Jordan Love: Still Got A Bad Taste In My Mouth From Our Last Game

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Not available in all states. Earlier on the show, Syracuse quarterback Kyle McCord. Coming up, Packers quarterback Jordan Love, former MLB commissioner Bud Selig, Alabama linebacker Geod Campbell. And now it's Rich Eisen.

That's right. Our number two of the Rich Eisen show is on the air. And this is what we love about our guest list. We've got one of the top young Turks at the quarterback position in the National Football League in, I guess, the host quarterback for this year's NFL draft.

Jordan Love is going to join us. And then we have Bud Selig, age 90 now, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball, joining us in support of a really fun documentary that you could see right now on the Roku channel just a bit outside the story of the 1980s. It's the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers. Wow. And when you read the title of it, you can't just go just a bit outside.

Exactly. The story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers is going to be just a bit outside. And Bob Euchre, may he rest in peace, is one of the many boldface names involved with the 82 Milwaukee Brewers who did sit down for this documentary, I'm told it was his last interview of his life. Wow. And Bud Selig, Bob Euchre, Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Ted Simmons, Raleigh Fingers, Gorman Thomas.

Remember, these are the Harvey's wallbangers, right? Cecil Cooper. I loved him. Ben Ogilvy loved him, too.

They all sat down. Moose Haas. I haven't heard that name in a long time.

And Bud Selig, obviously the owner of the Brewers. And so he'll be joining us in the middle of this hour. Jahod Campbell in hour number three. And you throughout 844-204-Rich.

It's time to hear from you. Jordan Love going to join us. Andrew Berry, the GM of the Cleveland Browns. We were playing a soundbite from him earlier in the program where he equated Travis Hunter to Shoei Ohtani. Interesting.

Oh, yeah. And by saying he's great at one position, then he comes on and plays another position. He's great at that, too.

Seems like a fairly accurate. It is that we just need to see. Can he do it at the next level?

And I'm going to I'm going to offer some pushback on some people who say he can't. I don't get makes Cleveland Browns games must see. It makes everybody must see.

That's the way I open the program by talking about how he's a unicorn. Must see this. Must see that. Must see him play receiver.

Must see him play corner, because let's not forget. Deon once referred to himself to me. To you?

Yes. He said that he called himself a five down player. Three on defense, one on special teams and then the next down on offense. So I guess he's a four down player.

Where it's three on defense. He hasn't done the special teams thing yet, but maybe I mean, could you imagine? I got to imagine that'll be the one snap that coach is like, well, I know that, but that'll be the one snap the coach is like. Have a gatorade, take a breather, maybe chill for a minute. I mean, yeah, take a breath.

But, you know, while he's this young, you got to go ahead and do that. Andrew Berry was also asked about the second overall selection. Am I correct in this, Mr. Huskins? OK, this is was his response about thought processes and where it ranks right now in the draft rooms across the NFL and his phone ringing and all that business. We're still working through everything. You know, we have not made a hard decision in terms of how we're going to utilize the number two pick. There are a number of guys that we like, you know, our travels. They were the logical touch points that you would make for all prospects who are worthy of being consideration that high in the draft. That's just happened to be where I think maybe a lot of times Mary Kay just becomes like the last place that you stopped. But but we're still working through everything.

I still would take shit on. There's there's a there's a chance all options are on the board. Maybe I should say that, you know, all options are on the board.

Mary Kay, referring to the person every press conference begins with Mary Kay Cleveland, OK, Kevin, who's been on this program many times. So listen, all options are on the table. It makes complete sense. What could you this is my only way of, I guess, analyzing this for the moment. Could you imagine if Miles Garrett wasn't resigned, what this conversation would be like right now? You see what I'm saying?

Could you imagine if they didn't. You know, give him 40 million reasons per year to just reverse course. What this conversation would this like sort of a calmness around this pick where he's just like, oh, all options are on the table. We're talking about a quarterback. We're talking about a unicorn to complete two positions.

We're talking about one of the top pass rushes. That's what we're interested in here at the Cleveland Browns. Oh, what's your next question about my second overall selection? Thank you for that question.

I'm happy to do a follow up. If Miles Garrett wasn't signed. Oh, my God.

What a whole different tenor to the entire week this would be. So they got that piece checked off and well done. Well done. He's the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. We're going to Green Bay, by the way. We're going to Green Bay.

Can't wait. Jordan Love here on the Rich Eisen Show, courtesy of Toyota. How are you, Jordan? How you doing?

