of them late last year and apparently losing Tyrant Smith, Biotish, Tony Pollard maybe. And the retirement of Michael Gallup has just, has set this offense back significantly. When it comes to explosive plays, I think the Cowboys are second worst, only better than Chicago in the NFL. But yeah, Detroit wins 42, 29. Jamison Williams, Amun Ross, St. Brown, Sam Laporta, Montgomery and Gibbs at running back. And Tim Patrick, that's amazing. That team's built to win. - Yeah, they've done a really nice job. If you remember Detroit, I don't think they really had any toughness. You know, I'm no, apologies to John Bichoda, who's probably listening right now, who's a Detroit Lions fan. I think there's a lot of line fans that would disagree with you. - Well, no, toughness back in the day. - Yeah. - I don't, I don't think there are. I mean, I think you're 100% right. - Yeah. - And I was watching them last night. I'm like this, the lines would fold. Like they, they don't perform well. - Yeah, and even, even early in, in, in this head coach's tenure, they lost a lot of close games. And then all of a sudden they kind of figured out how to win. And they bought in and I, and I think the game that kind of started this thing all off, 'cause they went to a game at the end of the year and played the Packers and the Packers had everything to play for. - Mm-hmm. - And as Aaron Rodgers last game in Green Bay, and it was a regular season game and Detroit with nothing to play for winning their beat, and beat the Packers. And from that point on, it's like they have just developed, you know, Brad Holmes and those guys have just drafted a team. It's got a lot of toughness and it's taken on the personality of their head coach. - Yeah. - That is a, you know, Aaron Glenn is a tough-minded defensive coordinator. You know, Ben Johnson up and coming with a play caller. Matter of fact, turned down jobs so he could stay, you know, 'cause he's looking for the right situation. But they got a great staff, they got tough players. That's a tough-minded team. Yeah. And there's a reason why they were in the NFC Championship game last year. - I mean, just big hits, you know, on their, on their, on their defense with Anseloni and Hutchinson, you know, like you got to have these - Kind of branch is a really good player. - They've just been really good. - Yeah. Terry Arnold had a couple of penalties last night, but still played pretty well. - Kirby Joseph's good. Yeah. - Kirby Joseph's a great player. - They've got, they've, they've done it. I mean, they've given up, you know, they gave up some plays, but Seattle, Seattle's got a good team too. - Seattle's. I mean, they're rosters comparable and they were down some defensive starters, but they're roster stacks up amongst the best in the league. - Yeah. Yeah. And I, I like this, this Kenneth Walker, you know, good running back. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I had three charge names, 12 carries for 80 yards last night. - John Snyder will draft him some running back. - They won two punch right there. - Yeah. - Okay. So, you know, I think looking at that, it's obvious the Cowboys need more speed in playmaking, right? It's like going into this coming up draft, you can't get out of the first two rounds without a new wide receiver. - Yeah. - And I don't think you should get past the third round without adding a running back. - It's just, it's funny when you watch the Cowboys play offensively, it's such a struggle for them to get yards. - Yeah. - It's just a struggle and you watch other teams that have flow to their offense. And it's not just all about creativity and stuff like that, emotions and stuff, but what it's about is taking advantage of the guys that you do have. You know, we've seen OTA practices and mini camp practices and training camp practices where they've used their quickness and practice to try and, you know, oh, that looks pretty cool. That's a nice little creative little wrinkle they have there. And then you don't see it. And it's like a team that's just fighting for just any yard. Everything is so tough where you see others create opportunities for their guys. We saw in the Giants game a little bit, they created an opportunity, you know, for cooks. - They finally ran one play that maximizes his mindset. - They threw, they threw a screen pass in the Ravens game. They threw another, you know, they've thrown, they've thrown stuff to try, but you wonder where is that all the time? You know, if you're limited with some of your talent, find ways to maximize what they can do. And that's where I think that this team lacks. - Mike McCarthy was asked about, you know, the motion, which the Cowboys are dead last or second to dead last at his presser yesterday, it went viral. The answer is just incredible. It's the biggest bunch of BS. It's becoming hilarious to watch him and the Joneses try to answer very fair general questions about their approach or the specifics of their football team. And they're just doing verbal gymnastics, trying to avoid it because they really don't have a good answer, you know, so we'll have a Cowboys Twitter coming up at four. We'll have this C note, Cowboys news in the evening coming up at three 20 salute to Wyatt Langford, bang, bang, became the first rookie to win the AL player of the month since 2017. It's Ranger to get it since Shin Su in 2015, OPS of 996 for the month hit eight bombs. So yes, he's on track to, you know, be the first or second best Ranger. I think it's what we're looking at going in the next year. 