I'm great. I'm going to I'm going to just give you a position to do what you do professionally, which has helped those around you. I have both Brian Gouda Kunst and Matt Leflore on my show in studio next week. And I want a question for each of them from you. And I don't have to tell them it's from you, but I can.

And I'm giving you this option right off the bat. What question do you think I need to ask Matt Leflore? Jordan, I've got a pen in my hand. One question you need to ask Matt Leflore before the draft.

What do you think could be about anything? I think you need to ask them what school produces the best NFL players. What college produces those the most talent? Okay. Is that a way of you saying Utah State?

Yeah, that's the way we got some guys coming out of Utah State. Okay. I'll ask that of Gouda Kunst, since that's kind of his lane. Right.

That's kind of his lane. What about your head coach? It could be anything. Jordan, it could be anything. And if you want, I can make sure there's no fingerprints on this, with the exception that this is being broadcast on national television and radio. But what would this be for Matt Leflore?

What do you think? Matt Leflore, I think you need to ask Matt. We'll have a little funny question. You ask him who the best basketball player is on the Green Bay Packers. Oh, okay. Everybody ask him that.

Okay. He was a basketball player. Does he does he does he hoop it up or no? Matt used to hoop it up. That might be another question you can ask him.

I don't think he's been hoping recently. That'll be a follow up. So then I'll ask you that question then. What what what is the answer to that question?

Oh, it's myself for sure. Exactly. Exactly. I'm looking at our graphic at the bottom of the screen.

I mean, there is no I in Jordan or love. I don't understand this. I don't understand where we're going on this, man.

Oh, OK. All right. So what's what's your what's going through your mind about last season? Does that does it ever creep into you when it looks like you're driving a wheel behind a car in a car right now? So when you're just by yourself alone, do you think about last season?

And if so, what goes through your mind, Jordan? Oh, man, come on. You're always thinking about last season and especially, you know, the way it ended and you kind of ended the season. You know, everybody's trying to win the Super Bowl.

Obviously, only one team leaves feeling happy. So, you know, we still got a bad taste in our mouth from that last game down there in Philly. So, you know, I've watched all the tape this this offseason and, you know, figured out things I need to work on and get better on as a team and areas we need to improve on, but, you know, you're trying to just go back and and recap the season, what you did at a high level, what you didn't do as well, and get a feel for that coming into the next season. All right.

So what is it? What have you gleaned from film that you're willing to share that, OK, I'm going to do this next year as opposed to what we just did? Yeah, I mean, for me personally, you know, I was dealing with injury last year, but I think a big part of my game that I was missing last year was being able to, you know, get on the move, scramble a little bit more, take off a run and sometimes just extend plays and create some more, you know, off schedule plays is I think a big part of the offense that we were missing that I didn't do as well of a job on.

So that's definitely something I'm trying to focus on going in this year. OK, and so I can't believe I gave you an opportunity to ask me, the general manager, a question. I mean, how about this? I could ask Gudekunz, shouldn't you draft another wide receiver for Jordan Love?

How about that? What do you think? You can ask him that, if that's your question for him.

I mean, just it could be a lineman, right, to keep you upright. I mean, it could be anything like that. Or if you want to ask him that, go for it. OK, I'm trying to help you.

You know, I'm just trying to help you out. I think Gudekunz is going to do a great job of helping me out. You know, I got all the faith in the world in him and I think he'll do a great job and get help for me. I like that very much. Your draft night memory is what? Man, my draft night memory is being at my house in 2020 and getting that call from the Green Bay Packers at pick 26 and just being excited. You know, that's that's what we put all this work in for. That's the moment everybody's waiting to hear their name called.

So, you know, it's a special moment for me being at home with my family and getting a life changing call. Did you have any expectation or was it a total shock to you that Green Bay called you, Jordan? You know, it was a total shock. I think going into that year, we had a pretty good feel of what teams were looking to draft quarterbacks. And, you know, once some of those guys with Joe Burrow and Tua and Justin Herbert were taken by some of those teams, it was kind of up in the air, like who might be taking a quarterback next?

So, you know, how to play the sit and wait game for a little bit. And we got down to 26 and I definitely had no idea about the Green Bay Packers. You don't think anybody realized they're going to take a quarterback with having a rod still there.

But so it was definitely a shock to me, but it was great news. Yeah, because I've been talking to so many of the quarterback prospects in this year's draft. I just hung up on a Zoom with Com Accord last hour, just trying to find out, you know, who have you talked to, what sense do you have? And did you talk to the Packers at all?

Did you have a top 30 visit with them? Anything like that during the process? Yeah, so I mean, during the process is that's the craziest part is during the draft, I mean, during the combine, during the Senior Bowl, things like that. You talk to every team, you know, whether those teams are even looking for a quarterback or not. So it's hard to really get a feel for what teams are looking for that, what teams like you, unless they just straight up give you an answer. But some of these teams, I feel like trying to keep their cards close to their chest.

So it's hard. But I did talk to the Green Bay Packers actually the night before. I talked to Matt, you know, I talked to Hackett at the time.

It was O.C. and it was just a quick interview, the same as you do with a lot of the other teams. So I never really got any hips or things like that might be looking for me. But, you know, I'd say for a player, it is definitely a hectic process.

You know, talking all these different teams, not knowing who might be trying to take you. So you never know. So it's very hectic. So you're here courtesy of Toyota.

Interesting. Is this is this part of the marketing that you're in a car zooming into this show to talk about Toyota? Is this part of the is this part of the marketing plan?

It's all part of it. OK, I'll give you the floor then, because it involves NFL flag football, which is awesome. Yes, sir. No, I'm partnering with Toyota. And as you know, the draft being in Green Bay, we're partnering with NFL flag football team in the area to be able to give them the opportunity to go up on stage during day three of the draft and actually announce a pick, which I think is an awesome opportunity for the girls team to be able to do that. Hopefully they can envision themselves doing big things in the sport one day and trying to achieve the dreams that the guys getting their name called up on stage are doing so well at. And then also shout to Toyota because we're going to be partnering in covering the registration fees for all the flag football teams in Green Bay for the next season to be able to give them that opportunity to go out there and play the sport that we all love, that I grew up playing and hopefully empower more people to get out there and have the opportunity to be the future of the sport. Yeah. And you're giving a local girls flag football team a front row seat right at the draft as well.

That's pretty cool. See to the draft, they'll be able to go up on stage, announce a pick. So it's a pretty special opportunity for that team. And I'm excited for that.

I'm excited for those girls and obviously for everybody involved with this with this venture with Toyota. Before I let you go, Jordan, your team takes on the Packers, take on the Steelers this upcoming season may or may not be happening overseas from what little birdies are telling me on this front. So when you when you take on the Steelers, Jordan, who do you think the starting quarterback is going to be for the Pittsburgh Steelers?

Jordan Love, what do you think? Great question. That is a very good question. You know, I've heard a lot of rumors. It might be Aaron Rodgers. You know, we'll see with obviously with Justin Fields and Russell Wilson both leaving, you know, it's an open window. So it's up in the air.

We'll see. You guys got the picture. Hey, right.

Oh, yeah, yeah, we just thought that's our opinion. I'm just going to give you a he goes there. You know, I was just talking.

I would love to get the opportunity to play against A-Rod, you know, having having a guy that mentored me in the league was was someone I got to be a backup behind to be able to get the opportunity to play against him and be on the other side of him, it would be special, it would be cool. So we'll see. It's up in the air. I have no idea. I wish I could get info, but I don't know.

Yeah, I think you're out of the guessing what Aaron Rodgers is going to do with his career game. You left that one on the side of the road to use another car analogy a while ago, but I just figured I'd give you a tire kick on that one, Jordan. OK, thanks for the time. Greatly appreciate it. We have our questions for next week, courtesy of you. And we'll let you know what the answers are. Yeah, I hope they have some fun answers for that. I hope so, too.

The mood up a little bit with those guys. OK, well, we're going to be in Green Bay, so hopefully we'll run into you and I'll give you the answer in person. You have fun.

Enjoy Green Bay. It's going to be a great time. Are you going to be on the stage at all?

I will not be on the stage. That's why we're letting the girls like football team go up there. Jordan, you know, the commissioner needs an anti boo shield.

You know, they usually does that when he comes out. I think you're the perfect person Green Bay to come out there and help the commissioner. I'm sure we'll have plenty of talent. Go up there and it'll be a great time. OK, thanks for the time, Jordan. Love you. Be well. Thank you.

I'll see you. You got it. Jordan, love everybody back here on the rich guys and Joe, courtesy of Toyota.

How about that heart? Jordan, we're going to have we want you to sit in a car. He's not driving now. Do you think he's in a stationary Toyota? You know, maybe one of those situations you see in movies where it's being towed by a trailer.