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G-Bag Nation, some NFL power rankings here, G-Bag of the day coming up at 2.30, segment of the nation is brought to you by Cars for Kids, donate the daycarsforkids.org, and it's brought to you by the Franckles, Life's Unpredictable Accident, Franklin Franklin, Franckler, the go-to attorneys for current truck wrecks in DFW. If you are loved ones, be it an accident, contact the Franckles for a free consultation to 1-4 or 817-333-3333, go to FranckleFirm.com. Here's Zach with an H here, Willie Boli with some rankings. Yeah, we got some power rankings. My gosh, I just strolled through something bizarre. People are doing anything they can to rejuvenate their skin. I guess the latest is Salmon sperm. That's the thing Lamar Odom's doing, trying to rejuvenate his skin. TMZ's got a whole story on it. All right. Maybe that's working for you, Lamar. I don't know. Would you rub some of that on you, Brian? Probably not. No. Probably not. No skin rejuvenation for you? Nah. Can I see some test cases, some results? Have you seen Noxema? That's kind of what my old school was. Noxema? Noxema for you? Yeah. Worked well. It looks smooth. Okay. Let's get to the power rankings. This is courtesy of ESPN, the four-letter network. Hey. You're smart on this Twitter stuff. Yeah. People are saying my tweets are coming in bold. They are bold. What's going on? I don't know. I don't either. Okay. Thank you. But I don't think it's a bad thing. If anything, it makes you stand out. No, there's people complaining that it's jarring. Well, really? You're not paying extra for that? I'm part of the premium package thing because it monetized my tweets. That could be. Oh, yeah. So maybe it's because I'm a monetized guy. I think you stand out. I think you stand out so you guys can give me some more money. Yep. Perfect. I don't think it's a bad thing. I think you should lean into it and the people that don't want to get... Oh, yeah. That's good. Tell them to kiss your ass. Yeah. That's good. It doesn't look like DOS. I can't really tell them mine. You know. Just bolder. Oh, yeah. Okay. That might be something that Elon Musk and those cats are doing to me. I like it. I think it looks good. There was some way to turn it off. I would, folks, but I can't. Don't worry about it. Okay. I just respect your freedom of speech. Whether it's in bold, italics, underlined, you know, I think Twitter's drawn a firm line in the sand here. Appreciate it. Whatever you want to do is fine. Man, you're starting off the day well. That's right. It was a little rough. You and I went at it a little bit yesterday. Yeah. I kind of enjoyed that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I tried to exact some revenge late in the show. It felt like it went pretty good. It did go pretty well. It was good. Coaching was good. Was a good one there. Cowboys. Where do you think they are in the power rankings? They were 16th a week ago. They're 14. Now 14 moved up two spots. I'm just guessing. I think that's a good guess. Gavin, they should be about 26th. We'll check. I don't. I'm not going to fight you too hard on that one. They moved up one spot. They're at 15 biggest issue on defense rights. Todd Archer, it is stopping the run. And just because the Giants ran for only 26 yards on 24 carries, doesn't mean the Cowboys run defense is fixed. Gonna take a couple of weeks, figure that out. Now they don't have Micah or Demarcus Lawrence. They've allowed a touchdown every 16 carries, which ranks 29th in the league. That is pretty damn horrible. Yeah. Remember when Dave all was like the next big thing? We lost out of weight. Yeah. He was like Samson. Yeah. He was big. He was fat. Lost his coaching. He was big and lost all that weight. And now he's not a big thing anymore. Wow. His problem is pathetic. I would. You got to fire him the next day. Come in on a Monday after you run for a season low, not just your low. All 32 teams haven't done as bad and you did that against the Cowboys. You're done. We are done here. Yeah. It was a little surprise. The lack of commitment to the running game there. We had that he had the deep ball available. Yeah. They could have won that game. They could have won that game. Yeah. The game ball. Yeah. That's probably his biggest issue. Well, I mean, there's two guys had what one guy had 12 targets. The other guy had 