So it looks like they're moving right. So you just sit behind the wheel and like if you could be inside of absolutely anything that you were coming on to promote, it would it would have to be what your choice would have to be, like whiskey, right? You know, I mean, like inside a bottle, you know, yeah, inside a straw. Yeah, you just kind of going to town like Strange Brew. Trying to think.

Very possible. That's a good one. OK. If you're Costanza, you're promoting velvet.

You know, I mean, fresh velvet socially accepted. I think you're getting where you're picking it where I'm putting down. I'm picking them up. OK, let's take a break and talk to Buds. I think the last time I spoke to Bud Seelig was the night of the All-Star Game tie. No, I swear to God. Were you doing ESPN radio? I was indeed. Wow.

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Learn more at HyundaiUSA.com call five six two three one four four six oh three for details. What was it like shooting that scene, though, with Ray Kinsella and his father? What I did was I went back to when I first read it. And so I become the audience when I read it. And I when I read it, I went, huh?

I couldn't believe that it had orchestrated itself to that thing. And I had that feeling on the couch. And so I knew if I played that straight, I didn't wink at anybody but I didn't wink at anybody that these players did come. You know, that's my corn. You know, they kept coming after me. I wasn't going to be able to do that movie. I was going to do Revenge.

And I got into a finally that Revenge kept getting pushed, kept getting pushed. And finally, I had to put my foot down and say, look, if you don't get this movie together, I'm going to go to do this movie in the corn. I asked the director, why did you hold out for me so long?

Why? And he said, well, and this is one of the greatest actors we've ever seen. He goes, they wanted me to do Robin Williams. And I said, Robin Williams is perfect. He said, yeah, but when I think of Robin, I think he does hear voices in the corn. And I don't want that.

People don't believe you hear voices. That's a director that makes a save. That's a Mariano Rivera, you know, it's a save. He saved his movie because of his belief in an idea. You know, not the quality of actor, because Robin Williams will never. Of course, this is this is the guy so special. But I but I was curious. I said, he's actually a bigger star than me. You know, you know, whatever. And he goes, I need somebody that you don't think cares voices. And that would be you.

I've never heard Robin Williams was considered for that role. That's unbelievable. And then you did it. And obviously we're we're talking about it today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it had gold dust on it when I read it, because I did that little intake of breath. Do you want to have a catch?

And of course, I I wept myself. Oh, man, one of the greats, Kevin Costner, all of his appearances can be caught right here on the Rich Eisen Show with the YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show back here on the program. And the Rich Eisen Show radio network sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk, furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.

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There is a terrific documentary that's available for free on the Roku channel right now. And I have to say the title appropriately, just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers and joining us right now in advance of well, it's out there right now. But joining us right now in support of that documentary is the longtime owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and the ninth commissioner of Major League Baseball, who I used to chat with regularly back in the day as the initial host of ESPN radio's coverage of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig. Good to see you, Commissioner Emeritus. How are you?

Well, I'm well and it's good to see you. And I miss the many chats that we had. We did.

We did, man. And many of them took place on the turf of Yankee Stadium because the Yankees were in the World Series quite a bit back in that time in the late 90s when I was there at ESPN. But we're here to talk about the Brew Crew of 1982. Your recollections of that team in support of this documentary that it got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which means it's outstanding.

Take it away. Well, it was a really interesting year. It went down to the last day of the season and the regular season.

We won in Baltimore, Maryland. We had a marvelous team. We had Robin Yount and Paul Mowder and Rowley Fingers and Cecil Cooper and on and on and on. Ted Simmons.

I don't... I could... And of course, Bob Euchre is very prominent and all that. And so this makes me a little sad, but it was an extraordinary season.

And I'm going to say this right at the outset. I even got Whitey. If Fingers didn't get hurt, we win in five games in the World Series. But he did get hurt. But there were a bunch of characters. Pete Vukovich and Ben Ogilvy and Teddy Simmons, as I said. It was a remarkable group of guys. And it's a year we never forgot. There we all are. And interestingly enough, when you look back, we had five Hall of Famers, Rich. We sure did.

And most of them are right there up on the screen. And they certainly are. And you can include Euchre in that regard. But what's the first time you ever met Bob Euchre? What was that story?

Well, that's an interesting story. I guess I met Bob in about 1959 or 60. And we became friends. And of course, he's a Milwaukee guy. And later on, we got to Brewers. And so Bob did some speaking for us. He came up here from Atlanta.

He wanted to come home. And we went to the New York Baseball Writers' Dinner. You remember those dinners, Rich?

Yes, I do. And in January of 1971, he and I went out together after the dinner. And we were talking. And I said, it was very simple. It was just, Bob, you ought to come to work for the Brewers.

I'll find something for you to do. He said, I'm in. That was it.

That was it. The first year, we already had a full broadcast team. And our sponsor was a very good friend of mine, Shrettsbury.

They had a full crew. So we had to work around that. And so I had to find something for him to do. And I finally made him a scout. And I sent him up to the Northern League, which was Minor League at that time.

And it's a famous story around here. He went up scouting. And Rich, I had Frank Lane. You remember old Frank Lane, bombastic general manager, had been all around. And he comes, Roy, he was helping. He was a fill-in, and he really did good work for us.

But that's neither here nor there. He said, what do you want me to do with your guy, Euchre? And I said, well, Frank, he's a baseball guy. He was a catcher.

He should have allowed him. Well, look at this report. And he throws it on my desk. And on the report, he threw it on and laughed.

There was a bunch of mashed potatoes, gravy, all over the thing. And so I later asked him, Bob, what the hell are you doing? And he says, well, you know, Al, he called me Al.

The only person in the world that ever called me Al. He said, what the hell? I was doing the work. And every player that he scouted, he rated as a prospect. So he hedged his bet. And the next year, to get him on the radio, he said to the head of Schlitz, I'll pay half if you'll pay half. He was making 12 grand.

So I paid six, and they paid six. And he began a broadcast. Merle Harmon was with him, a local fellow, Tom Collins. And they walked out on him.

The first game in Yankee Stadium, they walked in, let him do it. And he was so nervous. And, you know, he's known for so many things, and I know him so well. But he made himself into a great announcer. He sure did. He made himself, people sometimes don't, he was, I used to listen to ninth innings after we won, of course.

Yes. And Bob was, it was just tremendous. And so from those beginnings, we never had a contract.

And he never had a contract with Mark Antonazzi, who bought the team from us in 05. Each year he'd come in and say, well, what do you think? And we'd talk for a minute. And he'd say, okay.

And I'd say, okay. And that was it. And it's just, again, I just remember growing up, Bud, watching him on Carson, you know, telling stories on Johnny Carson. And then obviously the fact that, you know, this documentary, you're featuring it prominently.

So is Euchre and Yount and Mollitor and Simmons and Raleigh Fingers, as you just mentioned. It is called Just a Bit Outside, even though, you know, that was for the Cleveland franchise in the movie Major League. I just, I love hearing that story. So if you don't mind talking about your, your commissionership, when you watch baseball today, are there any of the new rules that, that you're seeing that Rob Manfred was able to get in, that you tried to get in or, or, or anything like that?

Well, you know, that's an interesting question. I'm reminded by Tony La Russa and Joe Torre, Joe in particular, who I'm close to, very close to both of them. But in about, oh, let's see, it would have been 2012, 2013, 2014, they recommended the pitch clock, but it took us that long, even after I was gone, and Rob and I have talked about it, to get the player association to agree with it. I love, I love the pitch clock. I didn't think I would. I'm very cautious, but I, it's a rule that has really helped us. So, but that's how long that was around.

No kidding, because I, I was the same way too. I thought this is going to ruin everything and it's been awesome. It's been something else. Like, you know, I can remind you of this, Rich, and you and I may have talked about that when I came up with the wild card, we got killed. Oh, he's ruining baseball. Oh, this and that. And it was bad. It was ugly. Well, the wild card has been the best thing we ever did.

In fact, it's sort of shocking to think, what would we be without it? Bud Selig here on the Rich Eisen Show. Did you ever come close to unbanning Pete Rose, Bud? I really don't want to talk too much about it, but the answer is no. Okay. And then just a quick follow-up question.

Why, why, why no, if you don't mind? Well, Rich, I was brought up for many, many, many years in the game, understanding that it's our most sacred rule and that gambling in any shape, form could be devastating. And so there's much I could say if you read the Dowd report and all the other things, and Bart Giamatti suspended him, did absolutely the proper thing. And in the retrospect of history, I think the right thing was done and I followed suit and I have very strong feelings on that subject. Clearly. And looking back at your commissionership, if you could change one thing, what, what would that be? Bud Selig? I don't know if I'd change, but I'm a believer in revenue sharing.