11. You get married to Daniel Jones when they gave the ball back to the Giants and you know, they needed a drive for the touchdown. Did you see Dak like yucking it up with his bros on the sideline? Like there's no way. No, there's no way this is going to work even without tanking Micah. No, Daniel Jones can't can't make it happen, but it is crazy. The Cowboys who last year were the two seed going into the playoffs. Yeah, we were currently the 10th best team according to these power rankings and the end of the win against the Giants. They were 15th. I think. Well, I mean, I mean, if you look at the, they were 16, yeah, they moved up to 15 in the division. Oh, the conference for the conference like where they were ranked in the conference. They were like the 14th or 15th conference or any, are you taking them over any of these NFC teams? And I think the gap is pretty wide. Minnesota is the best NFC team in these power rankings. Dallas owns Minnesota. They wouldn't this year. I don't know that they're beating Minnesota. Jack. Jack doesn't lose to Minnesota. He, he, they definitely went in there two years ago. Vikings really good. They beat the crap out of them. Yeah. But I don't know, man. Do you like run Dalvin cook at them? Yeah, probably just for fun. Yeah. Revenge game. Detroit. We just talked about it. Seems like there's a massive gap. Detroit certainly can line up. Detroit has a off week this week. By the way. Yeah, they got a buy to set up that game against the Cowboys saying it'd be good. They're going to beat the Cowboys by at least 20. Yeah. I think that's probably going to be a survivor pick that week. Maybe we should just all go lions. I'm going lions. I'm probably already have maybe you have taken, and then we'll take only game they lost. I probably took bucks or number five in the power rankings. NFC team, head of the Cowboys. Bucks are looking good. Fool school. You think so? Fool school. I don't know if the Cowboys are beating them feet of they in the middle. I don't think he could really run the football there. They aren't great, but they're better than the Cowboys six is Seattle. You beat Seattle in a barn burner last year, but man, no way you're beating Seattle. Kenneth Walker, Zach Charbonnet, that running back duo, not to mention DK who torched you a year ago. Yeah. Jackson Smith and Jigma. Tyler Lockett. You're kind of giving me that vibe that we shouldn't be in the playoffs. This year. I'm glad you're picking up where I'm laying down here. Yes. No, I, bro. I mean, we think they're a playoff team. We could use the, we could use the net, another reference of cash San Francisco, use that playoff, Washington, Green Bay, Philadelphia, New Orleans, all ahead of your Cowboys. You think they're better than any of those teams? Maybe Philly. Yeah, they might be better than Philly. Maybe the team who was the team you said before Philly New Orleans green Bay might be better than green Bay. Yeah. They're not quite who they thought they were. The commanders, huh? Yeah. We were riding that. You're riding that train about you. Trying to tell you. Oh, yeah. Commanders will smoke you. I mean, how, how do you think they're going to defend Jaden Daniels and his running ability? Guys, like throwing the ball 80% of the time, I mean, he's like 80% completion percentage, right? But you saw it with Lamar James, he did. You think Dan Coen doesn't know how to get it taken advantage of this defense, this personnel. Yeah. You think you, you know, Iran doesn't know how to slow down the Cowboys offense. It's real easy. Just play the pass. Trust me. You will stop the running game. I mean, it's an issue. I'm not laughing at you anymore. The only teams that are ahead of Atlanta, and I don't know, would you take the Cowboys to beat the Falcons? Yes. You would. Yes. I think they can run the football on you. You get to play. I'm here coming up. Yeah. We've got a new game. We'll love that. It's going to be a tough game. I mean, lining up without tank and Micah and you got to go up against Beijon. You're hanging this trip to Pittsburgh this week, aren't you? I'm not happy about it. Not excited. They're not scary offensively. They can't run the football in their quarterback. You might pull this one off. This might be one of the ones they could pull off. Yeah, you might pull this one off. Steelers offense, not very good. But the rest of this conference, I mean, the Rams, the Cardinals, the Giants, these are the teams you're ahead of. Two beat up. All those teams are two beat up. Especially the Rams. The Cowboys are pretty damn beat up, Brian. Yeah, I know. That's insane. You're a beat up team. You are. And I don't know that you're much better than anybody in this conference right now. That's the sad thing. You just barely beat the Giants. That's a game you probably could have lost. They got to do a lot of soul searching right now if they want to have a hope to make the postseason right now that's in the playoff team. Thank