I think what Pete Roselle did is you'll well remember when he was a young man, you know, share revenue to a point of 90% and other things I would have pushed harder at that time. Yeah. I mean, I just can't. But I did.

I did. Baseball didn't share any revenue, Rich. None.

Not a nickel. And in 1996, we made a deal. I'll never forget Wayne Izenka. Wayne Izenka and his wife and I went out for dinner to celebrate.

And it was the first time. So bringing a sport into that was, I was very proud of it. And we expanded it. We got up to five, six hundred million dollars and it was good.

But Rich, you need to do more. You got a good Steinbrenner story for me, Bud? Your favorite George M. Steinbrenner, the third story? I have a lot of them. You know, you know, the interesting part.

We never agreed on anything. But we became extremely close friends. And George, to his dying day, said he was the first one that talked to me about becoming a commissioner. But, well, there are a lot of them.

I don't know where to start. But one day, I'll tell you, my wife and I went out to Yankee Stadium. This is well before I was a commissioner, back in 78. George and I had already become close. The Brewers were in town to play the Yankees. We were actually better than they were, which was driving George crazy. And his assistant was, we came in the office and she was crying. And that got my wife's attention, who was close to George also.

I have to say that. Well, apparently she had ordered the wrong kind of sandwich for his lunch and he was mad. He fired it. Come on.

No, that's a fact. Believe me, you couldn't make this up. And my wife went in and talked to him.

He rehired her right on the spot. Oh my gosh. But there are a lot of George stories. But in the end, with all the things that went on, I have a different view. George really, George, in the 23 years I was commissioner, now he died in 09, never caused me a problem. He and Bowie Kuhn hated each other and there were other things.

But somehow, I have a different view of George M. III than others. Well, I mean, I imagine if you're trying to get revenue sharing, wouldn't the Yankees have been the one to push back on that sort of thing? Well, that's part of life. As I used to say to him, the mayor shared revenue and he just shrunk his shoulders.

So there are a lot of answers to that, Rich. Right. I mean, the Giants and Yankees used to be co-tenants.

Obviously, that was before Giants, the Steinbrenners owned the Yankees. That's right. But you tried that approach, huh? Hey, look at the mayors. They're sharing revenue and he just said, I don't care. And look how well they did.

Yes, exactly. I'm talking about franchise and what... Yeah, I did a lot of things, all of which were true, but you had to be patient and you had to keep going. I bet. So what do you want people to know about this documentary and the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers? Wonderful. Marvelous team with five Hall of Famers, characters.

You had Pete Vukovich and Rolly Fingers. And I'm telling you, this is as good a documentary as you're ever going to see. It is really.

I know it's the 82 Brewers and I went to the state of Wisconsin. It's huge. But I'm telling you, Rich, this one is so good. The characters are there.

It's different from anything I've ever seen. And I think these guys did a remarkable job. And there's a picture from the 82 World Series against the Cardinals. And I'll say it again, because I used to say this to Whitey Herzog all the time. Give me fingers and we win. We were that good. There he is. There's Rolly with his famous handlebar mustache right there.

And again, it's available right now for free on the Roku Channel. Are you still on the board of the Packers? I am. Bud, you are.

OK. Well, I'm ex-officio, you know, when you get to a certain age. In fact, I just hung up from talking to Bob Harlan, who you remember was the president of the Packers for many years, who's an extremely close friend of mine. And we do talk a lot.

And I just told him I was going on the Rich Eisen Show. But I really want to emphasize from a human element. When you watch this thing, it is remarkable. And forget all the characters, as I said, like Vukovic and Simmons and people like that. But this is it was a great year, special year with a very unique group of people, including Uker, I may add.

Well, and I'm told it's one of, if not his final sit down interview of his remarkable life for this documentary, I believe. That's true. That's right.

Man. So, General, you remember the term just a bit outside. Of course, yes. It came from the movie and it was Uker.

That's right. Did you like Major League? Did you see the movie?

About one hundred and twelve times. I saw it the other night. There wasn't much to watch. But I saw it again and I watched it again.

And just watching Uker made me laugh. I bet. What's your favorite baseball movie then?

You got to choose one. Which one is that? That's a good one.

That's right. There's a whole host of them. There are a whole host of them. I'm old fashioned. I love the Lou Gehrig story.

Get the pride of the Yankees. And the movie with Kevin Costner. Field of Dreams? Yeah. No, not Field of Dreams.

Bull Durham. No. OK. Oh, for the love of the game.

For the love of the game. OK. Yeah. That actually has become my favorite baseball movie. Is that right? Oh, wow.

Yeah. I mean, that's a labor of love for him. Costner, he will love to hear that. But I really enjoyed that movie. It's a great with a great Vin Scully in the middle of that movie. So, you know, it was rich.

It was terrific. He got Vin to do the play by play for the end. He told a story when he was here on the show where he just told Vin, you know, it was interesting.

How do you give notes to Vin Scully on how to call a game? Right. So but he you know, he just let him go. And Vin did his thing. You know, he did.

It's only he could. I was absolutely so. What a pleasure to catch up with you, Bud Selig. Well, it's a pleasure to catch up with you and hopefully we'll do this soon. I appreciate that.

The Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball. Just a bit outside. Did I say that right? You did. And you said it just like you could. And I will take that to the bank.

The story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers available now for free on the Roku Channel. You be well, sir. We'll chat soon. Thank you. You too. Thank you. Pleasure to see you. Right back at you. That's Bud Selig right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Fun stuff right there going down memory lane. We will take a break.

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This episode is brought to you by Chevy Silverado Trail Boss. Okay. And all the batting practice? Oh yeah. I used to hit routinely. So were you the best hitter of all the actors? I would say so.

I would say so. Charlie and I were the only guys that could really play baseball. Wesley was really athletic and could run, but wasn't much of a hitter. He couldn't hit. But could Charlie hit or he was just... Charlie could hit. And Charlie could pitch. But you went yard more than anybody else in the cast of Major League. Oh yeah. Except for the guys, the baseball guys that were out there. Actual. So who was the worst? Oh, I can't.

I won't say. Yes, you can. You absolutely can. That microphone works. Corbin Bernsen, could he... Corbin was okay. I think Tom Barington was maybe the worst. No kidding.

I love you, Tom. He forced it out of me, man. Were you superstitious as well? Are you a superstitious guy? Not really, but I realized how superstitious baseball players are.

Of that, there is no doubt. I used to have a lot of guys come up to me and say, Hey, we used to play this movie on the bus going to the game. And I set firecrackers off on our bats to wake them up. Did anybody have rum? Did anyone incorporate rum? They started using that. A lot of guys said they started using it. Baseball players started using rum. Yeah.

Baseball players started using rum. Do you have any artifacts from the film anywhere? I finally got a Joe Boo doll. I don't have the original because I wanted to get rid of that because, you know, that was voodoo I was practicing. And I said, you know what?

Certain things you got to leave on the set. You know, and somebody took that and I don't know where they are now, because I haven't heard from them again. Right.

So they took a voodoo doll, man. I said, okay. Okay. I have a facsimile.

Do you have a facsimile of Joe Boo? Aha. Ah, yes.

We have a, we got something for everything on our YouTube channel. Right. You know what I mean? Very bad. So Joe Boo's rum, very bad.

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It's Omar Apps instead of Wesley Snipes. I mean, it's better than Caddyshack Two. Oh my goodness gracious.

Play it. Caddyshack Two, one of the worst sequels ever. Yeah. The Sting Two is up there with that too.

Yep. Shouldn't have been made. Shouldn't have been made. Best sequels, Godfather Part Two. Terminator Two. Terminator Two. Empire Strikes Back. Correct. Yeah. Empire Strikes Back is better than the original Star Wars.

Dark Knight is pretty good too. I like it. Very good. And you know, it's a great sequel.

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844-204-rich number to dial here on the program. So the Miami Heat doing Miami Heat things, guys, which is killing the playing tournament game. To suddenly start playing basketball like they really didn't do consistently at all throughout all 82 regular season games. And now, if I'm Atlanta, I'm saying, uh-oh. Yep. You know, and we better hope Trey Young doesn't let the officials get in his skull because we kind of need him.

We kind of need him for all 40 minutes. Just don't make a mockery of the sport. Don't make a mockery of the sport. John Turner?

I mean, what is a town where Mo Green has no plaque or a signpost or anything like that? I'm going to guess... Sorry, the Heat's going to win this one.

I'm going to guess it's kind of even. Yeah, Miami minus one. And then the unique situation with the Mavericks just spanking the Sacramento Kinks.

Spanking. That, you know, every two seconds ESPN kept showing Nico Harrison, the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks. And honestly, if there's any guy that's sitting there looking like he is throwing up in his mouth every two seconds. And again, he might be sitting there going, well, how am I supposed to look? I'm just watching the basketball game. But it kind of looks like, you know, his inner monologue.