you. Well, Chuck. Wow. NFL power ranking. So I think the text pretty much agrees with you. 903 says someone get the crust out of Crusty's ears, maybe to shave them too for full clarity. Cowboys ain't getting to the playoffs. I just asked a question. I didn't. I wasn't implying that I thought they were going to get there. I felt that you implied it. Did I? What do you think? Wait on the line, Brian. Are they a playoff team? Oh, I said they were we as a show. We said they were nine and eight and probably not in. Yeah, it was going to be 10 wins. We're going to win this division. That's what we said as a show about time you took a stand. I believe that I believe in my team. Flipping over there, Brian. I am. Really. I'm the fence. Hey, let Lucius get to his program there. Time now to go into the pimp cup. Here's Lucius. Your G bag of the day for his program there for like I should have started with some Mr. Rogers. Yeah. I'm going to have a great program here. Ladies and gentlemen, taking the shoes off. Yeah. You sound. Take my sweater off the hat. I'm sweating. It's hot in here. Yeah. Yeah. Before I play with my train set and talk to the kids, I got to take my shoes off. All right. Let's see here. Man. Our winner day two for G bag of the day, the NFL crew on Fox, they pranked Gronk. They created a fake. Tight in. Now, every time we play this, the toes will want to let us know that they use the name of a wrestling promoter. Okay. Okay. So let's please acknowledge. Geez. Please acknowledge it. Because that matters anyway, they pranked Gronk, but Gronk was standing on his business though. So they were talking about Tony Gonzalez. They're talking about Gronk. I don't think he's Gronk. Gronk, where do you list Russo is like among the Titans playing today, at least? Oh, you know, he's been out for a little bit. So he might be a little rusty coming back, but I think he's there going to give him the opportunities. That's for sure. But also they got Ferguson as well. They're going to be a one, two combo. Yeah. But here's the thing. Ferguson has been the guy because only because Russo has been hurt. You got to admit with Russo coming back, it just changes their offense. Yeah, but Ferguson has been showing that he's the guy right now. They're going to still feed Ferguson. He's the only guy in the league that has two fingers missing on his right hand. That's why he's been out. And he's back now. So is that going to affect him when he's catching a pass? I don't know. I'm telling you this is the guy. I know I still have all five of my fingers. But you know what? I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. I'll tell them my fingers. All five on each hand. All five on each hand. I'll tell them my fingers. Why didn't you? His face. Why didn't you? He looked like a deer in the headlights. Yeah, he did look like that. I just, real quick, if I could, Fran Fishela was, he was the international basketball scout during the draft. And one time the Lakers drafted a guy in Fran Fishela on TV went, "I've never heard of this guy." Instead of making up a scouting report, he just says, "Guys, I've never heard of this guy." And then he went back to you at the table. It's okay. I don't know who that is. No disrespect to this man, but I've never seen this man before in my life. Yeah, there you go. It wasn't when the Mavs drafted Satem Singh. No, I don't know. But it was like, I was watching it and the Lakers took a guy and Fran Fishela, they went to him. Fran told us about the guy and he goes, "I have never heard of this guy. I have no idea who this player is." And I'm like, "All right, Fran, I feel you, man, because I've been there." Yeah. It'll happen. It'll happen to you. I mean, it happened to the Rangers a couple of years ago when they took Evan Carter. Yeah. Nobody on the end will be network-centered, heard of him. Yeah. Terry Bradshaw killed that bit by the way. He didn't kill the bid. He didn't kill the bid. Adding all the... What hand? Yeah. Come on, man. Stop. Do you think that could affect him catching passes? Yeah, you killed the bid, bro. Jake Lager did a great job, man. You're saying the bid could have been extended if Terry doesn't speak up, right? It would have been fire, man. Yeah. Yeah. It would have kept going. Let's see how long Groc can be, yes. You know what I mean? Yeah. All right. Let's see. Woolley sent me this one yesterday. I didn't get around. The 63-yard touchdown is an awesome play. He was slippery. He was. And he said this before a long time ago that he used his baby oil out there so they can't grab him. That's like a secret weapon. But baby oil is hot out in these streets because of Puff Daddy. Puff. Y'all. He's buying an embolco, apparently. Hard to source it these days. Yeah. Sit in Costco. So those darn reporters, you know, doing what they need to do. Do you have a baby oil on today? No. We got to keep that for somebody else, bro. Yeah. That's not my question right there. I didn't do it as a kid, though. We can't even ask that no more, bro. It's too much going on in life right now with this, with that man. No, Denny. Oh. Mars having fun, honey. That sucks, man. It does. You could have got to get you a good, like, endorsement with baby oil, but now Puffie does ruin the brand a little bit. You just can't be out here like I got a baby oil on that one. You can't do that no more. So see me with that every wide receiver in the league is going to take a baby oil bath, though. What did I say? Baby oil bath? Yeah. I would. You know. Works for Jamart J. Delivery K and C masterpiece KMC masterpiece. They do masterpiece of the week on Fridays that was listening last Friday. And I was like, what the hell is going on on this during segment? Well, Sean Sharif said this during crosstalk yesterday. Him painting an Alec. Yeah. Alec wins. Three way or G. Oh, what? What? What? That was during crosstalk. He was trying to get a producer off. Wow. Huh? That came off. Geez. This whole, that whole thing was cringe. When shock jockeying goes wrong. What? What? They want them pregnant. All right. Anyway. That was confusing. It was wild. Is that a Friday show? It's loose energy. Friday, Friday. We have to buffalo wild wings. Yeah. Hey, I'm back at edibles. I'm back at edibles. Whew. Shout out to the fair. I'm telling you. I'm still eating. Y'all man. I'm still hungry. Delicious. Hey, I learned something about Lucius downstairs on the fifth floor. Those guys are broadcasting from the fair every day that it's open. Oh, yeah. We used to do that. And when I worked at K104 out there in the sun, right by that stage, you know what the stage is by the Chevy situation. They're by the funnel cake place. Yes. We used to be over there. Just broadcasting, bro. It was beautiful other than the sun. Every day, they're broadcasting. The funnier broadcast from there. Yeah. It was fun. I put out about 40 pounds working out there. So much content. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Our thing was at the time. Sausage is on a stick. Yeah. We'll make fun of you. We'll make fun of us. We'll make fun of us. Weird. All right, killing time on the radio. Let's go to Met's color analyst, Keith Hernandez, he has coined a new phrase for the corner bunt. I've never heard of a corner bunt. What's this? Push it. Push it to third. Is that what that is? I don't know, man. I don't know. They just told me to get out there and run the bases. Yeah. Get out there on second. Get the third. All right. Here we go. All right. Left hand hitter. Freelick bunted himself into a corner. Oh. That's what you did. Yeah. Okay. So now one out. I'm going to play for you again. You bunted himself into a corner. Yeah. Aaron Hernandez has coined a new phrase for the corner bunt. This is going to get a lot of left hand hitter. Freelick bunted himself into a corner. That's what you did. Yeah. For this. Like. So now one out. Holy cow. See you next Tuesday right there is what he called it. Right there on the broadcast. Keith Hernandez. Right there on the broadcast. When shock jockeying goes wrong part two is it the NFL crew on Fox pranking drunk about rich Russo the WWE promoter turned tied in. That's what they wanted me to say. Yeah, man. They just get guys. Guys. Guys. You're missing the story here. Guys. See it's crossover from wrestling to the real sports world. Is it a wide receiver Jamar Chase was not using baby oil but still had a sixty three yard touchdown KMC masterpiece there Sean Sharif stepped in it. Keith Hernandez. Wow, that's an FCC violation if I've ever heard 100% that might be the granddaddy of a mall. I'm going to vote for Keith. It might be the worst I've ever heard on the radio before it. I'm gonna ride with the. The NFL on Fox crew pranking Grok, Billy, whatever the heck we heard during crosstalk with the morning show and KMC Brian KMC, yeah, buy a score of two to one to one and your new G bag the day champion. It's the KMC RJ choppy crosstalk there happens every morning at about nine forty five right here on your home of the Cowboys and Rangers. Yeah. Okay. Next corner is coming up in about an hour little rim session next we'll let's do it. We got media days, math storylines to watch is training camp opens in Vegas. That's next. Yes, sir. Thank you, Lucius. Cheebag nation here one oh five three the fan the NBA season fast approaching very exciting here to be on the radio talking about these Dallas Mavericks. Here's we'll check. Thank you very much. Let's go ahead and cut the lights out put the kids to bed and let's go all the way around the rim. It's been too long as your Western conference champion Dallas Mavericks get ready to go ahead and win. Larry O'Brien's trophy this year and that is the theme championship said Luca notchitch. That's the goal. That's the expectation. Kyrie Irving saying like I feel like our dreams can be possible because he's here now. Who's the he had be clay Thompson. He's added a great value to our