I would just love, you know, obviously, you know, obviously. No, Tim McMahon of ESPN would say his inner monologue is saying how defense wins championships. You know, which is all he said in the press conference. We call it a press conference when it's just for the local media where no cameras or recording devices are allowed.

Like a fireside chat. I was weird. The whole thing is just weird. And then him just not acknowledging that he's out of draft choices on his control from 27 through 30.

So you got to win now. And why are you trading away a 25-year-old all-time great? And he wouldn't even, you know, he kept on making it seem like Luca wasn't going to sign the Supermax.

And what McMahon or somebody else responds by, he was crying on the bench. Like, of course, he wanted to stay with you guys. He just bought a $10 million house.

Like, of course, he's going to sign the Supermax. All right, whatever. Well, yada, yada, yada, they ended a very disappointing Sacramento Kings season in which they get one and done in a home game at, you know, in the 9-10 play-in tournament level. Fired their coach, traded away De'Aaron Fox.

Wow. And they don't even get a playoff appearance. They don't even win a play-in game. And DeMar DeRozan, his first season there was a total washout.

I mean, they, it's kind of wild. He didn't even have his daughter screeching during free throws last night. Like, that wasn't even employed. I don't think it would have helped last night. But the Mavericks, God bless them, they can be the eight seed. And, and the crazy thing is, you know, oh, by the way, the Kings fired their general manager today as well.

Oh, yeah. So they fired their GM. They fired their coach.

They fired De'Aaron Fox, I guess. And they get nothing out of it. But here's the crazy thing. Do you know the, uh, Memphis Grizzlies who are hosting the Mavericks on Friday night, it would be better for them to lose because as Bobby Marks pointed out, if they win Friday, um, their first round pick goes to Washington. And if they lose, they retain their first right in the middle of the first round.

So if you win, if you, if you win, you lose your first round pick and you play the 90 million win Oklahoma City Thunder. Okay. Yeah.

I guess you're still alive for a Cooper flag. If you ain't first, you're lost. Yeah. I guess you got, you got, you got a dumb and dumb and ping pong ball, right? Yeah. We've seen it before. You fired your coach.

Wow. You couldn't even get, you couldn't even get a look at the end of a game. That was poor, but I guess you got to win, right?

You got to try to win. And Hey, if the Mavericks make the playoffs, Nico Harrison, that means at least one would think five to seven more games of tight shots of him looking like he's vomiting in his mouth. Am I wrong? Is this a wrong analysis of all this? I don't think so. No, here's what we need. What? We need the Mavericks to make the playoffs.

Yes. Somehow upset Oklahoma City. Playoff clay shows up. By the way, they've got players, man. ADs, balling.

And then maybe, maybe we see them against the Lakers in the playoffs. Okay. You know what I mean? I see what you're, I see what you're saying. That's what I'm saying right there. There's no way eight plays three, right? It'd be in the, it'd be in the finals, Western finals. Yeah, I don't think that's happening. Not with the Warriors sitting there. Never know. You did a, you did an overreaction Monday subject that either the Lakers or the Warriors are going to wind up in the Western conference finals. Correct?

I did. I don't know. Oklahoma City's pretty damn good, man. They're the best team in the league. 68 wins.

That's a lot. And then the Miami Heat playing like the Miami Heat showing up in Cleveland. Never know. No, I think they still win that one. No, it seems like we're on a Thunder Celtics collision course, but you know, never know.

Why Thunder, why does it feel that way to you? You know that the Celtics aren't the top seed, right? You know that, right? Doesn't matter. Okay.

The defending champs, the best turning five in the NBA and the betting odds say that they're even, they're both the same odds. Are you feeling that way too, Mr. Philadelphia? Are you feeling that way? About what he just said?

No, are you feeling that way? He just kind of feels like it's Thunder Celtics. I can feel it. The fact is, halfway through the season, I went up to him before the show and I was just like, they're Celtics.

He knew what I meant. I think he knew I was resigned to the fact that they're going to the finals. Thunder, I still don't know about, but unfortunately, What more do they have to prove?

68 wins and like the record efficiency and point differential. Yeah, but yeah, I'm just seeing how people are, I've seen a few posts here and there about how some of the calls that Shea has been getting, they're not getting in the playoffs. They're free throw dependent. Right. Yeah. So we'll see. Aaron Rodgers has spoken, Jahad Campbell is zooming. That's next. Let's do it. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.