championship aspirations and Mike Curtis of the morning news as a great job covering the Mavs and well, one of his big five things to look at here as training camp gets going in Las Vegas. It is the fit of clay Thompson now clay is expected to start, but listening to Kyrie and listening to Luca talk about the addition of clay. It is exciting. I mean, Luke is saying when me and Kai, when we have the ball, you basically can't help off of clay. If you leave him wide open, he's going to make it. I think the spacing is going to be crucial for us, but more of that I will tell you after a couple of games. I think the question is defensively how much does clay Thompson have left as he ended up being a liability to where then maybe they are forced to play more of Quentin Grimes and Najee Marshall. But the depth of this team is the best it's been probably since they won the championship in 2011 with the addition of Spencer Dinwitti who will get to a moment. But to me, I mean, I'm less of critiquing what clay Thompson does in the regular season unless it just looks god awful. To me, this is all about how does clay look in the playoffs. Does he then give you what you lacked against Boston, which is somebody that can shoot from a high rate on the perimeter and that championship grit and toughness at this team clearly, hey, they made it through the West, but you saw they were lacking against the Celtics. Yeah. No, I feel like though they're talking about clay Thompson like he was the pre injury version of himself from like five years ago, you know, I think that's fair. Like we don't have to dwell on what clay Thompson isn't. We can appreciate what he is, but at the same time, guys, you know, this isn't a guy that's going to fix everything and it brings up a lot of very interesting questions about what is the optimal not only starting five finishing five, but what's your eight or nine man rotation looking like? How much can you have clay in the game with Kyrie and Luca? I'm glad they have a quality coaching staff like they do to figure this out. I'm glad they have clay Thompson instead of what they had last year. I think this is a step in the right direction, but to me, well, Chuck, they have not built a better team than Boston yet. I don't. I don't think it is is going to reverse what we saw in the finals, which was a very impressive Celtics domination. Yeah. Hard to say that they've built a team better than Boston. I would agree with you. I mean, the Celtics just looked like an absolute juggernaut, but my hope is if indeed that ended up being a rematch, you will have Derek Lively, who I think is going to be a big jump this year from where he was a year ago, and I'm the most excited about life over anything else. So this is bringing back. And then, you know, now you've got Luca, who hopefully grew and learned throughout that entire postseason run, you add in a clay Thompson. You already had Kyrie, who was really the only one with any experience, some depth like a din witty who can step up maybe at you 20 randomly. I mean, you just had a lack of offensive help around Luca. I think they did a better job of that. So I'm with you. I'd still go Celtics one, but I think the Mavericks did a good job of trying to close the gap. And I guess the hope is when you have a player, the caliber of Luca, maybe that could be enough and he can just take over a series for you. You made yourself better. There's no doubt with the addition of Grimes, Marshall and Thompson compared to what you have last year. They're better. I'm picking them to win the West again. Yeah. I think they are the best team in the West. And again, that's going to be difficult. I mean, we'll see you then. The new editions. The Minnesota's made with that trade now with Carl Anthony towns. How does Julius Randall fit in? If he can stay healthy, if he can stay healthy, maybe Julius Randall is a good fit with Anthony Edwards. I don't know. But I mean, they were able to knock off Denver. I thought the point you made yesterday. You just beat the Nuggets. I mean, the Nuggets are still the team. We haven't seen the Mavericks play in a seven game series. That would be an interesting matchup. If indeed that were to happen, I think Denver's still the team with yokech that you fear a little bit, but Dinwitti is back in the fold. And last year, he made headlines after he got bought out, the decision to go signing with the Lakers. He said, let's say you're a kid and you get your ass whooped by the bully, Dallas would have been like your mom. I'm like, it's okay, baby. Lakers are like your dad. Nah. You better go out there and fight till you win. Well, then we got ahead of it at media days yesterday on re signing with the Dallas Mavericks. Anytime, you know, I've kind of been knocked down, I try to take, you know, the harder path and not necessarily making art on myself, but just in terms of like that growth, right? And, you know, so when I made obviously, which everybody's going to ask about the comments is all about comfort zones. It was funny because both L.A. and Dallas fan base is kind of thought it was like about them. But it really wasn't. Man first bullet, you know what I'm saying? So given what happened with Brooklyn, it'd be in top five multiple categories, you know, points and threes and assists and to kind of have that exit play out like that. Obviously, you know, sucked, hurt, you know, all those other things. So I was, the perspective was man, but it really had nothing to do with either fan base to be honest. And yeah, so that was it. I was based in my first hand and tried to take it with a harder path in terms of just growth and so far in my life, that's pretty much certainly well. You know, I like Spencer Denwood. He's wisdom is approaches, maturity, professionalism, it's all 10 out of 10. That was a reach. He's in a tough spot. He's that all summer to think of a good answer. Yeah. And that wasn't it. So bad answer. Both fan bases thought it was about themselves. Well, I mean, the question was, right, why did you decide the Lakers over the maps? It was all good, man. Just shoot that three ball, 38% and we'll be cheering for you. I'm happy to have him back. I mean, I think he's also probably an underrated defender. I mean, the eight five eight does not think that the Mavericks are deeper. I don't know how you can look at this roster, even if you don't think plays any good and not say the Mavericks are a deeper team. Yeah, you just don't know Graham's and Marshall. That's fine. You know, they're random role players on non playoff teams, but they are elite defenders that can space the floor well enough and plays better than Tim Hardaway Jr. By far. Yeah. Right. THJ could not get on the floor. You added three players that will be part of your postseason rotation. So I think if you don't think that they got, they closed the up to Boston, that's fair, but they 100% got better. I think you're just hating on the maps and that's all right. It is also Lucas seventh year. Is it lucky number seven for number 77 years already, huh? Yeah. Wow. This is the lucky lucky number seven could be. I like that tie in lucky number seven for 77 and then Kyrie's broken hand. That's not something we really have taught. We kind of forgot about that, but Kyrie, he did undergo surgery, repaired a broken hand. Does that have any impact on the start of the season? I think the map's first preseason game will be on Monday at home against Memphis. Yeah. So I don't know how much she's going to be participating in preseason, but hopefully that's something that's interesting. And then, you know, it has an impact. I mean, it just reminds you how fragile Kyrie has been throughout his career. He's been fairly healthy with the maps. He's going to be 33 next spring. So for me, it just puts more of an added emphasis on take advantage of this group that you have right now and get the job done. I'm very aggressive at the trade deadline. Yeah. Well, and last year, I mean, the additions of Washington and Gafford, you've got to trust that Nico will try and fill in any gaps on this roster at the bigs. I think, of course, I mentioned lively. What is he able to do in your two gafford now a full off season with the team full season with the team who emerges as your defensive anchor. I think that's going to be indeed Derek lively, but I think Najee Marshall, you lost Eric Jones Jr. That is going to be huge. Who's the guy that can step up and really guard some of those elite guards, you know, and wings. And that was something Derek Jones Jr. did better than most players in the NBA. Najee Marshall, hopefully on paper, is that guy that can fill that role for you and certainly be a pest. I will say as we conclude the rim session, the big disappointment was Jimmy Butler not continuing his tradition. Oh, he didn't, he didn't do anything this year. Like last year, we had Eric do the bet payoff to league asked him not to do something. Maybe. I don't know. I think he just, you know, maybe the bit had played out. He wanted to keep his guessing and he's unpredictable and notion and again, this didn't do anything this year. 2022, 2023. He did the Braves to the, the Braves two years ago last year, he did kind of the email. Oh, look. Yeah, it was great. But nothing this year, which was kind of sad. There's your rim sesh. Well, thank you. Well, Chuck. Uh, we're, we got some stars content on the way for you as well, a little bit later on in the show. Crusty's corner is coming up in 45 minutes. Brian's going to, you know, give you his segment every day at three 40 most days unless we'll check books. He guessed in the middle of it, which we always appreciate though, but NFL news of the day coming up next Zachary, which you got the perfect game sticking with their starters in trouble in South Beach. That's next. The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? 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